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* [[Book Dumb]]: Claudia. Poor, poor Claudia.
* [[Bookworm]]: Mallory
* [[Bratty Half
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Dawn has probably the worst example of this trope in ''Here Come the Bridesmaids!'' when her father is getting remarried. She all but pitches a fit because her stepmother-to-be doesn't want to have Mary Anne as a bridesmaid as well as Dawn. Remember, Mary Anne is Dawn's stepsister on her ''mother's'' side and is not remotely related to Dawn's father, let alone his new bride.
* [[Busman's Holiday]]: Probably the worst example was when the girls were in New York and a British diplomat oh-so-conveniently staying in the same building as Stacey's friend Laine needed two thirteen-year-old baby-sitters to show his kids around the city.
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* [[Enhance Button]]: In one of the ''Super Mysteries'' specials.
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: There are two out of four white girls from out of state: Stacey, the sophisticated New Yorker, and Dawn, the breezy Californian. Lampshaded in one book where Kristy reminisces about how she first met Shannon (whom she intensely disliked at first) and snarks about the trope in relation to Shannon and her friends, who are all blonde.
* [[Everytown, America]]: Stoneybrook
* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: [[Lampshaded]] by Jessi in ''Hello, Mallory,'' when she snarks that naming a babysitting club "The Baby-sitters Club" is incredibly obvious.
{{quote| '''Jessi:''' I mean, it's like calling a restaurant The Restaurant.}}
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* [[Fan Nickname]]: "K. Ron" (after L. Ron Hubbard) for Kristy and "BSCult" have become popular on some snark communities.
* [[The Film of the Book]]
* [[
* [[Five-Man Band]]: In early books, before the introduction of Mallory and Jessi.
** Literally, [http://catandgirl.com/?p=1022 here].
* [[Five
* [[Flanderization]]: All of the girls' quirks suffered this to some degree with the ghost writers, most notably Kristy's bossiness, Dawn's passion for environmental causes and Claudia's bad spelling.
* [[Food Porn]]: Especially prominent in Dawn and Claudia books.
* [[Four
* [[Frozen in Time]]: The girls spent literally dozens of birthdays, holidays and summers in eighth grade. At one point Claudia was demoted to seventh grade, but the others stayed in place. They finally finished middle school in the last book of the ''Friends Forever'' spinoff.
* [[Full-Name Basis]]: [[Wise Beyond Their Years|Gabbie Perkins]] refers to everybody by their first and last names.
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* [[New Years Resolution]]
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Several, although Mary Anne's cat Tigger is probably the most frequently showcased -- partly because Mary Anne, unlike the others, is an only child.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: It's plausible for a thirteen-year-old girl not to have started her period yet, which makes a reasonable justification for the trope, but it's decidedly less plausible that ''none'' of them would have started menstruating by that age.
** Presumably it's not mentioned because the target age range for the books was a bit younger than thirteen, and they didn't want to freak out the kids (or their parents). One has to wonder, though, how it was deemed allowable to mention bras and bra shopping.
** Kids would know what a bra is ("It's like a double-barrel slingshot!"), but it would be unlikely that their parents would have had the talk with them. Or maybe they do have periods, [[Too Much Information|but it's just not mentioned.]]
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* [[Very Special Episode]]: Several books showcased a particular social issue, including racism, hazing, eating disorders and single parenting. They did not deal with topics like illicit drugs and sexuality, and only briefly touched on alcohol, which might have been considered inappropriate for the target audience.
* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: The main characters got repeatedly introduced and described in every book. [[Lampshaded]] by the various snark communities as being the standard contents of chapter two.
* [[Where There's a Will, There's A Sticky Note]]: Mimi in ''Claudia and the Sad Goodbye''.
* [[Wedding Day]]: Kristy's mother and stepfather, Mary Anne's father and Dawn's mother, Dawn's father and stepmother, two sitting clients, Kristy's father and stepmother...
* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]:
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