SunDANce

**SunDANce** is the fourth episode of Season 5 of Dumb Teacher and the fifty-eight episode of the series. It originally aired on March 31, 2009.

## Synopsis

The Greenhill Film Festival has come to town and Dan decides to create his own film for the festival, where it becomes a success. However, Dan soon discovers that being a film director is not as easy as when he made his movie.

## Plot

The episode begins with a scene of Dan falling off from an airplane above what appears to be Futa, Sentan in slow motion. The scene flashes back to 2 and a half months ago, where Dan is having a stroll in the park. He is seen getting a rocket pop from an ice cream stand and starts licking it as he continues his stroll. After another 5 seconds of walking, he sees a man put up a poster advertising the upcoming Greenhill Film Festival, Dan looks at the poster while standing still for 7 seconds in awe, then snaps back to normal when McNeese throws a rock at him while driving his car. Dan then goes home in excitement, then tells his mother about the film festival and how he wants to enter it. Dan then goes to his room to think about what kind of movie he's going to make for the festival. He first thinks of a remake of Kayos' Final Bang when he sees a poster of the movie in his room, but immediately gives up the idea when he realizes how expensive and lengthy it would be to make such a film. He then thinks up of a Bionicle fan-film when he looks at his Toa action figures, but also gives it up due to a high chance of lawsuits from El TV Kadsre. He then looks at a poster of Ralander author, C.H. Perrison and gets the idea to make a film adaptation of The Kind & Curious Wolf, one of his most notable works, but, remembering how much the story was adapted, gives up on the idea as well. Feeling overwhelmed by a lack of ideas, Dan decides to relax and watch some movies on TV, where he watches a documentary about a man named Steven Phillips and his Sentaneseophilia. Dan, inspired by the film, begins working on his movie for the festival.

On the night of the festival, Dan and his parents arrive at the theatre, where Dan, his classmates, their families and other residents of Greenhill are present. The festival is being presented by Lindsay Smith. The first movie to be shown is a post-apocalyptic action film called The End, which receives praise for its creative plot. The next film is a short film called Flip and Flop, which people enjoy for its humor and animation style (until the end where some people in the audience can be seen vomiting). The next is Dan's movie, I Am Dan: The Life of an Elkadsreophile, which is a biography about the life of Dan and his Elkadsreophilia. The film receives wide praise from everyone in the cinema, including people outside of the cinema who heard the movie. As Dan exits the theatre, a limousine drives in front of the cinema. Leonardo DiCaprio is in the limo and wants to speak with Dan. DiCaprio tells Dan that he was impressed by his movie-making skills and asks him to co-produce his new film. Dan becomes excited, but tells him to wait until the award ceremony.

At the award ceremony, ten days later, Dan wins the award for "the most outstanding film", where he slaps Lindsay's buttocks after she gives him the award, which no one, including Lindsay seems to notice. Dan gives out a speech for his inspiration, much to the cheer of the audience. After the ceremony, DiCaprio arrives in his limo and takes Dan to his mansion. When his limo gets parked though, a platform disguised as a road pulls the limo down to an underground lair. When the limo drives into a driveway into the lair, five other limos are seen parked. Dan, curious about where he is, asks DiCaprio where they are. DiCaprio explains that he and five other directors are part of a secret alliance formed by them called, "The Movie Magicians", and the, "movie magicians", which are basically people skilled at making movies. He introduces the directors as, Pasi Peure, Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Taratino, and Brandon Kane, all filmmakers Dan loves, most notably Pasi. DiCaprio claims that the Movie Magicians was formed after a film directed by both Michael Bay and Pasi Peure was a success at the box office, they had decided to form a secret alliance of movie-makers, set out on making collaborations with each other, and hoping that they become successes. They invited four other directors to join the alliance, and after DiCaprio had saw Dan's film, he invited him to join the alliance. Dan accepts the invitation, but is told to have to go through an initiation process in order to fully become a member. The initiation is simply a series of film-related questions based around movies by the Magicians. Dan manages to get them all correctly, and is officially a member of the group. The members then announce that their first meeting with Dan is tomorrow evening at the DiBeepoBeppi's Italian restaurant in Lansing, Michigan's capital city.

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## Trivia

* This episode is one of the few episodes of Dumb Teacher to not use the regular intro.
* The episode's title is a pun on both the Sundance Film Festival and Dan's name.
* Despite airing in March, this episode possibly takes place in January (because of the dates on the GHFF poster).
* The second movie to be shown, Flip and Flop, is a parody of Pib and Pog, a 1995 British short film by Aardman Animations.
* Evans Productions, the logo seen before Dan’s movie, is a parody of both the Spyglass Entertainment and Beacon Pictures logo. It even has the Spyglass theme playing throughout.
* This episode has the most special guest stars, a record which was soon taken by 70 Episodes, 70 Stars, 22 Minutes in the next season, which also broke the record for the most special guests in an animated series.
	+ The episodes also made appearances in two Guinness World Records books, 2010 and 2011.
* The song that plays during Dan's limo drive to DiBeepoBeppi's is "You Rock My World" by Michael Jackson.