Can anybody name a show with a harder fall off? When this show got canceled, not only did nobody care, nobody NOTICED. Most of us tuned out after the dog but then everybody else left when they added the blonde kid.
Not to mention most people weren't even aware the "Fairly Odder" sequel even existed until it had already failed SO hard that both Paramount and Nickelodeon were embarrassed enough to delete all the episodes from streaming.
When it comes to series satirizing the difference between childhood and adulthood; You either die Kids Next Door, or live long enough to be Fairly Odd Parents.
@@eatatjoes6751nah, I trust Thomas. If he could just get creative control like he wants to, I have no doubt Galactic KND will be better than the original
It's sad because Fairly Odd Parents could've been legendary about how it portrays more cynical perspective about adults vs kids and family vs individual, while still having magic. Which was also why I'm shocked of Butch Hartman's... Beliefs
Timmy working with Crocker WAS genuinely a good idea in principle. Timmy is essentially going through the same thing Crocker did in his origin episode, and Crocker is probably more in his element here than anywhere else. It was just handled horribly
If I remember correctly Crocker even is like "yeah you're going through what I went in that one episode where I lost my fairies everyone knows that's what happened to me"
@@butterpants8153 Or the Jimmy & Timmy crossover, or merry wishmas, or even that episode of the fairy family photo (for emergencies only) are better endings than the one we got
That's what happens when Nick treats Fairly OddParents by squeezing too much just because it not as popular as Nick's golden child SpongeBob SquarePants. Same goes when cancelling Invader Zim and Harvey Beaks. Look. Don't get me wrong. I loved SB, TFOP, and Harvey Beaks. I just hate when Nick pressure other show just because its not reaching the same popularity as SpongeBob. The worst part is Nick cancelled Invader Zim and pressured TFOP by not ending it just because it wants to be as popular as SBSP, while SBSP already rot in quality between seasons 6 to 9a by airing disgusting (i.e. Pet or Pests, The Splinter) and sadistic (i.e. A Pal for Gary, One Coarse Meal, Squid Baby, Little Yellow Book, & SB You're FIred) episodes. Stephen Hillenberg (creator of SB) and Butch Hartman (creator of TFOP) really wanted to end those shows on a good note, but Nick forced their shows to jump the shark just to make money.
@@spongeotakuphHow Nick treats their shows is a huge shame. If it isn't immediately as popular as SpongeBob, it's deemed a failure and quickly cancelled/hidden. If it does somehow meet those expectations, it's milked dry for decades and they'll refuse to let it go. The fact that they tried to revive *Rugrats* while they were laying off staff for Glitch Techs says it all
@@Commenter839heck, look no further than Loud House. By some miracle it actually did get as popular as sponge bob, not to mention it was good. Now look at it, season 8, and quality has spiraled. They even took the Disney route and made a live action version
In one episode, Timmy was taken to a rehab facility because he was overwishing, and he is being praised for being the first godchild to make a total of a million wishes. That would be the equivalent of praising someone for smoking a million cigarettes, and not dying from lung cancer yet.
The twist reveal of what Timmy’s secret wish actually was is not only very stupid, but it also completely craps in the face of the best special in the entire show Channel Chasers.
That's what I said fairy odd parent's final should be wishology. Sure it was a generic way to end it, but still fitting. Again i think it is fitting to have wishology for like a grand finale of the world, while channel chaser would be the true finale for main characters.
@@starmaker75 alternatively, if you want something less "grandiose" but still fitting, meet the oddparents could kinda work as a sort of "the adventure continues" type of ending
Plus, Anti-Poof wanted Poof gone is an understandable villain goal Until you remember the concept of Anti-Fairies: like Jorgen said,if Poof is gone then so is Anti-Poof
Crocker somehow remembering that he lost his Fairy Godparents really got on my nerves with this one. Originally, he read that they existed. He didn't know he HAD them
He wrote it down right before he lost his memory, he doesn’t have any memory of it but he knows that SOMETHING was up due to the writing on the machine
Foop makes no sense (1) He's baby that can talk perfectly and has facial hair (2) His name isn't anti-poof (3) His plan is to get rid of the reason he exist in this episode (4) Also remember when the anti fairies were first introduced and Timmy needed special glasses to see them?
to be completely fair, that last point hadn't been a factor since their debut. In every anti-fairy appearance after the debut, they just appear as normal
@@Mariokemon ironically, that's all thanks to the events of the second crossover with jimmy. as jorgen made it so anti-fairies were now visible. one of the few times the show respected continuity by accident
If i remember correctly in his introductory episode anti-cosmo calls him anti-poof but he rejects that name and renames himself foop. Anyway after said episodes was nothing more than looser stewie griffin and permanently the butt of any joke .
Even the Anti-Fairies appear as normal in the video game The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' Da Rules and that game came out 20 years ago when the show was actually good.
I vaguely remember the reason why Escape from Unwish Island worked was because the wishes Timmy unwished were the ones where he just didn't think of the consequences because the consequences might not be obvious to a ten-year-old boy. Like when he wished for Imaginary Gary to be real. The idea that Gary might have been resentful for being abandoned didn't occur to Timmy because Gary hadn't been real up until that point. Why would something that hadn't even been real be resentful? Or Dark Laser. Remember, he came to life due to a technicality. In Hard Copy, Dark Laser came to life because Timmy chose the "life size" option on a magic copy machine. How was he supposed to know the action figure out actually come to life? Or what about Super Bike? That bike only started to get possessive because Timmy wished it was "just for him." My point is that a lot of the wishes on Unwish Island happened because the consequences were not necessarily obvious to Timmy since they arised through technicalities or from Timmy just not anticipating the problem. This Secret Wish episode doesn't work because it portrays Timmy as being uncharacteristically careless with his wishes. Like the raining rabid dingos or the secret wish in general. Even Timmy is smart enough to figure out that these would backfire on him, hence why the episode doesn't work. Timmy isn't usually this careless.
to be fair, the Gary stuff resolved with him apparently being traped in timmy's mind... but cosmo forgot to close the door.... and in hindsight i am surprised they didn't did more about how "timmy's mind is open for literally in it to come out".
I’d say even then, the writers didn’t care too much. “Hey, it’s the Sphinx you wished away!” “But I DIDN’T wish it away!” “Ohh… Well, it sure helps the drama.”
@@LeafRazorStormMy point still stands. Secret Wish went out of its way to ruin Timmy's character. Timmy was not usually so reckless or careless with his wishes. He was just ignorant of the consequences, like any other 10-year-old boy who's still learning to navigate life.
I agree--normally it was just Timmy being a 10 year old boy not thinking things through, not really out of truly malicious intentions. Blatantly wishing for it to rain rabid dingoes is genuinely sociopathic. He's bored, so he wants rabid animals to rain from the sky and attack people? It could've easily been something more innocent and childish, like raining fish or something, showing him laughing seeing people screaming in confusion as fish are slapping random people in the face flopping as they are falling from the sky. I could believe a bored child may wish for that.
You know, Cosmo's actually smart. He literally forgot he made a wish, but the wish was still recorded. That's like if I forget to do my homework, but magically end up having a complete assignment without any effort of my own. Not even the smartest of humans can't do that.
Cosmo in the Early seasons was, While always a Ditzy Goofball, Has SOME Sense in Logic with "Just Dessert" Essentially turns Cosmo into the Straight Man after Wanda's Chocolate addiction gets the better the her. A fact that it constantly lampshaded throughout the entire episode.
I always thought that the dumbest Fairly Oddparents episode (and there are a lot to choose from considering the seasonal rot era) was the one where it’s revealed that Crocker, as in one man, is the source of all fairy magic. I wish I was making this up.
Remember when he said that The Fairly Odd parents had the decency to go away back in the start of 2020 (before the pandemic).... yeah that aged well lol.
