Recap / The Fairly Odd Parents S 3 E 3 Shiny Teeth

Original air date: 11/30/2002

Episode number: 22a

Chip Skylark is releasing a music video for his song "My Shiny Teeth and Me", and everyone's excited...except for the evil dentist Dr. Bender, who steals Chip's teeth while he's sleeping. Timmy must find a way to retrieve them and return them to Chip before the video premiere.

This episode contains examples of:

• Big "NO!": Dr. Bender unleashes one of these after failing to catch Timmy and the teeth.
• Briefs Boasting: Before the music video shoot, Skip Sparkypants boasts about how his signature pants would beat Chip’s shiny teeth any day — while wearing sparkly briefs.
• Chekhov's Gun: One of the laws regarding teeth that the Tooth Fairy brings up is how they have to be under a pillow for her to take any action. Timmy remembers this in the climax, narrowly escaping doom by roping a pillow and hiding himself and Chip’s teeth underneath; this causes them to magically poof away (and leave behind a quarter).
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: As if his signature pants weren’t enough, Skip Sparkypants also has twinkling underwear.
• Fairy Sexy: The Tooth Fairy is considered very attractive by Cosmo, and she has a more humanoid design while also being modeled after Wonder Woman, who is commonly treated as the World's Most Beautiful Woman in her comics.
• Hand-or-Object Underwear: Skip is forced to use his own hands to cover his groin after Cosmo and Wanda (as dogs) steal his pants and underwear.
• I Know Kung-Faux: Chip claims he’s a master of “Teeth Fu,” using his ridiculously shiny teeth to blind an attacking Skip and dodge him.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: Despite Chip’s teeth going missing, a representative from the record company insists that they would not replace him for the music video, stating that no one would be able to put the work in better than Chip. Then Chet Ubetcha points out that the video already cost $20 million to make — followed by Skip Sparkypants announcing he’d do it for free — and the representative quickly switches gears.
  Chet: Sir, with Chip Skylark’s teeth missing, will you be replacing him in the video?
  Representative: Of course not! This is Chip Skylark’s song. It’s his vision, and nobody, I repeat nobody could do it better than Chip Skylark. We’re willing to wait until Chip gets his teeth back!
  Chet: But you’ve already spent twenty million dollars on the video.
  Skip: [slides up, finger guns] I’ll do it for free!
  Representative: [grabs Skip] Meet the new Chip Skylark!
• Improvised Clothes: After Cosmo and Wanda steal his clothes, Skip is later seen chasing after them while wearing a wooden barrel.
• "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop: Dr. Bender and Wendell steal Chip Skylark’s teeth this way, concealing their identities with Ninja costumes. Wendell isn’t the best at it, crashing to the floor once as they descend on Chip and does it again as they return to the ceiling.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: The tiara that Timmy wears is supposed to hide his identity, though aside from replacing his signature pink hat does nothing to obscure anything else. It doesn’t stop the others from being fooled, though.
  Wendell: Who’s that, pop?
  Dr. Bender: I can’t tell. The goofy teeth seem familiar, but the tiara has me baffled!
• Right-Hand Attack Dog: A downplayed heroic example. Cosmo and Wanda transform into dogs and steal Skip’s sparkly pants (and underwear) to delay the start of the music video shoot and buy Timmy some time to get the teeth back.
• The Rival: Skip Sparkypants, a Teen Idol known for his sparkling pants, is this for Chip Skylark.
• Screaming at Squick: When Chip reveals that his teeth have been stolen, someone is heard screaming in terror at the sight of his toothless mouth.
• Shaped Like Itself: Wendell describing his Yank-O-Rip-O-Matic:
  “It yanks and rips!”
• Shout-Out:
  Dr. Bender: And now, I'm going to get medieval on your mouth!
• Sidetracked by the Analogy: After Wanda notes how Skip Sparkypants is publicly dissing Chip Skylark, Cosmo responds with “word” (complete with a hip pose). When Timmy says “Chip rocks” afterwards?
  Cosmo: “Two words!”
  • A short while later while the gang asks for help from the Tooth Fairy:
    Wanda: Then you’ll help us?
    Cosmo: Which is four words?
• Speaking Like Totally Teen: Skip Sparkypants speaks this way.
  • Cosmo and Wanda also delve into this at times; aside from Cosmo’s aforementioned case of using “word,” there’s their reaction from when they learn Chip Skylark’s teeth are missing:
    Cosmo: That’s wiggity-wiggity-wack!
    Wanda: Whatity-whatity-what?
• Truth Serums: The Tooth Fairy gives Timmy magic floss that would enable the target to spill the truth.
• Twinkle Smile: Chip Skylark exploits his to dodge an attack from Skip Sparkypants early on in the episode.
• Verbal Tic: Skip Sparkypants tends to weave “yo” into everything he says, yo!
  • And to a lesser extent, “word.” In both cases, he ends his dialogue with one of these words after initially using it near the beginning of his lines.
• Weapons That Suck: In the climax, Dr. Bender uses a toothpaste tube-shaped one of these on Timmy to take the teeth back, uncover the latter’s identity, and “yank and/or rip [his] teeth out.”
• Wonder Woman Wannabe: The Tooth Fairy is depicted as a pastiche of Wonder Woman, basically having an exact duplicate of her costume in a blue palette. To drive the reference home she kits Timmy in a similar getup that also comes with invulnerable bracers, floss rope that compels the truth and a tiara for no apparent utility.