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** [[spoiler: The futuristic nation of Merciar in the chapters near the end]] also seems to be something like the author's idealistic MarySuetopia, {{Utopia}}, though he does mention its having a number of social and political problems like any other nation. [[spoiler: Its founders are also stated to be mainly Christians and Jews who were fleeing from persecution and war a number of decades into the future when they got lost in the Bermuda Triangle.]]
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''We Can't Rewind'' by B.R.L. Coryn is ostensibly a ParanormalRomance, since it focuses primarily on the main characters' relationships and how a couple of paranormal events affect them, but it [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly overlaps heavily with a lot of other genres as well]]. Told entirely from the FirstPersonPerspective of a man named Don Richards, the story is about how he and his new wife Denise manage to keep their marriage together after their honeymoon cruise gets lost in TheBermudaTriangle and he and she get {{Freaky Friday Flip}}ped with his son Jackie and her daughter Jaymee, respectively. Unlike so many other stories involving a such a swap, this isn't a {{Comedy}}, ([[RomanticComedy Romantic]] or otherwise), doesn't teach its characters any obvious [[AnAesop moral lessons]], and (above all) does ''not'' switch them back into their proper bodies by the end.
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''We Can't Rewind'' by B.R.L. Coryn is ostensibly a ParanormalRomance, since it focuses primarily on the main characters' relationships and how a couple of paranormal events affect them, but it [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly [[GenreMashup overlaps heavily with a lot of other genres as well]]. Told entirely from the FirstPersonPerspective of a man named Don Richards, the story is about how he and his new wife Denise manage to keep their marriage together after their honeymoon cruise gets lost in TheBermudaTriangle and he and she get {{Freaky Friday Flip}}ped with his son Jackie and her daughter Jaymee, respectively. Unlike so many other stories involving a such a swap, this isn't a {{Comedy}}, ([[RomanticComedy Romantic]] or otherwise), doesn't teach its characters any obvious [[AnAesop moral lessons]], and (above all) does ''not'' switch them back into their proper bodies by the end.
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%%* [[AccidentalAdultery Accidental Fornication]]: A rather complicated example. [[spoiler: Jackie and Jaymee rationalize that since they're in their parents' bodies, that makes them a married couple and means they have implicit permission to try that "grownups' game" they caught their parents playing.]]
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** In the second chapter, [[spoiler: Jaymee's biological father]] is revealed to have been posing as a homosexual while he was supposed to be promoting homosexuality in Denise's school under the auspices of an ostensible "anti-bullying" campaign while also married to a lesbian in order to present a respectable front to their straight friends and relatives. He's then revealed to have been conning his wife and other allies as well, since he never actually promoted anything but straight sex and [[spoiler: was apparently using his position mainly to get at Denise]] rather than pursuing other men or boys. Let it suffice to say, the narrator (and apparently the author) has no kind words for this guy or his allies.
** [[spoiler: The futuristic nation of Merciar in the chapters near the end]] also seems to be something like the author's idealistic MarySuetopia, though he does mention its having a number of social and political problems like any other nation. [[spoiler: Its founders are also stated to be mainly Christians and Jews who were fleeing from persecution and war a number of decades into the future when they got lost in the Bermuda Triangle.]]
** In the second chapter, [[spoiler: Jaymee's biological father]] is revealed to have been posing as a homosexual while he was supposed to be promoting homosexuality in Denise's school under the auspices of an ostensible "anti-bullying" campaign while also married to a lesbian in order to present a respectable front to their straight friends and relatives. He's then revealed to have been conning his wife and other allies as well, since he never actually promoted anything but straight sex and [[spoiler: was apparently using his position mainly to get at Denise]] rather than pursuing other men or boys. Let it suffice to say, the narrator (and apparently the author) has no kind words for this guy or his allies.
** [[spoiler: The futuristic nation of Merciar in the chapters near the end]] also seems to be something like the author's idealistic MarySuetopia, though he does mention its having a number of social and political problems like any other nation. [[spoiler: Its founders are also stated to be mainly Christians and Jews who were fleeing from persecution and war a number of decades into the future when they got lost in the Bermuda Triangle.]]