Hot Take: Poof's debut episode was good. Poof isn't that bad of a character & Chloe was ok but she needed a lot more time to be a better character. Time she was never going to get.
if anything i think it was a waste that all the downsides from poof's nature were ignored. i get why, but still annoying. they only brought back once that "he causes lightning"
@@TSPH1992 No she had decent potential and her execution while not necessarily good was still a lot better then a talking dog who the the Simpsons literally said is a desperate way to get ratings.
It tells quite a lot when even Jorgen, the one who made these jokes, 3 times in a row, at the expense of just a few minutes, realised how ridiculous it got.
Coulda just ended it at Wishology… but noooooo…. I think this treatment is even sadder than being cancelled too soon. Just watching something so amazing just rot away until all that’s left is a sad little whimper of what it once was…
I feel like an episode where Timmy does paperwork in order to be allowed to let Chester and AJ know about Wanda and Cosmo would be less dumb. Hell an episode where Timmy and SpongeBob start a protest against the SpongeBob standard that Nick has for its cartoons would be more fun.
1:32 for the record, he’s not a registered sex offender. Second of all, I actually agree with Alpha Jay that Meet The Odd Parents should've been the final episode. It was perfect: came out a few months after the show's 10th anniversary, has a concept that was never fully explored before and it even ends with a book being closed! It may not have been as perfect of a "just in case" finale as Channel Chasers but at least it felt like a finale, especially compared to the one we got! And I actually always shipped Timmy with Veronica more than either Tootie or Trixie. Still wish they wrote her character more positively, eventually becoming a part of his friend group and endgame love interest. At least Braceface and As Told By Ginger did something similar to this.
Fairly Oddparents was such a great show and should’ve just ended in 2006. Even Butch Hartman said he only rebooted the show to help fund his other projects like Crash Nebula that was rejected by Nickelodeon. He no longer had any creative control of FOP by that time of that episode.
@@Brewart2012 but that doesn’t mean he was involved with every aspect of the show in its later seasons. There’s other people who wrote the script for FOP, he wanted to do other cartoons! Kind of like Matt Groening with the Simpsons, he stopped being involved in the episode after the 10th season, to work on Futurama!
@@Markimark151 Sorry I’m at work and the WiFi wasn’t working when I tried pressing reply the 1st and 2nd times so that’s why it went on the 3rd and there’s 3. My apologies once again
I think the only reason why The Fairly Odd Parents was such an icon was because Butch Hartman himself was not as involved with it as we had initially believed when it first aired, and that the more creative control he got, the worse the quality became. It's because Butch Hartman is a shitty writer and an even shittier person in real life who just so happened to scam his people for a streaming service that didn't actually exist, and use his religion as a means to excuse all of his wrongdoings, like so many other religious Pharisees and heretics have been doing the past several hundred years. All in all, FOP was great when Butch Hartman didn't write the show. Plus, it was essentially being milked to death, or past its supposed death.
It’s funny how the amount of times I brought up this show to my class mates back in the middle school, I’d always get the same response. “Is that show still going” Butch Hartman may actively defend the nonsensical nature of the shows narrative and new characters in later seasons but I just don’t understand why he couldn’t have added arcs if he really wanted to keep viewers interested.
one year is 525600 minutes, which is around half a million minutes. Timmy is, as far as I remember, the same age as he was at the start of the series. I don't know how the math works here, but I'd imagine he would in fact have to wish OVER TWICE a minute just to hit a million in just under a year, assuming he got the fairies the day after his birthday and this episode takes place the before his next birthday. Then again if timmy were to have had time basically frozen for 50 years, it wouldn't be AS hard to hit a million, but you would still have to be wishing near constantly just to hit that threshold. This episode blows.
So, the Super Sitters, the episode where multiple adults see the fairies, Timmy's Dad's stupidity has made himself a danger to himself and others and Vicky uses a portal hole wasn't the dumbest episode?
The fact it takes them nearly til the end of the special to get to the fucking point is really telling. It's like how Sponge on the Run only really has the Sponge on the run near the end; you just know they didn't think this premise through. Especially since, oh, you know, that whole "Timmy made a secret wish and secret wishes were banned because [bad thing] happened [and could happen] so all wishes must be documented, but Anti-Poof discovers a document of a secret wish being made" thing... Wat? I never thought about it until now, and thinking about it makes my brain hurt because it's such a paradox: a documented, un-documented wish...erm...isn't that, like, literally a Catch-22? Seriously, that immediately defeats the premise of the episode: he made a secret wish...except no he didn't, because the wish was documented...so then how is it secret? I can maybe understand how COSMO wouldn't know: Timmy MADE him forget, but, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't the logic of the wishes that it only works to the extent of how SPECIFIC the wording is? Timmy didn't know about the whole procedures about wishes being documented, so he wouldn't have ANY idea to wish that the wish's effects would, too, extend to the fairy bureaucracy or whatever (which, I mean, seems a little bit...erm...like a Pixie thing, per the established lore, doesn't it?) So, okay, Cosmo doesn't remember the wish being made, but the fact there is a RECORD of a secret wish being made shows quite clearly the fairies responsible for putting this shit in their records sure as shit remember, so - and pardon me sounding like a broken record for asking - how is this a "SECRET Wish", then, hmm? I can scarcely think of a way I'd rewrite this episode to make it less stupid, but the intro of the special gave me an idea: what if, instead of only Timmy knowing what the wish was when it's brought up...how about instead we have it be a genuine mystery and have him trying to figure out "I don't get it! What'd I do that was so bad? Why can't I remember!?" all whilst being pursued by the Fairy Law, so to speak. That way we could have some real tension instead of this manufactured tension we know Timmy's going to come out unscathed from in the end; like, heck, maybe Jorgen's the one pursuing him and he says how "I don't take pleasure in doing this-..." could even throw in a funny moment where Wanda refutes "Yes you do!" and Jorgen laughs like "Oh, right. Hahah! Of course I do!" and everyone just has this look of 'oh, brother...' but then he goes all serious again and is like "Look...I'm just doing my job; you know how seriously I take it. Why do you think I legally changed my name to von Strangle?" With the ambiguity of even Timmy not knowing what he wished for, and him effectively running from the law, it'd drive the tension up so much more and make us want to see him succeed and undo whatever damage he can't remember causing. It's not like Fairly Odd Parents can't balance comedy & drama, just look at Channel Chasers as an example of this! This episode just has no excuse to be as terrible as it is; like, even if it was a STANDALONE episode of another show, it would STILL be bad because of how badly it flubs even BASIC storytelling! I've got nothing else to say, just...this episode just has zero excuses... :/
I like how he went through the entirety of the review without mentioning what the Wish Was. Can't tell if that was intentional, but it sure as heck was funny. Because even knowing what the wish is, the plot still make's no damn sense.
Man, imagine if they'd brought in Bob Odenkirk and made Timmy's lawyer a Saul Goodman type character. Breaking Bad had been around for two years at this point. It could've happened
I still think the dumbest Fairly Odd Parents episode was the "It's A Wonderful Life" parody that says everyone's life is magically better without the protagonist being alive. I haven't seen the episode reviewed in this video.
HOT TAKE I like the episode 'Lights Out', I think it was a creative concept trying to imagine how things look. I wish they did a second version that showed everything in the light.
Every time I think of Fairly Odd Parents, or even some of Danny Phantom, Hartman is clearly a guy who needs to be told "No". He doesn't seem to think his ideas through anymore and surround himself with "Yes men". It seems after some of his writing partners left, he stopped caring about anything he created. Its really depressing.
