#Tgamm The End

[tgammsideblog]

¨Maybe Next Time¨-Scratch human's life and ¨death¨ song

[toonsforkicks22]

One week since the finale. While the ending has left us sad…it also left us hopeful.

Bc knowing Scratch he WOULD pull this on Molly and apologize later.

HC that Aida is SUPER understanding.

[car9723-t]

[SPOILER ALERT: TGAMM FINALE]

After watching TGaMM finales, I came up with some ways to imagine post-canon materials or something to fill gaps. Some ideas being...

Ollie learned about Wraith when he became one because the Chairman's lobe chose him. Months later after becoming the next Chairman of the Ghost World, he couldn’t even recognize his body when he visited Brighton in needs of refreshing his knowledge about the human world (an adaptation of canceled S3 plots)

As Todd Mortenson, while Scratch couldn’t remember his life as a wraith, he occasionally found he memorized names like Molly and vocabularies like Enhappify. Having a longer time with Molly than others he met on the street triggered it. Being curious about it, he's willing to learn about her better (thus giving a stronger motivation to revisit Brighton someday)

While I'm not sure what I can do, Ghost Council needs an alternative candidate for their leader. Even when I made adaptation of S3 materials, we still see Ollie as a human in The End, meaning we still have room to imagine an ideal leader of Ghost World

Without Scratch as a ghost, we can imagine what they can do with a Ghost Shark, too. It also goes to Jinx(trapped in a Ghost Canister) and her followers(if had any on Ghost World besides Sobgoblins)

I think losing the Flow of Failed Phantoms means they got many things to solve in Ghost World. Remember Frightmares and Lord Doom they had to deal with? You can think of problems to solve without Scratch's presence as a ghost

Plus, after Jinx Vs. the Human World occurred, would it affect other humans in Brighton? Like changing perceptions about ghosts or such

Of course, you can do something out of humans too. Andrea, Libby'a Dad, Bizmart, teachers, you name it. You got rights to develop underused characters freely!

I found there are some rooms to imagine post-canon materials, or even something between Jinx Vs. the Human World and The End. It would be great if some people were exploring what they could do further.

Imagine one, and develop one as much as you want! Even though TGaMM is done, probably for good, we still can do something out of it. Some fanfics I encountered on Tumber are good proofs of it!

[veeferns]

the end of the tgamm finale had me like:

and it can do the same for you because it's on YouTube right now

[sithvampiremaster27]

And the worst part is:

Molly never introduced Andrea to Scratch properly!

[silly-scribbles]

Alright y'all wanted my thoughts on the TGAMM finale and I've finally composed myself to say something about it so here I go

(Obvious spoilers ahead)

Before you ask, I'll give a short opinion on Jinx vs. The Human World: it was alright. I think they did pretty well considering the show got booted from a Season 3 and they had to wrap up a lot of the major plot stuff in Season 2 pretty quickly. It's definitely not the best episode of the series, and I prefer Molly vs. more, but it's grown on me. And also Back to Misery slaps.

But now let's talk about The End, the reason you're probably reading this.

I have a lot of confusing feelings about The End. I don't necessary think it was a bad episode per say, but I'm not sure I think it was the best finale for the show either.

I was never really for the theory of Scratch being Todd's wraith to begin with, and it just never reallh appealed to me, but The End really turned me over to it. They played it out very well and I'm glad they nailed that part. I don't think it was necessarily the best direction they could've gone in (I would've liked for Scratch to, yknow, actually be dead lol), but considering that was the route they wanted to go down, they absolutely killed it and I'm glad they did.

One thing I'm not as happy about though is the actual ending. For a show built around friendship, why destroy the main friendship the show was built around? I don't get it. The show's whole basis is unlikely friends battle their struggles together, so why on earth would you want to ditch that basis at the last second? There are shows out there (ex. Amphibia) who have stories that end up going in the direction where the main duo has to say their goodbyes, which is fine, but TGAMM was not one of those shows, and I'm lowkey upset that's what they resorted to. The theme song even talks about how they're gonna be best friends for all eternity. It defeats the whole purpose of what the show was supposed to be, and it pisses me off. It felt way too weird and out of place that they did that. I'm not a fan. At all.

Everything else was great though. Maybe Next Time makes me cry every time I listen to it, and I'm probably never gonna eat a funnel cake in the same way again.

