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  • Abandon Shipping: While it didn't completely kill off the ship, several shippers ended up losing interest in the Timmy/Trixie ship after the events of "Just the Two of Us", due to Trixie's Ax-Crazy Yandere-esque behavior in the episode.
  • Accidental Aesop: "The Odd Couple" gives us the dangers of going on dating sites. Not everyone is just like their online profiles.
  • Accidental Innuendo:
    • In "Inspection Detection," Timmy proves Francis is the shoplifter by pulling merch out of Francis's pants. This leads to an unfortunate shot where Timmy has his hand down the front of Francis's pants.
    • "Poof's Playdate" has Timmy's parents watch a Dr. Phil parody who warns parents about kids taking toilet paper up to their room and saying not to bother them, which Timmy does right at that moment. In context, it's because Timmy is making makeshift diapers for the fairies he turned into babies, and it's likely just meant to be an extreme coincidence, but it comes across like a masturbation joke.
  • Alternative Joke Interpretation: The convicts crying that they want their mommies and daddies too after witnessing Timmy being let out of jail when his crying restores his godparents and returns him to being a ten-year-old kid in "The Big Problem". Is it because they genuinely miss their parents and are upset that they can't see them because of their incarceration, or are they trying to do what Timmy did in hopes that it will enable them to get out of jail?
  • Aluminum Christmas Trees:
    • "Catman" isn't just a parody of Batman: he was an actual supervillain. Who was a villainous version of a now-obscure Golden Age superhero by the same name.
    • Chester's heroic alter-ego in The Big Superhero Wish — Matter Muncher Lad — is not just yet another gag related to his Braces of Orthodontic Overkill. It's a reference to an actual DC Comics superhero with the same powers: Matter-Eater Lad.
  • Americans Hate Tingle: During the 2000s, the series was really hated in Latin America, not for its quality, but because children's channel Jetix was so obsessed with it, that they removed various series that people liked (Sonic X, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Shaman King, Beyblade, MegaMan NT Warrior, Digimon, the Transformers Unicron Trilogy, Ultimate Muscle, TMNT 2003, Medabots, Code Lyoko, and Shinzo, just to name a few) just to put more episodes on the schedule, which naturally didn't go well with their fanbase. This has died down considerably since then (Jetix was closed in 2009, and its successor, Disney XD, only aired the series for a few more years at the late hours of the rings until the license ran out in 2018), and now the show is remembered much more fondly, with many people having admitted that it was really good, especially the early seasons, but the overexposure on Jetix really ruined the reputation of the show for a long time.
  • Anvilicious: The aesops have a tendency to be this.
    • Parodied in one episode, "The Masked Magician", where Timmy says "I learned that sometimes "I'm sorry" can be the only magic words you need", followed by a cut to a flashing screen with the words "MORAL OF THE STORY".
  • Archive Panic: We've got 172 episodes or 283 segments, twelve movies, and eight video games. Have fun trying to binge through it all.
  • Ass Pull: Some of "Da Rules" seem to be made up on the spot to make sure Timmy can't just unwish his problems (all vocal wishes must be made in the voice of the godchild, no breakfast wishes after 10:30am, etc.). Most of Da Rules/the fairies' abilities do not apply to other episodes. Examples:
    • The No wishing for true love or wishing to break it line? Apparently this does not count at the end of "Wishology."
    • Lampshaded in one episode, "Movie Magic" (ironically enough, Timmy didn't want to use his fairies because he knew it was against the rules to use magic to win a competition):
      Wanda: True. But if you just happened to go where cool action stuff was happening...
      Timmy: (catching on) And I brought my film equipment with me and just happened to catch something on film...
      Cosmo: And if I just happen to tear this page out of the rulebook that says we can't help you... [tears out page that reads "You can't help him."]
    • This happened frequently in the last three seasons, to the point where it became utterly ridiculous. One episode, for example, had Timmy unable to wish Sparky back into a dog because he was in love with being human, which somehow falls under "not being able to break true love".
    • For a non-wish example, in “Hex Games,” part of the last ramp Timmy is going down had been blown up by Vicky. How does Chester help? Through his braces somehow flying out of his mouth and enlarging to the size of railroad tracks to cover the broken ramp in time. How he managed to do this is never explained, came out of nowhere and is never done again.
  • Awesome Music:
    • The main theme is an high energy, swinging and insanely catchy big band orchestrated piece backed by a full chorus. The theme is largely considered to be one of the greatest Nicktoons themes by many and for very good reason.
    • "My Shiny Teeth and Me" is one of the show's most iconic moments, for how it manages to make a song about good dental hygiene surprisingly catchy. It sounds like it could be a real pop song.
  • Badass Decay: Jorgen, thanks to Flanderization. In the first five seasons, he was the fairies' strong and sadistic boss who treats almost everyone else like crap (especially Cosmo and Binky). These traits were downplayed from Season 6 onward, where he became a Plucky Comic Relief character who never uses his power in dire times, only his body, while also becoming far less harsh toward the main characters. He also got a bit dumber and sillier as the show went on.
  • Broken Base:
    • Unlike Abra-Catastrophe and Channel Chasers, Wishology has a mixed opinion surrounding it. Some believe it should've been the series finale, while some think it was unnecessary.
