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"I'm Cosmo!" "I'm Wanda!" "And we're your fairy godparents!"
Deranged animated series about a little boy called Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda.In mostepisodes, Timmy uses Cosmo and Wanda's magic to deal with some mundane problem. Inevitably, things spiral rapidly out of control: whether it's getting his dad a cooler job, or dealing with one of his many everyday enemies. These include school bully Francis, sadistic and manipulative babysitter Vicky, and fairy-obsessedSadist Teacher Mr. Crocker. And then there are the episodes where Timmy somehow gets entangled in Fairy World politics.Needless to say, even Timmy's more sensible wishes are twisted to greater extremes than tooter turtle and backfire horribly, forcing Timmy to hit the Reset Button and accept his horrible life.A live-action movie, A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, starring Drake Bell as a 23-year-old Timmy who somehow still has Cosmo and Wanda aired on July 9, 2011. Its premise is Timmy deciding whether to "grow up" and have a life with the now-beautiful Tootie, or stay with Cosmo and Wanda.See the Character Sheet and WMG pages. Tropes that apply specifically to the live-action movie go on its page. There is, also, a page on the three part special Wishology. Tropes that apply specifically to Wishology go here.
Abuse Is Okay When It's Female On Male: While Vicky is quite obviously a villian, and her abuse of Timmy is often Played for Laughs, ask this question: If it was a sixteen year old boy terrorizing a ten year old girl, would the audience be as tolerant of it?
Not to mention the one episode where Timmy wishes to be Vicky's babysitter and gets some revenge. He's completely played out as the bad guy.
Actor Allusion: For the Crimson Chin, Catman, and Dr. Rip Studwell.
The voice of Timmy Turner did the voice of Bubsy in Bubsy 3D. He and Timmy share a catchphrase: "What could possibly go wrong?"
Darran Norris plays Gordy the janitor in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. In one episode, he voices two Ken-looking dolls (as well as a female Barbie lookalike), one buff and leathery and the other whipped and effeminate, using his Jorgen Von Strangle voice for leathery and his Cosmo (and Anti-Cosmo) voice for the effeminate and female dolls.
Adam Westing: Featuring Adam West himself as Catman, who believes himself to be a real superhero.
Alliterative Name: Timmy Turner, Trixie Tang, The Crimson Chin, Doug Dimmadome and the list goes on.
In the case of Mr. Dimmadome, the alliteration has also become a prevalent Running Gag.
Doug: I'm Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome!
All-Cheering All the Time: Fairly Oddparents had a competition wherein Timmy sabotaged Vicky. Her cheer pretty much was all her gross habits. The girl who won improvised a cheer indicating that she had none of Vicky's gross habits.
All There in the Manual: The special The 77 Secrets of the Fairly Oddparents revealed, among other things, Cosmo and Wanda's full names.
Allergic to Love: Chester gets "the hives" from girls, while Mark Chang's entire species is biologically averse to love or even cuteness.
Almighty Mom: Mrs. Turner tries this occasionally, especially in the earlier episodes.
To the point where her super-powered persona occasionally wished up by Timmy is named "Mighty Mom", and in the episode where Timmy first makes the "Mighty Mom and Dyno-Dad" wish, their explicit cause for fighting crime is summed up by Timmy's Dad:
"We don't have time for Timmy...we're trying to make the world safe for Timmy!"
Almost Kiss: Several between Timmy and Trixie in Wishology Part III.
Also, Catman fell in love with Timmy's Father at a beauty pageant. But he did mistaken Timmy's father for a female even though Timmy kept reminding him that he was his dad. Maybe he already knew.
It is implied that even when Timmy told him it was his dad and a he, he didn't seem to care.
Trixie: “Because, anonymous voice from nobody, you won [an award] for comedy, and everybody knows that comedy is the lowest form of entertainment... next to animation.”
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Crocker's "birthday wish list". What does he want? To rule them all, to make them pay, and...a jet ski.
In Emotion Commotion: "Just think of it like a dive at your local swimming pool except with fire, ravenous sharks, dangerously sharp scissors and ONE REALLY ANGRY TOURIST."
