#i rewatched episodes of fairly odd parents

[fem-the-artist]

I don’t know how many of y’all have seen the fop a new wish episode (I don’t have any strong opinions about the new show yet since it’s only the first episode that was leaked, but I was struck with an idea that I would love to share)  I know the idea of fairy warden Timmy isn’t a new thing, but have you considered 

I know this is definitely not gonna happen in the show, but a girl can dream it’s me I’m the girl with a dream 

Also, I’m basing his age after the fact that his wiki has his canonical birth year being 1992 

Believe me, I will go a very in-depth rant about all of my ideas for him, timeline wise, my own personal theories, and all that nonsense but I’m saving those for later because I wanna rewatch fairly odd parents again to get my timeline and order cough cough anything past season six is NOT Canon 

Bonus for when Jordan does show up 

#fairly oddparents #fop #timmy turner #my art #cosmo and wanda #hazel wells #fop a new wish #fop au #magic future au #I guess I’m calling this the magic future AU #jorgen von strangle

[br1ghtestlight]

I actually didn't really enjoy the s12 finale at first because i wasn't a huge fan of the friend fiction/basically alternate universe episodes that take place almost exclusively away from the main series and characters. hated those episodes ever since I was a kid watching fairly odd parents. but rewatching it its like..... its about the themes. the subtext. and BANGER songs

#im much more fond of the alternate universe type of episodes upon rewatch like. theyre just silly!!!! #and it was harder to enjoy them before i actually got attached to the characters and their personalities i think #maaaybe dont work as well as reruns or for new viewers?? but idc they're fun and the writers are enjoying themselves #txt #bob's burgers

[coraniaid]

Bad Eggs regularly shows up close to the top of lists of the worst episodes the show ever aired, and has done so pretty consistently for a very long time.

To cite just a handful of examples: 

it’s currently the fourth worst episode on IMDB by user rating  

it was ranked eleventh worst in this 2023 list from Rolling Stone 

it was ranked as the single worst episode on this list from Paste Magazine in the same year (quote: “there’s literally nothing good about this episode”)  

it was ranked ninth worst on this 2017 list from Vox 

it was ranked second worst on this 2013 list from BuzzFeed 

So obviously quite a lot of people really don’t like it.

And I’ve never really understood why that is.  In my view, Bad Eggs is … basically fine? A bit boring, sure.  A bit inconsequential in the grander scheme of the season.  A bit awkwardly written in places, with some clunky dialogue and some plotting choices that could have done with a rewrite or three. Underwhelming. But, yes,  basically fine.

The worst episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer are so very much worse than this.  I wish I lived in a reality where this was the worst episode of the show.

During this rewatch alone I’ve already sat through at least two episodes that are significantly, qualitatively worse than Bad Eggs, as well as four or five episodes where I suspect you could make the case either way.  And before this season is over I will have watched two more episodes that are definitely worse, too.  Off the top of my head, there are at least two worse episodes next season too.  And at least two more in every season after that.  In fact, I’m pretty sure I could name a couple of dozen worse episodes than this one without much trouble.

But yeah, it’s not great.

(And yet somehow I'm not finished talking about it.)

Beyond the obvious bit of foreshadowing (“sex can have negative consequences!” a teacher reminds a health class that Buffy’s unfortunately absent from, one episode before Buffy is destined to discover for herself that sex can indeed have negative consequences), the thing that I always remember about this episode is the way that same health class teacher – whose name is Mr Whitmore, we’ll learn later – explains how the egg-raising project he’s setting his students will work.

“You will split into parenting teams.  You and your partner will share equally in the daily task of raising your egg.  Now, please choose a partner.”

Note the words in bold.  The kids will be raising their eggs in partnerships.  Let’s make a note of this for future reference.  It seems to be important!

Well, it is.  Sort of.  Until it isn’t. 

You see, the episode sets things up like this for exactly two reasons.

