The Fairly Odd Parents / Tropes S to Z

"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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• Sadist Show: The series eventually became this, especially in the "Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker".
• Sadist Teacher: Denzel Crocker. He enjoys failing his students and tormenting them, especially Timmy because of his fairies.
• Sadistic Choice: Will Timmy Turner report Vicky, losing his Fairy Godparents (who are like family to him) or keep it a secret and endure torture and severe abuse?
  • Later on however, Vicky more or less becomes a non-factor in Timmy keeping his fairies. In Grow Up Timmy Turner!, Vicky no longer babysits him (but still bullies him whenever they run into each other), so the only thing allowing Timmy to keep his fairies was him being a Manchild.
  • On the other hand, it's shown in several episodes that even if he can get rid of Vicky without losing his fairies, it accomplishes nothing in the long run. If Vicky ends up in jail, you can bet she'll be out the next episode. In "Vicky Gets Fired", Vicky does get fired from babysitting Timmy, but the problem is, she will end up seizing positions of power no matter what because no job will ever take her if all she wants to do is hurt people. As a result, Timmy had to wish her back to being a babysitter, as it's more acceptable that the harm she inflicts is mainly towards him as opposed to many.
• Safety Worst: Several episode feature Flappy Bob's Learn-A-Torium, a day camp that made you wear padding to go in a ball pit, pools that were only ankle deep, and a whack-a-mole game that ended up being a long documentary about why smacking moles is wrong. School's Out! The Musical revealed that it's founder, Flappy Bob, was being manipulated by the pixies, and when they temporary succeed they make the whole world like this.
• The Sandman: After Timmy wished for a world without sleep, the Sandman was introduced as being both the master of all things sleep related and the owner of a mattress store in Dimmsdale. He shrinks and loses his powers when nobody sleeps, making him unable to revert Timmy's wish until Cosmo and Wanda fell to sleep on his new mattress.
• Saving Christmas:
  • Timmy's wish for Christmas Every Day is what caused the problem in the first place. Timmy's wish was so bad, they had to make a new rule. The rule was that no child could never ever wish for Christmas every day.
  • "Wishmas" has Timmy and all of Dimmsdale ticked off that Santa didn't give them what they want, so Timmy decides to set things right by having his godparents mail everyone coupons that entitle them to one wish. This leads to a new holiday called Wishmas replacing Christmas and Timmy trying to make Christmas the accepted holiday again when Santa starts moving in with him alongside Mrs. Claus and the elves.
  • The premise of the second live action movie A Fairly Odd Christmas, where this time Timmy has to fill in for Santa after accidentally causing him to get hurt and lose his memory.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: As of Season 10, Timmy and Chloe become this.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Timmy as a mouse, saying "squeak".
• School of No Studying: Timmy spends much more time at school than most of his cartoon comrades, yet almost never even thinks about his grades despite being a straight-F student.
• The Scottish Trope: Saying "Vicky" as a good thing.
• Scary Flashlight Face: Often added for instant pseudo-evilness, e.g. in "Bad Case of Diary-Uh".
• Scary Scorpions: A recurring gag involves characters getting stung by scorpions.
• Scary Stinging Swarm: Vicky gets attacked by bees in "Frenemy Mine."
• Scooby-Dooby Doors: In "Dread and Breakfast", with some bonus Scooby Doo characters.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Mr. Turner whenever he's frightened, shocked, or alarmed. It started off as a gag in Dream Goat, but later became a permanent part of his character.
• Screens Are Cameras: In Information Stupor Highway, Crocker uses a spyware program to see what's happening in Timmy Turner's room. How does the program do it? By filming the room through the monitor of Timmy's computer.
• Screw the Electric Bill: When Timmy wishes for parents that cared less in "Ruled Out", his parents become negligent to the point that they don't give a damn about the power going out.
  Mr. Turner: Electric bills are for squares! Like pants!
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Remy Buxaplenty, Tad, and Chad tend to bribe people to get what they want.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Foop is backwards for Poof, and is Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Norm the Genie is sealed inside a lava lamp and is freed in "Genie Meanie Minie Mo" when Timmy finds him at Mr. Birkenbake's yard sale. After tricking Norm into allowing three more wishes, Timmy wishes for a lawyer, who undoes the damages Norm caused and forces him back into the lamp, which is subsequently purchased by Mr. Crocker and mailed to his uncle Albert in Canada (who can't rub the lamp because he's wearing a straitjacket due to being in the nuthouse for having an obsession with genies). Norm later gets free again in "Back to the Norm" when Uncle Albert mails the lamp back to Crocker and Norm tries to get Crocker to help him have revenge against Timmy before he is forced back into the lamp once more. He makes one final attempt at freedom in Fairy Idol, where he orchestrates a scheme to have Cosmo and Wanda quit being Timmy's godparents to create an opening and win the Fairy Idol singing competition to become a fairy godparent and therefore be free of the lamp forever.
• Second-Person Attack: Used several times: at least two in Abracatastrophe; one in the beginning of Channel Chasers; in the episodes "Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad", "Scary Godparents", "Kung Timmy" (and several others), and occasionally in the Crimson Chin bridging sequences in the Season 0 episodes.
• Secret Identity:
  • Cosmo and Wanda have to be kept a secret from everyone, or Timmy will lose them forever.
  • Charles Hampton Indigo for the Crimson Chin; Timmy himself for Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder.
• Secretly Wealthy: Timmy's maternal grandparents from Ustinkistan seem to be very traditional and also act and dress like bumpkins, only to find out that they're actually very wealthy and live in a typical modern upper-class lifestyle. They only dress in their native attire and speak with their native accent for the occasion of Yaksgiving.
  Timmy: "Wait, you guys are rich and modern? and rich?"
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil: In "Father Time!", Timmy goes back in time to see his parents when they were his age. The two of them introduce themselves to him (unaware that he's their son), and when they say their names, a conspicuously out-of-place truck blares by, totally obscuring their identities to the audience.
• Self-Deprecation:
  • When Timmy's film in "Movie Magic" wins the award, Trixie still thinks less of him on the grounds that Timmy's film is a comedy and that comedy is considered the lowest form of entertainment next to animation.
  • The theme song for the tenth season sneaks in some jabs at the direction of Timmy having to share his godparents with new character Chloe Carmichael, such as Cosmo remarking that this new change can be fun.
• Selfless Wish: Timmy needed money to buy tickets to "Crash Nebula: On Ice". He can't simply use his fairy godparents to wish for the tickets because it'd be theft and he can't wish for the money so he opened a Lemonade Stand but his lemonade had a horrible taste until Cosmo dipped his used socks on it, which also caused the lemonade to grant wishes to anyone who drank it. After using almost all his lemonade to undo the damage caused by his customers, he intended to use the remaining lemonade to get the tickets but then he saw a thirsty boy who was forced to work making lemonade for Vicky's stand and Timmy decided to give him the lemonade and the boy, unaware that the lemonade would grant him a wish, wished for his Dad. The kid's Doug Dimmadome's long-lost son Dale Dimmadome. Doug Dimmadome owns the place where the show's performance would take place and rewarded Timmy and his friends by giving them Jobs selling lemonade at the stadium. (Giving tickets was not an option because all tickets had already been sold)
