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* [[Always Identical Twins]]: Abby and Anna, Marilyn and Carolyn, Mariah and Miranda, not to mention the Pike triplets.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Ducky, in the ''California Diaries''. His best friends are all platonic teenage girls, and his last scene in the series has him buying a ton of books from a bunch of gay authors.
** Some fans suspect that Kristy fits this trope. She could occasionally be persuaded to wear a dress, and did have an on-off "boyfriend" named Bart, but never seemed to take as much of an interest in him as the other girls did with their own boyfriends (then finally broke up with him.) And in the movie, as [[
* [[Amicably Divorced]]: Watson and Lisa
* [[Arc]]: Some plotlines spread over a couple of books, such as Kristy adjusting to her stepfamily. At the end of the series {{spoiler|Mary Anne's house burned down}}, which was the background for the ''Friends Forever'' spinoff.
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** They even ''assume'' that they will be taking a [[Busman's Holiday]] wherever they go, such as when Dawn goes to visit her dad in California and remarks that she may babysit for some of her old clients while she's there. You know, because their parents wouldn't have found new sitters since she left the state, and would be so thoughtless as to intrude on her two weeks with her non-custodial parent by asking her to work.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Poor Mallory! [http://community.livejournal.com/bsc_snark/39867.html Here's a list.]
* [[Character Name and
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Naturally the kid gets paired with [[Book Dumb|Claudia]].
* [[Christmas in July]]: The BSC throw a "Christmas in Summer" party for sitting charge James Hobart, who is Australian, to cheer him up when he has a broken leg. This happened again at summer camp.
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* [[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
{{quote| '''Jessi:''' I mean, it's like calling a restaurant The Restaurant.}}
* [[Extruded Book Product]]: What eventually happened to the series.
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* [[Off to Boarding School]]: {{spoiler|Mallory}}, although this was actually HER decision.
* [[Official Couple]]: Mary Anne and Logan. Kristy and Bart are an official sort-of-couple, and Stacey's part of a few.
* [[Only Known
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Jessi and Mallory in some of the later books.
* [[Playing Pictionary]]: It is suggested that one say something along the lines of "What a nice picture! Can you tell me about it?" when confronted with a child's drawing, because "you don't want to say 'what a lovely elephant!' and have it turn out to be a picture of their grandmother."
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** Similarly, Mary Anne's late mother was named Abigail in the fourth book, but later books identify her as Alma. This is also fixed in reprints.
** There was a short spinoff series where each of the girls writes an autobiography. They must have been written by different writers, because Kristy, Mary Anne, and Claudia have conflicting memories of their elementary school years (when they all knew each other).
* [[Rhymes
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: Claudia frequently writes like this.
* [[The Rival]]: Cokie. Also, one book featured the girls facing off against a rival babysitting club.
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* [[Secret Santa]]
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Mary Anne; Kristy's little stepbrother Andrew is presented this way too.
** Charlotte Johanssen, [[Depending
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Claudia and Janine, Abby and Anna, Karen and Andrew
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Dawn, Mallory, Jessi, Abby.
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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
* [[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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