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* LawOfTimeTravelCoincidences: The Book's mechanisms randomly transport both sets of the trio -- Joe, Sam, and Fred, alongside their great-granddaughters -- to historically significant events that have some relevance to what was going on in their modern day at the time. For instance, discussing the palindrome "Able was I, ere I saw Elba" results in Fred, Joe, and Samantha being transported back in time to meet UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, who was exiled on Elba at the end of his life.
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* AscendedExtra: Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha. In the books they only appear a few other times after their duet, while the series at least one of them is in most of the episodes in the latter half. And as noted above, they get two episodes of their own.

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* AscendedExtra: Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha. In the books they only appear a few other times after their duet, debut, while the series at least one of them is in most of the episodes in the latter half. And as noted above, they get two episodes of their own.
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** The episode "Breaking the Codex" reveals that at some point [[spoiler: Joe will have a fight across time against Mad Jack]]. Due to the series cancellation, it was never seen.

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** The episode "Breaking the Codex" reveals that at some point [[spoiler: Joe [[spoiler:Joe will have a fight across time against Mad Jack]]. Due to the series cancellation, it was never seen.



** This was definitely played straight in the Amelia Earhart episode. [[spoiler: Freddi wants to figure out what happened to her... only to find out that when the Female Trio got to the plane that Amelia was asking who THEY were and how they got on her plane.]]

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** This was definitely played straight in the Amelia Earhart episode. [[spoiler: Freddi [[spoiler:Freddi wants to figure out what happened to her... only to find out that when the Female Trio got to the plane that Amelia was asking who THEY were and how they got on her plane.]]



* TalkingAnimal: [[spoiler: In "Harem Scare'em," a monkey at first appears to be a case of ConsultingMisterPuppet. It turns out to be this.]]

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* TalkingAnimal: [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In "Harem Scare'em," a monkey at first appears to be a case of ConsultingMisterPuppet. It turns out to be this.]]



* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The boys meet Genesis Khan as a young boy, but could also be applied to [[spoiler: Joe and Sam from the girls' point of view as both grow up to be famous in the future. Joe becomes famous for a famous battle against Mad Jack, and Sam becomes famous for inventing... something]].

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* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The boys meet Genesis Khan as a young boy, but could also be applied to [[spoiler: Joe [[spoiler:Joe and Sam from the girls' point of view as both grow up to be famous in the future. Joe becomes famous for a famous battle against Mad Jack, and Sam becomes famous for inventing... something]].
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Samantha is the tomboy to Jodie and Freddi are the girly girls.

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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Samantha is the tomboy to Jodie and Freddi are the girly girls.
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* BrooklynRage: Fred steers to this whenever he is angry, fitting as he is from the borough.

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* BrooklynRage: Fred steers to into this whenever he is when he’s angry, fitting as he is comes from the borough.
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* BrooklynRage: Fred steers to this from time to time whenever he is angry, fitting as he is from the borough.

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* BrooklynRage: Fred steers to this from time to time whenever he is angry, fitting as he is from the borough.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Samantha is the tomboy, and Jodie and Freddi are the girly girls.

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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Samantha is the tomboy, and tomboy to Jodie and Freddi are the girly girls.



* TownGirls: Snobby and vain Jodie is the femme, outgoing and bold Samantha is the butch, which leaves the shy and cowardly Freddi as neither.

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* TownGirls: Snobby and vain Jodie is the femme, outgoing and bold Samantha is the butch, which leaves the shy and cowardly worrisome Freddi as neither.
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* TheFuture: The entire plot of "2105”. The boys accidentally warp themselves 100 years into the future, and eventually meet their own great-granddaughters. The farthest they have gone beyond was in the episode itself one year into the future to 2106.

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* TheFuture: The entire plot of "2105”. The boys Joe, Sam and Fred accidentally warp themselves 100 years into the future, and eventually future where they meet their own great-granddaughters. The farthest they have they’ve gone beyond 2105 AD was in the episode itself itself, one year into the future to 2106.of 2106 AD.
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "The Caveman Catastrophe", Jodie trades her binoculars to a Neanderthal in exchange for The Book. This causes Jodie, Sam, and Fred to transform into Neanderthals, as the Neanderthals gained a technological advantage over the Cro-Magnons.

