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5[[caption-width-right:350: The cast of season 2. From left to right: [[AlphaBitch Libby]], [[ButtMonkey Valerie]], [[DeanBitterman Mr. Kraft]], [[LovableJock Harvey]], [[CuteWitch Sabrina]], [[FunPersonified Aunt Hilda]] and [[OnlySaneMan Aunt Zelda]] (holding [[TalkingAnimal Salem]]), and [[TokenMinority Albert the Quizmaster]].]]
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7->''"I guess every school needs a weird kid. It might as well be me."''
8-->--'''Sabrina Spellman'''
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10That Sabrina character [[InnocentInnuendo certainly gets around]], doesn't she?
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12''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' (aired 1996-2003) is a live-action {{sitcom}} based on [[ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch the Archie comic book]] by Dan [=DeCarlo=] and George Gladir. It was created by Nell Scovell, who also served as the showrunner.
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14[[DangerousSixteenthBirthday On her 16th birthday]], Sabrina Spellman (Creator/MelissaJoanHart), resident of Westbridge, Massachusetts, discovers that she is a witch and has magical powers. She moves in with her witch aunts Zelda (Creator/BethBroderick) and Hilda (Creator/CarolineRhea), and learns to survive the pratfalls of high school with a little magic on her side. Other fixtures in her life were her talking cat Salem (a warlock punished for his megalomania by being trapped in an animal body, voiced by Creator/NickBakay), her oblivious love interest Harvey Kinkel (Nate Richert), and her mortal enemy Libby Chissler (Creator/JennaLeighGreen).
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16''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' began with a PilotMovie set in an AlternateContinuity that aired on Showtime on April 7, 1996, and premiered on Creator/{{ABC}}'s [=TGIF=] line-up on September 27, 1996. The series switched to Creator/TheWB with its fifth season premiere on September 22, 2000, and aired for two more seasons on that network before it [[GrandFinale concluded]] on April 24, 2003. It was the most successful series from [[Creator/ParamountGlobal Viacom Productions]] that did not involve either Fred Silverman or Dean Hargrove, the engineers of the longer-lasting ''Series/{{Matlock}}'', ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'', and the series of ''Franchise/PerryMason'' telefilms from 1985-95. This was even more remarklable considering Viacom Productions had become a subsidiary of Creator/{{Paramount}} Television before the series began, and the series had more seasons (4) on ABC than any show from the main Paramount banner within the 1990s; ''[[Series/MacGyver1985 MacGyver]]'', the last series in Paramount's string of hits on ABC that started in 1969, ended its run after seven seasons in 1992, with only all or part of 3 seasons airing in the 1990s.
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18The show was extremely similar in characterization and plot-structure to ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1987'', but was in fact based on material which predated that show by several decades: the same ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' as the series ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies'' -- though the animated show went in a very different direction. There were also two additional TV movies, ''Film/SabrinaGoesToRome'' and ''Film/SabrinaDownUnder'' featuring Creator/TaraStrong in a very rare live action role as a movie-exclusive character Gwen.
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20Notable for its frequent guest stars, including Music/BritneySpears, Music/AvrilLavigne, Tara Lipinski, Daniel Bedingfield, Music/{{Nsync}}, Music/{{Usher}}, Music/BackstreetBoys, Music/JohnnyMathis, Creator/DickVanDyke, and Creator/BarbaraEden. While the show was airing, it received an AnimatedAdaptation in ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' - produced by DIC Entertainment, this time with Melissa Joan Hart voicing the two aunts and her sister Emily Hart (who had a recurring role on the sitcom as Sabrina's bratty cousin Amanda) voicing Sabrina. There were also several novelizations, some of which tended to be more action-packed and adventure themed. Salem also received his own series of books where he would get on his own adventures.
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28* ActorAllusion:
29** When Mike, played by Creator/GeorgeWendt of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' fame, walks into Hilda's coffee shop in a later episode, everyone raises their mugs and greets him, "Mike!".
30** Aunt Irma is played by Creator/BarbaraEden, who also played in another [[Series/IDreamofJeannie supernatural sitcom]]. Her magical gesture in both? Crossing her arms.
31** Creator/RobinRicker plays Cousin Marigold, the mother of a bratty witch daughter. Around the same time she also starred in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Witch", where she also played the mother of a witch daughter [[spoiler: [[GrandTheftMe or so we think]] as the episode goes on]]. Buffy even says during the episode "she's our Sabrina".
32** Creator/DavidLascher previously played a character called Josh in ''{{Series/Clueless}}'' - which had a crossover with this, featuring Sabrina.
33** This is not the first time Creator/PhilFondacaro has played a [[Film/Troll1986 troll]].
34** Creator/RobbieBenson just ''had'' to do [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast The Beast's voice]] when he showed up.
35** Music/BritneySpears guest stars in the Season 4 premiere to perform "(You Drive Me) Crazy". Melissa Joan Hart had a movie coming out at the time that was titled ''Film/DriveMeCrazy'' after the song - and she and Creator/AdrianGrenier appeared in the video as a tie-in. Clips of the video are shown in TheStinger for the episode too.
36** Penn Jillette plays Drell, head of the Witches' Council. In real life he performs as part of a magic duo Creator/PennAndTeller.
37** When Creator/DickVanDyke guest starred, he conjured up an ottoman by the front door, which Sabrina then tripped over upon entering - recalling the opening of ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow''.
38* AbortedArc: Dreama is introduced in Season 4 as a student that Sabrina must help get her Witch's Licence. Dreama disappears from the show during the shift from Seasons 4 to 5 and there's never any mention of her again, possibly having gained her witch's licence a lot faster than Sabrina did.
39* AdaptationalLocationChange: The show is set in the fictional Boston suburb of Westbridge, but the comic book it was based on was set in Greendale, a neighboring town of Riverdale.
40* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The witches as a whole, especially Aunt Hilda. In most early comics, Sabrina's ''supposed'' to use her magic to cause trouble. In fact, when Sabrina tries to use her powers to help people, and it backfires horribly, just like in the show, the other witches are ''proud'' because they mistakenly think she's finally acting like a real witch.
41* AdaptationDyeJob: Just about every main character, compared to the original comics. Sabrina herself had white-blonde hair in the comics but is a more normal blonde in this series. Her aunts are blonde as well, despite having respectively red (Hilda) and green (Zelda) in the comics. Harvey had black hair in the comics, but here his hair is brown. And Salem had black and white fur in the original comics, but here it looks completely black.
42* AdaptationExpansion: The novelizations featured more of other characters who only appeared in one or two episodes; Aunt Vesta for example appears more often there.
43* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the comics Zelda was the ditzy aunt and Hilda the responsible one (and the PilotMovie had this). The show swaps them around, with Hilda as the ditz and Zelda the responsible one.
44* AesopAmnesia: Parodied in "Sabrina and the Beanstalk" where Sabrina preaches against the dangers of procrastination at the end - only for Harvey to distract her from [[HypocriticalHumour working on their project by baking brownies]].
45* AesopCollateralDamage: Harvey gets turned into a beast (complete with tusks and fur) by Sabrina's ugly cousin to teach her a lesson about shallowness.
46* AesopEnforcer: Hilda and Zelda tend to play Enforcer to teach Sabrina AnAesop.
47* AffablyEvil: Salem.
48* AffectionateNickname: Salem's for Sabrina is apparently "Sabriny" - which has a RunningGag of the others reacting with a FlatWhat whenever they hear it. Zelda is also referred to as "Zelly" and by Willard Kraft as "Zuzoo" whilst she calls him "Monkey".
49* AffectionateParody: Several episodes would involve Sabrina (usually accidentally) casting a spell that lands her and her friends in a parody of certain things. Said parodies would usually be affectionate though.
50** "As Westbridge Turns" - soap operas. Harvey gets EasyAmnesia when hit with a ladder, Libby convinces him she's his girlfriend and frames Sabrina for stealing an engagement ring Mr Pool bought for the HospitalHottie. Naturally the school becomes a WorldOfHam and the climax involves a CatFight.
51** "The Crucible" - the Salem Witch Trials. Despite the title, it's not a WholePlotReference to [[Theatre/TheCrucible the play itself]]; the history class spend a weekend in Salem roleplaying Puritan life, and Libby accuses Jenny and later Sabrina of being witches.
52** "Troll Bride" - the second half of the episode is FracturedFairyTale involving Sabrina trapped in a tower (at one point conjuring long hair), being forced to marry a troll, and Harvey having to be the PrinceCharming. It contains several nods to ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
53** "Sabrina the Teenage Writer" - Sabrina writes a spy story for English class, not knowing it will come to life. Harvey is the womanizing SharpDressedMan spy, Valerie the beautiful sidekick in a SpyCatsuit, Mrs Quick the spy gadget supplier and Mr Kraft the BigBad with an EyepatchOfPower, and plenty of puns to go around.
54** "Silent Movie" - after casting a silence spell, the Spellman house becomes a silent movie. Sabrina resembles Creator/MaryPickford, and it's full of {{Shout Out}}s to ''Film/DudleyDoRight''.
55** "Wild Wild Witch" - the aunts cast a spell to send Sabrina to the Wild West, where she has to become sheriff and deal with 'The Petulant Kid'.
56** "Murder on the Halloween Express" - a Halloween train ride turns out to be an Agatha Christie style murder mystery, where Josh is the murder victim, Sabrina is the detective and her friends the suspects.
57* AllWitchesHaveCats: Sabrina has Salem -- though in seasons 1 - 5 he technically belongs to Hilda, before she is pardoned by the Witches' Council and is no longer charged with taking care of him. After that he gradually becomes Sabrina's cat, and in Season 7 he lives with her after Hilda and Zelda have left the show.
58* AlphaBitch: Libby was the [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes former]] Trope Namer for a very long time because she was such a striking example of this. Oddly enough she doesn't fit a lot of the stereotypical requirements - she's not blonde, she's not dumb (although she's more BookDumb than Sabrina), and she's not vastly richer than the protagonists (although she acts like a RichBitch, like in the episode where her dad buys her a new car and she mocks Sabrina because "the school bus is for losers"). She is a cheerleader though.
59* AmbiguouslyJewish:
60** Salem Saberhagen mentions his niece having had a Bat Mitzvah, indicating the Saberhagens are a Jewish (witch) family, or leastways that Salem has some Jewish relatives.
61** To a lesser extent, Aaron Jacobs, Sabrina's DisposableFiance in the last season. Aaron Jacobs, for those who don't know, is a ''very'' Jewish name. His mother is a psychiatrist, a stereotypically Jewish profession, who wrote a book called [[JewishMother "Not With My Son You Don't"]]. His father is a nuclear physicist.
62* AndIMustScream: Hilda has [[CrystalPrison imprisoned a man who did not love her within the gemstone on her ring.]] He appears to have been there since the Renaissance and can't age or die. He is also fully conscious and is aware of what's happened to him and he begs to be let out. Hilda seems content with keeping him in there.
63* AndStarring:
64** The cast roll for the fifth and sixth season openings end with "and Creator/NickBakay as the voice of Salem."
65** For the final season, the roll ends with "and Creator/SoleilMoonFrye as Roxie."
66* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In an episode where Sabrina uses magical products to make Harvey more ambitious, to the point where he's alienated from Sabrina and only cares about his ambitions of being a money-making businessman, she shows him what could happen if he continues (a la ''A Christmas Carol''). At the end of the montage they see a party which is Harvey's funeral. They're happy because he was a jerk who didn't spend time with his family and cut down all of the trees (except one) in Westbridge.
67* AnimatedAdaptation: ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'', which received its own sequels in the forms of an {{OVA}} (''Friends Forever'') and a sequel series, ''Sabrina's Secret Life''. Although it was a cartoon first, then a live series, then a cartoon again.
68* AntiMagic:
69** Witches' magic doesn't work on vampires in this series.
70** There's also a magical quota when magic is used on mortals, exceed it and magic won't work on that particular person any more. [[spoiler: This is how Harvey discovers Sabrina's secret]] at the end of Season 4.
71* ArcWords: Season one. Say it with us now: "Mitosis is..." [[spoiler: the process of cell division]].
72* ArtifactTitle: ComicBook/ArchieComics kept the production team from revising it when Sabrina got older. Sabrina is nineteen in Season 5 and in her mid-twenties by the series finale.
73* ArtisticLicense: In "Tick Tock, Hilda's Clock", Zelda is seen reading ''Literature/ValleyOfTheDolls'' and exclaiming "the things that go on in that valley". The 'valley' in the title does not refer to a physical place, but is a metaphor for withdrawals from drugs, which is what the 'dolls' refer to. This indicates that the episode's writer didn't know what the story was about and assumed it took place in a specific valley.
74* ArtisticLicenseGeography: One episode had lines placed Westbridge nearly 200 miles west of Boston, which in real life is far west of the Hudson River in New York. Another episode said that the same town is about an hour's drive from Salem, Massachusetts, which itself in real life is about 10 miles north of Boston. The fifth series and on also said that Westbridge is very close into Boston, and heavily urbanised, but it's a small town to this day.
75* ArtisticLicenseHistory: When trying to dissuade her friend from trying out for the cheerleading squad, Sabrina blurts out that no cheerleader was ever elected president...except that UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower had been cheerleader. Excusable as it's a throwaway line. HilariousInHindsight as George W. Bush was also a cheerleader, but was not yet president at the time of the episode airing.
76* AssemblyLineFastForward: One episode has Sabrina at a job at a pizzeria and dreams this happening.
77* BadJobWorseUniform: The episode "Sandman" features a brief appearance by the truly hideous uniform worn by employees of "Pork on a Pole" (an orange, black and yellow uniform, including a three-quarter length smock and a large peaked hat that she's expected to keep her hair stuffed up under). And they make the wearers buy the outfit. The same episode features the Warning Man and ''his'' uniform, a large fluorescent cone over most of him and an orange flashing light on his head. As he admits near the end of the episode, "I had to pay for that uniform".
