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* DeadpanSnarker: Narrator!Gabe has some shades of this.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Narrator!Gabe As the narrator, Gabe has some shades of this.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Rosemary and Gabe's mom are both redheads, so ItRunsInTheFamily.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Both of them fall to [[HeroesWantRedheads redheads]].
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Both of them fall to [[HeroesWantRedheads redheads]].for redheads.
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* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Averted. Gabe and his father spend time together by practicing his placekicking. Narrator!Gabe compares their relationship to [[TigerWoods Tiger and Earl.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Rosemary goes off to camp and private school, but it's implied that Gabe's parents rediscover their 'spark' and his family stays happy and whole.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Well, Gabe's black friend is the only one who gets "kooties infection", so yeah.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Well, Gabe's black friend is the only one who gets "kooties infection", so yeah.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Rosemary goes off to camp and private school, school after Gabe's last dance with her, but it's implied that Gabe's parents rediscover their 'spark' and his family stays happy and whole.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Well, Gabe's black friend is the only one who gets "kooties infection", soyeah. it's the nearest it gets for this trope.
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* [[BullyingTheDragon Bullying A Pair Of Dragons:]] A schoolyard bully accosts Gabe and Rosemary while they are together. Seeing as one of the several subplots in the movie has Gabe and Rosemary attempting to ascend the ranks of their karate school...this didn't work out too well for the bully.
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* [[BullyingTheDragon Bullying A Pair Of Dragons:]] A schoolyard bully accosts Gabe and Rosemary while they are together. Seeing as one of the several subplots in the movie has Gabe and Rosemary attempting to ascend the ranks of their karate school... this didn't work out too well for the bully.
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* HowWeGotHere: Gabe explains in the prologue explains what happened between him and rosemary.Rosemary.
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* RealSongThemeTune: The movie's opening, "Only The Strongest Survive" by Music/ElvisPresley.
* RecycledInSpace: Essentially, it's a romantic comedy (and is called so on the back of the DVD cover)...with the main characters roughly half the age they would be normally.
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* TruthInTelevision: To a degree. While the seeds of a ''sex drive'' [[{{Squick}} (hopefully)]] don't manifest until adolescence, it's not unheard of for kids - American kids in particular - to have curiosity about the opposite sex during their pre-adolescent years.
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* TruthInTelevision: To a degree. While the seeds of a ''sex drive'' [[{{Squick}} (hopefully)]] hopefully don't manifest until adolescence, it's not unheard of for kids - American kids in particular - to have curiosity about the opposite sex during their pre-adolescent years.
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: BaldOfAuthority: Gabe's karate sensei.
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* AdultFear: [[TruthInTelevision Perfectly shown]] after the subversion of FreeRangeChildren.
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* InformedAttractiveness: According to Gabe, his mom looks like (a young) Creator/SissySpacek when she was young. While she was ( and still is) pretty, they barely look alike aside from being a redhead.
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* InformedAttractiveness: According to Gabe, his mom looks like (a young) Creator/SissySpacek when she was young. While she was ( and (and still is) pretty, they barely look alike aside from being a redhead.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Mike Chat's TV show where Gabe picks up a few karate moves, or so he thinks(?).
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* ShowWithinAShow: Mike Chat's TV show show, where Gabe picks up a few karate moves, moves... or so he thinks(?).
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* ShowWithinAShow: Mike Chat's TV show where Gabe pics up a few karate, or so he thinks(?).
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* ShowWithinAShow: Mike Chat's TV show where Gabe pics picks up a few karate, karate moves, or so he thinks(?).
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* ForeignFanservice: The Swedish girl whom the elevator guy has a crush on.
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* RealSongThemeTune: The movie's opening, ''Only The Strongest Survive'' by ElvisPresley.
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[[caption-width-right:342:Small love in a big city, in the eyes of children.]]
