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.

The Fairly OddParents - "Future Lost"

If SB-129 was in love with The Jetsons, this would probably be the innocent love child. It's called "Future Lost."

While cleaning out stuff in the attic, Timmy Turner comes across a book that takes place in the future of the 21st Century, with futuristic technology. And without any surprises, he wishes that all of Dimmsdale was in the future like in the book he found from Mr. Turner. By the way, the title of the book was called Stevie Sparks. Everything looks so futuristic that even Mark Chang shows off his regular form to the kids. Everything goes fine until the Big Brain takes over the world and brainwashes the robots into making the humans do their bidding. How will Timmy get out of this? Stay tuned to find out.

This episode is pretty cool. It really knows how to portray the future right, like how The Jetsons and SpongeBob did. I even like Denzel Crocker's muscular janitor version of himself. He still does the spasms, but this time he says "ROBOTS ARE EVIL!" Oh, Carlos Alazraqui, never change. I even like the idea of a 5-second school day. I wish my school had something like that, too bad it never works like that, the only upside is that I don't go there anymore because I've retired and went to work at the DAC. I even like the Cosmo and Wanda robots, especially the Cosmo Four Slice, where he can make toast. And the rockets are much better than wings.

Overall, this an episode that is really worth seeing. It is one of the last good ones before Poof came along. It has a lot of goods, a lot of humor, and a lot of action. I just wish that Big Brain guy who was voiced by Jim Ward wound sound more like Orson Welles.

Oh well, I guess we'll never know.

Overall, as of now, you don't have to be a Psychic Pokemon in order to see what's coming up in the future. Isn't that right, Alakazam?

KA-ZAM!

AAGH! That's my cue to say, watch it if you run across it!

By the way, that was a reference to the Professor's intro in Pokemon the First Movie.

Junior Asparagus in "Bully Trouble"

Yep, I'm back from Christmas vacation to do more reviews. Actually, I didn't go anywhere, I just needed time ti think of what to review next. And I thought of the perfect one. One of my favorite VeggieTales stories from the mid 2000's, "Bully Trouble," starring Junior Asparagus.

The premise of this episode is that the playground Junior and his friends play in is being taken over by a bully named Gourdon the Gourd, voiced by Brian K. Roberts, who has worked with VeggieTales since 2000, he bans the kids from playing in the park declaring that it's his playground and HIS playground only, and anyone who comes across the playground, will get squished. Junior and his friends retreat, and while up in his treehouse/backyard, Junior tries to come up with ideas on how to defeat Gourdon. It wasn't long until his Dad comes along with some advice. Just let the bully pound you, and he'know you're not afraid of him and he won't bother you anymore. In other words, turn the other cheek.

This story is a heck of a lot of fun. It has Junior Asparagus in a situation that he needs to resolve and also gets some helpful advice. The highlights of the episode are the parts where Junior uses his imagination, for example, he imagined to be Robin Hood (no relation to the Disney character), a football player with Mr. Nezzer as the coach, and as a astronaut named Junior Spaceman. These scenes are very imaginative and clever in their own unique way. I also like how Kristin Blegen came back after a two-year absence to reprise her role as Laura Carrot, in fact, this was probably the last episode she ever voiced Laura. Also, I should mention that Annie here is voiced by Mike Nawrocki's daughter, Ally, since Shelby Vischer was reaching puberty, and speaking of Mike Nawrocki, Mike here voices Percy's brother, Li'l Pea, since Lesly Benodin left the company by the end of 1999 to become a fireman. Mike does a perfect Li'l Pea voice. One thing that really bugged me was Tim Hodge as the voice of Scooter, why? Was Jim Poole not available? Oh, well.

So, bottom line, this was a good episode, it has a clever plot, it was funny, and has good imagination sequences, and even a good moral on how to deal with bullies. Did I mention the writer of The Ballad of Little Joe, Robert G. Lee did this?

If you wanna see the story, go watch the Minnesota Cuke episode on DVD, or if you want to see it right now with the Schoolhouse Polka silly song intact. Click here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5lcdpa

P.S. Just skip the Going Up silent short, it's boring.