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[[caption-width-right:350:Kids just being kids!]]

* BrokenAesop: The lesson of most of the movie is that you shouldn't force your concepts of fun on others. However, in the final act of the film, after Flappy Bob finds out the Pixies had been lying to him, he decides that Timmy's ideas of fun were superior all along and immediately abandons his ideals of "safe fun". It's somewhat justified because "safe fun" isn't what Flappy Bob ''naturally'' considers fun; he's been brainwashed by the Pixies, and constantly slips into his clownish nature. Happy Peppy Gary and Betty are more straightforward examples, whose feelings are completely disregarded when the kids overrun the Learnatorium at the end and Timmy wishes to "fix" all the fun. It's a great ending for everyone... except Gary and Betty, who actually believe in the ideals of "safe fun". ''They'' didn't force anyone to come to the Learnatorium, but they're still treated as wrong for offering the service at all.

* AnAesop:
** There should be a balance between all parties when it comes to getting what you want. In this movie, the kids and the adults were at war due to their opposing views.
** Kids should be allowed to have fun and relax during the summer without causing destruction of property and putting themselves in situations when they can get really hurt.
** While the adults had a right to be concerned with the children destroying property and getting themselves hurt during the summer, that still doesn’t mean that locking the kids away and depriving them of their fun would be the perfect solution.

* GaveUpTooSoon: Flappy Bob's backstory. When he was a baby, the circus train his parents were on was speeding towards a ravine with a bridge out, so they placed him in a rocket and blasted it off in order to save him. Turns out, [[FailedASpotCheck they didn't notice there was another bridge across the ravine]], meaning they just sent their baby off in a rocket for nothing.

!!''School's Out! The Musical'' provides examples of:

''School's Out! The Musical'' is the third MadeForTVMovie of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.

* WritersCannotDoMath: In the opening song, Timmy says, "Time for eight straight weeks of sun and fun!", when in real life, summer vacation in America ranges from about 12-13 weeks.

* BatmanGambit: The Pixies' plan relies on on, in order: Dimmsdale's kids growing completely out-of-control during their summer vacation; their parents getting so fed up with it that they agree to send their kids to Camp Learnatorium; Timmy being so bored by Camp Learnatorium that he wishes kids ruled the earth; and the world's children doing such a good job of ruling the earth that there's no need for fairy godparents anymore. Then they reveal themselves to Flappy Bob and allow him to make the world exactly how he wants it, which Timmy cannot stop as he does not have his fairies, before taking over Fairy World. Downplayed somewhat as they ''do'' nudge things in the right direction, such as magically amplifying the kids' rampages.

* BrokenAesop: The lesson of most of the movie is that you shouldn't force your concepts of fun on others. However, in the final act of the film, after Flappy Bob finds out the Pixies had been lying to him, he decides that Timmy's ideas of fun were superior all along and immediately abandons his ideals of "safe fun". It's somewhat justified because "safe fun" isn't what Flappy Bob ''naturally'' considers fun; he's been brainwashed by the Pixies, and constantly slips into his clownish nature. Happy Peppy Gary and Betty are more straightforward examples, whose feelings are completely disregarded when the kids overrun the Lernatorium at the end and Timmy wishes to "fix" all the fun. It's a great ending for everyone... except Gary and Betty, who actually believe in the ideals of "safe fun". ''They'' didn't force anyone to come to the Learnatorium, but they're still treated as wrong for offering the service at all.

* CassandraTruth: Downplayed. While Flappy Bob refuses to believe that the Pixies are manipulating him, the possibility gives him a ''lot'' of self-doubt, and he repeatedly wonders aloud whether Timmy was telling the truth. Indeed, his ''very next line'' after signing the Pixies' contract is: "Maybe you're right; [this] could be a giant mistake''. Only when he hears the truth from the Pixies' own mouths does he realize Timmy was right.
* TheChessmaster: After the kids get sent to Flappy Bob's, HP and Sanderson play on Timmy's anger to sway him into making his own decisions, which results in him deciding to wish kids ruled the world.

-->'''Flappy's Mom:''' ''(Angrily)'' I thought you said there was no other way!\\
'''Flappy's Dad:''' ''(Crying)'' I'm a ''clown!''

* GoodCopBadCop: Parodied when Jorgen interrogates Cosmo and Wanda and has to do both, due to "budget cuts". Being [[CowboyCop Jor]][[GeneralRipper gen]], his "good cop" act lasts for all of about five seconds.

* JerkassHasAPoint: As boring and overly-sanitized as the Learnatorium is, its staff were completely right about Dimmsdale's kids being out of control and needing reining in. Of course, the Pixies are the ones who used their magic to make the kids last-day-of-school shenanigans truly destructive, turning harmless toys and bikes into motorcycles and demolition equipment. Otherwise, the kids would just have let loose for a bit, then settled in for summer vacation.

