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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn[=/=]DiegeticSwitch: A strange combination. After the popularity spell, Louise starts to step outside, but suddenly hears a bass beat start up in the soundtrack and shuts the door in surprise, making the song stop. She then shrugs it off and continues outside, and the song resumes.

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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn[=/=]DiegeticSwitch: A strange combination. LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: After the popularity spell, Louise starts to step outside, but suddenly hears a bass beat start up in the soundtrack and shuts the door in surprise, making the song stop. She then shrugs it off and continues outside, and the song resumes.
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''Teen Witch'' is a 1989 film that began life as the above scenario, but eventually diverged enough during production to gain an identity of its own. It's the story of Louise Miller, a shy high school student, who one night discovers -- with the help of a FortuneTeller, Madame Serena -- that she is a reincarnated witch whose powers will manifest on her (Not So) DangerousSixteenthBirthday. Serena then provides Louise with a SpellBook to practice her powers. With them, she hopes to overcome her unpopularity, date the guy of her dreams, and maybe even help out her friends with their own problems. But is it all worth it in the end?

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''Teen Witch'' is a 1989 film that began life as the above scenario, but eventually diverged enough during production to gain an identity of its own. It's the story of Louise Miller, Miller (Creator/RobynLively), a shy high school student, who one night discovers -- with the help of a FortuneTeller, Madame Serena -- that she is a reincarnated witch whose powers will manifest on her (Not So) DangerousSixteenthBirthday. Serena then provides Louise with a SpellBook to practice her powers. With them, she hopes to overcome her unpopularity, date the guy of her dreams, and maybe even help out her friends with their own problems. But is it all worth it in the end?
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* BalefulPolymorph: Louise accidentally turns her brother into a dog. Via a case of [[NoYou "I'm rubber, you're glue"]].


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* ForcedTransformation: Louise accidentally turns her brother into a dog. Via a case of [[NoYou "I'm rubber, you're glue"]].
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* HollywoodNerd: Louise's first date is a virtual duplicate of Buddy Holly.
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* TheMakeover: Practically the first thing Louise does with her new-found powers is give herself a magical makeover. This involves a perm and a new wardrobe.

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%%* AlphaBitch: Almost all of the cheerleaders.
%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Louise's brother...

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%%* * AlphaBitch: Almost all of Louise views Kiki as this, although other than being the cheerleaders.
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most popular girl in school, head cheerleader, and Brad's girlfriend, she doesn't do anything particularly bitchy.
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AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Louise's brother...brother taunts and bullies his sister, while her parents refuse to keep him in line, essentially telling Louise to take care of her own problems (which she eventually does, via witchcraft).



%%* BigManOnCampus: Brad.

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%%* * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The film ''seems'' to be attempting to convey this lesson, but the consequences of Louise's magic are pretty negligible: being the center of attention gets kind of annoying and her best friend gets mad at her. The wishes Louise grants to give other people their heart's desire likewise have minimal consequences. Making one of her friends a millionaire, for example, has the drawback that now everyone only likes her for her money...but she's ''still'' a millionaire.
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BigManOnCampus: Brad.Brad, the school's star football player. All the girls have a crush on him, all the boys consider him a bro, and he definitely considers himself a great big deal.



* HumiliationConga: What's some of the first things for which Louise uses her magic? Getting back at her teachers and classmates, of course.

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* HumiliationConga: What's some of the first things for which HumiliationConga:
** The week before
Louise uses gains her magic? Getting back at powers is the worst day of her life: one of her teachers reads Louise's erotic fanfic about the school hunk in front of her entire class, including said hunk; the cheerleaders in the locker room ignore her; her little brother bullies her and classmates, of course.her parents take his side rather than hers; and it doesn't even look as if anyone likes her well enough to come to her Sweet Sixteen party.
** The first thing Louise does with her magic is unleashing a Humiliation Conga on everyone who wronged her the previous week.



* IJustWantToBeSpecial

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* IJustWantToBeSpecialIJustWantToBeSpecial: Louise looks longingly at the more popular, prettier girls in her school and wishes she could be one of them.



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%% * NoAntagonistTheMagicGoesAway: But the perks it granted her remain.
* NoAntagonist: At no point does anyone stand in Louise's way or keep her from accomplishing her goals. At worst, we get a few annoying minor characters who make her life miserable, all of whom are easily dispatched once she gains magic powers. The film seems to want us to believe that Kiki is Louise's prime antagonist, but Kiki's greatest crimes are that she's dating the boy Louise likes, that Louise wants to take her place as the most popular girl in school, and that she's a bit shallow and boy-crazy.



