The Fairly Odd Parents / Tropes K to R

"All of these tropes! Clearly this was the work of... FAIRY GODPARENTS!!"

This page covers tropes found in The Fairly OddParents!.

Tropes A to C | Tropes D to J | Tropes K To R | Tropes S to Z | YMMV

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• Kafka Komedy: Timmy's life is so horrible that he must have fairy godparents to compensate for it. Even then, a poorly thought-out wish can make his problems worse.
  • And sometimes, even a well thought out wish can backfire, as shown in the episode Just The Two of Us, showing that Timmy is indeed a Cosmic Plaything and Butt-Monkey.
  • When Chester got Norm as his Fairy, his wishes make everything worse for the world. Wishing the penguins weather would get warmer, the Earth gets closer to the sun melting the polar ice caps.
  • When Cosmo becomes Super Not-Cosmo some of his heroics ended up becoming worse, the dam he fixed bursts, the volcano he plugged erupted, and the cat he picked up a tree was a tree cat that goes berserk when its out taken out of its tree.
• Kamehame Hadouken:
  • There are several during the Dragon Ball parody in Channel Chasers, of course; Intentionally by Timmy and Unintentionally by Cosmo.
  • Santa Claus of all people pulls one off in the first Christmas Special against the Easter Bunny. It backfired.
• Kangaroo Court: "Escape from Unwish Island" has Timmy's unwished wishes overtly biased towards giving Timmy an unfair verdict.
• Kangaroo Pouch Ride:
  • An Australian girl is shown riding in a kangaroo's pouch in "Information Stupor Highway".
  • The Bad Parent Hunter (a parody of the late Steve Irwin) rides in a kangaroo's pouch at the start of his show in "Nega Timmy."
• Karma Meter: In "Power Mad," where Timmy wishes up a challenging virtual reality game in which you can die if you lose your three lives and Chester and A.J. get stuck in it, Timmy sacrifices his own last life to save theirs. The game rewards him for his Heroic Sacrifice with enough points for a 1Up.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey:
  • Crocker is a Sadist Teacher who takes a lot of enjoyment in giving his students F's. Naturally, almost no one respects him and people view him as crazy for believing in fairies. He also gets injured quite frequently.
  • Vicky frequently suffers misfortunes and injures as well, and also tends to have it coming since she's a sadistic monster who relishes torturing and tormenting the children she watches over.
• Kavorka Man: Winston Dunsworth, a British nerd Vicky has a crush on in "A Bade Case of Diary-Uh", had no problem getting women.
• Keet:
  • Cosmo and arguably Timmy are excitable and cheerful.
  • Peppy Happy Gary qualifies as well.
• The Kid with the Remote Control: Timmy can make any change to his life he wants with his fairy godparents there to grant his every wish.
  • And in Channel Chasers he gets a literal remote control that makes him go into any TV show he wants!
• Kids Are Cruel: Timmy is sometimes shown to be very mean, particularly when showing sadistic glee in enacting painful retribution towards Crocker, Vicky and Francis.
• Kid Hero: Timmy Turner is only ten years old but is frequently put into situations where it's up to him to save the day, whether by making a wish to his godparents or using his ingenuity to think of a solution himself.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: In "Fairy Idol". No point spoilering it - in the Fairy Singing Contest, also the Wicked Witch enters. One guess what happens to her.
  The Jury: She really brought the house down.
• Kissing Cousins: In "Whittle Me This", one of the reasons Timmy gives for why he believes hillbillies are cool is that they can take their cousins to the prom.
• Kitchen Sink Included: Inverted (kinda) and lampshaded.
  Timmy's Dad (throwing out trash from the attic, hitting Mr. Dinkleburg): "Sorry!"
  Timmy's Dad: "Quick Timmy, bring more! The heavier, the better!"
  Timmy: (arduously pushes a kitchen sink toward window)
  Wanda: "Isn't that one a bit too obvious?"
• Kissing Under the Influence: Trixie and Timmy on separate occasions, Cupid in Apartnership
  • Anyone hit by Cupid's arrows.
• Knight of Cerebus: Crocker in The Movie Abra-Catastrophe! is played much more seriously.
• Knight Templar: The Power Pals eventually become this, deciding that they must kill Timmy's old friends just because Elmer, Sanjay, AJ and Chester no longer like Timmy and have called themselves the Anti-Timmy Force Four.

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• Lampshade Hanging: The show just simply enjoys doing this.
• Land of Faerie: Fairy World is of course the homeworld of all fairies.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice:
  • The Crimson Chin personifies the trope, being a superhero with an enormous chin whose theme revolves entirely around that particular part of the face.
  • Space hero Crash Nebula's chin isn't as big, but is still noticeably large.
  • Jorgen Von Strangle has a big chin as well, but whether or not he counts as a good guy depends on what is required for the episode's plot.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Jorgan erases the memories of whoever loses their fairies. Complete with a neuralizer-esque weapon.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In "Boys in the Band," Timmy's birthday gets overshadowed by a concert by teen sensation Chip Skylark, even Cosmo and Wanda forget it. Cosmo then demonstrates his electric triangle, frying him.
  Timmy: Thank you, karma.
• "Last Day of School" Plot: Three episodes take place on the last day of School for Timmy Turner. They are "Timvisible", "Shelf Life", and the movie-length special "School's Out: The Musical".
• Latin Lover: Inverted with Juandissimo, as he wants Wanda, but she won't have him.
  • Played with, as Wanda enjoys his affections at the Fairy Spa, and she is known to have romantic chocolate-related dreams about him.
• Large Ham: Mark, the Crimson Chin and Dr. Rip Studwell all tend to chew the scenery whenever possible.
  • FAIRY! GOD! PARENTS!!! (contorts and spasms uncontrollably)
  • Foop, the Anti-Fairy baby, has a penchant for grand, evil speeches full of dramatic weight.
• Later-Installment Weirdness: The tenth and final season saw the addition of Chloe and a revised theme song mentioning her addition to the show, and the switch to lower-quality Flash-based animation halfway through the season.
• Laughing Gas:
  • The Depraved Dentist uses this to keep kids docile while he operates on them. Timmy steals the gas in the It's a Wonderful Plot episode and later uses it to incapacitate Jorgen when the latter attempts to stop Timmy from altering reality further. Later subverted, when Jorgen reveals he was fake laughing out of pity, and is completely immune to laughing gas of any kind.
  • In "Fool's Day Out", Timmy seeks the help of the April Fool to prank his family and friends on April Fool's Day. At first, Timmy enjoys the Fool's pranks, but when the Fool starts performing lethal pranks (such as having Timmy's parents parachute into the Broken Glass and Pointy Objects Factory with pigs for parachutes), Timmy tells the Fool off. As retribution, the Fool tries to block out the sun and cause a new ice age, but Cosmo laughing at him before he can finish his jokes causes him to get comedy backup. If enough comedy backup builds up, the Fool will blow himself all the way back to Fairy World, so Timmy ensures that happens by wishing that all the air on Earth was filled with laughing gas. Sure enough, the laughing gas causes everyone in the world to laugh and sends the Fool back to Fairy World, foiling his plan.
• Lazily Gender-Flipped Name: In "The Boy Who Would Be Queen", Timmy wishes that Cosmo was a woman and that Wanda was a man. He then names the duo "Cosma" and "Wando". The same epiosode has Timmy turn into a girl in order to get closer to Trixie and introduces his/herself as "Timantha".
• Lazy Neutered Pet: "Dog's Day Afternoon" revolves around Vicky's pet dog being neutered. Vicky neuters all her pets (including fish) and they all turn out lazy.
• Legion of Doom:
  • The Crimson Chin webisodes features a villain team called The Body of Evil, its members being the Iron Lung, the Bronze Kneecap, the Brass Knucles, the Copper Cranium and the Gilded Arches.
  • "Escape from Unwish Island" has Timmy's imaginary friend Gary team up with other beings given life by one of Timmy's wishes and later cast aside to get revenge against Timmy for abandoning them.
  • After Timmy wishes for the world to be like a comic book in "The Big Superhero Wish", the Nega-Chin forms an alliance with Mr. Crocker, Vicky and Francis' respective supervillain counterparts Dr. Crocktopus, the Babyshredder and the Bull-E.
  • The eighth season has a villain team known as L.O.S.E.R.S. (League of Super Evil Revenge Seekers) formed, with its members consisting of Dark Laser, Mr. Crocker, Foop and occasionally Vicky.
• Leitmotif: Bunches that show up in the Title Card, most frequently.
  • Norm the Genie gets the "Arabian Nights" sounding tune.
  • Chip Skylark gets twangy electric guitar.
  • Mr. Crocker has one that started in either "The Secret Origin Of Denzel Crocker!" or Abra-Catastrophe!.
  • Mark Chang gets retro 50s sci-fi music complete with theremin.
  • The Crimson Chin, being a superhero, has his Theme Tune for his Leitmotif, but also has a couple other tunes (including one with a long muted trombone note) that play during his episodes.
  • Catman has a Suspiciously Similar Song to the 1960s Batman Theme Tune.
• Leprechaun: Leprechauns appear in The Big Bash.
• Lethal Chef:
  • Subverted with Timmy's mom. Her food looks absolutely revolting and is heavily implied to be alive. When Timmy finally gives it a chance, though, it turns out to be gourmet quality.
  • Doubly subverted in "Timmy TV", when Timmy's life is turned into a sitcom for fairies. Timmy's mom is shown to be unable to cook anything without burning it.
