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* GirlShowGhetto: Inverted. To cash in on Sabrina's popularity, ABC produced two UrbanFantasy series, TeenAngel and YouWish, though with male protagonists. Both shows ended after a season, though TeenAngel is usually regarded as a cult-classic that got ScrewedByTheNetwork, while Sabrina lasted for years and even had a few spin-offs.

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* GirlShowGhetto: Inverted. To cash in on Sabrina's popularity, ABC produced two UrbanFantasy series, TeenAngel and YouWish, though with male protagonists. Both shows ended after a season, though TeenAngel is usually regarded as a cult-classic that got ScrewedByTheNetwork, while Sabrina lasted for years and even had a few spin-offs.
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* OneSceneWonder: Aunt Vesta only appeared in one episode, but Raquel Welch was extremely memorable, and the character was referenced unseen in later seasons.
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* HilariousInHindsight: When Zelda uses magic, the magic produced is pink. While whenever Hilda uses magic it produces smoke, one episode where their magic is stollen shows that it's green. Zelda is the responsible one. Hilda is the more easy-going and "fun" one. [[TheFairlyOddparents A few years later, a responsible magic user's represented by pink, and the easy-going one with green]].

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* HilariousInHindsight: When Zelda uses magic, the magic produced is pink. While whenever Hilda uses magic it produces smoke, one episode where their magic is stollen stolen shows that it's green. Zelda is the responsible one. Hilda is the more easy-going and "fun" one. [[TheFairlyOddparents A few years later, a responsible magic user's represented by pink, and the easy-going one with green]].

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* JumpingTheShark: Widely believed to have jumped either when Sabrina went to college or when both Hilda and Zelda were no longer in the show.



* JumpingTheShark: Widely believed to have jumped either when Sabrina went to college or when both Hilda and Zelda were no longer in the show.



* TearJerker: The Season 6 episode "The Whole Ball of Wax". I almost began crying at the end when it looked like [[spoiler: Sabrina's mom died from being next to an ironer!]]

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* TearJerker: The Season 6 episode "The Whole Ball of Wax". I almost began crying at the end when it looked like [[spoiler: Sabrina's mom died from being next to an ironer!]]
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*JumpingTheShark: Widely believed to have jumped either when Sabrina went to college or when both Hilda and Zelda were no longer in the show.
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* MisBlamed: The show was constantly accused of being a rip-off of many similar shows during its run, most notably OutOfThisWorld and ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''. Despite popular belief, Sabrina was originally a comic book character in the 1960's, and predates ''Bewitched.''

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* MisBlamed: The show was constantly accused of being a rip-off of many similar shows during its run, most notably OutOfThisWorld and ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''. Despite popular belief, Sabrina was originally a comic book character in the 1960's, 1960s, and predates ''Bewitched.''
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* MisBlamed: The show was constantly accused of being a rip-off of many similar shows during its run, most notably OutOfThisWorld and {{Bewitched}}. Despite popular belief, Sabrina was originally a comic book character in the 1960's, and predates Bewitched.

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* MisBlamed: The show was constantly accused of being a rip-off of many similar shows during its run, most notably OutOfThisWorld and {{Bewitched}}. ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''. Despite popular belief, Sabrina was originally a comic book character in the 1960's, and predates Bewitched.''Bewitched.''
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* HarsherInHindsight: Sabrina has an evil twin. The name of the evil version is Katrina. Cut to years later, and a certain hurricane hits...
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** Where are you getting "it was bewitched" from? We never see her cast a spell. She just made regular full-fat versions which she sold as nonfat and the show bought into the idea that eating full-fat lattes will make you fat. Which is still not nice (and violating food-labeling laws), but she wasn't trying to make them fat; it was just to sell more stuff.

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** Where are you getting "it was bewitched" from? We never see her cast a spell. She just made regular full-fat versions which she sold as nonfat and the show bought into the idea that eating full-fat lattes will make you fat. Which is still not nice (and violating food-labeling laws), but she wasn't trying to make them fat; it was is this trope-- just to sell more stuff.not with magic involved.
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** Where are you getting "it was bewitched" from? We never see her cast a spell. She just made regular full-fat versions which she sold as nonfat and the show bought into the idea that eating full-fat lattes will make you fat.