And at least in the Big Scoop, a Running Gag is that Principal Waxaplax tends to lose her train of thought as soon as food is tossed into her line of sight.
Along with Trixie in her Wonder Gal outfit, Veronica in her Wardrobe Malfunction, and few of the female students in Dimmsdale Elementary are like this too, the school itself has rather lousy dress code for allowing ten year olds walk around with their belly buttons revealing.
The Bermuda Triangle: Cosmo and Wanda put Unwish Island, one giant Mythology Gag that holds all of Timmy's un-wished wishes, inside this region.
Berserk Button: Fairies, for Timmy and Crocker: Timmy, if you do bad things to them; Crocker, if you so much as mention them.
Poof has one, too: Don't do bad things to his parents.
Betty and Veronica: Tootie and Trixie. You Doo and most recently Take and Fake are the two only episodes where Tootie is aware of Timmy's crush on Trixie.
The former could be interpreted as just her voicing her own self esteem issues.
Trixie also has a friend who is actually named Veronica, and the story plays out the same way. Ironically, Veronica seems to play the "Betty" role.
I didn't know the Veronica in Betty and Veronica was supposed to be Yandere.
Big Ball of Violence: often played straight and parodied, but used in a very egregious way in Twistory, when Washington and Arnold beat the crap out of each other, accompanied by the inevitable Unsound Effect: "FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!"
Actually, this could not entirely be his fault, since his teacher is obsessed with giving everyone Fs (save for AJ). Plus in one episode, he got an 'A+' on a test because he doodled (it was a smiley face).
Born Lucky: Dinkleberg, as often referenced by Timmy's jealous Dad
Chekhov's Gun: Crops up from time to time; played relatively straight in Mind over Magic and in Wishology, though the latter is more of a Chekhov's Death Star due to lack of subtlety.
Companion Cube: Cosmo's various non-living pets, including a nickel.
Compressed Vice: Many characters display traits or flaws that they will otherwise never suffer from in subsequent episodes. Some of these character flaws have taken off in fanfiction and other medium, while others are used as ammunition in shipping wars.
Comic Book Time: None of the characters ever age in the show. Timmy has even had several birthdays throughout the show yet he remains 10 years old. This was cleverly explained in the movie Timmy's Secret Wish, where said secret wish was that everyone would stay the same age forever so that he could keep his godparents. As it turns out, everyone had stayed the same age for FIFTY YEARS.
Contrived Clumsiness: The "accidental" spill variant gets used by Icky Vicky the babysitter. She doesn't just spill a drink, though. It is a significant amount of water, enough to drench the other girl.
Timmy and Jimmy do this Literally in Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3. They wanted someone to fight together who could be a challenge. They then play the trope straight when they get bored of him and try to ditch him. He gets mad. The reason was because Jimmy told Timmy to make him 'adoptable' whenever they got bored of him. Unfortunately, Timmy types 'adaptable' meaning it ADAPTS to the situation.
Also happens in "The Masked Magician". Timmy causes Mr. Bickles to become a supervillain. When he apologizes, Bickles reforms, but the Vegas act he gets tickes off Britney Britney and she becomes his supervillain.
Criminal Doppelganger: Timmy Turner's real parents were once arrested during a trip to Niagara Falls by cops who confused them with an Outlaw Couple known as "The Souvenir Bandits."
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.
Surprisingly averted with many young male boys, who sound girly but are infact voiced by guys.
In-universe, the Crimson Chin has met Crash Nebula.
Serious Business: the "Crimson Chin vs. Crash Nebula" special caused Chester and AJ to stop being friends during the episode, and both of them demand in unison that Timmy side with them, "...or you're not my friend anymore!"
Cultural Rebel: Trixie Tang, the popular girl, is secretly a comic book fangirl. She also likes dead frogs.
Cutaway Gag: Occurs subtly in the early episodes, most notably "Totally Spaced Out":
Timmy: Why am I in my Crash Nebula outfit?
Cosmo: It's stretchy and form-fitting!
Wanda: But, most of all, this is the suit you wore the last time you were here, remember?
Timmy: Oh, yeah! You think they'll remember me?