* LongGame: The Pixies' 37-year plan to take over the Earth and Fairyworld by manipulating the course of Flappy Bob's entire life. It ''almost'' succeeds.

* ParentalBonus: Near the end, Flappy Bob's dad Flunky comments that he and Flooky had a lot of fun in Las Vegas.

* SafetyFreak: Flappy Bob and his chain of suffocatingly sterile Learnatoriums. Bob was raised by HP and Sanderson on the belief that dull and boring was fun from the moment they found him, as an UnwittingPawn in their 37-year plan to take over Fairy World and install perfect order. At the outset, he just wants kids to be kept safe and to curb their destructive behavior by enforcing the only kind of fun he grew up knowing, at the cost of making children everywhere miserable by creating a completely restricted and sterile world to appease their parents and just as his Pixie puppet masters have planned.
* SafetyWorst: The Learn-A-Torium, as always. Then the pixies make the entire world like it...

* SuddenlyShouting: When Flappy Bob, Gary and Betty are overlooking the world ruled by children, we get a scene of Mr. and Mrs. Turner and Mr. Cricker in the classroom before Chester, who watches with complete silence, then he shouts, "HEADS DOWN!" which they comply.

** Flappy Bob's father mentions that one of the places they searched for him was the US Congress: "It was full of clowns, but none of them were fun!"

* TimeDissonance: All of the pixies' plans to take over Fairy World take 37 years -- not a big deal when you're immortal.
* TriumphantReprise: "Kids Just Being Kids" returns in the end with a more celebratory manner as the children embrace their true fun and even the adults join in.

** [[spoiler: At the end, Wanda arranges to Flappy Bob to find his parents. As she points out, he wished for "everything the way it's supposed to be" which has a lot of room for interpretation.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: How the Pixies are defeated. [[spoiler:Flappy Bob points out that the terms of the Pixies' contract state that Earth will be "safe and fun" ''as defined by him''. And having undergone his HeelFaceTurn, how does he define "safe and fun" now? [[ResetButton "Everything the way it's supposed to be!"]]]]

* TakeThat: Flappy Bob's father mentions that one of the places they searched for him was the US Congress: "It was full of clowns, but none of them were fun!"

* BigNo: Timmy's reaction to Flappy Bob signing the contract that gives the Pixies control of Fairy World (and, by proxy, Earth).

* AwardBaitSong: Parodied/Invoked with Cosmo and Wanda's soppy love duet "With You", which they sing in prison after being arrested by Jorgen... with the specific purpose of driving him to tears so they can steal the key to their cell while he's distracted.

* SafetyFreak: Flappy Bob and his chain of suffocatingly sterile Learnatoriums. Bob was raised by HP and Sanderson on the belief that dull and boring was fun from the moment they found him, as an Unwitting Pawn in their 37-year plan to take over Fairy World and install perfect order. At the outset, he just wants kids to be kept safe and to curb their destructive behavior by enforcing the only kind of fun he grew up knowing, at the cost of making children everywhere miserable by creating a completely restricted and sterile world to appease their parents and just as his Pixie puppet masters have planned.

* TheSongBeforeTheStorm: "Where is the Fun?"

-->'''Timmy''': [[LampshadeHanging Y'know, you probably shouldn't have]] [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging sent him to law school]]]].

* BrokenAesop: The lesson of most of the movie is that you shouldn't force your concepts of fun on others. However, in the final act of the film, after Flappy Bob finds out the Pixies had been lying to him, he decides that Timmy's ideas of fun were superior all along and immediately abandons his ideals of "safe fun".
** It's somewhat justified because "safe fun" isn't what Flappy Bob ''naturally'' considers fun; he's been brainwashed by the Pixies, and constantly slips into his clownish nature. Happy Peppy Gary and Betty are more straightforward examples, whose feelings are completely disregarded when the kids overrun the Lernatorium at the end and Timmy wishes to "fix" all the fun. It's a great ending for everyone... except Gary and Betty, who actually believe in the ideals of "safe fun". ''They'' didn't force anyone to come to the Learnatorium, but they're still treated as wrong for offering the service at all.

* AnAesop: There should be a balance between all parties when it comes to getting what you want. In this movie, the kids and the adults were at war due to their opposing views.

* CassandraTruth: Downplayed. While Flappy Bob refuses to believe that the Pixies are manipulating him, the possibility gives him a ''lot'' of self-doubt, and he repeatedly wonders aloud whether Timmy was telling the truth. Indeed, his ''very next line'' after signing the Pixies' contract is: "Maybe you're right; this could be a giant mistake''. Only when he hears the truth from the Pixies' own mouths does he realize Timmy was right.

-->'''Timmy''': [[LampshadeHanging You know, you]] ''[[LampshadeHanging really]]'' [[LampshadeHanging shouldn't have]] [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging sent him to law school]]]].