Shelf Life
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Shelf Life is an episode of Nickelodeon's animated series, The Fairly Oddparents, created by Butch Hartman. It originally aired in September 2004.
[edit] Synopsis
It's summer vacation, time for rest, relaxation, fun and excitement. Also, the worst time for a 500-page book report, which Crocker slaps on his class at the last minute and expects to complete before the end of the summer. Timmy then just puts off the assignment until the last minute, on Labor Day. He then just wishes Tom Sawyer out of his book to try and make things easier for himself. But, Tom tricks Timmy and Cosmo into giving him Cosmo's wand, and he runs amuck in various books. Timmy and his fairies then follow Tom into various books, trying to stop him before he reaches a physics book and turns gravity into gravy, planets into plants and "Uranus" into... They have to stop him!
[edit] Trivia
- This episode ran for 30 minutes.
- The episode features many parodies of books such as :
- Moby Duck (parody of Moby Dick)
- Tarzan: Lord of the Drapes (Parody of Tarzan). (Tarzan: Lord of the Shapes was also used.)
- The Frankenstein Monster Truck/Monk/Hunk/Skunk (Parody of Frankenstein).
- Jason and the Pussycats (parody of Jason and the Argonauts and Josie and the Pussycats).
- The Rat in Spats (parody of The Cat in the Hat)
The Three Mouseketeers (parody of The Three Musketeers)
- Tom Sawyer was a guest in the show, causing mass chaos throughout the episode.
- Sherlock Holmes also appears in the episode.
- Cosmo is seen reading a book titled Astrophysics For Morons.
- There happens to be an "End-Of-Summer-All-Day-All-Free-Kids-Who-Did-Their-Summer-Book-Report Carnival" on the day before school starts, but Timmy cannot go because he procrastinated.
- Before Timmy changes what Tom said, the page reads, "Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada yada and so on and so forth.
[edit] Quotes
- Tom Sawyer: "As they say in Missouri, 'I ain't goin' back to Missouri!'"
- Wanda(in the "All-Men-Are-Idiots-section"): "Oh Hilary, how did you put up with it?"
- Tom Sawyer: "In Missouri frownin's a state sport!"
- Rat in Spats (to Tom after he insulted his clown-like shoes): "WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY SHOES PUNK?!!"
- Chester McBadbat: "I decided I'm going to flunk, so I stopped caring months ago!"
- Timmy Turner: He could turn gravity into gravy!
