Danny | And I thought the merchandise is flying off the shelves is just an expression. (Comes in and fires a couple of ecto-blasts at them.) |
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Four ghosts appear as they are zapped, two male and two female. | |
Danny | Woah! Who are you guys? |
One male, a dwarf, jumps on Danny's shoulders and pulls on his mouth then covers his eyes. | |
Danny | Hey! I'm not a hat person! Especially if the hat is a dwarf! (throws dwarf ghost off) |
Dwarf crashes into a case and sets off the alarm, Danny tries to leave and runs into the other male, who is much MUCH larger. | |
Danny | Okay, all things considered, maybe the tiny hat guy was better. |
Large ghost grabs Danny with one fist and throws him toward a female, eye-patched, who stretches herself across two columns, making slingshot across the room.
Danny opens his eyes and the other female, a tattooed ghost, reveals herself to be covered in tattoos, which come alive and attack Danny. Danny powers up and fires and ecto shock wave that blows all the tattoo creatures into the other ghosts. | |
Danny | You know, it's ghosts like you that give ghosts like me a bad name. |
Cop 1 | Freeze Inviso-Bill! |
Danny | Although it's hard to come up with a worse name than that. (phases through the floor, leaving the jewelry on the floor) |
Cop 2 | Hey. Want to take this stuff and blame the ghost kid? |
Cop 1 | (sigh) You're under arrest. |
Cop 2 | Awww... |
Theme song | |
Sam is sleeping soundly until a shaft of light hits her face. | |
Mrs. Manson | Good morning, sunshine! And how do we great the brand new day? |
Mr. Manson | With a smile on your face and an attitude of gratitude! |
Sam | (groans and wraps pillow around head) I'm a creature of the night doomed to a family of morning people. |
Mrs. Manson | Uh, Sam, sweetie, I thought maybe we'd try to mix it up a little with wardrobe today. (produces pink sun dress with yellow floral print) |
Mr. Manson | Nothing says "Hey world, look at me!" like floral prints. |
Sam | Okay, but I need to add just one little personal touch. |
Sam produces can of spray paint and scissors, sprays the dress black, making it look now like a funeral dress, and cuts the skirt part much shorter. | |
Woman on TV | Up next, is your teenage daughter moody, surly, is her outlook on life blacker than her eyeliner? |
Sam blinks and glances at her parents, who glare suspiciously at her. | |
Woman on TV | Take an active interest in your child. Know who her friends are. Learn to recognize a bad influence when it walks in your door. |
Danny comes in through the door with CDs. | |
Danny | Hey Sam, I got that Morbid Anti-social Youth CD you wanted. |
Sam's parents glare at Danny. | |
Danny | What? Have you heard "My Parents Reek"? That cut rocks! |
They glare more. | |
On TV, there's a red spiral shown and Freakshow comes on. | |
Freakshow | I... am Freakshow, ringmaster of the Circus Gothica... |
Skeleton is shown juggling skulls. | |
Freakshow | ...where your nightmares come alive. Circus Gothica... |
Gloomy/scary clown with sharp teeth is shown, howling with demented laughter, but while (still) frowning. | |
Freakshow | ...where the clowns never smile. |
Heavily pierced man in an iron mask is shown. | |
Freakshow | Circus Gothica. Come and get your freak on... with real freaks. Circus Gothica! Coming to Amity Park. Cross over... to the dark side. (wields staff with glowing red orb) |
Danny | (trance-like) Cross over to the dark side... (eyes glow) |
Mrs. Manson | (turns off TV) Now there's some evil mind pollution we won't be seeing any time soon, sweetie. |
Sam | But we already bought our tickets. |
Sam's parents raise eyebrows. | |
Sam | (exasperated sigh) We'll be fine, it's just harmless entertainment, right Danny? |
Danny | Cross over to the dark side... |
Sam | Hilarious. Can we leave now, or do you want to stay and corrupt my grandma? (pulls Danny out door) |
Jack | (trance-like) Cross over to the dark si-i-ide. |
Maddie | I'm just kidding, lighten up! |
Sam | Will you quit messing with my parents? That's my job! |
Danny | (blinks) What? Um, sorry, Sam, musta got a little spacey. (rubs head) I was up pretty late last night. |
Sam | Just watch what you saw around them, they already think I'm on the road to troubled teenhood. (begins walking) |
