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11	->''"My name is Angela, hey hello! Welcome to my very own show!"''
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13	My name is Angela, hey hello! Welcome to my very own TV Tropes Page! [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe Angela Anaconda here]] and don't describe Nanette Manoir here.
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15	''Angela Anaconda'' was a {{Canadian\|Series}}-American AnimatedSeries starring, well, the title character. The [[MsImagination imaginative]] Angela Anaconda and her friends, Gina Lash, Johnny Abatti, and Gordy Rhinehart, go to school with [[AlphaBitch Nanette]] [[FrenchJerk Manoir]] and her GirlPosse, and get into all sorts of wacky hijinks. The series lasted from October 1999 to November 2001 with a total of 65 episodes.
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17	How's this show different? Well, there's the ClipArtAnimation (everyone is animated as a black-and-white cutout). There's also the fact that OnceAnEpisode, Angela would go into a long FantasySequence, which usually involves her [[PowerFantasy taking out her frustrations about the episode's conflict]] by putting her enemies (most often Nanette) through a HumiliationConga, or her bemoaning the troubles she's gotten herself into and imagining what terrible things might happen to her next, or simply describing her current situation through an imaginative metaphor, or a combination of any of those three.
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19	Interesting to note, ''Angela Anaconda'' actually started off as a series of animated shorts on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam''. When it was developed into its own show, it ended up airing on what was then [[Creator/{{Freeform}} Fox Family]] in the U.S. When Creator/{{Disney}} bought Fox Family and changed the network entirely, reruns returned to Nickelodeon (which also aired the show internationally). Funny enough, another ''[=KaBlam!=]'' short, ''WesternAnimation/UntalkativeBunny'', was later adapted as a full TV series, which also aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada.
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21	Another interesting note is that one of the animators was Ian D'Sa, who is recognizable to Canadian rock fans as the guitarist and backup vocalist for Music/BillyTalent. The show was also co-created by Sue Rose, who previously also created ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' for Creator/{{Disney}}'s Creator/{{One Saturday Morning\|AndABCKids}}.
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25	!!And now, to today's tropes! Starring me, and NOT starring Nanette Manoir!:
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27	* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The series ended with 65 episodes.
28	* AlliterativeName: Angela Anaconda.
29	* AlliterativeTitle: By way of AlliterativeName-ed ProtagonistTitle.
30	* AlphaBitch: Nanette to a T. She is an overly vain, spoiled RichBitch who believes herself superior to her classmates. She also has a GirlPosse.
31	* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Well, if you count grey as 'technicolor'. Due to the animation being assembled from black-and-white photographes, everyone looks like they have grayscale skin.
32	* AnachronismStew: The level of technology in the show implies that it's set in than-current times, at the TurnOfTheMillennium. But the use of black-and-white photography in the animation and the clothing (espacially the fact that all the girls, even the Tomboy Angela, wear dresses), gives the impression that it's a lot more old-timey.
33	* AttentionWhore:
34	** Nanette loves being the center of attention, and if anyone or anything (but especially Angela) takes the spotlight away from her, she will conspire to take them down.
35	** Angela herself shows these tendencies from time to time. Many episodes center around her desire to be TV or even just be the center of attention in school for a day. Although she's not nearly as bad as Nanette is about it.
36	* AuthorAvatar: Series co-creator Joanna Ferrone has said that she considers Angela to be a semi-autobiographical depiction of herself as a child.
37	* BandEpisode: In the episode "I Wanna Mold Your Band", Angela pitched the idea to her friends that they form a band to perform at the Mr Tasty Twirl's Ring My Bell contest, which everyone is opposed to because the last time she did (when they were babies), she wanted to name the band after her and decide on the first song. However, Angela convinces them to do it in various ways.
38	* BestFriend: Out of Angela's friend group, she is closest with Gina Lash. Many episodes have Ninette turn the whole school against Angela save for Gina, out of a combination of her loyality to Angela and her [[TheSmartGuy intelligence]].
39	%%* BeYourself: The plot of an entire episode centered around Gordy and his father.
