Line #167 Series/BlackHoleHigh


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3	->''There's nothing wrong at Blake Holsey High.''
4	-->-- '''The unimaginably vague OpeningNarration''' to ''Black Hole High''
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6	Also known as ''Strange Days at Blake Holsey High'' in the United States, ''Black Hole High'' is a Canadian ScienceFiction series created by Jim Rapsas, best known for developing and producing a vast amount of the programming that aired on [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]] in the United States. The show first premiered on Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork TV in Canada before airing on the aforementioned channel. The show lasted for three seasons consisting of 42 episodes, starting in October 2002 and ending with a three-part GrandFinale in January 2006.
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8	Back in the 1980s, an accident at nearby Pearadyne Labs results in a black hole ([[HollywoodScience sometimes described instead as a wormhole]]) opening up in the science teacher's office at Blake Holsey High in the present day. When said black hole eats the science teacher, Professor Noel Zachary replaces him and becomes mentor to the school's science club, who proceed to investigate the strange goings-on at their school. This club being a team consisting of four scientifically gifted students and the son of Pearadyne Labs owner Victor Pearson. Cue the experiencing of random mysterious phenomena which are presented in the guise of science as they try to uncover the secrets behind the strangeness.
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10	In some ways, ''Series/BlackHoleHigh'' could be considered ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' with the word "supernatural" crossed out and "science" penciled in (though with the non-violent and [[NoHuggingNoKissing non-sexual]] baggage implied by its younger target audience).[[note]]The second episode, "Invisible", for example, is a near-identical copy of the ''Buffy'' episode "Invisible Girl"; the key difference being that, rather than attributing a character's disappearance to magic, the nearby black hole caused it to be that Marshall would, as a result of feeling unnoticed, lose his ability to interact with light.[[/note]] A fairly recurring element in the show is that [[YourMindMakesItReal one's emotional state and social interactions can reshape the laws of physics]].
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12	In addition to the weekly anomalies, the show was built around a series-long MythArc involving Victor Pearson's attempts to recreate the Pearadyne Labs experiment, and the club's attempts to work out the sinister implications therein.
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14	The series shares a number of actors with Disney-produced shows of the same time period, and bears a significant structural similarity to ''Series/SoWeird''. Creator/HenryWinkler served as an executive producer and consultant on both. Stars pretty much the same cast as ''Series/TheZackFiles'', another [[OnlySoManyCanadianActors Canadian]] paranormal live-action kid's show.
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16	In 2021, the creator started releasing a SequelSeries titled ''Strange Days at Blake Holsey High: Echoes'', that's currently ongoing and available in their official Youtube page. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FwmLTn4a5k&list=PLHGrvCp5nsDJ1qSoKZEmmRqP9BrxNpcpu]]
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18	Has a Recap page which is under construction.
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20	!!This show provides examples of:
21	* AdultsAreUseless: Not so much useless but are usually in on the conspiracy.
22	* AesopAmnesia: A good chunk of the hijinks in the show are caused by using old technology from Pearadyne Labs. You'd think that after the first couple times things [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong]], the kids would learn to leave it alone. Nope.
23	* AirVentEscape: Vaughn and Corrine make use of one to escape from an elevator shaft in "Friction". Fortunately, this vent appeared to be fairly wide, as the two of them managed to crawl through it whilst stuck together.
24	* AlmightyJanitor: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Janitor]]
25	* AlphaBitch: Madison
26	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Vaughn to Josie in "Chirality."
27	* AnticipatoryBreathSpray: A variation in "Brainwaives." When Lucas and Vaughn switch bodies, Vaughn is forced to take Lucas' place in the drama rehearsal of ''Romeo and Juliet.'' Naturally, he is Romeo, to Josie's Juliet. And of course, that day, they are rehearsing the kiss scene. As Corrine (the director), Josie, and Vaughn leave the science room for the drama classroom, Corrine catches Josie applying lipgloss and gives her an incredulous look.
28	-->'''Josie:''' What? I always wear lipgloss!
29	-->'''Corrine:''' ''(with a look that clearly says "Yeah right.")''
30	-->'''Josie:''' Wh-when I'm acting!
31	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Many episodes will start with a weird event or symptom happening to a character, followed by the other characters stating that "no, science says this is impossible," until they witness the event for themselves. This occurs constantly despite the fact that it's been established every episode that things are just completely bizarre at the school.
