History YMMV / Charmed

* AccidentalInnuendo:
** Piper's line about Wyatt "corrupting himself" in "Imaginary Fiends".
** In a season eight episode, Phoebe calls Piper's [[TheMasquerade glamour]] "hot," prompting Piper to jokingly remind her that they're sisters. Phoebe's response is to point out that, according to their identities, they're not sisters anymore, but cousins. Which is still squicky for [[SiblingIncest obvious]] [[KissingCousins reasons.]]
* AngstWhatAngst:
** You'd think Victor would be a ''little'' more upset that [[spoiler:his new bride was actually an evil demon who tried to kill his daughters and kidnap his grandson]]. He gets a little bit of a pass since [[spoiler:his daughter was in the middle of a difficult labor that was bringing his first grandchild into the world,]] so maybe he decided to push it aside until he could process it properly. And being that he was a recurring character as opposed to a regular, that's plenty of time for him to do so offscreen.
** Phoebe shows no emotion to her baby's death, even if it was a FetusTerrible.
*** She actualy expressed relief of being rid of its influence but, on the other hand, in the subsequent seasons she was literally obsessing over newborn Wyatt (initially) and fulfilling her motherhood premonitions. Perhaps it was a combination of internalised angst and bad writing.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
** Cole Turner: Misunderstood lovesick anti-hero whose fate was the result of others constantly treating him as some ''thing'' to be feared or to join with for power rather than as a man? Or gradual {{Yandere}} who usually just made things worse and couldn't face up to his own mistakes and move on with his life until it was too late? Or was Cole simply in love with an [[LovingAShadow idealised version of Phoebe]], that blinded him to her many, ''[[BitchInSheepsClothing many]]'' faults?
** Did the Charmed Ones become selfish in giving up their lives as protectors, let down all good magical creatures, and only become interested in their own pleasure? Or did they simply retire from a thankless life after putting in years of work, losing a sister, and having to look over their shoulders every second of the day without a moment's peace?
** Was Penny Halliwell a loving grandmother who invented the [[BroughtDownToNormal power-stripping potion]] to give her granddaughters a chance at a normal life, or a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]] who was bumped off by the Elders for attempting to ScrewDestiny? It seems far too [[ContrivedCoincidence coincidental]] that she died ''just'' before she could use it... Considering she cursed her wedding ring yet allowed it to remain a family heirloom, has a [[DoesNotLikeMen clear disdain]] for men and was romantically involved with demons herself... there's a serious argument to be made for her being an EvilMatriarch. Particularly since she later reveals that she regularly mind-wiped them and used magic to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy stop them]] from [[SiblingRivalry fighting]], instead of simply ''disciplining'' them.
** Phoebe, misunderstood youngest sister whose family wouldn't allow to be herself resulting in a self-obsessive personality with difficulty maintaining relationships, or someone who demands others make sacrifices for her convenience that she wouldn't make for them, with sadistic tendencies towards her devoted boyfriend Cole? Were Phoebe's Empathy, Visions and her work as an advice columnist a [[PersonalityPowers reflection]] of a genuine desire to help people, or just a manifestation of her persistent need to insert herself into the lives of other people at every opportunity? Furthermore, is her levitation because she's a free spirit, or because she considers herself above everyone else?
** Leo, a lone [[OnlySaneMan voice of reason]] amongst the group, who reluctantly goes along with morally questionable plans out of his devotion to Piper? Or merely a [[HenpeckedHusband spineless lapdog]], long since brought to heel by his controlling wife and sisters-in-law?
** Did [[WellIntentionedExtremist Kyle Brody]] really love Paige, or was he just using her to help with his vendetta against the Avatars and she just happened to [[TookALevelInDumbass take the level in dumbass]] necessary to be duped?
** Wyatt. The kid's future alignment seems to switch back and forth so often, it makes more sense that his chaotic upbringing has left him ''already'' evil and the Good Future is simply the result of a HeelFaceTurn. Him turning evil because of Gideon's betrayal was perhaps understandable, but because of an (demonic) imaginary friend and a cursed ''teddy bear'' is just bizarre? Rather, Evil Wyatt makes more sense as simply the culmination of the increasingly petty and selfish attitudes of the sisters in later seasons, coupled with Leo's increasing spinelessness, leaving him as a SpoiledBrat with too much power and no decent role models.
** The Elders. The BigGood of the show who believe TheNeedsOfTheMany and are sometimes forced to do morally questionable actions to keep the forces of evil in check, or simply a collection of JerkassGods who desire to keep their monopoly on power at all costs? Especially considering they wanted to wipe out the Avatars despite knowing ''nothing'' about them or their motives, just because they were threatening their status as the most powerful faction in the series.
** The Seer's actions in "Charmed & Dangerous" - a case of EvenEvilHasStandards or her using reverse psychology to get the Source to doom himself, thus starting her BatmanGambit.
* ArcFatigue: Cole and Phoebe's drama in Season 5. It doesn't help that the show can't seem to decide if Cole is trying to win Phoebe back or seek overall redemption. Likewise DependingOnTheWriter it's either Phoebe being justified for being suspicious or being a bitch for not understanding. This is partly due to the original idea being for Cole and Paige to fall in love instead (the episode "Sympathy For The Demon" certainly hints at it) - but both actors protesting against it - and Julian [=McMahon=] opting to leave to do ''Series/NipTuck'', meaning Cole had to be quickly written out.
* AssPull:
** There was no mention of this before by either sides but in Season Eight, there seemed to be the Ultimate Power that is more powerful than the Charmed Ones and they are a pair of sisters.
** Every new big threat after the Source could count, really, seeing how the Source was set up to be THE GreaterScopeVillain of the show. Although this mainly applies to the Ultimate Power - as Zankou and the Titans had the justification of having been sealed away (Zankou was sealed away by the Source himself).
** Not just major threats, but many things about later seasons just came out of nowhere when, in the context of the show, should have shown up much earlier. The Cleaners and Magic School are two such things that are brought up.
** The reason given to why Prue's ghost couldn't visit her sisters was that it would prevent them from being able to move on with their lives. However, every other deceased member of their family is free to visit them whenever they want. In fact, it was their dead grandmother who explained this to them during one of her many visits.
** In Season 8, the Cleaners couldn't help the sisters with the reporters accosting them due too much time having passed and because the sisters have "burned that bridge." This not only implies that there was a previously unmentioned time limit in which the Cleaners could act but it also means that they let their dislike of the sisters overshadow their duty to protect the magical world from exposure at any cost.
* AuthorsSavingThrow: The eighth season greatly toned down the skimpiness of the sisters' everyday clothing, by protest of the three actresses.
* AwesomeMusic: The opening theme "How Soon Is Now?" covered by Love Spit Love. Also "Blame It On The Weatherman" by B*witched from the end of the fifth season premiere.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: All the Halliwell sisters to some extent.
