No lol its as if a writer knew the bullshit Nick was gonna pull and decided to make fun of Nick before it happened. Too much of a coincidence and it happens more than you might think. Ren and Stimpy, Futurama and Family Guy writers made jokes like these before something bad happened like their show getting cancelled or the whole show going to an entirely different set of writers.
@@Zzzodiackillerrr It is remarkable how spot on some of this stuff is sometimes it's so prophetic it really does seem like people knew something and just cleverly integrated into the show as a hidden easter egg.
@@kylesoler4139and it truly was a wild west. You didnt just have google and social medias, there was a vast littany of websites with both good and bad content, infortmative and disturbing.
I honestly really liked the Poof focused episodes. It also made sense in the story. Seeing Timmy take on a older brother role for once and learning about responsibilities
@@cheeseyleavesI mean a lot of babies that get introduced at least a season or two later into the show get a lot of hate no matter what. I think something similar happened in my little pony when they introduced a random baby Tbh I just assumed it was because of the reasoning behind the child going into the show since it was never “planned” Or because people sometimes think it’s cool to hate babies/toddlers/kids
@@Why-ck4gf mlp nerd here, I think the baby you're referring to is Flurryheart. People were upset at her introduction because the original creator, Lauren Faust, never intended there to ever be more than 2 alicorns: Luna and Celestia, the two princesses of Equestria. Along with Cadence being introduced as a pretty pink princess of love and her eventually getting a little pink baby who was also a princess it was clear the motivation behind their conception was mainly for profit. However, any sensible person has to keep in mind these are KIDS shows made to profit off of toys, especially mlp. They never did anything with Flurryheart and she really faded off for being, like.... Important Royalty. At least they did stuff with Cadence sorry if this is word vomit I just like talking about a show's background info lolo
@@michaelg4981 That doesn't mean there weren't signs that the show was ABOUT TO get bad going on within the company where the writer[s] could see it a mile off and the viewers couldn't yet. Entire seasons of TV shows aren't produced in a single day, y'know.
@@michaelg4981ä lot of times it can take upwards of ä year for animation and editing and airing to take place. There's a good chance that the next season already had a general plot when they wrote this part of the episode
It was most likely that Nickelodeon was already pushing for these changes to boost ratings and this was the writers venting about it before eventually caving so the show doesn’t get canceled.
Not likely. A lot of people seem to forget/not know this, but the Fairly OddParents _was_ briefly cancelled after season 5. So I don't think Nick was handing down any mandates, unless that was the reason the show was cancelled... in which case, the story is still very different.
Hi! The show was cancelled 6 times during its run time for "Not being as popular as spongebob" with the specials meant to be finales only for the show to get renewed. Nickelodeon did in fact INSIST on the addition of Chloe
@@UltraHomie91 I don't understand how it aged poorly. Most if not all "aged poorly" content just means that what was acceptable then isn't acceptable now. I didn't see anything in this that fits.
@@themajesticotter193 It aged poorly because they were making fun of these ideas and saying that it would be dumb, then proceeded to do those exact things they said would be done. It is still aged poorly. Phrase typically have multiple meanings. They don't usually mean just one thing.
Same, Poof and Foop were fine, and I actually really liked when Foop would show up lol. But yeah after Sparky I stopped watching the new episodes, never saw a single Chloe episode.
In a way, even the "purple hat" ended up happening- with Timmy's pink clothes slowly becoming more of a maroon, especially in later era. That and how Chloe did sort of replace Timmy's friendgroup.
Not to mention, in that episode, the director was also removing characters, like Chester and AJ, and even wanting to remove Cosmo and Wanda. Later on, in FOP, characters like Chester, AJ, Trixie, and Francis would more-or-less disappear from the show.
The scene with Chester and AJ getting turned into monkeys is pretty sad in hindsight when you realize they'll be reduced to background characters in later seasons.
Worse is how Sparky, that annoying floating trash bag, got an actual send-off. Meanwhile AJ, Chester, the other 2 friends, and Trixie never even get so much as an acknowledgement of their disappearance. Keeping in mind that dumb waste of screen time who's barely been in the show got more respect thrown his way than legacy characters who've been around for years.
He will always be a misunderstood mascot to me. The creator Micheal Berlyn had faith in his creation but the company accolade being greedy didn’t care about the quality of the games and only cared for the money besides that, the Bubsy games were successful in his time and he was loved too. The whole point of Bubsy was to show how animated and expressive a video game mascot can be during that time and the games were meant to feel like you were playing a looney tunes cartoon. He doesn’t deserve the hate he get’s really.
For me Sparky and Chloe arent as bad as many people think they are. But Crocker, Cosmo and Timmy's Dad in the later episodes are more annoying than Sparky and Chloe.
fr, Sparky is literally just Cosmo but as a dog, and Chloe is a Mary sue type character that was quite frankly made for the sole purpose of boosting ratings (just like Sparky) and I guess to give Timmy a female friend to hang out with, which honestly why would you give this kid a friend that constantly screams at him 24/7, like hasn´t this kid already suffered enough in his life, plus Chloe does not need fairies because her life is perfectly fine, she´s not miserable unlike Timmy who has a babysitter that wants to literally kill him and parents that neglect him.