32	* BackForTheFinale: Josie
33	* BadAssBookworm : Corrine, Marshall, and Lucas all have their moments.
34	* BadLiar: The gang is ''really'' bad at hiding what's going on with the wormhole from Durst.
35	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Josie wishes she didn't need sleep in "Nocturnal" so she could get more things done. It happens and she seriously regrets it.
36	* BecomingTheMask: Vaughn, originally TheMole for Victor.
37	* BetaCouple: Corrine and Marshall.
38	* BigBad: Victor Pearson, at least to all appearances.
39	** [[spoiler: Though it eventually turns out that he's GoodAllAlong. But since GoodIsNotNice, he's still kind of an asshole.]]
40	* BigNo: Vaughn's can be heard down the hall when Corrine tells him the truth about his mother in "Friction."
41	* BizarroUniverse: "Hemispheres", the world at the other side of the mirror Corrine goes through.
42	* BookDumb: Vaughn, though this could be due in part to his Dyslexia. And by the end of the series, he seems to have come into his own intelligence wise. Also applies to Stu Kubiak; though even he had some rare bouts of brilliance. Mostly when it involved his pet chameleon.
43	* BondingOverMissingParents: Josie and Vaughn do this occasionally.
44	* BrickJoke: In season 2's "Brainwaves," Vaughn and Lucas switch bodies. In that episode, Lucas' dad calls and talks to Vaughn about catching an elusive fish, and Vaughn mentions to Lucas that it "must be nice" to have that experience with his father. When Lucas is forced to go to Vaughn's house to meet with Victor, he drops the hint that maybe Vaughn and Victor should go fishing sometime. The conversation is forgotten about until season 3's "Tesseract." Josie asks Lucas if he is staying at Blake Holsey over spring break to investigate a new theory about Vaughn, and then says that Vaughn won't even be there...he and his father are going fishing for the long weekend.
45	* BuildingOfAdventure: Blake Holsey High.
46	* CannotTalkToWomen: Lucas.
47	* ChainedHeat: Due to an argument regarding Vaughn's mother, Vaughn and Corrine get stuck together in "Friction". They are unable to separate until they learn to be honest with each other.
48	* ChameleonCamouflage: Tyler gains this ability, as well as ShapeShifting, in "Camouflage". However, he manages to retain this ability through the next episode, which ends with him transferring to a different school.
49	* ChekhovsClassroom: Happens in nearly every episode.
50	* ClosetShuffle: Josie and Vaughn are forced to hide in a young Victor Pearson's closet in "Inquiry."
51	* CoolTeacher: Professor Z
52	* ConflictingLoyalty: Vaughn struggles between loyalty to his father and loyalty to his friends.
53	* ConspiracyTheorist: Lucas
54	* ContinuityLockout: An in-universe example in "Conclusions." Despite being central to the show's plot, Victor is out of the loop about the things the gang are up to. When Josie returns through the wormhole after a long absence, she goes to talk to Victor, with Lucas hot on her heels. When it's revealed that it's ''not'' Josie, but her clone, we get this exchange:
55	-->'''Lucas:''' You're Josie's clone! The one that was created accidentally in freshmen year.
56	-->'''Victor:''' The Trent girl has a clone?
57	-->'''Lucas:''' It's a long story.
58	-->'''Victor:''' So bore me!
59	** Later in the same conversation:
60	-->'''Josie's Clone:''' We need to see someone.
61	-->'''Lucas:''' The janitor?
62	-->'''Victor:''' The janitor?!
63	-->'''Josie's Clone:''' No, he won't tell us anything, not after what I've done. But there's someone else who might. ''(walks away)''
64	-->'''Victor (to Lucas):''' The janitor?!
65	-->''(Lucas shrugs)''
66	* CrossReferencedTitles: The first episode is titled "Wormhole". "Wormhole Part 2" is not the second episode, but the ''second season premiere''.
67	* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: The janitor tends to answer questions this way.
68	* CurseOfBabel: SIM cards with powerful encryption programming can be used in cell phones to render someone unintelligible or render speech between two people unintelligibly encrypted to anyone also not possessing a phone with one.
69	* ADayInTheLimelight: One or more for each of the characters.
