Norm Macdonald's Forgotten Fairly OddParents' Genie Role
Here's Norm Macdonald's somewhat forgotten appearance as an evil genie in The Fairly OddParents explained. The Fairly OddParents originally started as a segment of the Nickelodeon anthology series Oh Yeah! Cartoons, which also spawned the show My Life As A Teenage Robot. The Fairly OddParents was created by Butch Hartman — who was also behind the much-missed Danny Phantom — and the animated series revolved around a boy named Timmy who has two fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda and they are — as the title suggests — quite odd.
Most of Timmy's wishes to his fairy godparents backfire spectacularly, though he usually learns a lesson in the aftermath. The Fairly OddParents lasted for ten seasons in total, in addition to receiving various offshoots like live-action specials or video games. It also received a revival with 2022's Paramount Plus series The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder — which has many easter eggs - which focused on Timmy's cousin Viv and her stepbrother instead. The sitcom is a mix of live-action and animation.
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The Fairly OddParents scored some fun guest stars of note during its run, including Tim Curry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brendan Fraser. Another famous guest arrived during season 4's «Genie Meanie Minie Mo/Back to the Norm», which cast the late, great comic Norm Macdonald as a genie creatively named Norm the Genie. In keeping with Macdonald's acidic comic persona, Norm the Genie isn't particularly nice, and usually grants wishes he knows will backfire in ironic ways — like a less sinister version of the titular genie from the Wishmaster movies — for his own amusement.
Macdonald is a lot of fun as The Fairly OddParents'
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