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* PremortemOneLiner: Parodied when Danny confronts the Lunch Lady the final time.
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* PremortemOneLiner: PreMortemOneLiner: Parodied when Danny confronts the Lunch Lady the final time.
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* PremortemOneLiner: Parodied when Danny confronts the Lunch Lady the final time.
-->'''Lunch Lady:''' ''(Seeing the Fenton Thermos in Danny's hand)'' NO! Soup's not on today's menu!\\
'''Danny:''' ''(Defiantly)'' I'm changing the menu...''Permanently!'' ''(Meekly to himself)'' Please work.
-->'''Lunch Lady:''' ''(Seeing the Fenton Thermos in Danny's hand)'' NO! Soup's not on today's menu!\\
'''Danny:''' ''(Defiantly)'' I'm changing the menu...''Permanently!'' ''(Meekly to himself)'' Please work.
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* BattleDiscretionShot: Danny's very first ghost battle of the series in the ColdOpening is this. The audience only sees him leaping offscreen and 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.
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* BattleDiscretionShot: Danny's very first ghost battle of the series in the ColdOpening is this. The audience only sees him leaping offscreen and 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.
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* HesNotMyBoyfriend: When Dash calls Sam Danny's girlfriend, they both rebuff it, thus starting the series long ShipTease between the two.
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: This series-long RunningGag begins when Dash blames Danny's "girlfriend" for changing the menu.
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: This series-long RunningGag begins when Dash blames Danny's "girlfriend" for changing the menu.menu, along with the series-long ShipTease between Danny and Sam.
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-->'''Tucker and Sam:''' SO WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON?
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-->'''Tucker and Sam:''' SO WHO'S WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
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* NeverMyFault: Even after Danny calls him out on it, Tucker believes telling the ghost Sam changing the menu was justified when he starts a meat campaign.
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* NeverMyFault: Even after After stating his carelessness almost got Danny calls him out on it, killed, Tucker believes telling quickly reminds Sam that the ghost Sam changing only reason the Lunch Lady attacked was because she changed the menu was justified when he starts a and took the meat campaign.away, justifying his decision to start a campaign to get it back.
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* MeatVersusVeggies: The main theme of the episode. Sam manages to change the entire cafeteria menu to an "ultra-recyclo vegetarian" one, which consists of grass and topsoil, which infuriates the other students, especially Tucker, who only eats meat. It also enrages the Lunch Lady ghost, who's extremely conservative about the cafeteria menu and makes huge speeches about the importance of meat. Sam and Tucker even organize protests in front of the school defending their positions on the matter.
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* MeatVersusVeggies: The main theme of the episode. Sam manages to change the entire cafeteria menu to an "ultra-recyclo vegetarian" one, which consists of grass and topsoil, which infuriates infuriating the other students, especially Tucker, who only eats meat. It also enrages the Lunch Lady ghost, who's extremely conservative about the cafeteria menu and makes huge speeches about the importance of meat. Sam and Tucker even organize protests in front of the school defending their positions on the matter.
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* MeatVersusVeggies: The main theme of the episode. Sam manages to change the entire cafeteria menu to an "ultra-recyclo vegetarian" one, which consists of grass and topsoil, which infuriates the other students, especially Tucker, who only eats meat. It also enrages the Lunch Lady ghost, who's extremely conservative about the cafeteria menu and makes huge speeches about the importance of meat. Sam and Tucker even organize protests in front of the school defending their positions on the matter.
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* StrawVegetarian: The episode cements Sam's position as an "ultra-recyclo vegetarian". She somehow unilaterally changes the school cafeteria menu to nothing but grass and mud, while getting enraged about this upsetting the other students and the Lunch Lady because she's "thinking like an individual". She also claims that ultra-recyclo vegetarians don't even cook their food, which is far from true regarding real life vegetarians.
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* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Sam and Tucker try to pressure Danny into picking either side in their MeatVersusVeggies quarrel.
-->'''Danny:''' Don't you guys think this is a little extreme?
-->'''Tucker:''' No choice, buddy! You're either with me...
-->'''Sam:''' Or you're against him!
-->'''Tucker and Sam:''' SO WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON?
-->'''Danny:''' Don't you guys think this is a little extreme?
-->'''Tucker:''' No choice, buddy! You're either with me...
-->'''Sam:''' Or you're against him!
-->'''Tucker and Sam:''' SO WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON?
