Line #17 EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/TheFairlyOddParents


1	!!''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''
2	EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in this series.
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4	!!Oh Yeah! Cartoons and Season 1
5	* The ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts and first season were far different in compared to what came after:
6	** The shorts were animated using cel animation compared to the main show which was animated digitally.
7	** Da Rules book was colored yellow instead of purple in the shorts.
8	** Vicky had more deeply saturated red hair compared to the orange ginger hair she would have later.
9	** Timmy was far more of a [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] StraightMan compared to his more optimistic personality seen in the final show. He was also voiced by Creator/MaryKayBergman in the original shorts. When the series was picked up, Timmy was voiced by Creator/TaraStrong due to Bergman's death. However, when the shorts were re-aired on television until the original airing of "The Big Super Hero Wish!", Strong's voice was re-recorded over Timmy's lines.
10	** In "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS0E1TheFairlyOddParents The Fairly OddParents!]]" pilot Timmy had red hair the same shade as Vicky's, in every other episode Timmy's hair is brown. WordOfGod is that this was changed to prevent Timmy and Vicky from being mistaken as siblings.
11	** Cosmo's and Wanda's current personalities were reversed in the shorts: Cosmo being the more down to earth one and Wanda being the ditzy spouse, though neither really came across as dumb (contrast crazy and stupid). Cosmo also had a more smooth baritone Phil Hartman impersonation, which even the start of the official series had distanced from for an increasingly shrill, helium pitched voice (WordOfGod said he was supposed to sound like a used car salesman).
12	*** In the first season alone, Cosmo and Wanda were then turned into a pair of [[{{Keet}} cheerful]] [[CloudCuckooLander wacky]] fairies ("two halves of a whole idiot"). With "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E4TransParents Transparents!]]" showing Wanda, being nearly as much of a {{CloudCuckoolander}} as Cosmo and does just as mediocre of a job as Cosmo at trying to act like a human.
13	** Vicky acted more like a bossy normal teenage girl, with the worst she did was give Timmy chores to do and take away his fun (like forbidding him to watch TV until his chores were done) and {{Blackmail}} him. A far cry from her more well-known charactization of being a [[AxCrazy crazed psychopath]] who tries to ''[[WouldHurtAChild kill Timmy]]''.
14	** Vicky mentioned having a little brother in the pilot. However, he was subsequently [[{{retcon}} replaced]] with a little sister, Tootie. Speaking of Tootie...
15	** Vicky's sister Tootie had a noticeably different design during her debut in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS0E5TheFairyFlu The Fairy Flu]]". Her head was more oval-shaped, her pigtails were a different shape, she wore pink glasses frames as well as a blue dress and she didn't have braces.
16	*** Vicky and Tootie's relationship was also different compared to the final show; Vicky actually stands up for Tootie, something Vicky in the final show would outright never do, and she even brings Tootie to Timmy's house while Timmy is recovering from his allergy attack.
17	** Timmy's parents always have their faces hidden offscreen, to the point where their original model sheets depict them as headless. Their outfits are also considerably different: Mr. Turner wears a teal three-piece suit and brown shoes, while Mrs. Turner wears a red dress and high heels, gold bracelets, and a pearl necklace.
18	** In one of the pilot shorts, BatmanCanBreatheInSpace was played straight. The show proper would avert this.
19	** In the shorts, Jorgen was portrayed as a regular Fairy Godparent (with a very scared godson named Winston) instead of being an authority figure of Fairy World.
20	** The Tooth Fairy was depicted with red hair in her first appearance rather than blue.
21	** Cupid's appearance in the ''Oh Yeah!'' short "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS0E7TheZappys The Zappys]]" depicts him as blonde, gigantic, overweight and wearing little besides a diaper.[[note]]though this design does appear on and off again in the series proper, notably the episode "The Same Game"[[/note]] In the series proper, he looks more like a standard fairy, has pink hair and wears a pink coat in addition to a diaper.
