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1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
2	** Josie Pye is supposed to be an AlphaBitch ([[SmallNameBigEgo in her mind anyway]]) but her bitchy behavior is pretty minor and a few times Anne actually starts it. Plus, characters constantly go on about how awful the Pye girls are and Josie is the youngest. You have to wonder how much of her attitude is a result of being harshly judged based on her family.
3	** Is Dora Richard really stoic and plain or a depressed StepfordSmiler? She loses her mother, her uncle delays taking her and her brother in before he dies, she has to live with people she barely knows and ignore her in favor of Davy, who bullies her and she isn’t mentioned to have any friends. It’s a lot for her young age.
4	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The scene where Anne accidentally gets Diana drunk on currant wine in the musical. In the book and in the anime, this incident has major consequences, causing Mrs. Barry to forbid Diana from seeing Anne. In the live-action show, however, the scene merely happens, and is never referred to again, with Mrs. Barry being more-or-less chill about the whole thing. The audience doesn't really care, though, [[RuleOfFunny because it's still pretty funny]].
5	* CanonDefilement: ''Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story'', the third Kevin Sullivan film, is derided as this by many fans of the book series. Unlike the first two films, which were fairly accurate to the series (for being films based on books), the third was an original film with an original script. Not only did it ignore any of the canon after "Anne of Windy Poplars," but it was set in World War I with Anne and Gilbert as newlyweds, moving the entire series forward nearly 30 years. The characters are out-of-character as a result.
6	** This continued on even further with ''Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning'' which is set during [=WW2=] with Gilbert having died in action (which never occurred in the books, and is far too far on time-wise) and then creating a backstory out of thin air for Anne's life prior to being sent to Green Gables at the start of the first book. It can make one wonder why Kevin Sullivan didn't just create further films around the remaining actual books in the series instead.
7	** For die-hard book fans, the Netflix series ''Series/AnneWithAnE'' can feel like this, with its wild deviation from canon, its DarkerAndEdgier tone and the ... ''off'' characterisation of many of the main characters (including Anne, who is less ThePollyanna and more of a manic BrokenBird).
8	* CantUnhearIt: Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla and Megan Fellows as Anne in the Kevin Sullivan films. They're the most remembered portrayals.
9	* CrossesTheLineTwice: The impact is lost a bit since jokes about religion have become much more commonplace, but Anne's first attempt at praying was ''very'' much this in 1908.
10	* FairForItsDay: While the series has its share of ValuesDissonance, the portrayal of Anne herself is agreed to have held up well over the years. She's an ambitious, headstrong, intelligent, and creative PluckyGirl whose motivations do not revolve around the male characters, is depicted with realistic flaws that she overcomes, goes to college and gets a brief career as a teacher (and then a principal), and often refuses to adhere to strict gender norms. Now granted, she is still a product of the time and she does grow into more of a traditional housewife in later books (however, it's largely portrayed as being her choice and no one else's), but at the time the books was written, where women were written as passive, weak, and subservient, a woman as imaginative and headstrong as Anne was incredibly bold and unusual.
11	* FirstInstallmentWins: Most people don't even realize that ''Anne of Green Gables'' is a series. So much emphasis is put on the first book, most people don't even know there ''are'' sequels.
12	* FollowTheLeader: It has been pointed out that the first book shares too many similarities to the American novel ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'' for these to be coincidental.
13	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The novel has a huge fanbase in Japan, of all places. It's theorised that the idea of a determined little individualist girl is just that fascinating to female Japanese culture. It's actually relatively common for 1800s western literature to be popular there, as a kind of ForeignCultureFetish. The fanbase in Japan is so huge, it's not uncommon to see two Japanese get married in Green Gables on Prince Edward Island. Or for the nearby inns and hotels to be filled with other Japanese tourists. Even the signs in the tourist attractions on Prince Edward Island will often have Japanese printed right under the English. ''Anne Of Green Gables'' is even popular on an academic level in Japan. It's required reading in the curricula of many schools; in fact, it's even been republished in manga/comic format for the sole purpose of encouraging more children and teenagers to read it. Both the Kevin Sullivan (live-action) series and ''Series/AnneWithAnE'' have been dubbed and broadcast in Japan, the former even airing on one of the nation's biggest commercial TV stations, Creator/FujiTV, which also aired the 1979 ''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'' anime adaptation directed by Creator/IsaoTakahata (with Creator/HayaoMiyazaki also serving as a key animator). The anime series, regarded by many as a classic in its own right, was popular enough for Anne herself to be featured in [[Creator/NipponAnimation the studio's]] own official English logo, alongside Anime/RascalTheRaccoon. Its influence even extends to other anime; one of the characters in ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Shirley Fenette, is named after the title character.
14	* HarsherInHindsight: In "Anne of Windy Poplars", she thinks about teaching her students about the War of 1812 and how Canada's history of taking part in wars is over. Unfortunately, later on in "Rilla of Ingleside", her own son Walter ends up going off to fight in WWI [[spoiler: and dies]]. Since "Windy Poplars" was written after "Rilla of Ingleside" despite taking place beforehand, this may or may not have been intentional as well.
15	* HilariousInHindsight:
16	** Anne wanting to go to a "concert" with Diana (this being the early 20th century, the word is referring to several local townspeople doing dramatic or comic recitations) plays out ''exactly'' like a modern teen trying to get permission to go to a rock concert.
17	** In 1908 the word "cordial" referred to a soda, but has since been changed to an alcoholic drink. Thus, modern readers will likely get confused at why Diana drinking wine is so bad when everyone was fine with her having cordial.
18	* LesYay: Albeit largely a case of ValuesDissonance -- the stories being set in an era in which [[PseudoRomanticFriendship gushily sentimental overtones were a standard part of any female friendship]] -- this can be read into much of Montgomery's work. Anne Shirley and Diana Barry's relationship in the first book hits pretty much every Les Yay button there is. (The 1980s TV version makes it even more obvious.)
19	* MemeticMutation: The "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers" quote is usually shared around online once October begins.
20	* SignatureScene:
21	** Anne breaking her slate over Gilbert Blythe's head in class.
22	** Anne's attempts at dyeing her hair black, and turning it green by mistake.
23	** And of course Anne accidentally getting Diana drunk on wine.
24	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm''.
25	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
26	** Not a particular ''song'' soundalike in this case, but an ''artist'' soundalike. One could be forgiven for thinking the English theme song of the '70s anime was recorded by Music/{{ABBA}}, as the female vocalists do a near dead-on imitation.
27	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1r-ecHCClQ Italian theme song]] is catchy and popular among those who grew up with the anime, but it's also infamous for sounding almost identical to Music/BoneyM's cover of "Rivers of Babylon".
28	* ToughActToFollow: The Kevin Sullivan adaptations tend to be the definitive ones for fans (North American fans at any rate), and this is another reason why ''Series/AnneWithAnE'' met with such a divisive reception.
29	* ValuesDissonance: [[ValuesDissonance/AnneOfGreenGables Has its own page]].

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