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 2003.
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[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 them to complete it before the end of the summer. Timmy puts off the assignment until the last minute, on Labor Day. He then 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 amok in various books. Timmy and his fairies follow Tom into the 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.
- Cosmo is seen reading a book titled Astrophysics For Morons.
- There is a slight error, given that, in Frankenstein, Wanda says that the climax is when the villagers chase the monster. This is inaccurate, since, in the book itself, the villagers disappear from the story early on and the real climax is in Antarctica.
- 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.
- Chester is revealed to have gone to the End-Of-Summer-All-Day-All-Free-Kids-Who-Did-Their-Summer-Book-Report Carnival, even though he admits that he didn't do his report.
- Before Timmy changes what Tom said, the page reads, "Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada yada and so on and so forth".
[edit] Featured Books
The episode features many parodies of books such as:
- Moby Duck (spoof of Moby Dick)
- Tarzan: Lord of the Drapes (Parody of Tarzan: Lord of the Apes). (Tarzan: Lord of the Shapes was also used.)
- The Frankenstein Monster Truck/Monk/Hunk/Skunk (spoof of Frankenstein).
- Jason and the Pussycats (parody of Jason and the Argonauts and Josie and the Pussycats).
- The Rat in Spats (spoof of The Cat in the Hat)
- Astrophysics for Morons
- Tom Sawyer was a guest in the show, causing mass chaos throughout the episode.
- Sherlock Holmes also appears in the episode.
[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"! He could turn "planets" into "plants"!
- Sherlock Holmes: (Crocker-like spasm) DIAMONDS!
