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It was among the few animated series in [[Nickelodeon]] that was ahead of its time, featuring (relatively) realistic situations and teenage issues which soon set a mark for the [[Degrassi|future]] [[South of Nowhere|titles]] to come in the [[Teen Nick]] time slot. The most notable among the show pointed out that it didn't follow the [[Limited Wardrobe]] trope compared to the other Nick titles. It is also one of the only shows, not just on Nickelodeon, but perhaps in all of children's entertainment, to portray interracial romance in a serious (and positive) light.
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* [[A-Cup Angst]] - Courtney. Justified, as she is a young adolescent, but she is not pleased about her small size. {{spoiler|To the point where an episode's plot involves foiling a plan by two [[High School]] [[Alpha Bitch|Alpha Bitches]] to expose her as a bra-stuffer.}}
** Macie has a more subdued version of the trope. In "The Easter Ham" when Dodie was ranting about how Darren's Birthday Party was one of "the most important BFF thing to happen since we got to buy training bras!" Macie then replied "Those were my darker days," and then left it at that.
** Averted with the other girls who seem comfortable with their bodies.
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]] - Sheltered Shrubs. Protected Pines. Avalanche Arts Academy. Camp Caprice. Doctor Dave.▼
* [[Affectionate Parody]] - The titular play of "I Spy A Witch" is essentially a musical of [[The Crucible]].
* [[All Girls Like Ponies]] - Ginger is quite fond of them, as her room would suggest. Along with the song she sings in summer camp involving copper-colored ponies.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
▲* [[
* [[Alpha Bitch]] - Miranda, even though Courtney fits the stereotype more.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]] - Brandon Higsby
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* [[Big No]] - Hoodsey does one accompanied by a [[Slow Motion Fall]] in "Sibling Revile-ry."
* [[Black Best Friend]] - Miranda for Courtney, Darren for Ginger.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]] - Ginger is redhead, Macie is brunette and Dodie is blonde.▼
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]] - Blake Gripling.
▲* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]] - Ginger is redhead, Macie is brunette and Dodie is blonde.
* [[Boobs of Steel]]- Lois Foutley is one tough cookie
* [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill]] - Darren wears these in the first season. It resembles a [[Saw|reverse bear-trap]].
* [[
* [[Camp Gay]] - Brandon Higsby is implied to be this.
* [[Character Development]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] - Brandon Higsby, Noelle Sussman, Polly Shuster.
** Carl and Hoodsey. Especially Carl.
* [[Cool Loser]] - The main character and her friends are great people, but not as popular or "successful" at Lucky Jr. High▼
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]] - Tress Mac Neille as Hoodsey, Kath Soucie as Blake among others.▼
* [[Continuity Nod]] - Another thing that made the show unlike other cartoons was the strict linear continuity. Every episode would make some reference to a previous episode.
** Some good examples are quite subtle. "No Hope For Courtney" featured a loser-girl named Hope who temporarily displaces Courtney as popularity queen, and she shows up in "About Face" where a crowd of popular girls come to Dodie's house to confront her about how her mother, the new Home Ec. teacher, is forcing herself in their in-crowd, and Hope is mentioned by name as Dodie welcomes them like a laundry list. However, in "About Face", Mipsy gets hit in the eye with a rock twice that was aimed for Dodie's window, and she shows up at graduation in "Butterflies are Free" wearing an eye patch.
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** One exception, however minor: Ginger went from being right handed to left handed sometime between season one and season two.
** Also, the episode where Dodie & Macie conspire with Mipsy and Miranda to break up Darren & Ginger. Courtney exposes the plot to Ginger and Darren at the end of the episode. The very next episode, Dodie, Macie, & Ginger act as though nothing happened, as do Courtney & Miranda.
▲* [[Cool Loser]] - The main character and her friends are great people, but not as popular or "successful" at Lucky Jr. High
▲* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]] - Tress Mac Neille as Hoodsey, Kath Soucie as Blake among others.
* [[Daddy Didn't Show]] - The episode "Hello Stranger."