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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "The Caveman Catastrophe", Jodie trades her binoculars to a Neanderthal in exchange for The Book. Not only do the Neanderthals use the binoculars to spot their prey, they use [[SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass the lenses]] to [[TheDiscoveryOfFire start fires]]. This causes Jodie, Sam, and Fred modern humans to transform into Neanderthals, as the Neanderthals gained a technological advantage over the Cro-Magnons.

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Samantha's robot cat first appears in ''Sam Samurai'' while in the books it was not introduced until "Oh I Say I Can't See."

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Samantha's robot cat first appears in ''Sam Samurai'' while in the books it was not introduced until "Oh I Say I Can't See."



* AdaptationExpansion: The powers of ''The Book'' has been expanded. In the book series, it's never seen as more than a time machine (though it could warp them into books and plays as well) but in the TV show, it actually is the entire space-time continuum incarnate. Destroying it would spell the doom of the universe.

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* AdaptationExpansion: AdaptationExpansion:
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The powers of ''The Book'' has been expanded. In the book series, it's never seen as more than a time machine (though it could warp them into books and plays as well) but in the TV show, it actually is the entire space-time continuum incarnate. Destroying it would spell the doom of the universe.



* AdaptationNameChange: In the books, Jodie was named Joanie while Samantha liked to be called Samza.

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* AdaptationNameChange: AdaptationNameChange:
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In the books, Jodie was named Joanie while Samantha liked to be called Samza.



* BookDumb: Fred.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Fred.

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%% * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Fred.



* DeadGuyJunior: Jodie, Samantha, and Freddie were all named after Joe, Sam, and Fred, who were dead by the time they were born.
* DeusExMachina: Sam and Samantha's pocket watch, the latter who modified it to allow them to hope forward or backward in time (albeit in random locations or only a few minutes back). Allowed the crew to fix major blunders during crucial moments.
** It's also a ChekhovsGun.

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* DeadGuyJunior: Jodie, Samantha, and Freddie Freddi were all named after Joe, Sam, and Fred, who were dead by the time they were born.
* DeusExMachina: Sam and Samantha's pocket watch, the latter who modified it to allow them to hope forward or backward in time (albeit in random locations or only a few minutes back). Allowed the crew to fix major blunders during crucial moments. \n** It's also a ChekhovsGun.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode "Breaking the Codex" reveals that at some point [[spoiler: Joe will have a fight across time against Mad Jack]]. Due to the series cancellation, it was never seen.

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The episode "Breaking the Codex" reveals that at some point [[spoiler: Joe will have a fight across time against Mad Jack]]. Due to the series cancellation, it was never seen.



* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "The Caveman Catastrophe", Jodie trades her binoculars to a Neanderthal in exchange for The Book. This causes Jodie, Sam, and Fred to transform into Neanderthals, as the binoculars gave the Neanderthals the advantage they needed to outlast the Cro-Magnons.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: With a show that heavily relies on HistoricalDomainCharacter, this is a given. Notably, one episode featured this happening to one of the main characters. After Sam and Fred get back from their adventure with Jodi in "Jinga All The Way," Joe runs into the room raving about his adventure with Samantha and Freddi. Turns out the past and future versions of the Book were reacting to each other.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Joe, Sam, and Fred are this to each other. Their descendants, Samantha, Jodie, and Freddie are this as well. For that reason, we can deduce that Sam, Fred, and Joe remained friends for the rest of their lives.

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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "The Caveman Catastrophe", Jodie trades her binoculars to a Neanderthal in exchange for The Book. This causes Jodie, Sam, and Fred to transform into Neanderthals, as the binoculars gave the Neanderthals the gained a technological advantage they needed to outlast over the Cro-Magnons.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: With a show that heavily relies on HistoricalDomainCharacter, this is a given. Notably, one episode featured this happening to one of the main characters. After Sam and Fred get back from their adventure with Jodi Jodie in "Jinga All The Way," Joe runs into the room raving about his adventure with Samantha and Freddi. Turns out the past and future versions of the Book were reacting to each other.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Joe, Sam, and Fred are this to each other. Their descendants, Samantha, Jodie, and Freddie Freddi are this as well. For that reason, we can deduce that Sam, Fred, and Joe remained friends for the rest of their lives.



