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After my chronicles covering the Fairly OddParents video games, the Nicktoons Unite video games and Oh Yeah! Cartoons, I have decided to do one last retrospective concerning The Fairly OddParents, this time going over the different finales and outcomes suggested on how things end for Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda.

The Fairly OddParents was one of three segments featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons that was successful enough to get its own Nicktoon, the other two being ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot. Out of the three, The Fairly OddParents is arguably the most successful on the basis that it ran for a total of ten seasons (in contrast to ChalkZone lasting four and MLaaTR running for three seasons), had a large number of movies to its name and is the only one of the three successful Oh Yeah segments to get any kind of revival after the original run (the recent and short-lived live-action series The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder).

The first movie The Fairly OddParents had was a TV special called Abra-Catastrophe, where the plot was that Timmy Turner had managed to avoid telling anyone about his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda for a whole year and was the first godchild in a long time to successfully do so, so he is rewarded with a Fairyversary Muffin, a horrible-tasting muffin that has the upside of granting any wish made by the consumer, including ones that are against Da Rules.

More movie-length specials eventually came, such as School's Out: The Musical (where the head of Flappy Bob's Learn-A-Torium turns out to be a clown raised by the Pixies to believe dull and boring are fun before Timmy helps him learn the truth), the three Jimmy Timmy Power Hour specials (which crossed over with The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and had the last special air after Jimmy Neutron ended its run) and Channel Chasers, which was the first installment of the series to hint at what things may be like for Timmy Turner after the inevitable day that he grows up and no longer needs his fairies.

1. CHANNEL CHASERS

Channel Chasers had the plot of Timmy Turner envying the advantages children in TV shows have (such as not having to live by rules and never aging), so he wishes to live inside television. His evil babysitter Vicky finds her way into the television set as well and the two chase each other throughout various TV show parodies, with Timmy also trying to evade a mysterious man (voiced by Alec Baldwin) who turns out to be his adult self from a future where Vicky had taken over the world.

In the end, Vicky's world domination plan is thwarted and we see a flash-forward to the future where Timmy has his own children (twin siblings Tammy and Tommy Turner, voiced both by Tara Strong like their dad's ten-year-old self). After he leaves his kids to be watched after by a Vicky-bot, we learn that Timmy's children have inherited Cosmo and Wanda as their fairy godparents, a bittersweet notion after the revelation that Timmy will forget ever having fairy godparents once he is an adult.

As the show began to decline in quality by Season 6, most fans prefer to see Channel Chasers as the definitive conclusion of the show, but there were still other interpretations of what Timmy's future would be like as the series went on.

2. WISHOLOGY TRILOGY

The sixth season notably premiered with the introduction of Cosmo and Wanda's baby son Poof (voiced by Tara Strong), who wasn't conceived the conventional way due to fairies being prohibited from reproducing as a result of the destruction and damage Cosmo caused during his infancy. Fortunately for Timmy, he's able to wish that his godparents had a child, as while it was Jorgen Von Strangle's intention to make it against the rules for godchildren to wish up a baby for their godparents, it kept slipping Jorgen's mind.

Poof proved to be a polarizing character, but I like him because he's so adorable and actually contributes to the humor on a regular basis. For people who were at least willing to tolerate Poof's inclusion, the Wishology Trilogy would be where the series ends, and there is actual evidence that Wishology would've been the end of The Fairly OddParents had the show not been renewed for a seventh season.

Wishology really upped the ante when it came to previous movie-length specials, as it had three separate hour-long installments that together formed a tremendous epic. The deal is that there is a mysterious force called the Darkness descending upon the world and there is a prophecy stating that Timmy Turner is destined to stop the Darkness, first having to deal with an army of robots trying to kill him called the Eliminators.

After the first chapter, Timmy finds out that there is another guy named Turbo Thunder (voiced by Brendan Fraser) who was apparently supposed to be the real chosen one (Jorgen understandably snaps at Timmy over calling him out on his mistake), but proves to be not as noble as Timmy (while still wanting to do good and getting involved because he lost his parents to the Darkness).

Eventually, Timmy appears to sacrifice himself to the Darkness, with the third and final chapter being where things really get epic. Timmy eventually escapes the Darkness and finds out that the only reason the Darkness attacked anyway was because the fairies attacked first due to how scary it looked. After destroying the Lead Eliminator and having the Darkness become the Kindness (plus finally getting to kiss his crush Trixie Tang), Timmy gets to go back to a cushy life of having his fairy godfamily grant his wishes.

The evidence supporting that Wishology was originally supposed to be where the series concludes is that the third part involved Timmy Turner's secret of having fairy godparents being found out by his friends and family (who also complain about how Timmy never used the magic he had access to to solve any of their problems). While Timmy had the fortune of having their memories of the discovery erased, there was apparently no such indication in the original draft of the script, so in addition to Season 6 going out with a bang, the original intention was to have Timmy make the ultimate sacrifice of revealing the existence of his fairies and having to adjust to living without them after he saved all humanity from the Darkness and the Lead Eliminator.

3. OPERATION: DINKLEBERG

Season seven began with the introduction of another character with a divisive reception, and that character is Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart Foop (voiced by Eric Bauza). I found Foop to be entertaining because of how he tended to act like an over-the-top supervillain (which would make sense, seeing that he's the opposite of a gleeful and pure child), plus it was fun to see him suffer misfortunes when his plans went south.

The final two segments in the last episode where Spellementary School (where Poof and Foop end up enrolling at a school for children who happen to be magical creatures) and Operation: Dinkleberg.

The premise behind Operation: Dinkleberg was that the plot revisited the show's running gag of Timmy's Dad being unreasonably distrustful of the Turner family's neighbors the Dinklebergs, in spite of their neighbors being very polite to the Turners and Mr. Sheldon Dinkleberg even donating a kidney to Mr. Turner in spite of how often the latter insulted him to his face.