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** Where are you getting "it was bewitched" from? We never see her cast a spell. She just made regular full-fat versions which she sold as nonfat and the show bought into the idea that eating full-fat lattes will make you fat. Which is still not nice (and violating food-labeling laws), but she wasn't trying to make them fat; it was just to sell more stuff.
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** Where are you getting "it was bewitched" from? We never see her cast a spell. She just made regular full-fat versions which she sold as nonfat and the show bought into the idea that eating full-fat lattes will make you fat.

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* GirlShowGhetto: Inverted. To cash in on Sabrina's popularity, ABC produced two FantasticComdey series, TeenAngel and YouWish, though with male protagonists. Both shows ended after a season, though TeenAngel is usually regarded as a cult-classic that got ScrewedByTheNetwork, while Sabrina lasted for years and even had a few spin-offs.

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* GirlShowGhetto: Inverted. To cash in on Sabrina's popularity, ABC produced two FantasticComdey UrbanFantasy series, TeenAngel and YouWish, though with male protagonists. Both shows ended after a season, though TeenAngel is usually regarded as a cult-classic that got ScrewedByTheNetwork, while Sabrina lasted for years and even had a few spin-offs.


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* MisBlamed: The show was constantly accused of being a rip-off of many similar shows during its run, most notably OutOfThisWorld and {{Bewitched}}. Despite popular belief, Sabrina was originally a comic book character in the 1960's, and predates Bewitched.
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* GirlShowGhetto: Inverted. To cash in on Sabrina's popularity, ABC produced two FantasticComdey series, TeenAngel and YouWish, though with male protagonists. Both shows ended after a season, though TeenAngel is usually regarded as a cult-classic that got ScrewedByTheNetwork, while Sabrina lasted for years and even had a few spin-offs.
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** This is hilarious considering [[spoiler: Sabrina actually ends up with the fan-favorite, Harvey, in the series finale.]]
** This seems to be inverted with Valerie, who tends to be more remembered, if not more popular, than Jenny, her presecedor.
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* DudeNotFunny: The episode where Hilda gives Morgan's models special food saying it's fat free but is lying. The food has actually been bewitched to make the models gain weight, which they do and they're unable to fit into the clothes. Yeah, [[SarcasmMode because pulling a prank like that on women clearly sensitive about their weight is hysterical]]. Oh and did we mention that the fashion show they were unable to model for counted for Morgan's final grade in class? Even worse, Hilda is never caught out and doesn't get comeuppance for this.
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* ReplacementScrappy: Josh for Harvey. Whereas Harvey and Sabrina had a fairly healthy relationship, Josh's relationship with Sabrina was all about her giving and him just taking. He was going to move to Prague without considering her feelings, is obsessively jealous, chews Sabrina out for embarrassing him at work and never supports her plans or wishes.

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* JerkassWoobie: Try to resist the impulse to hug Amanda at the of the Season 7 episode "Bada-Ping", when she realizes she's the cause of Sabrina's predicted death. (A prediction that, thankfully, never comes to pass.)



* TheWoobie: Try to resist the impulse to hug Amanda at the of the Season 7 episode "Bada-Ping", when she realizes she's the cause of Sabrina's predicted death. (A prediction that, thankfully, never comes to pass.)
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* HilariousInHindsight: When Zelda uses magic, the magic produced is pink. While whenever Hilda uses magic it produces smoke, one episode where their magic is stollen shows that it's green. Zelda is the responsible one. Hilda is the more easy-going and "fun" one. [[TheFairlyOddparents A few years later, a responsible magic user's represented by pink, and the easy-going one with green]].
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Many of the magical illnesses or other {{Plot Coupon}}s in the TV series were based around really lame[[AnAesop Aesops]]. (Too vain, turn your boyfriend into wolf-boy. Try to use magic to get your rival out of your hair, nope, now you're tied to her.) [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Sabrina. (See FreudianExcuse on the main page.)

