The Fenton Menace
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| "The Fenton Menace" Danny Phantom episode |
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| Season | 2 |
| Number | 27 |
| Prod. code | - |
| Airdate | October 7, 2005 |
| Writer(s) | Marty Isenberg |
| Directors | Wincat Alcala, Butch Hartman, Kevin Petrilak |
| Ghost Appearances | Youngblood |
| Abbreviation | TFM |
| Previous episode Identity Crisis |
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| Next episode The Ultimate Enemy |
"The Fenton Menace" is the twenty-seventh episode of the TV-series Danny Phantom. Danny's going crazy, literally in the eyes of Jazz when he states he's seeing things others can't see. Jazz decides on a vacation for the whole Fenton family, but Danny aims to show her the ghost he is seeing really exist and not just in his mind.
[edit] Episode Recap
Jazz narrates the story as the scene plays with the Fenton family on vacation in the canyons. She expresses how she feels she is the most mature out of her family as well, keeping an adult mind and making sure her parents doesn't discover about Danny being half ghost, but now she feels she must tell them or do something when he starts showing symptoms that he's acting crazy, namely when he seems to be fighting absolutely nothing, claiming it's a ghost.
Jazz flashbacks to how it began: a family expedition underwater via a submarine to search for ghosts. There Danny spots the sunken pirate ship of Youngblood from a while back. Misinterpreting Danny's words, Jack heads inside the ghost ship. Immediately Danny spots a ghost, but neither one of his family members sees it like he does. Panicking, Danny quickly heads to the controls of the ship and sends out a variety of weaponry to attack. Afterwards, he escapes (accidentally destroying the pirate ship in the process and lifting the ghost shield trapping the ghosts) and reaches surface where his family questions his motives, his parents going as far as strapping him on a table and spinning him on a machine to take the "crazy out of him".
Seeing that didn't work, Jazz takes it upon herself to figure out his problem. She sneaks in on him having a conversation with his friends in school where even he thinks he's having hallucinations. Jazz decided then that Danny going ghost while in such a state would be hazardous for him. Tucker arrives afterwards to fix Danny's problem of being stuck with his family when he needs to go ghost: a tape recorder containing sounds of Tucker snoring, sneezing, or going to the bathroom for use behind closed doors. Danny then sees the so-called ghost again and goes to transform, only to run into Jazz who tries to stop him from doing so. He runs to the boy's room however, transforms, and commences attack, worrying Jazz further.
Jazz suggest a ghost free family vacation camping trip, something the parents don't seem to agree until Danny, having found the ghost again apparently, blasts the entire basement lab with a Fenton gun. The next day, Tucker and Sam express their good-byes and concern to Danny while Jazz takes the weapons from the RV offline. After Danny sees the ghost again, the family heads off.
Maddie gives Jazz her old "Bearbert" teddy bear while in the middle of driving to which Jazz orders her not to treat her like a child. She then gets into an argument with Danny until he spots a cowboy on a horse...going at 70 miles per hour. The cowboy is revealed to be Youngblood (his parrot now turned into a horse) who takes off the tread from the RV's wheels, sending them towards a ravine. Luckily Jack places in a back-up tread.
Danny then leaves to use the bathroom when in reality he turns ghost and goes off to fight Youngblood (using the tape recorder Tucker gave him to make it seem he's in the bathroom). Jazz once again keeps her folks distracted from Danny while muttering about her disappointment in him fighting ghosts. Danny in the meantime figures out the reason only he can see Youngblood is that the ghost child is only visible in the eyes of children. All past encounters, Danny was the only child there as well as Jazz, who thinks she's more of an adult. Youngblood sends Danny back to the Fenton RV to continue his pattern of craziness, just in time to leave the bathroom so Jack can use it. Youngblood continues his scheme to make Danny go so crazy he'd up in a insane asylum.
The family sets up camp for the night where Jazz keeps a close eye on Danny, despite Youngblood flying around teasing him in silence. Danny hides in his sleeping bag, pretending to sleep, only to go ghost and find Youngblood. Jazz quickly figures it out and heads outside where Danny turns human and tries to convince his sister to get the weapons online in the RV. Instead, Jazz traps him inside the Fenton vehicle, putting on the ghost shield to "humor" him in case ghosts attack. While Jazz eyes Danny, Youngblood starts pushing the tent containing the sleeping Fenton parents to a raging river. After much unsuccessful convincing, Danny finally decides to get Jazz to embrace her childhood by insulting, teasing, and finally ripping her favorite teddy bear up. Jazz instantly goes postal over her stuffed animal and finally sees Youngblood.
After letting Danny free, he runs off to "get help" while Jazz handles Youngblood by returning the weapons on the RV, if not to get revenge for her teddy bear. The tent, now pushed into raging waters by Youngblood's horse gets the parent's attention; luckily Danny saves them in time before they plummet into a waterfall. Danny and Jazz then work together to stop Youngblood and his horse, eventually trapping both in the thermos. Afterwards, Jack and Maddie comes to destroy Danny, only for Jazz to distract them for him to fly away to safety.
Jazz concludes the story, stating she's still a responsible young adult, but so is Danny, which means she can still be a kid now and then while it lasts.
[edit] Allusions
- The part about Danny being the only kid being able to see Youngblood shares a similar concept as that of the movie The Sixth Sense.
- Tucker's tape recorder looks remarkably like an iPod.
- Bearbert Einstein is an obvious play on Albert Einstein, right down to their similar appearances.
- The Fenton Menace is a play on the title, Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. It is widely known that the shows creator Butch Hartman is a Star Wars fan.
- The scene where Danny shoots up the Fenton lab is remarkably similar to Scarface.
[edit] Trivia/Goofs
- This marks one of the first and very rare times Jack Fenton is seen outside of his jumpsuit.
- This is also one of the rare times when Danny's ghost sense never goes off.
- When Danny saw Youngblood for the second time, Sam and Tucker were there, claiming that they didn't see him, despite the fact that they're kids.