@@michaelg4981Well, I have ideas of how Chloe can be written better and all I need is for people to stop watching Nickelodeon just for today. Just to see if that channel can be trusted.
The fact that his catchphrase was "What could possibly go wrong?" The same as Bubsy's, is simply perfect for this scenario. Even better when you consider that they probably wrote this without any knowledge of said game series.
one of the main FOP writers from 2009 onward, ray delaurentis, was also a main writer of that 90s bubsy "movie". could be a coincidence, but makes ya wonder
@@alexgomez6723because even if the addition was a sign of the end because adding new characters usually is. A fairy baby does open up a good number of new plots you could make. shame that after i watched Mark's FoP video where he watched them all they didn't really capitalize on the chance too well it seems.
I remember Butch once saying “Cartoon Network approached him to make a teen titans reboot but turned it down once he found out it was gonna be a comedy cause he didn’t want to bend the knee to network execs, when that’s exactly what he did in his own show
I think some people are too hard on teen titans like its the worst show to ever exist. i mean yeah its oversaturated but honestly its quality on average isn't bad, with even a few ones here and there genuinely being very funny and 4th wall breaking in a good way for me. some MFs act like cartoon network never made a mid show before teen titans when there were plenty of flops.
sovietunion7643 well look at what state the network is in today because of it, they hardly air anything on the main lineup and the daitinfs a slew so low they had to shut down their main studio, [adult swim] is the only thing that’s keeping the lights on at this point
According to Butch Hartman recently Poof was a character that he apparently had in mind for awhile having always wanted Cosmo and Wanda to have their own kid in addition to Timmy and decided to introduce him as Nick wanted a special to kick off season 6 after extending the show but... how credible that is as a story is hard to debate. Though yeah the irony that in the episode the fairies didn't like Chester and AJ and the Exec wanted them replaced is ironic considering how quickly AJ and Chester were phased out in later years to focus on other characters.
I thought Poof was fine. Then they added Foop and I thought “Weird, but makes sense”. Then they added Sparky, who I hated and got me to stop watching the show. And then Chloe, which taught me said show I loved was pretty much dead in every capacity.
@@fudgen.a1249 What got me raising my left eyebrow was when they decided to introduce Chloe, not only that but they have to make Timmy and Chloe share fairies, soon after they changed the animation to Flash, another thing I didn’t think was right. Characters like Sparky however I didn’t had a problem with as a kid, Chloe was the one I despised. Probably would’ve been better if it was just Poof and Foop being the only characters added to the show.
they introduced Poof around the time I was born so when I grew up the episodes with him were usually airing so it never really bothered me, Foop was a bit extra he was suppose to be an antagonist for Poof but Poof wasn’t the star of the show so what was even the point I also don’t like how how he replaced Anti Cosmo and the rest of the Anti Fairies, then they added Sparky a dog who has no business being in the show for starters why are they adding a dog one that talks no less in the show when they just added a baby, sparky had an annoying voice too also did it ever bug anyone how Timmy has 4 fairies now??? Because it sure bugged me Sparky as a character wasn’t that bad but he should’ve been a background character instead of a main character it totally dragged down the show, as the show went on my respect for it got lower and lower and then one day I saw a commercial on nick about the new season then I saw they were introducing you know who, at first I thought maybe she’s just going to disappear by the end of the episode but nope, I remember watching the season premiere with my brother and sister only for our horror to see that they changed the theme song after the episode was done I was done with the show and I never willingly watched the show ever again I hate Chloe she should’ve never been in the show the show should’ve ended at Timmy’s secret wish matter of fact ”I wish every thing after that is non canon”
Another joke that aged poorly was in the It's a Wishful Life episode when Jorgen shows that Timmy being born is the reason the Cubs hadn't won the World Series.
The "you need a catchphrase" bit gives me flashbacks to watching Johnny test and realizing they say "I didn't see that coming" every single episode and realizing I hate the show.
The worst is that in the episode these changes didn't end up well, and in the end they cancelled the show and made an spinoff with crocker; and even so, they ended up doying these same things (stupid changes) in the actual shows lol
They aren't terrible or anything, but a lot of longtime fans could tell what direction the wind was blowing when the series started introducing these characters, and jumped ship before things got really ugly.
@@TheDoctorofOdoIslandSeason 7 started the downfall of the show as it went on. The show didn’t go downhill in Season 6 when Poof came. It went downhill shortly after Season 7 began.
@@manofwisdom000 The quality of the episodes didn't suffer, but almost all of things that made the later seasons unwatchable were already evident in season 6. Poof's introduction set the precedent for how the series tried to alter the status quo with new characters over and over again, so a lot people just retroactively see that special as the cuttoff point. You're right about season 7 being where the decay sets in. The lore completely imploded after the Wishology movies.