  • Played straight with Juandissimo in "Remy Rides Again". Jorgen finds his cooking so terrible that he ultimately allows Juandissimo to be Remy's godparent again, but only on the condition that Juandisssimo cook al of Remy's meals.
• Licensed Game: There are several video game tie-ins.
  • A Windows racing game adapted from the episode "Information Stupor Highway" where the player has the option to play as Timmy, Cosmo or Wanda and race against Crocker's Crockbots.
  • The Fairly OddParents: Enter the Cleft for Game Boy Advance, where Timmy has to save the world after it is taken over by the Crimson Chin's enemies the Bronze Kneecap, Country Boy and Spatula Woman.
  • The Fairly Odd Parents Breakin Da Rules for Game Boy Advance, PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox, with the plot depending on which version^note The conflict in the Game Boy Advance version is caused by Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda using their magic to bring the dreams of a sleeping Vicky to life, the console versions have Timmy having to set things right when he inadvertently causes Da Rules to fall into Vicky's hands and the PC version has a slightly different premise where Timmy's mission to recover Da Rules is caused by Juandissimo tricking him into wishing the book away.
  • The Fairly Odd Parents Shadow Showdown, released on the same systems as Breakin' Da Rules except for Xbox, where Timmy must fight a mysterious force interfering with his godparents' magic.
  • Fairly OddParents: Clash with the Anti-World, a Game Boy Advance exclusive where Timmy has to thwart the latest scheme of Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda, who turn out to be Co-Dragons to Anti-Timmy.
• Limited Animation: Due to having thick lines, this is to be expected.
• Lip Lock: Parodied in Formula for Disaster.
• Literal Genie:
  • A Running Gag with Cosmo and Wanda. Some examples include the following: Timmy wishes for a shrink suit, but the suit can only shrink, not return to normal size; he wishes that he had parents that could care less: they end up not caring about work, bills, personal hygiene, etc., and it also affects Cosmo and Wanda, his godparents; he wishes to be sent to the comic book store while he's taking a bath: Cosmo and Wanda neglect to dress him before they send him to said store, resulting in Timmy having to make his way home across Dimmsdale completely naked. It's to the point that, in "Just the Two of Us!", he has to rephrase his wish that he was the last boy on Earth three times to get the results he wants.
  Timmy: You guys take everything too literally.
  • Norm the Genie is initially depicted as such in his debut episode. When Timmy makes a wish for an omelet, it falls into his hands and burns them, because Timmy didn't wish for an omelet on a plate. When he tries to be more specific ("I wish Trixie Tang loved Timmy Turner"), Norm makes it so Trixie Tang loves everyone named Timmy Turner. It's the third and final wish that outs Norm as an outright Jackass Genie; Timmy wishes for his Dad to be a billionaire, and Norm makes Mr. Turner a counterfeiter.
• Living Structure Monster: There's Mike, the Evil Living Building, as one of the Crimson Chin's enemies.
• Locked in a Freezer: Timmy and Vicky in Snow Bound.
• Logical Weakness: In Season Three Episode Twenty six, H2Olga is defeated not by the Crimson Chin's superpowers, but by being absorbed into the diaper of the baby he was watching.
  • Adding insult to injury on the Ursula-esque villainess' part, that the diaper was ultra absorbent, absorbing not only her, but the large amount of water that flooded chincinatti from Timmy's bath, which had given her the power to nearly beat the Chin.
    • Even more so that this happened only a minute after she was monologuing up against the walls of her absorbent, baby-powdery smelling prison about getting revenge on the chin as soon as she got out of it.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Remy Buxaplenty is wealthy, but has no friends.
• Long Pants: Cosmo, Wanda, Timmy, Chester, Vicky, Crocker, and other characters are drawn with their pants connected to their shoes.
• Long Runner: The show started in 2001, after its appearance by a series of shorts from Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and ended in 2017 after 16 years. It's the second longest running show on Nick after SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Look Behind You:
  • In "Timvisible", Timmy tries to distract the bully Francis by telling him "Look, a Rottweiler!" Francis doesn't fall for it, which causes Timmy to reply "You're right, it's just a brick wall." Humorously, this observation does get Francis to look away.
  Francis: A brick wall? Where?
  • "Baby Face" has Timmy distract Francis by yelling "Look, a hot shower!"
  • The very first Jimmy Timmy Power Hour special has Timmy distract Crocker by claiming to see a child in pain. Crocker eagerly looks away to find a pink teddy bear on a stool underneath a piece of paper reading "A child in pain" taped to the wall.
  Crocker: Hey, there's no child in pain! BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE!
  • In "Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad", Timmy's parents make use of this trick to prevent their son from discovering their powers, unaware that they have powers in the first place because Timmy wished for them to have them. Timmy's Mom cries "Look, a monkey" to distract Timmy from seeing her use meat vision to create breakfast, then simply says "Look over there" so that Timmy and Vicky don't see them flying away and crashing through the house.
  • "Dust Busters" has Jorgen distract Timmy's parents so he can bludgeon them into unconsciousness and have them transported to Fairy World to decontaminate them of fairy dust by shouting "Look, a famous celebrity doing something noteworthy and amusing!" At the end of the episode, he does the same to Crocker by claiming to see a celebrity doing something scandalous.
• Lookalike Lovers: The Turner family's neighbors the Dinkleburgs look like male and female versions of each other.
• Loophole Abuse: Crossed with Exact Words in "Class Clown". Timmy wished he were the funniest kid on earth, resulting in no one taking him seriously when he points something out. The loophole is that he wished he was the funniest kid on earth, so when he did his comedy in Fairy World, no one laughed at him.
• Loose Tooth Episode: In "Teeth for Two", Timmy's buckteeth have finally come loose. Since they are apparently worth as much as a diamond, Jorgen Von Strangle wants to use them to propose to the Tooth Fairy.
• Loss of Inhibitions: In "Emotion Commotion!", Timmy wishes to have no emotions at all, making him completely fearless. He regains his emotions just as he's about to save Trixie and Chester, forcing him to confront his fears... Only for Cosmo and Wanda to realize too late they forgot to return Timmy's common sense, which would have allowed him to wish the two to safety instead.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: The beginning of Wishology: The Final Ending.
• Love Dodecahedron: Timmy and about six girls, (seven if you count Cindy of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius), combined with Puppy Love.
• Love Hungry: The focus of one of Timmy's wishes to make Trixie love him.
• Love Letter Lunacy: In Information Stuporhighway, Timmy's parents try to spice up a love letter written for Trixie by adding claims to be holding Trixie's parents hostage and generally cramming it full of sentimental and sappy nonsense.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Trixie in Just The Two Of Us! goes mad when left alone with Timmy, cracking during every brief period where Timmy isn't near her.
• Love Makes You Uncreative: In the "Chin-dred Spirits" episode, Timmy grows bored with the Crimson Chin comics because the superhero's become a sobbing wreck out of loneliness in his latest issues, so Timmy wishes him a girlfriend, the superheroine Golden Locks. He then wishes to see next month's issue in hopes to see some long-awaited superhero action, and finds that the Chin's fallen so head-over-heels that the comic's become absolutely mushy.
• Love Potion: Cupid's love arrows can make anyone fall in love.
• Lower-Deck Episode: "The Big Scoop" gives the spotlight to Timmy's friends Chester and AJ.
• Lower Half Reveal: Often a Running Gag with news anchor Chet Ubetcha. He's often shown sitting at his newsdesk before some outside force reveals his short stature.
• Low-Speed Chase: Timmy is trying to outrun his mind-controlled friends, who are trying to capture and brainwash him. However, their scooters are set to a mere 2 mph — any faster would mean they would spill their milk (the source of the mind control). Literally.
• Ludicrous Gift Request: Inverted in "Merry Wishmas". Everybody complains in song about how they asked for normal things (a dress, cash, eggnog) but got weird things (a talking horse, a shaver for back hair, a trashcan).
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Parodied in Abra-Catastrophe!, where the iconic scene is spoofed by having Timmy get in a lightsaber battle with a Darth Vader expy who turns out to be Cosmo in disguise.
  Cosmo: Your godfather.

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• Made of Explodium: The entirety of "Action Packed" has everything explode with little reason. Justified, since Timmy wished his life to be an action movie. Of course, he gets a parody thereof.
• Magically-Binding Contract: In the episode "Temporary Fairy". The contract also looks remarkably like Ursula's.
  • The omnipresent Da Rules rulebook, so specific on what wishes fairies can and can't grant that the first movie centered around the opportunity to make "rule-free wishes."
• Magic Versus Science: In The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour specials that cross over with The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, the contrast of Timmy having fairy godparents and Jimmy relying on science is played up.
• Mailman vs. Dog:
  • The first Christmas Episode "Christmas Everyday" shows a mailman giving a dog a bone and the dog returning the mailman's torn-off pants as an example of enemies being on better terms during the holiday season. After Timmy successfully undoes his wish for every day to be Christmas, the mailman and dog are back at hating each other.
  • "Sleepover and Over" has mailman-scented air freshener being one of the things Timmy comes into contact with that leads to him being menaced by vicious junkyard dogs.
  • In "Poof's Playdate", Timmy tries to distract his parents by convincing them that they can be better parents by behaving like dogs. When they return later, Timmy's Mom mentions that they took acting like a dog far enough that they bit a mailman.
• Make a Wish: The series premise is Timmy making wishes to try and solve all his problems.
• Making a Splash: The Crimson Chin villain H2Olga is made of water.
• Mama Bear: Wanda and sometimes Mrs. Turner are protective of Timmy.
  Mrs. Turner: We can reach Timmy with this: my braided underarm-hair rope!
