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* SocialClimber: In the first movie, Mrs. Quickly allows herself to become reconciled to Mr. Brown (after his disastrous first attempt at a proposal) when she finds out that his aunt is [i]Lady[/i] Adelaide Stitch. When she finally meets Lady Adelaide, Mrs. Quickly goes into extreme ProfessionalButtKisser mode.
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* SocialClimber: In the first movie, Mrs. Quickly allows herself to become reconciled to Mr. Brown (after his disastrous first attempt at a proposal) when she finds out that his aunt is [i]Lady[/i] ''Lady'' Adelaide Stitch. When she finally meets Lady Adelaide, Mrs. Quickly goes into extreme ProfessionalButtKisser mode.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Simon refuses to give Nanny McPhee any control in the kitchen scene... despite the fact that the curse they're under could cause his baby sibling to be hurled into a pot of boiling water. Naturally, everyone is screaming at him.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Simon refuses to give Nanny McPhee [=McPhee=] any control in the kitchen scene... despite the fact that the curse they're under could cause his baby sibling to be hurled into a pot of boiling water. Naturally, everyone is screaming at him.
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* SocialClimber: In the first movie, Mrs. Quickly allows herself to become reconciled to Mr. Brown (after his disastrous first attempt at a proposal) when she finds out that his aunt is [i]Lady[/i] Adelaide Stitch. When she finally meets Lady Adelaide, Mrs. Quickly goes into extreme ButtKisser mode.
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* SocialClimber: In the first movie, Mrs. Quickly allows herself to become reconciled to Mr. Brown (after his disastrous first attempt at a proposal) when she finds out that his aunt is [i]Lady[/i] Adelaide Stitch. When she finally meets Lady Adelaide, Mrs. Quickly goes into extreme ButtKisser ProfessionalButtKisser mode.
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* TheCameo: Ewan Macgregor as [spoiler:the dad in the second movie.]
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* TheCameo: Ewan Macgregor as [spoiler:the [[spoiler:the dad in the second movie.]]]
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* TheCameo: Ewan Macgregor as [spoiler:the dad in the second movie.]
* SocialClimber: In the first movie, Mrs. Quickly allows herself to become reconciled to Mr. Brown (after his disastrous first attempt at a proposal) when she finds out that his aunt is [i]Lady[/i] Adelaide Stitch. When she finally meets Lady Adelaide, Mrs. Quickly goes into extreme ButtKisser mode.
* WardrobeWound: Celia shrieks more about her new clothes being dragged in the mud than during the ensuing beat-'em-up scene.
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* WickedStepmother: Averted by Evangeline having a good stepmother. Played straight in that Selma Quidgly would have been a rotten stepmother -- had she actually married Mr. Brown. Subverted by the sweet Evangeline actually being the one becoming the kids' stepmother- much to everyone's joy.
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* WickedStepmother: Averted by Evangeline having a good stepmother. Played straight in that Selma Quidgly Quickly would have been a rotten stepmother -- had she actually married Mr. Brown. Subverted by the sweet Evangeline actually being the one becoming the kids' stepmother- much to everyone's joy.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Simon refuses to give Nanny McPhee any control in the kitchen scene... despite the fact that the curse they're under could cause his baby sibling to be hurled into a pot of boiling water. Naturally, everyone is screaming at him.
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* CueTheFlyingPigs: * ''Nanny [=McPhee=] Returns'' had flying pigs, referential of a similar gag in the first film in which "snow in August" was used as a phrase to describe something supposedly impossible and then did happen thanks to Nanny's magic.
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* CueTheFlyingPigs: * ''Nanny [=McPhee=] Returns'' had flying pigs, referential of a similar gag in the first film in which "snow in August" was used as a phrase to describe something supposedly impossible and then did happen thanks to Nanny's magic.
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** While Nanny [=McPhee=] is generally stoic, in the first movie when Mrs. Quickly [[spoiler:breaks Aggie's rattle]] she seems very angry at the woman.
