Crash Nebula (episode)

"Crash Nebula" is the 69th episode of The Fairly OddParents, produced as a pilot episode for a planned-but-ultimately-unproduced Crash Nebula spin-off series.
== Synopsis ==
The episode begins in Timmy's room, as he is excitedly telling Cosmo and Wanda that he's been waiting for the Crash Nebula episode that's about to air. As Cosmo and Wanda try to guess what the episode is about, the camera eventually moves over to Timmy's TV, and we see the Crash Nebula episode that Timmy is so excited about...
One day, while Sprig Speevak is doing his "chores" (laying around reading comic books), he sees a giant space ship appear. Out runs a butterfly-esque creature, being chased down by bugdroids. Leaping into action, Sprig saves the creature, who thanks him and introduces herself as Princess Galaxandra and gives him a free scholarship to the Celestial Academy to reward him for his heroism. Sprig happily accepts. When his family hears of it, his parents happily congratulate him, and his father gives him the family manure. His little sister, Sprout, only happily claims that she'll have his room.
Sprig boards the school's bus, expecting the other (alien) students to accept him, especially since he saved the Headmistress. However, he only gets made fun of, with the bully Ving claiming that Sprig was just another free-loader. Fortunately, Sprig makes a friend in the gelataneous Dif, and also develops a crush on the popular Ani, who has no interest in him whatsoever. Throughout the day, Sprig is made fun of and beaten up by Ving and his cohorts, Rockwell and Felos.
When it's time for Galactic Defense 101, Ving and Sprig compete to get the Nebula 3000 Suit, which is the dream of every Celestial Academy student. Unfortunately, a portal into space is opened (thanks to Sprig) and Ani is in danger of being sucked into space. In a desperate attempt to rescue her, Sprig dons the Nebula 3000 Suit and uses its abilities to get Ani out of harm's way. Unsurprisingly, the suit's batteries run low, leaving them both in danger. Sprig then remembers his family's manure that his father gave him, and quickly uses it as a fuel source. With the suit powered back up, Sprig closes the portal, causing major damage in the process. When he and Ani are safe, she yells, "You idiot! You crashed the Nebula!" Sprig exclaims, "That's it!" and calls himself Crash Nebula from that day forth.
As the show ends, we cut back to Timmy, annoyed with his godparents being unable to correctly guess which episode he's talking about (one of their guesses alludes to the one seen back in the episode ""), simply tells them that it's the story about Crash Nebula's origins. Unfortunately, when Timmy then turns his attention to the TV, he finds that he's missed the show.
==Home video==
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* The Fairly OddParents: Season 5
== Cast ==
Voice Actor 	Character(s)
Tara Strong 	Timmy TurnerSprout Speevak
Daran Norris 	Cosmo
Susanne Blakeslee 	WandaPrincess Galaxandra
James Arnold Taylor 	Crash Nebula/Sprig Speevak
Richard Steven Horvitz	Chuck
Jim Ward 	DifPa Speevak
Nika Futterman 	Ani
Justin Berfield 	Ving
Michael Clarke Duncan 	Rockwell
Carlos Alazraqui 	Felos
Mo Collins 	Ma Speevak
Pat Fraley 	Brock Rocket
Queen Latifah 	Pam Dromeda
== Delays and cancellation ==
After a long while of speculation, Butch Hartman confirmed on January 24, 2006 that the spin-off series was called off. According to character designer Ben Balistreri, Nickelodeon's decision to shelve the series idea was that because the pilot didn't focus test well.
The concept was also written as a movie script and pitched to Paramount Pictures as a feature film titled Crash Nebula: The Movie. However, it was rejected, as there were too many similarities to the Disney film Sky High. Crash Nebula is also noticeably similar to (and possibly inspired by) the 1980s cartoon Galaxy High.
Due to the proliferation (and eventual cancellation) of Danny Phantom, as well as the debut of T.U.F.F. Puppy, this idea has likely been scrapped by Billionfold Studios.
== External links ==
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Category:The Fairly OddParents episodes