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* GeniusDitz: He's a dummy in some regards, but you gotta admit he knows a thing or two about technology. Bobby gave his car the ability to transform into a mailbox.

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* GeniusDitz: He's a dummy in some regards, but you gotta admit he knows a thing or two about technology. Bobby gave his car the ability to transform into a mailbox. And then there’s the upgrades to Trudy’s van in the revival.



* PromotionToOpeningTitles: By "Louder and Prouder", Bobby is in the new opening theme.

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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: By "Louder and Prouder", Bobby is in the new opening theme.theme, and most notably in the family photo.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Not evil persay, but the Wizard is the biggest jerkass in the show. The few times his son, Little Wiz Junior, does appear, it's clear the Wizard does love him. He kicked the people who accused his son of stealing out of his house and spent millions of dollars to help his son win a school election.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even the Wizard knows how despicable Sista Spice truly is. He's also disgusted with all the times Oscar cheated in his contests. He's a big jerk, but he doesn’t believe in committing fraud.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Not evil persay, ''per se'', but the Wizard is the biggest jerkass in the show. The few times his son, Little Wiz Junior, does appear, it's clear the Wizard does love him. He kicked the people who accused his son of stealing out of his house and spent millions of dollars to help his son win a school election.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even the Wizard knows how despicable Sista Spice truly is. He's also disgusted with all the times Oscar cheated in his contests. He's a big jerk, but he doesn’t doesn't believe in committing fraud.



* JerkassToOne: He often acts a jerk toward anyone that isn't his family. However, he particularly ''loves'' to be-litte Oscar every chance he gets.

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* JerkassToOne: He often acts a jerk toward anyone that isn't his family. However, he particularly ''loves'' to be-litte be-little Oscar every chance he gets.



* LargeHam: Whenever the wizard is on camera, expect him to always chew the scenery, y'all.

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* LargeHam: Whenever the wizard Wizard is on camera, expect him to always chew the scenery, y'all.



* {{Narcissist}}: Who else names a city after himself? (The city is called Wizardville) Not to mention he plasters his name over all the city’s products, pushed out Oscar in favor of plastering his name 4 times on a scavenger hunt competition advertisement, rewards any attempt to correct his errors with immediate job termination of employees, and always tries to work contracts and agreements to make himself wealthier. He even thinks that ''Theatre/TheWiz'' was named after him.

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* {{Narcissist}}: Who else names a city after himself? (The city is called Wizardville) Wizardville, though the revival's now calling it Smithville.) Not to mention he plasters his name over all the city’s products, pushed out Oscar in favor of plastering his name 4 times on a scavenger hunt competition advertisement, rewards any attempt to correct his errors with immediate job termination of employees, and always tries to work contracts and agreements to make himself wealthier. He even thinks that ''Theatre/TheWiz'' was named after him.



* VocalEvolution: By "Louder & Prouder", his voice has gotten much more deeper.

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* VocalEvolution: By "Louder & Prouder", ''Louder and Prouder'', his voice has gotten much more deeper.
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* VocalDissonance: In "Louder & Prouder", her voice is much deeper than it was in the original show.

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* VocalDissonance: VocalEvolution: In "Louder & Prouder", her voice is much deeper than it was in the original show.
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* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Sunny Stevens is a mild version of this to Penny, who looked up to her character of Iesha as a positive role model. Then again, Sunny is shown to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold later on in the episode.

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* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Sunny Stevens is a mild version of this to Penny, who looked up to her this. Her character of Iesha is viewed as a positive role model. Then again, Sunny is shown to be model, especially by Penny, but she's an abrasive diva in real life. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that she's more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold later on in the episode.who is just sour because of how badly her fame impacted her ability to make friends.

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* JackassGenie: Has the powers of a genie and is most certainly not a nice guy. Especially on how much he mocks and belittles Penny.



* JackassGenie: Has the powers of a genie and is most certainly not a nice guy. Especially on how much he mocks and belittles Penny.
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* JerkassGenie: Has the powers of a genie and is most certainly not a nice guy. Especially on how much he mocks and belittles Penny.

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* JerkassGenie: JackassGenie: Has the powers of a genie and is most certainly not a nice guy. Especially on how much he mocks and belittles Penny.

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* AdamWesting: A bizarrely [[TakeThatMe mean-spirited]] variant, the real-life NiceGuy TV weatherman Al Roker plays the ''decidedly'' [[{{jerkass}} less nice]] TV weatherman Al Roker.

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* AdamWesting: A bizarrely [[TakeThatMe [[SelfDeprecation mean-spirited]] variant, the real-life NiceGuy TV weatherman Al Roker plays the ''decidedly'' [[{{jerkass}} less nice]] TV weatherman Al Roker.


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* SelfDeprecation: It's TV weatherman Al Roker playing a version of himself that's a JackassGenie BitchInSheepsClothing. It can only be this trope.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the SoapboxSadie. The show deconstructs teen activists like Maya by showing that, while they may be more aware of serious social issues than their peers and are right to bright light to them, many times [[KnowNothingKnowItAll they don't know as much about the issues as they think they do]], their immaturity causes them to fall into a BlackAndWhiteInsanity mindset and fail to recognize the morally grey areas of society, and a lot of their activism is done more [[SecretlySelfish for the sake of satisfying their egos rather than true altruism]].

