Scoff

Scoff is the slash ship between Scratch and Geoff from the The Ghost and Molly McGee fandom.

Howlin' Harriet
In the episode, Geoff makes his first appearance, being very grabby and touchy with Scratch, who consistently objects to the affections. Scratch asks Geoff why he is at his house to which Geoff states, "you said we were going to hang, today, the second Saturday after never". He then shows Scratch a calendar that has been crudely scribbled over, obstructing the month with the word never and marking the second Saturday off as "hang with Scratch". Scratch quips that the calendar appears doctored, and tells him he isn't able to hang out today, which Molly says that Scratch shouldn't act like that towards his "best friend".

Molly then asks Geoff to come with her and Scratch to her girl scout camping trip, which Geoff agrees to. While on the camping trip, Geoff repeatedly tries to impress Scratch, from suggesting he and Scratch pretend to be Howlin' Harriet to scare the campers, to trying to "sell the illusion" of being Harriet by putting sticks on his head. After the real Howlin' Harriet shows up and scares everyone away, Molly, Scratch, and Geoff hide behind a bush together, with Geoff extremely terrified, he grabs Scratch and hugs him for comfort. Molly comes up with an idea for her to ask Libby to help her craft fake toes, while Scratch and Geoff distract Harriet by pretending to be feet.

After Harriet is defeated and Molly and Libby become best friends, Scratch and Geoff are left at the campsite while they finish writing their scare reports. Scratch goes on to say that as long no one tells the Ghost Council about Howlin' Harriet, he says this looking at Geoff, implying the comment is aimed towards him, Scratch calls Geoff "buddy". Upon hearing that, Geoff is exhilarated and grabs Scratch and pulls him into a tight hug, exclaiming happily, "you called me buddy!". Despite Scratch being annoyed, he doesn't push Geoff away as much as he did at the beginning of the episode.

Not so Honest Abe
Scratch goes into the ghost world after lying to Molly by telling her he was friends with Abraham Lincoln, and rants about his problem to Geoff while the two sit at a table together drinking coffee. After reevaluating his situation, he decides to disguise Geoff as Abe Lincoln by rearranging his ectoplasm to which Geoff does not object to. After arriving back at Molly's house and Geoff taking on his role as "Abraham Lincoln" too far, Scratch regrets his decision of bringing Geoff into the problem. Later, after Molly makes a fool of herself by telling her classmates all the fake Lincoln information she got from Geoff, Scratch gets the real Lincoln and reveals the ruse to Molly... by throwing Geoff under the bus.

While Abe helps Molly fix her presentation through song, Geoff and Scratch can be seen dancing together to the music.

The Turnip Twist
Scratch has to figure out a way to ruin Pete and Molly's Turnip Festival in Brighton without going through with it himself, when Geoff runs into Scratch in the aftermath of him getting twisted around in a Turnip Tornado machine. Scratch points out to Geoff he is a ghost, but not without untangling him anyway, Geoff gives Scratch a tight hug and thanks him, wondering out loud what he'd do without him. Scratch says Geoff can always count on him, before saying that he can always rely on Geoff, stating he now sees a loophole to his problem. Throughout the song number, "Do The Turnip Twist", Scratch has Geoff repeatedly try to sabotage the festival, to which all the attempts fail.

Later, when Pete is announcing the final event of the turnip festival, which is a turnip destroying game, Scratch is talking to a distracted Geoff about how if the festival doesn't fail the Ghost council will send him to the flow of failed phantoms, this suddenly gathers Geoff's attention. Geoff lets out a startled scream and grabs Scratch by the face, clarifying if him being sent to the flow is true. Without an answer, Geoff goes to try to sabotage the festival again, at first spelling his name but then cutting himself off for the first time, and then shouting out about how "he is NOT losing his best friend". Geoff goes for the rope holding up the massive turnip, causing it to fall onto the stage. After a scene of Pete and Molly chasing after the massive turnip piñata, the festival has officially been ruined, causing misery in Brighton to go up again. Later when Pete is distraught over the festival failing, Scratch leaves the house and says he feels bad about ruining the festival before his mood changes, and he states that he can technically say it was not his fault, and as he points at Geoff he says it was Geoff's fault. Geoff gives Scratch a hug and says he'd do anything for him.

Fanon
The shipping of Scoff was almost instantaneous after Howlin' Harriet aired, which was Geoff's debut episode. With screenshots of Geoff hugging Scratch in Molly's room were being massed shared on Twitter and TikTok. On AO3, Scoff is the most written ship for Geoff and the second most written ship for Scratch. It is also the fourth most written ship within The Ghost and Molly McGee tag. There are currently 26+ written works.

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