The Million Dollar Ghost

Episode #19

Transcripted by Dennis Dunjinman

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Prologue

 

Fade into a shot, there is a white sign that reads in red letters “Wisconsin 60 miles”. By the road there is a wooden fence. A red barn is seen. Quickly pan right to show Vlad’s Wisconsin castle. Zoom in toward the front door.

 

Fade to the door. There are plants on either side growing, and unlit torch holders on either side. The door on the right is open with a small crack. Zoom in.

 

Fade in to the foyer of Vlad’s castle. The walls are decked in green and the furniture is decked in gold. On the left is a picture of a Packers player with the number 66 standing over a doorway. There’s a green and gold rug on the floor. There are two curved gold stairways to the upstairs, and a wooden green door with gold doorframe between them. Upstairs shows a portrait of the late Wisconsin dairy king. Zoom in.

 

Fade in to a dark, magenta place. A needlessly complex machine is seen hanging from the ceiling. Pan down to show Vlad’s lab, it’s a purple-pinkish color. Counters with vials and flasks and control panels are arranged in a segmented circle. His portal is seen green, swirly and open, shaped in a pentagonal shape. Unlit red lights are on either side of the portal. Zoom in on the portal.

 

Fade to a straight shot of the portal. Rotate and zoom in.

 

VLAD: (offscreen) Ah, there you are.

 

Fade to a glass rectangle prism case floating in the Ghost Zone. It is glowing with a heavy green aura. The glass is magenta. Inside is a green skeleton key with a skull on the top. It is resting on a purple tasseled pillow on top of a white pedestal.

 

VLAD: The legendary Skeleton Key.

 

Cut to the Skeleton Key. It sparkles once.

 

Cut to Vlad Plasmius, his arms crossed. A portal is seen behind him.

 

The Plasmius Portal is right next to the Skeleton Key? Did Vlad have to program those coordinates to prevent extensive mapping and searching? I wonder how he did that.

 

VLAD: With it, I can open any door,--

 

Close up on Vlad. Purple doors drift past him.

 

VLAD: --travel to any realm, free any prisoner.

 

Cut to the Ghost Zone. The tiny box containing the Skeleton Key is floating off in the top-right corner, leaving a lot of empty space. Vlad float-strafes into the bottom left corner and seen from the back. A ball of purple light and several rings of purple coming out appear between him and the box. The light morphs into the shape of a large monster. The monster then comes into full color, it’s red with a gray chest, has four arms with claws and black, white-gem-studded bands. Its mouth is full of sharp teeth. Its upper two arms are out in a flexing position and the bottom pair is raised just over its chest. It has no legs, only a cascading tail in the back. It roars, and then looks down at Vlad with all four fists clenched.

 

Cut to Vlad from above, arms crossed.

 

VLAD: And if you’re the only thing standing between me and that…

 

Cut to Vlad from behind, looking upon the face of the Behemoth that fills the screen. It claps two of its hands together, squishing Vlad.

 

Cut to the Behemoth. The upper two arms are together, the lower pair is out at its sides in fists. The Skeleton Key’s box is floating behind it. It looks at its hands and smiles triumphantly, only to change to a look of confusion as it relaxes its lower arms and opens his upper ones.

 

Cut to the Behemoth’s hands. They are empty, and only have four fingers. Pan left to an empty part of the Ghost Zone. Vlad fades back into the visible spectrum, arms crossed.

 

Close up on Vlad. He raises the left eyebrow and lowers the right one.

 

Cut to the angry Behemoth. It bends down and then the screen zooms out, the monster leans forward, opens its mouth wide, and a large purple beam comes out.

 

Mouth beams? I’ve seen eye beams before, but mouth beams are more ridiculous.

 

I guess you don’t play very many RPG video games or watch anime. ^-^;;

 

Cut to Vlad. He bends down with one fist clenched and the other arm out downward, and he charges a small bolt of pink lightning, which fizzles. He sweeps up, leaving a curved rectangular pink shield in front of him, turning his body away and crossing his arms. Zoom out. The wide purple beam hits the shield, and bursts into purple and blue flames on it. Around it the beam continues. The beam then stops blazing, and Vlad’s shield shrinks and goes away with a pop.

