A/N: Ah, well, hello there, gang! Yup, it's that time again. But before I go on, I got permission from that reader who drew that pix for me. I like it and if you want to take a peek, I won't complain. You know that FF doesn't post websites, so be sure to take out all the spaces. Have fun with it! It's: h t t p: / / i 9 5. photobucket .com / albums / l122 / guest 773 / Bewarewulfed Poster .png . Now, back to the show...And, looks like I'm stuck on one particular episode once more. But this is one of my FAVS episodes, so I'm not really complaining about it….. Now, I want you to know that I found out that this episode almost didn't happen! Yes, that's right, because, you see, they almost didn't get through the first half! At first, there seemed to be only a minor snafu, but…as you'll see soon enough, it was a REAL jungle out there on the set…(*permission to groan*) But, before we roll it, don't forget the "IDNOAC" and "full credit to the original writers for the original or near original dialogue" things. So, here is Chapter 36 and , man, do I have plenty of fodder for you! (*permission to groan even more*) Roll it Marv before I get hit with tomatoes!...
Danny Phantom Bloopers—Chapter 36—It's a Jungle Out There
Urban Jungle
Blooper 184
TAKE ONE
Cut to the scene where Danny and Tucker wake up from the sleep pores and find themselves tied up with vines and prisoners of Undergrowth.
DANNY (groggily): Huh? (then raising his head in surprise) Holy hibiscus! (suddenly frowning)....Holy hibiscus? Since when have I said 'holy hibiscus'? AND for that matter, since when is hibiscus 'holy'?
BUTCH (groaning): Cut!
TAKE TWO
Blooper 185
Cut to the scene where Danny and Tucker wake up from the sleep pores and find themselves tied up with vines and prisoners of Undergrowth.
DANNY (groggily): Huh? (then raising his head in surprise) Holy hibiscus! The whole city is a giant, overgrown backyard!
TUCKER (whining): I never ate my vegetables! Why is it fair they get to eat me?
Stan the Prop Man suddenly moans—quite loudly. All the crew notices.
BUTCH: CUT! Stan!
STAN THE PROP MAN (sheepishly): Sorry, Butch. But don't you remember that Tucker ate all those blood blossoms four episodes ago, you know, in Infinite Realms? So he has eaten vegetables! What kind of idiot writer would miss that detail?
BUTCH (glaring a bit): That would be me!
STAN THE PROP MAN (gasping and holding his hands up in surrender): I was just kidding, you know!
TAKE THREE
Blooper 186
Cut to the scene where Danny and Tucker wake up from the sleep pores and find themselves tied up with vines and prisoners of Undergrowth.
DANNY (groggily): Huh? (then raising his head in surprise) Holy hibiscus! The whole city is a giant, overgrown backyard!
TUCKER (whining):I never ate my vegetables! Why is it fair they get to eat me?... (then smugly) Hey, you know, Stan's right about me eating vegetables before! But I was able to mentally block that nightmare, so really, technically, I'm right, too!
BUTCH: CUT! Tucker!
Tucker cringes while everyone else except Butch laughs.
TAKE FOUR
Blooper 187
Cut to the scene where Danny and Tucker wake up from the sleep pores and find themselves tied up with vines and prisoners of Undergrowth.
DANNY (groggily): Huh? (then raising his head in surprise) Holy hibiscus! The whole city is a giant, overgrown backyard!
TUCKER (whining):I never ate my vegetables! Why is it fair they get to eat me?
Danny struggles against the vines, but to no avail. He slumps over, and stops trying, before opening his eyes a moment later...
DANNY:Man, no good! These vines are like steel cables!With sap!
UNDERGROWTH (smugly) :Yes…The growth is far stronger than any meat creature.
Undergrowth's giant head leans in to look at Danny and Danny looks up at him, annoyed.
UNDERGROWTH (tauntingly): No matter how powerful they think they are.
Danny charges his hands with energy and grunts with concentration, but two purple plants with mouths engulf Danny's hands and glow, containing them.
DANNY (concerned):These ghost plants are blocking my ghost energy.
He concentrates even harder.
DANNY (alarmed): Can't go intangible, either!
UNDERGROWTH (suddenly caressing a fast-growing plant): Perhaps one day you will see that this is what nature intended all along! Mankind is merely a temporary weed in the garden of life. A weed that can be removed.
DANNY (defiantly): Danny Phantom bows to no plant!
TUCKER (whining) : "Bow"? We can't even wiggle our fingers!
UNDERGROWTH: Your pessimistic, but accurate, friend is . Your once proud, progressive metropolis...
The scene cuts to a giant, glowing black brain on a stalk made of loads of green vines which spread onto the ground. Then it shows that the vines are connected to the back of the head of a lot of Amity Park citizens. The people have solid green eyes, black veins on their skin, are glowing and drooling, and walk zombie-like with their arms out in front of them. Soon, Undergrowth makes them obey his will to destroy the city. He talks all along as people like Dash and Kwan swing axes into wooden power-line poles.
UNDERGROWTH: The Mind-Vine enables me to control the inhabitant's every movement. Why should I burden myself with the destruction of your city when I can have its own citizens do it for me? Once the way is cleared my children will be planted and grow anew!
