History YMMV / SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries

** Pi gets more love than his small screen time would indicate. One of the major complaints about ''Sabrina's Secret Life'' is his departure, especially since it left Harvey without a proper best friend character to interact with.

* EvilIsSexy: Well she's GoodIsNotNice at worst, but Enchantra is something of an antagonist, who's also drawn like a dominatrix with a generous bust line.

* AngstWhatAngst: Despite Chloe being her best friend who she chose to be her secret-keeper, Sabrina never seems to miss her in the sequel series. On the other hand, considering how much she holds the JerkassBall, one has to wonder if she might be holding some repressed angst.

* AccidentalInnuendo: The Flavor Babes' first performance opens with Chloe apologising for the sound her French horn made by awkwardly giggling "sorry, wrong hole".

** Is the CorruptCorporateExecutive in "Xabrina Warrior Witch" just the head of a video game company with really advanced technology, or is he actually a witch himself? His disdain for mortals, and presence in the game towards the end hints at the latter. His disappearance after being defeated in the game suggests he was physically there and not via virtual reality like Sabrina and Chloe. Or is he a mortal who just had access to magic?

** The dieting episode. Sabrina and Chloe are desperate to fit into a pair of jeans that only come in one size - purely because they think Harvey will be impressed. Everyone else points out that the model they want to look like is too skinny and scrawny. When they resort to magic to lose the weight, they end up shrinking to the size of earthworms.
** The episode where Sabrina tricks Salem into getting married, only to figure out that she’s just using him. Everyone keeps lecturing her about meddling and jumping to conclusions.
** Another episode features Sabrina assuming her grandparents are divorcing, and the characters make damn sure you know about not jumping to conclusions.

** Sheherazade, the female OneShotCharacter cat from "A Tale of Two Kitties" is definitely popular across the fanbase.

** In "Saturday Night Furor", Uncle Quigley has been spurned by his previous girlfriend Olympia and goes on a date with Ms Bleachstain - whose first name in this episode is revealed to be Corinthia. Both are part of the Peloponnese region of Greece. And Olympia's last name is Peplum, which a Greek word for a woman's outer tunic or shawl. It's also another name for the SwordAndSandal genre, most of which take place in Ancient Greece. And the episode also features the mythological sorceress Circe, who famously turned men into pigs (as she does to Quigley).
** The sphinx in "Xabrina Warrior Witch" is played by Salem and wearing an Egyptian headdress, despite [[SadlyMythtaken the in-universe game's Greco-Roman setting]]. However, the Egyptian sphinx was typically portrayed as a male and more benevolent than the Greek one (which was female and reacted with violence to anyone who answered the riddle incorrectly). The RiddleOfTheSphinx, which only appears in Greek mythology and not Egyptian, also turns out to be wrong.
* HarsherInHindsight: In the ''Secret Life'' episode "J'Achoo", Sabrina is sick with the highly-contagious "Gargoyle Flu" on the day of a big party in the Netherworld. Not wanting to miss the party, she takes some cold medicine, puts on a face mask, and sneaks off. At the party, a clumsy dance partner knocks Sabrina over, causing her face mask to fall off, and she spends the rest of the party sneezing. She later finds out that everyone who was at the party (including Hilda, Cassandra, Ms. Magrooney, and Mr. Snipe) was infected with the Gargoyle Flu, and it soon spreats to Zelda and the rest of the Netherworld's population, resulting in many of them turning into lifeless dolls that can only be saved with a homemade soup to which only Zelda knew the recipe. The entire premise would end up being very similar to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic in 2020, which was commonly spread by social gatherings and a lack of wearing face masks.

** Poor Tim. He may be a witch hunter and stole ideas from Da'Vinci, but said witches always gave the poor guy a hard time for being different.
* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: The reason Sabrina is so disliked in ''Sabrina's Secret Life''. Unlike the actual villains, or the AlphaBitch Cassandra, Sabrina's actions tend to come from her own stupidity or being too quick to jump to conclusions. But because she's the show's protagonist and thus the audience is expected to root for her, she ends up coming across worse than intended. For example, her behaviour in "At the Hop" and "Rumour Mill" makes her look worse than Cassandra, since she's the one being a bad friend. The fact that she keeps suffering AesopAmnesia from episode to episode makes her insufferable. This is in contrast to her persona in the previous seasons (and the sitcom), who was well-meaning most of the time.

