What You Want (Danny Phantom)

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"What You Want" *Danny Phantom episode*
What You Want title card "In Sensational Dream-O-Rama!"
Season	1
Number	6
Prod. code	006
Airdate	May 1, 2004
Special Guest(s)	Peri Gilpin as Desiree
Writer(s)	Steve Marmel, Sib Ventress
Directors	Wincat Alcala, Butch Hartman, Richard Bowman
Ghost Appearances	Desiree (1st) Tucker Phantom (1st)
Abbreviation	WYW

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"What You Want" is the sixth episode of the TV-series Danny Phantom. When Danny's best friend Tucker expresses jealously over his ghost power, he gets his wish to have one of his own by ghost genie Desiree, but he's slowly succumbing to its ghostly powers!

[edit] Episode Recap

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Tucker narrates this story by starting out how he and Danny are best friends, sharing everything except Danny's ghost power which he possess. He uses them when a genie named Desiree breaks free from her bottle at a local swap meeting due to the actions of a hyperactive child wanting cotton candy. Desiree grants the girl her wish by literally spilling the entire swap meeting with cotton candy. Danny manages to fling Desiree back through the use of a new ghost power, a blast of ecto that shoots of his hands, something Tucker deeply admires.

Desiree grants her first shown wish.

The scene switches to a football game where Tucker and a very sick Sam watches, supporting Danny who was called in to wear the school mascot's costume, something of which he isn't enjoying. Casper High's team is losing the game, so Dash makes a hopeful wish that he'd turn into "a kind of monster who can crush these guys single-handed". Dash gets his wish when Desiree appears and literally turns him into a monster. Danny asks Tucker for his help to fill in for the mascot costume while Danny fishes out the ghost in Dash, returning him to normal. After sending Dash's ghost back in the Fenton ghost portal, Danny accidentally flies through the Fenton's latest invention: The Fenton Ghost catcher, immediately splitting his ghost self from his human half briefly before he's ghost half flies back into his human self. He's parents later explain how the catcher takes away ghost energies. Tucker, in his mascot costume meanwhile gets a beating from the football team out of anger for losing the game.

Danny checks up on the sick Sam before entering the movie theater with Tucker the next day. In the same theater, Paulina eyes a movie poster for "Sayonara Pussycat" and laments her desire to be as cute and popular as her. Desiree enters and grants her her wish, literally turning her into a smaller, cuter "chibi" version of herself. Everyone surrounding her instantly gives their attention and praise to her. Stuck with another dilemma, Danny excuses himself from Tucker and heads for Paulina. Tucker sits himself inside the theater, complaining on how the movie he wanted to see was sold out and how tired he is of being left out. He desires ghost powers, too, so Desiree appears and grants him his wish. Tucker is given ghost powers and he immediately takes advantage of them, playing pranks one after another. Danny in the meantime managed to extract the ghost out of Paulina, but upon his return, he doesn't find Tucker anywhere.

Danny argues with Tucker over the misuse of his new ghost powers.

Danny leaves the movie theater to see Desiree grant another person's wish, that of a surfer who's stuck in traffic and wishes to get out of it; now he's car is literally flying in the air. Danny flies over to rescue him, only to be shocked to see Tucker flying over as well. Not revealing where and how he got his powers, Tucker instead tries to steer the car away to safety, only to aim straight for a building. Using his intangibility, Danny saves them both. Tucker, thinking he's being a show-off argues with Danny, ignoring the car crash-landing in a silo. Tucker leaves Danny in anger, flying in speeds Danny himself have yet to master.

Tucker checks up on Sam while pulling more pranks with his powers, deciding not to tell her yet out of fear she might be jealous as he assumes Danny is. By school the next day, Danny (who is starting to get a cold of his own) digs inside Tucker to see what could be wrong with him. Tucker easily resists and harshly orders him never to do that again. He continues throwing pranks around the school, including possessing Paulina to get her to date him. Danny possesses Paulina, too and they argue back and forth in her own body. There Tucker accidentally reveals how he got his powers, then flies off in anger, refusing to associate himself with Danny any longer. A concerned Danny heads over to the lady who once owned the genie bottle Desiree came from.

Danny fights Tucker

She tells the story of how Desiree was once a harem girl who received the eyes of the Sultan. He gave her whatever she desired only to be banished by the Sultan’s jealous wife. Dying of a broken heart--and old age, her restless spirit wandered for years granting wishes for others at a cost. With piece of knowledge gained, Danny goes to a fountain and makes a wish by tossing a coin in the water, but to no avail. A businessman arrives after and makes a wish in the same fountain, hopelessly asking for a million dollars. Desiree appears, but Danny stops her before she could grant him the wish. He demands her to turn Tucker to normal to which she states she cannot, telling him his fate is sealed come noon tomorrow. Tucker's jealously increases his ghost power, making him able to turn into the most powerful ghost boy ever and literally filling with rage. Danny fights Desiree and nearly loses until he gets the idea to wish her in the Fenton Thermos ("If I wasn't a C student, I would have thought of that five days ago."). Unable to resist a wish, Desiree is sucked into the thermos.

Danny heads back inside the school to catch Tucker changing his grades in the computer's school records. Danny tries to cease Tucker, but he only gets angrier, turning him more ghost like. A battle between two best friends rage on with Danny losing. He decides the only way to bring him back is to get him to chase him which to his luck, Tucker does, both eventually reaching the Fenton household. There, he pushes Tucker into the ghost catcher, separating Tucker from his ghost half and catching it inside his thermos. Tucker apologizes for being so jealous while Danny apologizes for showing off. Afterwards, the two end up sick, but happy they're best friends again.

[edit] Allusions

"Sayanora Pussycat" is a parody of the popular "Hello Kitty" franchise.

In the flying car scene, Danny says to the driver, "Slow down, Jeff Gordon!" This is an obvious reference to 4-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon. Gordon has also appeared in Nickelodeon Magazine several times.

In The Movie theater scene, Tucker and Danny are behind an arcade game. The game is actually "Crash Nebula" from another Butch Hartman-directed cartoon, The Fairly Oddparents.