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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the SoapboxSadie. The show deconstructs teen activists like Maya by showing that, while they may be more aware of serious social issues than their peers and are right to bright bring light to them, many times [[KnowNothingKnowItAll they don't know as much about the issues as they think they do]], their immaturity causes them to fall into a BlackAndWhiteInsanity mindset and fail to recognize the morally grey areas of society, and a lot of their activism is done more [[SecretlySelfish for the sake of satisfying their egos rather than true altruism]].
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the SoapboxSadie. The show deconstructs teen activists like Maya by showing that, while they may be more aware of serious social issues than their peers and are right to bright light to them, many times [[KnowNothingKnowItAll they don't know as much about the issues as they think they do]], their immaturity causes them to fall into a BlackAndWhiteInsanity mindset and fail to recognize the morally grey areas of society, and a lot of their activism is done more [[SecretlySelfish for the sake of satisfying their egos rather than true altruism]].
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: According to her bio, Maya thinks she has a lot to teach Penny, but she clearly fails to see the nuances in the world.

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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: According to her bio, Maya thinks she has a lot to teach Penny, but she clearly fails to see the nuances in the world.world. In the very first episode, she attempts to liberate a panda from the zoo that plainly doesn't want to leave because of how comfortable his life is.
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* JerkassToOne: Depending on the episode, she would antagonize Penny.

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* JerkassToOne: Depending on the episode, She's surly with everyone as part of her HatesEveryoneEqually deal, but she would only really goes out of her way to antagonize Penny.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: She hates Penny for being superficial, yet she teamed up with the most superficial girl (Lacienega) to take down Penny.



* {{Jerkass}}: Depending on the episode, she would antagonize Penny.

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* {{Jerkass}}: JerkassToOne: Depending on the episode, she would antagonize Penny.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Depending on the episode, she would antagonize Penny.
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* KeepItForeign: In the Castilian Spanish dub, he speaks Italian for some reason. Averted in the Latin American Spanish dub, where his dialogue is not dubbed.

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* KeepItForeign: In the Castilian Spanish dub, he speaks Italian for some reason. Averted in the Latin American Spanish dub, dub for ''Louder and Prouder'', where he falls under SameLanguageDub instead and keeps his dialogue is not dubbed.Latino accent.
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* AfraidOfNeedles: Poor guy was attempting to run from a shot by Dr. Payne in one episode.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: He has green hair, just like The Joker.



* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: They have blue skin, though the reason for this is that they're really ashy.

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: They have blue hair, blue skin, though and wear blue overalls. It's revealed that the reason for this the girls are blue is that they're really due to them being ashy.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Actually, they have blue hair, blue skin, and wear blue overalls. It's revealed that the reason the girls are blue is due to them being ashy.
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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: He's the great-grandson of George Washington Carver, who in real-life never married or had children.

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* BeautifulSingingVoice: Despite her plain, nerdy appearance, she's a very talented singer. She can sing so beautifully that, during the Tween Idol finals, she moves normally CausticCritic Percival to ManlyTears.



* HiddenDepths: She can sing so beautifully that, during the Tween Idol finals, she moves normally CausticCritic Percival to ManlyTears.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: According to her bio, Maya thinks she has a lot to teach Penny, but she clearly fails to see the nuances in the world.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Sticky. So much that Dijonay briefly mistakes KG for him gone through puberty and becomes her rebound crush after he leaves.
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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Weirdly enough, he's the only character in the show with consistently defined pupils.
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* CostumeEvolution: In the reboot her sweater is now a darker burgundy, she wears a different white top that slightly exposes her stomach, and her skirt is tighter and is shown to have extra details on it like pockets and stitching.


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* CostumeEvolution: Wears longer distressed jeans and red sneakers in the reboot.


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* CostumeEvolution: Very minor in the reboot as her top is now a v-neck shirt as opposed to the collared blouse she wore in the original.


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* CostumeEvolution: Her clothes are now light green and she wears a jean jacket and platform sandals in the reboot.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Penny seems to have inherited a love of animals from her mother, as shown in "Tiger Whisperer" towards AJ and Chester the "Psycho Duck".

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Penny seems to have inherited a love of animals from her mother, as shown in "Tiger Whisperer" towards AJ and Chester the "Psycho Duck".Duck", and again towards Shuggie the Panda in "New Kids On The Block".
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Her two best friends constantly betray her, belittle her and scheme behind her back, and yet Penny never decides to just ditch them. Penny later explains to Maya in ''Louder and Prouder'' that the one thing she can count on, is that they at least respect her for being her.

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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Her two best friends constantly betray her, belittle her and scheme behind her back, and yet Penny never decides to just ditch them. Penny later explains to Maya in ''Louder and Prouder'' that the one thing she can count on, is that they at least most of the time, they respect her for being her.



* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Penny views Oscar as this due to him acting immature for his age.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Penny views Oscar as this due to him acting immature for his age. He seems pretty shameless about it.
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** In the reboot episode "Bad Influencer", Penny lets being an influencer get to her head.

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** In the reboot revival episode "Bad Influencer", Penny lets being an influencer get to her head.

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