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Cosmo and Wanda are the title characters in the Nickelodeon animated television series, The Fairly OddParents.

Description

Cosmo and Wanda are the married fairy godparents of Timmy Turner, the main character on the show. Cosmo and Wanda are also the secondary protagonists on the show.

The couple disguises themselves in public and are distinguished from each other by unique coloring; hot pink for Wanda, and green for Cosmo (unless they are transformed into goldfish, in which case they are orange and their eyes become the corresponding colors; because those are their favorite colors). This also applies to most of their other disguises (which all have faces) yet none of the other characters usually suspect a thing. However, several characters have noticed this, but pay it no heed. When Cosmo and Wanda were disguised as salt and pepper shakers, (Cosmo as the salt and Wanda as the pepper), Timmy's dad shook the salt (Cosmo) over his food, only stopping because Cosmo's screams made him lose his appetite, and another time when Timmy's dad, going through a mid-life crisis, believed he was hallucinating that his towels had faces. Vicky also noticed Cosmo and Wanda as squirrels, and remarked later in her diary that the "green squirrel" was cute, accompanied with a drawing of a green squirrel wearing Cosmo's standard shirt-and-tie. Their most common disguise is as goldfish who live in a bowl on Timmy's nightstand.

Revealed in the 77 Secrets of the Fairly OddParents, Cosmo always thought Wanda was in control of his destiny. Cosmo was originally envisioned as a strict gentleman, but was later made into a dim-witted and hyperactive guy. In all three of the The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour episodes, the characters from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius always think that Cosmo and Wanda are computer-generated programs. In the first crossover, Jimmy thinks that Fairy World was a computer reality and doesn't believe that Cosmo and Wanda are magical creatures (because he only believes in science). If Jimmy were to discover the truth, it is unknown if Timmy would lose Cosmo and Wanda, since Jimmy and his friends are from another reality.

Their castle inside the fishbowl had been featured several times in the series; later in the series it was revealed that it has many confusing hallways and doors like a real castle.

In the earlier episodes, Cosmo Julius Con and Wanda Venus Fairywinkle were more of a team, with both acting playfully daffy. In later episodes the couple became the more formulaic smart one/stupid one, as Cosmo often comes off as oblivious to others' feelings and safety, and he often undermines his wife's attempts to protect Timmy from his own naïve and potentially dangerous wishes. Despite all this, he loves Wanda deeply. Although Wanda is more rational of the two, she reluctantly grants even Timmy's stupidest wishes. She loves Cosmo despite his bad characteristics because he's good-hearted, he makes her laugh and as soon as he becomes aware that Wanda or Timmy are in danger he will fight to protect them. He has also been seen fighting for Wanda's honor and love against a far more skilled fairy, Juandisimo. The only bad trait that Wanda has is her rather unhealthy addiction to chocolate and can distract her from her Godparenting duties and her devotion to Cosmo, which is mentioned in several episodes and has been exploited by both Timmy and Norm to get her to do what they want. She dislikes Mama Cosma (Cosmo's mother), although Wanda's compassion and integrity once lead her to help Cosmo care for Mama Cosma when she was coping with an illness.

Cosmo has sunk Atlantis nine times.

It is revealed in "Apartnership" that if Cosmo and Wanda are apart, their magic becomes weaker.

Wanda's appearance has changed slightly over the series. In the first season she was drawn with light pink skin, though eventually her skin tone changed to match Cosmo's, which is a more human-like flesh tone.

In one episode (The Boy Who Would Be Queen), Timmy wished Cosmo to be a woman and Wanda to be a man. The resulting Cosma and Wando were still a couple, though Wando took on the appearance of a bald, working class slob while Cosma looked like a housewife of the 1960's. Their voices were unchanged, though they did find out interesting things about the opposite gender (Cosma wondering how she suddenly knew which boy bands rocked out loud while Wando wondered why he didn't mind scratching himself all over in public). This episode also revealed that Cosmo had a different nose.

By the episode "Apartnership!" Cosmo & Wanda have been married for 9,895 years, and yet they still never had kids of their own until the TV movie "Fairly OddBaby", with the arrival of Poof.

In the "77 Secrets of the Fairly OddParents! Revealed", we learn that Wanda Venus Fairywinkle is 768,321 years old.

Cosmo and Wanda made a short appearance in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.

