Chapter 2 - Vicky Loses Her Icky

The Psychology of `Vicky Loses Her Icky'

Hello, welcome to the first chapter of `The Psychology of FOP series. In this chapter, I shall be having a highly in depth (and certainly inaccurate) look at the much loved episode `Vicky Loses Her Icky'.

In the episode `Vicky Loses her Icky' Timmy wishes that Vicky was nice. Once in effect, the wish forced an evil beetle-shaped force of all that is cruel out of her arse, instantly transforming her into a Butch Hartman version of Snow White. The insect, however, searched for another home. It resided in Timmy Turner's father until it got close enough to Principal Waxelplax and, in turn, the President of the US. It only ended when Vicky sacrificed her newfound kindness and jumped in front of the insect- once again becoming evil once more.

I realise that I am looking much too deeply into this particular episode, but this whole episode seemed like one big metaphor. So, just for a while, restrain from taking this episode at face value and look closer. Strip the cartoon down to it's main elements and you get this:

A feeling of discourse leaves Vicky and enters Timmy's Dad, which in turn enters Principal Waxelplax and then the President. When Vicky claims the feeling back, everything returns to the beginning.

So, it's as though Vicky left Timmy's father feeling cruel and heartless, who left the other people down the line feeling the same, like a cycle of abuse (except those at the beginning went back to their normal selves). I don't know enough about psychology to know whether having Vicky `take responsibility' for her actions and past grievances (shown by her jumping in front of the insect as it went for the President) left the other three feeling validated, but in could certainly effect the others in a positive way.

So, to my over-evaluating mind, this whole episode was about the abuse cycle- how one person's aggressive nature can instil the same emotions of anger in the people they affect. In effect, everyone in this episode (except, perhaps, the butt-bug) was a victim of each other. It was only when Vicky actually dealt with the creature that the cycle stopped.

Yeah, okay, Mr. Hartman probably didn't even consider the whole apparent second-meaning to this episode, because only people with absolutely no lives think about these kind of things in regards to innocent cartoons (but COME ON, the whole freakin' cartoon is an obvious take on child neglect).

And don't even get me started on the whole `Father's Day' thing.



**Shudder**.

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