Writer:	Marty Isenberg
Director:	Kevin Petrilak, Wincat Alcala, Butch Hartman
Star:	Grey DeLisle (Samantha "Sam" Manson),  Kath Soucie (Maddie Fenton (Mom)),  Rob Paulsen (Jack Fenton (Dad)),  Colleen O'Shaughnessey (Jazz Fenton),  S. Scott Bullock (Dash Baxter),  Rickey D'Shon Collins (Tucker Foley),  Ron Perlman (Mr. Lancer),  Maria Canals (Paulina),  David Kaufman (Danny Fenton/Phantom)
Recurring Role:	Martin Mull (Vlad)
Guest Star:	David Carradine (Clockwork)

Unlike Vlad, Jack was able to get over losing Maddie and got a cat, much like how Danny suggested Vlad should do in "Maternal Insticnts". (edit) This is the first time Jack has appeared in a title screen. (edit) The name of this episode comes from how Vlad was portrayed as the main villain in both timelines. (edit) New Ghost Ally(s): Jack Plasmius (edit) Title Picture; Danny watching in horror as a deformed version of Jack crashes out of a clock. (edit)

Danny: (To Maddie about Sam and Tucker, getting ecto-acne) There has to be something we can do for them?
Maddie: (sighs) Oh, I wish I could, Danny. But I still can't identify the ecto-emporities that a causing the lethal acne.
Sam and Tucker: Lethal?!
Vlad: Ah, live is so unfair. And for you two, growing shorter..
Danny: (angry while grabbing Vlad) I swear, if they find a cure, I'm gonna make you wish they hadn't.
Vlad: Oh, good one! I swear I get chills when you get so dramatic.
(edit) Maddie: (looks at Sam and Tucker) We have an outbreak of ecto-acne. And there's only one place on earth that knows how to treat ecto-acne!
Danny: (prays) Please say hospital, please say hospital, please say hospital.
(scene changes to the Fenton's house)
Danny: Why couldn't she say hospital? (edit) Danny: Arrg! Just once I'd like to know how it's like to live in a normal family!
Plasmious: Which you never will, so long as you're Jack Fenton's son.
Danny: Great. More weirdness from my parents college days. (edit) (Maddie is hugging Danny)
Danny: (To Jazz) If I pass out, I give you permission to not resuscitate me! (edit) Maddie: (Threatening Danny with the laser) Now, I ask you again: who are you?
Danny: I'm...your son. (Maddie gasps) Yours and Jack Fenton's.
Maddie: (Angrily) Liar! I haven't seen Jack Fenton in years! He blamed me for the accident that gave him his powers. Vlad told me so. We ran away here so we could escape his ghostly wrath!
Danny: What?! That's insane! He's still totally in love with you!
(Jack phases through the ceiling)
Jack: It's true, Maddie. It's always been true.
Maddie: (Surprised) Jack? But...Vlad told me you never wanted to see me again.
Jack: I never stopped wanting to see you, Maddie. I-I couldn't just face you as the thing you despise: (Changes back to human form) a ghost. But I had to come, because of this. (Shows Maddie Danny's family picture)
Maddie: A family? With you? (A tear runs down her face, Danny smiles. Hugs Jack) Oh, Jack! (Turns to Danny, and releases him from the restraints) And that's you called me "Mom" at the door. You must be our son from an alternate timeline!
(Everyone hugs)
Danny: (Quietly) The one good thing of having scientist parents: alternate timeline, totally vald excuse.
Jack: (Points to Danny's family picture) So, where's our little alternate timeline daughter, Davy?
Danny: It's Danny.
Jack: That's still dumb. (edit)

Vlad's hair, in the messed up future, shouldn't be white, since he was never had the accident in the first ghost portal. Jack's, however, should be, although his hair was still the same as it was in the past. (edit) This is the second and third time Jack has worn something besides his jumpsuit. The first time was in The Fenton Menace where he was wearing camping clothes. In this one, he wears 80's clothes, and in the messed up future, he wears Vlad's ghost suit. (edit) When Maddie and Jack find out that Danny really is their son, Maddie says, "That's why you called me mom at the door." But Maddie never saw Danny transform into Danny Phantom so she shouldn't have known that was Danny Fenton. (edit) Despite Vlad saying he used his ghost powers to gain his wealth, he's still rich in the alternate timeline. (edit) When Vlad saves Maddie, his hair is a darker gray then it is when it shows the flashback of him saving her. (edit)

College clock: Time
The clock in the portal shown before Danny travels back in time has the time of 10:04 on it. 10:04 is the time lightning struck the clocktower in the original Back to the Future movie. (edit) Jack: Come on, Maddie. Let's crank up the tunes and moonwalk outta here.
Jack refers to moonwalking, a dance move that was made popular by Michael Jackson back in 1983, when he appeared on the television special, Mowtown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever and used it during his "Billie Jean" routine. (edit) Danny: Dressed up for 80s night
Danny is wearing what was known as the "Don Johnson look" made popular by actor Don Johnson from "Miami Vice". The look consisted of light trousers (usually linen) with a colored shirt and a light colored linen jacket over it with the sleves rolled up. A pastel colored tie was also worn, loose around the neck. Finally, loafers without socks finished the look. Danny only wears the shirt, tie and jacket though, with his jeans and tennis shoes. (edit) Jack and Maddie: Dressed up for 80s night
Jack is dressed up like Flavor Flav of the pioneer rap group Public Enemies, wearing the well known clock around his neck like a necklace. Maddie is dressed up like Madonna, complete with huge bangs, frizzy hair, and a mole on her left cheek, with fishnets over tights to complete the ensemble. (edit) Material Grill: Name
The Material Grill is a pun of "Material Girl" by Madonna. (edit)