** Prue - kickass and badass feminist icon that stands up for what she believes in? Or a massive {{hypocrite}} who is too powerful and a blatant WishFulfillment character?
** Piper - whiny and wangsty broken record, always craving a normal life? Or StoicWoobie that has a right to want happiness after everything she's been through?
** Phoebe (mostly in later seasons) - broken cutie that's finally had enough and just wants to find happiness? Or CreatorsPet that has forgotten her true destiny and become the very thing she feared against in "Morality Bites"?
** Paige - ReplacementScrappy and one-dimensional annoyance? Or entertaining and fun character that benefits from not being an {{Expy}} of Prue?
* BestKnownForTheFanservice:
** Overall, this is best known as that show with the three sexy witch sisters.
** "Coyote Piper" is named for the one {{Fanservice}} scene where a possessed Piper does a sexy table dance in a ShoutOut to the movie ''Film/CoyoteUgly'' - which is almost a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
** "Ms Hellfire" is remembered for being the episode where Prue walks around in sexy black leather outfits to impersonate a hitwoman.
** Quite a few episodes were marketed around the fact that there would be {{Fanservice}} in them. "A Witch's Tail" for Phoebe's skimpy mermaid outfit, "I Dream of Phoebe" for the genie costume, "Valhalley of the Dolls" for the valkyries' {{Chainmail Bikini}}s. "The Bare Witch Project" even made a big deal about Phoebe being nude doing Lady Godiva - when it's a two-minute scene at the end of the episode.
** "Battle of the Hexes" has Billie in a sexy Wonder Woman-inspired outfit and something about a gender equality lesson.
* BrokenBase:
** The infamous feud between Creator/ShannenDoherty and Creator/AlyssaMilano still causes heated debates among ''Charmed'' fans to this day, despite the fact that the two actresses seem to be at peace with one another now.
** The Aesop of "Morality Bites" - is it CantGetAwayWithNuthin and ridiculously anvilicious? Or is it SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped?
** And for that matter, which era is better? The Prue years or the Paige years? A lot of it can depend on when someone first started watching the series. Living TV in the UK originally could only air Seasons 4-8 for ages due to the same rights issues that prolonged the first three seasons coming out on DVD.
** The Charmed comics definitely fall under here. Some people like them for continuing the series, bringing back old characters, and re-establishing the Charmed Ones as the most powerful witches. Others, however, dislike them for the treatment of old characters, the fact that they've used Shannen Doherty's likeness against her wishes, the fact that they whitewashed Darryl Morris, and the way they've twisted Charmed canon.
* ClicheStorm: The episode "Chick Flick" parodies all the typical slasher movie cliches when a demon releases psycho killers from horror movies and sends them after the sisters. Since their powers don't work on the killers, the sisters have to follow the typical cliches. And there's a nice little shout out to ''Psycho''.
--->'''Piper:''' "I'm being stalked by psycho killers and I hide in the shower?"
* CriticalResearchFailure: Paige's tarot reading for Phoebe and Cole in "Just Harried". For starters there is no Despair card. The Nine of Swords can mean despair and anxiety but there is no 'Despair' in the Major Arcana. And an experienced tarot reader like Paige would know that the Death card is nothing to get freaked out about. The card means sudden change - so it appearing in the Future part of the spread is pretty logical for a Charmed One.
* CreatorsPet:
** Billie in Season 8 was widely disliked for this reason. The network had demanded a new YoungerAndHipper character that could star in a potential spin-off. Billie was unfortunately viewed as having a combination of all the negative characteristics of the Halliwells - and a plot about her and her long lost sister took prime focus over the actual protagonists of the show. Not helping matters was the fact that two series regulars had to be PutOnABus to accommodate her, and Kaley Cuoco not being up to the melodrama of the role.
** Phoebe is frequently accused of this in Seasons 5-7. The other seasons also give her priority in the storylines. One of the things fans find positive about Season 8 is that this levels off.
* DesignatedHero:
** The Charmed Ones by Series 5, with Phoebe being the worst offender. They spend most of their time complaining about and shirking their responsibilities, ignore saving innocents to focus on their own petty problems and use their status as the Charmed Ones to act like [[EntitledBastard entitled bastards]], believing that the world ''owes'' them for saving it a few times! The "heroes" also spend their time condemning Cole as irredeemably evil from the moment he returns despite forgiving (or flat out ignoring) Phoebe constantly being in identical situations. It only gets worse from there before it gets better, what with Phoebe's utterly shallow approach to men (especially after being dumped by Jason Dean), Piper's zeal for a normal life overtaking both hers and Leo's duties, Paige's penchant for violent solutions to problems even when it's unnecessary, the girls' thankless habit of enlisting Darryl to risk his life to bail them out of situations, and even Leo subtly absorbing some of the worst "ends-justify-the-means" traits from the sisters, the Elders, and BadFuture [[KidFromTheFuture Chris]].
** Penny Halliwell is touted as a badass matriarch of the Halliwell line. Yet she is a StrawFeminist of the worst degree, ready to disown her own grandson just because he's a boy - because she believes that all men are inherently evil. Rather than outright showing how horrible these ideas are, the show tries to play her sympathetically - which certainly ''wouldn't'' be the case if she [[DoubleStandard were a man]]. Even though she does learn AnAesop, she occasionally reverts back to her old attitude.
** Paige in the latter half of Season 4. Her mistrust of Cole is presented as a CassandraTruth when she's actually ''wrong''. The thing about Paige is that she simply believes Cole has made a FaceHeelTurn of his own free will. Purely because he ''used'' to be a demon, despite his demon half getting vanquished before her eyes. She never once considers the possibility that he's being manipulated - which he actually ''is''. She just decides he's evil and tries to convince the sisters of it.
** Piper in Season 8. Her attempts [[spoiler: to get Leo back]] result in her driving Billie as far away from the sisters as possible and make it easy for Billie's sister to corrupt her and successfully turn her evil. She does this on the ''suspicion'' that the two are the evil they need to fight (and everyone - even the Elder she asked - noted it was only a possibility).
* DesignatedVillain:
** Cole during Season 5. It was clear the writers wanted you to sympathize with [[TookALevelInJerkass Phoebe]] and view Cole as the problem, but many viewers didn't agree. [[DesignatedHero The Charmed Ones]] continually shun any of his efforts to be a force for good, claiming his powers are [[BadPowersBadPeople inherently evil]], even when he uses them to save lives. Eventually Cole grows so miserable that he attempts to goad the sisters into [[SuicideByCop vanquishing him]] and when Phoebe realises this she actually ''[[FateWorseThanDeath refuses]]'' to grant him a MercyKill. After [[ICannotSelfTerminate failing to kill himself]], Cole [[ThenLetMeBeEvil finally]] has a genuine FaceHeelTurn mid-season but only after Phoebe kept harassing and threatening him without provocation, even in the face of his obvious [[SanitySlippage mental disintegration]]. Unsurprisingly, viewers sympathized more with Cole.
** The Wizard who sought to kill the Source and take his powers, intending to use it to resurrect his near-extinct brethren. He's immediately declared ''evil'', despite coming across more as a desperate individual, tired of being the LastOfHisKind. Then again, he literally is trying to become ''the Source of All Evil'', which doesn't exactly help his case.