The thing here is that it looks initially like Mr. Turner was right about Dinkleberg being evil all along and that Dinkleberg is the leader of an organization called M.E.A.N. (Ministry of Evil and Abusive Neighbors). However, it turns out in the end that it was all an act and that Dinkleberg is such a nice guy he was willing to humor Mr. Turner's paranoid delusions that he was a cackling supervillain out to get him because he knew it would make Mr. Turner happy.

4. TIMMY'S SECRET WISH AND MEET THE ODDPARENTS

The eighth season was notably the only season in the second half of the show's run to not premiere with the introduction of a new character (while the first episode Love Triangle does introduce Poof and Foop's classmate Goldie Goldenglow, she was ultimately a one-shot character), also having the distinction of being the shortest season at having only five episodes, most of them being a full half-hour in length.

The one exception was the hour-long special Timmy's Secret Wish, which I am counting as a possible finale due to its scope and the notion that TV shows have been known to air episodes out of the order they are supposed to chronologically occur.

Timmy's Secret Wish was the last hour-length special ever created for The Fairly OddParents, with the only longer-than-eleven-minute episodes to appear in the last two seasons being half-hour durations. The story begins with the celebration of Timmy's 1,000th wish, but Timmy finds himself in court, the prosecutor being Foop (who even makes an evil lawyer joke in explaining his career choice was necessary to get rid of Poof).

Things don't go well for Timmy, as the witnesses brought by Foop (including Mark Chang of the Yugopotamians and Timmy's favorite superhero the Crimson Chin) speak negatively of Timmy after Foop reminds them of the bad things Timmy did to them and Timmy apparently wished for athlete's foot to exist in addition to at one point being so bored he wished for it to rain rabid dingoes.

Foop ends up winning the case after he exposes that Timmy made a secret wish (that no one would age and that Cosmo wouldn't remember granting the wish) 50 years ago. This ends with Cosmo and Wanda being taken from Timmy and everyone in Dimmsdale becoming senior citizens (except for Crocker, who looks the same), though Foop at least gets hoist by his own petard when Poof is included among Timmy's undone wishes (and Foop logically can't exist without Poof, being his Anti-Fairy counterpart and being born in the first place to maintain the balance of an Anti-Fairy existing for every regular fairy).

After a meeting with Crocker, the 60-year-old Timmy remembers that he had fairy godparents and tries to get them back. After proving his selflessness by being willing to sacrifice himself to Chuckles the Fairy-Eating Cockatiel (the result of the last secret wish that was made before Timmy's), Timmy is allowed to have his godparents back and Father Time rewinds time back 50 years so that it would be as if the exposure of Timmy's wish didn't happen.

The final episode of this short but sweet season (Love Triangle was a hilarious episode because of how Foop's plan bit him in the butt, it was amusing to see more of the planet of clones of Timmy's Dad and it was a cool idea to have Mr. Crocker, Foop, Dark Laser and Vicky form a villain team called L.O.S.E.R.S.) was "Meet the OddParents", where Timmy's parents end up finding out that their son has fairy godparents.

Timmy is upset that he knows this will result in Cosmo and Wanda being taken away from him, but he, his parents, Cosmo and Wanda do come up with a plan to simply prevent Jorgen from finding out so that Timmy can continue making wishes (both for himself and for his parents' benefit).

Unfortunately, Jorgen eventually finds out (mainly due to Timmy being ratted out by a talking golf ball his dad wished for), but a reset button is formed anyway when Jorgen decides to erase Timmy's parents' memories of learning about his fairies, plus Timmy takes solace in the fact that having to keep Cosmo and Wanda a secret from his mom and dad doesn't mean he can't continue making wishes for his parents. Had this been where the series ended, it wouldn't have been a bad way to end.

5. FAIRLY ODD MOVIES

In 2011, a live-action film was made called A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner, which provided yet another possible interpretation of how things might be for Timmy Turner in his adulthood.

As the first installment of the franchise to directly contradict what was established in Channel Chasers, it was established that a 23-year-old Timmy Turner (portrayed by Drake Bell, best known for co-starring with Josh Peck in the live-action Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh and voicing Spider-Man in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes as well as the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon) simply keeps his fairies by refusing to grow up and continuing to live like a child, much to the frustration of his parents (with Timmy's Dad played by his original voice actor Daran Norris and Teryl Rothery playing Timmy's Mom).

Jorgen (portrayed by Mark Gibbon) finds out that he can get Timmy to lose his fairies (who are portrayed in CGI and have Daran Norris, Susanne Blakeslee and Tara Strong reprising their respective roles as Cosmo, Wanda and Poof) by getting him to fall in love, but a string of hilarious mishaps occur where Jorgen instead causes a student at Timmy's school to fall for the school's costumed mascot, a raccoon to amorously attack a park ranger and 29-year-old Vicky (portrayed by Devon Weigel) trying to make advances toward the horrified muscular fairy.

Timmy eventually finds Tootie (portrayed by Daniella Monet) protesting against the land development schemes of Hugh J. Magnate (portrayed by Steven Weber), with Cosmo and Wanda not happy that Timmy is actually showing signs of reciprocating the feelings of a woman who used to be a bespectacled girl with braces, even trying to ruin a date while in human form (said forms portrayed by Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines). It takes their son Poof giving a glare of disapproval to make Cosmo and Wanda stop their efforts at sabotage.

Timmy eventually has to save the day after learning that Tootie is captured by Magnate and that Magnate also captured his fairies with help from Mr. Crocker (portrayed by David Lewis), and in the end is allowed to keep his fairies so long as he and Tootie only use their wishes to help others. Poof also says his first words (with those lines being done by Randy Jackson).

Two other movies were made, but until I had felt compelled to revisit the franchise, the first one was the only one in the trilogy I had ever seen before. I was among the few who found A Fairly Odd Movie to be enjoyable (especially the humorously childish wishes Magnate made when he had the fairies under his control), and my opinion on the two sequels is that they are even better (helped by the fact that the quality of the CGI used for Cosmo, Wanda and Poof noticeably improves between the films).