The first is to have Xander and Cordelia very deliberately not partner up, showing us that … oh, look, sorry, I can’t pretend to take the Xander/Cordelia subplot seriously and I won’t even try.  It’s just very silly.  They both have very weird and conflicting feelings about their nascent relationship for reasons that boil down to this: it simply doesn’t make any sense.  Let’s move on.

The second and, I think, primary reason for the partnership set-up is so that Buffy can find out she wasn’t assigned a partner of her own (there are an odd number of students in the class). On finding this out, Buffy laments that she is now “a single mother … doomed to live my mother’s life”.  

In fact, the episode is so keen for Buffy to reach this conclusion that she initially assumes she has been assigned a partner.  Even before anybody tells her the assignment was structured that way. Even though Buffy wasn’t in class to be told about it, and even though her only reaction on being shown the egg in question was befuddlement.  

Buffy is presented with the egg, assumes it must be some sort of “fairly abstract” punishment, and on being told that she has to take care of it immediately realizes that this is the sort of hard work that can only be done by a team of two.  “My partner ... who did I get?” she asks hopefully.  Well, okay, I guess. Maybe that’s how Mr Whitmore sets up all his assignments.

In any case, we know that these are the only two reasons the egg assignment is described this way, because after Buffy expresses her horror at the prospect of becoming a single mother, the concept of the egg raising being done with a partner is never mentioned again.

Not only is it not raised again, a moment’s thought shows it is completely at odds with the actual plot of the episode.

The rest of Bad Eggs proceeds exactly as if each of the students has sole custody of their eggs.  We see the eggs hatch at night, and strange creatures climb out to possesses the students taking care of them.  What happens to the other student in the partnership, the one who didn’t take the egg home that night?  What does Xander’s partner think about the fact he boiled their shared egg? Are they in on the scheme? What do they think about the fact he named it “Xander Junior”?  We don’t know, because we don’t know who Xander’s partner is and we will never find out.  We never see his egg partner, or Willow’s, or Cordelia’s.  They do not exist.  They will never exist.  For the episode to work, they cannot have existed.

And why would Mr Whitmore, presumably already possessed by sinister egg creatures at this point, want to limit the distribution of eggs like this?  Doesn’t he want to possess as many students as possible? Just give them all individual eggs! We know that there are plenty more of them to go around, because later in this episode we see lots of other people get possessed by the egg creatures – Giles, Joyce and Jonathan to name just a few – people who very clearly were not in the original health class.

No, I’m pretty sure that the only reason the script pretends that the eggs are being raised in partnerships at the start is so that Buffy can worry about becoming her mother.  Something that she has never expressed any concern about before, something the episode never even pretends to comes back to, and something that Buffy herself won’t worry about again for another seventy-one episodes (and then only in vastly different circumstances).  

And “how deeply scary is that?” is asked as a rhetorical question, but I’m going with … “not very?”.  We see Buffy fight monsters every night; we’ve seen her mourn friends; we’ve seen her drown and die.  Surely being a single mother isn’t quite so scary compared to all of that?  Especially when, again, Buffy hasn’t ever shown any signs of thinking her mom is unlucky to be a single mother.  Just last episode it was a plot point that Buffy wasn’t happy about her mother meeting somebody new!  Buffy clearly doesn’t think her life would be better if her mother was seeing somebody, so why does she think her mother’s life is so terrible as it is?

What does Buffy’s little speech in the library mean?  What are we supposed to take away from it?  Why did the script go to all that trouble of setting it up?

But just to ask the question is to put more thought into the substance and meaning of this episode than I think anybody involved in writing it did.  

In an interview a few years ago, Marti Noxon (who wrote not just this episode but also most of What’s My Line?, as well as next week’s Surprise and two further episodes this season alone) described the pace of writing episodes for the show as “bananas”.  In that interview she also suggested that sometimes episodes had to be written in as little as four days, generally without much support or involvement from the rest of the writing team, but noted that “sometimes that results in really good writing”.

