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Life Lessons

Episode Number: 18    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday February 25, 2005    Prod Code: 018
Danny and Valerie Gray are forced to become "parents" to a sack of flour for a one-week school assignment. At the same time, Skulker, ghost hunter extraordinaire, decides to pit Valerie and Danny Phantom against each other in a contest -- with the winner earning the privilege of becoming his prey. When Skulker's orchestrated contest ends in a tie, he handcuffs Danny and Valerie and hunts them both through the Ghost Zone. In order to survive, Danny and Valerie learn to let go of their mutual dislike and cooperate with each other -- which may just affect their relationship in the real world. Or, not.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Marty Isenberg
Director: Ken Bruce, Gary Conrad, Butch Hartman
Star: Maria Canals (Paulina),  Ron Perlman (Mr. Lancer),  Rickey D'Shon Collins (Tucker Foley),  Colleen O'Shaughnessey (Jazz Fenton),  Taylor Lautner (Youngblood)
Recurring Role: Cree Summer (Valerie),  Kevin Michael Richardson (Skulker),  Rob Paulsen (The Box Ghost),  Laraine Newman (Mrs. Tetslaff),  David Kaufman (Danny Fenton/Phantom),  Kath Soucie (Maddie Fenton (Mom)),  Rob Paulsen (Jack Fenton (Dad)),  Grey DeLisle (Samantha "Sam" Manson),  S. Scott Bullock (Dash Baxter),  S. Scott Bullock (Nasty Burger Drive Through Voice)
Guest Star: Kimberly Brooks (Tucker's Mom)

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Cable Episode Info:
Danny and Valerie Gray are forced to become parents to a sack of flour for a school assignment (edit)
Insight Digital Description: Danny must learn the fine art of compromise when he teams up with Valerie to defeat the evil villain Skulker. (edit)
Look Hard: In Sam's room, there is a poster of the band, Nine Inch Nails, on her wall. (edit)
Mrs. Tetslaff is revealed to be a physical education teacher. (edit)
Apparently, the huge water container that Danny threw Principal Ishiyama (who was possessed) into in “Public Enemies” has been repaired. However, it was destroyed again, this time by Valerie. (edit)

Quotes

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Skulker: Ok, now my nose itches. Can anybody help? Anyone? Please.
(Danny returns and the flour sack farts on Skulker's face) (edit)
Danny: (Valerie begins to chase after Danny)Oh, she's too busy to watch the kid, but when it's time to kick my butt she's front and center?! (edit)
Danny: (Baby is crying and cannot get it to be quiet) I've been a parent for all of one day and I'm probably already down to a C-! (edit)
Danny: I can move again! Thanks for the save back there.
Valerie: Yeah? Well thank you for nothing! Its your fault were stuck in this freaky ghost world!
Danny: Right. Cause clearly the maniac who cuffed and dragged us in here didn't have anything to do with it!! (edit)
(The "baby" "soils" it's diaper)
Danny: Oh, come on!
Sam: Just be thankful it's only flour.
Danny: Then why does it smell like beans? (edit)

Trivia

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While in Skulker's lair, the "baby" flour sack has a ghostly glow. (edit)
Lilith: Sam names her flour sack this, which surprisingly it means ghost, storm goddess, or spirit of the night. (edit)
When in Skulker's lair with Valerie, Danny gets paralyzed. Throughout this part he is walking or moving some other way, even though he's supposed to be paralyzed. And this is BEFORE it wore off. (edit)
When Skulker's trap knocked Danny out, he woke up still in ghost form. In other episodes, being knocked unconscious generally reverts Danny to human. (edit)
When Sam was looking at her flour sack lovingly, you can see she has pupils. (edit)

Allusions

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Danny and Valerie: Handcuffed together
This seems to be a spoof off of an old movie made by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1950s or 1940s called The 39 Steps. In the movie, a man and a woman who had grown a mutual hatred for each other became handcuffed together somewhere in the middle of the Scottish countryside. Throughout the majority of the movie, they were on the run from two spies who were out to kill them (similar to Skulker), all the while handcuffed together. This experience also sparked a slight romance between the two of them, who had previously strongly disliked each other, just like it had through this episode and the upcoming episode, "Flirting With Disaster." (edit)
Nasty Burger Mascot: Nasty Ned
The Nasty Burger mascot, Nasty Ned, seems to be a parody of the McDonald's fast food restaurant mascot, Ronald McDonald. (edit)
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Community Reviews (13)

 
10.0
Perfect
Life Lessons
"A very special episode"
Danny and Valerie are forced to put aside their differences and work together to stop Skulker and pass a health-sciences project.
Continue » Posted Jan 13, 2007 11:36 am PST
7.5
Good
Life Lessons
"Silly"
Danny has to do a project with Valerie in which they have to take care of a sack of flour.Skulker decides to hunt both of them.Can Danny protect his identity from Valerie and fight Skulker.
Continue » Posted Aug 8, 2006 4:21 pm PST

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8.5
Great
Life Lessons
"Above average"
Skulker can't decide whether he should hunt Valerie or Danny, so he decides to hunt them both at the same time. Danny and Valerie must settle their differences and work together to escape Skulker's lair.
Continue » Posted Jun 12, 2006 7:41 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Life Lessons
"Exciting"
Danny Fenton and Valerie Gray hate each other... even both of their alternate identities. So what happens when they get paired up for a health science project as man and wife, and thanks to a capture by Skulker must work together to stay alive?
Continue » Posted Jun 5, 2006 7:08 pm PST
9.5
Superb
Life Lessons
"Painful to watch"
It had a lot of mistakes. It is still a good episode.
Continue » Posted May 12, 2006 7:45 pm PST
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