Dance Dad Revolution

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"**Dance Dad Revolution**" is the second segment of the tenth episode of the second season of *The Ghost and Molly McGee*, and the fifty-eighth episode overall.

It premiered early on June 28, 2023 on Disney+, and had its official premiere on July 15, 2023 on Disney Channel and Disney XD, alongside "Like Father Like Libby".

## Synopsis

Pete uses social media to bring attention to important issues but gets swept up in internet fame.

## Plot

When Pete makes a campaign video idea about having a plastic bag ban in Brighton, due to their negative impact on the environment. However, Mayor Brunson is too engrossed in watching Click-Clock videos on his phone to properly pay attention, and this saddens Pete. After seeing that her father's solution, posting the over 3 hour long presentation on MeTube, was failing to gain any views, Molly has an idea to help him out by having him make his own Click-Clock account, and encouraging him to dance while delivering his message so people will be more likely to listen to him. It was a success, enough so that Mayor Brunson, after watching the video, decides to go with Pete's idea to ban plastic bags.

Meanwhile, Scratch, while still being the new Chairman in the Ghost World, is forced to clean up the Haughty Haunts Club after a Frightmare attack left it a mess, and he's partially responsible for freeing them from the Flow of Failed Phantoms. During his break, he arrives back at the McGee Family household and sees Pete and Molly preparing to do a video. At first he thinks it's dumb, but when he sees that Pete is making people do things with through the power of dance, he decides to use this for his own gain. Starting with Geoff, Scratch introduces a 'dance' to him, where he's basically just sweeping the floor, but Geoff still decides to give it a try. When more ghosts see how much fun Geoff is having while 'dancing', Scratch encourages them to join in and they all do so. Soon, they're doing Scratch's job of cleaning the club for him, and he eventually starts having them do his other Chairman duties, like stamping paperwork, under the guise of a 'dance' as well, much to his delight.

However, after Pete's growth in popularity as an influencer, he becomes more focused on the viewers seeing him rather than his message, as shown by him having text about recycling minimized until it was unreadable, just so it wasn't blocking his high kick. He even went so far as hiring a choreographer, JR, behind Molly's back. He's started ignoring his friends, his job, and helping the people of Brighton in favor of his influencer identity, which leads to Molly deciding enough is enough.

In the Ghost World, the Haughty Haunts club is now back in order, and Scratch keeps trying to make the ghosts keep doing his paperwork for him, but the ghosts are over it as the trend had been deemed dead. However, Geoff and Jeff start doing a unique dance, with the other ghosts joining in, causing ghosts to start splattering ectoplasm everywhere.

Pete and JR return to the house, and are confronted by Molly, Sharon, and Darryl, who had no choice but to hold an intervention for Pete to get him to see he's been consumed by being an influencer. When the direct approach doesn't work, they upload a video where not only his family tell him he's gone too far, but also Pete's friend Ruben Chen, Mayor Brunson, and Patty. In the end, it clicks with Pete that he's gone too far, and give control of his account over to Molly. When he tells JR it's over, JR is offended and leaves.

With the Haughty Haunts Club a mess again, Scratch is forced to clean it himself this time, as everyone has left and has no interest in following his dances anymore. Scratch decides to try the dance out for himself, and though he does have fun with it, his mood is ruined by a glob of ectoplasm landing on his head, mirroring the start of the episode. The episode then ends.

## Cast

* Ashly Burch as Molly McGee
* Dana Snyder as Scratch
* Jordan Klepper as Pete McGee
* Sumalee Montano as Sharon McGee
* Michaela Dietz as Darryl McGee
* Lara Jill Miller as Libby Stein-Torres
* Eric Edelstein as Geoff
* Jules Medcraft as Andrea Davenport
* Patton Oswalt as Mayor Brunson
* John DiMaggio as Sir Alister
* Kari Wahlgren as Grimbella
* Greg Baldwin as Bartholomew
* Grey Griffin as Lucretia
* Leonard Wu as Ruben Chen
* Jim Rash as JR
* Jenifer Lewis as Patty
* Danny Trejo as Bobby Daniels

### Additional voices

* John DiMaggio as City Council Member
* Michaela Dietz as City Council Member
* Jordan Klepper as City Council Member

## Trivia

* **Moral**: While making Internet videos can be fun, they can have consequences.
* This marks the first time that Pete appears on the title card.
	+ As of this episode, every major member of the McGee family and the entire main cast has appeared on a title card at least once in the series.

## Allusions

* ***Dance Dance Revolution*** — The episode's title is a pun on this popular dancing video game franchise from Konami.
* ***TikTok*** — The social media app, ClickClock, that Pete uses for his dancing career through the episode is a pun on this popular social media app in real life.
* ***Tom Sawyer*** - Much like the character in the book, Scratch tried to get out of work by making it fun for everyone else, which works at first, but an attempt to do so again backfires on him.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "July 2023 Programming Highlights". *Disney General Entertainment* (June 19, 2023).