Tear Jerker / The Fairly OddParents!

aka: Schools Out The Musical

Tear-jerking moments in The Fairly Oddparents. Note that the Channel Chasers movie has its own page.

• Bad Heir Day. "Goodbye, DJ...I'll miss you..."
  • Also-
    Poof: (Hugs Crocker) Crocker...
    Crocker: (Hugs Poof, eyes start to water) Be strong (Lets go)..n-no tears....(Breaks down sobbing).
• In "Boy Toy", when Timmy realizes the absolute hell that Tootie lives with Vicky every single day, realizing he's getting off easy. This on top of his remorse for his absolutely cruel treatment of her (because of her Stalker with a Crush tendencies) convinces him to Pet the Dog.
• The ending of “The Secret Origin Of Denzel Crocker”, where, despite all of Timmy’s efforts to fix Crocker’s past, he (and Cosmo) end up becoming the cause of all his misery by accidentally revealing his fairies to the world. The worst part is that Timmy wasn’t doing it for any selfish intentions, he genuinely wanted to help Crocker to not be so miserable.
  Young Crocker: NO! Do you realize what you’ve done? DO YOU!?
  Timmy: No! I’m sorry! This is exactly what I was trying to prevent!
  • The fact that Crocker was a nice person once is heartbreaking in itself. And all he has left is finding out if Fairies exist.
  Mrs Crocker: What happened to the perky little ball of sunshine that used to be my son?
  Crocker: That child doesn’t exist! I can’t even remember a time when I was happy!
• In "The Switch Glitch", Timmy wishes that he could be the babysitter and Vicky his charge to give her a taste of her own medicine. When the wish activates, though, Vicky is regressed to a five-year-old girl with no memory of what's going on...so when Timmy starts being cruel and abusive to her—even though she's done nothing wrong—she's left a sobbing mess. Timmy is surprised at his lack of joy in the moment, and Wanda angrily points out that he isn't getting revenge on Vicky—he's just using magic to bully a small girl so she'll cry. Things go From Bad to Worse when Vicky's misery alerts Fairy World, triggering a representative to immediately assign the heartbroken child a pair of godparents: Cosmo and Wanda.
  Vicky: Welcome to the corner of Pay and Back!
• In "Fairy Idol", the moment where Timmy finds out that Cosmo and Wanda can't be his fairies anymore, even if they accepted his apology, the only thing they can do is walk him home. They get better, but it's still a sad moment.
  Timmy: Can we take the long way home?
  • In the same episode, when Timmy thinks Cosmo and Wanda are dead. They get better, but still.
  • Just Fairy Idol in general. Even if it does have some funny moments, it's probably the most depressing Fairly Odd Parents special ever.
  • Chester realizing he unknowingly destroyed Timmy's life. It's small but sad. Mainly because the only reason he found out was because he saw Timmy was upset, and innocently wished Norm to be Timmy's Oddparent, not realizing what a horrible idea would be. He honestly just wanted to help.
• In Snow Bound, Timmy tells Vicky that she was mean to him for years, and she's finally getting what she deserves, and the only good thing about getting snowed in a cave is that if Timmy goes down, at least Vicky is going down with him. And then Vicky, upon hearing "The Reason You Suck" Speech message, breaks down.
• In "A Wish Too Far!", Timmy is sent to fairy court and has to lose his own his fairy godparents! It also means that he even has to lose his popularity. It's just heartwrenching.
  • Thankfully, Timmy learned his lesson, and Cosmo and Wanda give him one more chance to be with him.
• During the Magical Duel between Timmy and Remy, Timmy tries to convince Remy to call it off, saying that he doesn't care that Remy has a Fairy Godparent. Remy's response is just heartbreaking.
  Remy: But... I care if you do! My parents are never home! I never get to see them! Why should you get real parents and godparents that love you WHEN I DON'T!!??
  • Timmy winning, but not "feeling" like he won. The only thing he can think of doing is wishing Remy had more time with his parents. Unfortunately, Timmy's attempt to make Remy's parents spend more time with their son only results in them finding an oil well on the desert island they crashed on and Remy becomes neglected and resentful again.
• Older Timmy crying about wanting to get out of jail and see his parents in "The Big Problem!" Fortunately, this brings out the kid in him, which allows Cosmo and Wanda to change him back.
  • It gets even worse when all the other prisoners witness Timmy leaving and cry "We want our mommies and daddies too!"
• Cosmo and Wanda's "With You" number from "School's Out!" is so emotional. The song is about how despite Cosmo's naive nature and Wanda's overall bossy side, they still love each other and will stick together even in the toughest of situations. Even Jorgen himself was incredibly moved.
  • Which was the plan...
