The Fairly Oddparents

***The Fairly Oddparents*** is a Nicktoon created by Butch Hartman that first aired in the United States on March 30, 2001, and ended on July 26, 2017. It was produced by Frederator Studios, whose show *Oh Yeah! Cartoons*, showed the pilot episodes alongside many other first-run and one-time cartoons. The series was distributed outside the United States by the Canadian animation company, Nelvana Enterprises, Inc. and airs on the Disney Channel in certain countries for this reason.

*The Fairly Oddparents* is set in the fictional town of Dimmsdale, California. The show follows the day-to-day life of 10-year-old Timmy Turner. An only child, Timmy was often preyed upon by such adversaries as his mean babysitter, Vicky, or his maniacal teacher, Mr. Crocker. Just as his situation was particularly grim, he was granted a pair of fairy godparents, named Cosmo and Wanda, who had the power to grant wishes and were charged with making Timmy happy. Unfortunately, Cosmo is a particularly dumb fairy, and Wanda must devote her time to ensuring both Timmy's and Cosmo's safety; as such, although well meaning, their wishes sometimes go wrong. These fairy godparents, mindful of their secretive existence, disguise themselves as various animals and objects in public, always with the same peculiar colors to identify the two: Cosmo is always in the light green tint of his hair, and Wanda always remains in the light pink tint of her hair.

Later seasons introduced more additions to the show's main cast: Poof, Cosmo and Wanda's son who was born as a result of one of Timmy's wishes in the sixth season; Sparky, a talking fairy dog whom Timmy adopted in the ninth season; and Chloe Carmichael, a girl whom Timmy would have to share his fairy family with in the show's tenth and final season.

Most episodes of the show consists of two segments that are each approximately 11 minutes long.

Although its creator Butch Hartman cites his other work *Danny Phantom* to be his most iconic, *The Fairly OddParents* had a far larger running time and a greater influence, as well temporarily being Nickelodeon's top-rated program. To date, it is Nickelodeon's second-longest-running scripted series (behind *Spongebob Squarepants*), at 172 episodes spread across ten seasons.

## Contents

* History
	+ Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998-2001)
	+ Peak Years (2002-06)
	+ Hiatus (2007-08)
	+ Revival (2008-17)
* Characters
* Episodes
* Home video releases
* Broadcast history
* Gallery
* References
* External links

## History

### Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998-2001)edit | edit source

*The Fairly OddParents* first aired as a short film on *Oh Yeah! Cartoons* in 1998, which aired some 10 episodes of the original show. *Oh Yeah! Cartoons* was canceled in 2001, but Nickelodeon offered to make its own show. This offer was accepted by creator Butch Hartman. The show began airing its own full-length episodes as its own series in the same year. Although the Fairly OddParents was not very popular in its first year, its popularity began to catch on later, attracting both a kid and adult fan base. *SpongeBob SquarePants* was the only show higher-rated than *The Fairly OddParents*. Another notable thing about the show was that attracted many adolescent and adult followers because of its more complicated, witty sense of humor.

### Peak Years (2002-06)edit | edit source

In 2002, the show's ratings were extremely high, and it very briefly passed *SpongeBob SquarePants*. The show saw its very quick rise to the top and fall in the summer of 2003 when the show's first TV movie, *Abra-Catastrophe!*, aired. It was an economic hit with record-breaking ratings and merchandise being made.

### Hiatus (2007-08)edit | edit source

The Fairly OddParents was sent on hiatus for 15 months during Jimmy Neutron's cancellation, which its last episode aired on November 25, 2006. A primetime special aired on July 7, 2007 called "Lucky 7" includes Back-to-Back episodes of The Fairly OddParents and a never before seen episode which aired at 7:00pm. A theatrical movie was planned by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies, but was canned due to management changes at Paramount.

