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Fade in on a Casper High hallway. Tucker Foley, Sam Manson, and Danny Fenton walk down the hall together. Each carries a box that says, "Save the Frogs!" and has a picture of a frog crossed out by a no symbol.

Danny: So, why exactly are we doing Sam?

Sam: Frogs’ rights. We have to stop dissecting frogs in our school biology labs. And at today's assembly, (They stop walking.) I'm gonna demonstrate a humane alternative. (Tilts her box forward.)

Tucker: (Reading the top of Sam's box:) "I Can't Believe It's Not a Frog Cadaver?"

Sam puts down her box and takes out an oozing mechanical frog.

Frog: (Croaks. Robotic voice:) Please remove my detachable three-chambered heart. (Croaks.)

Sam's ghost sense suddenly goes off. Sam's box on the ground begins to glow green and shake, then erupts a cloud of green smoke. Out of surprise, Sam tosses away the frog, which lands on Tucker's head and he struggles to remove it. The green smoke then materializes into the Box Ghost.

Sam: Oh great. Him again. Danny here's my speech just in case I don't make it in time to do it.

Box Ghost: (Waving hands around.) I am the Box Ghost, (Glowing green.) and I will have my corrugated cardboard vengeance!

Sam goes ghost, and the Box Ghost levitates the trio's boxes in the air. Meanwhile, Danny pulls the frog off of Tucker's face, leaving him covered in green slime.

Tucker: Oh, gross!

Sam: You guys get to the assembly. (Danny and Tucker run off.) I'll get this moron sealed up tight. Can't believe I'm missing my speech for this.

The Box Ghost causes one of the boxes to open and numerous scalpels rise up out of it.

They fly at Sam, but she turns intangible and they stick into the wall of lockers behind her.

Sam: (Feeling his chest.) Huh. Now I'm definitely trying to get frogs to have rights.

The Box Ghost slams into Sam, sending her through the lockers and through several more rooms before she finally tumbles into the backstage area of the school's auditorium. Upon landing, she changes back to human.

Sam: Oops.

Box Ghost: (Phases through wall.) Tremble before the might of the (His hands start to glow green.) Box Ghost, (Causes a box onstage to glow and levitate.) as you are devoured by... (Reading label on box.) Uh, oh yeah. Costumes and props from the Broadway classic, My Fair Lady!

The box opens and a bundle of clothes rises up out of it. The bundle hurls itself at Sam, knocking her backwards. She ends up under a pile of clothes.

Box Ghost: (Laughs evilly.) Beware! (Phases out through the ceiling.)

Cut to Danny walking up to a podium onstage in front of a closed curtain.

Danny: (Into the mic:) Uh... sadly Sam could not make it because she had to- to take care of  something so I'm here with the speech she gave me. Uh... Fellow students, something sick and disgusting is taking place right here in our school, and I'm about to show you what it is.

The curtain opens up behind her to reveal a large "Save the Frogs!" sign. The students in the audience pause, then immediately point and laugh. Danny turns around and sees Sam, who stands up from the pile of clothes wearing a pink-and-white dress, a matching hat with a wig of curls, and makeup. Sam glowers when she realizes the situation.

Tucker: (Cheering:) Whoo! Take it off! (Danny looks at him in shock and disgust.) No, seriously. She should take it off. That's weird.

Danny: Do you know how wrong that sounds?

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