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5* Where the hell are Chloe's parents?
6** I'm guessing they're somewhere offscreen. Maybe she gets (or has to share) fairies because her parents are so busy.
7** Is anyone forgetting that we actually saw them in a few episodes of the series?
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9* In "Beddy Bye", Timmy simply wishes that people DIDN'T have to sleep, and yet somehow, people are rendered unable to sleep, AND people STILL get cranky from lack of sleep despite the fact that they don't NEED to sleep anymore? In what reality, fictional or otherwise, do either of those things make sense?
10** If memory serves, he wished that people ''didn't'' sleep, not that they didn't need it, just that they wouldn't. That aside, kid logic don't make the most sense.
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12* Why can't other children find out about fairies?
13** Are you going to be the one to tell them that they don't get magic fairies that grant their every wish when someone else does? Can you imagine how the other kids would react? I mean, I had a pretty crappy childhood and I would have been ticked if I found out some better off, completely unappreciative kid got FGP's!
14*** They can if the other kids have fairies. In general, Timmy's not allowed to ''reveal'' them to the other kids himself.
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16* Why doesn't Timmy ever get a restraining order on Vicky?
17** Because ten-year-olds cannot legally acquire one themselves are and his parents are [[AdultsAreUseless oblivious idiots]]?
18*** Well, one episode had Timmy mentioning that he had restraining order on Tootie once...
19*** I would imagine that his parents would need to ''see'' Vicky treat Timmy badly in order for him to have a restraining order against her filed. Vicky knows to hide how she treats Timmy, considering that she's under their employment. Tootie on the other hand, has no restrictions, meaning that it was probably very easy for him to show his parents how Tootie was acting.
20** Part of why Timmy has fairies is because of Vicky. If he got rid of her, then he wouldn't have that "miserable childhood" (or enough of it) needed to have fairy intervention. That and, in an episode where she gets fired, you had the Grim Reaper show up, so, while, Vicky is bad, there might be another babysitter that's worse.
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22* In "Wishing Well," the three kids deliberately show each other their fairies. Isn't that against Da Rules?
23** Da Rules makes it clear that people with fairies who met ''others'' who also have them are allowed to show them to each other. This came up earlier with Remy and his fairy.
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25* The HalloweenEpisode "Scary Godparents", isn't really odd that while, Mummy Timmy just looked like a rotten version of himself, while everyone else looked exactly like vampires, superheroes, and Frankensteins and nothing like how they usually look? True, this affected Timmy later in the episode, but still...
26** Well, a mummy is basically a corpse wrapped in bandages.
27** That isn't exactly what I meant, watch as Chester and A.J. become the genuine product (read: Dracula and Frankenstein) but Timmy is just a rotting corpse instead of being King Tut or something.
28*** Its just a mummy. Timmy never say which mummy.
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30* Apparently, there are many children all over the world with fairies. Why is it that Timmy's the only person on the planet who wishes for insane things that end up affecting the entire world? Why is it that Timmy's never inconvenienced by the dumbass wish of some kid in Stockholm or Cairo or something? Also, seeing as Timmy causes that kind of damage worldwide on a regular basis (and is apparently the only kid who does it), why doesn't he have his fairies taken away from him for the good of mankind?
31** They have in the past. That's what the Hall of Infamy is for. Timmy may just be the one who does it the most in his generation.
32** Probably people have their minds erased so they don't remember all this weird shit. Could work for people with fairies, too. A SnapBack ResetButton for every kid with fairies!
33** Also note, they never said that the world WASN'T affected by the wishes of other children. It's just that Timmy is the main character of the show, so they kind of focus on him.
34** Most of Timmy's wishes aren't that "world-affecting". The other times, it's easily explained by world-wide memory-wiping, as Timmy does. And when that doesn't work, remember that we are focusing on Timmy. As to why he keeps his fairies: He's definitely not the worst kid to have had fairies.
35** I think some of you missed the whole point of the question. The question is basically Timmy sometimes wishes for things that affects other people around the world (ex. A World ruled by kids, Everyone's a Superhero, etc.). Why is it that the effects of other kids wishes seem to never affect him. I know that there are kids wishing for insane things like a world where everyone has a double, or something. Although the story is centered on Timmy, wishes like this should randomly affect him, just as his wishes does others.
36** Maybe they do, but many of those just don't get wished back to normal and become normal things, it's implied one of Cosmo and Wanda's previous godkid created tornadoes just because he didn't liked house trailers, maybe other cartoon physics are actually the result of someone making a wish for things to be so, though it's more probable that like Timmy usually does, his wishes were made only to affect a limited area, usually just his town.
37*** To answer some of this, those other kid's wishes either had to do with already existing phenomena (like Sammy wishing for tornadoes to hit mobile homes specifically), got reversed (prolly by Jorgen), or are a reason WHY Da Rule exist (like Maryann and the "No Killing People by Wish" rule).
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39* How do the Yugopotamians even exist? No, I don't mean how were THEY called into being. I mean how haven't they been destroyed, already? Yes, they're a warmongering aliens empire, but even alien empires conquer other planets in order to exploit them for resources and slave labor. The Yugopotamians just obliterate planets without a second thought. Building off of that, I'm pretty sure destroying entire planets would make you a REALLY big threat that the rest of the galaxy would want to stop. Why hasn't every other alien race teamed up to destroy Yugopotamia to end their threat, once and for all? Hell! Especially when it would be incredibly easy to destroy the Yugopotamians. Just get some pillows and chocolate bars, and you could wipe out the entire race. And then of course, there's the celebration of F.L.A.R.G.. Why would other planets even trust the Yugopotamians enough to host F.L.A.R.G.? Especially when they know that the Yugopotamians blow up every planet that hosts F.L.A.R.G.? In fact,considering that Yugopotamians explode when they can't celebrate F.L.A.R.G., every planet refusing to host the event would easily wipe them out.
40** The Giggle Pies have tried annihilating them (albeit because they're omnicidal anyway), so they aren't 100% safe. Their prolonged reign might have be up to how powerful their empire actually is. While we have seen them in moments of incompetence, their total disregard for outsiders' lives could mean they have plenty of tools to successfully fend off opponents.
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42* If fairy godparents are assigned to "miserable kids" to make them happy, then how come there are still millions of miserable children in third world countries or the Middle East who have to suffer horrible traumatic experiences ''everyday''? What the hell, why don't they all have fairies? I mean jeezus, a homeless orphan who's on the brink of starvation with a terminal illness is more deserving for magical fairy guardians than an "average kid that no one understands".
43** Maybe WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents universe is different from ours. Maybe the kids there DO have fairies, and as a result, the nations are no longer in poverty, so it's not really a concern.
44** That's a difficult question to answer, but I'll try. The response below (someone with no luxuries would not be able to hide them) does give a rather good explanation. I imagine there are other factors; one fanfiction suggested that (in terms of depression at least) there are some people that are so far gone not even a fairy could help them. Also, if you listen to some of the things Jorgen (who is apparently the head of fairy world), it's clear there's some FantasticRacism going on; perhaps, he feels the same way about lower class people; human or fairy. Also, just because you're poor doesn't automatically mean that you're miserable. Chester, in the story, is an optimistic person yet he is clearly poor, and he does not have fairies, or at least [[WildMassGuessing as far as we know!]]
45** I'm guessing it would be pretty hard to hide the existence of wish-granting fairies in nations with little to no luxuries.
46** All that stuff is too depressing. Fairies just wanna have fun.
47*** Well, gee that's really cold hearted and self serving of them then to JustIgnoreIt then. Why don't the just rename the show [[HiddenElfVillage The Fairly Racist Oddly Ignorant]] Ostriches? It MAKES [[InsaneTrollLogic NO]] [[LogicalFallacies SENSE]].
48*** RuleOfFunny, mate.
49*** ...[[AGoodNameForARockBand that's gonna be the name of my new band]].
50** Maybe their world HAS no third world/starving children? Either they made them all rich and happy... or killed them off with a wish gone wrong.
51*** Considering fairies have been granting wishes for millennia, its arguable their influence prevented the third world and terminal illness [[RetGone from ever existing.]]
52** Maybe it is the same reasoning for why myths about Santa Claus are told to just about every child, but somehow, average kid Billy gets his Xbox for being good whereas a poor kid dies impoverished--because they don't think that kids are fully cognizant of unfairness in the world and that it would be the last thing that a privileged child would think of when watching/listening to stories about a magical being.
53** In one episode Cosmo and Wanda showed Timmy that they couldn't give him tickets to a rock concert (or something like that) because other people already had them. That means that the Fairies powers actually are only teleport (and for weird stuff that didn't exist before like printers that make picture real people they can engineer this with the materials) and all the materials are from this third world regions because otherwise they would have no power.
54*** They couldn't get him the tickets because even if they made new ones for him, there was a limited number of seats in the audience so even with magically created tickets Timmy and friends would have to steal seats from people who actually bought their tickets. And they couldn't add new seats to the stadium because it would violate to fire safety code.
55** Another, highly depressing theory: perhaps those children were just so happy to have a fairy that could make their lives better that they slipped up and revealed they had a fairy godparent--perhaps right away, even. Canon reveals that if you ever tell/show someone you have fairy godparents, they're taken away from you, you lose your memories of them, and judging from most examples in canon, you can never get another one. (Remy was a special case--his loss of Wandissimo just made Jorgen angry.) So, all those miserable children were so happy, they revealed the fairy's existence, and then were promptly put back in their miserable state.
56** One more depressing theory: those children on the brink of starvation and with terminal illnesses, if they got fairies, probably wouldn't have had much longer to live anyways. They could even be beyond the help that the fairies' magic could provide. With all the sadness a fairy would have to deal with when losing a godchild through their death, it may have become forbidden to help these children because it was pretty much a lost cause.
57** But you see, all of those explanations really only answers things in a [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist context]]. What bugs me more than anything else is that like the above stated, the creator seems to completely ignore this fact as it is never brought up anywhere in the series. In addition, it was stated in "It's A Wonderful Life" that Chester (who is slightly lower class) got Cosmo and Wanda, while children in the local orphanage didn't.
58*** In this world, Santa Claus grants wishes to any child in the world once a year (In the Christmas episode, many nations where Christmas IRL isn't celebrated were represented as well). A single wish from any fairy could solve world food problems and there are dozens of them. This world probably never had a third world in the first place. There are many differences between the real world and the FOP worlds which can only be explained by fairies, this could just be one more.
59*** No, a Doylist guess would be "The writer just didn't think about the third world." These are all Watsonian guesses.
60*** In one episode, we see the third-world, turnip-obsessed country Ustinkestan, in which 'inside' hasn't been invented yet, and people live in poverty and work in 'turnip mines'. Apparently the fairies there only grant turnip-based wishes.
61** [[OnceUponATime Once Upon A Time]], everybody was unhappy. Then came along fairies, who helped the people they could, but there were too many humans for them to help everybody. Thus, third world countries could not be helped.
62** Jorgen states that it's rare for kids to ever keep their fairies for over a year due to the difficulty of keeping them a secret. So all the miserable kids in the world ''did'' have fairies...then most of them blew it.
63** "Who's the most miserable kid in the world... a BANJO?! Well that settles it!" Yeah, I'm pretty sure the third-world doesn't exist here.
64** There was an episode where Timmy wished that his grandparents had never immigrated to America, and it's revealed to him later that fairies in their native country (Ustinkistan, or something similar) can only grant wishes relating to turnips. Maybe children from third-world countries ''do'' have godparents...It's just that because of that law, said godparents can only grant wishes pertaining to certain, not-very-influential things.
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66* I can't believe no-one's really mentioned this yet but ... '''What the hell is ''the point'' of the fairy god parents if all the memories of them and all the effects they've had on the kid's life are erased?'''
67** The point of fairies is to give "miserable kids" the power to make their lives better for the time. As was revealed in a few episodes, kids slowly ween off of their fairies as they get older. The kids willingly give up the belief and subsequently forget. In fact when Timmy wishes to be old enough that he should have lost his fairies, he kept them until he could undo the wish solely because he was still a kid at heart.
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69* Why does Crocker refer to the day he lost his fairies as "the second worst thing that's ever happened to him" if he had his memory erased?
70** If memory serves (in the earlier seasons, anyways), the day he lost his fairies was also the day that Crocker (who was working on a study) got chased down by an angry mob after Jorgen erased his memory, however, via Timmy's wish, he still lost his fairies when Timmy and his fairies messed up the past, but, somehow, while he lost his memories of his fairies, he still retained the belief in them to know they existed (and has been tryin' to prove their existence ever since).
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72* Timmy finds out he loses his godparents when he grows up in The Big Problem but he doesn't know in Channel Chasers (then again, Timmy has trouble remembering things seen in When Nerds Collide).
73** Timmy had accidentally wished himself into a much older man in ''The Big Problem'' - he may have thusly thought that he still had that much time growing up normally, or at least more than he actually ended up having, before he would really have to part with his godparents. In addition, in ''Channel Chasers'', he seemed more upset by the fact that he would lose all memory of Cosmo and Wanda after they left him, a fact that wasn't brought up in the previous episode, than just losing them as his fairy godparents.
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75* The pilot episode implied that it was the first time Vicky babysat Timmy but in Abra Catastrophe! there is a year between Vicky being Timmy's babysitter and him getting his godparents.
76** Where was it implied in the pilot that that's the first time Vicky babysat? It jut said it was the time Timmy got his godparents.
77** "Thanks for babysitting tonight, Vicky. Timmy just loves making new friends."
78** To be fair, adults aren't always known to be sensical in the series. The second part of that above quote could've been a non-sequitor. It could've easily been said "Thanks for babysitting tonight, Vicky. Timmy just loves teddy bears."
79** Speaking of Abra Catastrophe, during the battle between Timmy and Crocker where the latter poofs them through time and space, their first trip was to Saturn (or some other gas giant, it doesn't matter) in the vacuum of space, causing them to suffer from explosive decompression until they activate breathing apparati. That's as realistic as any other representation, given how little we know about explosive decompression, but later on, they're of sub-atomic size and inside of a pencil eraser. These atoms are several times their size, even electrons are about the size of their faces. I'm no chemistry expert, but how exactly could they be breathing oxygen, which also consists of atoms?
80*** They do not need to breathe at that size.
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82* Also in the pilot episode, Timmy said he wanted to have Vicky as his babysitter so he could keep his godparents but in most other episodes he wants to get rid of her.
83** There actually is an episode where Timmy turns Vicky into a child. He learns and keeps (for the most part) the lesson that without Vicky he wouldn't have his godparents. Then Vicky pulls out the chainsaw...
84** Vicky is vile and cruel. While Timmy is grateful for her being responsible for his fairies, there's still that point between "Thanks for the lesson" and "Stop trying to kill me".
85** As proven in one episode, if Vicky gets fired, she'll find another job where she can make people miserable, so Timmy is doing everyone a favor by hogging all of Vicky's torture to himself.
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87* Timmy was 10 in Father Time and Dream Goat but didn't have his birthday until Boys in the Band (or possibly after that). Episodes shortly after that make it seem that Timmy did turn 10.
88** [[ComicBookTime Floating timeline.]]
89** Timmy's secret wish.
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91* Timmy hadn't been born 10 years ago in The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker, which would make him 9. Later on he says he's 10, which would make sense seeing as how he's clearly shown to be in the 5th grade (unless Crocker was 4th grade teacher one year and changed to 5th grade teacher)... and it can't be just that his birthday's near the start of the school year since it's March.
92** You're trying to put logic into aging in cartoons? [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash Ketchum]] has been ten for at least a decade. And who knows how long it'll be until [[ComicBook/ArchieComics Archie and the gang]] graduate from Riverdale High?
93** Kindly refer to [[ComicBookTime this page]] for more information.
94* He made a wish and got a year older.
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96* Timmy's parents meeting a different way each time it's mentioned. Intentional? Maybe. Confusing? Yes. And then there's the whole nickname thing in Father Time and The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker.