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* BattleDiscretionShot: Danny's very first ghost battle of the series in the ColdOpening is this. The audience only sees him leaping offscreen and 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.
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-->'''Sam:''' Actually, that's topsoil.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* HesNotMyBoyfriend: When Dash calls Sam Danny's girlfriend, they both rebuff it, thus starting the series long ShipTease between the two.
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* 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.
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* SelectiveEnforcement: Mr. Lancer punishes Danny, Sam, and Tucker for the FoodFight, ignoring the fact that Dash started the whole thing by throwing food at Danny in the first place. When Danny points this out, Lancer states that Dash gets a free pass [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections because he's the star quarterback]].
-->'''Danny''': Dash started it! He threw-\\
'''Lancer''': Four touchdown passes in the last game, is thereby exempt from scorn. You two, however, are ''not''.
-->'''Danny''': Dash started it! He threw-\\
'''Lancer''': Four touchdown passes in the last game, is thereby exempt from scorn. You two, however, are ''not''.
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-->'''Danny:''' Maybe because you told the ghost she changed the menu? How about that?!
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-->'''Danny:''' Maybe because you told the ghost she changed the menu? How about that?!'''that'''?!
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* NeverMyFault: Even after Danny calls him out on it, Tucker believes telling the ghost Sam changing the menu was justified when he starts a meat campaign.
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-->'''''"All New! In Terrifying Meat-Vision!"'''''
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* GranolaGirl: Sam to a ludicrous extent; she's such a big vegetarian she literally eats ''grass and mud'', and forces the rest of the school to do the same by relentlessly bugging the administration until they agree.
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* FoodFight: Danny starts one to create a [[WeNeedADistraction distraction]].
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* FoodFight: Danny starts one to create a [[WeNeedADistraction distraction]].distraction]] so he can sneak off to fight the Lunch Lady.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Dash takes it out on ''Danny'' when Sam's menu change results in him getting literal mud pies.
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* ShoutOut: Danny's school is named after ''WesternANimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' and his hometown after ''Franchise/{{Amityville}}''. Given that Butch Hartman pitched the show as "''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''," the wealth of Shout Outs to ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' in the first episode alone are hardly surprising:
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* ShoutOut: Danny's school is named after ''WesternANimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' and his hometown after ''Franchise/{{Amityville}}''. Given that Butch Hartman Creator/ButchHartman pitched the show as "''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''," the wealth of Shout Outs to ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' in the first episode alone are hardly surprising:
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* ShoutOut: Danny's school is named after ''WesternANimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' and his hometown after ''Franchise/{{Amityville}}''. Given that Butch Hartman pitched the show as "''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''," the wealth of Shout Outs to ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' in the first episode alone are hardly surprising:
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* ShoutOut: Danny's school is named after ''WesternANimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' and his hometown after ''Franchise/{{Amityville}}''. Given that Butch Hartman pitched the show as "''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' [[XMeetsY [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''," the wealth of Shout Outs to ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' in the first episode alone are hardly surprising:
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Dash is furious at Sam for changing the menu, but instead of going after her, he goes after the guy he thinks is her boyfriend.
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* SplitPersonality: The Lunch Lady shifts between a calm, sweet old woman and a furious, hulking monster with flaming red eyes.
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* 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).
* ThresholdGuardian: The Lunch Lady functions as this -- once Danny figures out how to defeat her, he's able to assume his proper role and proceed on his journey of becoming a hero.
* ThresholdGuardian: The Lunch Lady functions as this -- once Danny figures out how to defeat her, he's able to assume his proper role and proceed on his journey of becoming a hero.
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** Sam and Tucker each respectively bear a strong resemblance (physically and in personality) to [[WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters]] Kylie Griffin and Roland Jackson.
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** Being turned half-ghost by an explosion also happened to Egon Spengler in the episode "Egon's Ghost":
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** The Lunch Lady does with meat what the ghost in the ''Real Ghostbusters'' episode "Station Identification" does with television sets -- turns into a giant meat/electronics monster by surrounding themselves with the stuff, forming a giant battle suit. The materials swoop in around them in the exact same manner.
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* InMediasRes: There's no SuperHeroOriginStory episode -- the FreakLabAccident that gave Danny his powers happened a month ago. The series begins with the first ghost he fights and his decision to use his powers to catch evil ghosts.