    • Exactly when did the series started going downhill? Was it early at Seasons 2-3, later at Seasons 6-7, or much later at Seasons 9-10? See Seasonal Rot for more information.
    • Season 10 had a mixed to negative reception among fans. Some thought it was a return to form, albeit nowhere near as good as the original seasons, while a large portion of the show's original fanbase considered it the final nail in the coffin, especially with the usage of memes and the abrupt shift to Flash animation halfway through the season, which, along with the move to Nicktoons for the remaining episodes and reruns, was seen as signs of impending cancellation, which were proven correct.
    • The switch to Flash animation in mid-season 10. While many saw it as yet another example of how the show had run its course, some felt that it fit the show better, due to its stylized art direction.
    • Among people who watched the show growing up, the question arises: can the show be separated from its creator, or is it tainted by Hartman's current reputation?
  • Cargo Ship: Referenced in Spaced Out!, with Cosmo having a thing for a nickel, which he affectionately named Phillip.
  • Cliché Storm: Many plots in later seasons either fall into this or are recycled from some previous episodes.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • Crocker announcing to the class Timmy had gotten his 5000th F was mean; turning it into a celebration in which his own friends were cheering, hilarious.
    • Binky causing The Black Death was horrible. Him thinking it was the name of the band beforehand? Sheer Black Comedy.
    • Cosmo sinking Atlantis is typical Cosmo behaviour. Cosmo sinking Atlantis nine times however is completely ridiculous and over the top.
  • Crossover Ship:
    • Trixie Tang/Buttercup is popular in some circles.
    • Timmy also has several fan fics pairing him with Dani Phantom.
    • A growing pairing for Princess Mandie and Danny Phantom came up during recent years.
    • Another slowly growing pairing is between Timmy and Jimmy Neutron.
  • Designated Hero: Sparky in his debut episode. He nearly gets Timmy killed twice (once by taking his parachute, and the other by having Timmy rescue him from a burst dam), knowing fully well that in both instances, he'll be able to survive those situations. He even says so after Timmy "saves" him in the second instance.
  • Designated Monkey: Timmy. in later seasons, he (after Cosmo) became a frequent butt of many jokes, this can be more annoying than funny for some.
  • Designated Villain: Timmy is this in "The Masked Magician". Bickles came dangerously close to destroying Dimmsdale simply because Timmy (unknowingly) showed up his own magic show, and yet it's Timmy that's presented as being in the wrong and the one who has to apologize in the end.
  • Die for Our Ship:
    • Many fans of love interests such as Tootie, Trixie, and slash fans, tend to relentlessly bash each other's couples.
    • Missy (Timmy's new love interest in Season 9) got this too. The fact that neither Tootie nor Trixie appeared in this season doesn't help.
    • Many Timmy/Tootie and Timmy/Trixie shippers were afraid that Chloe would become a new Love Interest to Timmy, in detriment to Tootie and Trixie.
  • Don't Shoot the Message:
    • "Christmas Every Day": The ending, where all children from different backgrounds, as well as different countries, all working together to help Timmy, could be seen as some sort of diversity message, which is needed today. It still falters, though, because they're all stated as celebrating Christmas, which many cultures in the world don't.
    • "It's a Wishful Life": While the aesop about how you should do good deed for the sake of them and not for appreciation isn't necessarily a bad message, the fact that the lack of appreciation Timmy receives stems from pure pettiness and blowing stuff out of proportion sort of makes the aesop feel hollow.
  • Draco in Leather Pants:
  • Anti-Cosmo has a strong fanbase who like to portray him as an attractive, suave vampire fairy and ignore his more negative aspects.
  • There are a number of fans who tend to portray Vicky as a Jerkass Woobie and a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who deep down, cares about the twerp and her young sister Tootie, often ignoring that she is a greedy, Ax-Crazy, abusive and sociopathic monster who is a Big Sister Bully to Tootie and actively enjoys hurting children For the Evulz, with Channel Chasers showing her as being an evil tyrant in the special's Bad Future. To be fair to fans though, Vicky was initially depicted to be more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold in the earlier seasons until she became Flanderized to a full blown villain later on.
  • Evil Is Cool:
    • The Jack O' Bots, who combine to form the equally cool Pumpkinator. They're this in-universe, as well.
    • Anti-Cosmo has a lot of fans, in no small part due to his accent and fashion sense.

    F-O 
  • Fan Nickname:
    • Season 0: The name given to the 10 Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts that led to the show proper.
    • The Purple Douchebag Twins: Tad and Chad.
    • "The Mr. Crocker and Timmy's Dad Show": Many fans have renamed the series with this name because, since Season 7 onwards, both characters have become in almost the two new protagonists of the series, especially in Seasons 9 and 10.
  • Fan-Preferred Cut Content: Oh Yeah! Cartoons depicted Vicky as more supportive and defensive of Tootie, despite being cruel to any other kid she babysits. In the main series, she's just as cruel to Tootie, if not more so. Many fans aware of this original portrayal prefer it, as it gives Vicky a bit more depth than making her a pure Child Hater.