  • Otherwise, Timmy's selfless wishes don't count for the trope since his wishes are not limited by number.
  • In "Fairy Idol", Chester used his last wish to undo the damages caused by Norm.
  • If one counts Grow Up, Timmy Turner as canon, he's no longer allowed to make anything but selfless wishes.
• Senior Sleep-Cycle: Upon discovering that he's aged 50 years in "Timmy's Secret Wish", Timmy falls asleep mid-sentence.
• Serious Business: Baseball in Foul Balled, the weather in Mother Nature
  • To the point where the citizens run the weatherman out of town with torches and pitchforks if he's wrong.
  • * The 'Crimson Chin vs. Crash Nebula' special caused Chester and AJ to decide who was the better hero, leading them to stop being friends during the episode. Both of them demand in unison that Timmy side with them, "...or you're not my friend anymore!"
• Sewer Gator: The Dimmsdale Sewer Gator from the episode, "Ruled Out". It has 800 teeth and eats anything that moves.
  Timmy: "It's violent and educational, but mostly violent! Yay, violence!"
• Shady Scalper: In "Nectar Of The Odds", Timmy and his friends desperately try to purchase tickets for Crash Nebula On Ice, only to find them all sold out. They then go to see Francis, who sells tickets in the school bathroom and offers to sell them the ones he has for fifteen hundred dollars. When Timmy protests that he doesn't have that much money, Francis hurls him out of the stall.
  Francis: That's for free.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: "Odd, Odd West". Timmy goes through the trouble of travelling through time to secure the deed to Dimmsdale Flats to prevent it from being bulldozed, but Mr. Turner ultimately ends up turning over the deed to the developer for $12 anyway, as he realized he didn't want to save the town as badly as he thought he did.
• Shapeshifter Baggage: Fairies and anti-faries have no defined limits of size or shape when they transform; justified in this case by it being magic. Mark and King Grippulon also have this when they use their image fake-i-fiers, though that might simply be a holographic disguise rather than an actual transformation. All the fairies, Anti-Cosmo, Mark and Grippulon keep their eye color and voice when they transform. The fairies usually keep their entire color scheme.
• She Is All Grown Up: In the live action TV movie, older Tootie is played by Daniella Monet. Timmy is dumbstruck that she really grew into her looks, nothing like the nerdy girl he knew from childhood.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Timmy to Vicky in Totally Spaced Out. Mark and King Grippulon misunderstand Timmy's reasons for wanting to rescue Vicky from the planet, which leads to a death battle. Timmy points out at the end of the episode that he just needs her to babysit so he's not confined to Flappy Bob's Learnatorium when his parents are away.
• Shipper on Deck: Cosmo and Wanda apparently like it when Tootie kisses Timmy, even though they are obligated to use their magic to help Timmy avoid her.
• Shotgun Wedding: Mark Chang lives on Earth incognito for a while to get out of his arranged marriage with Princess Mandie.
• Shout-Out: There are enough references to other works to warrant its own page.
• Shown Their Work: The "Maho Mushi" segment at the end of Channel Chasers is anything but a Shallow Parody. Doubtless that segment was included due to the Dragon Ball Z craze, but it doesn't parody Z at all - it recreates the Piccolo Jr. arc at the end of the relatively obscure original Dragon Ball. Note Vicky's attire and the fact that the battle takes place in a tournament ring.
• Show Within a Show: The Crimson Chin and Crash Nebula are both superheroes that Timmy enjoys. Several episodes revolve around Timmy making wishes about these characters or their merch.
  • "Channel Chasers" was full of these, mainly as shout-outs or outright parodies of real shows and cartoons.
• Shrunken Organ: In "Dog's Day Afternoon", Timmy swaps brains with an ordinary dog. His brain is noticeably the smaller of the two.
• Sibling Rivalry: Wanda and her twin sister Blonda don't get along well and envy each other due to believing their sister has the better life.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Vicky and Tootie. Tootie is kind, shy, and has a crush on Timmy. Vicky is mean to the point of their parents fearing her, and torments the kids she babysits including Timmy.
• Side Effects Include...: When Jorgen was about to erase Timmy's memories of having Fairy Godparents during the second part of "Fairy Idol", he said he'd use more "forgeticin". Then the viewers got an ad about forgeticin. The announcer forgot who he was and what he was doing while announcing side effects.
• Sign of the Apocalypse: Timmy getting an A is considered by AJ to be a sign of doomsday in "Cosmo Con".
• Simple Solution Won't Work:
  • In "Abra-Catastrophe!" following Timmy losing the Fairy-versary Muffin, capable of granting any wish (even ones that defy the rules that bind Fairy God Parents) to whoever takes a bite out of it, at one point Cosmo asks why Timmy doesn't simply wish for the Muffin back. Timmy congratulates him on the great idea, only for Wanda to reveal they can't as the Muffin is so powerful that it's beyond the point where their magic can effect it in any way. Turns out Cosmo knew this, he just wanted to know why Timmy hadn't tried the obvious solution yet.
  • In "Parent Hoods", after Timmy's parents are arrested due to being mistaken for bandits, he asks if he could just wish them free, but Wanda affirms they're currently tied up in the Canadian justice system and it would take years to get them out even with magic. As a result, Timmy and his fairies have to capture the real bandits and clear his parents' names.
  • "Back to the Norm" has Mr. Crocker and Norm the Genie teaming up to try and defeat Timmy and capture his fairies. When all of Crocker's overly-elaborate death traps backfire on him, Norm suggests that it would be easier to just do something like sending Timmy to Mars where he will suffocate from lack of oxygen. Crocker shoots down the idea because he believes that the only way to successfully capture Cosmo and Wanda is if Timmy is destroyed on Earth, much to Norm's frustration. Norm eventually grows tired enough of Crocker's idiocy that he decides to leave him and go grant wishes for Timmy instead, one of them being his Mars idea, with Crocker being the one sent there instead.
• Silence Is Golden: "Pipe Down". All dialogue gets replaced by sound effects. Of course, it ends with a Charade of Incoming Doom when Timmy tries to take his muting wish back.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Mr. Turner has a one-sided rivalry with Dinkleberg, with instances where he doesn't mention his neighbor's name in a disgusted tone being very scarce.
• Sleep Aesop: In "Beddy Bye", Timmy gets tired of missing out on things happening after bedtime and so wishes there was no sleep. After a few weeks, Timmy notices everyone is getting tired and cranky, including his fairy godparents, and that the Mattress King, who is the Sandman, is shrinking due to losing his business. Timmy goes to him to undo the wish, which he does, but not before teaching Timmy a lesson by making him lose sleep for a week, rendering him tired and ugly.
• Sleep Deprivation: Because Timmy wants to experience the night, he wishes that he and the rest of the world would never sleep. The sleep deprivation quickly catches up to Cosmo and Wanda, making them hideous and grouchy.
• Slower Than a Snail:
  • In "Mooooving Day", after Timmy's family moves to Dimmadome Acres, he joins Chester and A.J. in riding Segways, which run at a pre-approved speed of 2 mph so they won't spill their Dimmadome Farms milk. As an elderly snail slithers past them, Timmy hits a pebble and spills some milk on it, causing the snail to become a grinning zombie like everyone else. This makes him realize there is something strange is going on.
  • The Channel Chasers Cut Song "If I Lived In TV" used this to mock The Six Million Dollar Man's Super-Speed "effects" by having the "bionic" Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda get outpaced by a turtle.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Tad & Chad, Juandissimo and Crocker on occasion all have moments of having inflated opinions on their own self-worth.
• Small Town Rivalry: Dimmsdale and Brightburg hate each other.