(Cut to Yugopotamians watching Cosmo, Wanda, and Timmy's Movements on a Jumbo-Tron)
Yugopotamian (With a thick, Australian accent): It's Timmy Turner! The Earth warrior who ate the dreaded chocolate! He's returned! (Entire audience goes into full panic mode)
Cosmo(through Jumbo-Tron): I'd say that's a "yes".
Cyberspace: Three times: an episode where Timmy wishes for an ultra realistic video game, and an episode where he tries to stop a forged love letter email from reaching its destination, and once in "Channel Chasers" wherein he and Vicky use magical remotes to modify television.
Furthermore, when Jimmy Neutron crosses over, he assumes Fairy World is one of these, as he thinks Timmy's fairies are sentient holograms.
Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: Timmy tells his godparents there's only one piece of pizza left—"really huge, almost-circular piece".
The Danza: Norm the Genie, played by Norm MacDonald
Deliberately Monochrome: Used when they turn the show into a detective novel trying to find out who kidnapped Wanda.
Jorgen: "And why is that corner of the room still black and white!?"
Demoted to Extra: Arguably, Timmy's best friends, Chester and A.J. From being two major characters in the early seasons, they now appear very sporadically, often in non speaking roles. A.J. seems to have suffered the worst from this trope.
And for the live action movie, they may as well be The Artifact as they appear in at most three scenes and they only have an interaction with Timmy in next to the last scene.
It's most evident with Veronica after season five and Francis after season six.
Department of Redundancy Department: "Oh no, it's Chester, the worst player on the team! That's how he got the nickname Chester, the worst player on the team!"
Disney Creatures Of The Farce: In one episode Vicky becomes nice and summons animals to help her clean the house. It doesn't end well.
Happens in the episode "Squirrely Puffs" as Mrs. Turner leads her troop of Cream Puff girls up a mountain, only to be accompanied by all the woodland creatures. They are eventually driven insane by the animals' constant singing, braiding of their hair and moose massages. The animals turn feral.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: Crocker's freakouts due to his issues with fairies seem a tad....orgasmic. When his therapist Dr. Fancyfree does it as well, it doesn't exactly help the cause.
Chip: "Sometimes it's hard being pretty and talented"
Timmy: "And delicious!"
Chip: "What?"
Timmy: "Uh, my dad said that"
Also implied for Timmy himself if Sanjay's obsession with Timmy is any indication. Not to mention when he became Timantha, A.J. became very smitten with him/her. Also when Timmy was aged up to sixteen year old super modelboth Chester and A.J. seemed to swoon over him
Even Evil Has Standards: Crocker may be obsessed with hunting fairies, but when it comes to Poof, he lets him go back to Cosmo and Wanda.
Also, the one line that Vicky will not cross in regards to her horrible babysitting skills is abandoning her charge or losing sight of her charge, as evidenced by her genuine horror when Timmy seemingly disappeared under her watch.
Everyone Looks Sexier If French: Parodied with Juandissimo Magnifico, who is never in a scene wthout talking about how muy, muy macho he is. He also has a habit of tearing shirts to shreds by flexing his muscles. And then magicing a new shirt into existence. And then flexing that one to pieces. The lady fairies love him.
Everything but the Girl: Timmy's wishing routinely alters the course of human history... but he can't get the girl, because fairies are not allowed to interfere with true love.
Timmy finally wisens up enough to make a wish where he and Trixie are the ONLY people on Earth, and thus Trixie will have no choice but to notice him. He quickly discovers Trixie's obsessive NEED for constant attention and tries to do everything in his power to get away from her.
With a fantastic moral to go with it.
Timmy: "Note to self: Never break up with a girl in the Violent Gardening Tool section"
Exact Eavesdropping: Used to varying degrees often enough, but played with most notably in "Grass is Greener" where Timmy's eavesdropping at precisely the wrong moments leads him to run away from home.
Exact Progress Bar: Parodied in "Information Stupor Highway". "-1%" anyone?
Forgotten Anniversary: Cosmo believes Wanda is angry at him for no reason and has forgotten their anniversary (which he believed was the 'Styrofoam anniversary'). Turns out, it was the False Anger Anniversary (once every someodd years and was ironically on the SAME day as said anniversary Cosmo planned) and Wanda had remembered, but it's too late - he's gone home to his mom. They work it out anyway, only for Cosmo to forget it was their anniversary at the end of the episode.
