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"Livin' Large" is the forty-seventh episode in the television series Danny Phantom.

Synopsis[]

The Guys in White buy out Fenton Works, allowing the family to live a life of wealth and luxury. However, Sam and Tucker must convince a now-snobbish Danny to stop the Guys In White from destroying the Ghost Zone (and Earth along with it).

Plot[]

Danny and his friends mull over their tired, hard-working, tedious lives, as they spend so much time between school and hunting ghosts that they have barely any time to enjoy themselves.

They are interrupted when the Guys in White arrive at Fenton Works. The Guys In White apologize to the Fenton parents for their previous labeling of the Fentons as "crackpots," acknowledge their genius, and offer to buy out Fenton Works.

Jack and Maddie Fenton initially decline until they see the enormous check that the Guys in White have for them, after which they immediately accept. Before leaving, a cautious Danny locks the Fenton Ghost Portal with a password so the Guys In White cannot tamper with it.

The Fenton family moves to a lavish mansion, complete with a bigger ghost lab made of solid gold, a huge library, a room full of video games, and even a butler named Hobson.

Their mansion is located right next door to Vlad Masters (who is fully irritated by the Fentons' new wealth). The Fentons all enjoy their new rich life, except Danny, who does not like the Guys in White's constant presence in his new room.

Tucker slowly convinces Danny to relax and enjoy himself, while Sam keeps a constant watch on the old Fenton Works building via Danny's new telescope. Sam sees that the Guys in White are trying to unlock the Fenton Ghost Portal and becomes suspicious.

Jack and Maddie get to work building a new Ghost Portal, using a new drill machine called the "Reality Drill" that supposedly will drill right through to the Ghost Zone. After Danny repeatedly beats Hobson at video games, he rings Tucker to join him, who is disappointed to find out he skipped school to goof off and play video games, especially since they had a test that day. He even blows off Sam and Tucker's recon mission at the old Fenton Works to do some "important things that an old guy can do for him".

The phone call ends when Danny's battery dies and Sam and Tucker sneak into Fenton Works. The Guys In White do whatever they can to deactivate the Ghost Portal's lock all the while wondering why they bought it in the first place. Sam and Tucker sneak into an air vent leading to the lab and discover the Guys in White's true motives: they just wanted Fenton Works for the ghost portal because they are planning to send an anti-ecto missile through the Portal to destroy the entire Ghost Zone. The situation proves to be more dire than the kids initially thought because the Guys in White do not know enough about astral physics to know the catastrophic consequences of removing an entire dimension from a plain of existence (the dimensional structure of said plain of existence becomes unstable and will completely cease to exist as a result). Meaning if they succeed in destroying the Ghost Zone, which is the proverbial flipside to Earth's plane of existence, Earth, along with the rest of the universe, will be gone forever too.

Sam and Tucker try to convince Danny to help stop the Guys in White before they accidentally cause the obliteration of both worlds, but Danny has eschewed hero work in favor of his new wealth and has even replaced his friends with robot doppelgangers.

Sam and Tucker go back to Fenton Works to try to stop the Guys in White on their own, but end up getting captured by the Guys in White. The Guys in White continue to struggle to guess the password to the Fenton Portal's lock.

Danny himself slowly realizes how lonely life is without Sam and Tucker and, with Hobson's advice, runs off to save his friends and the world before it's too late.

He heads down to the mansion's ghost lab to use his parents' drill to get into the Ghost Zone so that he can travel through it to the Fenton Portal and come out right at Fenton Works. However, Danny looks closer and finds a label on the machine indicating that the drill is really only a novelty cappuccino machine with a ton of flashing lights, which in turn makes it a huge waste of time and money on Jack's part.

Danny changes plans and goes straight to Fenton Works, but the outside is heavily guarded by the Guys In White, who become trigger happy the moment they spot him (as he apparently forgot he could turn invisible).

As a last resort, Danny goes to Vlad's manor and uses one of Vlad's portals to get into the Ghost Zone, which is hidden behind a "really big, really ugly" painting.

Danny finally makes it to the Ghost Zone. However, he discovers that he may as well be on the opposite end of a continent (halfway across the zone) when he sees Pariah's Keep. He concludes that if he is going to get to the Fenton Portal in time, he is going to need speed, so he resorts to stealing Johnny 13's motorcycle. He passes by Youngblood, who is dressed up as an astronaut and playfully positioned on a giant slingshot to launch himself "into space".