 

Cut to the Behemoth, the lower arms are up with angry “I can’t believe that didn’t work!” fists, and the upper pair has its claws brandished. It reaches out offscreen with the upper pair, bringing Vlad over to it. It looks down at Vlad trapped in the cylinder the monster’s hands make, only Vlad’s head and shoulders are visible.

 

Vlad laughs with evil amusement.

 

Cut to Vlad in the monster’s hands.

 

VLAD: This is going to be a *snap*!

 

Vlad’s shape turns all white. It lifts up in a flame that swirls in a circle and vanishes with a pop.

 

Cut to the monster looking in defeated disbelief at his hands in the cylinder shape. He opens them up on either side, looking down at them in close observation, rolling his red pupils on his black eyes on the right, then the left.

 

Cut to a section of the monster’s lower body, one arm is relaxed and visible. A flash of white light appears and takes Vlad’s shape; Vlad’s color comes back into the visible spectrum. He bends down and charges his left hand with pink energy, turning sharply and uppercutting the monster. The monster roars as it is thrust upwards by the force of the punch.

 

Cut to the monster with all its arms out and down. It keeps going upwards and offscreen.

 

Cut to Vlad, with one fist behind him and the other bent in front of him. He bends down a little as pink sparkles appear around him. Pan right. A black ring grows bigger and separates to two vertically, revealing a second identical Vlad with sparkles. Pan right more as two rings sprout again the same way and reveal a third identical Vlad. Pan right more and the same action occurs a fourth time.

 

Cut to the Ghost Zone. The Behemoth is being knocked back and growling. It puts down its ghostly tail, clenches all four fists, and roars.

 

Cut to a part of the Ghost Zone littered with doors. One Vlad comes up from afar with a pink, glowing whip. A second Vlad comes up closer; it just has its chest hunched down. A third Vlad comes up from the left higher and between the lengths of the first two, its fists are up. It blazes the fist in front of him with pink and lowers the fist behind him. A fourth Vlad is only seen in the foreground by its chest up.

 

The four Vlads spring into action. The first Vlad swirls its lasso and throws it offscreen. The second Vlad shoots off eye beams. The third Vlad shoots off a hand beam, and the fourth Vlad also uses eye beams.

 

Cut to the Behemoth with a narrow, serious stare. All its fists are down and clenched. A single pink blast hits him on the forehead, he turns to the right with the upper right hand covering his face, and the other arms have their fists released. Another blast hits it on the stomach; all its arms are thrust in front of it as its stomach is knocked back. Then, several loops of a ghostly pink lasso restrain it and all its arms. It thrusts back and cries out in pain.

 

Cut to Vlad. He blinks and looks down.

 

Cut to the box holding the key, it’s in the lower right corner. Zoom in on it.

 

Cut to three of the Vlads. The one on the top is using both hands for a pink plasma ray. The second Vlad is using eye beams. The bottom Vlad is holding the pink ecto-energy rope. The third Vlad pulls back the subdued Behemoth as it silently cries out in pain, the top part of it pulsing with pink energy but the tail part is okay.

 

Cut to a smiling Vlad not doing anything. He lifts his legs up and flies downward offscreen.

 

Cut to a green speed background. Vlad flies downwards with open palms in front of him. His cape blows in the wind.

 

Cut to the key on the pillow. Rotate and zoom in. The key sparkles once.

 

Cut to the Behemoth with arms tied by the pink lasso. Zoom out as it tears the rope apart, all four arms out, roaring. It bends down and turns to the right, turning downward to flip up its ghostly tail. Pan right to the tail.

 

Cut to Vlad smiling with evil glee as he flies swiftly downward against a green speed background. Zoom in on his face.

 

Cut to the box holding the key. Zoom in on it slowly as the Behemoth’s tail whips in from the left and hits dead-on.

 

Cut to a surging turquoise action background.

 

Cut back to the pentagonal Plasmius portal. Thin beams of light shoot out. Vlad shoots out with its limb behind him.

 

Cut to a lab table. Vlad lands on his hands and chest and slides across it with his tiny legs in the air, arms in front. Beakers fall off the table. Vlad grunts in pain.

 

Cut to a wall of the lab with a counter nearby. Vlad lands on his behind with his hands in the air. With some green smoke coming from below him, he lands his legs on the floor and his fists as well.