Forgotten Birthday: Timmy's...every year, by his own parents. Eventually he stops minding because he realizes more birthdays means growing up and eventually having to give up Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof.
Special mention to the episode where he forgets his OWN birthday is a day later...
Note that the next day might not even be his birthday, on the account that his parents didn't seem that sure either, forgetting his name as they tell him.
Mrs. Turner: "We'd never forget your birthday, Tommy."
What's really sad is that in the episode "Birthday Bashed", its shown that Vicky actually remembers Timmy's birthday better than his own parents (She even give him a piece of cake, granted its right before she straps him to a rocket)
In one scene Mr. Turner even says "Why would we throw a party for you?"
Arguably, Cosmo and Wanda themseves at times. Justified by Timmy being... not very bright. The show would be much shorter if Timmy made intelligent use of his wishes.
Four Is Death: #4 on Crocker's list of things to do after becoming half a cheese man in the half day episode was "Destroy Timmy Turner" with a skull drawn next to it.
Generation Xerox: At the end of the special "Channel Chasers", the future in twenty years is shown along with Timmy and Tootie's kids. Not only do they closely resemble their parents (aside from swapped hair color), but also, like Timmy, they were tormented by their babysitter enough to receive Cosmo and Wanda as their fairy godparents.
Genre Savvy: In the Wishology special at least. Timmy finally starts being responsible from when he makes his trilogy wishes in a controlled environment at the beginning to him being able to battle the Darkness and the Eliminators without access to magic.
Geographic Flexibility: Dimmsdale seems to border the ocean, a desert, and snow-capped mountains. Fairy Idol would go on to show that Dimmsdale is actually in southern California. This sort of justifies all 3 environments if you take into account that it's never shown just exactly how far anyone ever travels to reach these areas.
It should be pointed out that in other episodes, Dimmsdale is shown to be in Northern California. If this is the case, then this is actually correct because there ARE mountains in California and ironically they're not far from the beach. Uncertain about the desert, though.
The southwestern extremes of the Great Basin Desert are within easy driving distance, but it doesn't resemble the deserts seen on the show. There are plenty of cattle sculls, but no saguaros.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: In one episode, while Timmy's parents are watching the "Dr. Bill" show, trying to learn how to be better parents, he says "Does your child take toilet paper up to his room and tell you not to bother him?"
There are WAY more examples, but well, yeah, this IS a Nickelodeon show! Right, Spongebob?
The most blatant example might be the Cosmo-Con episode, where Britney Britney (the fictional celebrity parodying Britney Spears) introduces herself to the Turner family... alongside her "boys". Then, said "boys" (actually her own dancers) introduce themselves by doing what they do best: suggestive pelvic thrusts. Come on.
Another big example comes from Crocker "Ooh, the slap tango! Mother and I haven't done that in years!"
Girl Next Door: Vicky's sister, Tootie mixes this with Stalker with a Crush. In the episode Merry Wishmas, she literally lived next door to Timmy in the spot Dinkleberg's house normally occupies. This is even more apparent in the live action movie.
Half-Human Hybrid: Francis in The Big Superhero Wish, Vicky in Timmy the Barbarian
Hand Wave: Many fans question why Timmy could never just wish that Vicky was a nicer person, and it was eventually explained that her nastiness would have to go somewhere else.
Also, wishing that she got fired would result in her becoming the mayor and eventually an evil overlord, ruling the world - just because she wouldn't babysit him.
Part of the reason that Timmy even has fairies is thanks to Vicky.
Happily Married: Cosmo and Wanda, Mr. and Mrs. Turner, Jorgen and the Tooth Fairy
Hidden Depths: Mr. Crocker's past was explored in depth in the special episode The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker, which revealed most importantly that Mr. Crocker not only had fairies himself in his childhood, but he had Cosmo and Wanda, and was quite sane and similar to Timmy at age 10. Most later episodes support this fact, but exactly which fairies Crocker had are contradicted.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Evil Jorgen in the spy episode, in which he's absorbed so much magic that he's swollen with HUGE muscles...and is promptly attacked by his cat, and he can't reach up to get it off, because his muscles are too huge, allowing Timmy to gain the upper hand.
