Poltergeeks

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"Poltergeeks"
Season	7
Episode	27
Production code	114B
Copyright year	2009
Airdate	April 1, 2010 October 11, 2010 November 22, 2010 May 19, 2011 June 10, 2011 August 15, 2011 September 3, 2012 August 21, 2016 (Channel 5 UK)
Wish	Timmy's fairies to pose as ghosts so Timmy's parents can hunt them
Credits
Written by	Ed Valentine
Storyboard by	Fred Gonzales Greg Rankin
Director(s)	Ken Bruce
Art Director	George Goodchild
Music Director	Guy Moon
Merchandise
DVD Release(s)	Season 7 Fairly Odd Getaways
iTunes	Buy Here
Episode Chronology
Previous	Beach Blanket Bozos
Next	Old Man and the C-

Poltergeeks is the twenty-seventh episode of Season 7.

Plot

Timmy has Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof pose as ghosts so that his parents can re-live their glory days as ghostbusters.

Synopsis

As the episode starts, Dad and Mom are completely bored, so bored in fact that the roast pig that Mom made runs off.

The actual episode really starts in Timmy's room. Timmy wishes for a sub sandwich, so Cosmo poofs up a sandwich with a submarine inside and eats it. Wanda warns him that it will give him a stomach ache. Later that night, Cosmo sleep floats with the sub periscope in his ear and a blanket over his body, so Mom and Dad think he is a ghost. After Wanda and Poof (also disguised as ghosts) take Cosmo away, Mom and Dad decide that they're no longer bored and that it's time for the Polter-Geeks. They then explain to Timmy that before he was born, they had a life as ghost hunters. Dad then shows him a VHS tape from the 80s. It seems that they operated by blowing up a house they think is haunted, resulting in them destroying pretty much all of Dimmsdale. Chet Ubetcha then called an angry mob and expelled them from Dimmsdale, or at least chased them half way across town. They moved to the other side of the city and changed their names; Dad used to be called Mom and Mom used to be called Barnaby. Convinced that there are ghosts in the house, they decided to blow it up. Timmy, however, tries to convince them to catch the ghosts instead. Timmy then asks his fairies to play along to keep the house from being destroyed. After Timmy wishes for a ghost cage, Dad and Mom go back in business. To prevent them from blowing up houses again, Timmy asks Wanda, Cosmo and Poof to haunt all the houses in Dimmsdale. In exchange for their services, they are paid quite handsomely. Upon reaching Mr. Crocker's house, instead of searching for ghosts, Timmy suggests blowing it up, which they do.

After a while, the fairies are fed up with being locked in a cage over and over, Timmy tells them that his parents like being ghost hunters and that everyone believes in them. But then Chet Ubetcha bursts into the room, declaring that he doesn't believe Timmy's parents and that he will expose them on TV as total phonies. No amount of throwing money will make him go away, Mr. Turner tells Chet that they're not phonies and that they have been caught tons of ghosts, Chet tells him that he won't believe it until he sees it and Timmy tells him that then meet them at a spooky old, abandoned mansion, which he wished was on the hill.

Later that night, Mom and Dad are ready, but they have new equipment: some "ghost" catching devices Crocker gave them. But they don't catch ghosts, they catch fairies. So Timmy is covered by peanut butter and money (which ghosts love). Timmy tries to warn Cosmo, but it is too late, because Dad catches him. So he goes to warn Wanda, but Mom catches her before Timmy could warn her. Poof saw both his parents get caught by the Polter-geeks, and is deeply sad. So when Mom and Dad are about to throw Cosmo and Wanda to Crocker's "ghost" chipper, he changes his sadness for rage. He turns into a giant, round Frankenstein's monster and saves his parents. Poof grabs the shredder and throws it at Timmy's parents and Chet. Chet apologizes to the Poltergeeks for doubting them and screams in pain, Mr. and Mrs. Turner are seriously injured and taken to the hospital. Cosmo attempts to eat a knuckle sandwich, but he puts a fist between the slices of bread, the fist knocks him out, and the fishbowl gets stuck in his head. Mom and Dad mistake him for an alien and revive their other older job: alien hunting.

Cosmo then flies away from them as fast as he can to end the episode.

Cast

• Tara Strong as Timmy Turner / Poof / Woman
• Susanne Blakeslee as Wanda / Mom
• Daran Norris as Cosmo / Dad
• Jim Ward as Chet Ubetcha / Mr. Bickles
• Carlos Alazraqui as Dinkleberg / Boar / Submarine Captain

External links

• "Poltergeeks" at TV.com

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