70	* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Lucas.]] Also, [[spoiler: Vaughn and Josie do not end up together at the end.]]
71	* DietEpisode: "Nutrition" for Vaughn, and definitely not PlayedForLaughs.
72	* EasyAmnesia: Professor Z in "Who?" gets his mind wiped by the wormhole. Easily fixed by the end of the episode, though ''not'' by a tap on the head--as Corrine berates Lucas for attempting earlier in the episode. Lucas' defense, despite being a science buff, is that "it worked on ''[[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan's Island]]''!"
73	* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Surprisingly averted, considering it takes place at a boarding school. Blake Holsey is jut one building, and we really only ever see one hallway, three dorm rooms, a few offices, the cafeteria and the gym.
74	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: The growing attraction between Marshall and Corrine, and the UST between Josie and Vaughn. Even though neither of these couples really dated formally, everyone assumed they were. This is lampshaded by Marshall's friends in the episode "Friction."
75	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The last three episodes take place over maybe 2-3 days, if that.
76	* FateDrivesUsTogether: Touched upon with Josie and Vaughn in "Chirality."
77	* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Josie gets trapped in an alternate timeline where everything is in ruin and she is the only occupant. The worst part is she stayed there for ''a year!'']]
78	** [[spoiler: Worse than that even. Clone Josie CHOOSES to take Josie's place for the rest of her life.]]
79	* FatherIDontWantToFight: Vaughn ends up allying with the Science Club after having some serious qualms over the things his father asks him to do for the sake of resurrecting Pearadyne Labs.
80	* FieryRedhead: Josie
81	* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: The premise behind the episode "Transference"; the vortex causes Vaughn to suck more intelligence from Josie, leaving him with the ability to build [[FridgeHorror a cold fusion reactor]] while Josie barely has enough brain power to stay awake. In the end, a [[spoiler: kiss]] snaps everything back to normal.
82	* FollowYourNose: To entice students away from the paranormally addicting (but non-substantive) energy bars in "Nutrition," the gang and Z prepare homemade spaghetti, and use fans and tunnels to pipe the smell throughout the school. It works.
83	* FoodSlap: Frustrated with Vaugh's refusal to eat actual food in an effort to lose weight in "Nutrition," Josie ends up dumping a plate of spaghetti over his head. It snaps him out of it and becomes a [[ShipTease weird heartwarming moment between the two of them.]]
84	* ForWantOfANail: "Fate": Taking his mother's hairclip in the past prevents Vaughn's parents from getting together, erasing his existence, uncreating Pearadyne Labs, and, for some reason, turning Professor Z into a pizza boy.
85	** Professor Z had a Pearadyne labs scholarship, without it: pizza boy.
86	** Perhaps a bit of a subversion, as it later turns out that, while the hairclip was involved, the real catalyst for both Vaughn's parents getting together, the creation of Pearadyne labs, and the black hole, was Victor stealing the Qi Gong ball when Josie returned to the past to replace the hairclip.
87	* FreakyFriday: "Brainwaves", where Lucas and Vaughn switch mental states.
88	* FreudianExcuse: Josie has them. Her mother is away often for work, her work is very secretive (and in the end, it turns out she's working for [[spoiler: Pearadyne Labs]]), and she and her mother have differing personalities. It's stated that Josie's strong will and independence came as a result of not being able to rely on her mother as a child.
89	* GRatedDrug: The [=PowerNut=] bars from "Nutrition". The kids who start eating them become addicted, even though the bars don't contain any substantial nutrients. Josie's attempts to take Vaughn's bars away from him by force do not go over well.
90	* [[GeniusBookClub Genius Science Club]]
91	* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: IY got away with using the word "crappy"; it's rated [[http://www.tvguidelines.org/resources/TheRatings.pdf TV-Y7, which does not allow cursing of any kind]].
92	* GraduateFromTheStory: "Conclusions"
93	* GraduationForEveryone: Averted. [[spoiler: Though most of the main cast ''did'' graduate, Josie--who had been missing for over a year--mentions that she has to take summer school because, unlike the rest of them, she didn't finish high school.]]
94	* GrayingMorality: At the beginning of the series, the show's morality was very black and white. Victor bad, Science Club good. As the show progressed, who was good and who was evil became very blurred. In the end, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Victor was GoodAllAlong and that he was ''supposed'' to have the energy ball, and that makes ''Josie'' evil for trying to stop him.]]