The first sequel was A Fairly Odd Christmas, where Mr. Crocker goes to the North Pole to try and get on the nice list and Timmy has to step in and fill in for Santa Claus (portrayed by Donavon Stinton) after he accidentally causes Santa to get hurt and lose his memory. We also learn that fairies and elves have hostility towards each other, but they fortunately get along in the end.

One of my favorite bits would be when Timmy and Mr. Crocker met some living gingerbread men, only for Crocker to get them mad by trying to eat the head of one of them.

The third and final film, A Fairly Odd Summer, was released when Season 9 was airing and provided yet another interpretation of how things would end. This time, the main villains are Mr. Crocker and Foop (as the case was with Cosmo, Wanda and Poof, the movie had Eric Bauza reprising his role from the TV show), who work together to try and steal a substance called Abra-Cadabrium, which is the power source for all fairies' magic.

Timmy Turner spends a huge amount of the movie trying and succeeding correcting mistakes he made that would've resulted in bad things happening to his parents and Tootie (Mr. Turner lost a check his boss Ed Leadly lent him that he was supposed to use to hire fire dancers, while Tootie mistakenly brought Timmy's chap stick to a dolphin researcher instead of a tube of an antidote planned to help the dolphins from a serious affliction), and Foop gets a scene where his human form is portrayed by Scott Baio (meaning there's one other actor besides Drake Bell whose presence might keep the movies from aging well, but at least Foop reacts to Crocker's remark on his human form by stating that his magic is too weak to become Fonzie).

In the end, Timmy sacrifices himself by jumping into the lava with the Abra-Cadabrium, but finds that he's still alive and has now been turned into a fairy (depicted in CGI as a non-bucktoothed Timmy Turner and voiced by Tara Strong). Since he is now a fairy himself, Timmy no longer requires Cosmo, Wanda and Poof, but they fortunately find new godchildren in a pair of rich siblings named Marty and Mitzi who until then suffered from being looked after by Vicky (who ends the movie turned into the kids' pet rabbit).

Reception on the movies has been mixed, part of its scorn possibly being from people who prefer Timmy to be with Trixie Tang (I honestly don't know which existing love interest I prefer Timmy to be with and believe it would be fun to experiment with Timmy getting together with Trixie, Tootie, one-shot character Missy and maybe even Chloe).

6. MAN'S WORST FRIEND

The new character introduced in the ninth season was a fairy dog named Sparky (voiced by Maddie Taylor), who enters Timmy's life when the bucktoothed ten-year-old wanted to have a new pet. Timmy gets angry at how frustrating Sparky makes things, but eventually regrets how hard he had been and forgives Sparky.

Many people willing to forgive the sixth, seventh and eighth seasons at least feel that Season 9 is when the show jumped the shark, but I actually found the majority of the ninth season to be entertaining and Sparky did contribute to a lot to the jokes (my only real gripe was how the episode Country Clubbed ended without resolving the dumb sub-plot of Wanda and Sparky switching brains. I fail to see how that was necessary at all for the last episode where we'd see the Buxaplenty family, and the show lacking a consistent continuity in my eyes does not justify ending the episode without Sparky and Wanda having their minds switched back).

On the other hand, some may see Sparky as being a copy of Cosmo, as both characters are typically not very bright and prone to causing problems because of their idiocy.

The finale of Season 9 was Man's Worst Friend, a half-hour episode where Foop goes to a pet shop in search for an Anti-Fairy counterpart to Sparky. The pet shop happens to be run by Death (voiced by Paul Rugg) and Foop ends up finding Anti-Sparky (voiced by Maddie Taylor in a Cockney accent), eventually the pair decide to cause havoc in Dimmsdale by replacing everyone's pets with vicious animals from the Anti-Fairy World pet shop. In the end, Timmy saves the day and gets everyone's pets back.

Since most people hated Sparky, and the production team themselves weren't that fond of him, Sparky disappeared from the show after that and wasn't even acknowledged in the tenth and final season (while the first two Fairly Odd Movies were released before Season 9 aired, A Fairly Odd Summer made no attempt whatsoever to include Sparky or explain his absence in the first two films).

One last thing of note was that the show's opening sequence was redone in high definition and the change of Poof appearing, which was kind of ironic since it was at this season that Poof's appearances started to decline in frequency. He also finally learned how to speak fluently in "School of Crock", weirdly sounding a lot like Ben Tennyson. I found it odd to hear Poof speak in complete sentences in that voice, though it was pretty funny in "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales" when he rambled on being hyperactive from eating Halloween candy.

7. FANCY SCHMANCY

Season 10 ended up the last season of the series and the controversial, polarizing character introduced here was Timmy's new neighbor Chloe Carmichael (voiced by Kari Wahlgren), who Timmy has to share his fairies with because of a fairy shortage. Timmy isn't happy about this, but relents after learning why Chloe is deemed miserable enough to deserve fairy godparents (even though it contradicts the episode's first half depicting her as being liked by everyone in Dimmsdale, including Mr. Crocker).

To accommodate this drastic change, there was a new title sequence where the theme song summed up how Timmy has to share his fairy godparents with Chloe (and some thinly-veiled jabs at this radical change), though some episodes reverted to using the Season 9 opening sequence.

Poof was nearly forgotten in this season in spite of Foop remaining a recurring antagonist, with his only Season 10 appearance being the episode Certifiable Super Sitter. Tara Strong still voices him and has him go back to only saying "Poof, poof", at least the few times Poof isn't doing celebrity impressions in the episode (said impressions being done by Daran Norris, Eric Bauza and Jeff Bennett).

I found Chloe to be entertaining most of the time, as it was hilarious to see her go into a meltdown after she made a mistake or her plans didn't go the way she intended. Her eco-warrior tendencies weren't nearly as irritating as her detractors made them out to be. Unfortunately, there were still a lot of problems with this season that the fans weren't happy about.

