>Timmy: What? The Sphinx? But I didn't Unwish it! >Cosmo:

Take it easy, it's just a cartoon.

>>93312214
phineas and ferb pulled off the "hey check this out" comedy pretty well

>>93312214
Calm down MrEnter.

>>93312214
>If youre wondering how they eat and breathe, and other fairy facts
>Repeat to yourself "Its just a show"
>"I should really just relax"

>>93312301
>HEY FERB WE'RE DOING THE SCIENCE

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There is a fine line between feasible suspension and disbelief and being hit in the face with how stupid a premise is; it is a tenuous balance and requires very exact science to get right, much like the uncanny valley. We will call it the "disbelief valley."

>>93312214
It was a joke.
Jokes >>>>>>>>> Continuity in comedy

>>93312214
The whole joke is that it doesn't fit.

Fairly Oddparents generally has mediocre to bad writing, but there's nothing wrong with this kind of joke.

>>93312301
>pretty well
They were boring as fuck. The only thing that saved that show were the Doofensmirtz subplots.