• The Smurfette Principle: Wanda in Timmy's fairy godfamily, who's also the only female of the core cast. After Chloe's introduction, this trope is no longer used.
• Smurfing: The apes in "Abra-Catastrophe" say "bananas" a lot.
• Snark Ball: Cosmo will occasionally make sarcastic remarks in spite of being the resident idiot.
• Sneeze Interruption: Mark Chang challenges Timmy to what sounds like "dijifat" to get Vicky back after Mark absconded with her. Timmy accepts, but then it turns out that Mark sneezed and was trying to say, "Death combat".
• Social Services Does Not Exist: The reason fairy godparents exist in the first place is to take care of neglected children, so it's unlikely there are social services in this universe.
• The Sociopath: Maryann from "Hastle in the Castle" was this. She wished for Archduke Franz Ferdinand to be assassinated, causing World War I and showed no remorse for it. Shortly before it was revealed that she did this, she manipulated Timmy into giving her Cosmo's wand, which she planned on using his and Wanda's wand for revenge for supposedly abandoning her when in reality Jorgen Von Strangle took them away from her for breaking the rules.
• Sock Slide Rink: The episode "Just The Two Of Us" begins at the ice skating rink where Timmy's friends AJ and Chester respectively skates in hi-tech training wheels and, the latter case, literally being barefoot.
• Solid Cartoon Facial Stubble: The go-to method for aniating five o'clock shadow in this show is to shade the region around a character's mouth gray.
• Something We Forgot:
  • In "Homewrecker", Timmy gets Tootie out of the way by having her locked in the closet. By the end of the episode, she's still there.
  • "Dream Goat" ends with Vicky still in the stocks she was put in when she was falsely blamed for setting Chompy the Goat loose when it was actually Timmy.
  • Chester is left behind during the Squirrely Scouts' ride home in "Odd, Odd West".
  • Wanda forgets to return Sherlock Holmes to his book at the end of "Shelf Life".
  • "Country Clubbed" ends with Timmy remarking that he can't help but feel like he's forgetting something. Not even after giving a steak to Sparky with Wanda's brain does it occur to him that he forgot to solve the problem of Wanda and Sparky switching brains.
• Sound-Effect Bleep: The one time anyone actually says the names of Timmy's parents, the words are drowned out.
  Young Timmy's Dad: "My real name is *loud truck goes by* but everyone calls me Dad."
• Space Cadet Academy: The setting of a Poorly Disguised Pilot for Crash Nebula!.
• Sparse List of Rules: Fairy Godparents are restricted to a large list of rules listed in a gigantic book titles 'Da Rules'. Cosmo and Wanda would pull out the rule book any time Timmy plans on making a wish that would break the rules. It's never said how many rules there are, but new ones are mentioned frequently.
• Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: In "Boys in the Band" as Chip and Vicky are about to get married, the nerd says, "Is there anyone here, besides the groom, who has a reason these two should not be wed?". Cue Wanda entering with the record executive who reveals Chip's debts and causes Vicky to cancel the wedding.
• Special Occasions Are Magic: Every Valentine's Day, Cupid shows up and begins making Earthlings fall in love.
• Spinning Paper: Lampshaded in "The Masked Magician" when Wanda complains it makes her dizzy.
• Spit Take: Cosmo does these often, even intentionally.
  • Played straight and then parodied several times by other characters in the episode "Pipe Down", who frequently sip from a cup of coffee just so they can react to stuff by spitting it out.
• Spoof Aesop: The moral from "Future Lost". While Wanda is still reciting what could be the moral, Timmy and Cosmo are long since asleep.
• Spontaneous Human Combustion: In "Smart Attack", all scientists (and a few robots) react allergic to emotion by exploding.
• Spoofy-Doo: One of the shows Timmy and the gang visit in "Channel Chasers" is a cartoon called Snooper Dog and the Clue Crew, a Scooby-Doo parody with a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Snoop Dogg as the title character. Snooper Dog's design notably resembles Goober from the short-lived Goober and the Ghost Chasers show.
  • The episode "Dread n' Breakfast" features a Scooby-Dooby Doors sequence, and two characters similar to Shaggy and Scooby are shown running alongside them.
  • Earlier, in "Twistory", Timmy manages to defeat Benedict Arnold, who says "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that meddling kid."
  • In "Fairly OddPet", Wanda turns down Cosmo's idea of a vacation in a haunted amusement park, and he calls "Sorry meddling kids, you're on your own!" as a Mystery Machine-esque van drives off.
  • "The Wand That Got Away" is basically a full Homage to the old Scooby-Doo episodes, with Timmy as Fred, Cosmo as Shaggy, Wanda as Daphne, Baby Poof as Velma and Sparky as Scooby (whom keeps saying several Scooby-Doo catchphrases as a Running Gag) driving around in a Mystery Machine-esque van to try and find Cosmo's missing wand.
  • The episode "Let Sleeper Dogs Lie" reveals that Sparky had many owners before Timmy and his fairies. This includes the blatant parody of Mystery Inc. (along with Dorothy, Captain Ersatz of Charlie Brown and, the most important, Denzel Crocker - along with Cosmo and Wanda -).
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Since Season 7 onward, Denzel Crocker, Timmy's dad, Cosmo, and Foop have more and more amount of screen-time in the show, ESPECIALLY the two former. Sparky has become the more prominent protagonist in Season 9, replacing Poof from this role. In the tenth season, Chloe has replaced both Sparky and Poof as the new main character of the show.
• Squick: In-universe example in "Open Wide and Say Aaagh" when Timmy catches a view of his fathers naked butt.
• Squashed Flat: The show sometimes employs this trope. One prime example is when Timmy's parents charge him with guarding his parents case of glass figurines. The Greek Gods of Mt. Olympus show up. One of them is about to strike the glass case, Timmy steps in front to prevent it's falling and it falls on him. When the case is removed there is a very, very flat Timmy on the floor.
• Stalker Shrine: Tootie's entire room is one of these with shrines, pictures, dolls of Timmy. Veronica has something similar...with Trixie. Timmy sometimes has one of these in his bedroom for Trixie Tang as well.
• Stalker with a Crush:
  • Timmy has two people obsessively fond of him: Tootie and The Darkness.
  • Juandissimo pines over Wanda in spite of her being married to Cosmo.
• Stand-In Parents:
  • " Who's Your Daddy" has Timmy Turner use a wish to try out his friends' dads because his own dad was so lame.
  • Timmy has Cosmo and Wanda stand in as his parents in "Transparents", and Hilarity Ensues.
• Standard '50s Father: Timmy Turner's dad, initially, acted like your standard straight-laced father figure who only wants what is good for his son.
• Start of Darkness: The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker
• The Stars Are Going Out: Wishology Part I has the stars vanish to show how serious things are getting.
• The Starscream: The Lead Eliminator ends up turning against the Darkness to fight the heroes on his own terms.
• State Visit: In the episode "Vicky Loses Her Icky," the President of the United States came to visit Dimmsdale, carrying with him a button that controls weapons of mass destruction. Vicky's evil bug, don't ask, wants it, thus Timmy must stop it from biting the President's butt and turning him evil. His mannerism resembles George W. Bush but his appearance is that of George Washington. In the end of the episode, he has a completely new look of Abraham Lincoln.
• Status Quo Is God: Why all of Timmy's wishes eventually fail. Some wishes he makes are plain irrelevant.
• Stepford Suburbia: Dimmadome Acres' denizens are all brainwashed by Doug Dimmadome's special milk to be perpetually grinning zombies.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: The Crimson Chin's real name is Charles Hampton Indigo.
• Stock Superhero Day Jobs: The Crimson Chin works as a reporter in his civilian identity.
• The Stoic: Timmy becomes emotionless in "Emotion Commotion!" after wishing away his emotions.