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* {{Anvilicious}}: Many of the magical illnesses or other {{Plot Coupon}}s in the TV series were based around really lame[[AnAesop lame [[AnAesop Aesops]]. (Too vain, turn your boyfriend into wolf-boy. Try to use magic to get your rival out of your hair, nope, now you're tied to her.) [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Sabrina. (See FreudianExcuse on the main page.)
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* TearJerker: The Season 6 episode "The Whole Ball of Wax". I almost began crying at the end when it looked like [[spoiler: Sabrina's mom died from being next to an ironer!]]
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** For those with a fat or body expansion fetish, there's the episode where Sabrina stuffs herself with pancakes until she bloats out to the point of barely being able to fit through the front door.
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** In "Sabrina Unplugged," Sabrina enters a computer to delete footage that caught her perform magic. Before she can get out, her co-workers see her on the screen and assume she's just a picture. They have a little fun altering "the picture" - giving her a BreastExpansion, [[LadyInRed a tight red dress]], matching heels and more body to her blonde hair. And because technology did this, she can't simply later undo this with magic.
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* BookDumb: Aunt Hilda.
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** Aunt Hilda gets Flanderized from being the slightly more easy going of the two aunts to being a ditzy slacker. The best example is her music career: she goes from being a skilled orchestral violinist in the first season to having to be nagged intodoing any practicing at all by her sister in the third.
* FridgeBrilliance - Donald Faison played the exact same character when he appeared in Magic Joel (season 1) and Rumour Mill (Season 2); that's why he wanted to become a magician's assistant when he appeared in the mortal realm in Magic Joel.

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** Aunt Hilda gets Flanderized from being the slightly more easy going of the two aunts to being a ditzy slacker. The best example is her music career: she goes from being a skilled orchestral violinist in the first season to having to be nagged intodoing into doing any practicing at all by her sister in the third.
* FridgeBrilliance - Donald Faison played the exact same character when he appeared in Magic Joel (season 1) and Rumour Mill (Season 2); that's why he wanted to become a magician's assistant when he appeared in the mortal realm in Magic Joel.\\
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* FridgeBrilliance - Donald Faison played the exact same character when he appeared in Magic Joel (season 1) and Rumour Mill (Season 2); that's why he wanted to become a magician's assistant when he appeared in the mortal realm in Magic Joel.
Likewise, Lindsay Sloane was the same character in Sabrina and in Bring It On. She was so sick of being a victim that she dyed her hair and changed personality entirely when she moved. That or she accidentally drank a confidence/ambition potion.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Ryan Reynolds plays a bleach-blonde bad boy in the pilot movie.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Sabrina's evil twin being named Katrina takes on a darker tone when you think about the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina (which happened two years after the show ended).
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**Aunt Hilda gets Flanderized from being the slightly more easy going of the two aunts to being a ditzy slacker. The best example is her music career: she goes from being a skilled orchestral violinist in the first season to having to be nagged intodoing any practicing at all by her sister in the third.
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* {{Flanderization}}: When we meet Morgan in season 5 she is of course shallow and a bit spacey but completely capable and in control of herself. But then in season 7 she is a complete ditz.

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* {{Flanderization}}: When we meet Morgan in season 5 she is of course shallow and a bit spacey but completely capable and in control of herself. But then in season 7 she is a complete ditz.ditz.
* TheWoobie: Try to resist the impulse to hug Amanda at the of the Season 7 episode "Bada-Ping", when she realizes she's the cause of Sabrina's predicted death. (A prediction that, thankfully, never comes to pass.)
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Not only do people not know the show was based on a [[ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch comic]], many elements and characters from the show were used in later versions of the comics (such as Salem originally being human.) There was also a 70s Saturday morning cartoon (SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies) and a TV-movie before the show that no one remembers.
* {{Anvilicious}}: Many of the magical illnesses or other {{Plot Coupon}}s in the TV series were based around really lame[[AnAesop Aesops]]. (Too vain, turn your boyfriend into wolf-boy. Try to use magic to get your rival out of your hair, nope, now you're tied to her.) [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Sabrina. (See FreudianExcuse on the main page.)
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Salem again.

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