FOP Review #4: "Transparents"

Hey folks. It's Turtle again with some more Fairly Oddparents. This time we're meeting Denzel Crocker, and man is he off his rocker. Will Timmy be able to keep his FAIRY GODPARENTS?!?! Let's find out in “Transparents”.

Title card from the Fairly Oddparents Wiki

Our story begins with show-and-tell.

“Well Mr. Crocker, for show and tell I brung my dog, Mange.”

Wasn't that Buttercup's superhero name from when the Powerpuff Girls went solo for an episode?

Also Mange eats first graders, which are all kept in a giant glass jar. How are those kids not dead from the lack of air?

Timmy speaks with Cosmo and Wanda, who are disguised as pencils about his show and tell project.

Oh now they can shapeshift into other things. Where was that ability last episode?

Francis receives a “D” and Timmy comes up to the front. Timmy opens a lunchbox to reveal a small purple dinosaur.

Oh no! It's the spawn of Barney!

Crocker is so disgruntled he pays no attention at first, ready to give Timmy a “D”. Crocker soon realizes it's the real deal. Crocker reasons that no child would have access to the technology required to clone a dinosaur. (Well except AJ, but he isn't a genius yet, apparently) Crocker reasons that Timmy has fairies.

The dinosaur runs out of the room. Timmy tries to chase after it, but Crocker stops him. Crocker says he wants to have a word with Timmy's parents. Crocker makes it pretty obvious that he believes Timmy has fairies, but Timmy kind of ignores that for now.

Later that day, Timmy, Chester, and AJ are in a three way call. Timmy tells Chester and AJ that they must get the project back. At the end of the conversation, Chester and Timmy just hang up.

“Doesn't anyone say goodbye anymore?”

Wait until r/r4r is invented. There, people will stop talking to you with no explanation.

After almost beating the candy out a pinata Cosmo, Wanda suggests she and Cosmo pose as Timmy's parents. Timmy wishes for them to become human.

Timmy tries to coach them on how to be human. Wanda poofs up a fan to fan away Cosmo's gas (yes really), and gets scolded. Cosmo talks really fast and almost passes out due to lack of air, not realizing that as a mortal, he has to breathe. They also bump into the wall not realizing they can't walk through walls anymore.

Well, fairies do believe that doors are for chumps.

The next morning, Wanda is driving Cosmo and Timmy to school and wreaking havoc in her wake. Seriously, the city is shown to be on fire. Also, Wanda can just automatically drive. Well, I guess she could poof up a fake license.

Meanwhile with Wackjob Crocker, he's talking about how he's finally found proof of fairies. Chester and AJ are peeking in through the door and set off a cuckoo clock. Also, Chester and AJ are wearing Jurassic Park outfits. Well, this might be the only time they hunt a dinosaur, so they might as well.

Crocker rants about how he's been a laughingstock for his belief in the existence of magical creatures. He was apparently at both Harvard and Baltimore Community College at one point. I suppose he was well-respected at one point.

Crocker goes to his Crocker Cave, which is a phone booth in the janitor's closet. Why is there a phone booth in the janitor's closet? Does it lead to Section 13?

Crocker wants to harness Cosmo and Wanda's power to take over the world and take revenge on those who mocked him in the past.

Wanda arrives at the school and notices a “Fairies” parking spot, she almost parks there but Timmy grabs the wheel, steering them away from certain doom.

I'd say that only an idiot would fall for that, but it seems like Cosmo and Wanda are both idiots. Or as Cosmo put it a couple of episodes back “Two halves of a whole idiot.”

Chester and AJ are still chasing the dinosaur when Crocker catches them. Crocker tries to make a deal with them, they bring him the dinosaur, and Chester and AJ get a position of power when Crocker takes over the world. Chester accepts.

Beats living in a trailer park, I suppose.

Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda arrive at the classroom, and Wanda greets him by throwing him into a desk.

“Uh sorry Mr. Crocker. Mom's uh..”

“A fairy?”

Not even trying to hide it anymore. Also, Crocker moved from the parking lot, through the school, and made it to the classroom before Timmy did. Impressive.

Crocker has set up an electric chair in the classroom to determine whether or not Cosmo and Wanda are fairies.

“If they survive they're FAIRIES! If they don't, I HAVE TENURE!”

I don't think having tenure prevents you from going to prison for murder, Crazypants Crocker.

Crocker slips and falls into the chair, along with a random fish Cosmo had because why not? Crocker is electrocuted, but survives.

By that logic, you're a fairy, Crocker.

Chester and AJ continue to chase the dinosaur, but it runs into the girl's bathroom. They argue for a while about who should go in, and both walk in.

Crocker gives Cosmo and Wanda coffee, which causes them to have to go to the bathroom. Crocker leads them to the bathrooms: “Boys, Girls, and Mystical creatures”

I didn't think “mystical creature” was its own gender.

Wanda almost goes into the “Mystical creatures” bathroom, but Principal Waxelplax shows up and Wanda lets her go ahead. The principal gets trapped in some kind of contraption inside a stall.

Chester and AJ barge in with a box, claiming they've caught the dinosaur. Crocker urges Chester to give him the box, but he throws the box to Timmy. Crocker snatches the box back. Crocker talks up about how he finally has proof of fairies. Timmy whispers into Cosmo and Wanda's ears, and they use their wands. There's a poof inside the box while Crocker isn't looking. Crocker opens the box to reveal.....a dog in a costume.

All four of them are put in detention: Timmy for faking his project, Chester and AJ for going into the girls' bathroom, and Crocker for “trapping [Waxelplax] in a toilet paper cocoon and promising two small boys they could enslave the Earth”.

The episode and ends with Waxelplax backing into the fairy parking space and falling through a trap door.

This was a decent episode. It had a couple of decent jokes. There were a few plot issues, though. Like, wishing up a dinosaur for show and tell. That would've been suspicious even without Crocker being obsessed with fairies. I also question why Crocker didn't take the dinosaur in the first place. I suppose he predicted that Timmy would have his fairy godparents pose as his human parents.

Despite its flaws, it's pretty okay. I give “Transparents” a Good rating.