40	* BigBeautifulWoman: Gina Lash is on the heavy side since she eats a lot. Not only does this fail to stop Gordy Rhinehart from loving her, but in "Everybody Loves Gina", she models for Geneva, who compliments the girl on her big beautiful curves.
41	%%* BigBrotherBully: Angela's two brothers Derek and Mark.
42	* TheBigDamnKiss: Mrs. Brinks plants one on Mr. Brinks in one episode, to the disgust of everyone around them.
43	* BigEater: Gina Lash is a fat variant, she is almost always seen eating.
44	* BilingualBonus: Just from her last name, Nanette apparently has some French ancestry and peppers her speak with various French words. However, anyone with even just the most rudimentary knowledge of the French language would be able to tell that Nanette clearly doesn't understand French ''at all''; or at least as well as she thinks. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] on the show itself when an ''actual'' French exchange student (who actually ''can'' speak French) visits and very nearly exposes this secret. It's also lampshaded all the time by Angela herself, who's constantly berating Nanette for how "un-French" she is. Among other things, Nanette claimed in one episode that "viola" is the French word for "violin," when in reality, a viola is entirely different instrument from a violin--the ''actual'' French word for violin is "violon."
45	** [[spoiler:The exchange student actually does find out that Nanette has a poor grasp of French, but only at the end of the episode at a point where only she knows this - most people in Angela and Nanette's class still think that Nanette is actually French.]]
46	* BitchInSheepsClothing:
47	** Nanette is something of a subversion--pretty much everyone realizes how mean and horrible she is, with the notable exception of Mrs. Brinks.
48	** Even Mrs. Brinks has the occasional donning moment, like one episode where it ends with Mrs. Brinks finding out Nanette wrote rude things about her in a letter to Angela under an alias.
49	* BlackComedyCannibalism: One ImagineSpot of Angela's had she going to a cannibal restaurant and ordering Nanette for dinner.
50	* BlandNameProduct:
51	** Converse shoes in the show, all of which are low-tops, have the 'CONVERSE ALL★STAR' text on the patch on the tongue replaced with three black stars. Some also have a white star patch on the side that faces away from the other foot.
52	** Tide laundry detergent and a Spalding basketball have been renamed Snide and Balding respectively, both of which sound less attractive.
53	* BookDumb:
54	** Johnny Abatti. A bit of a RunningGag is that he can't do math.
55	** While not as bad as Johnny, Angela can have her moments of this. In the dog-walking episode, she thinks three times ten is "at least over forty". It's mentioned in "Cabin Fever" that she once tried to fake appendicitis but got caught because she thought her appendix was in her ''foot''.
56	** Candy May has been held back for her low intelligence. One example is that she refuses to believe two plus two equals four. She believes that, since two times two equals four, two plus two must equal some smaller number. She even gives ''five'' as an example.
57	* BookOnTheHead: The books Nanette uses for correcting her posture tend to get hair gel stains. The school librarian bans her from borrowing books because of that.
58	* BreatherEpisode:
59	** "Saving Private Gordy," which doesn't have Nanette nor a sociopathic ImagineSpot and instead shows Angela's dim brothers bonding with the sensitive Gordy while Angela's desperately trying to protect her friend from injury and suffering her own [[AmusingInjury amusing injuries]]. The heartwarming only increases when Coach Rhinehart walks into the room and only yells at Gordy because they're making a chocolate souffle when his favorite flavor is strawberry.
60	** In fact, ''multiple'' episodes do not even have Nanette appear or suffer a HumiliationConga - sometimes Angela actually puts ''herself'' through the conga. Such as an episode in which Angela deals with her newfound reputation as a bully, or where she accidentally walked out of the shoe store with a pair of shoes.
61	* BrickJoke: In "Everybody Loves Gina", Angela mentions to her brothers that she and Gina are planning to make prank phone calls, but Gina gets sidetracked with helping them. It's not until the end of the episode that she and Angela actually do made a prank call [[spoiler:and their victim is Nanette Manoir]].
62	* BrokenGlassPenalty: In "Childhood for Sale", Angela breaks Mrs. Brinks' window while playing baseball and starts a garage sale to have enough money to pay for it.