Rule of Dumb: if an episode in season 8 and onward has a situation that could be easily avoidable with common sense then it is going to be one of the worst episodes of the entire series or it going to suck. It is going to suck HARD
The raining rabid dingoes scene is just obscene amount of pure character assassination. I know Timmy Turner can be a bit careless about his wishes, but he was never malicious enough to deliberately wish for raining rabid dingoes just because he's bored.
wait pause... fairy odd bairy was SIXTEEN YEARS AGO?!!? i remember WATCHING THAT WHEN IT PREMIERED ....thanks MrEnter....i now feel old AND IM ONLY TWENTY FOUR
To be completely fair to a New Wish, from what I hear and know about it, I think it legit has a shot at revitalizing some actual quality into the franchise. I still would prefer it all stay in the past too but if they HAD to do it, it seems to be taking the right steps.
I can’t believe how hard this show fell off still, because I was there for all of it. From the shorts up to the stupid dog. My dad even remembers the “privacy by knocking” joke and “uhhhh, internet?” - while I remember those and the “what do you mean I can’t make two tickets appear like magic?” gilligan cut. I can’t even ask what happened anymore because this is just my life now. I was frozen in 2000-something and unthawed 10-20 years later, where things have changed, but Hollywood is desperately pretending they haven’t and we get Mean Girls and Fairly Oddparents and whatever else they can dig up from when I was a kid/preteen. Also, speaking of wand farts, *remember when the fairies’ wands did that?! Now the only way you can tell a wish went haywire is that they lost the wands again.* And oh, wait, I’ve got more: how is a fairy-eating cockatiel worse than freezing time?! Why even have Da Rules if they don’t make sense anymore?
I feel like the “secret wish” could have been a wish Timmy made by norm the genie & at least give some reasons why it took the fairies so long to figure out. Genie magic is more powerful so 🤷🏾♂️ idk
I think this episode could've been salvaged if it just had another draft where it was revealed that Timmy made a pact with Anti-Cosmo (deal with the devil analogy) in order to prevent himself from aging (so Fairy World can't document it), maybe using the three big wands from Wishology in order to bypass Father Time's ability to detect that time is frozen. The fact that it takes this little thought or imagination from a random internet stranger to fix the episode shows how lazy these industry veterans can be at times
No, Mr. Enter. I was born before this show came out, I was alive when it was good...and I sadly watched it spiral into a downward pit of mediocrity 😔😔😔
The only good joke this episode had, is at the start when Jorgen tries to write a song for Timmy's parade and he starts singing the theme song before stopping and going "nah, no one would like that"
The title had me thinking it would be one of the lore breaking specials but the thumbnail is something I’ve never seen before Edit: ok it IS the lore breaking special but wtf is that thumbnail??? Nevermind I don’t wanna know
Even Timmy is self-aware of how beaten into the ground this running gag is getting at 9:59. But, this is not the only time where this has happened. In the episode where Poof and Foop are competing for the lead In their school play, there's a running gag where the new girl keeps getting Foop's name wrong. So, by the third or fourth time, Foop (justifiably) yells in her face, "IT'S FOOP, YOU TRIANGULAR TWIT! ONE "F", TWO "Os", ONE "P"!IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT!"
This episode could have worked as a series finale if they had changed 2 things about it. 1) Foop is the 1 who set up the parade showing all the damage Timmy caused from his wishes since he wants Cosmo, Wanda, & Poof to be taken away from him. 2) The trial brings multiple characters from Timmy's parents, his friends, enemies, & even old characters who hadn't been on for a long time to help show both the good & the bad he did with his Fairies. At the end of the episode, the Fairy Council states that while Timmy isn't a perfect godchild he doesn't deserve to have Cosmo, Wanda, & Poof taken away from him, so they let Timmy keep his Fairies, Poof gets punished, everyone goes back to Earth with their memories erased, & Timmy starts making more wishes to try to reach 2 million. By going this route as a finale & ignoring the 2nd half of this episode it would have ended the series on a good note rather then the boring/forgettable way it did.
I find it absolutely nonsensical that being 60 years old means you're about 80-90. I saw some of my favorite VAs(such as Quinton Flynn, Jennifer Hale, Paul Eiding, Doug Stone, David Lodge, et cetera) online who were in their 60s, albeit still youthful despite the white strands in their hair. Both Finding Emo and Timmy's Secret Wish are listed on this channel as the 'dumbest episodes', but I think Dumbbell Curve is even stupider(no pun intended) cuz it is literally a rehash of Season 3's Pipe Down. Instead of pure silence, everyone acts idiotic. The climax had an asteroid about to hit Dimmsdale in both, and the civilians assume it's a giant muffin from the sky(Pipe Down had Timmy tell his fairies that he wished everything would return to normal, but due to the lack of sound Cosmo assumes he wants a taco). But that isn't the only FOP episode directly copying from an already existing one; in other words, the writers are out of ideas and keep throwing shit at the wall to hope it sticks, also playing part in an attempt to keep the show relevant. Nickelodeon should also be the one to blame for pumping out more than 5 seasons, and FOP being one of their usual cash-cows aside from notoriously The Loud House and Spongebob(and they keep squeezing the poor sponge dry, 25 years later). Though Poof isn't a bad addition imo, the inclusion of Foop and Sparky were bad omens to come, and the final nail in the coffin was Chloe; a Mary Sue who's flawless in every way, and everyone worships her like a goddess, only for Timmy to hate the fact he shares his fairies with her(another contradiction to the show's lore in-universe where fairies can be solely given to miserable children so they'll be happy). Who knows, the reboot might actually be good. Let's just hope it wouldn't fall under the same category as Fairly Odder: the kids sitcom revival *everyone forgot* a year after it first released.
The biggest logical disaster with this episode is actually that if you age up everyone on earth by 50 years, the youngest person on earth is 50 and childless. This means that there are no children on earth. So no children to have fairies and make wishes. No wishes, no power for fairy world... No power for fairy world, it falls down into the world of boiling oil. It is so incredibly stupid...
funny you mention that. that got retconned cause of one episode. the episode where crocker himself alone was keeping fairy world afloat cause crocker knows fairies exist. if he didnt then fairy world falls into a world of acid so they made it so that every crocker like person in the universe know about fairies thus keeping fairy world afloat
Timmy's secret wish could've worked if it wasn't in season 8. Even though i liked a majority of season 8, when you cram a bunch of specials into a shorter season you're bound to have at least one of them be awful.
i still think super sitter is worse. Yes this story has plot holes galore but I consider that better than being one step removed from UA-cam Kids brainrot
Chloe could have worked and even could have been a possibility to save the show if she was actuall a good character and not that "flawless" Mary Sue we got instead. She could have added a lot to the show if they would have brought some of the old characters back the writers seemed to have forgotten about. They could have made episodes were she meets Vicky and all of Timmy's other enemies and friends for the first time. Like and episode were Chester or AJ fall in love with her or Timmy showing her the world of the Crimson Chin Comics for the first Time.
Not mentioned in the vid, but probably the worst thing about this episode is the secret wish itself. Timmy wishing that the WHOLE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM stop just so he can get what he wants forever is an obscene act of selfishness you can never come back from
Another thing that bugs me about this episode is that they act like being 60 years old is the same as being 100 years old. It's not. Many people I know are over 60 and don't look that old. Timmy and his friends look like they're 80-90 years old, not 60.
I know alot of people wish the show ended with Channel Chasers but personally i think there was enough good after that t so i wouldn't end it there, if it were up to me the Wishology trilogy would have been the finale. It was both good and large enough to be a capstone and avoud 90% of the unwatchable seasonal rot
I still fondly remember the Fairly Oddparents when it was at its peak (i.e. seasons 2 through 4). Although later seasons had their moments, like "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales" and "Crock Talk", but the show lost its way with the introduction of Sparky (although he did have his moments) and later Chloe. Chloe could have worked if she was Cosmo and Wanda's new god child and Timmy had grown up and lost his godparents as a result. Timmy could still be a neighbor to Chloe (or perhaps a teacher) and Cosmo and Wanda could remember Timmy though he doesn't remember them. As it is, most of the supporting characters (Chester, AJ, Tootie, Trixie, Anti Cosmo, Anti Wanda, etc.) are written out of the stories altogether. Even Mr. Crocker is devolved from a deranged, but clever adversary to a total punching bag.
