The Fairly OddParents

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The Fairly OddParents
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Genre Comedy
Fantasy [1]
Created by Butch Hartman
ShowrunnerButch Hartman
Voices of
Theme music composer
Opening theme"The Fairly OddParents"
Ending theme"The Fairly OddParents" (instrumental)
Composer Guy Moon
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons10
No. of episodes172 (294 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Bob Boyle (2002–2005)
  • Steve Marmel (2002–2006)
  • Randy Saba
  • Ray DeLaurentis (2009–2017)
  • Karen Malach (2017)
Running time23–44 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network Nickelodeon
ReleaseMarch 30, 2001 (2001-03-30) –
November 25, 2006 (2006-11-25)
ReleaseFebruary 18, 2008 (2008-02-18) –
September 16, 2016 (2016-09-16)
Network Nicktoons
ReleaseJanuary 18 (2017-01-18) –
July 26, 2017 (2017-07-26)
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The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series follows the adventures of Timmy Turner, a 10-year-old boy with two fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda who grant him wishes to solve his everyday problems.

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The series originated from shorts on Nickelodeon's animation showcase Oh Yeah! Cartoons that aired from 1998 to 2002. Due to their popularity, the shorts were later green-lit to become a half-hour series, which premiered on March 30, 2001. Originally, it ended on November 25, 2006, totaling five seasons and 80 episodes, but was revived in 2008. Production of the series ceased again after Hartman left Nickelodeon in February 2018. [2] It was Nickelodeon's second longest-running animated show, behind SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–present). [3]

On February 24, 2021, it was announced that a spin-off live-action series was in development for Paramount+. [4] The series The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder premiered on March 31, 2022. [5] A sequel series, titled The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish , premiered on May 20, 2024. [6]

Synopsis

Premise

The Fairly OddParents follows Timmy Turner, a 10-year old boy who is neglected by his parents and abused by his teenage babysitter, Vicky. One day, he is granted two fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, who grant his every wish to improve his miserable life. However, these wishes usually backfire badly and cause a series of problems that Timmy must fix. Earlier episodes of the series tend to revolve around Timmy trying to navigate his everyday life at home, at school and elsewhere in town with his friends, Chester and A.J., and occasionally his parents, while also trying to fix a wish gone awry and ultimately, learning a lesson in the end. Later in the series, Timmy wishes that Cosmo and Wanda would have a baby, whom they named Poof, and much later, Timmy gets a pet fairy dog named Sparky. Even later in the series, a new girl called Chloe Carmichael, who loves sharing, animals, and everything that is ecologically friendly, moves into the neighborhood, and Timmy has to share Cosmo and Wanda with her due to a shortage of available fairies.

At the beginning of the series, Vicky was the main antagonist, but as the series progressed, many more villains were introduced, including Denzel Crocker, Timmy's crazed teacher who wishes to prove to the world that fairies exist; Francis, the school bully; Remy Buxaplenty, a young billionaire child, who is set on getting rid of Timmy's fairy godparents due to his immense jealousy towards him for having two fairy godparents compared to his one, named Juandissimo Magnifico, Wanda's ex; Dark Laser, a parody of Darth Vader, who wants to destroy Timmy and the Earth; the Pixies, who are known to wield as much power as fairies, but they treat their magical powers like a business. The Pixies' primary goal is to take control of Fairy World and the Earth; the Anti-fairies, who are similar to the actual fairies, but with polar opposite personalities and character traits. Anti-fairies are also known for causing bad luck; and Norm the Genie, who hatches a plan to gain freedom from his lamp and get revenge on Timmy.

Setting

The Fairly OddParents is set in the fictional city of Dimmsdale, California. Dimmsdale has a sign on some mountains near the city that is a parody of the Hollywood Sign. In the episode "Vicky Loses Her Icky", the Mayor of Dimmsdale unveils the "Welcome to Dimmsdale – Nicest Town on Earth!" sign. However, at the end of the episode, the President of the United States changes the word "Nicest" to "Meanest". Dimmsdale appears to be average-sized, with a downtown containing large buildings, skyscrapers and a city hall, but also containing uptown areas with suburban residences (including the neighborhood where Timmy, his parents and his friends live) and businesses, such as Timmy's school; a hospital; a jail; a sports complex called the Dimmadome, which is named after its founder and owner, Doug Dimmadome, a man who owns a local TV channel and various restaurants and stores, as well as a park in the center of the city. Dimmsdale also appears to have rural farmland located outside of the city. The adults who live in Dimmsdale are notably moronic and often settle situations with things like angry mobs, but they do still manage to form a working and functioning society. In the episode "Which Witch is Which?" it was revealed that Dimmsdale was founded in the 1660s and named after a man called Dale Dimm.

