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Trivia
- This is the first appearance of A.J.'s Mom, Mr. Tang, and Dolores-Day Crocker. Veronica's Mom also makes an off-screen appearance.
- It is revealed that fairies can stay with their godchild if seen as long as no one knows who the fairies belong to.
- This is the first time Mr. Crocker appears outside Dimmsdale Elementary School.
- This is the third episode to have animation on the title card.
- This is the highest viewed episode of season 2.
- This episode reveals why Mr. Crocker left New Baltimore Community College: He was fired for spending school funds on a fairy trap.
- New Baltimore Community College is a reference to the real-life town of New Baltimore, Michigan, where Butch Hartman spent his teenage years.
- All of the web addresses in the episode have the top-level domain .fop. "FOP" is an acronym for Fairly OddParents.
- Timmy's new computer breaks the fourth wall by saying "Good-bye!" at the end.
- There are several bones and wads of cash in the wall between Timmy's room and his bathroom.
- Even though this is a season 2 episode, some TV providers list it as a season 3 episode.
- There is an online game based on this episode called Cyberspace Chase.
- This episode was included on Volume 1 of The Fairly OddParents for Game Boy Advance Video.
- The 3D rotating Timmy head on the title card bears a strong resemblance to Timmy's model in Nicktoons Unite!
- This is the last season 2 episode in airing order.
- This is the first episode to premiere in 2003, and the only season 2 episode to premiere in that year.
Allusions
- Apple - The computer interfaces in the episode are based on classic Mac OS.
- Yahoo! Mail - One of the bookmarks on the title card is My Yeehaw!
- Dexter's Laboratory - A.J.'s secret lab is a reference to Dexter's secret lab. The Fairly OddParents creator Butch Hartman worked on Dexter's Laboratory.
- Gorilla City - The idea of a city of intelligent gorillas hidden in Africa comes from the Flash comic books, where such a city is named Gorilla City and is the place of origin of the Flash's enemy, Grodd.
- The Simpsons - One of the people in the downtown crowd has Bart Simpson-like hair.
Running Gags
- A parent knocking on their child's door and saying "_____! I'm both respecting your privacy by knocking but asserting my authority as your mother/father by coming in anyway!" and then breaking down the door to the room with a battering ram.
- People (including Crocker himself) saying that Crocker looks pretty in a dress.
- People thinking Timmy is a computer virus upon seeing him.
Continuity & Easter Eggs
- This episode reveals that Veronica has a crush on Timmy Turner.
- At the school dance, an instrumental version of "My Shiny Teeth and Me" can be heard as background music.
- Timmy's pet gerbil Eddie makes his first appearance as the power source for the computer Mr. Turner makes.
Goofs
- In the title cut, the word forward is misspelled as "foward".
- In the shot where Mr. Turner says "What is your mother feeding you?", most of the hair in the photo of Trixie is missing.
- The photo of Timmy has darker eyebrows only when seen inside the Internet.
- The photo of Timmy changes in only one shot so that Timmy's mouth is open.
- When the recording of Cosmo and Wanda first appears on Crocker's computer, the perspective is not skewed like the rest of what is on the monitor.
- The "uploading" bar on Crocker's computer is either blue or black depending on the scene.
- The word Timmy grabs on to on Trixie's first chat message changes from "to" to "e-mail" between shots.
- In some frames of the shot where Crocker is watching the uploading bar grow, two of the spots on his head are colored on the inside as if they were in shadows.
Quotes
- A.J.'s Mom: [after knocking again] "A.J.! I'm respecting your privacy by knocking but asserting my authority as your mother by coming in anyway! [smashes down door and looks around the room with A.J. sweating nervously] Honey, you really should think about redecorating."
- Trixie's computer: "You've got mail, from a desperate boy!"
- Trixie Tang: "I should just delete this, but that would be rude. [cracks knuckles] I like to personalize my rejections."
