Danny Phantom

Danny's misuse of his powers in this episode foreshadows the events of the next TV Movie, The Ultimate Enemy, in which Danny almost grew up to be the most evil ghost in the world.

Starting after this episode, Martin Mull, the voice of Vlad, is no longer credited as a special guest.

Originally, this movie, along with "The Ultimate Enemy" and "Reality Trip", were each two-part episodes, but were changed into TV movies.

This is the first episode where the main villain, which is Pariah Dark, was never in an episode until the movie he starred in as the main villain.

The name of this episode is a play-on to "rain storm" with Pariah Dark "reigning" the earth.

This is the first we've seen or heard of Poindexter since "Splitting Images," which was his first and only appearance until now.

The word "pariah" means an outcast, or one despised by society. This makes sense to have a villain with this name, as he was both an out casted villain and despised by the people he rules, and the people he's taken over now.

Look Hard: When Danny is getting beaten up by Desiree in the beginning, you see the ghost dog from "Shades of Gray."

Apparently, Danny had previously sent Ember and Skulker back to the Ghost Zone, and finished a book report for Mr. Lancer.

Apparently, Valerie's suit doesn't give her much protection since she was badly beaten when her suit shut off.

Apparently, the Fright Knight can telekinetically pull the Soul Shredder out of someone's hands.

It is revealed that when Valerie is hurt badly enough, her suit will automatically shut off.

Ember is back in her original outfit and not her pirate outfit from the previous episode, "Pirate Radio."

First aired in Canada on YTV on March 13th, 2006.

King Pariah & The Fright Knight-- The relationship between the two is similar to that of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" movie, "Return of the Jedi". While it seems that Vader is totally loyal, in the end he betrays his master. It's the same with the Fright Knight, as he teams up with Plasmius at the end.

References to "Shades of Gray," "Maternal Instinct," "Splitting Images," "Fright Night," "Life Lessons," and "The Million Dollar Ghost" were made in this TV movie.

Apparently, Valerie's father, Damon, knows a lot about ghost-related technology.

Vlad makes fun of Danny's anger-induced green eyes again. He did this before in "Maternal Instinct."

Maddie confirms that Jazz is single, although in "Maternal Instinct," it seemed as if she was involved with a boy.

Jack calls Vlad "V-Man" and "Vladdy" in this TV movie, which are the nicknames that he called him by in "Bitter Reunions."

It is confirmed that all of Vlad's interjections have to do with food. In "The Million Dollar Ghost," Vlad exclaimed "fudge buckets" (when his ghost portal exploded) and "butter biscuits" (after he was swallowed by the Behemoth) . In this TV movie, he exclaimed "sugar cookies" (after Danny shoots an ecto-blast at the lamp post).

Skulker, Ember, The Box Ghost, Klemper, the Lunch Lady Ghost, and Poindexter are the only non-villain ghosts that appear in this episode that have dialogue.

The Ecto-Exitus Alarm is the fifth Fenton invention that has Jack's face on it (not counting Danny's ghost suit or the "Go Fentons" banner). The first invention was the Jack-A-Nine-Tail in "Maternal Instinct," the second was the emergency op-center blimp in "Pirate Radio," the third was the ghost shield generator, also from "Pirate Radio," and the fourth was the "Fenton Wipe" toilet paper in this TV movie.

We learn that Valerie's Ectogrenade Launcher also has an ectoplasmic goo mod, as well as a dual laser mod, a rocket mod, and an ectoplasmic energy mod.

Valerie's weapons that were featured for the first time in this TV movie include: 1) Wrist rocket launchers. 2) Twin backpack ectoplasmic energy launchers.

In this TV movie, Valerie uses the ghost bombs that were seen hanging on her wall of ghost weaponry in "Life Lessons."

Nicknames(s) Dash Gives Danny: Fentony.

Look Hard: While Jack and Vlad are playing chess at the Fenton household, you can see two black chess pieces: a knight and a king. Also, there are two white chess pieces: two pawns. This symbolizes Vlad's plan to "Use two fourteen year old pawns to turn a knight and topple a king."

In "Bitter Reunions," Vlad says that it took him "years of practice" to replicate himself, a trick that Danny masters in this episode, only a few months after his own accident. However, the ecto-skeleton may have helped.

