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| Before you go on, I must confess that I didn�t actually write this page myself, but kind of just copied it from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fairly_OddParents. I had been meaning to start this page for a while and whilst looking up a name that I had forgotten, I came across this site and thought that it was really good. So I copied the relavent info and put it here. Aren�t I a hardworking girl... Introduction The Fairly OddParents or The Fairly Odd Parents is a popular animated series created by Butch Hartman and first aired on March 30, 2001. It is produced by Frederator Studios, whose show Oh Yeah! Cartoons, showed the pilot episodes alongside many other first-run and one-time cartoons. It is shown in the United States on the children's television station Nickelodeon, and is also shown internationally. It is currently one of the most popular shows on Nickelodeon, second only to SpongeBob SquarePants. The television series is distributed outside the United States by the Canadian animation company, Nelvana Enterprises, Inc. The Fairly OddParents is set in the fictional town of Dimmsdale. Dimmsdale has no definite location, since time-travel episodes have shown Wild West Dimmsdale and Colonial Dimmsdale. The show follows the day-to-day life of 10-year-old Timmy Turner. An only child, Timmy is often preyed upon by such adversaries as his evil babysitter, Vicky, or his maniacal teacher, Mr. Crocker. Just as his situation was particularly grim, he was granted a pair of fairy godparents, named Cosmo and Wanda, who had the power to grant his wishes and were charged with making Timmy happy. Unfortunately, Cosmo's maturity is about equal to Timmy's, and the two often come up with strange dangerous ideas; although well meaning, their wishes often go awry. Wanda, Cosmo's more sensible (and somewhat sarcastic) wife, must devote her time to ensuring both Timmy's and Cosmo's safety. These Fairly OddParents (a pun on "fairy godparents"), mindful of their secretive existence, disguise themselves as various animals and objects in public, always with the same peculiar colors to identify the two: Cosmo is always a light green, and Wanda is always a light pink. Most episodes end with a Deus ex machina, because Timmy has fairy godparents that grant wishes for him. Many episode plots are resolved by Timmy yelling, "I wish everything was back to normal!" or something very similar. Each episode of the show consists of two cartoons, each approximately 11 minutes long. |