@@TheDoctorofOdoIsland What does Poof have to do with what happen to the show afterwards? You do realize Poof only had select episodes revolved around him, right? Most of the episodes in Seasons 7 through 10 revolved around Crocker, Timmy’s dad and occasionally Foop, and even Foop only had fewer episodes revolved around him too. Other than the male pregnancy thing (which I agree that Wanda should have been the one pregnant) and the running gags, there isn’t anything wrong with Fairly OddBaby. It’s just ya’ll are being biased simply because of Poof. And the only bad episodes in Season 6 are the ones revolving around Vicky, the birthday episode, the Super Poof episode, and possibly the Merry Wishmas episode as well. Everything else in Season 6 was good or decent, with Wishology being the best in the entire season. Seasons 7 and 8 on the other hand are a mixed bag while Seasons 9 and 10 are where the show truly hit rock bottom. Remember Scott Fellows, the very same guy who created Johnny Test (which was good or decent for its first three seasons), Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide and Big Time Rush (which were also good or decent), worked on Season 6 as head writer and co-executive producer until after its end at Wishology. No matter what ya’ll say, Season 6 will always be the best season in the entire show’s second half run and its quality is the same as Season 5, and Poof and his anti-counterpart, Foop, worked thematically. Plain and simple. Season 7 proved that the Status Quo is God trope had long overstayed its welcome as well as other issues.
It's truly remarkable just how common this kinda stuff is. Hidden little easter eggs or nuggets where the joke isn't clear until sometimes decades or at least a decade after the fact. Shows like The Simpsons and to many others account have sprinkled these little hidden things throughout their shows for years. The final understanding only made clear long after the fact.
Poof and Foop weren’t bad honestly I think Poof was a good addition as he wasn’t annoying and kinda brought some new interest in the show, Foop I think was a pretty solid addition bc he was written pretty, Sparky I could take it or leave it yeah he was annoying but he didn’t bug to often I saw an episode with Chloe and I was dude why the heck do you include this character
I honestly liked poof and foop, Sparky was kinda an okay choice but didn't really needed to happen. And then the girl character is when I stopped watching.
It takes a long time to produce a season of a cartoon. So they probably got notified durring production about the coming changes for the next bout of production. It didn't age poorly, it aged PERFECTLY. THEY WERE TELLING US. Notice the hat color change, is the same color as poof? NOT A COINCIDENCE
Just goes to show that as Ralph Bakshi puts it, “It’s not about the ratings, But it’s not even about a good picture, but if a picture’s good or bad that you make, it’s not the issue, therefore, you do your best, but it’s about the process; the process of making something Is everything. And when a picture turns out good, great-but if it turns out bad, great, you learned something, but you’ve also made that picture.”
or maybe this episode was trying to warn us about what was already happening behind the scenes... idk maybe i'm overthinking and giving the show too much benefit of the doubt, but it feels a bit TOO coincidental imo
You know, there are rules about telling everyone about the Fairy GodParents, but Da Rulez book didn't say that one GodChild can't share his Fairy GodParents with another. I mean, when Jorgen changed the rules a little bit, Chloe shared Cosmo, Wanda, Poof, and Sparky with Timmy, which I can concur to that.
"What can possibly go wrong!?" My God it's like Bubsy, "Anything That Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong" ~ Edsel Murphys Law, thank God this is a kids show or it'd be way worse
Chloe ruined it for me. If the fairy shortage was around, what's a SINGLE fairy to give Chloe? Remy had a single fairy, and he was extremely rich beforehand.
Come to think of it, wasn’t Timmy’s hat originally supposed to be blue according to Butch Hartman himself? I feel like changing it to purple is closer to his original vision and it’s use here is a nod to that. But yes, this episode did age poorly. “What could possibly go wrong?” More than any of us expected would.
I was okay with Poof/Foop Mostly because I really liked the special that introduced Poof But there were some good episodes Sparky and Chloe just never were good and should never have existed
Just goes to show that as Ralph Bakshi puts it, “It’s not about the ratings, But it’s not even about a good picture, but if a picture’s good or bad that you make, that’s not the issue, therefore, you do your best, but it’s about the process; the process of making something Is everything. And when a picture turns out good, great-but if it turns out bad, great, you learned something, but you’ve also made that picture.”
I thought Poof & Foop were pretty good. Poof was ultamitely harmless in terms of added characters and I like how Foop foiled off of Poof. Sparky was kinda ok and I stopped watching the show a while before they brought in Cleo.
Funnily enough, I actually enjoyed seeing Sparky! I was so upset when he just straight up disappeared without any explanation as to why! They could have had a fake, made up reason in the show saying why he disappeared. Heck, I would have been happy with a cameo or a small nod to him in the later seasons at least!
I feel like Poof couldve worked. Get rid of the weird mpreg parts of the original episode and have the plot be that timmys worried he'll get replaced and starts to get jealous. Have this follow him through the season (tho not the point of bing unlikable) where he'll start to rlly care about poof. Then have the next season focus on Timmy learning to be a good big brother. Or smth like that i havent watched FOP past season 3 in many many years
More than likely this was meant to be a dig at the producers who were already asking them to do all that. Same thing that happened with the episode of Pinky and the Brain that had this random added rat named "Larry" that stuck out and did not make sense and arrived for no reason. The point was to show the producers how the formula was awkward and did NOT work when a new main or main-ish character was shoehorned into the cast. Next season the producers, having learned nothing, forced them to add Elmyra from Tiny Toons as the mice's owner.
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It's as if a writer saw the future and decided to send us a warning
And just like every other warning from the future no one listens until it’s too late.
nick knew what was going to happen, but pushed on anyway so they could milk the show to it's last drop of life.