When the show needs to, it switches its location to Fairy World, the home of the fairies, which is a floating world located on top of some clouds, colored with an abundance of pink and purple. Fairy World is depicted as a large metropolis with houses, streets, different kinds of buildings, and skyscrapers. Most buildings in Fairy World have crowns and stars above their roofs. The fairies have a civilization like that of humans, but with their primary source of power being magic, which also keeps their world afloat. A large rainbow acts as the bridge between Fairy World and the Earth, although the bridge seems to exist only for decoration since fairies teleport via magic to and from Earth. Fairy World is not actually a part of Earth but is depicted as a separate world in outer space located near Earth's orbit that can only be accessed by magic. Among the most notable landmarks in Fairy World is the glowing entrance sign on the other side of the rainbow bridge and the giant wand located in the center of Fairy World that powers the fairies' magic. Jorgen Von Strangle, an enormous and tough fairy with an Austrian accent (similar to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger), acts as the leader of the fairies and Fairy World. Jorgen personally dislikes Timmy at the beginning of the series but warms up to him over time.

Another location seen in the show is the city of Chincinnati, the home town of Timmy's favorite comic book superhero, the Crimson Chin. Other locations include the dark and twisted Anti-Fairy World, the dark counterpart of Fairy World where the Anti-fairies reside; the dull and gray metropolis of Pixies Inc., home of the Pixies; and Yugopotamia, another planet where Timmy's alien friend Mark Chang lived until the episode "New Squid in Town!" when Timmy invites Mark to live in the Dimmsdale junkyard in order to escape his evil fiancée, Princess Mandie.

Voice cast

Recurring voice actors include Jim Ward, Rob Paulsen, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kenny, Eric Bauza, Jason Marsden, Jeff Bennett, Dionne Quan, Gary LeRoi Gray, Kevin Michael Richardson, Frankie Muniz, and Ibrahim Haneef Muhammad.

Throughout its run, celebrities who have guest starred on The Fairly OddParents include Adam West, Jay Leno, Norm Macdonald, Mary Hart, Chris Kirkpatrick, [7] Alec Baldwin, Ben Stein, Jackie Mason, Jason Bateman, Laraine Newman, Gilbert Gottfried, Michael Clarke Duncan, Brendan Fraser, Patrick Warburton, Julie Chen, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tom Arnold, Dana Carvey, and Scott Hamilton.

Production history

Development and Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1997–2001)

Butch Hartman, the series' creator Butch Hartman by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Butch Hartman, the series' creator
A postcard for The Fairly OddParents segment on Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons The Fairly OddParents postcard 1998.jpg
A postcard for The Fairly OddParents segment on Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Prior to the creation of The Fairly OddParents, Butch Hartman was working at Cartoon Network on Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo . In 1997, Fred Seibert contacted Hartman about pitching ideas for Seibert's new company, Frederator Incorporated, as a part of their Oh Yeah! Cartoons series which the studio was developing for Nickelodeon. Hartman initially declined the offer. Several months later, Johnny Bravo finished and Hartman decided to create his own series instead of going back to working for other studios.[ citation needed ]

"I wanted initially to do a boy version of Cinderella. [...] I wanted to do a show with magic so I wouldn't have to worry about coming up with ideas, and sometimes that's the problem, The show just sort of writes itself, and there's often too much to choose from and too many opportunities." — Butch Hartman [8]