As with all fairies, they have special abilities such as:

• Immortality
• Shapeshifting
• Wish Granting
• Regeneration
• Intelligence (except Cosmo)

Family members

Mama Cosma

Cosmo's overprotective mother, Mama Cosma, is a domineering mother who smothers her son Cosmo and greatly dislikes Wanda. Cosmo, who had been working as a waiter at a local diner at the time, fell in love with and married Wanda, but told his mother that he was going out for some milk. Cosmo's father, Papa Cosmo, appeared in one cartoon when Cosmo (as a baby) accidentally turned him into a fly. He never reappeared since, probably since he was still a fly. (In the flashback sequence, Mama Cosma was taller and thinner.) Mama Cosma calls Cosmo "Cosmo-lo-lo" among many other names and bakes "I-rather-dislike-Wanda" cookies (cookies with Wanda's face on them with a pink "no" sign ) ("Apartnership!"). Her reason for her disliking Wanda was revealed in the first episode in which she appeared, stating that "It's not Wanda. I'd dislike anyone who took my Cosmo-lo-lo away" and showing that Star and Twinkle (two fairies who have been waiting 9,895 years to marry Cosmo) are actually robots. Unfortunately for Wanda, this means Mama Cosma will never stop pestering her.

Big Daddy

Wanda's father, Big Daddy, is head of the Fairy World mafia. He currently holds a monopoly on the garbage disposal business. In an episode where Big Daddy is kidnapped, Wanda has to take over the family business. (The kidnapper is later found out to be Mama Cosma.) Big Daddy hates Cosmo due to his stupidity and the fact that he rarely listens to Wanda, which parallels Mama Cosma's hatred of Wanda. Despite their hate for their children's spouses, they are in love with each other. In the episode "Big Wanda," Big Daddy is seen sleeping with his stuffed horse head, Mr. Nay-Nay, an obvious reference to the decapitated horse's head seen in The Godfather. Cosmo seems to be addicted to Mr. Nay Nay. His wife, who is Wanda and Blonda's mother, never appears in the show though has been mentioned. Apparently she might no longer be around, Big Daddy divorced her for some reason or got rid of her. He is a former gangster from Sicily in the group known as the Mafia.

Blonda

Wanda has an "identical yet somehow hotter" sister named Blonda, who looks the same except that she has blonde hair, is self-centered, lacks Wanda's affectionate nature and has a more "musical" voice. In her debut, Mary Hart and Bob Goen guest starred as Fairy Hart (Mary Hart) and Bob Glimmer (Bob Goen). Blonda stars in the popular Fairy World soap opera All My Biceps. In one episode, Wanda said to Blonda, "Mom always liked you best". That statement was the only reference to their mother who never appeared in the series. It is also borrowed from the classic Smothers Brothers routine in which Tommy Smothers would accuse his brother Dickie of being their mother's favorite. It was revealed in the TV movie Fairy Idol that Blonda dyes her hair and she is actually a brunette, although it would make more sense that her hair was naturally pink since Wanda and Blonda are supposedly identical. However, during Lucky 7, it is shown that Wanda also dyes her hair, so she must also be a brunette. She is also supposedly the only fairy in Fairywood (the Fairyworld Hollywood) never to win a Zappy (Fairyworld equivalent of an Oscar). She and Wanda hate each other but made up until Wanda won the Zappy which Blonda thought she was going to win after which the two returned to hating each other.

Baby Poof

Poof is Cosmo and Wanda's baby son. He first appeared in "Fairly OddBaby" to mark the beginning of the new season. He has extraordinary powers which are contained by a magical rattle given by Jorgen von Strangle. Oddly in Fairy World, the father has the baby. During his pregnancy, Cosmo experiences barfing purple sparkly barf all over Timmy, odd cravings (including Timmy's vintage baseball cards), and mood swings. Poof was highly sought-after by the Anti-fairies, Pixies and Jorgan himself because of the pure, untapped magic inside him. His laughter does good things, his crying does bad things, his hiccups cause natural disasters and when he burps, the nearest person gets electrocuted, and when he breaks wind reality itself seems to fall apart. Before he was officially named, his name was being constantly changed by all the characters to things like: Twinkle, Kajagoogoo, Keanu, Lil' T, Barfolomew, Little McKenzie, Napolean, and Elvis. He bears a very strong resemblance to the girls on the show, due to the fact that he wears purple and has eyelashes.

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• Fictional shapeshifters