### Revival (2008-17)edit | edit source

After a one-year hiatus, Nickelodeon said on TV that they would begin the broadcast of an hour-length episode titled "Fairly OddBaby" on February 18, 2008 as the beginning of 20 episodes of Season 6, and to carry the show to at least 2009.[1] Also, four new episodes aired each day at 5:00pm EST beginning on Monday, March 10 after a rerun of the "Fairly OddBaby" special, and ending on Thursday (3–13) of that week. It was reported that 8.81 million people watched this movie when it originally aired. Another new episode week aired from May 12–16, 2006. "The Fairly Oddlympics" aired on August 1, 2008 to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Another premiere week aired through August 11–15, 2008. The three-part saga "Wishology!" aired on May 1–3, 2009. The seventh-season's premiere, "Anti-Poof", aired on July 10, 2009.

The 10th anniversary special, a live-action/CGI film called *A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!* starring Drake Bell and Daniella Monet, aired July 9, 2011. This was followed up with *A Fairly Odd Christmas*, premiered on November 29, 2012, and *A Fairly Odd Summer*, premiered on August 2, 2014.

The series was burnt off from Nickelodeon on September 16, 2016 due to falling ratings, thus leading to the removal of the entire series from the network's schedule. On January 18, 2017, the entire series moved to the NickToons network. The final episodes of Season 10 was aired on the channel on July 26, 2017. On February 8, 2018, Butch announced his departure at Nickelodeon, making it official that the show, along with *Bunsen is a Beast!*, had ended.[2]

## Characters

→ *Main article*: **List of The Fairly OddParents characters**
## **Voice cast**

* **Tara Strong as Timmy Turner - originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman, Poof**
* **Daran Norris as Cosmo, Mr. Turner, Jorgen Von Strangle**
* **Susanne Blakeslee as Wanda, Mrs. Turner**
* **Grey DeLisle as Vicky, Tootie - originally voiced by Amber Hood**
* **Carlos Alazraqui as Denzel Crocker**
* **Maddie Taylor as Sparky**
* **Kari Wahlgren as Chloe Carmichael**

**Recurring voice actors include Jim Ward, Rob Paulsen, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kenny, Eric Bauza, Jason Marsden, Jeff Bennett, Dionne Quan, Gary LeRoi Gray, Kevin Michael Richardson, Frankie Muniz, and Ibrahim Haneef Muhammad.**

**Throughout its run, celebrities who have guest starred and additional voices on *The Fairly OddParents* include Adam West, Jay Leno, Norm Macdonald, Mary Hart, Chris Kirkpatrick, Alec Baldwin, Ben Stein, Jackie Mason, Jason Bateman, Laraine Newman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Cheri Oteri, Mo Collins and Dannah Phirman-Feinglass, Nika Futterman, Queen Latifah, Debi Derryberry, Tim Curry, George Carlin, Megan Cavanagh, Hope Levy, Carolyn Lawrence, Kath Soucie, Kimberly Brooks, Paul Rugg, Eddie Deezen, Greg Cipes, Lara Jill Miller, Jennifer Hale, Vanessa Marshall, Gilbert Gottfried, Michael Clarke Duncan, Brendan Fraser, Patrick Warburton, Julie Chen, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tom Arnold, Dana Carvey, and Scott Hamilton.**

## Episodes

→ *Main article*: **The Fairly OddParents episode list**

## Home video releases

→ *Main article*: **The Fairly OddParents videography**
## Broadcast history

* Nickelodeon (March 30, 2001-September 16, 2016, April 2-6, 2018)
* NickToons (May 1, 2002-present)

## References

1. ↑ http://frederatorblogs.com/odd/2007/12/20/the-oddparents-are-coming-the-oddparents-are/ The OddParents are coming the OddParents are coming
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4faDISwSVo

## External links

* *Fairly OddParents* at Nick.com
* *The Fairly OddParents Wiki* at Wikia
* *The Fairly OddParents* at the Internet Movie Database

* *The Fairly OddParents* at the Big Cartoon DataBase
* *The Fairly OddParents* at TV Tropes