No lol its as if a writer knew the bullshit Nick was gonna pull and decided to make fun of Nick before it happened. Too much of a coincidence and it happens more than you might think. Ren and Stimpy, Futurama and Family Guy writers made jokes like these before something bad happened like their show getting cancelled or the whole show going to an entirely different set of writers.
I get that vibe from several episodes of various shows
@@Zzzodiackillerrr
It is remarkable how spot on some of this stuff is sometimes it's so prophetic it really does seem like people knew something and just cleverly integrated into the show as a hidden easter egg.
i liked the classic "uhhh the internet?" line. best catchphrase from the first seasons
"Uhhh... the internet? Inheritance??? I inherited the internet!"
Guess it made sense as a joke then because the Internet was this new thing.
@@kylesoler4139and it truly was a wild west. You didnt just have google and social medias, there was a vast littany of websites with both good and bad content, infortmative and disturbing.
Still makes sense now tbh.
Ahead of its time
The writers took one look at this episode and thought:
“What a great idea!”
I liked this comment cuz I couldn't bare to see this comment with 666 likes
"What could possibly go wrong"
@@michaelg4981for sparky and chloe, I'm pretty sure it was nick. although he could have definitely implemented the characters better though
That’s a wonderful idea!
Most of these changes came from the executives at Nickelodeon.
I honestly really liked the Poof focused episodes. It also made sense in the story. Seeing Timmy take on a older brother role for once and learning about responsibilities
yeah. and the Chloe would have been prevented if fairy world didn't pull a one child policy like scenario.
Yeah, I dunno why people hate Poof tbh
@@cheeseyleavesI mean a lot of babies that get introduced at least a season or two later into the show get a lot of hate no matter what. I think something similar happened in my little pony when they introduced a random baby
Tbh I just assumed it was because of the reasoning behind the child going into the show since it was never “planned”
Or because people sometimes think it’s cool to hate babies/toddlers/kids
@@Why-ck4gf mlp nerd here, I think the baby you're referring to is Flurryheart. People were upset at her introduction because the original creator, Lauren Faust, never intended there to ever be more than 2 alicorns: Luna and Celestia, the two princesses of Equestria. Along with Cadence being introduced as a pretty pink princess of love and her eventually getting a little pink baby who was also a princess it was clear the motivation behind their conception was mainly for profit. However, any sensible person has to keep in mind these are KIDS shows made to profit off of toys, especially mlp. They never did anything with Flurryheart and she really faded off for being, like.... Important Royalty. At least they did stuff with Cadence
sorry if this is word vomit I just like talking about a show's background info lolo
@@CreamyWaxGunAll good. Good summary too
You cannot tell me this wasnt just a writer being pissed off at the declining quality.
@@michaelg4981 That doesn't mean there weren't signs that the show was ABOUT TO get bad going on within the company where the writer[s] could see it a mile off and the viewers couldn't yet. Entire seasons of TV shows aren't produced in a single day, y'know.
@@ChaosRayZeroyes they are
@@michaelg4981ä lot of times it can take upwards of ä year for animation and editing and airing to take place. There's a good chance that the next season already had a general plot when they wrote this part of the episode
@@NateS917to make a whole season in a day they would need a Loooooooot of people and it would cost way more than just wait, animation takes time
@@NateS917you have never animated in your life have you? Lol
It was most likely that Nickelodeon was already pushing for these changes to boost ratings and this was the writers venting about it before eventually caving so the show doesn’t get canceled.
Not likely. A lot of people seem to forget/not know this, but the Fairly OddParents _was_ briefly cancelled after season 5. So I don't think Nick was handing down any mandates, unless that was the reason the show was cancelled... in which case, the story is still very different.
Hi! The show was cancelled 6 times during its run time for "Not being as popular as spongebob" with the specials meant to be finales only for the show to get renewed.
Nickelodeon did in fact INSIST on the addition of Chloe
This wasn’t poorly age, this was just foreshadowing.
It was both
What did Isayama mean by this?1!?!??
@@UltraHomie91 I don't understand how it aged poorly.
Most if not all "aged poorly" content just means that what was acceptable then isn't acceptable now. I didn't see anything in this that fits.
@@themajesticotter193 This.
@@themajesticotter193 It aged poorly because they were making fun of these ideas and saying that it would be dumb, then proceeded to do those exact things they said would be done. It is still aged poorly. Phrase typically have multiple meanings. They don't usually mean just one thing.
Oh hell nah they turned AJ into a monkey… 💀
...and Chester
Fop animators had no chill black then
@@B1_buddy Bruh 💀
Considering they turned everyone into monkeys for part of Abracastrasophe, I don’t think they meant anything heinous by it.
Hot Take: I actually liked Poof. It was the Dog that I jump ship. Never even saw anything with that girl.
When he gets too much focus is when poof becomes a problem. He was fine to me as more of a background character
@@Betterthanever-m2i nah Poof an Foop is nice mostly Foop by far that little meany head :3
@@Betterthanever-m2i He wasn't even the focus in the later episodes besides the spellementary school episodes.
Sparky was dumped after the season he was introduced in.
He was pretty annoying.
Same, Poof and Foop were fine, and I actually really liked when Foop would show up lol. But yeah after Sparky I stopped watching the new episodes, never saw a single Chloe episode.