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Danny has gained his ghost powers and is still learning how to use them properly as he has trouble controlling it. The powers he has trouble controlling are invisibility and intangibility. At the same time, Sam manages to get the school to change the menu that suits her vegetarian style. This resulted of the ghostly lunch lady appearing.
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14-year-old Danny Fenton -- son of professional ghost hunters, freshman at Casper High in the lovely suburban town of Amity Park -- has gained his ghost powers 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 learning how to use them properly as he has having trouble controlling it. The powers he 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 trouble controlling are invisibility and intangibility. At the same time, Sam manages to get convinced the school to change the menu that suits her switch to a vegetarian style. This resulted of menu, something that both his other best friend -- ExtravertedNerd and GadgeteerGenius Tucker Foley -- and the ghostly ghost of a lunch lady appearing.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.
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-->'''Danny:''' What happened?
-->'''Tucker:''' You passed out. We took you home. You've been asleep for four days.
-->'''Danny:''' Four days?!
-->'''Tucker:''' ''(laughs)'' [[SubvertedTrope Nah, it's only been a couple hours]].
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
-->'''Jazz:''' ''(to her parents)'' You've ambushed me, suffocated me with smoke, and worst -- I was pulled away from Spike ''before he had his breakthrough!''
* ChekhovsGun: The Fenton Thermos, which Danny retains for the rest of the series.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: After capturing the Lunch Lady, Danny decides, "I think I've finally figured out what these powers are for..." and begins his career as a ghost-fighting super hero.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: According to Dash, it seems to be common knowledge among the Casper High student body that JustFriends Danny and Sam are a couple.
* 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.
* FoodFight: Danny starts one to create a [[WeNeedADistraction distraction]].
* {{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]]?"
* GroupHug: Danny has Sam and Tucker do this to hide him while he transforms.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Danny is still getting the hang of flying, turning intangible, and even transforming, often falling out of the sky or phasing through walls without meaning to.
* InMediasRes: There's no SuperHeroOriginStory episode -- the FreakLabAccident that gave Danny his powers happened a month ago. The series begins with the first ghost he fights and his decision to use his powers to catch evil ghosts.
* InsistentTerminology:
-->'''Tucker:''' Thanks again for making us eat garbage, Sam!
-->'''Sam:''' It's not garbage -- it's recyclable organic matter.
-->'''Tucker and Danny:''' It's garbage.
* {{Masquerade}}: Danny struggles to keep his powers a secret because he doesn't want to look like a freak. He doesn't tell his parents because, like a typical teenager, he doesn't think they'd understand.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
-->'''Tucker:''' We've gotta find Sam. For some reason, I feel like ''I'' got her kidnapped...
-->'''Danny:''' Maybe because you told the ghost she changed the menu? How about that?!
* 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.
* PostVictoryCollapse: Danny's second battle with the Lunch Lady leaves him unconscious, something that will happen less and less as the series goes on.
* SeriousBusiness: The Lunch Lady
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: This series-long RunningGag begins when Dash blames Danny's "girlfriend" for changing the menu.
-->'''Danny:''' ''(surprised)'' She's not my ''girlfriend''.
-->'''Sam:''' ''(annoyed)'' I'm not his girlfriend!
* ShoutOut: Danny's school is named after CasperTheFriendlyGhost. Given that Butch Hartman pitched the show as "''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''," the wealth of Shout Outs to ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' in the first episode alone are hardly surprising:
** The Fenton Thermos is a cylindrical Ghost Trap.
** The Fenton Finder has a similar design and the exact same function as a [=PKE=] meter.
** Just like their predecessors, Jack and Maddie became professional ghost hunters despite the fact that, prior to the events of this episode, they've never seen a ghost.
** Sam and Tucker each respectively bear a strong resemblance (physically and in personality) to [[WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters]] Kylie Griffin and Roland Jackson.
** Being turned half-ghost by an explosion also happened to Egon Spengler in the episode "Egon's Ghost":
--->'''Egon:''' It would seem that the energy backlash has completely destabilized my molecular structure.
--->'''Peter:''' In other words... you're a ghost!
--->'''Egon:''' Not technically, since I'm still alive, but for all practical purposes -- yes.
** For now, except for the ability to fly, Danny has the same powers Egon did. Intangibility and invisibility you'd expect; one power, however, stands out in particular.
--->'''Egon:''' Put that away, Ray -- you won't need it. I can sense where the ghost is.
* 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.
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