The Fairly OddParents - Hail to the Chief

Okay, folks, my birthday dinner is over, everything's back to normal, I've got my wishes, and I'm ready to go back to doing a regular review. This one is for President's Day which is today, folks. This is a Fairly OddParents episode called, "Hail to the Chief," which was the only episode to be written by Steven Banks.

Timmy competes against the two popular boys, Tad and Chad to be Student Body President. And this is not just to become Student Body President, no no, it's also to gain attention to the one and only Trixie Tang, because apparently, Trixie is the political reporter for the Dimmsdale Elementary School Newspaper. That's something that unfortunately won't be seen again after this episode. And with a little help from William Shakespeare, not even joking, Wanda summoned him, he writes a speech on the fact that it doesn't matter if we're all losers. A day later, there was nobody at school because the kids got sick from Tad and Chad's cake. And since there was nobody else at school, Timmy won the Student Body President duties. How will this go? Well, just watch and find out.

There's a lot of fun facts I got to mention here. First off I will say this is the first appearance of Sanjay, Timmy's other friend and his only appearance in Season 2, here, he invites Timmy into their book club. And I will address the elephant in the room, the controversy of "Twistory!" That episode (and, indirectly, its sister episode) rarely airs in reruns in the United States due to the controversial stereotypes featured in it and the implications that the world would not advanced socially or technologically had the colonists lost the Revolutionary War. However, both episodes are available on the Nick Picks Vol. 3 DVD and on the season 2 DVD. Due to its obscurity, some people mistakenly thought the Founding Fathers from Escape from Unwish Island were new characters. The last known airings of these episodes was on July 4th, 2017 (the Fourth of July, that is) along with its sister episode on Nicktoons. Sheesh, who ever thought Nickelodeon has something against ethnic stereotypes? What is this the Speedy Gonzales trope all over again?

Okay, okay, okay. All nitpicking aside, this is a pretty funny episode, it's got a good plot, good humor, and even some politician jokes. The one thing that grinds my gears is The Future Phlegmers, because for some reason, one of Timmy's friends, Elmer was in that sort of group. Seriously, how did he get that cold to be in that group? And let me tell you, Principal Waxelplax is frost intolerant, let me tell you, I've looked everywhere for an explanation, but I couldn't find one, I guess that means frost intolerant allergies don't exist. Of course, I will agree with Timmy that I want to be or not to be.......that LOSER!

That's all folks!

Rugrats - "Wash/Dry Story"

From the people who brought you the episode, "Music," comes another musical episode for "Rugrats," called "Wash/Dry Story," inspired from the ever popular musical "West Side Story." Let's start the review, shall we?

When Stu inadvertently turns off the neighborhood water supply, the gang goes to the laundromat to do the laundry, but the problem is, The McNultys are there too, and Teddy McNulty sees Cynthia, and he wants to play with the Cynthia doll. The thing is Jonathan had taken Cynthia alongside with Charlotte's laundry because apparently, Charlotte doesn't do laundry, Jonathan does it for her. That seems kind of lazy. Kimi wants to return Cynthia to Angelica, but Teddy wants to keep her all to himself. That said, two groups of kids get into a standoff. Will they never cease? Stay tuned to find out!

The reason I like this episode is because it's a good satire on a classic musical. I mean you have Timmy McNulty as Riff Lorton, Kimi being Rita Moreno, Teddy being of course Richard Beymer as Tony Wyzek, and of course the music has a lot of good spoofs like for example, "Stray Cat Strut" by the Stray Cats, "Maria," and "There's a Place For Us." Clever parodies, clever plot. Too bad there's no parody of "I Feel Pretty." Come on, guys, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim would be proud. Also, I should point out that this is the last appearance of the McNultys, good riddance if you ask me.

The only other parody of West Side Story was perhaps the Animatiacs episode with the Goodfeathers, and that episode featured the voice of Ivy Austin from Sesame Street.

