Thief

**Thief** is the fourth episode of Season 4 of Dumb Teacher and the forty-third overall. It originally aired on January 29, 2008.

## Synopsis

Dan has become a sneaky and smart shoplifter, stealing goods from all around Greenhill, but when the thefts go too far, he blames everything on Logan to cover up his true intentions.

## Plot

Dan stops at a Sminster on his way to school to pick-up a lunch, where he overhears two employees in the back talking about he brand-new video game, Bling Blang, Muthafukka for the Nbox 360, slightly saddening Dan. At Greenhill Elementary, the students are talking about the same game befroe class, which saddens him as he does not own the game, which results in the entire class, including McNeese, laughing at him. At home, he tries asking his mother if he can buy the game, she declines due to a committed tax fraud having nearly depleted their funds, which makes Dan even more depressed. At a GameShop in downtown Greenhill, Dan is seen looking at the copies of Bling Blang, Muthafukka, where a woman offers to buy the game for him, which excites Dan, only for the woman to reveal that she was was rudely joking and slaps him in the face. However, after Dan sees someone leave the GameShop without paying for anything, Dan gets the idea to steal the game from the store without getting caught. When one of the security cameras isn't looking, he gets the chance and walks out of the store unnoticed. Dan looks at the game, smiling, then giving him the thrill of shoplifting as he grins menacingly.

At home, he is seen creating a light safe with a huge interior so he can hide his stolen items, including his video game. One Saturday night, Dan sees on TV that Toonami is hosting s sweepstakes competition called the, "Technic Heroes Giveaway", with his favorite energy drink, Technic as the main sponsor, where five grand prize winners can get a copy of a not-yet-in-stores Bionicle VIII: The Final Battle 20th Anniversary Blu-ray, while 100 2nd prize winners can get a TOM 4 T-shirt. Dan, feeling greedy due to his kleptomania, takes his jetpack to the Cartoon Network headquarters, freezes time with a stopwatch he invented, quickly snatches and replaces the Blu-ray with a DVD copy, unfreezes time, and flies back home. A montage occurs of Dan stealing items from various places worldwide, including homes. The next day at school, a robot boombox walks in and plays music, where Dan walks in wearing fancy clothing, impressing and/or shocking everyone at school, even McNeese, who just came out of the students' bathroom pooping on Tom's face. When Logan asks where he got his clothes, Dan says that he won them through winning several "sweepstakes".

Next Saturday, Dan is seen in his safe watching Toonami on a huge Miasuki flat screen TV he stole, where TOM announces the sweepstakes' grand prize winners, only for the broadcast to be interrupted by a GHTV News report, where a report on a 14-year old boy named Sammy McDonald, one of the winners of the Toonami sweepstakes, claims that, "Toonami ripped [his] fucking ass off because [they had given him] a DVD copy of Bionicle VIII instead of a 20th Anniversary Blu-ray copy like the sweepstakes had promised." Afterwards. more reports come in saying that items have been disappearing from places all over the world, all of which mention items Dan has stolen throughout the week, leaving him shocked. Dan gets an alarm on his stolen security system that police officers are arriving at his house ready to ask him questions, as a result, Dan quickly takes off his stolen clothing, leaves his safe, uses a shrink ray to shrink it, hides it under his pillow, and lays down on his bed.

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At the Greenhill Courthouse, where Logan's trial is being held, with Drew Sanderson as his client, the trial begins with the judge beckoning Logan to tell them about the thefts he committed. Logan tells everything Dan had explained, but claims that it's all not true, and that he was framed, but everyone fails to believe him. Everyone who has witnessed their items disappearing throughout the world claims that Logan must've invented some shoes that make him run as fast as Sonic the Hedgehog. When the trail nearly comes to a close, Dan, who is in the crowd with his family, is, at first, upset that he won't be able to see Logan for a while, but also happy that he'll still get to visit him in prison, but when the Judge sentences Logan to 10 years in maximum-security prison, Dan stops the judge from dismissing the case, and tells him that Logan is innocent and that he did it. He shows and explains the real safe first, resulting in everyone in the court, including the judge, making fun of him, but when Dan opens it up and dumps all of the stuff he stole out of it, their reactions change to a shocked look. Dan explains that it was him that stole the items, not Logan, due to his Kleptomania, and since he was becoming more popular at school, he framed him to avoid jailtime. Dan apologizes and says that he should be the one serving the sentence and not Logan. As a result, the Judge declares Dan guilty for his actions and gives him the sentence instead, making Dan proud that his friend is safe, even though he is going to prison for a long time.

10 years later, a now-20-year old Dan is released from prison and reunites with his family, but sees Logan in the distance walk away from him. At the park, he meets up Logan and has a conversation with him, where Logan forgives Dan for actions, since he showed honesty during his confession. As a result, the two become friends again.

## Trivia

* The music that plays during the montage of Dan stealing items from around the world is "Steal My Sunshine" by Len.
* The music playing during Dan's walk into the school wearing his, "sweepstakes" clothing, is "All For You" by Janet Jackson.
* One of the posters featured in Dan's room is a poster for the 1981 kadsresatsu film, Quest for the Masks, which is Dan's favorite movie and was later referenced in the next episode, Introducing Choki!, where Dan, Logan and Choki see the movie together.