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** While Nanny [=McPhee=] is generally stoic, in the first movie when Mrs. Quickly [[spoiler:breaks Aggie's rattle]] she seems very angry at the woman.woman, and is sure to replace it before she leaves.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouSay
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: in the sequel. The extent of Phil's wrongdoing is finally made known to Isabel, even as he tries to get the military police guy to cart him off - but the MP has to tend to a bomb threat, leaving Phil with a handcuff on him. Isabel takes the other end and ''cuffs him to the wall'', sealing his fate one way or another.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: in In the sequel. The extent of Phil's wrongdoing is finally made known to Isabel, even as he tries to get the military police guy to cart him off - but the MP has to tend to a bomb threat, leaving Phil with a handcuff on him. Isabel takes the other end and ''cuffs him to the wall'', sealing his fate one way or another.
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The baby elephant]] in the sequel. And a surprising number of people already know Nanny [=McPhee=], including [[spoiler:Mrs. Docherty.]]
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The baby elephant]] in the sequel. And a surprising number of people already know Nanny [=McPhee=], including [[spoiler:Mrs. Docherty.]]Docherty]].
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs. Docherty, the loopy candy store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know all about Nanny [=McPhee=].]]
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs. Docherty, the loopy candy store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know all about Nanny [=McPhee=].]][=McPhee=]]].
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* ContinuityNod: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Mrs. Docherty was the youngest Brown child from the previous movie.]]
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* ContinuityNod: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Mrs. Docherty was the youngest Brown child from the previous movie.]]movie]].
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** Revisited in the sequel, [[spoiler:involving a [[EekAMouse "mouse"]].]]
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** Revisited in the sequel, [[spoiler:involving a [[EekAMouse "mouse"]].]]"mouse"]]]].
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Evangeline
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* SheCleansUpNicely: EvangelineEvangeline.
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* RemarryingForYourKids: A major plot is the first movie is Cedric Brown's necessity to get remarried after his wife's death, due to pressure put on him by the great aunt. [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, he marries Evangeline. ]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and Megsie successfully filches uncle Phil's pen. When Phil finds three more in a drawer, [[spoiler:Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on Megsie]].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** When Simon ruins Cedric's chance at marrying Mrs. Quickly, he believed he had finally stopped his father from attempting to get them an evil stepmother. Cedric, having tried to shield his kids from the reality of his financial situation (which requires him to be married by the end of the month, which was just days away, or he loses Aunt Adelaide's financial support), walks in completely destroyed and informs the kids of what they had just done.
** In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and Megsie successfully filches uncle Phil's pen. When Phil finds three more in a drawer, [[spoiler:Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on Megsie]].
** When Simon ruins Cedric's chance at marrying Mrs. Quickly, he believed he had finally stopped his father from attempting to get them an evil stepmother. Cedric, having tried to shield his kids from the reality of his financial situation (which requires him to be married by the end of the month, which was just days away, or he loses Aunt Adelaide's financial support), walks in completely destroyed and informs the kids of what they had just done.
** In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and Megsie successfully filches uncle Phil's pen. When Phil finds three more in a drawer, [[spoiler:Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on Megsie]].
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* OverlyLongScream: Celia when faking seeing a mouse. She apparently had been screaming for ''half an hour straight''.
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* MeaningfulName: Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls -- their presence will certainly make you [[IncrediblyLamePun whine and yowl.]]
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* MeaningfulName: MeaningfulName:
** Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls -- their presence will certainly make you [[IncrediblyLamePun whine and yowl.]]]]
** While not prominent, Celia and Cyril's surname is Gray while Isabel's family is Green. Celia and Cyril comes from the city while Isabel's family lives on the countryside. This also ties into the themed naming from the film in general, as the protagonists from the last film have the surname Brown.
** Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls -- their presence will certainly make you [[IncrediblyLamePun whine and yowl.
** While not prominent, Celia and Cyril's surname is Gray while Isabel's family is Green. Celia and Cyril comes from the city while Isabel's family lives on the countryside. This also ties into the themed naming from the film in general, as the protagonists from the last film have the surname Brown.