• Marshmallow Dream: Chester wakes up eating his pillow, says "You're not a giant marshmallow. Oh well!" and continues eating.
• Masquerade: Timmy is required to keep his fairy godparents a secret, or he will lose them.
• May Contain Evil: The evil Gigglepies pretend to be prizes in cereal boxes
• May It Never Happen Again: In "Christmas Every Day!", Timmy wishes to be able to celebrate Christmas Every Day so he can get more toys and spend more time with his parents. Unfortunately, as a result of his wish, snow piles up everywhere, the banks, stores, and schools remained closed, Santa runs out of ideas for new toys, being obligated to keep giving children what they ask for, the elves go on strike due to an increased workload, and the other holiday mascots try to destroy Santa so they can celebrate their own holidays. Timmy is unable to undo the wish at first since the entire fairy population transfers most of their magic to Santa Claus so he can deliver gifts to the whole world. When the wish is finally undone thanks to Timmy convincing the children of the world to ask Santa for December 26, a new rule is added to "Da Rules" to prevent any fairy godparent from granting another "I Wish it Was Christmas Every Day" wish ever again.
• May the Farce Be with You: There are many Star Wars parodies throughout the series, with recurring villain Dark Laser even being a blatant Captain Ersatz of Darth Vader.
• McNinja: Poof becomes a ninja in Wishology.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Princess Mandie (pronounced Man-DIE not Mandy).
  • Timmy Turner.
  • Wand-a.
  • The Turners' childless neighbors the DINKleburgs^note Double Income, No Kids.
  • Remy Buxaplenty (bucks aplenty, as he's rich).
  • Possibly Denzel Crocker (read "dense crackpot").
• Meat-O-Vision: A desperately hungry Wanda hallucinates that Cosmo, Timmy and Chloe are turkey legs in "The Hungry Games".
• The Men in Black: The MERF agents, Chester and A.J. in "Hail to the Chief".
• Me's a Crowd: The focus of an Oh Yeah! Cartoons short, due to all the demands of a bedridden Vicky, is Timmy wishing for clones of himself to appear.
• Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody:
  • The "Real and Scary" musical number in the Halloween Episode "Scary Godparents" shows some monsters and skeletons doing a dance similar to the Thriller dance.
  • "One Man Banned" has the montage of Timmy's successful career as a musician who plays the triangle include a part where Timmy is wearing the costume Michael Jackson wore in the music video while doing the Thriller dance with Cosmo, Wanda and Poof as zombies.
• Mickey Mousing: Used with good effect in the No-Dialogue Episode (the aptly titled "Pipe down!"), counting as a Moment of Awesome for Butch Hartman himself.
• Mid-Battle Tea Break: "Abra-Catastrophe" was the Trope Namer and provided the image. The showdown against Mr. Crocker armed with Wanda's magic momentarily stops so the battle's participants have some tea.
• Mid-Life Crisis Car: Timmy's dad buys a flashy red car when distressed by how old he's getting in "Engine Blocked".
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: While being put through Fairy Academy, Cosmo ended up destroying Pompei, turned Xanadu into Pittsburg, and sank Atlantis... NINE TIMES.
  • All on the same day.
  • In another episode, the evil bug that crawled up Vicky's butt inhabited the President of the country and made him bring out a button that could destroy the planet. At the end of the episode, Cosmo pushes it and destroys Pluto.
    "He said THE planet. He didn't say which one."
    • Actually, the President just happened to have the button with himself. The bug never made it to...er, the President's butt.
    • In the Oh Yeah! short "The Really Bad Day", Cosmo was required to do one sufficiently evil act within a 24 hour period or his fairy license would be revoked and he'd be sent back to training. After consulting Vicky for advice, she suggests he blow up the Earth, and he would have done it, if not for the fact that he reverted back to his normal self at 12:00:00 Midnight, and the Earth would have otherwise blown up at 12:00:01 AM.
    • In the same episode, Wanda says that for her evil act she wiped out the dinosaurs.
  • Blowing up planets seems to be a standard affair for the Yugopotamians.
    "We wouldn't have to blow up all these planets if you just stopped and asked for directions!"
    • The G in the Yugopotamian celebration FLARG means "Goodbye" to the planet the celebration is held on.
• Mind-Control Eyes:
  • Timmy gets the red spiral variant when being manipulated by Super Bike.
  • Trixie gets concentric hearts when Norm the Genie casts a love spell on her.
  • Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda and Chloe get purple spiral eyes when the Fair Bears place a napping spell on them. Timmy and Wanda later get heart eyes when brainwashed by their Lotus-Eater Machine.
• Mini-Golf Episode: In the episode "Pixies Inc.", Timmy builds his own miniature golf course for a school project. Unimpressed with how it looks, Timmy decides to wish for a professional-looking one, only to find out the Pixies have acquired Fairy World and all the Fairies in a hostile takeover. When Timmy finds out from Cosmo that the Head Pixie loves golf, he challenges HP to a game of mini-golf. If Timmy wins, he gets one free wish, and if HP wins, Timmy has to give Cosmo and Wanda up to him. After Timmy wins the game and the Fairies get Fairy World back, he decides to use his own homemade mini-golf course for his school project after all.
• Mirror-Cracking Ugly:
  • Cosmo becomes ugly enough to destroy the Great Wall of China when he's deprived of sleep in "Beddy Bye".
  • Mr. Crocker cracks a mirror he looks at in "Bad Heir Day".
  • "Crocker Shocker" has another example involving Crocker when he breaks a mirror he looks at while stating that he lacks charisma.
  • In "Jerk of All Trades", Crocker makes a mirror crack after developing a paunch at the gym.
• Missed the Call: Turbo Thunder is apparently the real chosen one in Wishology, but missed his chance to prove himself due to oversleeping.
• Missing Mom: The mothers of Wanda, Chester McBadBat (aside from an occasionally seen framed portrait), Trixie Tang and Wendell Bender are never so much as acknowledged.
• Mistaken for Murderer: Big Daddy's group in "Big Wanda", whom Timmy and Cosmo assume are going to kill Wanda after overhearing them talk about taking her out and hiring someone named Franco the Butcher. It turns out that they meant taking her out to dinner and that Franco is a literal butcher rather than his title being a colorful mob nickname.
• Mister Seahorse: Cosmo in "Fairly OddBaby". Then again, this is apparently how fairy pregnancy works (presumably because Butch Hartman wants to dissuade you from thinking too deeply into fairy pregnancy). Of course still half of all Pregnancy Tropes are parodied. Oddly enough, when Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart Foop is born, Anti-Wanda is the one shown to get pregnant (though this may have to do with Anti-Fairies generally being the opposite of normal fairies).
• Moment Killer: Mark, Mr. Turner and Jorgen all interfere with Timmy's chances to kiss Trixie in Wishology.
• Momma's Boy: Cosmo loves his mother.
• Mooks: The Eliminators are the minions of the Darkness.
• Mordor: Dimmsdale under Crocker's rule.
• More Hypnotizable Than He Thinks: In "Crocker Shocker", when Crocker's therapist decided to hypnotize him, Crocker fell asleep in the middle of the bragging.
• The Movie: Holds the record at Nick for the most made-for-TV movies with a total of 10 films (12 if you count the Wishology movies as separate films).
  • Wishology is especially notable given Nick's standards of what a "movie" is. Atlantis Squarepantis was called a movie. It was 30 minutes long. Wishology is two hours twenty four minutes, and is the only episode of FOP (besides the live-action movie and Season 9 onward) broadcast in widescreen high definition.
  • Live-Action Adaptation: A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!!, A Fairly Odd Christmas, and A Fairly Odd Summer.
• Moving Buildings: Mike, the evil living building.
• Mr. Fanservice: Juandissimo, parodied because he thinks of himself as sexy. Played straight, however, in Fairy Idol.
• Ms. Fanservice:
  • Mrs. Turner (especially if it’s a Beach Episode), the Tooth Fairy, and Princess Mandie.
  • Vicky becomes this in Channel Chasers after using her remote to turn 18.
  • Curlfinger in the episode Double-Oh Schnozmo! is Wanda’s Sexier Alter Ego.
  • Chloe in Dimmsdale Daze is this after wishing to be a mother.
  • Although they aren't main characters, A.J.'s Mom and Connie Carmichael are both easy on the eyes.
• Multiple-Choice Past: The show has given contradictory backstories for several characters.
  • Timmy's parents got together either because they met as children (as indicated in "Father Time"), Mr. Turner sent a threatening love note to Mrs. Turner (according to "Information Stupor Highway"), Mrs. Turner met Mr. Turner in the sporting goods department (which Mrs. Turner tells Timmy in "Who's Your Daddy?") or Mr. Turner caught Mrs. Turner on the rebound in college after she was dumped by Dinkleberg (as shown in "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker").
  • Timmy Turner is established in Abra-Catastrophe! to have been stuck at home with his parents for the first eight years of his life. This is contradicted in "The Good Old Days" (where a flashback depicts Timmy's parents leaving baby Timmy under the care of his grandfather Pappy) and the first part of Wishology (where Timmy expresses his disbelief at no one in school knowing who he is by bringing up that he's had a crush on Trixie since kindergarten).