13:46 “When”?Dont you mean “If”?Now I understand if you we’re talking about Fairly Odder, but A New Wish sounds promising.I still liked the video though.
Nick definitely ran this show and SpongeBob right into the ground. The network went with their cash cows and cancelled a few shows after three seasons because they weren't pulling in the same ratings as SpongeBob or FOP. I read that Butch Hartman actually got tired of doing the series and decided to leave Nick in 2017. I feel like that's the only reason why Fairly Odd Parents ended. They also aired the last season episodes of this series on Nicktoons. While FOP wasn't my favorite show, I did watch it from time to time. I stopped watching the series and Nick altogether after 2005. Butch really wanted to end the series in 2006 after the last Jimmy Timmy Power Hour special, but Nick demanded he make more episodes later on that year.
Fairly Odd Parents didn't even have a "so bad it's fun" end like Spongebob where they completely jumped the shark with how absurdly bad it was, they just petered out and died like a silent fart.
So first of all Neptune is a gas planet, there's no solid surface to stand on. If you randomly teleported there you would fall inside and be compressed into a diamond. But if we are talking about the surface of Triton then you would freeze to death long before you suffocate. Also in what way is Sparky this in-your-face edgy character? I do not recall one episode where he pulls out a machine gun and blows people apart while Bring Me to Life by Evanescence plays.
You need to pay attention to the animated dc movies, usually two come out a year. Not all are good but most of them are solid, some are really good. You have teen titans vs Justice league, Batman vs TMNT, The Death Of Superman, & Batman Under The Red Hood.
and the next day, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day. I actually didn't mind this special growing up, but you make a lot of good points that I overlooked.
I love how everyone supposedly ages 50 years and yet Crocker still looks and acts normal. Shouldn't he have, like, instantly died when time went forward?
I honestly always believed that the Channel Chasers special was the perfect send off to the series. Not only does Timmy learn what will happen once he grows old, but he goes up against Vicky, the source of why he has fairies in the first place. The parents, for as neglectful and as gullible as they are, actually learn that their child isn't someone that they can just ignore or leave to someone else to deal with. Timmy not only decides to live out his time he has with Cosmo and Wanda while he has them but treasures the time he has left with them. That special showed that Timmy was on his way to be a good sensible adult, and all because he had his time with Cosmo and Wanda, even if he forgets about them.
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Can anybody name a show with a harder fall off? When this show got canceled, not only did nobody care, nobody NOTICED. Most of us tuned out after the dog but then everybody else left when they added the blonde kid.
Not to mention most people weren't even aware the "Fairly Odder" sequel even existed until it had already failed SO hard that both Paramount and Nickelodeon were embarrassed enough to delete all the episodes from streaming.
@@sammettiki just now learned there was a sequel.
I clocked out of this show when they added poof. I didn't even know it was still happening
i liked chester, i thought he was added really early on?
@@JoelTheParrot They’re talking about Chloe, who was added much later. Chester’s fine.
When it comes to series satirizing the difference between childhood and adulthood;
You either die Kids Next Door, or live long enough to be Fairly Odd Parents.
Kids Next Door ended with a cliffhanger about the Splinter Cell of the KND that I originally wanted answered, but now not so much.
@@eatatjoes6751nah, I trust Thomas. If he could just get creative control like he wants to, I have no doubt Galactic KND will be better than the original
@@ntfoperative9432 No, but they’ve been sitting on it for a full decade now.
@@ntfoperative9432 One can only hope that we might see Galactic KND someday.
It's sad because Fairly Odd Parents could've been legendary about how it portrays more cynical perspective about adults vs kids and family vs individual, while still having magic.
Which was also why I'm shocked of Butch Hartman's... Beliefs
"Some of you guys weren't even born when his show was good" really hurt my soul
I was born in 1999. So… I got to grow up around TFOP.
@@calebnwaobia6285 Same
@@calebnwaobia6285I was born 10 years after that
Phone call, Mr. Plankton.
"And the next one, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one..."
*"AAAAAHHHHHUGGGHHHHHHHH* !!!!!"
"Goodbye everyone, I'll remember you all in therapy."
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought of this.
“Nelson, will you just tell everyone the lunch specials?”
“Sloppy joes! And the next one… Tater tots! And the next one…”
I was expecting that to be the punchline in the video lol.
Timmy working with Crocker WAS genuinely a good idea in principle. Timmy is essentially going through the same thing Crocker did in his origin episode, and Crocker is probably more in his element here than anywhere else.
It was just handled horribly
If I remember correctly Crocker even is like "yeah you're going through what I went in that one episode where I lost my fairies everyone knows that's what happened to me"
@@rudevoices9204 Such a random meta joke
FOP probably had the most depressing ending of western animation, not in-story depressing ending, but the way the show ended.
I feel like this show should ended with Channel Chasers, Wishology or even Meet the Oddparents.
@@butterpants8153 Or the Jimmy & Timmy crossover, or merry wishmas, or even that episode of the fairy family photo (for emergencies only) are better endings than the one we got
That's what happens when Nick treats Fairly OddParents by squeezing too much just because it not as popular as Nick's golden child SpongeBob SquarePants. Same goes when cancelling Invader Zim and Harvey Beaks.
Look. Don't get me wrong. I loved SB, TFOP, and Harvey Beaks. I just hate when Nick pressure other show just because its not reaching the same popularity as SpongeBob. The worst part is Nick cancelled Invader Zim and pressured TFOP by not ending it just because it wants to be as popular as SBSP, while SBSP already rot in quality between seasons 6 to 9a by airing disgusting (i.e. Pet or Pests, The Splinter) and sadistic (i.e. A Pal for Gary, One Coarse Meal, Squid Baby, Little Yellow Book, & SB You're FIred) episodes. Stephen Hillenberg (creator of SB) and Butch Hartman (creator of TFOP) really wanted to end those shows on a good note, but Nick forced their shows to jump the shark just to make money.
@@spongeotakuphHow Nick treats their shows is a huge shame. If it isn't immediately as popular as SpongeBob, it's deemed a failure and quickly cancelled/hidden. If it does somehow meet those expectations, it's milked dry for decades and they'll refuse to let it go. The fact that they tried to revive *Rugrats* while they were laying off staff for Glitch Techs says it all
@@Commenter839heck, look no further than Loud House. By some miracle it actually did get as popular as sponge bob, not to mention it was good. Now look at it, season 8, and quality has spiraled. They even took the Disney route and made a live action version
Sparky is what happens when you take Poochy, remove his whole ironic existence aspect, and you then play him completely straight.
And swap out "Xtreme" for "idiot".
Sparky even kind of sounds like Poochy.
I never thought I would live to see Scrappy-Doo get more respect.
@@Attmay Scrappy-Doo hatred was honestly overblown. But yeah it was nice seeing him go "Puppy Power" on Velma. A cathartic and schadenfreude moment.
In one episode, Timmy was taken to a rehab facility because he was overwishing, and he is being praised for being the first godchild to make a total of a million wishes.
That would be the equivalent of praising someone for smoking a million cigarettes, and not dying from lung cancer yet.
wasn’t the rehab fake? like it was a plan orchestrated by the pixies to trick timmy?
wasn't that episode built on a lie, though? Like the pixies were trying to trick timmy into believing he was overwishing so they could control him?
