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* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|The baby elephant}} in the sequel.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: The page quote.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Nanny McPhee herself, for [[wikipedia:Nurse Matilda]]. To be honest, though, ''Nanny McPhee'' started as ana faithful adaptation of ''Nurse Matilda''; the character and movie were renamed to avoid confusion with Danny Devito's film ''[[Matilda]]''. However, the sequel moved very firmly into "[[Suggested By]]" territory.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: From a ''bird'' of all things (in the sequel).
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]s: Mr. Brown's partners at the funeral agency -- Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls.
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* [[Food Fight]]: Two -- one near the beginning with chaos, catapults and near-explosions, and {{spoiler|one at the wedding at the end, including wedding cake being thrown. Not to mention the one who kicks it all off is a priest toward the bride -- accidentally, but still.}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the sequel, a [[British Royal Guard]] turns out to be one of Nanny McPhee's children from the past. {{spoiler|So was Mrs. Dottie -- maiden name Brown.}}
* [[Fridge Logic]]: The sequel's climax. Why do they have a manual explaining in detail how to defuse an enemy bomb in plain English, and why does that bomb have a timer if it is supposed to explode on impact?
** {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance]] Because Nanny McPhee made it happen with her magic. It was lesson four -- To Be Brave.}}
* [[Gasshole]]: A crow's habit of eating putty turns it into one. [[Running Gag|Consistently.]]
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: A few ''[[Harry Potter]]'' actors star in these movie, including Imelda Staunton (Dolores [[The Umbridge|Umbridge]]) as The Chef, Kelly MacDonald (The Grey Lady/Helena Ravenclaw), Dame Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall), Rhys Ifans (Xenophilius Lovegood) and {{spoiler|Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort)}} in the sequel, and Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney) as the eponymous nanny.
** Hey, it's that kid from ''[[Love Actually]]''!
** [[Angela Lansbury]]?
** [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], [[Little Nicky|Rhys Ifans]] and {{spoiler|Ewan MacGregor}} in the sequel.
** It's Mordred from the BBC's ''[[Merlin]]'' in the sequel!
** [[Bridget Jones|Mr. Darcy]]/Bertie is raising a family all on his own
* [[Inexplicably Awesome]]
* [[Leap of Faith]]: In the sequel film, one of Nanny McPhee's medals is for Leaps of Faith and, at the end of the film, she awards it to the mother.
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* [[Missing Mom]]
* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: Some of the trailers for the sequel film included quite a bit of material that didn't make into the final cut of the film, though some of it was included in deleted scenes.
* [[Novelization]]: There's one for ''Nanny McPhee Returns'' and it's written by Emma Thompson, who plays Nanny McPhee and was the writer for this sequel film. It's her first ever children's book and it takes the form of a movie filming diary mixed in with the actual story. The book was praised by reviewers as being more than a simple tie-in. The audiobook version of the novelization is narrated by Emma.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and the country girl successfully filches the uncle's pen. When the uncle finds three more in a drawer, Nanny McPhee intervenes by bringing back [[Brick Joke|the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on the country girl...
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Implied. Nanny McPhee asks Norman to not lose her stick as the paperwork to replace it is unbelievable.
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