* There are several references to To both Creator/DCComics and Creator/MarvelComics, Franchise/StarWars, WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, etc.
* There's also one to ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' in the episode where they visit Atlantis that borders on TakeThat. "Our diet consists mainly of crabs, starfish, and the occasional underwater squirrel."
** Cosmo calls Timmy "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants CheeseBoy SquarePants]]" in one scene from ''Wish Fixers''.
** And in "Ruled Out", Timmy's dad says that "pants are for squares".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' crossed over with ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]'' three times, but long before that were Jimmy, Carl, and Cindy, the random animals Cosmo named in "Sleep Over and Over".
* The most obscure example would be Bubsy, whose catch phrase was "What could possibly go wrong?!"...which became Timmy's catchphrase. Also considered a TakeThat since this line is delivered in the most wooden, cliche way possible.
* Another in which Timmy creates a male version of Vicky for her to fall in love with, at the end of the episode Ricky goes off with Crocker's mom (after a dating site mishap) and Vicky exclaims "Ricky, don't lose my number! You don't have to call nobody else! Send it off in a letter to yourself!" [[WaxingLyrical a line]] from "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" by Steely Dan.
* [[Franchise/GIJoe Dr. Mindbender]] was an orthodontist before joining COBRA, and his real name was "Dr. Bender".
** Which in itself is [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} yet another shoutout.]]
* "Channel Chasers" features parodies of multiple popular series of the past and present, including ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'', ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'', ''Series/SesameStreet'', and ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
* "Pipe Down" features Timmy somehow managing to misinterpret a rowboat gesture in a game of charades as the entirety of ''Film/GhostbustersII''.
* In one of the episodes where Timmy goes to Fairy World, there is a street sign with streets, [[Creator/PennAndTeller one called Penn and one called Teller]].
* In "Playdate of Doom", Foop's evil plan is to send Poof into [[Film/SupermanII a pocket dimension shaped like a flat square]].
* To the 1960's Batman series: Can anyone try to identify the Batman and Robin [[{{expy}} expies]] in [[http://images.wikia.com/fairlyoddparents/en/images/4/46/Vlcsnap-2012-10-20-22h53m13s29.jpg this image]]?
* "The Good Ol' Days" is a love letter to the various cartoons from the 1920s/1930s: ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'' and various WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts are referenced... and the apparently made-up theme song for the episode is actually a shout-out: namely, it's a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to the main theme heard at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/LadyPlayYourMandolin'', possibly as an instance of SelfDeprecation given all the WritingAroundTrademarks and the various [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Lawyer-Friendly Cameos]] involved.
** Not to mention, one of the street signs says "Creator/UbIwerks" on it.
* The title of ''School's Out!'' may be a reference to [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} another popular cartoon with a movie with a similar name, but released theatrically]].
* In one episode where Timmy goes to tour his dad's workplace (with an obligatory [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Chocolate Factory]] spoof to boot), Mr. Turner gushes about how he's his boss's favorite employee to Timmy. His boss responds to this with a scream of "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons HOMER]]!" "--Uh, it's Turner, sir."
** A song similar to "[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Pure Imagination]]" plays at the end of "Scary [=GodParents=]", befitting the idea of raining candy.
* To Music/{{ACDC}} in "Lights Out," at the end, when Timmy denies that he was scared of Cosmo as Wanda in their 'Scary Fairies' form, Wanda poofs it back to complete darkness with the poof saying 'Back in Black' and then back to light with the poof saying "Let There Be Light."
* The Giant Fairy Storage in "Escape from Unwish Island." Just to name a few, some of the people who have lockers are Creator/WaltDisney, Music/PuffDaddy, Music/DuranDuran, Creator/CarrotTop, [[Music/MilliVanilli Milli and Vanilli]], and some people working on the show itself just to name a few. It's like a goldmine of Shout Outs.
