Certifiable Super Sitter (The Fairly OddParents)
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 There is only room for one babysitter in this 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. This episode marks the return of Poof and his only appearance in Season 10. 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
- To start off the list, 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.
- 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, the late Elvis Presley, Johnny Bravo and in the end, he speaks in Gilbert Godfred's voice. This is the only purpose Poof has in this episode, meaning you can easily write Poof out of this episode and it wouldn't alter the story.
- 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.
- Vicky actively tries to kill Timmy and Chloe. Additionally, she doesn't even try to hide the 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…
- Mr. Crocker is portrayed as a punching bag, literally. Later, he is sucked into a black hole. 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.
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!" "Wanda, we gotta get a baby lawyer!" are actually kinda funny.
- One of the jokes of Sammy and Vicky can be seen as funny.
- 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.
- Everyone aside from Vicky and Mr. Turner are likable characters, and this is one of the few instances where Chloe is a likable character.
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WIIC#7: As if Vicky's flanderization wasn't bad enough...
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