Okay, so with season 1 having been thoroughly covered by now, it’s time to cover some elements about it that I hadn’t mentioned yet, as well as give my overall thoughts on the season as a whole.
Starting with the latter, the season was generally really good. The segments/episodes ranged between decent to amazing, and a good number of them have rightfully gone down as classics for the series. ‘Power Mad’ still stands as one of the best of the show, ‘Apartnership!’ was an excellent exploration of Cosmo and Wanda’s relationship, and ‘Christmas Every Day!’ was a great Christmas special that really puts you in the Christmas mood, and those examples are just off the top of my head.
With season 0, the writers were basically trying to find their footing; the world wasn’t quite established to its full potential yet, and the stories weren’t allowed to be quite so experimental. With season 1, however, they stuck the landing for the most part. Even if you missed season 0 and started out with this, I’d say you’ll still love what you see here as a solid starting season for the show.
With that out of the way, let’s go onto discussing the various Da Rules that were established in the season. The first is that fairy godparents can only grant wishes to kids; any adult isn’t gonna get it. But the segment it’s introduced in, ‘The Big Problem’, does also factor in a loophole: if an adult feels like a kid at heart and then make a wish, it technically counts. At first glance, it does seem like a deus ex machina, and…well, to some extent, it is. But it’s also a nice way of getting across the segment’s message. Being a kid at heart even as an adult is perfectly okay.
The second rule is that fairies can’t interfere with true love, and this one will come back into play several times throughout the show. It’s a cool touch that even fairy magic can’t alter peoples’ emotions, and as long as the show stays consistent on this, I don’t see any reason to dispel it just yet.
…I don’t know if it does, I’m just sayin’.
And then there are the various things that just exist offhandedly in the show’s universe. Not many segments here do this kind of thing, but they’re all worth bringing up. Let’s just hope that none of them break your brain too much.
With that said, the first one is that “The Fairly OddParents” is a TV show within the “Fairly OddParents“ universe- wut.
I’m sure some of you are expressing sheer confusion while others are saying “Oh yeah, I remember that!” At the end of ‘Spaced Out!’, the story seems to be wrapping up like normal, only for the screen to pan out and show us that the story was being watched this whole time…by Yugopotamian children. There’s a cheesy narrator giving a “Will they?” kind of ending, the alien kids are eating cereal, and to top it off, the room is coated with a purple color to make it just that little bit more eerie. Now, the segment does start off with Timmy, Chester and A.J. watching an episode of “Crash Nebula”, so this may have just been a surreal bookend. But nah, I prefer to think that this is official canon, and we are all Yugopotamians. That’s my headcanon and I’m sticking to it.
’Tiny Timmy’ also had a lot of these. I briefly touched on them in my review of that segment, but let’s just really let this sink in: bacteria that have established a monarchy, tour guides inside the human body, tiny beings controlling emotions before “Inside Out” happened, and need we forget the kidney-themed Disneyland? None of this is even the result of fairy magic either, it‘s all just…things that exist. Either that or Vicky’s body has got some weird stuff going on. And of course, there was the Boston-accent Easter Bunny, which I think I covered pretty well in my ‘Christmas Every Day!’ review.
Anywho, season 1 was really damn good. Sure, part of it may have been my nostalgia, but I stand by that this is a very solid run of episodes, and the show would get better from here…before trailing off and getting worse, but sssssssshhhhhhh.
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