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An adaptation of a book by Dick King-Smith, the first few series focused on Harmony Parker, a girl who inherited a magical 50p coin from her Uncle Ginger, before he went travelling.

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An adaptation of a book by Dick King-Smith, the first few series focused on Harmony Parker, a girl who inherited a magical wish-granting 50p coin from her Uncle Ginger, before he went travelling.

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* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: This was largely Melody Parker's character arc in early seasons as she tried to become a nicer person (although she was never ''evil'' anyway); it took a small amount of time.



* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Season 1 largely followed the book's plotline but was not a complete 1:1 following of the stations as some events were skipped over due to it being a PragmaticAdaptation and AdaptationDeviation. However, the ''outcome'' was largely the same, even if the events happened in a different order than the source material.



* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Season 1 largely followed the book's plotline but was not a complete 1:1 following of the stations as some events were skipped over due to it being a PragmaticAdaptation and AdaptationDeviation. However, the ''outcome'' was largely the same, even if the events happened in a different order than the source material.

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* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Season 1 largely followed the book's plotline but was not a complete 1:1 following of the stations as some events were skipped over due to it being a PragmaticAdaptation and AdaptationDeviation. However, the ''outcome'' TookALevelInKindness: This was largely the same, even if the events happened Melody Parker's character arc in early seasons as she tried to become a different order than the source material.nicer person (although she was never ''evil'' anyway); it took a small amount of time.
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* {{Gasshole}}: Harmony is hinted to be one when Melody forbids her to burp in their shared bedroom, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of Harmony happily eating crisps, drinking Coke, and consequently belching in front of Melody, who goes to sleep in the living room in disgust.

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* {{Gasshole}}: Harmony is hinted to be one when of the burping variety in Season 2. When forced to share a room with her sister, Melody expressly forbids her Harmony to burp in their shared bedroom, the room, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of where Harmony is happily eating crisps, crisps and drinking Coke, and consequently shamelessly belching in front of Melody, who goes to sleep in the living room in disgust.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Harmony is this to Melody in the first couple of seasons, though Melody is equally bad, if not worse, towards her.
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* {{Gasshole}}: Harmony is hinted to be one when Melody forbids her from burping in their shared room, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of Harmony happily eating crisps and burping in front of Melody, who goes to sleep elsewhere in disgust.

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* {{Gasshole}}: Harmony is hinted to be one when Melody forbids her from burping to burp in their shared room, bedroom, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of Harmony happily eating crisps crisps, drinking Coke, and burping consequently belching in front of Melody, who goes to sleep elsewhere in the living room in disgust.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Harmony and Melody have several moments of this despite their [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry constant feuding.]]

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Harmony [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Harmony]] and Melody [[BigSisterBully Melody]] have several moments of this despite their [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry constant feuding.]]
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* [[Gasshole]]: Harmony is hinted to be one when Melody forbids her from burping in their shared room, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of Harmony happily eating crisps and burping in front of Melody, who goes to sleep elsewhere in disgust.

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* [[Gasshole]]: {{Gasshole}}: Harmony is hinted to be one when Melody forbids her from burping in their shared room, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of Harmony happily eating crisps and burping in front of Melody, who goes to sleep elsewhere in disgust.
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* Gasshole: Harmony is hinted to be one when Melody forbids her from burping in their shared room, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of Harmony happily eating crisps and burping in front of Melody, who goes to sleep elsewhere in disgust.

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* Gasshole: [[Gasshole]]: Harmony is hinted to be one when Melody forbids her from burping in their shared room, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of Harmony happily eating crisps and burping in front of Melody, who goes to sleep elsewhere in disgust.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Harmony and Melody have several moments of this despite their [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry constant feuding.]]


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* Gasshole: Harmony is hinted to be one when Melody forbids her from burping in their shared room, implying that burping is a regular habit of Harmony's. This naturally leads to a later scene of Harmony happily eating crisps and burping in front of Melody, who goes to sleep elsewhere in disgust.
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* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Interestingly, this trope is played straight during Season 6 even though YouTube did not exist in November 2002, although the intended effect is largely the same; Melody Parker is on the receiving end of the humiliation for her pop video.

