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* BetterAsFriends: When Zack can teleport to people's dreams, Cam orders him to change Gwen's mind to go on a date with him, which leads to Gwen's crushing on Zack, as she was dreaming about her prince charming, and she mistook Zack to be him, who, on the other hand, tried to convince her to stay as friends after her kiss.
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* BetterAsFriends: When Zack can teleport to people's dreams, Cam orders him to change Gwen's mind to go about going on a date with him, which leads to Gwen's crushing on Zack, as she was dreaming about her prince charming, and she mistook Zack to be him, who, on the other hand, tried to convince her to stay as friends after her kiss.
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* BigManOnCampus: Cam is this in his own mind.
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* Narcissist: Cam but he's much nicer than many other examples. Spence even gives him the code name "Narcissus" in "The Eyes of Gwen Killerby", much to Cam's annoyance.
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* OnlySaneMan: Mostly Spence but Zack and Gwen have their moments.
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* OppositesAttract: Cam and Gwen, though they repeatedly claim that they aren't attracted to each other.
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* Poltergeist: In "Things to Do at Horace Hyde White When You're Dead", the ghost of a student named Gilbert Millerson, whom only Zack can see, starts playing pranks around the school.
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* Telepathy: Zack gains the ability to read people's minds in "Quiet Please, I'm Reading Your Mind".
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* AffectionateNickname: Cam often refers to Zack and Spence as "buddy."
* AmnesiaEpisode: Zack in "Who Did You Say I Was?".
* AsleepInClass: Both Zack and Vernon in "In Your Dreams".
* CampingEpisode: Zack, Spence and Cam go camping and are sent to a parallel universe.
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* ClassRepresentative: In "It's a Wonderful School", Zack is the school president. In "Zack and White", Cam and Gwen are running against each other for the position.
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* TheDollEpisode: "The Talented Mr. Talisman".
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* ScienceFair: Spence conducts a science fair project on dreaming in "In Your Dreams".
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* TimeTravelEpisode: In "Blast from the Past", Zack, Cam and Spence turn the clock back five minutes and are sent back in time to 1912. They accidentally bring a student named Jeb McFadden, who turns out to be Gwen's great-grandfather, back with them to the present.
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* BigManOnCampus: Cam is this in his own mind.
* BookDumb: Cam occasionally has shades of this.
* BookDumb: Cam occasionally has shades of this.
* ClassRepresentative: In "It's a Wonderful School", Zack is the school president. In "Zack and White", Cam and Gwen are running against each other for the position.
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** Spencer has a few as well. In "You Don't Say", Zack's inner voice Mel reveals that Spence sleeps with a nightlight, which Spence is actually a visual aid. In "Zack Girl", it is mentioned that Spence slept with a stuffed rabbit until the previous year.
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* UnmanlySecret: Cam has a few. In "The Talented Mr. Talisman", it is revealed that he plays with - or at least used to play with - Barbie and Ken dolls. In "Zack Zero", Zack takes a photo of him in ducky underwear.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Vernon is this to Gwen.
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* ArchEnemy: Vernon is Zack's arch-enemy. Cam and Spence hate him too - as does Gwen to a lesser extent - but Vernon doesn't hate Cam and Spence nearly as much as he hates Zack.
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* BetterAsFriends: When Zack can teleport to people's dreams, Cam orders him to change Gwen's mind to go have a date with Cam, which leads to Gwen's crushing on Zack, as she was dreaming about her prince charming, and she mistook Zack to be him, who, on the other hand, tried to convince her to stay as friends after her kiss.
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* BetterAsFriends: When Zack can teleport to people's dreams, Cam orders him to change Gwen's mind to go have on a date with Cam, him, which leads to Gwen's crushing on Zack, as she was dreaming about her prince charming, and she mistook Zack to be him, who, on the other hand, tried to convince her to stay as friends after her kiss.
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No he is not. In one ep, he tried to hook her up with another guy. He even paid for it!
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* ArchEnemy: Vernon is Zack's arch-enemy. Cam and Spence hate him too - as does Gwen to a lesser extent - but Vernon doesn't hate Cam and Spence nearly as much as he hates Zack and he is madly in love with Gwen.
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* ArchEnemy: Vernon is Zack's arch-enemy. Cam and Spence hate him too - as does Gwen to a lesser extent - but Vernon doesn't hate Cam and Spence nearly as much as he hates Zack and he is madly in love with Gwen.Zack.
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* PainfulTransformation: Zack transforms into a ''tree'' at the end of one episode.
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* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: In "Quiet Please, I'm Reading Your Mind", Zack becomes telepathic. Cam wants to use it to make his fortune.
* AlienInvasion: The Zugottian Empire try to invade Earth in "Total Rewind" but they're not very good at it.
* ArchEnemy: Vernon is Zack's arch-enemy. Cam and Spence hate him too - as does Gwen to a lesser extent - but Vernon doesn't hate Cam and Spence nearly as much as he hates Zack and he is madly in love with Gwen.
* ArchEnemy: Vernon is Zack's arch-enemy. Cam and Spence hate him too - as does Gwen to a lesser extent - but Vernon doesn't hate Cam and Spence nearly as much as he hates Zack and he is madly in love with Gwen.
* ChildhoodFriends: Zack, Spence and Cam have all been best friends for years by the time that the series begins.
* FreakyFridayFlip: In "The Switch", Zack switches bodies with Vernon and later his manservant Charles.
* JustFriends: Cam and Gwen frequently insist that they are this but Zack and Spence don't believe them.
* OverprotectiveDad: Dan has shades of this.
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* SchoolUniformsAretheNewBlack: SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Horace Hyde-White has one.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Gwen is very dismissive of the paranormal and often tries to convince Spence and Zack to forget about it.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Zack's father Dan qualifies. He means well!
