Channel Chasers

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Channel Chasers is an animated film made by Nickelodeon, featuring characters from The Fairly OddParents television series. In production order, the movie is divided into 3 parts: Part I (the first 22 minutes), Part II (the middle 22 minutes), and Part III (the last 22 minutes). Alec Baldwin makes a voice cameo as the voice of the older Timmy.

During the Fairly Oddparents 7-7-07 Greatest Wish Marathon, Channel Chasers was ranked as the number-one wish.

[edit] Plot

The story starts twenty years into the future, where Vicky has taken over and become dictator. There is a chase scene, with the future Chester and AJ being pursued (and caught) by one of Vicky's henchmen, who Vicky then sends back into the past. It then goes back to the present, where Timmy's parents refuse to allow him to watch TV after he wished for a real version of a destructive vehicle known only as the "Kid Crusher" from his favorite TV show, Maho Mushi (a parody of Dragon Ball) and things went horribly wrong. He then wishes for a magical remote control so that he can go inside the "TV universe," where all the shows seem to be parodies of well-known animated shows, such as Heavy Hal (Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids), Jonny Hunt (Johnny Quest), Space Spectre (Space Ghost), The Meatflints (The Flintstones) Go Go Racer (Speed Racer, originally known as Mach GoGoGo in Japan), Carpet Critters (Rugrats), Poppyseed Avenue (Sesame Street), Blackbird (Batman), and Clint's Hints (Blue's Clues). There were also spoofs of The Jetsons (the Futurellis), The Simpsons (The Feldmans), Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (Crazy Cartoons), Tom and Jerry (Ted & Jimmy), Peanuts (Walnuts), Strawberry Shortcake (Paula Poundcake), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Adolescent Genetically Modified Karate Cows) and even WWE SmackDown! (SmashDown!).

However, Vicky also gets a hold of a remote control, and Timmy has to stop Vicky from taking over the entire world through the TV, although he is aided by his future self, who came back from the Vicky-controlled future to stop her once and for all.

Meanwhile, Timmy's parents have noticed he has disappeared and are searching for him. Chester, AJ and Vicky's parents are no help because Vicky had secretly threatened them. They then received information at a parking garage from a shadowy person known as "Deep Toot" (a spoof of Watergate spy Deep Throat) and for the first time the parents learn that Vicky is actually evil (Timmy's Dad thinks that the name "Deep Toot" is hilarious). They then ask at "Dimmadelphia Cable," the local cable TV provider (spoof of Adelphia Cable), where they sneak into the broadcast room and send a message out to Timmy (which ends the message with his father saying he loves him more) without the permission of the manager, Doug Dimmadome, who calls security.

During a showdown with Vicky, his future self is forced to return to the future due to Vicky destroying the time travel belt, leaving Timmy determined to defeat Vicky. Realizing that magic is the only reason she had the advantage, Timmy uses the remote to age himself so that he becomes too old for Cosmo and Wanda, resulting in all residual effects of their magic- including the remotes- being erased. With Timmy's proper age restored, he then comes out of the TV. His parents apologize for never believing him about Vicky and tell Vicky off for being so evil to Timmy. Because his parents now know the truth about her Timmy will never have to be babysat by her again. However, Timmy realizes that it is because of Vicky he got fairy godparents so rather than get rid of Vicky, he wishes that nobody would remember this, as with Vicky gone he might lose Cosmo and Wanda. In "Party of Three" and "Remy Rides Again," Vicky was not babysitting Timmy, whom still had his godparents, but perhaps Timmy just wanted to be better safe than sorry. Tootie, AJ and Chester forget about "Timmy-related" topics. Crocker, who was hospitalized, thought the cold fusion generator he made was magic. Timmy later buried a "time capsule" in his backyard to remind himself of somethings in the future and vows to never make the same mistakes his parents made.

The movie ends soon afterwards with a scene that flash-forwards to 20 years into the future - Timmy has two children named Tommy and Tammy. Tammy has Trixie Tang's hairstyle and Tootie's distinctive glasses, and Tommy's hair suggests either Tootie or Trixie. The adult Timmy was shown leaving for work, and hired a babysitting robot, which is built and acts like Vicky, to baby-sit his children, who have become scared of it/her. Before Timmy leaves for work, he looks at the photograph that Vicky took at the beginning of the movie, but the goldfish have normal eyes and shape, leaving no memory of his childhood fairies. It is noted that they looked oddly familiar. He also notices something about the bot but since he was late he had to go. Timmy's kids also have Cosmo and Wanda as fairy godparents.

[edit] Parodies

• Dragonball Z
• Happy Days
• Three's Company
• Survivor
• Saturday Night Live
• American Idol
• Futurama
• The Jetsons
• Rugrats
• Johnny Quest
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
• Batman
• Speed Racer
• Strawberry Shortcake
• WWE SmackDown
• Wheel of Fortune
• Tom & Jerry
• Blue's Clues
• Sesame Street
• Deep Throat
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Peanuts
• Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
• Frosty the Snowman
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
• The Flintstones
• Space Ghost
• The Simpsons
• Scooby-Doo