It's The Season

**It's The Season** is the eleventh episode of Season 5 of Dumb Teacher and the sixty-fifth episode of the series. It originally aired on December 19, 2009. It is also the second and final Dumb Teacher Christmas special, as well as the season finale of Season 5.

## Synopsis

Greenhill Elementary has closed for winter vacation and Dan creates a bucket list for all the things he's gonna do, and, "unlike Arnold from that one Hey Arnold! episode," he's gonna do whatever he can to avoid his plans from getting ruined.

## Plot

Mr. McNeese's students are rehearsing for a Christmas play and Choki still refuses to participate due to how McNeese is treating him, now matter how many times McNeese forces him to. He becomes angry and decides to light the room on fire, causing him and his classmates to flee, as McNeese throws himself out of the window. The sprinklers go off, putting out the fire as the school bell rings, declaring the start of Christmas break. Dan shows Logan the list of things he's gonna do over the break, as listed below:

* Pre-order the long-awaited Nbox 720 console.
* Go ice skating.
* Win a snowball fight
* Appear on Greenhill's Got Talent's Christmas special & sing "Let's Dance" by David Bowie.
* Release cover online.
* Share a kiss with Emma Miller.
* Get the gift [Dan's] been wanting for Christmas.
* Watch the countdown to 2010 with his family on New Year's Eve.

Logan tells Dan that he won't be able to execute his plans successfully, as he watched a Hey Arnold! episode on Nicktoons last night, where Arnold tries to do things he's listed on a Saturday, but fails due to circumstances. Dan tells Logan that he plans on avoiding the circumstantial fate. Later that night, Dan is seen heading off to bed, where he sets an alarm on his Android phone and plugs in wireless earbuds connected to the phone via Bluetooth, hoping to wake up as early as possible. In the morning, he wakes up after the first alarm, and is happy about it. At 12:00 P.M., he leaves for the Greenhill Mall in order to pre-order the Nbox 720.

At the mall, he is seen waiting in line at the video game aisle of Store Mart to pre-order the console, only for him to notice a teenage girl being beaten up by a Japanese man promoting a limited edition version of the Sega Saturn console, later revealed to be the console's mascot, Segata Sanshiro (played by Noah Long). The boy, revealed to be the girl's boyfriend, threatens to call the police if he ever does that again, only for his neck to be twisted off, killing him. Dan arrives just in time to get his pre order receipt, as they are about to close pre-orders for the afternoon. However, he is stopped by Segata, only for Dan to pepper spray him and run off. Segata then gives up on promoting the Saturn console and leaves the mall. Meanwhile at the mall, Dan comes across an ice-skating rink, puts one some ice-skates, and draws a figure-8 on the ice, impressing Emma Miller, who unknowingly, was with the other skaters.

At Logan's house with Tom and James, they are having a snowball fight, and Dan joins Logan's team. Just when Dan is about to lose, he immediately gets himself back on his feet, as he made a promise not to let his plans fail. He shoots a lot of snowballs at Tom and James, and he wins. Now with only five things left to do, he signs up for Greenhill's Got Talent as the last participant. For his performance, he sings "Let's Dance" by David Bowie, which results in him immediately winning 1st place and the $1,000,000 reward, which he decides to give a half and a quarter away to charity, while he saves the rest for future purposes. After the performance, he decides to upload the audio recording of his performance online, which gets discovered by Bowie himself, who also loves it. As a result,he sends Dan a special edition of his album, Let's Dance. Dan goes back to Logan's house to tell him about the near-complete list, as all he has to do left is share a kiss with Emma, get the gift he's been wanting the most this year, and watch the New Year's countdown with his family.

On Christmas Eve at Tanner The Lion Lake, which has been frozen up into ice due to the weather, Dan is seen sitting at a bench waiting for Emma. Emma arrives and tells him about the figure-8 he did at the ice rink, and how she loved his performance of Let's Dance, as she is secretly a fan of David Bowie herself. As a result, the two kiss and say goodbye to each other, ready for Christmas Day on the day after tomorrow. Dan can't wait for the list to finally be finished, as he "beat Arnold" to the list. The next day, on Christmas Day, Dan wakes up and opens up his presents. The last one he opens up is a DVD box set of the entire series of the American-El Kadsreian sitcom, The Devons, which he has been wanting for Christmas all along, and as a result, he checks off the second-final event on his list, realizing that he's almost done. However, after he checks it off, a demonic voice repeats "No" as his notebook turns into a portal, which summons a demon known as, "The Fate-Bringer of All Great Plans", who cursed Arnold from Hey Arnold! to let his Saturday morning plans fail miserably. Fate-Bringer is outraged that Dan managed to complete the entire list, as he never intended him to in the first place, and as a result, he is going to "steal" Dan's soul from his body and erase every known trace of his existence from reality.

This results in a chase happening all around the city, and when Dan gets tired and is about to accept his fate from Fate-Bringer, Fate-Bringer is shot down with a hose full of "miracle water", which causes him to shrink and get stepped on. The man reveals himself to be Arnold Shortman, now an adult and a research engineer. Arnold explains to Dan that after discovering Fate-Bringer and the way he ruined his planned Saturday, he found a way to get rid of him for good by creating the miracle water, which is basically water mixed with holy water and Oxi-Clean, in order to make him shrink and get squished on. As a result, Dan thanks him and asks if he can come over. Arnold agrees and asks if he owns a RealStation 3.

A few days later, on New Year's Eve, Dan and his family are watching a live New Year's Eve-themed chat show. In the middle of talking to the author of a book, a member of the production staff informs her that the new year is coming in a minute, leading to the hostess asking another staff member to roll the countdown (which features all the landmarks in Michigan). When the countdown reaches zero, fireworks reading "HAPPY NEW YEAR", shown on TV, explode in the night sky, and Dan rushes to the window, where he finds out that they're actually in front of his house. He then ticks the last errand, finishing his list.

## Trivia

* The scenes at the mall with Segata Sanshiro pay homage to the Japanese Sega Saturn commercials used from 1997 to 1998.
* The song that plays at the mall and the end credits is "A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burt Ives.