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* PercussiveMaintenance: Harper uses it to get Griffin's new locker open, calling it "the worst-kept secret of Sulphur Springs". It's the first time we see her. She later uses it to get a [[spoiler:mysterious radio that controls the time portal]] working.

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* PercussiveMaintenance: Harper uses it to get Griffin's new locker open, calling it "the worst-kept secret of Sulphur Springs". It's the first time we see her. She later uses it to get a [[spoiler:mysterious radio that controls the time portal]] working. [[spoiler: Savannah also uses this to get the radio working in 1962 after adult Sam gives up on it.]]
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* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: The portal allows Griffin and Harper to travel back in time ''exactly'' 30 years from 2020 to 1990. In "As Time Goes By" [[spoiler:they travel back a further 30 years from 1990 to 1960]]. In "No Time Like the Present" [[spoiler:this is subverted, as they figure out who to control the portal and travel to other years like 1962 and 2011.]]

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* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: The portal allows Griffin and Harper to travel back in time ''exactly'' 30 years from 2020 to 1990. In "As Time Goes By" [[spoiler:they travel back a further 30 years from 1990 to 1960]]. In "No Time Like the Present" [[spoiler:this is subverted, as they figure out who to control the portal and travel to other years like 1962 and 2011.2011, and at the end of Season 2 there's a jump into the future, to 2024.]] By the end of Season 3, [[spoiler: Sam has finely attuned the time machine to allow them to go to any date.]]
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** In Season 3 [[spoiler: Topher and the twins accidentally discover the time portal when they follow Savannah back in time. Bennett goes back in time too, chasing them, but never realizes it; he wasn't there long.]]
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The show was renewed for a second season, which premiered on, January 14, 2022. On February 7, 2022, the show was renewed for a third season.

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* KidFromTheFuture: Griffin and Harper travel back in time to 1990 and meet [[spoiler: Griffin's dad Ben and Harper's mom Jess when they were kids at Camp Tremont.]]
** In Season 2 [[spoiler: Harper meets Daisy, her great-grandmother, back when she was a kid in 1930 and looked [[IdenticalGrandson identical to her.]]]]



** In Season 2, we learn that [[spoiler: Sam Tremont invented the time-portal, and he only ended up completing it in 1962 because Savannah, who had already used it in the future, pushed him to do so.]]




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** In Season 2 [[spoiler: Harper, who's [[TrappedInThePast trapped in 1930]] writes a note for Griffin in 2020, asking him to use the portal to rescue her, and hides it under a floorboard in the Tremont's basement. However, Savannah ends up finding it in 1962 and substituting it for another note for Griffin telling him about her suspicions about Sam, while setting out to rescue Harper herself.]]
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** In Season 2 [[spoiler: Daisy, Harper's ancestor from 1930, discovers the portal and ends up accidentally traveling forward to 2020.]]
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* Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Mr. Campbell discovering the fallout shelter, with a still-young Savannah just out of his sight.]]

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* ** Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:Mr. Campbell discovering the fallout shelter, with a still-young Savannah just out of his sight.]]
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* AlmostKiss: In "Checkout Time" Harper and Griffin lean in for a kiss before panicking and pulling away.



* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: The portal allows Griffin and Harper to travel back in time ''exactly'' 30 years from 2020 to 1990. In episode 9 [[spoiler: they travel back a further 30 years from 1990 to 1960]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler: this is subverted, as they figure out who to control the portal and travel to other years like 1962 and 2011.]]

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* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: The portal allows Griffin and Harper to travel back in time ''exactly'' 30 years from 2020 to 1990. In episode 9 [[spoiler: they "As Time Goes By" [[spoiler:they travel back a further 30 years from 1990 to 1960]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler: this "No Time Like the Present" [[spoiler:this is subverted, as they figure out who to control the portal and travel to other years like 1962 and 2011.]]



* FakeRelationship: After Harper lies to their parents about sneaking off to have her first kiss with Griffin, everyone in their family thinks the two of them are together. They're not; they're just best friends.

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* FakeRelationship: After Harper lies to their parents about sneaking off to have her first kiss with Griffin, everyone in their family thinks the two of them are together. They're not; they're just best friends.



* SanDimasTime: When Griffin and Harper travel back to 1990, they are 'missing' in the present for the equivalent amount of time that they spend in the past. Needless to say, their long and frequent abscences worry their parents [[spoiler: who, in episode 7, suspect they've run away together and call the cops to find them.]]