Just remember, the moral of the story is always keep your eyes on your prized possessions, if not, they end up in a laundry basket on the way to the laundromat.

Just remember, someplace, there's always a place for all of us to play, it's just not at the laundromat, and that's the moral, folks. Hope you enjoyed my first review on February.

The Fairly OddParents - "Squirrely Puffs"

Squirrely Puffs are a part of this balance breakfast. But all that aside, Let's go ahead to review The Fairly OddParents episode, "Squirrely Puffs."

Timmy goes on a Squirrely Scouts hike with his Dad, Chester, AJ, and Sanjay. However, Mrs. Turner comes along with one of them being Tootie, obviously, challenges the Squirrel Scouts to a race to the top of the mountain, and all sorts of hijinks ensue. The Cream Puffs get help from some singing and obnoxious singing animals, Sanjay banishes his friends in order to get knee socks mostly due to the fact he got poison ivy on his leg, and Timmy Turner is the only scout who's pretty much behaving here.

How will this end? Watch and find out.

This episode is pretty much a mixed bag, I mean, why would Timmy throw up every time he sees Tootie? Why do the writers think that's funny, it's not! And Cosmo and Wanda, they're barely in this episode. They constantly get captured by a bird as worms, and even gets eaten by a frog while they were flies, all of these causes Poof to cry and something terrible happen, like that thunderstorm, because, we know that every time Poof cries something bad happens. Timmy could've just save them or at least let his fairies stay home or something, and another thing, no magic is used in this episode, I mean, not one single wish. But on the upside, Mrs. Turner finally snaps at the obnoxious animals in the most over the top and funniest manner you could imagine.

So, bottom line, "Squirrely Puffs" has too much of a plot that could've been a lot simpler. Did I mention that Mr. Turner can speak squirrel?


There are some funny moments here and there, but overall, not all that much.

Consider it on the upper side of "meh."

The Fairly OddParents - "Birthday Wish!"

Here's another favorite episode from Season 5, "Birthday Wish!" starring Vicky's little sister, Tootie. This is the second Birthday episode I'm reviewing, so let's uh, let's begin.

The story is that Timmy Turner feels bad for Tootie because her birthdays are always ruined by her older sister, Vicky. She wants a party where everyone wasn't too scared of her to come. Feeling bad for the child who's been abused by Vicky, he lends his fairies, Cosmo and Wanda to Tootie for the rest of her birthday, and to make up for all the birthday's he's been ignoring from the delivery man. And, amazingly enough, the party is everything that she ever wanted. It isn't until Denzel Crocker comes into the picture and discovers there was real butter creme icing on the giant birthday cake. And, as usual, Mr. Crocker goes for another evil scheme to prove to the world that Timmy (technically Tootie) has fairies.

The thing that surprised me about this episode was that I thought this would be more about Vicky than Tootie, but boy they proved me wrong. It focuses more on Tootie and her birthday wish, Vicky even gets thrown out of the window to give Denzel the villain spotlight. That, and Timmy was really generous to lend his fairies until 9:00 which is her bedtime. I also like Chester and AJ's minor appearances, as well as Chet Ubetcha reporting on Tootie's birthday. With all the presents, on the cake or anywhere in between, you never know who's going to show up. But don't worry, we're giving you enough Mr. Crocker to go around.

The bottom line is that I too felt bad for Tootie in this episode, especially since nobody ever came to her party due to them having Vicky in them.

I even like all the jokes here, like Cosmo saying "Go for the coma!" And of course, we couldn't forget Crocker's "FAIRY GOD PARENTS!" chant.

I even like how they made Denzel Crocker interact with Tootie for a change instead of Vicky.

If you like birthdays as much as I do, please, at least check this one episode out. It really is worth your time.

Phineas and Ferb - "Happy New Year"

Even though it's already the second week of January 2018, I'd figured I should still review the New Year's Eve episode of the ever popular Disney cartoon, Phineas and Ferb. So, without acquaintances be forgotten, let's begin.

