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''School's Out! The Musical'' is a MadeForTVMovie from the series ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. It first aired in 2005.

''School's Out! The Musical'' is a MadeForTVMovie from the series ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' It aired in 2005.

The movie starts a few years before the series, HP and his assistant Sanderson coming off a defeat from the Fairies when they come across a baby clown who's parents had thrown him off a train in an effort to save him (the train was approaching a gap in the track but it switched to a stable one at the last minute). Thus HP starts scheming of a plan to use the baby for later.

In the present, summer has started and school's out, to the dread of the adults of Dimmsdale as the kids start running amuck. The Pixies, seizing their chance, work behind the scenes to make the kids' actions even more destructive. In comes a man named Flappy Bob, who offers to take care of the kids in his "Fun Camp": an over-sterilized, over-protective, and educational-laden dull place. When the kids are forced to go there, Timmy comes to the conclusion that "adults ruin everything" and wishes kids were in charge of the world.

* BatmanGambit: The Pixies' plan relies on, in order: Dimmsdale's kids growing completely out-of-control during their summer vacation; their parents getting so fed up with it that they agree to send their kids to Camp Learnatorium; Timmy being so bored by Camp Learnatorium that he wishes kids ruled the earth; and the world's children doing such a good job of ruling the earth that there's no need for fairy godparents anymore. Then they reveal themselves to Flappy Bob and allow him to make the world exactly how he wants it which Timmy cannot stop as he does not have his fairies, before taking over Fairy World. Every single one of these things happens ''exactly'' as the Pixies planned it. Admittedly, the Pixies gave Timmy a ''tiny'' push in the right direction to make sure he made the right wish.

* BrokenAesop: The lesson of most of the movie is that you shouldn't force your concepts of fun on others. However, in the final act of the film, after Flappy Bob finds out the Pixies had been lying to him, he decides that Timmy's ideas of fun were superior all along and immediately abandons his ideals of "safe fun."
** It's somewhat justified because it's not what Flappy Bob ''naturally'' considers fun, it's because he's been brainwashed by the Pixies, and he constantly slips into his clownish nature. Happy Peppy Gary and Betty are more straightforward examples, who's feelings are completely disregarded when the kids overrun the Lernatorium at the end and Timmy wishes to "fix" all the fun. It's a great ending for everyone... except Gary and Betty, who actually believe in the ideals of "safe fun". ''They'' didnt force anyone to come to the Learnatorium, but they're still treated as wrong for offering the service at all.
* CassandraTruth: Downplayed. While Flappy Bob refuses to believe Timmy's claim that the Pixies are manipulating him, the possibility gives him a ''lot'' of self-doubt and he repeatedly wonders aloud whether Timmy was telling the truth before finally realizing that he was. Indeed, after he signs the Pixies' contract during "Where Is The Fun?", his ''very next line'' is: "Maybe you're right; this could be a giant mistake'' but he cant bring himself to change his entire view of life. Atleast not yet...
* ClownSpecies: Flappy Bob was originally the clown-baby of clown-parents in a circus that was given up when they thought that they were about to die in a train-accident to carry on their "super hilarious (and kind of creepy) clown heritage"... that is if they had noticed that they were on the ''not'' destroyed train tracks.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world ruled by children has allegedly no war, and is in perfect harmony. That is if you're a child or (evidenced by Vicky) a teenager. As for adults it's blatantly oppressive and totalitarian. The contrast is best illustrated in the song "Ten and in Charge". For Jorgen the last straw was witnessesing the fairies being forced to do the chores no children wants to do themselves.

* HeelRealization: Flappy Bob teeters on the edge of one for most of the film, as Timmy tries to prove to him that the Pixies' idea of fun is completely wrong and that he's being manipulated, but he doesn't actually cross the line until [[spoiler:he overhears the Pixies bragging about their manipulation of him]], at which point he realizes that Timmy was right.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Pixies [[spoiler:sending Flappy Bob to law school was what allowed him to find the [[LoopholeAbuse loophole]] needed to beat their contract]]. [[spoiler:The contract itself]] probably counts, given how [[spoiler:it contained the loophole with which the Pixies were defeated in the first place]]. Not to mention the fact that [[spoiler:if the Pixies hadn't bragged about their manipulation of Bob, he wouldn't have performed his HeelFaceTurn in the first place]]. Yeah, the Pixies get screwed over by this trope a ''lot''.

* ManipulativeBastard: The Pixies, having raised Flappy Bob from birth and subtly manipulated him his entire life into a boring, plain business man, as part of a 37-year plan to take over Fairy World and Earth. They also manipulate Timmy's frustration with the Learn-a-Torium to get him to wish kids would rule the world.

* ShortLivedLeadership: Timmy wishes that kids ruled the world instead of adults. As a result he becomes the president of kid world. Unfortunately, with all the kids now happy, the Godparents are pulled back to Fairy World, and the Pixies become the new wish-granters thanks to a loophole. Within minutes, he's confronted by Flappy Bob, who has his own wish granted and makes him the leader of the new, boring world. Flappy then overhears the Pixies discussing how they were using him all along, and he aids Timmy in defeating the Pixies, ending his own reign.

