Chin Up!/Dog's Day Afternoon
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"Chin Up!/Dog's Day Afternoon!" is episode #1.5 of the Nickelodeon animated television series The Fairly Oddparents, created by Butch Hartman. It originally aired April 27, 2001, and features comedian Jay Leno as The Crimson Chin.
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Chin Up!
Timmy goes to the superhero convention to get the Crimson Chin's autograph. Cosmo and Wanda are there too because everyone thinks that they are kids in costume. When Timmy sees that the Crimson Chin is fake, he wishes the Crimson Chin was out of his comic book at a superhero convention. The Crimson Chin sees everyone in villian costumes and think they are real. In order to save the people, Timmy wishes that the Crimson Chin didn't have superpowers. The Crimson Chin sees his comic book and realizes that everything secret to him is revealed. Timmy explains to him that he is a fictional character, and doesn't really exist. Timmy wishes the Crimson Chin, with all of his powers, was back in the book. When the Crimson Chin is in his book, he loses his will to fight, causing the comic book to be cancelled. When Timmy sees this, Timmy wishes that he was in the comic book to try to convince the Crimson Chin to start fighting again. First he gives him a flashback on how he became the Crimson Chin, but it doesn't work. Timmy decides he should be a side-kick for the Crimson Chin and wishes that he had a cool costume. Timmy becomes Cleft, the boy chin wonder, and defeats Spatula Woman. The Bronze Kneecap is holding the mayor hostage and Cleft calls for help. When the Crimson Chin ignores the Chin Signal and is distracted by his favorite soap opera, Cleft decides to fight the Bronze Kneecap, but he is tied to a rocket built by the villian. When the rocket is launched and is about to crash, Cleft tries to convince the Crimson Chin one more time. The Crimson Chin is finally convinced that he does mean something and saves Cleft. Together, the Crimson Chin and Cleft defeat the Bronze Kneecap. At the end of the comic book, the Crimson Chin reads an embarassing letter sent in by Timmy and Cleft leaves. When Cleft, or Timmy, comes back to the Superhero convention, he wins the costume contest.
[edit] Dog's Day Afternoon
When Vicky comes to babysit Timmy, he is being treated worse than Vicky's dog, Doidle. These events include Timmy walking Doidle in the rain (Timmy gets struck by lightning), Doidle eating Timmy's dinner, and Timmy filing Doidle's nails. Timmy thinks of how being a dog would be better, such as better hearing, seeing in black and white, and ging to the bathroom anywhere he wants. After realizing the pros of being a dog, he wishes that him and Doidle would switch bodies. For a while, things are as good as he thought they'd be. However, Vicky tells him afterward that he is getting fixed the next day. When the real Timmy goes home, Cosmo goes with him, disguised as a flea, and Wanda stays with the real Doidle. The next day, the real Doidle goes to school acting like a dog, which give Chester and A.J. some confusion. At the veteranarian's office, Doidle escapes and finds the real Doidle. Timmy tries to convicne Doidle to be a dog again, the dog refuses and Timmy and Doidle start fighting. Wanda turns into a poodle to make the real Doidle jealous. Doidle is mad and wishes that he was a dog again. After Timmy and Doidle switch bodies, Doidle realizes that the poodle is Wanda and Timmy takes away his bone. Vicky comes into the scene and takes Doidle back to the vet to be fixed. At the end, Vicky showed Timmy her new hamster, Spunky. Timmy and his godparents try to warn him about what was going to happen to him, but because of his selfish behavior, Timmy decides that Spunky can find out on his own.
[edit] Trivia
- Jay Leno, the voice of The Crimson Chin, is known for having a large chin in real life.
- The title of Dog's Day Afternoon references an Al Pacino movie with a similar name, Dog Day Afternoon.
- In the comic book a picture of Butch Hartman can be seen with the word Butch beside it.
- The creator of the Crimson Chin Comic Books is a 40 year old dude who lives with his mom. This man will appear in Big Superhero Wish.
- The Chincinatti flag only has 28 stars.
- In one of the "Letters to the Editor", the words "if" and "time" were both cut off
- In "Dog's Day Afternoon", the toilet stalls in the boy's bathroom have no doors.
- At the end of this episode, when Timmy spelt "Chin" wrong, it foreshadowed Adam West's inability to read the word "Chin" in Lights! Camera! Adam!
- Before he got his powers, the Crimson Chin was a struggling talk show host. Jay Leno, the voice for the Chin, is a talk show host in real life.
