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3	->''Mission update: Agent Connor Heath. Items of note RE: operation to protect Gisela Calicos.''
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5	''Connor Undercover'' is a Canadian espionage comedy about Connor Heath (Creator/MaxMorrow), a spy nerd who has seen ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]'' almost fifty times and has an assortment of spy gear. His dream, naturally, is to be a secret agent, which comes true before he could possibly hope when Gisela Calicos, the daughter of the president of Cordoba, is sent to live with his family undercover. The series takes place in Toronto, Canada.
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7	The series premiered on Canada's Creator/FamilyChannel on September 17, 2010 (although it began airing on Australia's [[Creator/TheABC ABC3]] on April 9, 2010) and ran for two seasons, ending on January 31, 2011.
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9	!!List of tropes appearing in ''Connor Undercover'':
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11	* AlphaBitch: Gisela for the first few episodes. She's a president's only child: she was spoiled something fierce.
12	* AmusingInjuries: Made up to cover Gisela's untimely interjection.
13	-->"That was Ty. [[GroinAttack Bannister incident]]. He'll live."
14	* AscendedFanboy: Connor always dreamed of being a super spy, and suddenly he's protecting a political target. He has no formal training, but has managed to put enough lore and common sense together to be decent at the job.
15	* BigBad: Azul. [[spoiler: An operative codenamed [[EscapeArtist The Magician]] reveals that he is Cordoban royalty, a faction Gisela's father toppled. Alive and kicking back, indeed.]]
16	* BigDamnHeroes: Gisela shows up right on time to save Connor's bacon after he goes to find her phone.
17	* BigNo: Ty's sugar withdrawal was made worse by Lily knowing where all of his hidden candy is. Interestingly, by taking his candy from him, she is openly helping him with a bet he made against her for ten dollars, and she's doing it for the joint pleasures of [[MagnificentBastard salvaging his dental health and watching him suffer]].
18	* BilingualBonus: Whenever Gisela is irritated she reverts to Spanish. Connor doesn't seem to care too much how irritated she gets.
19	-->Connor: (in response to Gisela's grubling) You'd better be talking about tacos.
20	* BreathlessNonSequitur: Most of Lily's verbal avalanches throw in one or two of these, including knitting treehouses and cooking salmon in dishwashers,
21	* ButtMonkey: Special Agent Jorge Guzman, Cordoban Secret Service.
22	* CoolBigSis: How Lily sees Gisela.
23	* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Connor was right about Zatari.]]
24	* FreudianSlip:
25	-->"You turned out ''wow.''"
26	* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: Ms {{McGuffin}}, who tried to kidnap Gisela when on a fake snowtrip. There was no attempt to hide [[ChekhovsGunman how important she was to the plot.]] ]]
27	* MilitaryAlphabet: The first episode has Connor's dad speaking in MilitaryAlphabet until he notices Connor staring, where in he immediately switches over to [[SpySpeak babbling the most mundane nonsense he can think of]] before hanging up.
28	* MotorMouth: Lily talks without spaces or sentences for extended periods of time and has NoIndoorVoice which was actually a plot point in one episode. The only thing that can shut her up is [[BigBrotherWorship her sheer awe of]] [[CoolBigSis Gisela]].
29	* MundaneMacGuffinPerson: Connor is given the responsibility of looking after the daughter of the (fictional) Cordoban president.
30	* PaperThinDisguise: Lily is ''not'' as good as Gisela ''at all''.
31	* SherlockScan: Connor is able to discern a pretty accurate profile of Andre by looking at him from down the hallway. In true Sherlock fashion, he then points out every clue he saw.
32	* ShoePhone: Averted: All of Connor and Ed's gadgets are exactly what they look like, and are just used covertly. Lampshaded when Gisela asks Connor what [[Film/JamesBond Bond]] would do, and he gives an [[SarcasmMode elaborate response]] involving getting odd gadgets from Q and hitting on enemy spy chicks.
33	* SpotTheImposter: Ed sets up a test for Connor to spot a mole by bringing in a body-double for Gisella. [[spoiler: He spots her from the start, but keeps looking, thinking 'it couldn't be that easy.' Fortunately, because he doesn't stop looking, he finds a real spy just in time to save Gisela.]]
34	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Lumberland, the all-wood theme park. Yes it burned down, but Ty reminds you that you can't prove anything.
35	* TeenSuperspy: Connor, after a fashion. With only self-training he's able to decipher a code made by trained spies in minutes. This is where his suspicion of Zatari begins. Beginning Season Two, he is accepted into the Cordoban Secret Service and is being trained by their top operative, Eduardo Garcia.
36	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Connor and Gisela's superspy exploits are broken up evenly by children being children; that is, Connor's little brother Tyler harassing the neighbor girl, Lily, or the other way around.
37	* VitriolicBestBuds: Lily and Tyler are always at eachother's throats, metaphorically speaking; the two constantly prank one another. When things get serious, though, they stop jerking each other around and work together, if only long enough to solve the problem.
38	* WigDressAccent: Connor becomes Desmond Wallbanks III (and was given the prompt nickname of D3 by the person he was trying to fool) with the use of make-up, a wig, clothes WAY beyond his style (or income), fake glasses, speech coaching, and a manners course. Gisela was given full control over the disguise and basically crafted Connor into her ideal boy.
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40	-->''Agent Heath signing off.''

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