Line #55 WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers


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2	'''Original air date:''' July 23, 2004 ''(produced in 2003)''
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4	'''Episode number:''' 54-56
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6	The [[WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe second]] ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Fairly OddParents]]'' MadeForTVMovie, and the first one to feature Vicky as the main antagonist. A love letter to all of creator Creator/ButchHartman's favourite television programs and then some, the movie premiered during the show's fourth season, on July 23, 2004 in the United States. It stars the main voice cast, with Creator/AlecBaldwin guest-starring as a mysterious masked man.
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8	Timmy Turner has recently developed a huge obsession with television, watching every show under the sun and using Cosmo and Wanda's magic to imitate the various gadgets and situations seen on the idiot box. At the same time, Timmy is also getting fed up with his parents not believing him about Vicky. A feeling of growing anger and despair that only escalates once his fairies inform him that they won't always be around; eventually, Timmy is going to get older and lose his sense of childlike wonder and innocence, and will eventually believe all his adventures were just his imagination running wild, resulting in his fairy godparents finally leaving him.
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10	After another incident involving Vicky and a wish-gone-wrong leaves him waiting in his room to be yelled at by his parents [[ItMakesSenseInContext once they get back from the ammo store]], he decides that with Cosmo and Wanda's magic, he can run away into television. This way he won't have to deal with Vicky and, due to the FloatingTimeline nature of most shows, he won't age and thus won't risk losing Cosmo and Wanda: a win win. Unbeknownst to Timmy however, as a result of that same incident, Vicky also gained the ability to enter the world of television herself. And she has the more pragmatic goal of using [[Creator/TheHistoryChannel The Biographical Channel]] so she can rewrite history itself and become an all-powerful dictator. And unbeknownst to ''her'', our buck-toothed protagonist and his fairies are running from show-to-show in order to escape a mysterious masked assassin, sent from the dystopian future Vicky will soon create. And [[RuleOfThree unbeknownst to all of them]], Timmy's parents are searching desperately for their son back in the real world and are beginning to realize the truth about Dimmsdale's go-to babysitter thanks to the mysterious Deep Toot.
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13	!!The following shows were featured in this movie:
14	* ''Maho Mushi'' [[note]]A parody of general anime, including references to ''Franchise/DragonBall'', ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''[[/note]]
15	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons The Futurellis]]'' [[note]] though it has a few similarities to ''Series/TheSopranos''[[/note]]
16	* ''[[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 Carpet Critters]]''
17	* ''[[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Heavy Hal]]''
18	* ''[[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Johnny Hunt]]''
19	* ''[[WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake Paula Poundcake]]''
20	* ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Walnuts]]'' [[note]]in their Hanukkah special, ''It's the Great Menorah, Chuckie Black''[[/note]]
21	* ''[[WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost Space Spectre]]''
22	* ''Politically Inaccurate'' [[note]]a parody of ''Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher'', though the show plays out more like ''[=The MacLaughlin Group=]'' and eventually gets mashed up with an {{expy}} of ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'' to become ''Politically Inaccurate Smashdown''.[[/note]]
23	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The Meatflints]]'' [[note]]also referred to as ''The Turnstones'' by the ninja and the InUniverse TV Guide[[/note]]
24	* ''[[Anime/SpeedRacer Go Go Racer]]''
25	* ''[[Music/SnoopDogg Snooper Dog]] [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo and the Clue Crew]]''
26	* ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Blackbird and Sparrow]]''
27	* ''[[WesternAnimation/BluesClues Clint's Hints]]''
28	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Ted and Jimmy]]'' [[note]]named in the InUniverse TV Guide that Timmy holds[[/note]]
29	* ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Rabid Rabbit]]'' [[note]]named in the TV Guide[[/note]]
30	* A Creator/RankinBass-esque Christmas special
31	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons The Feldmans]]'' [[note]]named in the TV Guide[[/note]]
32	* ''[[Series/SesameStreet Poppyseed Avenue]]'' [[note]]named in the TV Guide[[/note]]
33	* ''[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Adolescent Genetically Altered Karate Cows]]'' [[note]]albeit the credits[[/note]]
34	* ''[[Creator/TheHistoryChannel The Biographical Channel]]''
35	* ''Dictator Week''
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37	!!''Channel Chasers'' contains examples:
38	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler:The DistantFinale features futuristic-looking buildings and flying cars in the background.]]