- Mr. Tang: [peeking his eye out through her door] "Trixie! I'm respecting your privacy by knocking but asserting my authority as your father by coming in anyway! [smashes down the door while holding a phone] Phone for you!"
- Dolores-Day Crocker: [from behind the Crocker's bedroom door] "Denzel! Denzel Crocker! I'm respecting your privacy by knocking but asserting my authority as your mother by coming in anyway! [smashes down the door and comes into the room] Could you stop with the crazy long enough to help mommy?"
- Denzel Crocker: "Mother! Stop interrupting! Can't you see I'm busy RANTING!?"
- Denzel Crocker: "I hate modeling your dresses! All though it does make me feel pretty! Oh well...at least no one can see this."
- Timmy: "Cosmo, Wanda, quick! Turn the computer off before Crocker finds out whose fairies you are!"
- [Cosmo zaps the computer with his wand, and it explodes]
- Cosmo: "That's off, right?"
- Veronica: [Veronica picks up a Trixie Tang doll and smashes it] "WHY! CANT! I! BE! YOU?"
- Veronica's Mom: "Veronica! Dinner!"
- Veronica: "Don't call me that! [Veronica puts on a Trixie wig] Call me Trixie! I'M TRIXIE!"
- Trixie: "Do I think Timmy Turner is neat? Why? Do you?"
- Veronica: "Do I think Timmy Turner is neat? Actually, my love for him burns with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns, but I can't let Trixie know that. [typing] No way, he's gross."
- Timmy: "Oh, great. The crazy one likes me."
- Denzel Crocker: "Yes, yes, yes!"
- Dolores-Day Crocker: "Denzel, will you scrub mommy's feet?"
- Denzel Crocker: "Yes- I mean NO!!!"
- Cosmo: [as Timmy] "Do you mind? I'm doing my homework!"
- Mr. Turner: "In the bathroom? But that's where I do my bills!"
- Timmy: [inside computer] "I wish you guys would stay here and guard the computer!"
- Cosmo and Wanda: [swing wands. The Stay! button appears on-screen]
- Timmy: "Did you really have to swing your wands for that one?"
- Cosmo and Wanda: "Uh, no."
- Mr. Turner: [seeing Mr. Crocker in a dress on the computer] "You're not supposed to be on those kind of websites!"
- Timmy: [about the picture of Mr. Crocker] "But that's my teacher."
- Mr. Turner: "Well, it does make him look pretty."
- Digital Crocker Head: "Must record digital proof of Fairies! Fairies! Proof of Fairies!"
- Timmy: "I'm as far away from home as physically possible and I got here in a millisecond!"
- Mr. Turner: "Good thing this Chinese restaurant is only 3 steps away from our house!"
- [Lyel, Kevin, and Bruce, three gorilla scientists see Timmy on their computer]
- Bruce: "Lyel! Kevin! A computer virus!"
- Kevin: "Good heavens, Bruce! The humans must have discovered our secret society of super-intelligent gorillas!"
- Lyel: "Well, if it's so secret, how did they discover it?"
- Bruce: "You know, Lyel, he's got a point."
- Kevin: "Oh, get off my back, Bruce!"
- Mr. Turner: [Opens fortune cookie] "Confucius say, "You will use a battering ram to invade your son's privacy". Well, OK, I don't want to make Confucius a liar."
- Cosmo: [to Wanda while banging the computer] "I can't get it to turn on. Uh, oh no, not me, there is no way I'm gonna -"
- Wanda: [turns Cosmo into a gerbil; then turns into a cat] "Run, gerbil boy, run!"
- Mrs. Turner: "Now let's talk about my not so perfect hair and not so shiny eyes."
- Mr. Turner: "Ok... uh... I'm in trouble, aren't I?" [gets dragged away by Mrs. Turner by the ear]
- Lyel: "Oh, get off my back, Bruce!"
- Timmy: "That's it! Hey, Crockpot.dork, hungry for some information? Well, come get some!"
- Denzel Crocker: "Curse this obsolete 1-month-old technology!"
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