Cosmo and Wanda

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First appearance Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "The Fairly OddParents!"
Statistics

<tr> <th>Aliases</th> <td>Various objects (pencil, eraser, ets.)</td> </tr><tr> <th>Species</th> <td>Fairies</td> </tr><tr> <th>Gender</th> <td>Male/Female</td> </tr><tr> <th>Age</th> <td>Millennia</td> </tr><tr> <th>Year of Birth</th> <td>1 BC as of 2006</td> </tr><tr> <th>Occupation</th> <td>Fairy godparents</td> </tr><tr> <th>Family</th> <td>Mama Cosma (Cosmo's mother)
Big Daddy (Wanda's father)
Blonda (Wanda's twin sister)</td> </tr><tr> <th>Children</th> <td>Timmy Turner (godchild)</td> </tr><tr> <th>Portrayed by</th> <td>Daran Norris (Cosmo)
Susan Blakeslee (Wanda)</td> </tr><tr> <th>Created by</th> <td>Butch Hartman</td> </tr>

Cosmo and Wanda are two of the main characters on the American animated television series The Fairly OddParents, created by Butch Hartman. They are the married fairy godparents of Timmy Turner, the main character on the show. They disguise themselves in public, and they are distinguished from each other by their coloring; light pink for Wanda, and light green for Cosmo (unless they are transformed into goldfish, in which case they are orange with their eyes being the corresponding colors). Their most common disguise is as goldfish who live in a bowl on Timmy's nightstand. Their castle inside the fishbowl had been featured several times in the series; later in the series it was revealed that it has many confusing hallways and doors like a real castle.

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[edit] Biography

In the earlier episodes, they are more of a team, with both acting playfully daffy. Later, however, Cosmo has been the stupid one and Wanda the smart one, a trite formula used since the days of Laurel and Hardy. Cosmo often comes off as oblivious to others' feelings and safety, and he often undermines his wife Wanda's attempts to protect Timmy from his own naïve and potentially dangerous wishes. Despite this and the fact that they quarrel from time to time, he loves Wanda deeply. Although she is more rational of the two, Wanda reluctantly grants even Timmy's stupidest wishes. She loves Cosmo, even though he is an airhead (literally; in one episode Wanda states Cosmo's empty head is great for storage of various items, such as tissues and a picnic lunch, and when Timmy tries to read Cosmo's thoughts he only hears elevator music). She dislikes Mama Cosma, although Wanda's compassion and integrity once led her to help Cosmo care for Mama Cosma in her illness. A good example of their relationship is the episode in which they turned into a heart with two faces [one Wanda, one Cosmo] and Cosmo sang 'I married the smart one' whilst Wanda sang 'I married the...' at this point she stops awkwardly and says 'well he's cute, right?'

Describing themselves (with tongues in cheek) in one episode as being "two halves of a whole idiot", their ability to help Timmy is limited by Da Rules, the all-encompassing set of rules and regulations on fairy behavior. They are both thousands of years old and immortal, having been married for 9,895 years as of the episode Apartnership and share an anniversary with Mr. and Mrs. Turner. (As Timmy comments, "That's convenient.") They are also an odd couple, in that Cosmo is an idiot compared to the compassionate Wanda.

While they fit under the category of godparents, they seem to be more of parent figures to Timmy than his actual parents.

Cosmo and Wanda appear to possess equal powers however it is occasionally implied that Cosmo, despite being the less skilled of the two is the more powerful, while on other occasion it is implied that Wanda as well as being the more adept at magic is also the more powerful. In some episodes it is implied that fairies are not born with their magical powers and they are just the result of being in possession of a wand while it is possible that fairies are born with their magical abilities and the wand helps them to channel their power.

[edit] Fairy family

[edit] Mama Cosma

Cosmo's overprotective mother, Mama Cosma, is a domineering mother hen who smothers her son Cosmo and greatly dislikes Wanda. Cosmo, who had been working as a waiter at a local diner at the time, fell in love with and married Wanda and told his mother that he was going out for some milk. By the episode "Apartnership!", Cosmo & Wanda have been married for 9,895 years, and yet they still never had kids of their own. Cosmo's father, Papa Cosmo, appeared in one cartoon when Cosmo (as a baby) accidentally turned him into a fly. He never reappeared since, probably since he was still a fly. (In the flashback sequence, Mama Cosma was taller and thinner.) Mama Cosma calls Cosmo "Cosmo-lo-lo" among many other names and bakes "I-rather-dislike-Wanda" cookies ("Apartnership!"). Her reason for disliking Wanda was revealed in the first episode she appeared in, stating that "It's not Wanda. I'd dislike anyone who took my Cosmo-lo-lo away." Unfortunately for Wanda, this means Mama Cosma won't back off anytime soon.

[edit] Big Daddy

Wanda's father, Big Daddy, is head of the Fairy World mafia. He currently holds a monopoly on the garbage disposal business. In an episode where Big Daddy is kidnapped, Wanda has to take over the family business. (The kidnapper is later found out to be Mama Cosma.) Big Daddy hates Cosmo, which parallels Mama Cosma's hatred of Wanda. Despite their hate for their children's spouses, they are in love with each other. In the episode "Big Wanda," Big Daddy is seen sleeping with his stuffed horse head, Mr. Nay-Nay, an obvious reference to the decapitated horse's head seen in The Godfather.

[edit] Blonda

Also, Wanda has an "identical yet somehow hotter" sister named Blonda, who looks the same except that she has blonde hair, is self-centered and lacks Wanda's affectionate nature. Blonda stars in the popular Fairy World soap opera All My Biceps. In one episode, Wanda said to Blonda "Mom always liked you best". That statement was the only reference to their mother who never appeared in the series. It is also borrowed from the classic Smothers Brothers routine in which Tommy Smothers would accuse his brother Dickie of being their mother's favorite. It was revealed in the TV movie, Fairy Idol, that Blonda dyes her hair and she is actually a brunette, although it would make more sense that her hair was naturally pink since Wanda and Blonda are supposedly identical.