39	* AdultsAreUseless: While tensions occur between Timmy and adults in this movie and is a major focus, this trope is particularly lampshaded in ''The Simpsons'' expy, when Timmy's attempt to get adult help proves to be futile.
40	-->'''Timmy:''' Oh, come on! Is every adult in this show a moron?
41	* AffectionateParody: Of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'', ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'', and many, many more.
42	* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:The masked figure turns out to be Timmy from the future.]]
43	* AngstNuke: When Vicky vandalizes the Turners' residence and pins the blame on Timmy, his parents' anger is manifested as a literal explosion, as they furiously exclaim the boy's name.
44	* ArchEnemy: The film firmly sets Vicky as Timmy's worst enemy.
45	-->'''Timmy:''' "Every time something cool happens in my life, ''every time'', Vicky ruins it!"
46	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Mr. Turner scolds his son by listing everything Timmy has done that warrants punishment. This includes the fact that Timmy accidentally caused him to lose an award to his rival.
47	-->'''Mr. Turner:''' You dented a 747, destroyed Mr. Joel's glass house, and worse, Dinkleberg won my plaque!
48	* ArtShift:
49	** Each TV show Timmy travels to has a different design and, in the cases of ''Poppyseed Avenue'' and ''Clint's Hints'', includes live-action footage.
50	** The Creator/RankinBass-esque Christmas special is [[AllCGICartoon animated entirely in CGI]], albeit with the characters moving in a choppier manner [[{{Retraux}} reminiscent of stop-motion animation]].
51	** The BadFuture of Dimmsdale 20 years later has a more realistic art style than the one normally used in the show, with backgrounds lacking lines and future versions of the FOP characters actually having, oddly enough, all five fingers on their hands.
52	* BabiesEverAfter: The TimeSkip to the good future at the end shows Timmy is a grown man with two children of his own, with Cosmo and Wanda as ''their'' fairies.
53	* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Played with. "Carpet Critters" is a parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', though it shows that a cartoon based on the lives of babies wouldn't be as exciting if they were portrayed realistically.
54	* BadFuture: One caused by Vicky in one timeline using the magic remote to travel to the "Dictator Week" documentary, allowing her to alter reality and create a timeline where she rules over the world. The main goal of Timmy [[spoiler:as well as his future self]] is to prevent this from happening.
55	* BigBad: Vicky. She constantly bullies Timmy, who grows to resent his parents when they don't believe that he is being abused. This leads the boy to wish for a magical remote to escape into his favourite TV shows. However, Vicky manages to get a hold of the remote, which she then uses to twist reality into a world where she rules everything with an iron fist.
56	* BigBrotherIsWatching: Nobody in Dimmsdale, not even her own parents, was able to say anything about Vicky's true nature due to hidden security cameras and targeting lasers she had everywhere. When Chester tried to tell the Turners about her anyway, an ankle bracelet she had strapped to him shocked him until he conceded to keeping his mouth shut.
57	* BigDamnHeroes: Tootie saw Vicky vandalize the Turner house and give Timmy the heat for it, thus she pretends to be "Deep Toot" and reveals the proof to Mom and Dad, causing them to realize Timmy is innocent and Vicky is the true threat.
58	* BigDamnMovie: The movie is far more serious than the rest of the show. Vicky's abuse is not PlayedForLaughs, and the action scenes rival ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishology}}'' in intensity.
59	* BilingualBonus: The climactic battle takes place in a ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' parody named ''Maho Mushi''. This is actually Japanese for "Magical Bug". The "Magic" part is rather fitting; the "Bug" part, less so.[[note]]Though it could be a subtle CallBack to "Vicky Loses Her Icky" where Vicky's evil is personified by a magic bug.[[/note]]
60	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the end, Timmy ends up growing up married with a son and daughter and he appears mostly more well-adjusted than his parents were. However, due to having his memory erased he appears to have forgotten everything he's ever learned and makes the same mistakes his parents did, hiring a robot version of Vicky as his kids babysitter. Luckily, ''both'' his kids now have Cosmo and Wanda as their fairy godparents.]]