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* BadFuture: In "It's a Wonderful School", Zack is sent to a future in which Vernon is the school president and has completely taken over Horace Hyde-White.
* ClassTrip: Comes up fairly often.
* ClassTrip: Comes up fairly often.
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* HighSchoolHustler: Cam.
* HotTeacher: Zack has a huge crush on Ms. Arlington in Season Two. It's obvious to everyone in spite of what Zack thinks.
* HotTeacher: Zack has a huge crush on Ms. Arlington in Season Two. It's obvious to everyone in spite of what Zack thinks.
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* NotWearingPantsDream: In "Exit, Stage Fright", Zack has one which bleeds into the real world, leaving him, Cam and Spence without pants.
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* PictureDay: In "Photo Double", Zack's soul is trapped in his student ID card.
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* SchoolIdol: Cam, at least in his own mind.
* SchoolPlay: In the series finale "Zackeo and Juliet", Horace Hyde-White stages RomeoAndJuliet with Zack and Gwen as the title characters, Cam as Tybalt and Spence as the Monk.
* SchoolUniformsAretheNewBlack: Horace Hyde-White has one.
* SternTeacher: Mr. Munk.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Zack in "It's a Wonderful Plot" and Vernon in the BadFuture in the same episode. Cam and Gwen run for the position in "Zack and White".
* SchoolPlay: In the series finale "Zackeo and Juliet", Horace Hyde-White stages RomeoAndJuliet with Zack and Gwen as the title characters, Cam as Tybalt and Spence as the Monk.
* SchoolUniformsAretheNewBlack: Horace Hyde-White has one.
* SternTeacher: Mr. Munk.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Zack in "It's a Wonderful Plot" and Vernon in the BadFuture in the same episode. Cam and Gwen run for the position in "Zack and White".
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* KissOfLife: One episode had Cameron Spencer attempt this on Zack. Zack is NOT amused.
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** The books offer this as one of two possibilities. The other is that this stuff happens all the time, and [[WeirdnessCensor Zack's the only one who notices]].
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** The books offer this as one of two possibilities. The other is that this stuff happens all the time, and [[WeirdnessCensor Zack's the only one who notices]].notices.]]
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* CulturalTranslation: The book series took place in NewYorkCity; the TV show, being made in Canada, moved the setting to {{Toronto}}.
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* CulturalTranslation: The book series took place in NewYorkCity; UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity; the TV show, being made in Canada, moved the setting to {{Toronto}}.UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}.
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Coincidentally, this show has [[OnlySoManyCanadianActors pretty much the same cast]] as ''BlackHoleHigh'', and a number of the actors wound up on ''{{Degrassi}}''.
''Series/{{Degrassi}}''.
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''The Zack Files'' was a Canadian live-action paranormal show that aired in the early Noughties that was [[AdaptationDisplacement apparently based off of a book series]]. The show revolved around Zack Greenburg and his friends [[HighSchoolHustler Cameron]], [[SeekerArchetype Spencer]], and [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Gwen]] as they experience various paranormal hijinks thanks to Zack essentially having a literal WeirdnessMagnet-gene. Spencer chronicles these adventures, which he dubs "[[TitleDrop The Zack Files]]" in his hopes of studying and proving the existence of the paranormal.
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''The Zack Files'' was a Canadian live-action paranormal show that aired in the early Noughties that was [[AdaptationDisplacement apparently based off of a willfully strange and off-the wall children's book series]]. The show revolved around Zack Greenburg and his friends [[HighSchoolHustler Cameron]], [[SeekerArchetype Spencer]], and [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Gwen]] as they experience various paranormal hijinks thanks to Zack essentially having a literal WeirdnessMagnet-gene. Spencer chronicles these adventures, which he dubs "[[TitleDrop The Zack Files]]" in his hopes of studying and proving the existence of the paranormal.
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* OneGenderSchool: The main characters all attend Horace White High School for Boys. Gwen is the only girl at the school, because her father is the principal.
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* OneGenderSchool: The main characters all attend Horace White High School for Boys. Gwen is [[SmurfettePrinciple the only girl at the school, school]], because her father is the principal.
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Coincidentally, this show has pretty much the same cast as BlackHoleHigh, and a number of the actors wound up on ''{{Degrassi}}''.
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* GenderBenderFriendship ClipShow: The penultimate episode, "Who Did You Say I Was?", Zack gets amnesia and the others have to remind him of his adventures.
* GenderBender: In one episode, Zack turns into a girl after trying some girls' deodorant.
** GenderBenderFriendship: In a slight twist on the usual trope, he spends his time trying to set Gwen up with Cameron, not with himself.
* GenderBender: In one episode, Zack turns into a girl after trying some girls' deodorant.
** GenderBenderFriendship: 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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* IveNeverSeenAnythingLikeThisBefore - InstructionalTitle: The book series has a book entitled ''How To Speak Dolphin in Three Easy Lessons''.
* IveNeverSeenAnythingLikeThisBefore: Spencer'sfavorite phrase.CatchPhrase.
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* ImagineTheAudienceNaked - Subverted. Zack is told to imagine himself in his underwear (his friend getting the advice wrong), which causes his pants, and any subsequent pants he tries to put on to disappear until he can confront his fear of not only giving a speech, but doing it in his underwear, too.
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* ImagineTheAudienceNaked - ImagineTheAudienceNaked: Subverted. Zack is told to imagine himself in his underwear (his friend getting the advice wrong), which causes his pants, and any subsequent pants he tries to put on to disappear until he can confront his fear of not only giving a speech, but doing it in his underwear, too.
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* WeirdnessMagnet - OneGenderSchool: The main characters all attend Horace White High School for Boys. Gwen is the only girl at the school, because her father is the principal.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Pretty much the whole premise.
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