Mr. and Mrs. Turner

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Mr. and Mrs. Turner

First appearance	"The Fairly OddParents!"
Information
Year of birth	Early 1960s
Occupation	Real Estate Agent (Mom) "Pencil pusher" (Dad)
Family	Pappy (Dad's father)
Relationships	Each other
Children	Timmy Turner (son) Tammy and Tommy (future grandchildren)
Relatives	Gertrude (Pappy's sister/sister-in-law)
Portrayed by	Daran Norris (Dad) Susan Blakeslee (Mom)
Created by	Butch Hartman

Mr. and Mrs. Turner are fictional characters in the Nickelodeon animated television series The Fairly OddParents.

[edit] Biography

Mom and Dad (as they are known) are the parents of main character Timmy Turner. Their first names are never given; however, in one time-travel episode, it is revealed that even as children they were known as "Mom" and "Dad." In another episode, where Timmy goes back in time to when his dad was 10 years old, he refers to him as "Dad", and Mr. Turner says "My name's not Dad, it's--" but is prevented from stating what his name really is by the noise of a passing truck. Mr. Turner unashamedly surpasses stereotypical masculine gender roles--for instance, in one episode he enters the "Miss Dimmsdale" contest (and wins), he has a non-sexual, and completely innocent, crush on singing sensation Chip Skylark, and whenever he encounters his son's fairy-crazed teacher, Mr. Crocker, he always notes all of his unpleasant features and exclaims in a jealous voice, "He's gorgeous!" He also tends to scream like a little girl when something bad happens (like when Timmy lied about getting stuff from the Internet). Both parents are quite clueless at times, in contrast to many other children's cartoons which feature "wise" parental figures.

Though the Turners love Timmy, they appear to often treat him with indifference (which Timmy feels is abuse), frequently going on trips and abandoning their son with his hated babysitter, Vicky, and never realizing how she terrorizes him, believing him to be responsible for all the trouble, chaos, destruction when he is framed by Vicky. In the pilot episodes of the series (on Oh Yeah! Cartoons), their faces were always either just out of shot or otherwise obscured (similar to the appearances of Ms. Sara Bellum in The Powerpuff Girls and Cow and Chicken's mother and father in Cow and Chicken).

Mom and Dad have a conflicting back-story which is often contradicted on the show, but some details seem clear. Since his childhood, Dad has always despised Sheldon Dinkleburg for many reasons. One of those reasons was that Mom was in love with Sheldon. Dad did everything he could to win her affections, from winning a race and giving her the trophy to sending her "threat-mantic" letters. But things finally went Dad's way in college, on March 15, 1984, the day when Denzel Crocker tried to give a speech about the existence of "FAIRY GODPARENTS!" (advertised as "The Big News"), when Sheldon broke up with Mom to make a fortune, and she finally turned to Dad, who was working as a janitor.

Eventually, they married and had Timmy. One episode established that they had hoped for a baby girl while Mrs. Turner was expecting, and had bought a large quantity of pink items, including his pink hat. Timmy turned out to be a boy, but the clothes they had bought didn't go to waste (as Timmy's baby photos of him in dresses show). In "Abra-Catastrophe" it is shown that years ago Dad was nearly obsessed with capturing every moment of Timmy's childhood on tape, but one white lie made by Mom and Dad--saying they were leaving without Timmy when they were not--spawned the arrival of Vicky and the end of Dad's videotaping. What Mom and Dad also don't know is that Timmy's goldfish are actually his fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda. Mom and Dad notice a lot of the things that Cosmo and Wanda disguise themselves as, but never figure out the secret until Timmy (temporarily) blows their cover in order to end Mr. Crocker's world order.

[edit] Trivia

Mom works as a real-estate agent, and Dad works in middle management. Dad's job is often described as a "pencil pusher", to the point where Dad is obsessed with them.
In some episodes, Mom and Dad are transformed into costumed superheroes known as Mighty Mom & Dyno Dad.
The episode "Smart Attack" revealed that Mom's ring's stone is cubic zirconium, but Dad told her otherwise.
Mom and Dad didn't have faces in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts. Their heads were sometimes visible, however. The episode "Party of Three" shows that Mom was once a redhead, but when The Fairly OddParents became a regular Nicktoons series, and Mom and Dad were given faces, Mom's hair changed to light brown.
Mom wishes she had given birth to Chip Skylark instead of Timmy Turner.
Even though they are never given names (or released) they are apparently easy enough to be 'deduced' by Sherlock Holmes
Dad's age is 42 because in the episode Odd Jobs, he said, "I will be on a mission to Uranus for 23 years Timmy! See you when I'm 65!"