 

Cut to the swirly green portal, it’s octagonal like the Fenton Portal now. Three other Vlads shoot out, all facing each other in a triangle like way, all of them shout in pain.

 

Cut to the Vlad on the floor. Debris, puddles, and papers litter the floor, a torn pipe is seen. The three other Vlads fly into the sitting Vlad’s chest area, a flash of light coming out of his chest and soon enveloping the corner in pink light. Vlad brings down his hands and relaxes.

 

Cut to the pentagonal Plasmius Portal with two red lights on either side. The Behemoth’s head pops through the tiny portal, as if trying to squeeze through. It relaxes its neck and looks forward, growling.

 

Cut to Vlad, standing up. A flask is seen on the counter next to him.

 

VLAD: Very well, Behemoth. (lifts his hands and starts blazing them) No more Mr. Nice Plasmius.

 

Cut to Vlad’s lab. The Behemoth’s head is still plugging the portal. Vlad walks over with two blazing hands down at his sides, stopping in front of the monster and bringing them up.

 

Cut to Vlad with his arms up and blazing pink. He leans back to raise them over his head.

 

Cut to a flashing green light, the rotating alarm kind. It dings. Zoom out to reveal a device with a black screen that reads “Change Ecto-filtrator” in green letters. Below that is a gauge with four sections, under the green one reads “empty” in red letters, the section turns to light red, redder and deep red where the black arrow is pulsing. Below the deep red section reads “full” in red letters. There is also a clear, cylindrical container with green ectoplasm and some bubbles. As the alarm rotates, the screen turns from normal purple to green.

 

Cut to the lab, all green from the light. The Behemoth is looking at the tiny device, with some surprise; Vlad is looking at it in surprise next to it. As the lab turns from green the purple to green again, the monster flashes a cheesy smile at Vlad.

 

Cut to the Behemoth in the portal. It roars, then pops back into the portal as the lab flashes from green to purple.

 

Cut to Vlad, looking at the ecto-filtrator. The container bubbles as the light flashes the lab from green to purple.

 

VLAD: “Change the ecto-filtrator”?

 

Vlad walks closer and turns, raising his arms.

 

VLAD: Aww, (lowers his arms with frustration) *fudge buckets*!

 

Vlad closes his eyes and becomes intangible. The screen fills with white.

 

Cut to outside Vlad’s castle. An explosion comes from the middle of it and it surges upward, breaking off parts of the house. It’s left only with the lower floor and two small streams of smoke smolders as debris falls.

 

Cut to a cloud. It dissipates to reveal an intangible, frustrated Vlad standing in the ruined lab filled with debris, an exposed wire and a fallen shaft is seen in the foreground. Vlad becomes visible again, he lets his arms relax as he looks around. Zoom out to show the whole, ruined place in a middle of a field surrounded by trees, there’s a small puddle of water near some other debris. Some smoke smolders.

 

VLAD: Aah!

 

Close up on Vlad, looking up.

 

VLAD: My house!

 

Cut to a part of the lab with broken pipes, a still-okay metal doorway, and many fallen chunks of ceiling. Smoke smolders from the debris pile. Pan up to show an open ceiling with the second floor barely there, smoke smolders from the floor up top.

 

Cut to Vlad, holding his cheeks with his fists. He looks down and releases his fists.

 

VLAD: I can always buy another one, (puts his arms down and turns to the right) but the *key*!

 

Cut to the lab. It’s all busted and only half the wall is still there. An exposed wire fizzles a little lightning. A broken pipe drips.

 

VLAD: (offscreen) I can’t get that key--

 

Pan quickly right to show that the portal is half-blown away, the rest an open wall to outside. Smoke smolders from a tip from what is left of the shell. There’s a small room behind the portal, but it’s half-blown away and filled with cracks.

 

VLAD: --without a portal!

 

Zoom in on the portal. Small beams of blue lightning fizzle inside it.

 

Cut to Vlad, arms hanging in exasperation.

 

VLAD: I’ll need to find another working one--

 

His red eyes pop wide with realization. He squares his shoulders and smirks, a black ring going over his body and changing him to Vlad Masters. He looks into his suit, lifts the left side with his hand and uses the other arm to reach inside and pull out a photograph. He looks at it with a toothy grin.)

