“And now, a little poem I like to call, “The Fluffy Clouds all look like Footballs.”


TITLE: Lucky In Love: The Odd Couple Episode
LOGO: “Heart Aching Terror!”
EPISODE #: 17
SEASON: 1
AIRDATE: February 11, 2004
DIRECTOR: Butch Hartman, Gary Conrad, Ken Bruce
WRITERS: Sib Ventress
STORYBOARD: Butch Hartman, Wincat Alcala, Ray Angrum, Shawn Murray, Dave Thomas (ZOMG! The old guy from Wendy's is back from the grave!)
ART DIRECTIONS: Bob Boyle
MUSIC: Guy Moon
APPEARANCE: Danny, Paulina, Tucker, Dash, Sam, Kwan, Dash, Mikey, bunches of other Casper High Students
GHOST APPEARANCE: Kitty, Johnny 13 and Shadow
FENTON GADGET APPEARANCE: Portable Ghost Portal thing
LESSON: How come nearly all the guys in this episode behave like girls? That’s Danny’s job.

SUMMARY: Floody Waters, the water park of Amity Park. Unbeknownst to the public is a stand-alone shadow in the shape of a very familiar biker. The shadow morphs itself back into its true form as…Shadow and flies to the entrance of Floody Waters. Is it just me or does that sign sound like they wanna drown people? As if this entire town’s names aren’t already morbid. After a short view of some random teenager going down a water slide, we finally get a glimpse of the familiar trio. Tucker talks about chicks (donning floatation device--must not be a good swimmer) while Danny asks if Sam is hot--no, not the romantic kind (back off, rabid Danny/Sam shippers), considering she’s wearing a hat (with veil and matching shades) AND a Batman-ish cloak. Top it off with the fact that it’s completely black--which mixed with heat isn’t exactly a good combo--and it’s any wonder she isn’t sweating. No, Goths apparently “simmer”. Sam reeks though, so she exits, leaving the two boys to counter Dash and Kwan………in Speedos. OH. MY. GOD. The homosexual overtones are already playing and in LESS then a minute of the episode in. Dash and Kwan water gun squirts them to a water fountain as their mandatory act of bullying.

Danny’s ghost sense popa out and Shadow skirts his way around the ground, scaring the shit out of people. Tucker stays put and hopes for any gals in need of mouth-to-mouth (sure, ignore the dangerous ghost) while Danny desperately heads inside the ladies’ room to go ghost. Paulina and Star shoves him out, the former with her mandatory act of preppy insults, “I’d tell you to go to the men’s room, but I don’t think you qualify.” ………Funny, neither do I. Danny is such a girl. *is smacked* Danny instead hides behind the Floody Water main map billboard and transform, immediately getting his ass kicked by Shadow upon contact. I mean, he grabs the kid and smacks his head in VERY hard places. Ouch, j-just OUCH. Damn it, Danny, what did I tell you about these first offenses? Shadow, still clinging onto Danny then flies him towards sharp fences surrounding water. “Come on, slick, let’s see how well you mix with water!” Danny manages to lure Shadow into said H20. Nope, he doesn’t mix well with water. Danny takes advantage and literally flushes him down before transforming back into his human self. Immediately he is met with an ecstatic Paulina, “Danny? You’re the ghost boy?!” GASPETH!

“Amity Park rocked together by another random attack from the pasty-faced ghost (Pasty faced? Whenever Danny goes ghost, he looks more like he got himself a bit of a tan.) lad known as Inviso-Bill.” A news reporter who looks way too angry to take her job seriously says to her camera crew as Danny, panicking, runs over to his friends to deliver the news on Paulina’s recent discovery. It’ll be the first thing she’s discovered since the new line up of mascaras, I’m sure. Tucker flirts with Star briefly while Danny cries over his lack of enjoyment on finally seeing Paulina in a bathing suit. Since it’s a kid’s show, we’re never gonna see any chicks in bikinis. What? So girls in their everyday clothing showing off their midriff (and cleavage) is a-okay, but bikinis are bad? The animators could have covered up the boobage area much like their causal wear does. I guarantee at least 90% of all teenage chicks will don a two-piece swimsuit. Oh, and Sam continues her hatred towards the popular Latino. Speaking of which, Paulina happily steps in and immediately Goth chick goes on the offensive with “Back off Bitch, he’s mine” written all over her face. She warns Paulina, however Little Miss Prissy declares she’ll keep it a secret, briefly flirting with Danny, saying he’s powers makes him “hot”. Danny jumps in joy over finally obtaining her attention outside of “Parental Bonding” before getting soaked again by Dash who states the water inside his water gun isn’t that all-familiar liquid. I’m so tempt to say it’s pee, but I’m being dirty. I’m gonna assume he meant sweat.