* The episode "Power Mad":
** At the beginning, Timmy recreates the famous scene of Neo dodging bullets from ''Film/TheMatrix''
** When Cosmo and Wanda are using their magic to act as multiple tv stations as she switches through them, one them goes to "Cosmo!" with a surprisingly similar jingle. "[[Series/{{Seinfeld}} It's a show about nothing!]] ... [[TakeThat How do we know when its over?]]" The gag also works considering that Kramer's first name is revealed to be Cosmo. At another point, they recreate ''Series/ILoveLucy''.
* "I Was a Teenage Blowfly" (from "Fly Boy") stars Dash Baxter from WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom.
** ...Which itself is a ShoutOut to the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "Enter the Fly" where, well, Baxter gets turned into a fly.
* WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers has enough to warrant [[ShoutOut/ChannelChasers its own page.]]
* In "Fairly Oddbaby," after [[spoiler: the Anti Fairies and Pixies use Poof to start the apocalypse,]] the news notes, among other things [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Dogs and Cats are living together. "It's mass hysteria!"]]
** The first act has blatant references to Music/TheBeeGees.
** During the MindScrew near the end, Cosmo and Wanda are depicted as cave people dressed as [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred and Wilma Flintstone]].
* Wanda (as well as her husband) turn into Timmy's pet [[Film/AFishCalledWanda goldfish]].
* The Poltergeeks are a parody of the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}.
** The title card and the name of the episode is a spoof of Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}.
* ''One Man Banned'' had many references to several musicians including Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Nirvana}}, OK Go, and Music/TheBeatles.
** Timmy also sports an Music/{{Elvis|Presley}}-like attitude and belly.
* In "The Gland Plan", Anti-Cosmo first referred to Wanda as [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Clarice]].
* In "Scary OddCouple", when Vicky sees Timmy wished for a circus in his room, she tries to bust him, but ends up fruitless, [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb just like another redheaded teenage girl in animation]].
* "Big Wanda" has [[Film/TheGodfather a horse head pillow and chiaroscuro lighting]] ([[LampshadeHanging the latter of which is lampshaded by Wanda]]).
* In "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker", Timmy decides that he has to go back in time further to see why Crocker is so miserable, and ends up in the 1980s. Seconds before he arrives there, we see the iconic [=DeLorean=] time machine from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' leaving [[BurningRubber a pair of fire trails]] behind.
* There's a [[FreezeFrameBonus Blink And You'll Miss It]] shout out in ''Wish Fixers''. When Cosmo and Wanda turn themselves into rubber, the poof cloud says ''[[Music/TheBeatles Rubber Soul]]''.
* Also in ''Wish Fixers'': "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Pay no attention to the pixie controlling the Jorgen robot.]]"
* In "Two and a Half Babies", Foop reads two pages from his favorite children's book: [[Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie "If you feed a mouse...a poison cookie]][[CaptainObvious ...it dies!"]]
* In "The End of the Universe-ity", one of Dark Laser's henchmen (the one with blue skin) is a shout out to [[Franchise/StarWars Admiral Thrawn.]]
* The title card of "Beach Bummed" features Timmy and a crab imitating the unmistakable Coppertone logo.
** The music in the end of the same episode sounds very similar to the theme from Chariots of Fire.
** The lifeguards are an obvious ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' reference.
* "Stage Fright" has a field day with theater references: Vicky gets to act in "[[Theatre/CatOnAHotTinRoof Girl on a Hot Tin Roof]]", "[[Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire A Streetcar Named Destruction]]", "[[Theatre/DeathofaSalesman Death of a Saleswoman]]", "[[Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf Who's Afraid of a Wolf, Virginia?]]", and finally, "[[NeverSmileataCrocodile Crock]] [[Theatre/RockofAges of Ages"]]. Not to mention Timmy's fake director name, "[[Creator/MNightShyamalan Goodnight Shamalot]]".
** Maybe Nickelodeon did that to [[TakeThat get back at said director]] after [[Film/TheLastAirbender what he did]] to [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender one of their other shows.]]
* The invitation to Cosmo and Wanda's high school reunion is delivered by [[Franchise/HarryPotter an owl wearing a maroon and gold striped scarf]] in "Truth or Cosmoquences".
