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* Well, Maledictus T. Maggot didn't remember [[spoiler:being an AbhorrentAdmirer after the spell making Tyrannia attractive failed]] so it's indeed possible they don't remember.

In Literature/TheNightOfWishes, there was a character named Saint Sylvester. His animated counterpart was renamed Father New Year. They might have deemed it too dangerous to have a character so obviously based on Pope Sylvester I.
* Not true. I have a copy of the English translation of the book and he was Father New Year in that, too. If anything, the people who translated the show to English had a copy of the book on hand.
* Wouldn't they know either way the character is Saint Sylvester? Anyway, I have a Brazilian copy and he's Saint Sylvester in there.

[[WMG: At the end of "Wishful Thinking", Bubonic and Tyrannia [[spoiler:still casted the wish spell but Jacob and Maurizio simply wished the spell would fail]].]]
What they did [[spoiler:after the day started over]] wouldn't have necessarily prevented their masters from [[spoiler:casting that spell. Tyrannia still could have unwittingly inspired Bubonic]].

* In the German book, Saint Sylvester says he always comes down on his name-day, this is why the animals found him at the bells. One, the English-speaking countries don't really ''have'' name-days. Two, in German and many other languages, New Year's Eve ''is'' called Sylvester. If they had left the name as Saint Sylvester, English-language readers would have been confused why it was exactly him and not some other, better-known saint.

If this is the case, then it would make for an excellent RoleReversal episode, where they steal the halves of a scroll and then use them to cast a spell that would render Metropolis immune to all kinds of magic. Tyrannia and Bubonic would be then forced to somehow undo the spell, possibly getting the riddle from Maledictus Maggot.

In Literature/TheNightOfWishes, there was a character named Saint Sylvester. His animated counterpart was renamed Father New Year. They might have deemed it too dangerous to have a character so obviously based on Pope Sylvester I.

* Alternatively, the Mayor might be afraid people wouldn't believe him if he tried to expose Bubonic and Tyrannia and/or was afraid of what they'd do to him.

Think about it; every episode the wizards unleash another spell onto the city, yet none of the inhabitants ever seems to wonder why so many strange things are happening in their city, nor do they ever seem to recall events from a previous episode. The reason? They magically forget all about the spell as soon as it is broken, or else shortly afterwards. This is made even more clear with the mayor after his FreakyFridayFlip with Bubonic. I mean; he switched bodies with a wizard, thus discovering that magic is real and that there are a wizard and a witch living in his city. Even an incompetent buffoon like him should be able to put one and one together and deduce that Bubonic and Tyrania are behind all the weird stuff that's going on, but he never acts on this knowledge. Why? Because he, like everybody else, has his memories about the whole event erased shortly after the spell is broken.

Think about it; every episode the wizards unleash another spell onto the city, yet none of the inhabitants ever seems to wonder why so many strange things are happening in their city, nor do they ever seem to recall events from a previous episode. The reason? They magically forget all about the spell as soon as it is broken, or else shortly afterwards. This is made even more clear with the mayor after his FreakyFridayFlip with Bubonic. I mean; he switched bodies with a wizard, thus discovering that magic is real and that there are a wizard and a witch living in his city. Even an incompetent buffoon like him should be able to put one and one together and figure out that Bubonic and Tyrania are behind all the weird stuff that's going on, but he never acts on this knowledge. Why? Because he, like everybody else, has his memories about the whole event erased shortly after the spell is broken.

The flashbacks they had were from "five years ago" but the Cozy kids seemed to be at the same age they were in the series' present time.