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* [[Badass Normal]]: If doesn’t matter if you have superpowers or not, mess with Suga Mama and you’re asking for trouble.
** [[Mama Bear]]: Suga Mama may put Oscar through a lot but mess with her family, and it’s over for you.
** [[Never Mess with Granny]]:
* [[Balloon Belly]]: Penny and Dijonay in Tween Town, where their gluttony in a world without adults leads to their stomachs bulging right out from under their shirts.
* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: Penny finds this out the hard way when she decides to make it big by performing a [[Face Heel Turn]] and then publishing a tell-all about being a bad girl - she alienates everyone, disappoints her teacher to the point of tears, and gets sent to boot camp. She escapes, but the Gross Sisters won't shelter her, she misses her family (who she knows won't take her back), and she has nowhere else to go, so she decides to reform and get back to normal life.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: LaCienega's name means "the bog/swamp" in Spanish, as a way to reflect how rude and cruel she can be.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Penny befriends a Muslim girl whose family is every bit as dysfunctional-yet-loving as hers. However, their house is vandalized, complete with graffiti saying "Go back home, towelheads!" (changed to "Go back to your country!" in reruns) Although Penny delivers a moving anti-racism speech at a school assembly, [[Karma Houdini|the vandals are never caught]].
* [[Black and Nerdy]]: Myron
* [[Boot Camp Episode]]: Penny becomes a bad girl and is sent to a boot camp style reformatory.
* [[Bowdlerization]]: In the aforementioned episode about Islamophobia, the spray-painted message was changed to "Go back to your country!"
* [[Bumbling Dad]]: Oscar's a minor example. He's prone to screwing up a lot but he ''is'' a good parent, albeit one who can really baby Penny at times.
▲* [[Broken Aesop]]: Quite Frequently
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Things never seem to go Oscar's way, although sometimes he does deserve the bad stuff that happens to him. A recurring example of this is that when ever the family gets invited to anything, he isn't included.
* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]: The moment Penny turns out the lights in the episode "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thingy Baby."
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* [[Celebrity Star]]: Al Roker, Lou Rawls, and Smokey Robinson and several others make appearances as themselves. Al Roker appears in 2 episodes.
** Note that in his two appearances, he's evil.
* [[Christmas Episode]]:
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Penny's friends, especially Dijonay.
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Trudy, sort of. She isn't prone to foolish behavior like Oscar, but can be seriously petty and cruel towards him.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: Penny and her friends are fourteen and in middle school during the series. In [[The Movie]], she turns sixteen. The twins remain babies the entire time.
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Suga Mama. As mean as she can be to her son, she's a wonderful grandma to Penny.
* [[Couch Gag]]: During the [[Title Sequence]] in most episodes, Oscar opens and closes the door on Penny's friends, one or two other people who will appear in the episode, and then Suga Mama, who opens the door and forces her way in anyways.
* [[Credit Card Plot]]: Penny gets a credit card and it talks to her.
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** In “Love Thy Neighbor”, Felix explains that having duck-like feet is common in the Boulevardez family. When Suga Mama asks Papi to show if that’s true, she gets aroused upon confirmation. If one knows about the urban legend about foot size, then one would also ask HOW DID THAT GET INTO A CHILDREN SHOW!
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Trudy and Diana.
* [[Growling Gut]]: Penny's stomach growls in ''Culture Shock'' when she has to fast along with the Muslim family she's staying with for Ramadan. Suga Mama's stomach also growls in ''Wedding Bell Blues'', causing her to eat a slice of wedding cake that turns her from thin and beautiful to fat and wrinkly again.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: This show heavily relied on this trope. [[The Other Wiki]] states that the show holds the record for having the most guest stars in an original Disney series.
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: The Gross Sisters specialize in these kinds of schemes.
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* [[I Feel Guilty You Take It]]: LaCienega and Agatha enter an American Idol-style Music Reality Show, sponsored by Wizard Kelly, [[La Cienega]], being prettier than Agatha, wins due to a fix by Wizard Kelly, "Beauty sells, Ugly Repels, y'all" Penny finds out and tells [[La Cienega]] that if she doesn't make things right, she'll have bad Karma. [[La Cienega]] gives the prize to Agatha, who, in turn, shares it with her citing fairness.
** This would've been a nice Aesop...[[Broken Aesop|if LaCinega didn't instantly threaten Penny after giving up her prize by demanding "she better get something out of it."]]
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: As Oscar says, "PEN-NAY!"
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Suga Mama was gorgeous as a younger woman, and when she briefly loses weight for her wedding she looks exactly the same as she did then, albeit with white hair instead of black.
* [[Jerkass]]: For a family friendly show, there are a lot of unlikeable characters here.
** Too many to count in this show, every character has their jerkass moments, heck even sweet Zoey and the wonderful Mama-Trudy. Dijonay really takes the cake: she constantly uses Penny, and ditches her at the drop of a hat, yet when Penny does something wrong in the friendship, [[Double Standard|then Penny is a flat out]] [[Sarcasm Mode|horrible]] [[Double Standard|friend.]] Sometimes Dijonay even [[Karma Houdini|gets away with]] her jerkass-ness. Normally, a girl with Sass is awesome... but Dijonay averts that concept most definitely!
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* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: pretty much everyone on this show, except for the few occasions where they dress up.
** It's sort of a running gag that whenever the girls dress up, they'll rip off the normal outfits and have the new ones underneath, but Penny will just have another one of her usual outfit underneath. She'll then try a couple more times, with the same results, until she ends up quickly ripping off a lot of the same outfit until she finally gets to the new one. The [[Credit Card Plot]] episode even made fun of this where her mother bought her a bunch of copies of the same outfit.
* [[Literal Genie]]: Al Roker. Yes, ''that'' Al Roker. However, the wishes he grants Penny always blow up in her face.
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: LaCienaga was originally a full-fledged [[Alpha Bitch]] and antagonized Penny, but they eventually become friends and she rounds out the [[Four-Girl Ensemble]].
* [[Kent Brockman News]]: Marsha Mitsubishi.
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* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Penny's aunt Diana is always seen wearing a fancy green fur coat. Even when playing football.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: There was actually some debate because Papi looked "too white" to be hispanic. It's no secret Lacieniga counts as hispanic (She and her mom are darker skinned than Felix, who's tan) but some assumed that Felix was half hispanic, and that his mom was. However, it's fully possible for Papi to be white but still be hispanic, there are plenty of hispanics who can be considered white. Heck, just look at [[Guillermo del Toro]].
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Wizard Kelly is a gender-flipped version, and a raging narcissist who loves to flaunt his extreme wealth and influence.
* [[Running Gag]]: Oscar's "rivalry" with the talking baby
* [[Secret Ingredient]]: Suga Mama's cooking is so delicious because [[Exact Words|she put her foot in it]]. Normally this is just a turn of phrase, but she meant it literally, and revealed it on a national TV show which caused everyone to get sick.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]:
** Bobby, y'all!
** Wizard Kelly, y'all.
** And Sir Paid A Lot, Dawg!
* Unrequited Love: Dijonay/Sticky
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