* Timmy's middle name, Tiberius, is likely a reference to [[Franchise/StarTrek James Tiberius Kirk]].
* "Shelf Life" directly plays with several classic works of literature: [[Literature/MobyDick Moby Duck]], Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'s Monster Truck, [[Literature/TarzanOfTheApes Tarzan Lord of the Drapes]], [[Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts Jason and the]] [[WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats Pussycats]], [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers The Three]] [[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Mouseketeers]], and [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat The Rat in Spats]]. Not to mention starring villain [[Literature/TheAdventuresofTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]] and the [[Creator/ErnestHemingway various]] [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour novels]] [[Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye used]] [[Theatre/MacBeth as]] [[Literature/TheDivineComedy frisbees]] [[Creator/HenryDavidThoreau or]] [[Creator/HenryDavidThoreau bowling]] [[Literature/TheStranger pins]] in a montage...
* "Odd Odd West" has one of the kids dressed in ComicBook/LuckyLuke style.
* Competing for the most obscure reference: The Flash/Wonder Woman expy in "Power Pals" is named [[Music/JoanJett Joan Jet.]]
* Cosmo as Film/{{Braveheart}} in "Homewrecker". (Episode contains also a possible ''Film/TheShining'' reference but that could be a generically AxCrazy Vicky.)
* The Monster Hunter at the end of "No Substitute For Crazy". Fairy Wiki says it's an obvious parody of van Helsing, but a) [[PublicDomainCharacter which of them?]] b) [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry]] exists c) so does [[Literature/TheWitcher Geralt]], so a WordOfGod would be helpful.
* In one of the original ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, Timmy says [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu"]] while riding a roller coaster.
** In "The Temp", when Timmy tries to guess the name of the temp fairy, the first guess is "Anime/{{Voltron}}."
** In "The Zappys!" Jorgen starts quoting Sally Field's famous Oscar acceptance speech. When the audience doesn't bite, he turns his wand on them and states "You ''must'' like me!"
** In "Super Humor", An Australian mutters [[Film/CrocodileDundee "That's not a knife!"]] when he confronts a LittleGreenMen.
* Two in "Hex Games"
** When seeing all the odd occurrences in space, an astronaut says "[[Film/Apollo13 Houston, we have a problem.]]"
** Cosmo rides Timmy's back when training in the jungle, [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack talking like Yoda.]]
* ''Action Packed'' features an [[Film/DieHard action movie starring a protagonist named McCain]]. The movie Timmy's Dad thought they were watching was [[Film/AirBud "The boring dog who could shoot boring hoop."]]
* "Timvisible" has a title card that features Timmy in a get up similar to Creator/ClaudeRains in ''Film/TheInvisibleMan1933''
* "Totally Spaced Out": Cosmo shows Mark a fake holographic message from Vicky, which starts with [[Film/StarWarsANewHope "Help me, Mark Chang, you're my only hope!"]]
* "Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad": Timmy's supervillian persona is a parody of ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, complete with Cosmo and Wanda turning into versions of ComicBook/SilverSurfer.
* In "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary", the gorilla from the second challenge ends up parodying ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''.
* In "Genie Meanie Minie Mo", the lawyer that Timmy wishes for is named "[[Franchise/PerryMason Fairy Mason]]".
* In "What's the Difference?", Wanda shows Timmy how much fun reading can be by offering him ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' and ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath''.
* In "Crockin' the House", Timmy buys a video game called ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Fallouch]]''.
* In "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales", Foop's restaurant is named "Fast Foop", the slogan being "Have it my way!" This references Burger King and its slogan, "have it your way".
* The montage in "One Man Banned" features [[Music/{{Thriller}} Timmy and his fairies dancing as zombies]] and [[Music/OKGo them jumping between treadmills]]. It then switches to them dancing as silhouettes again single color backdrops, which references Apple's [=iPod=] commercials. Some of the album covers seen during the montage are also references.