The Sorrows of Young Daniel

**The Sorrows of Young Daniel** is the seventh episode of Season 3 of Dumb Teacher and the thirty-fifth episode of the series. It originally aired on July 26, 2007.

## Synopsis

Dan mentally suffers through hard times when he breaks his fibula and tibia at a carnival. He then has a complete mental breakdown when he discovers that there is no faster way to wake his leg and foot muscles up and goes on an insane killing spree throughout Greenhill.

## Plot

The episode begins at the Greenhill Mall, where a carnival is taking place. Dan and his mom and dad are seen visiting the carnival, and the three decide to go on a rollercoaster there, with Dan sneaking in a camera to catch a POV of the ride. Dan manages to hold onto his camera throughout the whole ride and manages to not get caught, though he is told by his mother not to bring cameras on rollercoasters next time. The three then decide to go to a bumper cars ride, where they have some fun bumping into each other. However, a lazy employee accidentally spills a glass of water on the ride's control panel, causing the bumper cars to go fast. The bumper car Cheryl is in crashes into Dan's bumper car, causing him to fly out of the car and land onto the ground, where his foot is run over by a family of gypsies who just stole several purses, rupturing it in the process, causing Dan to scream in pain. A lady chasing the gypsies notices Dan and calls an ambulance while police arrive to arrest the gypsies that ran him over and return the purses they stole.

At the hospital, Dr. Jessica Gaye tells Dan that his fibula and tibia have been ruptured, and he needs to wait six months for them both to fully heal up. Two days later, Logan visits Dan's hospital room in an attempt to make him feel better. He brings one of his Happy Tree Friends DVDs to try and cheer him up. However, upon watching the episode, "Out on a Limb", Dan immediately loses interest and turns off his hospital TV, saying that he likes the show, excluding the episode he just watched. Logan, disappointed, agrees with Dan and takes out the DVD, putting it back in its case. Logan then pulls out a Doctor Who VHS of The Tenth Planet and asks Dan if he wants to watch the VHS instead, which Dan agrees on. However, upon watching the FIrst Doctor fall down on his TARDIS' floor, Dan turns off the TV and tells Logan to leave him alone.

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When Dan gets up from his hospital bed after regaining consciousness, though, he discovers that he can move his broken leg properly again, can stand with it, and can walk properly, too, shocking everyone in the room. When his X-ray is finally checked, it is revealed that when the gypsies from the carnival had trampled on his foot, it merely twisted his ankle, which had healed up about a month ago. He also couldn't feel his leg because a nurse carrying the hospital bed Dan was on when he first broke his leg accidentally left a needle with highly-effective one-limb anesthesia medicine on the bed, and it was, coincidentally, on Dan's broken ankle's side. Dan realizes that Dr. Gaye had viewed his broken ankle wrong and becomes furious, sternly asking the doctor for Dr. Jessica Gaye's number and a phone. Meanwhile, in Dr. Gaye's office, her answering machine has one new message, which is from Dan, who furiously tells her that he had a mental breakdown over a broken ankle due to Jessica not viewing his leg properly, and had killed several people in Greenhill for nothing. Dan also tells her that she will be reported to the medical school she supposedly graduated from, and be forced to return there for more proper education, and her doctor's license will be revoked.

Afterwards, on a black background, a text saying, "For all you scientists watching, this episode is living proof why you should put more research more into finding faster ways for legs to fully heal up, and not make people suffer through hard work. I experienced a broken leg when I was ten years old, too, just so you know." Then, after 5 seconds, Noah's name appears on the bottom right of the screen.

## Trivia

* The episode's name is a reference to the German novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
* The episode is based on a true story where series creator, Noah Long, broke his leg while visiting a trampoline park once in 1980 and had to wait 6 months for it to heal.
* This episode was originally going to be called, "The Break-Down", a reference to the 2006 American romcom, The Break-Up, and was simply going to revolve around Dan suffering a mental breakdown after a cousin of his dies. This was later changed after Noah Long had a dream based on how he broke his leg back in 1980.
* This episode is considered to be one of the most serious episodes of Dumb Teacher.

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## Transcript

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