One aspect of Season 10 even I'm unwilling to defend would be that the season had a terrible habit of enabling conflict by having Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands in contrived ways to prevent Timmy and Chloe from wishing their way out of their problems. It got horribly repetitive. My advice on a convenient way to cause conflict: If it tends to involve uncontrollable circumstances happening abruptly or Cosmo and/or Wanda getting their wands destroyed due to idiocy, it's probably not something recommended to be used frequently.

Another issue that upset the fans was that partway through, the show switched to using Flash animation, which to many people made the movement of the characters look off. It was at this point that Butch Hartman decided to leave Nickelodeon, ending both The Fairly OddParents and Hartman's final Nicktoon Bunsen is a Beast (the latter having two crossovers called Fairly Odd Phantom, a promotional short and a tie-in comic where the characters of The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy and Bunsen is a Beast met each other, and Beast of Friends, a crossover with The Fairly OddParents where it was established Bunsen and Cosmo became friends during an off-screen party of supernatural creatures and decided to visit each other's universes to celebrate the anniversary of their friendship).

Crocker also gains a nephew named Kevin (much like Crocker and his mother, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui), who ends up befriending Timmy and Chloe. I have no strong feelings on him either way.

The final episode was Fancy Schmancy, which wasn't really that big an event, but involved Timmy and Chloe's friendship being threatened by the strife between Timmy's parents and Chloe's parents Clark and Connie Carmichael (Clark being voiced by Mick Wingert, who was the second voice of T.U.F.F. Puppy villain the Caped Cod after his original voice actor Chris Parnell, and Connie voiced by Cheri Oteri, who would later voice Miss Flap, the teacher of Bunsen and Mikey's school Muckledunk Middle School in Bunsen is a Beast).

Timmy's parents have been richer this season thanks to a stock tip Chloe gave Mr. Turner in the premiere, and in this episode have let their higher social status go to their head by refusing to allow the Carmichaels at the country club. Chloe's parents in contrast are so selfless that they donate most of their money to Charity (that is, a crazy cat lady who happens to be named Charity).

After some unfunny jabs at Weird Al Yankovic where Cosmo makes ridiculous complaints about an owl version of the musician named Weird Owl, the Carmichaels' generosity proves to be their undoing when Charity uses her riches to buy out the country club and kick out the Turners, but also prohibits anyone but herself and her cats from entering. At least Timmy and Chloe no longer have to worry about their friendship being endangered.

I am willing to accept that there are people in this world who don't care for Weird Al, but the fact remains that he is a very popular and well-liked musician, and the potshots made at him in the episode came off as unnecessary, uncalled for and annoying. The episode's plot could've easily been done without the Weird Al digs.

The Bunsen is a Beast crossover and the Fairly Odd Phantom short did not have any acknowledgment of Chloe Carmichael in spite of being released after Season 10 had ended, and it was especially noticeable in Beast of Friends due to the episode having the conflict arise from Mr. Crocker teaming up with Bunsen is a Beast's main villain Amanda Killman (who, like Chloe, was voiced by Kari Wahlgren). Poof doesn't appear, but at least is mentioned by his dad Cosmo.

Chloe's absence from the crossovers could be to prevent overcomplicating things with too many characters, but an in-universe explanation could be that another set of fairies became available for her or she straight up ceased being miserable enough to need Cosmo and Wanda. I am honestly not sure where the Bunsen is a Beast crossover fits chronologically, but I have seen speculation that the events happen before Certifiable Super Sitter.

8. FAIRLY ODDER

A few years after The Fairly OddParents ended production, a revival was announced called The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, which was done in live-action with animated fairies (only using two-dimensional animation instead of 3D computer graphics and with Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee once more reprising their roles as Cosmo, Jorgen and Wanda) and had 13 episodes released in March 2022 on the Viacom-owned streaming service Paramount+.

Rather than follow up Timmy's adult life as established in Channel Chasers or the Fairly Odd Movies, the series starts with an 18-year-old Timmy Turner (played by Caleb Pierce because Drake Bell was disgraced by a scandal I can't mention here without having to mark this Mature) loaning his fairy godparents to his 13-year-old cousin Vivian "Viv" Turner (played by Audrey Grace Marshall) as he prepares for college. Circumstances also lead to Viv having to share Cosmo and Wanda with her stepbrother Roy Raskin (played by Tyler Wladis).

The show mostly deals with Viv and Roy having to solve problems made by their wishes (such as Roy's wish for King Midas' golden touch resulting in him accidentally turning his mom into a gold statue by high-fiving her, or a magic app used to bring back Roy's grandma ending in the house being overrun by elderly zombies), but Vicky returns as an antagonist, played by Mary Kate Wiles and the new teacher of Dimmsdale Elementary at age 24 since Crocker has been institutionalized since the events of the original series.

My opinion on the series is mixed. Most of the episodes nearly put me to sleep, but there were occasional good jokes (and I was surprised by one episode where Roy wished for a butt-biting dog actually having Cosmo and Wanda's underwear shown when they were among the victims who got their posteriors punctured by puppy prongs) and the finale was decent.

The season's conclusion happened in a two-part episode titled "Fairies Away", where Mr. Crocker returns (complete with Carlos Alazraqui reprising his role in live-action) and works with Vicky in a plan to capture Cosmo and Wanda and use their magic to open a gateway to Fairy World. The episode ends with Viv and Roy rescuing Cosmo and Wanda from Vicky and Crocker winding up in a Fairy World prison where Jorgen keeps a sharp eye on him.

There is no word yet on if Fairly Odder will be renewed for another season, but I doubt there will be a season two, considering that the revival was met with negative reception long before it was released and most people I've seen talk about the revival online weren't very fond of the live-action show or the direction it took.

Unless I get a new idea later down the line or someone provides a request involving The Fairly OddParents, I'm as of now done drawing The Fairly OddParents, as discussing the different finales was all I really wanted to do after completing my retrospective of Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

I had so much fun revisting and catching up with The Fairly OddParents that I'm almost sad that I'm finally caught up on everything.

