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{{quote|''"[...] You [[Weirdness Magnet|attract the paranormal]] like dogs attract fleas."''|'''Spencer'''}}
''[[The Zack Files]]'' was a Canadian live-action paranormal show that aired in the early Noughties that was [[Adaptation Displacement|apparently based off of a book series]]. The show revolved around Zack Greenburg and his friends [[High School Hustler|Cameron]], [[Seeker Archetype|Spencer]], and [[The Smurfette Principle|Gwen]] as they experience various paranormal hijinks thanks to Zack essentially having a literal [[Weirdness Magnet]]-gene. Spencer chronicles these adventures, which he dubs "[[Title Drop|The Zack Files]]" in his hopes of studying and proving the existence of the paranormal.
Coincidentally, this show has [[Only So Many Canadian Actors|pretty much the same cast]] as ''[[Black Hole High]]'', and a number of the actors wound up on ''[[Degrassi]]''.
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* [[Alone with the Psycho]]
* [[Clip Show]]: The penultimate episode, "Who Did You Say I Was?", Zack gets amnesia and the others have to remind him of his adventures.
* [[Cultural Translation]]: The book series took place in [[New York City]]; the TV show, being made in Canada, moved the setting to [[Toronto]].
* [[Extremely Overdue Library Book]]: The pilot episode had Zack borrowing [[Alice in Wonderland]], thus making it months overdue. Despite trying to return the book without getting into trouble, it was then he realized that a page was torn out and stolen by Vernon. Since Zack's a [[Weirdness Magnet]], the torn page brought the characters to life and placed Zack on trial for this very trope, until Vernon revealed himself to be the actual culprit.
* [[Gender Bender]]: In one episode, Zack turns into a girl after trying some girls' deodorant.
** [[Gender Bender Friendship]]: In a slight twist on the usual trope, he spends his time trying to set Gwen up with Cameron, not with himself.
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