Vacation Haunt

Vacation Haunt is the 27th episode of Danny Phantom: The New Adventures.

Summary
When the bus heading to Minnesota breaks down, Danny, Sam, Tucker, Valerie, Mr. Lancer, Ms. Tetslaff, and the rest of the Casper High students have to stay at an old house for the night in order to get it fixed. But, oh dear, things go wrong when the house gets haunted and villain ghosts Vortex, Nocturne, and Undergrowth cause nightmares, create violent storms, possess everyone into zombies, and get revenge on Danny, Sam, and Valerie. Will they stop them before the bus gets fixed by sunup?

Plot
Cold Opening: Sam is excited that the class are on their way to Minneapolis, Minnesota for their week vacation, but she tells Danny that he's not excited, since he's surrounded by so many students, including Valerie. On their way there through a spooky forest with dead trees and thorny bushes, a big storm happens, and a bus's battery overheats, causing everyone to be stranded. Mr. Lancer and Mrs. Tetslaff announce to everyone that they're all stuck somewhere in the haunted forest, after calling the garage to fix the bus. Soon, luckily, Danny points to an old abandoned house somewhere nearby. As Lancer and Tetslaff lead them there, however, Danny's ghost enemies Undergrowth, Nocturne, and Vortex watch them from a distance, realizing that soon they will abduct everyone.

Opening theme

Episode title screen: Vacation Haunt (Caption: A frightening Halloween episode!) (Title screen shows Danny Phantom, Sam (in Danny's arms) and Valerie escaping Undergrowth, Vortex, and Nocturne, with Tucker, Dash, and the students mind controlled by Undergrowth and a thunderstorm created by Vortex)

As everyone inspects a very eerie and abandoned but inviting chalet, (Sam: "Looks like we have an unusual feeling about this place.") they head there for a night's rest. Inside the house, Valerie points out to Paulina that there could be ghosts in there she could hunt down, as Tucker is about to ask Sam if it's scary in there, which he's given the answer when Sam snarls at him wearing fake vampire fangs, causing him to bump right onto Star in front. Star angrily tells Tucker to stop being ridiculous, to which Sam replies that she was having fun with fangs Dora Mattingly denounced during the princess pageant. Lancer and Tetslaff announces that since they forgot to bring their suitcases from the bus which is taken to be fixed, they should have to sleep in bed without their pajamas (luckily Paulina has her night mask in her backpack). Later, Sam, Valerie, Star, and Paulina are about to get ready for shuteye in the master bedroom by the window, while in the other bedroom Dash, Kwan, Tucker, and Danny are about to get some slumber. Each two share one bed each.

Cast

 * David Kaufman as Danny, Walla
 * Grey Delisle as Sam, Walla
 * Rickey D'Shon Collins as Tucker
 * Jason Marsden as Dash, Walla
 * James Sie as Kwan
 * Maria Canals as Paulina, Walla
 * Tara Strong as Star, Walla
 * Cree Summer as Valerie
 * Ron Perlman as Mr. Lancer
 * Laraine Newman as Ms. Tetslaff
 * Mark Hamill as Undergrowth
 * James Garrett as Nocturne
 * Dave Boat as Vortex

Trivia

 * This is the second Halloween episode; the first being "Fright Night". It references the 1979 movie The Amityville Horror, Little Shop of Horrors, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mothra, and The Walking Dead.
 * The scene where a boy runs away from the mind vine until it quickly attaches to his head, making him a zombie is recycled during this episode from last series' "Urban Jungle".
 * Danny's family does not appear, and this episode does not take place in Amity Park like in "Claw of the Wild".
 * Unusual for what Undergrowth did to her in "Urban Jungle", he never possesses Sam Manson to become his evil queen again; instead, Sam, along with Danny Phantom, are later bound together in vines and gagged overnose while suspended upside down above a group of bloodthirsty vampire plants, that wait to devour them.
 * Unlike being shown in Mothra, the vampire plants grow from the ground.