Clip From 'Live-action' 'Fairly Oddparents' Reboot Unnerves With Laugh Track And Front-facing Crocker

Paramount+ debuted The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, a live-action reboot of The Fairly Oddparents, yesterday, and in the grand tradition of beloved cartoon series getting live-action reboots, many people don't seem to like it.

The series appears to be half-live-action and half-animated. Yesterday, Twitter user @gonesnail posted a clip from the animated half of the series, and it has unnerved Twitter.

look at this janky ass movement and lipsync, more front-facing crocker than the human brain was meant to handle, and the fucking laugh track pic.twitter.com/LFTmvTlVZ1

— cree (@GoneSnail) March 31, 2022

For starters, the laugh track, which is standard for the live-action sitcom half of the series, feels woefully out of place in the brief animated interlude. What really stuck out in peoples' minds was what the show did to Crocker, one of the original series' antagonists who always suspected that protagonist Timmy Turner had fairy godparents. In the original run of the show, Crocker was drawn mostly at an angle to emphasize his madness and sharp features. In the above clip, the show draws what he looks like directly from the front, showing an uncanny, mushed-nose oddity.

My therapist: "Front facing Mr. Crocker isn't real, he can't hurt you"

Front facing Mr. Crocker: pic.twitter.com/xXmCIl8nQt

— Nintendo of America (@kazekero) March 31, 2022

"Front-facing Crocker" trended on Twitter, as many fans of the original series bemoaned how he was handled in the reboot.

Front facing Crocker looks like an edgy Mandark pic.twitter.com/7gIvfNPFq0

— Mat Lippiello (@LimeTH) March 31, 2022

Everyone out here talking about front facing Crocker, meanwhile Im losing my mind over how Jorgen is placed in this scene! Like…why is he tilted like that?? Im so confused! pic.twitter.com/J9XbQeSkHr

— BlackGeekyGirl #NewDeal4Animation (@GeekyBlackGirl) April 1, 2022

crocker from FOP's design is so funny because it's truly and utterly meant to be seen from one angle and no others pic.twitter.com/ZAlxlTIAOK

— Girl Prince Supreme (@CureGirlPrince) March 31, 2022

Powerful Crocker scene from that new fairly oddparents show pic.twitter.com/m5FRjiHu4x

— nitric (@nitricbassist) April 1, 2022

It's incredible that they thought this looked good. This shit looks like a bad Youtube parody of itself

And having Crocker almost entirely in front view angles feels like a crime against nature. There's a reason like every Fairly Oddparents character has a side view perspective. https://t.co/a1MsPWi1LL pic.twitter.com/V9T9VHuRkr

— TRAFON (@RiseFallNickBck) April 1, 2022

For what it's worth, Crocker's voice actor Carlos Alazraqui appeared to take Crocker trending in stride, noting that front-facing Crocker was supposed to be a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho..

Crocker is trending? Must be the work of… pic.twitter.com/2cjGMSVo0W

— Carlos Alazraqui (@carlosalazraqui) April 1, 2022