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 crudely scribbled over calendar 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.

Fanon
The shipping of Scoff was almost instantaneous after Howlin' Harriet aired, which was Geoff's debut episode. 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 Geof 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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