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* SanDimasTime: When Griffin and Harper travel back to 1990, they are 'missing' in the present for the equivalent amount of time that they spend in the past. Needless to say, their long and frequent abscences worry their parents [[spoiler: who, in episode 7, "Long Time Gone", suspect they've run away together and call the cops to find them.]]


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* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: After seeing the contract from 1930 showing the Tremonts were unlawfully forced off their land, Jess has to decided between claiming ownership of the hotel or giving ownership back to the Campbells. Instead she decides to became a 50/50 business partner with Ben and Sarah. Thus allowing the Campbell to continue living at the Tremont.]]


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** In season two [[spoiler:Harper and Daisy switch places leading Harper to be stuck in 1930, while Griffin (in the present with Daisy) tries to figure out how to fix the time machine and switch them back.]]
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* IntergenerationalFriendship:In season two [[spoiler: Savannah and adult Sam become friends]]


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** Season Two: discover who is haunting the Tremont and how to set them free.


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* ShipperOnDeck: Zoey for Harper and Griffin
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The show was renewed for a second season, which will premiere on Friday, January 14, 2022.

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* IdenticalGrandson: Harper looks exactly like [[her ancestor, Daisy.]]

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* IdenticalGrandson: Harper looks exactly like [[her [[spoiler: her ancestor, Daisy.]]

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Griffin and his new friend Harper [[spoiler: [[FirstEpisodeTwist discover a fallout shelter under the hotel that contains a portal that allows them to travel back to Savannah's time]].]] Together, they work to uncover the mystery of Savannah's disappearance and how it intersects with their parents' mysterious past.

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Griffin and his new friend Harper [[spoiler: [[FirstEpisodeTwist discover a fallout shelter under the hotel that contains a portal that allows them to travel back to Savannah's time]].]] time]]. Together, they work to uncover the mystery of Savannah's disappearance and how it intersects with their parents' mysterious past.



* AlphaBitch: [[spoiler: It turns out that Harper's mother, Jess, was one back when she attended Camp Tremont in her youth.]]

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* AlphaBitch: [[spoiler: It turns out that Harper's mother, Jess, was one back when she attended Camp Tremont in her youth.]]



* {{Cliffhanger}}: Season 1 ends with [[spoiler:the gang traveling back to the 1930's and Harper running into herself.]]

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Season 1 ends with [[spoiler:the gang traveling back to the 1930's and Harper running into herself.her lookalike.]]



* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: The portal allows Griffin and Harper to travel back in time ''exactly'' 30 years from 2020 to 2019. In episode 9 [[spoiler: they travel back a further 30 years from 1990 to 1960]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler: this is subverted, as they figure out who to control the portal and travel to other years like 1962 and 2011.]]

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* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: The portal allows Griffin and Harper to travel back in time ''exactly'' 30 years from 2020 to 2019.1990. In episode 9 [[spoiler: they travel back a further 30 years from 1990 to 1960]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler: this is subverted, as they figure out who to control the portal and travel to other years like 1962 and 2011.]]



* {{Foreshadowing}}: Clues to Savannah's fate are shown when [[spoiler: a recording of her camp song is found in the hotel on an open-reel audio tape way too old to be from the nineties.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Clues to Savannah's fate are shown when [[spoiler: a recording of her camp song is found in the hotel on an open-reel audio tape way too old to be from the nineties.]]



* IdenticalGrandson: Harper looks exactly like [[her ancestor, Daisy.]]



* MyBelovedSmother: Male version. Ben has this relationship with his father.

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* MyBelovedSmother: Male version. Ben has this relationship with his father.father, who refuses to let him do anything for himself.



* RedHerring: It's hinted that there is a ghost in the Tremont [[spoiler:but it's not Savannah]].

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* RedHerring: It's hinted that there is a ghost in the Tremont [[spoiler:but it's not Savannah]].Savannah.]]

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* AnachronismStew: At the camp dance in TheNinenties, Savannah has the DJ play a cassette recording of "I Don't Know" by The Prams, a song that wasn't released until 2015. Of course, given the nature of the show's plot, it is possible that she somehow acquired this from the future, but no one at the dance reacts as if the song is new to them.

