"Fairly OddParents" [Hartman, 2001] Season 3 [Nov. '02- Sep. '04]

Maintaining a trite, self-contained ebullience that makes Dan Povermire and Swampy Marsh down at Phineas and Ferb seem tremendously, hugely dour and down-to-earth by comparison, Butch Hartman et al. have never been as funny-- not by a long shot-- as he/they would like so much to believe. In its place is-- well, something that would have been there anyway, but becomes all the more prominent in the lack of humor, but anyway-- sheer, unmitigated, thorougly well-founded, rebellious, puerile ebullience, which, when you are appalled in the face of the show's void, may very well leave you feeling guilty-- nah, you'll get over it soon enough. Grade: C (MINUS)