78* BalloonBelly: Happens to Sabrina a couple of times in the series.
79** In season three Sabrina becomes addicted to pancakes and eats so much that she gets stuck in a doorway... while claiming she's still sucking it in.
80--> '''Doctor:''' How many pancakes did you eat?
81--> '''Sabrina:''' I don't know, I lost count after the first five-hundred...
82** In season four this happens off screen after her picture is taken by a magic camera that makes people gain a hundred pounds, though there is a brief moment where she looks very fat in her mirror after it became enchanted.
83* BeCarefulWhatYouSay: Good advice when doing magic. The LiteralGenie trope runs rampant in the other realm, so when casting a spell a witch has to say exactly what he or she means. Sabrina occasionally lands herself in trouble for failing to make her spells precise enough.
84* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor : One episode had Sabrina babysitting a 2-year-old. At one point he is constantly crying until she picks him up and holds him saying, [[TemptingFate "Be a big boy, be a big boy, be a big boy..."]] inadvertently casting a spell which turns the toddler into a 40-ish looking man who still has the mind of a toddler.
85* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Parodied in the penultimate episode. When a tidal wave hits the beach Sabrina and her friends are staying at, Sabrina and Roxie emerge with messy hair, dirt on their faces and covered in seaweed. Morgan is still fine and we get this exchange.
86--> '''Sabrina:''' Morgan, how did you learn to scale a palm tree like that?
87--> '''Morgan:''' Do you have any idea what a twenty-foot wall of water would do to my hair?
88* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Several guest stars from the Other Realm have appeared as themselves, including [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]] and the ''Radio/CarTalk'' guys.
89* TheBermudaTriangle: In an episode when Sabrina is on a cruise ship that enters the Bermuda Triangle, she discovers that her powers no longer work but can instead make wishes that are instantly granted.
90* BerserkButton: Amanda, several times. When she was young, it was being denied things. When she was older, well:
91-->'''Aaron's Mother:''' "It's so hard to find a bridesmaids dress that looks good on everyone."
92-->'''Amanda:''' Oh, I have melted people for less than that!
93* BigBeautifulWoman: Hilda had a very full figure and had a more active love life than Zelda.
94* BigNo: Salem has plenty of those for almost every season.
95* BitchAlert:
96** Libby is introduced stopping Harvey from being Sabrina's lab partner, and then telling Sabrina to use "the freaks' bathroom", establishing her as a rival.
97** Amanda in her first scene casually tells Sabrina that she puts people in jars when they disagree with her, telling us that she'll be a BrattyHalfPint extraordinaire. Amanda however does mellow out a little in Season 5.
98** Roxie in her debut episode pretty much excludes Sabrina from sharing a dorm room with her. Like Amanda, she undergoes CharacterDevelopment and ends the series as one of Sabrina's closest friends.
99* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: From season 5 onwards - Sabrina (blonde), Roxie (brunette) and Morgan (redhead). The traditional roles are palette swapped with Sabrina as the Brainy Blonde, Roxie as the Fiery Brunette and Morgan as the Dumb Redhead. Alternately season 1 could also count with Libby and Jenny filling the brunette and redhead roles respectively - though without the personality types as Jenny was brainy too and Libby wasn't dumb, just mean.
100* BodyHorror: Hilda prepares a spell for a man she dated that will "make him a better listener". The spell causes the man in question to sprout ears all over his head, [[InelegantBlubbering causing him much distress.]]
101* BookDumb:
102** Aunt Hilda is notably less knowledgeable about science and other academic stuff than Zelda, but she does possess some street smarts.
103** Harvey, and one episode has Sabrina fretting over this and worrying he won't get into a good college.
104* BootCampEpisode: An episode had Sabrina get sent there by her Quizmaster for crashing a train into the living room, and thus failing her first quiz.
105* {{Bowdlerization}}: In some UK airings of "Third Aunt From The Song", the lyrics to the fictional 'Funky Song' are changed. The lyrics say "shake your whammy fanny". In America 'fanny' is just a tamer word for ass. In the UK it's a slang word for vagina.
106* TheBrainlessBeauty: Morgan. Sabrina herself temporarily became one in 'Deliver Us From Email' after catching a magical computer virus.
107* BrainWithAManualControl: In the episode "Nobody Nose Libby Like Sabrina Knows Libby", Sabrina and Salem are magically shrunk and trapped inside a tiny rocket ship, which (accidentally) flies up the nose of the local AlphaBitch and lands in her brain. There is no control room in there per se, but Sabrina has plenty of space to walk around inside, see out of Libby's eyes, and after pressing a nerve to the forehead, she gains total control over Libby's body and speech.
108* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Sabrina has her moments, although she's a niece rather than a daughter.
109* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Jenny contemplating what Harvey might be thinking about:
110-->'''Jenny:''' Do you ever wonder what Harvey's thinking about when he's looking out the window?\
111'''Sabrina:''' Probably football?\
112'''Jenny:''' No, no, I bet he's thinking about nature. Or poetry. Or the poetry of nature.\
113'''Sabrina:''' I'm sticking with football.
114* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Between Sabrina and Harvey, first when he sees her with Josh, then when he learns (permanently) that she is a witch. Uncommon for a sitcom of that period, both times lasted several episodes.
115* BreastExpansion:
116** In the episode "Sabrina Unplugged", Sabrina accidentally has her breasts enlarged by Leonard when he alters her body through a magical photoshop-like program she was trapped in, thinking it's just a picture of her. Undoubtedly, her new bosom leads to a lot of MaleGaze moments and [[BuxomBeautyStandard gets a lot of attention]].
117** In "Hilda and Zelda: The Teenage Years", Hilda borrows one of Zelda's sweaters without asking and her chest swells up to an enormous size when she puts it on. Zelda then reveals that she put a [[LiteralMetaphor booby-trap]] spell on all of her clothes to make Hilda stop borrowing them. After Zelda frees Hilda from the sweater, Sabrina walks in and tries it on because she didn't know about the spell, so her chest swells up too.
118--->'''Sabrina:''' Why can’t I just live in a normal house? Why can’t a sweater just be a sweater?
119* BrickJoke:
120** Morgan says that Harvey helped her decide between a tiger print and zebra print blouse, and Harvey says (to get rid of her) that everyone is wearing them at Wal-Mart. Morgan reappears towards the end of the episode now wearing a zebra print.
121** In the pilot episode, Sabrina's aunts give her a tiny cauldron for her birthday (before they tell her she's a witch) and she says - clearly trying not to hurt their feelings- that she can keep pens in it. Later episodes throughout the season do in fact reveal her using it as a pen-holder.
122** In the season 2 episode "Sabrina and the Beanstalk", Salem is sent up the beanstalk to stand guard in case the giant tries to come down (turns out there isn't one, but there is a wicked witch). While on his way up, he calls down to let Sabrina and the others know that "Harvey's at the front door. And send me a sandwich!" Later, after he gets back down, he trots off asking "Where's that sandwich?"
123* {{Bridezilla}}: Sabrina became a literal bridezilla in one episode, when, following the advice of Cinderella, she became extremely demanding, causing her lower body to change into that of a dragon.
124* BrokenAesop:
125** Some people think this applies to the final episode when Sabrina ends up choosing her (magically) destined partner Harvey over her fiancee, despite the fact that several characters tell her that even though their soul crystals do not match, what matters is what the heart wants. Of course the characters' conjectures still hold true, since Sabrina spends half her engagement questioning her feelings towards the groom in favour of Harvey. It's made blatantly obvious that Sabrina and her high-school sweetie are not only destined partners by magic, but actually love each other more than anything.
126** In the episode “The Competition”, Sabrina is upset when her boyfriend Josh claims women can’t play sports as well as men. She then proceeds to enlist a Male tennis star (Andy Roddick) for help learning to play better. If women play as well as men, shouldn’t you prove it by learning from a fellow woman?
127* BubblePipe:
128** The episode where Sabrina's friend ends up in the Other Realm has the woman who reads out the laws of said realm blow on a bubble pipe when she's having her conversation with Sabrina. She says that she's trying to quit but [[CigaretteOfAnxiety needs the pipe to cope with her stressful job]].
129** Also the episode of the murder mystery party, where Salem plays a detective. Leading to this hilarious bit with a suspect:
130-->'''Salem:''' The body was covered with pipe smoke!\
131'''Suspect:''' But zat means nozing! You have a pipe too.\
132'''Salem:''' Yes, but mine only blows bubbles! *does just that*
133* BuffySpeak:
134-->'''Sabrina:''' Uh... "Dr. Bad's wheelchair started spinning out of control like-- Like a wheelchair spinning out of control."
135* BurnTheWitch:
136** PlayedForLaughs - Most witches are NighInvulnerable and burning them doesn't do a thing, but they are obviously irritated when people try to do it to them. Hilda and Zelda don't practice Thanksgiving because, while the Puritans may not have actually ''burnt'' witches, they still were not very "witch-friendly".
137** It's also worth noting that when Jenny is "found guilty" of being a witch in "The Crucible", Mr. Pool says "you can pretend we hanged her" instead of burning. He was with the history teacher after all.
138** Subverted again in a later episode with a flashback to Zelda telling a friend she was a witch - the villagers duck her down a well instead of burning her.
139* CallBack: In the finale, to the very first season-- the "something old" bracelet that Morgan gets out of Sabrina's jewelry box is the bracelet that Harvey gave her during "As Westbridge Turns", and Sabrina running away with Harvey happens at exactly 12:36, which is engraved on the bracelet because it's the exact time they met.
140* CantBelieveISaidThat: In "Sabrina Through The Looking Glass", Baltimore Oriole star Brady Anderson stars AsHimself and serves as Sabrina's spirit guide when she becomes [[spoiler:trapped inside a mirror world]]. As she's leaving, he advises her to remember that "life is a team sport." After she goes back, Brady delivers the following line:
141-->'''Brady''': Life is a team sport? How stupid does that sound?
142* CastingGag:
143** In one episode, it is revealed that Aunt Hilda (played by Quebec-born Creator/CarolineRhea) failed to fill out her immigration paperwork, and when tested on the legality of her citizenship by reading a sentence, she reads it in an exaggerated Canadian accent. She is then promptly deported to "the Northern Sector of the Other Realm, where she came from." Subsequently, she is traded for badger pelts.
144** Drell, the head of the Witches Council and an extremely powerful warlock, is played by [[Creator/PennAndTeller Penn Jillette]], one of the world's most famous and talented illusionists. His partner Teller also appears as a member of the Council in another episode, where his [[TheVoiceless quiet nature]] is explained by having a literal frog in his throat.
145** Sabrina's Aunt Irma is played by Barbara Eden, who starred in the title role in ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''. One of Western media's first [[MagicalGirl Magical Girls]] gets to play the matriarch of the Spellman family.
146** Alice Ghostley made an apperance as Sabrina's great-grandmother. Ghostley played the IneptMage Esmeralda on ''Series/{{Bewitched}}.''
147* CatchPhrase: "Gotta go!" "Gross gross gross gross!"
148* CatsAreMagic: Played with. Punishment for trying to take over the world for witches is to be turned into a cat. They're still able to talk but have no magic. Witches can also voluntarily turn themselves into cats, such as Salem's old flame Sally at the end of a Season 5 episode.
149* CatsAreMean: Explained in that witches that try to take over the world, like Salem (or anything larger like "the universe", like one of Salem's dates) are punished by being turned into a cat for 100 years. This doesn't happen to everyone though; Hilda, who followed Salem because she thought he would succeed, only had to keep him worm free until the end of his sentence... until she's freed from it that is.
150* CatsAreSnarkers: Salem. Of course he was a witch first though.
151* ChainedToARailway: Parodied: Sabrina even does the scream-and-struggle seizure, but quickly stops as she realizes that screaming is pretty pointless if you're in a silent movie.
152* CharacterDevelopment: Over the course of seven seasons, Amanda goes from being a BrattyHalfPint to a decent person, and her and Sabrina are on much better terms. Roxie also starts season 5 as an anti-social moody bitch and ends the series as one of Sabrina's closest friends.
153* ChekhovsGun: The bracelet engraved "12:36" that Harvey gives Sabrina in "As Westbridge Turns".
154** It first appears to be merely a slightly eccentric gift from Harvey (12:36 is the time Harvey and Sabrina first spoke back in the "Pilot" episode). However, when Libby steals Mr. Pool's engagement ring and attempts to frame Sabrina for the crime, the bracelet turns out to be key to establishing an alibi for Sabrina's.
155** The bracelet finds a place in Sabrina's jewelry box, and it isn't seen again until the [[GrandFinale series finale]], "Soul Mates". Morgan swiped it from the box and gives it to Sabrina as her "something old" for her wedding to Aaron. Sabrina recognizes it as a gift from Harvey, and remembers the significance of the inscription 12:36. This prompts her to call off her wedding to Aaron. At 12:36 exactly, she leaves the church to find Harvey waiting outside, realizing that he's her soul mate.
156* ComicBookTime: Season 3 is the odd one out. Sabrina is sixteen in Season 1 and Season 2 opens with her turning seventeen. She turns eighteen in the premiere of Season ''4'', making Season 3's timeline hard to figure out. Further head-scratching ensues when you realise that season also features Christmas, Valentine's Day and Halloween episodes - and Season 3's HalloweenEpisode references Season 2's!
157** It's implied that Season 3 ''and'' 4 take place over one school year; as stated above, Season 1 starts with Sabrina as 16 and she's said to be 17 in Season 2; she turns 18 at the beginning of Season 4 as she gets her Witch's License on her 18th birthday, so it seems that Season three is the first half of the school year (September - February) and Season 4 is the second half and over the rest of that school year (March - July), then she and Harvey break up before the summer begins as at the start of Season five Sabrina has had "the summer" to get over Harvey.