In a way, even the "purple hat" ended up happening- with Timmy's pink clothes slowly becoming more of a maroon, especially in later era. That and how Chloe did sort of replace Timmy's friendgroup.
It was a legal requirement for every cartoon in the 2000s to have a simon Cowell parody
we need more parody
The best simon parody was the shrek 2 one.
There was also the Simpsons where Simon Cowell was himself
@@voiceofthelegion578Wasn't that just Simon Cowell though? Like not a parody but just the dude?
Thats because everyone realizes the guy deserves public shaming
Not to mention, in that episode, the director was also removing characters, like Chester and AJ, and even wanting to remove Cosmo and Wanda. Later on, in FOP, characters like Chester, AJ, Trixie, and Francis would more-or-less disappear from the show.
The scene with Chester and AJ getting turned into monkeys is pretty sad in hindsight when you realize they'll be reduced to background characters in later seasons.
And then straight up disappear altogether
They turned the only black character into a monkey 😭😭😭
@@Caliburn_Summit I was about to say this, they literally got written out of the show entirely in the last season.
@@Kingreed69420And the country/trailer park kid (poor white kid) into one as well.
Worse is how Sparky, that annoying floating trash bag, got an actual send-off. Meanwhile AJ, Chester, the other 2 friends, and Trixie never even get so much as an acknowledgement of their disappearance. Keeping in mind that dumb waste of screen time who's barely been in the show got more respect thrown his way than legacy characters who've been around for years.
Butch Hartman is a master at poking fun at something then turning around and doing the exact thing his cartoons satirized.
It wasn't a good sign when Timmy's catch phrase was the one used by Bubsy.
that means nothing I doubt Butch knows who that is
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 What about the fact he tries to take credit for the finalized design of Crash Bandicoot?
@@robbiewalker2831 what
@@senritsujumpsuit6021he would’ve been 28 when the Bubsy show aired so he would’ve definitely heard of it
Bubsy is still cooler than Cool Cat
"What could possibly go wrong?"
i hear a Bobcat calling wanting their catchphrase back
LMAO
I actually enjoyed Bubsy growing up. I don't understand why others didn't.
Try playing it now you are older.
@@FauxFaFoxfr his games werent great but most of them werent bad, not even bubsy 3D
He will always be a misunderstood mascot to me. The creator Micheal Berlyn had faith in his creation but the company accolade being greedy didn’t care about the quality of the games and only cared for the money besides that, the Bubsy games were successful in his time and he was loved too. The whole point of Bubsy was to show how animated and expressive a video game mascot can be during that time and the games were meant to feel like you were playing a looney tunes cartoon. He doesn’t deserve the hate he get’s really.
Poof and Foop aren't that bad cause they do actually have some fun moments but we don't talk about Sparky and Chloe
Yep😅
For me Sparky and Chloe arent as bad as many people think they are. But Crocker, Cosmo and Timmy's Dad in the later episodes are more annoying than Sparky and Chloe.
fr, Sparky is literally just Cosmo but as a dog, and Chloe is a Mary sue type character that was quite frankly made for the sole purpose of boosting ratings (just like Sparky) and I guess to give Timmy a female friend to hang out with, which honestly why would you give this kid a friend that constantly screams at him 24/7, like hasn´t this kid already suffered enough in his life, plus Chloe does not need fairies because her life is perfectly fine, she´s not miserable unlike Timmy who has a babysitter that wants to literally kill him and parents that neglect him.
Foop especially was a funny character. The other new characters...meh.
@@michaelg4981Well, I have ideas of how Chloe can be written better and all I need is for people to stop watching Nickelodeon just for today. Just to see if that channel can be trusted.
Poof and Foop were goated. The Dog is when it all went wrong.
FR i hate when people blame poof and foop like they were awesome sparky is when it all went wrong!
Ahhh...watching Mark criticize Butch's work never gets old.
I would say it’s more so Nickelodeons fault for pushing for the new characters
@@legalza0843Butch could have said no, you know have some backbone
@@ironmaster6496 It's almost never as simple as that lol. World ain't black and white.
@@JacksonAfroman its ironic, people felt sorry for the guy, and then they did a 180.
I know he's a massive cunt, but he was still wronged.
@@ironmaster6496yeah, you don't really just "say no" to your boss
Poof and Foop were the only necessary additions, even Princess Man-Die was a great addition to the cast of characters.
This episode tried to warn us all.💀
Now you mentioned it
It kinda does
You can tell Butch was tired of this and wanted out, but he probably had to do more to get his other projects on Nick at the time.
Please bo more overused skull emoji.
@@smb-c3poi bet you have one of those cheap phones where the skull emoji looks horrendous
@@ssg-eggunner You just lost all you're money and now have to be homeless.
The fact that his catchphrase was "What could possibly go wrong?" The same as Bubsy's, is simply perfect for this scenario. Even better when you consider that they probably wrote this without any knowledge of said game series.
one of the main FOP writers from 2009 onward, ray delaurentis, was also a main writer of that 90s bubsy "movie". could be a coincidence, but makes ya wonder
@@tiablue9106 well that certainly explains both series' level of cringe.
i still say Poof was a good addition.
