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The Best Episodes of Danny Phantom

Every episode of Danny Phantom ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Danny Phantom!

The Best 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...

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  1. Background image for Fanning the Flames
    8.5/10(342 votes)

    #1 - Fanning the Flames

    S1:E11

    Danny and Sam find their platonic friendship turned forcibly romantic through the musical powers of Ember, a hard-rocking girl ghost who feeds off the idol worship of teens. With her massive, free concert scheduled only a few days away a concert that will be broadcast worldwide and give her ultimate power Sam has to get the now completely and utterly love-addled Danny to focus on fighting ghosts. Even if it means breaking his heart.

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  2. Background image for My Brother's Keeper
    8.3/10(197 votes)

    #2 - My Brother's Keeper

    S1:E9

    Noticing a change in little bro Danny since the accident in the lab, Jazz mistakes his ghost hunting for depression and signs him up for therapy with Penelope Spectra, not knowing that Spectra is a ghost who feeds off teen misery!

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  3. Background image for Maternal Instinct
    8.2/10(172 votes)

    #3 - Maternal Instinct

    S1:E17

    Maddie relishes the chance to bond with emotionally distant Danny at a weekend mother/son science seminar. However, the seminar is a ruse orchestrated by Vlad Masters - a.k.a. Vlad Plasmius, Danny's arch enemy! Vlad's plan is to convince Maddie and Danny to live with him while simultaneously destroying Jack with a massive ghost attack. When Vlad short-circuits Danny's powers, Danny gets to witness Maddie's impressive ghost fighting prowess. Meanwhile, a reluctant Jazz is pressed into ghost-fighting duty with Jack - and likes it, in spite of herself!

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  4. Background image for Bitter Reunions
    8.1/10(200 votes)

    #4 - Bitter Reunions

    S1:E7

    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.

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  5. Background image for Control Freaks
    8.0/10(180 votes)

    #5 - Control Freaks

    S1:E20

    Sam rebels when her overprotective parents forbid her from attending the strange Goth circus that's come to town. Little does she know that the circus performers are ghosts, under the mystical control of the creepy ringmaster named Freakshow, who also uses the ghosts to loot the town. When Danny falls under Freakshow's spell and joins the circus - and the robbery spree - Sam must operate under the radar to destroy Freakshow's magic crystal ball, free Danny and get grounded, big-time.

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  6. Background image for Forever Phantom
    7.9/10(142 votes)

    #6 - Forever Phantom

    S3:E5

    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.

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  8. Background image for Frightmare
    7.9/10(143 votes)

    #7 - Frightmare

    S3:E9

    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.

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  9. Background image for Teacher of the Year
    7.8/10(173 votes)

    #8 - Teacher of the Year

    S1:E12

    Living dual lives as a high school freshman and a superhero is a balancing act for Danny that just got even tougher, with both Lancer and his parents pressuring him to ace a test. At the same time Technus ghost master of technology has escaped into Danny's online game and threatens to flee into the Internet and take over every computer in the world!

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  10. Background image for Public Enemies
    7.8/10(169 votes)

    #9 - Public Enemies

    S1:E15

    Amity Park is thrown into chaos by the town's first mass invasion of ghosts. It's all part of a plan by the Ghost Zone's top Sheriff, Walker, to capture Danny Phantom. As Danny first battles, then befriends, a hulking ghost named Wulf, Walker and his deputies ""overshadow"" most of the people in Danny's inner circle. While eluding attacks from his ghost-fighting parents, Danny defeats Walker and restores calm in the city - but earns the title of ""Public Ghost Enemy #1"" in the process!

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  11. Background image for Phantom Planet
    7.8/10(234 votes)

    #10 - Phantom Planet

    S3:E12

    Danny, after being publicly shamed by Vlad's new ghost hunting team, wants to be normal again. So he gets rid of his powers by reactivating the Fenton Portal after Jack dismantles it for a software upgrade. However, an asteroid made of Ectoranium threatens the Earth, and Vlad - after revealing to everyone that he is Plasmius - fails to stop it. The world now relies on a powerless Danny to get help from the ghosts in the Ghost Zone!

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  12. Background image for Splitting Images
    7.7/10(201 votes)

    #11 - Splitting Images

    S1:E5

    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.

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  13. Background image for D-Stabilized
    7.7/10(133 votes)

    #12 - D-Stabilized

    S3:E11

    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!