Hartman started developing his own series by drawing a picture of a little boy who would become Timmy Turner. Hartman was originally going to name him Mike, after his brother Mike Hartman, but they had a fight that day, so Hartman named him after his other brother Timmy Hartman instead. [9] [10] Hartman wanted Timmy to be able to go anywhere because he never wanted to be stuck for a story transition. [11] Hartman was originally going to give Timmy science powers, but decided against it due to Dexter's Laboratory having recently come out. Instead, he decided to give Timmy a magic friend. He drew Venus (later renamed Wanda) first and then decided that, because he had never heard of a fairy godfather before, to draw Cosmo. [12] After coming up with the entire premise for the cartoon in about fifteen minutes, Hartman first pitched the idea to Hanna-Barbera and then to Cartoon Network, both of whom turned it down. Hartman then went back to Seibert at Nickelodeon and successfully pitched it to them for Oh Yeah! Cartoons. [12]

While in early development, the series was titled The Fairy GodParents and then it was briefly changed to Oh My GodParents. [12] Bill Burnett came up with the title The Fairly OddParents, which they ended up sticking with. [12] Hartman originally created The Fairly OddParents as a seven-minute short film, which was one of the thirty-nine short cartoons created for Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Hartman made ten seven-minute short films of The Fairly OddParents in total for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, which aired on Nickelodeon from September 4, 1998, to March 23, 2001.[ citation needed ] Due to the success of the shorts, Nickelodeon picked up The Fairly OddParents for a full-length series alongside fellow Oh Yeah! Cartoons: ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot . In 2000, Nickelodeon ordered seven 23-minute episodes for the series' first season, which premiered on March 30, 2001 (just one week after the final Oh Yeah! short)[ citation needed ] in the half-hour before fellow Nicktoon Invader Zim made its debut. [8]

Unlike the later series, the animation in the original shorts is not as smooth and the designs are notably different (including Timmy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Turner, who are only seen from the neck down with their faces hidden in the pilot episodes and appear to be more intelligent than they appeared to be in the proceeding series, yet still easily duped by Vicky's abhorrent actions). Other notable differences include Timmy Turner, who was voiced by Mary Kay Bergman in the Oh Yeah! shorts rather than Tara Strong in the series (Strong would dub over Bergman's dialogue in the Oh Yeah! shorts to establish better continuity). Cosmo is significantly more intelligent than he appears to be in the proceeding series while Wanda is shown to be ditzy. Vicky is also much less evil than in the current series; she has a little brother in the pilot episode before it was changed to a little sister later on in the shorts & she also calls Timmy by his name as opposed to the more often used "twerp".

Original run (2001–2006)

Upon its premiere, The Fairly OddParents was immediately popular and quickly became the second-highest-rated children's program among kids ages 2–11 on both network and cable television, behind Nickelodeon's own SpongeBob SquarePants . [13] [14] The series managed to briefly steal SpongeBob's spot as the number one highest rated children's television program in mid-2003. [13] [14] The Fairly OddParents also attracted a wide audience, appealing to kids as well as to teenagers and adults, with 14.2 million kids 2-11 tuning in each week, 10.8 million adult viewers per week and was the number one series on television among tween audiences (9-14). [14] [15]

On January 24, 2006, Hartman announced on his forum that Nickelodeon had ceased production of the show. "The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3: The Jerkinators" is the fifth-season finale in production order and was intended to be the series finale, airing on July 21, 2006. However, Nickelodeon broadcast the episode "Timmy the Barbarian/No Substitute for Crazy" after "The Jerkinators" as the fifth-season finale in airing order, on November 25 of that year.[ citation needed ]

Revival (2007–2012)

On February 2, 2007, Hartman announced on his forum that Nick granted The Fairly OddParents twenty more episode slots, making sure the show resumed production. Later on July 7, 2007, a special titled 77 Secrets of the Fairly OddParents Revealed hinted that a new character would join the series.[ citation needed ]

"The addition of baby Poof is something I always wanted to do. I wanted Cosmo and Wanda to have their own kid as opposed to just Timmy. So we came up with the episode Fairly OddBaby and it was one of the highest rated episodes we ever did and we were really thrilled about that." — Butch Hartman [16]