97** My opinion: Timmy's shouting out of "DAD!" in "Denzel Crocker" is what started the nickname. And...well, perhaps short-term memory made them forget each other until the day of the race?
98** One small problem: "Denzel Crocker" takes place in 1972, but "Father Time" was in 1970. The real question is why neither Dad nor '70s Cosmo and Wanda recognize Timmy, and how Bill Gates lost them.
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100* In The Zappy's!, Timmy loses his baby teeth but in Teeth for Two he loses them again.
101** As far as reruns are concerned, the ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' [=FoP=] shorts [[CanonDiscontinuity never existed]]. With the exception of the pilot episode (or at least the part where Cosmo and Wanda come to Timmy).
102** It's explicitly stated that the Tooth Fairy loves his teeth. Any time he loses them, then, it's not unreasonable for them to 'grow back'.
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104* In Christmas Every Day, Santa only looks the way most people know him as at Christmas but in other episodes he looks like that.
105** Ummm... what?
106** I get what he's saying. In the first Christmas special, Santa was an ordinary businessman at the North Pole who became the iconic Santa through fairy wishing power. Even in other episodes, when it isn't Christmas and Santa should logically have no power, he still keeps his iconic form.
107** Because Santa likes his "iconic" form?
108*** The point might be that in the Christmas special Santa didn't have his iconic look until after he was blasted by the magic, making it a possible thought that he only has said form with the magic given to him. Once it's gone he goes back to his businessman appearance.
109*** Maybe one kid wished that Santa always had his iconic look.
110*** That would mean the kid knew of Kris Kringle's base form, which I'm not confident any human did know.
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112* In MM+ DD meet the CC, two of the Nega-Chin's wishes were that he couldn't be wished back into the book and that Cosmo and Wanda's magic couldn't effect the villains but he was still able to wish himself back in at the end.
113** I'm going to assume that the original wish could be contradicted because the same person who made it was breaking it, so that sort of cancelled out the original wish.
114** It was that the wishmaker cancelled the original wishes. In fact it doesn't need to have been the person, just their voice.
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116* The show states that genies always try to find the most malevolent way to grant a wish. So much so, that Timmy finally needs a lawyer in order to get rid of Norm the Genie. It makes you wonder why Norm didn't just give him the worst lawyer ever, aside from DeusExMachina, and the chance at a TakeThat.
117** Because, based on his facial appearance, granted the wish without thinking. Also, probably because making you spend time with a lawyer is pretty evil on its own.
118*** And he probably granted the wish without thinking because he didn't expect that wish. According to video that Norm was showing the mayor at the beginning of "Fairy Idol," humans always follow the same sort of pattern on their three wishes deal. [[FridgeBrilliance If he's been dealing with the same formula of wishes for who knows how many masters, he likely doesn't even have to think very hard on how to twist it. He's simply in the habit of dealing with the exact same wishes with only a few variation on details]]. He figured he had a fairly good grasp on human behavior. Timmy wishing for a lawyer did not fall within the normal formula and wasn't what he expected the kid to ask for in that situation. Thrown off balance by that, he didn't even think about how to mess things up. He just reacted and summoned a lawyer, specifically one he knew and was at least semi-familiar with. By the time he realizes how he's essentially trapped himself, it is too late and he's stuck granting the "messing up"-proof wishes. By the next time he encounters Timmy, he no longer underestimates the kid and has to actually start being ''really'' devious and clever. "Fairy Idol" demonstrates exactly what he's capable of doing when he focuses and takes his opponent serious.
119** Timmy did wish for the lawyer though, and the lawyer did favor Timmy and hate Norm. I think that Norm was worse off because of the wish not Timmy.
120** And what makes you think that the lawyer didn't charge Timmy an arm and a leg for his services off-screen?
121*** Probably because the lawyer was magically summoned - in that circumstance, I imagine that either a), a situation similar to the Bill of Rights' guarantee of a right to a lawyer if you can't afford one would go into effect, or b), as the lawyer hated Norm, he probably helped Timmy free of charge.
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123* The male fairy has the babies, but that calls to question of the purpose of the female fairy.
124** Just like seahorses, they still need the reproductive cells, I suppose. That, or just a question of familiarity("why fairies are human-like?" and so on).
125** The male fairy has the babies? It's not just because Timmy wished it instead of a proper "conception," or whatever they do?
126** Yeah, he does. Fairly Odd Baby.
127** And where does the baby come out of?
128*** The creators did an AssPull...oops, ThatCameOutWrong...and just poofed Poof out by Timmys wish.
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130* Cosmo states that he was the last fairy baby born at the time (before Poof), although it is fairly obvious that Binky is younger than he is.
131** Binky could just ''look'' younger than he is.
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133* Mama Cosma stated that it was customary for the godchild to throw a baby shower. However, earlier in the story, Cosmo and Wanda explained that the reason they had godchildren was to fill the void of not being able to have biological children.
134** Well, fairies have been around for ages. Even though Cosmo was the last baby one, Mama Cosma must remember how things used to go.
135*** That's not what the above troper means. Fairies have godchildren because they can't have real children, implying they never had godchildren prior to the procreation ban. Mama Cosma says it is traditional for the godchild to throw a party when the fairy has a real child. If they could still have biological children, they would not have godchildren yet. (Mama Cosma may have been lying to get out of organizing the shower herself.)
136*** While a lie isn't above Mama Cosma, I think it's more likely that fairies without children would have a godchild. And then when they get a wife/husband, they still have the void. And when they have their own child, they still must stay with the godchild until the time is up.
137*** Just because they can have actual children, doesn't mean they do. Because fairies live forever, they probably can't have a baby whenever they want to prevent overcrowding.
138*** Actually, if my memories are correct, Cosmo was the last fairy baby ever born because Jorgen outlawed them because of the something a then infant Cosmo did, however, Poof is an exception as there wasn't an ''official'' rule against a godchild wishing for one to be born.
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140* Poof is revealed to be a boy, but there are eyelashes on Poof's eyes. Since only female characters have eyelashes, Poof should be a girl. This might be the result of designing the character to look "cute" like a baby..
141** Exactly, you answered yourself.
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143* In the episode "Beddy-Bye", when Timmy made a wish that people didn't have to sleep, everybody got really irritable and tired. But if they didn't have to sleep, why would they feel the effects of not having slept?
144** Because it just made them unable to sleep instead of not needing sleep.
145*** But that's just it. Timmy said that he wished that everybody "didn't have to sleep". That means that not sleeping shouldn't have had any negative effects on people, because they didn't need it! Plus, since he didn't say anything about not being able to sleep, they should have still been able to if they wanted. Maybe Cosmo and Wanda just screwed up the wish when they were granting it? After all, they HAD just woken up by getting water splashed in their faces.
146*** There are two interpretations of "don't have to sleep". One is "remove the need for sleep" - in other words, allow the restorative effects that occur during sleep to occur while awake - which is what you believe it means. The other is "remove the mechanism that causes/forces sleep" - in other words, stop production of adenosine, which is the chemical that makes you sleepy - which is what the writers intended. Consider: "I have to sleep because adenosine builds up in my body. I wish people didn't have to sleep." That makes it clear that the wish granted will be that adenosine will stop building up. Doesn't mean the restorative effects will occur while awake.
147*** In fact, because adenosine is a nucleic base (a component of DNA/RNA), you couldn't regenerate at all without it, as it is necessary for cell division.
148*** The problem is that removing the need for sleep does not inherently take away the ability to sleep.
149*** OK, here's the explanation. The wish, which obviously went wrong, made everyone sleepy, but still unable to sleep. They didn't HAVE to sleep, because if they tried to they wouldn't be able to (they would just lay there), but the need for sleep remained.
150** If memory serves, he wished that people ''didn't'' sleep, not that they didn't have to.
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152* Why are grownups not allowed to have fairies?
153** Simple, The reason kids need Fairies is because they do not have the freedom to face the problems they face and to help them grow. Adults, on the other hand, only need to follow the law. So, they can solve problems with their status and have less restrictions, making it easier to solve their problems.
154** ''Fairly [=OddParent=]'' seems to suggest that elderly people, like Delores Crocker can be allowed to have them, so there seems to be an exception.
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156* If Chip Skylark is such a successful singer, how is it that he's not actually rich and the record company has to pay for everything? What happens to all that he makes from being a popstar?
157** Maybe Chip Skylark is an indie music artist, at least to a fair degree. Likewise, it's not unheard of for people to be famous but not wealthy
158** Perhaps the record company is his financial conservator via his contract and all his earnings go right to them. A shitty deal for sure, but the Odd Universe lives up to its name after all.
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160* How could Norm be having a party in his lamp and end up with a dress on his tail in "Genie Meenie Moe"? Isn't that like not really possible because genies can't use their magic in Smoof unless the master wishes it or something?
161** You don't need magic to throw a party!
162*** But I doubt Norm is the type to keep dresses in his lamp unless he wants to attempt a GenderBender [[PowerPerversionPotential (he can do that you know]]) or something because there are no females in his lamp that could wear it. Also why would a fish be in his lamp anyway? Riddle me this, will ya?
163*** It looked like a lampshade.
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165* If Blonda is a brunette, shouldn't her name be "Brunettea"?
166** She obviously has a need to pretend to be a blonde, being a famous actress and all.
167** Because Wanda wasn't named Wandetta.
168** Who says Blonda is her real name?
169** ''Isn't'' it a stage name?
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171* After Norm introduces himself to Chester as a Fairy Godparent in "Fairy Idol", shouldn't Chester be interested on how a genie suddenly became a fairy?
172** It was explained in the original script: [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/15589376/259262-Fairy-Idol link]]. Norm also had influenced the other competitor's choice of songs and seemed a slight bit smarter (though he is a genius already) then in the episode. Also, Cosmo's singing part in original ''Fairy Idol'' mostly consisted of him dissing Norm in song, whereas the actual episode had less of that.
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174* Why didn't Jorgen wipe out Chester's memory when he gave Norm to Timmy?
175** It is because Chester did not actually lose Norm, unlike Timmy.
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177* In "Back to the Norm", why didn't Norm just GONG up in the pizza in the first place instead of arguing with the pizza guy on the phone and then GONGING but anything but it?
178** Even Genies need human interaction of some kind. Being trapped in a lamp is pretty annoying, you know.
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180* In Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour, wouldn't the other kids notice that Jimmy's voice is different from Timmy's?
181** Timmy can do a perfect impression of Wanda. Chances are that they thought it was his ability to mimic voices.
182** Yes, but Timmy could only do that because of his shrill girly voice. Jimmy's voice is at least a bit deeper than Timmy's.
183** Well, on the Retroville side, Carl and Sheen aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, and as for Dimsdale, weirder things have happened with Timmy than a voice change and bigger head.
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185* If Mark's friends joined him on that road-trip to earth, how come we don't see them for the rest of Totally Spaced Out until the end of the episode?
186** There's a dump they can eat at until they have to go home. Why would they be focused on?
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188* How is it that Cosmo is able to understand and speak Spanish in both Timvisible and Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour when he says that he barely understands English in Engine Blocked?
189** In Timvisible, he was at a Spanish class, and some scenes have shown him to be a ridiculously fast learner.
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191* It is just me, or did Timmy technically blow his secret to Jimmy Neutron?
192** Since Jimmy thinks that they're programs, he hasn't spoiled the secret that they're magical creatures.
193*** Exactly. In fact, in the Crimson Chin's debut episode, Timmy brings his fairies to a comic book convention with no ill effect because everyone just assumes they're in elaborate costumes. As long as you don't admit that you have fairy godparents, you're OK; otherwise, you're free to bring them in public disguised as your parents or balloons or "big-headed kids in costumes".
194*** This is the same reason why everyone has seen and commented, in one way or another, on the pink and green stuff with floaty crowny things.
195** I don't even think blowing his secret would be bad. It's been established that non-humans and aliens can know of their existence, but not good old people from Earth. Jimmy is from ''a completely different reality.'' The Fairies have no authority over the Retroville universe, or indeed anything over than the main universe's Earth. It's like the king of England trying to order the citizens of France. Jimmy just refuses to believe magic exists.
196*** Actually, Timmy told Jimmy that Cosmo and Wanda are computer programs (holograms?) and Jimmy went with that.
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198* When Crocker does the ballerina spazz in "Birthday Wish", he blows the ballerina outfit to pieces in the third frame of his seizure and winds up in his boxers, but in the scene immediately after the spazz is over, he's in the shirt and tie again.
199** This is Crockpot we are talking about. If you want a reasonable answer, then just assume he has a backpack of spare clothes. And fairy-hunting stuff.
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201* In "A Bad Case Of Diary-Uh", Timmy said he's scared of clowns, however, in "School's Out", he doesn't seem too afraid of Flappy Bob.
202** Maybe he got over his fear.
203** I thought Vicky was the one who was scared of clowns.
204** No. Vicky was scared of cows.
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206* In the episode "Father Time" it is revealed that Cosmo and Wanda were at one time, the godparents of a ten-year old Bill Gates during the 1970s. However, this would be impossible because Mr. Gates was definitely older than ten at the time. I forgot exactly how old he was in the 70s.
207** He would have been in his late teens early twenties because Gates is the same age as my dad.
208*** He wasn't supposed to be Bill Gates, but rather a kid LIKE him.
209** Bill Gates was born in 1955, so he would have been at least 15 when the episode takes place.
210** Even if it was supposed to be Bill Gates, the thing is fairy godparents don't disappear after the age of ten. It seems that until you are happy, you reveal you have godparents, or stop believing.
211*** And there you have your answer. One of those three things happened before he reached the age he would lose them.
212** He's not Bill Gates. He's BILLY Gates.
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214* In a couple of episodes, Cupid is showing having a love for coffee. However, in "Transparents", Cosmo clearly shows us that coffee makes fairies hyper. Why isn't Cupid hyper?
215** Maybe it's just a Cosmo thing.
216** Cosmo and Wanda were transformed into humans at that time. Hence, the coffee would probably affect them differently than Cupid, who was a fairy (I think) when he drank the coffee. Alternatively, fairy coffee is a lot less potent than regular coffee.
217** Being hyped up on caffeine would darn well explain Cupid's rapid fire insanity.
218** Or Cupid could have built up a tolerance for the stuff (it's not impossible, trust me).
219** Plus, if we want to get technical, Cupid isn't a fairy; he's a deity (Roman god of love).
220*** Exactly. In one episode, he specifically calls himself the "God of Love."
221** Gay fairies can drink coffee with no side effects. It's in Da Rules.
222** The coffee he drinks has no caffeine.
223*** Cupid's already hyper enough, so coffee likely wouldn't do anything.
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225* In "Just Desserts", Crocker mentions something about the earth flying into the sun if the earth's weight were to increase significantly in a certain area (IE: Dimmsdale.). But, then he gives the kids more dessert to make them fatter. Did he want this to happen? And, if so, why?
226** Crocker is quite an angsty character, if you think about it and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds he may have just wanted to end it]] therefore he gave them more dessert in hopes that it would. Also, I think he and Norm would both go well to the song "In The End" by Music/LinkinPark, which should give some insight on the angst. Basically, Crocker was very angry and upset at the world and desired its ending.
227*** Or, because of the Sugar High, his usual brand of 24 hour insanity was amplified to the point where it made him spout sciencey reasoning for a moment, before returning to crazy-town and throwing all that is rational and logical out the window by contradicting exactly what he just said and making the kids gain more weight.
228** Then, of course, there's the whole "giving people dessert doesn't increase the mass of the Earth" thing.
229** It wasn't to make them fatter. He said that as a joke. He was just giving them desserts as a treat and jokingly saying it would make them fat.
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231* Cosmo and Wanda went only 24 hrs without granting wishes and they exploded, but Norm exploded in two weeks.