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** As part of their research, the Richards family checks out the ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' book and two of its [[Film/FreakyFriday movie]] [[Film/FreakyFriday2003 adaptations]].
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* FlirtyStepSiblings: Don and Denise feel rather obliged to [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] this since Jackie and Jaymee are near the same age, opposite sexes to each other, and definitely NotBloodSiblings. [[spoiler: Also, they've already engaged in some... ''[[UnusualEuphemism marital relations]]'' with each other in their parents' bodies. Denise brings up this up in pointing out this subject was bound to come up sooner or later anyway while Don is kicking himself for not having considered the possibility that having adult brains might inspire Jackie and Jaymee to engage in some rather adult activities.]]
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''We Can't Rewind'' by B.R.L. Coryn is ostensibly a ParanormalRomance, since it focuses primarily on the main characters' relationships and how a couple of paranormal events affect them, but it [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly overlaps heavily with a lot of other genres as well]]. Told entirely from the FirstPersonPerspective of a man named Don Richards, the story is about how he and his new wife Denise manage to keep their marriage together after their honeymoon cruise gets lost in TheBermudaTriangle and he and she get {{Freaky Friday Flip}}ped with his son Jackie and her daughter Jaymee, respectively. Unlike so many other stories involving a such a swap, this isn't a {{Comedy}}, ([[RomanticComedy Romantic]] or otherwise), doesn't teach its characters any obvious [[AnAesop moral lessons]], and (above all) does ''not'' switch them back into their proper bodies by the end.
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! This novel provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Denise, [[spoiler: and later on Jaymee, at least in terms of emotional immaturity]].
* [[AccidentalAdultery Accidental Fornication]]: A rather complicated example. [[spoiler: Jackie and Jaymee rationalize that since they're in their parents' bodies, that makes them a married couple and means they have implicit permission to try that "grownups' game" they caught their parents playing.]]
* AnAesop: Averted, though the whole family does go looking for one when trying to figure out why they got swapped in the first place.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Near the end of the story, the family acquires a medical scanner capable of telling them when a child was conceived "within a three day margin of error with ninety-eight percent accuracy." [[spoiler: This is how they know the parents conceived little Jubilee while they were all still in their original bodies, rather than the children in their parents' bodies doing so after they got swapped. [[HandWave Well, the device is from several decades into the future. Who knows what kind of medical technology we'll have by then?]]]]
* AutoErotica: Part of Denise's initial attempt to seduce Don. While [[LetsWaitAWhile she doesn't actually get him to do the deed]], they do get to first base, and he does rightly take it for a LoveConfession and a [[HonorableMarriageProposal marriage proposal]].
* BabiesEverAfter: The incredible circumstances don't stop the story from heavily implying this to be its ending. [[spoiler: It turns out all the parents' fun ''before'' they were swapped produced Jackie and Jaymee's little half-sibling Jubilee. Though taking care of her has convinced the children to swear off having any more, Don and Denise are convinced they'll change their minds about that eventually. Don also expects that Denise will eventually be wanting to have another baby with him once their bodies are sufficiently mature.]]
* TheBermudaTriangle: In this story, it mostly just serves as a MagneticPlotDevice, and one indicated to operate only on very rare occasions: some of the ship's crew claim to have been sailing its waters for decades without anything interesting happening to them. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that a ''few'' disappearances, one of which just happens to include the Richards family's honeymoon cruise, are due to a phenomenon known as the "Bermuda Gateway" which transports the vessels to an alternate version of Earth where time flows backward.]]
* BizarroUniverse: [[spoiler: While otherwise not so different from our world, the dimension on the other side of the Bermuda Gateway is in a timeline headed the opposite direction from ours, such that its Earth turns on its axis and orbits around its sun in the opposite direction from ours. The inhabitants of its only nation Merciar refer to it as a "mirror" universe because all of its celestial objects' motions "mirror" those of our universe, and not due to any moral inversions as in [[MirrorUniverse the trope with that name]].]]
