Danny Phantom (TV Series)

The Fright Before Christmas (2005)

Will Arnett: Ghost Writer

Quotes 

• [the poem continues] 

  Ghost Writer : Danny Fenton hates Christmas. He hates it a lot, / Which is why I've inserted the boy in this plot. / He'll go through this tale till the story is ended.

  Danny Fenton : [angrily]  But you can't make me rhyme!

  Samantha "Sam" Manson : [greets a passerby]  Hope your new year is splendid!

• [Danny shoves an orange into Walker, hoping to end the ghost brawl] 

  Ghost Writer : [typing]  Young Danny thought quickly and picked up an orange. / He threw it at Walker who...

  [stops typing and tries to think of a rhyme to "orange", only to realize he can't] 

  Ghost Writer : [angry]  Aw, crud! Nothing rhymes with orange!

• [Danny Phantom is surrounded by presents that Ghost Writer conjured up] 

  Danny Phantom : Now you're ripping off gifts? What is that supposed to do?

  Ghost Writer : A. Make a huge scene, and B. blame it on you!

  [the crowd blames Danny, who then gets hit by a laser blast from Jack and Maddie] 

  Maddie Fenton : [shouts]  You've ruined our night!

  Jack Fenton : [firing a blast]  Drink some anti-ghost tonic!

  [Danny's mouth goes intangible to avoid the blast] 

  Danny Phantom : Wait, I've ruined their night? How's that for ironic?

  [he flies away from the crowd] 

  Ghost Writer : So Danny did soar through the crisp evening...

  Danny Phantom : [to Ghost Writer]  Look! / What's a guy got to do to get out of this book?

  Ghost Writer : And then Danny thought...

  Danny Phantom : Wait. My problem is clear. / This poem's about Christmas, which is here, here, and here. / This curse will stay on me from my town to Rome. / But he can't Christmas me in a non-Christmas home.

• [at FentonWorks] 

  Ghost Writer : But Danny's grim yuletide was only beginning. / And later that night, as his patience was thinning...

  Jack Fenton : [slides down the chimney]  See! A fat man can fit down the chimney! Here's proof!

  Maddie Fenton : That still won't explain how he gets on the roof!

  Ghost Writer : And Young Fenton sat there, just steaming and fuming...

  [Danny looks out the window] 

  Ghost Writer : His blood pressure rising, his anger consuming...

  Danny Fenton : [shouts]  I won't keep this up!

  Ghost Writer : ...Danny said to the Writer.

  Danny Fenton : There's no poem if I'm silent.

  Jazz Fenton : Can't you make Dad not fight her?

  [Danny screams in frustration] 

  Ghost Writer : [to Danny]  You think this is over? It's barely begun! / This psalm doesn't end 'til the lesson is done!

  Danny Fenton : And you think that I'll learn it? You think you're that tough?

  [sees his parents arguing] 

  Jack Fenton : [shouts]  He exists!

  Maddie Fenton : [shouts]  No he doesn't!

  Ghost Writer : Then Dan screamed:

  Danny Fenton : Enough! / I'm sick of your fighting! Can you please let this die? / You've ruined each Christmas! Each Christmas, and I / Can't take anymore of this war, am I clear? / Fourteen years is enough! I am so out of here!

  [walks out the door] 

  Maddie Fenton : Hmm? What's got into him?

  Jack Fenton : He takes after his mother.

  Jazz Fenton : [sees Danny outside the window]  Can't blame you for losing your cool, little brother. / Go ahead, clear your head, and I think you'll be fine.

  [the Ghost Writer sends the Fenton Family's presents to attack Danny; Jazz sees them following him] 

  Jazz Fenton : [angrily]  ... but taking our presents is crossing the line!

• [in the Ghost Zone, Ghost Writer devises a trap for Danny by inviting him into a room filled with ghosts] 

  Skulker : We've been waiting for you.

  Ghost Writer : Skulker said with a grin.

  The Box Ghost : Now our holiday party can finally begin!

  [the spotlights come on and illuminate two Christmas trees to Danny's surprise] 

  Skulker : Eat, drink, and be merry!

  Ember : Have some warm Christmas goose!

  The Box Ghost : For surely you know of our annual truce!

  Ghost Writer : [shocked]  The truce! It's still holding? I thought they'd suspend it / To beat on their foe!

  Skulker : Oh, this truce, we defend it!

• [Danny has just defeated the Ghost Writer and had him detained by Walker's guards] 

  Danny Phantom : Roses are red, violets are blue, / One sleasefry, I'm guessing this poem is...

  [he destroys the Quantum Keyboard, only to find it has no effect on the rhyming curse] 

  Danny Phantom : [shocked]  ... Through? / Nooooo!

  Ghost Writer : Danny screamed.

  Danny Phantom : [shouts in horror]  I'm still talking in rhyme!

  Ghost Writer : I would have forewarned you if given the time!

• [Danny fights off the monster nutcracker using the ghost blasts] 

  Danny Phantom : You think this can stop me? This bear, or this train? / I'll just fire away 'til no pieces remain!

  [he destroys the nutcracker, then flies back on the ground] 

  Danny Phantom : Nothing to add?

  Ghost Writer : Danny asked. Then the answer / Showed up in the form of Sam, Tucker, and Lancer, / And Jazz standing silent, her eyes filled with tears, / Mourning the bear she had loved all these years. / And Tucker and Sam felt that crushing blow, too.

  [Danny tries to console the group] 

  Tucker Foley : Danny, don't!

  Samantha "Sam" Manson : What's your deal?

  Jazz Fenton : I don't even know you.

  [they walk away from the crowd, who gathers up in sadness and anger] 

  Ghost Writer : It seemed that the whole town was left to proclaim / That Christmas was ruined, the Ghost Boy to blame.

  [Danny flies away from the angry crowd and stops at a house] 

  Ghost Writer : Save for one little boy, in his little red hat. / He thought Danny was cool... so we'll have to fix that!

  [he brings the ghost Christmas trees to life and they attack]