Genie Meanie Minie Mo

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"Genie Meanie Minie Mo"
Season	4
Episode	27
Production code	57B
Copyright year	2003
Airdate	August 4, 2004 January 17, 2005 July 17, 2005 September 19, 2005
Wish	Norm granting wishes
Credits
Written by	Jack Thomas
Storyboard by	Maureen Mascarina Aaron Rozenfeld
Director(s)	Gary Conrad
Art Director	George Goodchild
Music Director	Guy Moon
Merchandise
DVD Release(s)	Season 4 Scary GodParents
iTunes	Buy Here
Episode Chronology
Previous	Catman Meets The Crimson Chin
Next	School's Out!: The Musical

"Genie Meanie Minie Mo" is the twenty-seventh episode of Season 4.

Plot

Timmy discovers Norm the Genie who pops out of his magic lava lamp. Norm offers to grant him wishes, that are "rule free" in contrast to his fairies. Timmy wishes for "Love" which is against "Da Rules" and only the genie can grant. The problem is: Norm is tricky. What will he wish for next?

Synopsis

It's a beautiful morning and all Timmy wants is for his godparents to poof up a ham-and-cheese omelet for breakfast. However, Cosmo and Wanda are unable to make the wish come true and explain that fairy godparents can't make breakfast-related wishes after 10:30am (and Timmy had made the wish at 10:31am). Timmy gets mad and starts complaining about how Da Rules keep preventing him from getting certain things that he wants—however, he's almost immediately distracted by a yard sale held by Mr. Birkenbake, a hippie teacher from his school. Most of the stuff that Mr. Birkenbake is selling is made of a material called "smoof," which Timmy's never heard of. Timmy soon becomes fascinated by a lava lamp, but after rubbing some of the dust off, a genie named Norm comes out of the lamp.

Norm tries introducing himself a couple of times, but Timmy and his fairies walk away laughing each time before they explain that since Timmy has fairy godparents, he doesn't need a genie to grant him any wishes. Hearing this, Norm reveals that as a genie, he doesn't have to follow the same kind of restrictions as fairies, so he can grant Timmy "rule-free" wishes. This intrigues Timmy, but Wanda tries warning her godson that genies like Norm are notorious for being trickers—Cosmo agrees with his wife and adds that while genies do grant the wishes people ask for, the wishes usually end up backfiring in some way on the person who made the wish.

However, Timmy's not worried (even snarking how the wishes that Cosmo and Wanda grant him always seem to backfire on him despite not being rule free wishes), and his first wish for Norm is the ham-and-cheese omelette that he tried getting from Cosmo and Wanda earlier. Norm grants the wish but gives Timmy just the omelette (rather than putting the omelette on a plate). The omelette turns out to be super-hot as well, so when it lands in Timmy's hands, he immediately drops it on the ground after feeling how hot it is—however, despite the food being on the ground, Timmy starts chowing down it like a starving animal (with Cosmo joining in).

Timmy goes off to make his next wish: he wishes that Trixie Tang would love Timmy Turner. Norm grants the wish, but Trixie ends up kissing everyone else who also happens to be named "Timmy Turner," with one of them even being an elderly man. Annoyed with all the tricks, Timmy decides to send Norm back into his lamp.

However, when Timmy tells Norm to get back into the lamp, Norm says he can't since Timmy needs to make his last wish. Wanda warns Timmy not to let Norm trick him on the last wish and to instead wish for something so simple that it would be impossible for Norm to trick him (like a glass of water or a cupcake). Instead, Timmy (taking Norm's advice) wishes that his dad had a billion dollars. Norm grants the wish, but he has poofed up a billion dollars in counterfeit money for Timmy's dad, making the cops go after him. Norm then throws the magic lava lamp at Cosmo and Wanda, only to get sucked in since they were the closest magical beings. As if that wasn't bad enough, Crocker now wants to buy the lamp!

Norm, elated to be out of his lamp for good, decides to go and destroy Canada because "They've had it too good for too long". Before he can do so, however, Timmy grabs a Smoof vacuum from Mr. Birkenbake's garage sale and sucks Norm into it. As it's made of Smoof, Norm cannot escape and he notes there are three things he can't escape from—magic lamps, the charms of Barbara Eden, and Smoof stuff. Timmy tells Norm that he will only let him if he gives him three more wishes, but Norm refuses. However, Timmy tortures Norm by sucking various painful objects inside the vacuum (a jar full of tacks and a wasp's nest), and Norm finally relents. Timmy, realizing that he needs help from someone who's even more devious and cunning than a genie like Norm, ends up wishing for a lawyer.

Fairy Mason, a fairy lawyer, appears and is he is revealed to be familiar with Norm—after introducing himself to Timmy and having the situation explained to him, Fairy Mason forces Norm to sign an extremely detailed contract that'll make Norm turn everything back to how it was before Timmy found his lava lamp. Cosmo and Wanda are released while Norm's forced back into his lava lamp, which is ultimately bought by Mr. Crocker, who sends it to an uncle of his that lives in Canada (which pleases Norm). While this is going on, Timmy expresses a greater respect and appreciation for Da Rules, acknowledging that they don't just prevent him from making "bad" wishes, they protect him from bad wishes as well.

In Canada, Crocker's Uncle Albert is given the lamp. He states that he can't wait to rub it, making Norm smile a devious smile. The camera then zooms out to reveal Al in a straight-jacket and locked in an asylum, incapable of rubbing it. The people working in the asylum notes he's loony to think genies really exist, much like Crocker with his fairy obsession. The door to Albert's cell then slams shut and the episode irises in on him.

Cast

• Tara Strong as Timmy Turner
• Daran Norris as Cosmo/ Timothy T. Turner
• Susanne Blakeslee as Wanda
• Rob Paulsen as Mr. Birkenbake / Mason
• Carlos Alazraqui as Denzel Crocker
• Michael Gough as Orderly / Doctor
• Dionne Quan as Trixie Tang
• Norm MacDonald as Norm the Genie

External links

• Genie Meanie Minie Mo clip at Nick.com
• Genie Meanie Minie Mo transcript at Scribd (Broken link)
• Genie Meanie Minie Mo transcript at Scribd and Wayback Machine
• "Genie Meanie Minie Mo / Back to the Norm" at TV.com
• "Genie Meanie Minie Mo / Back to the Norm" at the Internet Movie Database

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