Other Amity Park citizens like Paulina, Star and Ashley plant acorns.. Gigantic trees just pop out of the ground and the trunk shoots upward or overrun all areas of the city.
Meanwhile, as the growth accelerates, Undergrowth continues…
UNDERGROWTH: My consciousness…. my will shall spread throughout the globe. And the concrete jungles shall become real jungles.
DANNY:You can't win! If I can't stop you, someone (suddenly shivers) w-w-w-will!
UNDERGROWTH: Really? (leans toward Danny) Such as?
Suddenly, the Fenton RV jumps through part of the growth and safely lands before hurling toward Undergrowth. A long, mechanical arm reaches out in front of it with a gigantic circular buzz-saw at the end of it. The saw quickly slices threw the vines and plants in its path.
But then, the plants retaliate and quickly engulf the RV before ripping it apart. Jack and Maddie managed to jump out and escape. Maddie falls and lands on her feet, ready to do battle. But Jack falls onto his stomach and grunts with pain.
Maddie goes right to task and begins to fight the ghost plants. However, after not too long, a vine is able to sneak up behind Maddie and attach itself to the back of her neck. Her body entirely glows before her eyes jolt to a solid green and black veins appear on her neck.
DANNY (horrified) : No! Mom!She's been taken over by the Mind-Vine!
Cut to Jack, face-down in the concrete. A vine snakes up to him and attaches itself to the back of his neck. He pulls up on his knees, glows and begins to scream but then glow fades away.
JACK:(looking at the vine) Hmm….(reaching to the back of his neck and grabbing hold the vine before pulling it in front of him) I don't see what the big deal is.
The vine tries to attach to the side of his neck.
JACK: Nope.
The vine hits his forehead.
JACK: Nope, still feel fine.
The vine finally snakes around his head into his ear, and now he glows.
JACK: Ah, there we go!
Jack's eyes fill up with green puddless.
JACK: Mmm…
His eyes flash a solid green and black veins form on his skin.
JACK: Chlorophyll!
Cut to Undergrowth with his arms crossed. Danny and Tucker are still bound by vines behind him, Danny's hands still in the flowers.
DANNY (screaming in dread) : No! Not them! (narrowing his eyes and scowling) Let them go!
The scene switches to showing a bunch of zombie-people attached to mind-vines walking past with their arms out in front of them, their eyes glowing a solid green, and black veins on the front of their neck.. Among them are Jasmine, Sam's parents, Maddie and Jack—and all of them have vines attached to back of their necks—INCLUDING JACK! (*REAL blooper, BTW*)
STAN THE PROP MAN (blurts out) : No, no, no! I said the ear! Jack's ear!
A few prop flunkies scramble.
JACK (chuckling nervously): Heh-heh…Don't get mad at them, Stan! That cool mind-vine sucked all of that itchy ear wax out just like I wanted, so I let the vine stick on the back of my neck like every other plant zombie!
STAN THE PROP MAN grumbles.
TAKE FIVE
Blooper 188
(behind the scenes)
BUTCH (sighing): OK, gang, I thought we would never get throught that last scene! Now let's see if we can get through the final fight scene of this show….(looking around and then frowning) Uh, where's Danny?
The crew shake their heads, when Danny suddenly flies to the set. But he is panting and covered in sweat…
DANNY (chuckling nervously while hurriedly wiping sweat off of his brow): Heh-heh, sorry I'm late, guys! But Frostbite and I lost track of time with all that practice and exercise!
BUTCH (cringing a bit but pressing on): Well, OK, then. So, let's get right onto this scene. (clearing his throat) OK, gang, let's take it from where Danny returns to the Real World to confront Undergrowth…Roll it!...
The Fenton Portal glows and then opens. Danny cautiously drifts out of the portal from the Ghost Zone just as he unconsciously wipes some sweat off of his brow. The Fenton lab is darkened. He immediately illuminates the area and sees that the lab is covered with plants and vines..
DANNY: (his voice echoing) If the lab looks like this, I can't imagine the rest of the town.
He turns intangible and flies through the ceiling. He then soars through town, scanning the area. It is overgrown with plants of all kinds. As he flies onward, he hears a distant voice.
SAM: Danny?
Danny then heads in the direction of the voice, surveying the area below him as he flies on... .
DANNY: This place is deserted. No signs of human life anywhere. I better find Tucker or-
Suddenly, he stops in mid-air, buckling down before shivering. He opens his eyes with determination.
DANNY: I control the power. The power doesn't control me.
But he shivers again and looks down.
SAM: (her voice distant) Danny?
Danny snaps to attention. He quickly flies to and stops at a very large tree.
SAM: (voice coming from the tree) Welcome back.
Then the tree trunk parts like curtains and Sam comes out in a totally black outfit, including a black cape and headdress. Her eyes are a solid green and she has thick eyeliner around them. Vines support her movement.
SAM: I thought you'd gone for good.
DANNY: Sam, we have to get you out of here!
SAM: No! I like it here. Undergrowth has made all things new.
