#100% Molly Mcgee

[tgammsideblog]

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¨Being Thai is part of you. And there is no right or wrong way to be you¨

[theknucklehead]

Here are some screencaps of Molly's cousin Emmie.

A shame she was only in one episode, she would have been great to have in the Ghost Friends group.

[candydos]

The Unhaunting of Brighton Video / 100% Molly McGee

https://mega.nz/file/QKZyQRzJ#wal4uxWl0B5btgiJdt8pYqdV7fZ4A3_-5H0RVuHf0wo

(if that doesn’t work, try https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Wt6S5sRF8_Am3H22QQLUePEH3FeKaoI/view?usp=share_link)

[kcuf-ad]

I kind of relate to Molly in 100% Molly McGee.

I am 100% Croatian and I am living in Croatia, but I kind of feel Like I am not Croatian enough since I speak English better than my mother language and people often joke that I am a turist that just learned the language, but don't worry, it doesn't bother me that much.

[unicornpoop]

100% Molly McGee would’ve been better if they included Mollys Irish side as well. Rewrite Pete’s annoying siblings or introduce other members of his family (cousin(s) with their own kids around Mollys age and there you go. And before you say anything I’m aware the creators said they aren’t interested in exploring Mollys Irish side which is understandable, but this episode would’ve worked better if they included Pete’s side of the family.

[cerinelle-stellarium]

Fiction that can handle a wide variety of themes while being both earnest and respectful is something that can be so personal.

[artiemartietartie]

the fact that I’ve fixated on these things and they all fall under the category of a kid who has a ghost bestie that follows them around everywhere

[bbbisque]

Heroes and their little friends!! Part 2 :)

[matt-eldritch]

I’ve been making a Disney/Mob Psycho 100 mashup AU called “Tilly Psycho 100″, I’ve picked Tilly Green, Gloria Sato and Scratch the ghost to play the roles of Mob, Reigen and Dimple, respectively.

[tgammsideblog]

How 100% Molly Mcgee¨ tackles mixed race crisis

The Ghost and Molly Mcgee, while being a funny comedy slice of life series, it has episodes that explore complicated real-life topics that the audience is able to relate to in more than one way.

One of these episodes is the season 2 episode ¨100% Molly Mcgee¨ that explores how Molly, who is mixed race/culture (Irish and Thai) feels alienated from her thai mother side of the family when her uncle David and cousin Emmie come to visit. Molly feels disconnected from her thai side and feels like she isn’t ¨thai¨ enough for that part of her family.

In this post I’m going to talk about how this episode tackles this theme, how it affects Molly and the rest of the characters involved and the lesson it gives.

Let’s start:

What does means to be mixed race/multi-ethnic?

According to dictionary.cambridge.org being mixed race means ¨a person whose parents are of different races¨. According to wikipedia being multi-ethnic refers to ¨people who are of more than one ethnicity.¨ In other pages, the term mixed race is used interchangeably to refer to people whose parents are from different races or different ethnic backgrounds since both terms are often correlated with each other. However, it worth of remembering that they mean different things. As you can belong to two different cultures but not be mixed race.

In the context of the series, Molly is a mixed race and multi-ethnic teen. She is half Thai from her mother side (Sharon) and half Irish from her father side (Pete). She is asian, southeast asian to be more specific, and white-european. The episode ¨100% Molly Mcgee¨ is about her thai side of the family and how she feels like she isn't connected enough to thai culture.

Molly’s conflict about being mixed race in the episode

¨100% Molly Mcgee¨ starts with Molly giving a presentation to her school classmates about her Thai heritage and her maternal family tree. She explains that her grandparents inmigrated from Thailand to America and that their surname is Suksai. Grandma Nin had two children: Sharon, Molly’s mom and David, Molly’s uncle, who himself got married and had a daughter named Emmie. Molly adds that Uncle David and Emmie are coming today from New York to visit the Mcgees after years of not seeing each other.

This intro is a good way to give the idea to someone who has never watched the series before that Molly is part thai and where her heritage comes from. I like how there are references to Thai culture and the fauna that is in Thailand in the presentation. It gives the idea that Molly enjoys learning about this culture and being involved in it, something that has been established in previous episodes.

In addition to this, there is a somewhat good explanation about why we haven’t seen Uncle David and Emmie around before, and that is because they live in New York and they haven’t been able to visit the Mcgees in a while.

The scene that follows is Uncle David and Emmie arriving at the Mcgees house. Molly greets them both and they get to meet Scratch, who they are very happy to see him and give him a big hug. Uncle David gives Molly an elephant plushie as a gift and she thanks to him in Thai. This makes Emmie excited since she thinks she has someone else around her age to talk to in Thai, to which Molly sadly answers that she only knows a few words and not much else. Emmie apologizes and shows to be okay with Molly not knowing a lot about the language.