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* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Interestingly, this trope is played straight during Season 6 even though YouTube [=YouTube=] did not exist in November 2002, although the intended effect is largely the same; Melody Parker is on the receiving end of the humiliation for her pop video.

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* AdaptationExpansion: Since the original Season 1 was a standalone book, Season 2 onwards is comprised of original material.



* OvertookTheSeries: Since the original Season 1 was a standalone book, this was an InvokedTrope from Season 2 onwards, and new original material was written. But in a case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, this allowed for more creativity than the original book had.
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** The potential for a wish to cause conflict was always far more likely if the wish was made selfishly. Wishes made to help other people usually (though not always) worked out well. The aesop from this being that it is better to help those around you who need it, rather than always focusing on yourself.
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** Season 2 had Arthur being arrested and tried for corporate espionage/fraud. It turned out to have been perpetrated by a colleague of his who offered to help him with the court case (to provide himself plausible deniability).
** Season 3 had the crook who had been a kind-of Fagin expy and using Dino as his Artful Dodger.


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** Season 5 started off with the foster home being burnt down and Josh and Nick were both implied at different times to have started it deliberately. In the end, both boys' innocence was proven (the fire was an accident) and the subsequent insurance payout covered everything!
** Season 6 had some of the girls from the foster home now staying with now-married Melody and Gregory and their daughter Treasure, and the biggest struggles were getting Melody's pop career off the ground, Gregory making a success of his inventions, and making sure the couple remained happy together. And a jerkass "music agent" in the first half of the season who was actually a skivvy for a local restaurant pretending to be an agent - he never did get exposed as a fake, but was at least sacked for incompetence.
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* {{Dramedy}}: Although it ''looks'' like a KidCom, in reality, this is no ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' in tone; it's a mix of drama, BlackComedy with AnAesop thrown in, and sometimes it can tackle mature themes. It's more like a sort of kid-friendly version of ''Series/TheRiches'' but with MagicRealism.

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* {{Dramedy}}: Although it ''looks'' like a KidCom, in reality, this is no ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' not like American KidCom series in tone; it's a mix of drama, BlackComedy with AnAesop thrown in, and sometimes it can tackle mature themes. It's more like a sort of kid-friendly version of ''Series/TheRiches'' other sitcoms but with MagicRealism.
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* SatireParodyPastiche: An episode of Season 7 in 2003 featured Carla becoming a very similar character to the speedsters in DC Comics ''ComicBook/TheFlash''.
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* WebcomicTime: Although the progression of time InUniverse is vague, ComicBookTime is partially in effect here, and progression of time does seem to be slower than real-world time. However, characters ''do'' age on-screen, even though it's not mentioned explicitly.

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* WebcomicTime: Although the progression of time InUniverse is vague, ComicBookTime is partially in effect here, and progression of time does seem to be slower than real-world time. However, characters ''do'' age on-screen, even though it's not mentioned explicitly.explicitly.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The setting is never named explicitly, no matter what season of the show it is; although there is speculation it was Hertfordshire (although Season 1 was very clearly West London and Kensington areas).
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* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Interestingly, this trope is played straight during Season 6 even though YouTube did not exist in November 2002, although the intended effect is largely the same; Melody Parker is on the receiving end of the humiliation for her pop video.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Chief in Season 7 never had his real name revealed on-screen, and everyone referred to him as that.
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* SpeechCentricWork: Despite being a series with gags resulting from WastefulWishing, it is fairly speech-heavy, but this fits the nature of the series; the original book wasn't quite as speech-centric though.
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* {{Dramedy}}: Although it ''looks'' like a KidCom, in reality, this is no ''Series/{{iCarly}}''; it's a mix of drama, BlackComedy with AnAesop thrown in, and sometimes it can tackle mature themes.

