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Let's Get Digital with This Evaluation of "The Fairly OddParents" Special, "Channel Chasers"
December 7, 2020 Sunayna Prasad
Warning: Contains spoilers***
In the past, I didn't usually review or evaluate individual TV show specials. However, that has changed since I have watched that "Fairly OddParents" TV movie, "Channel Chasers," earlier this year. So, let me get reviewing.
The premise begins 20 years into the future, where Dimsdale has been destroyed. The mysterious guy in the black outfit chases two adults, Chester and AJ. He has to go back in time to stop the evil dictator, Vicky, from ruling the world.
The scene switches to modern-day Dimsdale, where Vicky is her usual self. The news plays and discusses children imitating violent television. Timmy is one of them. He unintentionally bounces into his parents' offices and gets grounded for it, thus being forbidden to watch TV. So, he comes up with a loophole and has Cosmo and Wanda create for him a remote that takes him into the TV channels. Things go smoothly, and then get crazy, as well as intense at times.
I have to admit how re-watching this reminded me of "Avengers: Endgame". If you're an MCU fan or have seen "The Endgame", you would likely know what I mean. This also teaches the importance of respecting the boundaries of what's acceptable in real life and what stays on the screen. I used to have a bad habit of imitating television as a child, too.
The TV programs Timmy goes on are all parodies of real ones, including those like, Rugrats, Peanuts, Sesame Street, and even The Simpsons. While I admired that as a kid, as an adult, I feel that it was kind of lazy and the creators could have come up with more original ideas. But maybe they intended that—I don't know.
Another pitfall is the toilet humor and the amount of defecation jokes used, even in that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special. Also, when Timmy discovers how much longer he can have fairy godparents, he skips ages 13 and 14. He can have fairies until age 18, although I personally feel 13 or 14 would be more appropriate, as you're not a little kid anymore. Therefore, you need to learn to deal with your own problems more maturely. Plus, most bigger kids want more freedom and independence, so having fairies follow them around might not please them.
Timmy does eventually acknowledge that he needs to grow up and will one day lose Cosmo and Wanda as his fairy godparents. He spends most of the episode not wanting to age.
Speaking of which, it was a good twist for that mysterious guy in the black suit turning out to be adult Timmy. I also appreciate how Timmy grows and changes where he starts off resistant to his grown-up self to missing him when he doesn't make it past the end credits of "Karate Cows."
I would rate this special 5 out of 5 stars.
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