* [[Darker and Edgier]] - The show is ''very'' noticeably more adult than [[Klasky-Csupo|Klasky Csupo's]] other shows, like [[Rugrats]] and [[Rocket Power]].
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* [[Easily Forgiven]]: No other way to explain for {{spoiler|Dodie and Macie who tried to break Ginger and Darren up}}.
* [[Enter Stage Window]]
* [[Evil Laugh]] - Miranda does this in "The Nurses' Strike," when she discovers Ginger's mom is working as a cleaning lady, effectively scaring a nearby family away.▼
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]] - As Ginger finds out that Dodie and Macie are trying to break up her relationship with Darren.
** When Ginger sees her friends defecting to the other side in ''Battle of the Bands'':
{{quote|Et tu, Dodie? }}
▲* [[Evil Laugh]] - Miranda does this in "The Nurses' Strike," when she discovers Ginger's mom is working as a cleaning lady, effectively scaring a nearby family away.
* [[Generation Xerox]] - Courtney is ''just like'' her mother. Same personality, same obsession with fashion, and both are very much [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] - One episode, "The Right Stuff" involved a minor plot point in which girls from Courtney's and Macie's high-school French class try to expose her as a bra-stuffer at Macie's (unwanted) pool party. This later became [[Missing Episode|pulled from rotation]], however this statement was blurted in passing by Courtney's little brother Blake in the unaired pilot, which DID make it to a DVD.
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* [[Lesbian Jock]] - The gym teacher in "Gym Class Confidential" is implied to be this way.
* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: Implied with Ginger and her friends when its deals with {{spoiler|Dodie and Macie trying to break her and Darren up}} as by the next episode, no one wants to talk about it.
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] - Courtney▼
* [[Limited Wardrobe]] - Averted, notable because most cartoons don't. The main characters had about 5-6 outfits they rotated through. Even minor characters had at least 2 outfits.
** Played straight with Carl and Hoodsey, who always wear the same things unless there's a change in weather, with the implication that [[Squick|they don't bathe too often.]]
* [[Little Professor Dialogue]] - Carl and Blake both indulge in this, bordering occassionally on [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. Blake talks like this because he was raised in the very-proper Gripling family, but Carl talks like this because he's just slightly eccentric.
▲* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] - Courtney
* [[Love Epiphany]]
* [[Manipulative Bitch]] - Miranda.
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* [[Noodle Incident]]
{{quote|'''Ms. Zorski''': What you did to that Remedial Math class, that was wrong, Carl.}}
* [[Official Couple]]
* [[Once an Episode]] - Hoodsey to Carl: "You wrote it, circa second grade."
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** Courtney knew she had a crush, it's quite possible she told Miranda. And when Miranda is present in the cabin at night, Ginger giggles while saying "you're so funny Sasha". She also sings the song through a microphone moments after Courtney and Miranda walk from the area, they easily could have heard it.
* [[The Pollyanna]] - Brandon Higsby, especially in relation to his monkey.
▲* [[Power Trio]] - Dodie is the Id, Macie is the Super-Ego and Ginger is the Ego.
* [[Precocious Crush]] - Carl develops a crush on [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|an eccentric old lady]] he met at a nursing home, even considering their friendship to be a [[May-December Romance]]. Heck, he was about to propose to her with [[Squick|a worm shaped into a ring]], but {{spoiler|she died suddenly at the dinner table. He keeps her gallstone as a memento of her.}}
* [[Race Lift]] - [[Word of God]] has it that Miranda was originally white, but they redesigned her as black to introduce more diversity to the cast.
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** Darren too. Curiously in his original form he had ''gray hair.''
* [[Reason You Suck Speech]]: Darren gives Dodie a minor one in "The Easter Ham."
* [[Relationship Upgrade]] - Ginger and Darren.▼
* [[Redheaded Hero]] - Ginger and, in a way, Carl.
▲* [[Relationship Upgrade]] - Ginger and Darren.
* [[Rich Bitch]] - Courtney, who's more of a [[
** Miranda is a straighter example.
* [[Rich in Dollars, Poor In Sense]]: Courtney
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