The Fairly OddParents (TV Series) Channel Chasers (2003) User Reviews

More than meets the eye

[StevePulaski · 8/10 · 13 July 2011]

Out of all the shows on present day Nickelodeon, I can only stomach some older Spongebob Squarepants episodes and The Fairly Oddparents. With every episode of the unique and witty series, I feel that it is one of the better animated shows in recent years. It isn't cocky or full of itself, it's cute and harmless. People can complain it isn't realistic, but it doesn't need to be. It knows what it is. A cartoon.

I admire another animated show for the same reason, Cartoon Network's Ed, Edd n' Eddy. People can use logic and the laws of physics against it, when really, it's a cartoon taking advantage of its limitless possibilities. It's like The Three Stooges in choppy animation.

Channel Chasers is the second movie, or special, of the long running show. What it is is one big pop culture parody on eighties, nineties, and current television programs. Plucky Timmy Turner (voiced by Tara Strong) wishes for a remote that will let him go in the TV. His godparents Cosmo (Norris) and Wanda (Blakeslee), fairies who can grant Timmy any wish that he wants, give him the remote so he can run away from his parents into television. Timmy's frustration is because his idiot parents continue not to believe anything he says about his "evil" babysitter Vicky.

Timmy's goal is to find a single appealing program that he can live in where adults don't intervene in a child's activities. Right of the bat, the plot is extremely cartoony and falls into a predicted comedy genre. When actually, Channel Chasers sports a dark background to one of its subplots. It's a lot more polished and is actually smarter and deeper than a fifteen minute episode. I normally say Nickelodeon movies, like Hey Arnold! The Movie, could've been cut down to maybe half an hour and had no reason to go theatrical other than to milk the franchise. But in a way, I kind of wish Channel Chasers was longer, and maybe went to theaters. This special showcased that The Fairly Oddparents was more than just wishes. It was about growing up, taking responsibility, and facing your problems head on.

As for the parodies, they are well crafted and have a purpose. Not like Epic Movie or Meet the Spartans that just spit so many pointless jokes and bogus references at you at random. The references are done maturely and honestly. Never do they feel abrupt or forced. Nothing does. Going into this with TV special expectations, I was pleasantly surprised at what was brought to the table. Now if only dessert would find its way here.

Voiced by: Tara Strong, Daran Norris, Susanne Blakeslee. Directed by: Butch Hartman.

Brilliant!

[anxietyresister · 7/10 · 30 August 2005]

I must say, I was getting bored of the 25 minute version of The Fairly Oddparents, simply because I thought the makers had used up all the jokes the scenario would allow. I am happy to report I was completely wrong!! This hilarious and clever made-for-TV special features everyone's favourite pink hat wearing kid getting himself stuck in his TV set, courtesy of a magic remote control given to him by his two lovable Godparents. The main plot, which revolves around him trying to save the world from the clutches of his evil baby-sitter Icky Vicky, is just the set-up for some fantastic parodies and spoofs of some classic cartoons and kids programmes, from The Simpsons to Sesame Street. Each one is animated or performed exactly as it was originally, so one minute Timmy and co might be CGI figures, anime characters or even PUPPETS!! There are far too many good gags to list here, but 'reindeer chocolate' and the 'Best Dad' awards are among the best. This is just such fantastic entertainment I can whole-heartedly recommend to all, even those who don't usually watch the main series. A 7 out of 10 from me!!

An awesome movie, highly worthy of a theatrical release and the likes of "Shrek"

[mark_foster81 · 9/10 · 30 October 2004]

I have to warn you, this review has a mighty spoiler. Proceed if you dare.