** Savard in "Repo Manor", whose evil plan amounted to training three demons to impersonate the Charmed Ones, siphon off their powers, vanquish the Slave King and free his people from ''enslavement''. Likewise, he earns himself an AlasPoorVillain moment when the Charmed Ones blast him in the face, causing him to fall and be impaled in the head by a strategically placed, pointy rock. Of course, it's highly unlikely that he and his followers would give up the sisters' powers, or release them for that matter, somewhat mitigating how sorry you should feel for him.
** Greg the fireman in Season 6. While not presented as a villain, he's an obvious RomanticFalseLead. And since Piper and Leo need to get back together to [[spoiler: conceive Chris]], the relationship is doomed. Rather than let the guy down gently, Chris just lets him think that Piper was cheating on him with Leo[[note]]A spell caused Piper and Leo to fall asleep next to each other and Greg walked in on that, Chris using his powers to make it look like they were cuddling[[/note]]. The guy is clearly heartbroken over it. Somewhat resolved with his brief reappearance in Season 8 as he and Piper appear to be on good terms.
* DieForOurShip: Dan is widely disliked because he existed as an obstacle preventing Piper from getting together with Leo.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Cole. A villain with some sympathetic qualities of course, but arguably not to the extent some of his fans claim. He was an [[TheDreaded infamous]] agent of evil for many years and genuinely tried to kill the Charmed Ones on multiple occasions. However come Season 5 the sisters constantly denouncing him as "irredeemable" becomes rather hypocritical given the sheer amount of times one of them has turned evil or gone off the rails. And unsurprisingly it's usually Phoebe who goes AWOL but ''always'' finds [[EasilyForgiven swift forgiveness]]. At this point Cole actually became more sympathetic to the general fandom, by virtue of the heroes being characterized as selfish jerks.
* EnsembleDarkHorse:
** Leo, enough to make him an AscendedExtra.
** Cole whose first two seasons are regarded as when the show started GrowingTheBeard. Despite SeasonalRot setting in around Season 5, he and Phoebe are still a FanPreferredCouple.
** Henry was one of the more popular characters introduced in Season 8.
** Chris. His appearance on the show sparked massive fan love in Fanfiction.net. His character can be found under TWO character filters, Chris H. and for some reason, Phoebe's boss Elise R. (this probably because his character became popular before FF.net gave him his own place in the list). Apart from that, the Chris H. character filter generates more pages than anyone else on the series. Though this can be explained by the lack of filter in the earlier days of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', it's pretty impressive for a character who was only a regular for one season. Nowadays, Chris fics make up most of the updates and new stories in the fandom.
** Kyra the Seer. Only appears in three episodes but is fondly remembered - thanks to being witty, entertaining and surprisingly deep. Also she's played by Charisma Carpenter - making this the most high profile of the Buffyverse actor crossovers.
** Also Melinda Warren. You'd be surprised that the character only actually appears in one episode - in the first season at that. Due to being the start of the Charmed line and possessing all three powers, as well as her interesting backstory, she's a frequent choice for fanfiction. Ditto for Eva, who also was only in one episode - yet enjoys great fan press as TheMentor to Melinda.
** It was recorded which cast member received the most fan mail and it wasn't any of the leads - it was Finola Hughes. Which would make Patty an EnsembleDarkHorse too.
** The half-manticore from the season six episode "Little Monsters" is ridiculously popular, considering that he was a oneshot character, a baby, and didn't even have a name. He often is depicted as the next generation of Halliwell's best friend.
** To a lesser extent, Bianca could count. She only showed up in one episode, but is an often remembered character in certain circles.
* EvilIsSexy: Well, Evil tends to have more revealing outfits, anyway. And apparently there exists a ''Demonic Strip Club''. An EvilCostumeSwitch usually involves HotterAndSexier clothing.
* {{Fanon}}:
** Fans have a quote that's often attributed to Piper that goes "Life ain't a garden, so quit being a ho". While it is something she probably would say, she never says it at any point in the series.
** Likewise fans assumed that Piper's unnamed third child in the finale is named Melinda — after the daughter that she had in the alternate future in "Morality Bites". This usually ignores that when Wyatt was thought to be a girl, Piper mentions that she was planning to name the daughter after Prue, though the fact is sometimes accounted for by calling her ''Prudence'' Melinda. This eventually became AscendedFanon in the comics where the child is named Melinda.
** Despite the fact that no LaResistance is ever even mentioned, fans often have Chris be the creator and leader of a resistance again Wyatt in the unchanged future.
* FanPreferredCouple:
** Piper and Leo are the OneTruePairing for fans. Piper's only other significant love interest Dan has very few fans.
** Phoebe and Cole, due to the LoveRedeems nature of it — and Julian [=McMahon=] really making Cole into quite TheWoobie.
** Prue and Andy. Although Prue got two more love interests during her short time, most view Andy as her one true love.
** Prue and Cole has some traction, due to the FoeYay aspect (and the fact that their actors were dating).
** Paige is unique in that she doesn't seem to have a love interest that's liked or disliked more than the others. But Henry is usually accepted as her true love, the chemistry between the two actors making up for the rushed nature of it.
* FoeYay: Prue and Cole. Search your heart; you know it to be true. Helped by the fact that their actors dated while on set.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In "Just Harried" Paige says "Is this a wedding or a coronation?" as a joke. About six episodes later, Phoebe does have a coronation as she becomes Queen of the Underworld.
* GirlShowGhetto: Broke out of it, despite executives worrying. Even with all the excessive {{Fanservice}} to draw in male viewers, the show was a ratings hit and lasted for eight seasons. It was even the longest running TV show with female leads until ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' broke its record.
* GrowingTheBeard:
** Season 1 is viewed as flawed, but decent. Season 2 is highly divisive, but most fans agree that Season 3 is where the show really got good. That and Season 4 are viewed as the two strongest seasons.
** Within Season 1 itself, creators point to "Dead Man Dating" as the episode where they properly found their feet.
* HamAndCheese: The villains, particularly in later seasons. And almost any time the sisters were turned evil.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** In the pilot episode Prue remarks, "This house is perfectly safe." Piper responds, "Don't say that! In horror movies, the one who says that ends up dying." Poor Prue. May also double as HilariousInHindsight, as the exchange seems to be a reference to ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'' which co-starred Rose [=McGowan=].