61	* BlahBlahBlah: The [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen offscreen]] adult in the ''Walnuts'' cartoon does this, as a parody of the signature "wah wah wah" muted trombone sounds used to represent adult voices in many ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' animated productions.
62	* BlatantLies: Vicky tells Timmy's parents that Timmy wrote "Vicky Rulez" on the walls, and they ''believe'' her.
63	* BlindWithoutThem: {{Inverted\|Trope}} for Timmy during the Clue Crew show. When the Velma equivalent's glasses fall on Timmy's face, he's blinded by them, even though he can simply just take them off.
64	* BookEnds: The episode begins with a TimeSkip 20 years into the BadFuture ruled by Vicky, and ends with another to the good future where Timmy has a family.
65	* BreakingTheBonds: After spending the last three minutes tied up, [[spoiler:Future Timmy]] broke free when Vicky appeared in a GiantMecha, saying [[PlayAlongPrisoner he could've done that at any time]].
66	* BubbleShield: At the start of the film, Timmy asks his fairy godparents to materialize elements from his favourite cartoon, which he uses to replicate action scenes he had watched. When his stunts send him on collision course with an airplane, he quickly wishes to be surrounded in a Banzai Bubble, which bounces harmlessly against the vehicle. It makes a reappearance during the film's final battle, when Vicky conjures it to deflect one of Timmy's energy blasts.
67	* TheCameo: [[spoiler:Crocker]] has one at the end movie, having emerged from therapy [[spoiler:to cure his obsession with fairies]]. Unfortunately, Timmy's wish that everybody would forget the events of the movie somehow affected him too, turning him back to his old self.
68	* ChekhovsSkill: When she first gains the remote, the first thing Vicky does with it is (accidentally) age herself up by a couple of years. During the climax, [[spoiler:Timmy does the same thing on purpose, gradually ageing himself up until he no longer remembers his fairies and the remotes stop working]].
69	* ComicBookTime: Actually becomes a major plot point in this movie. Timmy makes note of the fact that many TV shows run on this, and that if he were to live in one of them, he'd essentially never grow up. Ironically, this show already runs on Comic Book Time, but it would defeat the whole purpose of Timmy running away into TV if that was pointed out.
70	* ComicalOverreacting: When one of the kids in ''Walnuts'' [[FaintInShock fainted]], the offscreen adult [[NotWhatItLooksLike assumed that Timmy did something to him]] and called the police, who then proceed to throw a tear gas grenade into the room.
71	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Timmy's parents heard Chip Skylark's song "Icky Vicky", they apparently came to the conclusion that it was a song about pumpkins.
72	* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: "Deep Toot" is blatantly Tootie disguised this way.
73	* ContinuityNod:
74	** "The Big Scoop": Upon learning that Timmy's parents prohibited him from watching TV, Chester said Timmy should have gotten rid of them.
75	** "Odd, Odd West", "Engine Blocked", and "Nectar of the Odds": Doug Dimmadome remembers Timmy trying to prevent him from tearing down Dimmsdale Flats, his failed attempt to acquire a Striker Z, and Timmy finding his missing son.
76	** "WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe": [[spoiler: Crocker is shown exiting the clinic he was sent to at the end of that movie]].
77	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Inverted: [[spoiler:the fact that the remote doesn't have number buttons, only Channel Up and Channel Down, [[RaceAgainstTheClock is what prevents Vicky from going straight to the Biographical Channel right away]]]].
78	* DePower: The magic remotes stop working when Timmy becomes too old for his fairies.
79	* DepravedKidsShowHost: Jeff (named after [[Music/TheWiggles Wiggles]] member Jeff Fatt), the Steve/Joe analogue in the ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' parody ''Clint's Hints'', is very clearly insane.
