# Fairly Oddparents fans? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479 "2002-12-18T03:47:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/1 "2002-12-18T03:47:51Z")
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). Anyone else dig this show? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/2 "2002-12-18T04:30:08Z")
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!"** _ ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/3 "2002-12-18T06:15:52Z")
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. That said, Cosmo and Wanda are funny. -brianjedi ---
**Author:** ![moonchilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@moonchilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonchilde)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/4 "2002-12-18T06:47:22Z")
Cool show. A friend of mine, Daran Norris, does a few of the voices. He’ll be glad there are fans 🙂 mc ---
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/5 "2002-12-18T07:38:43Z")
Cosmo: I have an idea! Wanda (writing in diary): This was a magnificent day for Cosmo! ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/6 "2002-12-18T12:09:26Z")
Man, I love this show. Cracks me up almost every time. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/7 "2002-12-18T12:34:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/8 "2002-12-18T12:51:13Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Amp_ > It is a return to the quality of the days when they originally had good shows 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. 'Course, I do miss Danger Mouse. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/9 "2002-12-18T13:48:56Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/10 "2002-12-18T14:33:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brianjedi \* > **I can’t find when exactly it’s on, so I don’t watch it.** Speaking as the father of a seven-year-old boy, I find that it’s on PRETTY WELL ALL THE DAMN TIME. As far as Nick toons go, it’s not as horrible as HEY, ARNOLD or RUGRATS, which I would like to see retired as soon as possible. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/11 "2002-12-18T15:03:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Speaking as the father of a seven-year-old boy, I find that it’s on PRETTY WELL ALL THE DAMN TIME. > > As far as Nick toons go, it’s not as horrible as HEY, ARNOLD or RUGRATS, which I would like to see retired as soon as possible. \*\* 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._ ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/12 "2002-12-18T20:36:40Z")
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)! ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fairly-oddparents-fans/143479/13 "2002-12-19T03:13:34Z")
Oh good. I’m so glad I’m not alone here! 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.