  • Mr. Crocker's origin as explained in the aptly titled "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker" is that he used to have Cosmo and Wanda as his fairy godparents, but lost them and grew up to become the unhinged and bitter adult we know him as when the existence of his fairy godparents was inadvertently revealed by Cosmo (and a time-traveling Timmy). This is at odds with "Birthday Bashed" showing a young Denzel Crocker with a different set of fairy godparents who left him when he became too old to have fairy godparents and "Let Sleeper Dogs Lie" once again showing that he had Cosmo and Wanda as his godparents (in addition to Sparky when he was a puppy), this time losing them because they had to leave him when he turned 11.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Twistory. Aside from the episode itself (alongside Hail To The Chief, tied to it) being a glorified educational episode, it doesn't just involve Timmy doing his essay by directly asking the Founding Fathers themselves, but for doing so, Timmy hosts a self-titled talk-show, the "Timmy Turner Show". Filmed in Timmy's treehouse. Timmy himself just seems to be screaming to the audience, like, "hey look, it's educational yet entertaining". However, when his wish (as usual) backfires, since the Founding Fathers' absence from their age turns the States back to the British colony they once were, well... I think you know what happens.
• Mundane Wish:
  • Crocker teams up with Norm the genie, but instead of simply wishing Timmy to Mars (as Norm suggests) or simply wishing to have a fairy in his possession, he wastes his wishes on parts for ridiculous traps that backfire on him. Norm allows Crocker to wish for more wishes — which he does by wishing for them three at a time — and continues to waste them.
  • Partly enforced with Cosmo and Wanda; since it's bad for fairy godparents if the godkids don't constantly wish for things, Timmy ends up spending a lot of his (unlimited) wishes on relatively low-key requests.
• Murder Water: H2Olga, a member of the Crimson Chin's Rogues Gallery, is a woman made entirely of water who wants to sink the entirety of Chincinnati. When given access to large bodies of water, including ones in the real world (e.g. by dropping a Crimson Chin comic in a full bathtub), she becomes one of the Crimson Chin's deadliest threats.
• Musical Episode: School's Out: The Musical, as the title may indicate, has a lot of the plot carried through musical numbers. The holiday specials also feature musical numbers.
• Mustache Vandalism: "Playdate of Doom" shows several drawings of Poof in Foop's cell, some of which have mustaches drawn on them.
• My Beloved Smother: Mama Cosma tries to do whatever she can to keep her son home.
• My Friends... And Dinkleberg: In One Man Banned, when Mr. Turner saves Timmy after he played the triangle badly, he does this to Mr. Dinkleberg.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: In "Balance Of Flour", Jorgen introduces Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof to his grandmother as "my friends, and Timmy Turner."
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Juandissimo doesn't object to the wishes made by his godchild Remy Buxaplenty

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• Naked People Are Funny:
  • Timmy is show naked and has his nudity played for humor in the episodes "Crime Wave" and "Emotion Commotion". The former even had a recurring gag of comic book nerds mistaking him for comic book superhero Naked Lad, who resembles a muscular version of Timmy wearing nothing aside from a pink cape and his signature pink cap.
  • "The End of the Universe-ity" has Cosmo try to convince Timmy that the dark powers he was offered by Dark Laser aren't as good as magic by using his magic powers to strip Francis and Mr. Crocker naked.
  • "Crock Blocked" ends with Mr. Crocker going to school naked under the reasoning that he doesn't have to wear clothes if he's invisible. After his class (except for Timmy, who mercifully has his godparents blindfold him) are traumatized by seeing their teacher in the nude, Crocker looks down and is horrified to discover that he's visible again, proceeding to run into the hallway trying to cover himself.
  • "Love At First Bark" has a couple of gags that involve Timmy's Dad being naked in public without a care.
• Namedworld and Namedland: "Fairyworld", "Dairyworld", "Hairyworld", and "Scaryworld" all fit into the naming scheme.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: There are several intimidating characters with names that sound threatening.
  • Jorgen Von Strangle. It doesn't get any more threatening-sounding than to have "strangle" as your surname.
  • Truant Officer Shallowgrave
  • Princess Mandie (pronounced "Man-Die")
• Narrative Profanity Filter:
  • "The Terrible Twosome" has Wanda and Foop chide Poof for using strong language when he's only saying "Poof, poof" like he usually does.
  • In "A Sash and a Rash", Chloe wishes to become a slacker and ends up being so lazy that she only communicates by grunting. Cosmo interprets her grunts, but declines to translate one due to salty language.
• Nasal Weapon: In the episode Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad, Timmy wishes for his parents to be superheroes. Most of their powers are parodies of famous ones, so his mother can shoot spiderweb from her nose.
• Negative Continuity:
  • In the original Oh Yeah Cartoons pilot, it showed that Timmy got Cosmo and Wanda when he was ten, and on the very first night Vicky came to babysit. But in the first movie special Abracatastrophe it states that Timmy didn't get Cosmo and Wanda until a whole year of having Vicky in his life, and when he was nine years old.
  • In the episode The Switch Glitch, it is stated that a fairy godparent cannot leave their godchild unless the child says, "I'm happy and I don't need my godparents anymore", but in Fairy Idol it states that they can quit anytime they want.
  • In "Truth Or Cosmoquences", Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda travel to Fairy High for the Cosmo's high school reunion, with Timmy suffering a massive Potty Emergency not long after from drinking too much lemonade (The reunion's theme being "A Tribute To Running Water" doesn't help matters either). When Timmy tries to find a bathroom, he finds out all the doors are just painted on, as Wanda explains that since they can just poof in and out of places there's not really a need for real doors. However, fairies are seen using doors in other episodes of the show that came before and after this one.
  • In "Certifiable Super Sitter" Cosmo, Wanda, Poof and Foop can be seen by Vicky/Mr and Mrs Turner with no consequence (even going as far as having them use Magic in the open) despite the whole point of why fairies exist is because of children's beliefs in them and is suppose to stem as a growing period, and once they become adults they forget all of that stuff. But in this episode Mr/Mrs Turner and Vicky just see all the Fairies out in the open and this gaping Plot hole is NEVER addressed or mentioned, it's treated as a normal thing, like it's always happened. There's also the fact Vicky acts like she's never met Mr Turner even though she had been hired to babysit Timmy almost every time his parents decided to leave the house and it was made clear in the very first Oh Yeah! short and the Abra Catastrophe movie that Vicky being hired by Timmy Turner's parents to be his babysitter is why Timmy has fairy godparents in the first place. This is carried on for the rest of Season 10 following the Flash Animation style.
  • Especially in light of the Wishology special. This special had featured a considerable amount of Character Development for many of the minor characters. In particular, the main character, Timmy. Subsequent seasons show NONE of these developments. Granted the ending does have Jorgen state he would wipe away Trixie, Chester, AJ, Vicky, Mr. Crocker, and Timmy's parents' memories of the events that occurred in the special though it doesn't cover Timmy, Mark Chang, Dark Laser, or the fairy characters.
  • School's Out! The Musical has the plot point that the Learn-A-Torium's founder Flappy Bob created the establishment after being raised by the Pixies for 37 years, which is at odds with the episode "Baby Face" establishing that the resident Pops was stuck at the Learn-A-Torium for 60 years.
  • "Fairly Odd Baby" establishes that Cosmo and Wanda's son Poof is the first fairy baby to be born in thousands of years because there was a ban on fairy procreation after the birth of Cosmo, with some episodes such as "Poof's Playdate" and "Anti-Poof" underscoring the fact that there aren't any fairy babies in existence besides Poof. This contradicts the fact that fairy children were shown in "Timmy TV".
  • "Presto Change-O" ends with Crocker in Doidle's body being dragged away to get "fixed", which ignores that Doidle already got neutered in "Dog's Day Afternoon".
  • In "School of Crock", Crocker and Foop act as if they have never met. This is despite a special in the previous season, "When LOSERS Attack", focusing on their team-up as a major plot point.
  • Foop teams up with Vicky in "When LOSERS Attack" and the two of them are the main characters of "Scary GodCouple", where Foop gets assigned to be Vicky's godparent. Despite this, "Certifiable Super Sitter" ignores that the two have met, with Vicky not even knowing Foop's name.
• Nerds Are Sexy: Winston Dunnsworth, who appeared in the episode "A Bad Case Of Diary-Uh!", has this appeal In-Universe.
• Never My Fault: Maryann, one of Cosmo and Wanda's previous kids who ended up in the Hall of Infamy, is angry at the pair for abandoning her. What did she do to end up in the Hall of Infamy? She abused their magic to knowingly cause the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, making her directly responsible not just for two murders (his wife also died in the assassination), but also for starting World War One.
• New Baby Episode: The special "Fairly Odd Baby" is about Timmy wishing Cosmo and Wanda would have a child, and the chaos that ensues as a result of a new fairy baby being born- the first in thousands of years. From this special onward, baby Poof would be part of the main cast.
• New Rules as the Plot Demands: "Da Rules" are often invoked by Wanda and Cosmo to explain why they can't just resolve the episode's main conflict with the power of wishes.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Timmy frequently causes problems because of a wish he made with the best of intentions and failing to foresee any negative outcomes, especially when it came to Crocker's fairy obsession (actually that was Cosmo's fault.)
• Niche Network: "Teeth TV" and "The Clown Channel."
• Nigh-Invulnerability:
  • The Crimson Chin is able to withstand stuff that would permanently cripple a normal person.
  • Fairies cannot be killed by any conventional means; they can be struck by lightning, burned to a crisp, hit by a car, survive in the vacuum of space, and freely pull out their own organs without dying. All of this simply causes them Amusing Injuries. However, they do clearly still feel pain, and it's implied that there are certain magic-cancelling devices out there that are capable of killing them.
• No "Arc" in "Archery": For Cupid, and Timmy in Abra-Catastrophe
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • One episode includes "Sylvester Calzone" and "Arnold Schwarzeneggerman".
