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  • Acting for Two: Timmy, Poof, Tad, the second voice of Blonda, Brittney Brittney, and Princess Mandie (Tara Strong); Cosmo, Mr. Turner, Jorgen, Anti-Cosmo, and The April Fool (Daran Norris); Wanda, Mrs. Turner, Anti-Wanda and Ms. Doombringer (Susanne Blakeslee); Vicky, Tootie, Veronica, Principal Waxeplax, Tooth Fairy, Chad, Happy Peppy Betty, Mrs Powers, and Sammy Sweetsparkle (Grey DeLisle-Griffin); Mr. Crocker, Dinkleberg, Juandissimo, The Mayor, Chompy the Goat, and Mrs. Crocker (Carlos Alazraqui); Chester and Imaginary Gary (Jason Marsden); Sanjay, Remy, Elmer, Bronze Kneecap, Binky, and Officer Shallowgrave (Dee Bradley Baker); Chet Ubetcha, Doug Dimmadome, and Mr. Bickles (Jim Ward); Mark Chang, King Grippulon, Bucky McBadbat, Happy Peppy Gary, Mr. Ed Leadly, and Mr. Birkenbake (Rob Paulsen); Dark Laser, Santa Claus, and AJ's Dad (Kevin Michael Richardson); Sparky, Percy, and Happy Ray (Maddie Taylor); Second voice of Catman and Fair Bear (Jeff Bennett)
  • Actor-Shared Background: Grey DeLisle, like Vicky, worked as a babysitter in her youth and jokes that her character is a way to vent her frustrations about it.
  • Adored by the Network:
    • The show has had FOUR uncancellations. The reason why it was cancelled each time was because it wasn't doing as good as SpongeBob SquarePants in the ratings. In reality, it was only doing marginally worse than SpongeBob, which happens to be the reason why it continued getting revived at the last second; it was still the second-highest rated show on the network.note  It took Butch Hartman deciding to retire from animation and leaving Nickelodeon Animation Studios and The Loud House surpassing the show in the ratings for The Fairly OddParents to finally end production.
    • Nicktoons has been airing the show since its inception on May 1, 2002. Unlike SpongeBob, Nick's other flagship shownote , it airs at a time when kids are still awake as SpongeBob mostly airs late at night on Nicktoons note  It also held the honor of being the only Nicktoon, let alone the only show, to air on Nicktoons continuously since May 1, 2002, as SpongeBob got removed briefly in 2018 before returning - at least until it was mysteriously removed from reruns in June 2022.
    • The series became infamous for this trope in Latin America. When it first arrived on the region on Fox Kids in 2002, it aired a few times a day but wasn't the main focus of the channel. However, when the channel became Jetix in 2004, the show pretty much took over the channel. By 2006, more than half of the day's programming was Fairly OddParents, it had its own special event during weekend nights called "Noche mágica" (Magic Night) that was nothing but more Fairly OddParents for two hours, and weekend specials dedicated to Fairly OddParents were the norm by this point, and every new show that arrived to the channel (except Pucca, another show that became a channel favorite) during this time was pretty much doomed from the start. Some series (like Sonic X, Megaman NT Warrior, Battle B-Daman and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!) only lasted for a few years before being removed entirely, while others (like Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Shaman King and the Transformers Unicron Trilogy) only survived because they were aired at late hours of the night, where no kid was awake to see them. Not to mention, Disney Channel LA also added the series to its schedule in 2006, though it was not aired to the extent it did on Jetix. The show did survive the Jetix to Disney XD transition from 2009, but their airings were greatly reduced, and by 2015 it was moved to the late hours of the night to make room for the new shows that aired on Disney XD, and it was finally removed from the channel on May 4, 2018, with the final episode aired being That Old Black Magic. For the record, Jetix/Disney Channel/Disney XD only had the rights to the first 69 episodes (those distributed by Nelvana).
  • Ascended Fanon: Many fans have wondered why Tootie has never gotten a fairy, or speculated that she may have became beautiful later on. The live-action movie shows that not only does she become a beauty, but she also meets Timmy's fairy family (with Timmy this time, and no mention of her "big mouth" being a problem).