  • "Where Is The Fun", a chorus between Timmy, Flappy Bob, and the Pixies, in which Timmy tries to get Flappy to see what's really going on while the Pixies try to drive him further into villainy. Poor Flappy can't decide which side he should go to... but in the end he picks the Pixies' side.
  Flappy Bob: Maybe you're right / Could be a giant mistake / But changing my life's a risk I'm not ready to take / This nose, pants, hair and shoes / They're all my past and now I choose / To wish for a world / A world that fits all my views / A world where I'm safe!
  HP and Sanderson: It's over, Turner you LOSE!
  • At one point in the song, Timmy asks Flappy how he thinks his parents would feel if they discovered what he's become. Flappy promptly looks at a photo of his parents and starts to cry.
  • Flappy Bob gets very bleakly introspective in the Unfundamentals song about his Conflicting Loyalty.
  Flappy Bob: My mom and dad would not be proud/Of the path I've taken in life/ Have I been wrong? / Have I been used?/ Should I embrace my nose and shoes?
  • The Pixies are so overjoyed that their plan worked that they don't even leave the building to badmouth Flappy Bob.
  HP: All we had to do is rip a clown child away from his hilarious destiny, and convince him that fun wasn't fun, and that boring was fun.
  Sanderson: You'd have to be a clown to fall for that!
  HP: A ''really dumb'' clown.
• The look on Chester's and A.J.'s faces at the end of Wishology Part 2 when Timmy sacrifices himself to the Darkness. Even though, it's Limited Animation, the expressions on the boys' faces when they realize they may never see their best friend again is truly heartbreaking; and they didn't have to say a word. Hell, even Vicky and Trixie are shocked at the fact they may never see him again.
  Vicky: I'll never call him a twerp again!
  • If we count Live Action Adaptations under this page, Timmy saying goodbye to the Cosmas near the end of A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! definitely qualifies.
• "Abra-Catastrophe!":
  • After learning that it was his parents' constant lying to him growing up that he has Cosmo and Wanda to begin with, Timmy forlornly wished that they would just stop. What makes this especially poignant is that this wasn't in the typically commanding "I wish for..." tone (though per Da Rules, Cosmo and Wanda grant it anyway) but Timmy actually speaking from the heart that he wants his parents to genuinely change for him because what they've been doing hurts him that deeply.
  • Timmy revealing Cosmo and Wanda's existence to his parents to save them from being used by Crocker.
  Cosmo: But we don't wanna go away forever!
  Wanda: We love you!
  Timmy: I love you, too. And that's why I had to do it, because... THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!!
• At the end of Meet The Oddparents, Jorgen finds out that Timmy's parents know about his fairies and, as per Da Rules, says he has to take them away forever. Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof tearfully beg Jorgen not to do it, and while Timmy tries to insist he'll be fine and that it was worth giving his parents the time of their lives, it doesn't take long before he too breaks down crying and hugs them while saying how much he'll miss them.
• When Timmy is revealed to have wished for Comic-Book Time so that he'd never lose Cosmo and Wanda, Jorgen fixes the wish. This turns Timmy into an old man, and undoes all of his wishes. Not only does that include Poof, but he must erase Cosmo and Wanda's memory of their son. This is so traumatic for Jorgen it causes him to become morbidly obese to deal with the stress.
• In Fancy Schmancy, Chloe sings a sad song that she and Timmy cannot spend their three-month best friend anniversary because of their parents.
• While "Birthday Bashed" is mostly just a standard silly FOP episode, this would be the final physical appearance of Chip Skylark and Chris Kirkpatrick. For anyone who grew up watching the episodes that featured him (as well as FOP, for that matter), it might hit a little too close to home.
• Sure, the end of “It’s a Wishful Life” ends with Timmy learning to do good deeds for good deeds sake, but it’s still tragic that Timmy’s pure existence makes everyone’s lives worse. Timmy was about ready to basically unexist because he realized how terrible he makes everyone else’s life by just being alive.
• Timmy's life in general can be this, which is actually why he was given Fairy Godparents in the first place. It's often played for laughs, but ultimately, Timmy is a neglected, lonely child whose parents are often away, don't pay attention to him and leave him at the mercy of his Babysitter from Hell. He is unpopular at school and often bullied and struggles at school because his teacher loves giving his students Fs even when they don't deserve it. And while it's overexaggerated for comedy, parental neglect, bullying and being treated poorly by your teacher is something a lot of real life kids also go through, so it can hit close to home to people who experienced any of those. Who knows how his life would be if Cosmo and Wanda weren't around...

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