If you have a different opinion than me, that's totally fine, I don't really care, and I don't want to start drama. Agree to disagree, whatever. I just needed to get this out there so yall can stop sending me a million asks about it lol

[flower-boi16]

Jinx Vs The Human World & The End: The PERFECT Ending To a Good Show

So...recently, I just watched the finale to The Ghost and Molly Mcgee on TV. If you didn't see my review of The Ghost and Molly Mcgee, I quite like this show. It's not amazing or anything, but it's certainly a good show that I'd recommend you watch. When I went to watch these episodes I didn't expect much; just a fun duo of episodes with some heartwarming moments in them. Instead...the finale was AMAZING. I'm not exaggerating when I say that TGAMM has one of the best finales of any Disney cartoon in recent years. It perfectly caps off the show and gives a satisfying if bittersweet finale to these characters.

In this post I'm just going to go through my thoughts on both of these episodes and why I like them. Also, this post WILL contain spoilers for the entire finale, so, ya, you've been warned. But enough stalling, let's finally begin...

1. Jinx Vs The Human World

So Jinx Vs The Human World is...pretty good. Basically, the plot is that Jinx takes over the chairman's robe after Scratch leaves it on a robot to replace him and chaos ensues. I do like Jinx as a villain here; she's pretty entertaining and is also a threatening and competent antagonist, with her being able to capture Molly and drain her joy to get her sobgoblins to get stronger and attack the living world.

We also finally get a resolution to the chens plotline here; basically, it turns out that Geof was the one who scared Ruben as a kid, buuuut Geof didn't exactly mean to scare him and was just sneezing because of the dust. This is a...perfectly fine resolution to the Chens plotline, and I do like them helping in the final battle against Jinx. Speaking of that final battle, it was done pretty well; Scratch comes with an idea for how to beat Jinx, that being to think about things that bring them joy so the sobgoblins could over eat and explode.

And after that Jinx is trapped in a ghost container thanks to June and Darryl and the episode ends with Scratch giving up his chairman status due to realizing he isn't exactly a good leader and puts a curse that the rob shall choose who is worthy of being the next chairman.

The songs in the episode were also pretty good; I really like Back to Misery in particular, though Give Em' Joy was also a nice song. So overall, Jinx vs The Human World is a pretty good episode, Jinx is a nice antagonist, the resolution to the Chens plotline was solid, the songs were great and the final battle was done very well. I'd say it's an 8/10 episode, it's pretty solid. The episode would have been better as a 44-minute special though, as the pacing was kinda messy. Now...time to get to the final episode of the series, and...hoo boy, this final episode...it was PERFECT.

2. The End

I'm just going to say it; The End is my favorite episode of the whole show, hands down. I didn't expect the finale to this silly little show to be this good, but it was, and wow, this is one of the best finales in any Disney cartoon I've seen. I don't really know where to begin with this episode, so I'll just get straight to the point; basically after possessing Todd for 2 seconds Scratch gets a vision about his life, and Darryl tells finds Adia on the internet (she was blowing up on click clock), and after he and Molly contact Adia online, a revelation gets dropped; Scratch isn't a ghost, he's a Wraith, and he's Todd's wraith, meaning he isn't actually dead.

This episode basically cemented Scratch as my favorite character here. We get the song Maybe Next Time, a heartbreaking song about how Scratch wasted his life. Instead of adventuring with Adia, he stayed at home and never lived his life, because he played it safe. He was too afraid of taking risks and dying, but because of how afraid he was, he never lived his life to the fullest, he kept on closing himself off, until one day...he just gave up his ghost.

And he kept playing it safe as a ghost, closing himself off because he was still afraid. It's a heartbreaking story about somebody who wasted his whole life because he was afraid of taking risks and chose to just play it safe instead. But...that's not how the story ends.

We get the scene where Molly talks with Scratch outside of Todd's house, and it's the best scene in the whole episode. In the scene Scratch wonders what his life would've been like if he didn't constantly play it safe; if ever decided to take risks and join Adia. And Molly goes and encourages him, saying he could go back to his body and live out his life. Scratch still tries to play it safe, but Molly stops him, saying that Scratch is still playing things safe, how he's still afraid.

Scratch admits this, and says that Molly should be afraid too, since he could forget his whole afterlife when he goes back to the living, and how risky it is. But Molly keeps encouraging him, saying that risks are what make life worth living. She then says how Scratch didn't stop playing things safe as a ghost, and how he shut himself away from others, but now, he's grown; Scratch was able to make real friends, he stopped shutting himself away from everyone, and she encourages him to live out his life. The two hug, and, when Scratch goes to the house, he says that he's sorry if he forgets her, but Molly says that although Scratch may forget her, she'll never forget him. And so, Scratch rings the doorbell, Todd comes out as he looks outside and sees Molly, and Scratch goes back into his OG body, giving one last smile to Molly, as Molly smiles back.

