#Tgamm FONAA

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How ¨F.O.N.A.A.! episode is connected to ¨The End¨

One of the episodes from last batch of Tgamm Season 2 is FONAA!. An episode about Scratch using a curse on Molly that makes her fearless for 24 hours. On the surface it looks like a straightforward funny episode about bravery and fear and what it means to be brave- a common lesson you can find in other animated shows.

But one thing i want to discuss is that FONAA! gains a deeper meaning considering the themes of ¨The End¨. It is connected to Scratch’s arc but at the same time it acts as a contrast to the other extreme of how Scratch acted as a human, showing how that can have negative consequences as well.

At the start of the episode Scratch uses this curse so Molly can go pass an ugly statue that is near the entrance of the building where the dentist is. Molly goes to dentist and everything goes fine. Sharon drives them back to home after the appointment finishes.

Back at home, Molly tells to Scratch that she wants to try all things she couldn’t because she was stopped by many of the fears she has. Scratch seems to be on board with this, thinking it just simple things, like Molly touching a spider.

However, he notices that ¨fearless¨ Molly’s behaviour becomes worrying. She acts differently, not caring about respecting the rules or simply leaving detention and skipping school. Molly does all kind of dangerous things during the song sequence, like riding an angry bison on the street, dodging knives, standing very near the ledge of a hill, among other things.

In a way Molly acts the opposite of how Scratch used to act as human and wraith/ghost. While Scratch let his anxieties and fears dominate his life to the point he never allowed himself to take any chances, Molly acts completely reckless, not caring how the things she does could get her in trouble or get her hurt. Without her fear, she doesn’t consider to think when something is actually dangerous nor the risks she is taking.

And i think that is a good lesson to complement the theme of ¨The End¨. That one shouldn’t let  anxieties and fears stopping you from living your live but that doesn’tmean it is okay to be totally reckless and not think  things through. That fear as feeling can be good since it can prevent us from making senseless decisions and not getting ourselves in very dangerous situations that could be easily avoided.

Near the end of fearless curse, Molly comes with the idea of lauching herself through the sky using a catapult, not caring that she could get herself serverely hurt, if not killed. Scratch tells Molly to come to her senses, not understanding that she still under the influence of the curse.

Molly launches herself through the sky, yelling enhappify as she is flying across the city. Then she notices that the time for the curse finishes and that what she is doing is in fact very dangerous. When she is about to crash, Scratch saves her, Molly tells him that she now has ¨fear of appropiate things¨ and Scratch is just happy she is herself again. Suddenly Scratch crashes into a bird and the two fall to the ground, with Molly safely landing on a pile of leaves, except for one of her tooths getting broken from the fall.

The episode ends with them going back to the dentist, with Molly realizing there is a difference between being ¨fearless¨ and being brave, that being brave means ¨facing your fears, even if you are scared¨ and she goes inside the dentist, quickly passing the statue that scares her so much.

In all, ¨FONAA!¨ shows that fear does have its purpose for us, and that there is a difference between taking risks and not letting fear control every decision you made and not taking care of one self, being completely reckless and not caring about the consequences one can face for breaking certain rules. Being brave and being very impulsive are very different things. It is important to distinguish between the two, as it can help us avoid getting into huge trouble.

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Title: Danger is Your Friend

Oh I have all my fingers

The knife goes chop chop chop

And if I miss the space between

My fingers will come off

Experiments: lighting, perspective, line weight, brushes, shading technique

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F.O.N.A.A! / Game-On!

https://mega.nz/file/4S4CjSJa#NSyazwrkmYe89wvsf4LhFL47Jz46fV-7sHRl1JfQM7U

(if that doesn't work, try https://drive.google.com/file/d/18oFSEGrwFfX_K7lHlItNwaK312spAn4G/view?usp=sharing)

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Looking back at TGaMM s2, while it’s pre-ending could’ve been stronger and the arc with the Chens could have used a bit more fleshing out, it’s FINAL episode was just about perfect and the stuff I loved from s1 was just as great as ever and as such, if this is the last we see of TGaMM, I’m pretty satisfied.

Anyway, outside of the s2 (series?) finale which I’d call a 10/10 episode and ending, here’s my top 10 in no particular order:

- A Doll to Die For: I’m a sucker for Lord Hater- I mean, Lord Doom. Really funny with good horror-comedy elements and a really sweet ending, has those s1 vibes of helping a character find their happiness and it’s just an easy one to rewatch for me.

- The (After)Life of the Party: Of course I’m gonna love the ep that gave us Jeoff - plus it’s just fun in its own right, and that song’s a bop.

- Faint of Art: VERY relatable as as a fellow creative, another great song, really good jokes and an incredibly sweet ending

- Dance Dad Revolution: Pretty sure I’m the only one who really likes this one, haha. I just found it really amusing, and even when he’s at his ‘worst’, Pete is still just super charming to me. The song in this one is one of my faves (was stuck in my head for the longest time), and I love that it was the Jeoffs and their genuine love for dancing that inadvertently ruined Scratch’s scheme in the end, lol.

- All Shark No Bite: just a fun time, ngl. I love GhostShark and I’m so happy he stuck around

- Davenport’s in Demise: really interesting spotlight for Andrea. Another great song, great lesson, fun jokes- and come on, of course I was gonna put the ep with the “soft rock personality” joke on here, haha

- Kenny’s Falling Star: Idk, I just really like the story in this one. Kenny’s actually a lot more endearing than I thought he would be, and both his songs are great.