I don't know why, but out of the two movies based on 'The Fairly Oddparents' I prefer this one. I mean I love the show itself. It's bright, witty, and smart. Also, it has extremely likable characters, particularly little Timmy Turner, the boy of ten with fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda. But I only thought that the first movie, 'Abra-Catastrophie', which was a huge hit with whoever saw it, and that's probably the millions of TV viewers who tune into the Nickelodeon hit. I really don't blame those people. It's perfectly charming, but I think I was expecting more from a movie based on this truly awesome show. And, I think I derived it from this movie. Indeed, the parodies seem to entwine with the plot better here than in 'Abra-Catastrophie'. In that movie, we got spoofs of three hit movies in the opening sequence, but this one involves young Timmy imitating stunts from a TV show he loves (and no, it's not 'Jackass'). Like all the other kids his age, Timmy is addicted to an anime show called 'Mahu Mushi', which has a 'Dragonball Z'-like atmosphere and the same trading card game that made 'Pokemon' and 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' such humongous hits. And because they are immature, they gallivant around, believing that they can fly or be super-strong and imitate the stunts that the cartoons make. Timmy, of course, uses his fairy magic to imitate stunts that his peers are unable to, including zapping the streets below with the 'Kid Crusher' ship, feeling like one of the Imperial weapons of 'Star Wars'. But his antics grow out of control when they affect his parents at work. They punish Timmy at home with 'No TV'. So, he goes to his fairies again and wishes for a remote control to go INTO TV. That's where the plot takes off. He goes inside, explores spoofs of shows like 'The Jetsons', 'Fat Albert' (with a more diverse band) and 'Johnny Quest', the show Timmy appreciates next to 'Mahu Mushi' and some superhero shows (it's nice to know some kids appreciate the classics). As soon as he gets out, he is pumped up and ecstatic, at least until he realizes that Vicki, the evil babysitter, has told his parents on him screwing over their punishment. They give Timmy his magic remote and refuse to believe that Vicky is evil and is making him look bad. So, Timmy is fed up with being forced to 'grow up' and dealing with parents who don't believe him. He responds by running away from home, into the TV world with another remote, where adults have little say in the matter and kids don't have to grow up. But, some stranger is chasing them through TV and won't allow Timmy to live peacefully. They run through spoofs of shows like 'Speed Racer' (where they make fun of the terrible animation and audio effects), 'The Flintstones' and 'Scooby-Doo' (where the dog bears a striking resemblance to rapper Snoop Dogg). Finally, the stranger reveals himself to be Timmy's future self! This man is played by Alec Baldwin, in his best performance since the likes of 'The Cooler' or 'The Last Shot', acting with such dignity and grace. Anyway, he says in his time, Vicky has taken over the world and made it into a wasteland. He has come to take Timmy's remote and try to stop the dark future, until he sees Vicky has her own remote and found her way into TV land. They team up to try and stop her, with Timmy learning to grow up along the way. Anyway, I thought that this story had more dynamic, particularly in the way that the obvious references to 'The Terminator' (Grown-Up Timmy coming from the dark future to change the past for the better), 'Stay Tuned' (the idea of going into TV) and 'Peter Pan' (Cosmo and Wanda are like the title character in a way, along with Timmy learning to grow up) are actually significant to the set-up. The characters did more, including Tootie, Vicky's sister, in the subplot with Timmy's parents discovering the truth about Vicky. The whole idea of Timmy not being able to remember his godparents when he gets older, simply because he won't believe in fairies as a grown-up, really works here. Another movie may have an atmosphere like the holiday hits 'Elf' and 'The Santa Clause' outside the Christmas season, where Timmy has just lost his fairies and now feels empty without them. And finally, I liked how Vicky was the principal villain here, as just about any magic story can have some lunatic try to expose the powers. The idea of an evil babysitter is truly nothing you see everyday, and she was against Timmy longer than Crocker, who took over the world in 'Abra-Catastrophie'. The same movie I mentioned before can have more depth to the Vicky character, and maybe bigger parts to Timmy's friends (who make a funny cameo in the middle and show just as much potential as Vicky). And maybe 'Abra-Catastrophie' has more depth to Cosmo and Wanda, but this more has a lot of their characters too, as Timmy worries about getting old and losing them.

To Overview: With bright main characters, a significant theme and moral and 'Shrek'-like atmosphere, this is certainly gem of a family film and great for fans of the show, what with the older Timmy and Vicky being the bad guy…err, girl. It certainly was a shame that this movie wasn't made for theaters and I sincerely hope that it does get a feature film after the 'Spongebob Squarepants Movie' comes to DVD. Perhaps with my suggestions… Rating: Ba-ba-ba, ba-ba…I'm Lovin' It!/8.5 out of 10/3.5 out of 4/A-

One of the funniest TV parodies since SNL.