  • Baby Name Trend Killer: A variation regarding a nickname, but very few people named Victoria willingly go by "Vicky", likely thanks to the popularity of the series. Most people don't want to be associated with a vile, irredeemable Babysitter from Hell. This might have caused some women named Victoria (particularly those who were kids when The Fairly OddParents was on the air during the 2000s) to instead use "Vic" or "Tori" as nicknames, assuming if they use a nickname at all. (The alternate spelling "Vickie", meanwhile, is similarly tainted by its association with notorious Heel Professional Wrestling personality Vickie Guerrero.)
  • Banned Episode:
    • "Ruled Out" and "That's Life!" didn't air on Disney Channel Poland (which as of September 2017 was the only TV channel to air the first 26 episodes in Poland) for unknown reasons (though the gross-out humor, dangerous scenes [such as Timmy swinging through a highway and landing on a sumo wrestler and Timmy's dad fighting the Dimmsdale Sewer Gator], and, in the case of, "That's Life", the zombie hamster trying to kill Timmy's parents may have been too much for the censors). Luckily, the Polish dub of those two episodes recently managed to appear in Poland on Netflix.
  • Breakthrough Hit: Butch Hartman's breakthrough, seeing as how he's gone on to be a successful animator because of this show.
  • Cash-Cow Franchise: While nowhere near as successful as its underwater cousin, it was still a pretty profitable franchise. During its run, it spawned 10 seasons, a handful of video games and an uncountable amount of merchandise, most of which was during the series's peak in popularity and acclaim.
  • Celebrity Voice Actor: Frankie Muniz voiced Chester McBadBat (the trailer trash kid with braces) during the first three seasons.
  • Channel Hop: As a result of being Screwed by the Network, the show burned off the back end of its tenth and final season on Nicktoons. Nickelodeon ran a few of those episodes as morning filler in 2018, but dropped it soon after.
  • Creator Backlash:
    • Butch Hartman, as well as most of the crew, have apologized for the episode "It's a Wishful Life" due to the sadistic treatment of Timmy and its disturbing moral (though despite claims that it has been banned from reruns, it still aired on the Nicktoons channel before the show was removed and can be found through semi-legal downloading)
    • John Fountain said on his guest appearance on LS Mark's "Ranking EVERY Fairly OddParents Episode Ever" that he was not a fan of "Odd, Odd West", due to disliking the general premise and struggling to find new content to add to the initial pitch script.
    • The staff also regret "Twistory" due to its unflattering depictions of British people. Said episode is now almost never rerun.
    • Sparky was a character hated by fans and most of the staff, which led him to be removed in the tenth season.
  • Creator's Favorite: Butch Hartman has admitted that his two favorite characters are Mr. Crocker and Timmy's Dad, which is probably why they got included so frequently in later seasons.
  • Creator's Pest: Sparky was hated by staff members due to his obnoxious personality. When Season 10 came around, Sparky would be removed from the series entirely, replaced with the still divisive but less hated Chloe.
  • Cross-Dressing Voices:
    • Tara Strong (and Mary Kay Bergman before her) as Timmy; it's kind of obvious with the squeaky girly voice. Lampshaded often.
    • Faith Abrahams as Francis; it's less obvious since Faith can do a very convincing gruff boyish voice.
    • Carlos Alazraqui as Mr. Crocker's mom, Dolores-Day Crocker.
    • In later episodes of the Hebrew dub, Cosmo is done by a woman.
  • The Danza: Norm Macdonald as Norm the Genie.
  • Deleted Role: The end credits to the episode "Teacher's Pet" credit Dee Bradley Baker as voicing Remy even though Remy Buxaplenty was only mentioned in the episode and never physically appeared.
  • Development Gag: Black hair was originally considered for Timmy. A brief scene in "Chip off the Old Chip" turns him into a parody of Superman, complete with the Man of Steel's black hair, as a nod to this fact.
