History Series / GortimerGibbonsLifeOnNormalStreet

-> "I've lived my whole life on Normal Street. It has a lake at one end and a forest of shady trees at the other. But what lies in between is anything but normal."

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* TheJinx: Stanley Zielinsky, introduced in "Gortimer vs. the Mobile of Misfortune", introduced as someone who "can lose the coin toss with a two-headed coin" and whose bad luck can affect the people around him. It's later revealed he became this due to using the Mobile of Misfortune to help his mom with getting a job. This ultimately transfers onto Gortimer when he uses the Mobile to give him good luck, and ultimately loses this when Mel fixes the Mobile.

-->-- '''Gortimer Gibbon's foreword before each episode'''

* TheJinx: Stanley Zielinsky, introduced in Gortimer vs. the Mobile of Misfortune, introduced as someone who "can lose the coin toss with a two-headed coin" and whose bad luck can affect the people around him. It's later revealed he became this due to using the Mobile of Misfortune to help his mom with getting a job. This ultimately transfers onto Gortimer when he uses the Mobile to give him good luck, and ultimately loses this when Mel fixes the Mobile.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: The titular Mobile of Misfortune, which allows someone to manipulate luck, usually in the form of making someone lucky and someone else unlucky. According to Ranger, it was invented by Mr. Perez after being jealous of how lucky his neighbor, Mr. Lee was. He was able to use it to take Lee's luck, only for him [[LaserGuidedKarma to lose his house along with Lee's when it caught fire from Lee's house suffering from a grease fire, with the only thing remaining being the Mobile.]]

* WindsOfDestinyChange: The titular Mobile of Misfortune, invented by Mr. Perez after being jealous of how lucky his neighbor was, allows someone to mainpulate luck, usually in the form of making someone lucky and someone else unlucky. Both Stanley and Gortimer become TheJinx after using it to make someone else lucky (His mom and Stanley, respectively), and end up accidentally giving everyone on Normal Street bad luck when they cause the mobile to crash.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: The titular Mobile of Misfortune, invented by Mr. Perez after being jealous of how lucky his neighbor was, allows someone to make someone lucky at the cost of making someone else unlucky.. Both Stanley and Gortimer become TheJinx after using it to make someone else lucky (His mom and Stanley, respectively), and ultimately they lock up the mobile in such a way to prevent someone else using it after they accidently give everyone in town bad luck.

%%* AwesomeMcCoolName: C'mon, who doesn't want a name like ''Gortimer Gibbon?'' %%Does not explain the trope

''Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street'' is a 2015 Creator/PrimeVideo original series created by David Anaxagoras. It follows the [[CharacterTitle eponymous]] Gortimer Gibbon (Sloane Morgan Siegel), his two best friends Melody "Mel" Fuller (Ashley Boettcher) and Ranger Bowen (Drew Justice) and their many [[IronicName zany misadventures on Normal Street]] -- an ordinary-looking suburb that's not so ordinary beneath the surface.

''Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street'' is a 2015 Creator/PrimeVideo original series created by David Anaxagoras. It follows the [[CharacterTitle eponymous]] [[NiceGuy Gortimer Gibbon]] (Sloane Morgan Siegel), his two best friends [[BrainyBrunette Melody "Mel" Fuller]] (Ashley Boettcher) and [[PluckyComicRelief Ranger Bowen]] (Drew Justice) and their many zany misadventures on [[IronicName Normal Street]] -- an ordinary-looking suburb that's not so ordinary beneath the surface.

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* AlliterativeName / AwesomeMcCoolName: C'mon, who doesn't want a name like ''Gortimer Gibbon?''

* HighSchoolDance: "Gortimer vs. the Abnormal Formal" centers around one; the Normal Formal.

* LoveInterest: Abigail is one for Gortimer.
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: [[Literature/TheFaultInOurStars "Gortimer vs. The Fault in Our Street"]]
* TeenGenius: Mel is capable of building robots and time machines even though she's a middle schooler.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the climax of "Mel vs. the Future", [[spoiler: Mel contemplates whether or not to travel into to the future with her adult self in order to find a way to bring her mom back in adult Mel's lab. Gortimer, Ranger and her dad show up at the scene to try and talk her out of it. Mel says that even though she'd be leaving her friends and family behind, she just wants the life she knows to end. This feels awfully reminiscent of trying to talk someone out of committing suicide, as Mel travelling into the future would technically be her "leaving this world to make everything better".]]

* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: [[Literature/TheFaultInOurStars "Gortimer vs. The Fault in Our Street".]]

-> "I've lived my whole life on Normal Street. There's a lake on one end and a forest of shady trees on the other. But what lies in between is anything but normal."
-->-- '''Gortimer Gibbon'''

* AwesomeMcCoolName / AlliterativeName: C'mon, who doesn't want a name like ''Gortimer Gibbon?''

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the climax of "Mel vs. the Future", [[spoiler: Mel contemplates whether or not to travel into to the future with her adult self in order to find a way to bring her mom back in adult Mel's lab. Gortimer, Ranger and her dad show up at the scene to try and talk her out of it. This feels awfully reminiscent of trying to talk someone out of committing suicide, as Mel travelling into the future would technically be her "leaving this world to make everything better".]]

''Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street'' is a 2015 Creator/PrimeVideo original series created by David Anaxagoras. It follows the [[EponymousTitle eponymous]] [[NiceGuy Gortimer Gibbon]] (Sloane Morgan Siegel), his two best friends [[BrainyBrunette Melody "Mel" Fuller]] (Ashley Boettcher) and [[PluckyComicRelief Ranger Bowen]] (Drew Justice) and their many zany misadventures on [[IronicName Normal Street]] -- an ordinary-looking suburb that's not so ordinary beneath the surface.

!!Gortimer, Mel, Ranger and the Tropes:

* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: [[Literature/TheFaultInOurStars "Gortimer vs. The Fault in our Street".]]

''Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street'' is a 2015 Creator/PrimeVideo original series created by David Anaxagoras. It follows the eponymous Gortimer Gibbon (Sloane Morgan Siegel), his two best friends Melody "Mel" Fuller (Ashley Boettcher) and Ranger Bowen (Drew Justice) and their many zany misadventures on Normal Street -- an ordinary-looking suburb that's not so ordinary beneath the surface.

The series heavily thrives on MagicRealism. Weird things happen on Normal Street all the time and no one bats an eye. Episodes are usually standalone, and plots range from more realistic (i.e. a quest to find a rare flower) to downright absurd (i.e. time travel, cloning, interdimensional transporters, superheroes). Just go with it.