-The curse is real and literal though technically has been lifted by this episode. Scratch tries to curse Molly in the first episode when the family moves into "his" house to convince them to leave by looking scary and telling her "wherever you go, whatever you do, I'll be there!" Instead of cursing her, Molly deflects that curse back onto Scratch via her desire to try and see the best in people. Scratch meant it as a threat but Molly decides (note decides not assumes) Scratch is her new best friend because his threat could be interrupted as something a best friend would do.
-Who can and can't see the ghosts is explained in earlier episodes. The ghosts can basically decide who can see them and when though once you've truly seen them it seems like you can always see them. The characters shown in this episode plus the boys parents are the only ones who can see them and most of them were added along the way.
-The show tends to be pretty whimsical but with a decent amount of heart in it. For example there is an episode where Molly gets increasingly angry because Andrea (a character not in this episode) keeps getting credit for all the good things Molly has been doing and Molly is finding it increasingly difficult stay positive about it. Molly believes the good causes are what really matter but Andrea accidentally getting all the credit for her hard work gets annoying. When Andrea ends up selling the most chocolate bars as a charity event for the school despite the fact that Andrea is shown to not be putting any effort in while Molly is pulling out all the stops Molly finally loses it and decides to figure things out and get what she deserves. She uses Scratches ghost abilities (going through walls, etc) to sneak around Andrea's house and discover that Andrea didn't sell any of the chocolate and instead just bought them all herself since she is rich. This angers Molly to no end and even Scratch tries to calm her down (despite Scratch usually being the bad influence) but Molly decides that she deserve credit and Andrea deserves to get called out for not really doing the work. The next day there is a presentation where Andrea is going to show off the new display setup their school bought with the charity money and Molly arranges for pictures of the unsold chocolate to be displayed during Andrea's presentation so everyone will know she is a fraud. Right before this happens however, Molly talks to Andrea. With at first she is says things that will get under Andrea's skin like "oh, must have been really hard selling all the chocolate" to which Andrea replies "oh, I don't know. I guess I'm just a natural born salespersons. Must run in the family!" and then tries to hug her mom and dad who have come out for the presentation (her family owns the local department store). Her dad stops her and says "save it for the presentation sweetie, that way it will look more authentic" which makes Andrea sad. Molly realizes in that moment that Andrea isn't trying to sell the most chocolate to showoff and be popular but did it to try and get some affection and attention from her cold and distant parents. This is a terrible bombshell for Molly who has basically dedicated her life to making the world a better place; the one time she thinks she was in the right to be a jerk it turns out she had no clue what was really going on. She thought Andrea's was just doing things for status but she was really doing it for love... something Molly gets plenty of from her family. Molly isn't able to stop the pictures from getting shown to the town in time but swoops in as Andrea is floundering in front of the crowd and attempts to spin-doctor the situation by presenting the whole thing as Andrea trying to raise money and help the towns dental health by not flooding the town with candy. While not a great cover, people accept that answer enough everyone applauds and Andrea gets a text message thumbs up from her parents (because they suck.) Andrea is happy with the message because it is better then nothing and happy that Molly came to her rescue despite them not really being friends. Molly then heads home and hugs her parents, realizing that she was way happier having a loving family then anything else.
-The finale is very Scratch-centric because the previous episode which was the original season finale basically wrapped up all the other story lines.
-The curse is real and literal though technically has been lifted by this episode. Scratch tries to curse Molly in the first episode when the family moves into "his" house to convince them to leave by looking scary and telling her "wherever you go, whatever you do, I'll be there!" Instead of cursing her, Molly deflects that curse back onto Scratch via her desire to try and see the best in people. Scratch meant it as a threat but Molly decides (note decides not assumes) Scratch is her new best friend because his threat could be interrupted as something a best friend would do.
-Who can and can't see the ghosts is explained in earlier episodes. The ghosts can basically decide who can see them and when though once you've truly seen them it seems like you can always see them. The characters shown in this episode plus the boys parents are the only ones who can see them and most of them were added along the way.
-The show tends to be pretty whimsical but with a decent amount of heart in it. For example there is an episode where Molly gets increasingly angry because Andrea (a character not in this episode) keeps getting credit for all the good things Molly has been doing and Molly is finding it increasingly difficult stay positive about it. Molly believes the good causes are what really matter but Andrea accidentally getting all the credit for her hard work gets annoying. When Andrea ends up selling the most chocolate bars as a charity event for the school despite the fact that Andrea is shown to not be putting any effort in while Molly is pulling out all the stops Molly finally loses it and decides to figure things out and get what she deserves. She uses Scratches ghost abilities (going through walls, etc) to sneak around Andrea's house and discover that Andrea didn't sell any of the chocolate and instead just bought them all herself since she is rich. This angers Molly to no end and even Scratch tries to calm her down (despite Scratch usually being the bad influence) but Molly decides that she deserve credit and Andrea deserves to get called out for not really doing the work. The next day there is a presentation where Andrea is going to show off the new display setup their school bought with the charity money and Molly arranges for pictures of the unsold chocolate to be displayed during Andrea's presentation so everyone will know she is a fraud. Right before this happens however, Molly talks to Andrea. With at first she is says things that will get under Andrea's skin like "oh, must have been really hard selling all the chocolate" to which Andrea replies "oh, I don't know. I guess I'm just a natural born salespersons. Must run in the family!" and then tries to hug her mom and dad who have come out for the presentation (her family owns the local department store). Her dad stops her and says "save it for the presentation sweetie, that way it will look more authentic" which makes Andrea sad. Molly realizes in that moment that Andrea isn't trying to sell the most chocolate to showoff and be popular but did it to try and get some affection and attention from her cold and distant parents. This is a terrible bombshell for Molly who has basically dedicated her life to making the world a better place; the one time she thinks she was in the right to be a jerk it turns out she had no clue what was really going on. She thought Andrea's was just doing things for status but she was really doing it for love... something Molly gets plenty of from her family. Molly isn't able to stop the pictures from getting shown to the town in time but swoops in as Andrea is floundering in front of the crowd and attempts to spin-doctor the situation by presenting the whole thing as Andrea trying to raise money and help the towns dental health by not flooding the town with candy. While not a great cover, people accept that answer enough everyone applauds and Andrea gets a text message thumbs up from her parents (because they suck.) Andrea is happy with the message because it is better then nothing and happy that Molly came to her rescue despite them not really being friends. Molly then heads home and hugs her parents, realizing that she was way happier having a loving family then anything else.
-The finale is very Scratch-centric because the previous episode which was the original season finale basically wrapped up all the other story lines.