63	* CabinFever: Angela gives ''herself'' detention when she gets Cabin Fever after faking agorophobia.
64	* CampStraight: Gordy Rhinehart, who is the exact kind of scrawny, sickly, effeminately intellectual boy that shows a decade before ''Angela Anaconda'' would have portrayed as gay, but who has a blatant and repeatedly-referenced crush on Gina.
65	* ChubbyChaser: Gordy is attracted to Gina Lash, who is quite obviously pudgy as a result of her BigEater status.
66	* ClipArtAnimation: They got a model to come in and they took about 30 pictures for each mouth movement they could have possibly needed. They used different Face Models for most of the main characters; an exception was the episode 'French Connection' where Angela and Nannette Manoir's Face were recycled to make their respective foreign exchange student counterparts.
67	* CloserThanTheyAppear: Johnny reads this off while in a car chase with a rabid parent who wants to ban ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' for promoting witchcraft. Once they realize what it means, everyone panics more.
68	%%* CloudCuckoolander: Angela, and also her friend Gina.
69	* ComedicSociopathy:
70	** In the episode where Angela slips on the ice, Angela's friends react by [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment insulting her with insults]].
71	** Angela's {{Imagine Spot}}s can verge on this as well.
72	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "View to a Brinks" Angela and her friends are suggesting ways to see the Brinks over their garden fence when Gordy make his own suggestion:
73	--> '''Gordy:''' How about we rent a hot air balloon and... nevermind, my inhaler would never work at that altitude.
74	* CoolOldLady: Angela's grandmother, who goes on all sorts of wild adventures and even keeps an alligator as a pet. Notably, she [[GenerationXerox looks just like Angela, but with white hair]], so although Angela is unnerved by (and yet still admires) her wildness, it's implied that this will be her in the future.
75	* CoolTeacher: The titular substitute teacher in the episode "The Substitute". She shares Angela's disdain for Nanette and gives inspiration for her rainforest project. It turns out she's also a substitute ''principal'' at the end, and lets Angela use the intercom to play a prank on Mrs. Brinks and Nanette.
76	* CryptidEpisode: In one episode, Angela and her friends go looking for a yet- erm, [[InsistentTerminology sasquatch]].
77	* DeadpanSnarker: Angela, every now and again, got a few zingers in.
78	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Angela constantly speaks using redundant phrases, [[VerbalTic on account of]] they're superfluous.
79	* DescriptionCut: In "Yellow Book Road", a panicking Bunny Manoir laments that her husband is worried about her disappearance. Cut to him sleeping in his seat at the living room, not seeming to be that upset.
80	* DetachableDoorknob: In "Bathroom Blues", Angela and Gordy find themselves in the boy's washroom at school. When they try to get out through the door, they end up pulling the knob out. Angela tries putting it back in, but it won't fit.
81	* DisappearedDad: Gina's father never appears in the show. Of course, considering Gina's mom is dating, that's probably a clue about where he is now.
82	* DisproportionateRetribution:
83	** In her {{Imagine Spot}}s, Angela's fantasized punishments for whoever has ticked her off are invariably way out of proportion to what they've actually done. The episode "The Substitute" even has one infamous ImagineSpot where Angela fantasizes about visiting a cannibalism restaurant and ordering meals made out of Nanette and Angela's brothers.
84	** [[ButtMonkey Cici Lecreme]] gets it after she becomes friends with Nanette, even though she does care about Angela as a friend.
85	** Karlean gets it in "Kar-lean on Me" after she goes back to being friends with Nanette. Unlike Cici, however, she is forgiven for it.
86	%%* TheDitz: Johnny Abatti and Candy May.
87	* TheDividual: Nanette's GirlPosse, Karleen and January, and Angela's [[BigBrotherBully Big Brother Bullies]], Mark and Derek, both operate basically as a single unit and have very little distinguishing characteristics from each other. Save for the episodes [[ADayInTheSpotlight "Kar-Lean on Me" and "Derek's Better Half"]]
88	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the episode "View to a Brinks", Angela Suggests to Gordy to trim down his topiary so they can get a clear look over the Brinks's fence:
89	--> '''Angela:''' Couldn't you just snip a little bit off the top?
