The Fairly OddParents (Season 1-8)

***The Fairly OddParents*** is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. Set in the fictional town of Dimmsdale, California, the series follows the adventures of Timmy Turner, a 10-year old boy who is neglected by his parents and abused by his teenage babysitter named Vicky. He is granted two fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda, who grant his every wish to improve his miserable life. However, these wishes usually backfire and cause a series of problems that Timmy must fix.

## Why These Seasons Rock

1. Catchy and jazzy theme song.
2. Awesome animation style.
3. Memorable characters like Timmy Turner, Cosmo, Wanda, Timmy's parents, Jorgen Von Strangle, Chester, A.J., Elmer, Sanjay, Trixie Tang, Veronica, Tootie, Mark Chang, Cupid, Remy Buxaplenty, Juandissimo, Binky, Chet Ubetcha, Dinkleberg, Catman, Crash Nebula, and the Crimson Chin.
4. Poof, the son of Cosmo and Wanda, is actually a cute character to begin with from season six onwards.
5. Memorable villains like Vicky the Babysitter, Denzel Crocker, Francis the School Bully, the Pixies, Dark Laser, Norm the Genie, the Crimson Chin’s Enemies, and the Anti-Fairies (including Foop, Anti-Cosmo, Anti-Wanda etc).
6. Plenty of funny jokes.
7. Well-talented voice acting.
8. It manages to teach valuable lessons every time Timmy wishes for something that eventually backfires.
9. Well established structure, *Da Rules*, that ties the show together.
10. It also gives the show limited structure with magic to allow actual conflicts to occur in the plots in question.
11. Even though Poof was born in season six, the show was still good until season nine.
12. Memorable direct-to-TV films and/or specials like "Abra-Catastrophe!", "Channel Chasers", "School's Out!: The Musical", "Fairy Idol", "Fairly OddBaby", "Wishology!", and "When L.O.S.E.R.S. Attack".
13. It has three crossovers with *The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius*.
14. Despite all the backfiring Timmy gets in some episodes whenever something he wishes backfires, he does get some pretty good endings no matter what.
15. Its first five seasons, the original run from 2001 to 2006 including the first ten pilot shorts that came prior, are considered the golden age era mainly by fans.
16. ”Meet the OddParents”, the final episode of season eight, was decent and could have been a perfect way to wrap up the series if it had not continued past that.
17. Mr. Turner has spawned numerous memes such as "DINKLEBURG!" and "If I had one!"

## Bad Qualities

1. The Show experienced a massive decline in quality in its final two seasons, the ninth and tenth seasons, that ultimately killed off the series.
2. Even before that, there were a few bad episodes, such as:
	* "Love Struck!”
	* "Just the Two of Us!"
	* "Timmy’s 2D House of Horror”
	* "It's a Wishful Life”
	* "Teeth for Two"
	* "Open Wide and Say Aaagh!"
	* "Vicky Gets Fired"
	* "Crocker Shocker"
	* "Sooper Poof"
	* "Lights Out"
	* "Timmy's Secret Wish!”
		+ "Timmy's Secret Wish, in particular, was an awful way to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series.
3. While the original ten pilot shorts and the first five seasons (which are often collectively considered the golden age era of the show) were well recieved, the sixth through eighth seasons had mixed reception among critics and fans alike. While the sixth through eighth seasons are generally better received than the infamous ninth and tenth seasons, they are still not as great as the first five seasons:
	* The sixth season, while good for the most part, is when the show got revived after a year-long hiatus and officially jumped the shark due to the introduction of Poof. While Poof himself was generally well recieved, he was nevertheless not immune to criticism, as a few critics and fans consider him not so much of a useful character since he is just a baby (though they've warmed up to him more nowadays). The season also had a few weak episodes, with "Vicky Gets Fried" being the worst offender.
	* The seventh season, while decent, is arguably considered the weakest in the Poof era because upon the introduction of Foop, who is Poof's anti-counterpart, the quality declined even more so than in the sixth season, as many of the original writers have moved on by then, while Butch Hartman and the replacement writers favored Crocker and Mr. Turner so much that they deliberately ignored many of the other secondary characters, who by this point, have started to appear even less and less, though they weren't officially ignored until the ninth season. The flanderization of the characters in general, as well as continuity errors and inconsistencies with *Da Rules* (ex. Foop not actually being named Anti-Poof, Foop going to the same school with Poof despite being an anti-counterpart of him, Crocker's obsession with magic being the source of Fairy World, etc), became more noticeable. The episode "Lights Out" is also the worst episode in this season.
	* The eighth season has a rocky start, mainly with its second episode, "Timmy's Secret Wish", being the worst offender, but picks itself up afterwards.
4. Even though the show has good morals, they are often not well carried out because they'd just rather tell the morals instead of showing them. Likewise, it has had some pretty bad and misleading morals:
	* The moral of the infamous "It's a Wishful Life" states that you shouldn't do things for people to be appreciated, but because it's the right thing to do. This is incredibly wrong because being appreciated means people are graceful for the goods that you do, being appreciated makes you know that you did something good and you should feel proud of yourself for doing something good, and how can you tell if you did something right or good if you aren't appreciated for it?
	* The moral in "Vicky Gets Fired" is an incredibly dangerous and misleading moral that states that if you are being bullied and tortured up to the point of attempted murder, you should keep quiet and not tell anyone, especially authority figures.
5. It gets pretty mean-spirited, annoying, dumb, cliché, and juvenile at times.
	* The humor, in particular, can at times be offensively stereotypical as it tends to make stereotypical jokes at British people and portrays smart people as insufferable and insensitive.
6. Trixie Tang stopped making speaking appearances after season 7 due to her voice actress, Dionne Quan, leaving the show. The writers could've easily recast her with Grey Griffin or Kari Wahlgren.
7. The characterization, while decent, isn’t the best, because as said before, it’s the constant flanderization as the show progressed, as Butch Hartman and/or the writers seemed uninterested in developing the characters past their stereotypes (the same can even be said for his other shows) that could have allowed for some more potential creativity. Even on the rare times where they break from this mold, it’s generally for comedic purposes since almost none of the characters have actual depth or charm in comparison to other more popular and iconic shows such as fellow Nicktoon series, *SpongeBob SquarePants*.
	* Veronica, the best friend of Trixie Tang, in particular, is badly underutilized since she could have served as a potential third love interest for Timmy as an in-between of Trixie and Tootie (lacking the former's narcissism and the latter's obsessiveness) instead of the later characters of Missy and Chloe Carmichael, but Butch Hartman and/or the writers seemed to have ignored her as the series progressed.
8. Occasionally in the first five seasons, the show can be inconsistent with *Da Rules*, though this is much more better understandable unlike in the later seasons, especially in the infamous ninth and tenth seasons.
	* Speaking of inconsistency, the origins of how Cosmo and Wanda first met periodically changes throughout the show.
	* One particularly baffling example comes from "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary" (Remy Buxaplenty's debut episode). In the episode, Remy showed concern that Timmy could wish to be richer than him, but its sister episode "Nectar of the Odds" establishes that poofing up money is counterfeiting.