Major Human Debut(s): Nathan.

Mr. Lancer is absent in this episode.

Danny does not catch a ghost in the Fenton Thermos in this episode.

Up to date, Vlad's powers include: 1) Flight. 2) Invisibility. 3) Intangibility. 4) Overshadowing. 5) Ectoplasmic energy blasts. 6) Ectoplasmic force-field projection. 7) Ectoplasm solidification into a glass-like substance. 8) Go ghost stinger. 9) Duplicating. 10) Teleportation. 11) Ectoplasmic energy absorption and projection.

This one-hour TV movie counted as two regular episodes.

Opener: Vlad goes to Pariah's Keep -- which is currently the Fright Knight's Lair, with the Skeleton Key. He uses it to obtain the Ring of Rage, thinking he will become all-powerful. However, nothing happens when Vlad wears the Ring of Rage, and he remembers he must also wear the Crown of Fire to become powerful. He uses the Skeleton Key to unlock the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep to get the Crown of Fire, but to his surprise, he accidentally awakens Pariah Dark -- the King of all Ghosts. Pariah Dark blasts Vlad out of his castle, but Vlad still has the Ring of Rage. The Ghost King awakens the Fright Knight from his sleep and makes him serve him. Vlad tries to escape, but Pariah Dark catches up to him. The Ghost King grabs Vlad, but notices that he is a duplicate. The real Vlad is still in Pariah's Keep, trying to make a deal with the Fright Knight. Pariah goes back to his lair and Vlad quickly tries to make a run for it. Pariah Dark fires a blast while Vlad is trying to escape. Vlad is injured, and turns back into human mode. He lands in the Fenton lab, where Jack and Maddie have just completed the Fenton Pants (besides fixing a few bugs) -- part of the new Ecto-Skeleton battle suit that they're making. In desperation, Vlad asks Jack to help him.

Sam reveals that Valerie used to be mean to her and Tucker, although in the history of the series, there has not been a time in which Valerie was directly mean to Sam.

This episode features the third color that Vlad can shoot ectoplasmic energy beams in: purple. In "Bitter Reunions," it was shown that Vlad can shoot a red ectoplasmic energy beam, in "Maternal Instinct," it was revealed that Vlad can shoot a blue ectoplasmic energy beam. In this episode, Vlad can shoot a purple beam. Vlad has also created defensive walls of green ectoplasmic energy in "Bitter Reunions," so he has now demonstrated the use of every color of ectoplasmic energy shown thus far on the series.

Valerie tells Sam that she thinks that Sam likes Danny as more than just a friend, after she indirectly told her in "Shades of Gray," that she always thought that those two would end up together.

Up to this point, Danny can make himself invisible, intangible, overshadow people's bodies perfectly (he can match the person's eye color and voice), turn his eyes green, and shoot ectoplasmic energy beams, all without going ghost.

Apparently, Sidney Poindexter found a way to escape out of his Spirit World, since he appears in the real world in this TV movie. Either that, or the Spirit World is indeed part of the Ghost Zone.

In this episode, Tucker considers himself a nerd, although in "Splitting Images," he seemed insulted when Poindexter called him a nerd.

The backpack in which Valerie stores her ghost hunting equipment is exactly the same as Danny's.

A nerd named Nathan has a crush on Valerie but she does not like him back.

It is revealed that the flying disc Valerie rides on is called a "jet sled."

Look Hard: In the scene where Danny is running away from Dash and goes to the cafeteria, there is a banner that says "Ultra-Recyclo-Vegetarian Week." The banner was first shown in "Mystery Meat."

Sam was under pressure to admit whether or not she likes Danny as more than a friend. When Danny prepares to face the Ghost King in the potentially fatal Ecto-Skeleton, she begins to say something that sounds like a confession, but is interrupted by the Ghost King.

Valerie reveals that she now "likes" Danny Fenton, although she hates Danny Phantom.

Apparently, Danny did not fully learn his lesson in "Splitting Images," since he was still using his ghost powers to "bully" Dash.