95	* GreenEyedMonster: Josie and Marshall in "Friction," when Vaughn and Corrine become stuck together because of their fighting. And while Josie is jealous, she takes it rather well. Marshall, on the other hand, is ''hilarious'' when he's jealous.
96	-->''(The gang goes to research ways to get Corrine and Vaughn un-stuck.)''
97	-->'''Josie (to Vaughn and Corrine):''' And stay out of sight while we're gone.
98	-->'''Marshall:''' But not so out of sight that I can't see you!
99	* GroundhogDayLoop: "Thursday", for Corrine.
100	* HoldingHands: Josie and Vaughn's UST really took off in "Lost" when Vaughn suggests they hold hands so [[ItMakesSenseInContext neither of them disappear.]] PlayedForLaughs with Professor Z and Principal Durst, who do the same thing while out looking for the kids.
101	** Corrine and Vaughn are also forced to hold hands in "Friction," when the wormhole sticks them together because of their fighting. Originally, he was holding onto her arm (where he had grabbed her to get her attention), and they found that while the friction wouldn't let them let go of each other, Vaughn could slide his hand to a more comfortable position. They spend about half the episode with Vaughn's arm around Corrine's shoulders, and the other half holding hands. HilarityEnsues when Marshall's jealousy starts coming out.
102	* HollywoodScience: Episodes center around a scientific concept or idea, which are usually explained correctly. Many problems are solved are rooted in real principals. Applying them, however, basically amounts to using their tools, and then things being fixed like magic.
103	* HopelessSuitor: Lucas ends up as one for Josie over the course of the series, though it's teased as LoveTriangle (with Vaughn) throughout the first and second seasons.
104	* IAmNotMyFather: Vaughn struggles with this; on the one hand, he believes that what his father is doing is wrong, but still feels loyal to him. He struggles to gain and keep the gang's trust, and does not want to become like his father.
105	* IdenticalGrandson: Principal Durst in "Past", when Josie time traveled to when the high school was first built.
106	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: With the exception of "Wormhole 2", every episode has a one-word title.
107	* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Josie, "Shrink".
108	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Professor Z and the members of the Science Club.
109	* InvisibleMainCharacter: Happens to Marshall in "Invisible", due to him feeling ignored by his peers and Professor Z. He has fun at first, but nearly fades out of existence entirely.
110	* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: "Radio", "Robot", "Technology". Using leftover Peardyne phlebotinum in an electronics project and have it result in the device developing mysterious [[strike:supernatural]]scientific powers once can be counted an accident. By the ''third time'', it seems like carelessness.
111	* ItWasAGift: Professor Z apparently owns a polka CD. He suggests using it to rid the school of rapidly multiplying sponges in "Ecosystem", to the confused expressions of Marshall and Lucas.
112	* ItsAllMyFault: Josie realizes near the end of the series that she is responsible for all the goings-on with Victor. ''She'' was the one who went back in time with the floating ball and unwittingly gave Victor the means to start (and destroy) Pearadyne. It's when she goes back in time again to try and fix it where things go [[FromBadToWorse from bad to worse.]]
113	* JerkJock: Vaughn started out as this, but then the trope right below this one happened. Stu, on the other hand....
114	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Vaughn
115	* JockDadNerdSon: Inverted with Victor and Vaughn; Victor Pearson was a science geek in high school, Vaughn is the stereotypical jock. There are mentions in the series of Victor's disappointment with Vaughn's low grades (despite knowing his son suffers from dyslexia), but it doesn't create too much friction otherwise.
116	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: See below example of [[NoExportForYou No Export For You]] as to why.
117	* LeftHanging: [[spoiler: Josie uses her clone's watch (which has the ability to travel through time and stop time) to return to her proper timeline in "Conclusions". Although it's mentioned again after she returns, Josie presumably still has this incredible watch]].
118	* LIsForDyslexia: In "Brainwaves" we learn that Vaughn is dyslexic.
119	* LivingAphrodisiac: The protaganist in "Allure." The wormhole turns Corrine's Venus Fly Trap into a teenage girl...who quickly gathers the attention of all of the boys in school. Unfortunately, her motives aren't to date the boys but to eat them for lunch.