* NeverLiveItDown: ''Secret Life'' Sabrina can't live down her bad behavior in "At the Hop", where all the conflict is caused either by her own immaturity (turning on Maritza for asking Harvey to the dance and not considering there might be another reason), pettiness (conspiring with Cassandra to humiliate her, and laughing cruelly when her hair is messed up) or idiocy (mixing her call-waiting up, which is what kicks off the whole problem in the first place). She does realise Cassandra went too far and tries to stop her from doing more, but is far too EasilyForgiven by some.

* {{Squick}}: Sabrina suffering from 'hypogermia' results in her sweating disgusting green blobs that then mutate into giant monsters.

** "Just a Rumour" - Cassandra makes up a rumour about her hair being synthetic, everyone at school believes it, and she's bombarded by people begging to touch her hair. Especially satisfying that Harvey believes it after how cruelly Sabrina believed the one about him cheating on tests.

--> "Everybody's an individual, responsible for their own actions. I judge people by what they say and do. Not by skin colour or sex or nationality, or whether or not they happen to have magic powers!"

** In "Saturday Night Furor", Uncle Quigley has been spurned by his previous girlfriend Olympia and goes on a date with Ms Bleachstain - whose first name in this episode is revealed to be Corinthia. Both are part of the Peloponnese region of Greece. And Olympia's last name is Peplum, which a Greek word for a woman's outer tunic or shawl. It's also another name for the SwordAndSandal genre, most of which take place in AncientGreece. And the episode also features the mythological sorceress Circe, who famously turned men into pigs (as she does to Quigley).

* MoeCouplet: Harvey and Pi. When Pi's around Harvey he shows his protective, big brother side...which makes him even cuter.

** Maritza straddles the line; while she comes across as a better person than Sabrina herself in this show (who heavily TookALevelInJerkass), she's still replacing fan-favourite Chloe. It doesn't help that she's basically Chloe's character model with her skin lightened to become Latina.

* AccidentalAesop: The episode "Anywhere But Here" was supposed to teach Sabrina (and the viewers) about appreciating what they have and that adults have a lot of responsibilities. Unfortunately, it turns out instead coming off as GrowingUpSucks. Within the same episode, since Sabrina has three kids and initially doesn't work, it gives an accidental lesson about how expensive children are and not living beyond one's means.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: "Witchitis" ostensibly is about facing fears about getting vaccinations, with the plot only being solved when Sabrina gets the eponymous shot. But it could also have another Aesop about the irresponsibility of still going out in public if you're showing symptoms of a serious illness.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is the CorruptCorporateExecutive in "Xabrina Warrior Witch" just the head of a video game company with really advanced technology, or is he actually a witch himself? His disdain for mortals, and presence in the game towards the end hints at the latter. His disappearance after being defeated in the game suggests he was physically there and not via virtual reality like Sabrina and Chloe. Or is he a mortal who just had access to magic?

* DontShootTheMessage: "Shrink To Fit" has a very good moral about how girls can often be pressured into losing weight they don't have to, and thinking they have to change themselves to please their crushes. The problem is that the show demonises thinness as creepy, which is just another form of body shaming that contradicts the BeYourself message. And it's hard to take the moral seriously when literally every female cast member is twig thin anyway.

* {{Narm}}:
** Zelda's line in "Extreme Harvey" about Harvey ending up with "a lot of broken bones". The way she says it, like it's some disease the viewer has never heard about, is just asking to be this.
** The voice used for Sabrina's inner witchlet in "Brina Baby" is clearly an adult trying to imitate cutesy baby talk.
** The sheer amount of idiocy in the rumour episode of ''Secret Life''; Sabrina and her classmates believe ridiculous rumors that an eight-year-old would scoff at. The worst offenders are Sabrina easily believing that Harvey regularly cheats on tests, and the latter believing Sabrina has been wearing a wig for her whole life. The ridiculous ones about Cassandra (she lies about her age and has false teeth) may be justified by the magic.
** There's also the episode where Sabrina believes her new teacher is apparently really attractive, so she goes to embarrassing extremes to prepare for him - including wailing that she's not done applying makeup before class. She had never displayed such shallow ditziness for authority figures beforehand. And then TheReveal that the teacher is Salem tells us Sabrina forgot that Cassandra just said he was a "real animal".