  • In "Fairy Idol", one contestant rejected early on is an obvious parody of William Hung.
• No-Dialogue Episode: "Pipe Down". Annoyed by everyone's screaming and disruptive noise, Timmy wishes that the world was silent. The resulting episode plays out with no audible voice lines, just sound effects and music cues.
• No Dress Code: Along with Trixie in her Wonder Gal outfit, Veronica in her Wardrobe Malfunction, and few of the female students in Dimmsdale Elementary are like this too, the school itself has rather lousy dress code for allowing ten year olds walk around with their belly buttons revealing.
• No Ending: In the wake of season 10's lack of positive reception, Butch Hartman leaving Nickelodeon, and no announcement about any new seasons in production, the show ended at season 10 with no proper conclusion (or at least no ending that would be accepted by fans if it doesn't have Hartman's input).
• No Full Name Given: The given names of Timmy's parents. Though his Mom apparently used to be called "Barnaby". In an earlier episode, a younger Dad tells Timmy his and Mom's first names...but are unfortunately censored by truck horns. He almost gave it away in a later episode, but Crocker saved him from a truck. In "Shelf Life", Sherlock Holmes tries to give away their first names, but the book closes before we get to learn them.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Timmy, definitely.
  • Juandissimo in "Stupid Cupid".
• No Indoor Voice: Mr. Turnbaum has a bad habit of ANNOUNCING THAT EVERYTHING THAT HE AND HIS WIFE ARE COMMITTING IS BY THEM, THE REAL TURNBAUMS! Mrs. Turnbaum doesn't like it when he does that.
  • As well as Mr. Crocker whenever FAIRY GODPARENTS come up. Also when he is working out a secret plan... even when Timmy or someone else is right there.
    Timmy: Hello, I'm right here. I heard everything you just said.
    Mr. Crocker: Good. Then I won't have to repeat everything I just said.
  • Timmy himself has shades of this, especially when makes a wish. Probably due to the fact he's a neglected kid with almost no one to form a good social life with before he gained his fairies, so in a sense he's just making sure someone pays attention to him. Oh, and he's only 10 years old.
• No Ontological Inertia: In the episode "Whishy Wash" Cosmo and Wanda turn into teenagers thereby getting rid of their child, Poof, yet the result of a wish they grant before then remains, as does Timmy's memory of Poof.
• No Sympathy: In the episode Bad Heir Day, Timmy, who has risked his life trying to find his godbrother, Poof, is given no sympathy by Wanda despite it being clear he's a Badly Battered Babysitter, mostly because he lied to Wanda about Poof's whereabouts.
• Noir Episode: Where's Wanda parodies noir detective films.
• Noodle Incident:
  • We never know exactly what happened when Timmy wished for Super Toilet. All that we do know is that it's caused enough trauma for Cosmo that the mere mention of Super Toilet is enough to freak him out.
  • And there's this one from "Vicky Loses Her Icky":
    Timmy: (holds up a net) Mom, don't ask why, but I have to stick this in Dad's pants.
    Mom: Oh, is it Fathers Day already?
  • We never do find out exactly why Mr. Crocker was banned from entering Cincinatti, although one can safely assume it probably had to do with proving the existence of FAIRY GODPARENTS!!!
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: All the kids. In fact, there have been various episodes depicting the last day of school (all of which pay no mind to continuity) yet they all stay in the same class, in the same grade, with the SAME teacher!
  • In addition to the multiple summers, one movie explicitly takes place one year after he got his fairies, which is retconned to have happened a year earlier.
  • Averted by the live action movie.
  • Referenced yet AGAIN in Timmy's Secret Wish, where we discover that apparently Timmy wished that everyone on Earth, including himself would never age so he could keep Cosmo and Wanda forever...which he did 50 YEARS AGO.
  • In Love Struck, Timmy flashes back to a Valentines Day card he gave Trixie Tang, which is signed "Timmy Turner, age 10". That flashback happened one year before the previous episode... in which Timmy Turner is still 10.
• No Tech but High Tech: Averted in "Land Before Timmy." Timmy wishes away all technology, and the world is returned to a caveman level of development. The people also begin to invent new stuff at a rapid pace, showing that if people need something, they will invent it.
• Not Me This Time: In Crocker Shocker Jorgen automatically assumes the loss of power is Timmy's fault. Not without reason though, as almost any other time anything has gone wrong in Fairy World it was Timmy doing something stupid.
• Not Now, Kiddo: Mark in Super Poof
• Not-So-Forgotten Birthday: Played with in "Boys in the Band". Timmy assumes his parents forgot his birthday because of going to a Chip Skylark concert, but it turns out in the end they never forgot after all; his birthday wasn't until the next day.
• Now or Never Kiss: Timmy and Trixie in Wishology Part II
• No Wrong Answers Except That One: In "Fairly Odd Baby", Anti-Cosmo asks his followers for world domination ideas, telling everyone not to be afraid because there are no wrong answers. One of the other Anti-Fairies suggests having a big elephant step on stuff, which Anti-Cosmo decides is a wrong answer and presses a button to eject the poor guy out of his castle.
• Nutritional Nightmare: In "Odd Ball", various characters eat Blubber Nuggets. Chicken Nuggets made out of whale blubber.
  "They're Chewy!"

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• Obstructive Bureaucrat: The pixies really like establishing restrictive and counterproductive rules to magic.
• Obvious Stunt Double: In the episode, "Lights, Camera, Adam!", Timmy becomes the stunt Cleft for The Crimson Chin Movie. The Main difference between him and the main Actor playing Cleft is that the main Actor playing Cleft is a much taller teenager and Timmy is a short 10-year-old.
• Octopoid Aliens: The Yugopotams look like octopuses with faces and exposed brains.
• Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List: Timmy's Dad has a bucket list he keeps inside an actual bucket. When he first tried to read it to Timmy, he instead picked up the bucket's receipt.
• Old Superhero: Catman, played by 'TV'S Adam West' no less!
• Omnicidal Maniac: The Darkness Subverted when its discovered when it was only attacking out of self-defense, and it wasn't really evil at all.
• Ominous Pipe Organ:
  • Parodied in the episode "Open Wide And Say Aaagh!". Timmy talks about going to the doctor to get his tonsils removed. At the end of every sentence describing how scary it is, there was a pipe organ making noise. Then made fun of as the angle changes and Timmy tells Cosmo to please stop playing that pipe organ that somehow ended up in his bedroom.
  • The first thing Foop is shown doing when he is born is playing the organ.
• Once per Episode: Timmy's wishes and the wacky results that come with such.
  • Also, almost every episode has its own unique Running Gag.
• One-Steve Limit:
  • There are two characters named Winston: Jorgen Von Strangle's godchild who doesn't appear after the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts and British teen Winston Dunsworth, who Vicky has a crush on in "A Bad Case of Diary-Uh".
  • Invoked by Norm the Genie in "Meanie Genie Minie Mo" when Timmy tries to avoid his second wish from backfiring by specifying that he wants Trixie to love Timmy Turner. Norm simply makes it so that Trixie falls for everyone on the planet named Timmy Turner. Given Timmy's usual bad luck, once Timmy succeeds in undoing the damage Norm has caused, the wish's effect on Trixie wears off right when Timmy was the only remaining person named Timmy Turner who Trixie hadn't kissed yet.
  • Elmer is the name of both one of Timmy's friends and one of the elves in A Fairly Odd Christmas.
  • The storybook Too Many Turners has Timmy wish he had a lot of brothers and sisters. When he tries to get his fairy godparents to undo the wish, he causes confusion because he also happens to have a brother named Cosmo and a sister named Wanda.
  • The show has two characters named Gary: Timmy Turner's imaginary friend and Happy Peppy Gary of Flappy Bob's Learn-A-Torium.
  • Cosmo and Wanda's son Poof shares his given name with Dr. Poof Everwish, a character on the soap opera All My Biceps that stars Poof's maternal aunt Blonda.
  • Wishology: The Exciting Middle Part included a fairy named Sparky long before Season 9 introduced Timmy's magical dog of the same name.
• One-Winged Angel:
  • Evil Jorgen in "Action Packed", when he absorbs so much magic that he becomes ludicrously muscular in appearance and far more powerful. Fortunately, the transformation is quickly reserved, not only sucking out the stolen magic, but also sucking out all of Evil Jorgen's magic, leaving him frail, bone thin and powerless.
  • The Lead Eliminator into The Destructinator
• Onion Tears:
  • "Fairy Friends & Neighbors" has a gag where Timmy appears to be crying, but only because Vicky had been forcing him to peel onions.
  • "Weirdos on a Train" establishes Crocker to have written a cook book covering onion recipes called I'll Give You Something to Cry About and features a bit where Cosmo, Wanda and Poof are revealed to be teary-eyed because of onion tea being spilled into their fishbowl.
• Only One Name: Several characters have no canonical surname, like Vicky and her sister Tootie, A.J, Francis, Sanjay, Veronica and Tad and Chad.
• Only Sane Woman: Wanda is often the only one with common sense among the main trio.
• Opening Shout-Out:
  • In Abra-Catastrophe, we get a monkey-fied version of the theme song when Bippy wishes that monkeys ruled the world instead of humans.
  • In Timmy's Secret Wish! Jorgan starts to sing the theme song in honor of Timmy's one millionth wish before he stops himself.
• ...Or So I Heard: Big Wanda When Wanda takes over her father's business, she put a ficus in the meeting room. One of the men comments on a gardening tip for it, then quickly invokes this trope when the others stare at him surprised.
