Original air date: 6/1/2004 (produced in 2002)
Episode number: 43b
A Bad Case of Diary-Uh! is the seventh episode of the fourth season of The FairlyOddParents.
Vicky uses a truth serum to make Timmy reveal his deepest darkest secrets (luckily, she's uninterested in hearing about his goldfish), and she uses them to make his life miserable, even in school. Timmy wants to get dirt on her, so he can do the same thing, and Cosmo says that girls write their secrets in diaries—so Timmy wishes he had Vicky's diary, and he reads that Vicky has a crush on a British boy named Winston Dunsworth. He tries to make Vicky look bad in front of her crush only to make the boy like her—until he makes Vicky cheer her deepest, darkest secrets, and Timmy is happy...only for his parents to hire a babysitter even worse than Vicky.
Tropes:
- Absurd Phobia: Timmy has a secret fear of clowns, bare feet and he's allergic to oranges. Vicky has a secret fear of cows, and Winston hates the color pink.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not clear if Timmy swapped the female makeup artist with a male movie make up artist or if the female make up artist was Gender Swapped.
- Babysitter from Hell: Mr. and Mrs. Turner hire a backup babysitter after Vicky was left heartbroken. Unfortunately, said "babysitter" makes Vicky seem like an improvement by comparison."GIVE US THE BOY!"
- Berserk Button: Do not call Wanda fat.
- Winston doesn't approve of Vicky being scared of cows and leaving boogers on history books, and breaks up with her because of this.
- Brick Joke: Winston mentions "the hunt" several times, and Wanda opens "the hunt" on Cosmo after he mocked her weight.
- Cruelty by Feet: Vicky treats Timmy as an ottoman at the beginning of the episode even after discovering that he hates feet. She makes it even worse in the next scene when she gets his classmates to dress up as barefoot clowns to torture him even more.
- Diaries Are Girly: As Timmy and Wanda are about to sneak a peek into Vicky's diary, Cosmo retorts, "A diary is where a girl...and me...can express their feelings without being judged."
- Dominance Through Furniture: Vicky literally uses Timmy as a footrest at the beginning of the episode.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Cosmo points out that it's a bad idea to use Vicky's diary to humiliate her. Wanda agrees with him, along with Timmy at the end, despite going along with the latter's scheme.
- Everyone Has Standards: As much as Timmy hates Vicky, he's legitimately freaked out by Wanda's suggestions for revenge, like something in "the angry biker family."
- Evil Laugh: Both Timmy and Wanda do one while pointing a flashlight at their faces.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: During "Orange Juggling Barefoot Clown Day" a grotesque foot's closeup is shown.
- Here We Go Again!: Cosmo mocks Wanda's weight, and she decides to get revenge on her husband.Wanda: Gentlemen, time for the hunt!
Cosmo: Ah! Dear diary: I'm scared of the hunt! - Horrible Judge of Character: Timmy's parents seem genuinely incapable of not hiring babysitters who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near children judging from Vicky's "replacements."
- Informed Flaw: Timmy doesn't have podophobia in any other episode, even the beach/pool ones. It may just be annoyance from whenever Vicky forces him to give her pedicures as a punishment.note
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Nearly every attempt by Timmy and Wanda to get Vicky's crush to break up with her actually ends with Winston liking her more. It isn't until Vicky blurts out her darkest secrets when Winston breaks up with her.
- Not So Above It All: Wanda, normally the Only Sane Man, ends up joining Timmy in his scheme of using Vicky's diary to embarrass her after hearing that Vicky called her fat, and suggested resorting to violence in order to humiliate Vicky.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: After Vicky uses the truth serum to reveal Timmy's darkest secrets, Timmy does the same to her by stealing her diary.
- Plot Hole: Winston Dunsworth hates the color pink, but he doesn't seem to be put off by the color of Vicky's eyes and the clothing of a fellow cheerleader, which are pink.
- Running Gag:
- Winston Dunsworth mentioning "the hunt" when he sees or smells something undesirable or disgusting.
- Wanda suggesting violent methods of revenge against Vicky and Timmy turning them down in favor of a Mundane Solution.
- Scary Flashlight Face: When Timmy and Wanda laugh evilly, they hold a flashlight under their faces. They do this for so long that the flashlight's batteries run out.Timmy: The batteries are dead already? Wow, we're really being evil today!
- Vocal Dissonance: The monster movie make up artist
is a large and stocky guy with facial hair, but he sounds like a Camp Gay guy. - You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Wanda utters this when she and Timmy find out Winston's least favorite color.