• Storm in a Teacup: Timmy's parents buy an antique vase and warn Timmy and Vicky about how fragile it is. At the end of the episode, Timmy's stopped Vicky from breaking the vase, then breaks it himself. Just as Vicky starts to gloat, Timmy's parents begin laughing, it turns out the vase was ten-dollar junk from a garage sale, but it was insured for a few thousand dollars, and they were banking on it being broken.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: In That Ol' Black Magic, the Anti-Wanda is so stupid, she eats with her feet; later in that episode, Cosmo is seen eating a sandwich with his feet.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: The Gigglepies speak in oddly-formed sentences, mainly due to nearly all of their statements being done in rhyme and not wanting to break the pattern whenever possible.
  Overlord Glee: Taking over a planet isn't that tough. We suck planets dry by selling Gigglepie stuff! You can see by these lines, this one's red, this one's brown. As our sales go up, all their freedom goes down.
• Strolling on Jupiter: In "Love Triangle" Jupiter is seen with a brown mountainous surface and blue cyclops aliens.
• Student Council President: Tad and Chad are both student council president in "Hail to the Chief".
• Stuff Blowing Up: "Action Packed" has a lot of explosions occur, since Timmy wishes for his life to be like an action movie.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: Done occasionally with Crocker. For instance, "Information Stupor Highway" has Mr. Turner comment that wearing a dress does make Crocker look pretty.
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: "Merry Wishmas" has a subverted rhyme in the song "Not on the List".
  AJ: I didn't get what I wanted for Christmas.
  Sanjay: Not one thing that was on my list!
  Chester: Things under the tree...
  Elmer: That we never wanted to see.
  All: And at Santa, we're all really...MAD!
• Suddenly Obvious Fakery: "Wish Fixers" has Jorgen on the Pixies' side until Cosmo bumps into him, at which point it is revealed that he is actually a robot copy with a wire sticking out to plug into the wall. No such plug or wire is visible until "Jorgen's" true nature is revealed.
• Suicide as Comedy: In "Farm Pit", Timmy jumps into the tornado to try and find Cosmo and Wanda, noting that this action is also likely to kill him, which he sees as a win-win due to how unbearably grueling he finds doing farm work.
• Suddenly Speaking: Poof near the end of Season 9, thanks to going through a phase called "Pooferty".
• Sugar Apocalypse: The Giggle Pies are a race of adorable creatures who are all about using their cuteness to trick people into letting them take over and destroy planets.
• Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom: The Gigglepies in So Totally Spaced Out are adorable creatures that turn out to be violent world conquerors.
• Superhero Episode:
  • Many, owing to Butch Hartman's comic-book geek roots. The Crimson Chin episodes, in particular, have practically become their own subgenre.
  • A different strain in "Shiny Teeth", where Timmy basically becomes a gender-swapped Wonder Woman to foil Dr. Bender.
• Super Hero Origin: The Crimson Chin was bitten on the chin by a handsome radioactive actor. The Nickelodeon Magazine comic story "Untold Tales of the Big Superhero Wish" establishes that he originally had an origin like Superman's of being sent to Earth in a rocket by his father when his planet was dying, but was later made to have the origin we know because of a lawsuit.
• Superhero School:
  • "The Big Superhero Wish" has Timmy's wish result in Dimmsdale Elementary becoming a school for superheroes.
  • The Poorly Disguised Pilot for a Crash Nebula spinoff shows the teenage Sprig Speevak, who will eventually grow up to become Crash Nebula, be the first human student of an intergalactic school for space heroes.
• Superhuman Trafficking: Fairies are often hunted. Almost always it is Mr. Crocker going after Timmy's fairies In The Movie, Abracatastrophe he succeeds. Later on, another fairy hunter shows up in Ms. Doombringer. Unlike Crocker, she is both deadly serious and scarily competent at her job.
• Superman Substitute:
  • The Crimson Chin combines elements of Batman, Spider-Man and Superman, with the most notable attributes borrowed from the Man of Steel being that he relies on a pair of glasses to hide his secret identity, he works at a news company with "Daily" in its name and is apparently vulnerable to a substance called "Chintoninte". The Nickelodeon Magazine comic story "Untold Tales of the Big Superhero Wish" even revealed that he used to have a similar origin of being sent to Earth in a rocket from a dying alien planet by his father Jaw-El before a lawsuit retconned his origin to the one established in the TV show of being a talk show host who acquired his powers from a radioactive actor biting him on the chin.
  • One of the Power Pals in the episode of the same name is a Superman expy called Super Sam. He essentially looks like Superman with the blue parts of his costume colored white and the S-insignia replaced by a medallion with two S's, one of which is reversed. Superman's power of heat vision is also parodied by Super Sam having a power called "sweet vision", which he uses to make an ice cream cone appear in a little girl's hand.
  • Timmy Turner is shown becoming a Superman-like hero to fly to Trixie Tang's rescue in "Chip of the Old Chip" during the music video to Chip Skylark's song "Find Your Voice".
• Super-Strength: The Crimson Chin, Francis and Trixie in The Big Superhero Wish all have tremendous strength.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: A running gag has Timmy agree to people's assumptions for the reasons behind changes he caused by wishing Cosmo and Wanda to make it so.
• Surfer Dude: Mark Chang talks like a stereotypical Californian surfer.
• Surrounded by Idiots:
  • The Lead Eliminator is vexed by the ineptitude of his fellow Eliminators.
  • Jorgen Von Strangle sometimes lashes out on the other fairies for serious screw-ups. He even outright calls Cosmo and Wanda morons for granting Timmy's wish to have children in charge of the world during his polka number in School's Out! The Musical.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • The episode “The Big Problem” is basically this trope mixed with comedy. Timmy wishes to be an adult because he feels as though he is missing out on all the good aspects of adulthood. When Timmy is magically aged into an adult, he realizes the downsides of adulthood:
    • When Adult Timmy drives, he experiences time-consuming traffic.
    • When Adult Timmy attempts to help an old lady cross the street, the old lady is creeped out by his offer, pepper sprays him, and throws the empty pepper spray can at him. Even Cosmo & Wanda lampshade the repercussions of this.
    • Timmy also attempts to shave his skin, but he hilariously gets himself injured in the process.
    • When Timmy goes to a restaurant to eat, he orders a lot of food. He ends up getting a Shockingly Expensive Bill. Due to Adult Timmy not having the money to cover the bill, he ends up having to Work Off the Debt (with Cosmo & Wanda refusing to help him and saying that adults should do things on their own).
    • When Adult Timmy attempts to return to his house as a middle aged man, Vicky attacks him and throws him out of his own house. This is due to Vicky seeing him as a creep and not recognizing Timmy.
    • Finally, Adult Timmy witnesses Francis picking on his friends, Chester & AJ. When Timmy attempts to stand up to Francis by plucking him, Francis cries Crocodile Tears when police officers are conveniently walking by him. The police officers witness Francis crying, then they arrest Timmy and throw him in jail. As satisfying as it was to see Francis get some comeuppance for his bullying, Adult Timmy still gets in legal trouble because the latter is a grown, middle-aged man while Francis is a minor. This is the last straw for Timmy, as he desperately wishes to be a kid again. Thankfully, he gets his wish at the end and learns his lesson.
  • In the Halloween Special, Timmy, his friends, and the rest of the kids indulge in lots of candy at the near end of the episode. Cut to the next scene, and they are all going to the dentist to fill up the massive amount of cavities they got as a result of eating all that candy.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial:
  Timmy: Morning, guys.
  Timmy's Dad: WHAT SUPERPOWERS?!
• Swiss-Army Tears: Double subverted in Fairy Idol. It looks like Timmy's tears healed Cosmo and Wanda after they've wound up in full-body casts, but it's really that fairies are fast healers.

