Animated Atrocities: Certifiable Super Sitter

Show: The Fairly Oddparents
Episode: S10 E10
Year: 2017

Writer(s): Ellen Byron Bob Coellary, Ray DeLaurentis, Lissa Kapstrom
Director(s): George Elliot, Keith Olliver

So The Fairly OddParents is finally ending... GOOD! The show had multiple opportunities to end on a grand note and maintain any sort of dignity it had whatsoever, but it always wanted to keep going, even though Nickelodeon barely wanted to ever air it after Season 6. No joke, they had a whole big thing planned for their 10th anniversary back in 2011 with a year’s worth of new episodes, and it barely ever aired except maybe a few times a month with marathons to just dump the episodes out with no warning about when they'd air at all and that shitty live-action movie! And these were all mostly dumped out during the summer and not any other time!

 

Why did Nickelodeon want to keep this show afloat for so many years even when it clearly had no chance of matching SpongeBob SquarePants in popularity? For all the shit that's talked about him, I do feel really bad for Butch Hartman all things considered. The cartoons he made were his passion, and he got fucked over on all 3 of them! I don't want to jinx anything, but I have a feeling Bunsen Is a Beast is going to get the similar shitty treatment most of Mr. Hartman's work has gotten; if not extended past its prime, it will be virtually ignored, and its corpse will be dumped on Nicktoons Network to die. If it doesn't rake in the gold SpongeBob had from its MID-SECOND SEASON right from the start, Nickelodeon will abuse your show in a vilest manner. If not every episode hits the level of "Band Geeks" even by a little, FLUSH! Down the toilet your show goes!

 

Things have gotten so bad for The Fairly OddParents, they've dumped the FINAL EPISODES onto Nicktoons Network and had to cut the budget in a major way. Now the last episodes will be done a very low grade of ToonBoom flash animation. The show has almost always been hand-drawn with CGI sprinkled in occasionally. They've never had to resort to flash, not even in "Information Stupor Highway"! Yeah, I didn't think the show could sink any lower after they added a Mary Sue to the cast, but they found a way through its own PRODUCTION VALUES! Flash animation, when used correctly, can be just as good and efficient as hand-drawn animation; unfortunately, most people even today see it as means to make stuff quickly and cheaply without putting in real effort! And that pretty much sums up this episode, no effort whatsoever!

 

This episode makes us want to believe this is the first time we're seeing Poof and Foop, even though they've been major staples of the show since at least Season 6-7; this is done just so Chloe can be introduced to them! Why didn't they just have her meet Poof in the first episode? She met Foop then, and this is the third time in the show she's met him! The show’s staff obviously wanted to believe adding this baby was a good idea, and I can understand sticking to your guns and all, but why did you fuck him up so badly? Why does Poof sound like Wander from Wander Over Yonder? Was this just an excuse to get Jeff Bennet to do funny voices for money? If you wanted to have Poof talk now, just give him the same voice as Timmy, just a little higher since he's a BABY!

 

Add to that we have Chloe as less of a Sue now, but she's still plenty obnoxious as a character. I guess nobody told her Anti-Fairies are naturally evil to the core and there's no changing them because she thinks she can "open up Foop's heart". Or some bullshit like that, I don't care. Anyhow, this episode might’ve actually had a good idea with Chloe subbing as Timmy's babysitter because she's like "little Ms. Perfect" and then getting into shenanigans to show she still has a long way to go in maturity, but they don't do that. Instead, they make her treat everyone like fucking babies, especially Timmy's dad who actually ACTS LIKE A BABY NOW! And yes, I know most of them are fairy babies, but they're still more mature than how she's treating them.

 

Here's a very serious question: why haven't Poof and Vicky made more appearances in this show? I get trying to hide Poof since he was seen as a mistake by most of the fans, but Vicky has been around since the beginning! She's the main reason Timmy even has fairies to begin with. After Season 5, she began to appear less and less to the point of almost being nonexistent, and when she does appear, those episodes tend to be pretty bad and among the worst mistakes of the show. Anyways, we get the typical Vicky-is-evil shtick of her turning the babies (and Mr. Turner) into furniture and putting Timmy and Chloe into a Jigsaw style trap with her dressed as Billy the Puppet. Ok, I know you are incapable of actually telling jokes on your own, but I expect you to at least try to dial back the references. I mean, Poof's whole shtick is making pop culture references now.

 

Another minor issue I take is Mr. Crocker's torment in this episode. Why do they think just throwing him into episodes makes them funny? In order for Crocker to work, you have to actually have him do something! That's how MOST characters work! He also has to do something bad that worth getting turned into a living punching bag and distorted beyond recognition. You can't just beat him up just because! Villains don't work like that! I mean, a showdown between Chloe and Vicky should be epic, pure good vs pure evil and all that, but because of the shitty animation, it's just dumb (among other things)! Another issue is… how come Mr. Turner and Vicky are allowed to see Poof, Foop and Sammy Sweetsparkle? Are we only going to use Da Rules when it's convenient to the plot now?

 

Shrimp on the barbie! This episode is just made of stupid! Oh yeah, and there's this racist kangaroo that only says that; I thought you should know because he's not at all important to the plot. Also, Cosmo and Wanda are now such massive plot devices, they need to be sucked into a black hole now to keep things from wrapping up in 7 minutes! Now I want candy! Why did I do this episode when I know for a fact the show is going to die? I don’t know, I just wanted to give it one last kick in the nutsack goodbye! I used to really love The Fairly OddParents, and I even tolerated Poof; now it's just a hot piece of shit not even Nickelodeon wants anything to do with, even though it was one of their longest running shows! Dare I say this show even suffered worse than SpongeBob in terms of seasonal rot! At least SpongeBob never needed to shoehorn in new characters and forget about most of its cast!

Cringe-Inducing Audio: 4
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 2
Lackluster Writing: 8
Annoyance: 8
Disturbing Content: 4
Unnecessary Cruelty: 3
Rancid Morality: 0
Low Production Values: 8
Unfortunate Implications: 0
Character Derailment: 3

Final Score: 40/100


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