  • Fandom-Specific Plot:
  • Fandom VIP: Cartoon analyst LS Mark is a very well-renowned figure to fans of The Fairly OddParents!, as it's not only one of his most beloved cartoons of all time that he's done multiple in-depth analyses on, but he's also managed to host many interviews with people who worked on the show to provide insider information.
  • Fanfic Fuel:
    • Cosmo and Wanda's failing relationship and Norm The Genie are often deconstructed. Notable that since the later seasons' reversal of the flanderization, the former has been fading out.
    • The full implications of Timmy's Hilariously Abusive Childhood is another topic that gets a lot of attention from fic writers. Usually by portraying him as being a scarred, isolated teenager and/or expanding on the neglectful and resentful actions of his parents. Sometimes combined with the inevitable trauma of him losing his fairies after growing so close to them.
    • Trixie being either a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak or a Tomboy with a Girly Streak (depending on the interpretation), as revealed by the episode "The Boy who would be Queen". The episode singlehandledly skyrocketed both Trixie's popularity and the popularity of the Timmy/Trixie ship in the fandom.
  • Fanon:
    • Chompy the Goat's family's Chuck Cunningham Syndrome is because they were the source of the goat meat the mayor ate in the episode "Vicky Gets Fired".
    • Trixie is depicted as either a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak or a Tomboy with a Girly Streak who hides her tomboyish side. Much of her personality is a facade. As a teen and/or adult, she'll become more comfortable with letting her more tomboyish side show. She's also fairly frequently considered to be Timmy's definite girlfriend and eventual wife.
    • Trixie has an estranged relationship with her mother. This is because only Trixie's father is shown in-series, but Trixie does mention her mother in her debut episode. Trixie's mother is depicted as a major reason why she hides her interest in things like comics.
  • Fanon Discontinuity:
    • Depending on the part of the fanbase you talk to, the show's true conclusion is one of its three major animated movies/specials: those being either season three's "Abra-Catastrophe!", season five's "Channel Chasers", or season six's "Wishology!" three-parter. More tolerant fans will view the Season 8 finale "Meet the OddParents" as the stopping point, but no matter what, Seasons 9 and 10 are never to be discussed.
    • To a much lesser degree there are those who ignore everything after the first two seasons.
    • Despite the seasonal rot the show has gone through, "It's a Wishful Life", from its pre-Seasonal Rot days, remains as the series' worst episode in many people's minds, Butch Hartman and his crew included.
    • "Twistory", another episode from the show's early days, receives quite a bit of hate due to its negative depictions that even American fans feel ashamed of.
    • The three live-action movies get this. Big time. Especially the last one.
  • First Installment Wins: Despite the Early-Installment Weirdness, Season 1 would be the only FULL season acceptable to all fans.
  • Foe Yay Shipping:
    • The amount of Timmy/Vicky fics in the fandom is astounding, especially as Vicky was established as more of a sociopath as the series went on.
    • Timmy/Anti-Cosmo shipping is also quite popular due to the latter being the Evil Counterpart to Timmy's godparent.
  • Fountain of Memes:
    • Timmy's Dad was heavily quoted in earlier seasons.
    • "The name's Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome!" and the like encourage a lot of fun with the rhythm of Doug's speech.
  • Franchise Original Sin:
    • At the time of his introduction in Season 6, Poof proved neither 100% beloved, nor 100% hated by the fanbase. But despite his divisive status in the fandom, even those who didn't necessarily like him were at least able to tolerate him since he was the only brand new mainstay amongst the cast at the time to go alongside the previously established main characters, his in-universe reason for existing (Cosmo and Wanda wanting to have a child of their own) made reasonable sense, and the writers actually put in effort at exploring what Poof would bring to the table. The same could not be said, however, for the introduction of Sparky the talking fairy dog in season 9 and Chloe Carmichael in season 10. For not only did neither character prove particularly popular on their own merits (with Sparky being a complete idiot that often proved more trouble than he was worth and Chloe being a Parody Sue with little self-awareness who was explicitly labeled as 'even more miserable than Timmy' despite several other existing characters from before her introduction having been shown in confirmed conditions considerably more misery inducing than Chloe's and STILL not ever been given fairy godparents of their own), but the way the writers handled them made them seem heavily indicative of the show (which was already undergoing severe Seasonal Rot at the time) to look even more strongly as if it had gone well past its expiration date (with Sparky essentially being rather lazily written as a canine copy Cosmo with even higher stupidity than Cosmo himself, and Chloe being written to have to share Cosmo and Wanda with Timmy with an explanation that required a massive amount of retconning). And while Sparky was eventually inexplicably removed from the show without explanation and Chloe eventually had her perfection toned down in subsequent episodes after her introduction, the damage had already been done. And with the show at this point all too clearly running on fumes at that point, it would ultimately be not too much longer before the show got cancelled entirely.
    • The show has never really had strong continuity, since it was always meant to be a gag-based show for children. Occasionally you'd get a nod to a previous episode, but that was about it. Given the show's episodic format, most fans let it slide. But later seasons are often criticized for outright ignoring what little continuity had already been established. As an example, Season 10 Episode 1 had Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands. About 30 seconds later, we see... Cosmo using his wand. Then it disappears and becomes "lost" again.