90	--> '''Gordy:''' (breaths heavily) Would you ask a man to snip off a piece of his own Heart?
91	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The theme song is sung by Sue Rose as Angela, and in-universe seems to another FantasySequence of Angela where she imagines that she has her own show.
92	* DumbassHasAPoint: Angela in "Hot Bob and Chocolate". She unscrambles the sentence cards to read "I love Bob and hot chocolate". While Nanette teases her as it should say "Bob and I love hot chocolate", the fact that Mrs. Brinks doesn't tell Angela it's incorrect shows that Mrs. Brinks does at least acknowledge that games like these ''do'' have multiple solutions, and that it is an actual (Albeit awkward) sentence.
93	* EnemyMine:
94	** At the end of "The Great Granny Grudge" Grandma Lou and Nona Abatti team up over their hatred of Mrs. Brinks.
95	** In "Jiggly Fruit Classic", Mrs. Brinks and Angela team up over getting their beloved Jiggly Fruit back.
96	* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: In real life, dogs are known for their love of stinky socks, but when King has to sit near Mark and Derek's socks, she sticks her tongue out in disgust.
97	* EveryoneHasStandards: Gina Lash ''loves'' lots of foods, but one episode shows that she doesn't like the idea of eating snails.
98	* ExpositoryThemeTune: the theme song seems to start like this, with Angela promising to introduce all of her friends. But then Nanette tries to pull off a HostileShowTakeover, which leads Angela to turn the song into a TheVillainSucksSong.
99	* FallenPrincess: In one episode, Karlean's parents cut off her money and Nanette kicks her out of her GirlPosse. She proceeds to get plenty of PetTheDog moments...before goes back to being the RichBitch. Then she's forgiven yet again.
100	* FantasySequence: OnceAnEpisode, Angela has an espacially eleborate one that takes about two minutes, often it's venting her frustrations by imagining her enemies go through a HumiliationConga but sometimes it's just her framing the SliceOfLife conflict as something more dramatic and fantastical or her letting her imagination run wild with how doomed she is. Sometimes it's a combination of any of these three (like getting a MyGodWhatHaveIDone mid-way through what was originally a revenge fantasy.)
101	* FanDisservice: InUniverse. One episode involves Angela and her friends trying to peep on Mr. and Mrs. Brinks, hoping to see if they are nudists as rumor suggests. Turns out that they are, and the characters immediately regret their decision. Then Nanette decides to walk in their yard. HilarityEnsues.
102	* FaceHeelTurn: It is revealed in "Brinks of No Return" that Mrs. Brinks was once a much friendlier person before she started to teach Nanette.
103	* FatBestFriend: Gina Lash is Angela's best friend and is quite fat. Although she averts most of the archetypes related with this trope, being intelligent, confident and a [[RedOniBlueOni lot more calm and reasonable than Angela is]].
104	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Angela (The Choleric - prone to anger), Gordy (The Phlegmatic - meek and gentle), Gina (The Melancholic - brainy and level-headed), and Johnny (The Sanguine - happy and fun to be around).
105	* FreeRangeChildren: Played with - the characters all appear to have a surprising amount of freedom for third graders. Though on other occasions, the characters are shown going with their parents.
106	* FrenchJerk:
107	** Nanette, despite being from Quebec, puts a full-blown stereotypically Parisian act.
108	** Averted with Cici who is much friendlier, but Angela still treats her like trash after she ditches her for Nanette.
109	* FullNameBasis: Angela always addresses and refers to characters by their full names, with the exception of her teacher.
110	** In Nanette's case, she alternates between this and names such as 'Ninny-poo' and 'Ninny-wart'.[[note]]In one episode, she called her "Nanette Manure".[[/note]]
111	** Some of the other characters do it too.
112	** Angela only uses her first name in the intro but uses Nanette's full name. ''Twice''.
113	* FunnyBackGroundEvent: In one episode, pasta sauce falls into Gordy's shoe, causing his foot to swell up. In a later scene focussed on Angela and Johnny, Gordy can be seen in the background as Gina helps him get his shoe off.