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* {{Dramedy}}: Although it ''looks'' like a KidCom, in reality, this is no ''Series/{{iCarly}}''; ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' in tone; it's a mix of drama, BlackComedy with AnAesop thrown in, and sometimes it can tackle mature themes.themes. It's more like a sort of kid-friendly version of ''Series/TheRiches'' but with MagicRealism.



** Season 4 didn't really have a conflict, it focused on Arthur and Audrey Parker running a foster home, and the only thing close to an antagonist, Mrs. Dooley, the foster home inspector, wasn't really antagonistic, just doing her job.
** Season 6 had no real antagonist whatsoever; domestic life was the only real conflict.

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** Season 4 didn't really have a person causing a conflict, it focused on Arthur and Audrey Parker running a foster home, and the only thing close to an antagonist, Mrs. Dooley, the foster home inspector, wasn't really antagonistic, just doing her job and wasn't working against them. You could argue the local authority is a sort of antagonist, but it's the government, just doing their job.
** Season 6 7 had no real antagonist whatsoever; domestic life was the only real conflict.



* StoryBreakerPower: Despite the coin's potential to be one, this is averted as the coin issues a rule only seven wishes per person can be granted. Although the magical coin is powerful, it can't and won't solve everything, in many cases use of it ''causes'' the conflict. The coin seems to have a sort of OmniscientMoralityLicense.

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* StoryBreakerPower: Despite the coin's potential to be one, this is averted as the coin actually ''causes'' conflict as much as ''resolving'' it. The coin issues a rule only seven wishes per person can be granted.granted but they don't always work out (from a Doylist perspective, to cause a conflict). Although the magical coin is powerful, it can't and won't solve everything, in many cases use of it ''causes'' the conflict. The coin seems to have a sort of OmniscientMoralityLicense.
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* AdaptationalDiversity: By later seasons, the cast included black characters and also Romani characters, which were not in the source material.


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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: In Season 5, a stand-in for Blackbeard appears, although this is for the subject of a wish for ghosts to appear; he dresses and speaks like Blackbeard of legend.


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* PatchedTogetherFromTheHeadlines: As the series went on, it tackled what was in the news at the time, excluding political things and NewMediaAreEvil.
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* BritCom: Although it seems like a typical example of one, it isn't quite one; there are [[WhamEpisode wham episodes]] each season and things don't always work out for the protagonists, but StatusQuoIsGod is zig-zagged.

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* BritCom: Although it seems like a typical example of one, it isn't quite one; there are [[WhamEpisode wham episodes]] UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode episodes each season and things don't always work out for the protagonists, but StatusQuoIsGod is zig-zagged.
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* BritCom: Although it seems like a typical example of one, it isn't quite one; there are [[WhamEpisodes wham episodes]] each season and things don't always work out for the protagonists, but StatusQuoIsGod is zig-zagged.

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* BritCom: Although it seems like a typical example of one, it isn't quite one; there are [[WhamEpisodes [[WhamEpisode wham episodes]] each season and things don't always work out for the protagonists, but StatusQuoIsGod is zig-zagged.
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* BritCom: Although it seems like a typical example of one, it isn't quite one; there are WhamEpisodes each season and things don't always work out for the protagonists, but StatusQuoIsGod is zig-zagged.

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* BritCom: Although it seems like a typical example of one, it isn't quite one; there are WhamEpisodes [[WhamEpisodes wham episodes]] each season and things don't always work out for the protagonists, but StatusQuoIsGod is zig-zagged.
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* BritCom: Although it seems like a typical example of one, it isn't quite one; there are WhamEpisodes each season and things don't always work out for the protagonists, but StatusQuoIsGod is zig-zagged.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: At first the Parker family were this (as with many a BritCom at the time), although as [[CharacterizationMarchesOn characterization marched on]], the dysfunction started to fade out.
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* MagicRealism: The Queen's Nose and its effects are the main magical thing in a drama that covers otherwise mundane topics like growing up to more serious topics like relationships, friends falling out etc.
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* TheChewToy: In reality, ''any'' character who used the Queen's Nose could become this, if only due to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor not being careful what they wished for]].

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