* ChildByRape: Jaymee, specifically due to ''statutory'' rape; Denise was ''ten'' when her teacher started molesting her.
* DisappearedDad: A chronic problem in Denise's family before she met Don; this complicates her marriage with him a bit further, since neither she nor Jaymee are emotionally familiar with the concept of having a father in their household.
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: Somewhat inverted. While the sudden swap into their parents' bodies doesn't really make the children any more emotionally mature, [[spoiler: Don does end up kicking himself for not having considered how the adult sex hormones influencing their brains might have awakened some rather "mature" sexual desires in them. Denise also demonstrates to Don that her sexual desires for him are not particularly dependent on those hormones, and he's able to work up sufficient desire without them to reciprocate as well.]]
* FlirtyStepSiblings: Don and Denise feel rather obliged to [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] this since Jackie and Jaymee are near the same age, opposite sexes to each other, and definitely NotBloodSiblings. [[spoiler: Also, they've already engaged in some... ''[[UnusualEuphemism marital relations]]'' with each other in their parents' bodies. Denise brings up this up in pointing out this subject was bound to come up sooner or later anyway while Don is kicking himself for not having considered the possibility that having adult brains might inspire Jackie and Jaymee to engage in some rather adult activities.]]
* FreakyFridayFlip: Played straight on the whole, but the typical comedic plot of stories involving this kind of swap is mildly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] by having it be PlayedForDrama.
* GirlsHaveCooties: Jackie and Jaymee take this attitude toward each other early in the story, though they gradually get over it at some point before the honeymoon cruise as they warm up to each other.
* HonorableMarriageProposal: Given a bit of play during Denise's attempt to seduce Don. While neither of them are virgins (he being a widower with a son and she being a young single mother), and he doesn't blame her or consider her DefiledForever for her checkered past, he still insists on getting married before getting it on.
* KarmaHoudini: As Don notes with considerable disgust, Denise's molester disappeared without a trace soon after he discovered she was pregnant and the law never caught up with him. This is somewhat [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in further analysis, however: "Ironically, [his molesting Denise] may ultimately have altered her life for the better, and his for the worse." (While Don never specifies ''how'' the molester's life got worse, [[IFoughtTheLawAndTheLawWon being a perpetual fugitive from the law]] [[ThePunishmentIsTheCrime could certainly be a punishment unto itself]].)
* LetsWaitAWhile: Don is a rather old-fashioned respectably religious guy, and has little difficulty convincing Denise to save the sex for their wedding night in view of her horrific earlier experiences with it. [[spoiler: This continues with their children, who aren't in such a hurry to consummate their marriage after their "regrettable misunderstanding" leading to TheirFirstTime earned them such a tongue-lashing from their parents.]]
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Don specifically indicates this story to be his memoirs, and spends a substantial portion of the later chapters vascillating on whether it'll ever reach its intended readers due to a TimeyWimeyBall standing between him and them.
* {{Masquerade}}: Don refers to his family's concealment of their swap as this.
* ModestyBedsheet: [[spoiler: "Jackie and Jaymee did still have the covers pulled up over themselves; for that I am grateful."]]
* MissingMom: Don's ([[NoNameGiven unnamed]]) first wife, Jackie's biological mother, stated to have died in a car accident with a DrunkDriver.
* NoNameGiven: Don refuses to name a ''lot'' of the people in this story apart from his (second) wife, children, and self; this turns out to be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] when [[TheReveal he reveals]] near the end that [[spoiler: he and his family are still maintaining their [[{{Masquerade}} masquerade]] not only because they failed to reverse the FreakyFridayFlip, but because his still-severely-underage son and step-daughter are now quite ''actively'' married, he and Denise are still being quite ''active'' in their own marriage in their own still-severely-underage bodies, and a great many people would tend to oppose their family's arrangement even in their new homeland of Merciar]].