232** That could be because Norm is bigger than them (most fairies are the size of 10 year olds, Norm is the size of a human adult). Regular laws of the universe suggest that it takes a longer time to build up enough pressure to explode if you are bigger.
233** Norm is badass.
234** Genies spend hundreds of years without granting wishes. Norm spent the last 30 in his lamp. The question should be, why did he explode at all?
235*** He was a fairy-genie hybrid. What did the 30 come from?
236*** 1970s. But being only part fairy (if the above troper is accurate) could explain why he took a week to explode.
237*** I wouldn't call him a fairy/genie hybrid just a genie with wings stapled to his back. Ouch!
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239* In "Channel Chasers," when Timmy is bouncing around in The Bonzai Bubble, his Mom is selling a glass house. What kind of unbelievable idiot would buy, or even design a glass house?!? What if there was some sort of severe weather? The glass would crumble and he would be sliced to pieces. You'd think someone old enough to buy a house would be smart enough to know that.
240** His mother is just that good at her job.
241** It's called a greenhouse.
242** They just wanted to make a Music/BillyJoel reference (one of his most well-known albums is called ''Glass Houses'', taken from the old saying "Don't throw stones at glass houses"; also, the house Joel lived in was made of glass, if the house on the album's cover really was his house).
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244* In "Power Mad" Wanda says Timmy can't wish his friends out because he wished for a game that he couldn't wish himself out of. Last time I checked, "I" and "myself" can't refer to someone else.
245** He said "you" and "yourself".
246*** But just because you can't wish yourself out of the game, doesn't mean that you can't wish someone else out of it.
247** Cosmo and Wanda probably were suffering from an ear problem because of the loudness of the video games so they heard it wrong or ThePowersThatBe were [[SevenDeadlySins lazy]].
248** He obviously meant the theoretical "you" ("anybody at all, nobody in particular"). For example, "To make an omelette, ''you'' have to break a few eggs" -- that "you." Other languages actually have different words for you (singular), you (plural), and you (theoretical).
249*** Regardless of what he meant, he said 'self', even if any player in the game can't wish themselves' out, there should be nothing keeping anyone from wishing someone ''else'' out.
250** If I remember correctly, Timmy's wish was "...a game you can't be wished out of!" Meaning not only is it a theoretical you, it's also worded so no one can wish anyone else out of the game -- which, naturally, brings to mind the question as to why Timmy always seems to word his wishes so terribly.
251*** Nope, it was "a game you can't wish yourself out of". That doesn't mean wish someone else out of it.
252** First isn't there a plural you in our language ,y'all, and I think it's like this "a game you (theoretical) can't wish yourself (the same theoretical person) out of" so there would be nothing stopping Timmy from wishing them out of the game.
253*** English only actually differentiates plural and singular 'you' in context of numbers. "...You can't wish yourself out of" can apply both to you yourself or you and your friends or you and everyone.
254** Why don't we just go with the fact that it was an incredibly stupid thing to wish in the first place?
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256* Also, why did they need enough power to make the game that they had to plug their wands into the wall while transporting a kid to Fairyworld is supposed to be near impossible for one fairy but they can do that on a whim?
257** Different types of energies. Most fairy magic is teleportation, which making or even rewriting a game is not.
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259* Seems odd that Remy Buxaplenty keeps trying to wish Timmy's Godparents away. Isn't there something in Da' Rules?
260** Yeah, but he wasn't trying to wish them away himself with his fairies. He was trying to make Timmy ''lose'' them forever, regardless of method.
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262* If Norm is smart (like about [[ASimplePlan Crocker's plans]] and the [[ThreeWishes Three Wish Rule]] and stuff) why does he [[EvilGloating monologue]]? Is he addicted to it? Did ThePowersThatBe ruin his character or something? Why?
263** It's fun. Try it some time.
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265* Why weren't genies in the Fairly Odd Games? Or the other magical creatures? Deciding what the best magical creatures are is unfair if not all of them are there. Is this the fairies' FantasticRacism against them or something? Why didn't they at least ask? Possible reasons:
266** All the genies are trapped in their lamps and can't enter the Games.
267** The genies don't care
268** FantasticRacism
269-->All of the other reindeer
270-->used to laugh and call him names.
271-->They never let poor Rudolph
272-->join in any reindeer games.
273You know, like that.
274** I think if the genies had entered, they would have bet for their freedom. Also several others would also enter. That would have put Timmy in a moral conundrum that would be quite interesting to work out with the options being:
275*** If the Pixies won, he'd become an office worker in Pixie World. And they'd be the best magical creatures. ({{Canon}})
276*** if the Anti-Fairies won, he'd become Anti-Cosmo's evil godkid. And they'd be the best magical creatures. ({{Canon}})
277*** If the genies won, they'd be free. And be the best magical creatures.
278*** If the Leprechauns won, they'd do something related to gold at the end of rainbows or four-leaf clovers, probably. And be the best magically creatures.
279*** If the wizards and witches won they'd do something stereotypically associated with wizards and witches. And they would be the best magical creatures.
280*** If the fairies won, they would be the best magical creatures and Timmy would be able to make the other groups do what ever he wanted them to. ({{Canon}})
281** I personally think the reason only Fairies, Anti-Fairies, and Pixies compete in the games is because the games were created to settle an argument between those three groups. Genies and such weren't invited because they simply weren't a part of the argument that brought the games to life.
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283* How exactly did Cosmo and Wanda grant the "only two people in the universe" wish in ''Just the Two of Us''? Killing people is against Da Rules, so I'm pretty sure wishing everyone out of existence would be rejected. And even if Cosmo and Wanda poofed everyone to a pocket dimension or something, how could their magic effect those like Jorgen when it's been repeatedly shown that there are those that their magic has no effect on?
284** Maybe because Timmy didn't wish away everyone in the entire universe? He only wished that he and Trixie were the only intelligent creatures on Earth, besides Cosmo and Wanda, and Trixie didn't question why.
285** There's no reason they had to be dead. He just made them leave the earth temporarily. And of course, when they came back, no one remembered anything, or that would tell them that fairies exist.
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287* It's been shown by Mama Cosma that a fairy's color is hereditary, but Poof, the son of green Cosmo and pink Wanda, is purple.
288** Cosmo's mother is aqua. Also Big Daddy has no discernible color scheme but both of his daughters are pink(Blonda dyes).
289** Big Daddy's eyes are pink. Eye color is hereditary. Still, green is a mix of blue and yellow, while pink is a light red. If the genetic coding for yellow is recessive when faced with the red gene, purple may be a valid option.
290** Recessive genes are just weird like that. Something like a certain hair color might not show up for ''decades'', and then just pop up on any random kid in the family.
291** If their colors were hereditary, if you think about it then in 3 generations all fairies would be brown. I always thought there were some kind of 'master color' and every generation is a slight variation. (Aqua is a variation of green, and pink and purple are variations of red...)
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293* Why is Timmy still after Trixie, even though she's been shown on at least two occasions to be extremely paranoid and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder#Symptoms severely histrionic]]? You would think that nearly getting garden-tooled to death for leaving her alone for twenty seconds would be enough to turn a guy off, even with [[StatusQuoIsGod Status Quo]]. ''Especially'' since Status Quo agrees that she's flat-out, probably homicidally insane, and it wasn't just a one-episode wish backfire. Yeah, he thinks she's hot, but wouldn't the very things he tried to get rid of her for in at least two episodes be reason not to resume his already (mostly) baseless pursuance of her?
294** InUniverse DracoInLeatherPants
295** This is WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents. In case you haven't noticed, every human character is either insane or has some sort of psychological disorder. Timmy seems to have ADHD and makes completely crazy wishes, [[AesopAmnesia never learning anything despite the outrageous consequences.]] [[AbusiveParents Timmy's parents]] [[DevilInPlainSight are completely oblivious to Vicky's cruelty even though she has burst into their house with chainsaws]], suggesting they spend too much time in a fantasy world. Vicky is a sadist and pretty quick tempered. Tootie is probably bipolar and has an [[StalkerWithACrush unhealthy obsession with a boy that treats her like dirt.]] Veronica seems to think she's Trixie. Chester gleefully eats garbage and has a number of other weird obsessions. AJ...well, he's pretty sane, but he seems to have some MadScientist qualities to him. Crocker speaks for himself. Principal Waxaplax has attacked people over food. Doug Dimmadome seems to be [[CorruptCorporateExecutive megalomaniacal.]] Dinkleberg has pleaser syndrome. In short, sanity is overrated in this world.
296*** [[AesopAmnesia Never learning anything despite the outrageous consequences]] is probably the key phrase.
297** How does Status Quo agree with that? Trixie went insane for one episode, when she discovered that [[GoMadFromTheRevelation everyone she cared about had disappeared]].
298** Not to mention she had HiddenDepths. She kissed him in one episode for choosing his friends over popularity (though she made sure no one saw) and was shown to care for him.
299*** And now she's not insane. Status Quo.
300** Trixie does display remarkable periods where she has emotions for Timmy. The main problem is that Timmy, being the nice kid he is, will help Trixie and Tootie equally when they need it.
301** Crushes aren't so easy to shake off.
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303* In Fairy Idol, doesn't Chester know Timmy has fairy godparents at the end? How does that work?
304** No, because he never knew about Cosmo and Wanda in the first place, so the only fairy Timmy's ever had (as far as Chester knows) is Norm. And Chester's memory was erased ''after'' he made his [[ResetButton third genie-wish]].
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306* Something very minor from Channel Chasers- "Ignore the shaving cut and the [[PermaStubble five o'clock shadow]]-" ...Wait, what?
307** Maybe he got a really deep cut the last time he was shaving and had let some of the hair grow back.
308** They were in a ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' parody and the joke is that the Steve {{Expy}} is supposed to be a kid like the target audience, even though he's obviously in his late 20's.
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310* Despite the show's major case of general inner inconsistencies... in one episode, in which Remy Buxaplenty comes back, he befriends Timmy with the objective of making him lose his fairies. Somewhere in the middle of the episode Wanda mentions they can give him all those things Remy is giving him, and he replies that he's better, because he can give him what he wishes without having to worry about anyone seeing it. But not once, not twice, Timmy simply wishes something to his fairies in public (for example, in the classroom), and we're just supposed to assume that, since no one was on-screen, no one even noticed he was wishing something to his school material and suddenly it came true? ViewersAreMorons aside, is there any logic I'm losing here?
311** Never thought of that, but yes that is a huge case of them [[LogicalFallacies failing logic forever]] and having to repeat a grade.
312** Even worse when the fairies could be seen IN PUBLIC without comment.
313** Most of the time, Timmy makes wishes that appear as coincidence. Additionally the wishes he makes in that episode are predominately hidden-casting; one example in that episode being that he wished for a lunch before opening his lunch box so it's fully likely that his parents (who do care, as they point out and prove often enough) could have made it for him.
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315* Why did the Pixies and Anti-Fairies lose their individual motives, and decide that they wanted to destroy the world in Fairly Odd Baby? Wanting the world to be boring =/= wanting to destroy the world, having an uncontrollable compulsion (or job, desire etc.) to cause bad luck =/= wanting to destroy the world.
316** I can't justify the pixies, but for the anti-fairies: destroying the Earth would pretty much be the ''ultimate'' bad luck for the humans, right? A better question is why are the pixies even working with the anti-fairies? They're the complete opposite: order vs. chaos, basically.
317** Yeah, it would be the ''ultimate'' bad luck. It's unknown why the Pixies were there or why they teamed up. Perhaps the PowersThatBe supposed that since they were both evil...
318** Thinking about it, the Pixies act like a business. If they wanted order, isn't the most efficient way to do it is completely destroying the Earth?
319** Maybe then there would be no one to go against them?
320*** Or Anti-Cosmo brainwashed him. If he's as smart as Cosmo is stupid, I don't see why not
321** First, keep in mind that destroying the earth would severely limit the Fairies. Even with opposing purposes, working together would be beneficial for both the Pixies and Anti-Fairies in the long-run. Second, Anti-Cosmo is a calculating genius. He could have off-screen made a promise to let them recreate the earth as they want if they help.
322** I remember another guy who basically felt that destroying everything would bring about order. [[ComicBook/BlackestNight His name was Nekron.]] Maybe they felt that destroying the planet would mean the universe would be a less chaotic place, especially without any godchildren making wishes. Hey, at least it's an explanation...
323** HP never actually wanted to destroy the Earth, that was Anti-Cosmo's idea. HP only went along with it.
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325* If I recall correctly, Cosmo gets sick and spends an episode involuntarily transforming. The show then goes into detail about how Fairies' shape-shifting is a biological function, controlled by a gland. Yet how many times have the Fairies lost their wands and been rendered pretty much helpless?
326** Pretty much a FanWank VoodooShark, but... Could it be because the gland needed some stimuli regarding the functionality of the wands?? And that the sickness itself is because the gland gets too... sensitive... and produces shape-shifting under ''really'' subtle stimuli, which isn't meant to really... stimulate... the shape-shifting??
327** By virtue of being fairies, they're already magical but they need their wands to ''channel'' said magic into something specific. As far as the shapeshifting goes, their fagiggly gland (which failed in that episode) has a different sort of magic than the wish-granting magic.
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329* I just rewatched ''Wishy Washy'' and noticed something: after Cosmo and Wanda are returned to normal and Poof returned, Mrs. Turner walks on screen and starts talking to her son...''with all three fairies just floating there, undisguised, right next to him''. And apparently they aren't seen. AdultsAreUseless indeed.
330** Actually, she never really saw them, she was crying the whole time and didn't look Timmy's direction to see his fairies.
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332* Why doesn't Tootie have fairy god parents? Timmy himself noted that Vicky spends more time tormenting her since they live together. Shouldn't she be the one in more need of them?
333** In the episode "Birthday Wish" it is said that Tootie is twice as miserable as Timmy and can have fairies, but she also tried to give away her secret. Still, C&W never explained Da Rules or tried to stop her the way they did when Timmy almost blabbed in the first episode.
334** A more believable explanation is that she is too happy to have them. Yes, that Birthday episode said she was twice as miserable as Timmy, but that episode, Love Struck, and Boy Toy are the only episodes she acts truly miserable in, and in all three Timmy was just as responsible for her misery as Vicky was. As long as Timmy keeps occasionally doing nice things for her, Tootie stays in a medium where she is just about happy enough to not receive fairies, sort of like Timmy keeping Vicky around to remain miserable enough to keep fairies.
335*** Or perhaps SHE was assigned fairy godparents after the episode Birthday Wish, it's just pure speculation but [[spoiler:from the previews of the movie Grow Up Timmy Turner, she seems to interact with Timmy's godfamily]] that would imply that she is perhaps somewhat aware of them, also, [[spoiler: if this is the case, it may have been explained to her that she shouldn't reveal them]]. As for why we never have seen Tootie's godparents, perhaps she's just better at hiding them than Timmy!
336** Maybe, Tootie ''did'' have Fairy Godparents at one point of her life, but she told someone she had them and she lost her memory.
337** [[Troper/RoarkTenjouin I]] would imagine that there's some kind of simulation run on each kid who's eligible for fairy god parents to determine how likely they are to reveal the secret, and how easily they can be stopped. If they aren't likely to reveal the secret, or are, but could be stopped easily, then they get [=FGPs=]. If they are likely to reveal the secret and can't be stopped easily/at all, then they don't get them - and as we saw the one time Tootie did have Timmy's [=FGPs=], she almost revealed the secret to the town. So it's likely that they ''do'' know, by the risk is just too great.
338*** As oft mentioned in the eps, the fairies' services are need based, so, she's never been miserable enough long term to need them.
339*** The simulation theory doesn't make much sense. If it was true that they assessed how likely someone is to reveal their fairies, then Timmy wouldn't be treated as unique for being able to keep Cosmo and Wanda a secret for as long as he did. Alternatively, it would be so unreliable that they would've gotten rid of that method a long time ago.
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341* Near the beginning of "Just the Two of Us"... Chester is too poor to afford skates, but he can afford an entire female skating outfit?????
