History WesternAnimation / PhantomInvestigators

* GadgeteerGenius: Professor Navarro

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Usually between the gang, some small ShipTease moments with Daemona and Casey aside. Most crushes the gang have had were on minor or one-shot characters (Daemona also wrote about having a crush on a boy named Jasper Rusack in "The Fifth PI", however he never appears in the series. It's possible he was from her old school) that never go beyond one episode.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The final episode, "Secrets Exposed!", brings the show in a much darker and serious direction in comparison to the lighthearted tone it carried for most of the episodes. Many fans wonder if the show was going to continue down this route had it been renewed for another season.

->''' ''Phantom Investigators! When the going gets eerier, we get superior!'' '''

The show premiered on May 25, 2002 and became the highest rated show in its 11:30 AM timeslot on Saturday mornings. While it looked like Kids WB had a new hit on their hands, the network was pretty upset over the show eventually slipping in ratings with younger male viewers while it grew with female viewers. This combined with Sony suddenly deciding to stop funding new animated shows (especially with the show's high production cost) [[ShortRunners caused the show to end after thirteen episodes]]. And due to WB's dissatisfaction with it not doing as well in the specific demographic that they wanted, only six episodes aired in the United States, with the show quietly being yanked off the schedule on June 29, 2002. The remaining seven episodes all premiered outside the US on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada and various international feeds of Creator/CartoonNetwork where available. It remains a very obscure series due to its very short run and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes lack of an official commercial release]], but it has its own small following- especially among ''Life With Loopy'' fans that wanted to check out the studio's other work.

!!''Phantom Investigators'' provides examples of:

* BetaBitch: Darnelle from "Stall Of Doom" was this to Yasmine.

* WritersCannotDoMath: At the beginning of "Secrets Exposed!", Daemona was confused about how Professor Navarro knew both of her grandparents, stating that her grandfather died "years before Navarro was even born". It's shown that he died in 1981 and Professor Navarro looked to be in his early-to-mid-twenties and hinted to be already out of college in "Omega Pizza Pi". Assuming the show takes place in it's debut year of 2002, he would've been born around the late seventies and possibly 1980 at the earliest ([[spoiler:however, this was before TheReveal later in the episode that he's a vampire and had stopped aging decades ago]]).

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Terri Chang from "Were-Dog" was this to Casey; in all other episodes she appears in, she's a background character without any dialogue.

* BerserkButton: [[ClothingDamage Wrecking her outfits]] is this for Kira. She even threatened to quit the team due to her dry cleaning bills.

Needs more love.

* ShapeshifterModeLock: In the episode featuring a dog groomer [[HereditaryCurse whose ancestor had been]] [[DisproportionateRetribution turned into a werewolf because he had given the original werewolf a bad haircut]], the groomer bites Casey when Casey is in the form of a dog, forcing him to stay in that form until they manage to cure the groomer. This is further emphasized as Casey trying to go human but the morph fizzling out.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Professor Navarro tells this to Daemona in "Demon Driver" after she downplays her importance to the team, being the only member without powers.

* WorldBuilding: Surprisingly, the show actually had a specific hierarchy of ghosts and monsters to follow, instead of just making it up as each episode went. At one point, the fact that a monster didn't seem to fit into any category was a plot point.

* EnchanceButton: The [=PIs=] can match a fingerprint to a present day picture of Professor Navarro to blown up photo from Daemona's grandparents' yearbook.

* PosthumousCharacter: Mary Prune, Daemona's grandmother. She passed away three years prior to the events of the series, and after Daemona and her parents inherited her house, Daemona also found out her occult books were left to her in her will, and finding her ghost detector and other gadgets was what led to her forming the Phantom Investigators in the first place (according to official press releases as it was only hinted but not confirmed in the show itself). In the final episode, it's revealed that [[spoiler:in the 1950s, she was also part of the Phantom Investigators]], and that [[spoiler:she can contact Daemona from the [=NetherRealm=].]]

** Daemona herself is pretty adorkale, with her being the only member on the team to wear her own costume while on the job (without even having any powers) and her constant attempts at a cheesy [[RhymesOnADime rhyming slogan]] for the team.

** Daemona herself is pretty adorakble, with her being the only member on the team to wear her own costume while on the job (without even having any powers) and her constant attempts at a cheesy [[RhymesOnADime rhyming slogan]] for the team.

* MakeItRot: The MonsterOfTheWeek in "Thank Wad" Is the trash elemental, who's manipulating garbage sprites into cultivating a mold that rots whatever it touches into trash.

* CheatersNeverProsper: The Aesop of "The Fifth PI", with the twist that Daemona never goes through with her plans to look at last year's answers after realizing that would make her NotSoDifferent from the Netherworld HangingJudge the crew faced off against

* JerkJock: Brad from "Birthday Presence"

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They transform every night (at least every night seen in the episode) and some of them can turn dogs into weredogs, which are basically just dogs with a tendency to go berserk under the light of the moon.

* FeudEpisode: "Stall of Doom". For bonus points, making up and apologizing proves key to the resolution.

* FeudEpisode: "Stall Of Doom"

* ShapeshifterModeLock: In the episode featuring a dog groomer [[HereditaryCurse whose ancestor had been]] [[DisproportionateRetribution turned into a werewolf because he had given the original werewolf a bad haircut]], the groomer bites Casey when Casey is in the form of a dog, forcing him to stay in that form until they manage to cure the groomer.

* IKnowMortalCombat: Daemona's driving skills come from video games.

* JustCrazyEnoughToWork: In "Were Dog", giving Lycaos new haircuts so he'll lift the curse.

* ShapeshifterModeLock: In the episode featuring a dog groomer who had been [[DisproportionateRetribution turned into a werewolf because he had given a true werewolf a bad haircut]], the groomer bites Casey when Casey is in the form of a dog, forcing him to stay in that form until they manage to cure the groomer.