Then Sharon and Grandma Nin greet David and Emmie in thai too, a conversation that Molly isn't able to follow since she can’t understand them. This is the first thing that makes Molly feel alienated from the rest of the Suksais, expressing to Scratch that she didn’t know there was so much thai spoken in this side of the family.

In the next scene the family is seen looking for a game night to play, Emmie suggests playing makruk, which Sharon describes as ¨thai chess¨. This is a game Molly has never heard about. Darryl reveals that he has been playing makruk online lately and plays a game with Emmie, making Molly feel more insecure about not knowing a lot about thai culture.

Then Uncle David shows some seaweed snacks that he brought to share. Molly tries eating some of them only to quickly realize that they are too spicy for her and she isn’t used to eating food that is this spicy. Sharon, David and Emmie eat them without any problem since they have spicy tolerance thanks to the thai food they got used to growing up.

Molly and Scratch are trying to calm down their burning mouths from the spiciness by drinking bottles of milk in Molly’s bedroom. Molly then expresses feeling alienated from thai culture because she doesn’t know things like how speak the language nor play makruk. She talks about how she only has one thai parent (Sharon) while her cousin Emmie has two thai parents, and, she thinks that because she is mixed race, she ¨isn’t thai enough¨ for her family.

One thing that is good about this episode is that a person can relate to Molly’s conflict without them having to be Thai since her conflict is about feeling like she doesn’t fit in with the rest of the Suksais because she doesn’t know much about her heritage aside from a few things. It is about feeling insecure that you aren’t connected enough to your roots and culture and feeling disconnected to your social circle as result of that. What’s more, this idea of feeling left out is something that Molly has struggled with past episodes (A Period Piece- All Night Plight), something that in part comes from being a teen but also a product of some abandoment issues she has.

Another aspect that is cool is how the Suksais don’t put Molly down for not knowing enough about thai culture, like Grandma Nin doesn’t show to be disappointed when Molly only knows a few thai words and Emmie apologizes to Molly when she realizes this too and continues to talk in english to her. They only make one or two jokes about Molly not being able to tolerate very spicy food but nothing else. If anything, them making Molly feel left out is indirect and completely unintentional as it would be in this type of family situations.

Molly has the idea of spending all night trying to learn as much as she can about thai culture to feel like she is ¨thai enough¨. The music song sequence has her trying to learn Thai language, how top lay makruk and trying to develop some spicy tolerance while Scratch helps her. I want to highlight how supportive Scratch is of Molly in this episode, he is seen guiding her when she is giving her school presentation at the start and then staying all night helping her with learning more about thai culture. In part it is because he gets what Molly is going through but he just really cares about her.

In the next day Molly presents to her family all the thai related plates she prepared for them to have, the Suksais are shown to be impressed, seeing this as a very nice gesture from Molly. Molly mentions how the food is ¨super spicy¨ and Grandma Nin quickly notices that something is off and brings up how Molly doesn’t like spicy food. Molly ignores Nin’s commentary and tries her best to prove that she can tolerate the spicy flavor.

She asks to Uncle David and Emmie how was their trip in thai and asks them to answer her in thai too. This leads to the rest of the Suksais to have a conversation in thai that Molly isn’t able to follow again just like the beginning of the episode.

I really like how this scene really shows how overwhelmed Molly feels about not being able to understand what the rest of the family is talking about, with the subtitles covering the entire screen while Molly panicks more and more until she screams. It’s a pretty effective scene that shows how she stressed she is in this situation.

Pete decides to tell a joke in thai language, making the others laugh. Molly is suprised that even Pete (who is Irish-white) knows how to talk thai. Pete explains to her that it is a joke that he has been practicing for months to impress Grandma Nin. This leads to Molly say that she still ¨isn’t thai enough¨ even when she spend all night trying to learn about the culture.

In the following scene Molly is in her bedroom surrounded by her plushies, feeling bad about what happened earlier. Scratch tries cheering her up without being able to do so. That’s when Sharon comes in and asks to Molly what is happening. She explains to Sharon how she doesn’t feel as thai as the rest of them. What follows is the rest of the suksais telling Molly that understand how she feels, just in different ways: Sharon feels bad about letting her thai get rusty, Uncle David for not have been in Thailand and even Grandma Nin mentions how her sister made fun of her for ¨being too american¨.