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** Although the "skyscraper" is actually Senate House, the University of London Library, built in the 1930s and home to the Ministry of Information during the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Second World War]].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and Megsie successfully filches uncle Phil's pen. When Phil finds three more in a drawer, [[spoiler:Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on Megsie].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and Megsie successfully filches uncle Phil's pen. When Phil finds three more in a drawer, [[spoiler:Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on Megsie].Megsie]].
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* BerserkButton: In the sequel. One of the city kids deliberately takes a jar of jam the farm kids had created by saving their sugar rations for months, and wanted to have the first taste with their DisappearedDad. And it breaks. They go justifiably postal.
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** In the sequel. One of the city kids deliberately takes a jar of jam the farm kids had created by saving their sugar rations for months, and wanted to have the first taste with their DisappearedDad. And it breaks. They go justifiablypostal.postal.
** While Nanny [=McPhee=] is generally stoic, in the first movie when Mrs. Quickly [[spoiler:breaks Aggie's rattle]] she seems very angry at the woman.
** In the sequel. One of the city kids deliberately takes a jar of jam the farm kids had created by saving their sugar rations for months, and wanted to have the first taste with their DisappearedDad. And it breaks. They go justifiably
** While Nanny [=McPhee=] is generally stoic, in the first movie when Mrs. Quickly [[spoiler:breaks Aggie's rattle]] she seems very angry at the woman.
* CassandraTruth: In the second movie, when the kids talk about [[spoiler:the pigs' amazing abilities, like synchronized swimming and climbing trees,]] Isabel tells them to stop telling lies.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishmentCoolAndUnusualPunishment: Nanny [=McPhee=]'s prefered method of punishment. Play sick? She will make it real. Beat up each other apologetically? She will make you beat yourself up.
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* CordonBleughChef: The chef, specifically when she makes her "army broth".
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* CordonBleughChef: The chef, specifically when she makes her "army broth".broth" in the first movie.
* EurekaMoment: The kids in the second film have one when they realize it wasn't some Military tech or gas, but ''magic'' Nanny [=McPhee=] has used on them.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and the country girl Megsie successfully filches uncle Phil's pen. When Phil finds three more in a drawer, Nanny [[spoiler:Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on the country girl...Megsie].
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* OffscreenTeleportation: A RunningGag.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: A RunningGag.RunningGag in the first movie.
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* PieInTheFace: Or wedding cake in the face, actually.
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* PieInTheFace: Or wedding cake in the face, actually. Aunt Adelaide [[spoiler:is too proper to throw food herself. So she had her servant throw on her behalf.]]
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* SpotOfTeaSpotOfTea: Used a few times over.
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* TricksterMentorTricksterMentor: Nanny [=McPhee=] always has five lessons to teach. What else the people she helps may learn is another matter.
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* WhyWasteAWeddingWhyWasteAWedding: [[spoiler:After running off Selma Quickly, and a fix-up from Nanny [=McPhee=], Cedric and Evangeline use it.]]
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Cedric Brown is a hard-working widower who can't spend much time with his seven children, so he leaves them in the care of nannies. However, the children are very naughty and have managed, with pride, to scare the past seventeen nannies away. Running out of options, Mr. Brown listens to a mysterious voice's advice to call for a "Nanny [=McPhee=]". Nanny [=McPhee=] turns out to be a hag-like woman with a crooked cane and a habit of appearing out of nowhere. But there's a secret to her care-taking -- she has [[MagicalNanny magic powers]], which she uses to teach the children some important lessons.
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Cedric Brown is a hard-working widower who can't spend much time with his seven children, so he leaves them in the care of nannies. However, the children are very naughty and have managed, with pride, to scare the past seventeen nannies away. Running out of options, Mr. Brown listens to a mysterious voice's advice to call for a "Nanny [=McPhee=]". Nanny [=McPhee=] turns out to be a hag-like woman with a crooked cane and a habit of [[StealthHiBye appearing out of nowhere.nowhere]] (though she does mention she did knock). But there's a secret to her care-taking -- she has [[MagicalNanny magic powers]], which she uses to teach the children some important lessons.
