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Teacher of the Year

Episode Number: 12    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday October 15, 2004    Prod Code: 012
Originally aired: Friday October 15, 2004 on Nickelodeon
Writer: Steve Marmel, Sib Ventress
Director: Butch Hartman, Juli Hashiguchi, Wincat Alcala
Show Stars: Maria Canals (Paulina), Taylor Lautner (Youngblood), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (Jazz Fenton), Rickey D'Shon Collins (Tucker Foley), Ron Perlman (Mr. Lancer)
Recurring Role: S. Scott Bullock (Dash Baxter), Grey DeLisle (Samantha "Sam" Manson), Rob Paulsen (Jack Fenton (Dad)), Kath Soucie (Maddie Fenton (Mom)), David Kaufman (Danny Fenton/Phantom), Rob Paulsen (Technus)
Production Code: 012

While Danny's playing an online video game, Technus, master of all things technological, escapes from the Ghost Zone and sees Danny playing the game. He goes in the game and takes the form of a boss on the game, Chaos. He then comes out of the game when he takes the form. Danny, Tucker, and Sam fight Technus in the park. They beat him and he hides inside a walkie-talkie Danny was using.

Back at Danny's house, Technus, once again, enters the game that Danny was playing. The next day at school, Danny fails an important test because he spent the night playing that video game instead of studying. Mr. Lancer gives Danny a chance to retake the test a few days later.

Meanwhile, in the internet game, Technus takes a new spider-like form and plays the game with Tucker, who, apparently, doesn't realize it's Technus.

Danny is caught playing the online game instead of studying, and Mr. Lancer brings him home to his parents, who ground him. Back in the game, Tucker and Technus are on the last level. On the last level of the game, if you get the "Seven Keys of the Apocalypse," you will gain control to all of the Internet, and that's just what Technus is trying to do, with the help of his ghost powers!

Danny is still not studying, so Lancer shows Danny a picture of his sister, saying he will never get to see her again and it'd make him happy if Danny worked hard. Danny goes to study, and Lancer mutters to himself that the picture of his sister is actually him in a dress.

Danny gets an A minus on the test. He hears from Tucker, who finally realized who his partner was, that Technus has six of the seven keys. Danny goes ghost and flies into the game, using his powers to quickly get to the last level. He and Tucker fight Technus, but Technus is too powerful. Then comes the boss Chaos, who is really Sam! They fight Technus, and Danny locks him in Level 0 - a glitch in the game, which is a level you can't get out of.

Right as they're about to put the last key in the door and gain control to the internet, they get defeated by a random opponent. As it turns out, the player who defeated Danny, Sam, and Tucker is Mr. Lancer.

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Episode: Teacher of the Year
Season Number: 1
Episode Reviews: 24
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8.4 Great 185 votes
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great: 58 (31.7%)
perfect: 44 (24%)
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Other: 18 (9.7%)
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