History WesternAnimation / Braceface

** Nina Harper's kind of a DownplayedExample--she's as just rich, popular and nasty as any proper example of this trope, but averts PopularIsDumb in that she's actually one of top students in her grade (she often brags about being a straight-A student). Also, some episodes have shown Nina's nicer side, implying that she's not as bad as she seems. Plus, on top of all that, it seems that Nina's mean and sour disposition stems mostly from her AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents hardly ever spending time with her (or paying any real attention to her) as well as her accusing Sharon of wrecking her beloved fashion dolls when they were little kids [[spoiler:(though in the third season, both Nina and Sharon discover that the true culprit was a mean cousin of Nina's, and Nina realizes that she's wasted so many years being mean to Sharon for nothing).]]

* WhamLine: After the infamous doll incident gets referenced early into "Clean Slate", we get this bombshell.
-->[[spoiler:'''Petra]]:''' [[spoiler:When did you finally figure out ''I'' was the one who did it?]]

* WhamLine: After the infamous doll incident gets referenced early into "Clean Slate", we get this bombshell from Nina’s cousin.
-->[[spoiler:'''Petra:''' When did you finally figure out ''I'' was the one who did it?]]

* WhamLine: After the infamous doll incident gets referenced early into "Clean Slate":
-->'''[[spoiler:Petra]]:''' [[spoiler:When did you finally figure out ''I'' was the one who did it?]]

An animated Canadian show from Creator/{{Nelvana}} created by Melissa Clark for Creator/{{Teletoon}}. The show follows the exploits of Sharon Spitz (voiced by Creator/AliciaSilverstone for the first two seasons, who was also an executive producer on the show), an average eighth grader (later ninth grader when she starts high school) who at the start of the series is forced to get braces for her teeth. Typical of teenage life, she worries about how this will affect her usual status amongst her peers as she goes through her daily life.

An animated Canadian show from Creator/{{Nelvana}} created by Melissa Clark for Creator/{{Teletoon}}. The show follow sthe exploits of Sharon Spitz (voiced by Creator/AliciaSilverstone for the first two seasons, who was also an executive producer on the show), an average eighth grader (later ninth grader when she starts high school) who at the start of the series is forced to get braces for her teeth. Typical of teenage life, she worries about how this will affect her usual status amongst her peers as she goes through her daily life.

An animated Canadian show from Creator/{{Nelvana}} produced by Creator/AliciaSilverstone (who also voices the main character for the first two seasons) for Creator/{{Teletoon}}. The show follow the exploits of Sharon Spitz, an average eighth grader (later ninth grader when she starts high school) who at the start of the series is forced to get braces for her teeth. Typical of teenage life, she worries about how this will affect her usual status amongst her peers as she goes through her daily life.

* ChewOutFakeOut: In "Dissection Connection", after Sharon and Tally are caught freeing the live frogs in the pond and then get suspended for it, Helen reprimands Sharon for stealing school property. She then reveals that she's actually more furious at the school for refusing to respect Sharon's uncomfortableness with doing real frog dissections and didn't consider the alternatives she suggested to get the passing Biology grade (such as the computer program or a plastic frog model), so [[MamaBear she puts an angry phone call into the principal's office about it]]. By the end of the episode, the school decided that while they won't stop real dissections, they'll buy some computer dissection programs for those uncomfortable with it starting with the next school year. [[RealityEnsues And Sharon still ends up suspended for stealing the frogs]].

An animated Canadian show produced by Creator/AliciaSilverstone (who also voices the main character for the first two seasons). The show follow the exploits of Sharon Spitz, an average eighth grader (later ninth grader when she starts high school) who at the start of the series is forced to get braces for her teeth. Typical of teenage life, she worries about how this will affect her usual status amongst her peers as she goes through her daily life.

The series lasted from June, 2001 to August 2005. A total of 78 episodes in roughly three seasons. Only the first two aired in the US starting on [[Creator/{{Freeform}} ABC Family]] (though promoted during the dying days of Fox Family), [[ChannelHop then moving to]] Creator/DisneyChannel before being dropped. The show can be viewed nowadays on the Creator/{{Tubi}} TV app.[[note]]Though for some reason it's listed as five seasons. Again, it's really three.[[/note]]

The series lasted from June, 2001 to August 2005. A total of 78 episodes in roughly three seasons. Only the first two aired in the US starting on [[Creator/{{Freeform}} ABC Family]] (though promoted during the dying days of Fox Family), [[ChannelHop then moving to]] Creator/DisneyChannel before being dropped. The show can be viewed nowadays on the Tubi TV app.[[note]]Though for some reason it's listed as five seasons. Again, it's really three.[[/note]]

** Nina Harper's kind of a DownplayedExample--she's just rich, popular and nasty as any proper example of this trope, but averts PopularIsDumb in that she's actually one of top students in her grade (she often brags about being a straight-A student). Also, some episodes have shown Nina's nicer side, implying that she's not as bad as she seems. Plus, on top of all that, it seems that Nina's mean and sour disposition stems mostly from her AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents hardly ever spending time with her (or paying any real attention to her) as well as her accusing Sharon of wrecking her beloved fashion dolls when they were little kids [[spoiler:(though in the third season, both Nina and Sharon discover that the true culprit was a mean cousin of Nina's, and Nina realizes that she's wasted so many years being mean to Sharon for nothing).]]

