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** 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.

* [[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.

* [[Art Evolution]] - Contender for Most Triumphant Example--the show very carefully aged the characters as it progressed.

** Darren is arguably the best example in the show, slowly developing from a scrawny teen with head gear to a really in-shape young man due to him playing football in High School.

* [[Artistic License History]] - The beginning of "Next Question" has the answer to the trivia question "In what year was Abraham Lincoln first ''elected'' into office?" being "1860." Not true—he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1846.

* [[Back to School]]

** 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.

* [[Daddy Didn't Show]] - The episode "Hello Stranger."

* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Miranda. Macie, at times. Also, Ginger's mom.

* [[Disappeared Dad]] - At the start of the series, Ginger and Carl's father is nowhere to be found, but is referred to as still alive. He first appears in the [[Christmas Episode]], where he and Carl talk about his lackluster parenting. Afterwards, he resolves to be more involved in his family's lives and makes recurring appearances.

** In another episode Ginger writes a fake love letter to Dodie from a secret admirer and, when writing, asks how to spell "voluptuous". Dodie is '''twelve'''.

* [[Girl Next Door]] - Switched as the lead is female and Darren is the boy-next-door

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely|He Cleans Up Nicely]] - Darren upon getting his braces off.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] - Carl and Hoodsey

** [[Tomoe Hanba]] dubbed Ginger in Japanese.

* [[Iconic Item]] - Darren only has his headgear in the first season, and they're off for the rest of the series. But they are still one of his most recognized features, and the opening credits stay the same throughout the show's run.

* [[Important Haircut]] - In the special "Foutleys on Ice" Ginger gets her hair straightened and given a blue streak to signify how much she's changed away from home.

* [[It's All About Me]] - Dodie.

** Mipsy manages to be even worse. At least Miranda shows a few occasional moments of compassion. Mipsy shows nothing but cruelty towards her (except for that one time when she and the others needed her help and that was pragmatism.) She masterminded the plan to get Ginger set away (granted it was too a really prestigious boarding school but still.) she also spread nasty rumors during the time away and tried to break up the Darren relationship to make her more vulnerable (and there's the whole "defame the school statue.")

* [[Junior High]]

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]- Only the finale and one multi-episode feature has been released on DVD.

* [[Killed Off for Real]] - {{spoiler|Mrs. Gordon}} And Maude, too, in the second episode no less, and in the middle of dinner! Her death became a apart of "I Spy A Witch" where Carl uses her gallstone to conduct a séance to help him prank his mother and help Ginger.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Love Epiphany]]

** Polly also counts, having managed to convince Carl, Blake and Brandon to give up their prized petrified eyeball, pickled tonsils and monkey tooth necklace respectively in the school time capsule saying that clinging to them would be childish and immature. She nearly succeeds in taking them all for herself if the three boys weren't so shocked and had second thoughts as they all showed up to exhume the time capsule to retrieve the objects, only to find that Polly was there first squawking "Finder's Keepers!"

* [[Meaningful Name]] - Lucky Junior High

** Also, Ginger. [[Captain Obvious|She's a ginger.]]

** Miranda is the daughter of a police officer, after all.

* [[Naive Everygirl]]

* [[Noodle Incident]]

{{quote|'''Miranda:''' Wait...Sasha? Camp Caprice Sasha? 'There were copper-colored ponies'-Sasha?}}

** 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.

* [[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.}}

** Can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zEwzOU4-bQ in the pilot].

** 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.

* [[Rich Bitch]] - Courtney, who's more of a [[The Brainless Beauty|Brainless Beauty]] so her bitchiness is not really mean spirited.

** Miranda is a straighter example.

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Hope. She tries to tell Ginger that she'll be a loser if she hangs out with Courtney. The only reason she's now the most popular girl in school is because Ginger helped her gain confidence and advice on how to improve her image

* [[Visit by Divorced Dad]] - Ginger and Carl's dad shows up in a handfull of episodes. He is shown to be more than a little flakey, and it is probably for the best that he wasn't the one with custody of them, considering he doesn't even remember Carl is deathly allergic to peanuts. But he is shown to genuinely care about them.

* [[What Could Have Been]] - The unaired pilot was quite different from the show we know of today. The main difference were the designs and art style. The hair styles were different, Miranda and Darren were [[Race Lift|white]], and the style was similar to the [[Rugrats]] ([[Deranged Animation]] and all).

** The pilot's since been uploaded [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zEwzOU4-bQ here] (though Darren looks more grey than white....).

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]] - In-universe. Ginger wrote a poem about a girl who wants to fly and ends up vanishing. Everyone interprets it as a metaphor for suicidal thoughts, and asks her to get counseling for depression.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]] - In Macie's case, learning about female reproduction.