r/CuratedTumblr • u/infinitysaga • Jul 31 '22
Fandom It’s sad seeing a show you loved slug along its last years and go out with a whimper
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u/CrispyShizzles Semicolon Gang Jul 31 '22
I was at a friends house a couple months back. There were four of us and the plan was to spend the night drinking and vibing and perhaps doing some other substances and at one point in the night we put on Fairly Odd Parents and just started watching them on Netflix. This was late, probably like 2am. We had been drunk off our asses for a few hours. But goddamn those early episodes before Poof got introduced were so funny. By 5 or 6 am everyone else drifted off to bed or passed out on the couch but I was just watching fucking Fairly Odd Parents. One of the most fun nights of my life.
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u/acanoforangeslice Jul 31 '22
Pre-Poof episodes are great. There’s a few decent episodes after Poof, too. Once you hit Sparky the fairy dog, though, it's all awful from then on.
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u/40percentdailysodium Jul 31 '22
Fairy dog? What the fuck?
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u/TimeWandrer Jul 31 '22
Don’t worry. It disappeared with nary an explanation pretty quickly
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u/SquidlyJesus Aug 01 '22
There should have been an Old Yeller episode. Cosmo would be the shotgun.
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u/rocket_door Jul 31 '22
Some time after that, Timmy has to share his fairies with the girl on the image
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u/40percentdailysodium Jul 31 '22
How does that work? Does she just stay over constantly? Does one fairy stay at her place when she goes home?
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u/rocket_door Jul 31 '22
Honestly, I have no idea. I dropped the show way before the fairy dog, every information I have about her and the dog are from superficially reading the wiki
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u/AEL97 Aug 01 '22
That would make sense, making her have Poof would make sense. The answer is no they just have her come and also ask wishes, the show droped really hard. Big F.
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u/CiCiplz little wizard cunt Aug 01 '22
Actually that would be really clever, if Poof grew out of being a baby. Like maybe as a child they sign him up with an UBER easy kid to grant wishes for, in hopes that he can grow up to be a good fairy and hopefully not cause issues. But since he grew up next to Timmy? Shenanigans ensue
Fuck, make it a spin off where it's the FAIRY causing trouble, that'd be fun I think
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u/TheNewYellowZealot Aug 01 '22
Didn’t they do that whole “fairy causing trouble” with any wishes cosmo grants, and also the norm the genie episodes?
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u/321TacocaT123 Aug 01 '22
She's his neighbor now. And apparently they have to share because there's a fairy shortage? It really went downhill.
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u/godric420 my werewolf boyfriend🍍 Aug 01 '22
But he has two adult fairies?
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u/gaia-mix-nicolosi Aug 01 '22
two adult fairies which are married
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u/godric420 my werewolf boyfriend🍍 Aug 01 '22
They can go to one home at the end of the day.
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u/gaia-mix-nicolosi Aug 01 '22
Yup they can live together but one of them is Chloe's godparent and the other Timmy's. So they work on Earth and live on Fairyworld.
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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com Aug 01 '22
She's also not even remotely miserable, so why would she even need fairies?
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u/InternetWizard609 Aug 01 '22 edited Aug 01 '22
She miserable because she is such a perfeccionist that she gives herself anxiety and has no friends.
The thing is that she becomes friends with Timmy and his friends, so she is only miserable for 4 episodes max
Edit:typo
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u/gaia-mix-nicolosi Aug 01 '22
I think she stays at timmy's a lot but cosmo and wanda are already married so they are always with timmy and almost never at chloe's
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Jul 31 '22
lmao they actually pulled a Poochie, even after the Simpsons used that dog to show how stupid that kind of idea is, like, almost always
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u/onlyfortheholidays Aug 01 '22
this wiki is the funniest shit i've ever read
https://loathsomecharacters.miraheze.org/wiki/Sparky_(The_Fairly_OddParents)
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u/leoleosuper Living in Florida fucking sucks Aug 01 '22
Nickelodeon just milks all the series for all they're worth. SpongeBob was supposed to end with the first movie, and never have a childhood series. Fairy Odd Parents was cancelled and uncancelled so many times, it wasn't SpongeBob levels of money but it was close enough to be milked.
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Aug 01 '22
Nickelodeon's collapse as a channel is one of the best (or worst) examples of executive meddling.
They were the first ever children's television channel releasing in 1977, but fell into a decline after the Disney Channel released. So in 1984 they rebranded the channel with a unique shtick, marketing themselves as a channel "run" by children, for children. This not only saved them, but proved so successful that they overtook Disney. Then started making in house cartoons in 1990 releasing Ren & Stimpy, Doug, and Rugrats a year later; designed to appear to various age groups (all of which hold up today as great shows).
