The WORST episodes of Danny Phantom

Every episode of Danny Phantom ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Danny Phantom!

Danny Fenton was once your typical kid until he accidentally blew up his parents' laboratory and became ghost-hunting superhero Danny Phantom. Now half-ghost, Danny's picked up paranormal powers, but only his sister, Jazz, and best friends, Samantha and Tucker, know his secret. Danny's busy fighting ghosts, saving Casper High and hiding his new identity all while trying to graduate.

Last Updated: 9/21/2026Network: NickelodeonStatus: Ended
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#1 - The Ultimate Enemy! (2)

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/16/2005

Danny's decision to cheat on a test upsets a group of beings in the Ghost Zone called the Observants, who fear Danny has taken the first step to becoming a villain. They send a ghost that controls time to stop Danny's downfall but it seems that only results in bigger problems for Amity Park.

Reign Storm (2)
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#2 - Reign Storm (2)

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/29/2005

Vlad accidentally releases Pariah Dark, the Ghost King, and Danny realizes the only way to defeat Pariah is to use his parents' new invention: an ecto-skeleton battle suit that has one minor flaw---wearing it is fatal.

Reality Trip (2)
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#3 - Reality Trip (2)

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/9/2006

Summer vacation is put on hold when Freakshow kidnaps Danny and his family and friends. He orders them to locate the mystical Reality Gems: the Gem of Life, the Gem of Form, and the Gem of Fantasy for the Reality Gauntlet (with the Power Source) in exchange for their lives, but complications arise when Danny's ghostly secret is accidentally revealed to the entire world, including the Guys in White.

Phantom Planet
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#4 - Phantom Planet

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/24/2007

Danny gives up his powers after a ghost-hunting team formed by Vlad renders him obsolete. But the team ends up charging for its services, and Vlad demands he be named ruler of the Earth in exchange for saving the planet from a wayward asteroid.

Directors: Butch Hartman
Splitting Images
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#5 - Splitting Images

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/23/2004

After a series of humiliating run-ins with Dash, the school bully, Danny uses his powers to get revenge and triggers the ghost of Poindexter, a kid who was shoved in his locker so many times he haunts it to this day. Danny must battle this ghostly defender of nerds and geeks, while proving he's not the bully Poindexter thinks he is.

Claw of the Wild!
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#6 - Claw of the Wild!

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/23/2007

Danny's class goes to a camping trip with Mr. Lancer and Ms. Teslaff to an abandoned place which is seemingly haunted. Soon reports of monster sightings and missing students have the whole camp shook up. Monsters start showing up and disrupting the camping trip. To Danny's surprise, these monsters are ghosts working for Walker, on the hunt for Wulf. Now Danny must save his old friend and his class from Walker!

Boxed up Fury!
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#7 - Boxed up Fury!

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/21/2007

As one of the weakest ghost in the Ghost Zone, the Box Ghost attacks with every "deadly box" he has in the human world, but is easily defeated by Danny. He then makes a plan: he will use "Pandora´s Box", the most powerful box ever created, and will use the evil and deadly powers inside it to attack Amity Park. Now Danny must find the only one able to save the day: Pandora herself!

Torrent of Terror!
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#8 - Torrent of Terror!

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/11/2007

Amity Park is in the midst of a drought, and Mayor Vlad, eager to score points, releases Vortex, the weather ghost, to make it rain. But when Vlad double crosses Vortex, the ghost conjures a storm that threatens to drown the town! As Danny Phantom flies to the rescue, he’s zapped by a lightning bolt. When he comes to, he discovers that his emotions are now directly tied to the weather!

What You Want
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#9 - What You Want

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/30/2004

When wish-granting ghost Desiree gives Tucker ghost powers, Danny finds himself dealing with his friend's jealousy in the worst way possible: by having to fight him.

Writer: Sib Ventress
Attack of the Killer Garage Sale
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7.45
31 votes

#10 - Attack of the Killer Garage Sale

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/16/2004

When Danny sells some of his parents' ghost-hunting junk to make money to buy a cool new outfit, the objects take on a life of their own and go on the attack. Now he must defeat Technus, the Spectral Master of all things technological, without ruining his new duds.

Writer: Sib Ventress
Girls' Night Out!
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#11 - Girls' Night Out!

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/10/2007

After an argument with their respective boyfriends, Spectra, Kitty and Ember join forces and use their powers to make all men vanish. Danny and Jack are fishing in Lake Eerie, the only place on Earth immune to the spell. Sam, Jazz and Maddie must stop the villainesses while Danny is out of town. Unfortuantely for Danny, Skulker is taking more time hunting Danny to prove his girlfriend how great hunter he is. Can Amity Park be saved without its hero?

The Ultimate Enemy! (1)
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#12 - The Ultimate Enemy! (1)

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/16/2005

Danny's decision to cheat on a test upsets a group of beings in the Ghost Zone called the Observants, who fear Danny has taken the first step to becoming a villain. They send a ghost that controls time to stop Danny's downfall but it seems that only results in bigger problems for Amity Park.

Identity Crisis!
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#13 - Identity Crisis!

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/2005

Technus is back! But this is a new and improved Technus, a smoother operator who refuses to shout out his plans. Danny's not worried, especially after he splits himself in two and decides to leave the ghost hunting to his super hero side and allow his teen self some time off to just be "normal." Unfortunately, Danny Phantom, super hero, begins to take his job too seriously and Danny Fenton, average teenager, starts to enjoy slacking off way too much. Meanwhile, Technus electronically infiltrates the Fenton RV -- and, then, all of FentonWorks -- siphoning off the energy to complete his upgrade. It's up to the two Dannys to work together and defeat Technus 2.0 before he drains all the power from Amity Park, and then the world!