* IdiotPlot:
** "Witch Switch" hangs a bit of a lampshade on this one. Sabrina casts a spell to switch lives with Gem, wanting to enjoy the privilege of being rich. It immediately turns into a case of BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor as Sabrina experiences the difficulties Gem has in her life. But what she also didn't realise was that Gem would receive ''her'' magic powers. Gem laughs at Sabrina's idiocy for giving up her magic.
** The Eiffel Tower episode begins with the most contrived form of this. Sabrina asks Salem for something to help her carry all her aunts' shopping. Specifically she asks for a magical purse. Salem suddenly forgets how purse is spelled and ends up casting a spell to create a magical ''person'' - from the only spell in the book that appears to be continued onto another page.
** The rumour episode of ''Sabrina's Secret Life''. The episode hinges on Sabrina and friends believing rumours as if they're grade schoolers - when they're actually ''older'' than the previous series. As such it's a clear CaptainObviousAesop.
** Another ''Sabrina's Secret Life'' episode. Sabrina at first casts a spell to make Harvey pay more attention to her and when trying to reverse it, uses an incantation "he's number one in his own eyes" - which of course backfires and makes Harvey love himself egotistically.

** Salem, some of the time. While he ''did'' deserve being turned into a cat for trying to take over the world and he's a smartass a lot of the time, he's still disrespected even when he isn't doing anything wrong and can never catch a break. One such example is in "Has Anyone Seen My Quigley?", where the new nanny Quigley has hired demands no cats at the table, so the girls throw Salem outside, and when he shows up at the window to beg for food, they simply [[{{NoSympathy}} throw things at him to get him down so they won't get caught]]. In "Sabrina's Secret Life", he's just TheWoobie since a lot of his JerkAss traits had disappeared but for some reason the amount of abuse he suffered got worse.

** Alvin, the MonsterOfTheWeek from the episode "Planet Of The Dogs".

* TheScrappy: some fans of ''Sabrina's Secret Life'' Saw Sabrain herself as this, As the tone became more educational, Sabrina had to [[TookALevelInJerkass become meaner and stupider]] to demonstrate her learning AnAesop.
* SeasonalRot:''Sabrina's Secret Life'' is divisive to say the least. Fan favourite characters like Gem, Pi and Chloe get PutOnABus, Harvey and Sabrina both get flanderized, the entire voice cast gets replaced, and the animation is a lot cheaper (which is typical for a DIC show). There's also a sheer disregard for continuity, where side characters Tiffany and Margo get mixed up within the same episode!

** Anyone remember Nicole from the movie ‘Friends Forever’? Did you like Nicole, want to see her and Sabrina’s friendship while also feeling Sabrina needed a friend who could call her out for using her powers for bad things. Sadly DIC didn’t remember her and Nicole is a movie exclusive character. She may have lived in a different part of the mortal realm once graduating from the magic school, but she doesn't even get name-dropped.

* AccidentalAesop: The episode "Anywhere But Here" was supposed to teach Sabrina (and the viewers) about appreciating what they have and that adults have a lot of responsibilities. Unfortunately, it turns out instead coming off as GrowingUpSucks.

* TakeThatScrappy: The rumor episode of ''Sabrina's Secret Life'' has one directed at Sabrina herself - for those who found her insufferable in this season. Cassandra makes up a rumor that she has to wear a wig because of a botched transplant - and the entire school believes it. Sabrina has to fend off the numerous students begging to touch her hair.

* TheScrappy: ''Sabrina's Secret Life'' saw Sabrina herself becoming this. As the tone became more educational, Sabrina had to [[TookALevelInJerkass become meaner and stupider]] to demonstrate her learning AnAesop. Unfortunately this just made her insufferable, coupled with a voice actress that made her sound more obnoxious.

** In "Scare apparent", Boogie is given the math question "If X squared minus X equals 42, what does X equal?", Boogie answers 7. The teacher counts it out and says that's correct. And it is.
** In "Saturday Night Furor", Uncle Quigley has been spurned by his previous girlfriend Olympia and goes on a date with Ms Bleachstain - whose first name in this episode is revealed to be Corinthia. Both are part of the Peloponnese region of Greece. And Olympia's last name is Peplum, which a Greek word for a woman's outer tunic or shawl. It's also another name for the SwordAndSandal genre, most of which take place in Ancient Greece. And the episode also features the mythological sorceress Circe, who famously turned men into pigs (as she does to Quigley).
** The sphinx in "Xabrina Warrior Witch" is played by Salem and wearing an Egyptian headdress, despite [[SadlyMythtaken the in-universe game's Greco-Roman setting]]. However, the Egyptian sphinx was typically portrayed as a male and more benevolent than the Greek one (which was female and reacted with violence to anyone who answered the riddle wrong). The RiddleOfTheSphinx, which only appears in Greek mythology and not Egyptian, also turns out to be wrong.

