#operation birthday takeback

[yaminini]

"Your dad got a party performer for your birthday?!"

"He actually remembered it this year! Maybe Cosmo was right! Maybe THIS is proyect H!"

Dude.... wdym his father always forgets it? Poor Dev :(

[kaorucup]

Next Wednesday, another character from the original returns to A New Wish

Episode descriptions have been released for A New Wish, one of them titled Operation Birthday Takeback. The following description includes two major spoilers.

Do not scroll down if you don't want to be spoiled.

There you have it. We're due for a great episode on the 31st!!!!

[fountainpenguin]

Okay, so I left this note in my "Operation: Birthday Takeback" liveblog:

omg, Dev needs his godparent to stand up for him against Vicky and Peri's having a MELTDOWN and hiding behind his mom. Um??? Holy cow, I've never seen him break like this, except maybe when he gained his fear of the dark in "Lights Out."

I decided to go check if I was right and... Hm.

Good to know!!

Bonus pics

[astrolotte]

like father like son

[random-vyxx]

I saw this one edit in the clock app, AND had old yazoo stuck in my head. So. Liek.i spent 5 hours in a school night making this.euhh.

[butchlesbiancosmo]

kind of fucked up how hazel wells has completely and utterly won my heart in LESS THAN A WEEK (the time it took me to binge all of ANW) in a way that timmy turner never quite managed even after *checks calendar* 23 YEARS??????

[planet-crait]

It’s funny I’ve only gotten as far as Operation Birthday Takeback (don’t kill me I’m late to the game) and before getting into the show I saw a lot of people make AU’s and stuff for Peri adopting Dev or fighting to get him back as a godparent and, from what I’ve heard about the episodes I haven’t seen yet, that would be so therapeutic and something Dev genuinely deserves because Dale is a wall talking piece of shit, from what I’ve seen of Peri so far I don’t see that happening. In the aforementioned episode, Peri is at best oblivious and at worst unconcerned with Devs emotional wellbeing. After inviting Hazel, Cosmo and Wanda inside, it’s obvious Dev is not in a good place but Peri is just happily vibing oblivious to Devs clear distress.

And when Hazel gets him another present which does at least temporarily cheer him up, Peri straight up looks bored.

And at the begining of the episode, he also seems more concerned with his parents then Dev.

I wonder if Peri even thought to say happy Birthday to his own Godkid with how shocked he is by how Hazel and Coswan greet him.

Before I turn this into a full blown analysis lolz I just don’t see where these HC’s are coming from. Maybe something happens as the season goes on that will change my opinion but as of right now seeing Dev really hurting and at his lowest we’ve seen of the season being met with Peri acting like this doesn’t exactly give me confidence.

“Peri truly cares about Dev”.

Can you even imagine how absurd this actually sounds? No, it certainly doesn't mean he doesn't care at all (after all, this is his first godkid). But certainly not to the point of "truly" caring.

Or do such people really consider Peri, who is literally obsessed with rules, sometimes completely forgetting about Dev and not even so empathetic, to be truly caring? Okay?

This new show is only a few months old and already it has its own "fanon" and "canon". Okay, I'll start.

Fanon Peri after the finale: I mIsS mY gOdKiD and want to go back to him because I care about him so much!!11! 😭

And I hate Dale with all my magic guts 😡

Canon Peri after the finale:*farting bike sounds*

[typhects]

operation birthday takeback but irep is also there. this is your reminder that irep was also terrified of vicky in the original show

[picturejasper20]

So the ¨Best of Luck¨ has quite a lot of going on and could have worked better as second part episode but it still shows well the aftermath of the Operation Birthday Takeback with Dev lashing out and blaming Hazel for ¨stealing¨ his father's attention from him.

We see that Dev went back to his own self and he seems to be kinda worse than he was at the start of the season. He demands for Peri to grant wishes that could ruin Hazel's day or make him win the paper-rock tournament. Peri tries explaining to Dev that he can't do that because of the rules. The two get angry with each other, making Peri go away to i assume would be Fairy World.

On a side comment i was surprised to see Peri still with Dev after this episode after the ending from the last one? I guess it is because Peri is still Dev's godparent, making Peri stay with him. However, we still see that there is a lot of tension between them and they have a fight, so their argument in previous episode still carries weight on here.

While Peri is away, Irep (Peri's anti-fairy) takes the opportunity to become Dev's godparent. Irep thinks that Peri quit being the kid's godparent and takes advantage of Dev's desire to break the rules and his hatred for Hazel to bring chaos on the school.

Dev asks Irep to be let him into the rock-paper competition again and bring bad luck to Hazel. The rest of the episode is about Hazel dealing with all this bad luck and finding a way to counterattack it, all the time without knowing it was happening because of Dev.