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->''"When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go."''
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* AnachronismStew: A black guardsman, guarding the War Office (a skyscraper) in his red tunic, in an unbombed London with no tape at the windows.
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-->"I '''did''' knock."
-->"I '''did''' knock."
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* BlanketTugOWar: The baby elephant and Vincent in the sequel.
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* ContinuityNod: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Mrs Dottie was the youngest Brown child from the previous movie.]]
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* ContinuityNod: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Mrs Dottie [[spoiler:Mrs. Docherty was the youngest Brown child from the previous movie.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the sequel, a BritishRoyalGuard turns out to be one of Nanny [=McPhee's=] children from the past. [[spoiler:So was Mrs Dottie -- maiden name Brown.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the sequel, a BritishRoyalGuard turns out to be one of Nanny [=McPhee's=] children from the past. [[spoiler:So was Mrs Dottie -- Mrs. Docherty-- maiden name Brown.]]
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No evidence to show Nanny Mc Phee knew the children\'s father personally. She was most likely being courtious to an injured soldier who was serving his country. Granted, yes she may have known who \'\'he\'\' was in relation to the family she just left but he more than likely didn\'t know her. Oh, and the last name wasn\'t \"Dottie\" but \"Docherty
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The baby elephant]] in the sequel. And a surprising number of people already know Nanny [=McPhee=], including [[spoiler:Mrs Dottie and the DisappearedDad.]]
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The baby elephant]] in the sequel. And a surprising number of people already know Nanny [=McPhee=], including [[spoiler:Mrs Dottie and the DisappearedDad.[[spoiler:Mrs. Docherty.]]
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs Dottie, the loopy candy store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know all about Nanny [=McPhee=].]]
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs Dottie, Mrs. Docherty, the loopy candy store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know all about Nanny [=McPhee=].]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: in the sequel. The extent of Phil's wrongdoing is finally made known to Isabel, even as he tries to get the military police guy to cart him off - but the MP has to tend to a bomb threat, leaving Phil with a handcuff on him. Isabel takes the other end and ''cuffs him to the wall'', sealing his fate one way or another.
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The baby elephant]] in the sequel.
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The baby elephant]] in the sequel. And a surprising number of people already know Nanny [=McPhee=], including [[spoiler:Mrs Dottie and the DisappearedDad.]]
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs Dottie, the loopy candy store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know all about Nanny [=McPhee=]]].
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs Dottie, the loopy candy store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know all about Nanny [=McPhee=]]].[=McPhee=].]]
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* EekAMouse: Faked by Celia in the sequel to keep her aunt from signing Phil's contract to sell the farm.
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* EekAMouse: Faked by Celia in the sequel to keep her aunt Isabel from signing Phil's contract to sell the farm.
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* LeapOfFaith: In the sequel film, one of Nanny [=McPhee=]'s medals is for Leaps of Faith and, at the end of the film, she awards it to the mother.
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* LeapOfFaith: In the sequel film, one of Nanny [=McPhee=]'s medals is for Leaps of Faith and, at the end of the film, she awards it to the mother.Isabel.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and the country girl successfully filches the uncle's pen. When the uncle finds three more in a drawer, Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on the country girl...
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and the country girl successfully filches the uncle's uncle Phil's pen. When the uncle Phil finds three more in a drawer, Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on the country girl...girl...
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Miss Topsy and Miss Turvy in the sequel, who talk about harvesting Phil's kidneys and taxidermising him with mad glee.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Miss Topsy and Miss Turvy in the sequel, who talk about harvesting Phil's kidneys and taxidermising him with mad glee.
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* TitleDrop: In the sequel, a war veteran warns Maggie Gyllenhaal and family of the threat of bombings, calling it "the Big Bang".
