Bon Bon the Birthday Clown

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"**Bon Bon the Birthday Clown**" is the twenty-seventh episode of the twelfth season of *The Fairly OddParents*.

It premiered on November 21.[1]

## Synopsis

Chloe, Janna, Mr. Pants, and Brandon have second thoughts about attending a dead clown's séance, while Jackie asks Timmy to go to the school prom with her.[2]

## Plot

The episode begins with a flashback to one hundred years ago, when a birthday clown named Bon Bon entertains for the birthday party of the then-mayor of Dimmsdale. During a magic trick involving self-relighting candles, this causes an explosive accident, and Bon Bon ends up in the hospital with severe burns on his body. On his deathbed, Bon Bon tells the mayor not to be sad and that he'll return in one hundred years "just like [his] candles". The clown passes away shortly after.

One hundred years later, in the present day, the students of Dimmsdale Elementary School prepare for their big school prom. Timmy is anxious about going to the prom alone, so Chloe has agreed to go with him. Janna arrives with a large box of cake as part of a séance that she and Chloe plan to hold to welcome Bon Bon back to the world of the living. Unfortunately, the hundredth anniversary of Bon Bon's death falls on the same night as the prom, and Chloe had already promised to go with Timmy. After Janna convinces Chloe that a dead clown séance would be more memorable than an elementary school prom, Chloe goes to inform Timmy just as Jackie Lynn Thomas leaves him. Timmy excitedly announces to Chloe that Jackie asked him to the prom and he accepted. Before he worries about his previous promise to Chloe, Chloe encourages him to go with Jackie since she'll be preoccupied with Bon Bon's séance. Elated, Timmy dances happily out the gymnasium door.

That evening, Timmy gets ready for Jackie's arrival, but he is disrupted by Chloe, Janna, Mr. Pants, and Brandon as they collect supplies for their séance. Suddenly, the doorbell rings, and Timmy frantically races to get dressed. Mrs. Turner and Chloe answer the door to greet Jackie, who is wearing a glittering seafoam green dress. Mrs. Turner and Chloe welcome Jackie inside, and Chloe compliments her look. Timmy then appears at the top of the stairs wearing a gray suit. Chloe and Jackie are mesmerized by how handsome he looks, and his parents look at him with pride. However, when Chloe notices how fondly Timmy and Jackie look at each other, she starts to look anxious. At Mr. Turner's request, Chloe takes a photo of Timmy and Jackie with her mirror phone. She then watches with uncertainty as they leave for the prom.

Later that night, Janna's mother drops Chloe, Janna, Mr. Pants, and Brandon off at the cemetery, and they are quickly followed by Timmy's Magic Instruction Book. Glossaryck pops out of the book, wanting to witness the dead clown séance. As the three enter the cemetery, Chkoe is still distracted thinking about Timmy and Jackie. Ignoring Janna and Glossaryck's debate about clown noses, she asks them about Timmy's decision to go to the dance with Jackie instead of her, but Janna points out that it was Chloe's decision to not go to the prom because she wanted to see Bon Bon. After tentatively agreeing with Janna's reasoning, Chloe trips over something covered in moss. She and Janna brush the moss away to reveal Bon Bon's tombstone.

Meanwhile, Timmy and Jackie approach the school in silence. Timmy awkwardly breaks the silence by asking Jackie about her hobbies while peeking at his palm. As Jackie goes into brief detail about her hobbies, Timmy cuts her off and asks about what music she likes, putting his hand on his cheek. Confused by Timmy suddenly changing the subject, Jackie starts talking about her favorite music until Timmy interrupts her again and asks about her favorite foods. When he moves his hand away from his cheek, he leaves some blue ink on it, and Jackie realizes that Timmy has written several conversation topics on his hand. She wipes the ink from his cheek, assuring him that he doesn't need it, and he follows her into the school. Inside, Timmy and Jackie find the girls standing nervously around the buffet table, some boys playing basketball, and only one couple on the dance floor. Realizing that the school prom is a total bust, Jackie expresses regret about asking Timmy to the prom. Timmy takes this the wrong way at first, but Jackie adds that she should've just asked him on a date. Timmy is caught off-guard by this, and when Jackie asks if he wants to go on a date with her, he blankly answers yes, and they leave the prom together.

