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With today's theme being "zombie", I couldn't help but be reminded of Molly McGee and her flubbed attempt at being scary. Her zombie makeup and props from the trash look convincing, and she really leaned into her performance, but...

MOLLY: Must have brains... and I will use those brains to better my community.

...she couldn't resist giving her character a sympathetic backstory. As a man of many talents, and a person in a ghost/human relationship, Joey Wren would teach her that even if the monster did have a sympathetic backstory, it is far more convincing to keep that part to herself.

JOEY: You've seen enough horror movies to know it's more terrifying if the victims of the attack find out this part of the story the hard way hours into the plot, Molly, as opposed to the monster blabbing it all up front.

To help Molly out with her acting, and upon finding out her best (human) friend, Libby Stein-Torres, is a doomsday prepper for any possible zombie apocalypse, Joey suggested practicing the zombie routine with Molly to build Libby's confidence enough for her to share her apocalypse preparation skills with other people... though Libby, having played the worst case scenario in her head many times, was able to spot several mistakes in both their acting skills for this type of character in her plan to wash their makeup off in the most aggressive way possible that'll also ward of attacks from real zombies should they arrive.

All the while, Joey's dead twin Jenny Wren has a conversation with Scratch, the new chairman off-duty, about the prejudice her family has about zombies and how every corpse in the family had been cremated to avoid catching "the leprosy of the afterlife". Scratch laughs the concept off as paranoia, stating it doesn't matter if zombies are real or not as long as the living still fear-- and thus respect-- the dead. (Artist's note: I added the ice cream and all those cans of chickpeas, chicken noodle soup, and "ham in a can" for continuity in the actual series, mainly the episode "Carbon Zero Heroes".)

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With today's theme being "zombie", I couldn't help but be reminded of Molly McGee and her flubbed attempt at being scary. Her zombie makeup and props from the trash look convincing, and she really leaned into her performance, but...

MOLLY: Must have brains... and I will use those brains to better my community.

...she couldn't resist giving her character a sympathetic backstory. As a man of many talents, and a person in a ghost/human relationship, Joey Wren would teach her that even if the monster did have a sympathetic backstory, it is far more convincing to keep that part to herself.

JOEY: You've seen enough horror movies to know it's more terrifying if the victims of the attack find out this part of the story the hard way hours into the plot, Molly, as opposed to the monster blabbing it all up front.

To help Molly out with her acting, and upon finding out her best (human) friend, Libby Stein-Torres, is a doomsday prepper for any possible zombie apocalypse, Joey suggested practicing the zombie routine with Molly to build Libby's confidence enough for her to share her apocalypse preparation skills with other people... though Libby, having played the worst case scenario in her head many times, was able to spot several mistakes in both their acting skills for this type of character in her plan to wash their makeup off in the most aggressive way possible that'll also ward of attacks from real zombies should they arrive.

All the while, Joey's dead twin Jenny Wren has a conversation with Scratch, the new chairman off-duty, about the prejudice her family has about zombies and how every corpse in the family had been cremated to avoid catching "the leprosy of the afterlife". Scratch laughs the concept off as paranoia, stating it doesn't matter if zombies are real or not as long as the living still fear-- and thus respect-- the dead. (Artist's note: I added the ice cream and all those cans of chickpeas, chicken noodle soup, and "ham in a can" for continuity in the actual series, mainly the episode "Carbon Zero Heroes".)