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Recap / The Fairly OddParents! S0E2 "Too Many Timmys!"

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"Too Many Timmys" is the second short to air as part of Oh Yeah! Cartoons, premiering on September 25th, 1998.

Vicky tells the Turners she has injured her back so the Turners have Timmy do everything for her. Needless to say Vicky takes advantage of this and works Timmy hard. Timmy, then, wishes for a bunch of clones to complete the jobs.


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  • Barbershop Quartets Are Funny: At one point, four of Timmy's copies sing like a barbershop quartet, seemingly for no other reason than to mess with Vicky.
  • Drama-Preserving Handicap: Timmy needs to get rid of his clones before his secret's blown but Cosmo and Wanda can't simply poof them all away when they're spread out. Timmy has to gather them all in the same room before they can do that.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: This short's title card is animated, which happened a few times on the other shorts but was dropped from the show proper, with a few exceptions.
  • Freak Out: Vicky completely loses her mind when she sees the Timmy clones, assuming she's hallucinating.
  • Happy Harlequin Hat: Vicky forces Timmy to wear a jester cap as she makes him to do a ton of chores.
  • Magic A Is Magic A: While fairies can grant wishes to clone people, the wish can only be undone if all the clones are in the same room at the same time.
  • Me's a Crowd: Timmy wishes for "a ton" of copies to do chores. His Literal Genie godparents divide 2000 pounds by his body weight to get 44.5 clones (the .5 is rendered as a half-sized Timmy). The result follows the second case of the trope, so that Timmy has to get all the clones rounded up into a room and wish them away before someone sees more than one Timmy at once.
  • Mini-Me: One of the clones is half Timmy's size, due to a "ton" of Timmys being equal to forty four and a half times his body weight.
  • Non-Natural Number Gag: After taking Timmy's weight and calculating it, Cosmo and Wanda poof up 44 and a half Timmys, with a final, pint-sized Timmy being The Runt at the End.
  • Pint-Sized Kid: Timmy's bizarrely small size is acknowledged when Timmy is asked his weight. He proudly says he's forty-five pounds—which is an average weight for a six year old, as opposed to the nine year old he's supposed to be.
  • The Runt at the End: After Timmy gives the orders to his clones, they all march out of the room grunting like soldiers. Right after the 44th Timmy? A half-sized clone with a high-pitched voice.
  • Troll: Even after all the Timmys are gone, Timmy still freaks Vicky out by jumping in front of multiple mirrors to look like there's still more of him.
  • Troubled Fetal Position: Vicky is reduced to one after she keeps seeing multiple Timmys.

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