We watch a lot of Nickelodeon in my house. Got two little kids, ya know. Spongebob is the hands-down favorite.
But I’ve really grown to like the *Fairly Oddparents. * I’m not really sure why. I think it might just be the delivery. “Acting,” I suppose, if that’s what it’s called for cartoons?
Cosmo is my favorite permanent character. My favorite recurring characters are Mark, the alien from Yugopotamia, followed closely by Chip Skylark, the pop star (at the moment, I cannot remember who he’s voiced by, but IIRC, it’s a famous boy-band singer).
That cartoon has got to be one of the fastest paced cartoons ever. I mean the number of jokes they fire off per episode is simply extraordinary. I love it.
I love the one where everything is boring so he wishes he was in an action film with Jorgen VonStrangle. "It rocks!"
I got into watching the show thanks to my younger sister. It’s not bad, but sometimes it just “misses” comedically. It sort of suffers from the “Invader ZIM” problem: I can’t find when exactly it’s on, so I don’t watch it.
Fairly Odd Parents is one of the best new Nick shows in awhile. It is a return to the quality of the days when they originally had good shows, so you know sooner or later they are going to end up screwing it up somehow, but for now I am enjoying it.
Well, not only did that sentence make my eyes crossed, but I have to mention there are tremendously different styles of cartoons now, that aim a lot of humor for adults, so it is really different.
Love it! My favorite running gag is the different “sound affect” that appears when Cosmo or Wanda use magic. Like this morning, when they turned Timmy into an action hero, the sound was “Muy Macho!”
I have a six-year-old boy and he loves it. He likes Hey, Arnold!, too, but thankfully, has grown out of Rugrats. I was getting sick of those little brats. I really like Arnold, though. Oddparents is funny, too. It’s one I can actually watch with him. Ranks right up there with SpongeBob SquarePants.
Wacky gags and funny writing make this one of my favorites as well. It’s almost a throwback to the cartoons of yore.
Although one of the two fairies described them as being “two halves of a whole idiot,” it appears that Cosmo is a bit denser than Wanda. Of course, that makes him the funnier of the two, in my opinion.
Of course, we can’t forget the other unique characters in Timmy’s world: his babysitter Vicky (“Icky with a ‘V!’”), his friends AJ and Chester (voiced by Frankie “Malcolm in the Middle” Muniz), and Timmy’s favorite superhero, THE CRIMSON CHIN (appropriately voiced by Jay Leno)!
I think my favorite lines from the show were spoken by Mark the Alien’s parents, when they were looking for him. His dad is flying the spaceship, lost and blowing up planets. The mom is harrassing him about how he wouldn’t have to blow up those planets if he’d just stop and ask for directions. The dad says “hey! you be quiet, I’m still the King around here!” Then there’s a pause, and she says…“King of getting lost.”
That whole scene just cracks me up. These green-skinned, tentacled aliens from outer space acting so sterotypically human. The timing and delivery is just perfect, too.