...even if it was the first domino to a horrible domino effect.
Foop more so he is just a icon of that one guy you know an fear
@@senritsujumpsuit6021as well as the sole anti fairy who exposed Timmy's secret wish.
How exactly?
@@alexgomez6723because even if the addition was a sign of the end because adding new characters usually is.
A fairy baby does open up a good number of new plots you could make. shame that after i watched Mark's FoP video where he watched them all they didn't really capitalize on the chance too well it seems.
Is it possible that this episode was written as a response to executive-enforced changes to the show that the writers already knew were coming?
I thought it was written to be like a Truman Show parody.
IS TIMMY SECRETLY BUBSY THIS WHOLE TIME??!!?!?!
Yes, yes he is.
@@egateqa1351 so he DID survive
Plot twist, Bubsy is Timmy’s fursona. He joined the fandom after hearing mark mispronounce farries for the 100th time.
I remember Butch once saying “Cartoon Network approached him to make a teen titans reboot but turned it down once he found out it was gonna be a comedy cause he didn’t want to bend the knee to network execs, when that’s exactly what he did in his own show
To be fair its alot easier to turn down working on a new show then turn down the execs for an already existing show
@@jangpokemar3449 yeah but he made it seem like he was hip or something like “Dang even *I*, a veteran animator, refused to make TeenTitans GO!”
I think some people are too hard on teen titans like its the worst show to ever exist. i mean yeah its oversaturated but honestly its quality on average isn't bad, with even a few ones here and there genuinely being very funny and 4th wall breaking in a good way for me.
some MFs act like cartoon network never made a mid show before teen titans when there were plenty of flops.
@@sovietunion7643 ikr?
sovietunion7643 well look at what state the network is in today because of it, they hardly air anything on the main lineup and the daitinfs a slew so low they had to shut down their main studio, [adult swim] is the only thing that’s keeping the lights on at this point
"It's hard to keep nuts in your mouth when you're crying." -Timmy's Dad
WUT
The writers were fans of the Simpsons and they saw Poochie as a blueprint rather than a warning.
And that random "cool" character in the episode who was just there without explanation and then never mentioned again afterwards.
@@worldcomicsreview354"he's so in my face"-scratchy
NAW BLUD MADE HIM A MONKEY I CAN'T 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
According to Butch Hartman recently Poof was a character that he apparently had in mind for awhile having always wanted Cosmo and Wanda to have their own kid in addition to Timmy and decided to introduce him as Nick wanted a special to kick off season 6 after extending the show but... how credible that is as a story is hard to debate. Though yeah the irony that in the episode the fairies didn't like Chester and AJ and the Exec wanted them replaced is ironic considering how quickly AJ and Chester were phased out in later years to focus on other characters.
Don’t forget they also gave Timmy the “catchphrase” of making a weird “duh” noise like 4 times in the last season
Ain't no way they're throwing shade at Bubsy's catchphrase
You’re right, as a kid I thought these changes were weird. Anyone else thought the changes also weirded them out as a kid?
I thought Poof was fine. Then they added Foop and I thought “Weird, but makes sense”. Then they added Sparky, who I hated and got me to stop watching the show. And then Chloe, which taught me said show I loved was pretty much dead in every capacity.
@@fudgen.a1249 What got me raising my left eyebrow was when they decided to introduce Chloe, not only that but they have to make Timmy and Chloe share fairies, soon after they changed the animation to Flash, another thing I didn’t think was right. Characters like Sparky however I didn’t had a problem with as a kid, Chloe was the one I despised. Probably would’ve been better if it was just Poof and Foop being the only characters added to the show.
@@fudgen.a1249agreed
they introduced Poof around the time I was born so when I grew up the episodes with him were usually airing so it never really bothered me, Foop was a bit extra he was suppose to be an antagonist for Poof but Poof wasn’t the star of the show so what was even the point I also don’t like how how he replaced Anti Cosmo and the rest of the Anti Fairies, then they added Sparky a dog who has no business being in the show for starters why are they adding a dog one that talks no less in the show when they just added a baby, sparky had an annoying voice too also did it ever bug anyone how Timmy has 4 fairies now??? Because it sure bugged me Sparky as a character wasn’t that bad but he should’ve been a background character instead of a main character it totally dragged down the show, as the show went on my respect for it got lower and lower and then one day I saw a commercial on nick about the new season then I saw they were introducing you know who, at first I thought maybe she’s just going to disappear by the end of the episode but nope, I remember watching the season premiere with my brother and sister only for our horror to see that they changed the theme song after the episode was done I was done with the show and I never willingly watched the show ever again I hate Chloe she should’ve never been in the show the show should’ve ended at Timmy’s secret wish matter of fact ”I wish every thing after that is non canon”
@@fudgen.a1249😂 same
Tbf Poof was a wonderful addition
This epiaode foreshadowed the downfall of Fairly Oddparents 💀
I think it aged great. It was a writer trying to express the issues that the network wanted. Kinda like Pinky and the Brain and Larry
Given the circumstances I'd say it ages well
Theres one more joke:
There is no easter bunny
There is no Tooth Fairy
*And there is no Queen of England*
Another joke that aged poorly was in the It's a Wishful Life episode when Jorgen shows that Timmy being born is the reason the Cubs hadn't won the World Series.