342** Well, it didn't say specifically that Chester couldn't buy skates, and AJ probably helped with the money.
343** His disguise doesn't look all that high-budget.
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345* Foop. If he was going to be born, why did Anti-Cosmo help HP kidnap Poof in the special when he would have his own super powerful baby? Why did Foop's birth happen a long time after Poof's? Is Anti-Wanda bearing Foop instead of Anti-Cosmo just another example of the 'Antiness' or is it an AuthorsSavingThrow? Most importantly, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking why did they screw up the established naming convention? It should be Anti-Poof, not Foop!]]
346** Remember Anti-Fairies are the opposite of Fairies so that explains why the Anti-Fairy female has the baby. As for it taking so long for Foop to be born, this was {{lampshaded}} a bit when Anti-Cosmo wondered why there was an Anti-Fairy for every Fairy, but there was no Anti-Poof. As for the name, it sounds like the producers were just looking for a gimmick name, even if it did fly in the face of established canon.
347** It probably was because Poof was the sound fairies made and Foop was the sound Anti-faries made.
348** A logical explanation behind Foop's name could be traced back to the episode "Nega Timmy". In it, Timmy wished to do the opposite of whatever his mom and dad told him to do. Once he made that wish, whenever a "Poof" cloud appeared, which happened every time his parents told him to do something and Timmy did the opposite of what they said to him, it was backwards and read "Foop" which might be why Foop was named that.
349** Scientists did a similar thing about antiparticles: the antiparticles to common particles in matter are the antiproton, the antineutron, and the positron (antiparticle to the electron). They had an excuse, though; the positron was the first antiparticle discovered.
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351* In the first Nega Chin episode, the representation of the Chin from the 80's is muscular and wielding guns. Wouldn't that be the 90's Chin?
352** Rambo is from the 80s. End of story.
353** If you mean that, as a parody of UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}}-era heroes, then not quite. It was probably more specifically a parody of ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', in which Franchise/{{Batman}} was depicted as a grim and gritty AntiHero. It was released in 1986, and is generally cited as one of two comics (the other being ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'') that kicked off UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}}, which lasted well into the 90s.
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355* In the episode where Timmy runs a lemonade stand to afford tickets, why doesn't he just wish for something (like a tank) and sell it?
356** First of all, he's 10-ish; not exactly an age of high intelligence. Second, because if he did ''that'', then we wouldn't have a 12-minute show.
357*** It would have been funny as hell to have him wish for the tank, try to sell it, and be rejected/laughed off for being a kid, and going through various other things before he HAS to settle on a lemonade stand.
358*** Plus, even if we did have a 12-minute show where he succeeds in selling the tank, it would've be focused on the destruction caused by TankGoodness and worm its way into the Ice Show.
359** Why didn't he wish for the stadium to have more seats, and then wish for more tickets?
360*** Because he isn't too smart. Alternatively, the stadium is on the edge of a cliff. Add in a few more seats, and bye bye.
361*** He tried that, Wanda said it would violate the fire code
362*** And besides, it was already mentioned.
363** Da Rules forbids wishing for money. I'm assuming wishing for something to sell for money would also be covered.
364*** If that were true, many wishes that generate objects in general wouldn't be valid, as any such objects could theoretically be sold for a profit. Unless said magically-generated objects would disappear when attempted to be sold. But if I remember correctly, the reason why money couldn't be wished up was due to the fact that it would be considered counterfeiting, which wouldn't apply if Timmy tried to sell non-copyrighted objects.
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366* In one episode, Timmy and his godparents switch roles, turning Cosmo and Wanda into normal kids (with green and pink hair, no less) and Timmy into a fairy. What would have happened to Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda in that episode?? Would they have become anti-normal children?? And would an Anti-Timmy had been born??
367** Fanfics about this do exist.
368** I think that only counts for natural-born fairies.
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370* In one episode, Wanda is shocked when Cosmo manages to light candles under the water in the fishbowl. (Just before he does it, Timmy asks "What's new?" and Wanda replies, regarding the candles, "Uh...the laws of physics?") But don't she and Cosmo violate the laws of physics in ''every episode'' by POOFING STUFF OUT OF NOWHERE?! It's kind of the whole premise of the show! I don't see why she should be so surprised that he could light three measly little candles.
371** Well, Cosmo lit the candles through non-magical means. If he used his wand, it wouldn't have been a shock, but he rubbed two sticks together.
372*** The sticks actually ''were'' their wands, so that probably had something to do with it.
373** First, most magic is teleportationor alchemy. Imaginary Gary had to exist, even if it was inside Timmy's mind. Gah is a future form of Timmy. Even the flying can be explained through the wings and a 'magical force' counteracting gravity. And neither teleportation nor alchemy technically break the laws of physics. Hell, there's Unwish Island where things that are unwished go because they can't be destroyed. And then the trash episode where we get introduced to Big Daddy.
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375* How could the Aquaman {{Expy}} get a movie when he was lost in space with the other superheroes Timmy wished for?
376** Actors? Like how Adam West was playing the Crimson Chin.
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378* Chester's dad is always referred to as "the worst baseball player ''ever''", and it's once said this is because he '''lost the World Series'''. Don't you have to be one of the ''best'' to even ''get'' to the World Series?!
379** Probably was benched the whole time, maybe. As a secret weapon?
380** Chester's dad probably lost the World Series for his team single-handedly by doing something really stupid or unlucky (e.g. missing an easy catch, striking out when it counted most, running onto the field to catch a pretty butterfly or something). As a result, he ruined his own reputation as a baseball player forever. He wears the paper bag to hide his identity from any fans of or teammates from his old team who might want to lynch him for his blunders. (This is Dimmsdale, remember - people have really, really, ridiculously short tempers here. Given that they're also really stupid, the paper bag is probably the height of concealment by their standards). Plus, we don't ever find out Chester's dad's name, do we?
381*** It's Bucky Mc Badbat.
382** It's never stated he got in by merit of how good of a player he is - he could've just been on the team so they'd have a complete reserve roster, but he was the one player they never had to call up...until that fateful day.
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384* In a recent episode where Trixie Tang throws a costume party, Crocker (dressed up as a fairy...duh) criticizes Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof for their "poorly made" fairy costumes...even though [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof aren't even in costume.]] Uh, did the writers suddenly forget that, oh, I dunno, Crocker is well-aware what a fairy looks like. This is the guy who can single-handedly figure out nearly ''all'' of Timmy's fairly-related shenanigans, and yet he's unable to recognize the very thing he has an obsession over!?
385** Futhermore, why is it that he doesn't recognize poof. In ''Bad Heir Day'' it's established that he '''knows''' Poof is a fairy (and is perhaps the only fairy he genuinely cares for) and he '''knows''' that Cosmo and Wanda are Poof's parents. Earth to Crocker, that fairy you briefly raised as your own son..he's right in front of you!
386*** That may be the reason actually. If he cares for Poof why would he want to expose him? he probably would want to do it without him being there.
387*** Perhaps a case of bad heir day taking place after this episode. Spongebob is known for not broadcasting the episodes in chronological order, why not FOP?
388** First, there's a considerable lack of chronology among episodes. Yes seasons tend to be chronological, and mini-plots may reference past episodes in the plotline, most other episodes are stand-alone with no real chronological aspect to them. Second, why would he reveal a fairy that he loves? Third, it's not uncommon for costumes that are life-like to be considered unrealistic when you first see them.
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390* Wanda's designated "nag" status. Just a few seasons ago, characters on the show, and even fans were labeling her a nag. Why? Um, I think I should let you guys know that there is a huge difference between "nagging" and "looking before you leap."
391** Her grating voice makes it "nagging" by default.
392** She also tends to be the character with the most common sense into a group of idiots. Of course, they'll see her as a nag.
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394* Am I the only one who doesn't understand why CPS hasn't taken Timmy away yet? I mean, his parents were outed as bad parents on NATIONAL TV (that Series/CrocodileHunter Expy episode).
395** No you're not. Simple answer: it's [[CrapsaccharineWorld Dimmsdale]]. AdultsAreUseless, so chances are CPS is too. And even if they did intervene, they would probably be worse.
396** Plus, real life social services aren't too much better.
397** We have repeated episodes that show that his parents do care for and love him. Remy even outright states it as his primary reason for hating Timmy: Timmy has godparents AND real parents that love him while Remy only has Wandissimo who even remotely cares for him. Plus there's Vicky. If you were to talk about the CPS, then Tootie would come before Timmy. But of course Vicky wouldn't allow either.
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399* Okay, Mark Chang KNOWS about Cosmo and Wanda, so why don't haven't they been taken away?
400** General fanon answer: because he's not human. Da Rules only apply is a human sees them.
401*** Technically, that's the only reason the ''VideoGame/NicktoonsUnite'' video games can include Timmy and actually work in canon. [=SpongeBob=] is a sponge, [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny's]] half ghost, and [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy]] is under the guise they're elaborate "computer programs".
402*** When the child reveals their FGP, they lose them. Nobody said anything about finding out on your own. Mr. Crocker was able to figure out Timmy's secret very quickly, and that wasn't enough to get them taken away.
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404* One episode ended with Cosmo letting Chip Skylark out of his head to end the episode on a song. How could Cosmo get Chip in there without him seeing him?
405** He's a fairy. It probably wasn't the real Chip Skylark in the first place.
406** Maybe because of his singing Chip counts as a magical creature and is therefore allowed to see other magical creatures.
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408* This question has plagued this troper since the beggining of the show, but, why exactly aren't kids allowed to reveal that they have fairies? What's so bad about other people knowing you have fairies?
409** Because then you'd have all of humanity scurrying to harness fairy power for themselves.
410** Similar to why the Wizarding World is kept secret from muggles; because humanity can't be trusted not to try and exploit their power for their own gain.
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412* When Vicky planned to forcibly marry Chip Skylark for his money Cosmo and Wanda couldn't interfere because of the rule against messing with true love. Since when is marrying someone for their money true love?
413** Vicky seemed to love him, and probably thought his supposed money was a bonus. Being such a money-loving person she is, the bills would put her genuine interest in him off.
414** Vicky may have a seriously warped view on love.
415** And since when is a PrecociousCrush (like Tootie's crush on Tommy) true love? Considering [[FridgeHorror what happens when you put this rule in the context of child abuse]], there obviously has to be an exception for this in Da Rules... But maybe not, since just saying "I'm happy and I don't need my fairy godparents anymore" gets rid of them regardless of whether it's true or not. The idea that fairy godparents only come to people who admit they're miserable carries UnfortunateImplications...
416*** Da Rules may mean "true love" in a different sense - in the case of Tootie and Tommy, she ''truly loves'' being in his company, so fairy magic may have to take that as genuine. As for the "I'm happy and don't need my godparents" stipulation, the guy who comes whenever a child says that seems willing to listen to an alternative explanation, if there is one - the only reason there wasn't in the scenario in question was that Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda were willing to vouch for the fact that she'd said it and meant it genuinely, as neither of them wanted Vicky to have fairies anymore.
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418* Why does Mandie keep an apple in her VictoriasSecretCompartment?
419** Because it was a bomb at that point. They were at a school, and you know the old cliche about teachers and apples ...
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421* In the episode when, at the end, Pappy had to go away (forever), why didn't Timmy wish that he didn't have to?
422** Because if he did that, he would lose Vicky as a babysitter permanently, which would eliminate the reason he needed fairies in the first place.
423*** It wouldn't eliminate the reason, because the reason wasn't just Vicky. There was Francis and Crocker and everything else in this CrapsackWorld.
424** Again, he's 10. That's the excuse for his behavior. Anything that bugs you about him can be attributed to his age.
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426* In "Timmy's 2D House of Horror" Timmy wishes the lava in an old 3D movie was realistic and it becomes real, destroying Vicky's house. But before the lava reached Vicky's house Wanda was begging Timmy to wish it away. Since when did she need a wish to do magic? If she couldn't get rid of the lava because Timmy wished for it in the first place, couldn't she have at least protected Vicky's house some other way?
427** Against Da Rules? Da Rules have an attendance to obstruct to the point where people are in danger and can't be helped.
428** Anything concerning Timmy, since always. It's never stated in the actual show but the pilot (which wasn't [[RetCon Retconned]]) states that Cosmo and Wanda can't interfere with Timmy's affairs unless he specifically wishes for it. So yeah, Da Rules probably considers any and all consequences due to the lava an extension of Timmy's wish so Wanda can't do anything, period.
429*** According to a few eps, some of the wishes has to be "un-wished" and, in some episodes, a wish tends to get un-wished, especially if that wish was kinda vague (he wished for the lava to be realistic, ''not that it'd actually destroy the house'').
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431* What bugs me about the movie is adult Timmy is still in 5th grade. [[FridgeLogic How can a 23-year-old still be in elementary school]]?
432*** Maybe he was [[TheDitz just THAT unintelligent?]]
433*** Actually, the reason he's still in the 5th grade is, he gets to keep his fairy god parents (although he should really let go)
434*** Yeah, but if channel chasers is canon, Timmy could have gone to senior year of High School
435*** Not only that, but since Timmy still has his fairies that means Vicky must still be babysitting him.
436** Maybe I'm missing something, but that makes no sense. He keeps his godparents so he gets to stay in elementary? I doubt Vicky's baby sitting him though. His parents can't be ''that'' dumb.
437** It might be meant to show that Timmy is keeping his life ''exactly'' the way he's used to with his fairy godparents, and [[FloatingTimeline staying in the 5th grade is a part of that]]. It seems like he's wished that everyone still thinks he's 10.
438*** Or more likely it's some ExcusePlot related error in The Book.
439*** I think we have a winner: magic WeirdnessCensor.
440** Ironically, he could have become a teacher.
441** I was always under the impression it was DawsonCasting - after all, child actors are relatively difficult to work with. The producers figured it would be easier to cast adults and have the audience suspend their sense of disbelief than cast actors who are the correct age.
442** You all seem to be missing the fact that Timmy was able to keep his fairies by not growing up. That's ''why'' it's called Grow Up Timmy Turner! He couldn't be a teacher, and it wasn't DawsonCasting, it was 100% a matter of Timmy doing everything he could to be like a 10 year old even though he was getting physically older. The OP is probably questioning how a 23 year old would be able to be in 5th grade when realistically he would be kicked out at the end of the year he had turned 21. The answer would probably be a [[AWizardDidIt A Wish Did It.]]
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444* Why do fairies always hold their wands near the bottom of its handle when they are in Jimmy Neutron's world?
445** [[FridgeBrilliance Because they're computer programs so the wands are just an extension of the virtual image.]]
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447* How can a kid with fairies cease believing in fairies as they get older [[ArbitrarySkepticism IF THEY HAVE FAIRIES]]?
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449* Another thing that bugs me is an upcoming episode (which granted I haven't seen yet) called [[spoiler:Manic Mom Day where Wanda has Timmy and his mom switch brains]] to show him that a mom's life is not so easy. That message might be easier to swallow if the Mom was anyone ELSE but Timmy's Mom. Someone who forgets to take him on vacation, spends his college fund on frivolous stuff and occasionally forgets to feed him. Yet Wanda feels that Timmy is the one who needs a lesson?]]
450** Timmy's Mom is usually shown as being the smarter, wiser, and more caring and competent (if only slightly) one of his two parents - most episodes that showcase her by herself tend to portray her as this, while many of her stupider, more idiotic moments are known to take place when she's appearing alongside her husband. Contrast that with Timmy's Dad, who remains largely scatterbrained even when hes by himself, so much so that, in a few episodes, Timmy actually goes to his Mom for help when his Dad doesn't come through.
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452* Why do fairies stay with children for so long? Don't they have other children that need their help and kindness? Is it something among the lines if "If we leave everything will go back to normal and they'll be miserable; So we'll stay with them until they move out"? Also what counts as "miserable" anyway? Timmy didn't seem all that bad.
