Information Stupor Highway

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Information Stupor Highway is an episode of Nickelodeon's animated series, The Fairly Oddparents, created by Butch Hartman. It originally aired in January 2003.

[edit] Synopsis

Timmy is writing an e-mail to Trixie Tang asking her to come to a school dance, with a threatening tone to it, which Cosmo calls "threatmantic." When his parents come in, they add all sorts of romantic, mushy, and embarrassing details to the letter, and then they send it. Since he can't wish it back (magic can't interfere with love), Timmy goes into the Internet and tries to retrieve it himself. Along the way, he stirs up commotion as "The Pink Hatted Computer Virus" among super-intelligent apes in Africa, Australians, and A.J., and attracts the attention of Mr. Crocker. Mr. Crocker then sends a camera to Timmy's computer and records footage of Cosmo and Wanda for proof of fairy godparents. Timmy then has to stop Mr. Crocker from sending the file around the world, after retrieving his stupid love letter to Trixie.

[edit] Trivia

  • This marks the third appearance of Veronica and Trixie and the first appearance of Dolores Crocker.
  • The "message arrival" sound in the ep homages that used by the Eudora application. The depiction of Timmy's computer desktop was influenced by Mac OS 9, but uses the Chicago font in the menubar.
  • On YTV airings, when the Australian girl says "Crikey!" captions say " Corky!"
  • When Timmy says " Cool! I'm being downloaded." captions say " Cool! I'm being downlo--"
  • When Crocker says " Fairy Godparents!" captions say " They got kids!"
  • After Veronica types " No way! He's gross!" we see Trixie type but captions credit it to Veronica.
  • When Cosmo in Timmy's voice says " Can you fix it?" captions credit it to Wanda in Timmy's voice.
  • This was the first "regular" episode of the show to run for thirty minutes, outside of the holiday specials.
  • This is the second appearance of AJ's mother and the first appearance of Trixie's father. This episode also reveals how Veronica wants to be just like Trixie.
  • When the computer says "You've got Timmy", Cosmo and Eddy the hamster are not powering the computer, even though it's still on.
  • In this episode Crocker says, "I must record this moment for posterity!" This is a quote that Bowser says in the 1992 Super Mario Adventures manga shown in the Nintendo Power magazine.
  • The Email/Internet Program The Was Using Is A Reference To The Email/Internet Browser AOL, However The Internet Symbal Is A Reference To The Internet Explorer Browser.
  • Timmy's computer apparently has special buttons called "Gooey," "Lovey," and "Goo" that his parents use in his threatmantic letter.
  • Crocker's computer has a special button called "Kill".
  • This episode marks the 2nd appearance of Eddie the Gerbil, however his first appearance in the second season shows that he is dead
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