After a one-year hiatus, Nickelodeon announced that they would begin the sixth season, which would consist of twelve episodes alongside the broadcast of a television film called Fairly OddBaby , which introduced a new character, a baby fairy named Poof, to the main cast of characters. [17] A huge hit, Fairly OddBaby aired on February 18, 2008, and garnered 8.89 million viewers for its premiere; the rebroadcast of the film the following day garnered 4.82 million viewers, making it the number one and ninth most viewed cable broadcast respectively for the week of February 18–24, 2008. [18]

Live-action films and end of the series (2011–2017)

“I wanted to take the series in an unexpected direction by introducing live-action characters while keeping the integrity of the series' trademark magic through CG animation.” — Butch Hartman [19]

To honor the tenth anniversary of The Fairly OddParents, a live-action television film titled A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! premiered on July 9, 2011. [19] The film is set 13 years after the animated series and stars Drake Bell as a 23-year-old Timmy Turner, who is trying his hardest not to grow up in order to prevent losing his fairy godparents, and Daniella Monet as Tootie, who has grown into a mature and beautiful activist with whom Timmy falls in love. [20] The premiere of the movie attracted 5.8 million viewers and it was the top-rated television broadcast on cable networks for the week of July 10–16, 2011, and ranked as "2011's Top Original TV Movie on Basic Cable with Kids and Total Viewers". [21]

The success of A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! spawned two sequels: A Fairly Odd Christmas and A Fairly Odd Summer , which premiered on November 29, 2012, [22] and August 2, 2014 [23] respectively. Drake Bell and Daniella Monet reprised their respective roles in both of the sequels. [23] [24]

The ninth season of The Fairly OddParents began with a television special titled "Fairly OddPet", which premiered on March 23, 2013, and attracted 3.8 million viewers. [25] The ninth season's official run began on May 4, 2013. [26] Season nine introduced a new character, Timmy's pet fairy dog Sparky, to the show's main cast. [26] Season nine contained twenty-six episodes, making it the longest season in the series. It is also the first season to be formatted in both high definition and widescreen.

"When you make a show like [The] Fairly OddParents for many, many years, you really have to begin to add things to the show to keep the show fresh. I've had a lot of people send me angry emails asking me why did you add Chloe to the show? Or why did you add Sparky? Or why did you add Poof? And as much as I would love to not upset these people, we have to keep the show fresh. Mainly because sometimes the network, Nickelodeon, wants us to add things and so we add things, but we try to add things in a way that makes the show better, not worse." — Butch Hartman [16]

The tenth season of The Fairly OddParents began with a special called "The Big Fairy Share Scare!", which introduced another new main character named Chloe Carmichael, Timmy's neighbor who he is forced to share Cosmo and Wanda with due to a fairy shortage. [27] The tenth season aired from January 15, 2016, to July 26, 2017, on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. The visuals and lyrics for the theme song were changed for season ten in order to include Chloe; however, it still contained the same rhythm and melody as the original theme song. [16] Also in season 10, the show's animation made the transition from traditional animation to Flash animation. The animation for season ten was done by Elliott Animation Studios in Canada, whereas all of the prior seasons were animated by Yeson Animation Studios in South Korea. [16]

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesSegmentsOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
Shorts 10—September 6, 1998 (1998-09-06)March 23, 2001 (2001-03-23) Nickelodeon
1 713March 30, 2001 (2001-03-30)December 9, 2001 (2001-12-09)
2 1324March 1, 2002 (2002-03-01)January 20, 2003 (2003-01-20)
3 1933November 8, 2002 (2002-11-08)November 21, 2003 (2003-11-21)
4 2032November 7, 2003 (2003-11-07)June 10, 2005 (2005-06-10)
5 2137July 2, 2004 (2004-07-02)November 25, 2006 (2006-11-25)
6 2030February 18, 2008 (2008-02-18)August 12, 2009 (2009-08-12)
7 2039July 6, 2009 (2009-07-06)August 5, 2012 (2012-08-05)
8 6—February 12, 2011 (2011-02-12)December 29, 2011 (2011-12-29)
9 2643March 23, 2013 (2013-03-23)March 28, 2015 (2015-03-28)
10 20915January 15, 2016 (2016-01-15)September 16, 2016 (2016-09-16)
1122January 18, 2017 (2017-01-18)July 26, 2017 (2017-07-26) Nicktoons

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius crossover episodes

There have also been three tie-ins with special episode crossovers involving the Nickelodeon computer-animated series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius under the title "The Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour" (the first alone, the second and third with the subtitles "When Nerds Collide!" and "The Jerkinators!", respectively); the three main characters from Fairly OddParents meet with the main characters from Jimmy Neutron, Jimmy, Sheen, Carl, Cindy, and Libby, and often cross between each of their worlds of 2D and 3D animation.