A brilliant one is seen in 'School's Out: The Musical'. The pixies had a 36 year plan involving Flappy Bob to become a laywer and signing a contract to make the world as fun as he was as a boring adult lawyer overly concerned with education and safety. Unfortunately, this is backfired on them because Flappy Bob—having the skills of a brilliant lawyer—found a loophole in the contract to make the world defined 'as defined by him'. Now tell me, who raised Flappy Bob to become a lawyer?
I Drank What?: One episode revolved around Cosmo, Wanda, and Timmy attending a ceremony and Timmy having a Potty Emergency, trying to find somewhere to pee. The episode ends with Cosmo and Wanda drinking a yellow liquid from a pitcher, and Timmy saying "Speaking of relief, don't drink the punch!" Ewwwwwwwww...
Immortal Procreation Clause: Sort of. Fairies apparently have lifespans of thousands of years to forever. Poof and Cosmo are the youngest fairies, with Cosmo being (at least) centuries old.
Actually it's mentioned that this is in place specifically because of Cosmo.
Impossible Thief: Dr. Bender in Shiny Teeth. Guess what he steals.
Improbably Predictable: This takes place when Timmy wishes his parents had superpowers, then when he finds they are too busy with fighting evil that they can't take care of him, and wishes that they weren't superheroes, but Cosmo's and Wanda's wands don't work:
Timmy: Let me guess,
Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda: They've become so powerful that they are now impervious to magic.
Joker Jury: Especially in Escape from Unwish Island, but other episodes have their own fair share.
Just Eat Gilligan: Timmy never wishing that his godparents would never be seen, so he could keep them forever.
If that ever happened it'd naturally be twisted in some way. Timmy not being able to see them either, Timmy being the only person who can't see them, and so on.
And sometimes, even a well thought out wish can backfire, as shown in the episode Just The Two of Us, showing that Timmy is indeed a Cosmic Plaything and Butt Monkey.
Karma Meter: In "Power Mad," where Timmy wishes up a challenging virtual reality game in which you can die if you lose your three lives and Chester and A.J. get stuck in it, Timmy sacrifices his own last life to save theirs. The game rewards him for his Heroic Sacrifice with enough points for a 1Up.
Kid Hero: Timmy Turner. While he usually fits the trope Designated Hero, there have been situations where events have been beyond his control. When this happens, he WILL step up to the plate and become a genuine hero. Wishology is the best known example of this.
Low Speed Chase: Timmy is trying to outrun his mind-controlled friends, who are trying to capture and brainwash him. However, their scooters are set to a mere 2 mph — any faster would mean they would spill their milk (the source of the mind control).
Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: While being put through Fairy Academy, Cosmo ended up destroying Pompei, turned Xanadu into Pittsburg, and sank Atlantis... NINE TIMES.
In another episode, the evil bug that crawled up Vicky's butt inhabited the President of the country and made him bring out a button that could destroy the planet. At the end of the episode, Cosmo pushes it and destroys Pluto.
"He said THE planet. He didn't say which one."
Actually, the President just happened to have the button with himself. The bug never made it to...er, the President's butt.
In one episode early on in the series, Cosmo was required to do one sufficiently evil act within a 24 hour period or his fairy license would be revoked and he'd be sent back to training. After consulting Vicky for advice, she suggests he blow up the Earth, and he would have done it, if not for the fact that he reverted back to his normal self at 12:00:00 Midnight, and the Earth would have otherwise blown up at 12:00:01 AM.
In the same episode, Wanda says that for her evil act she wiped out the dinosaurs.
Blowing up planets seems to be a standard affair for the Yugopotamians.
"We wouldn't have to blow up all these planets if you just stopped and asked for directions!"
Missing Episode: Hail to the Chief and Twistory for being offensive
To elaborate this a bit, it portrays the Founding Fathers as kinda wacky characters, especially George Washington, who's an Ax CrazyBad Ass with An Axe to Grind (basically a borderline textbook example of a Memetic Badass).
The episode is still shown in other countries, as I see it on occasion on dutch television.