That episode did not need to exist.
I did not need an existential crisis that young, thank you very much.
The "you need a catchphrase" bit gives me flashbacks to watching Johnny test and realizing they say "I didn't see that coming" every single episode and realizing I hate the show.
Johnny Test was horribly repetitive not to mention all the damn whip cracking sound effects
The worst is that in the episode these changes didn't end up well, and in the end they cancelled the show and made an spinoff with crocker; and even so, they ended up doying these same things (stupid changes) in the actual shows lol
They made a spin-off with Crocker?
It’s amazing how prophetic this episode was.
Poof and fooP were great characters and I will die on this hill!
same here Foop episodes like him going to school is just charming AF he is such a little asshat :3
They aren't terrible or anything, but a lot of longtime fans could tell what direction the wind was blowing when the series started introducing these characters, and jumped ship before things got really ugly.
@@TheDoctorofOdoIslandSeason 7 started the downfall of the show as it went on. The show didn’t go downhill in Season 6 when Poof came. It went downhill shortly after Season 7 began.
@@manofwisdom000 The quality of the episodes didn't suffer, but almost all of things that made the later seasons unwatchable were already evident in season 6. Poof's introduction set the precedent for how the series tried to alter the status quo with new characters over and over again, so a lot people just retroactively see that special as the cuttoff point. You're right about season 7 being where the decay sets in. The lore completely imploded after the Wishology movies.
@@TheDoctorofOdoIsland What does Poof have to do with what happen to the show afterwards? You do realize Poof only had select episodes revolved around him, right? Most of the episodes in Seasons 7 through 10 revolved around Crocker, Timmy’s dad and occasionally Foop, and even Foop only had fewer episodes revolved around him too. Other than the male pregnancy thing (which I agree that Wanda should have been the one pregnant) and the running gags, there isn’t anything wrong with Fairly OddBaby. It’s just ya’ll are being biased simply because of Poof. And the only bad episodes in Season 6 are the ones revolving around Vicky, the birthday episode, the Super Poof episode, and possibly the Merry Wishmas episode as well. Everything else in Season 6 was good or decent, with Wishology being the best in the entire season.
Seasons 7 and 8 on the other hand are a mixed bag while Seasons 9 and 10 are where the show truly hit rock bottom. Remember Scott Fellows, the very same guy who created Johnny Test (which was good or decent for its first three seasons), Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide and Big Time Rush (which were also good or decent), worked on Season 6 as head writer and co-executive producer until after its end at Wishology. No matter what ya’ll say, Season 6 will always be the best season in the entire show’s second half run and its quality is the same as Season 5, and Poof and his anti-counterpart, Foop, worked thematically. Plain and simple.
Season 7 proved that the Status Quo is God trope had long overstayed its welcome as well as other issues.
Mark’s really nailed down this RUclips shorts thing
“The use of words expressing something other than there literally attention”
Now that is irony!
It's truly remarkable just how common this kinda stuff is. Hidden little easter eggs or nuggets where the joke isn't clear until sometimes decades or at least a decade after the fact. Shows like The Simpsons and to many others account have sprinkled these little hidden things throughout their shows for years. The final understanding only made clear long after the fact.
I still find this episode to be very hilarious! 😂
i'd argue that this episode aged incredibly well
Same lmao
It was all an omen of the horrors to come
Ain't no way they predicted the catchphrase💀
Hehe... and I thought ManBearPig was a massive oopsie in animated television
It's worse when you know that for a while Matt and Trey didn't even believe in climate change.
@@kittykittybangbang9367at least they admited they were wrong
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"SUX for you" 🤣🤣🤣
Why was Butch so obsessed with making all of these extremely muscular hunks in his cartoons?
“You’ve become the very thing you swore to destroy “
To be fair poof was an actual good character and so was foop
Poof and Foop weren’t bad honestly I think Poof was a good addition as he wasn’t annoying and kinda brought some new interest in the show, Foop I think was a pretty solid addition bc he was written pretty, Sparky I could take it or leave it yeah he was annoying but he didn’t bug to often I saw an episode with Chloe and I was dude why the heck do you include this character
I honestly liked poof and foop, Sparky was kinda an okay choice but didn't really needed to happen. And then the girl character is when I stopped watching.
"And in case I don't see ya; good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight."
“If I were a day of the week, I’d be Wednesday”
*literally turns goth and bunks with a perky werewolf*
they were trolling butch to his face and i love it.
It aged better than the live action Fairly Odd Parents movie, at least
Low key, the catchphrase that the fairy gave to Timmy was literally the catchphrase used by f**kin’ Bubsy!?!
Bubsy didn't started that "What could possibly go wrong" joke, but I will agree that he introduced it as a catchphrase.
@@kootunesscrewy I see where you are getting at but I never said he STARTED it, I said that he USED it. I just thought the Bubsy relation was funny.
It takes a long time to produce a season of a cartoon. So they probably got notified durring production about the coming changes for the next bout of production.
It didn't age poorly, it aged PERFECTLY.
THEY WERE TELLING US.