80	-->'''Jeff:''' (cartwheels into shot) Hi, kids! I'm Jeff! (rushes up to the camera) Ignore [[ThereWillBeToiletPaper the shaving cut and the five o'clock shadow,]] [[{{Manchild}} I'm really a kid! Just like you!]] Hey, let's go find some hints! ''Some "Clint's Hints"!'' Come on!
81	* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:After having no luck fighting Vicky in ''Maho Mushi'', Timmy decides to use the remote to make himself older, so he would forget Cosmo and Wanda, and the remotes would no longer function, making it easier for him to fight Vicky. It does cause the remotes to no longer function, but since Timmy lost his memories of ever having Cosmo and Wanda, and everything he ever did with them, this causes him to forget that he is fighting Vicky and just thinks that he is in a football stadium waiting to play a team called the "Cougars," and does nothing to stop Vicky. Thankfully, Wanda poofs Timmy back to his normal age just in time.]]
82	-->'''Timmy:''' [[spoiler:Wow, I can't remember a thing! ...so, why am I running?]]
83	* DisproportionateRetribution:
84	** Chester believes becoming a SelfMadeOrphan is how kids whose parents don't allow them to watch TV should react.
85	** In the ''Walnuts'' special, the police throw a tear gas canister into the room after an adult on the show thinks Timmy harmed another one of the children (in reality, he had just fainted).
86	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Apparently Mom and Dad are the ''only'' ones in the entire town who don't know that Vicky is evil.
87	* EurekaMoment: Timmy has this when he remembers Wanda's lecture over kids losing their fairy godparents when they get older, which gives him the idea to age himself until he loses his fairies and the remotes stop working.
88	* ExactWords: Timmy is grounded from watching TV because of the accident; he gets around this by wishing up a remote that transports himself ''into'' TV, so he's living it without watching it.
89	* FailedASpotCheck: For some reason, the fact that Vicky ''burned Timmy's door down with a flamethrower right in front of them'' '''still''' wasn't enough of a clue to the Turners that Timmy was right about her being evil.
90	* FallGuy: Timmy, with thanks to Cosmo making Vicky believe he's watching TV when he shouldn't, and proceeds to tell Mom and Dad about it while doing various other disasters and claiming Timmy did them instead of her.
91	* FightingYourFutureSelf: Subverted. [[spoiler:The BadFuture assassin who's seemingly pursuing Timmy throughout the first half of the film turns out to be a future version of Timmy - but he's secretly working to ''prevent'' the BadFuture, and once he reveals his identity to his past self, the pair of them team up.]]
92	* FinalSpeech: [[spoiler:Future Timmy gives one just before damage to his [[TimeMachine time belt]] causes him to return to the future. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as he doesn't technically die.]]
93	* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: When Cosmo hid in a shower he poofed up to avoid telling Timmy about what'll happen when he grows up, Timmy flushed the toilet beside it. To cool off, Cosmo jumped into the toilet.
94	* FogFeet: Vicky has a Danny Phantom-like tail in the promotional poster. This is also shown when she's surfing through channels.
95	* ForWantOfANail:
96	** If Cosmo hadn't spoken too much in front of Vicky when disguised as Timmy, then the episode's main plot wouldn't have happened.
97	** Most importantly, Timmy decides to hit the ResetButton at the end because he realizes Vicky is the reason why he got Cosmo and Wanda in the first place.
98	* FrameUp: Vicky does various awful things and pins the blame on Timmy.
99	* FreeRangeChildren: Lampshaded by Timmy after his various travels through TV. He notices how most of the children in TV seem to have idiotic or non-existent parents... just for Cosmo to lampshade that Timmy's parents are '''exactly''' like that.
100	* FunctionalMagic: Vicky thinks the magic remotes use technology to change what's on the TV.
101	* FutureBadass:
102	** Future [[spoiler:Timmy]] infiltrates Vicky's army to gain access to her technology. To earn her trust, he is forced to fight her elite squad, which he defeats effortlessly.
103	** The first scene shows Future Chester and A.J. as they evade Vicky's forces and attempt to use one of her time belts to go back in time. They nearly succeed, but are interrupted mere seconds before they can accomplish the mission.