Maybe sometimes it does. I will say that I think that two of Noxon’s episodes this season are genuinely very good, to say nothing of future episodes she’ll write like Consequences and The Prom and Forever.  But sometimes it results in … well, Bad Eggs.  Not even close to the worst episode ever, despite the fandom consensus, but certainly not something worth thinking too hard about either.

Or as the script has Xander say, in what could easily be meta commentary on the episode itself:

“It says nothing.  It means nothing.  This whole egg experiment is completely pointless.”

#btvs #buffy rewatch 2023 #it’s kind of weird that every single one of those lists is so egregiously wrong about what the actual worst episode of Buffy is #but perhaps we will make it to that episode ... eventually

[thecomicallytragicgangle]

[mod rambles 2 to keep you entertained]

[i saw this and just felt like commenting; its kind of funny seeing people say "i grew up with spongebob/fairly odd parents/adventure time/some really popular 2000s kid show" cause i'm just sitting here like..]

[i watched like. 5% of those. like i barely recall any spongebob episodes, and i got a nightmare last time i watched teen titans go so i stopped watching it. Forever]

[i don't even talk about my childhood shows cause everyone just looks at me like im insane :sob: its not MY fault people have never heard of the shows i watched!!!!]

[another small note don't you hate it when you go back to a childhood place or rewatch a childhood show and its just.. 10x worse than you remember??? or its just completely different? its just like "oh. i don't remember that. why is it like that..."]

[but yeah. enough of my ramblings. i must go back to drawing and answering questions!]

#the amazing digital circus #tadc gangle #ask blog #tadc #ooc

[elliebartlets]

veronica mars rewatch 1x08: like a virgin

• I knew I recognized Cliff from Fairly Odd Parents but didn’t know he voiced cosmo and the dad! (And 2 other characters that aren’t important lol)

• MEG!!! Omgggg

• I love her plotline (from what I can remember). It was wilddd.

• Veronica “flashing” Wallace lol

• oh yeah Wallace’s mom

• does she end up dating Keith or am I making that up?

• omg and Mac too?? Wow they’re just introducing all the new peeps in this episode

• Wallace’s mom is a landlord?

• The person playing Meg reminds me a lot of Jennette McCurdy

• ok so I think one of those 2 girls that are friends with Meg took the test as Meg

• poor Meg

• it’s so obvious the Amy girl did it (watch I’ll be wrong)

• Wallace’s mom annoys me. Like maybe get to know Veronica and Keith before you judge them based on what you hear?

• Keith kicking out the sleazy tenant lmaooo help he was literally barking like a dog

• speaking of dogs good to see Veronica still has Backup

• ok so it was both of the girls who took the tests as Meg and Veronica

• omg Mac was the one who set up the website

• although I don’t care if this was 2004 and that all the 09ers bought a bunch of tests there’s no way she made enough money from the scam to get a new car in California.

• Abel Koontz is one weird dude. I honestly can’t remember why he confessed to Lily’s murder when he didn’t do it.

• Veronica don’t listen to him! I know all the evidence is pointing to Jake Kane possibly being your father but it’s not true!

#veronica mars #vmars #vmars rewatch #like a virgin

[fictionalmedicshowdown]

knock out did not actively flirt with optimus prime (writer-unintended flirting, but YOU explain that scene straightly), did not have such killer attitude, such amazing everything, to lose round one and im starting to get worried. julians a worthy opponent so i wouldnt feel too bad, but ough

also he's voice acted by the same guy as timmys dad from the fairly odd parents and that is endlessly hilarious to me because you can HEAR it even through the different delivery and its just so baffling. Love being able to recognize voice actors

anyways i havent even seen tfp but from what i do know knock out just absolutely steals the show and i love that for him ❤️❤️

ratchets also cool but id need to rewatch a couple things to successfully pull out my thoughts on him. all i can safely say is the thrill of the hunt is one of my fave transformers animated episodes and it is SUCH a good showing of his character--i think it singlehandedly managed to make me care about him. he's also probably the one character i can think of where i'd say the war for cybertron trilogy cartoons actually did a GOOD job with his character. like. hes cool and i like him

may the best medic win!! and may the best medic hopefully be one of these funny cartoon robots

.