 

Cut to the photo. A rather charred banner in the back reads “20 Year College Reunion” in red letters. Maddie is seen looking at Vlad adoringly on the left with her left arm on Vlad’s chest and her other arm in a fun fist under that arm over her hip, Vlad is seen standing cordially next to her, Jasmine is smiling with her arm akimbo, looking forward and not noticing anything wrong, Danny Fenton is looking up at Vlad with resentment, and Jack is looking to the right, jostled by Vlad’s outstretched arm pushing him without a care.

 

Talk about a doctored photo, this may have not happened in BR but I’m sure that’s how Vlad must remember it with his unphotographic doodle memory. I guess that’s why he carries it in his suit, Maddie over him adoringly as a good friend and Jack being pushed away on the other side. Also, while Jasmine is standing next to Vlad without a care, Danny is standing next to Jack and looks rather suspiciously. I question when between Vlad’s reveal to Danny and leaving the reunion this picture was taken.

 

Close up on Vlad, looking down.

 

VLAD: I guess I’ll just have to take Jack Fenton’s!

 

Cut to the photo again, just the part with Maddie with Vlad holding her toward him with his hand on her arm, Jasmine just looking with a casual smile. Vlad laughs manically offscreen throughout. Pan left to the part where Danny looks at him with irritation and Jack is being pushed away. Zoom in on Jack’s face.

The screen fades to black.

OPENING THEME HERE

(Possible cut to commercial)

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PART ONE

Title Screen is shown. Depicted is the Ghostwriter, eyes red and with an evil grin on his face, dressed in a Santa outfit carrying a sack of evil toys such as dolls and nutcrackers. Buried within the menacing toys is a distressed Danny Phantom attempting to escape from their clutches. The caption in the bottom left reads, "HO-HO-HORROR!"

Fade in to Casper High School. It’s apparently autumn, for a tree on the side has leaves of orange. The flag on the top is blowing in the wind.

DANNY: (offscreen) Thanks for driving me to school today, Jazz.

 

Cut to Danny and Jasmine walking, panning left as they walk. Danny is holding a red book under his arm, Jasmine a purple one. People are at their lockers in the background.

 

JASMINE: No problem, Danny.

 

Danny raises the arm that doesn’t have the book out a little.

 

DANNY: Yeah, sometimes it’s nice to avoid the bus--

 

Danny flings his arm back, closing his eyes, there are no more people behind them.

 

DANNY: --and quietly and anonymously--

 

Danny puts his hand down and his eyes roll to Jasmine, passing a purple door among the lockers.

 

DANNY: --slip into school.

 

Anonymously? Without a name, you slip into school? Well, while Dennis isn’t old enough to drive and her sister doesn’t have a car or a license, she manages to have a quiet bus ride anyway.

 

Danny and Jasmine blink and look up in surprise as the screen flashes normal to red over an over.

 

P.A.: Ghost alert.

 

Cut to a P.A. box on the ceiling. Two red alarm lights flash.

 

P.A.: Ghost alert.

 

Cut to Danny and Jasmine, along with some other students looking up in surprise. One is holding a book with a hand to a locker, another is a girl who has turned her head to look, a third just a boy looking up, a fourth being a husky boy in a sweater with an alien head, his arm at his side. Jasmine looks at Danny, Danny looks at her.

 

JASMINE: Danny!

 

Jasmine drops her purple book and grabs her brother by the shirt, he turns forcefully and his shoes are turned just above the floor.

 

JASMINE: Hide!

 

Cut to Danny, being held by Jasmine’s hands.

 

DANNY: Why?

 

Cut to Jasmine, looking confused.

 

JASMINE: Um… (looks down with a fake smile) That’s an excellent question!

 

Cut to Danny being held by Jasmine. She releases him, and he lands on the floor safely, both turning to the left as if nothing happened. Zoom out. Tucker and Sam walk up, seen from the back.

 

Cut to Danny.

 

DANNY: What’s going on?

 

Cut to Tucker and Sam.

 

SAM: Didn’t you get the memo?

 

Sam holds up a piece of lined paper with “Memo” on it in red letters in her right hand, motioning to it with her left.

 

SAM: The school’s--

 

Sam looks up and shrugs, Tucker looks at her and smiles.

 

SAM: --running *ghost* drills now.