Danny | Where are you going? School's this way. (points back) |
Sam | The circus Gothica Train pulled into town last night, I'm cutting first period to watch the opening ceremony at the train station. |
Danny | Sam... |
Sam | Take it easy, Tucker's got first period free, he's covering for me. |
Tucker is dressed in drag, finishing the final touches to his Sam costume. | |
Tucker | This is so wrong. (looks at money in hand) But you make it right. |
Sam runs off. | |
Danny | Don't blame me if you get caught! |
Danny's Ghost Sense goes off and he turns to see the dwarf ghost running with a heavy bag. | |
Danny | And speaking of getting caught. (looks up to see the rest of the ghosts, also carrying bags) I'm goin' ghost! |
Danny leaps onto trashcan, then a truck, then into the air, goes ghost, and chases after the ghosts as the cops catch up to them. | |
Danny | Opening a new bank account? Don't forget your free toaster! (fires ecto blast which knocks the money sack out of the dwarf's hands) |
The sack lands on a cruiser, causing it to swerve into a fire hydrant. | |
Cop | Curse you, ghost kid! |
Danny | Oh Great, More Fans. Terrific. The Crooks Got Away. Danny’s Late For School & Danny Has Never Seen So Many Goths Out In Broad Daylight. |
Sam | Well, look who decided to slum it with the troubled teens. |
Danny | (lands) What? I'm not in trouble. |
Sirens are heard approaching. | |
Sam | Oh yeah, you're an upstanding citizen. Need to hide from the law? |
Danny | (goes invisible) No. |
Danny jumps behind a bunch of iron drums and de-ghosts. He and Sam whistle nonchalantly as cops go by. | |
Cop | Come back here, Inviso-Bill! |
Freakshow | Greetings, fellow outcasts. I am Freakshow, your master of ceremonies. Are you ready to smile, relax, and forget all your troubles amid the pleasant diversions of the circus? |
Jack | No! |
Maddie | (walks amid the crowd) Then you've come to the right place! Prepare to be disturbed and appalled by a small sample of the bizarre and abnormal world of Circus Gothica. (gestures back to the train car) |
Sam | This is the greatest moment ever. Nothing could ruin this for me! |
Tucker | (over megaphone) Parents of Amity Park! |
Danny | A large protest crowd has gathered behind the Mansons. |
Jack | We urge you to boycott this morbid assault on the morals of our children! |
Sam | What are they doing here?!? Why can't they have day-jobs like regular parents?!? |
Freakshow | (leaps upon a crate above the crowd) Don't let the rantings of the closed-minded norms beat you down. Show them your true colors! And when I say "colors", I mean "all black". Make them see you for who you are. |
Danny | Make them see us for who we are... (eyes turn red) Hey everyone! (waves arms) Over here! We're Danny Fenton and Sam Manson! We cut school and we're proud of it! |
Goth boy | (sprays Danny's shirt black) You're one of us, now. |
Danny | Sam? |
Principal Ishiyama | Some might call this little act of rebellion a cry for attention, but I call it a cry for detention. (chuckles) Isn't that clever? |
Sam | Nice job, Danny. Maybe I should have cried "Hey! It's Inviso-Bill!" |
Danny | I'm sorry! I don't know what came over me back there. |
Jack | Bad judgment, that's what! Next time, think before you act! |
A small gun on Jack's arm engages and squirts ecto goo all over the Mansons. | |
Sam | ...Obviously, the apple doesn't fall very far from the over-bearing, orange-jump suited tree! |
Jack | YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH JUMP SUITS? |
Maddie | Jack, let me handle this. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH JUMP SUITS? |
Tucker | Samantha, I forbid you from seeing this boy or any of your other troubled friends. |
Sam | My friends are perfectly normal! |
Principal Ishiyama | This is so wrong. |
That night, at the Circus Gothica fairgrounds. | |
Freakshow | Slaves! Center ring! |
The tall man in the skeleton costume pulls off the outfit. It's actually the dwarf ghost on stilts. The juggling man becomes the large ghost. The spider woman leaps down and is the eye-patched ghost. The heavily pierced woman reveals herself to be the tattooed ghost. | |
