Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)/YMMV

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  • Adaptation Displacement: Not only do people not know the show was based on a comic, many elements and characters from the show were used in later versions of the comics (such as Salem originally being human.) There was also a 70s Saturday morning cartoon (Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies) and a TV-movie before the show that no one remembers.
  • Anvilicious: Many of the magical illnesses or other Plot Coupons in the TV series were based around really lame Aesops. (Too vain, turn your boyfriend into wolf-boy. Try to use magic to get your rival out of your hair, nope, now you're tied to her.) Lampshaded by Sabrina. (See Freudian Excuse on the main page.)
  • Book Dumb: Aunt Hilda.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Salem again.
  • Fetish Fuel: In "Driving Mr. Goodman", Sabrina uses magic to turn herself into an Amazonian Beauty to take a gym belle down a peg, even using a Bavarian accent for no adequately explained reason.
    • In "Sabrina Unplugged," Sabrina enters a computer to delete footage that caught her perform magic. Before she can get out, her co-workers see her on the screen and assume she's just a picture. They have a little fun altering "the picture" - giving her a Breast Expansion, a tight red dress, matching heels and more body to her blonde hair. And because technology did this, she can't simply later undo this with magic.
    • For those with a fat or body expansion fetish, there's the episode where Sabrina stuffs herself with pancakes until she bloats out to the point of barely being able to fit through the front door.
  • Flanderization: When we meet Morgan in season 5 she is of course shallow and a bit spacey but completely capable and in control of herself. But then in season 7 she is a complete ditz.
    • Aunt Hilda gets Flanderized from being the slightly more easy going of the two aunts to being a ditzy slacker. The best example is her music career: she goes from being a skilled orchestral violinist in the first season to having to be nagged into doing any practicing at all by her sister in the third.
  • Fridge Brilliance - Donald Faison played the exact same character when he appeared in Magic Joel (season 1) and Rumour Mill (Season 2); that's why he wanted to become a magician's assistant when he appeared in the mortal realm in Magic Joel.
    Likewise, Lindsay Sloane was the same character in Sabrina and in Bring It On. She was so sick of being a victim that she dyed her hair and changed personality entirely when she moved. That or she accidentally drank a confidence/ambition potion.
  • Funny Aneurysm Moment: Sabrina's evil twin being named Katrina takes on a darker tone when you think about the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina (which happened two years after the show ended).
  • Retroactive Recognition: A young Ryan Reynolds plays a bleach-blonde bad boy in the pilot movie.
  • Tear Jerker: The Season 6 episode "The Whole Ball of Wax". I almost began crying at the end when it looked like Sabrina's mom died from being next to an ironer!
  • The Woobie: Try to resist the impulse to hug Amanda at the of the Season 7 episode "Bada-Ping", when she realizes she's the cause of Sabrina's predicted death. (A prediction that, thankfully, never comes to pass.)
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