- "You Won't Believe Your Eyes!"
Produced 2005, aired in U.S. on 10/7/05
Production order: 26 (2-6)
As Youngblood continues to torment Danny, appearing as if Danny is fighting an invisible enemy and going crazy, Jazz decides a Fenton family vacation with no ghost hunting is the solution.
This episode provide examples of:
- A Day in the Limelight: The episode is narrated by Jazz and mostly told from her point of view.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Deliberately invoked by Danny on Jazz. In order to get her to see Youngblood, he provokes her into throwing a childish tantrum by taunting her and ripping up her Bearbert Einstein teddybear. It works and the two proceed to kick Youngblood's butt.
- Cassandra Truth: Danny tries to tell Jazz that she can't see Youngblood is because only kids can. Her response is a disbelieving glare and trapping him in the RV.
- Chekhov's Gun: Jazz's Bearbert Einstein teddy. Maddie packed it for Jazz to have on the trip, and although Jazz doesn't like being treated like a baby with it, she shows a fondness for it. Later, when Danny taunts Jazz to get her to act like a kid and see Youngblood, he eventually starts torturing Bearbert Einstein in front of Jazz. This eventually gets Jazz to beg Danny to put him down in a pouty tantrum, which finally lets her hear and see Youngblood.
- Continuity Nod: The episode directly follows the events of "Pirate Radio"; in the beginning, Youngblood is still trapped in the ghost shield Tucker turned back on at the end of that episode.
- Don't Ask: When Jack whips a ghost weapon out of nowhere, Maddie demands to know where it came from. Jack awkwardly replies that he'd rather not say.
- "Eureka!" Moment: After Jazz tells Danny to "act his age", Danny shoots back at her maybe she should act her age before realizing the only reason she can't see Youngblood is because she thinks she is an adult.Danny: You're not an adult Jazz. You're a kid just like me.
- Gaslighting: Youngblood effectively does this to Danny by constantly attacking him when only adults (and Jazz, who thinks she's an adult) are around, so everyone thinks Danny's just crazy, and Danny comes to doubt his own sanity.
- Inevitable Waterfall: Youngblood pushes Jack and Maddie's tent into a river which carries them down to a waterfall. Fortunately, Danny catches the tent in time.Jack: We're about to plummet into a white-watery- (jumps out of the tent and lands on solid ground) -doom?
- Meaningful Name: Youngblood mentions that his name comes from the fact that only the young can see him.
- Mocking Sing-Song: When Danny is taunting Jazz.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Youngblood probably would have remained trapped in his ship at the bottom of the sea for a long time yet if Jack and Maddie Fenton hadn't insisted on going ghost-hunting in the sunken ghost ship.
- Not Quite the Right Thing: Jazz is right that their parents aren't giving Danny the support he needs (since Jazz knows he's secretly half-ghost), but her solution of taking him out on a relaxing family vacation without any kind of ghost-fighting weapons or shields (even just to put his mind at ease) isn't helpful either.
- Not So Above It All: Invoked by Danny, who gets Jazz to see Youngblood by getting her to throw a childish temper tantrum by messing with her stuffed bear.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Said word-for-word by Danny when he sees a "cowboy" that nobody else can.
- Only Sane Man: Jazz believes herself to be the only responsible adult in the family, though she concedes by the end that Danny is responsible too.
- Plot Hole:
- Youngblood says that he is invisible to adults and teens who act like adults (like Jazz). This is a Retcon as Mr. Lancer was able to see him in his debut episode (though he could've only seen Youngblood's crew).
- It also seems to be the case with Tucker and Sam, who could see him in his debut episode but never see him here. However, in the hallway at school, Tucker and Sam turn and walk away Just in Time when he attacks, so that it's only Jazz watching Danny fighting what appears to be nothing; and on the sidewalk outside the Fenton house, Jazz happens to be standing in front of them, blocking their sight, so that by the time Danny shouts at Youngblood, the ghost has already ducked around the corner and out of view. So by contrivance it is never confirmed if he is still visible to them or not.
- It's never explained why Danny's ghost sense didn't go off whenever Youngblood was present.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Or sealed evil pirate boy in a sunken ghost ship.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- Youngblood managed to escape from the sunken ship because the Fentons decided to hunt for ghosts in the sunken ship, which disabled the ghost shield.
- Jazz couldn't see Youngblood because she thinks she is an adult. If she had acted her age from the start she would have been able to see him like Danny and Youngblood wouldn't have driven him as crazy as he did. Additionally, Jazz brought up the idea of a vacation away from the lab and all anti-ghost weapons, which only made the family easier targets for Youngblood.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: Youngblood's parrot is now a horse in this episode, indicating that a parrot wasn't his true form and that he can take on any form related to Youngblood's cosplay.
- Wham Line: At the climax, we get this line that indicates that Youngblood's game is up.Youngblood: (Laughing at Jazz's sobbing fit) Man, she's even brattier than I am!
Jazz: Who said that? - Wham Shot: Just before the commercial break, after it seemed like Danny was imagining seeing a ghost for the whole first act, the audience sees Youngblood for the first time in the episode, indicating that Danny wasn't seeing things.Youngblood's Horse: They still think he's crazy?
Youngblood: Yep, and they will...all the way to the bottom of that ravine. - Whole-Plot Reference: The plot of the first Fairly OddParents episode "The Big Problem" also required making someone act like a kid.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Jazz believing herself to be an adult makes her unable to see Youngblood, just like how believing herself to be an adult allowed her to get hypnotized by the same radio frequency that brainwashed all the adults in "Pirate Radio."
