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''[[Spells 'R' Us]]'' is a [[Shared Universe]] [[Web Original]] created by Bill Hart in the 1990s. ''Spells R Us'' has a pretty decent fan base and many stories have been created, not just from Bill Hart.
The series revolves around a [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday|Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]] called "Spells 'R' Us". The shop is run by the nameless [[Robe and Wizard Hat|Robe and Hat Wizard]] known only as "The Old Man". Each story usually starts with The Old Man selling some sort of magical product to a disbelieving customer. As the story progresses, the customer will have either a [[Gender Bender]], [[Animorphism]], [[Overnight Age-Up|age progression]], [[Fountain of Youth|age regression]], or [[Fetish Fuel|some other sort of transformation]]. The customer is usually left this way for the rest of his/her life.
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Now anyone in the house after 7 will turn into [[Gender Bender|the opposite sex]]. While "Crissy" and "Terri" retain their guy memories, anyone else will act, think, and look like a girl until 2 a.m. (when the spell wears off). This plot was written by Bill Hart, and takes up the storyline of Bill Hart's stories.
However,many fans now write their own stories. Theses stories focus less on the events with Terry and Chris and more with the other vic-*cough*- uh, customers of The Old Man's shop. All of those stories have built some sort of cannon while ignoring Bill Harts saga, this unnofficial cannon sprang many sub-universes, among them Bikini Beach, about a magical Women-only genderrbending water park in California owned by an old gipsy witch (known only as "The Witch" or "The Old Woman"), who is a good friend of the Old Man.
Stories can be found all over the web. Most of them (if not all) can be found at [http://fictionmania.tv/searchdisplay/storycatdisplay.html?word=1025 fictionmania.]
A small collection can be found at [http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/sru/ this angelfire page] and [http://tsa.transform.to/worlds/sru/index.html this archive of TF stories.] All three contain Bill Hart's first story: "A Strangeness at The Frat House."
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* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]
* [[And I Must Scream]]
* [[Luke, I Might Be Your Father|Anya, I Might be your GrandFather]]
* [[The Apprentice (trope)|The Apprentice]]: Many early stories attempted to give the Old Man an apprentice/assistant without much success, until "Possibilities" introduced Dannie. Anya is this to the Witch.
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: No one in these stories ends up looking like anything less than either a supermodel or worse'
** Averted in "Strangeness At The Sorority House." {{spoiler|Until the end at least.}}
* [[Breakout Character]]: Dannie, the snarky Wizard's apprentice.
* [[Breast Expansion]]
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Dee Dee to Terry. The reasons why is a LONG story, but the short version is [[Love Potion]].
** Luckily, by the end of "A Strangeness Returns," {{spoiler|her memories of Terry are erased.}}
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Whatever The Old Man acts like in each story. Sometimes he's a nice guy who will help with your problem after selling you the damn thing (only if you ask though). Sometimes he's a [[Jerkass]] who changes people for the hell of it and just changes their memories so he doesn't get in trouble.
** And what the girls are like.
** The Old Man's age, in some stories he is young enough to have a teenaged nephew, in some others he over a century old and some others have him as old as time itself.
* [[Different for Girls]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Never, never try to steal from the Old Man.
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* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]
* [[First Law of Gender Bending]]
* Foreshadowing: Whenever the Old Man warns a customer
* [[Gender Bender]]
* [[Ironic Hell]]
* [[Jumping the Gender Barrier]]: A common plot involves a man becoming a girl and hooking up with his former best friend who may be either a straight man or a lesbian girlfriend.
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* [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]] : A victim will sometimes find find the store again and sometimes not
* [[Love Triangle]]: After Terry {{spoiler|is forced to be Terri for 9 months (hint, hint)}}, and Chris has to be her boyfriend during that time, the triangle becomes Dannie-Chris- {{spoiler|Terri.}}
* [[No Name Given]]: The Wizard, The Bikini Beach Witch.
** {{spoiler|some early stories name him Anselm}}.
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]]: Certain "effects" of [[Monster of the Week|each story's product]] will start up this trope. Which will lead to the [[First Law of Gender Bending|First]], [[Second Law of Gender Bending|Second]], and [[Third Law of Gender Bending]].
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]- The Old Man. Although, it's only the robe. And it's described as "a bath robe."
* [[Shapeshifting]]
* [[Shared Universe]]: With the Bikini Beach stories by ElrodW
* [[Second Law of Gender Bending]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: The story 'Jessica' which features the protagonist after watching the movie turning into...well Jessica Rabbit.
* [[Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot]]
* [[Strictly Formula]]
* [[Third Law of Gender Bending]]
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