It is also available over Netflix in America as a part of Season 1.
The Movie: Holds the record at Nick for the most made-for-TV movies with a total of 9 films so far. (11 if you count the Wishology movies as separate films)
Wishology is especially notable given Nick's standards of what a "movie" is. Atlantis Squarepantis was called a movie. It was 30 minutes long. Wishology is two hours twenty four minutes, and is the only episode of FOP (besides the live-action movie) broadcast in widescreen high definition.
Mundane Wish: Crocker teams up with Norm the genie but instead of simply wishing Timmy to Mars (as Norm suggests) or simply wishing to have a fairy in his possession he wastes his wishes on parts for ridiculous traps that backfire on him. Norm allows Crocker to wish for more wishes — which he does by wishing for them three at a time — and continues to waste them.
While many of Timmy's wishes seem wasteful, they don't qualify because he has unlimited wishes. In fact, it's actually bad for the fairies if he doesn't constantly wish for things
Timmy's was lampshaded when comic book people believed he was the infamous super hero 'Naked Lad'. (Bonus points for the comic book cover; it's Timmy's head with a musclar body!)
Negative Continuity: Especially in light of the Wishology special. This special had featured a considerable amount of Character Development for many of the minor characters. In particular, the main character, Timmy, finally was Genre Savvy. Subsequent seasons show NONE of these developments.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Timmy frequently, especially when it came to Crocker's fairy obsession (actually that was Cosmo's fault.)
No Indoor Voice: Mr. Turnbaum has a bad habit of ANNOUNCING THAT EVERYTHING THAT HE AND HIS WIFE ARE COMMITTING IS BY THEM, THE REAL TURNBAUMS! Mrs. Turnbaum doesn't like it when he does that.
As well as Mr. Crocker whenever FAIRY GODPARENTS come up. Also when he is working out a secret plan... even when Timmy or someone else is right there.
Timmy: Hello, I'm right here. I heard everything you just said.
Mr. Crocker: Good. Then I won't have to repeat everything I just said.
No Sympathy: In the recent episode Bad Heir Day, Timmy, who has risked his life trying to find his godbrother, Poof, is given no sympathy by Wanda despite it being clear he's a Badly Battered Babysitter.
In fact, there have been various episodes depicting the last day of school (all of which pay no mind to continuity) yet they all stay in the same class, in the same grade, with the SAME teacher!
Yeah, but that could be due to the fact that Crocker keeps giving everyone F's. In the live-action movie, Timmy was still in Crocker's class despite being 23 years old.
In addition to the multiple summers, one movie explicitly takes place one year after he got his fairies, which is retconned to have happened a year earlier.
Averted by the live action movie, which will show the future of most of Timmy's human friends and enemies.
Referenced yet AGAIN in Timmy's Secret Wish, where we discover that apparently Timmy wished that everyone on Earth, including himself would never age so he could keep Cosmo and Wanda forever...which he did 50 YEARS AGO.
Only Child Syndrome: It's easier to list the aversions: Tootie and Vicky, and the two sets of twins Tad and Chad, and Wanda and Blonda
Tad and Chad are best friends, not twins. The fact they are different races should give this away, but it's pretty clear they just like to dress alike and arent related.
And let's not forget that Cosmo was revealed to have an older brother named Schnozmo
Or so I Heard: Big Wanda When Wanda takes over her father's business, she put a ficus in the meeting room. One of the men comments on a gardening tip for it, then quickly invokes this trope when the others stare at him surprised.
"A ficus? That's gonna need more light... not that, I would know."
The Other Darrin: Robert Cait replacing Norm Mac Donald as the voice of Norm the Genie, Butch Hartman replacing Gilbert Gottfried as Dr. Bender, and Jason Marsden replacing Frankie Muniz as Chester, to name a few.
The Other Marty: Tara Strong redubbed the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts after she took the role of Timmy. Timmy was originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman, but was replaced following Bergman's suicide.
