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!

CatDog - "Dem Bones"

Your neck bones connected to your knee bones. Dem bones, dem bones and dry bones now they're the working the lord. Now, let's review "Dem Bones," from CatDog.

While visiting the Nearburg Museum, Dog stumbles upon the Tyrannosaurus Rex statue, and as usual, it was made entirely out of bones. The security guard warns them not to touch the statue, otherwise, they'll end up in Museum Jail. Once they leave, Cat has a dream about Dog stealing all the bones from the museum and they must return them before the museum opens.

Will they get that fixed in their own dream? Or will they face the consequences? Well, I'm not telling, because you just have to watch and see for yourself.

I think Steven Banks is my favorite television writer, even if his time on SpongeBob had it's ups and downs. I even like the episodes he writes for CatDog like for example, "The Lady is a Shriek," "The Cat Club," and of course, "CatDog Divided." I also like the episode of Jimmy Neutron he wrote called "Sleepless in Retroville." He also wrote one episode for the Fairly OddParents, being "Hail to the Chief," and yes, I'll review that episode on Presidents' Day. I even like how Jim Cummings deepens his voice a bit for Cat as the voice of the T-Rex to scare away the security guard. I knew it was a dream all along? Didn't you?

For all those dinosaurs out there, you have to see it to understand it. And for all of you humans, this episode, much like "Winslow's Home Videos," this is a go-to episode. But don't take it from me, take it from my friend, the T-Rex Skeleton.

"It is I, T-Rex, rawr, King of Dinosaurs, you must leave this museum at once puny human! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

I'm just kidding, did I scare you? Well I hope not.