    • If you ask any fan where the show went wrong with Cosmo and Wanda, chances are they'll probably say when they made them into a complete idiot and a total nag, respectively. During the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, Cosmo and Wanda were already a bit goofy, with Cosmo being The Ditz compared to the cool one and Wanda becoming more of a nag. Most fans were okay with this since it was Divergent Character Evolution, but it would foreshadow how they would be portrayed in much more Flanderized fashion later on.
    • One comparatively minor additional element of criticism for the later seasons was the overuse of pop culture references, outdated memes, and 2010s slang in an attempt to pander to newer audiences. Thing is, the show had fairly often made use of pop culture references, meme culture nods, and timely slang even in its heyday. The key difference in this regard between the earlier seasons and later ones, however, is that the earlier seasons came when the show as a whole was still fresh and contained various other high quality elements to make it easily enjoyable without feeling too reliant upon these more overly timely elements. And the fact that said timely elements usually tended to be featured in fairly small dosages and occurred fairly spread out from each other compared to the show's other forms of humor also helped. But by the time of the later seasons, not only had the 'timely elements' gratuitously increased in frequency, but they were also popping up at a time when the show as a whole had already shown signs of heavily declining in quality and reaching the point of having long since expired and reached the need to be put out to pasture, resulting in the immensely increased frequency of references to contemporary or outdated pop culture, memes, and slang feeling more as if the show were trying desperately to stay relevant instead of like enjoyable flavor dressing.
    • Timmy eventually became extremely selfish and only cared about getting what he wants. While he had his selfish moments in earlier seasons, he was still a good kid nonetheless. However, in the final two seasons, his selfishness has become his defining trait and is much worse than before. His selfishness becomes even more apparent in Season 10 upon the introduction of Chloe Carmichael, just to his status as her foil more obvious to viewers.
    • Timmy's tendency to not think things through has been flanderized into carelessness and irresponsibility. Keep in mind that this has been going on as early as the first episode.
  • Friendly Fandoms:
    • With FamilyGuy due to both shows' creators being good friends with each other.
    • A lot of The Fairly Odd Parents fans also tend to be fans of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius due to both show being about brown-haired boys who get into all sorts of crazy situations. For bonus points, there was even a crossover episode between the two shows.
    • Danny Phantom and T.U.F.F. Puppy were both created by Butch Hartman, the creator of The Fairly OddParents. Naturally, it only makes sense for fans of The Fairly OddParents to be fans of Butch Hartman's other two shows.
  • Genius Bonus:
    • Catman. His costume is a Shout-Out to an old throwaway Batman villain of the same name from Detective Comics.
    • In "Who's Your Daddy," when Timmy changes his mind about being Sanjay's dad stepson, as he's from the Marines who trains Timmy like hell, the wish clouds says "4F." It means someone who's ejected from the military for being unfit for military service.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The first four seasons are wildly loved in Latin America where it aired in the Jetix cable channel note  despite having disappeared from Nickelodeon altogether. This highly benefited the series since the channel was one of the most popular cartoon-oriented channels (alongside Cartoon Network) during the 2000s, the fact that it also had a superb dub and it was for the better written seasons certainly helped. Especially evident when the series returned to it's native Nickelodeon starting for the second half of Season Five and it didn't receive nearly as much attention.
  • Growing the Beard:
    • The second season is where the series grew into its own. This, along with the third season, is often considered the high point of the series among fans.
    • Most fans agree than Channel Chasers was the highest point of the series.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • In "The Big Problem!", Vicky worries about getting into trouble for Timmy seemingly disappearing. Later episodes would show Vicky having no qualms about harming Timmy, even going as far as attempting to murder him in some cases.
    • Also from "The Big Problem!"; near the end of the episode, Timmy gets mistaken for a pervert by Vicky and arrested and thrown in jail by the police. In 2021, Drake Bell, who played Timmy in the Fairly OddParents live-action movie trilogy, was arrested on charges of attempted endangering children and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles.
    • The ending of Channel Chasers where Timmy learns that he shouldn't worry about growing up and losing his fairies and enjoy his childhood while it lasts becomes more depressing to watch after a later special, Timmy's Secret Wish!, revealed that Timmy secretly wished for everyone to never age so that he doesn't lose his fairies.
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Aside from the two headgags featuring Sparky, all of the headgags in the Season 9 intro are completely reused from Season 1 but redrawn, which didn't set well with a lot of fans.
  • Jerkass Woobie:
    • Timmy in the later seasons. He's a lazy, selfish jerk, but considering how badly he was treated by his own friends and parents, it's hard not to see why he acts like that.
    • Vicky herself could also qualify in rare occasions before she was Flanderized, like in "The Switch Glitch" where Timmy is basically an ass to her for a few minutes before Vicky does the exact same thing to him. This would be justified if not for the fact Timmy wished her to be 5 years old and uses his god parents to help bully her, meaning he's essentially become his own antithesis. Because of this, Vicky's nice and merciful side seems to come and go so she isn't a Jerkass Woobie for long when it happens.
    • Denzel Crocker, as well. He is an Ax-Crazy Sadistic Teacher who tries to conquer the world and makes Timmy's life miserable constantly. Also, he lives with his mother, is despised by most people, gets viewed as a Cloudcuckoolander, and he gets beaten and mauled by everyone on a regular basis. Furthermore, he suffered a horrible childhood like Timmy and the loss of his Fairy Godparents was the reason for his Start of Darkness.
  • Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Most of the show's villains are very over-the-top in their portrayal and too hilarious to hate. Thus, the most hated characters on the show by far are Timmy's extremely negligent and borderline-abusive parents, who constantly leave him home alone with Vicky and are oblivious to her cruelty, and often give away Timmy's things and spend his college savings without his permission. Few children have to deal with murderous babysitters or delusional schoolteachers in life, but parents who abuse and neglect their children are very common.
  • Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Timmy gets shipped with almost everyone. Trixie, Tootie, Chloe, Vicky, Veronica, Chester, AJ, Cosmo, Wanda, his mother, Anti-Cosmo, Gary, etc.
  • LGBT Fanbase:
    • The theory that Timmy is trans (usually a trans boy due to his parents wishing for a girl and dressing him up like a girl as a baby) has caught on amongst LGBTQ fans.
    • Trixie's depiction in "The Boy Who Would Be Queen" and her friendship with Timantha has led her to have a fanbase amongst fans who see her as lesbian or bisexual. For similar reasons, some headcanon her as transgender or genderfluid.
    • Veronica's obsession with Trixie is all but stated to stem from wanting to be her, not be with her, but fans think that excuse only goes so far. As a result, she has a lot of queer fans.
  • Magnificent Bastard: The Nega Chin is the Crimson Chin's archenemy from an alternate Chinniverse who can match his powers alongside his "devastating good looks and amazing sense of fashion". Accidentally brought outside of the comic book, the Nega Chin takes advantage of the immediate situation by, after mistakenly being magically-empowered by Timmy Turner, wishes his entourage into Dimmsdale as well as nigh-immunity from further magic. Kowtowed by a beatdown of collective Crimson Chins, the Nega Chin plants Short Fuse in Dimmsdale before being sucked into his comic book world to scout out a wish favorable for his return. After Cleft—really Timmy—wishes for a world of superheroes and villains, the Nega Chin disguises himself as the real Crimson Chin and clandestinely teleports Timmy's enemies to his lair. He then constructs a trap where he exploits the mechanics behind wishing to create a world of only supervillains and cleans up his bases by putting Ace and Clefto—Cosmo and Wanda—in an anti-magic bubble. Ultimately defeated by the combined efforts of normal people, the Nega Chin seeks to defy his role as a supervillain by breaking out into the real world to "convince" his writer to pen him a victory.
  • Memetic Badass: Some think of George Washington in "Twistory" to be this.
  • Memetic Molester: Timmy's dad due to some rather strange behavior around minors that hasn't aged well: namely going on a long tangent of how Trixie is prettier than his own wife, entering a film festival to get Trixie to talk to him, and befriending Timmy's friend group then being a bad influence on them by skipping school with them. This adds some hilarious irony to his comment that he'll get arrested for taking Timmy's Squirrel Scout troop to the movies dressed as their scoutmaster.
  • Mis-blamed: Butch Hartman is often solely blamed for what fans consider flaws of the later seasons (particularly the crop of new characters like Poof, Sparky and Chloe) even though he pointed out in an interview that many of the changes in the later seasons (such as the newer characters) were ordered to be put into the show by Nickelodeon.
  • Most Wonderful Sound: Chip Skylark singing. Helps that he's voiced by a guy who's from an actual boy band.
  • My Real Daddy: Although Butch Hartman is undeniably considered to be the show's creator, Steve Marmel, who was a writer and producer on the show's first five seasons, is considered to be the real reason why the show was as good as it was. Especially since the show is regarded to have quickly went downhill after he departed from the show and the show was subsequently Un-Canceled without his involvement.
  • Never Live It Down:
    • "Just the Two of Us!" was the only time Trixie showed Yandere tendencies, but it still colors her perception in the fandom.
  • Francis is not above hitting girls, but he only ever laid hands on Tootie once - at the end of "Kung Timmy" - and at least she was openly confronting him at the time. Yet because of that scene, a lot of Fan Fiction writers assume that Tootie is Francis' second favorite victim after Timmy.
  • While Wanda is a strict, but loving fairy godparent for the most part, her abusive moments towards Timmy in "Bad Heir Day" and "Lights Out" have defined her in a negative light for several fans.
  • Older Than They Think:
    • Jorgen von Strangle would fit in quite well among the earliest, intimidating depictions of The Fair Folk.
    • One of the many criticisms of Season 10 is Wanda taking a level in dumbass. However this is more in line with her season 1 characterization where she and Cosmo were "two halves of a whole idiot".
  • One-Scene Wonder: Stephen Hawking only appears in one episode to prove Crocker wrong and Timmy right, but was widely beloved.

    P-Z 
  • Paranoia Fuel: To an extent. Plenty of teenagers have freaked out over the thought of what if, just what if they had fairy godparents of their own at some point and have now forgotten all about them, like Da Rules say in the show?
  • Pop Culture Holiday: In "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker", March 15 is Denzel Crocker Day, the day when he is at his meanest. Fans of the show tend to celebrate the day as such.