Parental Neglect: Timmy's parents are quite neglectful and extremely selfish. They do love him though; they're more like adult children than truly evil abusers. Still, there are times when they put Timmy's happiness after their own, and in the "Wishology" trilogy they fail to notice he's been in Fairy World for an extended period of time, and don't notice they forgot to take him on two family vacations. It speaks volumes when, in part one, Timmy shrugs off the fact that they don't remember they have a son. The mother has even openly spent Timmy's college fund on stuff for herself when viewing the home shopping channel
Played for Laughs when his parents are busy watching tv about a show called the Bad Parent Hunter. So that Timmy won't disturb them, they hand him a bottle of acid and tells him to go play in the street - which he does
Pass the Popcorn: The Pixies in School's Out: The Musical about their evil plan and Timmy's misery.
Paused Interrupt: Despite not being a video game, this is a recurring problem with the voice acting. Any time a character is going to be interrupted, they stop short as if they can see it coming.
Picked Last: Timmy Turner was picked last for everything in Dimmsdale to the point where he got Cosmo and Wanda to make him the most wanted kid in the world. (And by wanted....let's just say that both FBI and CIA wanted him).
Da Rules probably averts this, (we haven't even seen the whole book) but what about the Magic Muffin? Note that you can take bites out of it and as long as you don't eat the whole thing you can still nibble it for more wishes!
Precocious Crush: The episode where Timmy wishes up the 18-year old Tommy Turner, whom the 10-year old Tootie falls in love with. And the fact that Tootie is genuinely in love with him is a major plot point of the episode.
Pro Wrestling Episode: A partial example in "Odd Jobs" where Timmy's dad faces of against Crusher McPersoncrusher.
Properly Paranoid: Subverted in "Operation Dinkelberg". Knowing that Timmy's Dad thinks he's an evil villain who's responsible for all of his problems, Dinkleberg pretends to be just such a villain - For no other reason than to give Dad the pleasure of thinking he was right.
Prophetic Name: Mr. and Mrs. Turner were nicknamed Mom and Dad as children
Reality Warper: In "Mr Right!", Timmy gains the ability to make things be true just by saying they are true.
Real Men Wear Pink: Timmy is just the start. See 'What Could Have Been' for the details.
This is lampshaded in an episode. When Timmy goes back to the past, he sees his parents moving into what would be his house. In the moving trunk are pink things because his parents thought they were having a girl. What's sitting on top is his infamous pink hat.
Reset Button: Wishing things back to normal, along with once having a literal reset button in the form of a watch.
Retcon: A comic story revealed this in regards to the Crimson Chin's origin
Retconjuration: Some of Timmy's wishes have permanently altered the world he lives in. For example, the mountainous snow-capped central American country of Tibecuidor has always existed.
This came to a head when Timmy wished he was always right; instead of being magically prevented from saying something wrong, reality itself would be bent and altered to satisfy whatever Timmy said. Some of the changes took place immediately after Timmy mentioned them and were noticed by others (AJ wanted to study Timmy after he said there were only 49 states and the Dakotas merged into one state immediately thereafter), but some ("No I don't! I don't have fairy godparents...!") seemed to silently rewrite others' percetions (Mr. Crocker suddenly becoming placid and saying "oh, okay then" after Timmy makes the previously-quoted claim).
Rogues Gallery: Mr. Crocker, Vicky, Doctor Bender, Francis, the Nega Chin, Imaginary Gary, Norm the Genie, the Pixies, Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda, Cosmo's mother, etc.
Rule of Three: At least one joke is repeated thrice over the course of each and every episode
Lampshaded at one point when one character remarks that they can only use a gag three times. Makes you wonder if the writers are keeping an eye on this page.
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: Charles Hampton Indigo for the Crimson Chin; Timmy himself for Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder
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.
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.
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. A prime example of American audiences being Screwed by the Network.
This also happened to Butch Hartman's other show Danny Phantom during DP's final season. Apparently Nick likes to screw with Hartman's American fans.
There's also one to SpongeBob SquarePants in the episode where they visit Atlantis that borders on Take That. "Our diet consists mainly of crabs, starfish, and the occasional underwater squirrel."
The most obscure example would be Bubsy, whose catch phrase was "What could possibly go wrong?!"...which became Timmy's catchphrase. Also considered a Take That since this line is delivered in the most wooden, cliche way possible.