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After my chronicles covering the Fairly OddParents video games, the Nicktoons Unite video games and Oh Yeah! Cartoons, I have decided to do one last retrospective concerning The Fairly OddParents, this time going over the different finales and outcomes suggested on how things end for Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda.

The Fairly OddParents was one of three segments featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons that was successful enough to get its own Nicktoon, the other two being ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot. Out of the three, The Fairly OddParents is arguably the most successful on the basis that it ran for a total of ten seasons (in contrast to ChalkZone lasting four and MLaaTR running for three seasons), had a large number of movies to its name and is the only one of the three successful Oh Yeah segments to get any kind of revival after the original run (the recent and short-lived live-action series The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder).

The first movie The Fairly OddParents had was a TV special called Abra-Catastrophe, where the plot was that Timmy Turner had managed to avoid telling anyone about his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda for a whole year and was the first godchild in a long time to successfully do so, so he is rewarded with a Fairyversary Muffin, a horrible-tasting muffin that has the upside of granting any wish made by the consumer, including ones that are against Da Rules.

More movie-length specials eventually came, such as School's Out: The Musical (where the head of Flappy Bob's Learn-A-Torium turns out to be a clown raised by the Pixies to believe dull and boring are fun before Timmy helps him learn the truth), the three Jimmy Timmy Power Hour specials (which crossed over with The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and had the last special air after Jimmy Neutron ended its run) and Channel Chasers, which was the first installment of the series to hint at what things may be like for Timmy Turner after the inevitable day that he grows up and no longer needs his fairies.

1. CHANNEL CHASERS

Channel Chasers had the plot of Timmy Turner envying the advantages children in TV shows have (such as not having to live by rules and never aging), so he wishes to live inside television. His evil babysitter Vicky finds her way into the television set as well and the two chase each other throughout various TV show parodies, with Timmy also trying to evade a mysterious man (voiced by Alec Baldwin) who turns out to be his adult self from a future where Vicky had taken over the world.

In the end, Vicky's world domination plan is thwarted and we see a flash-forward to the future where Timmy has his own children (twin siblings Tammy and Tommy Turner, voiced both by Tara Strong like their dad's ten-year-old self). After he leaves his kids to be watched after by a Vicky-bot, we learn that Timmy's children have inherited Cosmo and Wanda as their fairy godparents, a bittersweet notion after the revelation that Timmy will forget ever having fairy godparents once he is an adult.

As the show began to decline in quality by Season 6, most fans prefer to see Channel Chasers as the definitive conclusion of the show, but there were still other interpretations of what Timmy's future would be like as the series went on.

2. WISHOLOGY TRILOGY

The sixth season notably premiered with the introduction of Cosmo and Wanda's baby son Poof (voiced by Tara Strong), who wasn't conceived the conventional way due to fairies being prohibited from reproducing as a result of the destruction and damage Cosmo caused during his infancy. Fortunately for Timmy, he's able to wish that his godparents had a child, as while it was Jorgen Von Strangle's intention to make it against the rules for godchildren to wish up a baby for their godparents, it kept slipping Jorgen's mind.

Poof proved to be a polarizing character, but I like him because he's so adorable and actually contributes to the humor on a regular basis. For people who were at least willing to tolerate Poof's inclusion, the Wishology Trilogy would be where the series ends, and there is actual evidence that Wishology would've been the end of The Fairly OddParents had the show not been renewed for a seventh season.

Wishology really upped the ante when it came to previous movie-length specials, as it had three separate hour-long installments that together formed a tremendous epic. The deal is that there is a mysterious force called the Darkness descending upon the world and there is a prophecy stating that Timmy Turner is destined to stop the Darkness, first having to deal with an army of robots trying to kill him called the Eliminators.

After the first chapter, Timmy finds out that there is another guy named Turbo Thunder (voiced by Brendan Fraser) who was apparently supposed to be the real chosen one (Jorgen understandably snaps at Timmy over calling him out on his mistake), but proves to be not as noble as Timmy (while still wanting to do good and getting involved because he lost his parents to the Darkness).

Eventually, Timmy appears to sacrifice himself to the Darkness, with the third and final chapter being where things really get epic. Timmy eventually escapes the Darkness and finds out that the only reason the Darkness attacked anyway was because the fairies attacked first due to how scary it looked. After destroying the Lead Eliminator and having the Darkness become the Kindness (plus finally getting to kiss his crush Trixie Tang), Timmy gets to go back to a cushy life of having his fairy godfamily grant his wishes.

The evidence supporting that Wishology was originally supposed to be where the series concludes is that the third part involved Timmy Turner's secret of having fairy godparents being found out by his friends and family (who also complain about how Timmy never used the magic he had access to to solve any of their problems). While Timmy had the fortune of having their memories of the discovery erased, there was apparently no such indication in the original draft of the script, so in addition to Season 6 going out with a bang, the original intention was to have Timmy make the ultimate sacrifice of revealing the existence of his fairies and having to adjust to living without them after he saved all humanity from the Darkness and the Lead Eliminator.

3. OPERATION: DINKLEBERG

Season seven began with the introduction of another character with a divisive reception, and that character is Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart Foop (voiced by Eric Bauza). I found Foop to be entertaining because of how he tended to act like an over-the-top supervillain (which would make sense, seeing that he's the opposite of a gleeful and pure child), plus it was fun to see him suffer misfortunes when his plans went south.

The final two segments in the last episode where Spellementary School (where Poof and Foop end up enrolling at a school for children who happen to be magical creatures) and Operation: Dinkleberg.

The premise behind Operation: Dinkleberg was that the plot revisited the show's running gag of Timmy's Dad being unreasonably distrustful of the Turner family's neighbors the Dinklebergs, in spite of their neighbors being very polite to the Turners and Mr. Sheldon Dinkleberg even donating a kidney to Mr. Turner in spite of how often the latter insulted him to his face.