''Little Manhattan'' is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed and written by husband and wife Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. The movie depicts the story of ten-year-old Gabe's realization that girls can be pretty and pretty nice to be with. The story takes place, and was filmed on location, in Manhattan, mostly in the Upper West Side. The film stars Josh Hutcherson and Charlie Ray in the leading roles of the two children.
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''Little Manhattan'' is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed and written by husband and wife Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. The movie depicts the story of ten-year-old Gabe's realization that girls can be pretty and pretty nice to be with. The story takes place, and was filmed on location, in Manhattan, mostly in the Upper West Side. The film stars Josh Hutcherson and Charlie Ray in the leading roles of the two children.
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''Little Manhattan'' is a 2005 romantic comedy
The movie depicts the story of ten-year-old Gabe's realization that girls can be pretty and pretty nice to be with. The story takes place, and was filmed on location, in Manhattan, mostly in the Upper West Side. The film stars Josh Hutcherson and Charlie Ray in the leading roles of the two children.
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Little Manhattan is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed and written by husband and wife Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. The movie depicts the story of ten-year-old Gabe's realization that girls can be pretty and pretty nice to be with. The story takes place, and was filmed on location, in Manhattan, mostly in the Upper West Side. The film stars Josh Hutcherson and Charlie Ray in the leading roles of the two children.
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* [[spoiler:TemporaryDivorce: Hinted at with Gabe's parents.]]
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* [[spoiler:TemporaryDivorce: Hinted TemporaryDivorce: [[spoiler:Hinted at with Gabe's parents.]]
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* ActionGirl: Rosemary, to a degree.
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* ActionGirl: Rosemary, to a degree.degree, due to training in martial arts class alongside Gabe.
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10-year-old Gabe (Josh Hutcherson) meets 11-year-old Rosemary Telesco (Charlie Ray), a girl he's known since kindergarten. But after being partnered with her for sparring, he suddenly notices her as a girl, not another face. To Gabe's elation, they begin spending time together and he is completely enamored with not only her, but her life.
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10-year-old Gabe (Josh Hutcherson) (Creator/JoshHutcherson) meets 11-year-old Rosemary Telesco (Charlie Ray), a girl he's known since kindergarten. But after being partnered with her for sparring, he suddenly notices her as a girl, not another face. To Gabe's elation, they begin spending time together and he is completely enamored with not only her, but her life.
* AdultFear: [[TruthInTelevision Perfectly shown]] after the subversion of FreeRangeChildren.
* AsHimself: Mike Chat, the host of the ShowWithinTheShow.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Gabe's karate sensei.
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* BigApplesauce: Manhattan
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* BigApplesauce: ManhattanManhattan.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Well, Gabe's black friend is the only one who gets "kooties infection", so yeah.
* CelebrityResemblance:
** According to Gabe, his mom looks like (a young) Creator/SissySpacek when she was young.
** Gabe calls Tim Staples "Creator/AshtonKutcher".
* CoolTeacher: Gabe's karate sensei. Also Mike Chat in his ImagineSpot.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Gabe, tough it's mostly played for laughs.
** According to Gabe, his mom looks like (a young) Creator/SissySpacek when she was young.
** Gabe calls Tim Staples "Creator/AshtonKutcher".
* CoolTeacher: Gabe's karate sensei. Also Mike Chat in his ImagineSpot.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Gabe, tough it's mostly played for laughs.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Narrator!Gabe.
* ForeignFanservice: The Swedish girl whom the elevator guy has a crush on.
* ForeignFanservice: The Swedish girl whom the elevator guy has a crush on.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It is heavily raining the day [[spoiler: after Gabe and Rosemary's fallout.]]
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* ImagineSpot: First-grade boys shooting vomit as a result of cooties is especially laugh-worthy.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Rosemary and Gabe's mom are both redheads, so ItRunsInTheFamily.
* HowWeGotHere: Gabe explains in the prologue explains what happened between him and rosemary.
* ImagineSpot: Lots.