  • Dueling Dubs:
    • The show had two dub variants in Hungary. The original aired on the Hungarian feed of KidsCo and was made by SDI Media Hungary dubbing studio for season 3 and part of season 4. The second dubbing, complete with new voices (apart from Wanda's) and name translations, was commissioned by Nickelodeon and created by Labor Studios. This covered much of seasons 5 and 6. The Hungarian version of Disney Channel and SDI continued the series where KidsCo left it off, finally dubbing the first three seasons and the fist half of season 5. A number of voice actors changed during the Channel Hop. During this time, Nick held onto the Labor dub, but eventually abandoned it and continued working with SDI — Timmy's Labor voice however remained. Nick's SDI dub also differs from KidsCo's and Disney's in that it translates insert songs, whereas the old ones left them in English. Confusingly, not only are there two totally different theme songs, even the show's title differs between the two dubs ("Angyali keresztszülők" for SDI and "Tündéri keresztszülők" for Labor). Nick now uses both titles interchangeably and randomly airs both dub versions.
    • The Danish dub is a weird case. Both the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon air it, the former airing only the first seasons, the latter airing the newer seasons... which means two dubs, of course! They only share a few voices, which include Cosmo, Wanda, Vicky and Timmy's parents. The opening also has the same lyrics between versions, they're only sung by different actors. The Disney Channel dub has a male and female saying it. But the Nick dub has a very high pitched woman. But the most glaring difference between the two dubs is that, in the Disney Channel version, Timmy's voice is a teenage-like, low-pitched voice, while in the Nickelodeon dub has a very high-pitched voice. Very ironic and, needless to say, confusing. And to top it all off, both dubs are plagued with inconsistency.
    • The Russian version was handled a lot like the Hungarian version. The show originally aired on the Russian feed of KidsCo, instead of TNT like other Nickelodeon cartoons in Russia, and then on the official Nickelodeon channel. The former channel only aired the first four seasons, while the latter aired season five & onwards. Like in Hungary, a number of voice actors changed during the Channel Hop.
  • Executive Meddling:
  • Fake Nationality: American Dee Bradley Baker voiced Sanjay, who is of Indian descent.
  • Franchise Zombie: The show suffered quite badly from this, as the show was cancelled three times by Nickelodeon, only to be brought back on the strength of reruns, each time adding a new character to try to keep the show fresh. Many people were displeased when Poof was created in the Fairly OddBaby special, but due him providing a new perspective on Timmy, Cosmo & Wanda as a surrogate son for the trio, he was tolerated and not widely hated. When loathed characters Sparky & Chloe, however, both of whom were far more irritating and pointless additions to the show, were made, many fans felt the series long overstayed its welcome. The fact that Sparky was removed in Season 10 to be replaced by Chloe certainly didn't help matters, as it felt as if the creators were just adding new characters to cover up a lack of ideas. When the series was finally canceled for good in 2017, most fans considered it a Mercy Kill of a show that had long since become a shadow of its former self... Which didn't stop a new live-action series from being made in 2022.
  • Friday Night Death Slot: Towards the end of season 10 (which would become the show's final season), Nickelodeon moved the series and any subsequent new episodes to their premium sister channel Nicktoons, which is basically a death sentence for any Nickelodeon program unlucky enough to suffer this fate.
  • God Never Said That: The Distant Finale ending for Channel Chasers showing Timmy's two children Tommy and Tammy depicted Tammy as wearing glasses similar to Tootie's, which many fans took as implying that Tootie is supposed to be their mother and thus who Timmy ultimately ends up with. This is a misconception, as it was never intended for the mother to be explicitly Tootie. Butch Hartman himself would state that the mother's identity was meant to be ambiguous, hence why Tammy has elements from all of Timmy's love interests (Tammy also has Trixie's hairstyle and headband and possibly Veronica's eyelashes).
  • Kids' Meal Toy: In 2004, Burger King released a set of toys such as "Disappearing Vicky" and "Timmy-to-Cleft Wonder Changer" in their kids' meals. Two different sets were offered in Europe and Latin America respectively. The commercial for the North American promotion also starred a young Miranda Cosgrove mere months before Drake & Josh started airing.
  • Missing Episode: Hail to the Chief and Twistory have not been seen much in reruns, due to allegations of offensively portraying the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Secret Service (though there are some people who claim that the episodes were pulled because they weren't that funny). The episode is still shown in other countries, is available over Netflix in America as a part of the first season collection (and is part of the season two collection) before its removal in 2013, still aired time-to-time on Nicktoons (usually around Election Day, but there are times when it airs regardless of what time of the year it is) and is on the season 2 Vanilla Edition DVD of the show and on Paramount+ and digital download.
