Line #27 Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E9E10TheTemptationOfSarahJaneSmith


1	Sarah Jane and the gang discover a fissure in time, leading to the day of August 18, 1951, the day that Eddie and Barbara, Sarah Jane's parents, died in a car accident, while Sarah Jane herself as a baby was left in her pram on the side of the road. Luke thinks that it is a trap, but ends up following Sarah Jane through it anyway. She uses her Sonic lipstick to deactivate their car, and suddenly a storm begins to brew.
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3	It turns out that it ''is'' a trap, set by none other than the Trickster, because the death of her parents was a fixed point in time, and the altering of it smashed open the Web of Time, allowing the Trickster to manifest himself on Earth.
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5	!!Tropes
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7	* The50s: Sarah Jane, Luke and Rani travel back to 1951 and meet Sara-Jane’s parents. Sarah-Jane herself was only a baby at that time.
8	* BBCQuarry: The dystopian present is depicted as one of these.
9	* ChangedMyJumper:
10	** Rani time-travels back to 1951. Everyone is shocked to see her in such ridiculous clothes and wonders if it can really be the fashion in "the Punjab". She, hilariously, assumes at first all the strange looks she's getting are due to her race, when she's really getting the looks due to her clothes, and probably only getting away with it because she looks foreign.
11	** Knowing that she's going back in time, Sarah Jane dresses appropriately for the time period. Apparently "the '50s came back in the '70s". Luke is suitably embarrassed.
12	* ContinuityNod:
13	** Sarah Jane describes her Aunt Lavinia as "never in one place long enough to lick a stamp". In Lavinia's [[Series/K9AndCompany only TV appearance]], she said the same thing about her niece.
14	** Sarah Jane refers to how many innocent people have accidentally been abducted by random time fissures and rifts. This situation was previously explored in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episodes "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E10OutOfTime Out of Time]]" and "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E11Adrift Adrift]]".
15	** When recounting all the people she has saved, she mentions [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E4TheMonsterOfPeladon miners on Peladon]] and [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresNYSInvasionOfTheBane drinkers of Bubble Shock]].
16	** Clyde also recounts various adventures he has had, including "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E1E2RevengeOfTheSlitheen Revenge of the Slitheen]]", "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E9E10TheLostBoy The Lost Boy]]", "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E1E2TheLastSontaran The Last Sontaran]]" and "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E5E6WarriorsOfKudlak Warriors of Kudlak]]".
17	* CrapsackWorld: The alternate future created by the Trickster.
18	* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Sarah Jane's parents abandoned her to kill themselves by car crash, fixing the TimeyWimeyBall and saving the world from being devastated by aliens.
19	* GoMadFromTheApocalypse: In the post-apocalyptic AlternateTimeline where the Trickster killed the entire Earth except for a couple dozen humans in 1951 and the survivors are being kept alive as slave labor; Clyde and Rani, having escaped being erased with their original present, come across the enslaved alternate counterpart of Rani's mom, and she's a jittery shell of a woman who often speaks in stilted speech patterns and physically panics at any unexpected physical contact.
20	* HeroicSacrifice: Sarah Jane's parents go their deaths in order to restore the timeline and defeat the Trickster.
21	* HopeSpot: Sarah Jane says that only one person in the universe would know if her parents could be saved, and where is he whenever you need him? She then looks up and sees a police box, which the camera zooms in on while "The Doctor's Theme" from ''Series/DoctorWho'' starts playing. She rushes to the door, hammers on it... and finds it's a perfectly ordinary police box of the kind common to the time period.
22	* IdiotBall: Sarah Jane of all people carries it when she falls for the obvious trap in the beginning. Not necessarily when she travels back in time to just have a look at her parents, but definitely the moment she disables their car to prevent the accident that kills them. She traveled with the Doctor and had her timeline tampered with before, so she should know that this is a very bad idea. Discussed in that she DOES know it's a bad idea, saying so multiple times, but the emotional pull is too strong, which the Trickster banked on.
23	* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Sarah Jane and Luke identify as Victoria and UsefulNotes/DavidBeckham to the former’s parents.
24	* KidFromTheFuture: The plot incorporates both Kid and Grandkid[[note]]though Luke isn't blood-related[[/note]] from the Future.
25	* LetsSplitUpGang: Subverted. Clyde suggests doing this, but Rani points out how stupid the strategy is when you only have one magic box to protect you from the enemy.
26	--> '''Clyde''': Let's not split up!
27	* LikeFatherLikeSon:
28	** Or, rather ''Like Aunt Like Niece'' - Sarah Jane and Lavinia describe each other identically as "never in one place long enough to lick a stamp". For years that was ''literal'' on Sarah's part. Both are journalists and are/were constantly sticking their nose into other people's business...
29	** Barbara, Sarah Jane's mother, also uses the phrase, "Mr. Smith, I need you", and like Sarah Jane is intelligent enough to work out the truth when something strange is going on.
30	* NewspaperDating: Sarah Jane is informed by the Graske in disguise that it’s July 1951, a month before her parents died. But when Luke picks up a newspaper as a souvenir, Sarah Jane learns that it’s August 18th, the exact day they died.
31	* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: PlayedWith when Rani goes back to the 1950s looking for Sarah Jane — Rani assumes she's getting looks because of racism, but later realizes people are staring at her because of her outfit, and the only reason she's getting away with it is because she isn't white.
32	-->Yes, I get it, ethnic person in the fifties!
33	* SchmuckBait: The Trickster's trap.
34	* ShipTease: Rani kisses Clyde on the cheek in thanks, prompting him to remark "I must save the day more often."
35	* StableTimeLoop: The day is saved by Rani mentioning that Sarah Jane's parents are supposed to leave her and drive off in their car, causing them to entrust the baby to "Victoria" and drive off.
36	* TakeThat: Luke is concerned when Sarah Jane shows no reaction to Steve White on the radio. Clyde is equally concerned because the Hoozies failed to provoke a reaction as well.

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