The Fairly OddParents's actual origins premiered as Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera...

. The Fairly OddParents first premiered on September 4, 1998 with the episode, "The Fairly OddParents!", plus the first appearance of Timmy Turner, Cosmo, Wanda, and Vicky. The shorts season ended on March 23, 2001 with the short, "Super Humor", a week before the official series began.
Before The Fairly OddParents

The Fairly OddParents

The Fairly OddParents is an American-Canadian animated television series created by Butch Hartman about the adventures of Timmy Turner, who is granted fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda. The series started out as cartoon segments that ran from September 4, 1998 to March 23, 2001 on Oh Yeah!...

 series officially began, The Fairly OddParents aired 10 total shorts through 1998-2001. Each short has been released to DVD.

Shorts

Prod. No.	Title	Original air date

Other Shorts

Nickelodeon showed the first three Crimson Chin webisodes compiled with all of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera...

 shorts except for "Where's the Wand?". However, they have stopped airing due to the television special

Television special

A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments, which is not part of a regular...

 premiere of The Big Superhero Wish.

DVD releases

• "The Fairly OddParents!" and "Where's the Wand?" on the School's Out: The Musical DVD.
• "Too Many Timmys!," "The Fairy Flu," and "The Temp" on the The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide DVD.
• "Party of Three" and "The Zappys" on The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3: The Jerkinators DVD.

See also

• The Fairly OddParents
  The Fairly OddParents
  The Fairly OddParents is an American-Canadian animated television series created by Butch Hartman about the adventures of Timmy Turner, who is granted fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda. The series started out as cartoon segments that ran from September 4, 1998 to March 23, 2001 on Oh Yeah!...
  
  
• The Fairly OddParents (season 1)
  The Fairly OddParents (season 1)
  The first season of the Fairly OddParents is the first installment of the series. It first aired on March 30, 2001 with the episode, "The Big Problem!/Power Mad!", showing the first appearance of Timmy Turner's parents showing their faces.- Season 1 :...
  
  
• The Fairly OddParents (season 2)
  The Fairly OddParents (season 2)
  The Fairly OddParents aired its second season on March 1, 2002. "Boys in the Band / Hex Games", April Fools' Day, and a Halloween special were aired during this season...
  
  
• The Fairly OddParents (season 3)
  The Fairly OddParents (season 3)
  The Fairly OddParents' season 3 began on November 8, 2002 with the episodes "Ruled Out" and "That's Life". The Fairly OddParents first movie, Abra-Catastrophe aired in the summer of 2003- Episodes :- See also :* The Fairly OddParents...
  
  
• The Fairly OddParents (season 4)
  The Fairly OddParents (season 4)
  The Fairly OddParents fourth season began on November 14, 2003. The Fairly OddParents second movie, Channel Chasers aired in the Summer of 2004, and for the 4th time, 2 Nicktoons make crossovers in, The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour...
  
  
• The Fairly OddParents (season 5)
  The Fairly OddParents (season 5)
  The 5th season of The Fairly OddParents started on July 2, 2004. In this season, the show aired its seventh TV Movie, Fairy Idol, and two Jimmy Timmy Power hour Movies. After The Jerkinators, Both "The Fairly OddParents" and "Jimmy Neutron" seem to end, but later in 2007, aired episodes that...
  
  
• The Fairly OddParents (season 6)
  The Fairly OddParents (season 6)
  After a year long hiatus, The Fairly OddParents was revived for a sixth season to contain at least 20 episodes. The season had 2 movies, Fairly OddBaby and Wishology.-New Episodes airing:...