120	* LivingWithTheVillain: Victor and Vaughn. Briefly toyed with with Josie and her mother as well.
121	* LovesMyAlterEgo: Corrine falls hard for Marshall's [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy alter ego]] in "Hemispheres." It's a bit of a subversion, since she does have a crush on the regular Marshall. However, she gets seriously DistractedByTheSexy by the alter ego and the two even end up [[spoiler: sharing a kiss]] before she goes back to the real world.
122	* LoveTriangle: Josie, Vaughn, Lucas
123	* LukeIAmYourFather: In the made for TV movie, we learn that [[spoiler: Avenir is Josie's father]]
124	* MadeOfIndestructium: Honorable mention for Mr. Bunnypants, who is sent through the wormhole several times in "Inquiry" and comes out none the worse for wear.
125	* MagneticPlotDevice: The wormhole.
126	* MarriedToTheJob: Victor, Josie's mom.
127	* MirrorChemistry: One episode is actually called "Chirality," and introduces the concept in a chemistry class -- then uses it as a justification for a PersonalitySwap episode.
128	* MirrorUniverse: "Hemisphere"; here, not an evil universe, but a "mirrored" one where everyone is right-brained (ie., artistic) rather than scientific.
129	* MissingMom / DisappearedDad: Vaughn's mother and Josie's father, respectively.
130	** Lucas has a close relationship with his father, with whom he often goes fishing, but his mother is never mentioned, implying that she may be dead or otherwise out of the picture.
131	* TheMultiverse: How the wormhole works. Josie becomes trapped in a universe of her own creation in "Inquiry", in which the accident at Pearadyne never happened and Blake Holsey is condemned. She is the sole inhabitant of that universe, so getting her back without creating a paradox is the tricky part of "Conclusions." In the end, [[spoiler: Josie's clone takes her place.]]
132	* MythArc
133	* TheNapoleon: Josie. She is the shortest in the grade, and she does ''not'' like it. Even after she learns that it's better to be short but full-sized than shrunk to the size of an action figure.
134	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Josie, "Inquiry"
135	* NeatFreak: Corrine.
136	* NewTransferStudent: Josie in the pilot episode "Wormhole".
137	* NoRomanticResolution: Much to the chagrin of fans, the movie left much to be desired in the way of shipping.
138	* NoodleIncident: In the episode "Cold," the school building gets a cold as the result of Pearadyne Technology mixing with the wormhole. Professor Z's office becomes extremely hot, while Durst's becomes extremely cold. She runs to his office to demand he fix it, when she notices he's sweating. And then:
139	-->'''Durst:''' Have you been working out in your shirt and tie...again?
140	* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere
141	* OrderVersusChaos: Corrine and Josie, until it's revealed that while Josie may be impulsive and messy, she has her own way to categorizing and cataloging things--it's just not neat.
142	* OneLetterName: The kids call Professor Zachary "Professor Z." Or, in some cases, just "Z." He doesn't seem to mind or even notice.
143	* OpinionChangingDream: In "Nocturnal," Josie changes her mind about trusting Vaughn again after her waking dreams turn out to be hallucinations of Vaughn's memories.
144	* OppositesAttract: Josie and Vaughn
145	* OtherMeAnnoysMe: In "Culture" Josie accidentally creates a clone. This clone acts much different from her and she is annoyed at how her clone behaves. Things get really weird after the clone spends the afternoon with her mother there for a rare visit and [[FreudianExcuse her mother doesn't notice]].
146	* OurWormholesAreDifferent
147	* OverTheShoulderCarry: Vaughn to Josie in "Echolocation."
148	* PantsPullingPrank: In the episode "Genome", after Lucas' DNA is altered and he becomes fearlessly athletic, he challenges Stew Kubiak to race him to the top of the climbing ropes. After he beats Kubiak, Lucas responds by ripping off Kubiak's gym shorts and throwing them to the floor, leaving Kubiak stranded at the top of the rope while the rest of the class looks up and laughs at his polka-dotted boxer briefs.
149	* PersonalRaincloud: Vaughn develops one in "Storm." He is upset about being asked to spy on his friends for his father, and the storm gets worse the more depressed he gets and the more he bottles things up. It eventually dissipates when he opens up.
