Certifiable Super Sitter (The Fairly OddParents)
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 There is only room for one babysitter in this town (town) alright, and it ain't Vicky.
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"Certifiable Super Sitter" is the 35th episode in Season 10 of The Fairly OddParents and the third 22-minute special, and the 292nd overall episode of the show. This episode marks the return of Poof and his only appearance in Season 10 (as well as his first appearance since "Fairly Odd Fairly Tales". This is also the first episode to premiere on Nicktoons instead of the main channel.
Plot
Chloe meets Poof for the first time when he comes home from school on Spring Break. Cosmo and Wanda win a free French Dinner, so Chloe gets to babysit Poof and his friends. Everything goes well until Vicky shows up.
Why It Isn't a Certified Super Sitter
- In terms of airing order, the sudden switch to flash animation. The flash animation can also be too colorful and be an eyesore to look at, especially with your eyes.
- Speaking of flash, it's some of the cheapest you'll ever see. The character redesigns look rigid and stilted and the movement is too stiff.
- Everything about the show in this episode - from the writing, to some of the characterization, to even the jokes - have hit rock bottom. There is no sort of cohesion here whatsoever, and showed how much Butch Hartman and the staff no longer cared about the show.
- The episode begins with a repetitive running gag of Cosmo randomly mistaking items and other characters for Poof, despite Cosmo giving birth to him nine years ago in season 6's "Fairly Odd Pet", though the first few seconds prior to Cosmo mistaking random objects for Poof were okay. Not helping by the fact that Cosmo mistakes five things for Poof in the span of one minute, and those are a apple, a picture of Poof with a light blue background in it, Timmy Turner, Punchy the Kangaroo, a balloon,
- The boxing kangaroo, whose name is "Punchy", is just another obnoxious filler running gag character of randomly going up to a character and saying "Shrimp on the barbie!" before punching them around.
- While Poof coming back is a nice one, however, instead of giving his voice more time to play out from his previous appearances ("School of Crock" and "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales") in which he started talking in, the writers decided to have his entire dialogue in this episode be nothing but impersonations of several famous people, including Donald Trump, Elvis Presley, Jackie Mason, Jim Nabors, Jean Stapleton, Johnny Bravo (ironically Jeff Bennett voiced Johnny Bravo and also he was in The Fairly OddParents as several shows), Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Charles Nelson Reilly (who also did the voice of the Dirty Bubble from Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, which is another popular Nickelodeon show by the way), and in the end, he speaks in the late Gilbert Gottfried's voice. This is the only purpose Poof has in this episode, meaning you can easily take Poof out of this episode and it wouldn't alter the story. It can be seen as a waste of animation, time, and space (since the animators including Butch Hartman had to make a new model for Poof since the show switched to lazy animation as of "Space-Cadad", only for him not to use his normal voice and do impressions of famous celebrities) and using writers Kiley Vorndran, Ellen Byron, Bob Colleary, Ray DeLaurentis, and Lissa Kapstrom only for them to have Poof do nothing.
- Coincidentally enough, "Certifiable Super Sitter" premiered on January 18, 2017, just one day of what would have been Jean Stapleton's ninty-fourth birthday, which was on January 19, 2017.
- Cosmo and Wanda are written out of the main plot in the laziest way possible, as they are sucked into a black hole as a trick by Foop, but this literally serves no purpose other than to make them unable to have them as backup when Vicky arrives and it's only at the very end of the episode where Vicky is finally defeated at last, do Cosmo and Wanda return.
- Similarly, the fairies that are present in this episode literally reveal their existences right in front of the human characters, when it should only be Timmy and Chloe. Timmy's parents and Vicky themselves do not even question the oddness of the fairies' existence before their eyes. Though Vicky did end up finding out about Timmy's fairies in Scary GodCouple and it was never confirmed if her memory got wiped or not.
