Presenting the first meeting of the Brighton Women Whose Dads Suck Society
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Molly: Don’t worry girls! My dad is dad enough for all three of us.
Pete: Yeah! Wait, what are we talking about?
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I support this
Molly: Don’t worry girls! My dad is dad enough for all three of us.
Pete: Yeah! Wait, what are we talking about?
These for precious sweeties and their moms when they were younger.
Leah and Libby are also struggling when it comes to money (E-Books are out selling actual books and Libby had to have her Bat Mitzvah pushed up another year).
So the fact they were able to pitch in for Andrea's fund raiser for the McGees is so sweet. Especially since we know they gave what they could!
Episode writer: Paul Chang
Now that the truth is finally out, Molly makes Libby meet Scratch. They both instantly express not being fond of the other. Molly decides to come up with a plan to lead to spend some ¨quality time¨ together…
Molly meets her Brighton hero, Ezekiel Tugbottom, in his ghost form. Molly is thrilled but Scratch doesn’t look so excited by this individual…
So here's something interesting I haven't seen people talk about
Most people I've seen talk about the bat mitzvah episode see it as a lesson of listening to your friends and as a lesson on being kind to those with social anxiety. And while I do agree and that is a good lesson, I can't help but see that it also has the message of appreciating a culture for what it is, not what you want or think it should be
Molly sees a Bat mitzvah as this big, grand event but she obviously sees it on a surface level and doesn't have any Jewish family for experience. Molly looks it up on the internet which of course shows only the most outrageous things and gets in her mind an image of how she thinks a bat mitzvah should be done and almost tries in a way to "fix" Libby's party, one that's very accurate to the bat mitzvahs my own family had into something Molly wants to see, a way Molly thinks it should be. It's something I relate to growing up with non-jewish friends who thought they needed in some way to fix my traditions.
Molly thought a bat mitzvah was a grand party to celebrate womanhood, and didn't take the time to actually learn it's a celebration of you as a person and your close family. Molly has a very surface level understanding because she's not Jewish and because of that perception she tries to fix what isn't broken. And Libby has to spell it out to Molly that she didn't want a big party, just to spend time with her friends and family, and that Molly misunderstood her familial traditions. And I like that, even if this wasn't the intentional message, Molly did learn from this experience to appreciate Jewish culture for what it is. In the Chanukah episode, she's shown to have read up on the holiday but also doesn't make a big deal out of anything. Molly learned that since Libby is Jewish, the one with experience and knowledge, that she as a non-jewish person should stand back and let those of the culture do what they know. The only time Molly ever tries to bring up her "knowledge" of Jewish culture in the episode is reassuring Libby she knows what the holiday is, but for the rest of the episode she's only shown appreciating the holiday and more importantly, listening, rather than trying to talk over Libby. After everything that happened at the Bat mitzvah Molly learned to step back and not try to override and fix what isn't broken
Basically, what I'm trying to say is...
The Ghost and Molly McGee has really good Jewish representation