158* ContinuityNod: In Season 1 Harvey tries to prove that Sabrina isn't a witch by throwing [[Film/TheWizardOfOz water on her]]. In Season 2 when they're attacked by ''the'' WickedWitch, Harvey throws water on her.
159* ContinuityPorn: The novel ''Witch Way Did She Go?'' is set in the fifth season and features Sabrina getting trapped in a maze in the Other Realm - where it conjures up apparitions of cast members from previous seasons. Mr Kraft, Libby, Skippy, Jenny, Valerie, Dreama and Drell all make appearances.
160* ContinuitySnarl: Seasons 2 and 3 must take place in different years because they have their own Halloween and Christmas episodes, yet Sabrina and her peers are high school juniors in both seasons. In one episode of Season 3, Harvey references having been a freshman in the first episode of Season 1, which is a {{Retcon}} as the characters were actually sophomores in that season.
161* CuteAndPsycho:
162** Ms. Quick certainly shows shades of this. It's usually a spell that's bringing out the psycho side, but a Season 4 episode shows her snapping at Sabrina's lack of responsibility with the school newspaper of her own accord.
163** Some fans will agree that Miles does too.
164* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
165** Harvey was more of a DumbJock in Season 1 and it was a RunningGag that he thought Libby was a nice person just because she was nice to him. He gets a bit more intelligent in Season 2.
166** Sabrina was much shyer and more nervous about fitting in when the first season started - and Jenny's role was to be the confident friend to her. Sabrina herself became the competent friend in Season 2, with Valerie now being the needy one.
167** Zelda was a strict disciplinarian in Season 1 and easily the most serious out of the main cast. Season 2 softened her a lot and added many NotSoAboveItAll moments. Her status as the responsible one was also PlayedForLaughs much more.
168* ChristmasElves:
169** Subverted in an early episode, where all of Santa's elves are regular human-sized except one.
170-->'''Elf:''' We're Santa's elves!\
171'''Sabrina:''' But you're huge!\
172'''Elf:''' Yeah, guess who always gets in the pictures...
173* ChristmasEpisode:
174** Season 1 - Salem gets kidnapped by another child and Sabrina has to rescue him by disguising herself as Santa.
175** Season 2 - Sabrina has to fill in for Santa when she injures him.
176** Season 3 - Christmas gets accidentally erased from the Mortal Realm, and Sabrina must remind everyone of it.
177** Season 4 - Sabrina is forced to remind Mr Kraft about the joy of Christmas.
178** Season 5 - Sabrina desires to have a normal Christmas and spends it with Morgan's family.
179** Season 7 - Sabrina, Morgan and Roxie go on a vacation to Miami where they meet Roxie's mother.
180* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
181** Principal [=LaRue=] was featured in Season 1 and demoted to TheGhost in Season 2, with Mr Kraft taking the helm as an antagonist.
182** Mr Pool vanishes in Season 2, his spot as the CoolTeacher being filled by Mrs Quick.
183** Jenny abruptly disappears to be replaced by Valerie. A novelization lampshades this when Sabrina encounters fantasy versions of her three high school best friends - saying Jenny "just sort of went away", implying she and Sabrina drifted apart.
184** All the high school characters with the switch from Season 4 to 5, where Sabrina is now attending college.
185** Miles is nowhere to be found in Season 7.
186* CollegeRadio: Sabrina and Roxie get their own show, but Sabrina quickly steps down when she realizes she's not a very good host.
187* ColorMeBlack: Subverted. The morning after receiving a lecture from one of her relatives about the importance of not judging by appearance, Sabrina checks herself in the mirror and is grateful that her appearance wasn't modified in the night. [[spoiler:Harvey, however, spends the episode transformed into a beast-man, and Sabrina has to accept him before the curse is undone.]]
188* ComesGreatResponsibility: The reason why Sabrina ends up in trouble every episode.
189* ConspiracyTheorist: Miles believes in alien conspiracies.
190* ContinuityDrift:
191** The punishment in series for telling a mortal about one's witch powers is that they are stripped of them if the mortal tells anyone. The movie ''Sabrina Goes To Rome'' also adds that a depowered witch is also cast out if she doesn't turn said mortal into a pile of stone within 12 hours. Especially Egregious because Cousin Marigold lost her powers the instant Emile told someone about them.
192** "Jenny's Non Dream" has Sabrina making Salem practice sounding like a regular cat. This seems to ignore that Salem pretended to be one perfectly before Sabrina knew she was a witch.
193* ContinuityNod: In "The Crucible" Sabrina says to ask Jill if that's her real nose - referencing Libby revealing Jill had a nose job in "Bundt Friday".
194* ContrivedClumsiness: In the pilot episode, the AlphaBitch performs the drink spill variant to Sabrina. Later, when she does it again, Sabrina uses her magic to make the drink tilt back towards her. Libby commonly tries to pull this off on Sabrina or her friends, but almost never succeeds or goes unpunished.
195* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Roxie unexpectedly ends up spending Christmas with Hilda and Zelda, so she goes out to buy some last-minute gifts. She buys the aunts lottery tickets and Gatorade because 7-11 is the only open store she can find.
196* CoolAunt:
197** Hilda would fill this role, as the more fun aunt in comparison to Zelda.
198** Subverted with Aunt Vesta, who appears to be more fun than either of her sisters. But it's soon shown that she's quite lonely and empty in her lifestyle (though she herself doesn't mind it much).
199* CoolCat: Salem is almost as cool as he thinks he is.
200* {{Costumer}}: There were a couple:
201** Season 1's finale "Troll Bride" puts Sabrina and Harvey in medieval costumes for the sake of FairyTaleMotifs.
202** Season 2's "Inna Gadda Sabrina" traps the Spellmans in the middle of the 1960s.
203** Season 3's "Silent Movie" traps everyone in a silent film with fashions from the 1910s.
204** Season 4's "Wild Wild Witch" sends Sabrina to an alternate reality in the Wild West.
205** Season 6's HalloweenEpisode is murder mystery themed with the cast all in outfits of TheRoaringTwenties.
206* CouchGag: The first three seasons of the show had Sabrina changing into four different outfits in front of her mirror, the fourth always being different. She would then make a quick pun or observation based on the outfit in question.
207* CousinOliver: A season 3 episode reveals Marigold has a second daughter Allie that wasn't seen at the Halloween family gathering back in season 1. Also one wonders why she didn't need to be babysat in season 2 when Sabrina did it for Amanda. The character appeared as one who could star in a potential Amanda spin-off - played by another Hart sibling - but was never seen again afterwards.
208* CrackDefeat: When trying to find actresses to play cheerleaders in a student film, Roxie gives a sarcastic audition and gets the part.
209--> "I guess all those years of making fun of cheerleaders finally paid off."
210* CreepyDoll: Two words: Molly Dolly.
211* CrossOver:
212** Done with both the [[Series/BoyMeetsWorld live action series]] and [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog the comic]].
213** Also did one with Film/{{Clueless}}, even if it's only for about thirty seconds. When Cher meets Sabrina, she's confused that she had never seen her, despite that Cher knew everyone at school. Sabrina then disappears when Cher's back is turned, leaving Cher baffled.
214** As part of a night where in ''Sabrina'', Salem had swallowed a ball that allowed the holder to travel to a different time period, the night saw Salem turn up in the other shows on the TGIF lineup at the time, ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'', ''Series/TeenAngel'' and ''YouWish''. This didn't translate well when going overseas, as not every show was exported to the channel - For example, in the UK ''Sabrina'' aired on Nickelodeon, but ''Teen Angel'' (Which featured the end of the event) and ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' aired on the Disney Channel.
215* {{Cult}}: Had a cult around a fake "witch" who also hoarded its members' worldly possessions. (And made them eat mungbeans)
216* CrystalPrison: When Sabrina is told she cannot use her powers to make Harvey love her, Aunt Hilda offers an alternative: Imprison him within a ring. She holds up her ring and sure enough Sabrina can see a young man from the Renaissance Era trapped within the stone and she can hear him pleading with Hilda to release him. Fortunately for Harvey, Sabrina choses not to subject him to this fate.
217-->'''Aunt Hilda:''' You can't make someone love you. But you can imprison him in a ring for not loving you. See?
218-->'''Man In Ring:''' Hilda, let me out! Thou art starting to grow upon me!
219-->'''Aunt Hilda:''' I love the way he catches the light.
220* CuteWitch: Sabrina of course, as she's a sixteen-year-old witch who's shy about fitting in.
221* DamselInDistress: Sabrina in the first episode featuring Roland. Also in several episodes involving Harvey, like when Sabrina conjures a silent spell that winds up turning the evening into a silent movie or when she turns the boy into a superhero.
222* DatingDoSiDo: Mr. Kraft dated both Hilda and Zelda at different times. Sure it's dramatic, but it would sure suck to be in Sabrina's position on that one.
223* DeadpanSnarker: Salem. Sabrina and both aunts also snark on the occasion.
224* DefrostingIceQueen: Roxie over the course of three seasons, to the point where she's Sabrina's bridesmaid in the finale.
225* DidYouGetANewHaircut: Played with in an episode. Jenny really does get a horrible (and dramatically shorter) new haircut:
226-->'''Harvey:''' You look different. Are those new earrings?\
227'''Jenny:''' Actually they are.\
228'''Harvey:''' People tell me I'm not perceptive!
229* DisproportionateRetribution:
230** Sabrina calls her Aunt Dorma to ask about the family secret, only to learn too late that she takes ten-year naps and hates to be woken up. Aunt Dorma retaliates by filling the whole house with magical and ''irremovable'' poppies that poison full witches like Aunt Hilda and Zelda into an AgeWithoutYouth eternal sleep till their bodies rot away to nothingness, and half-witches like Sabrina to [[BlessedWithSuck feel drowsy for the rest of their lives]]. She apologizes during the end credits (it's implied she's a {{Nice G|uy}}al that's just NotAMorningPerson), but is EasilyForgiven for trying to poison the whole family into a FateWorseThanDeath.
231** In the same episode, Salem responds to neighbor Tobias running over their trashcans and mailbox with death threats over the phone and catapulted water balloons that shatter all his windows. Naturally, the police are called.
232** In an earlier episode, Cousin (and Emperor) Larry declares open war on Zelda for politely declining to hand over a small country (of three people) she just found out she is a [[RagsToRoyalty princess]] of to him.
233** Hilda once [[CrystalPrison imprisoned]] a man in a ring because [[EntitledToHaveYou he didn't love her.]]
234* DreamDeception: One episode sees Sabrina's muggle friend Jenny wander into the Other Realm by accident. In order to get Jenny out without her figuring out that they're witches, Sabrina and her aunts convince her that she's just having a very vivid dream.
235* DumbBlonde:
236** Episode "Deliver Us From E-Mail", where [[spoiler: Katrina sends Sabrina an "airhead virus", which lets Katrina absorb all of Sabrina's intelligence, turning her into a blonde bimbo]].
237** In the ColdOpen of "Five Easy Pieces of Libby", Salem is accidentally turned blonde and remarks "I'm blonde! [[DeadpanSnarker My IQ just dropped 20 points]]." Then he lets out one of his characteristic [[OhCrap "Gyehhh?!"]] sounds when Zelda points out that he just said that in front of three blond witches.
238* DumbJock: There is an episode where Sabrina writes an article for the school paper exposing the preferential treatment given to school athletes and gets the star pitcher for the baseball team benched until he finishes his assignments. She goes to help him and he has doodled that he hates her and wrote her names with three "n"s.
239%%* TheDreaded: Aunt Irma.
240* EarWorm: A RunningGag in Season 1 is Sabrina and friends having the fictional Brothers Junk song 'Funky Song' stuck in their heads.
241* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The PilotMovie took place in Riverdale, Michelle Beaudoin's character was called Marnie, Sabrina's romantic rival was a blonde called Katie, it was Harvey that pined after Sabrina (rather than the other way round in season 1) and there was a RomanticFalseLead called Seth. Additionally Zelda was the ditzy aunt and Hilda was the responsible one. Salem also had a British accent. Also a similar plot to the first episode has time being reset to save Sabrina being humiliated by the AlphaBitch. In the show, she has to appeal to the Witches' Council. In the movie, the aunts are able to do it themselves.
242** Season 1 of the show had several character differences:
243*** Sabrina was a lot more shy and desperate about fitting in - often needing reassurance from the more confident Jenny. In season 2 Sabrina became the confident best friend to the neurotic and needy Valerie.
244*** The first episode has Sabrina instinctively know that Libby wears aftershave "to remind me of a boy who dumped me last summer". Her magic doesn't give her any such psychic abilities from then on.
245*** Harvey was initially oblivious to Libby's AlphaBitch ways - mistakenly thinking she was actually nice. Eventually he was fully aware of what a nasty piece of work she was. Additionally he was a bit dumber and ObliviousToLove in season 1, before becoming a little smarter in season 2.
246*** Libby was simply just mean to her lower classmates in season 1. When Mr Kraft is introduced in season 2, Libby is seen less with her GirlPosse and is much more manipulative - often using Mr Kraft to cause trouble for Sabrina.
247*** Zelda in the first season was more of an [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] and a strict disciplinarian. In season 2 her overall character became much softer; while still the responsible aunt, she got a lot more NotSoAboveItAll moments and took part in more slapstick.
248*** Salem's first few appearances in Season 1 portrayed him as [[CatsAreMean much more sinister]] (his attempt to TakeOverTheWorld being treated as a serious threat instead of being PlayedForLaughs in later seasons) and with [[CreepyMonotone a much flatter voice]]. This gradually gave away to the more [[CatsAreSnarkers snarky]] and [[HarmlessVillain goofier]] persona he became famous for.
249*** Mr Pool filled the role of the CoolTeacher in season 1 before being replaced by Mrs Quick in season 2 - who was presented as a {{Foil}} for Mr Kraft.
250*** Hilda's on-off relationship with Drell was a RunningGag in season 1. Drell was demoted to TheGhost in season 2 and - while still referenced - Hilda became more of a SerialRomeo.
