>>119913550Season 5 is when they started upping the Crocker appearances to annoying levels. A good example is the episode where Timmy gives his fairies to Tootie, and the conflict was setting up to be her vs Vicky, but Crocker hijacks the episode and Vicky disappears.
Though it didnt reach full spam levels until season 7. The Crocker/Norm team up was good. In fact, season 5 had pretty much the entire cast used at one point. Timmy, his friends, the antifairies, the pixies, Remy, Vicky and her family, Norm the Genie, Doug Dimmadome, the other school kids. There was a different location every episode instead of trapping Timmy in his room like later seasons.
It also has the Wishful Life episode, which upset a lot of people with its content. So overall, it's a step down from seasons 4 and earlier, but still way above the Poof era stuff. It has some of the flaws that manifested in season 6 and beyond like "why is Crocker here" and Cosmo getting too highly voiced and retarded, but was able to mask these flaws unlike later seasons by having captivating plots.
