Frightmares on Main Street

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"**Frightmares on Main Street**" is the seventh episode of the second season of *The Ghost and Molly McGee*, and the fifty-second episode overall.

It premiered on May 13, 2023 on Disney Channel and Disney XD.

## Synopsis

Scratch invites real ghosts to a Halloween "haunted house" to amp up the fun, but things spiral out of control when the Chens and a horde of Frightmares show up.

## Plot

It is Halloween and everyone is in the spirit. Molly has set up a haunted house at the school that is for a good cause, which is that every dollar goes to a young boy getting a baby cow. Ollie is also helping Molly out despite Scratch's concern that he will catch on to her friendship with ghosts. Unbeknownst to them, Ollie is very much aware of this and believes that Molly is actually taken over by them and plans to "free" her. Molly opens up her haunted house, but unfortunately, it is underwhelming, not helped by the fact that Libby has herself stuck inside a giant pumpkin. While Molly leaves to get supplies, Scratch decides to help her out by making a real haunted house.

Scratch invites all of his ghost friends to come and spruce up the haunted house, which ends up working and bringing people back over and over again. Molly returns and is initially furious with Scratch, but she warms up when she realizes that the haunted house is making enough money. However, Ollie has decided to invade the house already to try and save Molly and is horrified by the abundance of ghosts, alerting his family to come right away. Molly tries to coax him out, but he insists that ghosts are evil, not helped by the fact that the ghosts proceed to scare Ollie himself as a tiebreaker to the scaring contest (which Geoff won). The rest of the Chens arrive and Molly is forced to hold them off while Scratch sends the other ghosts away (though she specifically tells him to do it calmly, he gets them to panic about the ghost hunters).

Ollie refuses to let Scratch go and demands to know why they are together. Scratch manages to convince him that he and Molly are friends and when June (who snuck in backstage) arrives to assist him and offered to finish off Scratch upon seeing his capturee, Ollie explains that he is "interrogating" him and needs more time, which she buys. The rest of the Chens enter the house and start to capture several ghosts with Molly trying to save Scratch from Ollie. The two get into an argument with Molly berating Ollie for his prejudiced views against spectral anomalies and calls him an "en-bad-ifier". As she tells him that ghosts can be good, frightmares suddenly arrive via a portal from the sky, due to the chaos that is happening at the festival.

The frightmares proceed to attack and scare everyone while the Chens attempt to fight them off. As they are severely overpowered, Ollie decides to finally free Scratch after Molly convinces him to. His family tries to use their phantom cannister to catch them, but the untested device fails as June states that it was a prototype that wasn't ready. Scratch, who dons his Chairman robes, ironically orders the frightmares to be absorbed into the cannister. The Chens believe that their device actually worked, but June is suspicious. Ollie apologizes to Molly and Scratch and agrees to keep their friendship a secret. Despite the destruction, the town still mock the Chens for their belief in ghosts, with the exception of Mr. Bates who saw the ghost portal in the sky. The Chens (minus Ollie, to June's confusion) agree to continue their war against on ghosts, much to Molly and Scratch's displeasure.

## Cast

* Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
* Dana Snyder as Scratch
* Lara Jill Miller as Libby Stein-Torres
* Jules Medcraft as Andrea Davenport
* Eric Edelstein as Geoff
* Alan Lee as Ollie Chen
* Sue Ann Pien as June Chen
* Stephanie Sheh as Esther Chen
* Leonard Wu as Ruben Chen
* Vincent Rodriguez III as Jeff
* Grey DeLisle as Lucretia
* Kari Wahlgren as Grimbella
* Greg Baldwin as Bartholomew
* Diedrich Bader as Mr. Bates
* Baraka May as Abigail
* Eden Riegel as Howlin' Harriet, Kat
* Aparna Nancherla as Sheela
* Zeno Robinson as Nashua, West
* Stephanie Sheh as Esther Chen

### Additional voices

* Rob Cantor as Pirate Costume Guy, Hot Dog Guy
* Dana Snyder as Male Ghost
* Secunda Wood as Little Girl, Female Ghost, Trick or Treat Girl

### Non-speaking cameos

* Robyn
* Sonia Davis
* Abraham Lincoln
* The Chairman (cutout)

## Trivia

* This is the second episode in the series to be half an hour long, following "The New (Para)Normal".
* Despite being in the credits, Sir Alister doesn't appear in this episode.
* This episode implies that demons exist in this series' universe, but they and ghosts are different species.
* In 2023, Disney Television Animation ranked this episode as their #7 most spooky episode on their Twitter page.

### Revelations

* The Frightmares are now trapped inside the Chen's ghost canister.
* Ollie learns that not all Ghosts are bad.
* Ollie learns about Molly being friends with Scratch and also befriends him.
* Andrea states that this is the 3rd time she's seen a ghost, the other times were "First Day Frights" and "Hooray for Mollywood!".

## Allusions

* ***Ghostbusters***
	+ The Chens dress in jumpsuits that resemble the uniforms worn by the Ghostbusters.
	+ The Ghost Fighters franchise mentioned by Esther is also a parody of *Ghostbusters*.
* ***Danny Phantom*** - The phantom canister is a parody of the Fenton Thermos.
* ***Scream*** - During the song, there is a ghost mask hanging in the haunted house. It resembles the Ghostface mask from the films.
* The song *This House is Haunted* is a parody of Michael Jackson's *Thriller*.

## Videos

This House is Haunted 🎶 - S2 Sneak Peek - Music Video - The Ghost and Molly McGee - Disney Channel
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 May 2023 Programming Highlights. *Disney General Entertainment* (April 20, 2023). Archived from the original on April 20, 2023. Retrieved on April 20, 2023.
2. ↑ Salem, Mitch (May 16, 2023). ShowbuzzDaily's Saturday 5.13.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals Updated. *Showbuzz Daily*. Archived from the original on May 16, 2023. Retrieved on December 29, 2023.
3. ↑ Disney TVA (October 31, 2023). "Can confirm these episodes are 10/10 spooky". *Twitter*. Retrieved on November 1, 2023.