[ianoflccc · 10/10 · 20 August 2005]

If you're a fan of comedy, and a fan of television, and especially a fan of "The Fairly Odd Parents", then "Channel Chasers" is for you. This special 90-minute episode of "The Fairly Odd Parents" is one of my favorite episodes of the entire series, largely because of the television spoofs. It also gives a little lesson on the facts of life (and no, I'm not talking about the Norman Lear sitcom), but I can't tell you exactly what happens; you'll have to see it for yourself. And more likely than not, you'll enjoy it, especially if you enjoy seeing television being spoofed, and the shows were spoofed real well, something rivaled only by Saturday Night Live.

Best episode of the show

[kaimoney · 10/10 · 9 April 2020]

Fairly Oddparents was a show I grew up with. And ever since, this was my favorite episode from it. Everything here is awesome: The parodies, the story, the characters, so many things I love about it. Watch it yourself if you haven't yet.

Surprisingly the darkest FAIRLY ODDPARENTS episode/movie ever!

[Ryuusei · 10/10 · 8 August 2004]

Since I had to go to Borders on the night this special premiered, I first only saw the first 3-5 minutes of THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS: CHANNEL CHASERS (the second 90-minute TV movie, the first being ABRA-CATASTROPHE), and was forced to leave my VCR taping the rest. Upon my return home, I watched the rest of the film.

My review?

[long, amazed pause]

WOW! This is quite possibly the darkest FOP movie/episode ever! It's also incredibly poignant, especially in the conclusion (which, of course, I won't give away, save that it ambiguously had the feel of a "final episode")! But that doesn't stop the usual FOP wackiness, and there's TONS of references to TV shows, especially tokusatsu and anime (look carefully for an SD version of Masked [Kamen] Rider V3 while Timmy flips channels to scroll through the characters on his favorite program)! Look for hilarious parodies of A CHARLIE BROWN CHIRSTMAS, SESAME STREET, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER and SPEED RACER, to name just a few! But this is somewhat different from the average, even the best FOP episode/special!

The plot: 20 years into future, Chester and AJ (now macho grown-ups) are chased through Dimmsdale (now a dystopia) by a ruthless masked ninja spy (volced by Alec Baldwin, who did a good job!), who works for the evil dictator Vicky (yep, Timmy Turner's evil babysitter!). With the two men captured, Vicky sends the spy to the present, using a time-traveling device, to destroy Timmy Turner. But things take a turn for the worst when a popular new anime program called MAHOMUSHI (Japanese for "magic bugs"; Should be "Mahoumushi") influences kids to behave violently (a parody of the infamous POKEMON "epileptic seizure" incident in Japan), especially Timmy, whose reenacting the program with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda destroy his parents' jobs! They ground him, and leave him with Vicky (as usual), but this is where things really start to go bottom-of-the-barrel for poor Timmy! When he wishes for a TV set in his room, Vicky finds out about this and frames Timmy by destroying much of the house. To get away from his troubles, Timmy wishes for a magic remote control, and he, Cosmo and Wanda have fun actually traveling through the TV universe, living his favorite TV shows! Meanwhile, the spy from the future spies on Timmy as the return of his enraged parents (thanks to Vicky) forces him to return to the real world for a while, and inadvertently takes with him a super-weapon (from a JONNY QUEST-type show), which Timmy accidentally destroys his roof with! With Timmy in serious trouble, his parents snatch his magic remote control from him, and give it to Vicky, who leaves the room. His parents leave also, not believing Timmy that "Vicky is evil!" Timmy becomes bitterly cynical of his parents and all adults (and possibly even of himself, as he, Cosmo and Wanda reflect on the tragic truth about kids forsaking their fairy godparents when they get older), and when wishing for a new magic remote control, the misanthropic Timmy runs away into the TV universe with his fairy godparents, and the mysterious spy follows suit. But while Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda are surfing through their favorite shows trying to evade the spy (who eventually reveals a shocking secret), Vicky begins to discover the power of the other magic remote control in her custody, and all hell breaks loose! Will Timmy avert this ominous crisis, which could affect even the real world?

