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  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In the opening sequence, as Darth Vader, Cosmo tries to sway Timmy into the dark side by assuring him that the dark side will get him to wear black and that girls dig the cape. Sixteen years later, the third issue of the Vader: Dark Visions comic book series has a psychotic Imperial nurse obsessively in love with Darth Vader stealing his cape after checking him, fantasying being with Vader.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Crocker crosses this when he attempts to kill Timmy numerous times throughout the film.
  • Padding: The whole sequence with Bippy's wish. The real conflict of the special is between Crocker and Timmy, and so the whole Planet of the Apes (1968) parody does nothing but stretch it out to movie-length, and is undone without any lasting effect. All it really does is get Crocker closer to the muffin, which would have happened anyway because he was already in the cafeteria. That said, the sequence does establish that the muffin can do anything, and foreshadows Crocker's own world conquest.
  • Play-Along Meme: At the end, Timmy wishes that everyone forgot he had fairy godparents. Some viewers played along by pretending that the wish also affected them.

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