The essential episodes of The Fairly OddParents
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Fairly OddParents — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Faced with the hardships of being short, Timmy wishes to become an adult, but with unsatisfying results. Then, after being informed that Cosmo and Wanda will be reassigned to a new child since fairies can only grant wishes to children, Timmy, with their help, must find his inner child in order to wish himself young again.
- 02
After watching an episode of Crash Nebula, Timmy and his friends decide to act out their own version of the episode. Timmy figures the reenactment will be more realisitic with an authentic alien creature. To fulfill this want, Cosmo and Wanda conjure up Mark Chang, prince of the planet Yugopotamia. Mark then captures Chester and A.J. (neither of whom know he is a real alien) and develops an affection for Vicky. Since magic cannot interfere with true love, Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda blast off to Yugopotamia to find Mark's parents so they can set things straight and bring Mark home.
- 03
Wanting to fit in and fall in love with popular girl Trixie Tang, Timmy wishes to become popular, but he soon becomes more selfish about his wishes.
- 04
In order to study about the human body, Cosmo and Wanda shrink Timmy so that he can explore Vicky's human body, but chaos soon ensues.
- 05
Timmy meets his favorite superhero, The Crimson Chin, but the discovery that he is fictional sends the hero into a deep depression. Timmy must now reverse this situation, and as a result, he gains the superhero alter-ego of Cleft the Boy Chin Wonder.
- 06
Feeling that Chompy the Goat needs freedom, Timmy wishes him free. However, when Vicky is spotted near Chompy's pen, she is accused of setting Chompy free and is arrested. Timmy later realizes that he must get Chompy back.
- 07
Timmy is being made fun of by Dr. Bender and his son Wendell because of his large buck teeth, so he wishes for everyone to look the same. Everyone then turns into gray, unrecognizable blobs. Since the fairies cannot find their godchildren, they began exploding and turning into dust. When Cosmo and Wanda go out to look for Timmy, they have no luck, and Cosmo turns to dust. Wanda is about to as well, but she finds Timmy, who wishes for everyone to turn back to normal, but even after granting that wish, Wanda still turns into dust.
- 08
Timmy makes changes in a to-be-released blockbuster by bringing the actual Crimson Chin to defeat the evil director.
- 09
Timmy wishes for magical "youdoo" (voodoo) dolls to control his enemies, friends, and family, but he runs into really big problems when Tootie finds a You Doo doll of him that Cosmo erroneously left lying around. Things get worse when Francis takes it away unlawfully from Tootie without asking her permission, but Timmy manages to recover the limbs of the dolls of his fairies, put them back together and wish him and everyone back to normal.
- 10
Timmy wishes for an indestructible luscious hairstyle so his dad does not give him any more haircuts. Meanwhile, Wanda brings Poof to the barber, Dr. Rip Studwell for a haircut, but Poof is much too resistant to the barber.
- 11
After being rejected yet again by Trixie, Timmy seeks help from Cupid, only to find he is unavailable as he is on vacation. Therefore, Timmy takes Cupid's bows and arrows and entrusts Cosmo into the temporary role of Cupid so he can make Trixie fall in love with him. Unfortunately, Cosmo messes everything up again by missing his shots and hitting the wrong targets, and soon Cosmo and Wanda, Mr. Turner and a dead rosebush, Mrs. Turner and Mr. Crocker are head over heels in love for each other. When Trixie is finally hit with the arrows and falls in love with Timmy, he realizes now has to save his mother before she becomes the new Mrs. Crocker.
- 12
With Poof's first day in spellementary school, he and Foop compete to be the most popular student there, but Foop takes it to extremes when it becomes clear that his classmates favour his fairy counterpart more than him.
- 13
Timmy gets a smartphone with top-of-the-line features, but the phone becomes intrusive in his life.
- 14
- 15
Dad and Timmy enter a film festival for some father-son bonding, but things get out of hand when Dad casts Catman.
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