The Fairly OddParents

The Fairly OddParents is an American animated series created by Butch Hartman. It centers on a little boy named Timmy Turner, who has two fairly godparents by his side: Cosmo and Wanda, who help him out with everyday problems.

The show premiered on Nickelodeon on March 30, 2001. It initially ended on November 25, 2006, with five seasons and 80 episodes in total, but it was revived in 2008. Production on the show ended again when its creator Butch Hartman left Nickelodeon in February 2018.

Premise
10-year-old Timmy Turner is a young boy who suffers from plenty of misfortune, being neglected by his parents and constantly tormented by 16-year-old Vicky, who is his babysitter. One day, however, he's granted a pair of green and pink-haired fairly godparents, Cosmo and Wanda. Every wish they grant him, however, goes horribly wrong and thus Timmy must fix problems to get things back to normal. Aside from Vicky, though, Timmy also has to deal with other everyday enemies, such as: Denzel Crocker, a teacher at Dimmsdale Elementary School who wants to prove the existence of the fairies; Dark Laser, who is a Dark Vade expy; the school bully Francis; and the Pixies, the fairies' rivals.

In the earlier episodes, the show focused on Timmy trying to navigate through his everyday life with his friends Chester and A.J, and sometimes his parents, while trying to undo the bad things his wishes have caused and learning a lesson in the end. Later on, Timmy wishes that both of his godparents should have a baby, who they promptly name Poof. Much later, Timmy gets a talking fairy dog named Sparky. Even later, Timmy is forced to share both of his godparents with Chloe Carmichael, a hyper 11-year-old girl.

The show is normally located in Dimmsdale, a fictional city that's located in California. On occasion, it changes its location to Fairy World, where Timmy ends up getting entangled in that world's politics.

Facts

 * This show is Nickelodeon's second longest-running animated series, the first one being SpongeBob SquarePants.
 * The show originated from a series of shorts of the same name on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, which acted as Nickelodeon's animation showcase. Due to their popularity among audiences, they were ultimately greenlit to become a full-half hour series.
 * Just like Family Guy, this show is one of the worst offenders of seasonal rot and flanderization (particularly in seasons 9 and 10). In these seasons, the writing became lazy and nonsensical beyond belief, many of the episodes were rehashes of older ones (for example, "I Dream of Cosmo" is a version of "Genie Meanie Minie Mo" from the show's fourth season), the show's secondary characters were pushed out of the spotlight, and most notably, the main characters (especially Timmy, Mr. Crocker and Timmy's Dad) got butchered horribly, with the latter two being shoehorned into most of the episodes in both seasons. This reached its breaking point in 2017 when the show switched from traditional animation to cheap and stilted looking flash animation for its last 13 episodes, which was provided by Elliot Animation (this type of animation was reused for Hartman's fourth and final Nicktoon, Bunsen Is a Beast).
 * This show has a live action TV movie trilogy (A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, A Fairly Odd Christmas and A Fairly Odd Summer). It stars Drake Bell (of Drake & Josh fame) as an adult Timmy Turner, who still has Cosmo and Wanda (with Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee reprising their respective roles from the original show).
 * The show has a sequel series named The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder. It premiered on Paramount+ on March 31, 2022, but was removed in January 2023.