Another in which Timmy creates a male version of Vicky for her to fall in love with, at the end of the episode Ricky goes off with Crocker's mom (after a dating site mishap) and Vicky exclaims "Ricky, don't lose my number! You don't have to call nobody else!" a line from "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" by Steely Dan.
Dr. Mindbender was an orthodontist before joining COBRA, and his real name was "Dr. Bender".
In one episode where Timmy goes to tour his dad's workplace (with an obligatory Chocolate Factory spoof to boot), Mr. Turner gushes about how he's his boss's favorite employee to Timmy. His boss responds to this with a scream of "HOMER!" "—Uh, it's Turner, sir."
To AC/DC in "Light's Out," at the end, when Timmy denies that he was scared of Cosmo as Wanda in their 'Scardey Fairies' form, Wanda poofs it back to complete darkness with the poof saying 'Back in Black' and then back to light with the poof saying "Let There Be Light."
How can we forget the Giant Fairy Storage in "Escape from Unwish Island?" Just to name a few, some of the people who have lockers are Walt Disney, P. Diddy, Duran Duran, Carrot Top, Milli and Vanilli, not to mention some people working on the show itself just to name a few. It's like a goldmine of Shout Outs.
A really old one in the second Fairy Odd Parents Episode "Power Mad". When Cosmo and Wanda are using their magic to act as multiple tv stations as she switches through them, one them goes to "Cosmo!" with a surprisingly similar jingle. "It's a show about nothing! ... How do we know when its over?"
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 three: Tootie, Veronica, and The Darkness. And Juandissimo to Wanda.
Stand-In Parents: Timmy Turner used a wish to try out his friends' dads because his own dad was so lame.
He also had Cosmo and Wanda stand in as his parents, and hilarity ensued.
The Stoic: Timmy in "Emotion Commotion!" after wishing away his emotions.
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.
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*
Three Shorts: Or more more accurately two shorts format.
Three Wishes: The number Norm the Genie can grant. Subverted because it is possible to wish for three more wishes; genies just don't like to tell that to their masters.
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.
Torches and Pitchforks: Mother Nature and The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker, where the torches and pitchfork crowd is still chasing him decades afterwards.
Touch of Death: Mom: *bawling* "EVERYTHING I TOUCH DIEEEEESSSS!"
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.
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
And Timmy when his mom shows him that her old swimsuit still fits.
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.
Villain Episode: Back to the Norm, the comic story The Babysitter Sings
Villainous Crossdresser: 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."
Villain Song: "Pixie Rap", "Gimmie the Wand", Vicky gets a few in the comic story The Babysitter Sings
What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: Twistory. Aside from the episode itself (alongside Hail To The Chief, tied to it) being a glorified educational episode, it doesn't just involve Timmy doing his essay by directly asking the Founding Fathers themselves, but for doing so, Timmy hosts a self-titled talk-show, the "Timmy Turner Show". Filmed in Timmy's treehouse. Timmy himself just seems to be screaming to the audience, like, "hey look, it's educational yet entertaining". However, when his wish (as usual) backfires, since the Founding Fathers' absence from their age turns the States back to the British colony they once were, well... I think you know what happens.
What Could Have Been: Originally Timmy was going to be a redhead because Butch Hartman hates brown hair, but forced to change his mind because he didn't want Timmy and Vicky to have matching hair color. Also Timmy was almost named Matt after Butch's other brother, but an argument with his brothers changed that. Timmy's shirt and hat were meant to be blue, but Hartman ran out of blue marker and grabbed the next nearest color—which just so happened to be pink. It stuck.
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.
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.
World Healing Wave: Used a few times in place of the simple Reset Button. Noteably in Fairly Odd Baby when Poof "breaks wind", which unleashes one to reverse the Pixies' and Anti-Fairies' World Wrecking Wave.
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.
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).
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.
Fridge Brilliance: Timmy would reasonably have grown and his perception of his parents as giants vanished. Also his size in later episodes (at least those without shrinking) is more-consistent.
Zee Rust: For the episode Future Lost. Timmy finds an old comic book that decribes the "far off" future of the year 2000. He notes that the real twenty first century is nothing at all like what's in the comic book.
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