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* TitleDrop: In the sequel, a war veteran warns Maggie Gyllenhaal Isabel and family of the threat of bombings, calling it "the Big Bang".
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* {{Expy}}: Nanny [=McPhee=] is MaryPoppins. Only more interesting.
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* {{Expy}}: Nanny [=McPhee=] is MaryPoppins.Film/MaryPoppins. Only more interesting.
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* XMeetsY: Mary Poppins [[AC:but DarkerAndEdgier with MORE OBVIOUS MAGIC!]] Alternatively, MaryPoppins [[AC:[[{{Deconstruction}} with a proper witch]]]].
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* XMeetsY: Mary Poppins Film/MaryPoppins [[AC:but DarkerAndEdgier with MORE OBVIOUS MAGIC!]] Alternatively, MaryPoppins Mary Poppins [[AC:[[{{Deconstruction}} with a proper witch]]]].
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* ButNowIMustGo: The page quote.See above.
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->''"When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go."''
-->-- '''Nanny [=McPhee=]'''
Cedric Brown is a hard-working widower who can't spend much time with his seven children, so he leaves them in the care of nannies. However, the children are very naughty and have managed, with pride, to scare the past seventeen nannies away. Running out of options, Mr. Brown listens to a mysterious voice's advice to call for a "Nanny [=McPhee=]". Nanny [=McPhee=] turns out to be a hag-like woman with a crooked cane and a habit of appearing out of nowhere. But there's a secret to her care-taking -- she has [[MagicalNanny magic powers]], which she uses to teach the children some important lessons.
Naughty children aren't the only problems Mr. Brown has to face. The truth is his late wife's aunt, Lady Adelaide Stitch, is supporting the family through a regular allowance, and she decides that unless Mr. Brown remarries by the end of the month, she will cut off those funds, meaning he will lose his house and his children. It's up to Nanny [=McPhee=] to help save a family on the brink of ruin.
The 2005 movie did well in theaters, and a sequel, ''Nanny [=McPhee=] and the Big Bang'' (called ''Nanny [=McPhee=] Returns'' in the United States), premiered in 2010. MaggieGyllenhaal plays a beleaguered housewife juggling a farm and three children, while awaiting her husband's return from the war. With the added pressure of her brother-in-law wanting her to sell off the farm (to pay off his own gambling debts), and two upper-class cousins staying over, Nanny [=McPhee=] is needed once again. The trailer can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVOzEmywwMM here]].
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!!''Nanny [=McPhee=]'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* {{Badass}}: Nanny [=McPhee=], to a point. This is a woman who rides in flying motorcycles, maintains order with a magic stick, and receives full attention and salutes from trained army soldiers.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Played with.
* BeautyInversion: Spun into a ''plot point'' for Nanny [=McPhee=]. [[spoiler:Every time the children learn something, one of her many hideous blemishes disappear. By the time her job is done, she's a completely unblemished Emma Thompson. Essentially, she's as ugly on the outside ''as they are on the inside''.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouSay
** See PlayingSick below.
** In the sequel, the farm kids refuse to share their beds with the city kids, claiming they'd rather share their beds with the farm's goat and cow. Then the smallest farm kid blurts out "elephant" as his choice, leading up to Nanny [=McPhee=] trying to hide a literal ElephantInTheLivingRoom.
* BerserkButton: In the sequel. One of the city kids deliberately takes a jar of jam the farm kids were saving for their DisappearedDad. And it breaks. They go justifiably postal.
* BlitzEvacuees: The cousins from London. [[spoiler:Though that wasn't the only reason...]]
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The baby elephant]] in the sequel.
* ButNowIMustGo: The page quote.
* ChekhovsSkill: From a ''bird'' of all things (in the sequel).
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s: Mr. Brown's partners at the funeral agency -- Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs Dottie, the loopy candy store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know all about Nanny [=McPhee=]]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment
* ContinuityNod: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Mrs Dottie was the youngest Brown child from the previous movie.]]
* CordonBleughChef: The chef, specifically when she makes her "army broth".