 

Cut to Jasmine.

 

JASMINE: “Ghost drills”?

 

Cut to the four. Tucker is on the left looking bored. Sam is looking “sigh” with her arms akimbo. Danny is holding his red book under his arm looking at his friends in disbelief. Jasmine is on the right seen from the side with one arm down and the other akimbo, looking at Tucker and Sam with more disbelief. Sam points her right finger. Tucker, Danny and Jasmine turn to the right.

 

Cut to Lancer walking the halls as onlookers look at him with incredulity. Lancer is wearing a hideous purple horned mask and is holding his hands above his head.

 

LANCER: Oooooh…

 

Cut to Lancer.

 

LANCER: I am a ghost!

 

You forgot the “fear me”.

 

Cut to Jasmine. She points up a finger.

 

JASMINE: Who’s that supposed to fool?

 

Jasmine suddenly blinks with unpleasant surprise and closes her hand.

 

JACK: (offscreen) GHOOOOST!

 

Cut to Jasmine and Danny. Jasmine retains her pose; Danny is on the left looking with shock to the left with his red book under his arm and his palm open on his other hand. Jasmine leans backward and gasps as Jack wearing the Fenton Peeler slides backwards from the left onscreen, covering his children. He is holding the memo in his left hand. He turns right and points his right hand, Danny turns behind his father with his arm crossing over his chest.

 

JACK: I just got the memo!

 

Close up on Jack in the helmet.

 

JACK: (eyes shifting) And I know there are ghosts around here!

 

Cut to Jasmine behind her father’s arm.

 

JASMINE: Dad! (closes eyes) No!

 

Cut to Tucker and Sam, looking shocked. Danny walks up in front of them with his book and his hand out in front of him.

 

DANNY: It’s not a ghost! (half-closes his eyes and closes his palm) It’s an out-of-shape teacher in a mask!

 

Cut to Jack, looking down, his eyes to the left.

 

JACK: We’ll see about that, son. (clenches his eyes shut and yells) EAT GHOST PEELER, SPOOK!

 

Action Jack quotable. MDG is full of these; they used sound clips from this episode as action dialogue in that game. Keep on the lookout for more.

 

Cut to a turquoise action background. Jack’s hand is on the handle of the peeler. His thumb gets off two red buttons and presses a button on the back, which beeps. A ball of green light surges from the space. It shoots out a huge beam, the screen flashes white.

 

Cut to Lancer in his hideous mask, his arms out in shock. Three teenage onlookers witness without a care. The green beam hits Lancer and causes him to glow green all over, he tenses his arms in front of him.

 

LANCER: *Nooooooo*!

 

Cut to Lancer’s hideous mask. Lancer screams throughout as it peels off his face and is blown away in shreds. Pan down to his shirt, it tears off him and reveals his hairy, not-so-manly chest covered in an undershirt. Pan down to his plaid pants. They peel away and reveal boxers with William Shakespeare’s face all over them. The green light dissipates and he stops glowing, revealing his fat, his white undershirt, his pink boxers, and his hairy legs with support socks. He stops screaming.

 

Cut to Lancer looking completely shocked, looking down on his de-clothed self. Four teens, one on each side, laugh heartily. Lancer reaches to the left offscreen and holds a golden-framed portrait of George Washington in a red military-style coat. He holds it in front of his underpants, full of fury.

 

I wonder where the school got that picture. And why George is wearing a red coat even though he’s a patriot. Meep?

 

Cut to a crowd of five laughing teens. From left-to-right, a girl with a red ponytail and a blue shirt laughs with her hand by her mouth. A red haired boy with a striped yellow shirt and a green backpack giggles. A spiky-blond boy with round glasses is laughing with his fists by his chest. An African-American boy with a baggy red sweater and a green do-rag laughs. A rather obese red-haired girl in a purple shirt with a cat’s head on it laughs.

 

BLONDE BOY IN GLASSES: (pointing a finger) I’ll never respect his authority again!

 

Cut to Danny and Jasmine, standing next to Jack’s rather large, peeler-covered arm. Danny’s face is buried in his palm. Jasmine looks up in futility with a “Please let this be over” pose. She opens her eyes and sighs.

 

Zoom out to show Jack. He is looking with his peeler-arm down, hand still on the trigger. Danny puts his hand down and looks at his father, dejected.