Danny covers half his face with his own shirt as he walks down the hallway of his school the next day, fearful Paulina can’t keep a secret. Sam reassures him that Paulina is dim enough to forget. Hrmm…bitchy and condescending, yes, but dim? I never actually associate that aspect with Paulina and trust me; even the dimmest person wouldn’t really forget a human being turning into a ghost superhero. One ghost sense later, Shadow emerges from one of the school’s drinking fountains. “You’re making it really hard for me to keep a low profile.” Danny, you’re constantly saving this town from evil ghosts, there is no such things as low profile from the act you’re pulling. Shadow smacks Danny for a bit until the half ghost gains the upper hand by taking one of the school’s science lab magnifying glass and pointing his Ecto-Ray towards it, causing it to increase in size and send Shadow packing. Clever. Danny returns and sees Paulina has eyeballed the entire thing from…somewhere. She praises him and declares to the entire student body that they’re a couple. This obviously shocks the entire school--including Obsessive Paulina Boy and Lancer who demotes eraser clapping duties to Tucker upon seeing Danny’s “street cred” raised up. Somebody needs to fire this teacher. Sam punches a locker (creating a dent and everything) after witnessing the happy couple walk off, obviously jealous.

Danny and Paulina continuously stare at one another in the school cafeteria, the latter inviting him to a bowling party on Friday as the entire student body stares at 'em, including crying Paulina Obsessive Boy. Dash, begrudged, walks over and dumps an A-list membership package--a hall pass when stamped ten times gains him a frozen yogurt, and Mikey who’ll be doing his homework (and facing the onset of voice changing puberty). Danny is officially a popular kid. Kwan cries out like that one guy from jury who says “Not guilty” when everyone declares “Guilty” by crying out they ain’t taking new members. Dash steps in to deliver the bad news that he’s demoted, stuck playing the new “Danny” amongst Sam and Tucker, the latter bitterly whining, “You’ll never take Danny’s place, NEVER!” He leaps up in the air in that last word in his sentence, staying for a good five seconds. That’s Looney Tunes logic (among others) if there ever was one. Dash is also a sucky friend.

The next scene composes of Danny spending all his time with Paulina with much glee (replacing his photo of him and his buddies with one of him and Paulina--*snort*--some friend) and Kwan spending as much time as possible with Tucker and Sam, the former surprisingly warming up to him despite his earlier claim while Sam continues her streak of bitterness. Apparently football playing is not in her level of athletic skills when she gets smacked by one Kwan chucks in hopes she’ll catch it.

Sam and Tucker successfully manage to avoid Kwan later on, leaving Techno-Geek to meet Satellite--I mean--Star, nicknamed the former for her constant orbiting around Paulina before she had Danny. Immediately the demanding Star puts the move on Tucker first in words best summed up by her, “Where have you been? You should have made your move on me hours ago. Carry my books. I like to bowl on Friday night (coincidentally the same day as Paulina’s bowling party) and if you try to hold my hand before our third date, I’ll break your’s in half.” Tucker, giddy he’s with a chick happily walks away behind her, leaving Sam to deal with Kwan who managed to find them. The Asian is quick to notice Sam is displeased with him. Dejected, he states he doesn’t fit in anywhere, but doesn’t blame her, slowly walking away to the Chess club until Sam, filled with pity, invites him to a Goth poetry slam session at the local Goth library. “Not a date, but plenty of pity”, Sam lamely says, triggering a happy Kwan. Anyone smell an Odd Couple parody coming a mile away?

Bowling party occurs as Star basically continues her domination towards Tucker (anyone else think she’s merely here to invoke jealously towards former friend Paulina?) while Paulina shows she lacks any skills to make it to championship. She asks Danny to help her strike a goal, the former declaring it’s cheating…or “creative point scoring” once he gets a peck on the cheek. He transform behind a fat dude and lures Paulina’s bowling ball after her throw, giving her a strike. He’s reward is another kiss on the cheek. At the local Skulk and Lurk bookstore, the audience is filled with Goths of all shady colors and distasteful grim look on their faces as the head Goth announces one of his kin up. There he recites his poetry, creating an excited Kwan who sticks out like a bright-red-football-coat-wearing thumb. Apparently he's idea of happiness is depressing poetry. Immediately he makes his way on stage and reads his poetry, giddy as a schoolgirl, enough to get both him and Sam kicked out.