- Frightmares on MainStreet: excluding the s2 finale, this was probably the best out of all the Half-Hour eps this season, as it never feels like it’s dragging nor does it ever feel rushed. It’s fun, sweet, exciting - really the only knock against it comes from how it’s ending now feels a bit hollow, given how rushed the rest of the Chens arc ended up being. (Also I’m still a bit annoyed that the Frightmares in the thermos never came back, either as a serious threat or as a solution to defeating another threat. Like- why bother having them in the Chens’ possession in the first place then?)

- Alakasham: a nice and entertaining episode that really highlights just how much Darryl has grown over the season, plus all the stuff with the magic was a ton of fun.

- FONAA: another ep that felt like a classic s1 romp with great jokes, great moments between Molly and Scratch, and a really sweet ending.

Outside of my faves of the season, I’d say pretty much all the other eps were also really good, only ever being just kinda meh at worst.

I’d say the only ones that stood out in a negative way were:

- (I know I’m gonna be in the unpopular minority on this one) Like Father, Like Libby: it just sorta felt like a One-Scene Wonder sort of ep given that you’re just spending the whole time waiting for the other shoe to drop, thus causing the rest of the ep to feel sorta boring and filler-y since it’s not super funny or interesting in the lead up to the Big Scene. I feel like it could've played better if we got more of Libby and Leah bonding instead of just Libby being only focused on her dad and Leah being worried.

Honestly, out of all the “Special Episodes” this season, it’s the one that feels the most like it instead of simply being an enjoyable ep that happens to have a Special Lesson (like Period Piece or 100% Molly McGee)

AND

- The Grand Gesture: not bad by any means, just overstuffed. It sucks that by the time we finally got a Darryl and June ep, it also had to be shared with a b-plot that felt like it took the majority of the ep. It also just wasn’t super funny outside of like two jokes and felt rushed by the end of it.

All in all, for as much as I loved this season for its episodic installments, it’s new characters (namely Jeff, Lord Doom and Ollie) and its songs, the fact that 2/3rds of the serialized stuff didn’t quite lead up to its potential in the end and fell a bit flat - plus a couple of sorta meh episodes - makes me want to say that I do think s1 is better by juuuuuust a little bit.

But hey, s2 is still incredibly solid and enjoyable - and again, DAMN, that was a super satisfying and really great ending both to Scratch’s personal arc and the show itself - which makes TGaMM a really good show overall in spite of some minor flaws and disappointments. Easily the best modern day Disney show imo right up there with Big City Greens.

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Siblings

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These two have one collective braincell and they use it only 50% of the time

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We have to talk about how ¨FONAA¨ confirmed that Molly and Scratch have cursed each other for sake of funsies at least 73 times.

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Molly is super blushing when she finds out that she kissed Ollie.

Imagine when Ollie comes to her the next day and comments to her that this happened. Her face is going to look like a red tomato

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Of Molly's fears in the latest episode, which one surprised you the most?

I think clows and eating spaghetti?

The first one because i thought it was something she would enjoy. The second is just unexpected and out of the blue Lol

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Of the newest TGAMMG episodes released early, which one was your favorite?

FONAA episode definely. Molly and Scratch's interactions are fantastic in that one. Game On is fun though. I like the pixelated game art style the old game has.

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List of my Tgamm analyses

General Character analyses:

The Mcgee Family

Molly Mcgee Scratch Mcgee Sharon McGee Pete McGee Darry Mcgee Grandma Nin

Important/recurrent characters

Libby Stein-Torres

Andrea Davenport

Geoff

The Ghost Council

Jinx (Season 1)

More specific analyses:

Scratch character analyses Scratch’s past and human life in ¨The End¨ Scratch-Todd wraith foreshadowing Scratch and leadership (Chairman arc analysis)

Scratch and abandonment issues Scratch’s unfinished business being Adia (Old corruption theory but still worth of reading)

Symbolism in ¨All In The Mind¨ episode

Scratch apologizing to Geoff in ¨The Afterlife of the Party¨

Parallels between Scratch and Pete in Dance Dad Revolution

Chen family character analyses

Ollie Chen and Prejudice June Chen’s role in Welcome to Necrocomicon

Ollie Chen and Family expectations

Ruben Chen and Approval

Misinformation and propaganda in Necrocomicon (B plot)

 (correlated to the Chens characters)

Some thinks l like of Ruben in Jinx vs The Human World

Specific episode analyses and others

Jinx’s characterization in episode ¨Jinx!¨

Jinx as antagonist in ¨Jinx vs The Human World¨

Libby and absent parenting

Darryl and neurodivergency

Geoff and Jeff’s relationship general analysis

Molly and the phases of falling in love (Mollie analysis)

How The Ghost IS Molly Mcgee episode plays with body swap tropes

Mixed race crisis in 100% Molly Mcgee episode

Andrea’s Identity Crisis in ¨Davenports In Demise¨

How ¨FONAA!¨ episode is connected to ¨The End¨

Jinx vs The Human World episode review

How Ollie would work as a Chairman

List of Season 1 episodes analyses

Compilation of theories i made during the series run list