#propaganda #transformers #knock out #ratchet #not a poll #the voice actor bit is getting me

[emmacrb]

Shows I watched in 2022/2021/2020

Since 2020 I’ve been posting “movies I watched in 2020/2021/2022″ etc so I thought I could do that for shows I watched/rewatched aswell?  Mostly rewatched. Didn’t always finish them/watch every single episode. Might not completely be in order- I might go back & forth. (Sometimes you can tell what show I’m watching atm from my tumblr posts lol) Me watching reactions doesn’t count- but if they’re full length reactions maybe? 

2022

- (Continuing) My Little Pony Friendship is Magic inc Equestria Girls? (was gonna finish lol) - Mr Men & Little Miss (was gonna finish lol) - Dangermouse (live twitch reactions then watching them on my own) - Jackie Chan Adventures (just season 1) - (saw South Park season 25 when it was on) - Beavis & Butthead (didn’t finish) - started Tom & Jerry? - Queer Duck - Hard Drinkin Lincoln - Stripperella - Miami 7/ L.A 7 (was gonna finish lol) - Fifi and the Flowertots (gonna finish, looking for more episodes lol) - Started Wild West? (sitcom) - Men Behaving Badly - Dragonball (live reactions on twitch) - Spongebob Squarepants (didn’t get to finish season 3) - sometimes watch The Simpsons - (couple of episodes of Ren & Stimpy/Hamtaro?/Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers/The Royle Family/ITV Pantos/Catherine Tate’s Nan..) (Watching full length reactions to My Hero, Vicar of Dibley and Gavin & Stacey and stuff)

Let’s see if I can remember 2021?

2021

- Just finished South Park? - Pooch Perfect (UK) - Biker Mice from Mars (didn’t finish) - Powerpuff Girls Z - (Continuing) Sailor Moon (didn’t finish) & started Sailor Moon Crystal? - (Camp Lazlo & Dragonball clips?) - iCarly (almost finished lol) - Dragonball (live reactions on twitch then watching them on my own) - The Worst Witch (live reactions on twitch) - Coming of Age (didn’t finish) - Cleopatra Comin Atcha - started My Little Pony Friendship is Magic inc Equestria Girls? - sometimes watch The Simpsons

Let’s see if I can remember 2020?

2020

- Gavin & Stacey - Drawn Together - Hamtaro? - The Cleveland Show? - A LOT of South Park throughout the year - Fur TV  - The Cramp Twins - Sailor Moon (didn’t finish) - Fairly Odd Parents? - My Hero? - Beavis & Butthead? - Any Camp Lazlo? - Wheel of Fortune? - Your Face or Mine? - Always watching The Simpsons 

(Just edited this again)

#tv shows #shows i watched in 2022 #shows i watched in 2021 #shows i watched in 2020

[naysaltysalmon]

8 shows to get to know you

I was tagged by @emiliosandozsequence​!!💖

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – I don’t think this one comes as a surprise to anyone who knew me before 2015. This was the show that got me into anime, the show that got me on Tumblr, and one of the most perfectly constructed stories to exist. So much of who I am is attributed to this show. Edward Elric’s determination even in the face of impossible adversity has helped me in so many ways since I watched this in middle school. I have watched this series at least 8 times over. The story and characters are perfectly cyclical, and the darker elements are completely earned. If you haven’t watched this show yet and you like anime, what are you even doing?