  "A ficus? That's gonna need more light... not that, I would know."
• Our Fairies Are Different: Fairy Godparents are Fairies that have taken up the task of watching over a miserable human child in need. There is, however, a distinction between a fairy and a fairy godparent. Fairies are able to roam free in fairy world, living as they please. By going to the Fairy Academy, a fairy can become a fairy godparent and get assigned to a godchild. Fairy Godparents have more power in reality warping than normal Fairies, and are trained in happy wishmaking, as shown in This Is Your Wish.
• Our Mermaids Are Different: "The island of beautiful mermaids that all look like Trixie Tang." Jorgen (who for once is the storyteller in "Timmy The Barbarian") quickly glosses over the fact.
• Our Founder: Dale Dimm, founder of Dimmsdale.
• Our Pixies Are Different: Pixies wear grey business suits and pointy hats, have square shaped wings, use magic phones rather than wands, and love all things dull and boring. These pixies are also fully antagonistic, constantly trying to take over Fairy World and turn all its fairy citizens into pixies.
• Out of Focus:
  • Crash Nebula was almost never seen at all after his Superhero Origin episode.
  • Since her voice actor left in 2009 Trixie Tang hasn't made many appearances, and when she does she doesn't speak.
    • Speaking of Trixie, Veronica hasn't appeared since her nonspeaking cameo in "Stupid Cupid", her last SPEAKING appearance was in "Dadbra-Cadabra".
    • Chad and Tad haven't appeared since "The End of the Universe-ity".
  • Chester and A.J. Although they still make erratic non speaking cameos, They appear less and less since Season 7. Their last speaking appearance was "Dimmsdale Tales".
    • Elmer and Sanjay suffered similar fates.
  • Despite the fact that Juandisimo is his Fairy Godparent, Remy Buxaplenty hasn't appeared since Operation F.U.N. back in season 5, however he and his family finally return in a Season 9 episode titled "Country Clubbed".
  • Dr. Bender hasn't appeared since Season 5's "Teeth for Two", and even then, after Season 3's "Shiny Teeth" he was demoted to brief speaking cameos.
  • Besides the Live-Action movies, Tootie hasn't appeared in the series since Season 7's "Lights Out".
  • Vicky, former Big Bad and main antagonist for most of the series, appears less and less as the series went on. She only appears in four episodes (out of 43 episodes) in Season 9, and two episodes (out of 37 episodes) in Season 10.
• Overly Long Scream: In "The Big Fairy Share Scare", when Timmy learns he has to share his fairies with Chloe, he screams for 47 straight hours. And then after Chloe learns she gets fairy godparents, she hides in the closet and yells in happiness long enough for the sun to set and rise again.
• Over-the-Top Roller Coaster: Most of the games in Adrenaland are like this, but the main attraction is 'The Heart Stopper', a roller coaster that extends to outer space and literally has ambulances waiting for the passengers at the end.
• Overnight Age-Up: In The Big Problem!, Timmy feels he cannot do anything cool as a kid, so he wishes to become an adult. Of course, then he discovers that being an adult is a lot of hard work, and fairies are not allowed to grant wishes to adults.

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• Painted Tunnel, Real Train: "Back to the Norm". Unlike most characters pulling this trick, Crocker knows what will happen to him if he tries to cross the "tunnel" but accidentally tries anyway during one of his FAIRY GODPARENTS spasms.
• Palatial Sandcastle: In "Beach Bummed", Timmy makes one big enough to impress Trixie. He had help from his fairy godparents.
• Pan and Scan: Season 9 was produced with "shoot and protect" in mind. Episodes are produced in 16:9, but all the action happens within the 4:3 window, so it can be cropped and the episodes still look good.
• Papa Wolf: Often averted for both Cosmo and Timmy's Dad. Whenever their respective sons are threatened they try to be heroic... with mixed results.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Several. For example, Timmy's "Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder" superhero costume. Even though having a red costume with yellow cape, boots and gloves, as well as black briefs and a black mask sounds effective, the buckteeth and the red variant of Timmy's typical pink baseball cap give it all off. And we thought costumes were effective in keeping vigilantes' true identities hidden. Surprisingly, it seems to be effective on Timmy's parents and Adam West.
  • When he breaks in Dr Benders lair to retrieve Chip Skylarks teeth, he has several items given by the tooth fairy to help him, one of them is a tiara which hides his identity, and Dr Bender can't tell its Timmy with it.
  • In Abra-Catastrophe the April Fool gives Timmy a set of Groucho Marx glasses for his fairyversery present that can hide his identity completely which he uses to great effect fighting Crocker.
  • In Mile in My Shoes, Cosmo and Wanda disguise themselves as Timmy. They do not change their hair or eye color at all, resulting in usually brown-haired Timmy appearing as green-haired or pink-haired to his parents. Mr Turner notices this, but the two are still fooled ( through, to be fair, they are shown to be quite stupid all the time ). Also, they keep their voices, meaning that to them, he is either more feminine-sounding or more high pitched than usually.
  • In Information Stupor Highway, Cosmo and Wanda both attempt to disguise as Timmy Turner by a Totem Pole Trench Full-Body Disguise that isn't very authentic or detailed-looking, with visible seams and Wanda's distinct hair shape forming through the back of the pink shirt. They don't even bother to disguise their voices. Unusual, given that they can shapeshift and Cosmo has impersonated Timmy this way before (even doing so in the same episode, complete with magically changing his voice!)
  • In The Big Superhero Wish, the Crimson Chin's Evil Twin Nega-Chin impersonates the Crimson Chin by simply changing the color of his suit from black to red and placing the Crimson's "C" label over the "Nega" label on his chin. Yet his eyes still glow red the entire time and he has sharp fangs, but nobody notices the difference.
  • In Wishology, Timmy puts a painting of Mona Lisa over his face. It fools the cops, somehow.
  • In Birthday Bashed, Poof and Juandissimo disguise themselves as Timmy, to fool Jorgen. It could work, if it wasn't for the fact that Poof wasn't able to talk at the time, so he couldn't move his mouth, Juandissimo has an extremely obvious adult-sounding voice, Spanish/Latino accent and muscular body he for some reason didn't change. And despite the fact that Jorgen points this out, he is still fooled.
• Parental Incest: Downplayed in the episode Love at First Height for comedic effect as Mrs. Turner unknowingly develops a crush on "Gah" an older version of Timmy.
• Parental Substitute: Cosmo and Wanda tend to be the only present parental figures of Timmy Turner, given how often his real parents leave him alone with his cruel babysitter Vicky.
• Pardon My Klingon: Norm the Genie exclaims "Aw, smoof" in his debut episode.
• Parental Neglect: Timmy's parents are quite neglectful and extremely selfish. They do love him though; they're more like adult children than truly evil abusers. Still, there are times when they put Timmy's happiness after their own, and in the "Wishology" trilogy they fail to notice he's been in Fairy World for an extended period of time, and don't notice they forgot to take him on two family vacations. It speaks volumes when, in part one, Timmy shrugs off the fact that they don't remember they have a son. The mother has even openly spent Timmy's college fund on stuff for herself when viewing the home shopping channel
  • Played for Laughs when his parents are busy watching TV about a show called the Bad Parent Hunter. So that Timmy won't disturb them, they hand him a bottle of acid and tells him to go play in the street - which he does
    • Guess who Crickey the Bad Parent Hunter was hunting?
• Parental Savings Splurge: A frequent Running Gag on the show involves Timmy's parents frequently blowing his college fund on frivolous things.
• Parodies for Dummies:
  • "Shelf Life" features a book titled Astrophysics for Morons.
  • When Chloe's parents follow the trail of Crocker and his mother in "Booby Trapped", they find a book titled Poaching for Dum-Dums.
• Parody Sue: Tommy, Timmy's older brother he wishes into existence in "Oh, Brother!", is portrayed as a cartoonishly flawless and cool man.
• Parrot Expo-WHAT?:
  Gigglepies: Yugo-po-what-i-whats?
• Pass the Popcorn: The Pixies in School's Out: The Musical about their evil plan and Timmy's misery.
• Pathetic Drooping Weapon: Tends to happen Once per Episode (at least) when Timmy asks Cosmo and Wanda to poof away the latest problem and some obscure loophole in Da Rules forbids it, leaving their wands limp. Complete with pbbt noise.
  "Oh great, the wand-not-working pbbbt noise!"
• Percussive Maintenance: George Washington, meet snowy TV. TV, meet George Washingtons axe. <whack> Works like magic.
• Permanent Elected Official: The Mayor of Dimmsdale at one point states that he is the city's mayor for life.
• Perpetual Poverty: Chester is always poor to the extent that he has to eat out of the garbage.
• Persona Non Grata: Crocker can never return to Cincinatti and we never find out why.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Cosmo, Poof
• Perspective Flip: "The Big Scoop", a retelling of the episode "A Wish Too Far" from Chester's and AJ's point of view.
• Pet the Dog: A few for Crocker. In particular, "Bad Heir Day" has him genuinely care for Poof when believing him to be his son and willingly lets him go when he learns his true nature of being a fairy.
• Physical Attribute Swap: "Blondas Have More Fun!" has Wanda and her identical sister exchanging lives for the day, which is easily done by simply switching their hair colors. Blonda-as-Wanda can't believe what it's like to put up with Timmy and Cosmo's reckless stupidity and having Jorgen blame everything on her, while Wanda-as-Blonda nearly accidentally destroys the former's acting career.
• Physical Hell: The Hocus Poconos, where wishes made by kids who lost their fairy godparents instead of being just wished away go.
