Prisoners of Love (Danny Phantom)
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| "Prisoners of Love" Danny Phantom episode |
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| Season | 1 |
| Number | 8 |
| Prod. code | 008 |
| Airdate | May 15, 2004 |
| Writer(s) | Steve Marmel, Marty Isenberg |
| Directors | Wincat Alcala, Butch Hartman, Juli Hashiguchi |
| Ghost Appearances | Walker (1st), Ghost Police (1st), Box Ghost, Lunch Lady Ghost, Skulker, Desiree, Technus, Dora the Dragon Ghost |
| Abbreviation | PoL |
| Previous episode Bitter Reunions |
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| Next episode My Brother's Keeper |
"Prisoners of Love" is the eighth episode in the TV-series Danny Phantom. Danny gets caught by law enforcer ghost Walker in the ghost zone and sentence to spend 1000 years in prison alongside with his old foes, all the while facing the possibility of his parents getting divorced!
[edit] Episode Recap
Danny heads down to the lab basement to ask his father a question. Jack assumes it's for his latest invention, the Specter Speeder, a vehicle able to fly flawlessly in the Ghost Zone. Shoving Danny inside, Jack shows the inners of the machine until Maddie walks over and politely asks her husband if he remembers their wedding anniversary. Jack doesn't for the 18th year in a row, angering her. She slams the side of the Specter Speeder causing the vehicle to takes off for the Ghost Zone with Danny inside whilst Maddie yells at Jack, neither of them aware of the moving vehicle. Inside the Ghost Zone, Danny is quick to encounter Walker who tells Danny that's he trespassing. Leaving him with a warning, Danny drives the Spector Speeder back to his basement where Maddie finishes her argument with Jack and storms off.
Jack begs Maddie to stay, but she angrily tells Jack she has to go her sister Alicia in Arkansas. She also mentions about a divorce to which Danny, who overhears, fears his parents will split up. Jazz calmly gives her opinion saying it's basically the same thing every year with Jack cluelessly not apologizing. Jack proves her wrong by going to Arkansas to apology and give her a fitting anniversary. Jack leaves with a stunned Jazz who ends up going over all her records, bonkers that she is wrong for the first time in her life, all the while as a panicking Danny tries to keep the house clean by the time their parents return. An annoyed Jazz heads to the library afterwards leaving Danny to clean up the lab downstairs freely with his powers, accidentally sending an anniversary present to Maddie from Jack into the Ghost Zone.
Jack lands in Arkansas by parachuting off the plane (as there are no airports to land in where he is). Nearby, Alicia counsels her sister Maddie, stating she'd be better off without Jack, viewing him as a crackpot who believes in ghosts. Jack lands nearby the two, snagged in his own parachute, which Maddie assumes as a ghost. Using a Fenton gadget, she attacks him, only to find out it was only her husband. Staying until he can set things right, Jack--too afraid to confront his wife--tries to apology, but doesn't get the chance as he must find a bathroom to do his business.
Danny expresses his concern to his friends at school. The two try to cheer him up, but with little choice, Danny decides to find the present to keep his parents from possibly splitting up by entering the Ghost Zone.
While Sam and Tucker monitor a web cam to keep an eye on Danny, he enters the Ghost Zone, opening one of the many doors that leads to a ghost's lair. Tucker meanwhile admires the Spector Speeder, later finding the button to dictate real world objects. With that help, Danny enters a doorway where objects from the mortal world dwells, as well as foes Danny has captured and ejected from the Fenton thermos as told by the Box Ghost whom Danny encounters. The Ghost Zone police come afterwards and arrests both Danny and Box Ghost, taking them to prison where Danny is reunited with previous ghosts he had fought and captured, much to his dismay.
Sam and Tucker decide to go rescue him by taking the Spector Speeder (and to avoid Jazz who wants the two of them to go over every single detail on any mistakes she's made over the course of her life). In prison, Walker sentences Danny to 1000 years as a first offense warning due to bringing a real world item (the present) to the Ghost Zone. Jack, in the meantime continues searching for a bathroom (and trying to come up with a way to apologize to Maddie).
In prison, Danny already gets hassled by the ghosts he captured until he thinks of a plan for him and the others to work together to bust out, stating he was responsible for only capturing them, not sending them to jail. Skulker is the first to agree and the rest follow. While Danny huddles them together for his plan, Tucker and Sam continue their search. Seeing Tucker rely too much on technology, Sam asks Dora the Dragon Ghost nearby for directions, instead she turns into a dragon, still angst-ridden over the costume ball and gives chase.
Danny and Skulker, meanwhile, create a distraction by fighting each other to get the guards' attention. The two as well as numerous other ghosts then all team up and does battle towards the cops, managing to free themselves. Danny however still needs to attend one more matter before escaping. At the same time, Tucker and Sam reach prison while avoiding an angry Dora, using the real world detector as their guide to find the prison they miraculously phased through. Danny faces Walker, struggling to get the present when his friends arrive, stating as long as they're humans, they can phase through the Ghost Zone. With that knowledge, Danny turns human, grabs the present, and heads home, much to a frustrated Walker.
Back in Arkansas, Jack finally manages to apology to Maddie, then he tries to give her his present, but forgets. In the eleventh hour, Danny and Jazz arrive in time with the gift in hand. When the former asks if the two are getting a divorce, Maddie merely mentions it was all a big misunderstanding, stating she came over to celebrate Alicia's ten-year anniversary of her divorce. With that issue solved, both Danny and Jazz regain in happiness as their parents chase after the Box Ghost (who had managed to hide himself in the present).