It's New Year's Eve, and everyone's getting ready for the Big Bash. Phineas and Ferb put up their annual New Year's Eve Ball into Outer Space outside Isabella's backyard, and Candace is going to a New Year's Party with Jeremy and Stacy. However, there's a problem. Candace can't stop thinking about Phineas and Ferb doing those sneaky things which Candace fails to show her parents, when she goes to the bathroom to pull herself together, she sees someone eating a sandwich despite announcing their New Year's Resolution, and Candace decides maybe it's not too late to bust Phineas and Ferb. So, she leaves the party to investigate. Will she finally bust the duo? Fat chance!

Over on the Perry and Doofenshmirtz side of things, Doofenshmirtz decides to brain wash everybody at midnight into making him to his orders, comes as no biggie that his plan does indeed backfire. And he does have a heart, an evil one that is, and he does wish Perry a Happy New Year near the ending. You know, if these Perry and Doofenshmirtz plots were never on the show, I would've been fine with that, but that's just me. I kind of like Doofenshmirtz's robot though.

This episode is visually interesting, it's not laugh out loud funny, but it's got great visuals. It kind of reminds me of the Sesame Street New Year's Eve Special if you ask me. Except, in that special we only see the kids side of the party, but here, we see both sides, both adult and kid alike. I kind of like the looks of that giant ball, it looks an awful lot like that giant Disco ball from the Powerpuff Girls episode, "Boogie Frights." You did see my review of that one, didn't you? I especially love the ending song, simply knwn as "Happy New Year" as sung by Olivia Olson, yes, the actress who voiced Bliss in The Power of Four, but I'll review that one of that rehash some other time. And Ferb's line in this was and I quote "Auld Lang Syne" literally means "old long ago," but I'd rather think of New Year's as an unspoiled universe.: I also like the fireworks at the end and even the romance that Jeremy and Candace have, even Jeremy likes Candace the way she is, being her girl who tries to tell on her brothers self. The fireworks are something that was really missing from the Sesame Street New Year's special. So, If I had to choose between those two specials, I'd pick this one. Did I forget to mention that John Viener, who worked on Family Guy, voiced Norm the Robot?

So, in the words of Cookie Monster, "THE END! Me love credits!"

The Fairly OddParents - "A Wish Too Far!"

Man, I guess it's been a while since I've reviewed a Fairly OddParents episode. But it doesn't matter, since, Butch Hartman has his own interview channel on YouTube, I thought I would review a few episodes again for him. This one is from the first season, it is called "A Wish Too Far!"

Okay, what's the story? Oh yes. Timmy has a crush on Trixie Tang (as we all should know by now), and he wants so desperately for her to see him and like him, but however, that's impossible because he's not popular like Trixie, Veronica, and Tad and Chad are. In a desperate attempt to get attention, Timmy wishes to look like a popular kid just like the aforementioned four, even going so far as to dumping his friends, and even making so many ridiculous wishes to the fairies, without even a please or a thanks, it goes so far in fact that he ends up being sued by Fairy World and sent to Fairy Court. Will they reach the verdict? Stay tuned to find out.

This episode is pretty funny, even if Timmy did indeed act out of character in this one, I like how Timmy pushes away Chester and AJ as well as Veronica suspecting that all this was just a trap which sadly is kind of true. I even like Cosmo's attempt at a laser targeted defense, by acting as a fireman? Don't ask me, they're just showing! If there's one thing I didn't like, it has to be Jorgen Von Strangle in his first appearance here. He sounds too much like Arnold Schwarzenegger, and not too raspy, like how his voice would be later on. And he made the Judge change is mind even though Timmy said he was sorry to the entire court! Only a fire-burning Wanda would stop him, only on one conclusion.

Have we reached the verdict? Guilty or not guilty? Not guilty! This episode is very good. And it also had a good moral, just be yourself. Let's just say Timmy Turner had to learn that out the hard way.