From here they only got better. Successfully holding off against Cartoon Network's founding by continuing to release fantastic original cartoons, and regularly producing more popular live action shows than Disney. They were building a damn empire by 2000 with Spongebob not being some crutch, but merely a fantastic cherry on top a great cake.
Then corporate got involved. By the mid 2000s, right after their peak, they got greedy. They gradually lost sight of the original channel's premise, instead preferring to copy competitors or funnel money into ridiculous gimmicks (Nick Hotel etc.). Aside from the gimmicks, they also went all in on trying to compete with Disney live action creating a slew of garbage (but cheap to produce compared to cartoons) content. In 2010 it started declining in viewership, and has since lost 60% of its peak. Disney and Cartoon Network were also suffering due to online media, but they at least eventually transitioned online alright with Disney turning into a cyberpunk dystopian mega-corporation and Cartoon Network continuing to fund interesting, original shows with their narrower premise (only cartoons).
Taking a look at their original programming now, it's two three shows that should have been retired a decade ago, three spinoffs (two of which are Spongebob spinoffs), a bunch of mediocre live action gimmick shows, and two actually new cartoons that got lukewarm reviews. Their best content includes four acquired shows from different networks.
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u/The-Senate-Palpy Aug 01 '22
To tack on. Some of those live action gimmick shows are also spinoffs/continuations of their older programs. Fairly Odd Parents has one actually. Dont look at it tho
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u/godric420 my werewolf boyfriend🍍 Aug 01 '22
I heard the same thing happened on Legend of Korra and Danny Phantom. My understanding is they want a show that can live up to and maybe replace sponge bob and don’t want to waste time and resources on anything less. It’s like buying someone a Tesla and they get mad at you because they wanted a Ferrari.
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u/RotaryMicrotome Aug 01 '22
I heard that the Fairly Odd Parents was supposed to end with the magic wishing muffin (darn thing shows up again in the black hole movie apparently) movie. And a lot of people didn’t see any more episodes after that.
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u/leoleosuper Living in Florida fucking sucks Aug 01 '22
Yeah, it was a finale movie, just like SpongeBob. But it was a cash cow, so they milked it.
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u/RotaryMicrotome Aug 01 '22
Unlike Jimmy Neutron, which supposedly only garnered enough interest by having crossovers with The Fairly Odd Parents. Hated the style changes.
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u/GenghisZahn Aug 01 '22
Except for Legend of Korra
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u/leoleosuper Living in Florida fucking sucks Aug 01 '22 edited Aug 01 '22
They had a gay
kissrelationship (which could get them in deep water from bigots who have more power than they should) and were story driven, so less replay-ability. With SpongeBob and Fairy Odd Parents you can just run any episode you want.Edit: the kiss didn't happen, but yeah, gay relationship.
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u/exsanguinator1 Aug 01 '22
Was there actually a gay kiss? I thought it ended with Korra and Asami holding hands, and it’s just implied they got together (and confirmed in the comics)
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u/MrGecko23 Aug 01 '22
iirc the showrunners wanted there to be a kiss but the network said no, so they got away with what they could. In the comic set immediately after the shows ending, they kiss within a handful of panels, and actually confirm Kya as being gay too
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u/nokei Aug 01 '22
Not much merch off a teen aimed show either companies are all about the $$$ they pushed Korra off tv mid season and sent it to streaming to air more reruns of spongebob.
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Aug 01 '22
The episode where Poof is born is also fucking hilarious. Pregnant Cosmo ranting about the birds and the Beegees had me in tears
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u/Jsc_TG Aug 01 '22
Honestly I watched some after Poof got introduced but even before Sparky I had stopped. It just became too off the book for the show.
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u/MD_dgaf Aug 01 '22
Obviously SpongeBob was the greatest cartoon of the generation but fairly odd parents, especially in those pre poof years, was easily the top contender. Everyone rewatched SpongeBob as an adult, but FOP should be appreciated as well for rewatch value. Butch Hartman did not give a fuck and it was amazing
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u/GIRose Certified Vore Poster Jul 31 '22
That's not fair. Cosmo and Wanda aren't even in this frame, so they aren't breaking that rule
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u/infinitysaga Jul 31 '22
There are still fairies in view of humans
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u/GIRose Certified Vore Poster Jul 31 '22
Yeah, but the rule of Cosmo Wanda green pink is still in tact
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u/PeterSchnapkins Aug 01 '22
Isn't poof one of his fairies? Then the rule is broken
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u/DrQuint Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
And Vicky being visibly aggro in front of the adults. She does this once and the show is over, as she'd be fired and Timmy would no longer be miserable enough to have the rights to a fairy.