%%* SheCleansUpNicely: Louise post-popularity spell.

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%%* * SheCleansUpNicely: Louise post-popularity spell.Louise's popularity spell turns her from frumpy to a bombshell...except that she didn't really need magic to achieve it, just a change in hairstyle and wardrobe.



%%* VoodooDoll: Mr. Weaver's payback.

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%%* * VoodooDoll: Louise creates one to take revenge on Mr. Weaver's payback.Weaver.



%%* WishFulfillment: [[AnAesop Aesop?]] What Aesop?
%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks

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%%* * WishFulfillment: [[AnAesop Aesop?]] What Aesop?
%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks
Louise's magical powers allow her to do absolutely ''anything,'' from making money rain from the sky to making everyone like her, with little to no effort on her part and precisely zero consequences. It's only when she realizes her power has alienated her best friend that she gives it up, but she ''still'' keeps 99% of her magically ill-gotten gains, including her new boyfriend and her new look. If there's AnAesop to be found, it's that maybe [[BeYourself it is slightly better for people to like you for who you are.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: See WishFulfillment above. Louise discovers she can literally alter the whole world to suit her own rather narrow high-school level ambitions, and she has a great time doing it.

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* NoAntagonist
--> WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick : "So, the film is basically, 'Louise ''Does Stuff'' for 90 Minutes'."

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--> WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick : "So, the film is basically, 'Louise ''Does Stuff'' for 90 Minutes'."
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%%* PubertySuperpower: Provides the page quote.

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%%* * PubertySuperpower: Provides Louise gets magical powers on her sixteenth birthday. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's review of this movie provides the page quote.



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%%* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Shy, slightly nerdy wallflower Louise pines for Brad, the school's star football player.
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* HurricaneOfEuphemisms / LongList: During a sex education class:

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--> '''Nostalgia Chick''': Oh my god, he's got ''glasses''!
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No need to point to reviews here



WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick reviewed the film [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/1757-teen-witch here]].

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** Somewhat averted in that she was played by real-life Madonna-esque pop singer Cindy Valentine, who also co-wrote several songs for the soundtrack.



** Somewhat averted in that she was played by real-life Madonna-esque pop singer Cindy Valentine, who also co-wrote several songs for the soundtrack.
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* PlotHole: Water reverses spells, and it's shown from when Louise casts the truth spell on the popular girls that this applies to spells that aren't just physical transformations. Despite this, Louise's popularity spell lasts throughout the whole movie, until it's implied that she reverses it at the end. Apparently Louise never needed to shower or hydrate... Also, the voodoo doll Louise made isn't deterred by being put in the washing machine.
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** Polly and Louise's friendship fall out after Louise casts the popularity spell is never resolved.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Probably the reason that Louise becomes a CuteWitch instead of a [[Film/TeenWolf hairy, unattractive werewolf.]]
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* {{fanservice}}: Because this is the 80s, we get ''multiple'' scenes of teenage girls walking around in purple leotards, presumably thrown in for the teen males anxious about going to see a [[GirlShowGhetto girl movie.]]

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* {{fanservice}}: {{Fanservice}}: Because this is the 80s, we get ''multiple'' scenes of teenage girls walking around in purple leotards, presumably thrown in for the teen males anxious about going to see a [[GirlShowGhetto girl movie.]]



* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: The "I Like Boys" song the cheerleaders sing while dancing around the [[LesYay girls' locker room in skimpy leotards]].

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* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: The "I Like Boys" song the cheerleaders sing while dancing around the [[LesYay girls' locker room in skimpy leotards]].room.
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* Fanservice: Because this is the 80s, we get ''multiple'' scenes of teenage girls walking around in purple leotards, presumably thrown in for the teen males anxious about going to see a [[GirlShowGhetto girl movie.]]

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* Fanservice: {{fanservice}}: Because this is the 80s, we get ''multiple'' scenes of teenage girls walking around in purple leotards, presumably thrown in for the teen males anxious about going to see a [[GirlShowGhetto girl movie.]]
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* Fanservice: Because this is the 80s, we get ''multiple'' scenes of teenage girls walking around in purple leotards, presumably thrown in for the teen males anxious about going to see a [[GirlShowGhetto girl movie.]]
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* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: The "I Like Boys" song the cheerleaders sing.

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* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: The "I Like Boys" song the cheerleaders sing.sing while dancing around the [[LesYay girls' locker room in skimpy leotards]].

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