Overall, this special is just as good as, perhaps even better than the wonderful ABRA-CATASTROPHE. The subplot with the other regular characters is very intriguing, and the chase through the TV universe is a real laugh-riot, as it should be! But you won't come out feeling the same way you do with FOP when this movie is finished. The surprisingly dark & depressing undertones make this special a real standout! Sort of like the mega-depressing A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN (the ultimate of the four Peanuts movies), except with a happy yet poignant ending. This special is still highly recommendable!

The best 'Fairly Oddparents' movie ever!

[crowrobot · 10/10 · 5 September 2005]

'Channel Chasers' is the best 'Fairly Oddparents' TV movie that Butch Hartman and his team have cranked out.

What I really like about this movie is its epic scale. It opens in a Terminatoresque dystopian future where Vicky, Timmy's evil babysitter and eternal nemesis, has taken over the world. She sends a ninja back in time to destroy Timmy (sound familiar?). In the present, Timmy has a particularly bad day, his parents are mad at him, and Vickey frames him for stuff he didn't do. Bitter and cynical, Timmy wishes for a magic remote that he can use to escape into television. It's here where the story takes off. The masked ninja from the future is revealed to be... Timmy! Yes, it's Timmy Turner, 20 years from now, with the voice of Alec Baldwin! I'm surprised Baldwin did this; I didn't know he had it in him. Now Adult Timmy and 10 year-old Timmy must team up to stop Vicky, who also has a magic remote, from reaching this movie's version of the History Channel, where 'Dictator Week' is playing.

The TV show parodies are hilarious; EVERYTHING that either I or (more likely) Butch Hartman watched as a kid are mercilessly ribbed. There is also some real poignancy when Cosmo and Wanda tell Timmy that when he grows up, he will not only lose them, his memory of them will be erased! And there's a touching scene near the end when Adult Timmy Turner is about to "fade" back into the future. It all adds up to a spectacular and hilarious finale where the fate of the world is in Timmy's hands.

Channel Chasers ROCKS! I loved it.

Even as an adult, I love Channel Chaser

[ginamz73 · 10/10 · 5 July 2014]

Now my review will be absolutely short and sweet. I happened to catch Channel Chasers by accident. My son was watching TV and I was just sitting in my chair flipping through a magazine. I usually don't pay much attention to what cartoon is on but that being said, I actually always enjoyed the Fairly Oddparents. It ranks up there in the top three cartoons I enjoy. This episode didn't get my attention until I started to see the cartoon throwbacks. So for me, I found it well written and quite funny. I loved the way the writers incorporated so many older movies and cartoons. Now I will watch it whenever they replay it on Nickelodeon. It's enjoyable for kids and adults alike.

Great Job

[StephenBurg · 10/10 · 9 July 2012]

Channel Chasers is a TV movie based on the kid's cartoon series The Fairly Oddparents. Channel Chasers is a well-done and hilarious movie. In this movie, the future is taken over by unspeakable evil much like The Terminator. A mysterious ninja-like person is the only who can go back in time and save the future. Meanwhile, Timmy Turner imitates stunts from Dragon Ball (they say "Mahoo Mushi") which messes up his parent's day. (His mom was trying to sell a glass house and his dad tries to win "The Cleanest Office Award.") He's punished and left behind his evil babysitter Vicky. Timmy finds a "loophole" in his parent's commands and wishes that he had a remote that could put him in the TV, which start nonstop funny pop culture references and Vicky gets ahold of the remote, which is responsible for creating the horrible future. The writing is very well-done and emotional. However, most of the reason why I liked this so much was because of all the pop culture references. I recommend this to just about anyone, whether you're on top with the parodies or not. 10/10

A Very Good Tribute to Television in a Kid's Cartoon

[ajpeck-86566 · 7/10 · 26 April 2016]