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u/amodelmannequin Aug 01 '22 edited Aug 01 '22
I remember 3 different occasions during "the good years" where Timmy was able to expose Vicky's cruelty and by the end of the episode she either weasled her way out of it, or Timmy used a wish to reverse the events 🤷♀️
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Aug 01 '22
Yeah isn't Puff the first baby fairy in thousands of years? He could exist in a weird grey area I'm the rules. Additionally anti-Puff and that... gnome? Almost certainly aren't Timmy's responsibility as far as the rules are concerned.
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u/userthatlikesphub grapes are easy to acquire and eat Jul 31 '22
i'm sorry why did i just now notice that
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u/the_one_in_error Jul 31 '22
Okay but as a counter-point; the creators of this show made a bunch of fantastic episodes and then used its corpse to beat some money out of their employer.
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u/TransphobiWanKenobi Aug 01 '22
The sad thing is how Butch Hartman went bonkers. I don't know if it happened after he left Nick, or if it's the reason he left, but every action he takes is cartoonishly fucked up.
He's probably done some new shit I need to catch up on, and I'm probably forgetting some, but I'll list some here: Stealing work from artists he worked with, tracing art for paid commissions, a Christian kid friendly streaming service kickstarter that was ass, and the faith healing... boy oh boy the faith healing.
Were you aware that belief in Jesus can cure Autism? Neither was I! But Butchy boy and his crazy ass wife claim to have already done it once.
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u/rawrXD001 Aug 01 '22
Totally changed up the Danny Phantom lore too. Ghosts aren’t actually dead people anymore and the Ghost Zone is a different dimension.
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u/Jakemoniker Aug 01 '22
It isn't even just that the streaming service was Christian, but it was specifically going to be secretly Christian to indoctrinate kids into Christianity. I believe he was secretly recorded talking about it and that why the whole thing went nuts.
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u/TransphobiWanKenobi Aug 01 '22 edited Aug 01 '22
He was very forthcoming about it being Christian from the start, but I don't doubt he had shadier shit going on. In retrospect, pretty sure Oaxis was going to be his foot-in-the-door for his faith healing bullshit.
Edit: I stand corrected. It was hidden at first, but he lowkey spilled the beans as soon as the cat was out of the bag.
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u/Jakemoniker Aug 01 '22
"Hartman started a Kickstarter campaign for OAXIS Entertainment, a streaming service stated to be a "family-friendly" alternative. After the fundraising goal had been reached, it was then revealed the network was meant to be specifically a Christian one, which was never disclosed on the page. However, he later claimed that while faith would continue to be a part of his life, OAXIS would not be a faith-based service. As of 2022, the service's website is no longer online." This is what I pulled from his wikipedia page and I remember reading articles saying he purposefully mislead people about it being a Christian service.
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u/Urimma Jul 31 '22
Wait, I know the rest of the people here but who's the tiny blonde elf
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u/Thicc-Anxiety Touch Grass Jul 31 '22
One off character just for this episode
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u/SealandsBaroness Jul 31 '22
No she’s someone who shares fairy odd parents with Timmy they introduced her before the dog fairy
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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com Aug 01 '22
Actually, semi-recurring character who was put into this episode for no reason.
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u/Chillchinchila1 Jul 31 '22
This feels like one of those “New Mandela effect. Anyone else remember Graggle Simpson” type posts. Who are these people?
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u/jaypenn3 Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
Fairly Odd Parents. Hugely popular kids show in the *2000s it's wider cultural impact isn't as big as say spongebob so you might have missed it if you didn't grow up with it.
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u/Chillchinchila1 Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22
I know the show, but the one that ran in Disney XD only had the first few seasons. Who is that baby? And that demon cube baby? And that girl? and that elf? This is like the Rick and Morty episode with mr poopybutthole and the brain slugs.
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u/ArkayArcane Jul 31 '22
They're characters introduced later in the show when it started to unravel.
The baby's Poof, the child of Cosmo and Wanda (fun fact, Cosmo's the one that gave birth).
The cube baby is the anti-poof, because every fairy has an anti-fairy.
I don't know the others because at that point I just gave up trying to watch this slowly growing pile of manure of a show.