@@TheMistermastermario You're thinking of the episode, Wish Fixers, the one he is talking about is the episode Wishing Well.
You'd be lucky to survive to number 500K let alone 10k
@@videon6134 *10k let alone 500k
The twist reveal of what Timmy’s secret wish actually was is not only very stupid, but it also completely craps in the face of the best special in the entire show Channel Chasers.
I'd argue that school’s out the musical was better than channel chasers, but I’m not arguing with you about how it ruins channel chasers.
That's what I said fairy odd parent's final should be wishology. Sure it was a generic way to end it, but still fitting. Again i think it is fitting to have wishology for like a grand finale of the world, while channel chaser would be the true finale for main characters.
no it didnt
@@starmaker75 alternatively, if you want something less "grandiose" but still fitting, meet the oddparents could kinda work as a sort of "the adventure continues" type of ending
Plus, Anti-Poof wanted Poof gone is an understandable villain goal
Until you remember the concept of Anti-Fairies: like Jorgen said,if Poof is gone then so is Anti-Poof
Crocker somehow remembering that he lost his Fairy Godparents really got on my nerves with this one. Originally, he read that they existed. He didn't know he HAD them
yeah the fact crocker just knows fairies exist now just through continuity or logic out of the window
and fun fact crocker knowing fairies exist was a plot device in an episode
He wrote it down right before he lost his memory, he doesn’t have any memory of it but he knows that SOMETHING was up due to the writing on the machine
Foop makes no sense
(1) He's baby that can talk perfectly and has facial hair
(2) His name isn't anti-poof
(3) His plan is to get rid of the reason he exist in this episode
(4) Also remember when the anti fairies were first introduced and Timmy needed special glasses to see them?
to be completely fair, that last point hadn't been a factor since their debut. In every anti-fairy appearance after the debut, they just appear as normal
@@Mariokemon ironically, that's all thanks to the events of the second crossover with jimmy. as jorgen made it so anti-fairies were now visible.
one of the few times the show respected continuity by accident
1 Foop is a magical being so the rules of babies wint apply to him
2 Anti Poof doesnt have the same roll of the toung
3 Foop isnt all that bright .
If i remember correctly in his introductory episode anti-cosmo calls him anti-poof but he rejects that name and renames himself foop. Anyway after said episodes was nothing more than looser stewie griffin and permanently the butt of any joke .
Even the Anti-Fairies appear as normal in the video game The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' Da Rules and that game came out 20 years ago when the show was actually good.
This episode is literally throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
And nothing stuck
And went with everything because nothing stuck.
But everything bounced back because opposite happens
Figuratively
This episode (like many modern FOP episodes) is completely devoid of logic.
I vaguely remember the reason why Escape from Unwish Island worked was because the wishes Timmy unwished were the ones where he just didn't think of the consequences because the consequences might not be obvious to a ten-year-old boy.
Like when he wished for Imaginary Gary to be real. The idea that Gary might have been resentful for being abandoned didn't occur to Timmy because Gary hadn't been real up until that point. Why would something that hadn't even been real be resentful?
Or Dark Laser. Remember, he came to life due to a technicality. In Hard Copy, Dark Laser came to life because Timmy chose the "life size" option on a magic copy machine. How was he supposed to know the action figure out actually come to life?
Or what about Super Bike? That bike only started to get possessive because Timmy wished it was "just for him."
My point is that a lot of the wishes on Unwish Island happened because the consequences were not necessarily obvious to Timmy since they arised through technicalities or from Timmy just not anticipating the problem.
This Secret Wish episode doesn't work because it portrays Timmy as being uncharacteristically careless with his wishes. Like the raining rabid dingos or the secret wish in general. Even Timmy is smart enough to figure out that these would backfire on him, hence why the episode doesn't work. Timmy isn't usually this careless.
to be fair, the Gary stuff resolved with him apparently being traped in timmy's mind... but cosmo forgot to close the door.... and in hindsight i am surprised they didn't did more about how "timmy's mind is open for literally in it to come out".
I’d say even then, the writers didn’t care too much.
“Hey, it’s the Sphinx you wished away!”
“But I DIDN’T wish it away!”
“Ohh… Well, it sure helps the drama.”
@@LeafRazorStormMy point still stands. Secret Wish went out of its way to ruin Timmy's character. Timmy was not usually so reckless or careless with his wishes. He was just ignorant of the consequences, like any other 10-year-old boy who's still learning to navigate life.
I agree--normally it was just Timmy being a 10 year old boy not thinking things through, not really out of truly malicious intentions. Blatantly wishing for it to rain rabid dingoes is genuinely sociopathic. He's bored, so he wants rabid animals to rain from the sky and attack people? It could've easily been something more innocent and childish, like raining fish or something, showing him laughing seeing people screaming in confusion as fish are slapping random people in the face flopping as they are falling from the sky. I could believe a bored child may wish for that.
Don't worry, Enter. The franchise will get better once Cletus the Rapping Shark gets his own episode.
Who?
@kirinbobarcana It's a reference to Mr Enter's Fairly OddPet review. I think he made the joke in a couple of other FOP reviews too
Some trivia, in some shots of the crowd, you can actually see a dog-like fairy. That’s possibly a prototype design of Sparky.
Cool observation! …oh wait, that’s Sparky..
They predicted it.
OG fairly odd-parents : there are many rules u need to follow
Modern FOP : there are rules 😑
You know, Cosmo's actually smart. He literally forgot he made a wish, but the wish was still recorded. That's like if I forget to do my homework, but magically end up having a complete assignment without any effort of my own. Not even the smartest of humans can't do that.
Cosmo in the Early seasons was, While always a Ditzy Goofball, Has SOME Sense in Logic with "Just Dessert" Essentially turns Cosmo into the Straight Man after Wanda's Chocolate addiction gets the better the her. A fact that it constantly lampshaded throughout the entire episode.
I’m pretty sure it’s against Da Rules to give your godparent amnesia. Even still, that wish Timmy made just made him a worse person
Thinking about the later Episodes of Fairly Oddparents as an Adult can make you feel a weird Mix of Cringe, Sadness, and Pity
Doesn't all of Fairly OddParents as an adult make you feel a weird mix of cringe, sadness and pity, just like Teen Titans Go!?
@@happaxgamma No, the earlier seasons were genuinely good tv.
Not as much as the original Teen Titans, how horrible that show was.
I always thought that the dumbest Fairly Oddparents episode (and there are a lot to choose from considering the seasonal rot era) was the one where it’s revealed that Crocker, as in one man, is the source of all fairy magic. I wish I was making this up.
Fr. And fairy world was built over giant bucket of acid world? Why did Jorgen approve this?
Oh that episode was definitely stupid and insulting.
Crocker Shocker
one of my favorite episodes tbh
@@davidanthonymercado7064 it is also kinda of a dick move that, after lost his fairies, fairy world thought "we can profit out of this"
Remember when he said that The Fairly Odd parents had the decency to go away back in the start of 2020 (before the pandemic).... yeah that aged well lol.
Hot Take: Poof's debut episode was good. Poof isn't that bad of a character & Chloe was ok but she needed a lot more time to be a better character. Time she was never going to get.
I agree Chloe was much better than Sparky.
if anything i think it was a waste that all the downsides from poof's nature were ignored. i get why, but still annoying.
they only brought back once that "he causes lightning"
Chloe was an unnecessary addition and the character sucks. No need to sugar coat it
@@TSPH1992 No she had decent potential and her execution while not necessarily good was still a lot better then a talking dog who the the Simpsons literally said is a desperate way to get ratings.
Honestly I’d say Season 6 is about on par with the first 5 seasons.. it wasn’t till Season 7 it went downhill
9:23 MrEnter would pass Butch Hartman's School of "And Then The Opposite Happens" with flying colors.