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Mr. Brown tries this on the children, but it doesn't work.
* DisappearedDad: The premise of the sequel.
* EekAMouse: Faked by Celia in the sequel to keep her aunt from signing Phil's contract to sell the farm.
* {{Expy}}: Nanny [=McPhee=] is MaryPoppins. Only more interesting.
* FoodFight: Two -- one near the beginning with chaos, catapults and near-explosions, and [[spoiler:one at the wedding at the end, including wedding cake being thrown. Not to mention the one who kicks it all off is a priest toward the bride -- accidentally, but still.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the sequel, a BritishRoyalGuard turns out to be one of Nanny [=McPhee's=] children from the past. [[spoiler:So was Mrs Dottie -- maiden name Brown.]]
* {{Gasshole}}: A crow's habit of eating putty turns it into one. [[RunningGag Consistently.]]
* InexplicablyAwesome
* LeapOfFaith: In the sequel film, one of Nanny [=McPhee=]'s medals is for Leaps of Faith and, at the end of the film, she awards it to the mother.
* MagicalNanny: Obviously.
* MeaningfulName: Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls -- their presence will certainly make you [[IncrediblyLamePun whine and yowl.]]
* MissingMom
* MissingTrailerScene: Some of the trailers for the sequel film included quite a bit of material that didn't make into the final cut of the film, though some of it was included in deleted scenes.
* {{Novelization}}: There's one for ''Nanny [=McPhee=] Returns'' and it's written by Emma Thompson, who plays Nanny [=McPhee=] and was the writer for this sequel film. It's her first ever children's book and it takes the form of a movie filming diary mixed in with the actual story. The book was praised by reviewers as being more than a simple tie-in. The audiobook version of the novelization is narrated by Emma.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and the country girl successfully filches the uncle's pen. When the uncle finds three more in a drawer, Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on the country girl...
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Implied. Nanny [=McPhee=] asks Norman to not lose her stick as the paperwork to replace it is unbelievable.
* PhraseCatcher: "I did knock." Although it is more like a borrowed (by Simon) CatchPhrase.
* PieInTheFace: Or wedding cake in the face, actually.
* PlayingSick
** The children try this on Nanny [=McPhee=], but she doesn't buy it for a second. [[spoiler:And she punishes them for it by making them sick for real and physically unable to get out of their beds. Ouch!]]
** [[spoiler:They also Played Attacked-By-Bees at the wedding. It worked.]]
** Revisited in the sequel, [[spoiler:involving a [[EekAMouse "mouse"]].]]
* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler:Evangeline, who gets taken in by Aunt Adelaide in place of one of the children.]]
* [[spoiler:Really700YearsOld: If the fact that she's the same in both movies despite a possible time difference of ''60 years'' is any indication.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: Evangeline
* SpotOfTea
* TheStinger: At the end of the sequel, [[spoiler:the elephant gets to enjoy the Scratch-o-Matic machine that was designed for the pigs.]]
* TimeBomb: Of a sort, in the sequel.
* TitleDrop: In the sequel, a war veteran warns Maggie Gyllenhaal and family of the threat of bombings, calling it "the Big Bang".
* TricksterMentor
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Selma Quickly. Amusingly she says, "There are going to be changes around here.", a line made famous by Imelda Staunton as Professor Umbridge in ''Film/HarryPotter'''s own TyrantTakesTheHelm story arc while Imelda Staunton herself is playing the cook in this film. (And Emma Thompson's (Nanny [=McPhee=]) character, Professor Trelawney, was a victim of those changes.)
* UnusualEuphemism: "LORD LOVE A DUCK!", [[spoiler:said by the priest after the first slice of wedding cake is thrown.]]
* WhyWasteAWedding
* WickedStepmother: Averted by Evangeline having a good stepmother. Played straight in that Selma Quidgly would have been a rotten stepmother -- had she actually married Mr. Brown. Subverted by the sweet Evangeline actually being the one becoming the kids' stepmother- much to everyone's joy.