** First-grade boys shooting vomit as a result of cooties is especiallylaugh-worthy. laugh-worthy.
** Gabe imagining him and Rosemary doing a lot of "ChickFlick stuff".
** Gabe confronting his "love rival" ''Film/TheKarateKid'' style.
** Gabe constantly sees Mike Chat as his SpiritAdvisor.
* InformedAttractiveness: According to Gabe, his mom looks like (a young) Creator/SissySpacek when she was young. While she was ( and still is) pretty, they barely look alike aside from being a redhead.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Gabe and the elevator guy.
* HowWeGotHere: Gabe explains in the prologue explains what happened between him and rosemary.
* ImagineSpot: Lots.
** First-grade boys shooting vomit as a result of cooties is especially
** Gabe imagining him and Rosemary doing a lot of "ChickFlick stuff".
** Gabe confronting his "love rival" ''Film/TheKarateKid'' style.
** Gabe constantly sees Mike Chat as his SpiritAdvisor.
* InformedAttractiveness: According to Gabe, his mom looks like (a young) Creator/SissySpacek when she was young. While she was ( and still is) pretty, they barely look alike aside from being a redhead.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Gabe and the elevator guy.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Both of them fall to [[HeroesWantRedheads redheads]].
* LoveHurts: Even with children.
* LoveHurts: Even with children.
* MrFanservice: Mike Chat is constantly in a WalkingShirtlessScene.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Played for laughs in one of Gabe's ImagineSpot.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Played for laughs in one of Gabe's ImagineSpot.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Gabe's mom starts dating again after her divorce with his dad, much to his disdain.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Rosemary's flower girl dress.
* ThePlace: Three guesses where the event of the movie takes place.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Rosemary's flower girl dress.
* ThePlace: Three guesses where the event of the movie takes place.
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* ShoutOut: Gabe calls Darryl the "[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul]]" of PS-87.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Gabe calls Darryl the "[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul]]" ofPS-87.PS-87.
** Gabe did [[Film/TheKarateKid the crane stance]] in one of his ImagineSpot.
* ShowWithinAShow: Mike Chat's TV show where Gabe pics up a few karate, or so he thinks(?).
** Gabe calls Darryl the "[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul]]" of
** Gabe did [[Film/TheKarateKid the crane stance]] in one of his ImagineSpot.
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* DawsonCasting: Charlie Ray was about 13 playing 11 year old Rosemary and Josh Hutchinson as 10 year old Gabe, turned 13 around time the movie opened.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: That first kiss the kids have on-camera really was the actors' first.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Rosemary has one in a nanny assigned to take care of her while her parents are out of town (which is fairly often.)
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* AnAesop: The key to a successful relationship is being honest about your problems rather than holding secrets from each other.
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[[caption-width-right:342:Small love in a big city, in the eyes of children.]]
Little Manhattan is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed and written by husband and wife Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. The movie depicts the story of ten-year-old Gabe's realization that girls can be pretty and pretty nice to be with. The story takes place, and was filmed on location, in Manhattan, mostly in the Upper West Side. The film stars Josh Hutcherson and Charlie Ray in the leading roles of the two children.
10-year-old Gabe (Josh Hutcherson) meets 11-year-old Rosemary Telesco (Charlie Ray), a girl he's known since kindergarten. But after being partnered with her for sparring, he suddenly notices her as a girl, not another face. To Gabe's elation, they begin spending time together and he is completely enamored with not only her, but her life.
!!This movie contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Rosemary, to a degree.
* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Averted. Gabe and his father spend time together by practicing his placekicking. Narrator!Gabe compares their relationship to [[TigerWoods Tiger and Earl.]]
* BetaCouple: Inverted. Gabe and Rosemary start to get going right as Gabe's parents are right on the brink of divorce.
* BigApplesauce: Manhattan
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Rosemary goes off to camp and private school, but it's implied that Gabe's parents rediscover their 'spark' and his family stays happy and whole.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The Disney Channel airing of the movie in the US cuts off most of the bad words (and one barber scene), including the [[PrecisionFStrike Precision H Strike]] mentioned below.