Freakshow | For generations my family has controlled ghosts with this; (holds up staff) untold power and all they could think to do was to entertain the masses, whereas I have found a much more profitable use for you minions. (digs through chest of gold/money) And as soon as the newest member of our cast joins us, this entire town will be mine for the taking. |
Sam | (holds up Circus Gothica ticket) I wanted to experience something horrific and unimaginable. (watches Lancer clip his toe nails) This isn't what I had in mind. |
Danny | We can always go to the circus tomorrow. That is, assuming we're not grounded and your parents let me within two-hundred feet of you. |
Tucker | (hiding PDA behind a book) Guess we'll have to settle for the live web-cast of opening night. |
Freakshow appears on Tucker's PDA. | |
Freakshow | Creatures of the night, unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica! |
Danny | Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica... (walks towards the door) |
Sam | (jumps in front of Danny) And just where do you think you're going, Mr Fenton? |
Danny | (overshadowing Lancer) Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica... (walks into janitor closet) |
Lancer | Cask of Amontillado! (bangs on door) Let me out, let me out! |
Sam | Danny, what are you doing? We're in too much trouble as it is! |
Danny | No such thing as too much trouble. Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica. (phases through ceiling) |
Tucker | Man. We better follow him. |
Sam | (sarcastic) Oh no! But that would mean skipping detention and going to the circus! (notices Tucker's stare) Hello? Irony. (grabs Tucker and runs off) |
Dusk, Circus Gothica big top. | |
Freakshow | Please welcome a performer who puts the "death" in "death-defying acts".... the Grim Reaper himself! (gestures to high wire) |
A hooded figure wielding a scythe glides across the wire, causing gasps of shock, then balances on the blade, causing cheers.
Outside, Sam enters the big top by the "Cast Only" entrance. | |
Freakshow | What are you doing back here? |
Sam | Woah! Freakshow! This is so cool! Focus.. Uhm, I'm looking for a friend of mine who was acting kinda weird. |
Freakshow | Oh, that narrows it down to, oh, everyone in this tent! HA-HAW! |
The hooded figure approaches. | |
Freakshow | What are you doing, dolt?!? Get back out there and do your encore! |
The hooded figure pulls back their hood and is revealed to be Danny. | |
Danny | Sam? |
Freakshow | What's that? Was that---was that free will? (holds staff higher) Obey me, minion! |
Sam | What? You're controlling him? |
Freakshow | Get her. |
Danny raises scythe and Sam screams.
Center ring | |
Freakshow | Please welcome a brand new vict-- talent to the high wire in her first....and final...performance. (gestures to the high wire) |
Sam is perched precariously on the wire with a blindfold on that Danny slices off. Sam looks down and almost loses her balance. | |
Tucker | (runs in) Sam? |
Sam | Danny, listen, you don't wanna do this! You're being controlled! |
Danny raises his scythe and cuts the wire with an evil laugh. Sam screams as she falls and Danny returns to normal, leaping down and saving her. The crowd cheers. | |
Sam | Danny, don't scare me like that! |
Danny | (controlled again) How should I scare you? (backs off) |
Freakshow | Consider that a warning, girl. (walks off) |
Tucker | Jeez, Sam, you nearly gave me a heart-attack! Can we take time off from your gothapalooza and actually look for Danny? |
Sam | That was Danny, under the hood, Freakshow's controlling him with some kind of crystal ball! C'mon! (runs out) |
Danny | Sam! Shouldn't you be in detention? |
Sam | Umm... Lancer let us out? |
(School) | |
Lancer | Let me out! |
(Circus Gothica) | |
Maddie | Are we late for the protest? |
Jack | I brought the Fenton Riot Gear. |
Sam | What? I didn't invite them. |
Jack | (notices Sam and Tucker) Hey, isn't Danny supposed to be with you? |
Danny | Not according to this restraining order he's not. |
Maddie | Well he's not here and he's not at school, so where is he? |
Danny | Ecto-butts in gear! |
Danny fires ecto blasts at the ghosts' rears, causing them to cry out. The ghosts fly off. | |
Danny | This party's just getting started! (follows) |
Police cars come flying up the road. | |
Danny | Oh please! (fires ecto blast at the cars' tires) |
TV News | |
Tiffany Snow | In the wake of parental protest, Circus Gothica ringmaster Freakshow had this challenge to his critics: |
