Splitting Images
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| "Splitting Images" Danny Phantom episode |
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| Season | 1 |
| Number | 5 |
| Prod. code | 005 |
| Airdate | April 24, 2004 |
| Writer(s) | Marty Isenberg |
| Directors | Wincat Alcala, Butch Hartman, Richard Bowman |
| Ghost Appearances | Sidney Poindexter (1st) |
| Abbreviation | SI |
| Previous episode Attack of the Killer Garage Sale |
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| Next episode What You Want |
"Splitting Images" is the fifth episode of the TV series Danny Phantom. Danny must deal with a teenage ghost nerd who wants revenge on bullies for what he had to suffer through.
[edit] Episode Summary
In school, Danny and Tucker help out Sam by carrying boxes filled with live frogs which Sam wishes to save from them being dissected, instead preferring to use robotic frogs as alternatives. She plans to announce this in the school's auditorium until the Box Ghost comes out of nowhere and attacks Danny. Danny goes ghost and battles him throughout the school, ultimately landing inside the auditorium where Box Ghost attacks Danny with boxes containing costumes and props for a school play. With Danny smothered in clothes, Box Ghost makes his exit while Sam makes her entrance to the stage podium to display her disgust. Unfortunately the students pay more attention, laughing at Danny instead, now stuck in a pink dress from the clothes thrown at him.
Sam displays anger towards Danny for making her frog saving campaign a bust while Danny is sentenced to a new locker after his old one got trashed by the Box Ghost; locker 724. Tucker and Sam immediately gasps in shock while a confused Danny opens the locker to find only a mirror hanging inside. Tucker starts to explain the locker is cursed when Dash and his friends come to bully Danny. Danny goes ghost and thrashes Dash and his gangs to which Tucker likes, but Sam is displeased with. When the three leave, locker 724 glows as a voice echoes, "Bullies...".
Back home, Danny is acknowledged that his parents will be coming over to investigate his school for ghosts (with their newest invention, the Ghost Gauntlets), something which Jazz relents upon. The next day in school, a mysterious ghost from Danny's new locket retailates to all the bullies he sees in contact, causing the students to think the school is haunted. Sam immediately suspects Danny who merely defends himself, saying he did nothing. Before Sam could berate some more, she eyes Mr. Lancer and rushes over leaving Tucker to takes this time to tell the story of Sidney Poindexter, a local nerd from the 50's who was bullied more times then anyone in Casper High (enough that it was a required graduation project). Because he was stuffed in his locker more times then he could count, Sidney is rumored to haunt it to this day. Sam returns afterwards with a box of frogs she smuggled while Lancer wasn't looking. After Danny gets bullied yet again by Dash, he later stuffs Sam's frogs down his pants in the locker hallway.
Sidney, having finally been freed from his locker imprisonment confronts Danny, thinking him of a bully. Danny tries to convince him otherwise, but instead gets him angry, causing a commotion in various rooms of the school, something which Jack and Maddie also discovers when they see various high schoolers running for their lives, much to the dismay of Jazz. With Sidney on the offensive, Danny has no choice but to fight back, eventually leading him to the school's boiler room where he accidentally becomes human, prompting Sidney to cry out that he is the "halfa" (half a boy, half a ghost).
Upset that he thinks Danny is using his powers for evil and discovering he can possess people, Sidney overshadows Danny's body, causing Danny's ghost half to end up in Sidney's body in his world, a 1950's black and white ghost zone. Sidney gets use to Danny's world, using misunderstood kindness (using his powers to steal sodas to others from soda machines) to gain friendship with others (which Sam takes advantage of to get the others to support her cause) while Danny suffers the bullying Sidney had to go through.
Going back to his locker, Danny tries in vain to contact Tucker and Sam, but with no luck. Only when Sam and Tucker heads nearby locker 724 that Danny catches their attention and convinces them of who he is. Afterwards, he expresses his guilt for being a bully to Dash and then thinks of a plan with his friends. Later on, Sam urges Sidney to come over to help a poor nerd in need, only to be taken to his zone through the portal in the mirror.
The two fight while Sidney's peers watch, expressing in awe that Sidney (really Danny) was defeating the halfa. Only when Danny threatens to smash the mirror does Sidney dive in inside his own body where Danny fights back and gains his own body back. He dives in back to his own world while Sidney apparently gets praise from his peers over his impressive fighting skills over Danny Phantom.
Danny, upon returning to his own zone apologizes for what he has done, losing his popularity while Sam gets her wish for the school to use mechanical frogs for dissection then real life ones.
[edit] Trivia
- This is the first time the term "halfa" is used.