251* ElementalShapeshifter: One episode has Sabrina struggling with trying to learn this technique; it finally clicks for her by the end of the episode in a moment of anger and frustration, and she easily turns into wind and then fire.
252* EnslavedTongue: Sabrina puts a spell on Hilda so that she'll say whatever Sabrina says, so she can make her go on a date with Mr. Kraft. While that is going on, Valerie shows up and Sabrina starts having a conversation with her while Hilda keeps repeating everything Sabrina is saying to Valerie. Eventually the spell breaks and Hilda drags Sabrina off to Zelda to figure out an appropriate punishment.
253* EvilMatriarch: Aunt Irma. Technically, she's not evil--she just likes to get her own way and does, in her own crazy way, care for Sabrina; she even hugs her in Series 7 when she thinks Harvey and Sabrina are getting married. She openly admits that she dislikes Sabrina's intention to marry a mortal, but understands that Harvey is "the least offensive" of them all (probably because of his loyalty to Sabrina). WordOfGod later states that Irma presided over Sabrina's common-law marriage to Harvey. (This used to be in an X-Files related document, but has since been erased; the document, not the information.) So, Irma simply cares that her family marry the best person available and do the best they can. However, she's still not above using her powers for punishment, either. If a member of her family decides to marry a mortal that Irma doesn't approve of, she turns the mortal into a fish or some other household knickknack. And family isn't spared, either: Irma transforms her own daughter into a ballerina porcelain figure, Hilda into a dried fruit basket (repeatedly), and Hilda, Zelda, and Salem into pigs when they insult her.
254* EvilTwin: Katrina, Jezebelda and all the Spellman twins. Combined with AlwaysChaoticEvil.
255* ExactWords:
256** Spells, especially ones spoken in rhyme, will always take extremely literal effects based on the caster's word choice. There's an entire episode dedicated to this trope--"Oh What a Tangled Spells She Weaves." In it, Sabrina tries to make it warmer in school--the place becomes blisteringly hot. She attempts to cool it down--an indoor blizzard begins. She casts a spell to make Harvey a Hall of Fame-caliber football player--he bulks up into a musclebound giant. She sends her aunts to the location of a rug that she already made disappear with a spell--Hilda and Zelda end up in Merlin's castle, where the rug came from. And that's just one episode!
257** In "Whose So-Called Life is it Anyway?", Sabrina tries to liven up Valerie's extremely dull family dinner by allowing whatever Mr. and Mrs. Birkhead wish for on a wishbone to come true. Mrs. Birkhead wishes that "our Valerie could be just like Sabrina." Cue Valerie slowly transforming into an actual copy of Sabrina, complete with confidence, blonde hair, and magical powers.
258* ExpansionPackPast: Hilda and Zelda's {{Historical In Joke}}s make their lives two of these. It doesn't help that the women seem to have moved not only through space, but also time, so despite being only around 600 years old they lived through much older times. Note, Hilda is 652 and Zelda is 659, so they've lived rather a long time; this raises the question of just how old Sabrina's father, Aunt Vesta and Aunt Sophia actually are? Irma's over 1,000, so they can't be that old... can they? As time travel is possible to an extent, this also involves going to the future too.
259--> '''Hilda:''' I've been to the end of the world. This isn't it.
260* ExpositionOfImmortality: Hilda and Zelda mention that they had all the money because they kept a lot of common items over the time of their extended lifespans and sold them when they found they'd become valuable antiques.
261* ExpositoryHairstyleChange:
262** Hilda mainly wears her hair short or bobbed for most of the series. When she comes BackForTheFinale after about a year of being HappilyMarried, her hair is long.
263** Sabrina dyes her hair red during Season 5 while trying to find herself during college. She reverts to blonde as soon as she enters a relationship with Josh.
264* ExpositoryThemeTune: The second OP intimates that Sabrina has moved out of her aunts' house, and leads a busy life.
265* {{Facepalm}}: In the season 3 finale, Harvey falls for one of Salem's pranks (he was under a "Doctor Dolittle spell" to let him talk to animals, and at one point, Salem tricks Harvey into looking at his butt, then says "Made you look!"), and does this in response.
266* FallenPrincess:
267** Deconstructed in the episode "Geek Like Me". Sabrina uses her magic to turn Libby into a geek, hoping it will encourage her to change her ways and become nicer when she sees how hard it is. It doesn't work as Libby instead becomes the leader of the geeks and turns them into an elite clique that the cheerleading squad originally was.
268** Played straight when Cousin Marigold is depowered and hooks up with a mortal man. She says she was never happy with magic but is happier now.
269* {{Familiar}}: In the PilotMovie, Salem is one for Sabrina and her aunts, helping them perform magic as part of his punishment. In the sitcom he has no/limited magic but often acts as an adviser on the subject, particularly for Sabrina.
270* {{Fanservice}}:
271** The teenage girl characters often donned short skirts and form fitting clothes, which the network admitted was deliberate to snare more [[SexSells more male viewers]].
272** The episode "Third Aunt From The Sun" features 60s sex symbol Raquel Welch as Sabrina's Aunt Vesta. Throughout the episode she wears several tight outfits (one of which is very low cut) and a bath robe at one point, and at the end both she and Sabrina are in [[http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/sabrina-the-teenage-witch/images/24345484/title/third-aunt-from-sun-107-screencap tight black leather]] for the sake of a music video.
273** Season 3's "Silent Movie" gets Zelda, Hilda and Sabrina into flattering mini-dresses for the sake of a dinner party.
274** The Season 3 finale takes the Spellmans to a family reunion in Hawaii. The women either wear bikinis or flattering sun dresses. Zelda even has one scene where she's bent over a sink, giving the audience an eyeful.
275** "The Band Episode" gets Sabrina, Valerie and Libby into sexy stage costumes - as well as featuring a FanserviceExtra called Sunset who wears a tight silver mini-dress.
276** "Sabrina Unplugged" has a subplot where Sabrina gets BreastExpansion and is stuck in a very skimpy pink dress.
277* FantasticAesop:
278** Zelda convinces Hilda to hire someone to clean the house rather than using magic to do it themselves - because witches who do that get lazy.
279** The same lesson is subverted when Sabrina uses her powers to do three nice things for her peers: injuring a first-string football player so Harvey can play in the game, rigging a class election so Jenny will become president and making Mr Pool discover a way to turn lead into gold. Sabrina gets in trouble with the Witches Council for the third one because ''she altered the laws of the universe''. But reality takes care of the other two: Harvey gets injured on the pitch due to inexperience and Jenny realises she has no real power as Class President. But then again Harvey uses his extra time from the injury to make more of an effort with his schoolwork - and Jenny happily hands over the job to Libby.
280** A justified example in Season 3. Zelda warns Sabrina against 'charitable magic' because there could be bad long term consequences. She uses an example of a witch who got rid of her best friend's acne - when her friend was destined to one day discover a cure for teen acne. But the episode plays it straight anyway as Sabrina casts a spell to grant whatever wish Valerie's mother makes. This turns out to be "I wish Valerie would be exactly like Sabrina". HilarityEnsues naturally.
281%%* FantasticComedy
282* FantasticRacism: Witches think of themselves as superior to mortals. Some refuse to associate with mortals, and some extend this dislike to witches with mortal ancestry.
283* FantasticVoyagePlot:
284** Sabrina enters Libby's brain.
285** Later, Sabrina went inside herself to make room in her heart for a new beau.
286* FictionalHoliday:
287** Bobunk. It's too bad that Salem accidentally deleted it... Only Father Christmas, and Salem himself, remember Bobunk.
288** Christmas later almost became this due to a mistake by Sabrina.
289** Witches seem to have their own traditions for holidays, even the ones mortals celebrate. Halloween for example has carols.
290* FiremenAreHot: Aunt Zelda had a thing for milk-drinking firemen, to the point of making one out of magical dough for a perfect date. Hilda also sometimes asks Salem to "trap himself" in a tree so that a fireman can rescue him and give Hilda a chance for a date (Apparently, this is a regular thing as Salem later refuses, only to be persuaded by food).
291* FirstGirlWins: SpearCounterpart - Harvey is Sabrina's first major love interest on the show. They elope together at the end of the series.
292%%* FirstLove: Played straight with Harvey and Sabrina.
293* {{Flanderization}}:
294** When we meet Morgan in season 5 she is of course shallow and a bit spacey but completely capable and in control of herself. But then in season 7 she is a complete ditz.
295** Aunt Hilda gets Flanderized from being the slightly more easy going of the two aunts to being a ditzy slacker. The best example is her music career: she goes from being a skilled orchestral violinist in the first season to having to be nagged into doing any practicing at all by her sister in the third. Though a recurring gag in the early episodes had people be very unappreciative or outright dismissive of her music talents. It makes sense as to why she would lose interest.
296** An in-universe example in the episode "When Teens Collide". Sabrina and Libby end up swapping personalities due to molecular instability. They both end up as exaggerated versions of the other. Libby becomes a sickeningly sweet Pollyanna and FriendToAllLivingThings while Sabrina becomes cartoonishly evil and tries to take over the world.
297* FlyingBroomstick: Flying vacuum cleaners, actually- they work just as well, but one crashed when it sucked up a penny.
298* ForcedTransformation: Happens ''all the time''. Salem is the most visible example, having been changed into a cat for one hundred years as punishment for attempting world conquest, and in one episode, an old member of Salem's gang who's had his sentence commuted visits, and he's still just getting the hang of being human again. This punishment seems fairly standard among witches, as other characters suffer or nearly suffer similar fates, or had in the past.
299* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Or rather, the house. When Valerie invites the entire student body over to Sabrina's for a Halloween party, the latter spends the entire episode trying to keep people from seeing the house being... well, the house. When her cover is finally blown, everyone assumes the talking cat and furniture, river of candy corn, and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext monster Halloween carolers from the Other Realm]] are props and people in costumes.
300* FourthDateMarriage: Aaron and Sabrina meet. Three episodes later they tell each other they love each other...okay. Then in the next episode Aaron [[spoiler:proposes and she accepts]]. Finally in the season finale, only four episodes later [[spoiler:Aaron and Sabrina are about to get married]]. This is partly because Josh was meant to feature in Season 7, but his actor quit the show.
301* FracturedFairyTale: "Sabrina and the Beanstalk" has a WickedWitch living at the top of a beanstalk who feasts on mortals. Sabrina also conjures up a gingerbread wall.
302* FreeTheFrogs: Sabrina and class have to dissect frogs, and it seems to follow real life in that the frogs seemed to come pre-killed. Sabrina and her partner express some disgust over it, though they do it with no big drama. The subversion happens when Sabrina accidentally uses her magic to reanimate the frog, and it jumps off the lab table. The frog was pretty much forgotten about for the rest of the episode, since the plot of it was more about Sabrina learning to control her powers and not about saving a frog.
303* FreudianExcuse:
304** In "Five Easy Pieces of Libby", it's strongly implied that the reason Libby doesn't show compassion for other people is because it's never been shown to her.
305-->'''Quizmaster:''' "Don't worry, that piece doesn't exist yet. It's Libby's compassion for others. You'll have to gradually fill that space by showing compassion for Libby, even when she doesn't show it for you. In other words, learn to work together."
306-->'''Sabrina:''' "I get it. [[LampshadeHanging By the way, could this]] [[AnAesop lesson]] [[LampshadeHanging be any more]] [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy handed?]]"
307** Roxie being the way she is gets explained in seasons 6 and 7 when we find out her mother was in prison for theft and her father and stepmother pay her no attention, resulting in her never even having a proper Christmas.
308* FreudianSlip:
309** Used as a plot device, near the end of the series, Sabrina has a Freudian Slip when she meant to say "I love Aaron." What she ended up saying is "I love Harvey!" And she does it again later with "I love you, Billy. Did I say Billy?"
310** One of Hilda's stories from her ExpansionPackPast ends in a literal example. (She trips Sigmund Freud. She even jokes that it was "the first Freudian Slip".)
311* FriendsRentControl: Lampshaded somewhat by Zelda as she remarks that the neighbours find it suspicious that she and Hilda are able to own such a nice Victorian style home - when Hilda is a struggling violinist and Zelda doesn't actually work in the first few seasons. In-universe it's explained that the sisters held onto lots of antiques over the years and have made a fortune by selling them.
312* FriendlyZombie: The zombies that invade the coffeehouse on Halloween night while Sabrina and Dreama are working there. They don't want to kill or maim anyone, they just want to have a party. They're still annoying to Sabrina though since she has to clean up after them.
313* TheFairFolk: Witches don't think highly of mortals and a few are not above pulling cruel pranks on them for amusement. Heck Sabrina can't even see her mother because of the Witches Council making a rule that'll turn her into a candle if she stays with her (this actually became a minor plot point in the series finale).
314* {{Gasshole}}: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOzv8ziaO-Q side effect]] of drinking "[[GenderBender Boy Brew]]"
315* GenderBender: In one episode Sabrina, Hilda and Zelda all become male, though Zelda only briefly.
316* GenreThrowback: The series was conceived as a throwback to the fantasy sitcoms of the 60s like ''{{Series/Bewitched}}'' and ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''.
317* GenreSavvy: By Season Three, Sabrina wises up to the nature of her various magical punishments and their attempts to [[AnAesop teach her lessons]], which leads to her commenting on and trying to weasel out of them. To give but one example: in an episode where she complains about various rules, she's sent to an Old Western town, becomes sheriff, and declares that the only law is no laws. Things naturally get out of hand, especially when the "Petulant Kid"--who turns out to be an EvilTwin--comes in for a showdown. When Sabrina first sees the Petulant Kid, she sighs and says "How ironic, I'm my own worst enemy, can I go home now?" Later, when the Kid has her outgunned, Sabrina desperately tries to summarize what she's learned about the importance of rules, remarking that making such a speech is usually enough to break whatever enchantment she's currently under.