114	* GenderBlenderName: Angela's dog, King, is a girl.
115	** For good measure, Angela names one of King's girl pups ''King II'' until said pup is adopted by the Brinkses.
116	* GenderEqualEnsemble: Angela's gang consists of herself, Johnny, Gina and Gordy.
117	* GenerationXerox:
118	** Angela's grandmother looks exactly like Angela, but with white hair.
119	** Angela's father's face also looks exactly like hers in a flashback to his childhood.
120	%%* GirlPosse: Karlean and January.
121	* GradeSkipper: Nanette was temporarily moved up as a result of Mrs. Brinks [[TeachersPet favoring her]] while grading.
122	* GratuitousFrench: Nanette, even though her French makes [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Peggy Hill's Spanish]] look superb by comparison.
123	* HappilyMarried: Most of the couples on the show, but notably [[OppositesAttract Mr. and Mrs. Brinks.]]
124	* HateSink: Nanette is an AlphaBitch with little to no redeeming qualities who is just there to be hated.
125	%%* HeelRealization: Angela herself has a few of these, see MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
126	* HeldBackInSchool: Candy May for her low level of intelligence.
127	* HenpeckedHusband: Poor Mr. Brinks is often nagged on and roped into his wife's crazy demands whether he likes it or not.
128	* HeroesLoveDogs: Played With. Our protagonist has a beloved dog, but so does her hated enemy.
129	* HumiliationConga: Angela generally imagines whoever wronged her going through one... but sometimes, she even imagines this happening to ''herself''.
130	* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: The town's main export is broccoli, they even have a day celebrating it. Angela hates the stuff, but enters a broccoli themed art competition and wins which necessitates her to give a speech to the town extolling its taste. She tries to bluff her way through, until she's forced to eat some on stage and it turns out she does like it and has never actually tried it before. Though it could use some cheese sauce.
131	* ImagineSpot: In addition to the eleborate FantasySequence that happens OnceAnEpisode, [[MrImagination Angela]] often has many shorter [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] dotted through the episode.
132	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Nanette comes off as this to several fans (and WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter). Compared to Angela, Nanette's actions are tame, while Angela has {{Imagine Spot}}s relating to Nanette's brutal, humiliating death.
133	* {{Jerkass}}:
134	** Angela in her imagination, imagining all of the rather cruel things she would like to do to Nanette, her brothers, Mrs. Brinks...heck whoever made her mad by [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment doing something that made her angry]].
135	** Geraldine Klump in her only appearance. She isn't the worst example of this, but her constant bias towards Angela in an attempt to hurt Nanette's feelings (e.g. rejecting her pate, calling her Janette) just comes off as this. And then there's the ending where she pulls a prank on Brinks and Nanette.
136	* JerkJock: Angela's brothers, and occasionally Coach Rhinehart.
137	* JockDadNerdSon: Coach Rhinehart and Gordy are a subversion of the depiction; the dad is a hugely sporty guy, and Gordy is a frail and sickly nerd, but they deeply love each other and happily accept their differences, even trying to find common ground. Coach Rhinehart in particular is very proud of Gordy's skill at cooking.
138	* KarmaHoudini:
139	** When Nanette does something bad, she often gets away with it. One of the worst examples is in Be-Trayed where the teacher makes a ''huge'' deal about a tray being thrown away by mistake. Angela confesses despite not doing it...when it was actually Nanette who did it and manages to ''avoid'' being punished because she ''didn't'' confess. Angela gets punished for lying.
140	** Johnny's uncle also once ''auctions off the Menorah'' that belonged to Gina's great-grandmother...and seems to get away with it.
141	* ALadyOnEachArm: Johnny Abatti's uncle Nicky travels around with [[{{OT3}} two unnamed girlfriends]].
142	* LarynxDissonance: Mrs. Brinks' voice is obviously a man doing an impression of a woman.
143	%%* LaserGuidedKarma: This happens to Nanette now and then when she's not being a KarmaHoudini.
144	* {{Leitmotif}}: Most of the time Nanette is in an important plot scene, a classical French theme plays.