Livin' Large
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#14 - Livin' Large

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/2007

The Fentons sell Fenton Works to the Guys in White who plan to destroy the Ghost Zone (unaware that Earth will be destroyed too) with a missile; meanwhile, Danny starts to let the rich life get a hold of him and jeopardize his friendship with Sam and Tucker. Johnny 13 and Youngblood are actually nice to Danny in the Ghost Zone.

Reality Trip (1)
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#15 - Reality Trip (1)

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/9/2006

Danny's dream of a peaceful summer vacation is shattered by Freakshow and his ghost minions, who manage to reveal Danny's true identity before kidnapping his family and friends.

Urban Jungle
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#16 - Urban Jungle

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/2006

The building boom in Amity Park upsets Undergrowth, the ghost of all things plant-like and vegetative. The green-thinking ghost takes over the town, turning everyone into plants themselves. All except Sam, that is, whom he makes his Earth-loving queen. Unfortunately, Undergrowth brainwashes Sam and uses her to attack Danny! Danny, meanwhile, has been battling a nasty case of the chills that leaves him too weak to fight. Escaping from Undergrowth in the Ghost Zone, Danny turns to his cold-loving friend, Frostbite,who explains that Danny is developing a new power. Now, Danny must learn to master his new freezing skill so that he can make his way back to Amity Park and pull the town out of Undergrowth’s leafy clutches.

Infinite Realms
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#17 - Infinite Realms

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/9/2007

After getting lost in the ghost zone, Danny and his friends find in a frozen zone the Infimap, a map that lets the holder to travel everywhere in the ghost zone. After Vlad Masters steals the map, Danny, Sam and Tucker must chase him through different times and places, from Salem to ancient Rome, to get this treasure before he manages to conquer Earth.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Micro Management
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3 votes

#18 - Micro Management

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2006

Although Danny Phantom can perform extraordinary physical feats, Danny Fenton is still something of a weakling. For this reason, Dash is assigned as Danny's "fitness buddy" to help him prepare for the Presidential Fitness Test at school. When Skulker appears at FentonWorks on his usual hunt, Danny Phantom, Dash, and Skulker are accidentally hit with Jack's new "Fenton Crammer," which shrinks them all to a half-inch tall! Worse yet, Danny's ghost powers don't work so well in his tiny form. Now, Danny and Dash must rely on each other's brains and natural physical abilities to get to the FentonWorks Emergency Op-Center and reverse the shrink ray before Skulker and his brand new fully-powered ecto-skeleton catches up to them.

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Shades of Gray
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#19 - Shades of Gray

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/24/2004

When ghosts wreck a popular co-ed's school social life, she dedicates herself to hunting them, which forces Danny to deal with a threat just a few lockers down the hall. Worse yet, Tucker has a crush on the girl.

Writer: Sib Ventress
Watch Now:Apple TV
Bitter Reunions
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#20 - Bitter Reunions

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/7/2004

Danny meets his evil opposite in Vlad Plasmius, a childhood rival of his ghost-hunting dad, Jack. Unfortunately, Vlad acquired ghostly powers 20 years ago, which means he's stronger and more experienced than Danny -- and hell-bent on taking everything away from Jack Fenton including his life.

The Fenton Menace
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#21 - The Fenton Menace

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/7/2005

Danny Fenton is losing his mind! At least, that's what Jazz decides when her little brother starts acting strangely and fighting ghosts that aren't there. In reality, Danny is being tormented by a revenge-seeking Youngblood, who cannot be seen by adults -- or by big sisters who think they're adults. When Jazz sells the family on a ghost-tech-free camping trip, Youngblood follows and unleashes a series of juvenile attacks that make Danny seem even crazier, and put the Fenton family in danger.

D-Stabilized
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#22 - D-Stabilized

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/24/2007

Dani Phantom has finally returned to Amity Park. Having the trouble of dissolving into nothing worst than ever, she seeks the one person who can help her, her cousin and best friend, Danny Phantom! However, Vlad has been keeping track of her since her last appearance and plans to get his "little girl" back, by duping Valerie Gray into doing it for him. After finding Danielle, she uses her to lure Danny into a trap and now she has two Danny Phantoms trapped! Now stuck in the clutches of Valereie Gray, Danny must find a way to escape and save his cousin from being melted to ectoplasm by Vlad!

Frightmare
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#23 - Frightmare

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/22/2007

Danny wakes up wearing a strange headset in the Ghost Zone. He returns to Amity Park and discovers everyone is asleep thanks to the ghost of sleep, Nocturne, who is sucking up their dreams to increase his energy. Danny must wake his friends and sister in order to stop this threat.

Forever Phantom
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#24 - Forever Phantom

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/12/2007

Amorpho, a ghost with morphing abilities, impersonates people and gets them into trouble with it. He then impersonates Danny and both of them must learn the price of fame when a fenton device interrupts some of their powers, preventing Danny from returning to his human self and locking the evil shapeshifter in a shape that calls too much attention: Mr. Lancer's.

Eye for an Eye
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#25 - Eye for an Eye

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/20/2007

Danny and Vlad’s game of revenge against each other begins with childish pranks, and, unfortunately for Danny, ends when Vlad decides to run for mayor of Amity Park! By overshadowing voters, Vlad wins in a landslide. The new mayor is eager to use his new power to make life as miserable as possible for Danny and his friends. He shuts down the Nasty Burger, outlaws technology, creates new school uniforms, and passes so many new laws in the name of “protecting the children” that Danny finds it impossible to go ghost.