Spoiler Alert- Do Not Read If You Do Not Want To Be Spoiled- The plot starts with Timmy being tortured by his notorious babysitter, Vicky. Vicky destroys the Turner residence and frames Timmy for it. As a result, Timmy is grounded. Outraged at what Vicky has done, Timmy writes a note stating he is running away and wishes for a magic remote to literally jump into T.V. Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda explore various parodies of T.V. shows and movies such as Dragon Ball Z, Rugrats, Star Wars, Pokemon, etc. In an alternate time-line, Dimmsdale is a more dystopian, Hunger Games- esque land in which Vicky of all people is a totalitarian dictator. She sends a future Timmy to kill the Timmy of the present. Eventually, Timmy confronts his future self and they team up to stop Vicky from becoming dictator. In a show resembling Dragon Ball Z, the two confront Vicky and stop her from gaining Timmy's magic remote to go to the Dictator Channel to go to Dictator School. As the fight ensues, Cosmo and Wanda are almost forced to leave Timmy and Timmy's parents issue a broadcast calling for him to return home, stating that they miss him. Timmy defeats Vicky and returns home. Vicky ends up being reprimanded and Future Timmy is seen in a better future with a wife and children. The one key reference I would like to point out is the reference to DBZ, particularly Future Trunks. Trunks was in a similar dystopian time-line where 2 cruel Androids killed most of humanity, including his father, Vegeta, and his mentor, Gohan. Trunks travelled through time to save Goku from dying and to save his time-line. Future Timmy did a similar thing, traveling through time and saving his younger self. This episode was very good but Mr. Crocker should have been the antagonist of this special due to his obsession with fairies and hunger for magic. Vicky never really knew about fairies.

At last--a good Fairly Odd Parents movie!

[planktonrules · 9/10 · 17 September 2008]

I am a strange person, being in my 40s and still a fan of Nickelodeon's Fairly Odd Parents. I understand that I am NOT the typical viewer. However, as my own kids grew up, I often watched cartoons with them and the Fairly Odd Parents was one cartoon with enough originality and snappy writing that I actually enjoyed the shows. My students at school are rather surprised that I actually know more than most of them about the show and I often quote Cosmo while I am lecturing! It is truly a clever and entertaining show.

However, before CHANNEL CHASERS, the network produced a couple other made for TV movies for the Fairly Odd Parents and they frankly were huge disappointments. ABRACATASTROPHE was just dull and totally unlike the original show in pacing and SCHOOLS OUT! was hair-brained--after all, with a successful show, who would want to make a musical version?! However, with CHANNEL CHASERS the Nick folks finally have a winner. In fact, it's a show that is better than most of the half hour episodes thanks to amazingly insightful and very funny parodies of a wide variety of kids' TV shows. Seeing them roast The Simpsons, Sesame Street, Dragonball Z and many other shows was a great chance to gently laugh at them. At last a Fairly Odd Parents movies even parents and grownups (at least, in the chronological sense) can enjoy!

FYI--"Oddly", while this movie is clearly superior to the previous TV movies, the other films actually have a slightly higher rating. Everyone in my household felt pretty much the same way I did about the movies and I just don't get the inflated ratings--particularly for SCHOOLS OUT!.

Another epic from Butch Hartman and the gang.

[Ddey65 · 26 May 2005]

The movie starts in a dystopian future reminiscent of THE TERMINATOR(or at the very least the first Kim Possible TV-Movie), then upon returning to the present, stirs up the debate over the effect of television on kids' behavior with Chet Ubetcha(Jim Ward)echoing the party line from anti-media zealots. Of course when you've got fairy godparents, you can imitate things on television that other kids can't. You can also get in trouble for them, like other kids do, and Timmy Turner(Tara Strong) does. Anyone who's familiar with FOP knows Timmy just wants the enjoyable childhood he thinks other kids are having, rather than the down-trodden one he has, which would've made me want to grow up as quickly as possible, and smash some mean adults and bullies along the way. Speaking of growing up, during his punishment, Cosmo & Wanda end up revealing that when Timmy does so, he'll not only not need them anymore, he'll forget they even existed. Since not even Cosmo and Wanda can keep him from suffering through the torment of Vicki without his wishes backfiring on him, he decides he's better off using a magical remote control and running away to television, where he thinks adult and adolescent supervision aren't an issue. While hiding in an imitation of "Jonny Quest," Vicki trashes the Turner household and blames Timmy for her evil deeds knowing his parents will punish him. When he tries and fails to prove his innocence, and Vicky's evil ways, they don't believe him, and make the fatal mistake of giving her his magic remote. At this point he decides that television is the place to stay for life, and wishes for another magic remote so he can do just that. In the meantime a mysterious figure from that opening future scene does everything he can to try to convince Timmy to surrender his magic remote control. And once he realizes this mysterious stranger isn't just another mean adult who wants to boss him around, he learns that he shares a common cause with this stranger... they both need to defeat Vicky so she can't take over the world, and they're both the same person.