Notice the hat color change, is the same color as poof? NOT A COINCIDENCE
The writers thought that ‘NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG’ with the later seasons
People hated Poof?? I thought everyone loved Poof! I hated this show as a kid and only liked Poof
The joke did age poorly lol
Actually Poof wasn’t that bad. He was a way better addition than Sparky and Chloe.
Foreshadowing at it's finest
With how dead on this joke predicted the shows future doesn't mean that it aged beautifully
Damn i was expecting something more dark, like Timmy dropping the R slur.
Poof & Foop were good additions sparky on the other hand...
You could argue that, given how accurately it predicted the future, it aged WELL.
The writers of this episode somehow knew the future of their show, so they made this episode for foreshadowing and as a warning.
Just goes to show that as Ralph Bakshi puts it,
“It’s not about the ratings,
But it’s not even about a good picture, but if a picture’s good or bad that you make, it’s not the issue, therefore, you do your best, but it’s about the process; the process of making something Is everything. And when a picture turns out good, great-but if it turns out bad, great, you learned something, but you’ve also made that picture.”
Poof felt like a character who genuinely deserved to have a purpose in the show, unlike Chloe and Sparky.
Maybe Butch Hartman already knew the Network was gonna futz with FOP and made the jokes accordingly
Honestly, Poof was fine if you ask me. It was Sparkly who was the beginning of the end if you ask me.
or maybe this episode was trying to warn us about what was already happening behind the scenes... idk maybe i'm overthinking and giving the show too much benefit of the doubt, but it feels a bit TOO coincidental imo
Poof wasn't an issue, tbh. It was Sparky that really marked the beginning of the end.
I'd say foop was fairly entertaining when he showed up originally but he definitely lost his value in the end
You know, there are rules about telling everyone about the Fairy GodParents, but Da Rulez book didn't say that one GodChild can't share his Fairy GodParents with another. I mean, when Jorgen changed the rules a little bit, Chloe shared Cosmo, Wanda, Poof, and Sparky with Timmy, which I can concur to that.
NAHHH THEY TURNED THE BLACK KID INTO A MONKEY
"What can possibly go wrong!?" My God it's like Bubsy, "Anything That Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong" ~ Edsel Murphys Law, thank God this is a kids show or it'd be way worse
Chloe ruined it for me. If the fairy shortage was around, what's a SINGLE fairy to give Chloe? Remy had a single fairy, and he was extremely rich beforehand.
Come to think of it, wasn’t Timmy’s hat originally supposed to be blue according to Butch Hartman himself? I feel like changing it to purple is closer to his original vision and it’s use here is a nod to that.
But yes, this episode did age poorly. “What could possibly go wrong?” More than any of us expected would.
Poof was great. Chloe, Sparky, and Foop were terrible. Also, Cosmo became less funny and more annoying.
I was okay with Poof/Foop
Mostly because I really liked the special that introduced Poof
But there were some good episodes
Sparky and Chloe just never were good and should never have existed
Just goes to show that as Ralph Bakshi puts it,
“It’s not about the ratings,
But it’s not even about a good picture, but if a picture’s good or bad that you make, that’s not the issue, therefore, you do your best, but it’s about the process; the process of making something Is everything. And when a picture turns out good, great-but if it turns out bad, great, you learned something, but you’ve also made that picture.”
I thought Poof & Foop were pretty good. Poof was ultamitely harmless in terms of added characters and I like how Foop foiled off of Poof. Sparky was kinda ok and I stopped watching the show a while before they brought in Cleo.
This show literally became what it used to make fun of. Damn...
Poof was the only good new character. I hated how foop basically replaced his parents. Everyone after him kinda sucked.
Funnily enough, I actually enjoyed seeing Sparky! I was so upset when he just straight up disappeared without any explanation as to why! They could have had a fake, made up reason in the show saying why he disappeared. Heck, I would have been happy with a cameo or a small nod to him in the later seasons at least!
will always say that chloe wasnt as bad as that damn dog
I feel like Poof couldve worked. Get rid of the weird mpreg parts of the original episode and have the plot be that timmys worried he'll get replaced and starts to get jealous. Have this follow him through the season (tho not the point of bing unlikable) where he'll start to rlly care about poof. Then have the next season focus on Timmy learning to be a good big brother.
Or smth like that i havent watched FOP past season 3 in many many years
At least poof is actually cool now
And then he actually did get something of a catchphrase since he has to have those spasms every time something shocking happens
Yeah,that was funny the first few times but not much afterwards.
tbh, I kinda like Poof, and lore-wise, it only makes sense for Foop to appear. Sparky and Chloe tho...
Poof was fine, but I knew by the time they had Sparky they were DESPERATE
More than likely this was meant to be a dig at the producers who were already asking them to do all that.
Same thing that happened with the episode of Pinky and the Brain that had this random added rat named "Larry" that stuck out and did not make sense and arrived for no reason. The point was to show the producers how the formula was awkward and did NOT work when a new main or main-ish character was shoehorned into the cast.
Next season the producers, having learned nothing, forced them to add Elmyra from Tiny Toons as the mice's owner.
Bro where are you from? One second you sound completely American and the next you sound Northern Irish.
i'm pretty sure it was not a joke, it was foreshadowing and everybody failed to realize that
I personally never really had something against poof but sparky and Chloe were absolutely unnecessary
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