  • Replacement Scrappy:
    • For some fans, Missy from the episode "Finding Emo" of Season 9 as a new Love Interest to Timmy. She has traits of the more recurrent Love Interests of Timmy: Tootie and Trixie Tang. The fact that neither of them appear in this season doesn't help.
    • Many fans were afraid that Chloe will become this not only for Tootie and Trixie but for Chester and AJ, as well.
    • Anti-Cosmo, and the Anti-Fairies as a whole, were more or less replaced by Foop, an evil version of Poof who was already a Scrappy to some. Needless to say fans were pissed. The fact that Foop has had more appearances in the series than his father, especially after Poof left the show, doesn't help.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Viewers who didn't like Chloe in her first appearance found her more tolerable from her second appearance and on, where her Parody Sue traits are heavily downplayed, making her a regular Nice Girl instead of a "little miss perfect".
  • Rooting for the Empire: The antagonists of the show such as Mr. Crocker, Norm, Dark Laser, and The Anti-Fairies are often Laughably Evil and sometimes more sympathetic than the so-called heroes in most cases.
  • The Scrappy: Sparky, Timmy's fairy dog from season 9. After his first episode, he became immediately despised for his reckless, irresponsible, clueless, selfish, and downright obnoxious behavior. His addition also violated basic continuity (his previous owners were adults) and was considered superfluous as the show already had Cosmo as the Lethally Stupid ditz. The fact that he was a smart-mouthed, talking dog added to the character roster in an attempt to keep the show fresh, meant viewers making direct comparisons to Poochie, a famous parody of an obnoxious, newly-added character, were as immediate as they were predictable. He was so unpopular that he suddenly vanished after Season 9 and has not been seen since.
  • Self-Fanservice:
    • In fanworks, Tootie gets a lot of these. It's worth noticing that a majority of these do not involve The Glasses Gotta Go, as the fans seem to think she looks cute enough with them. She often gets better-looking glasses, though.
    • Cosmo and Wanda are short as Timmy, but some fanworks feature them being tall as regular adults with attractive features. Also, Timmy art features him much taller and looking Bishonen, with some even removing his trademark buckteeth.
    • Anti-Cosmo is often made sexy. However, Anti-Wanda generally does not.
  • Ship Mates:
    • Trixie/Remy and Veronica/Chester for Timmy/Tootie fans.
    • Chester/Tootie and Remy/Veronica for Timmy/Trixie fans.
  • Ship-to-Ship Combat: The main combatants seeming to be Timmy/Tootie and Timmy/Trixie. However, Veronica/Timmy also has its own devoted fanbase (even though Veronica was only shown to like Timmy in two episodes and she expressed it in a very... interesting way). There is also a minority of Timmy/Vicky shippers, who like it for the Foe Yay Shipping that was presented in earlier seasons.
  • So Okay, It's Average: Among the more forgiving part of the fanbase, this is the general opinion toward seasons 6-10. While they suffer from number of issues and are nowhere as strong as the earlier seasons, they still have their share of funny moments and ideas that either are decent or could have been executed better.
  • Strawman Has a Point:
    • "It's a Wishful Life", where Timmy receives no appreciation for his good deeds. While the kid can be a jerk, he had every right to be upset with no one appreciating his work. Bickles was ungrateful simply because Timmy used a different shade of blue for a painted background that others wouldn't have noticed or cared about; AJ was ungrateful simply because Timmy bought a computer that was obsolete as of 5 seconds ago, then used the expensive computer as a door stopper; and Timmy's parents were ungrateful simply because Timmy knew nothing about the "dirty yard contest" they were competing against the Dinkleburgs for and spent untold hours (as far as they knew) making the garden beautiful to show his love for them.
    • "Fairly Odd Pet" has two. Timmy is upset about not having a pet, even though the episode, as well as a previous one, shows that he's terrible with pets, many of them either dying due to his stupidity or essentially cannibalism. Then there is Sparky, whose getting returned to the pet store by Timmy is depicted as sad, even though Timmy was in the right, given all of the chaos caused by Sparky (as well as photos of Sparky's past showing the possibility he may have gotten one of his previous owners killed).
  • Suspiciously Similar Song:
    • Comparisons between the theme song and "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin have been made. Norm's song "Gimme The Wand" seems to have been more deliberate, what with Norm being a Genie.
    • The beginning of "Real and Scary" from "Scary Godparents" sounds like the verses of Michael Jackson's "Bad".
  • Theme Pairing: Norm and Desiree (from Danny Phantom) were created so Butch Hartman could Ship them as a Theme Pairing but he forgot. Also, they were both created so the fans would fall in love with them and have sympathy for them. It was a Batman Gambit to make the fans stop falling in love with Crocker and other Dracos In Leather Pants.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
    • After Season 6, Catman was no longer voiced by nor the alter-ego of Adam West... which pretty much kills the joke stone dead.
    • The show's intro and theme song being changed for Season 10 drew a lot of criticism from fans, many feeling that the new song is inferior to the original due to having just two people singing instead of a full chorus and using clips from episodes of the season. When "Girly Squirrely" had the original theme song and intro from Season 9, fans thought they heard their complaints. But it lasted for two episodes as the rest of the episodes from "The Fair Bears" onwards, uses the new intro.