T

• Take Over the World:
  • Every human and supernatural villain but Norm the Genie wants to take over the world.
  • Even a monkey wanted to do it in Abra-Catastophe, if Cosmo's monkey language abilities are to be trusted. Well, not so much take over the world as have apes take over the world, and have him take Timmy's place. Or a banana.
  • Dark Laser wants to destroy the Earth.
• Take That!:
  • In "When Losers Attack", Crocker, Foop and Dark Laser end up getting sucked into a black hole and fall into a random cityscape.
  Crocker: Hmm, I wonder where you end up after going through a black hole. *town sign reads "Welcome to Bakersfield"* Einstein was right!
  • "Timmy's 2-D House Of Horrors" has unyielding and relentless bashing towards the 3-D movie phenomenon via a ridiculous low-budget horror film about a haunted volcano and having the 3-D effects used for completely unnecessary instances like a cat coughing up a hairball.
  • School's Out: The Musical revealed Flappy Bob's parents checked every clown-congregation spot in the county. And then Flappy's dad adds: "we even checked the U.S. Congress! It was full of clowns...but none of them were fun!"
  • "Chindred Spirits" in an interesting example. On the surface, it looks like a Take That! at comic book fans who are overdosed on action and don't care about characterization, except the Chin's comic is being boring due to his want of romance/dating Golden Locks (oddly making Timmy in the right, even though it acts like he's not). So it's really a Take That! at overly Wangst- or fluff-laden romance-arcs in comics.
  • "Timmy's Secret Wish" has an extended Take That! towards New Jersey.
    • "Dadbra-Cadabra" has a quick one, a sign reads "Hoboken, population 39,900 hoboes"
  • "Farm Pit" has one towards Cleveland, their sign is "Welcome To Cleveland, now go home!" and the city is also shown to be full of crime scenes.
  • "This is Your Wish" has Cosmo destroying or ruining three ancient or mythical cities, the third being Xanadu turned into a polluted, smog-infested city full of factories.
  Cosmo: I call it Pittsburgh!
  • In-universe: the song "Icky Vicky." Not only did Chip Skylark find it necessary to write a song about how horrible a person Vicky is, but he debuted the song on live television in a giant stadium full of people. Can't get much more blatant than that.
• "Take Your Child to Work Day" Plot: In "The Boss of Me", Timmy goes with his dad to his job at the pencil factory. There, he wishes for an everlasting pencil and is made the new boss.
• Talk to the Hand: Trixie, as film critic of Timmy's Greatest Movie Ever (ahem) in "Movie Magic".
• Talking Animals: These happen to be pretty common in this universe, and they aren't even fairies. There were even sharks who remarked how Timmy didn't react to their presence.
• Tastes Better Than It Looks: In "Food Fight", Timmy wishes his mother were a great chef so he wouldn't have to eat her nasty-looking food. She enters a cooking competition and loses this gift (due to fairy rules forbidding magic being used to win competitions) and cooks up one of her disgusting looking meals (squid casserole). Timmy volunteers to eat it to save his mother from humiliation... only to find that the meal is absolutely delicious, so much so that it wins the competition.
• Taught by Television: A literal example is Poof in Wishology, but TV is treated as the solution on multiple occasions.
• Telecom Tree: Timmy sends a message over the internet requesting help from all the kids in the world.
• Terrible Artist: Cosmo (who else) in "Engine Blocked".
• The Needs of the Many: "Vicky Gets Fired". She promptly gets Major. All of Timmys wishes just push her up in the Power pyramid. When she is finally Overlord of the Universe (How? Don't Ask.), Timmy pushes the Reset Button. Cue "For the Good of the Many" poof.
• The Nudifier: Timmy gets so angry that his clothes blow off at the end of "Pipe Down".
• The Talk: "Fairly Oddbaby", of course, has Cosmo start to give the talk when Timmy is confused that male fairies have babies. Technically averted: Cosmo has to talk about the birds and...The Bee Gees?
• Teens Are Monsters: Vicky is Timmy's teenage babysitter and is invariably shown to be a deranged psycho who barely restrains her joy at causing others pain. There's even a club for evil teen babysitters!
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Every female has eyelashes.
• That Poor Plant: Cosmo kills a potted plant by disposing of his beets into it in "Playdate of Doom".
• Theme Naming: The main three's middle names are all Latin names, and all related to Roman Emperors^note Timothy Tiberius Turner, Cosmo Julius Cosma, and Wanda Venus Wanda (Gens Julia claimed to be the descendents of Venus by claiming their mythical founder was her grandson and the son of Aeneas, her son and the ancestor of possibly mythical founders of Rome. Somewhat fittingly, Tiberius, the second emperor, wasn't born into gens Julia, but was instead the step-son of Augustus, just like how Cosmo and Wanda aren't Timmy's biological parents.
• Theme Twin Naming: Wanda & Blonda, and Tad & Chad are both sets of twins with names that rhyme.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In "Frenemy Mine", after Vicki tells Timmy it's his fault she lost her only friends, he tells replies that it's her own fault for being such an awful, vile person.
  • Silimilarly, in "Snow Bound," after getting stuck in a snow-filled cave by an avalanche that Vicky caused, Vicky tries to blame Timmy for it. Timmy turns it around on her by pointing out that she caused the avalanche, and says that she causes him so much misery that there's one good thing about their situation:
  Timmy: If I go down, well, AT LEAST YOU'RE GOING DOWN WITH ME!
  • In "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary", Timmy meets Remy Buxaplenty, a billionaire godchild. Upon discovering one another's fairies, they meet one another to cut to the chase. Here, Remy attempts to bribe Timmy to wish away his fairies. Timmy sums up Remy pretty well in response.
  Timmy Turner: You know what stinks about you, Remy? You're rich, you have godparents and you're still miserable.
• There Was a Door: "Timmy, I'm respecting your privacy by knocking, but asserting my authority as your father by coming in anyway!" *breaks down door with battering ram*
• Third-Person Person: Timmy starts doing this when his ego grows too big in "One Man Banned".
• 13 Is Unlucky: Friday the 13th is when the Anti-Fairies can escape.
• This Page Will Self-Destruct: Timmy's dad to Timmy via tape recorder: "Pass the butter. This message will self destruct"
• Those Two Guys: Chester and AJ started out as Timmy's two best friends, but ultimately became more associated with each other - sometimes even separately from Timmy. Cupid and Juandissimo sometimes as well.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: This rule is the most sacred of Da Rules—fairies cannot use their magic to harm or kill any living being (that unfortunately, includes roaches, explaining why magic doesn't kill them).
• Three Shorts: Or more more accurately two shorts format. With the exception of occasional half-hour or full-hour specials, just about every episode consists of two 11-minute shorts.
• Three Wishes: Norm the Genie is limited to granting three wishes like most genies. Subverted because it is possible to wish for three more wishes; genies just don't like to tell that to their masters.
• Time-Passage Beard:
  • "The Boss of Me" has the gag of growing a long beard to indicate passage of time demonstrated by Timmy's Dad and his boss Ed Leadly when they test the ever-lasting pencil Timmy wished for to see if it truly can last forever.
  • When Timmy's parents compete to see which of them is a better surfer in "Beack Blanket Bozos", it drags on until they, Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda and Poof have all grown beards.
  • Spoofed in "App Trapp", where Timmy is shown with a white beard after spending 9 days using his new magic smartphone Chatty. Apparently, there was an app for it.
  • Chet Ubetcha and several other denizens of Dimmsdale are shown with beards after waiting ten days for Sparky to rescue Timmy from the well in "Hero Hound".
• Time Traveler's Dinosaur: In the episode "The Big Bash" Cosmo, Timmy, and Wanda go back in time to collect a dinosaur egg for Cupid's party scavenger hunt and almost get attacked by a dinosaur.
• Tinkle in the Eye: Subverted. It's from a water squirter Poof was holding, not actual peeing.
• Tin Tyrant: Crocker in Abra-Catastrophe. When he takes over the world, he gets an elaborate winged, metal suit that he fantasized about in his Imagine Spot in earlier episodes.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl:
  • Timmy is shorter than his crush, Trixie. He's also smaller than Carly who he had a fling with.
  • Foop is the small guy to the much taller Vicky in "Scary GodCouple".
  • Dr. Rip Studwell is this to the Amazonian fairies he flirts with in one episode.
• To Hell and Back: The plot of "Timmy's Secret Wish" turns into the main cast trying to rescue Poof from the Hocus Poconos, where Ret-Gone-d wishes go to rot.
• Toilet-Drinking Dog Gag: The episode "Dog's Day Afternoon" has Timmy swap bodies with Vicky's dog, Doidle. During one moment, Doidle (in Timmy's body) starts drinking out of a school toilet. Upon witnessing this, Chester and A.J. claim Timmy to be tougher than Francis, prompting the bully to start drinking out of a toilet as well, and then they join in afterward.
• Toilet Paper Trail: "Scary GodCouple" begins with Foop appearing before the Anti-Fairy Council with toilet paper stuck to his foot.
• Token Rich Student: The cool kids are so wealthy that they can pay to have separate areas for them in school like a cool booth at the cafeteria, cool restrooms, and cool seats in the bus(which consists on a dance floor and a jacuzzi.)
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Vicky and Tootie. This is shown in contrast especially in the episode Timmy's 2-D House of Horror where the two sisters took over Timmy's bedroom; turning one half into a pink and girly room with unicorns, and the other half into a medieval dungeon.
  • Seen with Trixie and Veronica. Trixie is secretly a comic fangirl while Veronica is a cheerleader Valley Girl stereotype.
• Tongue on the Flagpole:
  • In "Snow Bound", Timmy sticks his tongue to a frozen fishbowl and then proceeds to pull himself out of a pit he was stuck in using his tongue as a lasso.
  • In "Momnipresent", Timmy and his fairies go to the North Pole. Cosmo mistakes the North Pole for a giant candy cane and licks it. It gets stuck to his tongue, even after he poofs away.
  • Foop gets his tongue stuck to a lamppost after Poof grows gigantic enough to block out the sun and freeze the Earth in "The Terrible Twosome".
• Tonight, Someone Kisses: The promos for Wishology and The Fairly Odd Movie.
• Too Awesome to Use: When Turner wishes everything he says is true, he becomes a dangerous reality-warper that can disarm any threat, but also inadvertently banishes his own fairies away. Cue a struggle to get them back with said power. Thank goodness he didn't make any paradoxical statements that would have imploded the universe.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Invoked in "Just the Two of Us!" When Timmy continuously gets passed over by Trixie, he ends up wishing he was the only other person besides her and his fairies on the entire planet. After avoiding him the rest of the episode, she's forced to spend time with him, but the sudden isolation has seriously taken it's toll on her sanity, forcing Timmy to revert his wish.
• Too Important to Walk: In "Snow Bound," Vicky forces Timmy to carry her on his back on their way up a mountain.
• Took a Level in Badass: Crocker in Abra Catastrophe.
• Torches and Pitchforks: Mother Nature and The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker, where the torches and pitchfork crowd is still chasing him decades afterwards.
  • Happened again in another episode where Poof uses his magic to switch Timmy's head with a nearby housefly so they could sneak out and watch a movie. When his dad discovers the fly-headed boy, he rouses up an angry crowd of medieval looking townspeople who try to end the creature while wielding torches and pitchforks. After Timmy undoes the wish, his Mom reminds Dad not to do it again, suggesting this has happened many times before.
• Totem Pole Trench:
  • AJ stands on Chester's shoulders and wears a coat to disguise themselves as an adult in "Love at First Height". I mean, who could recognize them with that fake moustache?
  • In "Stage Fright", Timmy disguises himself as a theater director by wearing a fake mustache and a coat while Sparky carries him on his shoulders.
• Touch of Death: Timmy's Mom bemoans this in "That's Life".

Mom: *bawling* "EVERYTHING I TOUCH DIEEEEESSSS!"

• Timmy's Dad tries to Invoke this by trying to get Dinkleberg give his wife a "celebratory handshake."