150	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Marshall with Magnet 360. Marshall joins their band and becomes the lead singer, but outside of Marshall's audition, we never get to see them actually perform. On that note, we never get to see Marshall sing at any point, band or no band.
151	* PowerOfTrust: In the episode "Nocturnal," Josie can't sleep and is plagued by hallucinations of Vaughn's memories. In the climax of the episode, she hallucinates Victor as Vaughn while Vaughn begs her to [[IAmNotMyFather trust him]]. When she admits that she does, despite a recent betrayal on Vaughn's part, the paranormal phenomenon keeping her perpetually awake stops and she's able to sleep.
152	* PutOnABus: Marshall transfers schools between the end of the third season and the beginning of the fourth (which takes place a year later). He appears in the finale, but only briefly.
153	** Tyler, an intellectual bully, goes through the wormhole both into the past and future. He learns more than even the Science Club and eventually leaves to go to a different school, where a bad guy is trying to control the wormhole. His departure was left as a cliff hanger, which was presumably going to come to fruition in the fourth season, but the cancellation of the show negated it.
154	** Grant, Marshall's brother. He ends up working for Victor for a few episodes. Presumably he was let go between the third and fourth seasons. The lack of acknowledgement for Grant likely stems from the truncated fourth season.
155	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: After the end of the third season, Fireworks Studios, who produced the show and provided its lifeline, closed down with short notice, and only left enough time for the crew to create a three episode-long finale, rather than the fourth and fifth seasons that were planned.
156	* ReplacementGoldfish: In "Conclusions," Lucas (who has always had feelings for Josie that were never returned) seems to develop a crush on Josie's clone, and is visibly distressed when it's suggested that she [[spoiler: take the real Josie's place in the timeline she is stuck in.]]
157	* RetCon: The final episode of Season 3 shows Josie arriving at a shuttered and abandoned Blake Holsey High with the war-torn ruins of a futuristic city in the background, the implication being that she's traveled to an AfterTheEnd future. The finale miniseries repeats the shot, but the city in the distance is gone, and it's later explained that she was shunted into some sort of pocket universe to protect the timeline from her meddling.
158	* RobotMaid: Josie's robot started out as this in "Robot," until she added some Pearadyne Technology and things [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong.]]
159	* SchoolPlay: Romeo and Juliet in "Brainwaves".
160	* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Blake Holsey High has one.
161	* SeriesContinuityError: In "Hemispheres", Corrine tells Josie's mirrored counterpart (who's wearing a pink dress) that the regular Josie would never be caught dead wearing pink. However, when Josie arrives at Blake Holsey in the first episode, she's wearing a pink hoodie.
162	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: "Fate", "Wormhole Part 2"
163	* ShirtlessScene: Vaughn gets one (much to Josie's surprise) when Josie knocks on his door in the middle of the night in "Nocturnal."
164	* ShoutOut: Marshall's last name is Wheeler. This is most likely a shout out, considering the fact that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler]] is the man who coined the terms "Black Hole" and "Wormhole". Victor Pearson may also be a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Popov Victor Popov]], and though a long shot, Vaughn may be a reference to the name Sean, since Robert Clark's (the actor who played Vaughn) brother is Daniel Clark, who played Sean on ''Series/{{Degrassi\|TheNextGeneration}}''.
165	* TheSleepless: The episode "Nocturnal" is devoted to this trope. Josie becomes unable to sleep thanks to the wormhole influence. She starts developing hallucinations of Vaughn's memories.
166	* TheSnarkKnight: Sometimes Josie comes off as this.
167	* SoreLoser: Lucas
168	* SternTeacher: Principal Durst. Professor Z occasionally has his moments, which get taken up to eleven in "Chirality".
169	* StrangelySpecificHoroscope: In "Probability", Marshall shoves off a school assignment and submits silly horoscope predictions to the school paper instead of a serious article and made them obviously about his friends. Because the school sits on a do-anything-black hole [[FinaglesLaw they come true]]. And he made a typo saying [[TonightSomeoneDies one of them would die]] rather than diet.
170	* StudentCouncilPresident: Josie runs against Madison for the position in "Pheromones" but Principal Durst postpones them indefinitely under instructions from Victor.