Spin-offs and revivals

Cancelled spin-off series and film

In 2004, Hartman revealed his intentions to make a Crash Nebula spin-off series. The pilot episode "Crash Nebula" was aired as part of the show's fifth season, with the pilot focusing on a young boy named Sprig Speevak (voiced by James Arnold Taylor), who meets various types of strange aliens as he attends a school in outer space, making a few friends and enemies. Nickelodeon decided not to pick up the series. [28]

In 2006, Hartman stated that he was still confident and would try to get the spin-off greenlit in the future. He also wrote a script entitled Crash Nebula: The Movie for Paramount Pictures, but the film was canceled due to its similarities to Disney's Sky High .[ citation needed ] However, no other news for the Crash Nebula IP has been announced since then, with it remaining as a fictitious television series in The Fairly OddParents that Timmy Turner is a fan of. The episode in the fifth season adds an introduction where Timmy is excited for Sprig's origin story, with Cosmo and Wanda making wild guesses.

Live-action spin-off series

On February 24, 2021, it was announced that a live-action sequel series was in development and debut on Paramount+. [29] Hartman and Seibert return as producers, while Christopher J. Nowak serve as both executive producer and showrunner. [30] The series started production in July 2021 [31] and premiered on March 31, 2022, with one season. [5]

Sequel series

In 2023, Nickelodeon & Paramount Global applied to register "The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish" with the USPTO under several NICE classes. A screenwriter from Season 9 of the original series confirmed a new project was in development. [32] On February 23, 2024, further details about the series were revealed, including an impending Netflix debut, the return of Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee as Cosmo and Wanda respectively, and the focus on a new main character, Hazel Wells. [33] It premiered on May 20, 2024 on Nickelodeon. [6]

Reception

Critical reception

Betsy Wallace from Common Sense Media gave the series 3 of 5 stars saying, “Nickelodeon airs some of the most creative and expertly animated cartoons on television, and it has another winner with The Fairly OddParents.” [34]

