History Recap / DannyPhantomS1E1MysteryMeat

--->'''Dash:''' Fenton, a little help?\\

-->'''Dash:''' Fenton, a little help?\\

-->'''Tucker and Sam:''' SO WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?

* NoodleIncident: Apparently, within the past month, Danny's powers caused him to drop so many test tubes that he's been banned from handling science equipment.

* FireForgedFriends: Sam and Tucker put their feud aside and make up once they have more important things to deal with, like helping Danny fight a psychotic, obsessive-compulsive ghost.

* OrderedApology: Danny already was annoyed with Sam and Tucker over the campaigns, but once the Lunch Lady attacks, he finally forces the two to forget the dumb school menu.

14-year-old Danny Fenton -- son of professional ghost hunters, freshman at Casper High in the lovely suburban town of Amity Park -- has gained ghost powers. He can fly, turn intangible, turn invisible, sense when a ghost is nearby, and who knows what else. The problem is he's still having trouble controlling them. And keeping his parents, nosy older sister Jazz, and everyone at school from finding out ("If somebody catches me, I go from geek to freak around here!"). To make matters worse, his best friend -- the {{Goth}} and extreme SoapBoxSadie, Sam Manson -- has convinced the school to switch to a vegetarian menu, something that both his other best friend -- ExtravertedNerd and GadgeteerGenius Tucker Foley -- and the ghost of a lunch lady are ''not'' happy about. It's up to Danny to stop the ghost and save his school... while stopping his friends from fighting, staying under his parents' radar, dodging the persistent school bully Dash Baxter, and serving the punishments handed out by Vice-Principal Lancer for the all the trouble he gets blamed for. Having super powers is a great responsibility, all right.

* BattleDiscretionShot: Danny's very first ghost battle of the series in the ColdOpening is this. The audience only sees him leaping offscreen and the flash of his transformation, followed by the sounds of a fight, with Danny only reappearing onscreen when he changes back to human, keeping the reveal of his half ghost status for the subsequent theme song and episode proper.

* LaserGuidedKarma: While Mr. Lancer turns a blind eye to Dash's antics and punishes Danny and his friends for the food fight the latter started, the JerkJock ''does'' get a comeuppance at the end; while he's laughing smugly at their predicament, Danny retaliates by using his powers to turn the dumpster intangible, burying Dash in the meat.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: "If my dad could invent something that accidentally made me half-ghost, why can't he invent something [[WesternAnimation/PhantomPlanet that turns me back to normal]]?"

** The Lunch Lady's personality, going from a sweet and calm one minute to angry and crazy the next, could be a reference to Annie Wilkes from Stephen King's ''Literature/{{Misery}}''.

* SupernaturalAid: The Fenton Thermos -- Danny's able to defeat the monster once he obtains it (which he wouldn't have done if not for his courage and determination to fight).

* StarterVillain: The ecto-pusses and the Lunch Lady are challenging opponents for the newbie, all right, but they'll seem like child's play before the season is halfway through.

* ParentalObliviousness: Jack and Maddie are professional ghost hunters but are completely oblivious to the fact that their son is now half-ghost. When one of their gadgets designed to detect ghosts actually ''tells them he's a ghost'', they conclude, "That can't be right!" To their credit, they ''do'' eventually suspect one of their children is a ghost... their daughter Jazz.

* MundaneUtility: While fighting the Lunch Lady, Danny uses his powers to catch dishes and safely set them down. He then muses that if being a superhero doesn't work out, he could have an exciting career as a busboy.

* PostVictoryCollapse: Danny's second battle with the Lunch Lady leaves him unconscious, something that will happen less and less as the series goes on.

* PreMortemOneLiner: Parodied when Danny confronts the Lunch Lady the final time.