  • Non-Singing Voice: Both the pixies and Cosmo in Fairy Idol. The pixies do it again in School's Out, where their singing voices are provided by Method Man and Redman.
  • The Other Marty: Mary Kay Bergman was Timmy's original voice actress for the Oh Yeah! Cartoons pilot episodes, but committed suicide, by coincidence, the very day the series got greenlit by Nickelodeonnote . She was replaced by Tara Strong (who was close friends with Bergman and named her as one of her inspirations) and all of Timmy's dialogue for the pilot episodes were re-recorded (though not on the DVDs. The DVDs have the original versions with Mary Kay Bergman as Timmy. The episode "Where's The Wand?" was also never redubbed because it was never added to the series' rerun rotation).
  • Out of Holiday Episode: The April Fools' Day episode, "Fools Day Out", premiered on October 11, 2002 and it only had a Halloween moment for a few seconds.
  • Pop Culture Urban Legends: In 2019, a rumor circulated social media that there would be a crossover between this show and SpongeBob SquarePants for this show's 21st anniversary and SpongeBob's 20th anniversary similar to The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour. The "teaser image", which was claimed to be how SpongeBob looked in the Fairly OddParents ' world, was actually fanart of a student that resembled him in the episode "App Trap".
  • Posthumous Credit: The last four of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts ("The Zappys", "Scout's Honor", "The Really Bad Day" and "Super Humor") aired after the suicide of Timmy Turner's original voice actress Mary Kay Bergman.
  • Quietly Cancelled: Despite once being Adored by the Network, the show ended its tenth season with no fanfare or any kind of Series Finale. New episodes aired on Nicktoons instead of Nickelodeon, and the final episode was just a normal fifteen-minute episode. Then it was only a year later when Butch left Nickelodeon that he confirmed that the show was indeed cancelled.
  • The Resolution Will Not Be Identified: Due to the series abruptly ending because of Butch Hartman leaving Nickelodeon, the last episodes, both aired and produced, play out like normal, regular episodes.
  • Role Reprise: Daran Norris both voiced Mr. Turner in the animated series and reprised his role in live-action for the movies.
  • Same Voice Their Entire Life: In "Go Young, West Man", Catman is briefly shown at younger stages in his life, but even with the very few noises and lines he has, he clearly still has the same middle-aged voice as his present self. Justified in that he has a Celebrity Voice Actor.
  • Schedule Slip: There was supposedly a year long celebration of The Fairly OddParents! 10th anniversary, but nothing has happened or is going to happen in the month of April. In addition, there were several shows from season 7, even though season 8 had already premiered, that took months to air.
  • Screwed by the Network:
    • In 2011, FOP was promised a year-long 10th year anniversary celebration. However, only a handful of new episodes and a live action movie were released, mostly during the summer, and the rumored anniversary special either became the live action movie or doesn't exist. Though a ninth season finally began airing in 2013. Though it was around this time the show stopped airing reruns on the main channel.
    • On January 18, 2017, with the premiere of "Certifiable Super Sitter" (a Season 10 episode), the series stopped airing on the main channel, with both reruns and new episodes having been moved to Nicktoons. That is usually never a good sign for a cartoon on the network. What's more, halfway through production of the season, the series' budget was slashed, and Frederator was forced to cut corners by switching animation studios from South Korea's Yeson Entertainment to Canada's Elliott Animation, which also saw the shift to low-quality Flash animation. The signs of cancellation were later proven correct. The show aired its final episode in July 2017 with no news of an 11th season, then In February 2018, Hartman left Nickelodeon.
  • The Shelf of Movie Languishment:
    • All of the Season 2 episodes were produced in 2001 and were planned to start airing in the United States that autumn, but the September 11th terrorist attacks caused them to be delayed well until early spring of 2002 (though in Australia they aired in the original timeframe as planned.) This also led to Seasons 3 and 4, and the TV movies Abra-Catastrophe! (produced in 2002) and Channel Chasers (produced in 2003) to air a whole year after being produced in its' own country!
    • The Crash Nebula pilot, while produced in 2002, was never publicly released (let alone as a Fairly OddParents episode) until 2004.
    • The Dutch dub of the first 14 episodes of the series was made by Nelvana in late 2002, but did not see a release until September 2003 on Nickelodeon Netherlands. This was due to Disney Channel not being in the Netherlands at the time and other networks not showing interest in the series.
