Danny Phantom

Tucker: I always wanted to be called a meddling kid!



I Find That Line Very Hilarious.



This is probably the ONLY good thing about this episode.



I HATE THIS. I Hate this Episode with a big,Flaming,Burning Passion. I absolutley hate how HORRIBLE Danny is. Throughout this episode Danny has been nothing but a big, immature cocky Jerk while he was SUPPOUSED to have that Mature,Responsible personality he had in D-Stabilized. He's been the type I wanted to Smack One Thousand Times and Drop off a Cliff so he'll die painfully. This has to be the WORST DP Episode EVER.

Enough said. However Vlad looked very sexy in that Red Robe and Pink Pjs...

This was one of those shows where Danny is a jerk once again. He becomes filthy rich and at first is worried about the Guys in White, but then Tucker tells him to relaxs. Danny has too much fun being rich by one, skipping school and two, not focusing on what the Guys in White are doing. Sam tells Danny that they're planning on distroying the Ghost Zone, but Danny thinks that won't happen and is too much energy. I think this is one of those times when Danny is saving the Ghost Zone instead of Amity Park. It is where his kind lives and he has a sense of care of coarse. We also find out that the Ghost Zone is the flip side of the Real World and we see Youngblood in an Astronot suit. My favorite part is when Danny takes Johnny's motorcycle and ride throughout the Ghost Zone. What I wonder is why Vlad has to keep a Ghost Portal behind an ugly picture of him. I mean, I understand if it's like a statue or something, but a picture. You expect a safe behind a picture, I doubt if that would be a convincing place and why did it have to be an ugly picture of him. He just shows too much of himself.

I am not sure about this episode. Umm... I can not believe that they would give up all of there equipment and not really know what is being done with it. The new house is huge! The robots that Danny created were not nice. He should respect his friends and accepted them for who they are. Not make new one's to act like he wants them to. Sam has that good woman's intuition. Sam is my favorite character. I think some of the flavors that are chosen throughout the episode are disgusting. I think the guys in white are creepy and funny.

In "Livin' Large," the Guys in White buy out FentonWorks, and the Fentons begin living the fine life - and it begins to go to their head. In fact, Danny, who has been exhausted by school and ghost-fighting lately, gives up his responsibilities. His decision is a poor one, however, as the Guys in White intend to destroy The Ghost Zone - an act that will also destroy the Earth!



Oooh boy...



I may not have liked "Girl's Night Out," but I haven't felt this turned-off by a DP episode since "Identity Crisis." I don't know that I'd call this one as bad as IC, but I really was bothered by L'L.



I felt that this episode started to abuse the characters for the sake of the plot almost immediately. Whatever Jack and Maddie will do, I do not see them giving up FentonWorks at the drop of a hat like that. In subsequent scenes, they did seem in-character, and there were some good jokes from them, but the mere fact that they got so rich by selling out drove me nuts. There HAD to be another way to get them rich that was truer to the characters - they could have turned down the check, and then the GIW could have arranged for them to "win the lottery" or something. It's convoluted, sure - but it's true to the characters, and IMO, that's much more important.



But the worst part of the episode for me by far was Danny. AotKGS has happened. LiL has happened. BM has happened. Danny's learned his lessons about how important his friends are and why he shouldn't let fame go to his head plenty of times before. And this is a continuity show. What is the point of re-visiting this theme again? I know there's lines in there about how "money changes people" and how tired Danny was - and I might have been able to live with this episode if it hadn't been for those robots. That Danny would have commissioned robots of his friends - and, on top of that fact, robots that don't even reflect their personalities - was just insulting in my opinion - to the character of Danny, to Sam and Tucker, and to the audience. What was worse, they reappeared at the end - when Danny was supposed to have "learnt his lesson."



Do I see a new side to the characters because of this? No. For one thing, Danny's been through this moral several times. And it did not appear by the end that Jack and Maddie's shallow attitude was here to stay. I view episodes like this and IC as writer abuse of the worst kind.