Dev manages to win the tournament and tries rubbing it on Hazel's face, only to get praised by Hazel. He gets angry at seeing that he couldn't make Hazel miserable as he wanted and ends up revealing that he has been working with Irep to cheat in the competition and give her bad luck.

Dev asks for Irep to grant him more ¨illegal¨ wishes. Cosmo and Wanda have a magic duel against Irep, causing chaos all over the school's entrance. Around a minute later Jorgen shows up with Peri and reveals that Peri didn't quit and he was in fact taking a break from Dev.

Jorgen undos all the wishes that Irep granted and throws Irep back into the anti-fairy world. Everything returns to normal and Peri is still Dev's godparent. Based on a line from Peri, it seems that Peri was aware that Irep could take advantage of him being missing and he decided to keep an eye on Dev because of this. It is strange why he didn't show up sooner if that was the case. Maybe he didn't check on Dev until some time later when the real chaos started? I don't know.

Near the end of the episode Hazel tries talking to Dev to see what his problem is, in response Dev pushes her away and insults her, making Hazel get angry at him in return and probably cutting him off for the moment. You can see that there is a moment that Dev appears to hesitate when Hazel is talking to him only to go back to his cold self. I think he was likely believing that Hazel was ¨faking¨ being nice to him + still feeling upset for Dale paying more attention to Hazel. He still doesn't Dale doesn't care about him and prefers lashing out and blaming Hazel or the fairies for it.

The episode ends with him leaving and asking his machines to search more information about the anti-fairies, setting up for future plot threats of him teaming up with Irep again or other anti-fairies.

In Best of Luck we see Dev falling into a more antagonistic-villain path, with Irep taking advantage of his anger and desire to break the rules. He is really out to make Hazel miserable- both for believing she ¨faked¨ their friendship all this time and Dale not paying him attention. It could be seen as him trying to make Hazel miserable as she ¨made¨ him feel in Operation Birthday Takeback. From Hazel's part, she tried reasoning with Dev like she did back in the museum episode but Dev is too upset to consider talking to her. Hazel is probably going to have a similar feeling of anger against Dev in the upcoming episodes, unless they are somehow able to talk things through.

[purplegalaxystarlight]

I just realized that Dev has had Peri for pretty much 5 months, give or take. In Lost and Founders day we find out that that Dev was born 9 years 7 months and 14 days before, which means, Operation Birthday Takeback takes place roughly 5 months after that. Let that sink in. Damn

[keikakudom]

I don't think it's well-known that this exists, but the original title card for Operation Birthday Takeback was changed

Top was the original and bottom is the one that got aired.

SOURCE https://www.instagram.com/p/C-JxseuxKC5/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA

[yaminini]

"Ask for more stuff before she goes!"

"Aks for lemonade!"

"I never get to have a lemonade...."

Yeah, i wonder why Dev..... I wonder why....

[nalooksthrough]

Dale Dimmadome Analysis (with screenshots)

Dale is one of my favourite characters on the show. He's a funny evil man, that amuses me with his antics and his role as a child slave/kidnap victim in the original series leaves a lot to be explored.

This analysis will be talking about his attachment to money which trust me is a lot more interesting than it sounds. This will be quite a long post. I'll put a cut under this paragraph, so that the people who aren't interested don't have to scroll through the whole post.

Going to assume that since you decided to keep reading, that your interested in what I have to say. This analysis will only be covering "Stanky Danky" and "Lost and Founder's Day" with a brief mention of "Operation Birthday Takeback". I think those two episodes are more than sufficient enough to convey my point.

When we first meet Dale in "Stanky Danky" he's seen coming down from a helicopter, onto a big stage to sell products to people. He appears to be level headed with confidence oozing out of him. But this changes the moment he realises that people aren't going to buy anything.

He almost immediately starts to panic.

He starts shuttering as he calls out to the crowd to buy more things.

His panic becomes anger. Briefly switching back to panic before fully settling into anger. His anger then becomes targeted at the person whose telling these people not to buy from him. He questions who this girl is, what's her name.

Once he's learnt her name. He starts thinking up a way he can stop her and get the customer's interest back.

And once he's found it he strikes.

Going as far as to kidnap Danky and emotionally manipulate him just so he can get what he wants.

Leaving the monster in an isolated area of his estate when he's not of any current use to him. I mean talk about becoming your abuser.

And when Hazel and Danky leave he rushes out calling out to the trash monster, saying that he was "like a son" to him. Trying to appeal to Danky's emotions, desperately trying to get him back. All so he doesn't lose that source of profit.

And when he starts losing all his profits at the end of the episode he falls to his knees, wailing in a fit of despair. He's obsessed with money, he needs it and he's willing to do anything to get it. This obsession of his is best shown in "Lost and Founder's Day"

He spends the first portion of the episode happily monologing as he explains how his Dim Watches "tickle" a child's brain to indicate when they want something. Everything is going exactly as he planned.