“Oh don’t worry this comment won’t get a like!”
Alpha Jay would be proud.
It tells quite a lot when even Jorgen, the one who made these jokes, 3 times in a row, at the expense of just a few minutes, realised how ridiculous it got.
I can imagine just watching a bad Fairly OddParents episode would be very exhausting.
Imagine voice acting for one lol
Coulda just ended it at Wishology… but noooooo…. I think this treatment is even sadder than being cancelled too soon.
Just watching something so amazing just rot away until all that’s left is a sad little whimper of what it once was…
Could have have ended at Wishology only if they didn't revert the status quo
@@lee43795if what I’ve read is true, the memory wipe was only added in later drafts when it became clear they’d be getting a seaosn 7
I feel like an episode where Timmy does paperwork in order to be allowed to let Chester and AJ know about Wanda and Cosmo would be less dumb.
Hell an episode where Timmy and SpongeBob start a protest against the SpongeBob standard that Nick has for its cartoons would be more fun.
On that first one, it would be interesting for the show to try loopholes to make Timmy's friend group just that much closer.
Paramount won't let FOP die because they're hoping that they can bank off of your nostalgia, like most evil corporations do
1:32 for the record, he’s not a registered sex offender.
Second of all, I actually agree with Alpha Jay that Meet The Odd Parents should've been the final episode. It was perfect: came out a few months after the show's 10th anniversary, has a concept that was never fully explored before and it even ends with a book being closed! It may not have been as perfect of a "just in case" finale as Channel Chasers but at least it felt like a finale, especially compared to the one we got!
And I actually always shipped Timmy with Veronica more than either Tootie or Trixie. Still wish they wrote her character more positively, eventually becoming a part of his friend group and endgame love interest. At least Braceface and As Told By Ginger did something similar to this.
Yeah, Drake Bell just so happened to be a victim of one...
Nah Wishology was tht right point to end, his reasons for not ending it there were rather flimsy
Fairly Oddparents was such a great show and should’ve just ended in 2006. Even Butch Hartman said he only rebooted the show to help fund his other projects like Crash Nebula that was rejected by Nickelodeon. He no longer had any creative control of FOP by that time of that episode.
He was always the executive producer of the show until it ended
@@Brewart2012 but that doesn’t mean he was involved with every aspect of the show in its later seasons. There’s other people who wrote the script for FOP, he wanted to do other cartoons! Kind of like Matt Groening with the Simpsons, he stopped being involved in the episode after the 10th season, to work on Futurama!
@@Markimark151 The last episode he had any involvement with was Nuts and Dangerous, which he storyboarded with a guy Paul Lee.
@@Brewart2012 please don’t spam here. Only one comment at a time.
@@Markimark151 Sorry I’m at work and the WiFi wasn’t working when I tried pressing reply the 1st and 2nd times so that’s why it went on the 3rd and there’s 3. My apologies once again
I think the only reason why The Fairly Odd Parents was such an icon was because Butch Hartman himself was not as involved with it as we had initially believed when it first aired, and that the more creative control he got, the worse the quality became. It's because Butch Hartman is a shitty writer and an even shittier person in real life who just so happened to scam his people for a streaming service that didn't actually exist, and use his religion as a means to excuse all of his wrongdoings, like so many other religious Pharisees and heretics have been doing the past several hundred years. All in all, FOP was great when Butch Hartman didn't write the show. Plus, it was essentially being milked to death, or past its supposed death.
The “Secret Wish” Special could’ve just aged Timmy, Chester and AJ similar to how it happened in “Channel Chasers”.
Episodes like this just prove how the show’s timeline is all over the goddam place.
9:45
Mr. Enter: I mean, it also does have actual running gags
Me: true, but sometimes they are beaten into the ground
It’s funny how the amount of times I brought up this show to my class mates back in the middle school, I’d always get the same response.
“Is that show still going”
Butch Hartman may actively defend the nonsensical nature of the shows narrative and new characters in later seasons but I just don’t understand why he couldn’t have added arcs if he really wanted to keep viewers interested.
one year is 525600 minutes, which is around half a million minutes. Timmy is, as far as I remember, the same age as he was at the start of the series. I don't know how the math works here, but I'd imagine he would in fact have to wish OVER TWICE a minute just to hit a million in just under a year, assuming he got the fairies the day after his birthday and this episode takes place the before his next birthday. Then again if timmy were to have had time basically frozen for 50 years, it wouldn't be AS hard to hit a million, but you would still have to be wishing near constantly just to hit that threshold. This episode blows.
1:46 Same here, Chloe was I think over hated because she didn't have good writing or a proper means of of an arc.
She was much better than Sparky.
So, the Super Sitters, the episode where multiple adults see the fairies, Timmy's Dad's stupidity has made himself a danger to himself and others and Vicky uses a portal hole wasn't the dumbest episode?
That episode broke the series, but at least it wasn’t breaking itself every five seconds.
Super Sitters can barely even be considered an episode, it's just... sad.
The fact it takes them nearly til the end of the special to get to the fucking point is really telling. It's like how Sponge on the Run only really has the Sponge on the run near the end; you just know they didn't think this premise through. Especially since, oh, you know, that whole "Timmy made a secret wish and secret wishes were banned because [bad thing] happened [and could happen] so all wishes must be documented, but Anti-Poof discovers a document of a secret wish being made" thing... Wat? I never thought about it until now, and thinking about it makes my brain hurt because it's such a paradox: a documented, un-documented wish...erm...isn't that, like, literally a Catch-22? Seriously, that immediately defeats the premise of the episode: he made a secret wish...except no he didn't, because the wish was documented...so then how is it secret? I can maybe understand how COSMO wouldn't know: Timmy MADE him forget, but, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't the logic of the wishes that it only works to the extent of how SPECIFIC the wording is? Timmy didn't know about the whole procedures about wishes being documented, so he wouldn't have ANY idea to wish that the wish's effects would, too, extend to the fairy bureaucracy or whatever (which, I mean, seems a little bit...erm...like a Pixie thing, per the established lore, doesn't it?) So, okay, Cosmo doesn't remember the wish being made, but the fact there is a RECORD of a secret wish being made shows quite clearly the fairies responsible for putting this shit in their records sure as shit remember, so - and pardon me sounding like a broken record for asking - how is this a "SECRET Wish", then, hmm?
I can scarcely think of a way I'd rewrite this episode to make it less stupid, but the intro of the special gave me an idea: what if, instead of only Timmy knowing what the wish was when it's brought up...how about instead we have it be a genuine mystery and have him trying to figure out "I don't get it! What'd I do that was so bad? Why can't I remember!?" all whilst being pursued by the Fairy Law, so to speak. That way we could have some real tension instead of this manufactured tension we know Timmy's going to come out unscathed from in the end; like, heck, maybe Jorgen's the one pursuing him and he says how "I don't take pleasure in doing this-..." could even throw in a funny moment where Wanda refutes "Yes you do!" and Jorgen laughs like "Oh, right. Hahah! Of course I do!" and everyone just has this look of 'oh, brother...' but then he goes all serious again and is like "Look...I'm just doing my job; you know how seriously I take it. Why do you think I legally changed my name to von Strangle?" With the ambiguity of even Timmy not knowing what he wished for, and him effectively running from the law, it'd drive the tension up so much more and make us want to see him succeed and undo whatever damage he can't remember causing. It's not like Fairly Odd Parents can't balance comedy & drama, just look at Channel Chasers as an example of this! This episode just has no excuse to be as terrible as it is; like, even if it was a STANDALONE episode of another show, it would STILL be bad because of how badly it flubs even BASIC storytelling! I've got nothing else to say, just...this episode just has zero excuses... :/
I like how he went through the entirety of the review without mentioning what the Wish Was.
