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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 (Such as Heavy Hal (Fat Albert), Johnny Hunt (Johnny Quest), Carpet Critters (Rugrats) and Clint's Hints (Blue's Clues). However, Vicky also gets a hold of a remote control, and Timmy has to stop Vicky from taking over the entire world through the TV, although he is aided by his future self, who came back from the Vicky-controlled future to stop her once and for all.

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 the parents learn that Vicky is actually evil (Timmy's Dad thinks that the name "Deep Toot" is hilarious). 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.

After a showdown with Vicky (Which results in the loss of his future self), Timmy then comes out of the TV, but, rather than get rid of Vicky, he wishes that nobody would remember this, as with Vicky gone he might lose Cosmo and Wanda. 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 (likely two twins) named Tommy and Tammy (the former resembles Timmy with black hair and the latter looks like Trixie Tang with Tootie's proportions and glasses, 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, which is built and acts like Vicky, to baby-sit 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 whether 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.

  • This marks the second time Vicky has been fired. The first time was in the early episode ''Party of Three'' where Timmy's parents decide he is old enough to stay home without a babysitter.

  • On the DVD, the "Sesame Street" parody's original version is in the special features menu. It originally ended with Wanda being picked up by Butch Hartman and put into the TV. For some reason, Nickelodeon remade it.



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