453** Timmy got Cosmo and Wanda because of Vicky, his abusive babysitter, and possibly the obliviousness of his parents. There is one episode titled "Remy Rides Again", where Remy Buxaplenty makes Timmy's life wonderful. Towards the end of the episode, Cosmo and Wanda have to leave because his life has gotten too perfect (Wanda even says earlier in the episode that if Timmy's life continues going great the way Remy's making it, he won't need them). Also, Remy has a godparent because his parents are mostly absent and spend very little time with him. So basically, "miserable" is classified as abuse or neglect.
454** Age is one component only because kids are more willing to believe. The general way a fairy works is if you stop believing, don't need the fairies, or tell someone who doesn't have fairies you have them, you will lose them. That is why the movie may technically be considered canon.
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456* Regarding 'Superbike'. Why the hell was the bike sentient, able to mutate into a dragon-like monster and capable of hypnosis and flamethrowing? The wish had more specific parameters than usual on the insistence of Wanda, so it seems odd the fairies just added random cool stuff.
457** I [[RuleOfCool blame]] [[IdiotBall Cosmo]].
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459* Regarding 'a mile in my shoes'. How is it supposed to be a fair comparison if Timmy isn't adapt enough at magic to do anything?
460** Because he had to work hard to accomplish anything, just like Cosmo and Wanda had to work hard without their powers.
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462* In''Fairy Idol'', it is revealed that a fairy godparent can quit if it wants, but in ''The Switch Glitch'' it is said the godparents cannot leave their godchild unless they say "I'm happy and I don't need my godparents anymore". What's up with that?
463** The answer is simple on that one; a godparent can quit *being* a godparent in general [Which is what Cosmo and Wanda actually did, albeit inadvertently, hence the whole Fairy Idol competition]. They can't simply leave a child to go onto another one, it's like leaving a job half-finished just to take on another job.
464** Cosmo and Wanda quit because of the Timmy doppelganger's horrific abuse of them. Fairies can't just abandon a miserable child though.
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466* Why the hell is a BABY going to school? I mean, Poof was the first fairy baby in centuries, and he's not even old enough to be in school, so what's the deal?
467** Poof wasn't going to school to learn algebra or anything like that, he was going to school so he can learn to control his magic, which even Jorgen tried doing when the fucker was not even a day old.
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469* Why does Cupid live in Fairy World? He's the God of Love, so shouldn't he live on Mt. Olympus with the other Gods?
470** Have you ''seen'' the way they decorate? And the constant partying? No thank you.
471** Not just that, I think the Fairy World tends to house magical creatures in general.
472** It's been ages since I've seen the series so I could be wrong here, but I seem to recall him having other fairies helping him to spread love. Maybe he just figured it was easier to live in the same places as his employees?
473** He might've moved there from Mt. Olympus.
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475* From season 6 on, how is Anti-Fairy World suddenly just where the Anti-Fairies live instead of where they're locked up? I understand ''why'' the creators changed it (so that the Anti-Fairies could make more appearances), but I wish they had given an in-universe explanation.
476** I imagined it was like Paradise Lost: prison became home.
477*** Or that's where they used to live, before Jorgen imprisoned them all.
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479* "Hard Copy". Honestly, Timmy couldn't take the time to figure out that there was a switch on Flipsy that would make him flip?
480** AttentionDeficitOohShiny.
481** Timmy probably figured he automatically flipped or was voice activated.
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483* If Timmy's only 10 years old, how the heck has he signed so many legally binding contracts without any comeuppance from the authorities?
484** [[AdultsAreUseless He's more-competent than most adults.]]
485** It's not illegal for a minor to enter into a contract. It just means that the contract isn't legally valid.
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487* Why does AJ have to keep his lab a secret from his parents when they're already aware of how smart he is and he's always showing off inventions that he only could have made in a lab?
488** Probably has to do with the clone, which besides being morally ambiguous could be used to trick his parents and other authority figures.
489*** He certainly wasn't trying to keep the clones a secret in the first of ''WesternAnimation/TheJimmyTimmyPowerHour'', though...
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491* Its more of a minor Headscratcher, but ''why'' [[AlwaysChaoticEvil have we seen no "good" Anti-Fairy?]] Yeah, I understand [[ForTheEvulz they cause bad luck for kicks]], but we find out [[BalanceOfGoodAndEvil when a Fairy is born, an Anti-Fairy follows suit.]] Shouldn't that mean that there should be good versions of evil fairies? Like a caring Mama Cosma? This implies that the Fairies are AlwaysLawfulGood, even though they have [[JerkAss jerkasses]] and a mob boss
492** Anti-Fairies aren't necessarily evil, they just like to cause mayhem, bad luck, and mischief: basically they are the antithesis of what the Fairies themselves do. Also, although Jorgen's Anti-Fairy has never made an onscreen appearance, it is supposed to be a wimpy ballerina type. Foop has a split personality and one if it is supposed to be good, while the other is evil.
493*** Anti-Jorgen actually has appeared onscreen--in the comic ''Will the Real Cosmo Please Stand Up?'' and for a FreezeFrameBonus in ''WesternAnimation/TheJimmyTimmyPowerHour 2: When Nerds Collide!''
494*** [[http://fairlyoddparents.wikia.com/index.php?title=Anti-Fairiesℑ=AntiJorgenAntiToothFairy-jpg Can you see Anti-Jorgen?]] He looks damn good in a tutu. http://fairlyoddparents.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-Jorgen His wiki page.
495*** Mama Cosma isn't really evil though, she's just overprotective of Cosmo.
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497* "Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad Meet the Crimson Chin": So...why couldn't Timmy just wish the Nega-Chin back into the comic book instead of wishing him into his tree-house? This is before the Nega-Chin made himself immune to Cosmo and Wanda's magic, so it clearly wouldn't have been a problem and would've made things a hell of a lot easier.
498** At that point he thought it was the Crimson Chin rather than [[EvilCounterpart the Nega-Chin]], so he just thought "Hey, fun times with the Chin in the real world before he goes back!"
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500* Why are Binky's ears pointed? None of the other fairies have ears like that.
501** He's an elf. He likes pointy ears. He's actually one of Santa's helpers. Take your pick.
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503* In the Big Superhero Wish the reason Timmy made the wish was to find a way to defend himself but the "moral" of the story in the end was that being normal doesn't make you powerless, which has nothing to with why Timmy made the wish in the first place, Timmy just wanted anybody to come to his rescue.
504** Some episodes have AnAesop that doesn't really match the reason for the wish. But that aside, it was because Timmy thought he was powerless that he made the wish. And keep in mind that it was those ignoring him who stated the moral: they would have no reason to know what he thought because they ignored him!
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506* There's an episode in which there are enough fairy children to fill a preschool. Didn't they make a whole movie with the point that there was only one fairy child?
507** Most of the children in Poof's preschool belong to other mythical race groups (trolls, gnomes, leprechauns, etc.). So it makes sense. Or at least it did until Poof's [[ToyShip love]] [[TokenRomance interest]], Triangle, showed up...
508*** Triangle could be something not a fairy.
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510* I recently saw an episode where Timmy wishes to be the funniest boy on the planet so that Trixie would fall for him instead of Tad and Chad. When he makes the wish, instead of actually becoming funny, people just randomly laugh at everything he says. Why is this?
511** [[LiteralGenie He wished to be the funniest boy on the planet]], and everyone he talked to found him completely hilarious. He didn't say that his jokes would be funny, but that he would be funny.
512** For the episode to work the jokes need to be nonstop and they need to be so hilariously funny that people fall over laughing. The people who make the show may be good at jokes, but they're not good enough to do that for an entire episode. And if the had changed the episodes premise, there would still need to be a bunch of jokes that are absolutely hilarious.
513*** If you can't make the episode work, then why make the episode in the first place? And If they can't make him the funniest boy on the planet, they could at least make him funny.
514*** They did make the episode work, just not in the way you'd expect. And he didn't wish to be funny he wished to be the funniest person on Earth, so they made him the funniest person on Earth.
515*** Being the funniest person on Earth ''requires'' being funny. That's about as obvious as something can be. I really fail to see how they made the funniest person on Earth anyway.
516*** He was funny. The people he talked to found him hilarious.
517*** So, is it because the episode couldn't have worked, or did they make it work? What's the explanation?
518*** They made it work.
519*** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Well, then I guess everything's all wrapped up in a neat little package!]] [[SincerityMode Really, I mean that. Sorry if it sounded sarcastic.]]
520*** You're asking how a wish got resolved logically, in a show where everything is either solved or made worse ''by magically granting wishes and breaking the laws of physics and reality''?
521*** The idea is that Timmy wished to be the funniest boy on the planet regardless of his humour, rendering everything he says funny to everyone else. The wish causes everyone to be hypnotized into hearing ordinary statements as extremely funny jokes. It wouldn't make any difference whether Timmy told a joke or not - they would laugh.
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523* At the beginning of Wishology, Timmy is left with a plate of muffins, and picks up a magic one before putting it back and saying "No way, not that one." Okay, I get that he remembered that the last time he had one of those, it caused a lot of trouble. But wouldn't leaving it with his parents be much worse than, say, downing the whole thing right there and wishing for something pointless like a new toy to ensure it doesn't have the chance to fall into the wrong hands (which would be pretty much anyone's but his, because he at least knows what it is)? One would really expect him to grab it and take it along for an emergency, but then there's the whole matter of accidentally losing it or having it taken from him, so it's understandable why he didn't do that, but the ''real'' savvy thing to do would be to get rid of it immediately, not just leave it there (and Timmy definitely Took A Level In Savvy by the events of the special).
524** I haven't seen Wishology in a long time but I'm guessing it was because it was just meant to be a throw away joke. And he probably wasn't thinking about how it could help or how it could fall into the wrong hands, instead he was probably thinking about the last time he used it first apes then Crocker took over the world. I doubt he was very eager to use it after that. Plus the muffin tasted awful so...
525** That's because Timmy wasn't being genre savvy at all. As per usual here, someone saw a throwaway character gag and took it as a serious development in character, no matter if it was later contradicted.
526** Timmy's so sure his parents are stupid that he thinks they wouldn't make any wish that Timmy can't handle. Also he would probably expect it to be there if he ever needed it.
527*** I'm more interested in how he received another one of those magical muffins and why Jorgen would let him have another one after all the trouble the first one caused...
528*** Probably cause there were bigger problems going on at the time, not to mention his other plans were not that well thought out such as taking Cosmo, Wanda and Poof away and imprisoning them (along with all the other fairies) in a gumball machine to protect them, and erasing everyone's memory of Timmy to prevent the Eliminators from finding him, which failed.
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530* At the end of "Mr. Right", Timmy wanted to test to see if he could be wrong again. Cosmo, being the PsychopathicManChild that he is, wanted Timmy to defuse a bomb. Naturally, Timmy was nervous and wanted a different test. The safer way (labeled as "Wanda's Way!" in the little poof bubble)? Timmy getting a "What's Behind My Back" quiz from [[TheBully Francis]], which, as shown earlier in the episode, ended up getting Timmy beaten up. My question is: "Wanda's Way" is having her own godchild beaten up?
531** [[MadeOfIron A temporary pain]] or [[NeverSayDie death]]?
532*** Why does temporary pain have to come into it? Wanda's smarter than that, and it's not so hard to ask Timmy something he probably doesn't know.
533*** I think "Wanda's Way" was to ignore the problem completely, assume Timmy will never say "I don't have fairy godparents" again, and hope the wish worked. Francis playing "What's Behind My Back?" was just a coincidence.
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535* Also in "Mr. Right": When Timmy says he doesn't have fairy godparents, his godparents disappear, so he goes to find someone who won't listen to him so he can tell them he has fairy godparents. But he only wished that everything he said would be right, not that everything he told someone was right. So shouldn't he have been able to just say it when no one was around?
536** You make a good point, but I guess it works like this: If no one is around to tell you otherwise, then can you ever really be wrong?
537*** I guess this kind of goes along the lines of: "If a tree falls in the forest with no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
538*** [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Yes, quite easily.]]
539** Considering Timmy got his fairies back by telling his secret to Francis, who was deaf due to being stung in the ears, it seems he didn't need to have a third party hear it in order to be "right" but he just didn't realize it.
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541* Why hasn't Timmy lost his fairies because of Crocker? He knows they're his fairies and has caught them at least once, so someone knows he has fairies. They should be gone.
542** Crocker knows about all fairies, so he's kind of a special case. It's probably on the same reason a kid with fairies doesn't have them taken away when another kid with fairies finds out.
543** Crocker needs undeniable proof that Cosmo and Wanda are Timmy's godparents. Even if he saw them doing magic, they wouldn't have to go away as long as he has no proof that they are connected to Timmy.
544** Because Crocker figured it out by himself, rather than Timmy telling him.
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546* Why did Crocker lose his show and the money once the monsters were poofed away?
547** The wish was undone, in which case, whatever came with the wish goes away once it's undone.
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549* As a kid, why would Timmy's parents go by such nicknames as "Dad" and such?
550** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe those are their real names?]]
551** That doesn't work, as the running gag was, in both "Father Time" and "The Secret Origon of Denzel Crocker", "Dad's just my nickname. My real name is *truck honks horn*"
552** It's a ''joke''. Impossible for a kid's cartoon show to give characters improbable nicknames [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], it is.
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554* Does "Da Rules" cover the rule that kids cannot wish for adult vices like beer, smokes, and winning lottery numbers? I mean finding loopholes in "Da Rules" is how Poof was conceived in the first place. Or long story short, if Timmy wished for Cosmo and Wanda to get him a bottle of Budweiser, would they actually magically give it to him?
555** There's probably rules against it.
556** Or the fairies would refuse to do it, if they actually cared about their godkid.
557*** It always seemed like they don't have a choice actually, or else Wanda could have just ignored most of the wishes.
558*** They can, however, try to persuade the godchild to not make the wish.
559** If the book itself is the size if a friggin' encyclopedia, there's probably some rules we don't know about yet. The best guess is a "most likely", but it's best to wait.
560** A winning lottery ticket would probably break the "no cheating in competitions" rule.
561** Da Rules forbid granting wishes that break the law -- that's the reason behind not only the "no wishing for money" rule (stealing and counterfeiting are illegal) but a rule that you can't wish for ''anything'' that would require stealing it from someone else (like sold out tickets). So yes, providing tobacco or alcohol to minors or illegal drugs to anyone would definitely be forbidden by Da Rules ([[LoopHoleAbuse depending on where the kid is when they make the wish, of course...]])
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563* With the new "Timmy's Secret Wish" coming up: how can Timmy make a secret wish?! Do they give him a wand? The magic muffin? Does Timmy find whatever the wand's power source is? Or is it something like "I wish whatever is going on in my head which no one besides me will get to know will happen in real life?"
564** It was revealed in the episode that [[spoiler: Cosmo was the one who granted the wish and Timmy wished that he wouldn't remember]]. Timmy probably knew that [[spoiler: Cosmo would be the perfect one to grant the wish because Cosmo is well [[TooDumbToLive Cosmo]]]]
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566* In the Channel Chasers movie where he goes into all the different TV shows, why does Timmy's art style only change for some of the shows? Like when he goes into the Dragon Ball Z and Rugrats parodies, Timmy's character changes to match the art style of the other characters, but when he goes into the Johnny Quest parody, he looks the same as he does most of the time.
567** That one's FridgeBrilliance.
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569* Timmy. He can cure cancer. He never does. WHY?
570** [[FridgeBrilliance In a world in which fairy godparents exist, it's probably already been cured.]]
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572* Why do the kids never report Vicky to the police? Surely they could set up hidden cameras et cetera? Plus it was SHOWN in Channel Chasers that the media KNOW about how bad Vicky is. Why have they never acted on it?