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* AnachronismStew: At the camp dance in TheNinenties, TheNineties, Savannah has the DJ play a cassette recording of "I Don't Know" by The Prams, a song that wasn't released until 2015. Of course, given the nature of the show's plot, it is possible that she somehow acquired this from the future, but no one at the dance reacts as if the song is new to them.

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* AccidentalTimeTravel: Griffin and Harper accidentally go back in time 30 years.

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Griffin and Harper accidentally go back in time 30 years.


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* AnachronismStew: At the camp dance in TheNinenties, Savannah has the DJ play a cassette recording of "I Don't Know" by The Prams, a song that wasn't released until 2015. Of course, given the nature of the show's plot, it is possible that she somehow acquired this from the future, but no one at the dance reacts as if the song is new to them.
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* ControlFreak: Bennett Sr. is, some ways, domineering and controlling towards his son.


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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Bennett Sr. cannot understand why Ben would rather do his own thing than something that benefit the family.
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** [[spoiler:This is the ultimately revealed to be the cause of Savannah's disappearance in 1990. She found the portal, accidentally traveled back to 1960, and was then [[TrappedInThePast stuck there.]]

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** [[spoiler:This is the ultimately revealed to be the cause of Savannah's disappearance in 1990. She found the portal, accidentally traveled back to 1960, and was then [[TrappedInThePast stuck there.]]]]]]
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** [[spoiler: This is the ultimately revealed to be the cause of Savannah's disappearance in 1990. She found the portal, accidentally traveled back to 1960, and was then [[TrappedInThePast stuck there.]]

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** [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This is the ultimately revealed to be the cause of Savannah's disappearance in 1990. She found the portal, accidentally traveled back to 1960, and was then [[TrappedInThePast stuck there.]]
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** [[spoiler: This is the ultimately revealed to be the cause of Savannah's disappearance in 1990. She found the portal, accidentally traveled back to 1960, and was then [[TrappedInThePast stuck there.]]


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* FosterKid: Savannah was one. She ruefully mentions at one point that no one will care if she vanishes. [[spoiler: She is eventually HappilyAdopted by loving parents after traveling back to the 1960's.]]


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* TrappedInThePast: [[spoiler: Savannah accidentally traveled back to 1960 and was stuck there due to a storm causing a tree to fall on the hatch leading to the time-travel portal. However, she is adopted by loving parents, and thus chooses to stay in the 1960's even when Griffin and Harper show up to rescue her in 1962.]]
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* TheConstant: Hotel Tremont. It is a rundown, abandoned property in 2020 that the Campbells move into and start refurbishing. In 1990 however, it was a highly successful and lively place, with a summer camp for kids. [[spoiler: Later in the season, we see the hotel in its earlier years in 1960, as well as in 1930 back when it was a farmhouse owned by Harper's ancestors.]]
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** Throughout Season 1, there are hints that [[spoiler: Ben or Jess was responsible for Savannah's disappearance, or know what happened to her, based on their suspicious behavior and secretive nature in both 1990 and 2020. Ultimately, it turns out that while they knew more about what happened that night than they were letting on, neither knew what ''really'' happened.]]
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* ExactlyExtyYearsAgo: The portal allows Griffin and Harper to travel back in time ''exactly'' 30 years from 2020 to 2019. In episode 9 [[spoiler: they travel back a further 30 years from 1990 to 1960]]. In episode 10 [[spoiler: this is subverted, as they figure out who to control the portal and travel to other years like 1962 and 2011.]]


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* SanDimasTime: When Griffin and Harper travel back to 1990, they are 'missing' in the present for the equivalent amount of time that they spend in the past. Needless to say, their long and frequent abscences worry their parents [[spoiler: who, in episode 7, suspect they've run away together and call the cops to find them.]]
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** Savannah later [[spoiler:comes to the present day to show a 1930's photograph of Harper that was hidden in the Tremont walls.]]

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** Savannah later [[spoiler:comes to the present day to show a 1930's photograph of Harper that was hidden in the Tremont walls. Or perhaps it was an ancestor of Harper that happened to look like her.]]
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** Savannah later [[spoiler:comes to the present day to show a 1930's photograph of Harper that was hidden in the Tremont walls.]]

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** Savannah later [[spoiler:comes to the present day to show a 1930's photograph of Harper that was hidden in the Tremont walls.]]]]

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* FakeRelationship: After Harper lies to their parents about sneaking off to have her first kiss with Griffin, everyone in their family thinks the two of them are together. They're not; they're just best friends.

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