• Trailer Park Tornado Magnet: There was the episode "Hassle In The Castle", where Timmy meets Cosmo and Wanda's previous and infamous godchildren. One of them proudly takes credit for wishing that tornadoes always hit trailer parks.
  • One nearly hits Chester's trailer in "The Masked Magician".
• Tranquillizer Dart: An episode in which a Drill Sergeant Nasty, Jorgen von Strangle, is quickly rendered insensate using two darts (humorously marked "K" & "O") during a fit of animalistic rage.
• Trash of the Titans: When Timmy accidentally wrecks Mount Olympus for partying with the gods too hard, they decide to all party as his house until such a time that Wanda has Olympus rebuilt. He does everything in his power to prevent them from destroying everything.
• Treated Worse than the Pet: In "Timmy's 2-D House of Horror", Vicky's house is destroyed, so she and her family move in to the Turners' house. They get to sleep in Timmy's room, including Doidle the dog, while Timmy is forced to sleep in Doidle's doghouse in the freezing rain.
• Troperiffic: It had to be said.
• "Truman Show" Plot: "Timmy TV" has Timmy discovering that he's secretly the star of Fairy World's most popular reality show, whose Simon Cowell-esque producer has Timmy sign a contract that allows the producers to make changes to Timmy's life (such as changing the color of his hat to purple and replacing his mom with Florence Henderson).
• Tuckerization: Elmer gets his name from Butch Hartman's real given name, while his sentient boil Bob is named after storyboard artist Bob Boyle.
• Tsundere: Wanda. Vicky might also be this; while usually violent, cruel, cold-hearted and sadistic, she seems to melt like butter for the guys she falls in love with. And for some fans, hinted in Trixie Tang.
• TV Telephone Etiquette: Timmy talks in a three-way split screen with his friends Chester and AJ. After the conversation, Timmy and Chester hang up without saying "Goodbye" Poor A.J. was left on the line.
• Twitchy Eye: Trixie when she goes insane in Just the Two of Us fits.
  • Tt happened to Timmy when his mother shows him that her old bikini still looks fit for her in "Miss Dimmsdale".
• Two Words: I Can't Count:
  • "Something's Fishy" has Cosmo say "Two words: mouthwash". When he is corrected that mouthwash is just one word, Cosmo replies that he'll say it twice then.
  • Cosmo's brother Schnozmo has a habit of saying these kinds of sentences.
  Schnozmo: Two words: Schnozmo has arrived.

U

• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife:
  • The Turners with Mr. Turner being hairy and pretty overweight, but his wife sometimes being fanservice.
  • A.J.'s parents, with his mom being slim with wide hips, and his dad being short and chubby.
  • The Arranged Marriage of Mark Chang and Princess Mandie counts. Mandie is stunning in contrast to Mark.◊
  • Santa and Mrs. Claus◊ are this in the episode "Christmas Everyday!", with Santa looking pretty average next to his beautiful wife. Her appearance does see some changes in the episode "Merry Wishmas!", where she looks more traditional◊.
  • Spoofed in the title card of "Scary GodCouple"◊ which sees the rather ugly Foop in a wedding with Vicky. She doesn't look so bad herself and certainly dressed for the occasion.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Turnbaum◊ from the episode "Parent Hoods". Mr. Turnbaum is sweaty, needs a shave, and has rotting teeth. In contrast, Mrs. Turnbaum is easy on the eyes apart from maybe her hairstyle.
• Unexpected Kindness:
  • In "Boys in the Band", Timmy is incensed because Chip Skylark's concert is causing everyone to forget about his birthday. He expects Chip to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, so after Vicky has chained Chip to a bed, Timmy confronts Chip and tells him off for ruining his birthday. Chip sincerely apologizes and decides to give him a new Crash Nebula action figure that was for his own birthday. Timmy realizes that Chip isn't as bad as he thought.
  • In "The Grass is Greener", Timmy (who has run away) sees his parents getting rid of his stuff and is hurt, thinking they're doing that because he's overheard them saying they can't buy expensive things because of him (though he's missed their statement that it doesn't matter since they still have Timmy). Actually, they're just going to replace his old belongings with nice, new stuff, and when Timmy gets home, he sees that they do miss him. Timmy's mother reveals to him that they bought new items for him, and both parents say they do love him. (He still gets grounded for running away though.)
• Unfazed Everyman: Sprig Speevack in "Crash Nebula" isn't too fazed about going to a school for aliens.
• Unfulfilled Purpose Misery: This is enforced with the godparents. As their purpose in life is to grant their godchild's wishes, if they go too long without granting a wish, they suffer from "magical buildup" and literally explode.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Trixie in "Class Clown". She doesn't thank Timmy for saving her life from the "seemingly harmless" man-eating plant and instead scolds him for ruining her gift, despite that it was trying to eat her heart out.
• Unholy Matrimony: Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda are married, just like regular Cosmo and Wanda.
• The Unintelligible:
  • Sylvester Calzone in Momnipresent is unable to say any real words besides "coconuts".
  • Poof in "School of Crock" when he undergoes his Pooferty phase.
• Universal Eyeglasses: In "Knighty Knight" Timmy meets Arthur Liebowitz, a king who is extremely nearsighted. Timmy remedies this by giving Arthur his father's pair of Reading Glasses. His sight is instantly corrected.
• Unknown Rival: The Dinklebergs to the Turners. Subverted in Operation: Dinkleburg. Dinkleburg has known of Mr. Turner's one sided rivalry for years and truly holds no ill will in turn. He plays the villain when Mr. Turner accuses Dinkleburg of being evil just to give him the satisfaction of believing he was right.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Mrs. Turner used to date Dinkleberg before meeting Mr. Turner.
• Unnamed Parent: Mr. and Mrs. Turner have no names ever mentioned. Even when they were children, they were nicknamed Mom and Dad. The few times their names were actually said, it was covered up by another sound effect, such as a truck driving by.
• The Un-Reveal: The aforementioned names of Timmy's parents. A bit of a Trolling Creator moment in the episode "Polter-Geeks" did reveal their first names... but only their past ones, as they changed their names shortly before Timmy was born. At least it solved the mystery from "Father Time" though.
• Unseen No More:
  • Timmy's parents always had their faces out of frame in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts. Once The Fairly OddParents became a full-fledged television series, Timmy's parents stopped having their faces obscured.
  • Remy Buxaplenty's parents were initially shown only from the neck down, but would eventually have their faces shown in "Country Clubbed".
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Used in Fairly OddBaby, where Timmy doesn't tell Cosmo, Wanda and Jorgen the full details of his plan in rescuing Cosmo and Wanda's baby and has to clarify that the plan isn't complete yet when it looks like they've failed. And Double-subverted.
• Unsound Effect: used all the time when magic occurs, though usually accompanied by sound.
  • Parodied to the point where, since the fairies use poof, the anti-fairies use foop
• The Unwitting Comedian: In the episode "Class Clown", Timmy wishes that he was the funniest boy on Earth, hoping it would get Trixie to notice him. Because of this, everything he says will cause those that hear him to laugh hysterically. At first it works, but Timmy gets annoyed when literally everything he says is treated like he's telling a joke, even when he tries to reverse the wish. Luckily, he manages get Cosmo and Wanda to take him to Fairy World. Because he wished to be the funniest man on Earth, he is no longer funny off planet, and is able to wish everything back to normal.
• Uptown Girl: Mrs. Turner to Mr. Turner, since she is apparently the daughter of a very wealthy owner of a successful fast food chain.
• Urban Fantasy: FOP takes place ostensibly in the early 2000's in a world where not just fairies, but a variety of magical and mythical creatures exist among humans.
• Urine Trouble:
  • In "The Big Superhero Wish", Cosmo in the form of Clefto the Chin Hound attempts to pee on Mike the Evil Living Building, only to be kicked away.
  • The episode "Merry Wishmas" (where Timmy's attempt to rectify everyone in Dimmsdale's dissatisfaction at Santa not getting them what they wanted for Christmas results in the holiday being replaced by a new one called Wishmas) has Timmy's Dad wish himself into becoming an eggnog-themed superhero named Nog Man and subsequently obtaining a canine sidekick named Nog Dog, who at one point hikes his leg near the Wishmas mailbox Timmy's Dad is setting up.
  Timmy's Dad: It's Wishmas Day, Nog Dog! No! Don't pee in here!
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When Crocker had Cosmo and Wanda as his fairy godparents, he used most of his wishes to do good things for others. It was only when his life was ruined by his secret of having fairy godparents being exposed that he became the crazy and fairy-obsessed creep we know him as today.
• Useless Spleen: In an attempt to beat Timmy up while Timmy blocks his attempts with his newly-gotten attendance award, Francis can be heard shouting "Ow, my hand! Ow, my other hand! Ow, my head! Ow, my spleen!" as he continues to take swings.
• Useless Superpowers: Whenever a wish would break a rule/Whatever the plot needs.
• Usurping Santa: After Timmy wishes that every day is Christmas, the other holiday icons conspire to take out Santa so that their own holidays can exist again.

