History ShoutOut / TheFairlyOddParents

* To Music/{{ACDC}} 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."

* Cosmo as Film/{{Braveheart}} in "Homewrecking". (Episode contains also a possible ''Film/TheShining'' reference but that could be a generically AxCrazy Vicky.)

* In "Genie Meanie Minie Mo", the lawyer that Timmy wishes for is Named "[[Franchise/PerryMason Fairy Mason]]".

** Not to mention, one of the street signs says "Ub Iwerks" on it.

* There's also one to ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' in the episode where they visit Atlantis that borders on TakeThat. "Our diet consists mainly of crabs, starfish, and the occasional underwater squirrel."
** Cosmo calls Timmy "[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants CheeseBoy SquarePants]]" in one scene from ''Wish Fixers''.

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'' crossed over with ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]'' three times, but long before that were Jimmy, Carl, and Cindy, the random animals Cosmo named in "Sleep Over and Over".

** ...Which itself is a ShoutOut to the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "Enter the Fly" where, well, [[NamesTheSame Baxter]] gets turned into a fly.

* In "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary", the gorilla from the second challenge ends up parodying ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''.

* There are several references to To both Creator/DCComics and Creator/MarvelComics, StarWars, WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, etc.

* In "The End of the Universe-ity", one of Dark Laser's henchmen (the one with blue skin) is a shout out to [[StarWars Admiral Thwran.]]

* "Shelf Life" directly plays with several classic works of literature: [[Literature/MobyDick Moby Duck]], Liternature/{{Frankenstein}}'s Monster Truck, [[Literature/TarzanOfTheApes Tarzan Lord of the Drapes]], [[Myth/JasonAndTheArgonauts Jason and the]] [[WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats Pussycats]], [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers The Three]] [[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Mouseketeers]], and [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat The Rat in Spats]]. Not to mention starring villain [[Literature/TheAdventuresofTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]] and the [[Creator/ErnestHemingway various]] [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour novels]] [[Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye used]] [[Theatre/MacBeth as]] [[Literature/TheDivineComedy frisbees]] [[Creator/HenryDavidThoreau or]] [[Creator/HenryDavidThoreau bowling]] [[Literature/TheStranger pins]] in a montage...

** 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. "[[Series/{{Seinfeld}} It's a show about nothing!]] ... [[TakeThat How do we know when its over?]]" The gag also works considering that Kramer's first name is revealed to be Cosmo. At another point, they recreate ''Series/ILoveLucy''

** Cosmo calls Timmy "[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants CheeseBoy SquarePants]]" in one scene from ''Wish Fixers'').

** Cosmo calls Timmy "[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants CheeseBoy SquarePants]]" in one scene from ''Wish Fixers''.

* In "Scary OddCouple", when Vicky sees Timmy wished for a circus in his room, she tries to [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb bust him, but ends up fruitless]].

* "Shelf Life" directly plays with several classic works of literature: [[Literature/MobyDick Moby Duck]], Frankenstein's Monster Truck, [[Literature/TarzanOfTheApes Tarzan Lord of the Drapes]], [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers The Three Mouseketeers]], and [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat The Rat in Spats]]. Not to mention starring villain [[Literature/TheAdventuresofTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]] and the [[Creator/ErnestHemingway various]] [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour novels]] [[Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye used]] [[Theatre/MacBeth as]] [[Literature/TheDivineComedy frisbees]] [[Creator/HenryDavidThoreau or]] [[Creator/HenryDavidThoreau bowling]] [[Literature/TheStranger pins]] in a montage...

* Competing for the most obscure reference: The Flash (?) expy in "Power Pals" is named [[Music/JoanJett Joan Jet.]]

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** A song similar to “[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Pure Imagination]]” plays at the end of “Scary [=GodParents=].

** ...Which itself is a ShoutOut to the TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles episode "Enter the Fly" where, well, [[NamesTheSame Baxter]] gets turned into a fly.