318* GiftShake:
319** In the Season 2 ChristmasEpisode, Sabrina is suffering from a condition called "egotitis", due to the fact that she still has a somewhat childish and selfish view of Christmas. Because she suffers this, she's forbidden to receive presents on Christmas. When her presents disappear as she was about to open one, she gives the following lament:
320--->"Awww, I shook that one last night. It was good."
321** Sabrina's roommate, Morgan, has the ability to determine the contents of any gift by shaking it.
322* GreenEyedMonster: In the season 4 episode "Jealousy", Sabrina starts acting jealous when Harvey begins hanging out with other people and her jealousy magically consumes her, causing her to become jealous with people even over petty things like somebody getting a good grade on an assignment in class (a class that Sabrina wasn't even in, no less.) She even comes complete with green eyes. Salem helps by transporting her to the "[[PunnyName Jealous Sea]]", where no one but her is successful.
323* GoAmongMadPeople: Aunt Beulah's party. [[spoiler:Somewhat subverted, as it turns out that the whole event was a theme party.]]
324* GodOfFire: The Season Three finale is a VacationEpisode where the Spellmans head to Hawaii for a family reunion. Sabrina can't participate until she finishes decoding the family secret (which has taken her all season). To help, Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire ("Cousin Pele to you") shows up in a burst of flame to give her the final clue to the secret, a ball of twine; she remarks that this is the first time in a while that the twine hasn't incinerated.
325* GonkyFemme: In one episode, Sabrina's Cousin Susie turns out to be a stereotypical ugly witch, complete with green face, stringy black hair, and warts. However, she was a total sweetie that helped people in need and taught Sabrina a lesson about not judging people over their appearances.
326* HalfHourComedy
327* HalloweenCosplay: Harvey as Creator/JamesDean in the first Halloween episode. The party shows all the other boys dressed the same too. In the same episode Libby dresses as Jackie Kennedy Onasis.
328* HalloweenEpisode:
329** Season 1 - Sabrina is forced to attend a family gathering and conjures up a double to go to Harvey's Halloween party.
330** Season 2 - Sabrina throws a party while the house is infested with Other Realm termites.
331** Season 3 - Sabrina gets a CreepyDoll gift from a relative that traps them in the house and unleashes monsters to scare them.
332** Season 4 - an army of zombies trash the coffee house when Sabrina tries to avoid the fun side of Halloween.
333** Season 5 - Sabrina throws another party, this time without telling her aunts, where Roxie falls for Frankenstein.
334** Season 6 - Sabrina and friends are trapped in a murder mystery scenario.
335* HatesSmallTalk: When Sabrina meets Aaron's parents:
336---> '''Sabrina:''' Hi, Aaron's told me so much about you.
337---> '''Aaron's Dad:''' Then he obviously didn't tell you I hate small talk.
338* HeartBeatsOutOfChest: One of the symptoms of Candy Heart Syndrome, along with hiccuping pink bubbles and the affected witch's heart becoming a candy heart (hence the name); it also [[HeartbeatSoundtrack beats loud enough to be heard by anyone]].
339* HehHehYouSaidX: Salem loved doing this.
340-->'''Hilda''': Now, obvious fact number one. Willard hasn't asked you to marry him yet and obvious fact number two...
341-->'''Salem''': Hee hee hee! You said 'number two'!
342** Another example:
343-->'''Sabrina''': Nothing like being embraced in the bosom of your family on the most special day of the year.
344-->'''Salem''': Hee Hee Hee! Bosom! You said 'bosom'! Ha ha ha ha!
345* HellBentForLeather: Not unusual in later seasons. The opening montage for Season 5 has Sabrina changing into 5 different outfits, exactly 5 of which feature either leather trousers, a leather top or, uh, duster coat. Then again, isn't that what TurnOfTheMillennium fashion was about?
346* HereditaryTwinhood: The "Family Secret" that Sabrina has to learn to earn her Witch's License is that every member of the Spellman family is born with a twin, and one of them is inevitably the Evil Twin.
347* HeroicBystander: In "Jenny's Non-Dream", the Rule Bearer of the Other Realm seems to be one of Drell's flunkies, and mostly stays out of the action--but when Drell transforms Jenny into a grasshopper (per the rules of mortals entering the witch world), the Rule Bearer decides to help Sabrina by teaching her about the loopholes found in every magical law.
348* HeroicSacrifice: When Zelda's actress, Creator/BethBroderick, left the show in the sixth season. The writers wrote her out of it by having her sacrifice age and be reduced to a child to cure Sabrina from becoming a stone before Hilda and she moved out. She does it again in the series finale by allowing herself to (temporarily) become a candle so Sabrina's mother can attend her wedding without worrying about the Council's rules. WordOfGod says that by agreeing to be a candle for the duration of the wedding, allows Aunt Zelda's adult years to be restored ''and'' forever removes the prohibition on Sabrina seeing her mother.
349* HighSchool: The first four seasons take place in high school.
350* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Maw Maw Spellman was named "Maw Maw" at birth.
351* HistoricalInJoke:
352** The Parthenon is in ruins because Hilda was sad about being jilted by Drell on their wedding day.
353** Hilda's bad eavesdropping started the American Revolution.
354** The song "Greensleeves" was written for Zelda.
355** Hilda says that if the people had listened to her, Rome ''would'' have been built in a day.
356** In one of the novelizations Sabrina gives L Frank Baum the idea for ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.
357** America was discovered because Hilda casted a spell to make everything round.
358* HomeworkSlave: In the Season 5 episode "House of Pi's", student journalists Sabrina and Roxy uncover that the Mu Pi sorority is forcing all recruits to do the sorority sisters' homework in order to get into the sorority. Once in, the junior sisters are still forced to do the senior sisters' homework.
359* HotWitch:
360** Both Hilda and Zelda are attractive witches with very active love lives. Their sister Vesta is even more glamorous, played by Raquel Welch! The novelizations state that witches are granted with eternal youth and beauty - though the appearance of a few elderly witches suggests it's not completely eternal. Aunt Irma, played by Creator/BarbaraEden in her forties, is said to be over two-thousand years old. Great Grandma is said to be even older.
361** The WickedWitch looks like a straight example of this trope, but Aunt Hilda's comment implies it's due to surgery.
362--> '''Sabrina:''' Wicked? But she's so pretty.
363--> '''Hilda:''' Oh, she's had a ''lot'' of work done.
364* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: It is stated that all witches must celebrate Halloween. If they don't embrace the horror, then the horror follows them. It happens to Sabrina in Season 4, where zombies party in the coffee shop she was taking care of (instead of celebrating Halloween).
365* HumanOutsideAlienInside: Witches themselves may not be human at all, since it's stated several times through the earliest seasons that the Other Realms exists physically in a distant galaxy and that Witches "came to Earth" in some point throughout human history. The novelizations claim that witches are able to breathe in space.
366* HypocriticalHumor: A staple of the series, though one particularly hilarious example is Salem being indignant to find that NosyNeighbor Tobias is spying on them with a telescope... while he's spying on Tobias with binoculars.
367-->'''Salem''': Some people have no moral compass.
368* IAmBigBoned: In TheTeaser of "Inna Gadda Sabrina", Salem has been putting on weight but is in denial, claiming he doesn't need to diet because "I am not fat, I am big-boned." Then he proceeds to get stuck in the cat door.
369-->'''Hilda:''' Need a push?
370-->'''Salem:''' You laugh, you die!
371* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin:
372** Sabrina becomes addicted to pancakes (part of an old Spellman family curse, of which there were many), and at one point gorges herself to bloatation. When she tries to go cold turkey, she experiences withdrawal symptoms, hallucinating that [[MeatOVision Salem is a pile of pancakes asking if she is hungry]], imagining that the school is putting on an [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber elaborate musical number imploring her to eat pancakes]], and dreaming that a giant syrup bottle tries to convince her to come away to a haven for witches addicted to pancakes, where she can eat to her heart's content. [[MushroomSamba It was a really weird episode]].
373** In the later episode "Cloud Ten", Sabrina is feeling ignored by her family and friends. She visits a friend who works for an Other Realm travel agency, who suggests she go to Cloud Ten. To get there, Sabrina must open a bag full of cloud and inhale. Once there she's introduced as a "first-timer", and warned that coming down from the cloud can be unpleasant...
374* ImpossiblePickleJar: Sabrina and her aunts can't open a jar. Sabrina's father visits and, after a great deal of effort, is able to open the jar. Her father is going through some personal problems at the time, so to unwind he sets about opening every difficult jar in the house.
375* IncredibleShrinkingMan:
376** A Season 1 episode has Sabrina shrinking after she feels so low from trying to sneak out to a concert.
377** Sabrina and Salem accidentally shrink while inside an Other Realm spacecraft...and fly up Libby's nose.
378* InelegantBlubbering: In one episode Hilda goes on an [[BadDate unsatisfying date with a man]] and so when she gets home later that night she casts a spell to "make him a better listener." It cuts to the man in his bathroom looking in the mirror: He now has [[BodyHorror ears all over his head]] and he's sobbing as he sees his new look.
379* IneptMage:
380** Dreama can't cast any spell without it going wrong.
381** Sabrina herself, most of time. Though in this case it's mainly from her being too quick to read the fine print or not thinking things through.
382* InformedAttribute: PlayedForLaughs with one-shot character Eugene, played by Len Lesser. Eugene goes on and on about how much he loves to make people laugh, but despite many expectant silences doesn't do anything to back it up.
383* InOneEarOutTheOther:
384** In 'Deliver Us From E-Mail' Sabrina contracts a magical virus that turns her into an airhead; at one point Zelda looks into Sabrina's ear and gets a clear view out the other side.
385** In an earlier episode, Hilda is shown to be addicted to using "Mental Floss" in order to push out her intelligence. The string is shown to actually go through her head.
386* IntimateMarks: In "Third Aunt From The Sun", Hilda and Zelda try to convince Sabrina not to have her navel pierced.
387-->'''Hilda:''' You'll regret it. I had to wait two centuries to have the "Cromwell Rules" tattoo removed from my shoulder.
388-->'''Zelda:''' That's not where it was.
389-->'''Hilda:''' Be quiet!
390* InvincibleIncompetent: Sabrina went seven years without ever learning even one or two simple spells she could reliably not mess up. Notable in that there usually was no villain except for her mastery of this trope alternately causing and fixing problems.
391* InsultToRocks: In the Season 3 episode "Sabrina's Real World", Hilda puts on a belt that makes her uncontrollably tell jokes, which leads to this:
392--> '''Hilda''': "You wanna talk about frightening, you should see my mother-in-law. They said she was ugly as sin. Sin sued."
393* IResembleThatRemark:
394-->'''Zelda:''' You'll do anything to work the fact that you're dating someone into the conversation.
395-->'''Hilda:''' That's not true!
396-->'''Sabrina:''' Has anyone seen my book bag?
397-->'''Hilda:''' The guy I'm dating has books!
398* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery: Valerie once tried to imitate Sabrina...because of Sabrina misfiring, of course.
399* IronicHell: One episode has the Roman Emperor Caligula being punished by The Other Realm court, for sneaking into the modern era in search of some novelty, in which he is sentenced to spend a hundred years in a decadent and hedonistic party and orgy. Because he has being doing that so long it has all just become passée to him. His response to the ruling is just and wearied "Same old, same old".
400* IsThisThingStillOn: In "Bundt Friday", Principal Larue eats some "truth sprinkles" and announces over the PA that he's planning to skip work and go to a movie like he does every Friday afternoon, and that he'll be paying for his popcorn with petty cash. The following Monday, he makes this announcement over the PA:
401-->'''Principal Larue:''' Attention students, this is the ''real'' Principal Larue. Last Friday some prankster broke into my office and impersonated me. I, of course, was at the district office all day working to make your school a better place. Thank you. ''(pause)'' Do you think they bought that? Huh? Oh, oh no.
402* ItsFakeFurItsFine: In one episode, Salem has a huge gambling debt to a guy (who later turned out to be a cheater), and the Spellmans are forced to work for him to pay it off. At his gambling hall, we see women wearing fur wraps. The furs are later stated to be fake when the Spellmans try to make a potion, and a hair from a fake fur is an ingredient.
403* ItsAllAboutMe: Salem. Sabrina also lapses into this from time to time. She is a teenager.
404* JediMindTrick: Often used by Sabrina, especially on Harvey and Roxie. A good example from the episode 'Sabrina and the Candidate':
405-->'''Sabrina''': I have a question for one of the candidates.\
406'''Roxie''': We're not taking questions from the audience tonight.\
407''(Sabrina twitches her finger in Roxie's direction.)''\
408'''Roxie''': Although here's a crazy idea! Why not.
409* JerkassRealization: The whole class gets this in "The Crucible" when they learn ''no one'' has a witch card. Thus, they engaged in mindless mob psychology that proved they were no better than the Salem residents, scapegoating Jenny and Sabrina.
410* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
411** Salem is an egomaniac who tried to take over the world and still causes mischief, but he still loves Sabrina deeply.
412** Amanda mellows out in her teen years and becomes slightly less bratty, meaning she's this by the show's end.
413** Roxie is an abrasive SoapboxSadie but has a soft side too.
414* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: In "Nobody Nose Libby Like Sabrina Nose Libby", Sabrina and Salem accidentally fly up Libby's nose in a miniature spaceship and eventually reach her brain, where Sabrina discovers she can control Libby's actions and words.
415* KarmaHoudini:
416** Libby always wins. Mr. Kraft will always defer to the cheerleaders and give them whatever they want. Of course, after they graduate high school this doesn't make any difference whatsoever. Sabrina can usually taint her victory a little with slapstick, but Libby still ultimately gets what she wanted.
417** Mr. Kraft applies as well, he gives detentions out for things that would be cause for legal trouble (don't like their clothes, personality, or in Sabrina's case "just because" several times) yet never is reprimanded.
418** Later on, Morgan came and averted the rule. She always ended up with the short end of the stick, despite being mostly an airhead rather than a bitch.