Dennis Cass from Slate Magazine favorably compared the series' writing to that of Animaniacs and praised the series' broad appeal. [14]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
2001 29th Annie Awards Outstanding Achievement for an Animated Production Produced for the Internet"The Crimson Chin" webisodesNominated [35]
Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Special ProjectMain title sequenceNominated
Outstanding Achievement in a Primetime or Late Night Animated Television ProductionThe Fairly OddParentsNominated
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television Production Butch Hartman
for episode "Chin Up"		Nominated
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music Score an Animated Television Production Guy Moon Nominated
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production Tara Strong
as Timmy Turner		Nominated
20022002 BMI Film & TV Awards BMI Cable Award Butch Hartman, Ron Jones, and Guy Moon Won [36]
54th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Music and Lyrics Butch Hartman, Steve Marmel, and Guy Moon
for song "I Wish Every Day Could Be Christmas" from "Christmas Every Day"		Nominated [37]
2003 30th Annie Awards Outstanding Music in an Animated Television Production Guy Moon, Butch Hartman, and Steve Marmel Nominated [38]
2003 BMI Film & TV Awards BMI Cable Award Butch Hartman, Ron Jones, and Guy Moon Won
2003 Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in Television AnimationMichael Warner, Mary Erstad, Matt Corey, and Michael Petak
for "Action Packed" and "Smarty Pants"		Nominated
55th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Music and Lyrics Guy Moon, Butch Hartman, and Steve Marmel
for song "It's Great to Be a Guy" from "Love Struck"		Nominated [37]
Guy Moon, Butch Hartman, and Steve Marmel
for song "What Girls Love" from "Love Struck"		Nominated
2004 31st Annie Awards Outstanding Storyboarding in an Animated Television ProductionDave Thomas
for "Pipe Down"		Won [39]
Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television ProductionThe Fairly OddParentsWon
2004 BMI Film & TV Awards BMI Cable Award Butch Hartman, Ron Jones, and Guy Moon Won [40]
2004 Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in Television AnimationRobert Poole II, Mary Erstad, and Matt Corey
for "The Crimson Chin Meets Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad"		Nominated
2004 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite CartoonThe Fairly OddParentsNominated
56th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Music and Lyrics Guy Moon, Butch Hartman, and Steve Marmel
for song "Wish Come True!" from "Abracatastrophe"		Nominated [37]
20th TCA Awards Outstanding Children's ProgrammingThe Fairly OddParentsNominated [41]
2005 32nd Annie Awards Character Design in an Animated Television ProductionBenjamin Balistreri
for "Crash Nebula"		Nominated [42]
Outstanding Writing in a Television Production Butch Hartman and Steve Marmel
for "Channel Chasers"		Nominated
2005 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite CartoonThe Fairly OddParentsNominated [43]
57th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement in AnimationGordon Hammond
for "Shelf Life"		Won [37]
2006 33rd Annie Awards Best Character Design in an Animated Television ProductionErnie Gilbert
for "The Good Old Days"		Won [44]
Best Directing in an Animated Television Production Gary Conrad
for "The Good Old Days"		Nominated
2006 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite CartoonThe Fairly OddParentsNominated [45]
2006 Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in Television AnimationRobert Poole II, Mary Erstad, Robbi Smith, Guy Moon, and Craig Ng
for "The Good Old Days/Future Lost"		Nominated [46]
2006 British Academy Children's Awards International Butch Hartman, Gary ConradNominated [47]
2007 34th Annie Awards Best Animated Television ProductionThe Fairly OddParentsNominated [48]
2007 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite CartoonThe Fairly OddParentsNominated [49]
2009 36th Annie Awards Best Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production or Short Form Butch Hartman
for "Mission: Responsible"		Nominated [50]
2009 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite CartoonThe Fairly OddParentsNominated [51]
2010 37th Annie Awards Music in a Television Production Guy Moon
for "Wishology: The Big Beginning"		Won [52]
Storyboarding in a Television ProductionBrandon Kruse
for "Fly Boy"		Nominated
37th Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Sound Mixing – Live Action and AnimationMichael Beiriger and Ray LeonardWon [53]
Outstanding Individual in AnimationDave Thomas
for "Dadbracadbra"		Won
Outstanding Writing in AnimationWilliam Schifrin, Kevin Sullivan, Ed Valentine, Butch Hartman, Joanna Lewis, Charlotte Fullerton, Amy Keating Rogers, Gary Conrad, Thomas Krajewski, Scott Fellows, and Ray De LaurentisNominated
2010 Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in Television AnimationHeather Olsen, Roy Braverman, Robbi Smith, J. Lampinen, and Mishelle Fordham
for "Wishology: The Big Beginning"		Nominated [54]
2011 38th Annie Awards Best Storyboarding in an Animated Television ProductionDave ThomasNominated [55]
2012 39th Annie Awards Voice Acting in a Television Production Carlos Alazraqui
as Denzel Crocker		Nominated [56]
Daran Norris
as Cosmo		Nominated
Tara Strong
as Timmy Turner		Nominated
Writing in a Television ProductionRay De Laurentis, William Schifrin, and Kevin Sullivan
for "Invasion of the Dads"		Nominated [56]
2013 40th Annie Awards Best Animated Television Production for Children"Farm Pit"Nominated [57]
2013 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite CartoonThe Fairly OddParentsNominated [58]
Neox Fan Awards Best Neox Kidz seriesNominated [59]
20142014 Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in Television AnimationHeather Olsen, Roy Braverman, Robbi Smith and J. Lampinen
for "Dumbbell Curve"		Won [60]
41st Annie Awards Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionEric BauzaNominated [61]
2014 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Animated Animal SidekickSparkyNominated [62]
2015 2015 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite CartoonThe Fairly OddParentsNominated [63]

Other media

A slew of products based on the series were created, released, or built. This includes four video games, three attraction rides, and toys.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Credited as Matthew W. Taylor

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Abra-Catastrophe! is a television film initially released as the seventh, eighth, and ninth episodes of the third season of The Fairly OddParents, serving as the first special of the show. It was originally broadcast on Nickelodeon in the United States on July 12, 2003.