* [[BullyingTheDragon Bullying A Pair Of Dragons:]] A schoolyard bully accosts Gabe and Rosemary while they are together. Seeing as one of the several subplots in the movie has Gabe and Rosemary attempting to ascend the ranks of their karate school...this didn't work out too well for the bully.
* DawsonCasting: Charlie Ray was about 13 playing 11 year old Rosemary and Josh Hutchinson as 10 year old Gabe, turned 13 around time the movie opened.
* DeadpanSnarker: Narrator!Gabe has some shades of this.
* [[spoiler:DidNotGetTheGirl: Rosemary feels she's too young for a relationship and turns Gabe down. However, she acquiesces to dancing with him.]]
* EnforcedMethodActing: That first kiss the kids have on-camera really was the actors' first.
* EpicFail: Gabe breaks his hand trying to punch through a wood block at one point in the film.
* ExiledToTheCouch: Gabe's dad.
* FreeRangeChildren: Subverted. Gabe has a nine-block radius that he's allowed to roam unsupervised, which is still quite a lot for a ten-year-old kid living in the middle of New York City. He gets into terrible trouble for going outside of this zone and consequently taking so long to come back home that his mother calls the cops.
* GenderBlenderName: Rosemary's actress, [[GenderBlenderName ''Charlie'']] Ray.
** [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Her name is]] Charlotte.
* GroinAttack: Against Darryl Kitzens.
* ImagineSpot: First-grade boys shooting vomit as a result of cooties is especially laugh-worthy.
* JustFriends: What they were in the beginning, [[spoiler:and ended as such.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Gabe gives fair warning, but it's still jarring to go from his parents' days of young love to their divorce-pending present.
* ParentalSubstitute: Rosemary has one in a nanny assigned to take care of her while her parents are out of town (which is fairly often.)
* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision H Strike:]] In one of the ending sequences of the movie, Gabe responds to Rosemary's invitation to dance with an almost alarmingly casual, "Sure. What the hell?"
* PuppyLove: TheMovie.
* RealSongThemeTune: The movie's opening, ''Only The Strongest Survive'' by ElvisPresley.
* RecycledInSpace: Essentially, it's a romantic comedy (and is called so on the back of the DVD cover)...with the main characters roughly half the age they would be normally.
* TheRival: Tim Staples for Gabe.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Doubly subverted. She is ''not'' "all grown up", per se - that's [[PuppyLove the whole point of the film]] - but there is still an element of the two having been acquaintances and friends since very early childhood and the romantic feelings starting to manifest after the passage of some time.
* ShoutOut: Gabe calls Darryl the "[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul]]" of PS-87.
* [[spoiler:TemporaryDivorce: Hinted at with Gabe's parents.]]
* TonightSomeoneKisses: A literal one, by Gabe. [[spoiler:It only makes things worse.]]
* TruthInTelevision: To a degree. While the seeds of a ''sex drive'' [[{{Squick}} (hopefully)]] don't manifest until adolescence, it's not unheard of for kids - American kids in particular - to have curiosity about the opposite sex during their pre-adolescent years.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Zigzagged with Rosemary and Gabe. Both were good friends when they were younger but drifted apart only to later wind up as as couple, kinda, [[spoiler: then become just friends again.]]
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[[caption-width-right:342:Small love in a big city, in the eyes of children.]]
Little Manhattan is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed and written by husband and wife Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. The movie depicts the story of ten-year-old Gabe's realization that girls can be pretty and pretty nice to be with. The story takes place, and was filmed on location, in Manhattan, mostly in the Upper West Side. The film stars Josh Hutcherson and Charlie Ray in the leading roles of the two children.
10-year-old Gabe (Josh Hutcherson) meets 11-year-old Rosemary Telesco (Charlie Ray), a girl he's known since kindergarten. But after being partnered with her for sparring, he suddenly notices her as a girl, not another face. To Gabe's elation, they begin spending time together and he is completely enamored with not only her, but her life.
