Crocker Shocker (The Fairly OddParents)
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 Not a good way to start the new era of Nickelodeon of The Fairly OddParents!
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Crocker Shocker, is the tenth episode in the seventh season of The Fairly OddParents!
Plot
Mr. Crocker is hypnotized into no longer believing in fairies, which causes him to become cool and laid-back. Unfortunately, he believed that powered Fairy World's magic. It's up to Timmy and his godparents to find a way to make Crocker believe again, or else Fairy World will lose magic, turn into an apocalyptic wasteland, and plummet out of the sky and fall into, "Giant Bucket of Acid World".
Shocked Qualities
- As hilarious as these premises may be, the main problem of this episode is an incredibly dumb contrived plot twist:
- Mr. Crocker's obsessional belief in magic being the source of Fairy World is quite stupid, and was only brought up for this episode.
- In this episode, Fairy World is powered by the belief in fairies for a long time and has been using Mr. Crocker as the main source after he began his constant fairy spazzing. However, in, "Land Before Timmy", from season 6, Cosmo and Wanda get their magic from electricity.
- It contains plot holes, for the sake of cheap gags, such as:
- When Cosmo and Wanda stood up, their legs were weak like they had not used them for a very long time, but in the entire series and their disguises, they walk like normal people.
- It's implied that Mr. Crocker was the sole believer in fairies until the look-alikes believed too, but someone else would have to believe in fairies, too, when Cosmo and Wanda were Crocker's godparents. Additionally, in, "No Substitute For Crazy!", from season 5, Ms. Doombringer is also a crazy believer too.
- Speaking of Ms. Doombringer, it was kind of a missed opportunity to bring her back in this episode, as she stated that she will return someday.
- Timmy and his fairies are forced to revert Crocker into his maligned, crazy self, just because his obsession with fairies powers the big wand of Fairy World, which adds more to the contrivance of this episode, as other Crocker look-alikes were revealed to power the wand, later on.
- The big fairy wand is the source of all magical power in Fairy World, powering all the magic wands of the fairies on Earth. Here, it was Crocker's belief in fairies that somehow powers it. Thus, this episode's logic is completely out of context for no discernible reason.
- Predictable and annoying running gags, especially Crocker thinking that fairies are not real until the end.
- Predictable and bad ending, especially the contrived plot twist of people resembling Mr. Crocker from across the globe, and he was tied up afterwards. The psychologist also shouts, "fairies!", after she saws them, in the same manner that Mr. Crocker did, Crocker also spazzing in the end.
- It makes therapy look like a bad thing, as they have Crocker's therapist hypnotizing him, which is not true about therapy, at all.
- The infamous line, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but, Mr. Crocker, you're the best teacher ever!"
Good Qualities
- The first half of the episode is well handled.
- As usual, Crocker is a hilarious antagonist throughout, especially when he spazzes about fairies.
- It was nice to see Crocker's life temporarily improve after he was hypnotized into not believing fairies anymore.
- The series uses the Tinkerbell effect trope in an episode, though it's been poorly executed.
- Aaron Hammersley (storyboarder) takes a wild take when Crocker into his maligned, crazy self and starts believing in Fairies.
- "This can only be the work of...FAIRIES!!"
Trivia
- When Mr. Crocker doesn't believe in fairies, his ear goes into his head, his hump disappears, and he becomes very attractive to Principal Waxelplax and the other teachers at the school.
- Chompy the goat still has a grudge against the Mayor of Dimmsdale, over his goat-eating incident, in, "Vicky Gets Fired!"
- It premiered on the same day as the rebrand for Nick, from the splat logo to the more simplistic logo, which is still used today.
- This is the final episode that Amy Keating Rogers wrote.
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