Hunter x Hunter (2011) – This is probably my favorite anime of all time and I highly doubt anything will ever top it (FMAB is a close second). This show carried me through some really depressing times in high school and early college. I made unforgettable friends in this fandom; my most popular fanfic to date is from this fandom. HxH destroyed everything I thought I knew about how narratives and characterization work. Every character is so 3-dimensional despite the seemingly simplistic storytelling. The animation is beautiful, the plot and characters are so endearing and sublimely constructed. Despite watching the entire series at least 4 times over, certain character moments will never stop me from crying for just how much these characters and this series means to me.

Spongebob Squarepants – What is there to say about Spongebob. The zany atmosphere, the absolute buffoonery. I would not be the master of meme humor I am today if not for Spongebob. I have no idea who I would be in general without Spongebob. As always, this counts for earlier seasons more than later ones, but my point still stands.

Fairly Odd Parents – Unfortunately, given its shitty creator and shittier new seasons, I hate mentioning this one at all now, but it’s true. Timmy Turner’s home situation and unflappable desire for mischief and adventure never failed to draw me in as a kid. I often wished I had my own fairy godparents to get me in and out of trouble, being the lonely kid I was. Timmy Turner is probably one of the first fictional characters I saw myself in in general, paving the way for the insanity of many others.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – No one goes as hard as The Clone Wars when it comes to turning a meme-y prequel trilogy into some of the most powerful, compelling, and emotional storytelling to exist on TV. I already really liked Star Wars as a kid, and even the prequel trilogy, and yet I didn’t get around to watching this show until it was on Netflix in 2016. It changed my life; of course, Ahsoka Tano had a huge part in that. I expected her to be just another cartoon protagonist who would contribute to the fall of Anakin in some way, but what actually ended up happening and who she became completely floored me with its development à la Episode III. It’s so empowering to watch, and brilliant to behold its methodical unfolding.

Garden of Sinners – I have only watched this show twice, but both times it changed me as a person. Despite watching it originally in middle school, it has stuck in my mind as one of the most beautiful pieces of art I have ever experienced. That still holds true. I recently rewatched it in January. Shiki is such a nuanced, tragic, and compelling character. The dark topics addressed in the series are treated with a depth and nuance that I have seldom seen anywhere else. This series has really impacted how I approach storytelling to this day in my own writing, something I didn’t realize until this year. It’s not a show I remember all the details of, and yet so much of it defines my tastes and style now.

Helluva Boss – Listen, if you haven’t watched Helluva Boss yet, and you like profane language and adult animation, you’re missing out, man. Not only is this show absolutely hilarious with that kind of zany, dark, and random humor I enjoy, but the characters are so endearing and entertaining. The animation is unique and colorful. The latest episode (s2 ep3) really got to me, as did s1 eps6 and 7. Not every episode is an amazing hit, but this is the shit when it comes to indie and adult animation y’all, and if you haven’t watched it, you should go do that right now.

The Untamed (2019) – What can I even say about The Untamed at this point. I started watching it in September 2021 with a friend as a joke. It’s really hokey. The lighting is terrible. Some of the plot makes no fucking sense. But the acting is really good. And I was going along, thinking to myself “wow this plot is really stupid.” And I was right. It is really stupid. And then I got to the end, and the unreliable narrator villain reveals he’s actually a poor little meowmeow, and he’s the one who killed his divorcee clan leader husband. Oh my. And he goes off on a glorious homosexual rant about it. My heart. I must now dedicate my entire fanfiction career to this little meowmeow, and let me say, I have few regrets. I feel my writing scope and ability went from 10 to 100 in the span of a year thanks to this meowmeow. The rest of the show is fun now too, but god, I’m really only here for Jin Guangyao (and his husbands).

The only live-action show on this list is The Untamed. If that doesn’t tell you something about my tastes and my particular brand of insanity... I don’t know what will. Feel free to fill this out if you want!!

