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Part of NBC's TNBC programming block in the 90's, California Dreams was another Peter Engel "sitcom for teens" much like his most popular creation ''[[SavedByTheBell Saved By the Bell]]''. Starting out as a fairly formulaic sitcom for the first season, it eventually became more like Engel's previous hit with the focus shifting to the teens and their lives. The show is notable for having an almost [[{{Anvilicious}} anviliciously]] multi-ethnic lead cast[[note]]probably second only to later offering ''One World'', which gave us a multiethnic ''adopted family''[[/note]] and the Aesops that each show had when it wasn't doing [[VerySpecialEpisode very special episodes]] as a result.

!!This series provide examples of:

* AllCheeringAllTheTime: One episode had three cheerleaders bid on a dating auction this way. As a RunningGag, they reappear a few more times in the episode; cheering whenever they speak to or interact with anybody
* CatchPhrase: Sly's "Ba-boom!" is this.
-->'''Jake''': "Jake Sommers doesn't do ______"
-->'''Sly''': "I'm not ___________, It's just that __________"
* DemotedToExtra: Before being [[PutOnABus Put On A Bus]] (see below) the Garrison family, except for Matt and Jenny, had this happen to them between the first and second seasons.
* DrillSergeantNasty: A cooking class teacher acts like this. In a later episode, she becomes the vice principal.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Sly's name is Sylvester ''Leslie'' Winkle.
* FollowTheLeader: A pretty clear case, with this one coming directly on the heels of Engel's ''SavedByTheBell''.
* FunWithSubtitles: On the episode "Dancing Isn't Everything," Maria tells Sly, "Ah, yo no te besaria ni con los labios de mi perro.", with subtitles reading "I wouldn't kiss you with my dog's lips," although she tells him it means, "We'll kiss after we win. It'll be sweeter in victory." Later on the episode, Sly asks her about the sentence, with the subtitles coming up again, and she says, "I meant every word of it," and '''points to the subtitles,''' with Sly reading them and saying, "'I wouldn't kiss you with my...' Oh man."
* {{Gasshole}}: Tiffani is seen belching loudly on several occasions.
* {{Homage}}: Jake's daydream has him playing a bongo drum to Lorena, while Tony and Sam (as his married landlords) listen at a close distance, and the sequence is called "I Love Lorena". [[ILoveLucy Now why does this seem familiar?]]
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Lorena. The ep where she attempts to join the band (and only kept on thanks to Jake) is called "YokoOhNo!"
* MotorMouth: Sam starts out as this to combat her own insecurity toward life in a foreign land. She drops it eventually.
* PutOnABus: The entire Garrison family, though not all at the same time.
* RightBehindMe: Tiffany once talks loudly of Matt's most recent break-up to Jenny, unaware of Matt being right behind her and Jenny's more subtle hints until Jenny makes a more obvious one. Jenny isn't happy about Tiffany's obliviousness: "What did you think I was doing -- scratch my neck?"
* SpoiledSweet: Lorena.
* TakeAThirdOption: A guy Jenny and Tiffany both fall for simultaneously has two concert tickets and offers one of the girls to go with him, causing the jealousy-driven tension between the two girls to intensify. In the end, a decision is made: [[spoiler: The girls take the tickets and go with each other instead, leaving the guy wondering what just happened.]]
* WildTeenParty: Considering that the show eventually became a teen-oriented sitcom, this was bound to happen. And so it did -- more than once.

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