22	** The Crimson Chin's first appearance is in the final ''Oh Yeah!'' short "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS0E10SuperHumor Super Humor]]", where he notably lacks the black spot underneath the C insignia on his chin that he'd be depicted with in the actual series.
23	** A few title cards in the ''Oh Yeah!'' shorts ("[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS0E2TooManyTimmys Too Many Timmys]]" and "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS0E6TheTemp The Temp!]]") were animated, and one had no title card at all ("The Fairy Flu"), just the title on a moving image. The show proper used static title cards for all its non-special episodes (except "Super Bike" and "Old Man and the C-")
24	** In both the ''Oh Yeah!'' shorts and all Season 1 episodes, the ending cards have a saying somewhere that says "Made in Hollywood U.S.A!". This was dropped starting with "Christmas Everyday!", as at that point, post-production departments switched to CCI Digital.
25	* "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E2PowerMad Power Mad!]]": Cosmo and Wanda need to use human electricity to power their wands for an especially complicated wish. In any other episode after that one, they draw their power from the tower in Fairy World.
26	* In "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E3SpacedOut Spaced Out!]]", Cosmo and Wanda "borrowed" Mark Chang after Timmy wished for an alien for his friends to play with, claiming that they can't create an alien out of nothing. In later episodes, creating entire ''eco-systems'' out of nothing is almost not worth mentioning, since it happens so often.
27	* In "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E5AWishTooFar A Wish Too Far]]":
28	** Trixie briefly mentions having a mother. Later episodes imply that her father is a single parent (he shows up often with no wife in sight).
29	** The way losing ones Fairies happens is rather different compared to later seasons. Later seasons would establish that Godkids only lose their Fairies if they revealed their existence to someone without Fairies or reached a point where they no longer needed them, whereas any other case would require a set of exigent circumstances worthy of involving the Fairy Council, upon which the Godkid has their [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memories wiped]], and all traces of their Fairies' magic and/or wishes would disappear. Here, Timmy loses Cosmo and Wanda simply for being ungrateful towards them, and has the case take place in court first with a single judge presiding over it, said judge initially willing to let Timmy off the hook after he apologized until Jorgen Von Strangle pressured him into convicting Timmy. Timmy however doesn't lose his memories of Cosmo and Wanda, nor does the party created by their magic or any traces of Timmy's already existing popularity caused by his wishes vanish.
30	* "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E7FatherTime Father Time]]":
31	** Timmy uses the heat vision he wished for earlier to win a race. The second season would introduce the "can't use magic to win a competition" rule, though it could have been added after the events of that "Father Time".
32	** Cosmo and Wanda in the 1970's are shown to be a lot more {{mellow\|Fellow}} when interacting with their future selves, Cosmo appearing to be somewhat smarter and Wanda acting almost philosophical at times, and both being SickeninglySweethearts. This is in contrast to later episodes set in the 1970's depicting Cosmo and Wanda to be identical to their present day selves personality wise, with Cosmo just as stupid and Wanda just as nagging.
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34	!!Season 2 onward
35	* In early seasons, Timmy losing his fairies didn't include having his memories erased ("A Wish Too Far", "The Switch Glitch" and "[[WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe Abra-Catastrophe!]]". It wasn't until the Season 3 episode "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!" that this became an aspect of losing one's fairies.
36	* In "A Mile in my Shoes" judging by the angry look on Dinkleberg's face, Mr. Turner's hatred for him was mutual.
37	** Speaking of Dinkleberg, in "Fairy Friends and Neighbors" Mr. Turner actually invited Dinkleberg over, and it was the ''latter'' who wasn't interested this time around.
38	* When the Anti-Fairies made their debut in "That Old Black Magic", Anti-Cosmo had normal-looking teeth. All subsequent appearances would depict him with fangs.
39	* Dr. Rip Studwell was depicted with EyesAlwaysShut in his debut episode "Hard Copy". Subsequent appearances depict him with his eyes clearly visible like everyone else.

Context EarlyInstallmentWeirdness / TheFairlyOddParents