** Near the end of 5 season Penny refused to bless Wyatt saying that [[DoesNotLikeMen men should not be trusted with magic powers because they can't use them responsibly]]. At the end of the episode she learned that not all men are bad after all and gave her blessing. The very next season revolved around Wyatt becoming evil in the future. Only the successful prevention of said outcome [[spoiler:thanks to the intervention of his time-traveling brother]] keeps this from becoming a BrokenAesop as well.
** Everyone's shock that Future!Phoebe is imprisoned for using her powers for evil and to kill a man in "Morality Bites". Given her [[TookALevelInJerkass increasingly]] [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] behaviour in later seasons, she ends up doing a ''lot'' worse and actually has a much higher bodycount, having either directly or indirectly let people or innocents die out of spite or sheer neglect. This gets addressed in a meta sense in the season 9 comics, through "Morality Bites Back" revisiting the Cal Greene plotline and revealing that the close friend Greene murdered was [[spoiler:her boss Elise Rothman. This time the crisis is averted, and thankfully the comics don't seem to be marred by many of the problems the show had—including the tendency to forget that the good guys are supposed to be ''good'']].
** In "A Knight To Remember" the Evil Enchantress nearly kills Paige by blasting her onto the windshield of her car. Creator/RoseMcGowan would later be involved in a nearly fatal car accident and suffer damage to her eye.
** "Spin City" has Leo finding out that Chris hates him in the future. When demon Chris is attacking him, Leo mockingly says "Did I miss a school play? Take away your favorite toy? Play favorites with Wyatt?" when it's already known that he wasn't around much in Chris's future. However later on, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Piper died when Chris was fourteen]]. This turns Chris's angst from WhenYouComingHomeDad to a huge TearJerker. It's kind of understandable why Chris keeps punching him even after he's been turned back.
** A Season 6 episode has a subplot where Paige needs to help a co-worker expose a sexually harassing boss. Years later, Rose [=McGowan=] came out to say she had been sexually abused on ''Film/TheDoomGeneration'' and raped at one point.
** Any scene where Phoebe and Paige are getting along may be somewhat difficult to watch now that Rose [=McGowan=] has turned against Alyssa Milano, saying in an interview, "I don't like her. I think she's a lie". [[note]]This refers to the fact that Milano continues to associate with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), whom [=McGowan=] accuses of covering up Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct and his rape of her in particular.[[/note]]
** It's a minor gag in Season 1 that Phoebe got the SlutShaming nickname "Freebie" in high school - which is then expanded in Season 6 when she goes to her high school reunion. This rather eerily parallels the SlutShaming attitude she and Alyssa Milano would get from particularly zealous fans.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: A slightly weird one. In Season 8 Paige glamours herself into Janice Dickinson to publicly cry at her fake funeral. When the press were trying to discredit Janice Dickinson for accusing Bill Cosby of raping her, Rose [=McGowan=] publicly came to her defence.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The first season episode title "The Fourth Sister" considering [[spoiler: they had a fourth sister all along]].
** The aforementioned horror movie line. In the episode "Chick Flick" which is an AffectionateParody of slasher movies, Prue is the first one to get attacked by the psycho killer.
** The season 4 premiere has Paige nearly orbing a man's heart out of his body. Creator/RoseMcGowan would later play a young Cora in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and her preferred method of dealing with people was ripping their hearts out of their bodies. Additionally in "A Knight To Remember" Rose also plays an Evil Enchantress who tries to make a prince forget his potential bride and marry her, hoping to gain control of his kingdom - something Cora does in the second episode where Rose plays her. And a third one - in "Happily Ever After" Paige falls victim to Snow White's poisoned apple. In ''Once Upon A Time'' Cora is Snow White's step-grandmother. It's also hilarious that Paige is skeptical about the fairy tales being real - when in OUAT she is a fairy tale character.
** Another ''Once Upon A Time'' related one; In "Spin City" Paige has to get rid of the WickedWitch of the 'Enchanted Forest'. Fast forward to OUAT and Paige's actress ''is'' the Wicked Witch of the Enchanted Forest.
** A series of strange coincidences involving ''Charmed'' and ProfessionalWrestling have been creeping up in recent years:
*** The ProWrestlingEpisode "Wrestling With Demons". Think about this: Prue and Phoebe defeated the two guys that would later win tag team championships together as part of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Main Event Mafia.
*** The Nexus, the central point of powerful energy the Manor was built upon, becomes the object of Zankou's demonic ambitions in season 7 (and those of Paul Haas in early season 8). Furthermore, when demons get killed, they go to a desolate place aptly called the Wasteland, where they inevitably end up as food for a hungry serpent beast. Fast forward to 2010 where a PowerStable of young upstarts known as Wrestling/TheNexus start running amok in Wrestling/{{WWE}}, led by and centered around the ambitions of [[Wrestling/WadeBarrett a man]] whose FinishingMove at the time is called the Wasteland.
*** Paige's appearance in the fourth season is that of RavenHairIvorySkin and as noted on the main page, her BloodKnight tendencies have earned her the FanNickname "Raige" on the ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity'' recaps. Fast forward to 2012 where we have a WWE Diva named Wrestling/{{Paige}} with black hair and pale skin, known for being violent and aggressive. Slight bonus to that one: in Chris's first appearance he makes the comment of "Stone Cold Paige", in reference to her being frozen by the Titans. WWE's Paige was a guest on the podcast of wrestling legend Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin where she openly admitted to being inspired by Austin.
*** Piper's son Wyatt essentially became the plot of Season 6, in which it's revealed that he's destined to become the {{Above Good and|Evil}} EvilOverlord of a BadFuture unless someone's attempts to kill/convert him are thwarted. Fast forward to 2012 where we have a WWE Superstar named Wrestling/BrayWyatt[[note]]portrayed by a former member of the aforementioned Nexus group for good measure[[/note]] who leads a creepy {{cult}} "family" and is implied to be [[DemonicPossession a man possessed by an ancient demon]], possibly {{Satan}} himself. Furthermore, Wyatt Halliwell was born inside the Manor, making him extra susceptible to a FaceHeelTurn thanks to the Manor's Nexus. The man implied to be Bray Wyatt's vessel is the previous character his wrestler portrayed as a former member of the Nexus stable.
** When Phoebe says of Penny's six marriages,[[note]]This is a goof; Penny was engaged six times but only married four[[/note]] Cole says "I would have stopped at three". Phoebe would eventually be married three times across the series. [[spoiler: And she would [[HappilyMarried stop at the third one]]]].
** In "Enter the Demon" Piper is annoyed that Paige isn't taking her Charmed duties seriously, specifically her potions. Fast forward to "Siren Song" where Paige has been on a kick of hunting demons and experimenting with potions - which Piper complains about. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
** A meta case. Just before the fifth season started filming, Rose [=McGowan=] did an interview where she said it was odd that they didn't show Paige dating anyone at all in her first year. She ended the interview saying "I hope I get some action". This becomes hilarious if one watches an extra on the DVD - where Rose talks about how she'd have these one-shot raunchy scenes with interchangeable male actors. She then went to the producers and said "Paige isn't a ho!" - BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor indeed.
** Creator/MishaCollins plays a character who calls Phoebe an angel and she replies that she isn't but she could introduce him to one. The actor later joined ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' as an angel.
** The groom-to-be in "The Wedding from Hell" was named [[Series/{{Leverage}} Elliot Spencer.]] For additional hilarity, an episode of ''Leverage'' focused on the main cast's efforts to crash a wedding, just as this one did.
** The Latin American Spanish dub of the series shares many voice actors with the Latin American Spanish dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', of all things. This led to such instances as Andy and Prue sharing the same voice actors as Adult!Goku and Kid!Goku/Kid!Gohan/Kid!Goten, respectively (Creator/MarioCastaneda and Creator/LauraTorres), leading to some AccidentalInnuendo of the [[ScrewYourself really]] [[ParentalIncest quite]] {{squick}}y kind to anyone paying attention, and Cole being voiced by Frieza's voice actor (Creator/GerardoReyero) when, while Frieza is infamous for being an unrepentant villain through the entire franchise, Cole is known for having a ''really'' protracted HeelFaceRevolvingDoor through his tenure on the show.
* IdiotPlot:
** The demons know where the sisters live. They can teleport in at any time. They could easily teleport into the house in great numbers at night, when the sisters are sleeping, and kill them in a matter of seconds. Instead they come up with long plots to shame, divide, frame, or otherwise inconvenience the sisters outside the house.
** Or since they can create spells, why they never bothered to figure one to ''prevent'' anyone from teleporting in! It's somewhat sad that the only one savvy enough to do this was Ludlow, who protected his demonic training academy with spells to make it both untraceable unless you already knew its location, as well as impossible to teleport into!
** The sisters, for all their offensive abilities, do not possess any natural shielding or particular resistance to damage. Demons wouldn’t even ''need'' to use demonic abilities to kill them. They could just put a bomb in the house with a ten second fuse and then they’d all be killed before they even found out about it. Also, given how often the sisters were in public (and Phoebe especially had her whereabouts in public known) the demons could even have just had them shot by a human assassin/sniper from a distance (or a demon assassin) rather than following their standard practice of teleporting before them and waiting for the sisters to kill them. If they wanted to kill them by their own hands, they could have just slipped a tranquilised/sleeping potion into their food when the sisters were on one of their many public dates and then taken them captive. Instead all demons seemed to apply the strategy of deciding they needed “more power” to face the sisters and then, when the fight finally came, failing to duck when the vanquishing potion was thrown at them.
** Plots involving The Source are particular offenders. If you look at "Marry-Go-Round" alone it showed that Cole as The Source could teleport into the house (even into characters' bedrooms while they slept and even with Paige guarding Phoebe's door), disguise himself as one of the sisters to fool the others, cast magic on Phoebe while she was sleeping and even put Paige to sleep with a wave of his hand (the only thing stopping him killing them all seemed to be his love for Phoebe; an excuse that The Source doesn't always have). With such a combination of abilities, it boggles the mind not only that they weren't used in other situations when they'd be useful (the ability to impersonate a Charmed One and render another one unconscious seems like a useful trick) but it also required a serious dose of idiocy that when The Source had it out for the Charmed Ones they managed to survive more than a night.
** A season, Paige jumps from temp job to temp job. Like she suddenly forgot she had a law degree and had been a social worker. However, she did give reasons for it - her witchy duties and social worker job weren't meshing so well, and she noticed that she always landed the temp jobs she got for a magical reason.
** Many episodes stress TheMasquerade, yet everyone teleports in broad daylight and in severely populated areas. At one point Leo casually orbs out of a diner, doesn't even go to the bathroom or anything, just orbs from his seat.
** Wyatt has near-godlike powers and Piper constantly goes on about how she wants to give her kids a normal life. Yet she absolutely ''refuses'' to bind his powers, even though they could easily give them back to him once he's older, when he'd be able to control them better. It becomes ''especially'' ridiculous after the Dragon incident, where numerous people ''must'' [[InferredHolocaust have been killed]] as it rampaged across San Francisco. Another layer of idiocy is added to this considering that an earlier episode had Piper meet a pre-pubescent boy who hated having [[KillItWithFire uncontrollable magic powers]]. The episode ended with her binding his powers for him, then concluding that Grams had done the right thing by binding their powers, giving them (in ''her own words'') "the gift of a normal childhood- the gift of innocence". [[spoiler:Plus, Gideon probably wouldn't have come to the conclusion that Wyatt needed to die for the greater good if not for incidents like the aforementioned Dragon summoning]].
* InternetBackdraft: If you go on a ''Charmed'' forum and bring up which actress you believe was in the wrong during the whole Creator/AlyssaMilano[=/=]Creator/ShannenDoherty feud, you'd better have a hose with you to put out all the flames you're going to cause... In fact, just say something bad about Prue or Shannen. It'll take less than a minute for her fans to explode.
* ItWasHisSled: Chris is [[spoiler:Piper and Leo's KidFromTheFuture]]. When the show first aired, his identity and intentions were a mystery for nearly the whole season.
* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of fans watch "The Good, The Bad and the Cursed" solely for the ShipTease between Prue and Cole.
* LesYay: The lesbian vampires. Paige gets a couple, like being kissed by nymphs and mentioning how cute Darryl's wife is. Also, there isn't quite as much IncestSubtext as you would think (a lot less in ''Charmed'' than there is in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', for example), but there was an episode where Phoebe was channeling a guy's lust towards Piper. Both sisters are [[{{Squick}} a bit creeped out]]. Phoebe and Kyra, almost to the point of Lampshading.
* MemeticMutation: Prue's "they think we're the demons now" is one of the most remembered quotes from the show.
* MostAnnoyingSound:
** Anytime one of the Charmed Ones screeches "Leo!" in later seasons, summoning him away from life or death emergencies to deal with the most trivial problems whatsoever. This did get lampshaded at least once, when Chris annoyingly asked Piper, "Have you ever noticed that at the least sign of concern, you always call out for Leo?" And considering Chris is [[spoiler: Piper and Leo's kid from the future]], it suggests that Piper probably keeps doing this in the future while they're raising their kids.
** In the sixth season finale when Paige is deflecting darklighter arrows from her evil counterpart. She shouts "arrow!" over and over until it's incredibly annoying.
* MostWonderfulSound:
** The sound of a whitelighter orbing. After Paige joined the show, the sound usually meant that she was about to use her powers to kick someone's ass.
** All three sisters chanting "the Power of Three will set us free". It never failed to sound badass or epic.
* NeverLiveItDown:
** Phoebe couldn't live down her behaviour in Seasons 5 and 6 - her horrible treatment of Cole, misuse of powers and shameless {{Fanservice}}. This is in spite of her actually getting punished towards the end of Season 6 for this and her wardrobe eventually getting toned down.
** The show itself is often remembered for the {{Fanservice}} because the network emphasised it (to the showrunners' annoyance). For example "The Bare Witch Project" was hyped around Phoebe dressing up as Lady Godiva - when in the episode she only does it in a brief sequence at the end. The {{Fanservice}} was only that heavy in Season 5 and 6, and even so the show was far more straight laced than people remember.
** Brad Kern couldn't live down not having a picture of Prue in the series finale. He regrets it to this day, claiming it was over budget concerns; the $8000 cost a picture of Shannen Doherty would have required would have meant not being able to bring back one of the other returning cast members.
* ReplacementScrappy:
