More Research

I bit of research into a cartoon I really like and how my ideas have benefitted from it, but also how my idea differs in comparison

Fairly Odd Parents

Fairly Odd Parents is an American Animated TV show from the mind of Butch Hartman IV.
It follows the life of a school boy named Timmy Turner and two fairy godparents who grant Timmy wishes. Like my character Isaac, Timmy is bullied and miserable. He is bullied by his next door neighbour and baby sitter the 16 year old Vicky , but also his school teachers and the school bully. Timmy escapes his problems or solves them using the wishes he is granted to send him on magical adventures.

There are some similarities in the style of Fairly Odd Parents and my idea. For one both Timmy and Isaac and lonely and struggle with being bullied in their normal day. But both develop friendships with out of this world characters. In Timmy’s case his fairy godparents and for Isaac his superhero friend. However where I think there is a difference between Timmy, who has been an influence in Isaac’s creation, is how they act. Timmy is quite immature in the use of his wishes every episode and often things end up going horribly wrong and he has to resolve the situations, which is how he learns his lessons. Isaac has no super powers and is just an ordinary boy and in not wishing for anything he wants is more mature than Timmy, but in a similar way will learn lessons from the various adventures he goes on with his superhero which he can then apply to the ordinary everyday situations he faces at school to help him get through his everyday troubles.

The another different between the two ideas is that Timmy’s world is very exaggerated and magical, I want my character to be facing more real world problems that the audience can empathise with and will potentially help them learn something about how to deal with issues, such as bullying. This isn’t to say that the adventures with the superhero won’t be slightly out of this world but I think its important to balance this with Isaac’s everyday life.