419* KidsPreferBoxes: At the end of "A Girl And Her Cat", Salem ignores his Christmas gifts and spends all morning happily playing with the discarded wrapping paper.
420-->'''Sabrina:''' I think he likes ''my'' paper best.
421* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Plastic, one of the most common substances in the world, is the weakness of magic. {{Subverted}} though, as only certain types of plastic affect magic and only to prevent magic from working on them. In other words, a witch could theoretically be surrounded by plastic and still be able to use magic. However, this would limit their powers to whatever could be done inside the plastic. (Teleportation and conjuring might still be viable options though, depending on the particular rules of the Sabrina universe.)
422* LamePunReaction:
423** In the 17th episode of season 3 (Sabrina The Teenage Writer) Sabrina writes a spy story on a magic typewriter and her characters, which mirror actual characters of the show, come to life. At one point the mirror character of Mr. Kraft (Dr. Bad) captures Harvey's character Derek and and ties him to a buzz saw in order to kill him.
424-->'''"Derek":''' There's always been an unpleasant edge to you, Dr. Bad.\
425'''"Dr Bad":''' (with his hands on his ears) I am killing you, just to stop the puns.
426** In that same episode, the Spellmans received a chain letter, which was a letter with an actual chain attached to it. And when Hilda crafted a chain letter of her own to send on, it was made out of literal letters.
427** Also in "Dante's Inferno" Hilda gets a case of "punitis" which causes everything she says to be a bad joke and literally happen-for example when she wants ice cream, she looks in the freezer to find an "eye screaming." Another one of these, which is rather hilarious, is when Hilda asks: "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" Salem LITERALLY has Zelda's tongue in his hand...
428* LastMinuteHookup: Sabrina returns to first love Harvey instead of getting married when the network refuses to allow an hour-long finale.
429* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The show got this way with its seventh season due to the departure of long-standing regulars Hilda and Zelda Spellman, that it didn't take place with Sabrina still in school, and that the house set Sabrina lived in had changed noticeably despite being implied to be the same location.
430* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "It looks like the spell went wrong in an unexpected way. How unusual."
431** In her Bridezilla episode, Sabrina learns AnAesop and then gets annoyed when the spell doesn't wear off - "usually when I have these emotional revelations, the magical side effects tend to go away".
432* LethalChef: A minor one episode case, in which we discover Sabrina brews coffee so strong it can RAISE THE DEAD!
433* {{Leprechaun}}: Roland gets a job as a leprechaun in a Season 2 St Patrick's Day episode.
434* LevitatingLotusPosition: At the start of the "Sabrina Through the Looking Glass" episode, Zelda leads the Spellman family in some Yoga exercises. When they assume the lotus position and start meditating, Sabrina floats up and bonks her head on the ceiling.
435* LiteralGenie: Roland waits for Sabrina to wish for him to appear before he does so, thereby wasting her last wish.
436* LiteralMetaphor: Quite often, and lampshaded by Sabrina once.
437--->'''Sabrina''': Gee, the Other Realm doesn't understand metaphors much.
438* LittleMissBadass: Amanda is only a child but as a full witch is more powerful than Sabrina. As she's also a spoiled brat, she's pretty ruthless with her powers. Thankfully she grows out of it somewhat.
439* LocalHangout:
440** The coffeehouse, in the college years.
441** The Slicery in the high school years.
442** The Spellman living room and the newspaper in the final season.
443* LostHimInACardGame: Salem bets and loses the Spellmans.
444* LovableAlphaBitch: Morgan. ''NOT'' [[AlphaBitch Libby]]. (Although they may have been headed there before Libby was written out of the show.)
445* LovableNerd:
446** Gordy is bumbling and dorky, but a good friend to Sabrina. Valerie briefly crushes on him.
447** Miles too is a neurotic conspiracy theorist, but Roxie harbours a secret crush on him.
448* LovelyAssistant: In the "Magic Joel" episode, Sabrina takes a job as the assistant to the titular StageMagician and uses her magical powers to help him when he gets StageFright.
449* MadeOfIron: Witches seem to be very resilient. Hilda is stabbed with a cutlass sword by a pirate and is merely annoyed by it.
450* MageSpecies: Witches are said to be from across the galaxy, and they're a magical species who came to Earth thousands of years ago. Essentially this makes them HumanAliens.
451* MagicalGesture: Pointing the index finger. While most witches and wizards use their fingers to cast magic, some others use another kind of gesture (Aunt Irma crosses her arms; Cousin Zsa Zsa Goowhiggie moves both arms over each other twice, while Zelda, Sabrina, Amanda and Marigold use their fingers and sparks, and Aunt Hilda uses a large puff of smoke).
452* MagicKiss:
453** The first time a witch kisses a mortal, the mortal will turn into a frog. To turn him back, the witch must return to the same place and give him TrueLovesKiss. If it's not true love, the second kiss will cause the witch to become a frog as well.
454** In the pilot movie, it's revealed that a witch who uses her magic to impress a mortal (or otherwise buy/compel his love) will be turned into a cat for ninety years by that mortal's kiss. If the love is given freely, the witch will remain normal.
455* MagicalIncantation: Sometimes.
456* MagicCauldron: In early episodes, the Spellmans used one of this to prepare magical potions. When they work on this, they use stereotypical witch wardrobe (long black dresses and pointy hats with big brims). It seems to be a part of witches' lore and tradition.
457* TheMagocracy: Mostly in the first four seasons and plots regarding Hilda and Zelda.
458* MamaBear:
459** Zelda and Hilda--they may not be Sabrina's biological parents, but if anyone crosses their niece, that person (mortal or witch) is in for a world of hurt. This was evident from the first episode of the series--after Head Witch Drell (who Hilda used to date) refuses Sabrina's request to turn back time and do over a day that ended in her being ostracized from the whole school, Hilda (with a little prodding from Zelda) storms up the stairs, marches into the linen closet, and ''forces'' Drell to change his mind.
460** In a later season, Sabrina dated a witch named Derek who, though nice, came from a family of mortal-haters. Derek claimed that he wasn't prejudiced, but Hilda and Zelda, knowing better, disguised themselves to prove otherwise.
461* ManInAKilt: Mr. Pool wears one in an episode, as he's of Scottish ancestry. It isn't played for FanService, as it just confuses Sabrina, and the principal yells at Mr. Pool for doing so.
462* MeaningfulName:
463** Spellman, and Salem the cat. Katrina would be an example, except that season aired before the infamous hurricane.
464** Also, most of the character's names Sabrina gave for her science-fiction story. The villains were Dr. Bad, Lydia Kissenkill, and Vivian Soontodie. Averted with Derek Kink, since his name was based on Harvey's.
465* MirrorReveal: In one episode, Sabrina is trying to impress Josh, a college student in his early twenties, who thinks she's not mature enough for him. She uses a magic face lotion that makes her more mature, and behaves like she's also in her early twenties. However as she continues to use the cream she continues aging until she starts behaving and looking like a middle aged woman. When a young witch she's mentoring shows her a mirror, Sabrina looks like her eighteen year old self. When Sabrina becomes an elderly woman, her aunt Zelda casts a spell, and when Sabrina looks at her reflection again, she sees that she's been turned into an octogenarian.
466* MissingMom: Sabrina's mother is mortal and is not allowed to have contact with her. She [[spoiler:turns into a ball of wax]] if she sees Sabrina without approval from the Witches Council. [[spoiler:in the series finale, the Witches Council does allow Sabrina's mom to attend her wedding, but demands that one of the aunts be temporarily turned into wax. Hilda volunteered Zelda and she is turned into a red candle.]]
467* MistakenForGay:
468** Hilda and Zelda at a PTA meeting. In another episode they book separate rooms at a hotel but the receptionist assumes they're together and puts them into the same room.
469--> '''Hilda:''' I'm sure you realise now that you were very, very ''wrong''.
470--> '''Zelda:''' Lawsuit wrong!
471** Morgan later claims that a drummer from a band must be gay because he ignored her.
472* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Borderline-parodied in the episode ''Sabrina the Teenage Writer'', with Sabrina's poorly written Bond villain "Dr. Bad."
473* MRSDegree: The episode, Inna-Gadda-Sabrina, has the main character traveling to the 60s where she expresses interest in a certain university but the man tells he that he understands if she wants to get her MRS but they can't let girls in.
474* MrFanservice: Zak, a witch who Sabrina briefly speaks to in "First Kiss", is an extremely fit WalkingShirtlessScene. This is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], though, as the whole point of Sabrina's interaction with him is to pass a test of temptation. Humorously, Zak was played by an ''actual porn star'', although the producers didn't realize that at the time.
475* MsFanservice: Aunt Vesta is played by Raquel Welch, one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1960s and 70s. She wears about eight different outfits over the course of the episode--including a professor disguise that pulls off a HotForTeacher look--and all of them are ''very'' form-fitting and fantastic. The character of Valerie in Sabrina's spy fantasy wears a form fitting tight black PVC catsuit showing a very different side to her whilst in one episode Hilda and Zelda end up bikini mud wrestling with one another.
476* MundaneObjectAmazement: The spatula that Sabrina gives to a kid during Christmas.
477* MultipleDemographicAppeal: In her autobiography, Creator/MelissaJoanHart describes the show as this. Younger kids would love the magic, teenagers would relate to Sabrina's problems fitting in, red-blooded males would enjoy the pretty female cast, females would appreciate the various different female characters and focus on certain female issues, and the magic would also appeal to older viewers nostalgic for ''{{Series/Bewitched}}'' and ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''.
478* TheMovie:
479** ''Film/SabrinaGoesToRome'', set between Seasons 2 and 3, where Sabrina has to solve a problem involving an ancestor trapped in a locket.
480** ''Film/SabrinaDownUnder'', set during Season 4, where Sabrina tries to save a mermaid colony in Australia.
481* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Aunt Hilda once had a problem with her biological clock (a literal [[VisualPun magical clock]]) and began a series of desperate measures to try and become pregnant, including randomly choosing a guy off the street to marry. Sabrina eventually offered her own clock as a substitute for Hilda's, but luckily it all worked out in a [[{{Pun}} timely fashion]].
482* MythologyGag: In "What Price Harvey?" Cousin Zsa Zsa gives the aunts a spell that swaps their personalities. Possibly a nod to the comics, where Zelda is the ditzy aunt and Hilda the responsible one.
483%%zce* {{Muggles}}: Pretty much everyone in the mortal realm. Sabrina is half "muggle" herself.
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487* NerdyBully: In the episode "Geek Like Me", Sabrina uses her magic to turn AlphaBitch Libby into a nerd because she believes that it would teach her a lesson in humility and kindness. This ends up backfiring when Libby takes over the Science Club and starts bullying her old friends in the cheerleading squad.
488* NeverWinTheLottery: An alternate take on this was featured in an episode of Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Sabrina is allowed access to a crystal ball that can answer any question. Her first question was, oddly enough, "What if Kenan and Kel won the lottery?". We then see a short segment of the two losing the ticket and coming to the conclusion that is was inside a sandwich that Kel just took a bite out of.
489** ''Series/KenanAndKel'' actually had an episode where they had and lost a Lottery Ticket, but it was different from the clip.
490** In the fifth season's Christmas special, Roxy buys Hilda several lottery tickets as a last minute gift.
491* NamesToRunAwayFrom: There ''is'' a reason Aunt Irma is, most appropriately, called "The dreaded holy terror of the Other Realm". To put it lightly, she's ''not'' someone you want to annoy.
492* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Sabrina her college roommates: friendly and optimistic Sabrina is nice, snarky and cynical Roxie is mean, and shallow LovableAlphaBitch Morgan is in-between.
493* NeverMyFault: In "Witch Trash", Sabrina's hillbilly cousins Racine, Boyd, and Maw Maw start giving her and her aunts trouble because they think they were cheated out of their Great Grandma's will when Hilda and Zelda get the family spellbook. Great Grandma later shows up (with the explanation witches live for so long that to them wills are the equivalent of garage sales to get rid of clutter) and reveals the reason Hilda and Zelda received the book is because Boyd and Racine chose Great Grandma's money. Which they then wasted on junk and stupid investments. The three hillbilly witches refuse to admit they squandered their inheritance and would rather harass Hilda and Zelda to get theirs.
494* NoControlGroup: Parodied: Sabrina's aunts have decided to live apart and Sabrina is seeing what would happen if she decided to stay with Zelda via magic crystal ball. She is shown giving anti-aging cream of her own design to a regular looking Libby (after she gives a speech insulting herself and praising Sabrina) and to a very old looking Mr. Kraft:
495-->'''Mr. Kraft:''' Sabrina, you can be honest with me. I'm in the placebo group, aren't I?\
496'''Sabrina:''' Maybe not. It's possible you were given aging cream. However, if you were you'd be suffering from hearing loss by now...\
497'''Mr. Kraft:''' Oh, thank you. These are new shoes, actually.
498* NoirEpisode
499* NonHumanSidekick
500* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened when it was Hilda's turn to [[spoiler:figure out if she was the good or evil twin, with everyone mentioning how surprised they all were when she turned out to be the good one. Which also says a lot about how evil Hilda's twin must be.]]
501* NotAllowedToGrowUp: The show itself. ComicBook/ArchieComics wouldn't allow a name change after Sabrina reached adulthood.
502* NotWearingPantsDream: In "Sabrina the Sandman", Valerie finds out she has a test that she hasn't prepared for and subsequently has a dream sequence where her clothes disappear in class and she has a NakedFreakOut.
503* NothingIsScarier: In one HalloweenEpisode, Hilda and Zelda have Creator/EdgarAllanPoe over for scary stories. Salem wants to tell his own and after resistance, he finally gets to. We never hear them, but when we cut back to the house, Hilda, Zelda and Poe are in frozen in scared silence.
