Let Sleeper Dogs Lie/References

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Trivia

• This episode was available on the Nickelodeon website on July 11, 2014 before its television premiere.
• This is the first episode since his introduction in Fairly Odd Baby in which Poof does not appear.
• This episode marks the first time Sparky has been put under mind control, as well as the first time he ever was an antagonist.
• In this episode, we can see Sparky as a little dog.
• This is the first episode since The Big Scoop! in which a main character is absent.
• Cosmo and Wanda explain to Timmy that fairies have notoriously bad memories. In fact, Wanda claims that the reason she frequently calls Timmy "Sport" is because she keeps forgetting his name.
  • Cosmo also claims that fairy brains are mostly helium, which is the reason they're able to float. He also claims to have a "slow leak," which is the reason why Cosmo's voice sounds the way it does.
• This is the fifth time Denzel Crocker appears as a kid. The first was The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!, the second was Hassle in the Castle, the third was Birthday Bashed!, the fourth was Turner & Pooch and the sixth will be Animal Crockers.
• Sparky claims to have kept track of all of his previous owners—he says he likes to do it for tax-reasons and "alibis" (another nod to Sparky's seedy past/criminal tendencies).
• This episode reveals that, aside from having Cosmo and Wanda as his godparents when he was a kid, Mr. Crocker also had Sparky as his fairy dog.

Allusions

• Wizard of Oz - The first video on the disc Sparky keeps of his previous owners, there was a scene that resembles the 1939-movie.
• Scooby Doo - In the second video on the disc of Sparky's previous owners, Sparky belonged to a group of owners who resembled Shaggy Rogers, Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley and Daphne Blake.
• Peanuts - The third video on the disc showed Sparky as Snoopy with lookalikes of Charlie Brown and Woodstock.
• Under the Tuscan Sun - This is one of the "under" phrases stated to hypnotize Sparky using Crocker's trigger word. It's the name of a 1996-memoir by Frances Mayes and a 2003-film that was written/directed/produced by Audrey Wells.
• Camp Lazlo - The name that Crocker kept mistakenly calling Cosmo is the same name as the main character in Camp Lazlo.

Continuity & Easter Eggs

• There is a reference to The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker and Hassle in the Castle when Timmy said that he knew Cosmo and Wanda were Crocker's Fairy Godparents.

Running Gags

• People saying "Underpants", which hypnotizes/unhypnotizes Sparky back and forth.
• Crocker (then later Cosmo) faints every time they see Crocker's mother belly dancing when she was younger.
• Cosmo singing the underpants song.
• Wanda trying to remember to write something down.
• Crocker mistakenly calling his former fairies, Lazlo and Brenda.

Goofs

• The way Crocker lost Cosmo and Wanda has been completely changed. Instead of Timmy messing with it in The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker, they were taken away because he was a jerk, which was also changed from him being a good child.
  • It's possible Crocker got Cosmo and Wanda back for a short time before losing them again as Timmy did the same dozens of times.
• It is revealed in this episode that godkids lose their fairies at age 11 because they are old enough to go to therapy, but the episode Channel Chasers stated that godkids lose their fairies at age 18 because they forget about having fairies and their fairies are moved back to Fairy World by a taxi.
  • Since that rule was only in the past, as shown in Crocker's tape, it may be possible that Jorgen changed the rule from 11 to 18 after receiving complaints from godkids.
• Fairies have bad memories, but Poof called Timmy by his name sometimes.
• In this episode, Wanda says that fairies have bad memories and that is why they don't remember Sparky being with Crocker. However in The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!, it is revealed that the reason they don't remember ever being Crocker's godparents was because of Forgeticen and they remember Timmy's name just fine.
• Is there a reason why Crocker didn't try to post the video footage of fairies?
• The appearance of Crocker's mom during his childhood is very different from it was in The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!. In this episode, she is short and has a strong resemblance to her current look, and in The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker! she is taller and has a weaker resemblance to her current day look.
• When Cosmo and Wanda are trapped in the electrodes and Cosmo says, "A party? We should do the underpants dance!" Sparky should have become unhypnotized then. It is not until "underpants" is mentioned again that Sparky becomes unhypnotized. This error makes the rest of the episode uneven. From here on out this error makes Sparky the opposite of what he should truly be (being hypnotized vs not being hypnotized).
• Crocker's voice in the recorded footage sounds different than he sounded in The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!.
• Also, it's weird that Sparky hasn't noticed that he had a microchip in his tail until now.
• Mr. Crocker's record tape is different from Sparky's one.  
• In Sparky's tape, Jorgen took him, Cosmo and Wanda when he was in trance but in "Fairly OddPet", he is normal. It could be because Jorgen found out about the hidden microchip.
• When Jorgen took away Cosmo and Wanda from Crocker, immediately he should have erased his memory, and that was what he made originally in The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!, and because Crocker in the present did not remember anything from the past.
• Mr. Crocker's child self has also been "flanderaztioned" from a passionate, loveable, and brave kid who wanted to help others into an egoistic brat.

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