Along the way, Timmy's yet-to-be-named parents try to find him, and find out that Vicky IS evil, but aren't entirely sure what they can do about her. We also get to see the continuing plot line of Vicky's nerdy little sister Tootie, who feels exactly the opposite way about Timmy, and takes direct action to expose her big sis to vindicate the boy she loves, by imitating a much more mysterious character from "All the President's Men"(1977). Besides the romantic angle of Tootie's mad crush on Timmy, one of the things that make this so great is that the non-stop parodies cover material for both kids and adults that span at least four generations. Watching this movie, I got a sense that Butch Hartman grew up watching the same television that I did, including cartoons that were made before I was born, and thus before Nickelodeon's core audience was born. The shows being spoofed are so obvious, a ten-year-old could write them, which is fine since it's target audience is around the same age as the main character. They even step into live-action a couple of times. Be sure to listen to the dialogue during the Tom & Jerry parody which revives the subject of cartoons influencing kid's behavior in a way that Action for Children's Television and similar groups may not want to hear.

Two important lessons can be found here; 1)The adults on television are probably not as cool as they look, and 2)Do NOT get an angst-filled ten-year-old with fairy godparents mad at you, or else you'll know how those who tormented Carrie White felt before she made them regret it! I've got to admit, I really felt Timmy's pain when he lost the adult version of himself he thought was so cool. I can barely keep myself from choking up when I read the memorable quotes section on this very page. And the ending(which I won't reveal), while not entirely identical to "Abra-Catastrophe," is just as touching, and just as mixed in it's outcome and mood.

Two hours of 'Fairly Odd Parents' awesomeness

[AwesomeWolf · 8/10 · 1 February 2005]

Having not seen the first 'Fairly Odd Parents' TV movie - 'Abra-Castatrophe - I caught 'Channel Chasers' on Nickelodeon. I really enjoy the 'Fairly Odd Parents' TV series, so I was keen on checking out 'Channel Chasers'. For those who haven't seen 'Fairly Odd Parents': the show is about ten-year old Timmy Turner, and his fairly odd fairy-god parents. Only the word 'awesomeness' can describe this second TV movie.

Twenty years into the 'Fairly Odd Parents' future, Chester and AJ (friends of Timmy) are chased through the streets of Dimmsdale by a masked ninja, an agent of the evil-dictator who now rules the world. In no surprise, the evil-dictator is actually Vicky - Timmy's evil-babysitter from the present. In 'Terminator' style, Vicky sends a ninja back in time to destroy Timmy once he has wished for the magical-TV remote.

Back in the present, Timmy has destroyed a house that his mother was trying to sell, and caused his father to lose his "Cleanest Office Award" to his arch-rival and neighbour, Dinkleburg. Timmy is grounded, and framed by Vicky for trashing the Turner home. With TV banned, Timmy wishes for a magic-remote that allows him to travel through the universe of television. When Vicky gets hold the remote, the race is on to stop Vicky from reaching Channel 298 - the biography channel - and learning how to conquer the world from the Channel's special 'dictator week'.

Two-hours of 'Fairly Odd Parents' is one of the greatest things I've ever experience. The movie is just as funny as the series, with the same sense of humour that should appeal to both adults and kids. In fact, most of the shows Timmy visits in 'Channel Chasers' should be recognizable to most adults, while kids should get more kicks out of the zany humour.

'Channel Chasers' feels like a finale, but I'm holding out for a 'Fairly Odd Parents' movie to hit the cinema - it is just as deserving as Spongebob Squarepants - 8/10

This's when the should've ended

[mitsubishizero · 10/10 · 10 September 2020]

If the Fairly Oddparents were to have been cancelled earlier, this would've been the way to end it. This special was clever non-stop. So many parodies of shows that were popular at the time such Dragon Ball Z as well as classics such as Frosty, Tom and Jerry, etc.. After Timmy's grounded for causing trouble due to his wish, he gets a magic remote that allows him to literally channel surf inside his tv.

Unfortunately, Vicki gets a hold it it and wrecks havoc forcing him and his fairy godparents to go after her, all while also avoiding a mysterious time traveler(Alec Baldwin) ruthlessly following him. From there, all sorts of hilarity and action ensure.