504* NotsoRemote: In the penultimate episode, "What A Witch Wants", Sabrina, Roxy and Morgan are stranded on what they believe to be a desert island. It turns out to be Bermuda.
505* {{Notzilla}}: An episode had Sabrina dealing with a Godzilla parody.
506* ObviousStuntDouble: Salem: it is fairly easy to tell the difference between when he is being portrayed by a real cat and when he is being portrayed by a puppet.
507* OddFriendship: After learning Sabrina's secret, Harvey develops one of these with Salem.
508** He did so too before the big revelation, however briefly, when Sabrina casts a Doctor Dolittle spell on him.
509* OddNameOut: Father Christmas' grandchildren: Binky, Bunny, Boopsy, Winnie, [[IronicName Minnie]], Mopsy... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Fred]].
510** Also Lola's kittens: [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo]] and Peppy. When Sabrina asks why he didn't use "Gummo", Salem replies that that's his father's name.
511* OfficialCouple: Sabrina and Harvey.
512** Roxy and Miles are supposed to become this in the future.
513* OhNoNotAgain: An episode had her aunts warning Sabrina about wish magic in which if a witch desires something or someone enough that their magic can make them spontaneously appear. The aunts demonstrate this by saying the name of singer Randy Travis three times and he promptly appears in their kitchen. Travis looks around and instead of freaking out, he sighs and says "Hello Hilda, hello Zelda, and you must be Sabrina. I've heard a lot about you."
514* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: After discovering Sabrina is a witch, Harvey would repeatedly mention the time [[MisterSeahorse she got him pregnant]].
515* OutOfCharacterMoment: There's a ''huge'' case of this trope in the opening scene to the final season.
516** First of all, Aunt Zelda [[spoiler:gives up her "adult years" to save Sabrina after Sabrina refuses to give up her true love even though she agreed to to save Hilda (confusing already) and subsequently turns to stone and crumbles]]. Zelda [[spoiler:turns into an 8-year-old to give Sabrina the rest of her life]]. Wait...WHAT? Zelda [[spoiler:just gives up her entire life? Because Sabrina was an idiot yet again? Zelda agrees to this in a matter of minutes after Sabrina crumbles to pieces]]. Also, Sabrina, usually completely ignorant to most witch-things in the past, knows exactly what [[spoiler:Zelda has done]]. But what is even more unsettling is that [[spoiler:Sabrina merely gives her aunt a cheap, poorly written, and rapid "thank you" and tells her aunt that she is ready to live her own life]]. I guess with [[spoiler:Hilda newly married]] they had [[spoiler:no use for her]] and since Zelda [[spoiler:doesn't have some convenient boarding school to be shipped off to (Libby) nor a family that is given a new job in Alaska (Valerie)]] this was their only option.
517*** [[spoiler: Actually, Sabrina turning to stone ''was'' her giving up her true love, as it was the exact same reaction Hilda had when she broke up with her boyfriend. Zelda giving up her adult years makes much more sense when remembering it was her ''and'' Sabrina who had convinced Hilda not to marry the guy in the first place. Yet Sabrina was the one who had to make a huge sacrifice to restore Hilda. Why should Zelda not have to sacrifice anything when she was equally to blame for Hilda shattering?]]
518*** At least, they [[spoiler:gave her a sendoff unlike Miles, Jenny, Mr. Pool, Drell, Mr. Kraft, Dreama, and Brad]] who just got [[spoiler:ChuckCunninghamSyndrome and disappeared without explanation]].
519* OneTrueLove: The final episode of the series reveals "soul stones;" everyone has one on the North Star, and those that fit together are soulmates. [[spoiler:Sabrina's soul stone and Aaron's are a close match, but ultimately don't fit together. Desiring not to make such a life-altering decision with valid proof that she might regret it, Sabrina walks away from the altar. As she's leaving the church, she runs into Harvey. They kiss and ride off into their HappilyEverAfter, as their soul stones fall and fit together ''perfectly'']].
520* OnlySaneMan: After a while, Salem develops into this role, often either suggesting that Sabrina ask her aunts about the magical problem of the week or reminding her what had happened previously when she used her magic to fix something. Yes, that's right, the cat who was a man who tried to take over the world is the sanest of them all.
521* QuirkyCurls: Jenny's mane of curly red hair shows her as a confident non-conformist.
522* PalmFistTap: A common gesture for Sabrina.
523* ParentalAbandonment: Sabrina lives with her aunts permanently. Her mother is a mortal and is therefore forbidden to have any contact with Sabrina (and will be turned to wax if she does so). Her father visits on occasion, but he's a diplomat and spends too much time traveling to raise Sabrina properly.
524* ParlorGames: There was an episode wherein in order to undo the wacky spell-gone-awry of the week, Sabrina had to get someone to say a certain phrase — but of course, Sabrina wasn't able to actually say it herself, because that would make things too easy. So instead, she initiated a game of charades and tried to get the person to say the phrase that way.
525* ParodySue: The appropriately named Cousin Susie is a virtual demigod of perfection - eternally kind, gracious and charitable to everyone. Zelda says "Susie can make everyone feel inadequate", and there's a moment where a ray of heavenly light even shines down on her. She's not 100% perfect though, as she does do something rather mean-spirited to Harvey in order to teach ''Sabrina'' [[AesopCollateralDamage a lesson]].
526* PassedOverInheritance: The Spellmans' hillbilly cousins in "Witch Trash" hate their relatives because their great-grandmother left the Spellmans the family [[SpellBook magic book]] instead of them, and spend most of the episode trying to force them to give it to them. It's later subverted when Great-Granny (who's not dead; witches use wills to clear out what they accumulate over the centuries) turns up and reveals the cousins ''did'' get something from the inheritance, namely all of Great-Granny's money, which they specifically asked for. The only reason they want the book now is because [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted they wasted the money and have nothing left to show for it]].
527* PayEvilUntoEvil: The end of "Deliver Us From E-Mail"[[note]]where Sabrina's EvilTwin causes her to become an airhead with a virus[[/note]] has Sabrina getting Katrina will a "Kill-Em-With-Kindness" spell.
528* PersonalitySwap: An episode has this happen to Zelda and Hilda who willingly purchase some pairs of magical 'Walk in my Moccasins' to get a better perspective on each other. Zelda becomes a laidback practical joker while Hilda becomes a serious, professional musician.
529** Also happened, thanks to sunspots, with Sabrina and Libby. When they bump into each other, Sabrina's purity and Libby's inner darkness swapped places. This caused Sabrina to turn into a catty, vindicative {{Entitled B|astard}}itch who needed only the barest prodding from Salem to attempt to TakeOverTheWorld, was rude to her friends, verbally abused the police sent to arrest her and acted like a CardCarryingVillain at her own trial, and Libby to become a good-hearted FriendToAllLivingThings who was nice to unpopular kids, bought Sabrina and her friends dessert [[PetTheDog just to be nice]], set up a fundraiser to help the poor and showed affection towards Salem (assuming he was a normal cat).
530** Done again during Sabrina's time at Scorch magazine, when she tries to make notoriously unpleasant rapper Baby B 2 K "like her" as in enjoy her company, and Baby ends up "like her" personality-wise. Baby ends up baking the paprazzi pecan sandies, and Sabrina takes on a jerk neighbor in small claims court.
531* PilotMovie: Released shortly before the series began. Had much better production values than the series; set in Riverdale, home of Archie's gang, rather than Westbridge, MA. Also had an [[TheOtherDarrin almost entirely different cast]] from the series that followed. Basically exists in an AlternateContinuity, along with other ''Sabrina'' TV movies released during the show's run.
532* PlotHole: In ''Dante's Inferno'' Zelda arranges a date with a man named Ron, but as soon as he arrives Hilda [[MagicMisfire accidently]] turns him [[ForcedTransformation into a deer.]] Zelda is now very annoyed that the charming man she had planned to spend the evening with is now a deer munching on their couch cushions. But Zelda is a witch herself. Why doesn't she just use her own powers to turn Ron back into a man and resume the date as if nothing had happened?
533* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: 'Witchright Hall'. An earlier episode featured Cousin Marigold falling for a mortal man and the end implied she and her two daughters would live with him and his three sons - intending to make a series out of it.
534* PowerPerversionPotential From episode 18 of season 3, "Sabrina, the Teenage Writer":
535-->'''Sabrina:''' The people in my spy story, they came to life and are running around my school!\
536'''Zelda:''' The only way that could possibly happen is if you accidentally used Hilda's magic typewriter, but she got rid of that years ago, didn't you, Hilda?\
537'''Hilda:''' By "get rid of" you don't mean "kept", do you?\
538'''Zelda:''' Hilda!\
539'''Hilda:''' I'm sorry. I know I was supposed to give it away, but I just... I like writing romance stories with myself as the heroine and watching them come to life... that's not pathetic, is it?
540** Plus that episode where the guy turns invisible and the first thing he does is walk into the girl's locker room.
541** In one episode, Sabrina finds out that she can make things real by [[RuleOfThree saying something three times]]. For instance, when trying to comfort an infant, saying [[HilarityEnsues "Be a big boy" three times will make that infant grow to an adult with an infant's mind]]. After Sabrina deals with ''that'' fiasco, the end of the episode shows her in her room, magic-ing up celebrities.
542-->'''Sabrina''': ''Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt."
543** The entire purpose of Man-Dough.
544* PrettyInMink: In the first season episode "A Halloween Story", the Spellman's visit Aunt Marigold for Halloween, and she's wearing a cocktail dress with a fur neckline (since Witch's treat Halloween like Christmas). In the mortal world, a guest at Harvey's party is dressed as a 1950s prom queen, and her outfit includes a white rabbit fur shoulder wrap.
545* PrivateEyeMonologue: attempted by Salem in one episode but interrupted by Sabrina several times. Also occurs when Sabrina goes to hire a detective to snoop on Harvey only to discover it's her old romantic admirer Roland the troll. She is transformed into a black and white 50s style femme fatale and he explains he charges so much in order to pay for his fashionably shabby old-style office and fog and voiceover machines.
546* ProductPlacement:
547** There's a whole episode where they go to Ride/{{Disney|ThemeParks}} World. Specifically Animal Kingdom, which had just opened the year the episode debuted.
548** They brought up [=NutRageous=] bars a lot in season 3.
549* PromotedToOpeningTitles: Creator/ElisaDonovan and Creator/SoleilMoonFrye are added to the opening credits in Season 7, replacing the two aunts.
550* ProtectionInMouth: In ''The Great Mistake'', while briefly shrunk down due to magic reasons, Sabrina gets up onto her bed from the ground floor by asking Salem to carry her in his mouth. Neither are particularly pleased by the event when they relate it later.
551--> '''Salem:''' It took all my self control not to eat her.
552* PubertySuperpower: Sabrina's powers manifest when she's the right age.
553* PullARabbitOutOfMyHat: Hilda teaches Sabrina a version of this with real magic. Zelda is not impressed:
554--->That's the oldest trick in the book. That's so old {{m|uggles}}ortals are doing it!
555* PunnyName: Gene Pool the biology teacher.
556* PutOnABus: Valerie is put on one to Alaska.
557* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
558** Hilda initially cast spells in a puff of smoke, but switched to CGI in later seasons. This is because Caroline Rhea was afraid of the pyrotechnics.
559** Zelda disappears in Season 7 as Beth Broderick felt the character was going nowhere, and quit the show. Hilda was written out when Caroline Rhea received her own talk show.
560** She also doesn't appear in the finale, as they could only afford to bring one of the aunts back. As Hilda was more popular, they chose her.
561* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - Averted with Sabrina, but her two aunts are both in their mid-600s.
562%%* RedOniBlueOni: Hilda and Zelda.
563* ReReleaseSoundtrack: Any time insert songs were used, about half of them were replaced for the show's DVD releases with generic music. These edits went into the reruns on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}, Creator/TeenNick, Creator/ABCFamily, and Creator/TheHub.
564* {{Retcon}}: The decree about Sabrina's mother was originally that she would only turn into a ball of wax if Sabrina saw her before she turned eighteen. When the mother reappears in Season 6 (where Sabrina is at least twenty) it has been changed to Sabrina never being able to see her ''ever''.
565** The end of season four reveals that Harvey has reached his magical quota and spells cannot be cast on him anymore. Season seven has him return and spells work on him again
566* {{Retool}}: At least ''twice'' in Season 5 (Sabrina leaves home and goes to college, with brand-new friends, and Josh replaces Harvey as her main love interest) and Season 7 (Sabrina's aunts move back to the Other Realm, while Sabrina moves back into their old house with her roommates, gets a new job as a music magazine writer, and becomes engaged to Aaron), and arguably Season 4 (Valerie and Libby leave the show and are replaced by Sabrina's new witch apprentice Dreama and new antagonist Brad, and Sabrina gets a job at a coffee house) and Season 2 as well (Sabrina starts training with her Quizmaster to earn her Witch's License, and Valerie replaces Jenny as her best friend).
567* RichBitch: Libby. Again averted with Morgan, who's more of an airhead.
568* RomanticRunnerUp: Harvey Kinkel in later seasons, [[spoiler:But in the end he got the girl.]]
569* RunningGag: In the first season, Sabrina's notes never went beyond 'Mitosis is...' in several episodes. She finally managed to get the definition out in the season finale.
570* SalemIsWitchCountry: "The Crucible": During a class trip to Salem the town, the kids engage in witch trials, which lead to Jenny and Sabrina getting accused. Jenny maintains her innocence while Sabrina confesses. Libby is leading the angry mob to spite the girls and says they must be punished. After Jenny is convicted and Sabrina is exonerated, the program directors point out that this is for show and they aren't going to do anything to Jenny. They say just pretend she was hanged. Libby keeps annoying them, saying at least put Jenny in the stocks. Sabrina then uses real curses to get Libby to admit she committed perjury, with Libby saying there's a monkey around her neck that no one can see, and the directors put her in the stocks until the bus comes for her crime.
