Information Stupor Highway
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Information Stupor Highway is an episode of Nickelodeon's animated series, The Fairly Oddparents, created by Butch Hartman. It originally aired in January 2003.
[edit] Synopsis
Timmy is writing an e-mail to Trixie Tang asking her to come to a school dance, with a threatening tone to it, which Cosmo calls "threatmantic." When his parents come in, they add all sorts of romantic, mushy, and embarrassing details to the letter, and then they send it. Since he can't wish it back (magic can't interfere with love), Timmy goes into the Internet and tries to retrieve it himself. Along the way, he stirs up commotion as "The Pink Hatted Computer Virus" among super-intelligent apes in Africa, Australians, and A.J., and attracts the attention of Mr. Crocker. Mr. Crocker then sends a camera to Timmy's computer and records footage of Cosmo and Wanda for proof of fairy godparents. Timmy then has to stop Mr. Crocker from sending the file around the world, after retrieving his embarrassing love letter to Trixie. He tricked one of Crocker's anti-virus antibodies to erase the footages and sent an embarrassing picture of Crocker in a dress to every computer in the world, utterly humiliating him. Things got worse when A.J. stormed in with the government, who had traced the "Pink Hatted computer Virus" and arrested Crocker. At the dance, Timmy was happy that Trixie never found his "threatmatic" letter which she gets and throws him out. Timmy then meets Veronica, who saids she Trixie. Suddenly, everything was just a program and Veronica was tossed into a garbage can.
[edit] Trivia
- This marks the third appearance of Veronica and Trixie.
- Most websites in the episode end with .FOP . this would mean .FairlyOddParents.
- The "message arrival" sound in the ep homages that was used by the Eudora application. The depiction of Timmy's computer desktop was influenced by Mac OS 9, but uses the Chicago font in the menubar.
- This was the first "regular" episode of the show to run for thirty minutes, outside of the holiday specials.
- When Timmy is going through the Fairy pictures, among the first patch is a picture of Juandissimo Magnifico, Remy Buxaplenty's fairy from Fairy, Fairy, Quite Contrary.
- The Email/Internet Program Timmy was using is a reference To The Email/Internet Browser AOL, However the Internet symbol is a reference to the Internet Explorer Browser.
- Timmy's computer apparently has special buttons called "Gooey," "Lovey," and "Goo" that his parents use in his threatmantic letter.
- Crocker's computer has a special button called "Kill".
- This episode marks the 2nd appearance of Eddie the Gerbil, however his first appearance in the second season shows that he is dead
- Timmy's dad claims that he wrote a "threatmantic" letter to his mom (he never got the ransom), which is probably why she married him, but in Father Time, it is a trophy that wins Timmy's mom's heart (they were 10 and the year was 1970) However, in The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker, Timmy's mom was in love with Sheldon Dinkleberg, and Timmy's dad didn't win her heart until Dinkleberg dumped her in college.
- This is one of the three times that Timmy has a restroom in his bedroom. But this is the only time that dad says that he pay's his bills in there (There is Money cemented inside the wall when he says that.)
- This episode reveals that Veronica loves Timmy Turner, but she said that she CAN'T say that to Trixie. When Timmy finds that out he said, "Great, the crazy one likes me." in a tone like he is annoyed.
- Crocker's website starts out as faries-r-real.wand, but later an "LCD" near the portal to crocker's computer reads "www.I'm-Not-Crazy.FOP".
[edit] Goofs
- On YTV airings, when the Australian girl says "Crikey!" captions say " Corky!"
- When Timmy says " Cool! I'm being downloaded." captions say " Cool! I'm being downlo--"
- When Crocker says " Fairy Godparents!" captions say " They got kids!"
- After Veronica types " No way! He's gross!" we see Trixie type but captions credit it to Veronica.
- When Cosmo in Timmy's voice says " Can you fix it?" captions credit it to Wanda in Timmy's voice.