    • The switch from hand-drawn animation to flash animation in mid-Season 10, which many believe to be yet another sign that the show has run its course. Not helped by the fact that unlike other shows that switched from hand-drawn to flash, the switch was done in the middle of a season that consisted of hand-drawn episodes. Sure enough, when Butch announced he was leaving Nickelodeon, it was revealed the show was over and done with (for real this time, he produces the show).
  • Trans Audience Interpretation:
    • Timmy is popularly headcanoned as a trans boy. In one episode depicting past events, Timmy's parents act with absolute certainty that their child will be a girl, Cosmo even noting that this explains all the pictures of Timmy in a dress. Another episode has Timmy wishing he never was born, and in the ensuing alternate timeline, Timmy's parents have a daughter who seems to be Timmy's exact age and of a similar appearance. Plus, there's the fact that he was angry the one time when Wanda deliberately misinterpreted one of his statements into him wishing he were a girl and spent most of the episode wanting to change back.
    • Due to the reveal in "The Boy Who Would Be Queen" of Trixie having a tomboy side that she tends to hide, with her tomboy appearance being masculine in nature, Trixie is sometimes interpreted by the fandom as being a closeted trans boy.
  • Ugly Cute:
    • Tootie, despite her stalker tendencies and awkward geeky looks, is a bright-eyed eager little girl.
    • Mr. Crocker falls under this as well. It's even parodied in-universe in that Timmy's Dad thinks the hunchbacked, scrawny, ear-on-his-neck-for-some-reason teacher is gorgeous.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic:
    • Timmy. While he can be a selfish jerk and is often forced to learn life lessons, this is usually because he constantly has to put up with his abusive and negligent parents, a sociopathic and bitchy babysitter, a sadistic teacher who gives him F’s just to be a heartless asshole and various other adversaries. Therefore, the many times he retaliates are justified.
    • Trixie in "Just The Two Of Us". While it's undeniably true she went off the deep end and tried to kill Timmy, it's not surprising how she got to that point: In addition to being the only person in the universe besides Timmy and his fairies, and she could only know about the former, she was rendered unable to ask about how anything had happened. Any person would have gone mad from the isolation, let alone someone who thrived in social situations.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
    • We're supposed to feel bad for Sparky for being repeatedly being abandoned by past owners. But given that a lot of his behavior in his debut episode and several episodes after involve him being stupid, destructive, obnoxious and generally causing trouble for everyone around him... it really is small wonder that nobody would want him around.
    • In "The Boss Of Me", Timmy firing his father is played out like a sad moment. However, earlier in the episode he had rented a kid to go to work with him rather than Timmy and proceeded to tell Timmy this right to his face, while viewing him as an embarrassment. His own family portrait is just him and his wife holding a giant pencil with Timmy relegated to the background. It's hard to give him the pity factor here.
    • After Timmy wishes to have muscles in "Beach Bummed!", he unintentionally hurts Trixie by crippling her. When he tries to help her, Trixie told Timmy to get away from her and calls him a (totally hot) monster. Again, it's played out like a sad moment, but considering how Trixie treated Timmy in previous episodes like "Class Clown" note  and "Just the Two of Us!" note , it's rather hard to feel bad for her.
    • One of the reasons why viewers found Chloe so hard to like was the contrivance behind her sharing Timmy’s fairies. The first half of her debut episode is dedicated to making her look as smart, popular, and all-around perfect as possible, with Crocker literally introducing her as “the perfect human” and showing a clip of her removing a wooden spike from a rampaging monster’s foot in an action that was explicitly praised as saving everyone. Much later, we are supposed to believe that Chloe is actually miserable because she often makes mistakes (like the aforementioned monster continuing to rampage after the spike was removed, contradicting Crocker’s statement that she saved everyone) that led to nobody wanting to befriend her, which is BLATANTLY untrue (Timmy’s the only character who hasn’t been singing praises of her nonstop).
    • Later seasons have seen Wanda often lecturing Timmy in ways that come off as rather unfair. In "Beach Blanket Bozo", she defends Timmy's parents for shipping him on vacation in a dog crate so they could use the extra seat for their surfboards. She chastises Timmy for winning the science fair by cheating in "The End of the Universe-ity" even tough Tad and Chad cheated too by paying scientists to do it for them.
    • Given the fairies (Cosmo and Jorgen in particular) were largely responsible for destroying Denzel Crocker's already miserable childhood and indirectly causing his obsession with them in the first place, it's hard not to feel they're reaping what they sow when it comes to Crocker's relentless attempts to capture them.
    • The Crimson Chin in his rivalry with The Bronze Kneecap. While it was just an accident, and the Bronze Kneecap's motive is rather frivolous, he flat out admits that if the Crimson Chin had just apologized he would've moved on. The Crimson Chin's refusal to comes off as him being too unwilling to swallow his pride and make both their lives easier.
  • Unintentional Period Piece:
    • One episode shows Timmy's parents during their college days, with Timmy's dad sporting a mullet and his mom working out while wearing the typical leotard/leg warmers/belt/headband aerobics attire, all but confirming that they met during the 1980s and that Timmy himself was born in the early 1990s, therefore making him 10 years old circa 2001 when the show first aired.