Tagging: @stupidbluejay​ @miricactusito​ @mattbear-music-nz​ @jackshade21​ @lizard-dumbass @arrysa-clair @wifiwuxians​ @dogs-are-rad​

#Fullmetal Alchemist #Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood #Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood #Hunter x Hunter #Spongebob Squarepants #Spongebob #Fairly Odd Parents #Star Wars #The Clone Wars #Star Wars: The Clone Wars #Star Wars The Clone Wars #Garden of Sinners #Kara no Kyoukai #Helluva Boss #The Untamed #CQL #FMA #FMAB #HxH #SW #TCW #SW: TCW #SW TCW #KnK #HB #MDZS #Nay talks #too much

[theyanderespecialist]

I recently just rewatched the old episodes of Fairly Odd Parents I'm kinda curious what type of yandere would Cosmo be and how would he treat Y/N basically he never met wanda.

This is a question because we're not doing the black Friday Reel Woody I will ask another question in a week

I am sorry but cannot do this one it makes me uncomfortable sorry

[erigold13261]

how do you deal with it when a piece of media you're invested in jumps the shark

I don't know *shrugs*

Like honestly, I don't know because I don't even know what media I watch has/might have jumped the shark.

Usually I just keep watching a show until I get bored with it or I finish it. I don't know any shows or series that I know of that jumped the shark, or if they did then I didn't notice it.

Like I think Simpsons, Spongebob, and Family Guy are shows that jumped the shark, but by the time they did that I wasn't really watching them anymore (or in Spongebob's case, I kept watching until I got bored with the series or was too busy watching youtube to care about new episodes of Spongebob).

I guess my answer would be I just stop watching the show? Like it's hard to say because all the shows that I can think of having jumped the shark are still going on or have just recently ended (I think Fairly Odd Parents ended recently, but I kept watching even after Poof was introduced but stopped around Sparky because I was either bored or didn't have time to watch new episodes).

I don't think there are any completed shows that I got into and watched that jumped the shark that I noticed. I usually finish the series I started.

Well, if you talk about series as a whole franchise and not just a series for a show, then I stopped watching the Tremors movies because they kinda got away from their original purpose. And I guess you could say I stopped interacting/caring about Five Night's at Freddy's (but that was more of a fandom thing than it was the series thing, though the newer games aren't hitting the same for me as the old ones used to. 1-3 were my jam!).

So yea. Basically how I deal with a piece of media that jumped the shark is to just stop being invested in it. Probably not what you are looking for. Maybe you can try to go back and rewatch/play the old stuff or stick around and hope it gets better if it's ongoing (like how I think Ned Flanders is getting better in recent Simpson Series from what he was in the mid series era). Or just learn to deal with the new order of things and find a way to enjoy the series for it's new vision instead of hanging onto the old vision.

That's really all I got for you. Drop it, stick it out, or deal with it is basically how I deal with media (I drop media pretty quickly if I don't get invested into it, but when I do get invested into media I can make my own little pocket world for myself which almost immediately jumps the shark so that's probably why I don't care about canon material jumping the shark as I take ideas and run with them so much that the canon jumping the shark is just as likely and fine to me as my stupid ideas).

#eritalks #noart #asks #hope that kinda helps #idk what else to tell ya

[deactivatingsoon666]

man quarantine really said it’s time to revisit every special interest i’ve ever had

#like for real #i rewatched episodes of fairly odd parents #i've listened to like 3 of my old favorite musicals #special interest

[kecleonplush]

why do I have the uncanny ability to not only repeat lines from 2000′s cartoons but their exact cadence and tone

#it's definitely at least something to do with the amount of times I've rewatched them #it's especially #fairly odd parents #and #spongebob #but I remember exactly how #cheated on my math test #sounds #from that one episode of fop

[fiendslothful]

So I just went onto Netflix to watch the new season of Carmen Sandiego (really good so far) and

AVATAR'S ON THERE?????????????????

SINCE WHEN??????????????????

WHEN THE FUCK DID NETFLIX DECIDE THAT THEY WOULD CASUALLY PUT AVATAR ON THERE????????????????