• Pint-Sized Kid: All of the kids (except Trixie, Veronica, Francis and other bullies) are knee-high to adults.
• Picked Last: Timmy Turner was picked last for everything in Dimmsdale to the point where he got Cosmo and Wanda to make him the most wanted kid in the world. (And by wanted....let's just say that both FBI and CIA wanted him).
• Pink Is Erotic: Downplayed. In "Emotion Commotion", Timmy's love is depicted as a pink heart.
• A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: In "Odd Pirates", Timmy wants to go to the baseball game with the team named the Dimmsdale Pirates, but Poof sends them back to the real pirate era. Then, to go back to the present day, Poof brings back his parents, Timmy, and all the real pirates, causing a mess.
• Plot Hole: Happens a lot due to how many times the rules are ignored for certain plot lines. For example, how can Timmy wish for Chester to become the greatest baseball player ever in Foul Balled when baseball is a competition? Also, what ever happened to the Anti-Fairies being invisible to humans? (Although that one may also count as a Retcon)
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Timmy in Love at First Height, Vicky in Channel Chasers and Chloe in Dimmsdale Daze all for different reasons.
• Plumber's Crack: In "That Old Black Magic", Timmy's Dad was so afraid of the bad luck associated to stepping on cracks on the floor he dedicated himself to sealing all cracks at the amusement park he took his family to. That included the butt crack of a repairman working at the park who ends up chased by Timmy's Dad.
• Pluto Is Expendable: They blew it up in Vicky loses her Icky (the bomb was supposed to blow up a planet; it never said which one)
• Pokémon Speak: Poof generally only says his name, but does occasinally say different words. By "School of Crock", he learns to speak in complete sentences.
• Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: Many recent episodes have this, for example "Two and a Half Babies", "The Bored Identity", and "Finding Emo".
• The Pollyanna: Binky looks on the bright side in spite of all the abuse he endures.
• Poorly Disguised Pilot: "Crash Nebula" is a half-hour episode of an in-universe TV show Timmy is a fan of and is blatantly designed to open the door for a spinoff focusing on Crash Nebula. It never got picked up for a full series.
• Popular Is Dumb: Veronica is established as being the least intelligent of the popular kids.
• Portal Books: "Shelf Life" has Timmy wish himself into the worlds of various books.
• Potty Emergency: Throughout "Truth or Cosmoquences", Timmy forgets to go to the bathroom before leaving for Cosmo and Wanda's high school reunion, and suffers loads of these throughout the episode.
• Poverty Food: In "Same Game", Timmy wishes for everyone to be the same, including grey mush for food. It chimes with the rest of the "everything is grey and homogeneous and boring" theme of the episode.
• P.O.V. Sequel: The Big Scoop shows A Wish Too Far from Chester and AJ's perspective.
• The Power of Love: Subverted. Magic can't interfere with "true love", but that seems to be more of a rule than an actual magical limitation, as "Boys in the Band" demonstrated that they can't interfere with "true love" even if said "love" is extremely shallow and entirely materialistic (and very much one-sided).
• Powder Gag: In "Timvisible", Crocker crashes into bags of flour while chasing the invisible Timmy across the school's kitchen. Fortunately, Timmy is by then out of the cloud's range, so he isn't affected.
• Power of Rock: Wishology Part I, with an awesome guest appearance of KISS!
• Power Outage Plot: In the episode, "Power Mad!", Timmy wishes for an intense video game that one can't wish themselves out of. Timmy finds out that Chester and A.J. have gone into the game, and if either the game is turned off while they're inside it or they lose their three lives, they'll disappear forever. What's worse is that the game uses up so much electricity that anything that Vicky plugs in will cause a blackout and turn the game off. While Timmy goes into the game to rescue Chester and A.J., Cosmo and Wanda do their best to keep Vicky from using up any more power. They first take over the downstairs television with their own television shows, then when Cosmo runs out of ideas for those, Cosmo powers the game with a treadmill that he runs on as a hamster.
• Power Perversion Potential: Likely averted by Da Rules, of course, but not the Magic Muffin, as it gives as many rule-free wishes as you can nibble out of it.
• Power Profit Potential: Zig-zagged.
  • Defied by Da Rules: it's against fairy law to wish for money.
  • Played straight in one episode where, Timmy adds Cosmo's sweat to his lemonade to make a profit so he can buy tickets for Crash Nebula on Ice for his friends.
• Pre-emptive Declaration: In "Fairy Idol", Norm to (of all) the April Fool. "Hey, what's the deal with the pie in your face?" "What pie in my fa(SPLAT!)"
• Precocious Crush: In Oh, Brother!, Timmy wishes up the 18-year old Tommy Turner, whom the 10-year old Tootie falls in love with. Unfortunately, it counts as true love for the purposes of Da Rules.
• Prehensile Hair: Axle, to be precise. Comes in very hairy...handy in "Ruled Out".
• Prehensile Tail: Norm, technically. (He takes the microphone from Jorgen with it in "Fairy Idol".) Of course, it hardly makes a difference for an all-powerful Genie.
• Prematurely Bald: AJ is bald at ten years old.
• Produce Pelting: Tomatoes are thrown in Boys in the Band. Well, Cosmo is simply no replace for rock superstar Chip Skylark...
• Pro Wrestling Episode: A partial example in "Odd Jobs" where Timmy's dad faces of against Crusher McPersoncrusher.
• Properly Paranoid: Subverted in "Operation Dinkelberg". Knowing that Timmy's Dad thinks he's an evil villain who's responsible for all of his problems, Dinkleberg pretends to be just such a villain - For no other reason than to give Dad the pleasure of thinking he was right.
• Prophetic Name: Mr. and Mrs. Turner were nicknamed Mom and Dad as children.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Seen with Mark.
• Protest Song: "Adults Ruin Everything" from "School's Out: The Musical" has the children complain about how the grown-ups interfere with their fun.
• Psychic Powers:
  • Timmy becomes able to read minds in Mind Over Magic.
  • AJ's superhero self Professor AJ has mind-reading powers in The Big Superhero Wish. It has no effect on the Bull-E.
• Psycho for Hire: Crocker and Vicky are less a teacher and a babysitter respectively than they are depraved maniacs who use their jobs as excuses to torture and torment children.
• Public Hater, Private Fan: Trixie reveals she secretly loves comic book superheroes... but publicly claims they're childish and un-girly.
• Punishment Box: The "Fun Box", which is coincidentally closed with "fun locks".
• Punny Name:
  • Timmy's fairy godmother is named Wanda.
  • The episode "Food Fight" has the plot involve a cooking show hosted by a German chef named Brad Wurst, with the contestants including a Hispanic chef named Hal Apeno, a Japanese chef named Sue Shi and a French chef named Crepe Suzette.
• Pursue the Dream Job: In "Dread 'N' Breakfast", Timmy's dad left his current job in order to make and sell sock monkeys.

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• Quintessential British Gentleman: Anti-Cosmo has a British accent and behaves like an old-fashioned aristocrat.

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• Railroad Baron: In "Dad Back in Time", Timmy learns that once of his ancestors, Ebenezer Turner, was offered a chance of becoming a railroad baron but turned it down because he thought trains were just a fad. As a result, Ebenezer became the town crier and spent his life crying over the lost opportunity and Orville Buxaplenty became the town's local railroad baron. Timmy wishes Ebenezer had accepted the offer and it creates a timeline where Timmy's parents carelessly destroyed the town with their trains.
• Rain of Something Unusual: In "Dream Goat", Timmy's guilty conscience manifests itself in the form of "sleep-wishing". One such sleep-wish is for it to be raining ducks.
• Rampage from a Nail: Subverted in "The Great Fairy Share Scare", where Crocker shows video footage of what appears to be Chloe Carmichael preventing a city's destruction by removing a splinter from the foot of a giant monster and telling the creature she accepts him for what he is. When Timmy later learns why Chloe deserves to share his fairy godparents, the scene is shown again, this time revealing the context that Chloe stating her acceptance of the monster's nature was taken by the monster as encouragement to destroy the city anyway.
• Rapid-Fire Nail Biting: In an episode news announcer Chet Ubetcha bites off his fingernails, his toenails, then grabs his cameraman's hand so he'll have more nails to bite.
• Read the Freaking Manual: Exploited by Timmy in "Odd Odd West". A computer manual (don't ask) is the perfect hideaway for the deed of the western town, as he can be sure no one will ever look into it in hundreds of years.
  Doug Dimmadome: An old computer manual? Darn it, nobody reads the manual!
• Readings Are Off the Scale: The download meter (technically, that should be an upload meter) of Crockers computer in "Information Stupor Highway": "1% complete...0% complete...-1% complete..."
• Really 700 Years Old: Fairies age extremely slowly; Cosmo and Wanda appear to be child-sized 30-somethings but are, in reality, well over 10,000 years old.
• Reality Warper: In "Mr Right!", Timmy gains the ability to make things be true just by saying they are true.
  • Also, of course, fairies (and genies) can warp reality with magic, the scope of which can cover the entire universe (though fairies, unlike genies, still have rules to follow). Regular fairies (the type that roam in fairy world) are implied to be significantly less powerful than fairy godparents, however.
• Real Men Wear Pink:
  • Timmy is just the start. He wears a pink hat and shirt and, while shown to have normal male interests, is shown to become an unabashed fan of Chip Skylark after befriending him in "Boys in the Band".
  • This is lampshaded in the episode "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker". When Timmy goes back to the past, he sees his parents moving into what would be his house. In the moving trunk are pink things because his parents thought they were having a girl. What's sitting on top is his infamous pink hat.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Principal Waxelplax is far more understanding and respectful than Crocker.