* TakeThat: Flappy Bob's father mentions that one of the places they searched for him was the US Congress and that "it was full of clowns, but none of them were funny!"
** The joke about how Florida is still voting, even though Timmy Turner was named President of Kid World (a reference to the voting fiasco during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, which is how UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush came into power).

** "Jorgen's Polka" could also qualify, though Jorgen's more of a WellIntentionedExtremist than scheming villain.

** It's somewhat justified because it's not what Flappy Bob ''naturally'' considers fun, it's because he's been brainwashed by the Pixies, and he constantly slips into his clownish nature. Happy Peppy Gary and Betty are more straightforward examples, who's feelings are completely disregarded when the kids overrun the Lernatorium at the end and Timmy wishes to "fix" all the fun. It's a great ending for everyone... except Gary and Betty, who actually belive in the ideals of "safe fun". ''They'' didnt force anyone to come to the Learnatorium, but they're still treated as wrong for offering the service at all.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world ruled by children has allegedly no war, and is in perfect harmony. That is if you're a child or (evidenced by Vicky) a teenager. As for adults it's blatantly oppressive and totalitarian. The contrast is best illustrated in the song "Ten and in Charge". For Jurgen the last straw was witnessesing the fairies being forced to do the chores no children wants to do themselves.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world ruled by children has allegedly no war, and is in perfect harmony. That is if you're a child or (evidenced by Vicky) a teenager. As for adults it's blatantly oppressive and totalitarian. The contrast is best illustrated in the song "Ten and in Charge"

''School's Out! The Musical'' is a MadeForTVMovie from the series ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}''. It aired in 2005.

* CassandraTruth: Downplayed. While Flappy Bob refuses to believe Timmy's claim that the Pixies are manipulating him, the possibility gives him a ''lot'' of self-doubt and he repeatedly wonders aloud whether Timmy was telling the truth before finally realizing that he was. Indeed, after he signs the Pixies' contract during "Where Is The Fun?", his ''very next line'' is: "Maybe you're right; this could be a giant mistake''.

* BrokenAesop: The lesson of the most of movie is that you shouldn't force your concepts of fun on others. However, in the final act of the film, after Flappy Bob finds out the Pixies had been lying to him, he decides that Timmy's idea of fun were superior all along and immediately abandons his ideals of "safe fun."

* BatmanGambit: The Pixies' plan relies on, in order: Dimmesdale's kids growing completely out-of-control during their summer vacation; their parents getting so fed up with it that they agree to send their kids to Camp Learnatorium; Timmy being so bored by Camp Learnatorium that he wishes kids ruled the earth; and the world's children doing such a good job of ruling the earth that there's no need for fairy godparents anymore. Then they reveal themselves to Flappy Bob and allow him to make the world exactly how he wants it which Timmy cannot stop as he does not have his fairies, before taking over Fairy World. Every single one of these things happens ''exactly'' as the Pixies planned it. Admittedly, the Pixies gave Timmy a ''tiny'' push in the right direction to make sure he made the right wish.

* TeenageWasteland: While they're technically not teenagers, this complies with the definition of the trope since Timmy wishes that the kids were in charge. He becomes president and delegates authority to the various other kids. Subverted, as the kids make the world a much better place and achieve world peace ''in a day'', but the subversion is then deconstructed as they make the world ''such'' a good place that there's no need for fairy godparents anymore, so they're all recalled, the Pixies fill the vacuum, and ultimately take over themselves.

* ManipulativeBastard: The Pixies, having raised Flappy Bob from birth and subtly manipulated him his entire life into a boring, plain business man, as part of a 37-year plan to take over Fairy World and Earth.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Timmy's wish that kids ruled the earth. The kids promptly solve all the world's problems within a matter of days, but the world is now such a nice place that there's no need for fairy godparents anymore, and they're all pulled back to Fairyworld. [[Just as the Pixies had planned it.

* BatmanGambit: The Pixies' plan relies on, in order: Dimmsdale's kids growing completely out-of-control during their summer vacation; their parents getting so fed up with it that they agree to send their kids to Camp Learnatorium; Timmy being so bored by Camp Learnatorium that he wishes kids ruled the earth; and the world's children doing such a good job of ruling the earth that there's no need for fairy godparents anymore. Every single one of these things happens ''exactly'' as the Pixies planned it. Admittedly, the Pixies gave Timmy a ''tiny'' push in the right direction to make sure he made the right wish.

'''''School's Out! The Musical''''' is a MadeForTVMovie from the series ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}''. It aired in 2005.

* ShoutOut: [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Flappy Bob's origin.]]

* TeenageWasteland: While they're technically not teenagers, this complies with the definition of the trope since Timmy wishes that the kids were in charge. He becomes president and delegates authority to the various kids.
** However, this is a subversion due to the world being ''better'' when the kids are in charge. World peace even happens in a day!

** Also his reaction to the resultant Flappy Bob/Pixie-controlled Earth, an incredibly dull place where everyone dresses in casual office attire, and the kids are stuck in Flappy Bob's edutainment summer camp their whole vacation.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Pixies [[spoiler:sending Flappy Bob to law school allows him to find the [[LoopholeAbuse loophole]] needed to beat their contract.]] See ExactWords below.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: HP's iron-clad contract with Flappy Bob states that the world will be shaped according to Flappy Bob's wishes. Too bad Timmy helped Flappy return to his fun-loving roots]].