The Ghost and Molly McGee (season 1)

Ghost and Molly McGee”Season 1 follows Molly McGee, an optimistic tween who moves to Brighton with her family and discovers that their new home is already occupied by a grumpy ghost named Scratch. Bound together by one of Scratch’s spells, the series showcases their evolving friendship.

The Ghost and Molly McGee PARENTAL NOTES

Nudity. It’s Not Just for Adults Anymore

• Cartoons have played with nudity as a gag for time immemorial. I can remember watching original Tom and Jerry cartoons that did it (they were reruns. I’m not that old). And there’s some of that in this show as well.
  • The dad is washing himself in a makeshift camping shower when the top half of his curtain is ripped away, and he comically screams, covers his torso (you can only see him from mid-torso up), and runs off.
  • In another episode, the dad says that he’s “emotionally naked,” and it’s a bit much.

Grave Concerns

• The premise might be a problem for some parents. It is about a ghost/evil spirit befriending a little girl, and unlike Casper, he acknowledges that he was once alive and is now dead. It might be a little too much reality for kids.
• In one episode, the ghost mistakenly thinks that he and Molly are going to kill someone who is giving them problems. He excitedly exclaims, “Oh, we’re going to murder him.”
• In another episode, the ghost laments that there are, “not enough severed heads.”

Libs of TikTok Teachers

• In an early episode, an overweight, short-haired female teacher tells her companions that she needs to call her “wife” to let her know she’s going to be late.

WOKE REPORT

Unrealistic Diversity

• The show is set in a relatively small town, yet the diversity exceeds that of bustling metropolises.

Whitey Be Trippin’ and Fallin’ and Lyin’…

• Of course, the spoiled rich girl is white. The neurotic, unlucky girl is white. The white dad is a klutzy, emotional goof who can’t hold a job and is a general screwup, while the Thaiwanese mom tends to be a hardworking problem solver. She’s not perfect, but certainly far more together than her husband.

Betas Aren’t Just Fish

• The dad does all the cooking and the mom, while she participates in the cleaning, gets noticeably angry if any male characters suggest that she should clean.
• There’s an episode in which the family incurs a large debt, so the husband and son stay home and clean (and screw things up) while the wife and daughter go out and work like superwomen to pay it off.
• The mom and dad get locked into the basement in one episode. He announces in a heroic bravado that his wife should step aside as he attempts to shoulder the door open. He fails miserably, falls down the stairs, and says, “That’s what I get for trafficking in gender stereotypes.”
• The town’s legendary and very traditionally masculine hero (of whom a large brass statue is celebrating in the town square) is/was a fraud. His sister was the actual hero. He lied to hide her accomplishments and make them look like his.

How Dare You

• One entire episode is about recycling, and one character says, “Recycling is the first step to saving the Earth,” implying that the Earth needs saving from man.
• In the same episode, Molly espouses the following propaganda: “Electric cars are affordable and reliable, and we should all do what we can to reduce our carbon footprint.”

Don’t Say Gay

• In Episode 6, an overweight, short-haired female teacher tells her companions that she needs to call her “wife” to let her know she’s going to be late for dinner.

Leftovers

• The director, Greta Gerwig (Barbie), has a “cameo” and is celebrated. There’s nothing particularly woke about the specific situation. I just think that celebrating Gerwig is woke because she’s overrated and a misandrist.
• The daughter reminds her father that he always says that they “shouldn’t be afraid of people who are different.”
  • It’s a fine sentiment. What’s woke is that it’s an unnecessary lesson being taught in a children’s program about a ghost who likes to eat. The writers assume that it’s their place to pepper in these lessons. It’s also woke because “different” is so intentionally vague. There are most certainly different people our children should be afraid of.
• The dad says, “I believe the preferred term is ‘post-living’ person.” This isn’t a huge infraction, but anything PC is woke.
• Every now and then, there’s a bit of seemingly innocuous progressive language that gets peppered in.
  • One of the grade school girls refers to her group as “four strong female trailblazers.” We get it; girls can be strong. I’d argue that it took far more strength for my wife to birth our nearly half a dozen kids than finishing any TPS report ever did.
• There’s a fat, pink-haired friend.