When the ghosts are claiming their new "homes" in Amity Park, the Lunch Lady Ghost takes over the Nasty Burger, The Box Ghost takes over a box store called Boxes U-Ship, Ember takes over a guitar store called Guitar Palace, and Skulker takes over a hunting store called Hunting Goods.

This marks the second time that Danny made a truce with his ghost enemies, knowing that they will turn on him afterwards. The first time was in "Prisoners of Love."

The truce between Valerie and Danny Phantom that they made in "Life Lessons" breaks in this episode, seeing as how Valerie is more determined to destroy Danny Phantom more than ever now.

64% of Amity Park citizens now believe that Danny Phantom is a hero, while 36% still think he's an enemy.

Vlad was mainly a villain in this episode, but at some times, he was an ally to Danny.

Sam and Tucker finally encounter Vlad, but they don't speak to him.

At the end of this episode, Vlad walks away with Maddie's grudge against him from "Maternal Instinct" gone. He has also obtained the Crown of Fire, the Ecto-Skeleton battle suit, and the services of the Fright Knight. Also, the Skeleton Key is still in his possession.

Amity Park now officially knows "Inviso-Bill" as "Danny Phantom."

This is the second episode that Danny doesn't appear in before the opening theme song. The first being "The Million Dollar Ghost."

Vlad calls Danny a "little badger," which is exactly what he called him in "Bitter Reunions."

Vlad tells Valerie that he gave her the weapons. However, Valerie doesn't know that Vlad is part-ghost.

The Specter Speeder from "Prisoners of Love" (later seen in "Fanning the Flames") returns.

This episode's title screen caption, "The King Of All Shows!," is very similar to "Maternal Instinct"'s title screen caption, "The Mother Of All Shows!"

Apparently, Ember got a new guitar, since she has it in this episode, yet it was destroyed in the previous episode, "Pirate Radio."

Pariah Dark awakens the Fright Knight from the pumpkin he was trapped in (in "Fright Knight"), by removing the Soul Shredder from it. We learn that the Fright Knight was the Ghost King's servant.

It is revealed that Vlad obtained the Skeleton Key in "The Million Dollar Ghost" to receive the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire to become all-powerful. However, his plan backfires and he awakens Pariah Dark.

All of Danny's main enemies return, except for Youngblood, Kitty, and Freakshow.

Jazz once again hints that she knows Danny's a ghost.

Featured Named Invention(s): Fenton Pants, Ecto-Skeleton, Ecto-Exitus Alarm.

The Fenton Ghost Shield has the capability of expanding its radius to a size of about 3/4 of an entire city's limits. Due to this, it can also be used as a weapon as it would destroy all ghosts in its path as the shield expands.

Introduced Ghost Power(s): Duplicating.

When Danny transformed into ghost mode while he was inside the battle suit, the suit transformed with him.

Title Screen Caption: "The King Of All Shows!"

Major Ghost Debut(s): Pariah Dark - The King of all Ghosts. Only he could control the energies contained inside the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire, and when he wore both, he was all-powerful and he could do anything. In a last effort to remove Pariah Dark from his throne, a group of powerful ancient ghosts banded together to defeat him. They removed the Ring of Rage from his finger and the Crown of Fire from his head. They then trapped him in the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep and locked it with the Skeleton Key. He was reawakened when Vlad Plasmius went into Pariah's Keep -- which currently is the Fright Knight's Lair, in hope of getting the Ring of Rage and the Crown of Fire and becoming all-powerful. However, when Vlad opened the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep with the Skeleton Key, his plans backfired and he accidentally awoke the powerful Ghost King, who now wanted to once again rule the Ghost Zone with an iron fist.

Main Villain(s): Pariah Dark, Fright Knight, Vlad.

Damon, Valerie's dad, now knows that his daughter is a ghost hunter.

Running Gags: 1) People tripping other people. 2) Vlad yelling out his motives, and then claiming that they're jokes. 3) Vlad tries to get the Fright Knight to join forces with him, but gets interrupted every time. 4) Somebody asking, "Are you okay?," followed by, "Sorry. Standard question." 5) Someone destroys the TV screen with an ecto-blast. 6) Villains saying they will always have time for hurting their enemy. 7) Nathan screaming to Valerie, "Why won't you say yes?!"

Technus is in his Doomed video game mode in this episode.