104	* GallowsHumor: When Vicky knocks on Timmy's door while he's in the television world, Cosmo says he has a plan...and poofs up a guillotine right in front of the door. Wanda opts to disguise Cosmo as Timmy.
105	* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Future Vicky]] herself, considering she has no direct involvement in the present. Her role solely consists of ensuring that her past self, the actual BigBad, manages to achieve her goal, doing so by sending to the past her most trusted soldier (who is TheMole) to guarantee things happen as it should.
106	* GrowingUpSucks: One of the reasons Timmy travels into TV world is because doing so would halt his aging, thus preventing him from ever losing his fairy godparents. [[spoiler:And when he ages himself up to 18 years old in the ''Maho Mushi'' world to [[HeroicSacrifice stop Vicky's remote,]] Wanda drops this sad line.]]
107	-->'''Vicky:''' [[spoiler:Why isn't [the remote] working?!]]\
108	'''Wanda:''' [[spoiler:Because Timmy's too old for fairies!]]
109	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda, and Vicky in ''Ted and Jimmy''. Timmy and Vicky would have similar appearances in the episode ''Mice Capades''.
110	* HartmanHips: Vicky gains these after accidentally using one of the remotes to make her age-up. They double in size.
111	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Mr. Crocker]] before Timmy's wish erases all his memory of recent Timmy-related events, [[GuiltByAssociationGag despite the fact that one has nothing to do with the other]].
112	* HehHehYouSaidX: Mr. Turner laughs when someone says the name "Deep Toot".
113	* HeroicBSOD: Timmy suffers one when [[spoiler:Vicky damages his Future self's time belt, banishing him from the current timeline]]. He screams in frustration and anger, before assuring himself that it's time to face her.
114	* ImStandingRightHere: After briefly commenting to himself on how gullible his future self is after [[HandWave his terrible explanation for why Cosmo and Wanda keep following them through the TV]], Timmy awkwardly notices his glare after he stops talking.
115	* JustInTime: Good news, [[spoiler:Timmy's aging gambit worked, meaning Vicky can't use the remotes anymore]]. Bad news, [[spoiler:the Fairy Taxi shows up to take Cosmo and Wanda away. Even ''after'' Wanda manages to make Timmy 10 again so he can send Vicky away, he only manages to stop the Fairy Taxi by mere ''seconds'']].
116	-->'''Timmy:''' ''[[CallingYourAttacks Maho Mushi]] [[spoiler:[[CallingYourAttacks Remote Control Fairy Cab Door Close Maneuver]]]]!''
117	* KickTheDog:
118	** Timmy is forced through the wringer at the start of the movie thanks to Vicky, made even worse by the fact that his parents flat out ''refuse'' to believe his claims that Vicky is at fault.
119	** In the Christmas special, mere moments after the Frosty expy comes to life, Timmy and crew mow him down on their dog sled.
120	--->'''Snowman:''' Hey! I'm alive! ''Happy birthday!'' (notices dog sled; screams; is flattened)
121	*** Comet doesn't even bother hiding his hatred of Rudolph, flat out saying he's going to go "make fun of that ''freak'' with the glowing red nose".
122	* KidsDrivingCars: There's a segment that parodies ''Anime/SpeedRacer''. Timmy of course ends up racing and wins, but he's then called out by the referee as being "too young to race in this race".
123	* LampshadeHanging: [[invoked]] Given the nature of the film, almost no stone is left unturned as Timmy and the fairies travel through the world of television. Just to name certain examples: the DawsonCasting of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', how boring a [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} cartoon about baby adventures]] ''would actually'' be, the violence of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', the recycled backgrounds and laugh tracks of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', the cast of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' looking too old to be teenagers, the stupidity of the adults on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (and ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]'' itself, for that matter), the fact that no one in cartoons ''age'', the fact that even ''The History Channel'' is HarmfulToMinors, and so on, and so on, and so on.
124	* LastStand: [[spoiler:Towards the climax of the movie, Future Timmy is forced back to the future due to Vicky damaging his time travel belt, and there was one channel left before she made it to the Biographical Channel. Timmy's last chance to stop Vicky is to face her one on one in ''Maho Mushi''.]]