- Vicky is at her absolute worst here, even more so than "Open Wide and Say Aaagh!", "Vicky Gets Fired", "Frenemy Mine", "Fairly OddPet", "Dumbbell Curve", "Scary GodCouple", and "The Big Fairy Share Scare", as she actively tries to kill Timmy and Chloe. Additionally, she doesn't even try to hide her chainsaw from Mr. Turner, and she doesn't even act nice around him; instead, she tortures Mr. Turner alongside Poof, Foop, and Sammy. Contrast with Vicky in the early seasons, who was content in pretending to be nice to Timmy except when his parents are not around, make Timmy do chores, or simply leave him alone and watch TV, and actually freaked out when Timmy disappeared in the first episode.
- Time and time again, Mr. Turner and Mr. Crocker and his mother are shoehorned in and used for no reason other than gags:
- Mr. Turner comes off as a mentally disabled manchild who can barely form sentences and he even wears a baby leash throughout the episode. Yes, seriously…This can be offensive to people who have mental disabilities and have autism, people who can't take care of themselves, and can be offensive to people who can't speak.
- Mr. Crocker is portrayed as a punching bag, literally. Later, he is sucked into a black hole, which has Cosmo and Wanda in it. After that, in Vicky's trap hole, he reads a book called Crocker's Dream Journal which shows his own mother in it. At the end of the episode, he is sucked out of the black hole looking different and is in a different hole.
- The writers clearly didn't want neither Vicky nor Mr. Turner to know each other in this episode for the sake of the plot. For example, as stated earlier, Mr. Turner is the mentally disabled child who speaks in poor vocabulary, so that his character is dumbed down enough for him to not notice Vicky's true colors when she arrives, whereas, Vicky refers to him as the "man with the weird hat" and has no problem torturing him.
- Somehow, Vicky manages to make a portable trap door and dressed up as Jigsaw from the famous Saw series and two torture creations for Timmy and Chloe...despite not possessing any magic powers prior.
- Somehow, Foop, a character specifically made for anarchy and evil, gets kindness invoked in him by Chloe hugging him. This almost destroys the entire concept of Anti-Fairies in the show and has no purpose other than for the writers to shove in the fact that Chloe is the perfect child.
- This episode feels too simple to be a 22-minute long special. It could've been a regular 11-minute episode and nothing would've changed, other than removing many scenes that pad out time for filler.
- Much like "Let Sleeper Dogs Lie" and "Return of the L.O.S.E.R.S.", the entire setup of this episode makes it feel more like an approved trollfic than an actual Fairly OddParents episode.
- This episode started the airings of The Fairly OddParents episodes in 2017 and since it's the first The Fairly OddParents episode to air on Nicktoons, it started those two things on a bad note.
- Overall, this is a double-length episode, but it ends the slew of double-length episodes in the show on a pretty bad note.
- On that topic, this episode is the last appearances of Foop, Sammy Sweetsparkle, Vicky, and Dolores Day-Crocker (in terms of production order, flash animated episodes, and likeness only, and she would later be mentioned in "Goldie Crocks and the Three Fair-Bears", "Fancy Schmancy, and the Bunsen is a Beast crossover episode of The Fairly OddParents/Bunsen Is a Beast, episode "Beast of Friends" in the show, which unfortunately ends the characters appearances in the show on a really bad note.
- Like any other episode that features Foop after his debut, "Anti-Foop" (especially since continuing on from WII'taCSS#15), this episode misses opportunities to use his parents, Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda. It's not helping that it's the seventeenth media that misses the great opportunity to use Foop's parents, Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda, following "Playdate of Doom", Spellementary School", "Love Triangle", "Timmy's Secret Wish!", "When Losers Attack", "The Terrible Twosome", "Scary GodCouple", "Two and a Half Babies", "School of Crock", "The Past and the Furious", "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales", This can be excused as if Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda were in "Certifiable Super Sitter", then Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda would have been tortured by Vicky, much how like Timmy, Chloe, Poof, Foop, and Mr. Turner were tortured by Vicky in "Certifiable Super Sitter".