 

Cut to Jack.

 

JACK: Wow, (looks down and smiles) he *is* out of shape.

 

And you aren’t? Or are we supposed to think that square is your natural physique and you’re big-boned with lots of muscle?

 

Cut to Jack, his eyes looking down to the left. An irked Lancer walks up from the right holding the portrait. Jack’s eyes turn to him.

 

Cut to Lancer.

 

LANCER: I can’t give you detention, but someone named “Fenton” is staying after school.

 

Cut to Danny, Jasmine and Jack, looking with concern. Danny has a red book, Jasmine regained her purple one.

 

JACK and JASMINE: (exchanging glances) Whoa!

 

Both take out non-watch-covered wrists and look at them.

 

JACK and JASMINE: Look at the time!

 

Jack and Jasmine smile and rush away, leaving Danny, whose hair is blown back with the wind. He flips his head and shrugs. Zoom in on his blank “Augh, not again,” expression.

 

Fade in to FentonWorks. Zoom in.

 

Fade in to a top view of the lab. It’s a mess. A microwave on a counter is coated in green goo, the Fenton Portal has green goo leaking out of it, barrels on the floor are overturned, papers are all over, wires and pipes are all over the place, more green puddles are around. Jack is sitting on a swivel chair, holding a device in one hand and his other one on the messy counter, looking rather irked at Jasmine and Maddie. Jasmine trying to reason with Jack and Maddie looking with her hood up and arms akimbo. Zoom in as Jasmine reaches her arms out.

 

JASMINE: All I’m saying is--

 

Cut to Jasmine, shrugging. There is a bright green stain on the wall behind her.

 

JASMINE: --you might want to think twice before you barge in like that. (puts down her arms and raises an eyebrow) You really got Danny in trouble.

 

Cut to Jack. He is holding a device similar to the Fenton Peeler in his hand.

 

JACK: Oh yeah,--

 

Jack raises a fist, pointing his thumb over his shoulder.

 

JACK: --you think he’s in trouble now!

 

Cut to an overturned beaker, spilling out green goo. Zoom out to reveal a whole counter of messy beakers with goo, some paper with scribbles on it, and a calculator-like device.

 

Cut to another beaker, the top rimmed with green, gelatinous slime. Zoom out to show many beakers and flasks in a similar condition.

 

Cut to an old banana peel hanging over an overflowing trash can. Zoom out to reveal the trash can has an old, non-eaten sandwich with lettuce and a tomato in it, along with an eaten-to-the-core apple. Papers litter the floor. On the side of the trash can is more of that green stuff, some of it on the floor, and a whole lot of it on the wall.

 

Looks like Nickelodeon forgot to clean up after their sliming frenzy and blamed it on Danny. For shame, Nick.

 

Cut to the lab, with good-covered beakers in the foreground, green-stained walls in the back. A hanging wire has more goo on it. Maddie has her arm running across her waist, Jasmine is looking incredulously at both the beakers and Jack, and Jack is holding the Peeler in one hand and looking at the floor.

 

Jack raises a hand high and looks irked, Jasmine turns away from him.

 

JACK: Look at this place!

 

Cut to Jack. There’s another stain on the wall. Jack gets up.

 

JACK: Danny hasn’t cleaned the lab in weeks, and the beakers are caked with goo and--

 

Jack pauses, looking intently to the left.

 

JACK: (whispers) --would you look at that.

 

Cut to next to the Fenton Portal. There is a device leading from the portal with a status bar that is fully green, next to that an ecto-filtrator device that looks exactly like the one on Vlad’s Portal. Goop starts seeping onto the floor.

 

Cut to the status device with the full, green bar. On the top reads a sign “Full” in green letters, and on the bottom “Empty” in green letters. Goo seeps out of the cracks.

 

JACK: (offscreen) The ecto-filtrator hasn’t been changed--

 

Pan right toward the device that reads “Ecto-Filtrator” in green letters, the dial on the bottom showing the arrow pointing in the second reddest section, the cylinder bubbling.

 

JACK: --in six months! That can’t be good.

 

Cut to a shot of a clean corner of the lab near the stairs. Danny walks in from the right, perspiring and straining with his purple book bag over one shoulder, both hands on one strap. There are four books inside, two red, one blue, and one purple.

