Shout Out / Channel Chasers

• There are a lot of parodies of well-known TV shows in this movie:
  • Maho Mushi is a general parody of shonen anime, primarily the Dragon Ball franchise, although elements of Pokémon, Gundam and Transformers are also thrown in.
  • Carpet Critters is a parody of fellow Nickelodeon show Rugrats (though the title is reminiscent of this short-lived 1990s primetime animated show called Capitol Critters). Klasky-Csupo actually provided animation to their station-mates.
  • The Futurellis is a parody of The Jetsons with elements of The Sopranos mixed in.
  • Johnny Hunt is a parody of Jonny Quest.
  • Go Go Racer is a parody of Speed Racer.
  • Heavy Hal is a parody of Fat Albert.
  • Blackbird is a parody of the Batman cartoons, with a few elements of Birdman (1967) added in. It is the third Batman parody in the series, after Catman (which parodied the live-action show) and Dark Mark from Power Pals (which parodied the comics).
  • Paula Poundcake is a parody of Strawberry Shortcake.
  • Politically Inaccurate Smashdown is a parody of political talk shows and professional wrestling. The names are references to Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and WWE SmackDown.
  • The Million Dollar Spin is a parody of Wheel of Fortune.
  • Ted & Jimmy is a parody of Tom and Jerry. They would revisit the show in a later episode, "Mice Capades", with the parody Sleazy & Cheezy.
  • Clint's Hints is a parody of Blue's Clues, another Nickelodeon show.
  • Poppyseed Avenue is a parody of Sesame Street, done in puppet-show style.
  • Adolescent Genetically Modified Karate Cows is a parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The turtle expies being cows might be a reference to Wild West COW Boys Of Moo Mesa.
  • Walnuts is a parody of the Peanuts TV specials, such as It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Christmas.
  • Channel 293 has a Rankin-Bass style stop-motion Christmas special a la Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
    • Frosty The Snow Man makes a cameo on the channel.
  • Rabid Rabbit is a parody of the Looney Tunes Duck Season, Rabbit Season episodes. The Daffy Duck parody also has white feathers, a blue top and a red bowtie.
  • The Meatflints is a parody of The Flintstones
  • Space Specter is a parody of Space Ghost (the original version of the show, not Space Ghost Coastto Coast) with a few Star Trek elements thrown in.
  • The Feldmans is a parody of The Simpsons, complete with Lawyer Friendly versions of Bumblebee Man (Vicky dressed as a flying ladybug), Ned Flanders (who is shown as a hippie who speaks gibberish instead of a conservative Christian man who speaks gibberish), Krusty the Clown, and Barney Gumble (who is shown as a gross, belching slob instead of a drunk, though it is implied that he is one when he flies into "Mike's"^note the show's take on "Moe's Tavern" after gaining superpowers from the radiation spill). Timmy even points out that every adult in The Feldmans is stupid and no help to any child, a Take That! to both The Simpsons and The Fairly OddParents itself.
  • Snooper Dog is a parody of Scooby-Doo, with a few elements of its short-lived sister show Goober and the Ghost Chasers thrown in. The Snooper Dog character is also inspired by Snoop Dogg.
  • The Biographical Channel is a parody of The History Channel. "Dictator Week" is a reference to Discovery Channel's "Shark Week".
• The Cut Song "If I Lived in TV" features even more parodies (these are generally more likely to be familiar to adults, which may be why the song was cut):
  • Three's Company
  • Barney & Friends
  • The Six Million Dollar Man
  • Happy Days (complete with the by-now mandatory Jumping the Shark gag)
  • Today's weather segment, with Al Roker
  • Late Night With David Letterman (more specifically, the segment "Late Show Top Ten List")
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Saturday Night Live (featuring shout-outs to several well-known sketches and film adaptations like The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, and Coneheads)
  • Friends (with the song itself being based upon Friends' theme tune "I’ll Be There For You")
  • American Idol, with Timmy in the role of Simon Cowell. They would later do an entire episode ("Fairy Idol") on this concept and introduce another Cowell Expy in "Timmy TV" (who himself would return for "Fairy Idol").
  • Diff'rent Strokes
  • Survivor
• The scenes with Tootie as "Deep Toot" are based on the Deep Throat scenes in All the President's Men, based on the Washington Post investigation that uncovered Richard Nixon's attempts to rig the 1972 US presidential election. "Deep Throat" was a pseudonym used by FBI agent Mark Felt to relay classified government information to Bob Woodward.
• Bad Future Vicky is dressed like Adolf Hitler.
• The ending is a nod to Looney Tunes.
• "Today's show is brought to you by the letter V!"^note Although it may be a coincidence. The "V" is obviously meant to refer to Vicky.
• Timmy and Vicky's Battle Cries in Maho Mushi:
  Timmy: MIYAZAKI!!
  Vicky: KUROSAWA!!
  • Timmy's battle attire resembles Goku's gi, and Vicky's battle attire resembles Piccolo's.
• Butch Hartman's name is in the credits of Adolescent Genetically Modified Karate Cows.
• Vicky takes a picture of a miserable Timmy.
• Near the beginning, Timmy's mom is trying to sell a glass house to a man named Mr. Joel.
• The robot that Timmy controls in Maho Mushi has a head that resembles Turaga Vakama's mask.

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