Outside the bowling alley, away from the light, Paulina asks Danny to kiss her. Declaring himself the luckiest kid ever, he nervously puckers up, but doesn’t get in edgewise when Johnny’s motorcycle headlight shines over the two. He vehemently tells Danny to get his hands off her girl. Paulina, with an attitude as always walks over to him and glows green. Out pops Kitty who cries out Danny’s his main man now while an unconscious Paulina falls onto Danny’s hand. He’s caught in a love rectangle! As Paulina comes to, Kitty inhabits her body again and refuses Johnny’s advances, instead continuously flirting with Danny. Seriously, how OLD is Kitty? Certainly looks a hell of a lot older then Danny, but she apparently has no guilt trying to get down a 14 year old’s pants. Johnny sends Shadow after Danny, one Tucker spots. Danny battles Shadow for a bit, briefly tying him around a weather vane before ultimately being bright lighted away by Tucker who shines a headlight on him. Johnny takes Kitty and flies his auto bike over the moon, but before anyone can cry out E.T phone home, Danny steps in and takes her away. Kitty/Paulina again tries to make with the kiss while Johnny; jealous and angry opens up a ghost portal and exits. Kitty explains he stole one of Jack’s inventions and attached it to his bike to go in and our of the Ghost Zone as he pleased, then proceeds to further make her way inside Danny. Not in a romantic mood, Danny flies Paulina away to discuss this matter.

At the basement lab of Fenton Works, Danny, still in ghost mode, hovers over her like some dictating overlord, demanding her story. A distressed Kitty explains how she nagged Johnny until he turned blue to take her to Amity Park ever since he grafted that Fenton Portal portable doohickey device. So he does. Kitty marvels at the sight while Johnny marvels at hot chicks, enough that he can’t even pay attention to the road, Kitty having to phase the two pass a meat truck, possessing sausage links and a giant ham as souvenirs DESPITE their brief intangibility. Kitty, fed up flies away and ends up in Floody Water where she planned to make Johnny envious by possessing Sam since she’s associated with Danny. She guesses he likes her to which Danny merely stutters before she continues. Paulina and Star enter the ladies’ room, pushing an angry Sam out so Kitty ended up inside Paulina despite the ample time period she could have used to possess Sam. Kitty declares she’s gonna hang around for a while, much to Danny’s dismay and protest--"Go fig". She takes the Vlad (well--sorta, Danny started the thing and Vlad merely countered with the same option) approach and plans to blackmail Danny’s secret should he blab this to anyone else.

The next day, Kwan tries to reassure an angry Sam over at the Nasty Burger, eventually meeting up with Tucker where the two complain about their respective friends. To their surprise, Kwan and Star walks over to them, holding hands and declaring they aren’t as cool as Danny/Paulina, but cooler then those two. A happy Sam and Tucker dumps their food tray with them and runs off, finally free of their death grips. With that issue resolved, there’s still the matter of Danny and Paulina which Sam again shows off best by breaking the pointy red thingie from a nearby mail box (prior to that, she crunched an entire metal napkin dispenser--friggin’ Wonder Woman). Luckily for her, Danny doesn't take in his end of the deal and confesses what the real deal behind Paulina is and how she’s suffocating their relationship (or fake-relationship) with her in his everyday occurrence. Sam has a “radical” (Tubular! Wipe Out! Rad!) plan, which involves Danny going over to the Ghost Zone, and begging Johnny to take Kitty back due to the tight leash she’s got him on, clearly showing she still wears the pants in the relationship. This is obviously a metaphor for how much of a girl Danny is.

Later, Danny and Kitty/Paulina adore themselves over a picnic, Danny flirting with her and demanding he’d kick Johhny’s ass again to fight for her. She finds this all sweet, but even more so when Johnny arrives to deliver some romantic justice and claim his bitch back. Danny easily punches Johnny (“I thought this was a pretend fight!”) around, proving even in pretend battles, Johnny is useless unless he has that shadow of his. Instead of the predictable route of letting Johnny win; Danny comes as the victor, ready to Ecto Ray him to oblivion until Kitty tackles and defeats him in one fell swoop. He can do battle with a dude, but gets his ass handed to him by a chick. Kitty cradles Johnny and the two declare their love for each other, ultimately heading back to the Ghost Zone for some much needed sex. Danny destroys the Fenton Porto-portal afterwards, “Hey man, that wasn’t part of the deal!” Kitty gets suspicion upon hearing that. Looks like they ain’t gonna have sex.

Danny returns and asks Paulina if she remembers him. She only knows him as “Inviso-Bill”, the guy who saved her life "twice apparently". Danny flies off over the distress of his given nickname while Paulina swoons in affection over her new crush. Why is there not a picnic blanket in that scene which she was on prior? By school the next day, Paulina’s entire locker content is adorned with Danny Phantom memorabilia. Considering the terrible reputation he’s currently facing in Amity Park, I can only assume she made most of these figurines herself. Still, it’s a better cry over the lack of merchandises over here. I want my Vlad action figure, damn it! With Danny and Paulina in uneven grounds (pleasing Obsessive Paulina Fanboy), Kwan and some popular kids demand his A-list membership stuff back. Tucker then declares Danny was one hall pass stamp away from a free yogurt, then waves to Mikey who claims that he’s too cool to talk to him.

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