Furthermore, on a technical note, the second half of the episode had an ongoing animation error - the ghostly glow around all DP ghosts kept disappearing and reappearing. That may not always be such an issue for everyone, but as a big animation buff, that drove me nuts.



With all of those things bothering me, I was doubly thankful that Sam and Tucker remained true to character - from Sam suspecting the GIW from the get-go to Tucker going from loving Danny's wealth to turning to the issue at hand. I cannot tell you how good it was for me to see them, at least, not being mishandled.



And Vlad's cameo, the GIW's attitude, and the ongoing jokes about what FentonWorks was like were funny and believeable - and this episode needed both severely IMO.



4/10; I really, really, REALLY felt let down by this one.

This isn't my favorite episode, but it was still really good. I felt sorry for Danny, Sam, and Tucker when Jack and Maddie used them to help out in the lab. I felt like laughing when the Guys in White told the Fentons they were genius. They didn't really mean it though. They only wanted to buy the house so they could launch a missile into the ghost zone that would kill every ghost and cause our dimension to be destroyed too. It was funny how the Fentons moved in next door to Vlad. Vlad was annoyed, that is, until he saw Maddie. Hobson, the butler, was cool. He helped Danny see that he had become a jerk and his friends needed him. It was funny how Maddie tried to attack Hobson when she first saw him. I can't believe Danny wanted him to make him a kiwi fudge milkshake with corn puffs and bacon in it. That's just disgusting! One thing I didn't like about this episode was the fact that Danny turned into a snob because he was rich. He skipped school to play video games, he treated Hobson like a slave, and he started treating Sam and Tucker badly. He even replaced them with robots. It was funny how the Sambot seemed to have a crush on Danny and the Tuckerbot kept hitting Danny in the head. It was smart of Danny to put a password on the ghost zone, but it wasn't smart to choose Open Sesame. The Guys in White didn't figure it out right away. Tucker gave them a hint on accident and they were able to figure it out. It was funny how Tucker said he always wanted to be called a meddling kid. Sam looked daggers at him and said sarcastically that he would now be able to die happy. When Danny finally came to his senses and decided to help Sam and Tucker save the ghost zone, he did this back flip in the air and went ghost. The move looked super awesome! It was funny how Danny knocked Johnny 13 off his motorcycle so he could steal it and use it to get to the other side of the zone. Youngblood has given up on being a pirate and a cowboy. This time, he tried being an astronaut and was going to catapult himself "into the hearts of millions" as he put it. It was also funny how he had Skulker, Youngblood, and Johnny help him launch the boulder into the portal to stop the missle. They tried to attack him after they knew the ghost zone was safe.

I was a little dissapointed by this episode. There was not nearly enough action. And it was not anything how I was expecting. when they moved right next to Vlad, I was expecting a major conflict there or a huge exciting battle. But there wasnt anything. Vlad was in it for like... one scene.

The ending is the reason I give it a 9/10. Danny's going ghost flip was priceless! and from there it was great! When he was riding the motercycle especially!!!! That was the bomb!!!

I'll just do a Pros and Cons list like someone else on the froums does:

Pros:

1. Danny gets a totally tricked out room

2. Sam can really make a bad situation be funny (saying that Tucker can die happy cuz he was called a meddling kid)

3.Danny learns a valuable lesson, though I'm not sure what it is.

4. Danny looks hot riding Johnny 13's motorcycle!!!!!!

5. The Tuck-bot kept on hitting Danny! LOL!!!!!



Cons:

1. Danny acted like a complete snob!

2. Danny was skipping school to play video games with his butler.

3. The Fentons moved to a rich part of town, next to Vlad that is. I think they could have done more with Vlad in this eppi than just having Danny use his Ghost Portal.



If you wanna disagree, go on right ahead. (Please agree with me!)