    • The early seasons frequently have brief moments where a character comments on or uses some popular bit of technology at the time, like Vicky plugging in a DVD player, a fangirl wanting to auction Timmy's clothes on the Internet, Timmy bringing a portable DVD player to school, A.J.'s father setting up a big-screen television's parental block, and Vicky having a flip-style cell phone. This also includes Timmy's classic Wild Card Excuse ("Uhh... Internet?").
    • In "The Terrible Twosome", Foop wants a name for his and Poof's team-up. After initially coming up with "Poop", he suggests "Brangelina". The episode came out in 2013, with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie filing for divorce in 2016.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: Poof is a boy. Yes, he wears purple and has purple eyes. Real Men Wear Pink, after all. And he has a water gun.
  • Vindicated by History:
    • Seasons 4 and 5 were heavily criticized initially due to issues with flanderization and some episodes that many felt were overly mean-spirited. Most fans have warmed up to them in the years sincenote , with many going as far as to include them in the series' Golden Age.
    • Season 6 was initially criticized back when it first aired due to starting the trend of introducing new recurring characters with Poof's inclusion and claiming that the show relied too much on "whacky baby shenanigans". Nowadays, fans have warmed up to season 6 for undoing most of the Flanderization from Season 5, not too many episodes revolved around Poof, including in the following seasons afterward, the overall lore of the show (most notably the dynamic between Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda) did not change with a few exceptions, and Wishology being praised with many preferring that to be the show's series finale with some having gone as far as to consider season 6 part of the show's golden age. Having Scott Fellows (who had been a writer for the show since season 3 during the pre-cancellation era) as story editor that season rather than the less experienced Ray DeLaurentis like the final four seasons also helps.
    • To a lesser extent, Seasons 7 and 8 by some fans. While many would consider those two as a part of the Seasonal Rot that happened since Season 6, not to mention new problems like the introduction of Foop to more continuity problems, fans are more tolerable to those two seasons, due to how they believe that they have at least some goodwill left, as well as the fact that, compared to Seasons 9 and 10, they were still somewhat willing to follow some continuity from the previous seasons.
  • Wangst:
    • "Not on the List" from Merry Wishmas. While a lot of the gifts the kids received are pretty lame, some of them complain that they didn't get very expensive or rare things (a robotic fire-breathing dragon, a trip to Aruba, a ride to a space station) despite getting pretty decent toys. Mr. Turner in particular complains that he got a talking horse instead of eggnog, though given this is Mr. Turner, he's not exactly meant to be taken seriously.
    • "Clark Laser" has a dramatic subplot of the LOSERS breaking up because Dark Laser turned to the good side and blames Crocker for running over his toy dog, Flipsie. It's played way too seriously, and it fails at being either sad or interesting.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Chloe's wish in her debut episode that people would share everything, and the backlash that results from the wish, has prompted many jokes about her being a communist.
  • Win Back the Crowd: Despite introducing Base-Breaking Character Poof, Season 6 undid some of the Flanderization in Seasons 4 and 5. For instance, Timmy's parents aren't huge jerkasses anymore (good examples being the end of "Sooper Poof" and season 8's "Meet the OddParents").
  • The Woobie:
    • Tootie, because she gets an even more miserable life than Timmy (she is Vicky's little sister, and Vicky always tortures her whenever she is not babysitting, meaning that she is twice as miserable as Timmy) and unlike Timmy she does not have her own Fairy Godparents and apparently her only consolation is her crush for him. She is also one of the few characters in the series who is always consistently nice to Timmy, even more than Cosmo and Wanda (who sometimes are mean-spirited with him for Rule of Funny), even if she acts like a Stalker with a Crush, and this is one of the reasons why she's one of the most popular characters in the fandom.
    • Timmy before he Took a Level in Jerkass. Parental Neglect, sadistic babysitter, villainous teacher (who despite his ineptitude would be a more nurturing parent than Timmy's own), constantly belittled for his appearance, and let's not forget the small fact that he was shown with explicit detail how pretty much the entire world would be far better off without him, which was reality essentially giving him a "Reason You Suck" Speech. How could you NOT want to hug the poor little guy and just make everything better?
    • To a lesser extent Chip Skylark. To elaborate, Chip is one of only consistently nice characters in the entire show being nothing but kind to Timmy and his fans. He's also a very humble celebrity. He's also the Butt-Monkey of various episodes where he is kidnapped for an Ax-Crazy babysitter, loses his teeth, his voice, and occasionally his career all because of something Timmy did.
  • Woolseyism: In the Brazilian dub, in the episode where Cosmo (who is voiced by Guilherme Briggs, the Brazilian Norio Wakamoto) gives birth to Poof, he grabs Timmy by the collar and yells: "PEDE PRA SAIR! PEDE PRA SAIR!" ("ASK TO GET OUT! ASK TO GET OUT!"). This is a reference to the memetic line of the movie The Elite Squad (which, by the way, isn't kid-friendly, but this didn't impede the line from becoming a meme) and arguably a CMOA for Brazilian voice acting (the original line of the movie is more properly translated as "Ask to quit!" but in Portuguese the word "sair" can mean both cases).

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