* InTheBlood: "Dude, Where's My Karma?" reveals that terrible magic tricks run in Joe's family as his ancestor, who Fred, Sam, Freddi and Samantha are helping get married so [[RetGone Joe and Jodi don't get erased from existence]], tries to pull the classical "watch me remove my thumb" trick, prompting all four of them to roll their eyes and Fred to [[DeadpanSnarker quip "At least we know where Joe gets it from."]]
* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Mable's Diner is a diner for time travelers that exist out of any one time zone.

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* InTheBlood: "Dude, Where's My Karma?" reveals that terrible magic tricks run in Joe's family as his ancestor, who Fred, Sam, Freddi and Samantha are helping get married so [[RetGone Joe and Jodi Jodie don't get erased from existence]], tries to pull the classical "watch me remove my thumb" trick, prompting all four of them to roll their eyes and Fred to [[DeadpanSnarker quip "At least we know where Joe gets it from."]]
* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Mable's Mabel's Diner is a diner for time travelers that exist out of any one time zone.



* StableTimeLoop: Most of the time when the trios go back to the past, they don't affect the future (save for a few cases). A major danger, though, is that the crew has to avoid being killed during their adventures and keep their book intact. Especially true for the boys, because if something happens to them in the far off past (or if they get stuck too long in the future), their great-granddaughters will never be born.

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* StableTimeLoop: StableTimeLoop:
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Most of the time when the trios go back to the past, they don't affect the future (save for a few cases). A major danger, though, is that the crew has to avoid being killed during their adventures and keep their book intact. Especially true for the boys, because if something happens to them in the far off past (or if they get stuck too long in the future), their great-granddaughters will never be born.



* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Samantha loves onion rings so much she regularly goes to the past or to [[InnBetweenTheWorlds Maple's]] to get them. She's also fond of marshmallows.

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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Samantha loves onion rings so much she regularly goes to the past or to [[InnBetweenTheWorlds Maple's]] Mabel's]] to get them. She's also fond of marshmallows.



* VomitDiscretionShot: At the end of the Lewis and Clark episode. Jodie comments that she "really shouldn't have eaten those berries," then retches, and Samantha and Freddie flee the tent.

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* VomitDiscretionShot: At the end of the Lewis and Clark episode. Jodie comments that she "really shouldn't have eaten those berries," then retches, and Samantha and Freddie Freddi flee the tent.
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "The Caveman Catastrophe", Jodie trades her binoculars to a Neanderthal in order to get The Book back. This causes Jodie, Sam, and Fred to transform into Neanderthals, as they gave the Neanderthals the advantage they needed to outlast the Cro-Magnons.

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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "The Caveman Catastrophe", Jodie trades her binoculars to a Neanderthal in order to get exchange for The Book back. Book. This causes Jodie, Sam, and Fred to transform into Neanderthals, as they the binoculars gave the Neanderthals the advantage they needed to outlast the Cro-Magnons.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Joe's family has brown skin, but their ethnicity isn't made clear. "Dude, Where's My Karma" reveals that they're at least part-Indian.
* AnimeHair: Jodie's hair is bigger and more frizzy than most other girls. Samantha has six punky pigtails that stick out over her head.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Joe's sister Anna who tags along every now and then. Ironically, she's said to have more skills in using the Book than her brother.



* AnimeHair: Jodie's hair is bigger and more frizzy than most other girls. Samantha has six punky pigtails that stick out over her head.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Joe's sister Anna who tags along every now and then. Ironically, she's said to have more skills in using the Book than her brother.



* GivingRadioToTheRomans: In "The Caveman Catastrophe", Jodie trades her binoculars to a Neanderthal in order to get The Book back. This causes Jodie, Sam, and Fred to transform into Neanderthals, as they gave the Neanderthals the advantage they needed to outlast the Cro-Magnons.



* StageMagician: Uncle Joe is this and Joe wants to be this.



* StageMagician: Uncle Joe is this and Joe wants to be this.

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