[edit] Other godchildren

Cosmo and Wanda have also been fairy godparents to many other notable figures before (sometimes, oddly, during) Timmy.

  • Mary Ann: A really evil girl, appeared in the episode "Hassle in the Castle". In the episode she was freed from her picture on the wall and stole Cosmo's wand. She then stole Wanda's Wand and turned Cosmo and Timmy into ducks. It was also revealed that she was the one who sprung the world into World War I by having Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed.
  • Tina Turner: Among their other former godchildren was pop singer Tina Turner, as pointed out in the episode "Hassle in the Castle".
  • Billy Gates: Another one of their godchildren was Microsoft owner and billionaire Bill Gates, as seen in the episode, "Father Time." Supposedly Cosmo & Wanda helped little Billy with his "crazy" ideas including something called the "Internet". (In the episode Father Time, modern Cosmo tells Bill Gates to name it the Timmy Computer Network)
  • Denzel Crocker: before one of Timmy's accidents (actually caused by Cosmo's stupidity) revealed that Crocker had fairy godparents.
  • Vicky: In "The Switch Glitch," Cosmo and Wanda were actually given to Vicky by mistake after she was turned into a five-year-old by Timmy.
  • Tootie: In The Birthday Wish, Timmy gives Cosmo and Wanda to Tootie for the rest of the day of her birthday.
  • Chester McBadbat: When Timmy wished he was never born, Cosmo and Wanda would have been given Chester instead of Timmy. Also, in the TV movie "Fairy Idol", they would have been given to Chester if Norm the Genie hadn't interfered.
  • Tommy and/or Tammy Turner: Apparently, Timmy's future child (or maybe both as it's unclear whether fairies can be assigned to a child who has siblings, as a few fans state that if this were possible, the children may share the godparents) will obtain Cosmo and Wanda, as revealed in Channel Chasers. It is possible Cosmo is Tommy's godparent and Wanda is Tammy's.
  • Carl Wheezer, Sheen Estevez, and Libby Folfax: In The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide, Timmy wished that Wanda and Cosmo would grant any wish Carl, Sheen, or Libby asked for.
  • The Nega-Chin: The evil version of the Crimson Chin was given the power to make any wish he wanted after being mistaken by the Crimson Chin. Timmy never unwished those powers, so it is unclear whether or not he will return and take control of Cosmo and Wanda again.
  • Sammy: Sammy, along with Mary Ann and Pierre, was a part of Cosmo and Wanda's group of bad godchildren. He claims that he's the one who made it so tornadoes always hit trailers.
  • Pierre: Pierre was one of the bad godchildren. He wished that all French people be rude to Americans.
  • Ned Bigby:in the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide episode:Daydreaming.

Many others can be seen in the "Hassle in the Castle" episode; hanging in either the 'Hall of Infamy' (bad godchildren) or in the hall for good children. (To which Timmy belongs to is unclear: despite him having a whole room for his pictures (The Hall of Timmy, in which every picture is a good time spent with him, Cosmo and Wanda)it is located within the Hall of Infamy).

[edit] Cosmo's pets

Cosmo has taken in the following pets:

Of those, Cosmo discarded Rock, keeps Phillip around to sleep with, can make Snowball appear with his wand, and accidentally killed Carl, Cindy, and Jimmy (3 times actually). No one knows what happened to Steve. Either intentionally or coincidentally, Carl, Jimmy and Cindy (all of whom appeared in "Sleep Over and Over") share names with characters from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, a Nickelodeon show that has crossed over with The Fairly OddParents three times.

[edit] Trivia

  • In the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide episode "Guide to Day Dreaming," Ned Bigby has Cosmo and Wanda as fairy godparents in a daydream. They told him he could wish for, as examples, "a snowcone," "poofing into The Evil Dr. Sweeny's Office," or "a snowcone." Daran Norris, who voices Cosmo, plays Gordy who is the janitor on the series.
  • Cosmo was originally envisioned as a slob, and Wanda's original name was Venus.
  • Cosmo and Wanda have been mascots for Nickelodeon for a while and have appeared in Got Milk? commercials.
  • Wanda's appearance has changed slightly over the series. In the first season she was drawn with pale, gray-ish skin, though eventually her skin tone changed to match Cosmo's.
  • In the episode "Sleep Over and Over", Cosmo's "pets" have the same names of some characters of another Nickelodeon show, Jimmy Neutron. It is unknown if it is coincidental or intentional.

[edit] Image gallery

Cosmo and Wanda, as seen in many things (other than the other pictures):

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  The Fairly OddParents edit talk
Main Characters Timmy Turner | Cosmo and Wanda | Mr. and Mrs. Turner | Vicky | Denzel Q. Crocker | Chester McBadbat | A.J. Ibrahim | Francis | Jorgen Von Strangle
Recurring Residents of Dimmsdale The Popular Kids | Elmer the Boil Kid | Sanjay | Tootie | Chip Skylark | Remy Buxaplenty
Recurring Fantastical Characters Mark Chang | Crimson Chin | Juandissimo Magnifico | Binky Abdul | The Pixies | Anti-Fairies | Norm the Genie
Television movies Abra-Catastrophe! | Channel Chasers | School's Out: The Musical | Fairy Idol | The Fairly OddParents Movie | The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour
The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide | The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3: The Jerkinators
Lists Episodes | Characters
And... Da Rules
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