* NotBloodSiblings: Don and Denise end up discussing at length how this trope ''hypothetically'' might have played out with Jackie and Jaymee had their family ''not'' gotten into such extraordinary circumstances. [[spoiler: The reason they're discussing it, however, is because Denise is proposing this trope as a wholly practical resolution to the sexual relationship between their children to which their extraordinary situation gave rise.]]
* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Believe it or not, a crucial part of the story, as it brings about that Freaky Friday Flip. Later, due to Don's rather economical explanation to them of what he and Denise were doing, Jackie and Jaymee have a ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime scene; which is also the point at which they realize they can't shock themselves back into their original bodies the way they shocked themselves out.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: How exactly ''did'' the parents get swapped with their children? [[spoiler: Did that cloud of wisps they encountered after their passage through the Bermuda Gateway have anything to do with it?]] Is there any way they could get their FreakyFridayFlip reversed? By the end, Don heavily implies that he and his family have given up looking for answers to these questions.
* ShoutOut: Has a great many.
** WordOfGod is that some lyrics from "[[Music/TheBuggles Video Killed The Radio Star]]" [[http://covercritics.com/?p=1109 inspired the title]].
** The author acknowledges [[ReferencedBy/TVTropes TV Tropes]] itself "for bringing me considerable insight into [[RealityIsUnrealistic just how thin the barrier between fiction and reality truly is]]."
** Denise tells Don at one point that he "[[Film/BlazingSaddles said that part prettier than a ten-dollar whore!]]"
** Jaymee notes that her mother's marrying Jackie's father and blending her family with his is a lot like the premise of ''Series/TheBradyBunch''.
** ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
*** Denise makes reference to Seven of Nine's DoYouWantToCopulate line in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E5Revulsion Revulsion]]" from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' while getting snuggly with Don in his car.
*** Upon encountering a mysterious cloud of wisps, Don mentions that he seems to remember[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E018TheCrossing an episode]] of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' something like this.
*** One of the works the Richards family checks out of the ship's library as part of their research into what to do about their situation is "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals Rascals]]" from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
*** When told his family is going to be resettled, Don (in Jackie's body) asks "Are we like the [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Maquis]]?"
*** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': [[spoiler: The narrator of an orientation video explains that Merciar's Earth being part of a "mirror" universe doesn't mean the new settlers will find any [[BeardOfEvil bearded]] {{Evil Twin}}s of themselves like they might have seen in [[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror certain]] stories from a popular television series.]]
** As part of their research, the Richards family checks out the ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' book and two of its [[Film/FreakyFriday movie]] [[Film/FreakyFriday2003 adaptations]].
** Don realizes that a scene from ''Film/SeventeenAgain'', which the family also checked out, mirrors what they're doing: specifically, when the GenreSavvy Ned consults his collection of fantasy and science fiction to try to help Mike figure out what his next move should be.
** Also among the works researched: ''Film/TheHotChick'', and ''Film/{{Big}}''.
* TheSlowPath: [[spoiler: The Merciart (citizens of Merciar) have a means of visiting our world from theirs, but time is counting down for them at the same rate as it's counting up for us. Don mentions that some Merciart are already preparing instructions for their distant descendents to find out about what ''really'' happened on the first Easter and Christmas a couple millennia from the present; and in the meantime, several of them are planning to raid some artifacts from the World Trade Center towers in the morning hours of September 11, 2001.]]
* TheTalk: [[spoiler: Unlike a great many other examples of this trope, it's given unapologetically and at length with a lot of references to personal experience after Don and Denise catch Jackie and Jaymee doing the deed.]]
* TeenPregnancy: Actually, ''[[ExaggeratedTrope Preteen]]'' Pregnancy in Denise's case. As Don says concerning meeting an eighteen-year-old Denise's just-turned-seven-year-old daughter Jaymee: "She was also a child, not a toddler or an infant as most teenagers’ little mistakes tended to be." Also, Denise's mother was an irresponsible sixteen-year-old who got pregnant with her by a fellow sophomore in high school.
* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler: Merciar's finest minds are having no more success establishing with any certainty how exactly travel between their world (in which time flows backward) and ours is possible than our narrator. By the end of the book, he states he has given up trying to make any sense of how this form of time travel works for fear of [[MindScrew losing his mind]].]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:As indicated, they're newlyweds; [[spoiler: all four of them]].]]
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''We Can't Rewind'' by B.R.L. Coryn is ostensibly a ParanormalRomance, since it focuses primarily on the main characters' relationships and how a couple of paranormal events affect them, but it [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly overlaps heavily with a lot of other genres as well]]. Told entirely from the FirstPersonPerspective of a man named Don Richards, the story is about how he and his new wife Denise manage to keep their marriage together after their honeymoon cruise gets lost in TheBermudaTriangle and he and she get {{Freaky Friday Flip}}ped with his son Jackie and her daughter Jaymee, respectively. Unlike so many other stories involving a such a swap, this isn't a {{Comedy}}, ([[RomanticComedy Romantic]] or otherwise), doesn't teach its characters any obvious [[AnAesop moral lessons]], and (above all) does ''not'' switch them back into their proper bodies by the end.
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! This novel provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Denise, [[spoiler: and later on Jaymee, at least in terms of emotional immaturity]].
* [[AccidentalAdultery Accidental Fornication]]: A rather complicated example. [[spoiler: Jackie and Jaymee rationalize that since they're in their parents' bodies, that makes them a married couple and means they have implicit permission to try that "grownups' game" they caught their parents playing.]]
* AnAesop: Averted, though the whole family does go looking for one when trying to figure out why they got swapped in the first place.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Near the end of the story, the family acquires a medical scanner capable of telling them when a child was conceived "within a three day margin of error with ninety-eight percent accuracy." [[spoiler: This is how they know the parents conceived little Jubilee while they were all still in their original bodies, rather than the children in their parents' bodies doing so after they got swapped. [[HandWave Well, the device is from several decades into the future. Who knows what kind of medical technology we'll have by then?]]]]
* AutoErotica: Part of Denise's initial attempt to seduce Don. While [[LetsWaitAWhile she doesn't actually get him to do the deed]], they do get to first base, and he does rightly take it for a LoveConfession and a [[HonorableMarriageProposal marriage proposal]].
* BabiesEverAfter: The incredible circumstances don't stop the story from heavily implying this to be its ending. [[spoiler: It turns out all the parents' fun ''before'' they were swapped produced Jackie and Jaymee's little half-sibling Jubilee. Though taking care of her has convinced the children to swear off having any more, Don and Denise are convinced they'll change their minds about that eventually. Don also expects that Denise will eventually be wanting to have another baby with him once their bodies are sufficiently mature.]]
* TheBermudaTriangle: In this story, it mostly just serves as a MagneticPlotDevice, and one indicated to operate only on very rare occasions: some of the ship's crew claim to have been sailing its waters for decades without anything interesting happening to them. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that a ''few'' disappearances, one of which just happens to include the Richards family's honeymoon cruise, are due to a phenomenon known as the "Bermuda Gateway" which transports the vessels to an alternate version of Earth where time flows backward.]]
* BizarroUniverse: [[spoiler: While otherwise not so different from our world, the dimension on the other side of the Bermuda Gateway is in a timeline headed the opposite direction from ours, such that its Earth turns on its axis and orbits around its sun in the opposite direction from ours. The inhabitants of its only nation Merciar refer to it as a "mirror" universe because all of its celestial objects' motions "mirror" those of our universe, and not due to any moral inversions as in [[MirrorUniverse the trope with that name]].]]
* ChildByRape: Jaymee, specifically due to ''statutory'' rape; Denise was ''ten'' when her teacher started molesting her.
* DisappearedDad: A chronic problem in Denise's family before she met Don; this complicates her marriage with him a bit further, since neither she nor Jaymee are emotionally familiar with the concept of having a father in their household.