** Creator/ChantalStrand voices Gem Stone and in one episode she complains about her polo ponies being stolen. One wonders if one of the ponies was named [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Diamond Tiara]] (not to mention Gem and Diamond Tiara are the rare times she voices the AlphaBitch). Also hilarious since Britt [=McKillip=] (Princess Cadance) is the second voice for Sabrina.
** Quentin Tarantulino. [[WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman Sounds familiar?]]

* GeniusBonus: In "Scare apparent", Boogie is given the math question "If X squared minus X equals 42, what does X equal?", Boogie answers 7. The teacher counts it out and says that's correct. And it is.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The cartoon can be an immediate snapshot of the [=Y2K=] Era, with the fashions on the female characters and the technology used; Gem the local RichBitch is the only one with a cell phone, and it's a blocky looking flip phone, with any other child characters using a landline to talk to their friends. Sabrina mentions having a VCR, showing it was before most households switched to DVD and eventually digital streaming. It's also full of pop culture references and parodies to 90s and 2000s media - two TotallyRadical fairies named [[Series/DawsonsCreek Dawson]] and {{Series/Felicity}}, an {{Expy}} of Creator/QuentinTarantino and a mockbuster of ''Film/PulpFiction'' and mention of Creator/JohnTravolta's CareerResurrection because of it (with a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' parody too), and references to ''{{Film/Titanic 1997}}'' and ''Film/ForrestGump'' in "Wiccan of the Sea" (when they find the Heart of the Ocean and Forrest's feather in the giant fish's stomach). The episode "Witchy Grrrls" captures the GirlGroup popularity of the day, with the girls assigning themselves identities like the Music/SpiceGirls, and the montage showing their fame and fortune contains fans buying [=CDs=]. "Xabrina Warrior Witch" and "Anywhere But Here" show the children frequenting arcades, which were already falling out of fashion in 1999.

* FoeYay: In ''Secret Life'', Sabrina and Cassandra grow more and more attached to each other as the show goes on, culminating in [[spoiler: Cassandra's HeelFaceTurn at the end]].

* LesYay: Sabrina and Chloe in "Witchy Girls" since the two of them arguing about what they want back from each other is a clear parallel to a DivorceAssetsConflict.

* SeasonalRot:''Sabrina's Secret Life'' is divisive to say the least. Fan favourite characters like Gem, Pi and Chloe get PutOnABus, Harvey and Sabrina both get flanderized, the entire voice cast gets replaced, and the animation is a lot cheaper (which is typical for a DIC show).
* ShallowParody: The ''Titanic'' parody in "The Grandparent Trap". What’s even funnier is that ''Titanic'' is in the public domain, due it being based on a real event.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: A few episodes, but especially "Stone Broke" imply that Gem might have some HiddenDepths to her. In "Stone Broke", Gem seems to be quite ''reluctant'' to go back to the RichBitch life after even pondering out loud whether or not she was genuinely happy with her old life. This could easily lead to some CharacterDevelopment and a future HeelFaceTurn... but nope, StatusQuoIsGod and she's back to being a HateSink. Sabrina doesn’t even seem to care that she’s miserable with being rich.
** Anyone remember Nicole from the movie ‘Friends Forever’? Did you like Nicole, want to see her and Sabrina’s friendship while also feeling Sabrina needed a friend who could call her out for using her powers for bad things. Sadly DIC didn’t remember her and Nicole is a movie exclusive character.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: "Witch Switch" showcased Gem gaining Sabrina's life due to Sabrina enacting a spell to switch their lives which allowed her magical powers. However we only see a bit of what she does with it halfway through the episode (essentially brainwashing Harvey into her slave, having him carry her books and follow her around) and by the time she catches on that Sabrina's up to something, Sabrina uses a spell to freeze her in place long enough to undo the life switch spell.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The licensed games on the series were quite decent.[[VideoGame/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesZapped The]] [[VideoGame/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesSpooked two]] Game Boy Color titles have been praised for being solid platform games, while ''Magical Adventure'' for the PC was also well-received.