Fairly Old Parent (The Fairly OddParents)
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"Fairly Old Parent" is the thirty-seventh episode in Season 9 of The Fairly OddParents, and is a 22-minute special.
Plot
After developing enough magic power, Poof becomes the fairy godparent of Mr. Crocker's mother. Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda don't like that, and try to get him back.
Why It's Too Old
- This episode's premise is beyond lazy and nonsensical. It was clearly made to force in yet another Crocker episode. Following "Turner & Pooch", "Dumbbell Curve", "Viral Vidiots", "Crock Blocked", "Weirdos on a Train", "Let Sleeper Dogs Lie", "Lame Ducks", "Desperate Without Housewives", "Snack Attack", "Turning Into Turner", "The Wand That Got Away", this is the twelfth Mr. Crocker-centered episode in season 9. It's not helping that the next episode, "School of Crock", would yet another Crocker-centered episode and being the final episode.
- Mrs. Crocker is too old to have a fairy godparent and this breaks one of the show's biggest rules, which is that only miserable kids get assigned fairy godparents. This results in a massive plot hole.
- She's also a super boring and uninteresting character, especially when dominating a 22-minute special. Her character design and voice are laughably terrible, and was created to be (and worked much better as) a minor joke character.
- To add onto this, she wishes for many absurd things, overworking Poof all day and all night. Not to mention, Poof being a baby renders him too young into being a fairy godparent.
- She's also a super boring and uninteresting character, especially when dominating a 22-minute special. Her character design and voice are laughably terrible, and was created to be (and worked much better as) a minor joke character.
- All of the other elements in the story are predictable and boring, and have all of the typical "Season 9-isms".
- The humor in this episode specifically was really awkward and out of place, and consisted of stereotypical "old people" jokes, especially gross-out ones.
- While Jorgen does explain that Fairy World wants to hit the "miserable old people" demographic, the concept of this is very far-fetched and the writers really went out of their way to put Mrs. Crocker in the spotlight.
- Sparky serves no purpose in this episode other than providing a running gag of Cosmo being turned into a sandwich and Sparky trying to eat him. With that said, you can easily write Sparky out of this episode and technically nothing would change.
- This is a minor gripe, but on the episode title card, there is an old picture of Poof, yet he is still a ball. All fairies are only supposed to look like that when they are a baby, and then have regular shaped bodies when they get older (according to the episode "Poof's Playdate" from season 6 at least).
- This episode was produced right before "School of Crock" (the episode where Poof starts speaking), but aired 10 months after it. This could likely cause confusion for the people watching the show in airing order, as to why Poof isn't talking again.
- Since this is the last The Fairly OddParents episode that Ernie Gilbert worked on, "Fairly Old Parent" unformently ends his The Fairly OddParents carrer on a pretty bad note, especially for a double-length episode.
Redeeming Qualities
- Mrs. Crocker wanting to spend time with her son is heartwarming.
- Dr. Rip Studwell and Denzel Washington's cameos were kind of funny.
- Mr. Crocker's line, "I guess you can get anything on the Internet these days.", can be seen as funny.
- Despite the problems, It's nice to see the episode starring Poof as major role since he had been quite ignored at this point in the series.
- It is one of the few episodes in this Season where Mr. Turner is nowhere to be found, especially with how overused he had been at this point in the series.
- Timmy and his fairies (Cosmo, Wanda and Poof), and Mr. Crocker all have their own personality.
Trivia
- This is the last episode of "The Fairly OddParents" in which Ernie Gilbert worked on. He had been part of the crew since Season 1.
- This is the fourth and last episode in Season 9 where Mr. Turner does not appear in at any moment, as well as the only double length episode in the season in which he is absent.
- This episode premiered in Germany and Poland on November 20, 2014. It premiered in France on December 17, 2014.
- Storyboard images for this episode were revealed by Butch Hartman in early 2014. Also, scenes from this were included in a promo for new episodes premiering on July 2014, even though it wasn't aired at the time.
- This episode and The Fairy Beginning aired together on the day of the 2015 Kids Choice Awards.
- Mr. Crocker states, "I guess you can get anything on the Internet these days." This is most likely a reference to Timmy's original excuse of where he got the stuff that he wished for.
- This episode first premiered in the Philippines on March 6, 2015.
- "Fairly Old Parent" began a streak of eight episodes that are all 22-minute specials (spanning the rest of the ninth season and the first episode of the tenth). The next 11-minute episode would be the second Season 10 episode "Whittle Me This!" or "Birthday Battle".
- Dr. Pig's theme from another Nicktoon, Back at the Barnyard, plays in the bingo scene.
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