Original air date: 7/12/2002 (produced in 2001)
Episode number: 14a
It's Mark's birthday, and all he wants is Vicky. When he kidnaps her, Timmy finds himself having to save her, or else he’ll be stuck at a boring educational camp.
This episode provides examples of:
- Birthday Episode: For Mark.
- Blatant Lies: Timmy's parents are going on a business trip... to a resort that has several features that are clearly labeled as "not business".
- Cross-Referenced Titles: With "Spaced Out" back in the first season.
- The Dreaded: Timmy becomes this to the Yugopotamians because to them, Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad. Acts like skipping across a field of flowers, eating chocolate, and hugging a teddy bear are forms of torture for them, so Timmy being able to do all of them in succession makes him some kind of Humanoid Abomination to them.
- Epic Fail: Mark turns his Powered Armor into a large cannon bigger than a house, aims it right at Timmy, and fires... and ends up vaporizing everything except Timmy.Mark: Whoa... I missed.
- Exact Words: Timmy wishes for something that would take Vicky "a million million miles from here." Cosmo responds by poofing up a tape measure and measuring until he gets to "one million one million" (two million, if the way he was counting is any indication). This puts him right in front of Mark Chang, who he convinces to return to Earth and take Vicky away.
- Home Field Advantage: When Timmy is allowed to select the arena for the second round against Mark, he decides to have it on Earth. More specifically, he has it at Flappy Bob's Peppy Happy Learnatorium, where he was sent before deciding to get Vicky back. It has everything Yugopotamia like Mark are terrified of, and Timmy quickly wins the whole contest when Mark forfeits rather than face any more of the "horrors".
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Timmy gets off the school bus, happy that he's going to spend this weekend with his parents. When he gets home, he finds out that his parents a going away on a business trip to a five star resort.
- Involuntary Battle to the Death: Timmy gets into Death Combat. Although it's played with in that he accepted when he thought it was something else.
- Involuntary Smile of Incapacitation: Vicky is rendered unconscious after Mark sprays her with Knockout Gas and she smiles before going into a coma.
- Knockout Gas: Mark does this to Vicky, and she remains unconscious for the rest of the episode. After she wakes up at home, Timmy gives her a dose.
- Mistaken for Romance: The Yugopotamians end up believing that Vicky is Timmy's "mate", to his horror.
- Not So Harmless Punishment: This episode features Timmy cockily accepting another challenge from the Yugopotamians, expecting more of the same, only this time he has inadvertently signed up for a gladiatorial fight to the death. Subverted in that, when he's given the chance, Timmy suggests a ball pit as his combat arena and pillows as weapons, giving him the advantage.
- Pet the Dog: Feeling bad that he's taking Vicky away from Mark on his birthday, Timmy promises that Mark can have her for good once Timmy's old enough to not need her to babysit him and gives him the Wack-A-Mole game as a gift.
- Power Armor: Mark equips a set when he faces Timmy in Death Combat. Timmy responds by wishes that Cosmo and Wanda would turn into a set. Notably, it fires pillows, which are deadly to Yugopotamians.
- Powerful, but Inaccurate: This episode provides the image example for this trope: Mark's gigantic vaporizer cannon was aimed directly at Timmy, yet still misses.
- Safety Worst: The Learn-A-Torium makes its first appearance.
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Yugopotamia is portrayed as being two million miles from Earth. That's not even a tenth of the distance that the Earth is from the sun.
- Shout-Out: Cosmo shows Mark a fake holographic message from Vicky, which starts with "Help me, Mark Chang, you're my only hope!"