The thing here is that it looks initially like Mr. Turner was right about Dinkleberg being evil all along and that Dinkleberg is the leader of an organization called M.E.A.N. (Ministry of Evil and Abusive Neighbors). However, it turns out in the end that it was all an act and that Dinkleberg is such a nice guy he was willing to humor Mr. Turner's paranoid delusions that he was a cackling supervillain out to get him because he knew it would make Mr. Turner happy.

4. TIMMY'S SECRET WISH AND MEET THE ODDPARENTS

The eighth season was notably the only season in the second half of the show's run to not premiere with the introduction of a new character (while the first episode Love Triangle does introduce Poof and Foop's classmate Goldie Goldenglow, she was ultimately a one-shot character), also having the distinction of being the shortest season at having only five episodes, most of them being a full half-hour in length.

The one exception was the hour-long special Timmy's Secret Wish, which I am counting as a possible finale due to its scope and the notion that TV shows have been known to air episodes out of the order they are supposed to chronologically occur.

Timmy's Secret Wish was the last hour-length special ever created for The Fairly OddParents, with the only longer-than-eleven-minute episodes to appear in the last two seasons being half-hour durations. The story begins with the celebration of Timmy's 1,000th wish, but Timmy finds himself in court, the prosecutor being Foop (who even makes an evil lawyer joke in explaining his career choice was necessary to get rid of Poof).

Things don't go well for Timmy, as the witnesses brought by Foop (including Mark Chang of the Yugopotamians and Timmy's favorite superhero the Crimson Chin) speak negatively of Timmy after Foop reminds them of the bad things Timmy did to them and Timmy apparently wished for athlete's foot to exist in addition to at one point being so bored he wished for it to rain rabid dingoes.

Foop ends up winning the case after he exposes that Timmy made a secret wish (that no one would age and that Cosmo wouldn't remember granting the wish) 50 years ago. This ends with Cosmo and Wanda being taken from Timmy and everyone in Dimmsdale becoming senior citizens (except for Crocker, who looks the same), though Foop at least gets hoist by his own petard when Poof is included among Timmy's undone wishes (and Foop logically can't exist without Poof, being his Anti-Fairy counterpart and being born in the first place to maintain the balance of an Anti-Fairy existing for every regular fairy).

After a meeting with Crocker, the 60-year-old Timmy remembers that he had fairy godparents and tries to get them back. After proving his selflessness by being willing to sacrifice himself to Chuckles the Fairy-Eating Cockatiel (the result of the last secret wish that was made before Timmy's), Timmy is allowed to have his godparents back and Father Time rewinds time back 50 years so that it would be as if the exposure of Timmy's wish didn't happen.

The final episode of this short but sweet season (Love Triangle was a hilarious episode because of how Foop's plan bit him in the butt, it was amusing to see more of the planet of clones of Timmy's Dad and it was a cool idea to have Mr. Crocker, Foop, Dark Laser and Vicky form a villain team called L.O.S.E.R.S.) was "Meet the OddParents", where Timmy's parents end up finding out that their son has fairy godparents.

Timmy is upset that he knows this will result in Cosmo and Wanda being taken away from him, but he, his parents, Cosmo and Wanda do come up with a plan to simply prevent Jorgen from finding out so that Timmy can continue making wishes (both for himself and for his parents' benefit).

Unfortunately, Jorgen eventually finds out (mainly due to Timmy being ratted out by a talking golf ball his dad wished for), but a reset button is formed anyway when Jorgen decides to erase Timmy's parents' memories of learning about his fairies, plus Timmy takes solace in the fact that having to keep Cosmo and Wanda a secret from his mom and dad doesn't mean he can't continue making wishes for his parents. Had this been where the series ended, it wouldn't have been a bad way to end.

5. FAIRLY ODD MOVIES

In 2011, a live-action film was made called A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner, which provided yet another possible interpretation of how things might be for Timmy Turner in his adulthood.

As the first installment of the franchise to directly contradict what was established in Channel Chasers, it was established that a 23-year-old Timmy Turner (portrayed by Drake Bell, best known for co-starring with Josh Peck in the live-action Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh and voicing Spider-Man in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes as well as the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon) simply keeps his fairies by refusing to grow up and continuing to live like a child, much to the frustration of his parents (with Timmy's Dad played by his original voice actor Daran Norris and Teryl Rothery playing Timmy's Mom).

Jorgen (portrayed by Mark Gibbon) finds out that he can get Timmy to lose his fairies (who are portrayed in CGI and have Daran Norris, Susanne Blakeslee and Tara Strong reprising their respective roles as Cosmo, Wanda and Poof) by getting him to fall in love, but a string of hilarious mishaps occur where Jorgen instead causes a student at Timmy's school to fall for the school's costumed mascot, a raccoon to amorously attack a park ranger and 29-year-old Vicky (portrayed by Devon Weigel) trying to make advances toward the horrified muscular fairy.

Timmy eventually finds Tootie (portrayed by Daniella Monet) protesting against the land development schemes of Hugh J. Magnate (portrayed by Steven Weber), with Cosmo and Wanda not happy that Timmy is actually showing signs of reciprocating the feelings of a woman who used to be a bespectacled girl with braces, even trying to ruin a date while in human form (said forms portrayed by Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines). It takes their son Poof giving a glare of disapproval to make Cosmo and Wanda stop their efforts at sabotage.

Timmy eventually has to save the day after learning that Tootie is captured by Magnate and that Magnate also captured his fairies with help from Mr. Crocker (portrayed by David Lewis), and in the end is allowed to keep his fairies so long as he and Tootie only use their wishes to help others. Poof also says his first words (with those lines being done by Randy Jackson).

Two other movies were made, but until I had felt compelled to revisit the franchise, the first one was the only one in the trilogy I had ever seen before. I was among the few who found A Fairly Odd Movie to be enjoyable (especially the humorously childish wishes Magnate made when he had the fairies under his control), and my opinion on the two sequels is that they are even better (helped by the fact that the quality of the CGI used for Cosmo, Wanda and Poof noticeably improves between the films).