Goes to Freakshow, standing in front of angry mob. | |
Freakshow | I invite you to attend a free performance for parents, police, and concerned authority figures. See the show and see for yourselves that we're harmless entertainment. |
Cuts back to the woman | |
Tiffany Snow | In other news, police got a break in the recent rash of mysterious burglaries as security cam footage revealed the ghostly culprits. |
Goes to security camera footage of Freakshow's ghosts and Danny stealing money. Danny sees the camera and blasts it. | |
Tiffany Snow | And finally, have you seen this out-of-shape teacher? |
Goes to picture of Mr Lancer with 'MISSING' across the bottom of the screen. | |
Tiffany Snow | He was last sighted in the Casper High School library-- |
TV switches off. Sam is sitting on her bed with her laptop by her. Tucker comes on screen. | |
Tucker | Sam, didja catch the news? We gotta do something to save Danny! |
Sam | How ironic is it that I'm stuck under house arrest while my parents go to a free Circus Gothica show?! |
Tucker | Only slightly less ironic than the fact that they were right about it being evil. |
Sam drops a rope ladder outside her window and crawls out. On the ground, she runs into her grandmother. | |
Grandma Manson | And just where do you think you're going, bubbala? |
Sam | You don't understand grandma! My friend is in trouble, and if I don't do something right away-- |
Grandma Manson | Ya know, I had a wild streak when I was your age. |
Grandma Manson pulls out photo album and shows Sam a picture of herself when she was young. She's riding a scooter. | |
Sam | Why are you showing me this? |
Grandma Manson | Who knows? Maybe I'm old and babbling, or maybe you should sneak out and help your friend while I'm lost in my memories. |
Sam smiles and kisses her grandmother on the forehead, then runs away. | |
Grandma Manson | (takes off clothes, revealing clothes like Sam's) This is so wrong... (puts on wig like Sam's hair) But I dig it! |
Circus Gothica big top | |
Mrs. Manson | (writing on clipboard) I'm keeping a detailed list of anything I find objectionable, immoral, or obnoxious. |
Jack spits soda/popcorn all over them. | |
Mr. Manson | He on the list? |
Mrs. Manson | Right now, he is the list. |
Outside
Sam is sneaking about the grounds when a bat-shaped shadow falls on her. She hides under the train. | |
Tucker | Sam? |
Sam | Tucker? |
Tucker | (ducks to see her) Hey Sam. Is this a great Circus Gothica hat or what? (points to bat on beret) |
Sam gets up and slaps the bat away, mad. | |
Tucker | I'll take that as an "or what." |
Sam and Tucker jump on the train and go in through a top hatch in the caboose. They land in piles of gold, money, jewelry, paintings, etc. They look around and see Freakshow's staff. | |
Sam | There's the crystal ball! Let's grab it and-- |
Suddenly Sam and Tucker are blasted out of the caboose. Danny emerges with Freakshow. The train whistle sounds and the train pulls away. | |
Sam | Danny! No! |
Freakshow | Yes, yes, please scream. A shame anyone who might help you is busy enjoying my free show. HAAAH! |
Tucker and Sam chase after the train.
Back in the big tent. The tattooed ghost phases through the top and releases her tattoos upon the crowd. The crowd screams in terror. | |
Jack and Maddie | GHOSTS! |
Mr. Manson pulls back the tent flaps in an attempt to leave and come against a brick wall. | |
Mr. Manson | We're trapped! |
Mrs. Manson | Okay, that's objectionable, immoral, and obnoxious. (writes down on clip board) |
Outside, Sam and Tucker look down upon the train from an overpass. | |
Sam | We have to jump. |
Tucker | You crazy? I can't jump. |
Sam | And I can't abandon Danny. |
Sam and Tucker hold hands and jump together onto the train. They land and fall on their stomachs. | |
Sam | Plus, I'll never hear the end of it if my parents learn they're right about him being evil. |
Jack | Stand back everyone! |
Guns/phasers emerge from various parts of the Fentons' suits and fire in every direction while they make action poses. All of the tattoos are destroyed and the tattooed ghost is knocked away. Maddie lands in front of the Mansons. | |
Maddie | I ask you once again; YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH JUMPSUITS?! |
The Mansons grin nervously and hold their hands up.