571* SarcasticConfession: From "The Halloween Scene":
572-->'''Hilda:''' Why are you in such a hurry for us to leave?
573-->'''Sabrina:''' Oh, well, the sooner you leave then the sooner I can throw that wild crazy party I've been planning in secret.
574* SawAWomanInHalf: Cousin Mortimer saws Hilda in half. Things go awry when Hilda's legs run off.
575* SchoolClubsAreSeriousBusiness: Especially in the episode ''Geek Like Me''.
576* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Played straight or subverted depending on [[RuleOfFunny whatever is funnier at the time]]. Sabrina herself [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin keeps running afoul of]] a surprisingly large number of laws governing witch behaviour that are as byzantine as they are draconian, but most other witches seem to be able to do whatever they want to whomever they want as long as a stronger witch doesn't oppose them.
577* SealedWithAKiss
578* SecretChaser: Notably absent, much to the surprise of all. Until Brad showed up.
579** Libby played this role for an episode. (Sabrina was allowed to tell one friend she was a witch and chose Valerie, who told Harvey. One of them later inadvertently mentioned it in front of Libby.)
580* SecretKeeper: Harvey Kinkel in later seasons.
581* SeenItAll: Sabrina's reaction every time she comes home to find her aunts engaging in more wacky antics. Lampshaded in "Disneyworld":
582-->'''Sabrina:''' And he is?
583-->'''Hilda:''' A two-million-year-old fossil that Zelda found, brought to life, and evolved so he can speak.
584-->'''Sabrina:''' Okay, I can't remember what it feels like to be astonished.
585* SelfDeprecation: Sort of occurs in the season 4 episode Jealousy. (In the form of the character insulting the actor who plays him):
586-->'''Sabrina''': Why are you so anxious to talk on the phone anyway?\
587'''Salem''': I need to call into Nick Bakay's sports show on ESPN radio. All he ever talks about is the Buffalo Bills and his voice...lord is it annoying.
588* ShamingTheMob: This trope is examined in "The Crucible":
589** Subverted when Sabrina defends Jenny and calls out Libby for her InsaneTrollLogic, and she tells the group that there's no shame in being a witch. The crowd refuses to be persuaded despite Sabrina's passionate speech.
590** Played straight when the program director tells them ''no one'' was a witch; all their cards said townspeople. She says that the class gave in to mob psychology, as the Puritans did before them. Everyone goes on the bus with a JerkassRealization and Sabrina vindicated.
591* ShortTeensTallAdults: Creator/MelissaJoanHart is 5'2" making Sabrina much shorter than both of her aunts.
592* ShoutOut:
593** This show continues the tradition begun with the comic series and perpetuated by ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' of giving most female witches a name ending in the letter "a"--Sabrina, Hilda, Zelda, Vesta, Lydia, Amanda, Sophia...
594** At least a couple jokes and references to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', possibly because one of the producers is Frank Conniff, who might be better known as "TV's Frank" of [=MST3K=].
595** The first episode to feature Dreama is called "Dream A Little Dreama Me", which is reference to an old love song.
596%%zce* {{Sitcom}}
597* SkewedPriorities:
598** When Morgan catches Sabrina's EvilTwin kissing Josh, she says she'll forgive her for that - but it'll take a while to forgive what was said about her outfit.
599** Morgan again when movie star Babette Storm frames Sabrina for shoplifting; she worries about what would happen if Babette knew they were friends and decided not to wear Morgan's clothes.
600--> '''Sabrina:''' [[SarcasmMode I'm so sorry, Morgan. I was only thinking of myself!]].
601* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: Salem.
602* SorcerersApprenticePlot: Pretty much a lot of the episodes in the earlier seasons used this kind of plot. Sabrina would use or borrow a spell from her aunts to fix a problem in high school, only for the spell to backfire and cause even more problems, and she (with the help of her aunts) have to reverse the spell. Sometimes the episodes would usually end with the aunts punishing Sabrina for it.
603* SpaceWhaleAesop: Parodied in "Sabrina and the Beanstalk" - don't slam doors or you'll wake the wicked witch!
604* SpecialEffectsEvolution: Beginning with "My Nightmare, The Car", the Salem puppet is provided by Creator/ChiodoBrosProductions. The change from the previous puppet makers Animal Makers is subtle at first, with Season 3 being where they become most noticeable. Specifically, the puppet becomes more rounded and more animated compared to the original.
605* SpellBook: Sabrina has a big spellbook, though it doesn't tend to do her all that much good as she often lacks the experience to cast its spells properly. It also functions as a supernatural GreatBigBookOfEverything.
606* SpiritualSuccessor: To shows like ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''.
607* SpoiledBrat: This, plus magic powers is a bad combination in Amanda's case.
608** Check that-bad combo in general. In one episode when Sabrina turns into a SpoiledBrat herself, she starts turning into a pile of slime not dissimilar to a months-old peach.
609* StPatricksDayEpisode: "Salem, the Boy" happens on St. Patrick's Day and involves Sabrina allowing Salem to inhabit the body of a classmate, but things get out of hand when the feline once again attempts to take over the world.
610* StacysMom: Aunt Zelda is a very beautiful older woman (as is Aunt Vesta, played by Raquel Welsh), the show explicitly parodying the film ''The Graduate'' when Sabrina's college friend Miles Goodman becomes attracted to her in season 6.
611* StanfordPrisonExperiment: One episode had her class simulate the Salem Witch Trials and, of course, Sabrina ends up getting persecuted by her classmates, led by the AlphaBitch.
612* StockPunishment: In the FieldTrip episode, at the end of the episode Libby ends up in the stock, but does not get things thrown at her.
613* StormInATeacup: Salem the cat accidentally breaks a special mirror. He spends the episode meticulously putting it back together, finally succeeding and dragging it back up to the attic at the end... and ''someone else'' breaks it while he's dragging it up the stairs. And then it turns out that they had another mirror just like it and don't care about it being broken.
614* StuckInTheDoorway:
615** In the episode "Pancake Madness", Sabrina becomes extremely fat from eating a ton of pancakes (due to a family addiction) and gets wedged in her front door trying to get inside.
616** Another episode has Salem get stuck in a pet door after he's been overeating.
617* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Valerie (replacing Jenny) and later Dreama (replacing Valerie) and Brad (replacing Libby). The first is often regarded as an improvement by some fans. The other two not so much...
618* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: It is a sitcom about a teenage witch (and her witch family and [[{{Familiar}} talking cat]]) that lives in a normal New England suburb that has to uphold the {{Masquerade}}, after all.
619* TalkingAnimal: Salem. This appears to be punishment for witches who break the law, as he later encounters a witch called Juliet who was turned into a cat for trying to take over the universe, and claims at one point to be talking to a camel who used to be an Amway salesman on a chatroom. ''Film/SabrinaDownUnder'' has another called Hilary, and ''Film/SabrinaGoesToRome'' has a guinea pig called Stonehenge.
620* TemporaryBulkChange: A favorite trope of this show:
621** In "Sabrina and the Beanstalk", Harvey eats some magical jelly beans and is swept up a beanstalk, where he meets a fairy tale Wicked Witch. She feeds him large amounts of food covered in sprinkles called "Fatten Up"; the combination makes him obese.
622** In "Pancake Madness", the Spellman family turns out to have an [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin addiction to pancakes]]. When Sabrina loses control at school, she comes home so big that she can't even fit through the front door.
623** In "Oh What a Tangled Spell She Weaves", Sabrina tries to help Harvey become a football star by casting a spell on him; it makes him grow huge muscles.
624* TerribleTrio: Libby and her two friends.
625* TickleTorture: Zelda, Hilda and Willard are subjected to this when they're framed by Sabrina's pen pal. Willard is passed out by the time we see him(either from laughing or fainting) but Zelda and Hilda are made of sterner stuff.
626** Not exactly torture per se but one episode has the very ticklish Sabrina with a witch pager set to vibrate while she's in a study group. HilarityEnsues.
627* UnplannedStaycation: "Sabrina Nipping At Your Nose" ends with a blizzard cancelling her family's flight to Jamaica, so Aunt Zelda conjures up a tropical festival inside their own house.
628* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Sabrina and Josh.
629* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Amanda chanted "I won! I won!" whenever she won some board game or card game.
630* UselessSuperpowers
631* VacationEpisode:
632** Season 2 has one where Sabrina and her class go to Disneyland - because Sabrina needs some of the plants that grow there for a quiz.
633** Season 3's finale takes place at a family reunion in Hawaii.
634** Season 4 has a different spin on this trope, where the plot is about them going on a ski trip and struggling to get there.
635** Season 7 has two - where the ChristmasEpisode takes place at a resort in Miami, and the penultimate episode is the girls going on a cruise for Sabrina's bachelorette party.
636* ValleyGirl: Morgan, though done with a twist. She's not as dumb as some examples and she's red haired. She gets Flanderised into a straighter example by season 7.
637* VictimizedBystander
638* VideogameAdaptation: There were a number of ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' video games that tied in with the show.
639** ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' was a PC game that focused on Sabrina miscasting a spell and ending up turned into an inanimate object (or a fish)and needing the player to find four ingredients to reverse the spell in time for a date with Harvey.
640** ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Brat Attack'', also on PC focused on Sabrina trying to get the Beanie of Ultimate Power away from her bratty cousin Amanda after it was delivered to the Spellman house by mistake and Salem took off with it.
641** ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch: A Twitch in Time'' for Playstation focused on Salem accidently freeing a being named Chaos from the Cosmic Clock and Sabrina having to find all the broken pieces to trap him again.
642* WaitingSkeleton: In the episode "Quiz Show", Zelda recalls how she was a teacher once, but became so fed up by the students constantly asking questions that she fled the classroom, leaving them behind. She wonders what became of them. The scene then cuts to said classroom, where only two (now very old) students are still alive and waiting while the others have turned into skeletons and are [[CobwebOfDisuse covered in cobwebs]].
643* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: Zelda temporarily moves in with Sabrina and her college roommates and decides to become a "hang-loose gal" which involves eating the entire contents of the fridge, spending all night at a rave, driving around in a van with a guy named Vick and trying to get a tattoo. In this case it's resolved by Zelda's subconscious stopping her from doing something untrue to herself.
644* WhamLine: In the season 4 finale "The End of an Era". Harvey asks Sabrina this question:
645-->'''Harvey''': ''Sabrina, can we talk about the fact that[[spoiler:...you're a witch?"]]
646* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
647** In the first season, there were recurring characters, like Libby's posse of Jill and Ceecee, Principal [=LaRue=] and a girl named Emily that vanish, never to be seen or mentioned again.
648** Dreama's storyline applies. Dreama getting her witch's license was very relevant in early season 4, however, we never learn if Dreama earned it or not, and she doesn't even appear for several of the last episodes of season 4, never to be mentioned or referenced again.
649** In ''Dante's Inferno'' Zelda gets a date with a charming man named Ron. Unfortunately, Hilda is suffering from [[BeCarefulWhatYouSay Punitis]] and when she describes him as a "real dear" Ron is instantly [[ForcedTransformation turned into a literal deer.]] Zelda proceeds to go on a date with him [[NotSoAboveItAll anyway]]. But what happened to Ron after that? Did they later change him back into a man? Or is the Punitis spell permanent? Either way Ron's fate is never revealed.
650* WhatTheHellHero: When Harvey found out that Sabrina was a witch, he called Sabrina out on her using magic to mess with his life for years.
651* WhatYouAreInTheDark:
652** In "Sweet Charity", Libby starts kissing up to Sabrina's adopted grandmother Nanna because the latter "knows" so many celebrities. Turns out, according to Sabrina, Nanna's actually suffering from dementia and doesn't really know these people. Furious at Nanna's "lies", Libby goes to confront the innocent old lady on her 'tall tales'. When she arrives at the nursing home, she doesn't hesitate to [[KickTheDog call Nanna a "sad pathetic old woman"]]. ...Thankfully, that ''wasn't'' Nanna: that was Sabrina who disguised herself with magic.
653** Sabrina, on the other hand, decides to spare Nanna the cold truth about Libby and tells the sweet old woman that Libby's gone to spend time with her own grandmother.
654* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: In "Deliver Us From Email" Sabrina gets hit by a stupidity virus that literally leaves her brainless.
655* WickedWitch: One episode has Sabrina encounter a wicked witch-- who is said to be ''the'' Wicked Witch.
656--> '''Zelda:''' She feasts on mortals.
657--> '''Sabrina:''' That's horrible!
658--> '''Hilda:''' Hence the 'wicked' part of Wicked Witch.
659* WitchHunt: In a FieldTrip episode.
660* AWizardDidIt: Or rather a witch. A rare justification for this trope.
661* TheWorldIsNotReady: Various episodes show that mortals can't handle the idea of witches existing. From recreating the Slaem witch trials to showing that most mortals freak out on the realization, Sabrina is resigned to keeping her life a secret from most of her loved ones.
662* WorldsSmallestViolin: Principal Kraft, under a spell, mouths off to [[AlphaBitch Libby]]:
663-->'''Kraft''': Aww, here's the world's smallest violin playing the world's saddest song just for you!
664* WrongGenreSavvy: When defending Sabrina during a mock witch trial, Harvey points out that in stories, witches are ugly with warts and melt when they encounter water. He splashes Sabrina to prove his point. Sabrina wipes her face, appreciating the sentiment but knowing how wrong he is.
665* WrongNameOutburst: This happens twice in the episode "Spellmanian Slip", with Sabrina blurting out the wrong guy's name instead of the name of the guy who's engaged with her. The first time it happens is PlayedForDrama, as it causes Sabrina to use magical means to delve deeper inside her subconscience to find out why this happened in the first place (and because the guy is someone Sabrina has only recently broken up and is currently AmicableExes with), while the second time is PlayedForLaughs because the guy in question was an UnluckyChildhoodFriend whom Sabrina no longer harbors romantic feelings to at all.
666%%* YourMakeupIsRunning
667[[/folder]]

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