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Channel Chasers was an animated film made by Nickelodeon, featuring characters from The Fairly OddParents television series. It features a number of parodies, including references to 1984
(the beginning scene, and several signs saying "Vicky is Watching"), as well as spoofs of shows such as Sesame Street, Jonny Quest, Blue's Clues, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons, Charlie Brown, Strawberry Shortcake, Tom and Jerry, and Dragon Ball Z.

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).

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 A.J. being pursued (and caught) by one of Vicky's henchmen. It then goes back to the past, where Timmy's parents refuse to allow him to watch TV. 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 real TV shows. However, Vicky also gets ahold of a remote control, and Timmy has to stop Vicky from taking over the entire world through the TV.

Meanwhile, Timmy's parents have noticed he has disappeared and are searching for him. First, they received information at a parking garage from a shadowy person known as "Deep Toot" (Actually, it was Tootie in disguise; an obvious spoof of Watergate spy Deep Throat) and for the first time we learn that Vicky is actually evil. 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, who calls the police. Timmy then comes out of the TV, and the movie ends soon afterwards with a scene that flash-forwards to 20 years into the future - Timmy is happily married (though his spouse was never shown) and has two children named Tommy and Tammy (the latter looks like a cross between Tootie and Trixie Tang, enigmatically suggesting that Timmy married either one; Butch Hartman cleverly leaves that to the viewer's imagination to avoid jumping the shark). The adult Timmy was shown leaving for work, and hired a babysitting robot, who is built and acts like Vicky, to babysit his children, who has become scared of it/her. Before Timmy leaves for work, he looks at a photograph with two pet goldfish, but with normal eyes and shape, leaving no memory of his childhood fairies. It is noted that they looked oddly familiar. Then we find out that Timmy's kids also have Cosmo and Wanda as fairy godparents.

Trivia

Vicky's Head Gag: Television set
During the Maho Mushi fight sequence, one of Timmy's and Vicky's battle cries were "MIYAZAKI!" and "KUROSAWA!", respectively. They were nods to acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki and acclaimed film director Akira Kurosawa.
Timmy's use of words near the end of the movie that replace to the phrase "over my dead body" ("Over my cold, limited animation body") is a take on two things, the limited animation of most anime and censorship in the translation of such shows, especially for television.
The plot, which involves Timmy meeting his future self after losing his fairies, is considered to be full and vivid by many fans. It requires Wanda to explain to Timmy that growing up means losing his faith in magic, so Cosmo and Wanda will have to go away. This is why Timmy goes into TV with his fairies. But his plans change, however, when he sees his future self and Vicky in TV land.
Chip Skylark's song, "Icky Vicky", is referenced twice in the show: during the parent's meeting with Tootie, and with Doug Dimmadome (Apparently, Mr. Turner thought the song was about pumpkins).
During the giant robot battle, one of the robots beats the other up by punching, slapping, and poking it in the eyes. This is a reference to Goku's Rock Paper Scissors move in Dragonball, which is what Maho Mushi is based off of.
On the DVD there is a song that was cut out possibly for the reason it was too long to be shown on tv. The song is about Timmy living in TV and there is a parody of Pop Idol and Simon Cowell
within the song. It was called "If I lived in TV" and is Track 17 on the "Timpod" http://www.butchhartman.com/new_site/html/audio.htm .
Once the future is restored, 20 years older Timmy is shown with his two kids, Tammy and Tommy- but Butch Hartman lets the viewer decide wether he married Trixie or Tootie by showing Tammy with both Tootie's glasses, but Trixie's headband. Tommy's hair also is black, the color of both Trixie and Tootie's hair.
Timmy's fight with Vicky with his remote used as a lightsaber alludes to the Star Wars films.
This film is similar in premise to the 1992 film Stay Tuned
. It is also similar to the Kim Possible episode "Dimension Twist", where Kim and Ron travel through TV sitcoms.

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