145	%%* LimitedWardrobe
146	* LoopholeAbuse:
147	** Angela manages to win the pogo contest specifically cause there is no rule against using ''two'' pogo sticks.
148	** Attempted in the St. Patrick's Day episode in which Mrs. Brinks says there shall be no pinching in her classroom, but Recess is alright. However, when Nanette negotiates a bathroom break and attempts to get her during that and in lunch, Mrs. Brinks actually quashes ''that'' too.
149	* LotsOfLuggage: An episode had the AlphaBitch Nanette assigned to hike with the same team as Angela and her friends. Nanette demands that the others help her carry what she packed, and at one point pulls out a hair dryer and asking where she can find an outlet.
150	%%* ManChild: Uncle Nicky.
151	* MirrorCharacter: Despite Nanette being Angela's arch nemesis, both girls are a lot more alike than they realise.
152	%%* MissingMom: Gordy.
153	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
154	** "Enter the Angela". Tired of her brothers physically bullying her, she asks Coach Rhinehart to teach her some martial arts moves, notably the "Flipping". Very anxious to try it out, she tries to provoke everyone to attack her... before doing it to Nanette. Surprisingly, [[OutOfCharacterMoment Angela actually expresses shock at this]] and says she didn't mean it. After that, she gets a reputation of a bully, even [[NotWhatItLooksLike flipping Uncle Nicky]]... and ends up putting ''herself'' through the humiliation conga!
155	** Gordy Floats has Angela humiliate herself... but ends with her saying "Until... I... [[HeelRealization ruined it]]." After that she wants desperately to apologise to Gordy, since it was ''her'' fault.
156	** The Non-Non fight. Angela puts ''Gina'' through the ImagineSpot conga, but when the imaginary Nanette says to finish her off, Angela says "I will... [[HeelRealization But I won't.]]."
157	* NerdyInhaler: Gordy is skinny, sensitive and knowledgeable, and yes, he's asthmatic.
158	* NiceGuy: Mr. Brinks and Angela's dad are among the nicest characters on the show. Gordy's dad, Coach Rhinehart, also counts because he's very accepting toward his son not being interested in sports and is very proud of Gordy's cooking talent.
159	** Gordy and Josephine also count as being the nicest among the child aged characters.
160	*** Cici [=LeCreme=] in her only appearance, even when she ends up ditching Angela for Nanette. The Dutch exchange student can count, too.
161	* ParentalAbandonment: Johnny Abatti appears to live with his uncle and grandmother. He's mentioned his parents a few times, but they never appear onscreen.
162	* PepperSneeze: One episode starts with Angela trying to prank her brothers with a looseened pepper shaker only for it to backfire on her. She spends the whole episode trying to find somewhere private to scratch the pepper out of her nose, before finally sneezing.
163	* PetTheDog: Actually, plenty:
164	** The Chanukah moment where Nanette takes the Menorah after all sorts of different antics to get it back, and tells everyone else to just bug off. But then she and her family return it to Gina and ''her'' family.
165	** Mrs. Brinks in the Jiggly Fruit episodes, as well as the times she admits she made a mistake and apologizes to Angela. (The school store episode) She also negotiates a trade with Angela a couple times, letting Angela get out of trouble when she wronged her.
166	*** Also in the St. Patrick's Day episode, Mrs. Brinks flat out ''forbids'' anyone from pinching Angela for not wearing green in the classroom. When [[LoopholeAbuse people try to do it outside of classroom]], she extends the rule to the hallway and the cafeteria.
167	*** Mrs. Brinks also gives a good one in "The Pup who would be King" where she genuinely ''does'' love the puppy she adopted from the Anacondas.
168	*** In the episode where Angela comes to school wearing an eyepatch for pinkeye, Mrs. Brinks does a reasonable job accommodating her and is fairly tolerant of her talking like a pirate. However, this only lasts until Nanette starts faking a foot injury to get back her sympathy.
169	** Karlean gets some in the episode "Kar-lean on me", being the most developed out of Nanette's GirlPosse.
170	* PlaygroundSong: The "K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a Tree" song is heard in the episode, "Hot Bob & Chocolate", when Nanette finds out that Angela likes Bob and Hot Chocolate, they sing this song.
