Doctor's Disorders

This is the article for the Danny Phantom episode Doctor's Disorders.

=Prologue= Fade in to show Casper High. Some teens are on the sidewalk in front of it. The whole screen is purple in hue, as if a ghost is around.

TEACHER: (offscreen) Fascinating.

Cut to a teacher looking at a sharp, ghost tip.

TEACHER: Possibly some of the most interesting mandibular formations (puts a fist to his chin and looks up) I’ve ever seen.

Cut to the teacher from behind.

Zoom out to reveal him standing in front of a giant green ghost bug with a long, pointed mandible, six red eyes, body fuzz and giant wings like an overgrown mosquito. It flexes the two side-parts of its mandible and buzzes.

Cut to the teacher, shocked.

TEACHER: I hope I don’t end up seeing them from the--

Zoom in on the teacher.

TEACHER: --inside!

Cut to the teacher cowering in the shadow of the bug against the lockers. The bug’s wings are buzzing. The bug leans into the teacher, and the teacher backs into the corner on one knee.

Cut to the ceiling. Danny Phantom flies in, his fists clenched and his ghostly tail beneath him. He flies down into a purple action background and turns intangible.

Cut to the bug, leaning in to the teacher against the lockers. As the teacher buries his face in his arm, Danny flies down intangibly through the floor. The bug looks to the back wondering what happened, then looks toward the camera, confused. Danny flies out from under the floor and pushes the bug up, phasing both through the ceiling.

Cut to Danny on a purple action background, intangible.

DANNY: Anybody up for a game of--

Pan up to the bug’s surprised expression in its four red eyes and two eyebrows, which blink.

DANNY: --“Slug Bug”?

Danny flies up and out of the shot.

Cut to outside Casper High. Danny and the bug phase out through the roof. Pan right as the bug tumbles out of Danny’s grip and resumes color, sliding on the ground across the street from the school next to a tree and a trash can, forming a trough and bringing up dust clouds. Danny forms up above the trough. When the dust clears, he flies off.

Cut to the bug lying in a hole by the trunk of a tree, looking upon the school. The wings are slumped and the antennae are bent, and smoke rises from the trough due to the impact. Danny flies into the shot to look at the bug. He looks surprised when the bug looks back up at him and stands up on all six of its legs.

Cut to the bug’s four eyes. They blast off four red eye beams in unison.

Cut to Danny, shocked. He grunts as he parts his legs so the beam passes harmlessly under them, then looks back to where the beam may have landed.

Cut closer to Danny. He looks back down.

Cut farther from Danny. He loops downward as the bug flies up, lunging for him but misses. Danny looks back at the bug as it flies off. He unleashes a green ghost ray from both his hands.

Cut to the bug flying away as the ghost rays fire at it. The bug just turns around and flies back where it came.

Cut to the face of the bug on a purple action background. Pan down right to its proboscis. It squirts out a stream of green, goopy ectoplasm.

Cut to the purple sky. Pan down right as the stream of ectoplasmic goo forms into a goopy net and wraps around Danny’s arms and torso, binding him up. He screams as he tumbles backwards into the air.

Cut to an aerial shot of below. Paulina is walking on the sidewalk by a shrub, tree and trash can as Danny screams, falling head-first toward the tree.

Cut to Paulina walking past. She stops her walking and gasps in shock as she hears leaves rustling. She looks up as Danny drops from the tree half-way, grunting as his hands and torso are clearly still bound by the net.

Cut to Paulina, turning to look up. She puts a hand near her mouth as she gasps.

Cut to Danny hanging with some leaves in his hair. His eyes open.

DANNY: Paulina!

Cut to Paulina. She curls her hands into fists and smiles gleefully.

Cut to Danny, hanging.

DANNY: You should run.

Cut to Danny in the foreground looking at Paulina below. She raises her arms in the air gleefully and begins to skip toward Danny.

Cut to Danny. He holds up his palms. Some leaves fall.

DANNY: No, not toward me,--

Danny puts his hands out as they begin to glow green.

DANNY: --*away*! Run!

Cut to Paulina from behind looking to Danny, hanging. Paulina peeks over her shoulder and crouches on one knee, giving out a shriek of alarm as Danny fires another energy beam.

Cut to the sky as the bug descends. Pan left as the bug is knocked away by the beam hitting it square in the belly.

Cut to Danny hanging in the tree with Paulina looking away into the sky. She turns and continues on her course, closing her eyes and running away.

Cut to Danny hanging and coated in the ghostly bug juice net. He strains as he glows green all over, zooming out as he breaks free of the net by stretching out his arms and legs.

Cut to Danny, floating upside-down by the tree. He turns the right way and flees off to the right with his ghostly tail trailing as another shot of green, goopy bug juice splatters on the trunk of the tree where Danny was just floating. Pan right as he flies up into the sky.

Cut to Danny, flying quickly on a purple action background. He strafes further from the camera in his flight, then strafes closer to the camera as the bug buzzes after him in hot pursuit.

Cut to a street by a line of power lines. Danny flies in but stops at the power lines, turning around so his back faces them when the bug flies in.

Cut to the bug in the foreground, zooming in on Danny as it closes in on his proximity.

DANNY: Bug…

Cut to Danny from behind floating in front of the power lines. As the bug is about to ram him, Danny jumps into the air and the bug goes headlong into the power lines, tangling itself in them and receiving a large jolt of blue electrical power.

Cut to the purple sky as Danny flies back up into the shot, looking down with a smug smile.

DANNY: …zapper!

Cut to the bug, still getting electrocuted. Eventually it explodes into a purple action background into a swarm of bugs separating into chunks of smaller swarms.

Cut to a purple action background. A lot of bugs are flung back as they sail through the shot on their backs.

Cut to a purple action background as the bugs sail through the shot in the other direction, leftwards. The sky resumes itself and the bugs correct their position right-side up, stopping in the air safely and creating loud buzzing noises with their wings as they fly off.

Cut to a purple action background as two streams becoming four streams of bugs amass into one great swarm of ghost bugs. The swarm takes off.

Cut to Danny in the foreground as he looks over Casper High school with the swarm of bugs phasing into it.

Cut to Danny.

DANNY: Well, (eyes widen) one down, (eyelids lower in futility) a billion to go.

He flies downwards with his tail flicking after him.

Fade to black.

OPENING THEME HERE (Possible cut to commercial)

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