History Series / Debra

** The only other member of Debra's family who appears in the show is her cousin Marla from Glen Cove, and is only slightly more conventional than our girl.

The only other member of Debra's family who appears in the show is her cousin Marla from Glen Cove, and is only slightly more conventional than our girl.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: The only other member of Debra's family who appears in the show is her cousin Marla from Glen Cove, and is only slightly more conventional than our girl.

* FriendToAllChildren: Debra is in many ways more childlike than her teenage peers who are concerned with meeting social expectations and dating. While the series doesn't show her interacting with younger children much she is shown bonding with Preston's little sister well.

** Brud is the ButtMonkey who provides humor.

** Preston is The OnlySaneMan whose reactions to zany schemes makes for drama and comedy, and is also more successful with the opposite sex than Auzzie due to his self-awareness as his date with Dancy shows.

** Debra is TheSmartGuy who comes up with the schemes who avoids humiliation through relative success and avoiding arrogance.

* TheFashionista: Debra, while always stylishly confident in herself attempts to design clothes for jock girl Josie to wear to the fashion show in "Project Josie".

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Debra frequently does confessionals to talk directly to the audience.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: No doubt Debra comes off this way to many people.

* CassandraTruth: After Debra accidentally shoots him out of a cannon for real instead of the dummy Preston tries to tell his parents that it was him, only for them to think its a joke.

* BookDumb: Brud largely appears to be a slow learner, sadly it leads him to quit his drumming lessons because he can't keep up and opt for karate instead.

* {{Blackmail}}: Gracie to her dad, Officer Lunford when he accidentally causes a blackout trying to change a light bulb.

* BitchAlert: When Dancy first appears she gets a slow motion strut towards the Debra and Preston to signify her Queen Bee persona and status.

* AlphaBitch: Dancy, the self-proclaimed "Queenager" of Camfield High school is of the Passive-Aggressive type. She even has blog with a list of all the reasons she's better than Debra.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dancy starts to find Preston's jokes funny on their "date" after she was initially cold to him and acted confused.

* CanadaDoesNotExist: While the series was produced in Canada it is never mentioned, except implied when Preston makes a reference to UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen in "Designing Auzzie" when an American might colloquially say "The Queen of England".

** Debra and Dancy as waitresses in "Chaz Camfield" the most convincing as they have aged-up clothes, Dancy with a wigs, Debra with a different hairstyle, shoes, attempt to speak with accents and are close in age to actual waitresses.
** Preston, however, is significantly shorter than the real Chef Des Chalet and is very clearly a young boy.
** In Auzzie and Brud's case it's also unlikely that two teenagers would be sent to interview Chef Des Chalet for a receiving an apparently prestigious award.

* PaperThinDisguise: The disguises the gang use in "Chaz Camfield" don't appear too convincing.
** Debra and Dancy as waitresses the most convincing as they have aged-up clothes, Dancy with a wigs, Debra with a different hairstyle, shoes, attempt to speak with accents and are close in age to actual waitresses.

* ImagineSpot: Mr Treadgold has a few in "Spelling Bee Rematch" about being on a topical island in TheBermudaTriangle, while still in school in anticipation of his vacation [[spoiler:before his plans are cancelled by Principal Ridge ordering him to oversee the Spelling Bee rematch.]]
** Plus Auzzie as an old man married to Helen mentioned above.

* AbsenteeActor: Despite its short run and small cast certain cast members were absented from specific episodes:
** Auzzie (Austin [=Mac=]Donald) is absent from "Cannon Have Your Cake".
** Brud (James Coholan) from "Designing Auzzie".
** Dancy (Alicia Josipovic) from "Teen Capsule" and "Let's Party".

** Preston is The OnlySaneMan whose reactions to zany schemes makes for drama and comedy, and is also more successful with the opposite sex than Auzzie due to his self-awareness.

** Auzzie and Dancy both have one each in "Graduating Fenufsky" about how incredible locker 79 is, with Auzzie's focused on how its situated in the middle of various pretty girls and Dancy's on how she can combine it with her's to make a locker mini-mall.

** Auzzie's failure as the school casanova stem from his lack of social understanding.

Debra Delong (Creator/NiamhWilson) is a spirited and kooky 14-year-old girl who sees the best in people and wants to one day start a company specializing in bringing joy into the lives of others. Upon transferring to Camfield High School she starts looking for people who can help achieve for goal in life. The friend she chooses: Preston Lunford (Will Jester), a down-to-earth, if a little cynical boy with a penchant for guitar and magic tricks. Bemused at first, Preston decides that Debra is a good friend and promises to assist her in her zany schemes if she let him improve her often non-existent social skills. Often accompanying them are his bandmates, the smooth talking, but mostly unsuccessful ladies’ man Auzzie and the tall, good-natured, if a little slow Brud. Together they will make every day at Camfield High a new adventure.\\\

''Debra!'' (originally titled and marketed as ''Decidedly Debra!'') is a Canadian tween comedy created by Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers, and produced by Creator/CookieJarEntertainment and aired on the Creator/FamilyChannel. It lasted 13 episodes from 2011 to 2012.\\\

* InkblotTest: Gabby does a rehearsal of one for Jack to pass his annual police psychological evaluation as part of the police force fitness test.