* The Poltergeeks are a parody of the {{Franchise/Ghostbusters}}.
** The title card and the name of the episode is a spoof of {{Film/Poltergeist|1982}}.

* "Big Wanda" has [[Film/TheGodfather a horse head pillow and chiaroscuro lighting]] ([[{{LampshadeHanging}} the latter of which is lampshaded by Wanda]]).

* Cosmo as {{Film/Braveheart}} in "Homewrecking". (Episode contains also a possible ''Film/TheShining'' reference but that could be a generically AxCrazy Vicky.)

* "The Good Ol' Days" is a love letter to the various cartoons from the 1920s/1930s: ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'' and various WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts are referenced... and the apparently made-up theme song for the episode is actually a shout-out: namely, it's a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to the main theme heard at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/LadyPlayYourMandolin'', possibly as an instance of SelfDeprecation given all the WritingAroundTrademarks and the various {{Lawyer Friendly Cameo}}s involved.

* "The Good Ol' Days" is a love letter to the various cartoons from the 1920s/1930s: ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'' and various WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts are referenced... and the apparently made-up theme song for the episode is actually a shout-out: namely, it's a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to the main theme heard at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/LadyPlayYourMandolin'', possibly as an instance of SelfDeprecation given all the WritingAroundTrademarks and the various {{Lawyer-Friendly Cameo}}s involved.

* "The Good Ol' Days" is a love letter to the various cartoons from the 1920s/1930s: ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'' and various WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts are referenced... and the apparently made-up theme song for the episode is actually a shout-out: namely, it's a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to the main theme heard at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/LadyPlayYourMandolin'', possibly as an instance of SelfDeprecation given all the WritingAroundTrademarks and the various [[LawyerFriendlyCameo lawyer-friendly cameos]] involved.

* The title of ''School's Out!'' may be a reference to [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} another popular cartoon with a movie with a similar name, but released theatrically]]

** The title card and the name of the episode is a spoof of {{Film/Poltergeist}}.

* [[GIJoe Dr. Mindbender]] was an orthodontist before joining COBRA, and his real name was "Dr. Bender".

* "Timvisible" has a title card that features Timmy in a get up similar to Claude Rains in ''Film/TheInvisibleMan''

* "Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad": Timmy's supervillian persona is a parody of ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, complete with Cosmo and Wanda turning into versions of ComicBook/SilverSurfer.

* "Totally Spaced Out": Cosmo shows Mark a fake holographic message from Vicky, which starts with [[Film/StarWarsANewHope "Help me, Mark Chang, you're my only hope!"]]

* "Timvisible" has a title card that features Timmy in a get up similar to Claude Rains in ''Film/TheInvisibleMan''

* ''Action Packed'' features an [[Film/DieHard action movie starring a protagonist named McCain]]. The movie Timmy's Dad thought they were watching was [[Film/AirBud "The boring dog who could shoot boring hoop."]]

** Cosmo rides Timmy's back when training in the jungle, [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack talking like Yoda.]]

* In "Two and a Half Babies", Foop reads two pages from his favorite children's book: [[IfYouGiveAMouseACookie "If you feed a mouse...a poison cookie]][[CaptainObvious ...it dies!"]]

* Cosmo as {{Film/Braveheart}} in "Homewrecking". (Episode contains also a possible {{Film/Shining}} reference but that could be a generically AxCrazy Vicky.)

** In "Super Humor", An Australian mutters [[Film/CrocodileDundee "That's not a knife!"]] when he confronts a LittleGreenMen.

* A really old one in the 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. "[[Series/{{Seinfeld}} It's a show about nothing!]] ... [[TakeThat How do we know when its over?]]" The gag also works considering that Kramer's first name is revealed to be Cosmo.

** In "The Zappys!" Jorgen starts quoting Sally Field's famous Oscar acceptance speech. When the audience doesn't bite, he turns his wand on them and states "You ''must'' like me!"

** In another short, when Timmy tries to guess the name of the temp fairy, the first guess is "Anime/{{Voltron}}."

* In one of the original ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, Timmy says [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu"]] while riding a roller coaster.