125	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:With everything that had happened, Timmy wishes for all of the events of the episode to be erased, leading to many people getting their memories wiped]].
126	-->"''Were we doing something Timmy-related?''"
127	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' parody, every instance of physical violence is [[GagCensor obscured]] by either Cosmo or Wanda leaning into frame, remarking on the level of violence the old-school cartoons got away with.
128	* LimitedAnimation: {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in ''The Meatflints'' and ''Maho Mushi'', which are parodies of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and old anime.
129	-->'''Timmy:''' Forget it, Vicky! The only way you are getting out of here is over my cold, unmoving, limited animation body!
130	* LoopholeAbuse: Timmy is grounded from watching TV because of him imitating a stunt he saw on ''Maho Mushi'', and Vicky is hired to make sure he doesn't. To get around this, he uses a magic remote to transport himself into the TV universe so he can see the action up close; Wanda even lampshades it.
131	* MemoryWipeExploitation: Timmy's parents have discovered Vicky is evil and, after verbally chewing her out, fire her. After watching Vicky suffer for a bit, Timmy wishes the day's events never happened, because without Vicky, Timmy wouldn't be miserable enough to have fairy godparents.
132	* TheMole: [[spoiler:Timmy from the future infiltrated Vicky's army and gained her trust so that he could travel back in time and prevent her from using the remote to take over the world.]]
133	* MomentKiller: After [[spoiler:Future Timmy]] saves Timmy from falling off the end credits of ''Adolescent Genetically Altered Karate Cows'', the two have a touching moment, which abruptly ends when [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash Vicky blasts Future Timmy's time-travel belt, which results in him returning to the future]]]].
134	* MoralGuardians: The adults of Dimmsdale, including Chet Ubecha, fear ''Maho Mushi'' because any kid who watches it has a habit of recreating the stunts in real life, which lead to destruction and chaos. Ironically, [[spoiler: it ends up being key to saving the world from Vicky's rampage]].
135	* {{Mouthflaps}}: In the ''Speed Racer''-esque universe, the characters' mouths only open and close statically when they speak with very little lip spectrum, to mimic the {{Animesque}} nature of the show.
136	* NeverMyFault: Timmy's Dad keeps blaming his wife for Timmy running away.
137	-->'''Mr. Turner:''' ''You'' have to apologize to Timmy!
138	* NeverSayDie: The censorship of ''Dragon Ball Z'' and other animes (for more details: NeverSayDie/AnimeAndManga) is parodied in ''Maho Mushi'': Instead of saying "over my dead body!", Timmy talks about his "cold, unmoving, limited animation body!"
139	* NostalgiaFilter: Wanda admits to remembering the Rudolph parody being a lot nicer.
140	* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Upon traveling through the TV shows, Timmy learns about this trope. One of his main reasons to move in the TV was to invoke this trope for an eternal childhood.
141	* NotHelpingYourCase: When Vicky again makes Timmy look like a hoodlum in front of his parents, they point out the fact that he just destroyed the house with a bazooka and turned on his TV despite being grounded means he isn't trustworthy.
142	* PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales: Averted. In the ''Tom and Jerry'' parody, Wanda and Vicky don't wear pants.
143	* ParodyAssistance: ''[[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 Carpet Critters]]'' even has fellow Nicktoon producer Creator/KlaskyCsupo provide artwork and animation.
144	* PlotRelevantAgeUp:
145	** A downplayed example when Vicky first steals the remote. She ends up in a game show, from which she is disqualified for not being 18 or over. She thumps the remote in frustration and coincidentally hits a button that ages her up a couple of years.
146	** In the climax, Timmy uses the remote to age himself until he is old enough he doesn't need fairies anymore so Vicky can be powerless.
147	* ProfessionalWrestling: "Welcome back to POLITICALLY INACCURATE SMASH DOWN!"
148	* RaceAgainstTheClock: Sort-of. [[spoiler:Part of Timmy's plan to defeat Vicky involves aging himself up enough so that he forgets he ever had fairies. However, the downside to his plan is that the Fairy Cab pops in to take them away. And the driver isn't a very patient guy...]]