If I may quote another reviewer, there are three main problems with cartoons: Their tendency to release promotional toys, their all-too-easily wrapped up conclusions, and (This one is mine on account of my not being able to remember that reviewer’s third) their habit of dropping in unexplained problems per episode. What do I mean by that last one? Did anyone else notice how we’ve never seen the Fentons have problems with the quality of their lab before? How it just seemed to be obsolete and buggy in this particular episode? They did the same thing in “Doctors Disorders’ with Tucker’s fear of hospitals. No prior explanation or reasoning; it just plops down out of nowhere! There, I’m done my rant. I actually ended up seeing this episode twice on account of my brother missing it, and in retrospect, I’m glad I watched it again; it became a lot more enjoyable. Jack was hilarious as he usually is (which has caused many an episode to be saved from total TV Hell); Danny’s butler, Hobson, was more than just your typical snobby manservant, and Vlad managed to have a few good moments without even being a villain at all through the episode, which is a first for him. But the main thing that lifted my opinion here was Danny. I knew from my various speed-readings of the Web that there was no stopping our hero from succumbing to his odd fit of jerkiness, but this time he managed to stop it by himself. In “Attack of the Killer Garage Sale”, “Lucky in Love” and “Kindred Spirits”, it always took some ghost attack or other major problem for Danny to snap out of it and return to his humble self, but here he did it without Technus or Kitty or Vlad to do it for him. He looked around him, realized his mistake and set it right (with just a little help from Hobson, who I know I’m going to miss), right before he saved the day. This episode also did something a little different in introducing some ghostly enemies almost at the end of the twenty-two minutes. I had to admit that I was surprised to see Youngblood again, especially with Taylor Lautner reprising his role with his now-astronauting character with only three or four lines. But he did crack me up with those few lines. “Hey Phantom! Wanna see me plunge myself into the hearts of millions?”



I don’t know why I found that funny; I just did. So basically, if you’re just in it for an okay laugh, I say go ahead, it’ll be worth the half hour, but if you’re in it for a meaningful and high-power storyline, meh, not so much.

I thought the moral of this episode is that money can't buy happiness, but I wish they hadn't made Danny be the one to prove it. It's so unlike him to skip school and really doesn't go with his character. Nevertheless, I loved the flip he did at the end! He has such awesome moves and the animators are unbelievable! And after hearing about those smoothies, I actually went to make them! XD Plus, I really liked Hopson and hope he'll return. I know he's got a small part, but characters who bring to attention what the stars knew all along are interesting... Terrific moral and man, Danny looks hot on a motorcycle!

Okay, when I heard the summary for thi episode, I was skeptical about it. It sounded bad, but I wanted to watch it any way.



It was pretty good considering, but it's not in my top 10.



However, there were some great moments...



Vlad saying "What in the name of evil?"



The robots of Sam and Tucker



Jack and Maddie kissing their check, and Danny's and Jazz's reaction



The exotic milkshakes



The Go-ghost Flip



Danny on Johnny 13's motorcyle



Youngblood as an astronaut



Tucker's Scooby Doo refernce



The Guy's In White being bumbling morons in the lab



Danny acting like a snob, and then learning his lesson.

Basically, the Fentons sell Fenton Works for a lot of money from the Guys in White. Danny and his family live in the lap of luxury while Sam and Tucker find out that the Guys in White are planning to destroy the Ghost Zone. Danny learns a life lesson, and saves the Ghost Zone and the human world with the help of Johnny 13, Youngblood, and Sulker.









P.S.- I don't know about you, but the "Goth Bot" or whatever the robot Sam was called, seemed to be infatuated,(in love)with Danny. No, seriously, did you see the way she held her self when she said "Everything you say is wonderful", or something like that. I didn't see the beginning, but I think he programmed the Sam Bot to see him like a boyfriend. But that's just my opinion.

The first few things i did like was how the ghost zone is sort of intertwined with the real world. The episode had some really funny jokes, i found myself laughing hard quite a few times. The thing i didn't like was the plot overall. I just thought it could've been better, but the ending was actually pretty good, especially when Danny was riding on johnny 13's motorcycle:D. So basically I liked the idea of the ghost zone being connected to the real world, and i thought a lot of the jokes were really funny, and the ending was cool. I just thought they could've done a better job with leading up to the ending.