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  14. Background image for Prisoners of Love
    7.6/10(173 votes)

    #13 - Prisoners of Love

    S1:E8

    Danny fears he's going to cause his parents' break-up when he knocks Jack's anniversary gift into the Ghost Zone. Desperate to retrieve it, he dives into a ghostly dimension where he runs afoul of Walker, the ghost warden of a ghost jail, and is thrown into prison with every ghost he's ever caught.

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  15. Background image for The Million Dollar Ghost
    7.6/10(169 votes)

    #14 - The Million Dollar Ghost

    S1:E19

    When Vlad Masters' ghost portal explodes, he schemes to replace it by stealing Jack Fenton's portal. As a distraction, Vlad anonymously offers a million dollar bounty to eliminate Danny Phantom. As ghost hunters from around the world gather in Amity Park to hunt the ghost kid, Danny sacrifices himself to Jack - both to win the prize money for Dad and to bolster Jack's inept reputation, which embarrasses Danny. However, when his family's life is put in jeopardy, Jack needs no help from Danny to save the day on his own.

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  16. Background image for Claw of the Wild
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    #15 - Claw of the Wild

    S3:E10

    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!

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  17. Background image for Shades of Gray
    7.5/10(172 votes)

    #16 - Shades of Gray

    S1:E10

    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.

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  18. Background image for Livin' Large
    7.5/10(134 votes)

    #17 - Livin' Large

    S3:E6

    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.

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  19. Background image for Attack of the Killer Garage Sale
    7.4/10(193 votes)

    #18 - Attack of the Killer Garage Sale

    S1:E4

    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.

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  20. Background image for Lucky in Love
    7.4/10(167 votes)

    #19 - Lucky in Love

    S1:E16

    When Paulina witnesses Danny's ghost transformation, he fears the exposure. Imagine his surprise when Paulina swears to keep his secret - then becomes his girlfriend! Life is great for Danny, until he finds out that Paulina has actually been overshadowed by Johnny 13's girlfriend, Kitty, in her plot to make Johnny jealous. Danny reluctantly plays along to protect his own identity, but, when Kitty's welcome wears thin, Danny pleads with Johnny 13 to take her back. When Kitty abandons Paulina's body and goes back to her true love, Paulina resumes her indifference towards Danny Fenton - although she's now madly in love with Danny Phantom!

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  21. Background image for Life Lessons
    7.4/10(160 votes)

    #20 - Life Lessons

    S1:E18

    Danny and Valerie Gray are forced to become ""parents"" to a sack of flour for a one-week school assignment. At the same time Skulker, ghost hunter extraordinaire, decides to pit Valerie and Danny Phantom against each other in a contest - with the winner earning the privilege of becoming his prey. When Skulker's orchestrated contest ends in a tie, he handcuffs Danny and Valerie and hunts them both through the Ghost Zone. In order to survive, Danny and Valerie learn to let go of their mutual dislike and cooperate with each other - which may just affect their relationship in the real world. Or, not.

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  22. Background image for Urban Jungle
    7.4/10(134 votes)

    #21 - Urban Jungle

    S3:E1

    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.

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  23. Background image for Infinite Realms
    7.4/10(137 votes)

    #22 - Infinite Realms

    S3:E2

    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.

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  24. Background image for What You Want
    7.3/10(184 votes)

    #23 - What You Want

    S1:E6

    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.

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  25. Background image for Fright Night
    7.3/10(171 votes)

    #24 - Fright Night

    S1:E13

    In an attempt to beat Dash in a haunted house decorating contest, Danny 'borrows' the enchanted sword of the Spirit of Halloween, the Fright Knight! When the evil, ghostly knight comes to retrieve his magic saber, he decides to stick around long enough to turn the real world into his own stormy realm of terror. Danny Phantom has other ideas, and banishes the Fright Knight to the Ghost Zone.

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  26. Background image for 13
    7.3/10(169 votes)

    #25 - 13

    S1:E14

    When Jazz falls for hunky boy ghost, Johnny 13, who can cast his shadow out and create bad luck for everyone who crosses him - especially the girls he's dating, Danny is forced to behave like an overprotective parent, much to Jazz's dismay.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Fanning the Flames" is the best rated episode of "Danny Phantom". It scored 8.5/10 based on 342 votes. Directed by Wincat Alcala, Butch Hartman, Juli Murphy and written by Marty Isenberg, it aired on 10/8/2004. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "My Brother's Keeper".