Also, bet you didn't know that SpongeBob storyboard artist, Erik Wiese storyboarded this episode? His only other episode he storyboarded for this show was "Beddy Bye."

Go ahead and give this episode a watch if you haven't already.

Jelly's Day - Uncle Betty's Strange Rash

Here's another cartoon starring the cute Jelly. In this episode, Jelly meets up with his goofy uncle Betty (voiced by Bob Joles) at the Museum of Stuff from Outer Space. The kicker, he gets a rash that grows plants with feet and they pop out of him.

What's weird about this episode is the fact that it was directed by Vincent Waller. not that I have anything against him, I mean, he's a nice guy and he worked on Cow and Chicken and SpongeBob. But what I think he did here was that he put a bit of a Ren and Stimpy feel to the cartoon that was suppose to be innocent looking. No kidding, if you looked on Uncle Betty's backpack, he even has a Stimpy plush toy. It also arranges with the background characters who kind of look like throw away background characters from Ren and Stimpy. Still, it's too safe and polished to be anything like the overly loud insanity that Ren and Stimpy gave us. Vincent Waller, as I've said before also worked on Cow and Chicken which also had a Ren and Stimpy feel but was still unique enough to be called it's own show.

Overall, this episode's really weird. I have a lot of mixed feelings on this. I still like Grey Delisle as the voice of Jelly and I like the character design of the flowers in the following picture here. It's just bizzare and weird. But still, if you wanna see it and let me hear your thoughts, here's the link:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUZE9kersw0

The Kid from SCHOOL

The Kid from SCHOOL was created by Bob Boyle and Bill Riling for Oh Yeah! Cartoons. And this is my review.

This cartoon centered around a spy simply known as Jake Slate (voiced by Jason Marsden) who fights off against the evil genius, who's weakness is macaroni and cheese. I like mac and cheese by the way. Also, Jake Slate gets a date from the head of the student council, Stephanie (voiced by Grey Delisle) who wants him to be his homecoming king at the school dance. Not wanting to be the last boy in the school, the evil genius, tries to get rid of every single male student from the school, but Jake Slate stops his reign of terror. This episode serves as a clever spoof to James Bond, from the name, to the shaken not stirred joke being used. The art style is kind of similar to The Fairly OddParents, since Bob Boyle did work on The Fairly OddParents during its first three seasons.

With all the spy references, including James Bond, the short gets pretty much everything right. It's got a decent parody, it's got great mac and cheese jokes, and it's a pretty good satire of school and spies. It's good. Check it out for yourself if you haven't seen it on TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDpmiTZrA4

Proctecto 5000

This cartoon from Oh Yeah! Cartoons is just so dramatic! Believe me, I've watched it. I mean, the animation is cute I will admit, but the entire short just feels like a dang soap opera.

You see, in this cartoon, in the distant future, Nadya has a lot of trouble making friends at her new school, even goes so far as being bullied by a bully who was voiced by the late Mary Kay Bergman, even going so far as to lock her in a locker overnight, luckily, Kenny the Protecto 5000 comes in to save the day after the bullies go too far with their science experiment. The moral of the story is always make friends even when your too shy to do such a thing, and you should ways try to come out of your shell. An important fact I should point out is that Kenny is voiced by none other than Richard Moll from Night Court. I'd never thought I'd say this, but he was a perfect fit for this drama.

Unfortunately, I don't recommend this cartoon It's just so melodramatic, sad, and even mean-spirited to young little girls like Nadya. BUT, it's not that bad, I'll give it the benefit of a doubt here. And if you are a true fan of dramas and stuff like that, go ahead and check out the link here if you dare! Not that I'm demanding you to, it's just that, it's your choice.