Can't tell if that was intentional, but it sure as heck was funny. Because even knowing what the wish is, the plot still make's no damn sense.
Timmy: Fifty years have passed, but I do not age. Time has lost its effect on me.
Man, imagine if they'd brought in Bob Odenkirk and made Timmy's lawyer a Saul Goodman type character. Breaking Bad had been around for two years at this point. It could've happened
Why is a grown man stalking a child? How is Mr. Crocker not fired and arrested?
I always thought mr Crocker was an allegory for a molester
Frrr
He has tenure and frequent visits to the asylum.
I still think the dumbest Fairly Odd Parents episode was the "It's A Wonderful Life" parody that says everyone's life is magically better without the protagonist being alive. I haven't seen the episode reviewed in this video.
That one I think is the most disturbing, poor Timmy
It’s like they were actively trying to jump the shark with this nonsensical special that ruins the ending of channel chasers.
HOT TAKE
I like the episode 'Lights Out', I think it was a creative concept trying to imagine how things look. I wish they did a second version that showed everything in the light.
Yeah the episode has a very creative concept!
Kind of similar to that one level in crash bandicoot (if you remember those levels?)
Yeah just never got enter’a hate for it
Every time I think of Fairly Odd Parents, or even some of Danny Phantom, Hartman is clearly a guy who needs to be told "No". He doesn't seem to think his ideas through anymore and surround himself with "Yes men". It seems after some of his writing partners left, he stopped caring about anything he created. Its really depressing.
Rule of Dumb: if an episode in season 8 and onward has a situation that could be easily avoidable with common sense then it is going to be one of the worst episodes of the entire series or it going to suck. It is going to suck HARD
season 6 wasnt that bad
@@michaelg4981 good point, mid season 6
@@BasherYT666 nah id say as soon as foop was introduced
@@michaelg4981 That was season 7
@@BasherYT666 i know
i said it a million times, ill say it again,
WIshology should've been the end
The raining rabid dingoes scene is just obscene amount of pure character assassination. I know Timmy Turner can be a bit careless about his wishes, but he was never malicious enough to deliberately wish for raining rabid dingoes just because he's bored.
wait pause...
fairy odd bairy was SIXTEEN YEARS AGO?!!?
i remember WATCHING THAT WHEN IT PREMIERED
....thanks MrEnter....i now feel old
AND IM ONLY TWENTY FOUR
For me fairly odd parents is like an old friend you don’t see very often and when you finally check in it’s like “you’ve changed man”
To be completely fair to a New Wish, from what I hear and know about it, I think it legit has a shot at revitalizing some actual quality into the franchise. I still would prefer it all stay in the past too but if they HAD to do it, it seems to be taking the right steps.
I can’t believe how hard this show fell off still, because I was there for all of it.
From the shorts up to the stupid dog. My dad even remembers the “privacy by knocking” joke and “uhhhh, internet?” - while I remember those and the “what do you mean I can’t make two tickets appear like magic?” gilligan cut.
I can’t even ask what happened anymore because this is just my life now. I was frozen in 2000-something and unthawed 10-20 years later, where things have changed, but Hollywood is desperately pretending they haven’t and we get Mean Girls and Fairly Oddparents and whatever else they can dig up from when I was a kid/preteen.
Also, speaking of wand farts, *remember when the fairies’ wands did that?! Now the only way you can tell a wish went haywire is that they lost the wands again.*
And oh, wait, I’ve got more: how is a fairy-eating cockatiel worse than freezing time?! Why even have Da Rules if they don’t make sense anymore?
You uploaded at the right time, now I have something to watch while I eat! Thank you Mr!
I just ate
Sad Of Stephen Hillenburgs Passing R.I.P
Crazy timing! I just finished rewatching the last Ed, Edd n Eddy video!
I feel like the “secret wish” could have been a wish Timmy made by norm the genie & at least give some reasons why it took the fairies so long to figure out. Genie magic is more powerful so 🤷🏾♂️ idk
Genie magic also has no rules. i assume.
@@woobgamer5210 Yes it was explicitly stated in Norm's first appearance that genie magic is rule-free.
I think this episode could've been salvaged if it just had another draft where it was revealed that Timmy made a pact with Anti-Cosmo (deal with the devil analogy) in order to prevent himself from aging (so Fairy World can't document it), maybe using the three big wands from Wishology in order to bypass Father Time's ability to detect that time is frozen.
The fact that it takes this little thought or imagination from a random internet stranger to fix the episode shows how lazy these industry veterans can be at times
No, Mr. Enter. I was born before this show came out, I was alive when it was good...and I sadly watched it spiral into a downward pit of mediocrity 😔😔😔
i was born when it was good, watched it when it was starting the downward spiral
@@woobgamer5210 I was 3 when the shorts aired and 22 when the show spiraled downhill.
The only good joke this episode had, is at the start when Jorgen tries to write a song for Timmy's parade and he starts singing the theme song before stopping and going "nah, no one would like that"
The show pulls out theme song jokes a lot more often in the later seasons too, huh?
@@eatatjoes6751 Yeah
That thumbnail and Crocker's quote lived rent free in my head for years.
13:51 Phone Call Mr. Hartman
Mr. Enter: And the next one, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one.
Er, does Hartman actually feel that way about continuing the series?
@@mr.machine3328 idk
Fairly Odd Parents was the Family Guy to SpongeBob's The Simpsons. Like as hard as you might think SpongeBob fell off, FOP fell off harder
Judging by that fairly odd thumbnail this is gonna be one magical review of a horrendous episode.
The title had me thinking it would be one of the lore breaking specials but the thumbnail is something I’ve never seen before
Edit: ok it IS the lore breaking special but wtf is that thumbnail??? Nevermind I don’t wanna know
It’s not clickbait. That was a real cutaway gag in this episode.
Even Timmy is self-aware of how beaten into the ground this running gag is getting at 9:59.
But, this is not the only time where this has happened. In the episode where Poof and Foop are competing for the lead In their school play, there's a running gag where the new girl keeps getting Foop's name wrong. So, by the third or fourth time, Foop (justifiably) yells in her face, "IT'S FOOP, YOU TRIANGULAR TWIT! ONE "F", TWO "Os", ONE "P"!IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT!"
I hope someday he talkes about Code Name Kids Next Door.
I think when it comes cartoons m that show best represents childhood and growing up.
That would sweet, maybe he could also take a look at Craig of the Creek.
4:19
Woah now, some countries don't like that kind of math
i dont get it
This episode could have worked as a series finale if they had changed 2 things about it. 1) Foop is the 1 who set up the parade showing all the damage Timmy caused from his wishes since he wants Cosmo, Wanda, & Poof to be taken away from him. 2) The trial brings multiple characters from Timmy's parents, his friends, enemies, & even old characters who hadn't been on for a long time to help show both the good & the bad he did with his Fairies. At the end of the episode, the Fairy Council states that while Timmy isn't a perfect godchild he doesn't deserve to have Cosmo, Wanda, & Poof taken away from him, so they let Timmy keep his Fairies, Poof gets punished, everyone goes back to Earth with their memories erased, & Timmy starts making more wishes to try to reach 2 million. By going this route as a finale & ignoring the 2nd half of this episode it would have ended the series on a good note rather then the boring/forgettable way it did.