Back at the cemetery, Glossaryck sings a song about Bon Bon on a ukulele while Janna makes a ceremonial séance circle with duct tape and candles, placing Bon Bon's welcome-back cake in the center. Nearby, Chloe builds a shrine for Bon Bon around his tombstone, but she is too distracted by the photo of Timmy and Jackie on her phone. Chloe continues to ask Cosmo and Wanda her thoughts about Chloe and Jackie, and it starts to frustrate Wanda. Meanwhile, Glossaryck burns one of the pages in Chloe's spell book. In an effort to keep Chloe focused on the task at hand, Brandon deletes Timmy and Jackie's photo from his phone. Chloe tries to stay focused on building Bon Bon's shrine, but she still looks distracted.

In the park, Timmy and Jackie are on their date, and Timmy makes them malted cereal milkshake. Although they taste terrible, Timmy and Jackie are able to laugh about it. Despite Jackie's efforts to get Timmy to relax, he is still nervous about being on a date with her and afraid of messing up. The two start to discuss Timmy's past failings, and Jackie reveals that she likes how he's always able to bounce back from his numerous setbacks. The conversation eventually shifts to skateboarding, and Timmy admits that he doesn't know how to skate. Jackie responds by taking out her skateboard and offering to teach him. At Jackie's insistence, Timmy sets his cellphone down on the park bench, and Jackie takes him on a skateboard ride.

Chloe finishes making Bon Bon's shrine and discovers that the gang has fallen asleep in an open grave. After failing to wake the gang up, Chloe starts to regret not having gone to the dance with Timmy. She recovers the deleted photo of Timmy and Jackie and calls Timmy's cellphone, but he doesn't answer. She leaves him a message and tries dozens of more times to contact him, but to no avail. Hearing Glossaryck snoring in the spell book, Chloe wakes him and asks about a spying spell. In his half-asleep state, Glossaryck tells Chloe about the "All-Seeing Eye" spell in Eclipsa's chapter in the spell book, but he warns her against using such dark magic before falling back to sleep. Ignoring Glossaryck's warning, Chloe uses the All-Seeing Eye to spy on Timmy and Jackie. When she sees them skateboarding together, she becomes envious, and her wand's magic briefly changes from pink to green. Chloe's magic accidentally jams a wheel on the skateboard, causing Timmy and Jackie to fall over. Realizing what she did, Chloe dismisses the All-Seeing Eye and alerts the gang. While Chloe tries to explain what happened, they are suddenly surrounded by large rats. Chloe shoos them away, and the shrine candles all go out. As something rises from behind Bon Bon's tombstone, Janna believes it is Bon Bon coming back from the dead. But as the candles relight, it is revealed to be Ludo in a clown costume, and he attacks Chloe, Janna, Mr. Pants, Brandon, Cosmo, and Wanda with his wand.

Back at the park, Timmy and Jackie recover from their sudden tumble. Despite their fall, Jackie says she's glad she asked Timmy out, and in a moment of tenderness, the two share their first kiss. As Timmy pulls away, he notices that the moon has changed from white to blood-red. When Jackie asks him what's wrong, the moon turns back to normal. Timmy finally checks his phone and sees that Chloe tried calling him fifty-seven times. Sensing that something is wrong, he tells Jackie that they have to find Chloe.

At the cemetery, Chloe, Janna, Mr. Pants, Brandon, Cosmo, and Wanda battle against Ludo and his bald eagle and giant spider minions while Janna fends off Ludo's army of rats. Chloe casts Mystic Room Suck Transform to try and pull Ludo into a black hole. Bon Bon's ghost finally returns, but he is pulled into the black hole almost immediately. Just before Ludo is dragged in as well, Chloe notices Timmy and Jackie arrive. Seeing them together fuels her envy further, and the wand's magic turns green again. An explosion blows Timmy and Ludo away, knocking Timmy's wand out of her reach, and the black hole starts to pull Timmy inside instead. While Jackie goes to help Janna, Chloe fends off Ludo's spider. As Ludo's eagle claims possession of Timmy's book of spells, Ludo prepares to finish Timmy off, but he blindsides him with Bon Bon's cake and relighting candles. After the eagles puts out the flames on Ludo's head, Ludo and his minions make their getaway. Chloe tries to stop them, but she gives up the chase in order to save Timmy. With Jackie the gang's help, Chloe saves Timmy from the black hole just before it closes.

Though Timmy and his friends are now safe, Timmy has lost both his spell book and Glossaryck to Ludo. Chloe comforts Timmy with a hug as he starts to cry and promises that they'll get them back. Elsewhere, Ludo opens up the spell book, and Glossaryck begrudgingly pledges allegiance to his new master.