Sam drifts down toward some nearby large purple eggs on her support vines, spreading her hands out as Danny looks to her. Four vines grow up to her.
SAM: They need me.
The vines wrap around her waist and headdress as she places her hands on them.
SAM: I am their new mother.
DANNY:What? (floating nearby) You won't even baby-sit your cousins!
Sam curls her hands around a vine as if comforting it. Danny clenches a fist.
DANNY: We have to get out of here now!
Sam releases the vine and it drops away.
DANNY: Where's everybody else?
Sam snaps her fingers, revealing that the large purple eggs contain their family, friends and other people.
DANNY (mortified) : Our friends? Our families? What are you doing?
SAM: They will be used as nutrients for the children. All that matters now are the children.
As Danny floats, confused on what to do, the ground rumbles. Undergrowth suddenly juts out of the ground and grows to a very large height. He then looks at Danny, and suddenly frowns with a bit distaste.
UNDERGROWTH: And you will make a fine meal for them, too!
He then lifts a hand and swats Danny away. Danny screams and crashes to the ground. But before Undergrowth can counter-attack, Danny soars out of the way.
A fight between Danny and Undergrowth breaks out. But it looks as if Undergrowth and his vegetative minions get the upper hand when Danny is thrown to the ground and several large, thick vines envelope him, tightening their hold on him. Sam drifts over to the scene. But then, unexpectedly, she reels back a little and frowns in slight disgust.
Danny looks at her with confusion at first and then fear.
SAM: You must take root! Become one with us! (suddenly scrunches up her nose and pulls back a bit more)
DANNY (in slight panic) : Stop! Please! Sam, you can't let him win!
A vine suddenly binds his mouth as he is lowered to the ground.
DANNY (yelling) : No! Wait!
Danny tries to talk more, but is finally muffled and he is lowered totally underground.
Sam is still frowning when Undergrowth speaks.
UNDERGROWTH: You have done well, daughter.
Sam reaches up and wipes her nose slightly.
UNDERGROWTH: You shall have the honor of feeding him to the children-when he is ripe.
Sam suddenly scrunches up her faces and then pinches her nose.
SAM (slightly whining in disgust): I think he's pretty ripe right now.
Suddenly, all the vines holding Danny darken and spew him out of the hole that he was just in.
DANNY (cringing after finally noticing the smell): OK, so, I didn't have time to shower after all those exercises with Frostbite! Is that a crime?
BUTCH (groaning and then pinching his nose): CUT…. and hit those showers, Danny!
TAKE SIX
Blooper 189
BUTCH (obviously very tired) : OK, gang, even after all the snags, we've finally made it to last scene. So, let's make this a quick wrap, OK?
The crew nod.
BUTCH: OK, roll it!
Finally, it's the very end of the episode, after Undergrowth is defeated, the plants and vines covering the city die and shrivel away, and all the townspeople are back to normal.
Cut to a field. Sam stands up.
SAM (confused): What happened?
She sticks out her tongue with an expression of disgust. She wipes her mouth with her arm.
SAM: My mouth tastes like I had 9,000 shots of wheatgrass. Without the wheat!
Tucker gets up with one hand on his head.
TUCKER: And I had a nightmare that I was trapped in a giant salad bar! (shudders) Garbanzo beans.
They see Danny walking forward. He is glowing with a heavy blue aura.
DANNY: Hey, are you guys okay?
SAM: Danny, what happened to you?
Danny looks down and concentrates, stopping his blue aura.
DANNY: Let's just say I have a whole new respect for nature.
Danny suddenly lifts his hand and forms an ice crystal the shape of a diamond floating above the palm of his hand.
Sam walks up to him.
SAM (clearly impressed) : Whoa! You can do that now?
The crystal stops floating and falls into Danny's hand. He offers it to Sam.
SAM: (holding up the sparkling crystal, perplexed) What's this for?
DANNY: I'm… glad you're okay.
They bump heads, but suddenly stop when they hear a whirring sound.
Tucker drives up with a giant vehicle a wicked looking rolling cutting device in the front. The sign reads "LAWNS MOWED: $5,000".
DANNY: Tucker, what are you doing? Five-thousand dollars to cut someone's lawn?
TUCKER: All I need is one lawn and we'll be rolling in green stuff!
SAM (irked): Why do I get the feeling I've just done that?
A small rumbling is heard. Undergrowth, in a weed-like form, suddenly pops out from the ground directly under Sam. She pulls away.
UNDERGROWTH: I AM REGENERATING! I will take over- (Screams once he sees Tucker's lawnmower, which successfully runs him over)
But then, Undergrowth pops back up out of the newly mowed ground with a smile on his face.
UNDERGROWTH: Thanks for that terrific back scratch, Tucker!You don't know how itchy regeneration is!
BUTCH (groaning): CUT! I'm going home!
A/N: Well, I don't blame you, Butch, after all that hassle! And I think I'm going to go home, too. WAIT! I AM at home! Ooops! In any case, hope you like it and I also hope you'll push that little blue button below. After all, I will NOT be responsible should Undergrowth pay you a visit if you don't push that button—uh, just for back scratch, of course! Until next time, gang! truephan