573** For the simple reason that most of the adults in the world are complete morons. In addition, coincidences will make it so that a video of her doing something heinous to the kids will somehow be blocked, ignored, changed, put into a different context in the viewer's minds (one time Timmy's dad thought a song by Chet called "Icky Vicky" was about pumpkins), or random magic output.
574** Another explanation is that they're kids. Odds are, they prolly tried but weren't believed or, alternatively, their parents did believe them and got them someone else as their babysitter (and, if mem serves, there's actually a network of evil babysitters).
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576* Why doesn't Timmy just wish that Crocker would forget about fairies?
577** In "Crocker Shocker", it's revealed that doing so makes Fairyworld lose all its magic. Well, it was done with hypnosis, but making Crocker forget about them with magic would have the same consequences.
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579* In the S6 episode "Birthday Bashed," Timmy runs around worried his parents are throwing a birthday party for him, but finds out at the end of episode that they had forgotten his birthday and the party was actually for their wedding anniversary. However, in the S1 episode "Apartnership," it's revealed that Timmy's parents and his fairy godparents actually have the same anniversary date. So, uh. Either Timmy's parents were throwing the party early, or Cosmo and Wanda forgot their anniversary. And they were all married on the same date as Timmy's birthday. Which means Timmy forgot his birthday in "Apartnership." And now my head hurts.
580** NegativeContinuity.
581** Actually, it's possible that time moves differently between Fairy World and Earth - at one point during "Apartnership," Timmy looks at his watch and mentions that it's almost midnight "on Earth", even though he hadn't been in Fairy World long enough for that much time to pass. This could mean that a small portion of Cosmo and Wanda's anniversary happened to coincide, in Earth time, with that of Timmy's parents, and it would also explain things such as Poof's not aging for so long throughout the show.
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583* Something '''''REALLY''''' perked my interest in "Meet The Fairy Odd Parents." In said episode, [[TheReveal Timmy's Fairies are revealed to his parents after they spied on him.]] Wanda says that a loophole for Timmy to keep them is to not let Jorgen know that the parents know.]] If this is really that simple, than how many OTHER kids did this?
584** I think that whole loophole was just a case of NegativeContinuity - when Timmy similarly revealed his fairies' existence in ''Abracatastrophe'', they were immediately taken away from him without Jorgen even intervening at all, and that was at a time when the bridge connecting Fairy World and Earth had been destroyed.
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586* Seriously, WHAT HAPPENED TO COSMO?! In the pilot episodes, he was suave, charming, and sarcastic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYp9e3SJJLw&feature=related (as this video shows)]], and was indicated to be at the same intellectual range as his wife, Wanda. His voice was also deeper and more controlled. Compare that to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=ucCq6SuCEck&NR=1 later incarnation]] whose high-pitched, anxiety-filled voice reflects a dangerous idiotic man-child responsible for half the problems in the show and willing (or too stupid) to endanger the lives of his own godchild and wife for petty, half-thought out reasons.
587** CharacterizationMarchesOn
588** Cosmo has hinted, maybe, that he '''might''' be way more intelligent than he lets on. Also, Anti-Cosmo seems to be, while seemingly intelligent, collected, and as suave as anything Cosmo can be, actually quite the moron deep down. [[FridgeHorror Yes, the implications are just as bad as they seem.]]
589** WordOfGod is that they needed someone to hold an IdiotBall because they were starting to run out of episode ideas (see more [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vWxcSandpQ&t=187s here]]). For a Watsonian answer though, yeah...I've got nothing.
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591* If Vicky loves money so much, why is she often trying to murder her only source of income? It would make sense if she just wanted to scare him, but there are several times where she's outright trying to kill him.
592** [[TeensAreMonsters She's cruel and loves to see Timmy suffer]]. That and it's been shown that she has other babysitting jobs from other [[AdultsAreUseless oblivious parents]].
593** Before they turned her into a sadistic child-hater, there was an episode where Timmy wishes himself into an old man while being babysat - when Vicky finds out that he's disappeared from his room, she actually becomes worried about him, though only because she'll get in trouble if something happens to him, and spends the entire episode putting up posters and trying to find him. It's the only episode where she's ''ever'' been concerned about his safety or well-being, and especially so since her development of child sadism.
594** She is not actually attempting to kill him, she is just acting as she knows what he'll do/#.
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596* In "Abracatastrophe," whoever eats the magic muffin gets a rule-free wish. Does that potentially include wishing Da Rules out of existence?
597** Probably not. Da Rules have been shown to be necessary to keep the world from going bonkers from rule free wishes.
598** Probably. The muffin seems to be beyond Da Rules' domain.
599*** Maybe if that happens Jorgen just very quickly conjures up another copy, since the wish is for them not to exist - which will be true for about 3 seconds. Who knows if whoever makes that wish specifically states it's permanent, though.
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601* Was giving a magic dog really a good idea; wouldn't a normal dog be good enough?
602** If given the option to choose between a magic animal and a regular one for a pet, a lot of kids would go for a magical one. Plus, as stated in the episode, Timmy was banned from most pet stores so the fairy one was the only option.
603*** That, and normal dogs don't talk, making it hard to give him a big role or character.
604*** Also a magic dog can't die unlike Timmy's other pets.
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606* In "Wishing Well" making too many wishes makes you look greedy (which makes perfect sense) but in "Timmy's Secret Wish" you deserve a holiday in your honor for making 1 million (also if Timmy had Cosmo and Wanda for over 50 years he would've had to average 56 wishes a day more than 1 wish ''every'' half hour)
607** As for the first part of your question - NegativeContinuity. As for the second part, since when have cartoon writers been [[WritersCannotDoMath good at math?]]
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609* In "The Gland Plan", Wanda states Cosmo is an only child, but in "Double Oh-Schnozmo", he has a brother and Wanda clearly knows him. So why did she say before Cosmo was an only child?
610** Schnozmo's a con artist, remember?
611*** Fair enough, but you'd think she'd instead say something else, like his brother wouldn't be willing to help him.
612** I actually figured Schnozmo was a cousin or a disowned sibling, hence Cosmo would be an only child.
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614* The episode "Dumbbell Curve". The real bell curve does not work that way! Did the writers just not care or do they really not know how it works?
615** The same writers who once treated giant squids as a tabloid conspiracy? Yeah, probably.
616** Crocker gives Timmy Fs out of spite and nothing else.
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618* So, you're going to tell me that Timmy's parents didn't notice when he suddenly had goldfish when he didn't have them previously?
619** As has been established, Timmy's parents, like most of the adults in Dimmsdale, aren't too bright. Also, the episode "That's Life" showed us that Timmy has had many pets. They probably figured Timmy somehow bought them or they were a gift.
620** I think this was lampshaded in at least one episode where the stupidity of the adults was a plot-point. For example, Timmy wished for his dad to be smarter than what he was, however, this had the consequence of him almost dissecting and revealing Cosmo and Wanda (when they were in their fish forms) when he found something off about them, saying, "Hmm, I don't remember buying fish with with little crowns..." or something to that effect.
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622* If Mark Chang and his people consider good things bad and bad things good, shouldn't he like that Princess Mandie is trying to kill him?
623** If I remember correctly, that's not what bothers him, it's more the fact that she's "hideous" (as in, drop-dead gorgeous).
624** Also, it's not just that they like to be contrarian, it's that most of the things that humans consider "good" are dangerous to them somehow.
625** The whole opposite thing is about material objects. Mark's mom grieves his presumed death in the Halloween special after all.
626*** A better, simpler 'xplaination is that they're aliens and so what's typical to us earthlings, is just unusual, dangerous, or what have you to them.
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628* If Timmy made a "secret wish", how did Foop gain knowledge of it and use it as evidence?
629** Foop is the opposite of Poof, Poof doesn't know about it, therefore Foop knows about it.
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631* Why does Dimmsdale still allow Timmy to live? seriously, the formula goes like this: Timmy makes a wish, the wish backfires horribly with either Dimmsdale about to destroyed, someone Timmy cares about in danger, or the world in danger, he wishes everything back to normal, learns a lesson, and forgets said lesson by the next episode, I certainly wouldn't him in my city.
632** Most people don't even know Timmy is the cause of all the bad stuff that goes down. Especially considering almost everyone is oblivious to fairies.
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634* Alright so in the episode "The Secret origin of Denzel Crocker" we see that the reason Crocker is as miserable as he is is because Timmy and Past/Present Cosmo managed to super screw up. Jorden(s) appears and says that Timmy is forbidden from ever returning to March of 1972 ever again. Presumably this has to do with the fact that Crocker becomes a power source. But here's the thing, at the time Timmy doesn't know that. Why doesn't he just go back to February 29th of 1972 and warn Crocker about what's going to happen in two weeks? Surely Crocker will be able to remember for that long and although the fairies will not have access to him as a power source, they will probably find other options. Ultimately the world would probably be a better place if Crocker is allowed to keep his fairies.
635** Assuming Crocker does believe him, Timmy would have no way of returning things to normal if he had to. Also, he'd be risking Jorgen's wrath by going against his order. He'd also rely on Crocker being able to stop it.
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637* What is the point of introducing Missy, a third love interest for Timmy, when we already know from the live action movies that he ends up with Tootie?
638** The live action stuff may be non canon with the show? They don't have Sparky in them.
639** Wasn't Missy only in one episode? If so, and remembering the plot of that episode, they needed a girl that both was interested in Timmy and could have Timmy be interested in her - neither Tootie nor Trixie would've fit the bill. It's not unnatural for children to develop sporadic, one-time crushes on other people.
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641* Why does Timmy put up with following Vicky's demands instead of just fighting back by tormenting her like he did in the pilot?
642** He does occasionally, like in "Homewrecker", but he also learns that two wrongs do not make a right, and that he is the better person for not being just as nasty. Also, he cannot wish for anything that will end up dissuading Vicky from continuing to bully him, because doing so would make Cosmo and Wanda have to leave him.
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644* When Timmy [[spoiler: turns into a fairy in the third live action movie, he looks like a CGI version of his 10 year old cartoon form, except, where are his teeth?]]
645** Timmy hates his giant teeth. Since fairies can change forms he probably just chose one that looks exactly like himself but without the teeth.
646** His live-action counterpart didn't have giant teeth. They forewent them altogether to avoid any confusion.
647*** That and, practically speaking, malocclusion (his large buck teeth) tend not to be ''that'' pronounced.
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649* One episode involves Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda, Sparky, and Poof being flushed down the toilet and ending up in the sewers. They end up losing all of their wands, but then at the end of the episode they come across one of them - only one. Timmy uses it to wish them back to his room, but when they get back, all three of them have their wands/rattle back. But it was shown previously in ''Shelf Life'' after Cosmo gave his wand to Tom Sawyer that one wand is incapable of acting upon another. So how were they able to recover the other wand and Poof's rattle?
650** NegativeContinuity. Most of the rules seem to be an AssPull nowadays.
651** the Da Rules book is shown to be huge, so there might be rules that we don't know about.
652** On rewatching the episode, after Wanda fails to return Cosmo's wand to him, he says something about how he got a second brush for the fence he was painting in exchange for teaching Tom how to keep Wanda's wand from working on his. So it's not something from the rules; it's something Cosmo/Tom did himself.
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654* In the episode "Foul Balled", Timmy wishes for Chester to be the best baseball player ever, and due to Timmy's wish, Chester ends up winning a lot of games for them, even taking them to the World Series (and the wish was only undone when Chester said Timmy wasn't his friend anymore). Wait a minute, I thought magic couldn't be used to win a competition!
655** Like the above question, NegativeContinuity is to blame here. But for another explanation, you could say it's possible he would've lost the magic as soon as he stepped up to plate had he not broken his friendship with Timmy beforehand.
656** There's an episode about basketball where Timmy loses the skills he'd wished up for himself during the last 2 minutes or something because that's the only part of the game that counts...Thus, it stands to reason that Da Rules only view the championship baseball games as the real competition, while all the others Chester won were just buildup and didn't matter much in comparison.
657** Technicalities. Timmy didn't wish directly to win a competition, just that Chester was a really good player. If that inadvertently leads to them winning, that's fine.
658*** Not quite, there are other episodes that disprove this. Like the one where Timmy wished to become smarter, only to have it reversed when he was about to participate in a brain-off.
659*** In that episode, Timmy wished he knew everything, like literally became omniscient. Timmy didn't wish Chester would never lose, just that he was the best baseball player ever. Even the best don't always win.
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661* This may be WildMassGuessing more than a Headscratcher, but are the writers trying to replace Timmy's human family? Earlier seasons made Cosmo and Wanda seem like substitute guardians to look after Timmy when his parents don't, but with the addition of Poof and Sparky, it almost seems like the writers are trying to build him a fairy family as a replacement. Err...why?
662** Timmy's adventures with Cosmo and Wanda have always been the main focus of the show; in the earlier seasons, it was usually because his parents were portrayed as overworked, slightly scatterbrained, and somewhat negligent with the occasional episode, while nowadays they're shown to be more on the negligent side most of the time. Poof and Sparky may have been added to make Timmy's godfamily more interesting as his parents became more distant from him in the more recent seasons.
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664* If the Fairy Council decided to create a Timmy-specific loophole only after he decided to grow up and give up his godparents...Why didn't they just do that before, like when he normally would've lost them? It's not like he's done anything worth being commended for that we're shown in the five years since he turned 18...With the way he kept three able-bodied fairies from spreading happiness to other miserable children who may have needed them, imposed on his parents while using magic to ensure he would never have to move out, continued to fuel Crocker's paranoia about fairies by assailing him with a number of petty wishes, and came close to allowing an evil villain access to Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof's powers to use for his own selfish desires, he really did exactly the opposite! If the council wants to thank him for saving Fairy World on more than one occasion and congratulate him on keeping his fairies a secret so long and for developing such close relationships with them, I can understand that, but they should've done it earlier.
665*** I remember an earlier headscratcher mentioning something like this but I think it comes from that, while he's an adult, he's still a kid at heart. It was shown in one episode where he wished he was adult (I don't remember the title of the episode) and he would have lost them if he didn't cry out for his parents.
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667* The episode in which Timmy gives his fairies to Tootie for her birthday raises two puzzling questions for me...
668** One is why, when Tootie brings up telling all of her guests about Cosmo and Wanda, they try to sugarcoat it by merely ''suggesting'' that she keep it to herself, instead of just telling her outright that she'll lose them if she does.
669** The other question ties in with "Fairy Idol", in which Chester receives Norm as a fairy godparent after being rated the most miserable child on Earth, only for him to selflessly wish to have Norm transferred to Timmy when he sees him walking by crying about losing Cosmo and Wanda. The birthday episode clarifies that godchildren can only lend their godparents to someone else if that person is twice as miserable as they are, and Timmy was ''clearly'' much more miserable at the thought of his godparents being dead than just having to give them up forever, so even if he ''was'' twice as miserable as Chester, shouldn't he have just gotten Norm from the start?
670*** There's a difference between being officially assigned godparents and being lent/wished them. Because Timmy had "lost" his godparents, Jorgen isn't about to assign Norm to Timmy. But Chester is able to lend/wish Norm to Timmy because it is bypassing the usual official channels of locating a miserable child and assigning them godparents.
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672* I have watched a few episodes that apparently have taken place after "School of Crock", and I was wondering, what happened to Poof? He doesn't appear once since...
673** I haven't seen any of the more recent episodes, but it could be that he's in school or being babysat by Mama Cosma while they're taking place.
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675* Why the hell does Cosmo and Wanda's wands and or magic keep being taken or shorted out or just plain failing in recent episodes?! What is this?! The Fairly Magicless OddParent Hour?!
676** It's to prevent Timmy from simply wishing everything back to normal. This isn't a new thing, it was done numerous times in the pre-Poof episodes as well.
677** I think an in-universe reason would be that it teaches Timmy responsibility. Many episodes have the plot where Timmy makes a wish that is stupid in hindsight, eventually finds out that it isn't as cool as he thought it was, and so has to come up with a way of fixing things on his own. His fairies aren't going to be with him forever, after all, so it would be important for him to learn to solve problems without their magic.