- While Eric Bauza did a great job voicing Punchy the Kangaroo, his British accent will most likely come across as offensive for some people, especially Britizens.
- Wasted potential: For Poof's impression of Jim Nabors, they could have got the real Jim Nabors to do the voice of Poof's impression, and for Poof's impression of Gilbert Gottfried, they could have got the real Gilbert Gottfried to do Poof's impression of Gilbert Gottfried.
- The black hole looks too flat to be a black hole, especially thanks to the animators, though this is excused because people would get a look of what an actual black hole looks like.
Redeeming Qualities
- Despite the joke of Cosmo mistaking random things and people for Poof being extremely obnoxious, the lines "Poof, you're home, and you've been framed!" and "Wanda, we gotta get a baby lawyer!" are actually kinda funny.
- One of the jokes of Sammy and Vicky can be seen as funny, which is:
- Sammy Sweetsparkle: "I would, but my mommy told me never to lie."
- It is admittedly nice to finally see Poof make a comeback after his last appearance in season 9, although the way the episode handled it is abysmal.
- While Trixie Tang doesn't appear in this episode, Vicky's line "Tell me I'm pretty!" is Trixie's line reused from "Just the Two of Us!".
- Good voice acting as usual.
- On that topic, the famous impressions of famous celebrities, were spot on.
- Everyone aside from Vicky and Mr. Turner are likable characters, and this is one of the few instances where Chloe is a likable character.
- Cosmo and Wanda, even with the two being thrown out in this episode, are tolerable and likable in this episode, and they are well-written (well, outside, of the duo being written out in the laziest way possible), alongside with Cosmo and Wanda having their original personalities in this episode.
- Poof, despite making impressions of famous celebrities and that being his only purpose in this episode, is still likable.
- As mentioned above in WII'taCSS#3, the first few seconds of "Certifiable Super Sitter" were okay.
- Poof's impressions offamous celebrities can be pretty cute.
- The title card, like with most episodes in this series, is pretty much well-drawn and one of the best things about "Certifiable Super Sitter", and is probably one of the handful of only good things about this episode.
- The concept of Vicky babysitting Timmy and Chloe could be seen as interesting, but it would have been better if Poof, Foop, Sammy Sweetsparkle, and Mr. Turner were not in this episode.
- Like previously mentioned above in WII'taCSS#3, the first few seconds that are before Cosmo stating who is Poof were okay and tolerable at best.
- The soundtrack, since it was composed by Guy Moon as usual, can still be great to listen to, especially with the suspense.
- At least, Mrs. Turner did have a point of Chloe babysitting Mr. Turner, and it's implied she went somewhere else in this episode.
- Storyboarder Ted Collyer made the fight of Chloe and Vicky look epic, especially since Chloe wins.
Gallery
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WIIC#7: As if Vicky's flanderization wasn't bad enough...
Videos
Trivia
- Following "Christmas Everyday!", "Information Stupor Highway", "Scary Godparents", "Love Struck!", "Abra-Catastrophe!", "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker", "Jimmy Timmy Power Hour", "The Big Superhero Wish!", "Channel Chasers", "School's Out!: The Musical", "Crash Nebula", "When Nerds Collide!", "Fairly Idol", "The Jerkinators!", "Fairly Odd Baby", "The Fairly Oddlympics", "Merry WIshmas", "Wishology!", "Anti-Poof", "Love Triangle", "Timmy's Secret Wish", "Invasion of the Dads", "When Losers Attack", "Meet the OddParents", "Fairly OddPet", "Scary GodCouple", "Fairly Old Parent", "Dimmsdale Tales", "The Past and the Furious", "The Fairly Beginning", "Fairly Odd Fairly Tales", "Man's Worst Friend", "The Big Fairy Share Scare!", and "Booby Trapped", this is the thirty-seventh double-length episode of The Fairly OddParents, and the final one.
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