The Fairly OddParents: "School's Out: The Musical" - Nick Knacks Sample Platter

[@frinkzippi]

nick aired this special so many times that i still have the warbling love ballad memorized...

[@nostalgiamostalgia0319]

Even when it was winter, yeah.

[@TimothyRobert93]

I think it actually was perfectly made for summer, and wouldn't work for another holiday break because of the length of the summer break that propelled the main conflict forward. This was one of my favorite specials growing up.

[@TimeStudyQuinn]

Great video! I think Wonderful Ways to Say No from Cartoon All-Stars was written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, though

[@dallinagatone1356]

I remember Nickelodeon Magazine interviewed Ben Stein as a promotion for this special. He mentioned that he was very excited to sing in it and then was disappointed to find out that Method Man and Redman would be doing the singing instead

[@natsmith303]

This honestly feels like it could go either way: Ben was just making a joke, or he earnestly really wanted to sing. Neither would shock me.

[@gerardgarcia8501]

@@natsmith303 can he rap?

[@SpongeyTheEditor]

Oh hell yes. I was weirdly obessed with this one as a kid so I ended up watching it a lot since I had the DVD and has the songs memorized and probably still do at this point, most of them still go pretty hard lol. (Where is the fun being the big favorite I think). Probably my 2nd favorite of the FOP specials behind Channel Chasers.

[@ThePonderer]

One of those pieces of childhood media that just defines “summer” to me.

[@AJ-xc4qe]

I always tell Spongeboomers and people who pretend this show doesn’t exist after Channel Chasers and claim nothing good came after their planned finales that some of the best episodes or specials of those shows or even movies came after them! This was one of them! To this day, I randomly sing Where Is The Fun or The Pixies Rap in my sleep!

[@DigiRangerScott]

Yeah not even affording the show the end of the original run is a very weird move, I agree

[@mightyfilm]

I'd say the Flanderization of characters and constant additions of new characters while ignoring older ones contributed to the show's less than stellar final seasons. I mean, I liked Sparky, but he felt like he came in too late into the show and was used too much. And do NOT get me started on Cloe. The show tanked in quality by then, but JEEEEZ! I'm more disappointed that there was a lot of potential they could have built up, but just resulted in the same "Crocker tries to take Timmy's fairies" and "stupid wish does stupid things" plotlines. And frankly, the Poof/Foop magic school could have been a spinoff. They should have ended the main series and switched it over to that.

[@CrowRider1999]

Honestly, I saw it as a good “turn brain off” special. I remember it fondly- and the build up to School’s Out with the clock ticking down is vivid to me… I mean, who wouldn’t get hyped for the last day before Summer?

[@BokanProductions]

I LOOKED AT PART OF THIS SPECIAL YESTERDAY!!!

[@thesmileyemo]

It's always a good time when a new pop arena video comes out!

[@technicolordreamer]

3:24 Reminds me of the song "Trouble" from the musical The Music Man.

[@randy9769]

Hopefully you will be able work on Nick knacks soon

[@DigiRangerScott]

The people working on A New Wish really know the show. They recently recalled how Cosmo and Wanda met at the diner and they’d load up on milkshakes. All you need is your hand in myyyyy haaaaand!

[@bullmonty764]

I appreciate A New Wish for somehow beating the odds and being genuinely good after years of franchise fatigue, but I don’t know how to feel about it bringing back old characters en masse in the recent bomb of episodes. Mostly because it leads to less appearances by the new, more compelling cast compared to the old characters. I personally wanna see more of Winn for them not only being positive non-binary representation, but also being positive popular kid representation by being legitimately nice after so many years of characters like Trixie, Chad and Tad, and even Dash from Danny Phantom. I don’t know, seeing all these comebacks just makes me think “Don’t let anything happen to the best person.” Obviously not best boy, as the phrase typically goes, because I’m not prejudiced (Okay I just looked it up; they haven’t been abandoned yet 👍)

[@AJ-xc4qe]

