New Squid in Town/Wish Fixers
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"New Squid in Town/Wish Fixers" is episode #4.11 of the Nickelodeon animated television series The Fairly Oddparents, created by Butch Hartman. It originally aired November 27, 2003.
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[edit] Plot
[edit] "New Squid in Town"
On Yugopotamia, Mark is bound in the middle of an arranged marriage with Mandie, a princess from another planet. Frightened by her incredible beauty, Mark flees to Earth, and disguises himself as a human boy. When he arrives, Mark starts Mr. Crocker up about aliens and causes a mild rucus. Eventually, Mandie follows Mark to Earth and tries to capture him and go on with their wedding.
[edit] "Wish Fixers"
Timmy signs a contract with the Pixies to stop him from making bad wishes, but does not read the fine print. The episode bears much similarity to the Stephen King short story "Quitters, Inc."
[edit] Trivia
- This episode was the first of a series to feature Mark disguised as a human, hiding out on Earth. So far (as of March 2007), the other episodes to feature Mark in this state were Just Desserts, The Five Days of FLARG and What's the Difference?. There is no word on where this recurring plot line will go as of yet. And, it is peculiar for a children's animated comedy to ultilize this kind of plot development, which tend to be more common in action shows like Teen Titans, Kim Possible, and Danny Phantom.
- Cosmo and Wanda get frozen in carbonite, like Han Solo on The Empire Strikes Back.
- When Cosmo refers to Timmy in his turbo powered cheese pants, he says, "Go ahead, CheeseBoy SquarePants!", an obvious reference to SpongeBob SquarePants.
- The design of the cheese pants in the beginning of this episode look very similar to the mechanical pants in the Wallace and Gromit short The Wrong Trousers.
- A running gag in "New Squid in Town" was Timmy wishing everyone in the room would freeze whenever Mark's concealment was compromised.
- Mark's first disguise in this episode maybe an allusion to Invader Zim. Mark pulls off a pair of glasses and a hat off two other kids and puts them on, expecting to fit in. This is much like Zim just wearing fake eyes and hair.
- "New Squid in Town" begins similarly to the movie Spaceballs, in which an alien princess (Vespa) abandons a prince from another planet in the middle of their wedding, taking of in her spaceship.