This is not the worst plot in the history of animation. That honor belongs to Scooby-Doo return to zombie island.
that and the 13th ghost movies uugggh
History likes to repeat itself…
That thumbnail though
I find it absolutely nonsensical that being 60 years old means you're about 80-90. I saw some of my favorite VAs(such as Quinton Flynn, Jennifer Hale, Paul Eiding, Doug Stone, David Lodge, et cetera) online who were in their 60s, albeit still youthful despite the white strands in their hair. Both Finding Emo and Timmy's Secret Wish are listed on this channel as the 'dumbest episodes', but I think Dumbbell Curve is even stupider(no pun intended) cuz it is literally a rehash of Season 3's Pipe Down. Instead of pure silence, everyone acts idiotic. The climax had an asteroid about to hit Dimmsdale in both, and the civilians assume it's a giant muffin from the sky(Pipe Down had Timmy tell his fairies that he wished everything would return to normal, but due to the lack of sound Cosmo assumes he wants a taco). But that isn't the only FOP episode directly copying from an already existing one; in other words, the writers are out of ideas and keep throwing shit at the wall to hope it sticks, also playing part in an attempt to keep the show relevant. Nickelodeon should also be the one to blame for pumping out more than 5 seasons, and FOP being one of their usual cash-cows aside from notoriously The Loud House and Spongebob(and they keep squeezing the poor sponge dry, 25 years later). Though Poof isn't a bad addition imo, the inclusion of Foop and Sparky were bad omens to come, and the final nail in the coffin was Chloe; a Mary Sue who's flawless in every way, and everyone worships her like a goddess, only for Timmy to hate the fact he shares his fairies with her(another contradiction to the show's lore in-universe where fairies can be solely given to miserable children so they'll be happy). Who knows, the reboot might actually be good. Let's just hope it wouldn't fall under the same category as Fairly Odder: the kids sitcom revival *everyone forgot* a year after it first released.
The biggest logical disaster with this episode is actually that if you age up everyone on earth by 50 years, the youngest person on earth is 50 and childless. This means that there are no children on earth. So no children to have fairies and make wishes.
No wishes, no power for fairy world... No power for fairy world, it falls down into the world of boiling oil.
It is so incredibly stupid...
funny you mention that. that got retconned cause of one episode. the episode where crocker himself alone was keeping fairy world afloat cause crocker knows fairies exist. if he didnt then fairy world falls into a world of acid so they made it so that every crocker like person in the universe know about fairies thus keeping fairy world afloat
Timmy's secret wish could've worked if it wasn't in season 8. Even though i liked a majority of season 8, when you cram a bunch of specials into a shorter season you're bound to have at least one of them be awful.
Hey, I know your channel.
i still think super sitter is worse. Yes this story has plot holes galore but I consider that better than being one step removed from UA-cam Kids brainrot
Fun fact, by the time you read this comment the video wouldn’t have been done yet
I'd still think the show of The Fairly Oddparents should have ended at Channel Chasers that should have been it's proper ending
Then we wouldn't have Norm the Genie or the Power Hour sequels or even Wishology.
mlp season 3 finale is where i got my start as a brony
It was really well-written and unique, then became the complete opposite
Chloe could have worked and even could have been a possibility to save the show if she was actuall a good character and not that "flawless" Mary Sue we got instead. She could have added a lot to the show if they would have brought some of the old characters back the writers seemed to have forgotten about. They could have made episodes were she meets Vicky and all of Timmy's other enemies and friends for the first time. Like and episode were Chester or AJ fall in love with her or Timmy showing her the world of the Crimson Chin Comics for the first Time.
Taking a line from The Alpha Jay I hear!
Not mentioned in the vid, but probably the worst thing about this episode is the secret wish itself. Timmy wishing that the WHOLE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM stop just so he can get what he wants forever is an obscene act of selfishness you can never come back from
considering this was at the point where timmy was irredeemable already and the plot of the special made no sense anyways
Channel chasers 20th anniversary is coming up. Soon Timmy's two kids will dig up the lunch box time capsule in the backyard
Another thing that bugs me about this episode is that they act like being 60 years old is the same as being 100 years old. It's not. Many people I know are over 60 and don't look that old. Timmy and his friends look like they're 80-90 years old, not 60.
I know alot of people wish the show ended with Channel Chasers but personally i think there was enough good after that t so i wouldn't end it there, if it were up to me the Wishology trilogy would have been the finale. It was both good and large enough to be a capstone and avoud 90% of the unwatchable seasonal rot
The cockatiel wish wasn’t recorded, but it’s not something you’d forget. That’s how they remembered it.
I still fondly remember the Fairly Oddparents when it was at its peak (i.e. seasons 2 through 4). Although later seasons had their moments, like "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales" and "Crock Talk", but the show lost its way with the introduction of Sparky (although he did have his moments) and later Chloe. Chloe could have worked if she was Cosmo and Wanda's new god child and Timmy had grown up and lost his godparents as a result. Timmy could still be a neighbor to Chloe (or perhaps a teacher) and Cosmo and Wanda could remember Timmy though he doesn't remember them. As it is, most of the supporting characters (Chester, AJ, Tootie, Trixie, Anti Cosmo, Anti Wanda, etc.) are written out of the stories altogether. Even Mr. Crocker is devolved from a deranged, but clever adversary to a total punching bag.
13:46 “When”?Dont you mean “If”?Now I understand if you we’re talking about Fairly Odder, but A New Wish sounds promising.I still liked the video though.
It’s written by the same guys who wrote Craig of the Creek and Infinity♾️Train and having watched both (Book 1 at least), that’s good enough for me!
Nick definitely ran this show and SpongeBob right into the ground. The network went with their cash cows and cancelled a few shows after three seasons because they weren't pulling in the same ratings as SpongeBob or FOP. I read that Butch Hartman actually got tired of doing the series and decided to leave Nick in 2017. I feel like that's the only reason why Fairly Odd Parents ended. They also aired the last season episodes of this series on Nicktoons. While FOP wasn't my favorite show, I did watch it from time to time. I stopped watching the series and Nick altogether after 2005. Butch really wanted to end the series in 2006 after the last Jimmy Timmy Power Hour special, but Nick demanded he make more episodes later on that year.
Fairly Odd Parents didn't even have a "so bad it's fun" end like Spongebob where they completely jumped the shark with how absurdly bad it was, they just petered out and died like a silent fart.
There's a damn good reason I only have Fairly Odd Parents up to season 5.
So first of all Neptune is a gas planet, there's no solid surface to stand on. If you randomly teleported there you would fall inside and be compressed into a diamond. But if we are talking about the surface of Triton then you would freeze to death long before you suffocate. Also in what way is Sparky this in-your-face edgy character? I do not recall one episode where he pulls out a machine gun and blows people apart while Bring Me to Life by Evanescence plays.
I kind of liked this episode when I first watched it, but since then I can see why people don't like this episode.
You need to pay attention to the animated dc movies, usually two come out a year. Not all are good but most of them are solid, some are really good. You have teen titans vs Justice league, Batman vs TMNT, The Death Of Superman, & Batman Under The Red Hood.
and the next day, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day.
I actually didn't mind this special growing up, but you make a lot of good points that I overlooked.
I love how everyone supposedly ages 50 years and yet Crocker still looks and acts normal. Shouldn't he have, like, instantly died when time went forward?
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That. That is the joke that’s stuck in my head.
13:18 I believe that's called the Family Guy effect
I honestly always believed that the Channel Chasers special was the perfect send off to the series. Not only does Timmy learn what will happen once he grows old, but he goes up against Vicky, the source of why he has fairies in the first place. The parents, for as neglectful and as gullible as they are, actually learn that their child isn't someone that they can just ignore or leave to someone else to deal with. Timmy not only decides to live out his time he has with Cosmo and Wanda while he has them but treasures the time he has left with them. That special showed that Timmy was on his way to be a good sensible adult, and all because he had his time with Cosmo and Wanda, even if he forgets about them.
…and the fact that they belong to his kids means that they’re still technically there for him.
The problem though is that it is at the middle of Season 4. So Schools out the musical would have been the finale of Season 4.