Nanny McPhee: Difference between revisions

* [[Beauty Inversion]]: spun into a ''plot point'' for Nanny McPhee. {{spoiler|Every time the children learn something, one of her many hideous blemishes disappear. By the time her job is done, she's a completely unblemished Emma Thompson. Essentially, she's as ugly on the outside ''as they are on the inside''.}}

* [[Be Careful What You Say]]: see [[Playing Sick]] below.

* [[Berserk Button]]: in the sequel. One of the city kids deliberately takes a jar of jam the farm kids were saving for their [[Disappeared Dad]]. And it breaks. They go justifiably postal.

* [[Blitz Evacuees]]: The cousins from London. {{spoiler|Though that wasn't the only reason...}}

* [[Continuity Nod]]: In the sequel, {{spoiler|Mrs. Dottie was the youngest Brown child from the previous movie.}}

* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: The chef, specifically when she makes her 'army broth'.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: the premise of the sequel.

* [[Expy]]: Nanny McPhee is [[Mary Poppins]]. Only more interesting.

* [[Fake Brit]]: Maggie Gyllenhall proudly takes her place on the list of "American actors who can actually do a convincing English accent".

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Implied. Nanny McPhee asks Norman to not lose her stick as the paperwork to replace it is unbelievable.

* [[Phrase Catcher]]: "I did knock." Although it is more like a borrowed (by Simon) [[Catch Phrase]].

* [[Playing Sick]]: The children try this on Nanny McPhee, but she doesn't buy it for a second. {{spoiler|And she punishes them for it by making them sick for real and physically unable to get out of their beds. Ouch!}}

** {{spoiler|They also Played Attacked-By-Bees at the wedding. It worked.}}

* [[Rags to Riches]]: {{spoiler|Evangeline, who gets taken in by Aunt Adelaide in place of one of the children.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Really 700 Years Old]]: If the fact that she's the same in both movies despite a possible time difference of ''60 years'' is any indication.}}