171	* PreppyName: Nanette Manoir
172	* ThePrimadonna: Nanette, when starring in a school play, and when having a statue made of her by Angela's mother.
173	* PuppyLove: [[CampStraight Gordy Reinhart]] is in love with Angela's best friend, Gina. Nanette is implied to have a thing for [[TheDitz Johnny Abatti]]. All of the characters involved are eight.
174	* RashomonStyle: "The Nanette Lock", "The Great Granny Grudge", and "The Curse of Baby Lulu".
175	* RegalRinglets: Nanette Manoir wears her long blonde hair in this style, and speaks with a stereotypically "rich girl" Valley Girl accent and is a complete snob. She's very obsessed with her looks and considers herself extremely beautiful.
176	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Uncle Nicky mangles [[IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes a common rhetorical question]] by asking "Is the Pope Italian?" Gina answers that no, he isn't. (Then-Pope John Paul II was Polish, while none of his successors have been Italian either.)
177	* RichBitch: Nanette Manoir. Her GirlPosse of Karlean and January are also the same.
178	* SadistTeacher: Mrs. Brinks is certainly not a Sadist...but holy crap sometimes you just ''hate'' her. She blatantly favours Nanette Manoir, implicitly because Nanette is the daughter of a rich family, and so almost always takes her side against Angela's. In one episode, she [[DisproportionateRetribution punishes Angela simply because she confesses that a poem written about King was not about her]].
179	* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: Angela wasn't interested at all in the school's relay race until one of her friends found a clue suggesting the first prize had the initials [="MB"=] and they assumed it meant "Mapperson's Bakery" and the winning team would eat for free there. Nanette's team won and the first prize turned out to be watching slides from '''M'''rs. '''B'''rinks' vacation trip. Being a TeachersPet, Nanette couldn't refuse. The consolation prize turned out to be what they thought the first prize would be.
180	* SelfDeprecation: Angela sometimes actually targets ''herself'' with her ImagineSpot sequences. Notable in "Enter the Angela" where ''she'' is the one who gets humiliated and "If the Shoe Fits" where she imagines herself going to jail for walking out of the shoe store with a pair of shoes.
181	* ShoutOut: Mrs. Yamaguchi appears to sound like a certain [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} soup nazi]]...
182	* ShowWithinAShow: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57LrcA_TDs One shorter than usual episode]] was about Angela and her friends going to see ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'', of all things. Said episode was shown before said movie on both theatrical and DVD versions. However, when this aired as an actual episode in the show (with a longer prologue and a slightly different ending), they [[WritingAroundTrademarks removed all mention]] of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' and called it ''Mega Giants''.
183	* SicklyNeuroticGeek: Gordy is skinny, sensitive, knowledgeable and has countless allergies.
184	* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: Downplayed with Mark and Derek. While they both generally act like brainless troublemakers, Mark is shown to be the more menacing, confident member of the duo. Derek, however, literally got an episode called 'Derek's Better Half', in which Angela convinced him to drive her to the drive-in to find her babysitter Raven. His slightly milder nature is highlighted by his higher voice.
185	* SociopathicHero: At her very worst, Angela can come off as this, as her {{Imagine Spot}}s all involve brutalizing or even killing Nanette Manoir in the most brutal ways possible (even via ''cannibalism'' once!). Nanette herself, while obnoxiously conceited, hardly does anything even close to warranting such hostility.
186	* SpinOff: From ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam''
187	* {{Squick}}: In-universe example. During "Snow Day", Angela sees Mrs. Brinks and her husband sledding down a hill ''naked''. And yes, before FridgeLogic sets in...the characters even ask why they would be sledding down a hill ''naked'' during a ''snow day'' and that it's just an invitation to get Hypothermia. Another episode implies they also do the same while ''ice-skating''! They also play "Naked Badminton" in their backyard.
188	* StockYuck: Angela hates broccoli, [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam until she actually tries it that is]].
189	* TeachersPet: Nanette.
190	* TeenGenius: Gina.
191	* TeensAreMonsters: Mark and Derek.
192	* TerrifiedOfGerms: Gordy Rhinehart has this happen to him in one episode.