As the Guys in White trip all over themselves trying to unlock the portal, Sam and Tucker make idiot jokes at their expense. However, Tucker taking the last word indirectly reveals the Ghost Portal's password (Open Sesame), which means certain doom for both worlds.

Back in the Ghost Zone, Danny then rides by Skulker, who is target practicing on his island.

The Guys in white debate whether or not "Open Sesame" is the password since it is totally ridiculous, but remember that they bought the lab from the Fentons. They enter the password and Danny sees the portal opening in the Ghost Zone just as he arrives, much to his horror.

Just as the Guys in White are ready to launch their missile, Danny, Skulker, Youngblood, and Johnny launch a boulder from Youngblood's slingshot into the gateway just before entry. The missile explodes on impact with the stone wall in the lab and covering everything with sticky pink goo (as the missile, too, was only a novelty). Sam comes to the apparent conclusion that something built for destruction in the Ghost Zone's reality just makes a gooey mess in Earth's reality.

Thinking Fenton Works is cursed, the Guys in White free Sam and Tucker, sell Fenton Works back to Jack and Maddie, and flee. The Fenton family agrees on how much the rich life is not suited for their taste and Danny notes that he is kind of looking forward to working hard again. Sam and Tucker say that he can start by helping the two of them clean the anti-ecto goo off of them.

The Fentons call for Hobson, but remember that he came as an accessory to their fancy mansion and he no longer works for them, much to their realization. The episode ends with Danny saying that he already misses being rich and the Tuckbot concussing him with it is headpiece upon informing him that he still has the two of them.

Series continuity[]

  • Sam references her family's wealth, as established in "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale," by warning Danny that money changes people, emphasizing her point by saying, "Take it from me."

Trivia[]

  • Allusions: See List of allusions
  • Goofs: See List of goofs
  • Danny riding Johnny 13's motorcycle reflects Danny's original character concept, where he would have ridden a motorcycle and used gadgets to hunt ghosts instead of having superpowers.
  • Vlad had a minor appearance in this episode.
  • When Jack and Maddie buy back Fenton Works, the giant check they bring with them is for one quintillion dollars. Incidentally, this is more money than there currently is on the whole planet.[1]
  • Butch Hartman's signature can be seen on the hundred-dollar bill in the title card.
    • His initials also appear on the race-car driver's helmet.
  • The password of the Fenton Portal is "Open Sesame".
  • This episode reveals that the Ghost Zone is the flip side of Earth, meaning neither can exist without the other.
  • This is the first and only time Vlad is not in ghost form just human.
  • The title card and the "The End" screen has the same picture.
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References

  1. About $10.5 trillion USD exists as of 2013 (source: http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world.htm)

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Season 1
1. Mystery Meat | 2. Parental Bonding | 3. One of a Kind | 4. Attack of the Killer Garage Sale | 5. Splitting Images | 6. What You Want | 7. Bitter Reunions | 8. Prisoners of Love | 9. My Brother's Keeper | 10. Shades of Gray | 11. Fanning the Flames | 12. Teacher of the Year | 13. Fright Night | 14. 13 | 15. Public Enemies | 16. Lucky in Love | 17. Maternal Instinct | 18. Life Lessons | 19. The Million Dollar Ghost | 20. Control Freaks
Season 2
1. Memory Blank | 2. Doctor's Disorders | 3. Pirate Radio | 4-5. Reign Storm | 6. Identity Crisis | 7. The Fenton Menace | 8-9. The Ultimate Enemy | 10. The Fright Before Christmas | 11. Secret Weapons | 12. Flirting With Disaster | 13. Micro Management | 14. Beauty Marked | 15. King Tuck | 16. Masters of All Time | 17. Kindred Spirits | 18. Double Cross My Heart | 19-20. Reality Trip
Season 3
1. Eye for an Eye | 2. Infinite Realms | 3. Girls' Night Out | 4. Torrent of Terror | 5. Forever Phantom | 6. Urban Jungle | 7. Livin' Large | 8. Boxed Up Fury | 9. Frightmare | 10. Claw of the Wild | 11. D-Stabilized | 12-13. Phantom Planet
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