  • Short Run in Peru:
    • Started with the two episodes Timmy the Barbarian and No Substitute for Crazy, two episodes of the fifth season, being shown in the UK first. However, Nickelodeon now seems to show several first run episodes of FOP first in the UK and Latin America, and then weeks, sometimes months afterwards in the United States, not only that, even The rest of the tenth season's episodes had aired in some countries before The United States. A prime example of American audiences being Screwed by the Network.
    • This also happened to Butch Hartman's other show, Danny Phantom, during its final season. Apparently Nick likes to screw with Hartman's American fans.
  • Shrug of God: This trope came into place for the Distant Finale in Channel Chasers, which depicted Timmy's two children Tommy and Tammy, whose mother was never seen nor mentioned. Butch Hartman decided to respond with that there is no answer to who their mother is and that she can be whoever the viewers want her to be.
  • Technology Marches On:
    • As of the premier of season 10 in 2016, big cathode ray television sets are still in Timmy's bedroom and living room, as well as nearly everywhere else despite having been phased out with flat-screen television sets. A number of other technological equipment that was useful during the show's early years but have since become heavily outdated are still present throughout. This also includes the later seasons' use of cartoonish Stock Sound Effects reminiscent of the Animation Age Ghetto, which are rarely utilized in cartoons from the 2010s and beyond.
    • When the original show began, it heavily emphasized the latest technology, such as cell phones, the Internet, and GPS-equipped vehicles. There was even a whole episode devoted to Internet technology and jokes ("Information Stupor Highway.") This also included Timmy's Wild Card Excuse, claiming that he bought the stuff he wished for online — remember that this from the same era where selling Justin Timberlake's half-eaten French toast on eBay could make headlines. After internet usage became ubiquitous in The New '10s, the web's old image as an infinite sea of material rapidly dissipated, and while it still isn't hard to find ecommerce listings for incredibly leftfield items, it's also much easier to confirm that those listings actually exist.
  • Throw It In!: Timmy's trademark pink hat was originally a blue one, but Butch Hartman's blue marker dried up and he randomly grabbed a marker, not knowing what color it was until it showed up on paper. (Gets a nod in "Timmy TV".)
  • Tie-In Cereal: The Fairly OddParents had a cereal with stars made of wheat, oat, and sweetened corn.
  • Un-Canceled: It was assumed by fans to only be subject to this trope twice, before Butch Hartman revealed following his departure from Nickelodeon that the series got cancelled and renewed by the network four times. The reason for cancellation each time? It never reached the massive success of SpongeBob SquarePants like every other cartoon on the network. The reason it got a last-second renewal each time? It was still the most successful animated series on the network after SpongeBob SquarePants, until The Loud House came along.
  • Unspecified Role Credit: The character names were never listed in the French credits (just the actors of Timmy, his parents, Cosmo (and Season 10 Mark Chang), Wanda, Paris!Jorgen, Chloe, her parents, French!Crocker, Belgian!Trixie, Belgian!AJ, Mark Chang, Stuart, Dark Laser, and Foop).
  • Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: The original pitch was conceptualized in fifteen minutes between phone calls Butch Hartman received from Fred Seibert who offered him the last available spot of the first season for the anthology series Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Butch hung up, did some stream-of-consciousness doodles, and then called Seibert back saying he was interested. Pretty much everything afterward about the lore of the series was done piece by piece as the show went on.

Facts:

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  • One of Nickelodeon's first programs with Audio Description for blind and visually-impaired viewers. However the Vanilla Edition DVD's, since they are Manufactured-On-Demand, do not have closed captioning.
  • Timmy, the main character, is named after Butch Hartman's younger brother.
  • Timmy's full name is Timothy Tiberius Turner.
  • The series may be one of the few cartoons to actually give a type of explanation of its Floating Timeline, due to the fact that it's revealed Timmy wished for no one to age in the episode "Timmy's Secret Wish".
  • Unlike other Nickelodeon shows, Fairly OddParents is notable for, due to being distributed by Canada's Nelvana, having its earlier episodes aired on international versions of Disney XD or even Disney Channel, dating back to the distribution rights for non-English broadcasts to be aired on Fox Kids/Jetix where available.

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