149	* RageBreakingPoint: Timmy loses it when Vicky makes him a FallGuy for various house disasters he didn't even do, making him get in even more trouble with his parents.
150	* RefugeInAudacity: When Future Timmy (who has forgotten Cosmo and Wanda) asks his younger self why Cosmo and Wanda are following them everywhere, Timmy lies and says they're his goldfish who got sucked into the television with then. Future Timmy admits it makes about as much sense as everything else in TV land.
151	* ResetButton: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Vicky is fired by the Turners, but Timmy decides that putting up with her for a few more years is worth it if it means that Cosmo and Wanda will remain with him. This causes him to wish that the magic remotes never existed, restoring the ''status quo'']].
152	* RecurringRiff: The transition songs between each show turn out to be taken from the [[invoked]]CutSong "If I Lived in TV".
153	* TheReveal:
154	** Done in the parody of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', where the masked figure turns out to be the monster that chases Timmy and the other characters. Also done for real when [[spoiler:the masked figure turns out to be Timmy from the future.]]
155	** Tootie reveals [[spoiler:to Timmy's parents that Vicky is a horrible babysitter.]]
156	* RunAwayHideAway: Functionally, Timmy's television. He runs away from home, intending to live the rest of his life in the shows that he used to watch.
157	* RunningGag:
158	** Vicky writing "Vicky Was Here" on every show she visits, including key-scratching the message on Mr. Turner's car and blaming Timmy for it.
159	** While in the ''Maho Mushi'' world, Cosmo keeps accidentally firing {{Hand Blast}}s.
160	** Characters saying "Ooh, ahh, ohh!" in ''Go Go Racer''. Even later scenes have subtle variants of the three-gasp combo, usually split between multiple characters.
161	* SayingTooMuch: While Timmy is traveling through the TV universe, Cosmo disguises himself as Timmy should Vicky come back. Being TheDitz he is, he accidentally gives away he's watching TV despite being grounded:
162	-->'''Vicky:''' What's going on in here?\
163	'''Cosmo as Timmy:''' Leave me alone! Can't you see I'm watching television in blatant disregard of my parents' direct orders?! ''({{Beat}})'' I mean... Don't come in, I'm naked! ''(throws his clothes at her)''\
164	'''Vicky:''' HA! You are so dead! ''(snaps a photo of him and leaves, laughing evilly)''\
165	'''Wanda:''' ''(poofs in)'' [[SarcasmMode Nice.]]\
166	'''Cosmo:''' Well, she's gone isn't she?
167	* ScoobyDoobyDoors: Parodied in the ''Snooper Dog'' cartoon, with the bird from ''The Meatflints'' lampshading it like he did with WraparoundBackground.
168	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: Timmy from the future travels back into the past to prevent Vicky from getting a hold of the remote that allowed her to take over the world.]]
169	* SheatheYourSword: When it turns out that [[spoiler:Vicky is just as knowledgeable in "Maho Mushi" as he is, Timmy's last-ditch gambit to stop Vicky is to do essentially this... by aging ''himself'' with his own remote until he becomes too old for fairies, as ''only then'' will their remotes stop working]].
170	* SkewedPriorities: Mr. Turner was more upset over the fact that Timmy could spell "Dinkleberg" better than "ever" than the fact that he had run away, even though both words were written by Vicky and Cosmo respectively.
171	* SmartBall / IdiotBall: In a brief moment while in the ''Rankin Bass'' parody, ''Cosmo'' has to tell ''Wanda'' not to go after the "chocolate" the reindeer drop as they fly by.
172	-->'''Cosmo:''' (as he and Wanda poof up umbrellas) Watch where you step!\
173	'''Wanda:''' Oh, boy! Chocolate!\
174	'''Cosmo:''' I wouldn't if I were you.
175	* SolidCartoonFacialStubble: When unmasked, the figure hunting down Timmy and his fairies has a rectangular patch of gray, extending from his jaw to his upper lip.
