Enjoy Your Afterlife

## Video

"**Enjoy Your Afterlife**" is a song heard in the *The Ghost and Molly McGee* episode "The New (Para)Normal". With the Chairman gone, the Ghost Council looks to Scratch to ask what they should do with their afterlives.

The song was featured at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con.

## Lyrics

**Scratch:** It isn't super tricky

All you gotta do is be

Just a little less like you guys

And a little more like me

No more meetings, no more work, no responsibility

The Chairman's gone, you're completely free!

En...joy... your...

Afterlife

Do what you wanna do

Enjoy your afterlife

Maybe eat a croissant or two

There are no rules

No restrictions

And no strife

Just kick back, relax

And enjoy your afterlife

*Now! Let's talk interests, hobbies, passions! What have you always wanted to do, but didn't have the time?*

**Bartholomew:** *That's easy! Re-alphabetize the ancient scrolls.*

**Lucretia:** *Add color coding to the scare report template.*

**Scratch:** *No, no, no. Think fun stuff!*

**Grimbella:** *Ah! Buy a standing desk?*

**Scratch:** *Ugh.*

**Sir Alister:** Scratch!

Long before I was a ghost

**Scratch:** *Uh-huh.*

**Sir Alister:** What I really wanted most

**Scratch:** *Yes...?*

**Sir Alister:** Was to learn how to play

The lute

**Scratch:** *That's dumb*.

**Sir Alister:** *You sound like my father.*

He said "foolish boy"

"This lute is a boorish toy"

And then he cut the strings

To mute my pursuit

Of the lute

**Grimbella:** *What a brute!*

**Scratch:** Well, hey!

Let's stick it to your old man

Buy a lute, make a practice plan

Then... I don't know

Go on tour in a lute-shaped minivan

*Or something.*

**Sir Alister:** *Ooh, that sounds positively delightful! Perhaps I'll even grow a soul patch.*

**All:** Enjoy your afterlife

**Sir Alister:** No one's the boss of me

**All but Sir Alister:** Enjoy your afterlife

**Scratch:** That's the basic philosophy

**Bartholomew**: YODO!

**All:** There are no rules

No restrictions

And no strife

**Scratch:** Take my advice

**All:** Just kick back, relax

And enjoy your afterlife

**Scratch:** Do whatever you want

But enjoy your afterlife!

Preferably elsewhere!

## Trivia

* The song is likely a homage of "The Bare Necessities" from the movie *The Jungle Book* (1967).
* The concepts of the song also seem to be inspired by the 1949 song "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" on account that the message is about putting workaholic tendencies in the past in favor of having fun.
* This song is the first public revealing of the separate identities and personalities of the Ghost Council members, for while most of them think office jobs and equipment are the most fun things in existence (especially Lucretia, who insists on color-coding her paperwork even while the others join in the music), Sir Alister reminisces on how his father disapproved his musical pursuits in favor of an actual career in diplomacy, to which Grimbella is shocked to hear about. The fact that Bartholomew plays the drums and wants to "re-alphabetize" ancient scrolls hint a possible interest in things that been around since prehistoric times, though it's yet to be fully established.
* The word "YODO" in the song is an abbreviation for "You Only Die Once", which is most likely the ghost equivalent of "YOLO" (You Only Live Once).
* While the scenery changes in the song are mostly symbolic, there's one scene where Scratch bonds with the council members while they are soaking in a hot spring. This may or may not be inspired by bathhouse scenes in Japanese anime.