The first sequel was A Fairly Odd Christmas, where Mr. Crocker goes to the North Pole to try and get on the nice list and Timmy has to step in and fill in for Santa Claus (portrayed by Donavon Stinton) after he accidentally causes Santa to get hurt and lose his memory. We also learn that fairies and elves have hostility towards each other, but they fortunately get along in the end.

One of my favorite bits would be when Timmy and Mr. Crocker met some living gingerbread men, only for Crocker to get them mad by trying to eat the head of one of them.

The third and final film, A Fairly Odd Summer, was released when Season 9 was airing and provided yet another interpretation of how things would end. This time, the main villains are Mr. Crocker and Foop (as the case was with Cosmo, Wanda and Poof, the movie had Eric Bauza reprising his role from the TV show), who work together to try and steal a substance called Abra-Cadabrium, which is the power source for all fairies' magic.

Timmy Turner spends a huge amount of the movie trying and succeeding correcting mistakes he made that would've resulted in bad things happening to his parents and Tootie (Mr. Turner lost a check his boss Ed Leadly lent him that he was supposed to use to hire fire dancers, while Tootie mistakenly brought Timmy's chap stick to a dolphin researcher instead of a tube of an antidote planned to help the dolphins from a serious affliction), and Foop gets a scene where his human form is portrayed by Scott Baio (meaning there's one other actor besides Drake Bell whose presence might keep the movies from aging well, but at least Foop reacts to Crocker's remark on his human form by stating that his magic is too weak to become Fonzie).

In the end, Timmy sacrifices himself by jumping into the lava with the Abra-Cadabrium, but finds that he's still alive and has now been turned into a fairy (depicted in CGI as a non-bucktoothed Timmy Turner and voiced by Tara Strong). Since he is now a fairy himself, Timmy no longer requires Cosmo, Wanda and Poof, but they fortunately find new godchildren in a pair of rich siblings named Marty and Mitzi who until then suffered from being looked after by Vicky (who ends the movie turned into the kids' pet rabbit).

Reception on the movies has been mixed, part of its scorn possibly being from people who prefer Timmy to be with Trixie Tang (I honestly don't know which existing love interest I prefer Timmy to be with and believe it would be fun to experiment with Timmy getting together with Trixie, Tootie, one-shot character Missy and maybe even Chloe).

6. MAN'S WORST FRIEND

The new character introduced in the ninth season was a fairy dog named Sparky (voiced by Maddie Taylor), who enters Timmy's life when the bucktoothed ten-year-old wanted to have a new pet. Timmy gets angry at how frustrating Sparky makes things, but eventually regrets how hard he had been and forgives Sparky.

Many people willing to forgive the sixth, seventh and eighth seasons at least feel that Season 9 is when the show jumped the shark, but I actually found the majority of the ninth season to be entertaining and Sparky did contribute to a lot to the jokes (my only real gripe was how the episode Country Clubbed ended without resolving the dumb sub-plot of Wanda and Sparky switching brains. I fail to see how that was necessary at all for the last episode where we'd see the Buxaplenty family, and the show lacking a consistent continuity in my eyes does not justify ending the episode without Sparky and Wanda having their minds switched back).

On the other hand, some may see Sparky as being a copy of Cosmo, as both characters are typically not very bright and prone to causing problems because of their idiocy.

The finale of Season 9 was Man's Worst Friend, a half-hour episode where Foop goes to a pet shop in search for an Anti-Fairy counterpart to Sparky. The pet shop happens to be run by Death (voiced by Paul Rugg) and Foop ends up finding Anti-Sparky (voiced by Maddie Taylor in a Cockney accent), eventually the pair decide to cause havoc in Dimmsdale by replacing everyone's pets with vicious animals from the Anti-Fairy World pet shop. In the end, Timmy saves the day and gets everyone's pets back.

Since most people hated Sparky, and the production team themselves weren't that fond of him, Sparky disappeared from the show after that and wasn't even acknowledged in the tenth and final season (while the first two Fairly Odd Movies were released before Season 9 aired, A Fairly Odd Summer made no attempt whatsoever to include Sparky or explain his absence in the first two films).

One last thing of note was that the show's opening sequence was redone in high definition and the change of Poof appearing, which was kind of ironic since it was at this season that Poof's appearances started to decline in frequency. He also finally learned how to speak fluently in "School of Crock", weirdly sounding a lot like Ben Tennyson. I found it odd to hear Poof speak in complete sentences in that voice, though it was pretty funny in "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales" when he rambled on being hyperactive from eating Halloween candy.

7. FANCY SCHMANCY

Season 10 ended up the last season of the series and the controversial, polarizing character introduced here was Timmy's new neighbor Chloe Carmichael (voiced by Kari Wahlgren), who Timmy has to share his fairies with because of a fairy shortage. Timmy isn't happy about this, but relents after learning why Chloe is deemed miserable enough to deserve fairy godparents (even though it contradicts the episode's first half depicting her as being liked by everyone in Dimmsdale, including Mr. Crocker).

To accommodate this drastic change, there was a new title sequence where the theme song summed up how Timmy has to share his fairy godparents with Chloe (and some thinly-veiled jabs at this radical change), though some episodes reverted to using the Season 9 opening sequence.

Poof was nearly forgotten in this season in spite of Foop remaining a recurring antagonist, with his only Season 10 appearance being the episode Certifiable Super Sitter. Tara Strong still voices him and has him go back to only saying "Poof, poof", at least the few times Poof isn't doing celebrity impressions in the episode (said impressions being done by Daran Norris, Eric Bauza and Jeff Bennett).

I found Chloe to be entertaining most of the time, as it was hilarious to see her go into a meltdown after she made a mistake or her plans didn't go the way she intended. Her eco-warrior tendencies weren't nearly as irritating as her detractors made them out to be. Unfortunately, there were still a lot of problems with this season that the fans weren't happy about.

