* ValuesDissonance:
** Generally, parents these days wouldn't be sending their kids to the local old lady to fix bad habits and behavior. She'd have to be certified at least in child psychology. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle expressly preferring the company of children to adults would also raise serious eyebrows today and cause most parents to forbid their children from seeing her, regardless of her innocence.
** It's implied Melody is a crybaby because she overreacts, but there are hints that she may have clinical depression. Case in point that when she floods the playground with her tears, she refuses to move from the spot with higher ground, at serious risk of drowning but [[AttemptedSuicide she doesn't care]]. When a teacher tactfully points out she'll miss school, Melody retorts she doesn't like school anyway. Not to mention her family blames her for being bullied because she makes an easy target, while these days it'd be the other way around that bullying has caused trauma which constantly triggers her.
** Nicholas would probably have gone to jail in the 2020s for kicking a boy in the shin with his new brogues. The father of the boy is giving him a DeathGlare and ready to beat him up in turn, if Nicholas under the influence of Leadership Pills hadn't sincerely apologized. Two wrongs don't make a right, but a call to 911 might have happened at school.
** One of the faults that Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures... is [[FelonyMisdemeanor girls whispering]]. That's it. Not that one of the girls is a bit of a bully and the other two are gossips, but that she whispers around people.
* ValuesResonance: Melody's crying cure is solved not by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's tonic -- in fact, that seems to be more of a lesson to her bullies that poking someone given a magic potion means you'll get nailed in turn -- but by the fact that someone gifts her a kitten in need of a home. Butterball then essentially becomes her therapy cat, allowing Melody to mature.

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