I DONT KNOW IF IT HAS BEEN AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD FOR LONGER

BUT HOLY SHIT????????????????????

#this shit fucked me up for a solid minute man #i fucking love avatar man #like that shit was my childhood #that and spongebob #and rugrats #and ren and stimpy #and fairly odd parents #basically any Nickelodeon show #but man #avatar was the shit #i had like the biggest crush on Katara #I'm pretty sure she was my bisexual awakening #I remember watching the ember island players episode with my sister #that was some good times #now i feel conflicted though #like i really want to watch carmen sandiego #but i also want to rewatch avatar again #plus i have to finish my hero academia off #i'm still on season 2 #i just finished the tournament arc #honestly my binging game has been so weak lately #although thankfully this week and next week are school holidays so yay #i also have to continue with demon slayer #which is really fucking good #and i need to finish off carole and tuesday #also quick question #should i watch kakegurui #because i really like the op but that was a little too much for me at first #so im interested in what the series is like #avatar the last airbender

[jadeyarts]

I was rewatching fairly odd parents and when I got to Timmy TV episode, there’s a scene that has fairy family that had two kids and it got me confused because poof is last fairy baby to be born. The episode is on YouTube for everyone to check out.

oh yeah i know about that, i know EXACTLY who you're talking about too.

i've got fanart of the youngest in my drafts rn, the only reason i havent posted it is cuz i plan on doodling the OTHER fairy kids too.... and i haven't gotten around to that.

there's also tinkle bell, but he seems to be more of a high schooler or college student than a child, though he'd still be younger than cosmo... but fine, he's never mentioned outside of season 1 and is clearly just for a quick disney gag, we can forget about him!

but did you know? that's not even the last time fairy kids younger than cosmo but older than poof appear. in fact, i've counted like... at least ... uh... seven! fairy kids! that appeared after poof was born, excluding goldie and foop (who aren't exactly fairies to begin with)

sparky, from wishology. voiced by a real child, very clearly intended to be like timmy's age (but a fairy)

two more fairy kids from wishology, both nameless, both indubitably preteen fanboys of timmy.

one of poof and foop's classmates in spellementary - clearly a child.

the weenie twins! also children, foop talks about how he'll be bunking with them at summer camp.

and this guy! he might be older than the other kids, but he's a spellementary student too so he's definitely younger than cosmo. coincidentally, looks like he could be poof's cousin or something through cosmo's aunt potter.

so anyways yeah the "poof is the first fairy born in thousands of years with cosmo being the last" is clearly ummm not true and something they made up on the spot to add more forced tension and novelty to poof's introduction when literally not a SINGLE thing in his introduction effected the status quo or otherwise came up again in any meaningful capacity BESIDES his existence in of itself (ie cosmo and wanda having to divide their attention between timmy and poof)

of course, the fact it's not truly meaningful in any capacity or ever really brought up again or consistent with the rest of the series is nothing i'm surprised about that's for sure

#from jadey to you #fairly oddparents

[raeynbowboi]