** Surprisingly averted by Paige (except to Prue fans), her first season is considered to be one of the best seasons of the show (see SeasonalRot below). People don't seem to have a problem with Paige the character but rather some of the seasons she was in.
** While the characters of Henry and Coop aren't entirely hated, the fact that in the midst of the final season's budget cuts both Darryl and even more egregious Leo, who was literally put in stasis, were written out, and episodes later two characters were written in was not well recieved.
** Billie in an odd way. She debuted in Season 8 not replacing anyone, but at the same time that Darryl was PutOnABus and Leo was eventually written out for ten episodes. This is one of the reasons her character was so badly received.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/AmyAdams stars in Season 2's "Murphy's Luck".
** Misha Collins appears in Season 2's "They're Everywhere". He's now best known as Castiel on ''{{Series/Supernatural}}''.
** Creator/JohnCho plays the titular "Dead Man Dating" in Season 1.
** Creator/ZacharyQuinto is the demon of the week in Season 5's "Cat House".
** Creator/AshleyTisdale plays a small role as a girl attacked by a banshee in Season 3's "Look Who's Barking Now".
** Norman Reedus stars in two episodes of Season 5 as one of Paige's dates.
** Leigh-Allyn Baker had the recurring role of Hannah Webster during season 1. Nowadays, she's known as Amy Duncan from ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie''.
* RomanticPlotTumor: The love triangle between Piper, Leo and Dan in Season 2. Given that Leo already knew Piper was a witch and that she had saved his life in "Love Hurts" - as well as AnAesop at the end of "Morality Bites" that they should try to make their relationship work despite all obstacles - there was never any doubt in the fans' mind that Piper would choose anyone but him. The plot was stretched out across an entire season. It may have eventually been disliked by the creators themselves - as Constance M. Burge protested against Cole's introduction, not wanting another long running love story. Ironically Cole's story (which also had actual relevancy to the plot) was much better received than Dan's.
* RootingForTheEmpire: Cole was treated as an outright villain when he returned in season 5 despite wanting to be good. It was just that Phoebe suddenly decided it was his fault for everything bad that had happened to her, ignoring her own mistakes and refusing to take responsibility for her own actions in the previous season. Many fans felt she treated him unfairly and applauded when he punched her in an alternate reality and when she was killed off briefly in another episode. It didn't help that Phoebe got some really heavy CharacterShilling in that season.
* ScapegoatCreator: Brad Kern is this for many fans, due to him taking over after creator Constance M Burge left. This is quite ironic, as Burge left over Kern's decision to introduce Cole - who is a fan favourite. Burge gets no backlash for being responsible for the much loathed Piper and Dan romance. Kern is usually blamed for the focus on romance, vampy outfits and a LighterAndSofter tone in the fifth season. If they don't blame him, they blame Alyssa Milano. See IAmNotSpock above.
* TheScrappy:
** An especially obvious example in its eighth and last season with Billie Jenkins, the main reason why the large majority of fans dislike the last season of the show.
** Phoebe also was hated after her treatment with Cole. Many fans called post Season Five Phoebe '[=PhoeMe=]'. She was somewhat redeemed in the eighth season for a few fans, her bitchy tendencies lessening, her SerialRomeo lifestyle getting Deconstructed and her outfits becoming less revealing.
** Billie's sister Christy was this for a while, though she was somewhat RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap via AlasPoorScrappy.
** Inspector Sheridan rapidly became this. Aside from her endangering TheMasquerade and the sisters both, thus showing the problems with bringing law enforcement into the supernatural realm, her ArbitrarySkepticism and [[InspectorJavert fanatical pursuit of 'justice' because she believed the sisters were criminals and killers]] made less and less sense as the series went on. At least the FBI agent pursuing the sisters in the first season had a good excuse (he was a demon). Granted, Sheridan did get put in mortal danger (though it was her own fault) and get her memory wiped for a long time, but by the time she remembered everything and could be said to have a valid reason for disliking the sisters, she was so detestable it was bordering on LaserGuidedKarma when she walked in on [[BigBad Zankou]] and got herself vaporized. Self Disposing Scrappy?
** Dan and Jenny in Season 2. The first by way of DieForOurShip, as he was an obvious RomanticFalseLead for Piper - and had no personality other than being hot and occasionally jealous. Jenny mainly because she's in four episodes, gets put in the credits, and is then PutOnABus before she could do anything.
* SeasonalRot: Fans are divided on where the show started to go downhill. A lot of fans dislike the second season for its lack of magic and overemphasis on drama in the sisters' lives, plus the pointless love triangle between Dan, Piper and Leo. Many hardcore Prue fans vilified every season after the third for not having her. Seasons 3 and 4 are generally accepted to be the best of the show. Season 5 is arguably the weakest and most despised, as it featured Phoebe's [[TookALevelInJerkass sudden Jerkass ways]] beginning, fan-favorite Cole being suddenly written as a DesignatedVillain, a lackluster one hundredth episode, and a return to episodic storytelling after two seasons of arc-driven stories. Season 6 is polarizing - some despised it for the Piper/Leo drama, the too light and childish storylines and continued awful characterization of Phoebe, while others loved it for returning to the arc-based storytelling, having future Chris, and an epic two-parter finale. Season 7 is much like Season 6 in terms of fans and the last season is largely despised because of Billie but considered to have an excellent finale.
* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Each of the actresses achieved this at various points in the series.
** Shannen Doherty was felt to be rather wooden in the first season - thanks to Prue's default expressions being sniffing and scowling. The Season 2 premiere where Prue has to deal with the full extent of Andy's death is held up as a turning point for the character and actress. It's the first time in the series that Prue actually deals with the trauma in a realistic way.
** Holly Marie Combs was the unknown of the group - as the other two were reasonably known beforehand. Within the second episode - where Piper worries about whether she and her sisters are evil or not - she immediately showed what a talent she was. And in Season 4's "Hell Hath No Fury", Piper's furious breakdown at [[spoiler: Prue's grave]] left no doubt in the fans' minds that she could carry the show as the lead witch.
** Alyssa Milano was held up as the weak link of the cast for the first two seasons - mainly because they didn't play to her strengths with Phoebe. Come Season 3 and the character became more of a GenkiGirl, matching Alyssa's gift for comic timing better than drama. But Season 3's "The Good, The Bad and the Cursed" is held up by a lot of fans as a great dramatic moment for her; Phoebe is psychically linked to a man from the past, and feels his pain when he is whipped is genuinely frightening.
** Rose [=McGowan=] had some ReplacementScrappy heat to shake off when she joined. But come "A Paige From The Past" when Paige has to admit what her past was like, and relive the death of her parents again, and many of her detractors were silenced.
** For some, Kaley Cuoco redeemed herself with Billie's reaction to [[spoiler: having to kill Christy]] in the series finale.
** Brian Krause was viewed as the weakest of the main cast members - with most of his attempted dramatic moments resulting in {{Narm}}. Come the Season 6 finale when [[spoiler: Chris dies]] and Leo's subsequent RoaringRampageOfRevenge? SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct.
* SnarkBait: Read the ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity'' recaps, particularly from Season 5 onwards.
* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** "Morality Bites" - Might does not equal right. The wrong thing done for the right reasons is still the wrong thing. There is a fine line between helping the innocent and punishing the guilty, and it must never be crossed.
** "Charmed Again Part 2" - A mother is just as capable of being an abuser as a father is.
** "Battle of the Hexes" - No, women are not superior to men. And neither are men superior to women. Equality between the sexes means that they are equal. If either sex becomes dominant, it's a fiasco.
* SophomoreSlump: Season 2 is regarded as the weakest of the Prue seasons for its lack of focus on magic, a RomanticPlotTumour involving Leo, Piper and Dan and overall bad quality of writing. Within the Paige seasons - 4 to 8 - Season 5 is also one of the most despised for a sudden shift to standalone episodes, LighterAndSofter tone and HotterAndSexier outfits.
* SpecialEffectsFailure:
** Some of the "valuable" items that come into Buckland's look more like cheap import shop goods than priceless old antiques.
** Interestingly enough, the visual effects themselves are not all that bad, especially when compared to most of the props. Not only are the above-mentioned ‘antiques’ often off the mark, but also the magic items. Most egregious examples are the 'Fearsome Plastic Falchion' of the evil Warlord, the hundreds-of-years old 'poignard' with a laser-sharp engraving, and 'Melinda Warren's blessing cup' - a rather tacky piece of colored glass.
* StrangledByTheRedString:
** While there's nothing really ''bad'' about Paige and Phoebe's eventual husbands, they were introduced extremely late in the game (about one-third through and two-thirds through season eight, respectively), so it was kind of obvious that the writers were just trying to get Paige and Phoebe hitched before the end of the show.
** Phoebe and Jason also got together incredibly quick. They've been together two episodes (one of which Jason wasn't even in) and all of a sudden he's asking her to move to Hong Kong with him.
* TearJerker:
** The deaths of Andy, Piper (just before the ResetButton that killed off Prue instead), Prue (following said ResetButton), Cole (the first and maybe second times), and Christy can easily be this.
** Piper's (delayed) reaction to Prue's death in ''Hell Hath No Fury'' definitely counts as well.
** The ending of ''Astral Monkey''.
* TestosteroneBrigade: As ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' pointed out, ''Charmed'' is a show about witches starring Alyssa Milano and two other hot chicks as sisters. The vampy outfits, fantasy plots and action-packed nature attracted copious amounts of male viewers.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Jenny Gordon was important enough to get a spot in the Season 2 opening credits - before getting written out after only four episodes. WordOfGod is that they realized she served no purpose. Jenny's role could have served as a way to give Dan some more characterization beyond Piper's SatelliteLoveInterest.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The AssimilationPlot / TheEvilsOfFreeWill storyline with the Avatars [[spoiler:was abandoned after an episode and a half of Utopia with the Avatars letting go of their perfect world on the Charmed Ones' say-so]]. Might count as a case of PragmaticVillainy considering [[spoiler:they live to try again]], but almost makes you wonder if they could ever truly get it to last.
* TooCoolToLive: Several characters end up dying to ThePlotReaper over the course of the show.
** Prue, the oldest and most powerful sister, was McLeaned thanks to backstage drama.
** Cole had to die in order to allow Phoebe to have more love interests once it was clear she and Cole were done.
** Chris had to go back to his own future eventually, but dying was done to set up Leo's StoryArc in season 7.
** Drake was only supposed to live long enough to help the Charmed Ones out of their collective funks.
** Kyra's death was the final push the sisters needed before they could agree with the Avatar's AssimilationPlot.
* TrappedByMountainLions: Phoebe's sabbatical from her advice column to "relax and recharge her batteries". Instead, she spends practically every waking moment complaining about it, obsessing over her column and hanging out at the office, making the entire subplot ultimately ''pointless''.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: Cole Turner is this. This is mostly due to the actor being Julian [=McMahon=] who greatly [[MrFanservice appeals to the predominantly female audience]], but even without that his story is a fairly good cause. He spent most of his life working for the forces of evil but [[HeelFaceTurn became good]] because he [[ThePowerOfLove fell in love]] with Phoebe Halliwell. After a [[EarnYourHappyEnding great deal of work]], he became a normal human. Which in itself may have been his biggest mistake because [[BadassDecay following that point he lost total control of his house of cards]]. He ended up being corrupted by the powers of the Source of All Evil and the Charmed Ones had to vanquish him. (After [[IdiotBall Phoebe killed a wizard]] who could have taken the Source's power from Cole.) After he came back, the sisters just [[HeelFaceDoorSlam flat out dismissed him as evil]] and didn't trust him from the start. They didn't even bother finding out if he was influenced by evil from an entity that had possessed humans before (even though said wizard and Cole's assistant had practically told them as much). Cole tried over and over again to prove that he was good until he [[AxCrazy snapped]] and became evil [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor again]] (although, to be fair, he has killed several humans and gotten seduced by a siren into almost killing Phoebe). This caused a lot of Phoebe fans to hate Phoebe and feel sympathetic to Cole. Further made worse in retrospect when one realized Cole never would have been infected by The Source if he didn't have to take his powers to save the sisters who were going to be killed, and was only evil due to the source controlling him. And how many times they get to choose between good and evil and have evil actions reversed after becoming good again, but Cole is somehow irredeemable.
* WhatAnIdiot: The sisters make Billie stop wearing the wig and sunglasses she used to disguise herself while vanquishing demons. It's understandable as a woman walking around in black leather and sunglasses is bound to draw attention. However one wonders why the sisters never tried to have Billie protect her identity with magical disguises - especially considering they were using that particular spell at the time.
* WTHCastingAgency: Kaley Cuoco as Billie. Why would you give the comedic hip young actress the inconsistently-written melodramatic role from hell?
* WTHCostumingDepartment: Many of Phoebe's outfits (including the CostumePorn of the week) fall into this category, like wearing skimpy clothes not appropriate for workplace, several mismatched pieces or even dresses or blouses that border the ImpossiblyTackyClothes and RummageSaleReject territories. Alyssa Milano herself hated these outfits and one of the conditions of returning for Season 8 was for Phoebe's clothes to become more modest.
* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: Inverted with Cole. He goes through hell to get back to Phoebe, and all she does is tell him he's evil and try to kill him. Repeatedly. It reached the point where several times he backed off and one where he planned to leave forever, only for Phoebe/someone else to realize he's needed for something and completely mess with his head further. The only reason he turned evil again was on accident and to save all three sisters when they were failing.
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** Every new big threat after the Source could count, really, seeing how the Source was set up to be THE GreaterScopeVillain of the show.