• Reconstruction: Fairy godparents fit the common modern portrayal of fairies as friendly, funny, benevolent, cute, little, guardian angel-like creatures. The major exception is Jorgen, "the toughest fairy in the universe," who fits the powerful, intimidating, humanoid warrior depiction of The Fair Folk centuries ago. He even explains in "Wishology" that fairies were primarily warriors long ago, but their job has changed over the centuries.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: Timmy never makes any sort of world-benefiting wish, like no discrimination, world peace, a cure for cancer, etc. While this could be justified in that he's a self-centered 10-year-old child and when he grows up all remnants of his fairies magic will disappear, it seems implausible that he never thought to wish for something like this not even once.
• Red/Green Contrast: With red being replaced with pink.
  • Cosmo is an idiot prone to granting destructive wishes and has green hair, and Wanda is his smarter yet temperamental wife and has pink hair.
  • 10 year old protagonist Timmy wears a pink shirt and cap, while his mean babysitter Vicky is a Fiery Redhead in a green shirt.
• Refugee from TV Land: The Crimson Chin gets taken out of his comic. This results in him discovering he is imaginary he grows giving him depression resulting in his series almost getting canceled.
• Regional Redecoration: A creative example occurs when Timmy wishes for an older brother. To explain his absence, Timmy states that he'd been studying medicine in Tibequador and then wishes that the country were real. Cosmo and Wanda situate the nation in Central America and it seems to be populated mostly by tribal peoples. Later, in Timmy the Barbarian, Mr. Crocker (as a powerful wizard) asks Timmy what the capital of Tibequador is, implying that the nation was never unwished.
• Rejection Projection: In "Hassle in the Castle", Timmy meets some of Cosmo and Wanda's worst godkids, including a girl named Mary Ann who says they "deserted" her when she took their wands. When Cosmo and Wanda appear, they reveal that she'd abused their magic and caused World War I.
• Remember the New Guy?: In-Universe. In "Oh, Brother!", Timmy becomes envious of all the Cool Big Bros all of his friends have, so he wishes one up, resulting in Timmy's parents having trouble remembering their 18 year old son (and Timmy's mom being overwhelmed by the realization that she isn't as youthful as she used to be).
• Repeated Cue, Tardy Response: In season 5 "Something's Fishy!", it's revealed that Cosmo sunk the mythical city of Atlantis nine times, earning him the title "The Accursed One" from the angry Atlanteans, who put him on trial and sentence him to death by summoning Krakens to eat him. In order to save themselves, Timmy (who has the powers of Aquaman Captain Ersatz Wet Willie for that episode) telepathically calls for a giant squid. It doesn't show up (despite Timmy repeating the above phrase), causing the people of Atlantis to mock him. That is, until the ending of the episode, right after Timmy convinces King Greg that Cosmo sinking the city nine times was a good thing, causing them to redub Cosmo "The Beloved One," the giant squid finally arrives and destroys Atlantis, earning Timmy the title of "New Accursed One."
• Reset Button: Episodes where Timmy makes a wish that could potentially cause permanent changes to the status quo typically end with Timmy wishing things back to normal, along with once having a literal reset button in the form of a watch.
• Resistant to Magic: Various creatures, such as dragons, are resistant or even completely impervious to magic. This can even include beings who were created using magic on account of the becoming too powerful for the magic to affect them. When this happens Timmy ends up having to look for another solution to the problem.
• Restrained Revenge: In the Halloween Special, when it looks like Earth is planning war against Yugopotamia, King Gripullon: "I shall...POUT!" (Next time it gets even worse - he writes an angry letter.)
• Retcon:
  • The Nickelodeon Magazine comic story "Untold Tales of the Big Superhero Wish" revealed this in regards to the Crimson Chin's origin. Specifically, he was the last of an alien race sent to Earth in a rocket, but was changed due to a lawsuit to the origin we know in the show — now he's a talk show host who was bitten by a radioactive actor on the chin.
  • "Deja Vu" revolves around Timmy and Vicky both having access to Retconning devices and using them against each other.
  • "Homewrecker" establishes Vicky's parents as being more in-line with typical parents, with Vicky being expected to take care of chores that she shoves off on Timmy instead, and is visibly distraught at how they'll react when the house becomes a mess because of Timmy's wishing. Come later episodes, her parents are shown to be just as afraid of Vicky and subjected to her cruelty as many of the kids she babysits.
• Retconjuration: Some of Timmy's wishes have permanently altered the world he lives in. For example, the mountainous snow-capped central American country of Tibecuidor has always existed.
  • This came to a head when Timmy wished he was always right; instead of being magically prevented from saying something wrong, reality itself would be bent and altered to satisfy whatever Timmy said. Some of the changes took place immediately after Timmy mentioned them and were noticed by others (AJ wanted to study Timmy after he said there were only 49 states and the Dakotas merged into one state immediately thereafter), but some ("No I don't! I don't have fairy godparents...!") seemed to silently rewrite others' perceptions (Mr. Crocker suddenly becoming placid and saying "oh, okay then" after Timmy makes the previously-quoted claim).
• Ret-Gone:
  • Happens to Poof in "Wishy Washy", for unconventional reasons — the person that remembers Poof is Timmy.
  • It's a major overarching plot point in the show that this happens to everyone who loses their fairy godparents — all of their wishes are erased from both the Earth and everyone's memory, and then thrown into the Hocus Poconos.
• Retraux: The Good Old Days, which is a full fledged throwback to the classic black and white cartoons of Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks and Max and Dave Fleischer.
• Retroactive Stepsibling Relationship: The episode "Big Wanda" has Mama Cosma (Cosmo's mom) and Big Daddy (Wanda's dad) fall in love with each other. Considering their respective children have been married for 9000 years, Cosmo is appropriately squicked out. In the end, it's subverted since the series doesn't show their relationship going past attraction.
• Reverse Psychology: In Wishy Washy.
• Rich Bitch:
  • Trixie is a rich girl and not very nice to Timmy.
  • Remy Buxaplenty is the son of the wealthy Buxaplenty family and quite the brat. His first scene has him buy all the tickets to the new Crash Nebula movie just for his piles of money.
• Right-Hand Cat: Vicky's dog Doidle is sometimes present when she's babysitting Timmy and is just as cruel as his owner.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: In the episode "Whishy Wash" Cosmo and Wanda turn into teenagers thereby getting rid of their child, Poof, yet the result of a wish they grant before then remains, as does Timmy's memory of Poof.
• Rise of Zitboy: Elmer the Boil Kid. His boil (Bob) has a mind of its own and wants to take over the world. Elmer's boil once got stuck on the door.
  • Timmy once gained a Bob-sized boil as punishment from Jorgen in "A Wish Too Far". Timmy tried to hide it by hanging his hat on it.
  • In "The Switch Glitch", Vicky became Cosmo and Wanda's godchild after Timmy used a wish to de-age her and picked on her to the point of being more miserable than he's been while under her care. One of her wish was for Timmy to have zits.
• Robbing the Dead: Played for grim laughs when Cosmo steals shoes from a murder victim, who he thought was a "sleeping Munchkin".
• Robot War: "Future Gone". Remarkably, humanity is NOT saved by a Logic Bomb, but by brain freeze slush. (As the robots were controlled by an utterly bored Brain in a Jar.)
• Rock–Paper–Scissors: The Old West episode has Timmy beat Vicky the Kid using rock-paper-scissors.
• Rogues Gallery: Mr. Crocker, Vicky, Doctor Bender, Francis, the Nega Chin, Imaginary Gary, Norm the Genie, the Pixies, Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda, Cosmo's mother, Dark Laser and Foop are all recurring enemies of Timmy and his godparents.
• Romantic Candlelit Dinner: In the season one episode, "Apartnership!" Timmy had set up a romantic anniversary dinner for Mom and Dad, but they end up waiting for hours until finally Timmy comes back with their "dinner", which is a mushy cereal and sugar concoction.
• Rule of Funny: Really the reason for a majority of the show's events is that they happen because they're funny.
• Rule of Three: At least one joke is repeated thrice over the course of each and every episode
  • Lampshaded at one point when one character remarks that they can only use a gag three times. Makes you wonder if the writers are keeping an eye on this page.
• Runaway Bride: Mark Chang tries to get out of marrying Princess Mandie by refuging on Earth for a while.
• Running Gag: The show has a new running gag for EVERY SINGLE EPISODE. After that episode, the gag is forgotten and never mentioned again, barring some exceptions. Like...
  "Super Toilet."
  Cosmo: "Ngh! SO. MUCH. CLOGGING!!! -falls on ground and sucks thumb-
  • Someone asks Timmy where he got something the fairies made for him. His response; "Internet."
  • Chester's braces being used to break stuff.
  • Someone pointing out Timmy's pink hat. The explanation for it is under "Real Men Wear Pink", above. Which combines with another running gag; Mom and Dad's neglect of and disdain for Timmy.
  • Speaking of Mom and Dad, there's another running gag involving them—never finding out their first names. Amusingly enough, while the first instance of this gag ("Father Time") involved this in their childhoods, a later episode ("Polter-Geeks") did reveal their names back then: Dad was "Mom" (which explains his nickname) and Mom was "Barnaby". Their current first name are still a mystery though (they changed their names after their ghost-hunting business failed) that the show likes to play up whenever possible.
  • Crocker: And now I'm off to work on Tropes S to Z. But first... FAIRY GODPARENTS! FAIRY GODPARENTS! FAIRY GODPARENTS!!!

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