V

• Vandalism Backfire: Happens occasionally. Vicky will destroy something of Timmy's (or less frequently, Tootie's) and Timmy will wish that the item was something belonging to Vicky instead.
  Timmy: That's not my treasured collection of Crimson Chin comics. That's your life savings.
• Vanilla Edition: All the season DVD sets contain the relevant episodes and nothing else.
• [Verb] This!: In "Certifiable Super Sitter", Vicky responds to Chloe calling herself a Certifiable Super Sitter by yelling "Certify this" and taking a chainsaw to the rule book Chloe is holding.
• Verbal Tic: Crocker has a nasty habit whenever he breaches the topic of FAIRY GODPARENTS!
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: In "What's the Difference", Mandie keeps an apple in there. Due to Timmy's wish, it inadvertently turns into a bomb.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Miss Doombringer is a fairy hunter far more competent than Crocker ever was and actually desires to mount the fairies she hunts, which is rather dark for a generally light-hearted show.
• Villains Out Shopping: Norm the Genie when free in Fairy Idol decides to take some time off and flirt with two female genies.
• Visions of Another Self: "Odd, Odd West" has Timmy encounter Wild West counterparts to his friends and Vicky when he goes back in time to try and reclaim the deed to Dimmsdale Flats.
• Villain Episode:
  • "Back to the Norm" focuses on a Villain Team-Up between Mr. Crocker and Norm the Genie.
  • The Nickelodeon Magazine comic story "It's Not Over Till the Babysitter Sings" focuses on Vicky and takes place during the events of School's Out! The Musical, explaining what she was doing prior to Timmy wishing that children were in charge of the world.
• Villainous Crossdresser: In "Information Stupor Highway", Timmy managed to humiliate Crocker on a global scale and get him arrested for developing a supposed computer virus by uploading a video file of himself modeling one of his mother's dresses.

  "Oh well, I suppose it does make me look pretty."

• Villainous Friendship: Tad & Chad. They're never seen without each other and are virtually identical in terms of appearance and personality.
• Villain Song:
  • School's Out! The Musical has the Pixies rap "We're Pixies", where they state their desire to take over Fairy World. They also sing parts of "Ten and in Charge" and "Kids Just Being Kids" (both the original and the reprise).
  • Fairy Idol has "Gimme the Wand", a duet with Norm the Genie and Cosmo where Norm's part has him express his desire to win the Fairy Idol singing competition so that he can become a fairy godparent and therefore be free of his lamp forever.
  • The comic story "It's Not Over Till the Babysitter Sings", an interquel to School's Out! The Musical, gives Vicky four songs, which are sung to the tune of "B-I-N-G-O", "My Darling Clementine", "Yankee Doodle" and "Frere Jacques".
• "The Villain Sucks" Song:
  • Chip Skylark writes a song devoted entirely to insulting Vicky and spelling out what a rotten person she is titled "Icky Vicky" in the episode "Boys in the Band". His grandfather Chip Skylark I also sings a version in the style of a 1930's ballad in "The Good Old Days" to mock Vicky's rubber hose cartoon counterpart Peg-Foot Vicky.
  • "Microphony" has "Vicky-Free Summer", which mocks Vicky by pointing out how summer vacation is a pleasant experience without having to put up with her.
• Villainesses Want Heroes:
  • Her evil tendencies aside, Vicky has shown a soft side for Gah, Tommy (in Too Many Turners), Justin Jake Ashton, and Chip Skylark.
  • The villainous Princess Mandie wants to marry the more heroic Mark Chang.
• Villain World: Dimmsdale becomes a nightmarish dystopia when Crocker takes over in Abra Catastrophe. We sort of see Vicky's version in Channel Chasers.
• Virtual Danger Denial: In "Power Mad", Timmy and friends start out thinking this, but since the game is magic, it can really kill them, so Timmy has to save them.
• Visible Invisibility: In "Timvisible", when Timmy wishes to be invisible, he becomes transparent with a glowing black outline so the viewer can see where he is.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Jorgen to Cosmo, Wanda, and Binky. He considers them his friends in spite of all the times he's threatened or inflicted violence upon them.
• Vocal Evolution: Probably as a result of the increasingly updated sound adjustment and the advancement of the actors' voices, almost every one of the show's characters went through this at some time or another.
  • Cosmo sounded more like a game show host in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons pilots and first two seasons.
  • Crocker's voice was much softer and toned down in his first few appearances, although it had to change to adjust to his growing insanity over the advancing seasons.
• Voices Are Mental:
  • "Blondas Have More Fun" and "Presto-Change-O" have individuals who switch minds retaining the voices of whoever's body their minds end up in.
  • "Which is Wish" also does it when Timmy and Chloe switch bodies, but it acknowledges so and even has some fun with it. When both sets of parents notice the sudden change in the kids' behavior, they blame the friendship and Chloe's parents even intend to move to keep them apart. Unable to undo the wish at the moment, the switched Timmy and Chloe dress up as their usual selves and convince their parents that everything is fine.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: All fairies and anti-fairies can transform into anything they want or need to.
• The Von Trope Family: Jorgen's surname is Von Strangle