171	* SyndicationTitle: ''Strange Days at Blake Holsey High''
172	* TheTalk: When Z loses his memory in "Who?", Lucas and Marshall attempt to jog it by teaching him scientific concepts. Unfortunately, one of the things Z asks them to explain is reproduction.
173	-->'''Marshall:''' There is ''no'' way I'm giving him TheTalk. My dad had a hard enough time explaining it to ''me!''
174	* TeenGenius: As science buffs, technically EVERYONE is one (except maybe Vaughn), but Corrine fits even more so than the others.
175	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Between Lucas and Vaughn; Lucas dislikes Vaughn because he's convinced Vaughn is working with his father against the gang. And only slightly because Josie likes Vaughn rather than Lucas. Vaughn dislikes Lucas because he doesn't understand Lucas' lack of trust in him.
176	* TimeStandsStill:
177	** In "Stopwatch", Josie 's watch slows time almost to a stand still. It also appears the Josie Clone has this same ability.
178	** Used in a way in "Equations". Corrine's wormhole affected equation allowed her to effectively travel so fast that time is virtually stopped.
179	* TimeyWimeyBall: Literally. Josie takes a Qi Gong ball through the wormhole, which somehow negates its gravitational field. While time traveling, she loses the ball to a young Victor Pearson, who uses it as the basis for the original Pearadyne experiment which created the wormhole in the first place.
180	* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin: The Qi Gong ball.
181	* TimeSkip: Between Season 3 and the movie.
182	* TooDumbToLive: Marshall is stunningly incautious for someone who knows about all the weird things going on.
183	* ToughLove: Vaughn's father borders on this with ParentalNeglect. He expects his son to carry on with his work, but shows no interest in him unless he's done something very right or messed up his plans. Vaughn is constantly trying to seek the approval of his father and never gets it.
184	* TwoTeacherSchool: Again, literally. The only teachers we see are the science teachers- one of whom only appears in two episodes. In fact, it would seem the only other faculty at the school are A) Principal Durst, B) The Janitor, and C) The Lunch Lady.
185	** There's a gym coach who appears in a few episodes, as well as Miss Dubin in "Nanotechnology", and the drama teacher in "Brainwaves". But yeah, other teachers are pretty much nonexistent.
186	* {{UST}}: Vaughn and Josie (though {{Fanon}} would have you believe they had sex at some point), as well as when Vaughn and Corrine get stuck to each other in "Friction". Heck, even [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the title admits it]].
187	* VitriolicBestBuds: Corrine and Josie, who manage to be good friends despite the fact that they get on each others nerves.
188	* TheWatcher: Josie's clone is sent away at the end of "Culture" to become an Observer, someone who makes sure that no one screws up the timeline. The Janitor is revealed to be an "Observer of Observers" and often gives Josie mysterious advice.
189	* WeightWoe: Vaughn is a rare male example in "Nutrition," when he goes to great lengths to lose weight and enter a lower wrestling weight class. He becomes addicted to wormhole-affected energy bars, which have no calories, and exercises excessively. He loses the weight, but becomes irritable, depressed, and openly hostile to Josie, who is concerned about his fixation.
190	* WellDoneSonGuy: Vaughn and Victor's relationship is strained.
191	* WholePlotReference: "Invisible" references the ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' episode "Invisible Girl", "Thursday" is a take off on ''[[Film/GroundhogDay Groundhog Day]]'', "Ecosystem" is a take off on the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", "Pheromones" is a take off on ''[[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'', and "Probability" is a take off on the short story ''Behind the News'', the latter two listed both being (originally, anyway) stories written by Jack Finney.
192	* WholesomeCrossdresser: While not a series regular, Lucas reveals that Marshall once dressed up as a girl to compete in a camp beauty contest...and won.
193	* XRayVision: Lucas' glasses receive this ability in "Vision". However, the stimuli of having such powerful vision eventually causes Lucas to lose his sight.
194	* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Principal Durst sees Lucas, Marshall, and Corrine running away from the graduation ceremony with a device to help thwart the series BigBad.
195	-->'''Professor Z (unconvincingly):''' Graduation day, trying to squeeze in one last experiment. They all love science!
196	-->'''Principal Durst:'''I really don't want to know what's going here, do I?
197	-->'''Professor Z:''' Nope.
198	-->'''Principal Durst:''' No.

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