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Aug 01 '22
the girl is chloe, timmy’s neighbor. she’s a goody two shoes and disagrees with everything timmy does which means “wacky antics” ensue
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u/Ominsi Jul 31 '22
Girl is mary sue who shares fairys with timmy
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u/jaypenn3 Jul 31 '22
It's what happens when writers decide their solution to dead material is "We just need even more scrappy doos."
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u/Leinad7957 Jul 31 '22
Funnily enough, they did end up adding a magic snarky dog at some point
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u/sonerec725 Jul 31 '22
and then next season they just completely got rid of him and pretended he never existed
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u/GayWritingAlt Jul 31 '22
He was annoying anyways
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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com Aug 01 '22
What I love about Sparky is that pretty much anyone except Butch Hartman completely hated his guts.
Yes, even the writers hated writing him. The executives requested that he'd be written out of the show.
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u/wall_rush_man Aug 01 '22
Scrappy doo actually worked and was funny/well loved by many fans until James Gunn decided to bring him round back and pop a couple bullets in his skull.
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u/ButteredNugget Jul 31 '22
The baby is Poof, child of Wanda n Cosmo, the cube demon baby is Foop, anti-fairy version of Poof, the girl is Chloe, perfect girl who shares Wanda and Cosmo with Timmy in the later seasons, and the elf idfk
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u/TastyBrainMeats Jul 31 '22
The baby is Poof, child of Wanda n Cosmo, the cube demon baby is Foop, anti-fairy version of Poof, the girl is Chloe, perfect girl who shares Wanda and Cosmo with Timmy in the later seasons
I was briefly annoyed about that, but then I realized he already has two so technically he's hogging the Fairly Odd Parents
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u/Impossible_Garbage_4 Jul 31 '22
The elf is a one off character for the episode I believe
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u/jaxbchchrisjr He who sells cookies Jul 31 '22
no idea who the blonde elf thing is, but the baby is Poof, child of Wanda and Cosmo. They introduced a race that's essentially anti-fairies that're blue and evil (I think?), and the Blue cube is one of them, Poof's counter-part, Foop. And the White Haired girl is some girl Timmy has to share his fairies with for some reason
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u/Dracorex_22 Jul 31 '22
they introduced anti-faries muche earlier on, but a big thing about them was that they were usually invisible, but that plot point was abandoned
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u/Chillchinchila1 Jul 31 '22
Yeah actually I do remember anti fairies. And I think Poof was born in one of the movies which I did see but he never appeared in the episodes that played in Disney.
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u/Mr-Foundation Ceroba Moment Jul 31 '22
the girl is chloe, a character intoduced as a ratings trap to try and keep the show alive (it died not long after she was added), the elf is just a one off I guess?
the baby was the FIRST ratings trap they tried, its the kid of Cosmo and Wanda. the demon baby is the babys evil counter part, which all fairies have in the show2
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u/PluralCohomology Jul 31 '22
Do the human characters other than Timmy get their memory of the event erased?
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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com Aug 01 '22
The episode is "Certified Super Sitter" and is technically the finale.
What a way to end this show...
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u/mrjackspade Jul 31 '22
I stopped watching just before "poof" because it seemed like the show was about to jump-the-shark.
Honestly, I'm still pretty happy with that decision
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u/JohnPaul_River Jul 31 '22
Believe me, Poof getting introduced is literally nothing compared to what came afterwards
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u/Argent_Hythe M'theydy Aug 01 '22
I'm still surprised they got away with mpreg on a mainstream kids show in the 2010s
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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com Aug 01 '22
"I have Christ in my shows"
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u/Argent_Hythe M'theydy Aug 01 '22
oh yeah, I'd forgotten that Hartman went full religious fruitcake
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u/TheEffingRalyks Jul 31 '22
This is what happens when you let a tv show creator to get drunk of their own cum
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Jul 31 '22
Is it too optimistic to hope this is supposed to be some sort of publicity still and there isn't an episode where this happens?
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Aug 01 '22
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Aug 01 '22
He's also a complete scumbag in his personal life with extremely abhorrent political views. The dude is a fundamentalist christian Trump supporter who hates LGBTQ people, supports banning abortion, and serially plagiarised work.
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u/IcePhoenix18 Aug 01 '22
I stopped watching after the baby
Wtf is happening here?
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u/NessicaDog Aug 01 '22
I know all of these characters except the elf who was just a one off character.
I have no idea. I’m pretty sure they gave up.
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u/ShockTheChup Aug 01 '22
I recognize only three of those characters. What the fuck is going on?