Until it isn't.

The moment he spots someone not buying anything he starts getting angry. Ranting at the screen.

His anger only growing more when he realises that this "anomaly" is stopping other people from buying things too.

And when Dev points out that stuff is still getting sold and they are still earning money. He shuts him down.

Stating that while yes people are still buying things. The profit he's making from the festival in going down. And he is not happy about it.

In fact he's so enraged by this that he starts to send drones and his son after it so that he can "learn it's secrets". He can't handle the idea that someone doesn't want to buy anything from him.

And when that doesn't work, he activates the statues. Putting the whole festival on lock down until he can track down the "anomaly".

And when a drone points out how counter productive terrorising the festival attendees is to earning money and making a profit. He quite literally shuts it down.

And at the end of the episode, when the statues are put to a stop and everyone leaves.

He's back in that pit of despair. A literal stream of tears flowing out of his eyes. And he so affected by this that he spent literal months studying this "anomaly" figuring out why it didn't seem interested in buying anything during the festival. And the thing is. If he had just left it alone. The festival would have gone on without much of a hitch. But he just couldn't, because it was never about the money. Not really. It was about him.

It's clear that he puts a lot of value onto money. More than most. With money being tied directly to his identity and sense of security. The more money he makes, the better he feels about himself and when he starts to lose money, he takes it as a direct attack on him. He knows what it's like to have nothing and he doesn't ever want to be in that state again. So he obsessively tries to earn more and more in order feel secure in himself. But it's never enough. And when someone threatens that security he goes on the defence. Even at the cost of the losing other potential sales.

And when he loses all his profits and is no longer generating money, he breaks. And for a brief moment, he's no longer Dale Dimmadome owner of Dimmadome G0bal.

He's Dale. A frighten young boy working in a factory underneath a lemonade stand, whose only wish is for his father to come and rescue him.

[fountainpenguin]

So, Winn claims "pramby snack" (sold at Patty Possum's Party Playground) spells out what it's made of, and it is cracking me up that neither of the two broccolis are the b.

Pizza crusts

Raisins

A broccoli

Marshmallows

Butterscotch

Yellow Number 5

Secret ingredient

Nouget

Another broccoli

Cuddly-korn

Thanks, Winn. Every ingredient is horrifying, especially for something that looks like spaghetti and includes no spaghetti.

Fun Fact - Pramby snack is on Dev's snack table at his birthday, so it might be lactose-free. Also, Dev's probably been to Patty Possum's Party Playground enough times to taste it and like it.

[planet-crait]

fun fact about operation birthday takeback: nickelodeon's s&p department actually asked showrunner lindsay katai if she would consider changing the ending, not because it actually violated any standards or practices, but because it made them feel too sad

I don’t know man I’m with the S&P department here this kid is going THROUGH IT and it is shattering my heart. Like I don’t know about you but seeing kids hurting hits a hell of a lot harder then when it’s adults. Even as someone who isn’t interested in having kids theirs just something fundamentally wrong about seeing adults beat down a child and get away with it.

He found out someone who he thought was his first real friend made a wish to befriend him (she is his real friend and wasn’t after his money but this is from Devs pov here) and is pretty sure it was just to get access to his fathers money, his dad cares more about Hazel then his own son and ruined his first real birthday that he thought he could really enjoy now that he had friends due to sheer laziness and not bothering to get to know Dev, and his godparent is only interested in shoving more stuff at him then trying to form any sort of real connection with him.

The animation department and VA absolutely nailed this final scene you can feel the agony Dev is in and the confusing clash of rage and pain festering inside of him. This is a very young child who has no tools or understanding of how to properly process and deal with these heavy emotions and has no one he feels he can turn to, to help him.

His teachers don’t care, his dad doesn’t care, he thinks his only friend doesn’t care (which again is wrong but he doesn’t think that and even if he thought they where friends Hazel is not even remotely equipped as a fellow ten year old to deal with this stuff she’s TEN), his godparent is more concerned with work then with Dev (notably very similar to his dad who is more concerned with work then Dev so their has got to be some triggering stuff mixed in with that).

When Dev called for help from Peri, Peri didn’t answer and Dev didn’t bother to try again because he realized that Peri wasn’t going to come and likely in his mind realized Peri didn’t care enough to come. This is a kid who has been taught he doesn’t matter, he’s not important enough for people to care and his beliefs and fears repeatedly get reinforced.

I think this is the first (and potentially only?) episode to end on a real sad note like this. The episode ends with Dev flying off audibly crying and there isn’t any sort of joke or punchline after it. Thats what we’re left with, a very young and abused child in tears after his birthday was ruined, destroying everything he thought he had with it.

[samthecookielord]

NeCo Pair in Operation Birthday Takeback