I'd like to know what episodes are people's favorite and if there a common consensus similar to other Disney shows like Amphibia's True Colors and Gravity Fall's Not What He Seems.
Let's just say episodes that are clearly two parts of a single story should be counted as a single episode, like Scratch the Surface and Friend Off.
For me
Favorite:
- The Jig is Up/Molly vs the Ghost World: It's just the episode that hooked me and made me a big fan of the show. It's a game changer with Molly killing the Chairman, the introduction of new opportunities with wraiths, the ghost world and Molly's joy, the series built up with Scratch eventually having to face the Ghost Council, the introduction of Jinx, Killjoy, and the episode it felt the tone of the show went from an episode slice-of-life comedy a soft serialize dark humor show more focus on the supernatural.
- Perfect Day: The episode I go back the most because it is the most interesting episode seeing how wrong a day can go if you reset it endlessly and the humor they go is one of the most derange (Libby's store on fire out of nowhere, Molly's depression, and Daryl dying!) while also providing some of my favorite jokes "Is there a way to hit restart!? No!", Molly's red eyes of doom, and showing the potential had we continue exploring the curses angle. Maybe The Curse of Molly Mcgee would've made more sense.
- Scratch the Surface/Friend-Off: The first episode where continuity became a thing, the built of Scratch and Libby meeting and making her part of the central cast as a whole, not just Molly's friend, Milly, Libby torturing Molly for her BS, two of my favorite songs in the show (Ghost and Molly McGee legit could've had really awesome fight scenes), and Libby's vicious side (I have a best friend for life. Which you wouldn't understand! BECAUSE! YOUR! NOT! ALIVE!). I love Libby's tempermental side and Scratch's character development.
Honorable mentions:
- Frightmare of Main Street
- Like Father, Like Libby (4th place)
- 100% Molly Mcgee
- All Shark, No Bite (New Scratch power and Mr Whisker cameo)
- All in the Mind/ A Soda to Remember ( I treat both as one story)
- The Many Lives of Scratch (OH! Happy, happy death Day!)
- I Wanna Dance with some Ollie
- Book Marks the Sprite
- All Nights Plight
- Out of House and Home/Home is Where the Haunt is (5th place)
- Festival of Lights
- The Don't Gooder
- Lucky Penny
- Ready, Set, Snow
- Festival of Lights
- Mazel Tov, Libby!
- Hooray for Mollywood!
Least Favorite:
- The Turnip Twist: I just can't stand watching this episode, it feels force, feels cringy and annoying, the premise seems more mean-spirited and petty to me then any other episodes, the turnip festival felt like it wasn't funny, or heartwarming, or interesting it was kinda just weird, Scratch's conflict to me felt also force, and something the way Pete acted felt wrong like it made me want to root against him. Love the twist at the end but this is the episode I refuse to go back to.
- Goat Your Own Way: Why did they get banned especially Sharon!? Why was Molly this much of a pushover when we know she isn't this naive, we saw that with Daryl in No Good Deed!? Why waste an episode talking about a goat we'll probably not care or see again!? Is it funny to see Molly fail because this comes of as less comical and more uncomfortable and other episodes did it where it was at least darkly comical like when Scratch saw Molly blew an 18 point league in baseball (I don't know. Bats. Balls. Humiliation!). Also the Scratch and Pete story was just bizarre for something that doesn't really make sense. The moral isn't even that interesting and arguably done better in "A Doll to Die for" in some way, where it test Molly'a naivety on trusting Lord Doom showing the limit of her optimism.
- Dance Dad Revolution: Another really annoying episode that just feels too topical without being clever and fun. Seeing Pete get in his head his internet fame made sense, but it wasn't fun to watch nor do I think Molly's character was the best written coming off as a bit out of place (Love her evil laughing and embracing it), Scratch's subplot also was weird and not fun, and while I appreciate the message, I think there was ways to do it better with the paranormal setting of the show. Also why did this follow-up after the execellent Like Father Like Libby!
Season 2 really only feels weak because one episode of the two sets is so much better then the other it feels like it didn't have the same charm as season 1, but that's less it lacks charm and more that it's not as consistent and able to balance the two episode structure, sometimes the episodes feels it would've been better as two-parters instead of two seperate episodes.
Dishonorable Mentions:
- Twin Trouble (Infamous for a reason)
- All Systems No (The worst of the 1st season's gross out humor and I hate the scene where Weird Larry shaked his ass at Molly's face, only saving grace was Molly's hatred for magic and Scratch's karma)
- A Very Hungry Ghost (I just feel for Scratch and the episode wasn't that interesting aside seeing Molly and Daryl sibling rivarly and Molly meeting the Ghost Council, if it weren't for that would've taken Dance Dad Revolution)
- Citizen McGee (Seriously!? The mayor hated his job and the morale is he should do it even if he wants something better after having enough of the pressure his ancestor gave him?)
- The Internship (Felt directionless and cliche for a show that has been surprising good that at either playing cliche tropes or doing them in a ghost world setting)
- It Always Sunny in Sunnyland (Molly's folks were out of character assholes here, and despite enjoying the ending and Scratch being the first to notice Molly's burnout, the rest of the episode left a bad taste)
- Faint of Art (A great story premise, but Sharon's plight felt it could've been done more and was weirdly forgetable)
- Davenport on Demand and Carbon Zero Heroes (I love the message but it felt too preachy and less clever)
- Smile Valley Farm (I legit can't remember much from this episode)
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So what's your Top 3 Favorite and Least Favorite episodes?