Sam and Tucker run along the train cars towards the front. Inside, Freakshow and the three remaining ghosts hear their footsteps. | |
Freakshow | What are you waiting for? GO! |
The ghosts phase up in front of Sam and Tucker, and Danny phases up behind them. | |
Sam | Danny, it's us, Sam and Tucker! You're best friends, remember?! |
Danny | (blinks) Tucker? Sam? I.. I.. |
Sam and Tucker smile hopefully. | |
Danny | (shaking) I... (eyes glow) ..am a.. ghost. I have no friends. |
Freakshow is now on top with them. | |
Freakshow | Don't waste your breath, children. He's under my control now. |
Mr. Manson | We owe you Fentons a debt of gratitude and an apology! |
Jack | Save it for the bake sale, Thurston. We need to bust out of this tent! |
Mr. Manson | Leave it to us! |
Mrs. Manson | If there's one thing we Mansons know how to do, it's whip and angry mob of parents into a frenzy. |
Soon, the crowd explodes out of the big top. | |
Jack | Saddle up the Fenton RV! We'll head those spooks off at the pass! |
On top of the train | |
Freakshow | Don't just stand there, finish them! |
The train approaches some scaffolding. | |
Tucker | Maybe you should try holding that thing up a little higher. |
Freakshow raises staff and it is knocked out of his grasp as the train passes under the scaffolding. Tucker makes a grab for it but misses and it lands in Danny's hand. | |
Tucker | Way to go man! (walks up to Danny, hand raised) Now gimme five! |
Danny raises his hand and knocks Tucker away with a blast. Tucker hits the large ghost and is grabbed. | |
Freakshow | Very good, drone. Now, bring me my staff. Come on, bring it (makes kissing noises as if calling a dog over) |
Danny looks uncertainly at the staff. | |
Sam | Fight it Danny! He's not holding the crystal ball anymore, you are! |
Freakshow grabs Sam and throws her aside, causing her to nearly fall off. | |
Freakshow | Silence! Obey me, ghost! Give me my staff. Come on. (makes kissing noises as if calling a dog over) |
Danny looks uncertain again. | |
Sam | I saw you up on that high wire, you were fighting him the whole time! Fight him now, Danny! You're not just a ghost! Fight him! |
Danny | (groans) Quiet! (holds head) All of you! I need to think! |
Freakshow | Stop her! Now! |
The train crosses onto a bridge, with a gorge below. | |
Sam | Well, it's the crystal ball or your friend, Danny, your choice! *backs away from the approaching ghosts and accidentally backs off the train* I didn't mean that to be so literal!! (screams) |
Tucker | Sam! No! |
Danny | Sam? SAM! |
Danny jumps after her, letting go of the staff as he races after her. He catches her and brings her back up while the staff smashes on the ground below. Danny's eyes turn back to green. | |
Sam | Danny.. are you okay? |
Danny | I think so. It's all a blur. I did some bad stuff, didn't I? |
Sam | Nothing you can't fix. |
They land back on the train. | |
Tucker | Good. Now maybe you can convince Tiny here to let go of me? |
The three ghosts' eyes also go back to normal. | |
Eye-patched ghost | H-huh? Where are we? |
Dwarf ghost | Are we free? Finally free? |
Danny | Only one way to find out. |
The ghosts and Danny gang up on Freakshow, grab him, and phase into the train. | |
Freakshow | Okay, uh, when I called you, er, "minions," it was really a-a term of endearment like-like "I love my minions!" |
Danny | You wanted a big haul? Try this on for size! |
Danny blasts the boxes/bags of gold/money above Freakshow and causes them to fall on him. | |
Freakshow | Gah! Oh! That.. quite.. smarted.. |
The train pulls to a stop in front of/among police cruisers that have blocked the track. | |
Danny | So, what d'ya say we stick around and explain to the cops we were being controlled by an evil ringmaster? |
The ghosts phase out of the train. | |
Danny | Ya know, I had a feeling that would be their answer. (phases out as well) |
The cops bust down the door and Freakshow grins innocently. A cop shoves Freakshow into the cruiser. | |
Jack | Nice work, kids. You caught that weirdo goth punk thief red-handed! |
Mrs. Manson | I'm just happy you're all safe! |
Mr. Manson | More than safe, they're heroes! |
Maddie | We're so proud of you. |
Jack | But you're all still grounded! |
Tucker | Grounded, shmounded! (points at Sam) This is cruel and unusual punishment! |
Sam | (wearing the sundress from earlier) I know, but it was the only way I could convince them to lift their restraining order on Danny. |
Danny | At least Freakshow is in custody and the stolen goods were returned. |
Tucker | So why do I feel like we're forgetting something? |
Jack | (banging on door) Waiting for Godot, is anybody out there?! (sobbing) This is so wrong! |
Maddie | See Ya Monday. |
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