* SheReallyCanAct: Each of the actresses achieved this at various points in the series.

** Brian Krause was viewed as the weakest of the main cast members - with most of his attempted dramatic moments resulting in {{Narm}}. Come the Season 6 finale when [[spoiler: Chris dies]] and Leo's subsequent RoaringRampageOfRevenge? HeReallyCanAct.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: A slightly weird one. In Season 8 Paige glamours herself into Janice Dickinson to publicly cry at her fake funeral. When the press were trying to discredit Janice Dickinson for accusing Bill Cosby of raping her, Rose [=McGowan=] publicly came to her defence.

** Misha Collins appears in Season 2's "They're Everywhere". He's now best known as Castille on ''{{Series/Supernatural}}''.

* GrowingTheBeard: Season 1 is viewed as flawed, but decent. Season 2 is highly divisive, but most fans agree that Season 3 is where the show really got good. That and Season 4 are viewed as the two strongest seasons.

** Aside from the ''Scream'' reference above, there's "Wrestling With Demons". Think about this: Prue and Phoebe defeated the two guys that would later win tag team championships together as part of the [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} Main Event Mafia]].

** A series of strange coincidences involving ''Charmed'' and ProfessionalWrestling company Wrestling/{{WWE}} has been creeping up in recent years:
*** The Nexus, the central point of powerful energy the Manor was built upon, becomes the object of Zankou's demonic ambitions in season 7 (and those of Paul Haas in early season 8). Furthermore, when demons get killed, they go to a desolate place aptly called the Wasteland, where they inevitably end up as food for a hungry serpent beast. Fast forward to 2010 where a PowerStable of young upstarts known as Wrestling/TheNexus start running amok, led by and centered around the ambitions of [[Wrestling/WadeBarrett a man]] whose FinishingMove at the time is called the Wasteland.
*** Paige's appearance in the fourth season is that of RavenHairIvorySkin and as noted on the main page, her BloodKnight tendencies have earned her the FanNickname "Raige" on the Website/TelevisionWithoutPity recaps. Fast forward to 2012 where we have a WWE Diva named Wrestling/{{Paige}} with black hair and pale skin, known for being violent and aggressive. Slight bonus to that one: in Chris's first appearance he makes the comment of "Stone Cold Paige", in reference to her being frozen by the Titans. WWE's Paige was a guest on the podcast of wrestling legend Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin where she openly admitted to being inspired by Austin.

** When Phoebe says of Penny's six marriages[[note]]This is a goof; Penny was engaged six times but only married four[[/note]], Cole says "I would have stopped at three". Phoebe would eventually be married three times across the series. [[spoiler: And she would [[HappilyMarried stop at the third one]]]].
** In "Enter The Demon" Piper is annoyed that Paige isn't taking her Charmed duties seriously, specifically her potions. Fast forward to "Siren Song" where Paige has been on a kick of hunting demons and experimenting with potions - which Piper complains about. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.

** Creator/MishaCollins plays a character who calls Phoebe an angel and she replies that she isn't but she could introduce him to one. The actor later joined Series/{{Supernatural}} as an angel.

* InternetBackdraft:
** If you go on a ''Charmed'' forum and bring up which actress you believe was in the wrong during the whole Alyssa Milano[=/=]Creator/ShannenDoherty feud, you'd better have a hose with you to put out all the flames you're going to cause...
** Say something bad about Prue or Shannen. It'll take less than a minute for her fans to explode.

* LesYay: The lesbian vampires. Paige gets a couple, like being kissed by nymphs and mentioning how cute Darryl's wife is. Also, there isn't quite as much IncestSubtext as you would think (a lot less IncestSubtext in ''Charmed'' than there is IncestSubtext in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', for example), but there was an episode where Phoebe was channeling a guy's lust towards Piper. Both sisters are [[{{Squick}} a bit creeped out]]. Phoebe and Kyra, almost to the point of Lampshading.

* SnarkBait: Read the Website/TelevisionWithoutPity recaps, particularly from Season 5 onwards.

** The infamous feud between Creator/ShannenDoherty and Alyssa Milano still causes heated debates among ''Charmed'' fans to this day, despite the fact that the two actresses seem to be at peace with one another now.

* SeasonalRot: Fans are divided on where the show started to go downhill. A lot of fans dislike the second season for its lack of magic and overemphasis on drama in the sisters' lives, plus the pointless love triangle between Dan, Piper and Leo. Many hardcore Prue fans vilified every season after the third for not having her. Seasons 3 and 4 are generally accepted to be the best of the show. Season 5 is arguably the weakest and most despised, as it featured Phoebe's [[TookALevelInJerkass sudden Jerkass ways]] beginning, fan-favorite Cole being suddenly written as a DesignatedVillain, a lackluster one hundredth episode, and a return to episodic storytelling after two seasons of arc-driven stories. Season 6 is LoveItOrHateIt - some despised it for the Piper/Leo drama, the too light and childish storylines and continued awful characterization of Phoebe, while others loved it for returning to the arc-based storytelling, having future Chris, and an epic two-parter finale. Season 7 is much like Season 6 in terms of fans and the last season is largely despised because of Billie but considered to have an excellent finale.

** The infamous feud between Creator/ShannonDoherty and Alyssa Milano still causes heated debates among ''Charmed'' fans to this day, despite the fact that the two actresses seem to be at peace with one another now.

** Billie in Season 8 was widely disliked for this reason. The network had demanded a new YoungerAndHipper character that could star in a potential spin-off. Billie was unfortunately viewed as having a combination of all the negative characteristics of the Halliwells - and a plot about her and her long lost sister took prime focus over the actual protagonists of the show. Not helping matters was the fact that two series regulars had to be PutOnABus to accommodate her, and Kayley Cuoco not being up to the melodrama of the role.

* ReplacementScrappy: Surprisingly averted by Paige (except to Prue fans), her first season is considered to be one of the best seasons of the show (see SeasonalRot below). People don't seem to have a problem with Paige the character but rather some of the seasons she was in.