 

DANNY: And it’ll be six more by the time (looks up) I get done with all this--

 

Danny looks toward the backpack, hunching his back.

 

DANNY: --extra work Lancer assigned me.

 

Cut to Danny in the foreground. Maddie, Jasmine and Jack in the chair look at him. Danny drops the heavy purple backpack on the ground with a loud thud! The flap falls and shows five books this time, two red, one purple, one blue, and one olive green.

 

DANNY: Dad,--

 

Cut to Danny, rubbing the back of his neck with his hand. He looks up.

 

DANNY: --are you familiar with the term (glares and drops his arm) “Stay away from my school”?

 

Cut to Jack and Maddie. Jack is holding the peeler, looking completely clueless. Maddie is leaning in front of him.

 

MADDIE: Sweetie,--

 

Maddie leans forward and lowers her goggle’s “eyebrows”, Jack looks questioningly toward her.

 

MADDIE: --relax.

 

Cut to Maddie, another green stain is behind her.

 

MADDIE: (pulling off her hood) You know your dad loves you, and he doesn’t mean to make your life more difficult.

 

A news theme plays, and a woman starts talking. Maddie rolls her eyes behind her to see where the sound is coming from.

 

WOMAN: The hunt is on for the ghost boy!

 

(Cut to the Fenton family. Jasmine is on the left with her eyes looking behind her, Jack looks up and rolls his eyes in the same direction, Maddie is seen from behind but has her head over he shoulder, and Danny looks up in surprise.

 

DANNY and JACK: *What*?

 

Cut to a slime-covered TV on a slime-covered counter with many slime-coated beakers on top. News is on. Harriet Chin is the news anchor, holding a stack of papers with a yellow box over the shoulder reading “Eye on Amity” in black letters.

 

HARRIET: As a result of today’s false ghost alert at Casper High-

 

Cut closer to the TV screen.

 

HARRIET: The need for competent,--

 

TV image fades to Casper High, Jack is in the Fenton Peeler armor, smiling and with the gun smoldering green smoke, Lancer looking annoyed with his pink boxers and other undergarments being blocked by the portrait of George Washington in the red coat, students that are grayed out are laughing hysterically, one of them is actually on the floor laughing.

 

HARRIET: --non-Jack Fenton ghost hunters in Amity Park,--

 

Cut to Lancer looking angrily with his eyes back, four students are laughing at him.

 

HARRIET: --has never been more obvious.

 

Cut to Jack, holding the Peeler. He’s smiling.

 

JACK: Hey, they said my name! (leans back, confused) Need for competent ghost hunters? (looks up and thinks) Hm, (looks down at the peeler and points his finger at it) what is that supposed to mean?

 

He pushes a button. It beeps and the Peeler sends out a burst of green goo, completely covering his face. He straightens up as the goo drips onto him the gun smoldering green goo.

 

Cut to the TV. Harriet is onscreen.

 

HARRIET: Luckily, a mysterious benefactor has offered a million dollar bounty on the head of--

 

Onscreen shows a picture of Danny Phantom, flying forward in a yellow sky. His fists are forward, his hair blown back, his tail cascading.

 

HARRIET: --Amity Park’s most famous ghost, (flash back to Harriet) and hired the world’s best-known ghost hunters to track him down.

 

Cut to Danny, Maddie and Jasmine. Jasmine is on the right with her arms crossed looking rather unsure, Danny has his arms crossed too. Maddie and Danny both turn their heads from the TV screen look at each other with smug glances Jasmine rolls her eyes toward them and smiles.

 

DANNY and MADDIE: Three, two, one...

 

(Cut to two stacks of boxes filled with inventions and junk, possibly the inventions that are junk. Jack rushes onscreen blazing a bazooka.

 

JACK: Nobody’s catching--

 

A stack of boxes fall down as Jack turns to the right and crouches.

 

JACK: --that ghost kid but me!

 

Jack walks offscreen. The boxes in the other stack start to rattle. They fall down, glass is heard shattering. Jack pops in from the right, pointing a finger at the pile.

 

JACK: (quietly and quickly) Danny, clean that up. (rushes offscreen)

 

Cut to Maddie, Danny and Jasmine. They all look toward each other, smiling.