@@DigiRangerScott As a black man who’s researched as far as he could, The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish is the only GOOD black kids show now. Which is a sentence I never thought I would say. The really sad part is that there’s barely any good black kids shows running right now. I’m sure there’s some I haven’t heard of. But then you look at shows from the big three networks. Young Dylan sucks, That Girl Lay Lay sucks, even The Proud Family reboot sucks now! All three networks have been sabotaging practically every show that isn’t a spin-off, sequel series or reboot for like the past 5 years now. One of the victims unfortunately includes Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. And who knows if that show will get a third season. Raven’s Home, Craig of the Creek and the latter show’s spin-off, Jessica’s Big Little World, which A New Wish apparently has the same crew as along with Infinity Train, are all over now. Iyanu: Child of Wonder which we’ve waited for almost two years was just announced to be delayed to 2025! The best we can hope for is that A New Wish stays consistent with their quality moving forward. But they seem to understand the assignment because it’s the best franchise has been since season 6 which was “Poof”’s birth year!

[@Tirgo69]

Speaking of "summer break" themed cartoon specials, as a kid going to elementary school in the early 00s, my school had a tradition of playing Recess: School's Out for everyone at the end of the year.

[@vgtrp]

If Butch Hartman wanted a musical episode, I say why not it’s his show, he can do what he wants. I haven’t seen this one in years, but I remember enjoying it and liking most of the songs.

[@TimothyRobert93]

I loved that cosmo and Wanda song growing up. I don't get the hate.

[@riverbay6482]

Schools out the musical is my shit I still find myself signing the songs from time to time and have watched it recently with some friends

[@mightyfilm]

I think as an episode, this was the natural conclusion of the concept. A LOT of the series could have been solved here, showing how the kids could get so spoiled by the FAIRY GOD PARENTS!!!! so badly, they'd revolt if given the chance. Obviously, also giving the FAIRIES!!! a mortal enemy ready to swoop in at their moment of weakness. It could have been a finale episode, but clearly more episodes were down the line, so we basically just have a sequel episode to "Totally Spaced Out" where the Learn-a-torium was first introduced and a bunch of songs. Channel Chasers is considered to be a finale because, among other things, it solved the Vicky problem AND proved that Timmy's Parents really DO love and care about him, but were too busy to notice anything. I've always been disappointed they never made an episode where they solved Crocker by having the school fire him, making him more crazed and dangerous until he was finally caught. This episode could have solved both the FAIRIES!!!! giving the kids too much power problem AND the parents just want to take care of their kids problem, but just settles it with a status quo return in the next episode. That said, I applaud the new (good) reboot for being more nuanced with adult figures. There's only like 2 actual evil and or oppressive adult figures, and Hazel's parents are loving, yet busy while the teachers are looked upon as guidance figures instead of villains.

[@avremirine8986]

This and Channel Chasers are my favorite specials from this show.

[@daelen.cclark]

“Florida still missing” I loved that sight gag!

[@smashfanwii]

I had the VHS Guess what was on repeat for a solid year

[@jaggerguth4391]

Of course, the "Kids Vs. Adults" angle became much more prominent when flanderization hits the fan faster than actual shit. For instance: Timmy's parents went from "Clueless yet lovable adults who genuinely loves Timmy and whose only crime were unintentionally lying to him regrading how nice Vicky is when they first hired her" to "Neglectful abusing manchildren who frequently mentions that they really don't a shit about Timmy and sees him as a burden, especially since they were suspecting a girl rather than a boy when Timmy was born".

[@Saintnick90]

The Pixies' singing voices being done by Method Man and Red Man is funny but would have been even funnier if they were voiced by Frank Black and Kim Deal, if you catch my drift.

[@Lesbomarx]

I don't actually.

[@NoraQRosa]

@@Lesbomarx Frank and Kim were members of a band called the Pixies

[@MSP10julia]

Guy Moon also compose other nick shows like Danny Phantom, Big Time Rush, and Back at the Barnyard

[@0b13F4st3]

Guy Moon also composed music for "Cow and Chicken", the "Billy and Mandy" portion of "Grim & Evil" and co-composed the music for "ChalkZone". (Plus his "Simpsons" inspired track, "Bart-mania" was used not just during the scene from "Channel Chasers" that parodied "The Simpsons". But it was also used in the first episode of "SpongeBob", "Help Wanted".)

