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1	* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie was adapted from a series of books called ''Nurse Matilda'', with several changes.
2	* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
3	** The last person Nanny [=McPhee=] helps in the first film is baby Aggie, when she magically returns her mother's rattle to her after it was broken. [[spoiler: Mrs. Docherty in ''Film/NannyMcPheeAndTheBigBang'' is [[CanonCharacterAllAlong revealed at the end to be a grown-up Aggie]], who still remembers Nanny [=McPhee=] and holds on to the rattle. The fact that the otherwise forgetful old woman still remembers this is a testament to the impact Nanny [=McPhee=] had on her life.]]
4	** The last thing Nanny [=McPhee=] does before leaving the Browns is to acknowledge the children's deceased mother by bowing her head towards her favorite chair. [[spoiler: In ''Film/NannyMcPheeAndTheBigBang'', the last thing Nanny [=McPhee=] does before leaving the Greens is acknowledge the Greens' seemingly deceased father... who turns out to be ''[[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated alive after all]]''.]]
5	* HilariousInHindsight:
6	** In the film, Evangeline is walked down the aisle by Nanny [=McPhee=], who acts somewhat motherly towards her in that moment. Kelly [=MacDonald=] and Creator/EmmaThompson would work together again as daughter and mother in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', where [=MacDonald=] would be ''against'' Thompson's attempts to marry her off.
7	** Emma Thompson here plays a MagicalNanny, an archetype whose UrExample is ''Literature/MaryPoppins''. Thompson would later play the ''creator'' of ''Mary Poppins'' in ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Talk about meeting your maker.
8	* JerkassWoobie: Naughty as the Brown children are, it's hard not to feel sympathy for these motherless children with a workaholic father, no friends, and the threat of a WickedStepmother looming on the horizon...
9	** It's also implied that none of their ''previous'' nannies ever cared to get to ''know'' them ''individually''.
10	* RetroactiveRecognition:
11	** Kelly [=MacDonald=] as Evangeline.
12	** Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster who is best known as [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Ferb Fletcher]] and [[Series/{{Godless}} Whitey Winn]]. Disney Channel would even specifically point out Sangster's role as Ferb [[AdvertisingByAssociation in advertising]] when preparing to air the first film during the run of ''Phineas and Ferb''.
13	* {{Squick}}: Some of the food (like the worms in the sandwiches, the best thin potato gruel with peelings (and a turkey neck) in, etc)
14	* TheWoobie: The Browns, with late Mrs. Brown having died, and poverty breathing down the necks.

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