Sharon explains to Molly that ¨being thai is part of you¨ and ¨there isn’t a right or wrong way to be you¨, leading to Molly to understand that she doesn’t have to prove anything to them and it is her decision to choose how she celebrates thai culture and how much she wants to learn about it. Emmie tells to Molly that they love her the way she is and they all share a family hug, ending the episode.

One detail i want to highlight i how only the Suksais are involved in this personal scene and Scratch and Pete are ¨set aside¨ since it isn’t something that involves them in this context. It is a pretty nice detail that makes the scene better than it is.

Conclusion:

The lesson that 100% Molly Mcgee gives is that people have different ways of celebrating their own culture and they don’t have to prove anything to anyone. It is one’s decision to want to learn more about one’s heritage and you don’t have to do it because you feel like you have to impress your family or other people. One decides how invested they want to be and there isn’t anything wrong with knowing less about it in contrast to the rest of your family and social circle.

[bennydwight]

How excited are you to see TGAMM tackle the concept of periods and don’t you think it’s inevitable that soccer moms will cry on the bird app about it like they did with Turning Red and Baymax?

I am DISPROPORTIONATELY JAZZED for the period episode!! When I read the plot outlines, that one made me physically wiggle with glee. Disney is awful and pandering with a lot of representation (i.e, the repeating First Ever Gay Disney Character), but so far it's still one-upping all other production companies with normalizing periods. A thing I've noticed in TGAMM particularly is how they note a lot of issues in a way that impacts the characters while also being casual and non-preachy about it. Like, already there are episodes that organically bring attention to student loan debt, light pollution, and the inflation of medical care. I'm very excited to see how the writers make the concept about Molly and her friends, rather than making the period itself the star of the episode.

Soccer moms can cry all they want on the bird app, that's why I won't touch that junk with a ten-foot pole. Refusing to talk to your kid about periods won't stop them from getting it, Karen 🤷‍♀️

(And tbh, the way I'm treating season one, it won't matter if they all scream 'DON'T LET YOUR KIDS WATCH IT' because I'll be watching it enough on repeat to count for at least six people. No views lost here, baby)

[mandareeboo]

I didn't really want to say anything in case it was rude but uh. "Goyim" is the plural form. You're looking for "goy." Gentile/gentiles is the English word for the same concept but I assume you're using the Yiddish purposely.

SHIT, my bad. I always read goyim in posts and assumed it just meant non-jewish person. Never thought to consider it was plural.

Thank you for explaining it to me!

[darthkvznblogs]

Finished watching The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and catching up on The Ghost and Molly McGee! Already miss them both! Had a great time with them ☺️

Hot take: I enjoyed Juniper Lee significantly better than American Dragon. Both show their age in 2023 of course, but I thought the comedy landed much more consistently, the serious moments got a bit more respect, and I just wasn’t as annoyed by (most) of the side characters.

Juniper has some weak-ass villains though. Say what you will about the Huntsmaster and the Dark Dragon, but at least you could buy them as a deadly threat. Most of Juniper’s big bads are kind of a joke xD

[the-gayest-show]

A frame from 100% Molly McGee. Likely gonna cry. Look at her dancing amongst her culture. This is gonna be such an important episode for people everywhere.

OMG YES!!!! I CAN"T WAIIIIITTTTTTTT

gonna be SUCH an episode fr

[cerinelle-stellarium]

Reblog and list out all of your media hyperfixations as far back as you can remember. Mine are under the cut.

Asterix

Tintin

Yu-Gi-Oh!

Dora the Explorer

Tokyo Mew Mew

H2O: Just Add Water

Kamichama Karin

Futari wa Pretty Cure (dub)

Spliced

Jacob Two Two

Gunnerkrigg Court

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

The Little Prince (2010)

Ib

Smile Pretty Cure!

Shirokuma Cafe

Gravity Falls

Little Witch Academia

Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z

Sweets Fairy

Agents of the Realm

Flip Flappers

Poco's Udon World

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Atomic Puppet

Miira no Kaokata

Magical Warior Diamond Heart

Bob's Burgers

Hataraku Saibou

Rilakkuma to Kaoru-san

hiimmarymary

The Dragon Prince

Aria's Story

Classicaloid

Artiswitch

Centaurworld

The Ghost and Molly McGee

Fresh Pretty Cure!

Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure!

Mob Psycho 100

One Punch Man

Kung Fu Wa!

Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure

[buttercupart]

She's still a happy person things are just... harder...

yesss yes, she has more things to deal with / new ways to navigate the world around her. things are harder and she slowly learns that its okay to not be as happy all the time, or for her joy to change and express itself differently - at the end of the day she's still 100% Molly McGee