This episode was funny, the timing's impeccable, the dialogue's funny as well as heartfelt at times, and the action's pretty cool too. Alec Baldwin as the guest star is pretty good in his role as Future Timmy. It's revealed he's trying to change the past for the better as Vicki rules it with an iron fist.

I used to watch this whenever it came on and I have to say, it brings back great memories. This was one of their best episodes produced and I highly recommend it. Pick up that remote, turn on the tv, and see for yourself.

This should have been the ending of the series

[elonmusk-is_a_moron · 9/10 · 27 August 2022]

The first seasons of The Fairly OddParents were pretty fun, and had a very clever writing filled with plenty of good jokes. Unfortunately, later episodes were not as good, and made the main character either way too stupid or way too unlikeable.

Personally, I consider the Channel Chasers movie the "true" ending of the series, disregard of any stuff that came later (Animated or live-action) It even had some sort of epilogue depicting the life of Timmy Turner as an adult, and having his own kids. It felt like the perfect ending for the show, before it started jumping the shark several times.

The references to several classic cartoons were fun. Personally, I would advice anyone to stop watching the series after this movie. Believe me, it will help you to keep a good memory of this show.

Masterpiece.

[kobedawson · 10/10 · 12 September 2021]

This is easily one of the best cartoon episodes ever created and it's absolutely criminal that the show kept going after this. This would've been one of my favorite finales of all time. Everything about this movie was perfect the parodies, plot twists, the Villian, emotions and all of this ties together based on what makes this show great.

So...what else is on?

[choyt19 · 5/10 · 1 October 2006]

"Channel Chasers", the second "Fairly Oddparents" feature, aired in the summer of 2004. For those who thought that "Van Helsing" and "Catwoman" were the only big disappointments from that movie season, consider this your wake-up call.

The film opens in the bleakness of the not-too-distant future. Two young men, bearing disturbing resemblances to A.J. and Chester, outrun the minions of an evil overlord. Some may marvel at the new directions in which the show heads, but, to me, this sets a depressing tone for what is, after all, a movie based on a comedy series.

The scene shifts to the present, where Timmy's TV show-based wishing yields disastrous results for his parents' professional lives. The destructive streak is exacerbated by the shockingly malicious Vicky, but his parents, refusing to listen, ground him. On top of that, Timmy learns that, sooner or later, his beloved fairies will have to leave him.

Tired of the rules imposed on him, Timmy does what anyone would do: wish for a magic remote that would take him into television and escape having to grow up. It's not long before Vicky ends up in the same universe, dogging him at several turns. Meanwhile, a black-clad mystery man seems to be following them both...

Mr. and Mrs. Turner, saddened over Timmy's disappearance and curious to know what's going on with their babysitter, decide to pay Vicky's folks a visit. This is, inarguably, the most idiotic moment in the history of the show. Her parents turn out to be poorly-designed and even more poorly-thought out as characters. Not only are they afraid of their daughter, but she seems to have destructive devices trained on them if they step out of line. Now that I think about it, it's stretching the definition to call them characters; ciphers seems more appropriate. (The "Spongebob Squarepants" episode, "The Bully", proved that you can have a character's parents fear them...and have it be funny.)

In terms of quality, the parodies themselves are all over the map. Some were truly inspired ("Blue's Clues", "Peanuts", "Batman: TAS" and "Sesame Street" - I'm a sucker for live-action gags in cartoons), some not so much ("Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "The Simpsons", the drawn-out "Dragonball Z" take-off at the climax) and some played like remnants of the script of "Stay Tuned" ("Tom and Jerry", "Speed Racer").

Despite the contrivances used to get there, I quite enjoyed seeing Vicky's little sister, the undervalued Tootie, risking her life to expose the truth. She is, perhaps, the only character in the film who comes close to three-dimensional, even if her code name is at the level of most of the film.

There's a great, if unfortunately true, line about animation credits late in the film, Alec Baldwin was good, if miscast, as the voice of the mysterious stranger and the ending manages to be sweet, in spite of some needless undercutting.

"Channel Chasers" had the potential to be a classic, but its makers shot themselves in the foot one time too many, causing the film to hobble across the finish line of mediocrity.

Score: 5/10