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: Somewhat inverted. While the sudden swap into their parents' bodies doesn't really make the children any more emotionally mature, [[spoiler: Don does end up kicking himself for not having considered how the adult sex hormones influencing their brains might have awakened some rather "mature" sexual desires in them. Denise also demonstrates to Don that her sexual desires for him are not particularly dependent on those hormones, and he's able to work up sufficient desire without them to reciprocate as well.]]
* FlirtyStepSiblings: Don and Denise feel rather obliged to [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] this since Jackie and Jaymee are near the same age, opposite sexes to each other, and definitely NotBloodSiblings. [[spoiler: Also, they've already engaged in some... ''[[UnusualEuphemism marital relations]]'' with each other in their parents' bodies. Denise brings up this up in pointing out this subject was bound to come up sooner or later anyway while Don is kicking himself for not having considered the possibility that having adult brains might inspire Jackie and Jaymee to engage in some rather adult activities.]]
* FreakyFridayFlip: Played straight on the whole, but the typical comedic plot of stories involving this kind of swap is mildly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] by having it be PlayedForDrama.
* GirlsHaveCooties: Jackie and Jaymee take this attitude toward each other early in the story, though they gradually get over it at some point before the honeymoon cruise as they warm up to each other.
* HonorableMarriageProposal: Given a bit of play during Denise's attempt to seduce Don. While neither of them are virgins (he being a widower with a son and she being a young single mother), and he doesn't blame her or consider her DefiledForever for her checkered past, he still insists on getting married before getting it on.
* KarmaHoudini: As Don notes with considerable disgust, Denise's molester disappeared without a trace soon after he discovered she was pregnant and the law never caught up with him. This is somewhat [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in further analysis, however: "Ironically, [his molesting Denise] may ultimately have altered her life for the better, and his for the worse." (While Don never specifies ''how'' the molester's life got worse, [[IFoughtTheLawAndTheLawWon being a perpetual fugitive from the law]] [[ThePunishmentIsTheCrime could certainly be a punishment unto itself]].)
* LetsWaitAWhile: Don is a rather old-fashioned respectably religious guy, and has little difficulty convincing Denise to save the sex for their wedding night in view of her horrific earlier experiences with it. [[spoiler: This continues with their children, who aren't in such a hurry to consummate their marriage after their "regrettable misunderstanding" leading to TheirFirstTime earned them such a tongue-lashing from their parents.]]
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Don specifically indicates this story to be his memoirs, and spends a substantial portion of the later chapters vascillating on whether it'll ever reach its intended readers due to a TimeyWimeyBall standing between him and them.
* {{Masquerade}}: Don refers to his family's concealment of their swap as this.
* ModestyBedsheet: [[spoiler: "Jackie and Jaymee did still have the covers pulled up over themselves; for that I am grateful."]]
* MissingMom: Don's ([[NoNameGiven unnamed]]) first wife, Jackie's biological mother, stated to have died in a car accident with a DrunkDriver.
* NoNameGiven: Don refuses to name a ''lot'' of the people in this story apart from his (second) wife, children, and self; this turns out to be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] when [[TheReveal he reveals]] near the end that [[spoiler: he and his family are still maintaining their [[{{Masquerade}} masquerade]] not only because they failed to reverse the FreakyFridayFlip, but because his still-severely-underage son and step-daughter are now quite ''actively'' married, he and Denise are still being quite ''active'' in their own marriage in their own still-severely-underage bodies, and a great many people would tend to oppose their family's arrangement even in their new homeland of Merciar]].
* NotBloodSiblings: Don and Denise end up discussing at length how this trope ''hypothetically'' might have played out with Jackie and Jaymee had their family ''not'' gotten into such extraordinary circumstances. [[spoiler: The reason they're discussing it, however, is because Denise is proposing this trope as a wholly practical resolution to the sexual relationship between their children to which their extraordinary situation gave rise.]]
* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Believe it or not, a crucial part of the story, as it brings about that Freaky Friday Flip. Later, due to Don's rather economical explanation to them of what he and Denise were doing, Jackie and Jaymee have a ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime scene; which is also the point at which they realize they can't shock themselves back into their original bodies the way they shocked themselves out.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: How exactly ''did'' the parents get swapped with their children? [[spoiler: Did that cloud of wisps they encountered after their passage through the Bermuda Gateway have anything to do with it?]] Is there any way they could get their FreakyFridayFlip reversed? By the end, Don heavily implies that he and his family have given up looking for answers to these questions.
* ShoutOut: Has a great many.
** WordOfGod is that some lyrics from "[[Music/TheBuggles Video Killed The Radio Star]]" [[http://covercritics.com/?p=1109 inspired the title]].
** The author acknowledges [[ReferencedBy/TVTropes TV Tropes]] itself "for bringing me considerable insight into [[RealityIsUnrealistic just how thin the barrier between fiction and reality truly is]]."
** Denise tells Don at one point that he "[[Film/BlazingSaddles said that part prettier than a ten-dollar whore!]]"
** Jaymee notes that her mother's marrying Jackie's father and blending her family with his is a lot like the premise of ''Series/TheBradyBunch''.
** ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
*** Denise makes reference to Seven of Nine's DoYouWantToCopulate line in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E5Revulsion Revulsion]]" from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' while getting snuggly with Don in his car.
*** Upon encountering a mysterious cloud of wisps, Don mentions that he seems to remember[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E018TheCrossing an episode]] of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' something like this.
*** One of the works the Richards family checks out of the ship's library as part of their research into what to do about their situation is "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals Rascals]]" from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
*** When told his family is going to be resettled, Don (in Jackie's body) asks "Are we like the [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Maquis]]?"
*** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': [[spoiler: The narrator of an orientation video explains that Merciar's Earth being part of a "mirror" universe doesn't mean the new settlers will find any [[BeardOfEvil bearded]] {{Evil Twin}}s of themselves like they might have seen in [[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror certain]] stories from a popular television series.]]
** As part of their research, the Richards family checks out the ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' book and two of its [[Film/FreakyFriday movie]] [[Film/FreakyFriday2003 adaptations]].
** Don realizes that a scene from ''Film/SeventeenAgain'', which the family also checked out, mirrors what they're doing: specifically, when the GenreSavvy Ned consults his collection of fantasy and science fiction to try to help Mike figure out what his next move should be.
** Also among the works researched: ''Film/TheHotChick'', and ''Film/{{Big}}''.
* TheSlowPath: [[spoiler: The Merciart (citizens of Merciar) have a means of visiting our world from theirs, but time is counting down for them at the same rate as it's counting up for us. Don mentions that some Merciart are already preparing instructions for their distant descendents to find out about what ''really'' happened on the first Easter and Christmas a couple millennia from the present; and in the meantime, several of them are planning to raid some artifacts from the World Trade Center towers in the morning hours of September 11, 2001.]]
* TheTalk: [[spoiler: Unlike a great many other examples of this trope, it's given unapologetically and at length with a lot of references to personal experience after Don and Denise catch Jackie and Jaymee doing the deed.]]
* TeenPregnancy: Actually, ''[[ExaggeratedTrope Preteen]]'' Pregnancy in Denise's case. As Don says concerning meeting an eighteen-year-old Denise's just-turned-seven-year-old daughter Jaymee: "She was also a child, not a toddler or an infant as most teenagers’ little mistakes tended to be." Also, Denise's mother was an irresponsible sixteen-year-old who got pregnant with her by a fellow sophomore in high school.
* TimeyWimeyBall: [[spoiler: Merciar's finest minds are having no more success establishing with any certainty how exactly travel between their world (in which time flows backward) and ours is possible than our narrator. By the end of the book, he states he has given up trying to make any sense of how this form of time travel works for fear of [[MindScrew losing his mind]].]]
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