* BreastExpansion: The episode "Busted" had Sharon buy a pump water bra to give her more prominent breasts and enjoys all the attention she gets and that more people are treat her like an adult. Thanks to her braces, it didn't end well. She ends up overdoing it, with humiliating results. First getting laughed at by the same people she was trying to impress, and then her boobs...pop.

The series lasted from June, 2001 to August 2005. A total of 78 episodes in roughly three seasons. Only the first two aired in the US starting on [[Creator/{{Freeform}} ABC Family]] (though promoted during the dying days of Fox Family), [[ChannelHop then moving to]] Creator/DisneyChannel before being dropped. The show can be viewed nowadays on the Tubi TV app [[note]] Though for some reason is listed as fives seasons. Again it's really three.[[/note]]

** Nina Harper's kind of a DownplayedExample--she's just rich, popular and nasty as any proper example of this trope, but averts PopularIsDumb in that she's actually one of top students in her grade (she often brags about being a straight-A student). Also, some episodes have shown Nina's nicer side, implying that she's not as bad as she seems. Plus, on top of all that, it seems that Nina's mean and sour disposition stems mostly from her AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents hardly ever spending time with her (or paying any real attention to her) as well as her accusing Sharon of wrecking her beloved fashion dolls when they were little kids[[spoiler: (though in the third season, both Nina and Sharon discover that the true culprit was a mean cousin of Nina's, and Nina realizes that she's wasted so many years being mean to Sharon for nothing).]]

%%* SliceOfLife

* AmicablyDivorced: Sharon's parents split up when she was seven, but they still have a pretty good relationship.

* AuthorTract: Creator/AliciaSilverstone, who is the producer and Sharon's voice actor, is a vegetarian and an animal-rights activist. Sharon is a vegetarian and an animal right activist and there are several episodes that focuses on that.

* PromiseMeYouWontX: "Leap of Faith" (last episode), "promise me you won't panic" (or "freak out", or something similar) when Alden tells Brock he's fallen back in love with Sharon.

* SecretSanta: Sharon pulls Nina's name, and is morally torn between buying her a nice present and not buying her anything at all.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Maria Wong, who is half-Chinese and half-Italian.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Sharon and Nina were childhood friends until the second grade when she accused her of chopping off her dolls.

* WhatTheHellHero: One episode have Sharon and Maria getting back on Nina by sabotaging her performance in a show, but realizes they went too far when she is more humiliated than they intended, even putting her at a risk of falling from her swing onto the stage from a great height. They also took advantage of [[HeelFaceTurn Alyson's]] trust in them to go through with it.

* ClicheStorm: Of the early 2000s teenage SliceOfLife variety.

* EasilyForgiven: Alyson. Many early episodes did show that she was nicer than Nina, and Sharon and Maria initially did not want to trust her, but they are all buddies the episode after she breaks off from Nina.

%%* BlackBestFriend: Brock is to Alden.

* BreastExpansion[=/=]GagBoobs: The episode "Busted" had Sharon buy a pump water bra to give her more prominent breasts and enjoys all the attention she gets and that more people are treat her like an adult. Thanks to her braces, it didn't end well. She ends up overdoing it, with humiliating results. First getting laughed at by the same people she was trying to impress, and then her boobs...pop.

* BetaBitch: Subverted with Alyson--while she was friends with Nina for a large part of the show, she was never truly cruel or mean-spirited; she just did whatever Nina told her to do because, like a lot of teenagers, she just wanted to fit in and be noticed. Eventually, after Alyson and Conner discover they have feelings for each other and start dating, Nina forces Alyson to choose between her and Conner, with Alyson performing a HeelFaceTurn by ultimately choosing Conner (and by extension, Conner's friends) over Nina.

%%* AmicablyDivorced: Sharon's parents.

* BetaBitch: Subverted with Alyson--while she was friends for a large part of the show, she was never truly cruel or mean-spirited; she just did whatever Nina told her to do because, like a lot of teenagers, she just wanted to fit in and be noticed. Eventually, after Alyson and Conner discover they have feeling for each others and start dating, Nina forces Alyson to choose between her and Conner, with Alyson performing a HeelFaceTurn by ultimately choosing Conner (and by extension, Conner's friends) over Nina.

* SqeamishAboutSlaughter: Sharon becomes a vegetarian and animal-rights activist after Alden gets her a part-time job at his uncle's meat-packing plant and she discovers she doesn't like the idea of animals being turned into food.

-> ''Boyfriend! ''(Don't Wanna Talk About It)''''