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Not recommended for anyone over the age of twelve, but worth seeing just for how the writers managed to come up with tension without much on-screen violence or if you grew up with the show and see well it was back then to now. And keep an eye out for [[Special Guest|Julia Stiles, Samuel L. Jackson, and Spike Lee in guest roles]].
If you're looking for the trope that could have gone here, see [[Playing Cyrano]]. Not to be confused with a ''literary'' [
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* [[Adult Fear]]:
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* [[Education Mama]]: Tina's parents, who especially won't let Tina's older brother drop out of school to join a band, and scold Tina herself for not helping out enough around the home.
* [[Feet of Clay]]: Almost every episode.
* [[
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Briefly, before cast changes made it moot.
* [[Five
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Every episode.
* [[Functional Magic]]: Ghostwriter's abilities are very precisely defined.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: After Jamal's Grandma interrupts his fantasy about the girl he likes, he's reluctant to stand up.
* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: Who is Max Mouse? To be fair, it's a little more plausible than other examples
* [[Hot
* [[Immigrant Parents]]: Alex and Gaby's parents are from El Salvador, and Tina's are from Vietnam.
* [[Inexplicably Awesome]]: Ghostwriter is this.
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* [[Put On a Bus]]: Rob moved to Australia.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]
* [[Revival]]: 1997's ''The New Ghostwriter Mysteries'', which aired on CBS, replaced the entire cast, and made a number of other changes to the series ([[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, it's that girl from]] ''[[Harriet the Spy]]''!).
* [[The Rival]]: Calvin.
* [[Sesame Workshop]]: Produced this show.
* [[Shell Shocked Senior]]: Rob's homeless friend Double T is strongly hinted to have PTSD from his time in the Vietnam War.
* [[Shout
{{quote| '''Gooey Gus''': [[Sesame Street|"It's not easy being purple!"]]}}
* [[Show Within a Show]]: Gaby is a huge fan of the ''Galaxy Girl'' TV series.
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* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]
* [[Very Special Episode]]: The episode "What's Up With Alex?" centered on Alex being accused of smoking marijuana by his father. It even aired with a warning that the episode would deal with issues that kids would need to ask their parents about for more information when it first aired on PBS. It never re-aired on Noggin.
* [[Viewer
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: What seemed to be the basis of many plot points/storytelling tactics.
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: Rob's father initially thinks he should be more athletic.
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