"The Many Lives of Scratch" is the first segment of the seventeenth episode of the second season of The Ghost and Molly McGee, and the seventy-first episode overall.
It premiered on November 11, 2023 simultaneously on Disney Channel and Disney XD, alongside "Alaka-Sham!".[1]
Synopsis[]
Scratch's family and friends imagine what his life might have been.[1]
Plot[]
Geoff regales his death day to Molly who is loving every second of it, while Scratch is once again annoyed at his presence. It quickly becomes apparent that Scratch seems to have something against death day and grumbles to himself. Geoff realizes that he has never actually bothered to ask Scratch, mainly because he has had little interest in it and does not even remember. Believing that he feels left out of the festivities. The McGees, Libby, and Geoff throw together an impromptu death day for Scratch who wants nothing to do with it all. Molly then comes up with the idea of making up what Scratch was like in life, with everyone humorously filling in the roles.
Geoff believes that Scratch was part of a grand music duo that sold out concerts and were visited by the president and her chief of security to be awarded, though this ends up annoying Scratch because Geoff neglected to explain his death. Libby regales a fairy tale scenario where Geoff sold his cow for magic beans and climbed a bean stalk to rescue his sister from a witch in a candy house. They were confronted by breakdancing werewolves and challenged them to a dance off, but were defeated and devoured (Scratch liked the creativity, but didn't find it believable). Sharon and Pete state that Scratch was a boxer and lost a big fight (which Scratch pointed out was the exact plot of Rocko VI), while Darryl says that Scratch was a centipede that was crushed (just as Sharon crushed an actual centipede, grossing Scratch out).
Scratch already starts to become frustrated with the days events and demands that Molly tell her story. She proceeds to explain that Scratch most likely came from Brighton, but cannot come up with a viable one for Scratch and admits that the party has been a total disaster. Scratch admits that the party was not a total loss, though he hated all the stories that were told about him. Nevertheless, he admits that the fact that they threw a party together for him, shows how much they all truly care about him and his well being and thanks them. Everyone hugs, but the moment is ruined when Sharon crushes another centipede (they have been having a centipede infestation in the basement).
Cast[]
Main article: The Many Lives of Scratch and Alaka-Sham!/Credits
- Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
- Dana Snyder as Scratch
- Jordan Klepper as Pete McGee
- Sumalee Montano as Sharon McGee, Female Centipede
- Michaela Dietz as Darryl McGee
- Lara Jill Miller as Libby Stein-Torres
- Eric Edelstein as Geoff
- Ghost Shark
Additional voices[]
- Rob Cantor as Centipede Cop
Songs[]
Gallery
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Trivia[]
- The Death Day song is the same tune as the Birthday Song from The Emperor's New Groove.
- Pete copied his story for how Scratch died off the Rocky movies when he claimed the death happened to an opponent in in a boxing ring, and the family called him out for copyrights on it.
- Libby combined various fairy tales for her story, but with the twist that the big bad wolf was part of a pack of werewolves.
- Darryl's fantasy of Centipede World comes back in this episode, though his attempt to make a death day story for Scratch out of the concept had to be improvised when Sharon tried to kill a real centipede that escaped the basement.
- While hit with two bumper cars in a sequence of guesses on how he died that are part of the Death Day song, Scratch took on various forms, most of which are the artsy attempts he made to be Sharon's muse in "Faint of Art".
- Scratch revealing he doesn't have a death day becomes a case of foreshadowing since "The End" reveals Scratch did not die and is a wraith who left his body out of depression.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "November 2023 Programming Highlights". Disney General Entertainment (October 18, 2023).