At a Glance
- Composer Guy Moon, 63, died from injuries sustained in a Thursday car crash
- His themes shaped Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, and SpongeBob SquarePants
- Moon earned an Emmy nomination in 2004 for the Abra-Catastrophe special
- Why it matters: The soundtracks that defined millennial childhoods fall silent
Guy Moon, the composer whose jazzy, upbeat scores powered Nickelodeon’s golden age, died earlier this week at age 63. His family confirmed he was involved in a car accident on Thursday and later succumbed to his injuries.
Born February 7, 1962, Moon’s decades-long career stretched from 2 Stupid Dogs and the 1992 Addams Family animated series to the Brady Bunch movies. Yet his most lasting imprint came through Nickelodeon’s 1990s and 2000s slate, where his music became the unofficial soundtrack for an entire generation.
Signature sounds of a childhood
Moon wrote both the theme songs and episodic scores for The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, plus additional music for Jimmy Neutron and SpongeBob SquarePants. The 2004 Fairly OddParents special Abra-Catastrophe earned him an Emmy nomination.
His final credited work, per IMDB, is the 2025 murder-mystery series The Artist.
Tributes pour in
After news broke, OddParents director John F. Fountain called Moon “our Carl Stalling,” referencing the legendary Looney Tunes composer. Fountain noted Moon’s music was “an integral part of the show’s character” and praised his reliability: “I almost never saw him… I never once felt the need to direct him, because I knew he would hit it out of the park every single time. And he did, without fail.”
Family remembers
Moon’s family released a statement: “We feel singularly blessed to have been able to call him dad and husband. As we stand together at the base of what seems to be an insurmountable grief, we are emboldened to grieve him with honor and courage with the tools that he equipped us with in his beautiful life.”
They described “tentative” plans to celebrate his life on February 7, what would have been his 64th birthday, in both Los Angeles and his Wisconsin hometown. For now, they ask fans to remember his “unmistakable legacy” and note he “will be profoundly missed by us, his family, and countless others whose lives he impacted.”