* WireDilemma: In the sequel film.
* XMeetsY: Mary Poppins [[AC:but DarkerAndEdgier with MORE OBVIOUS MAGIC!]] Alternatively, MaryPoppins [[AC:[[{{Deconstruction}} with a proper witch]]]].
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->''"When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go."''
-->-- '''Nanny [=McPhee=]'''
Cedric Brown is a hard-working widower who can't spend much time with his seven children, so he leaves them in the care of nannies. However, the children are very naughty and have managed, with pride, to scare the past seventeen nannies away. Running out of options, Mr. Brown listens to a mysterious voice's advice to call for a "Nanny [=McPhee=]". Nanny [=McPhee=] turns out to be a hag-like woman with a crooked cane and a habit of appearing out of nowhere. But there's a secret to her care-taking -- she has [[MagicalNanny magic powers]], which she uses to teach the children some important lessons.
Naughty children aren't the only problems Mr. Brown has to face. The truth is his late wife's aunt, Lady Adelaide Stitch, is supporting the family through a regular allowance, and she decides that unless Mr. Brown remarries by the end of the month, she will cut off those funds, meaning he will lose his house and his children. It's up to Nanny [=McPhee=] to help save a family on the brink of ruin.
The 2005 movie did well in theaters, and a sequel, ''Nanny [=McPhee=] and the Big Bang'' (called ''Nanny [=McPhee=] Returns'' in the United States), premiered in 2010. MaggieGyllenhaal plays a beleaguered housewife juggling a farm and three children, while awaiting her husband's return from the war. With the added pressure of her brother-in-law wanting her to sell off the farm (to pay off his own gambling debts), and two upper-class cousins staying over, Nanny [=McPhee=] is needed once again. The trailer can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVOzEmywwMM here]].
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!!''Nanny [=McPhee=]'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* {{Badass}}: Nanny [=McPhee=], to a point. This is a woman who rides in flying motorcycles, maintains order with a magic stick, and receives full attention and salutes from trained army soldiers.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Played with.
* BeautyInversion: Spun into a ''plot point'' for Nanny [=McPhee=]. [[spoiler:Every time the children learn something, one of her many hideous blemishes disappear. By the time her job is done, she's a completely unblemished Emma Thompson. Essentially, she's as ugly on the outside ''as they are on the inside''.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouSay
** See PlayingSick below.
** In the sequel, the farm kids refuse to share their beds with the city kids, claiming they'd rather share their beds with the farm's goat and cow. Then the smallest farm kid blurts out "elephant" as his choice, leading up to Nanny [=McPhee=] trying to hide a literal ElephantInTheLivingRoom.
* BerserkButton: In the sequel. One of the city kids deliberately takes a jar of jam the farm kids were saving for their DisappearedDad. And it breaks. They go justifiably postal.
* BlitzEvacuees: The cousins from London. [[spoiler:Though that wasn't the only reason...]]
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The baby elephant]] in the sequel.
* ButNowIMustGo: The page quote.
* ChekhovsSkill: From a ''bird'' of all things (in the sequel).
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s: Mr. Brown's partners at the funeral agency -- Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: In the sequel, Mrs Dottie, the loopy candy store owner played by Maggie Smith happens to [[spoiler:know all about Nanny [=McPhee=]]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment
* ContinuityNod: In the sequel, [[spoiler:Mrs Dottie was the youngest Brown child from the previous movie.]]
* CordonBleughChef: The chef, specifically when she makes her "army broth".
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Mr. Brown tries this on the children, but it doesn't work.
* DisappearedDad: The premise of the sequel.
* EekAMouse: Faked by Celia in the sequel to keep her aunt from signing Phil's contract to sell the farm.
* {{Expy}}: Nanny [=McPhee=] is MaryPoppins. Only more interesting.