This scene was PHENOMENAL. It officially made Scratch into my favorite character and was a fantastic ending to his character; Somebody who never spent his life and always played it safe, who fell into a depression due to wasting his life and closing himself off from others, but then is able to make friends and goes to spend his life to the fullest, finally deciding to join Adia and adventure with her just like how they wanted to as kids, and the credits even show him reuniting with her. Although Scratch's memories are gone, (or they probably are? I dunno, the show is pretty ambiguous with if Scratch's memories have fully disappeared but ehhh) his growth isn't, if that makes any sense.

He learns to live his life and to no longer just play things safe, taking risks, because as Molly said, risks are what makes life worth living for after all. It's not just a great way to cap off Scratch's character, it gives a beautiful and mature message; you shouldn't just play things safe, you spend your life to the fullest, take risks, adventure out, live your life, it may be risky, but that's what makes life worth living for.

It's a bittersweet but beautiful ending to the show and this character, and THAT'S why The End is my favorite episode of the show. 10/10

(Only real gripe is that I would have LOVED a final song at the end of the episode, aside from that though, its still amazing)

3. Conclusion

While I don't think The Ghost and Molly Mcgee is some kind of masterpiece (I'd say it's like, a 7.5/10) It's a pretty good show and I'd recommend you watch it. The characters are solid, the animation looks nice, it's funny (occasional usage of toilet humor notwithstanding) and the songs are pretty good. Season 2 is honestly better than Season 1 imo, the songs are better, the episodes are better, there's more development and interesting plotlines, and the finale was fantastic.

TGAMM's Finale is a perfect ending to the show, it ends all the show's plotlines in a neat and satisfying way. One of the best finales to any Disney cartoon I've seen, not on the same level as GF or TOH's finales, but still fantastic.

[chill4234]

JUST FINISHED THE GHOST AND MOLLY MCGEE AND I AM 5 SECONDS AWAY FROM BECOMING INSUFFERABLE

[somefishycat]

OKAY tgamm's ending was really good. Like I wish it wasn't the end but wow

[cartoonyandor]

OH MY GHOST HE WAS!!! THIS WHOLE TIME THAT FRICKIN THEORY WAS TRUE!!!

[legendary-defender-of-fandoms]

I think it says a lot that Scratch was able to possess Todd, THEN IMMEDIATELY LEAVE. All the other Wraiths we’ve seen had no problem returning to their bodies & staying put barring any more Ghost Portal shenanigans, but they all WANTED to go back to their bodies & WANTED to live. Scratch wasn’t ready, and was able to abandon Todd immediately after regaining his memories. But in the end, after saying goodbye to Molly, Scratch was finally ready to live again. Hence the extra magical fusion when he returned to his body & Todd regained his soul.

At the beginning of ‘The End’ when Scratch decided he was going to possess people in line to eat the funnel cakes, I had a feeling I KNEW what was going to happen. Especially once I saw Todd in the line behind Scratch. I was almost on the edge on my seat as Scratch kept possessing people and Todd was getting closer to the front of the line. And once Scratch FINALLY possessed Todd and that triggered his memories, that pretty much confirmed what we all had guessed for the longest time.

Also I love how the beginning of the episode is set up because when the McGees are thanked for all they did, I felt like ‘Well Scratch helped too’ and ‘There’s still one more person Molly hasn’t helped yet’ (someone who turned out to have needed her help the most out of everyone in Brighton). It feels like just any other episode at first until the funnel cake scene comes up. And while the timing off the music was almost deliberately off to catch viewers off guard, it still built up tension for when Scratch ended up possessing his real body.

Another thing I caught was the irony of how Molly saw Todd before the episode. For all those times she encountered him, he had just been some random, gloomy, incredibly apathetic man to her, and never once did she pay enough attention to notice anything oddly familiar about him. And yet she never bothered to properly reach out to him until she learned WHY he was like that. However she didn’t have the right maturity and wisdom to help him until that very point in time, when she was able to better understand what he went through accept and what helping him would cost her.

[tgammsideblog]

Bill Motz, one of the creators of the show, shared a time skip post The End idea the team had about Molly growing up and Scratch meeting with her again after dying

[toonsforkicks22]

“Nothing gets to this guy’s heart like a nice croissant-“

[cyndavilachase]

For all eternity <3

[veeferns]

HEY, people saying that TGAMM is ending with season 2, please watch this

[doodle-empress66]

THESE SHOWS DIDN'T DESERVE TO BE CANCELED