[@theo3273]

Adults Ruin Everything is the best song from this special and it's primarily because of the instrumental. I wish Nick would put it in a soundtrack release or something.

[@CoolEric258]

Oh man. This is one of those Fairly OddParents specials they aired like crazy for years and years to come. I haven't seen this episode in well over a decade and I can still recite all the lyrics from the "Where is the Fun" song. Hard not to be in the nostalgia feels with this and prime FOP in general.

[@chelmrtz]

The Bill Bixby reference took me out lol

[@emmayoung736]

Technically, Vicky isn't really an adult.

[@dariusmcclain5584]

you can especially hear it in the song used for the intro for this episode..... They put Tara Strong's voice through the RINGER with the songs they made her do in the Timmy voice lol EDIT: "I don’t even think this was intended as some kind of summer break holiday special to be aired over and over again in the first weeks of June" Ohhhhh but it was.... for over half a decade lol

[@notchuckproductions5029]

Yah i remember they airing it around early June

[@darktetsuya]

I feel like I remember this one? the ben stein as the pixies kinda sticks out for me, haha.

[@morbidsearch]

This is my favourite of the FYP specials and Floating With You was the best song. Change my mind.

[@cmtvable1]

I wouldn't say this didn't shake up the status quo for Fairly Odd Parents. As Flappy Bob or the Learn-a-torium would not be featured or even mentioned in the show since. Also, is it just me but does S Scott Bullock's singing sound like his homage to the song 'Laugh, Clown, Laugh'? A song which many of us first heard from Looney Tunes.

[@MSP10julia]

The Pixies rap was very cool!

[@Henry-oj1oo]

Can you get back on reviewing the Doctor Who vergin series?

[@m56214]

Could you do a video on Video Dream Theatre

[@vestonbruno2795]

I liked this special!

[@ininja32]

It's not a bad special. Very fun.

[@bluebaron6858]

Neat

[@nevermindgaming6848]

That's the issue with musicals it gets old real fast plus it's pretty obvious they're trying to cash in on high school musical which came out at the same time

[@nicklundy9965]

At least it's better than Sunday School Musical but Glee is definitely Peak HSM. (At least the first three seasons)

[@tylerferguson3193]

Hope you're having a good day

[@stvojay]

‪Yeah I grew out of Nickelodeon mid to late 90s (let’s pinpoint Catdog as “it’s time to stop regularly watching”) so I don’t have that nostalgia either. Fairly Odd Parents, it’s not for me. It came out years after I was in Nick’s demo, it’s more for the kids of the time than me. However I did like SpongeBob (to a degree), Danny Phantom, and TMNT 2012

[@BlindJedi]

I thought all of the songs were great… When I was seven.

[@michaelrusso906]

It's probably because I was way too old for this show even when it was new (I'm 45 FWIW) but I find this series to be shrill, obnoxious trash.

[@christopherb501]

Boosty boost

[@radd1865]

Oof, those songs. I don't remember watching this special, despite enjoying a bit of Fairly Odd Parents, but the screechy in-character vocal performances definitely make it hard to watch even the clips of this.

[@bullmonty764]

I’ve got a serious hunch that, Sample Platters aside, the main Nick Knacks series is unofficially but officially cancelled. Look at how long it’s been since the Clarissa episode - almost *half a year* by this point! And then there’s all the bad stuff that’s happened to Greg since the episode dropped. I just think it’s hard to deny that the main series has basically ended as of now. It just hasn’t been officially announced for some reason

[@DigiRangerScott]

Do you know what a hiatus is

[@daniexists6]

Three weeks later....

[@bullmonty764]

@@daniexists6 Lol I’m watching it right now. This is legit an insane piece of serendipity

[@zachwilson6323]

Oh man, never seen this before but those songs are SO BAD. Like, my dad would've forcibly turned off the TV bad.