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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Used in the last episode of series 2 by the girls to prevent the school from being sold where they claim it's not just small, it's miniscule.
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Happened twice in the television series where the story would focus on Sybil's class whilst the main cast were away▼
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Enid Nightshade went from being blonde in the books to having brown hair in the tv series. In the earlier television movie, Mildred (black hair) and Maud (blonde) both turned brunette.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The series has gone through this several times over. The TV movie padded itself with sequences including a "scaring contest" and an early sequence with Punk Charlotte Rae, and the later series would pad the same adaptation by using the "Ethel's a pig" sequence as the basis for an entire episode (introducing a whole new character in Mr Blossom's nephew Charlie), while adding in a climactic chase through the school grounds. It's otherwise managed to incorporate adaptations of the next three books pretty much as-is (although ''The Worst Witch Strikes Again'' was made into two separate episodes).
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* [[Cultural Translation]]: Mildred is American in the movie even though it was a British production, filmed in Britain with a mostly British cast.
* [[Cute Witch]]: Mildred is an extremely [[Cute Clumsy Girl|clumsy]] one.
▲* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Happened twice in the television series where the story would focus on Sybil's class whilst the main cast were away
* [[Denied Food as Punishment]]: In the tv movie, Miss Cackle sends Mildred straight to bed without supper after wrecking the broomstick display. She isn't sadistic though, in fact earlier in the film when Mildred is sent to her office she doesn't act nasty at all.
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: Tim Curry, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmG80v473AI&feature=related Halloween Song]
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* [[School Play]]: There's two... nearly. One episode featured the girls rehearsing for a production of The Selfish Giant, only for Enid to drop the scenery on Ethel. The production is never mentioned in after that episode though other episodes imply Miss Drill does them regularly. The Christmas Special the following year featured the characters in a pantomime of Cinderella.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Miss Crotchet for Miss Bat in the third season of the television series. Also Mr. Blossom's brother.
* [[Teacher's Pet]]: Belladonna in ''The New Worst Witch'' often plays this role, especially in the first series, though unlike most examples of the trope she has no ''real'' respect or admiration for the teachers and is basically just sucking up to them in order to make herself look good and everyone else look bad.▼
* [[Those Two Guys]]: There were at least three seperate sets.
** Fenella and Griselda
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* [[Token Minority|Token Minorities]]: Ruby, a Token Black, and Jadu, a Token Asian in the tv series.
** Azmat Madari in ''Weirdsister College'' would also count.
▲* [[Teacher's Pet]]: Belladonna in ''The New Worst Witch'' often plays this role, especially in the first series, though unlike most examples of the trope she has no ''real'' respect or admiration for the teachers and is basically just sucking up to them in order to make herself look good and everyone else look bad.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Hobbes in ''Weirdsister College.'' There's no doubting that he isn't an entirely pleasant person, but as the last episode reveals, he was bullied some point prior to coming to the college, and it could be argued much of his behaviour stems from that.
** Ethel could arguably be considered a female version of this trope. Yes, she's unpleasant, but there also seems to be an implication of having to live up to family standards - it's notable in ''Weirdsister College'' when asked why she came to the college she responds with simply "I'm a Hallow". This is shown with her interactions with Sybil during their time at Cackles; both have to live up to extreme family standards.
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