''Genie in the House'' was a British sitcom running on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} from 2006-2010.

Meet the Morton family. The father Philip has his hands full. He's a widower and he's got two teenage daughters to take care of. Sophie the smart one, and Emma the wild one. One day they find a mysterious lamp in the attic - and discover a genie inside it. Or rather, a genie in training. Adil was supposed to complete his genie schooling some 1500 years ago, but got trapped in his lamp. So whenever the Morton sisters make wishes, they don't entirely get granted the way they would have liked.

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!! Tropes:

* AesopAmnesia: You'd think one of those girls would realise that making a wish for Adil is a bad idea. Though to be fair it occasionally happens by accident(such as Emma unintentionally wishing the family 400 years into the future when she was just offhandedly saying she wished it was time for her favorite TV show to start.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Sophie for Craig, Caroline for Philip.
* ArabianNightsDays: Where Adil's from.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In the episode [[Recap/GenieInTheHouseS3E3PonyTale “Pony Tale“]], Sophie babysits Phillip’s niece, Louise and tells her she’s too little to have a genie, so she wishes she was bigger. Adil grants her wish but overdoes it, resulting Louise being a giant. She eventually return to normal at the end.
* BrilliantButLazy: Adil is very talented at casting spells, but he messes up due to being too lazy to be specific.
* BumblingDad: Philip is hopeless.
* DoWrongRight: Sophie's attitude towards breaking her father's rules.
* EmbarrassingAdGig: Emma spends an entire episode trying to become the cover model for a new advertising campaign for tooth paste. She succeeds but doesn't discover the focus of the advert is on how it completely eliminates bad breath until after its printed and posted all around town.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Sophie is the responsible ([[NotSoAboveItAll most of the time]]), Emma is the foolish.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Sophie is the smart sister, Emma is the pretty sister.
* IneptMage: Most episode's plots are kicked off by Adil getting his incantation wrong.
* LimitedWardrobe: Adil's costume never changes.
* MissingMom: Philip is a widower.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In one episode Emma and Sophie have to dress up as the 'Cheesy Girls', as a nod to Romanian-British pop duo The Cheeky Girls.
* PerpetualSmiler: Sophie's actress Katie Sheridan was noted for the fact that she always seemed to be smiling.
* PottyEmergency: Sophie has one of these in "No Time Like the Future" when Emma accidentally wishes the family 400 years into the future, when everyone finally arrives back in the past Sophie hurriedly rushes off to relieve herself exclaiming that she hasn't used the loo in 400 years.
* PutOnABus: The nosy next door neighbour Caroline vanishes in Season 2, with the excuse that she moved to France and got married.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Adil is over 1500 years old but looks fifteen.
* SpyFiction: One episode has Emma wishing her life were like a spy movie she just saw. Adil is only too happy to oblige. Philip becomes the TuxedoAndMartini spy, Sophie becomes TheBaroness and Tony the gadgets dealer.
* SupernaturalProofFather: Philip spends most of his screen time trying to stop Sophie and Emma making wishes.
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