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* BemoaningTheNewBody: In "Baby Talk," Penelope makes the mistake of absently wishing she could hold her childhood doll the way she used to -- prompting Bruce to [[BabyMorphEpisode regress her to infancy]] as [[TheDogBitesBack revenge for her poor treatment]] that day. Too young to speak, Penelope can only express the full extent of her irritation via inner monologue, grumbling over how tired she feels all the time and fuming over being put to bed with the doll that caused the trouble in the first place. Worse still, her inability to speak means she can't just wish herself back to normal -- leaving her horrified when a gleeful Bruce [[TauntingTheTransformed informs her]] that she'll be left waiting for a full year before she can make another wish.
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** In "Baby Talk," Penelope demands more than two hundred extremely petty wishes from [[OurGeniesAreDifferent Bruce and Baz]] in the space of a single hour, leaving them both exhausted and enraged. As such, when Penelope makes a poorly worded comment about wishing that she could hold her childhood doll "like I used to", Bruce takes immediate revenge by [[JackassGenie granting her "wish"]] and [[BabyMorphEpisode regressing her to infancy]]. While her inner monologue reacts in horror, Bruce scoops baby Penelope into his arms and asks "[[TheDogBitesBack any more wishes, master]]?" in a condescendingly "cute" voice, clearly enjoying the fact that she's too young to speak and therefore can't wish herself back to normal.
** The same episode ends with [[spoiler: a restored Penelope taking revenge for her humiliation by wishing for Bruce to regress for a while, and naturally, she spends the outro gloating about it and mocking him in BabyTalk. Unlike Penelope, baby Bruce doesn't seem to mind.]]
** In "Baby Talk," Penelope demands more than two hundred extremely petty wishes from [[OurGeniesAreDifferent Bruce and Baz]] in the space of a single hour, leaving them both exhausted and enraged. As such, when Penelope makes a poorly worded comment about wishing that she could hold her childhood doll "like I used to", Bruce takes immediate revenge by [[JackassGenie granting her "wish"]] and [[BabyMorphEpisode regressing her to infancy]]. While her inner monologue reacts in horror, Bruce scoops baby Penelope into his arms and asks "[[TheDogBitesBack any more wishes, master]]?" in a condescendingly "cute" voice, clearly enjoying the fact that she's too young to speak and therefore can't wish herself back to normal.
** The same episode ends with [[spoiler: a restored Penelope taking revenge for her humiliation by wishing for Bruce to regress for a while, and naturally, she spends the outro gloating about it and mocking him in BabyTalk. Unlike Penelope, baby Bruce doesn't seem to mind.]]
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* StockPunishment: Penelope ends up in the pillory when confronting Otto, who has her Opal.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Penelope is very selfish and has no shame in exploiting her genies magical abilities, but she does show signs of being a better person deep down. [[spoiler:In the end, she comes to accept that her mother loves Australia, even if Penelope herself would rather be in England, and allows her mother to marry Bruce, even though she strips her mother of the knowledge that Bruce isn't a genie.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Penelope is very selfish and has no shame in exploiting her genies magical abilities, but she does show signs of being a better person deep down. [[spoiler:In the end, she comes to accept that her mother loves Australia, even if Penelope herself would rather be in England, and allows her mother to marry Bruce, even though she strips her mother of the knowledge that Bruce isn't is a genie.]]
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One episode has everyone's clothes vanish this trope is in effect.
* TheNudifier: In one episode someone makes a wish that everyone would give up their possessions this causes everyone's clothes to disappear there are multiple instances of ShouldersUpNudity.
* TheNudifier: In one episode someone makes a wish that everyone would give up their possessions this causes everyone's clothes to disappear there are multiple instances of ShouldersUpNudity.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One episode "Peace in our Time" has everyone's clothes vanish because of a wish that everyone would give up their possessions. It isn't until Penelope finds the opal and wishes for everything to be returned to normal that this trope is in effect.
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* TheNudifier: Inone episode "Peace in our Time", someone makes a wish that everyone would give up their possessions this causes everyone's clothes to disappear there are multiple instances of ShouldersUpNudity.
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While searching through her attic, Penelope finds an opal, and upon rubbing it, out pops an Australian man and his son who claim to be genies, and that they will grant Penelope's wishes in exchange for their freedom. Penelope names the pair Bruce (Rhys Muldoon, replaced in the second season by Sandy Winton) and Baz (Glenn Meldrum), and decides she'd rather keep the genies in her service than set them free. However, when she wishes for 20 million pounds, she is transported to a ranch in the Australian Outback, where she's informed she has inherited 500 acres of land worth 20 million.
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While searching through her attic, Penelope finds an opal, and upon rubbing it, out pops an Australian man and his son who claim to be genies, and that they will grant Penelope's wishes in exchange for their freedom. Penelope names the pair Bruce (Rhys Muldoon, replaced in the second season by Sandy Winton) and Baz (Glenn Meldrum), and decides she'd rather keep the genies in her service than set them free. However, when she wishes for 20 million pounds, she is transported to a rundown ranch in the Australian Outback, where she's informed she has inherited 500 acres of land worth 20 million.
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* AccidentalTruth: Otto believes that his ancestors good fortune came from possessing the opal. He's right, but he thinks it's just a GoodLuckCharm, not the home for two genies.