176	* StatusQuoIsGod: Timmy hits the ResetButton because he realizes Vicky is the main reason he got Cosmo and Wanda, and therefore is a necessary evil.
177	* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler: Timmy's kids, Tommy and Tammy. They look similar to both of Timmy's {{Love Interest}}s, Trixie and Tootie.]]
178	* StylisticSuck: In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' parody, the puppet versions of Vicky, the Timmys, and Cosmo and Wanda are not only clearly ''thrown'' into the prop TV, but you can also see people ''pull them through''.
179	** An alternate take of this parody exists as a deleted scene on the DVD release where the Wanda puppet fails to make it through the prop TV, so [[CreatorCameo Butch Hartman]] walks into frame and tosses the puppet in himself.
180	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Deep Toot's messages constantly said "I am ''not'' Vicky's sister". Strangely, everyone falls for it, even Vicky herself.
181	* TheTalk: When Timmy asked what would happen when he grows up, Cosmo began this, complete with puppets, before Wanda told him he was giving the wrong speech.
182	-->'''Cosmo:''' But I already have the puppets out!
183	* TemptingFate:
184	** Both of Timmy's parents were doing some pretty important and fragile things at the same time Timmy was [[HyperDestructiveBouncingBall bouncing around in an indestructible bubble]]. Guess what happens.
185	** After being told that when he gets older, he'll not only lose Cosmo and Wanda, but forget about them entirely, Timmy moans "What else could go wrong?!". At that moment, in comes Vicky with Timmy's parents, having found him in front of his TV still on despite being grounded, leading him to get in even more trouble.
186	* TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats: Parodied when one of the shows Timmy ends up on is "Adolescent Genetically Altered Karate Cows".
187	* ThrowingYourGunAtTheEnemy: [[spoiler:What ultimately manages to save Cosmo and Wanda from the Fairy Taxi is Timmy tossing both remotes into the cab's door.]]
188	* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Future Timmy travels back in time 20 years to prevent the BadFuture.]]
189	* TookALevelInBadass: Timmy [[spoiler:His present version goes toe-to-toe with Vicky during the final battle, while his Future self is the masked figure that has been following him for most of the first act]].
190	* TrappedInTVLand: Timmy tries to invoke this in order to stay as a kid forever.
191	* WasTooHardOnHim: [[spoiler:When the Turners find out Timmy told the truth all along about Vicky being evil, they cry, wishing they would have listened, and are only stopped from firing her when Timmy freezes time so he doesn't have to give up his fairies.]]
192	* WhamLine: From the ninja that was chasing Timmy throughout the first half of the movie.
193	-->'''Timmy:''' Nice try, pal. I'm not afraid of you here! On this show, the good guy always wins!\
194	[[spoiler:'''Adult Timmy:''' You young fool. Don't you understand!? [''DramaticUnmask''] I '''AM''' the good guy!]]
195	* WouldHurtAChild: Timmy's time in ''Walnuts'' comes to an abrupt end when one of the offscreen adults accuses Timmy of hurting one of the children (who in reality fainted)... and ''calls the police''.
196	-->'''Adult:''' Blah blah!\
197	'''Timmy:''' ''(nervously)'' [[OhCrap Do we have to involve the police?]]\
198	'''Wanda:''' ''([[SpeakOfTheDevil as police sirens are heard outside]])'' Apparently that's a "Yes"! ''([[DisproportionateRetribution a tear gas canister is thrown inside]])''
199	* WraparoundBackground: While in the ''Meatflints'' world, Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda are chased by a sabertooth tiger, with Wanda pointing out them already passing by the same furniture and the prehistoric bird lampshading the trope. Timmy thinks the concept is lame.
200	* YouAreGrounded: Timmy's parents ground him from watching television for destroying the city thanks to his ''Maho Mushi''-esque stunt.
201	* YouAreWorthHell: Despite Vicky's torment pushing him to breaking point multiple times throughout the special, Timmy ultimately decides that it's worth putting up with her if it means Cosmo and Wanda get to stay with him for a few more years, and so [[spoiler:erases his parents' memories of Vicky's crimes, saving her from being fired]].

Context WesternAnimation / ChannelChasers