I would like to dedicate this review to the late Joe Alaskey and the late Mary Kay Bergman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyaHHMMLmY0

"Jelly's Day"

Now, let's review my other favorite cartoon from Oh Yeah! Cartoons, "Jelly's Day." The first episode from the first episode of the anthology series. In this installment, Jelly's cousin named Hargus came to visit from Entrancelvanyia, and she takes him to the beach for a good time, and hilarity ensues.

What's nice about this cartoon is that it's cute, but this is not the only Jelly's Day cartoon they've made. There's two other episodes, one of them I'll be reviewing in the mere future. Also, this is one of Grey Delisle's early instances in voice acting. Her voice for Jelly would be the voice she would later use for other characters like Wubbzy, Lizzie, and Emily Elizabeth among others. Also, it has a perfect moral. The moral is the fact it doesn't matter what these cousins look like on the outside, it's what you are on the inside that counts. It did take the other beachgoers a while to figure that out.

I suggest you check this cartoon for yourself if you've never watched Oh Yeah! Cartoons, but if you've already watched the series from the beginning, go ahead and watch it anyway. Just stay away from the giant octopus that would come out of nowhere and trap you in its clutches, or rather, tentacles.

One more thing I should mention is that the other human characters look like characters from the hit Cartoon Network series, "Cow and Chicken."

All I can say is, I knew they would dig the beach.


Here's a link to the cartoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv3OLR_h5XM

The Fairly OddParents - "Power Mad!"

Here's my favorite episode from The Fairly OddParents, and the weird thing is that it was also part of the first episode of the series, not counting the pilots from Oh Yeah! Cartoons. In this episode, Timmy wishes for a video game that's challenging, a game that you can't wish yourself out of! Heck, even Timmy's best friends, Chester and AJ get in onto the game, literally. But this becomes a bad thing because Timmy notices that the video game sucks up a lot of energy that if Vicky used the TV and all those other electricity related stuff, she would blow the power. So, it's up to Timmy to save Chester and AJ and help them win the game before it's too late. Meanwhile, hilarity ensues when Cosmo and Wanda act out TV shows to distract Vicky, obviously Cosmo's idea.

What I like about this episode is that it's fun! It satires video games and television. I especially like the CGI in the episode's video game, which was improvised by Invader Zim animator, John Sore. It comes as no surprise that Invader Zim premiered the exact same day this episode did. March 30, 2001. I like the part where Cosmo and Wanda do a parody of I Love Lucy, with Cosmo doing the "Lucy, you've got some 'splaining to do!" joke, much to Wanda's chagrin.

Also, this episode marks the first time that Chester and AJ are referred to by name after a minor role in the previous episode, "The Big Problem!' Also, according to Wanda's diary, the day Timmy wished for the video game was Wednesday, March 22nd, isn't that ironic? The exact same month the show premiered! Also, I like how Chester survives most of the dangers in the levels with only three lives. However, this gets all screwed up when AJ just pushes Chester off the platform on the Classroom of Doom level. There was computer mini-game on the Nickelodeon website called "Power Surge," and believe me, I've tried to go through that game, but I've never made it through a single level! What am I? Four? But the highlight of the episode is the battle with...

THE GIANT VICKY ROBOT!

I highly recommend this episode to anyone whose ever watched the Fairly OddParents since the very beginning. Just don't play the game version of the episode, it's too difficult.

Olly and Frank

From the people who brought you Wow! Wow! Wubbzy, and Why Do I Love Y? comes a Bob Boyle cartoon from 1998 that was directed by Rob Renzetti for Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

What I like about this cartoon is that it's a simple "kid falls in love with a girl" story with a Frankenstein twist. What I also admire is the fact that Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker wrote all the musical score for this show, these people were famous for The Powerpuff Girls, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Dexter's Laboratory, and Codename: Kids Next Door among others. Also, this story has a lot of puns. And I'm not gonna lie here. The puns include "The bubble in my gum," "the pop in my sicle," and "the ham in my burger." What was "the pop in my corn" not good enough of a pun to take. I don't know what else to say really, it's a story that just works. Here's the link to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jiclW7CwGA