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679* Why would the bus from Poof's magical, supernatural fairy school stop to pick him right in front of his mortal human godbrother's house? Something so stupid has the potential for outcomes far worse than just Timmy's dimwitted father getting on thinking he's going to some sort of work presentation. (''Love Triangle'')
680** WeirdnessCensor
681*** Tying into the above WeirdnessCensor, it's possible that the Fairy school bus looked like a regular school or daycare bus to anyone that saw it.
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683* I don't watch much Fairly Odd Parents, but I read a fanfic anyway and then it hit me. Why doesn't Timmy just wish for his parents to treat him better? I know there's a restriction on how selfish you can be with your wishes, but come on, the kid's got a shitty life, can't they cut him som slack? And even if this kind of wish were against Da Rules, then why would it be? It's the one wish he would've probably wanted to fulfill the most, and isn't it the godparents' job to make their god kid happier? If we aren't talking about Timmy here, who wants to keep his godparents, then this question accounts for every other average kid who's not as attached to theirs.
684** The negligence displayed by his parents is one of the reasons Timmy received his fairy godparents, so he doesn't wish for them to treat him better out of fear that it would shorten his time with Cosmo and Wanda. And to be fair, his mom and dad have been shown to love him dearly and unconditionally on a number (albeit a somewhat small number) of occasions - they were really only portrayed as overworked and somewhat scatterbrained in the earlier seasons and almost lethally stupid in the later ones, but Timmy knowing that they love him through and through is probably what helps him pull through.
685** That answers my first question, but not my second. I also said: "If we are '''not''' talking about Timmy here, then this question accounts for every other average kid." Why can't they just wish for better parents if they don't really feel attached to their godparents like Timmy is?
686** I suppose there are probably godchildren who have, probably many of them, in fact, which may explain why we don't see many of them who have fairies in the show. On the other hand, there are also people out there who probably wouldn't really find being treated better by their parents worth it if it was only brought about by ''magic'' as opposed to genuine love or compassion - especially since all remnants of a fairy's magic go away when they do.
687*** If ''Da Rules'' say you can't make a wish affecting true love, then you prolly can't make a wish for your parents to treat you better, either, assumin' that the Da Rules say you can't make wishes that effect people's feelings. That's a guess, anyways.
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689* The series makes mention that when a child loses his or her fairy godparents, everything that he or she wished for using their magic goes away, as well. In ''Fairly Odd Baby'', Timmy '''wishes''' that Cosmo and Wanda would have a baby, since they are incapable of doing so on their own. Does that mean that Poof...?
690** Technically speaking, Poof would be kind of an exception, as he wasn't what one would consider a normal wish and was wished outside of the system in regards to them, i.e, while fairy babies were outlawed, there wasn't an ''official'' rule in Da Rules about a godchild wishing for one. The rule there mostly seems to apply to normal wishes, then again, said tidbit was only mentioned I think once, so it might have changed since then.
691** Has it ever been said that the wishes get undone magically or if the fairies have to do it manually? If it's the latter, they can probably make an exception and turn a blind eye to Poof.
692*** It's kinda wishy-washy.
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694* I don't really like The Fairly Oddparents, but I watched a couple episodes yesterday, and something dawned on me. Why doesn't Timmy just wish to permanently improve the world around him and himself? Like, say, wish to permanently become smarter, wish for his parents to permanently treat him better, and so on. I know the ''real'' reason (there would no show if he did), but an in-universe explanation would be nice.
695** I'm pretty sure Timmy can't use magic to become smarter because that would be considered cheating. The thing about his parents was already answered above - he knows they love him in the big picture, and is willing to keep his life as miserable as possible so Cosmo and Wanda won't have to go away anytime soon. As for bettering the world...Timmy is an average, ten-year-old kid. Slightly selfish, but generally good-hearted. He'll do nice things for people, but really only if those things come off as important to him or affect him or someone he loves or cares about.
696** Once Timmy loses his godparents all wishes would become undone anyway, so there is no point in trying to make the world a better place. (''Wow'', that sounds really cynical).
697*** Well, if Timmy did wish to make the world a better place (somehow, in a grand way), it might make the fairy godparents redundant, which, in turn, will cause Fairy World to lose its magic.
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699* What is the extent of what Cosmo and Wanda can do without Timmy wishing for it? In a lot of episodes they do small things like cleaning him up or drying off or something like that, and I've seen them poof up a fire truck through their own free will at one point, and yet they can't do something like poof away a meteor that's hurtling towards Earth unless they hear Timmy wish for it first.
700** Because those tasks are small in comparison to stopping meteor without it being wished for. They may only have the authority (and magic) for small things like drying him off and making a fire truck disappear but they're not fairies like Jorgen (who's powerful enough to be in charge).
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702* ''Wishology'' tells us that all of the stars seen in the night sky are actually fairy warriors keeping watch against the Darkness...How in the hey does that work? Wouldn't astronauts or astronomers have noticed something like that before?
703** It's kinda like a WeirdnessCensor and it was shown that fairies can disguise themselves (i.e Cosmo and Wanda mostly appear as fish, dogs, or whatever and Wandisimo appeared as a ferret and turtle) in terms of the latter question. In terms of the former, they might be very powerful fairies like Jorgen.
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705* In the episode where Timmy wishes everything in his mother's garden was full of life, he does so to help her win a competition. Shouldn't that be against the rules?
706** It might only apply if it was TIMMY participating. Where it's his mom's garden, there might have been a loophole there.
707** Not really. In one episode, Timmy wished for his mom to be a master cook, and the wish automatically went away when she decided to participate in a cooking competition, which Timmy wasn't even aware of at the time.
708*** The way I took it was that wish was for the garden to come to life, that is, be ''alive'', but not that she'd win the competition itself, thus the rule was unrelated.
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710* At the end of ''Channel Chasers'', why don't Timmy's parents seem at all confused when he appears in front of them from a television screen in Dimmadome's office? They don't even ask for an explanation from him how he did it.
711** Because they were desperate for their son's return. They don't care how he was there, they were just happy to know he's alright.
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713* Why is Crocker still employed at Timmy's school, when it's already been pretty much proven that he's nothing but a huge nutball who shouldn't be allowed to work with children? True, aside from a few episodes, he's not as psychotically crazy as Vicky is, but he also works in a business with much stricter requirements for employment. Especially since Principal Waxelplax herself doesn't like him, and everyone in the world knows he was ridiculed for suggesting they equip all children with special collars in order to capture their fairy godparents...Who would think it was alright to give him a job as a fifth grade teacher?
714** AdultsAreUseless. That and, though we don't see it, there's probably someone even worse than Crocker.
715** It's actually explained in the first episode he's introduced; as he's trying to prove Timmy's "Parents" are actually his Fairy God Parents, he sets up an electric chair trap, and says "If they live, then they're '''''FAIRIES!''''' If they don't, '''''I HAVE TENURE!'''''" And sure, electrocuting someone to death would be grounds to actually void tenure, but simply acting weird and hyperactive about the existence of Fairies probably wouldn't.
716*** Prolly because, other than that, he's a competent teacher otherwise.
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718* In the episode ''Information Stupor Highway'', after Cosmo destroys Timmy's computer, why do he and Wanda put together a crude Timmy costume to ask his dad to fix it? Why do they need him to fix it at all? They could just poof it back into working order with their magic.
719** The same reason why Timmy never does the simplest solution to a problem regarding one of his many wishes - 'cause that would make the plot shorter than 11 minutes, and we can't have ''that''!
720** As one of the headscratchers above notes, it's never stated the extent of what fairies can and cannot do without their godkid explicitly wishing for it, but presumably fixing their computer falls under "cannot do".
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722* In the episode ''Mr. Right'', the point of the episode is that Timmy's always right. Whatever he says will spontaneously become the truth and the world will change according to that. That's what it's about., right? So how come when he says that AJ wouldn't be interested in hearing what he has to say, he's wrong? Shouldn't AJ have magically lost interest when Timmy said he wouldn't be interested?
723** Maybe it's like what was suggested somewhere further up...If there's no one there to hear you say you're right, can you ever really be wrong? Timmy might've needed someone there to listen to what he was saying in order for it to be "right".
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725* Two questions about Chester. First is, why doesn't Timmy (or any of his other friends with fairies, really) wish for him and his father to be rich or middle-class? Are they all just assholes or something? Secondly, why doesn't he have fairies? Isn't his poverty enough to make him worthy of some?
726** 1.) Timmy can't use his fairies to make himself or others richer, as using magic to create money qualifies as counterfeiting. 2.) Chester is poor, but he's not miserable - yes, he has to deal with Vicky on occasion like Timmy does, but his father is much more attentive towards him than Timmy's parents, Crocker doesn't seem to loathe him as much as he does Timmy (which is largely ''because'' Timmy has fairies), and he seems to be a generally upbeat kid most times we see him.
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728* Why do godkids lose their fairies after reaching a certain age?
729** They don't. They lose their fairies when they don't need them anymore.
730* Actually, it's both.
731##Fairies tend to only get assigned to kids because kids believe in fairies and, so, when kids reach that age where they no longer believe they lose their fairies, as shown in ''Channel Chasers'' or, in one scenario, ''Crocker'''s belief in fairies was enough to get the Grand Wand (or somethin', IDR) working again.
732##As established a few times, their services are need-based, so, if a kid outgrows that point where they're miserable, they lose them because their need for them is exhausted.
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734* In "The Big Problem", the other prisoners seem to have watched Timmy cry (Hence their imitating of him) and wish himself back to normal. So why weren't Cosmo and Wanda then taken away because the secret was blown.
735** It's possible they only ''heard'' him, not specifically saw him, and the secret doesn't seem to be blown until someone recognizes them as fairies or Timmy flat-out admits it. Not to mention, they're all in prison - I think they've probably seen and heard weirder things.
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737* After ''Fairly Odd Baby'', why is Jorgen never angry or upset whenever he sees Poof and realizes that he took back a fake baby with him at the end of the special?
738** He probably let it slide between ''Fairly [=OddBaby=] and those episodes.
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740* In "Vicky Loses Her Icky," Vicky's evil is summed up into an evil bug that seeks out powerful hosts. Once finding this out, Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda are trying to catch it before it reaches the President. Is it ever explained why they can't just squash the bug? And don't just give me StatusQuoIsGod; I want an In-Universe Explanation.
741** The episode is centered around them ''trying'' to catch and presumably squash it - Timmy is tackled by the Secret Service agents before he's able to stop it from reaching the President, and once Vickey throws herself in between them and takes the brunt of the bug's evil for herself, Timmy's fine with just having her arrested by the federal authorities to get her out of his hair, rather than wishing the bug back and risking it making contact with someone even more powerful.
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743* So in the "The Big Fairy Share Scare" Timmy tricks Chloe (the child who's sharing his fairies) into wanting the fairies on Fridays. He wishes away Fridays and oh no, turns out the Fairies charge their big wand on Fridays meaning they can't do that anymore. Timmy of course undoes the wish and he agrees to share his fairies with Chloe. Why didn't he just trick Chloe again this time saying she wants them on Saturday or Sunday and then wishing those days are gone? There's nothing stopping him from trying this strategy again.
744** Yeah, I doubt Timmy would be willing to wish away Saturday and/or Sunday.
745** Haven't seen the episode, but if Timmy convinced Chloe to only take his fairies on a certain day, and then wished away that day, wouldn't that really tip Chloe off if he were to try and do it again? (Also, was there really no character development in that episode?)
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747* What exactly would Chloe's relationship with Timmy be? I'd think he would just call her his "godsister", but then again, he already calls Poof his "godbrother", and Poof is the biological son of Cosmo and Wanda, whereas Timmy and Chloe are both their godchildren.
748** Poof is his Fairy Godbrother, Chloe is just his godsister.
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750* In "That's Life", Eddie the gerbil is brought back to life (as side effect). So Da Rules merely forbid reviving ''people''? (So speciesist.)
751** Timmy's wish was to bring everything in Mrs. Turner's garden to life; Eddie was under the garden, so he was brought back as well. It's not speciesist, if anything, it's just an example of an accidental use of a loop hole.
752** Well, for one, [[CameBackWrong Eddie's not exactly ship-shape when their magic brings him back to life - trying that same thing on a human being would probably just bring them back as some sort of decaying zombie.]] Also, it's been implied a few times that Da Rules can be disregarded by fairies if they grant a wish that they don't perceive as rule-breaking. Cosmo and Wanda didn't know that there was a dead gerbil buried beneath Mrs. Turner's garden, and the wish wasn't specifically to bring him back, and even if someone like Jorgan was able to find out about the violation, I doubt he'd care enough about it to demand that it be undone - an undead gerbil doesn't really run the risk of exposing the existence of fairies to the world, so there's not much harm as long as Timmy explains it was unintentional.
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754* In "Land Before Timmy", Chester still has his braces. Due to Timmy's anti-technology wish, even metallurgy doesn't exist. Are they chiseled from stone or what?
755** When he made the wish, he might have actually wished for no ''modern technology'' like computers and such but not ancient tech, in which case, modern metallurgy doesn't exist but whatever Stone Age form does. Or, if that's not the case, it's possible they figured out how to chisel braces out of flint or something like that.
756*** But that still don't line up considering that orthodontic braces didn't exist until the 1900s.
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758* From "Hassle in the Castle": Several episodes ("Timmy's Secret Wish" and "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker" for starters) make it clear that once a godkid loses their godparents, everything they ever wished for is undone. So when Maryanne lost Cosmo and Wanda, why wasn't the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand undone? Why did that stay a part of history?
759** You know how Da Rules say that your wishes can't actually hurt anyone? I always kind of assumed that Cosmo and Wanda didn't cause the assassination, [[LoopholeAbuse they just did something that influenced it. Whatever it was, Maryanne got away with it.]]
760** Marie tells Timmy that she ended up in the Hall of Infamy for stealing one of her godparents’ wands, and Wanda never says that she wished for the assassination, just that she abused Cosmo and Wanda’s magic to make it happen. Besides, the “all wishes get undone” thing probably isn’t powerful or influential enough to reverse something as huge as the first World War.
761*** Y'all remember that rule where they say kids can't revive the dead? Well, that wish for Archduke dying (or, as the show put it, "taken out") is a wish that couldn't be reversed, as per that rule, in that Fairies (prolly) can't undo it without interfering with a natural order of some kind. On top of this, when a wish has been shown to get reversed, it either gets unwished by the godkid or they get undone by the godparents, though, most of the time, it's the former, so, with Maryann, she'd likely not unwish the wish and, 2), several groups of the deaths post-WWs, happened after she'd likely have died, in conjunction with being indirectly related.
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763* If You Doo dolls are so dangerous, and fairies intentionally keep them secret from godkids, why aren't You Doo doll wishes prohibited by Da Rules? The book only give a warning of being dangerous, and Timmy almost ''died'' because his own You Doo doll was about to be destroyed in a wood chipper! Seems rather half-assed to keep it a secret but not actually ban the wish...
764** Probably because some kids with fairies can be responsible. Timmy's case just so happened to be an accident.
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766* "Most Wanted Wish": I can easily believe "I wish I was the most wanted kid in the world" would be allowed by the rules... but how can making every girl want him romantically be one of the effects of that wish? That pretty blatantly violates the "no affecting true love" rule.
767** Wanted in this case could've meant as in a friend or as in demanded. If it had been ''lusted after''[[note]]assuming that had gotten past the radar[[/note]], ''desired by'', or had specified a specific person, then it would've affected true love. If I had to guess, the "no affecting true love" rule likely only applies in cases where that's the specific outcome of the wish; if a wish would affect true love as a side effect (or the wish wasn't specific enough), then it likely wouldn't violate the rule (i.e., Timmy wishing he was the most handsome man on the planet, indirectly causing Vicky to fall for him, or Timmy wishing Vicky would treat him better [[GoneHorriblyRight going horribly right]] and resulting in her falling for him would be A-OK; Timmy explicitly wishing for Vicky to fall in love with him would violate the rule).