 

Fade in to the sign of the Nasty Burger. Zoom out to show the whole joint, a banner is over with doorway and windows reading “Welcome Ghost Hunters” in red letters. Danny and Sam are under the banner. A van is seen on the side, reading “Groovy Gang”, along with a tall, blonde man, a short, red-haired woman, and a white tiger.

 

SAM: Danny, aren’t you worried?

 

Zoom in. Cut to Sam and Danny, both of them with their shoulders slumped.

 

SAM: These are the best (thrusts out an arm) known ghost hunters (shrugs) in the world!

 

Cut to Danny.

 

DANNY: Sam,--

 

Danny giggles and leans his head forward, smiling and eyelids hanging.

 

DANNY: --the “best-known”, (turns around to the right) they’re not the “best”.

 

Cut to a street. The aquamarine van is there, with orange flowers painted on it and “Groovy Gang” on it in purple letters. Next to it stands a blonde man with jeans and a green hat, and a necklace with a peace sign on it, some ghost technology is at his waist. Next to him is a shorter, red-haired girl with a purple dress with a pink tie and pink socks and round lenses, she has another ghost-related device at her waist. Next to her is a white tiger cowering and shivering in fear.

 

Cut to a closer shot of the three.

 

DANNY: (offscreen) The Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat…

 

Mystery Inc., with Scooby Doo…

 

The tiger’s eyes shift left and right. The girl looks bored, the man smug. The cat panics, jumping onto the girl and clawing into her chest, her arms flailing.

 

The credits lists these characters are named, but the episode doesn’t name them. What do I do to refer to them?

 

Spell the Mystery Inc. group member names backwards…? *shrug*

 

Cut to the Groovy Girl’s chest. Scaredy Cat’s claws are lodged inside.

 

GROOVY GIRL: Ah!

 

Zoom out to show the head and arms of Groovy Girl, she is clearly in pain, her eyes clenched and chin up.

 

GROOVY GIRL: Like, those are my internal organs, dude!

 

The cat whines again, and they both fall offscreen.

 

Cut to the Groovy Dude.

 

GROOVY DUDE: Jinkers, Scaredy Cat! (turns to the left and shrugs)  You’re like, maiming her!

 

Cut to the street, some shrubs obscure the buildings behind them. Two motorized vehicles rev and jump out from behind the trees, sailing in the sky across the clouds, with a lens flare effect. The one on the left is clearly a man in full black armor, helmet and green goggles with a gray and green backpack, he’s on a motorcycle. The one on the right is a girl with a blonde ponytail blowing behind her; she’s dressed like her male companion and is on an ATV. Both are wearing green wheels under their shoes.

 

I’ve never noticed this, but when you look at them, they look very close to Danny Phantom, for they are both in black, have a while waist band, and wear white roller skates with white bike gloves. The color keying most likely isn’t coincidental.

 

DANNY: (offscreen) Extreme Ghostbreakers…

 

The Extreme Ghostbusters…

 

The Ghostbreakers’ vehicles rev and let out clouds of exhaust, zooming forward and offscreen.

 

These characters are also named, but I can’t reveal those in the transcript without proper introduction. Conjectural titles it is!

 

Cut to the Nasty Burger. The male Ghostbreaker skids up and turns to the right, the female one right behind him. They high-five.

 

MALE GHOSTBREAKER: Sheyah!

 

Close up on the male Ghostbreaker.

 

MALE GHOSTBREAKER: You da man!

 

Cut to the female Ghostbreaker.

 

FEMALE GHOSTBREAKER: Actually, idiot, (leans her face into her hand, balancing on her elbow) I’m a girl.

 

Cut to the two Ghostbreakers. The female Ghostbreaker puts her hands back on the handlebars.

 

MALE GHOSTBREAKER: Right! (pumps fist) And that’s so--

 

Zoom out. The male revs his as the female gets ready on the handlebars. Exhaust comes out of the male’s motorcycle.

 

MALE GHOSTBREAKER: --EXTREEEME!!

 

The male Ghostbreaker rev up his front wheel in the air, and it speeds off without him. He lands on his back; the girl looks down at him on her ATV. The male gets his head and chest up by his hands, and the girl looks forward, her ATV revving.

 

Cut to someone’s white pants a