193	** Also comes up with Angela when she complains of "Broccoli Germs" when [[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam offered a dish that contains Broccoli,]] and again when Mr. and Mrs. Brinks's badminton shuttle lands in Johnny's hands, prompting him to [[HotPotato throw it between Gordy, Gina, and Angela]] because it contains [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Naked Germs."]]
194	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Nanette often dies in Angela's {{Imagine Spot}}s, themselves happening OncePerEpisode.
195	%%* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Mr. and Mrs. Brinks
196	* TokenRichStudent: Nanette, who dresses fashionably and gets chauffeured around in a limo.
197	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Angela's best friend, Gina Lash, is much girlier than her and wears a [[PinkMeansFeminine pink dress]] and hair decs.
198	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Angela is rather tomboyish compared to other female characters like Gina or espacially [[AlphaBitch Ninette]], but she still wears a dress as part of her LimitedWardrobe and has [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals in her room]].
199	* TrojanVeggies: In the episode "Broccoli-Fest", when Angela's friends are trying to get her to like broccoli, Johnny goes first. He gives Angela a slice of pepperoni pizza, which Angela is excited to eat until she sees the piece of broccoli that Johnny hid in it.
200	* TropaholicsAnonymous: In "News at Eleven," Mrs. Brinks says that Channel 163 had a free spot in their schedule, after their news anchor left town to attend a "step class." When asked, Brinks clarifies that the class only teaches 12 steps.
201	* UncattyResemblance: The tomboyish Angela has King; a scraffy, friendly dog with reddish-brown fur and a GenderBlenderName, while Nanette has Ooh-La-La; a fancy purebred, heavily groomed [[DogStereotype French Poodle]].
202	* UnreliableNarrator: Invoked for comedy in the "Nanette Lock" episode.
203	** Angela's narration also sometimes clashes with the events of the episode. Most notably in "Cabin Fever". Angela, in narration, thinks that she sucessfully fooled her parents into thinking that [[BlatantLies she caught Agoraphobia from Josaphine Praline's mother.]] But it's clear that her parents are just humoring her to teach her a lesson.
204	* VerbalTic: Angela with "on account of".
205	** She also uses [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant words in sentences]]. Like "this week was supposed to be a big week for all us Tapwater Springsians who live in Tapwater Springs", or "the end of the line is at the end" and don't forget baloney and ketchup sandwiches are her "All time favourite food of all time"
206	* TheVillainSucksSong: The theme song doubles as this:
207	-->Shoo bee doo bee doo wah wah / My name is Angela, and you are not / Nanette Manoir is a stuck-up snotface snot!
208	* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. When Angela loses a bicycle race, Gina tries to comfort her with the fact [[RichBitch Nanette]] also lost. Angela says it would normally be enough but she counted on the $200 cash prize to make up for losing her father's new wallet and the $200 he kept inside it.
209	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "January" hardly slips off the tongue easily when that's your given name. [[RealityIsUnrealistic It's not unheard of]], but it's ''very'' uncommon.
210	* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Gina Lash, the smartest kid in class, is not only book-smart, but is also one of the most emotionally-mature, reasonable and wise characters on the show.
211	** Angela herself tries to act the part, but it [[NotSoAboveItAll hardly ever works]]. This is most clearly expressed in her [[VerbalTic Verbal Tics]]; her tendency to speak without contractions, using 'on account of' instead of 'because', calling people by FullNameBasis and using [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant sentences which are redundant and repeat themselves]] all give her the air of a child trying to sound more mature than she actually is.
212	* WondrousLadiesRoom: GenderInverted. Angela actually tries to see what's in the boy's bathroom because of all the lines for the girls' bathroom. It's not much different, just with urinals.
213	* WritingLines: Mrs. Brinks' second favourite punishment, after clapping chalkboard erasers. The two are amusingly combined in one episode when she gives Angela a pair of clean erasers and tells her that the first part of her punishment is to write out "I will account for all funds" a hundred times, then erase them.
214	* YourTomcatIsPregnant:
215	** Sherman the class chicken.
216	** Also, probably King.
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