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* AccidentalTruth: Otto believes that his ancestors ancestors' good fortune came from possessing the opal. He's right, but he thinks it's just a GoodLuckCharm, not the home for two genies.genies.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: ''Constantly''. It's literally the primary storyline of the show that Penelope will make a selfish wish and Bruce will twist it in a way to make sure she regrets it. One particular kicker has Penelope accidentally wish to prove that her ancestors did ''not'' steal or pilfer all the various ancestral treasures on the family estate, only to end up being taken to court by all of their descendants -- in particular, an Aboriginal man who claims to be the descendant of the Aborigines whom the von Meisters took the opal from, before Penelope's ancestor Lord Townes won it in a card game. Ironically, that same Aboriginal ends up in a bit of trouble himself when Bruce is made to bear witness, and he notes that the man's ancestors stole the opal from ''another'' Aborigine tribe. Who stole it from another, and another, and... well, the opal changed hands a ''lot'' of times even before white men showed up.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: ''Constantly''. It's literally the primary storyline of the show that Penelope will make a selfish wish and Bruce will twist it in a way to make sure she regrets it. One particular kicker has Penelope accidentally wish to prove that her ancestors did ''not'' steal or pilfer all the various ancestral treasures on the family estate, only to end up being taken to court by all of their descendants -- in particular, an Aboriginal man who claims to be the descendant of the Aborigines whom the von Meisters took the opal from, before Penelope's ancestor Lord Townes won it in a card game. Ironically, that same Aboriginal ends up in a bit of trouble himself when Bruce is made to bear witness, and he notes that the man's ancestors stole the opal from ''another'' Aborigine tribe. Who stole it from another, and another, and... well, the opal changed hands a ''lot'' of times even before white men showed up.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Baz is far more trusting, friendly and gullible than his cynical father Bruce, despite having been a genie for just as long as him. [[spoiler:In one episode, he talks his father out of using the opal to free themselves by trapping others as genies in their place.]] [[spoiler:In the final episode, he's even okay with staying a genie because his father has married Penelope's mom, and he's even happy to think of her as his new sister rather than his old master.]]
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* LandPoor: The Towns family. They own a massive estate in England, but it is in need of massive repairs, and they are required to rent it out like a hotel to pay the bills. Similarly, they "inherit" (via wish) a massive section of land in Australia valued at 20 million dollars, but still live in a tiny shack.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Penelope is very selfish and has no shame in exploiting her genies magical abilities, but she does show signs of being a better person deep down. [[spoiler:In the end, she comes to accept that her mother loves Australia, even if Penelope herself would rather be in England, and allows her mother to marry Bruce, even though she strips her mother of the knowledge that Bruce isn't a genie.]]
* LandPoor: The Towns family. They own a massive estate in England, but it is in need of massive repairs, and they are required to rent it out like a hotel to pay the bills. Similarly, they "inherit" (via wish) a massive section of land in Australia valued at 20 million dollars, but still live in a what is fundamentally a tinyshack.shack.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Penelope is frequently forced to have Bruce and/or Baz wipe memories when some of her wishes go particularly wrong, especially if this reveals their true identity as genies. [[spoiler:The ultimate example is in the series finale, when she has Bruce wipe her mother's memory of Bruce being a genie without wiping away her love for him.]]
* LandPoor: The Towns family. They own a massive estate in England, but it is in need of massive repairs, and they are required to rent it out like a hotel to pay the bills. Similarly, they "inherit" (via wish) a massive section of land in Australia valued at 20 million dollars, but still live in a what is fundamentally a tiny
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Penelope is frequently forced to have Bruce and/or Baz wipe memories when some of her wishes go particularly wrong, especially if this reveals their true identity as genies. [[spoiler:The ultimate example is in the series finale, when she has Bruce wipe her mother's memory of Bruce being a genie without wiping away her love for him.]]
* LoveDodecahedron: Throughout the series; Trish Emu has a crush on Bruce, who has a crush on Penelope's mother Diana, who is engaged to marry UpperClassTwit Lord Bubbles Uppington-Smythe but who also reciprocates Bruce's crush.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The genies.
* ResetButton: Courtesy of the genies, it's pushed nearly every episode.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The genies.
* ResetButton: Courtesy of the genies, it's pushed nearly every episode.
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* ParanormalRomance: A running B-plot through the series is about the LoveDodecahedron between Bruce, Penelope's mother Diana, and Trish Emu. [[spoiler:It ends with Bruce and Diana getting married.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The
* ResetButton: Courtesy of the genies, it's pushed nearly every episode. Zigzagged in the final episode: [[spoiler:Penelope does wipe her mother's memory of Bruce being a genie, but allows them to get married.]]
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While searching through her attic, Penelope finds an opal, and upon rubbing it, out pops an Australian man and his son who claim to be genies, and that they will grant Penelope's wishes in exchange for their freedom. Penelope names the pair Bruce (Rhys Muldoon, replaced in the second season by Sandy Winton) and Baz (Glenn Meldrum), and decides she'd rather keep the genies in her service then than set them free. However, when she wishes for 20 million pounds, she is transported to a ranch in the Australian Outback, where she's informed she has inherited 500 acres of land worth 20 million.
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