!!This movie contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Rosemary, to a degree.
* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Averted. Gabe and his father spend time together by practicing his placekicking. Narrator!Gabe compares their relationship to [[TigerWoods Tiger and Earl.]]
* BetaCouple: Inverted. Gabe and Rosemary start to get going right as Gabe's parents are right on the brink of divorce.
* BigApplesauce: Manhattan
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Rosemary goes off to camp and private school, but it's implied that Gabe's parents rediscover their 'spark' and his family stays happy and whole.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The Disney Channel airing of the movie in the US cuts off most of the bad words (and one barber scene), including the [[PrecisionFStrike Precision H Strike]] mentioned below.
* [[BullyingTheDragon Bullying A Pair Of Dragons:]] A schoolyard bully accosts Gabe and Rosemary while they are together. Seeing as one of the several subplots in the movie has Gabe and Rosemary attempting to ascend the ranks of their karate school...this didn't work out too well for the bully.
* DawsonCasting: Charlie Ray was about 13 playing 11 year old Rosemary and Josh Hutchinson as 10 year old Gabe, turned 13 around time the movie opened.
* DeadpanSnarker: Narrator!Gabe has some shades of this.
* [[spoiler:DidNotGetTheGirl: Rosemary feels she's too young for a relationship and turns Gabe down. However, she acquiesces to dancing with him.]]
* EnforcedMethodActing: That first kiss the kids have on-camera really was the actors' first.
* EpicFail: Gabe breaks his hand trying to punch through a wood block at one point in the film.
* ExiledToTheCouch: Gabe's dad.
* FreeRangeChildren: Subverted. Gabe has a nine-block radius that he's allowed to roam unsupervised, which is still quite a lot for a ten-year-old kid living in the middle of New York City. He gets into terrible trouble for going outside of this zone and consequently taking so long to come back home that his mother calls the cops.
* GenderBlenderName: Rosemary's actress, [[GenderBlenderName ''Charlie'']] Ray.
** [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Her name is]] Charlotte.
* GroinAttack: Against Darryl Kitzens.
* ImagineSpot: First-grade boys shooting vomit as a result of cooties is especially laugh-worthy.
* JustFriends: What they were in the beginning, [[spoiler:and ended as such.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Gabe gives fair warning, but it's still jarring to go from his parents' days of young love to their divorce-pending present.
* ParentalSubstitute: Rosemary has one in a nanny assigned to take care of her while her parents are out of town (which is fairly often.)
* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision H Strike:]] In one of the ending sequences of the movie, Gabe responds to Rosemary's invitation to dance with an almost alarmingly casual, "Sure. What the hell?"
* PuppyLove: TheMovie.
* RealSongThemeTune: The movie's opening, ''Only The Strongest Survive'' by ElvisPresley.
* RecycledInSpace: Essentially, it's a romantic comedy (and is called so on the back of the DVD cover)...with the main characters roughly half the age they would be normally.
* TheRival: Tim Staples for Gabe.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Doubly subverted. She is ''not'' "all grown up", per se - that's [[PuppyLove the whole point of the film]] - but there is still an element of the two having been acquaintances and friends since very early childhood and the romantic feelings starting to manifest after the passage of some time.
* ShoutOut: Gabe calls Darryl the "[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul]]" of PS-87.
* [[spoiler:TemporaryDivorce: Hinted at with Gabe's parents.]]
* TonightSomeoneKisses: A literal one, by Gabe. [[spoiler:It only makes things worse.]]
* TruthInTelevision: To a degree. While the seeds of a ''sex drive'' [[{{Squick}} (hopefully)]] don't manifest until adolescence, it's not unheard of for kids - American kids in particular - to have curiosity about the opposite sex during their pre-adolescent years.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Zigzagged with Rosemary and Gabe. Both were good friends when they were younger but drifted apart only to later wind up as as couple, kinda, [[spoiler: then become just friends again.]]
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