<i>Random! Cartoons</i> Television series

Random! Cartoons is an American animated anthology series that aired on Nicktoons. Much like Oh Yeah! Cartoons, it was created by Fred Seibert and produced by Frederator Studios and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It premiered on December 6, 2008, and ended on December 20, 2009.

<i>The Fairly OddParents: Breakin Da Rules</i> 2003 video game

The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' Da Rules is a video game released for the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Windows in North America in 2003. It is based on the Nickelodeon cartoon The Fairly OddParents. It was developed by Blitz Games and published by THQ.

The Fairly OddParents originated from a mini-series of 7-minute shorts on the Oh Yeah! Cartoons showcase. The series premiere, appropriately named "The Fairly OddParents!" is the pilot of the series which showcase the debut appearances of Timmy Turner, Cosmo, Wanda, and Vicky.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wishology!</span> 95th - 100th episodes of the sixth season of The Fairly OddParents

"Wishology!" is a trilogy of television films serving as the ninth special of the animated television series The Fairly OddParents. The first part of the trilogy, "The Big Beginning", originally aired on the cable network Nickelodeon in the United States on May 1, 2009; the second part, "The Exciting Middle Part", aired on May 2; and the last of the three parts, "The Final Ending", aired on May 3. The trilogy was written by Kevin Sullivan, Scott Fellows, and series creator Butch Hartman, who also served as director. According to Nielsen ratings, the first and third parts of the trilogy were viewed by 4 million people, while its second part garnered 3.6 million viewers. Critical reviewers displayed mixed reactions to how three-dimensional objects interact via computer animation with the series' usual two-dimensional artwork in the trilogy. Composer Guy Moon, who has worked throughout the series, won an Annie Award for his music in the first part of the trilogy in 2010.

<i>A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!</i> 2011 television film directed by Savage Steve Holland

A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! is a 2011 live-action/animated teen comedy television film based on the animated series The Fairly OddParents. It first aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on July 9, 2011, to celebrate the series's tenth anniversary. Unlike the previous animated films of the series, this film is live-action with CGI animation. The television film was viewed by 5.8 million viewers during its original airing.

<i>A Fairly Odd Christmas</i> 2012 American film directed by Steve Holland

A Fairly Odd Christmas is a 2012 American live-action/animated Christmas comedy television film. It is the sequel to the 2011 live-action TV film A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! and the second live-action adaptation of the Nickelodeon animated television series The Fairly OddParents.

<i>A Fairly Odd Summer</i> 2014 Television film directed by Savage Steve Holland

A Fairly Odd Summer is a 2014 American live-action/animated comedy television film. It is the sequel to A Fairly Odd Christmas and was released on August 2, 2014. It is the third and final installment in The Fairly OddParents live-action film series beginning with the first film A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, and continuing with its first sequel.

The Fairly OddParents is an American series of television films produced through Nickelodeon, loosely based on Butch Hartman's animated series The Fairly OddParents. The series consists of three films: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011), A Fairly Odd Christmas (2012), and A Fairly Odd Summer (2014).

<i>The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder</i> American live-action/animated comedy television series

The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder is an American comedy live-action/animated television series developed by Christopher J. Nowak that premiered on Paramount+ on March 31, 2022. It is a sequel of Nickelodeon's original animated series The Fairly OddParents.

The Fairly OddParents is a media franchise created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. It officially began as a series, in 2001 after releasing shorts on Oh Yeah! Cartoons from 1998. As a result of the series, by-products were launched, including video games, theme park attractions, figurines, and toys.

<i>The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish</i> 2024 American animated series

The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish is an American animated television series based on and serving as a continuation to the Nickelodeon animated series The Fairly OddParents (2001–2017) created by Butch Hartman. It is the third series in the franchise, after The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder (2022). The series premiered with a sneak peek on May 17, 2024, with the series officially premiering on May 20. The series will also premiere on Netflix in the United States and internationally as a Netflix original series on November 14.

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