W

• Wacky Cravings:
  • When Cosmo is pregnant with Poof, he ends up eating Timmy's collection of vintage baseball cards.
  • Anti-Wanda is shown eating a sandwich made of couch cushions and cheese wiz, a door handle and a bite from Anti-Cosmo's chart of every fairy and their Anti-Fairy counterpart in addition to being mentioned to have eaten a camera and a phone and attempting to eat Anti-Cosmo's Idea Bulb when she is pregnant with Foop.
• Walk Into Camera Obstruction:
  • "Hairicane" with Timmy's dad as he is walking out of the garage with a ski mask.
• Wasteful Wishing:
  • "Back to the Norm" subverts this when Mr. Crocker wastes the first two of the wishes Norm offers him on building materials needed for the death trap he's planning for Timmy Turner. Before the third wish is wasted, Norm informs Crocker that, contrary to popular belief, it is allowed to ask for three more wishes when you only have one left. What follows is Crocker repeatedly using the wishes to create death traps that are doomed to fail whilst periodically wishing for three more wishes every time he's down to his last wish, while Norm gets exacerbated that Crocker never simply wishes for Timmy to be stuck on Mars without a spacesuit.
  • Norm addresses this in Fairy Idol when he complains about how the first wish he's asked to grant is usually a giant sandwich. When he ends up with Chester, he just gives him a big sandwich to prevent him from wasting a wish on it.
  • Timmy frequently makes wishes that may seem wasteful (with the aforementioned Fairy Idol even having him use wishes just to get out of bed, get dressed and go to the bathroom out of sheer laziness), but they're not truly wasteful as his godparents are willing to give as many wishes as he wants.
• Waxing Lyrical: Vicky's response to her boyfriend Ricky leaving her in The Odd Couple.
  Vicky: Ricky! Don't lose my number! You don't have to call nobody else. SEND IT OFF IN A LETTER TO YOURSELF!
  • Also in "Land before Timmy".
  Cosmo and Wanda: COCKADOODLEDO!
  Timmy (dozing before the computer): "I love the nightlife, I've got to boogie..."
• Wanted a Son Instead: The in-series reason why Timmy has pink clothes is because his parents wanted a daughter. Even after he outgrew his baby clothes, they continued to get him pink outfits.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Fairies are powerless when under a butterfly net.
• Wearing It All Wrong: In "Return of the L.O.S.E.R.S.", Chloe tries to teach Timmy to dress himself. In the end, Timmy wears his shoes on his hands, his shirt around his hips and his pants on his head.
• We Can Rule Together: Dark Laser and Anti Cosmo have both made the offer to Timmy that he can join them in conquering the world.
• Wedgie: Vicky tells Timmy “well Poindexter, here’s a little physics lesson, gravity plus undies equal wedgie” and gives him a wedgie. She also gives him an atomic wedgie which leads to his being mistaken for a costumed hero. Choppy gives Vicky a wedgie at the end of that episode. In a later episode Timmy has a flashback to Vicky giving him wedgies. Francis the barbaric bully is also seen giving Chester and Timmy and AJ wedgies on several different occasions.
• A Weighty Aesop: The episode "Just Desserts!" in which Timmy wishes every meal was dessert. After a month, everyone is severely obese and the kids have to roll to move. The extra weight causes the Earth to tilt on its axis and spin towards the sun.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Remy Buxaplenty really wants his parents to show him affection.
• Wham Line:
  • In "Boys in the Band", Chip Skylark reveals a secret to Timmy about his life:
  Chip: Actually, I'm not all that rich. The record company pays for everything, I'm broke! But if the fans knew that, they might not love me anymore.
  • In "Fairy Idol", when a counterfeit Timmy tortures Cosmo and Wanda:
  Cosmo and Wanda: WE QUIT!!!
  • "Timmy's Secret Wish!" reveals the reason behind the series' Floating Timeline:
  Jorgen: Turner, what did you wish for?
  Timmy: Okay, don't be mad, but I secretly wished that everyone would stop aging so that I could stay ten years old and keep my fairies forever.
  Council Leader: What!? When did you make this wish!?
  Timmy: ...Fifty years ago.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Used many times, and that was before it was forced into being Timmy's catchphrase in "Timmy TV".
  • And then mocked in "The Good Old Days", after Timmy and Grandpa end up in a old cartoon, Cosmo and Wanda's wands come to life and run away. Cosmo says, "Come back! Nobody's had a chance to say "What could possibly go wrong" yet!".
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: The Bouncing Boil and Hawk Gal in "The Big Superhero Wish" have the respective powers of bouncing on his boil and using the bird wings on her back to fly very slowly.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Timmy in Wishology to Jorgen and Turbo Thunder
  • Chloe dishes one out to her parents in "Booby Trapped" when, despite being wildlife experts, they didn't think putting two endangered animals with no natural camouflage in the middle of the jungle was a bad idea.
• When I Was Your Age...: Timmy's paternal grandfather is quite fond of the trope. His first non-flashback line was a rant about how he doesn't like things as how they're today when compared to what they used to be.
• When You Coming Home, Dad??: Timmy's parents, at first, had a tendency to leave him alone with his babysitter Vicky for long periods of time.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The show takes place in fictional Dimmsdale. It turns out there IS a place called Dimsdale. It's in northern Canada. The series later revealed the town is in California, but only on the map, and not by name.
  • The episode "Meet the Oddparents" narrowed down the location. At the end of the episode Jorgen invokes his authority from Whittier, California while erasing Timmy's parents memories. Whittier is a city south-east of Los Angeles. Its not much of a stretch to think that Dimmsdale lies in the same general area.
• White Stallion: In "Escape From Unwish Island", Sanjay is revealed to usually have dreams where Timmy shows up on a white horse to rescue him.
• Whole-Plot Reference: "Fairly Odd Baby" and "Anti-Poof" have heroes of different species banning together to protect a newborn fairy baby a la the famous Gargoyles episode "The Gathering." In particular, compare the scenes where Fox and Wanda stand in front of their son's crib challenging the intruder in "The Gathering" and "Anti-Poof."
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Chester in Just the Two of Us
  • And Trixie in "The Boy Who Would Be Queen." Timmy had no clue it was Trixie until her hat came off.
• Why Did It Have To Be Clowns: In A Bad Case of Dairy-Uh only for Timmy.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: In "Back to the Norm", Norm the Genie berates Mr. Crocker for focusing on complex death traps that inevitably fail rather than getting rid of Timmy Turner the easy way by wishing he was stranded on Mars without a spacesuit.
• Why We Can't Have Nice Things: In "Merry Wishmas", after Timmy and the other Dimmsdale residents didn't get what they wanted, Timmy decides to give everyone a coupon for one free wish. Unfortunately, Vicki isn't happy with just one wish, so she wishes for a million wishes, some of which make their way into the hands of other kids, who go on a wishing spree. When Jurgen investigates the high wishing activity, he finds that Timmy in Dimmsdale is responsible for this, so he stops the wishing, and then he tries to replace Christmas with Wishmas, because he believes fairies are better than Santa Claus, with Santa moving into Timmy's house after he feels he's no longer popular. Timmy captures Jurgen, Cosmo and Wanda (who are known as the Magic Mailman and his Mail Mites) in order to bring Santa out of retirement when the kids are disappointed in Wishmas. Even Dad Turner (as Nogman) helps out by letting Santa use his Nog-mobile, and the Dimmsdale kids help out by filling the sleigh with a mountain of surplus toys.
• Wild Card Excuse: Whatever it is, Timmy got it on the Internet. Yes, that includes heat vision.
  • In one early episode he lied that he inherited the Internet.
    • Specifically:
  Timmy: Inheritance?
  Friends: blank stare
  Timmy: The internet?
  Friends: blank stare
  Timmy: ... I inherited the internet!
• William Telling: A daredevil tries to shoot an arrow at an apple on Timmy's head in "Emotion Commotion".
• Wingding Eyes:
  • Whoever is blasted by Jorgan's memory-erasing neuralizer device will get dizzy concentric circles in their eyes.
  • Timmy often gets the hearts version when entranced by Trixie.
  • In "School's Out: The Musical", Timmy's eyes have clock hands in them when he stares at the clock and awaits the end of the school day.
• Wishing for More Wishes: Encouraged by Norm the Genie when he teams up with Mr. Crocker in "Back to the Norm" after Crocker used up his first two wishes on materials needed to build the death trap he's planning for Timmy Turner. Norm reveals to Crocker that people actually can wish for three more wishes when they only have one wish left, genies simply told everyone otherwise as a bluff.
• With This Herring: In the "Wishology" trilogy, Timmy is told he has to fight The Darkness and sent on his way... with nothing, not even his fairies, to help him. He also loses everything at the beginning of the next two parts, forcing him to start over.
• Wizards Live Longer: Both Merlin and Alden Bitteroot, from Medieval times and the 1600s, are shown to still be alive in their respective episodes, implying this.
• Wonder Woman Wannabe:
  • The Tooth Fairy is overtly based off of Wonder Woman, being a shapely woman whose uniform includes shorts decorated in stars. "Shiny Teeth" even has her equip Timmy with dentistry-related weapons that spoof Diana's magic lasso and bracelets.
  • In "Power Pals", one of the members of the titular superhero team is Joan Jet, who is essentially an amalgam of Wonder Woman and The Flash.
• World-Healing Wave: Used a few times in place of the simple Reset Button. Like in Fairly Odd Baby when Poof "breaks wind", which unleashes one to reverse the Pixies' and Anti-Fairies' World-Wrecking Wave.
• World of Badass: "Action Packed" has Timmy wish his life was like an action movie, resulting in a world where he is constantly kicking butt and facing exciting peril.
• World of Ham: Pretty much every character has yelled their lines with a lot of inflexion at one point or another.
• World-Wrecking Wave: Mr. Crocker causes one in the first movie to create a Villain World after stealing Wanda. The Pixies and Anti-Fairies let one loose in Fairly Odd Baby using Poof's magic. They destroy Fairy World and start The End of the World as We Know It on Earth.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Enforced in "The Good Old Days" - Timmy can't clobber Vicky because you can't hit a girl in old cartoons! (Don't worry, he solves the problem in usually logical Timmy style... by giving her a magical sex change. Uh, you could do THAT in old cartoons?)
• Wrongful Accusation Insurance: in Inspection Detection
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Timmy's wish in "It's A Wishful Life" was, admittedly, a desperate attempt to salvage his bruised ego (having obviously seen the Trope Namer movie).
• Wrong Side of the Tracks: In "The Big Scoop", a literal set of tracks serves as a boundary line between the trailer park where Chester Mc Badbat resides and the land where Chester's well-off friend A.J.'s home is located.

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• X-Ray Sparks:
  • Cosmo gets electrocuted and has his skeleton made visible when he tries to play the electric triangle in "Boys in the Band".
  • Cosmo and Wanda are electrocuted with visible skeletons when Jimmy uses their magic to bring The Villain to life in "The Jerkinators".

Y

• Yandere: Mandie. Trixie in the episode "Just The Two Of Us" and Veronica, though she's not as dangerous.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Essentially every attempt Timmy makes at winning the affection of Trixie ends with him being worse off than when Trixie just ignored him.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Mark Chang, but when Mandie is defeated he can go home anytime, he just likes being on Earth.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Crocker's origins in "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker"
• You Meddling Kids: Benedict Arnold in "Twistory".
  Benedict Arnold: And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that meddling kid.
• You Must Be This Tall to Ride: In "Love at First Height", Timmy, Chester and A.J. can't ride Adrenaland's roller coaster for not being tall enough. According to A.J.'s calculations, neither of them will be before becoming sixteen years old so he and Chester use a "tall kid kit" to look like an adult and end up being invited to a kid-free area of the park. Timmy just wishes he's sixteen years old and his fairy godparents grant the wish.
• Your Size May Vary: Timmy is shown to change in size from scene to scene. In the early seasons before Mom and Dad were given faces, Timmy was small enough to sit completely in Dad's hand.
• Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: "Hare Raiser" ends with the class pet Mr. Cuddles turning out to be a girl rabbit with babies.

Z

• Zee Rust: For the episode Future Lost. Timmy finds an old comic book that describes the "far off" future of the year 2000. He notes that the real 21st century is nothing at all like what's in the comic book.

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