We continue our journey at looking at Christmas related specials that have to do with Christmas Everyday in story telling. (refer to our Christmas Everyday post for more) The past two movies we took a look at were more using the "Groundhog Day" story telling method, that just happens to be Christmas as the holiday that is being repeated until our protagonist learns a moral. In the "Christmas Everyday" movie post I mentioned the story by William Dean Howells from 1892 , where a little girl ,who loves Christmas so much that she wishes it was Christmas everyday and it happens.
Well now what we are looking at this time is the Christmas episode of the tv series "The Fairly Odd Parents" called "Christmas Everyday". Again we won't mention every event of the episode, but instead it's plot and how it fits with our Christmas everyday plot lines.
The Moon looks very round tonight/ copyright Viacom
Our main character is Timmy Turner, a ten-year-old boy who has fairy god -parents ,because his life , in general is awful. It starts with Christmas Eve and Timmy's favorite holiday happens to be Christmas because of the gifts, no school (yes and yes) , and his parents don't go out anywhere meaning he gets to spend time with them. (and no nasty baby-sitter Vicky) So then , it becomes Christmas Day and he has a good one Santa brought tons of gifts and this causes him to wish it was Christmas Everyday. Cosmo and Wanda grant his wish and the next morning , it's Christmas again It goes pretty well, but his fairies want to tell him something important ,but they don't get the chance to. (This will be important later) Eventually , it starts going downhill (since it's 25 minute special ,pretty quickly) the presents decrease for Timmy , and everyone else is sick of Christmas. With the banks closed, the stores closed ,and probably other functions of things being hindered. (By the fifteenth day countries are getting their military ready to shoot down Santa!)
Insert War on Christmas joke here/ copyright Viacom
Timmy realizes that everyone else is sick of Christmas now, and tries un-wish it , but he finds ou the fairies including the others in Fairy World give their magic up to Santa , so they can't un do it. This also adds a new plot to the episode, along with another plot , where the other holidays' characters: Easter Bunny (Easter , duh) , The April Fool (for well guess) , Cupid, a dog (the Easter Bunny's dog) , Baby New Year. (No tree came for Arbor day I see) They threaten Timmy (how did they know?) to undue his wish, and they find out that Santa has all the powers. Because of that, their plan is to take out Santa. (take out meaning well you know)
Why Santa ... you look different.../copyright Viacom
Nevermind/copyright Viacom
Timmy (yes we start with Timmy again) has to stop them by getting to the North Pole first , while also alerts kids around the world on the internet for them to help. (aww 2001 , wait a minute...woah) Eventually, the other holidays and Santa have a fight (finally I've wanted to see Santa take out the Easter Bunny) but he eventually is weakened and they capture Santa. Timmy gets there and some kids from around the world show up to help. The other holiday figures just want to be loved as well, and Timmy says they are but Christmas just does more like bring people together. (President's day Makes your buy a mattress) This conveniences the other holidays to give back the power and Timmy gets an idea to fix the problem he asks the kids to write to Santa to make it December 26th. (Timmy wants to return something) So of course, it becomes December 26th , and there's a new rule for fairies not to grant this kind of wish again.(Why wasn't a rule in the first place , was he the first?)
Dear Santa... I need to write smaller/ copyright Viacom
This episode follows our plot line structure of the wish for Christmas everyday and our main character loves , but it ends up going badly. (like the too much of a good thing rule) It's moral is pretty clear : Christmas is special because it's one day a year and yes it brings people together and also shows the other holidays are just as important to our lives.
Now our review: This episode is a great episode of the 'Fairly Odd Parents' has some fun laughs (which is nice for a comedy show) the gags of the 12 days of Christmas carolers , not knowing what to do with the 15 day , Timmy's Dad wanting egg nog, "What's up with that?" and more. I recommend watching it.
Tune in next time when we give the answer as to why nobody wishes for it to be Thanksgiving everyday . (Death by food, yep Death by food)
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