* FoodFight: Two -- one near the beginning with chaos, catapults and near-explosions, and [[spoiler:one at the wedding at the end, including wedding cake being thrown. Not to mention the one who kicks it all off is a priest toward the bride -- accidentally, but still.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the sequel, a BritishRoyalGuard turns out to be one of Nanny [=McPhee's=] children from the past. [[spoiler:So was Mrs Dottie -- maiden name Brown.]]
* {{Gasshole}}: A crow's habit of eating putty turns it into one. [[RunningGag Consistently.]]
* InexplicablyAwesome
* LeapOfFaith: In the sequel film, one of Nanny [=McPhee=]'s medals is for Leaps of Faith and, at the end of the film, she awards it to the mother.
* MagicalNanny: Obviously.
* MeaningfulName: Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls -- their presence will certainly make you [[IncrediblyLamePun whine and yowl.]]
* MissingMom
* MissingTrailerScene: Some of the trailers for the sequel film included quite a bit of material that didn't make into the final cut of the film, though some of it was included in deleted scenes.
* {{Novelization}}: There's one for ''Nanny [=McPhee=] Returns'' and it's written by Emma Thompson, who plays Nanny [=McPhee=] and was the writer for this sequel film. It's her first ever children's book and it takes the form of a movie filming diary mixed in with the actual story. The book was praised by reviewers as being more than a simple tie-in. The audiobook version of the novelization is narrated by Emma.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In the sequel, the girls have to prevent Isabel from signing the deed to the farm, and the country girl successfully filches the uncle's pen. When the uncle finds three more in a drawer, Nanny [=McPhee=] intervenes by bringing back [[BrickJoke the baby elephant]] to snatch the three pens without him knowing. And then he finds the first pen on the country girl...
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Implied. Nanny [=McPhee=] asks Norman to not lose her stick as the paperwork to replace it is unbelievable.
* PhraseCatcher: "I did knock." Although it is more like a borrowed (by Simon) CatchPhrase.
* PieInTheFace: Or wedding cake in the face, actually.
* PlayingSick
** The children try this on Nanny [=McPhee=], but she doesn't buy it for a second. [[spoiler:And she punishes them for it by making them sick for real and physically unable to get out of their beds. Ouch!]]
** [[spoiler:They also Played Attacked-By-Bees at the wedding. It worked.]]
** Revisited in the sequel, [[spoiler:involving a [[EekAMouse "mouse"]].]]
* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler:Evangeline, who gets taken in by Aunt Adelaide in place of one of the children.]]
* [[spoiler:Really700YearsOld: If the fact that she's the same in both movies despite a possible time difference of ''60 years'' is any indication.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: Evangeline
* SpotOfTea
* TheStinger: At the end of the sequel, [[spoiler:the elephant gets to enjoy the Scratch-o-Matic machine that was designed for the pigs.]]
* TimeBomb: Of a sort, in the sequel.
* TitleDrop: In the sequel, a war veteran warns Maggie Gyllenhaal and family of the threat of bombings, calling it "the Big Bang".
* TricksterMentor
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Selma Quickly. Amusingly she says, "There are going to be changes around here.", a line made famous by Imelda Staunton as Professor Umbridge in ''Film/HarryPotter'''s own TyrantTakesTheHelm story arc while Imelda Staunton herself is playing the cook in this film. (And Emma Thompson's (Nanny [=McPhee=]) character, Professor Trelawney, was a victim of those changes.)
* UnusualEuphemism: "LORD LOVE A DUCK!", [[spoiler:said by the priest after the first slice of wedding cake is thrown.]]
* WhyWasteAWedding
* WickedStepmother: Averted by Evangeline having a good stepmother. Played straight in that Selma Quidgly would have been a rotten stepmother -- had she actually married Mr. Brown. Subverted by the sweet Evangeline actually being the one becoming the kids' stepmother- much to everyone's joy.
* WireDilemma: In the sequel film.
* XMeetsY: Mary Poppins [[AC:but DarkerAndEdgier with MORE OBVIOUS MAGIC!]] Alternatively, MaryPoppins [[AC:[[{{Deconstruction}} with a proper witch]]]].
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