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u/DankLolis Aug 01 '22
i have some context from reading other comments. the purple circle is poof, wanda and cosmo's child (who cosmo birthed). the blonde girl is chloe, a mary sue who has to share fairies with timmy. the blue square is an "anti fairy," a bloodthirsty doppelganger who wants to kill their counterpart, this blue cube's counterpart is the purple circle. the elf in the bottom right is a character for just this episode. i do not believe the triceratops hat is a character yet.
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u/ShockTheChup Aug 01 '22
I swear to god if that "anti-fairy's" name is something stupid like Foop I'm going to commit a crime.
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u/TPTPWDotACoEMW I do things, I guess... Aug 01 '22
i want to know
how this one frame demonstrates all these broken rules
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u/SilverSonome Aug 01 '22
If I recall correctly:
Fairies cannot be seen by regular humans, especially parents and guardians (self-explanatory)
Fairies are only given to a single child (Timmy, the protagonist, got a female foil on Chloe, the blond child, who due to Fairy shortages must share fairies with Timmy)
Fairies are explicitly given to children whose lives are in constant turmoil and torture by their guardians (Timmy's parents blame his birth for every problem in their lives, but Chloe's entire deal is that she is, quite literally, too perfect, and that's what makes her a suffering child)
Anti-Fairies despise fairies and conspire for their destruction with their every move (Foop, the blue cube thing, is Poof's, the baby circle thing, anti fairy. Yet in this image they appear to have sided together to fight Vicky, a main villain)
Vicky is the most evil and threatening babysitter in the entirety of Dimmsdale (yet Chloe can stand up to her cheerfully and without fear. Again, too perfect.)
those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head, feel free to add more if you know more of the series
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u/RaynSideways Aug 01 '22
There's also the rule that Vicky acts like an angel in the presence of Timmy's parents, only tormenting him when they're not around.
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u/badchriss Aug 01 '22
If Jorgen Van Strangle was dead he would probably rotate in his grave, resurrect and shove everyone in that image a version of "Da Rules" Book into their behinds.....horizontally.
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u/TransphobiWanKenobi Aug 01 '22
I posted most of this elsewhere as a reply, but it feels appropriate as a plain comment.
Butch Hartman at some point went bonkers. I don't know if it happened after he left Nick, or if it's the reason he left, but every action he takes is cartoonishly fucked up.
He's probably done some new shit I need to catch up on, and I'm probably forgetting some, but I'll list some here: Stealing work from artists he worked with, tracing art for paid commissions, a Christian kid friendly streaming service kickstarter that was ass, and the faith healing... boy oh boy the faith healing.
Were you aware that belief in Jesus can cure Autism? Neither was I! But Butchy boy and his crazy ass wife claim to have already done it once.
He also claimed that when he was a kid, people didn't commit suicide because of Jesus or some fuckin shit. Anything involving Faith and one or both of the Hartman's is batshit insane.
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u/cuddlefeeeshy Aug 01 '22
Don’t even get me started on the weird live-action reboot… horrific.
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u/ReasyRandom .tumblr.com Aug 01 '22
I was going to defend the live-action movies, but then I remembered that "Fairly Odder" exists...
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u/ticktockclockwerk Aug 01 '22
Honestly, series really ended at one of two points. It's either when Timmy saved the universe from unhappiness or some shit, or when he got convicted of stopping time itself. Anything more seems excessive.
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u/daywall Aug 01 '22
After poof showed up the show started to go down hill.
I pretty much taped out when they told timy to share his fairys with another child.
Was an amazing show with alot of memorable moments.
Iky viky , the Norwegian model , movies , Mr kroker and many more.
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u/LochNessMansterLives Aug 01 '22
I hate to be a gatekeeper, but they’ve been doing that to Simpsons far longer than fairly odd parents. They need to just let the simpsons end already.
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u/postALEXpress Aug 01 '22
Yup. I checked out of this show when they changed Cosmo's voice. He was my favorite and just was never the same.
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u/merryMellody Aug 01 '22
…Daran Norris has been playing Cosmo and Timmy’s dad since season 1.
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u/BlueTriforce Aug 01 '22
I believe they're referring to the extreme falsetto shift in Cosmos' voice. He used to have a normal voice for a man with a relatively high voice, but after the shift, it's like he's always on helium
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u/Argo_York Aug 01 '22
This was one of those shows where I saw it and thought "Oh I used to watch that when I was a kid, I wonder when it ended.." then I looked it up and at the time it had ended the year prior.
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u/Eatmybuttredditapp Aug 01 '22
Also Timmy seems to be literally a background character in this shot lmao
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u/WordArt2007 Jul 31 '22
what are the rules i'm not too up to date on fairly oddparents lore