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769* Why does Fairy Court have to take away child's fairies if they reveal their existence? ''Meet Oddparents'' shows and lampshades how easy it is to just erase memories of the person who found out. Kids are kids, they aren't good at keeping secrets and if you take their faires away for something like that, they will become miserable again. I just find it weird...
770** To give reasons to constrain possible episode plots & not have hundreds of stories where Cosmo & Wanda hang out with Trixie, and A.J., and all that. If you're​ looking for an InUniverse explanation, I've got nothing.
771*** I understand the out-of-universe explanation. However, as I said, it's incredibly easy to just erase the memories of the person who found out. If Trixie, A.J or whoever found out, their memories could be erased.
772*** In-universe, it could be the fairies' way of teaching godchildren maturity, responsibility, and the idea of consequences, or just to ensure that the existence of fairies is assurably and undeniably kept a secret. Or probably both. If a child gets the idea that they can tell whoever they want about their fairies and it wouldn't matter, he or she might end up telling so many people that things get out of hand. The memory wipe might miss someone, or someone will record something or write something down. The fairies might be able to fix everything in the event that this happens, but it's too much work and carries too many risks, along with just being a needless waste of their time because of one kid's mistake.
773** Same reason the existence of fire departments doesn't suddenly mean it's fine to light fires haphazardly.
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775* If there really ''is'' a fairy shortage, wouldn't it make more sense to give Chloe Cosmo and have Timmy keep Wanda (or vice-versa) than have the two share fairies?
776** Almost everyone in Fairy World knows how inept at magic Cosmo is without Wanda's help - splitting the two of them up (especially between the reckless Timmy and inexperienced Chloe) would be a recipe for disaster. Also, they have a rare fairy baby to look after, meaning one of them would be left with all the work of raising Poof if Chloe ends up revealing the existence of the other.
777** An earlier episode--the one where Cosmo runs home to his mother after a misunderstanding--reveals that he and Wanda run on a kind of sympathetic magic. After teleporting Timmy to Fairy World, Wanda is visibly exhausted and explains that any kind of strong spell, such as long-distance warping, is "almost impossible" when she and Cosmo "aren't in tune." So it's possible that the two separating like that would severely limit their powers (and as the above poster stated, Cosmo isn't exactly dealing with a full deck to begin with).
778** Presumably, the fairies can’t just take a godparent away by force unless there’s a solid reason why the godchild doesn’t need or deserve them anymore. (Or else the live-action movie wouldn’t have happened.) And even if they were permitted to do that, having Timmy share with Chloe instead is still the better option based on two other factors — it was established earlier in the series that he’s kept his fairies secret significantly longer than most kids manage to, so he clearly has the knack for it, and his multiple experiences with wishes gone awry means he’ll know what to do if Chloe finds herself in a similar situation. (Which is somewhat likely, considering her supposed tendency for accidentally escalating bad situations.)
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780* In "Balance of Flour", it's revealed that whoever won the bake-off between the Fairies and Anti-Fairies would be given the rights to have godchildren, including Timmy and Chloe. Just what kind of chaos would children with Anti-Fairy godparents create?
781** Anti-Fairies don't follow the same rules as regular fairies do. They'll be in the hands of evil kids who'll use their magic to ruin people's live on a galactic scale.
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783* In "Just Desserts," Timmy states this precise request: "I wish for no more breakfast, lunch, or dinner--[[TitleDrop just dessert!]]" After a month, everyone grows [[TemporaryBulkChange extremely fat]] from eating sugary treats non-stop, and the sudden shift of weight in Dimmesdale causes the Earth to start plummeting into the Sun. But later, Wanda specifically says that "All the food ''in the world''" is dessert!" If that's the case, why did it take a month for the Earth to start falling out of orbit? Dimmesdale is an at best moderately populated city; the population of any U.S. state or even a tiny nation would have fattened up much faster.
784** Had to account for food scarcity in other countries.
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786* In "That's Life!", Timmy wishes for everything in his mother's garden to be alive. The wish should be undone the moment the judges come by the rule of "no cheating for winning competitions."
787** It seems there are arbitrary loopholes in the "no cheating in competitions" rule. In “Odd Ball”, Timmy wishes he was taller and good at basketball after joining a local professional team. He only loses the skills he wished for himself at the last moment during the game, since only the final two minutes of a professional basketball games are considered truly competitive. He also doesn’t lose his height at any point during the game, indicating that wishing himself taller by itself wasn’t enough to break Da Rules, likely because he was still terrible at the sport. Similarly, in “Movie Magic”, while Da Rules says his fairies can’t help him win a film competition, they are still allowed to be Timmy’s film equipment, even though that does give him an advantage; they later also note that it won’t count as cheating if Timmy “happens” to wish himself to places where cool action events were occurring and just “happens” to get footage of them that he uses in his film. Regarding Timmy’s wish for everything in his mother’s garden to be full of life, it’s possible that Da Rules, for whatever reason, didn’t consider the gardening contest to be competitive enough for Timmy’s wish to be considered cheating. Alternatively, Da Rules decided that Timmy’s wish didn’t make enough of a difference in the contest to count as cheating (his wish didn’t change the fact that his mom didn’t have any yams, which the judges specifically asked to see).
788** The same applies for when Timmy wished for Chester to be the best baseball player ever.
789*** This rule might only apply to Timmy himself, maybe cheating to help others win some is sort of loophole?
790*** In response to the above: possibly yes and possibly no. In "Foul Balled" (the Chester example), Timmy's specific wish was "I wish my friend was the best baseball player ever"; Chester only lost his abilities when he declared that Timmy was no longer his friend. Of course, in this case, Timmy was on the team with Chester, so technically, helping Chester helped him win as well.
791*** I always thought that it was because the wish wasn't intended to have Timmy and his team win, and Timmy didn't really care whether or not they won throughout the course of the episode, thus he wasn't being competitive. The examples of the 'competitive' condition being in play were the basketball episode [Timmy kept his skills only up until the last 2 minutes, thus when things get 'competitive' in the eyes of Da Rules], and the episode where he wished he knew everything [he used it specifically to get ahead in school, and it was nullified in the quiz-competition]. Timmy's intention behind the whole 'I want [Chester] to be the [[TheAce best baseball player ever]]' thing was for his friend's sake; it was done with the sole intention of improving Chester's situation and making his dad proud. Winning the games was just a fortunate byproduct.
792*** For the first one, remember that Timmy wished for everything in his mom's garden to be full of life, ''not'' to win the competition. The plants full of life were just ''that'' good.
793*** Nope. There's one episode where Timmy wishes to become smarter, and loses all the new brainpower once he enters a trivia competition because he's not allowed to cheat.
794*** Based on the point I made above about there being arbitrary loopholes, it's likely that all the games Chester won weren't considered competitive enough for Timmy's wish to count as cheating. It's also possible that even if Chester hadn't ended his friendship with Timmy, he would've gone back to being terrible at baseball anyway at some point during the championship game when Da Rules decided that things have gotten too competitive for Timmy's wish to still be in effect.
795** Or the wish itself was made unrelated to the competition. Timmy wished for the garden to be ''alive'', not for the garden to be the '''best'''.
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797* You can't wish that someone were dead, but you can wish that someone [[FridgeHorror was never born.]]
798** You can wish ''you'' were never born, but we don't know if that can extend to anyone else. Given Jorgen's behavior in "It's a Wishful Life", he might have left the first condition in intentionally to teach kids who make that wish a lesson (not that the lesson he was trying to teach was one Timmy needed to learn, but that's another discussion), but wishing someone else was never born would probably be forbidden for the same reason you can't wish for someone else to be dead.
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800* In "Father Time!", why didn't Timmy just wish that Dad's trophy was unmelted, and why didn't either of his godparents suggest that?
801** [[AnthropicPrinciple Because then, we couldn't have an 11-minute episode.]]
802** Wanda probably wanted Timmy to learn a lesson (hence her insistence on Timmy apologizing), [[TheDitz Cosmo]] didn't think of it, and Timmy seemed more focused on the badassery of the chosen wishes (he's about to just wish for the chores to be done when Cosmo suggests the heat vision and Timmy immediately goes for it).
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804* What exactly is the show's definition of "true love"? When he first appears, Vicky claims to "truly love" Chip Skylark, but as soon as she finds out he's broke and has a huge debt, she breaks up with him. That's not true love, that's gold digging, because she only wanted him for his money. So shouldn't Timmy have been able to break them up with magic?
805** In "The Odd Couple", Wanda says that Timmy would have to prove that the love between Vicky and Ricky was "fake teen love" rather than true love, but if it was the former, they could "totally rip it apart". Maybe the fairies have to know for sure that it's not true love before they can break them up. In "Boys in the Band", there was no indication prior to Vicky learning of Chip's debt that she just loved him for his money, so magic couldn't be used directly.
806** This makes sense, as the fairies would want to be SURE before they broke up a couple in love.
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808* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishology}}'' special, Jorgen was able to erase Trixie's mind of the movie's events, even though it's against ''Da Rules'' to interfere with true love.[[note]][[{{Irony}} Ironic]] that the one rule that constantly caused Timmy so much trouble wasn't there the one time it could've ''helped'' him.[[/note]]
809** Unfortunately for Timmy: Jorgen ''is'' Da Rules. He's responsible enough to know when to break a rule, whereas Timmy isn't.
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811* At the end of "Shelf Life", Timmy uses magic to rewrite the book they're in in order to send Tom back to Missouri against his will. If he could always do that, why didn't he rewrite one of the earlier books to make Tom return Cosmo's wand and then get sent home to Missouri?
812** Tom was always a book ahead of Timmy the whole time. Rewriting the book wouldn't have meant anything if Tom had already left the story.
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814* In "Channel Chasers", Timmy decides that he has to age himself up until he's too old to remember his fairies, which will take away the power from his and Vicky's remotes, which he thinks will give him a better chance of beating her without the benefit of magic on either side. A few questions: how would he expect to be able to beat her solo when she's still got all the powers the show gives her and the first thing he does after coming up with this plan is get rid of his? Not to mention, erasing his memories of fairies also means he can't remember what he's doing in the show in the first place. It's only thanks to the interference of Cosmo and Wanda that this plan actually succeeds -- they knock Vicky out and get her remote back to Timmy and they're the ones who poof him back into a child so he can actually stop her.
815** Timmy was trying to render her remote powerless so she couldn't get to the Biographical Channel, which was the main objective of stopping her.
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817* In the episode "Wish Fixers", the Head Pixie tricks Timmy to sign a contract where the only "responsible" wish would be for the Pixies to take over Fairy World. This episode is outright stated to happen after "Pixies Inc." (by Cosmo, who literally [[AsYouKnow yells it to the other characters]]). So any kid, at any moment, could wish for the Pixies to take over? Shouldn't there be a rule against that? Even if you they never thought about it previously, it probably should have been discussed after they took over the first time.
818** Perhaps a kid (or adult) wishing for pixies to take over Fairy World (and Earth), or signing a contract granting them control, would override any rule that could potentially halt or undo it. This actually worked in “School’s Out the Musical” and was only undone because their patsy, Flappy Bob, found a loophole in the contract.
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821* At the end of Channel Chasers, Timmy hits the reset button on the events of the special, including unwishing the existence of the two remotes. If he could do that the entire time, why didn't he just halt Vicky's plans by wishing she didn't have hers?
822** Because Vicky was in control of the remote’s (and by extension Cosmo and Wanda’s) power, making her essentially immune to their magic. Timmy could only wish her (and the remotes) away when he had both remotes.
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824* The ending of "Totally Spaced Out" shows that Timmy has KnockoutGas at his disposal, and wasn't afraid to give Vicky a dose. This is a BrickJoke and a reference to how Mark got her to Yugopotamia, but that's still a lot of power, so why not simply conk her out every day she babysits so she doesn't become a problem?
825** Because if his parents walk in on her KO'd on the job, she could be fired and Timmy would have to lose his fairies.
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827* Why was Timmy so excited about receiving Christmas presents? Doesn't having fairy godparents make that entirely redundant?[[note]]Other than the "it's the thought that counts" part, which obviously isn't what Timmy was excited about, and arguably wouldn't even apply because they're from Santa Claus.[[/note]]
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829* If Girls' affection makes Chester actually break out in hives, does this make him AmbiguouslyGay?
830** It only indicates he's a 10 year old boy who's still stuck in his "girls have cooties" phase.
831*** That could have been a stress-rash.
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833* In the episode "The Same Game" it's shown that if a fairy can't grant wishes they suffer from magical backup. So what happens to fairies who ''aren't'' godparents? (Like Jorgen and the Tooth Fairy and Dr. Rip Studwell.) Cause we never see ''them'' exploding.
834** That rule only applies to fairy godparents. Fairies that aren't beholden to any mortals wouldn't have to worry about granting wishes.
835** It's also worth noting that the fairies you mentioned all actively use their magic for ''other'' purposes: Jorgen is an enforcer and guard, the Tooth Fairy teleports and conjures quarters on a regular basis, and Rip Studwell uses magic to heal his patients. Presumably they're "venting" the backup with those constant spells.
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837* Anti-Cosmo has green eyes, like Cosmo. Anti-Wanda has pink eyes, like Wanda. Foop has purple eyes, like Poof. Why do all the other anti-fairies have red eyes?
838** Those are just background characters. It's less time consuming to just give them the standard red eyes, especially since it signifies their dark nature.
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840* If last place in the Race Timmy's Dad participated in as a kid in the 70's gave an All-Expenses paid stay at Military School, why isn't the world under a Military Dictatorship of some rando that Timmy's Dad may or may not have known? If it gave Timmy's Dad the ability to take over the world, it should've given whoever really came in last place the ability and motive to do the exact same thing.
841** Maybe everyone else pursued a different career.
842** Maybe it was Crocker. That would explain his world domination plans. He's just really bad at it.
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844* Why are Godparents not allowed to tell their godkids about other kids with Godparents?
845** That runs the risk of both kids accidentally exposing fairies due to recklessness.
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847* In the Halloween episode with the Jack-O Bots, Timmy’s wish for costumes of the Bots is denied because only four official ones existed at the time, thus it would be stealing to have one? Even though homemade costumes are a thing and can be extremely high-quality (as cosplayers demonstrate), apparently Da Rules can’t permit fairy magic to create such costumes because they care about copyright infringement or something? It’s such an odd stance for Da Rules to take to be so stringent around item rarity, one that certainly could’ve been worked around with some simple thinking. Heck, Timmy could’ve just taken a page from the rest of the episode and wished to turn into a Jack-O Bot instead of just getting a simple lame costume.
848** Having an extra Jack-O-Bot costume would reveal an unconventional method of obtaining it, like fairy magic.
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850* Why is it that whenever Timmy wishes everything back to normal, why do Cosmo and Wanda still his Fairy's?
851** There is a chance he wished that for every time he wished for everything to be back to normal, it would, except losing his fairies.
852** The usual interpretation of "normal," at least in the show's universe, is "I wish everything was back to the way it was ''immediately before'' I made the previous wish." Timmy isn't wishing to go back to what things were like before he had his fairies, he's wishing for things to go back to a few hours/days prior to the magical mayhem caused by his latest request.
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854* In "The Kale Patch Caper", how come Chloe is unable to wish for another Kale Patch Kid because of them being copyrighted, even though Timmy was able to wish for toys in episodes like "The Temp!"?
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856* Mark refused to marry Mandie because she was beautiful, which Yugopotamians hate. But Mark's obsessively attracted to Vicky, who, for all her ''personality'' faults, certainly isn't ugly herself. True, Mark seems more attracted to her because of her maliciousness and nasty personality than due to her appearance, but he knows Mandie's also evil and unpleasant, and that doesn't tip the scales back to attraction in her case.

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