Retro Review: Danny Phantom

I’ve never really done a full proper review on this blog, but I was inspired to rewatch the cartoons I was nostaglic of, but hadn’t seen in forever and a half, and chose to start with Danny Phantom to see if it held up after all these years, or if it was a cheesy product of its time. Danny Phantom was a cartoon created by Butch Hartman, who also created the Fairly Odd Parents and TUFF Puppy, which aired on Nickelodeon for three seasons from 2004 - 2007. The show starred Danny Fenton, a 14 year old boy who acquired ghost super powers from a portal mishap. He’s joined by his friends: the meat obsessed tech nerd Tucker Foley, and the goth eco-friendly feminist “ultra recyclo vegetarian” Sam Manson. Danny also has an egghead older sister Jasmine, a clueless father Jack, and a hyper competent badass mother named Maddie who doesn’t get the recognition she deserves. It’s also remembered fondly as the only show in history with a rap theme song that isn’t cringey, and hasn’t aged poorly either. It’s held up well, and the tempo and rhythm feels like it’s pumping you up for some superhero action. Danny Phantom mostly sold itself as a comedy, and while my adult sense of humor didn’t have me splitting my sides, it was still chuckling or smiling while I watched their goofy antics. The slow progression of Danny’s powers was well structured, the characters were pretty likeable, and for the first two seasons, the dynamics were good. The show addressed real teenage relationship drama in a good and meaningful way, especially in the second season. Even antagonist characters like Mr. Lancer get scenes where they’re gentle, soft-spoken, and make it clear to the viewer that they’re not out to get Danny, he just has a bad knack for getting into trouble. Danny Phantom has a truly memorable rogues gallery of villains, and that’s not something you can say for most cartoons. Skulker, Ember, Johnny 13 and Kitty, the ghost bounty hunter, and of course, Vlad Plasmius. The only other cartoons I can think of that aren’t comic book cartoons with memorable rogues galleries is Xiaolin Showdown, the Powerpuff Girls, and Codename: Kids Next Door. Courage the Cowardly Dog and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy had some recurring villains, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call them a rogues gallery. Yes, the show had its... Butch Hartman-isms. There’s also some things that are a bit squicky now that weren’t as big of a deal at the time, like Danny straight up is shown using his powers to sneak into the girls locker room, and the musical cues play it off like a joke. The show also just shows its time period on its sleeve, like how all the female characters are overqualified badasses, while the male characters all share one brain cell, and Vlad Plasmius stole it. But the tone, characters, and story are good, in the first two seasons at least. Unfortunately, in the 3rd season, it all goes to crap. Danny doesn’t know how his parents will react to him being a ghost, even though he’s told them before and he has seen how they responded to it more than once. Vlad primes the bounty hunter to do... something to aid his plans. But she never gets around to it and they forget that final confrontation between them. Even Vlad goes out like a punk and Tucker is the 14 year old mayor because.... anyway, I’d give it a B- as a collective, and an A- for just the first two seasons on its own. All in all, it’s a solid watch. It’s certainly no Avatar: the Last Airbender, but in an age when serialized storytelling in kids shows wasn’t the norm, I remember rushing home from school to catch the latest episode, and happily watching the marathon of the show before the finale. (for you younger kids, a marathon is when a network airs a long stretch of episodes in chronological order, usually as a promotion or as a ratings trap. It was the closest thing to binge watching before streaming existed.) It’s on Paramount+, so if you want to give it a rewatch to relive your childhood, or you’ve never seen it, I think it warrants a view, as long as you remember it came out in the early 2000s, and lacks modern sensibilities in certain areas as a result.

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Opinion on crossovers? Do you have any specific ones you like or dislike? Any crossover tropes you particularly love or hate?

Idk why I asked these they just randomly popped into my brain lmao

Oh I LOVE crossovers! My main self indulgent writing is actually kind of a huge crossover between multiple games, shows, and other media I enjoy. As for specific ones I don't have too many I remember, I do remember the animated Superman and Batman crossover "World's finest" I think as a episode I rewatched constantly. There was also the Jimmy Timmy power hour for Fairly Odd Parents and Jimmy Neutron which was fun but certainly weird.

As for ones I dislike the only one I can think of was the crossover between Monster and Ever After High, Simply because it never happened. It got forshadowing, heck one monster high student literaly transferred to Ever After and Mattel just cut it all before we got it on the screen. So frustrating.

Tropes I'm not sure, I don't have too many but one I'm not a fan of is one or both groups of characters being immediately agressive even if it doesn't make sense for anyone, always hate that. One trope however I do love is one character being reminded of someone they know from a trait someone they just met also has. Always makes fuzzy inside for some reason.

Thank you so much for the question, I like questions like these. It was really fun to think about, feel free to ask more stuff.

#ask reply #crossover #there cool