One aspect of Season 10 even I'm unwilling to defend would be that the season had a terrible habit of enabling conflict by having Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands in contrived ways to prevent Timmy and Chloe from wishing their way out of their problems. It got horribly repetitive. My advice on a convenient way to cause conflict: If it tends to involve uncontrollable circumstances happening abruptly or Cosmo and/or Wanda getting their wands destroyed due to idiocy, it's probably not something recommended to be used frequently.

Another issue that upset the fans was that partway through, the show switched to using Flash animation, which to many people made the movement of the characters look off. It was at this point that Butch Hartman decided to leave Nickelodeon, ending both The Fairly OddParents and Hartman's final Nicktoon Bunsen is a Beast (the latter having two crossovers called Fairly Odd Phantom, a promotional short and a tie-in comic where the characters of The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy and Bunsen is a Beast met each other, and Beast of Friends, a crossover with The Fairly OddParents where it was established Bunsen and Cosmo became friends during an off-screen party of supernatural creatures and decided to visit each other's universes to celebrate the anniversary of their friendship).

Crocker also gains a nephew named Kevin (much like Crocker and his mother, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui), who ends up befriending Timmy and Chloe. I have no strong feelings on him either way.

The final episode was Fancy Schmancy, which wasn't really that big an event, but involved Timmy and Chloe's friendship being threatened by the strife between Timmy's parents and Chloe's parents Clark and Connie Carmichael (Clark being voiced by Mick Wingert, who was the second voice of T.U.F.F. Puppy villain the Caped Cod after his original voice actor Chris Parnell, and Connie voiced by Cheri Oteri, who would later voice Miss Flap, the teacher of Bunsen and Mikey's school Muckledunk Middle School in Bunsen is a Beast).

Timmy's parents have been richer this season thanks to a stock tip Chloe gave Mr. Turner in the premiere, and in this episode have let their higher social status go to their head by refusing to allow the Carmichaels at the country club. Chloe's parents in contrast are so selfless that they donate most of their money to Charity (that is, a crazy cat lady who happens to be named Charity).

After some unfunny jabs at Weird Al Yankovic where Cosmo makes ridiculous complaints about an owl version of the musician named Weird Owl, the Carmichaels' generosity proves to be their undoing when Charity uses her riches to buy out the country club and kick out the Turners, but also prohibits anyone but herself and her cats from entering. At least Timmy and Chloe no longer have to worry about their friendship being endangered.

I am willing to accept that there are people in this world who don't care for Weird Al, but the fact remains that he is a very popular and well-liked musician, and the potshots made at him in the episode came off as unnecessary, uncalled for and annoying. The episode's plot could've easily been done without the Weird Al digs.

The Bunsen is a Beast crossover and the Fairly Odd Phantom short did not have any acknowledgment of Chloe Carmichael in spite of being released after Season 10 had ended, and it was especially noticeable in Beast of Friends due to the episode having the conflict arise from Mr. Crocker teaming up with Bunsen is a Beast's main villain Amanda Killman (who, like Chloe, was voiced by Kari Wahlgren). Poof doesn't appear, but at least is mentioned by his dad Cosmo.

Chloe's absence from the crossovers could be to prevent overcomplicating things with too many characters, but an in-universe explanation could be that another set of fairies became available for her or she straight up ceased being miserable enough to need Cosmo and Wanda. I am honestly not sure where the Bunsen is a Beast crossover fits chronologically, but I have seen speculation that the events happen before Certifiable Super Sitter.

8. FAIRLY ODDER

A few years after The Fairly OddParents ended production, a revival was announced called The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, which was done in live-action with animated fairies (only using two-dimensional animation instead of 3D computer graphics and with Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee once more reprising their roles as Cosmo, Jorgen and Wanda) and had 13 episodes released in March 2022 on the Viacom-owned streaming service Paramount+.

Rather than follow up Timmy's adult life as established in Channel Chasers or the Fairly Odd Movies, the series starts with an 18-year-old Timmy Turner (played by Caleb Pierce because Drake Bell was disgraced by a scandal I can't mention here without having to mark this Mature) loaning his fairy godparents to his 13-year-old cousin Vivian "Viv" Turner (played by Audrey Grace Marshall) as he prepares for college. Circumstances also lead to Viv having to share Cosmo and Wanda with her stepbrother Roy Raskin (played by Tyler Wladis).

The show mostly deals with Viv and Roy having to solve problems made by their wishes (such as Roy's wish for King Midas' golden touch resulting in him accidentally turning his mom into a gold statue by high-fiving her, or a magic app used to bring back Roy's grandma ending in the house being overrun by elderly zombies), but Vicky returns as an antagonist, played by Mary Kate Wiles and the new teacher of Dimmsdale Elementary at age 24 since Crocker has been institutionalized since the events of the original series.

My opinion on the series is mixed. Most of the episodes nearly put me to sleep, but there were occasional good jokes (and I was surprised by one episode where Roy wished for a butt-biting dog actually having Cosmo and Wanda's underwear shown when they were among the victims who got their posteriors punctured by puppy prongs) and the finale was decent.

The season's conclusion happened in a two-part episode titled "Fairies Away", where Mr. Crocker returns (complete with Carlos Alazraqui reprising his role in live-action) and works with Vicky in a plan to capture Cosmo and Wanda and use their magic to open a gateway to Fairy World. The episode ends with Viv and Roy rescuing Cosmo and Wanda from Vicky and Crocker winding up in a Fairy World prison where Jorgen keeps a sharp eye on him.

There is no word yet on if Fairly Odder will be renewed for another season, but I doubt there will be a season two, considering that the revival was met with negative reception long before it was released and most people I've seen talk about the revival online weren't very fond of the live-action show or the direction it took.

Unless I get a new idea later down the line or someone provides a request involving The Fairly OddParents, I'm as of now done drawing The Fairly OddParents, as discussing the different finales was all I really wanted to do after completing my retrospective of Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

I had so much fun revisting and catching up with The Fairly OddParents that I'm almost sad that I'm finally caught up on everything.

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