Line #23 WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Anni, Nina, Pixel Pinkie]]
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4	''Pixel Pinkie'' is an Australian animated television series produced and created by Blue Rocket Productions in association with the Creator/NineNetwork and principally funded by The Film Finance Corporation Australia. It started airing on 29 August 2009.
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6	Pixel Pinkie is about two girls, Nina and Anni. On her birthday Nina gets a mobile cellphone with a digital genie named Pixel Pinkie in it which can make her wishes come true. But Nina and Anni have to keep Pixel Pinkie away from others. They have to keep it as a secret. Each episode sees the girls wishing for something from Pixel Pinkie then offending her when their wish goes wrong, leaving the girls to solve their problem alone.
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8	''Not'' to be confused with [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPinkiePie Pinkie Pie]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{My Little Pony\|Friendship Is Magic}}'' fame, despite her also having a perky personality and getting into magic-involved hi-jinks. Nor is the series to be confused with ''VideoGame/{{Pixeline}}''.
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10	!!''Pixel Pinkie'' contains examples of:
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12	* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: "Nina the Diva" has Nina acting like a [[ThePrimaDonna stuck-up celebrity]] when she lets slip their music video could use some star power causing Pixel Pinkie to change her personality.
13	* AesopAmnesia: Nina, for making the same mistakes over and over again whenever she starts her sentence with an "I wish", despite the fact that it invites Pixel Pinkie to grant said wish, whether Nina meant it or not. You'd think that after having her for so long, she'd have known that by now.
14	* AllCheeringAllTheTime: Happens to Nina in "The 'B' Word" when a carelessly worded statement (that she wished she could be as enthusiastic about cheering for basketball as Pinkie) to LiteralGenie Pinkie causes her start speaking in cheers every time someone mentions the word "basketball".
15	* AlliterativeName: '''P'''ixel '''P'''inkie.
16	* AlliterativeTitle: '''P'''ixel '''P'''inkie
17	* AlphaBitch: Suzi, who immediately marks Nina as a target for her strange clothes and AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents.
18	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Nina dearly loves her HippieParents, but she does wish they would act a tad more conventionally in public.
19	* TheBGrade: In "Rebel Yell", the scholarly Anni unexpectedly gets an F on her test [[spoiler:which later turns out to be meant for Nina]], and she gets into a deep funk that causes Nina to wish Anni wouldn't care so much about school. Unfortunately, Pixel Pinkie's magic turns Anni into [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode a rebel that constantly challenges authority and getting in trouble with the teachers]].
20	* BabysittingEpisode: "Clones R Us". In said episode, Nina tries to convince Pinkie to make a clone of her to babysit while she goes to Suzi's party.
21	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Pixel Pinkie will grant any wish so long as Nina utters the phrase "I wish". And we do mean ''[[LiteralGenie any]]'' [[LiteralGenie wish]]. [[HilarityEnsues You can see what happens from there]].
22	* BecomeARealGirl: In "Real Cool Girl", when Nina wishes the digital Pinkie to be a real girl so they didn't have to hide her, Pixel Pinkie is ecstatic because she's always wondered what it's like to be a real girl.
23	* BigManOnCampus: AlphaBitch Suzi's boyfriend Max is the captain of the basketball team, and gets on well with everyone in school, including Nina and Anni.
24	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Nicki, a follower of Suzi's (the one in green), gets more of a personality in season 2 whereas in her season 1 appearances, her role was nigh interchangeable with Emily's, another follower of Suzi's (the one in purple). She's portrayed as TheDitz of the GirlPosse, and becomes often the witness to Pixel Pinkie's existence several times [[TheCassandra only for her friends to think she's crazy]].
25	* CosmeticCatastrophe: Happens when Pinkie uses her powers to perform a makeover on Nina and Anni. They actually wanted a ''house'' makeover.
26	* DomesticOnlyCartoon: Entirely produced and animated in Australia.
27	* DressesTheSame: Among the first wishes Nina asks Pixel Pinkie for is to look as cool as Suzi. Of course, Pinkie dresses Nina in Suzi's ''exact'' outfit.
28	* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: Nina's mum Fern, a NewAgeRetroHippie, becomes this when she substitutes for a teacher that Nina accidentally wished for to be on vacation in one episode.
29	* FakeBrit: In-universe, a famous singer by the name of Coolest Luke speaks in an exaggerated English accent but speaks in a normal Aussie accent once he admits that he let the fame go to his head, including acting like a completely different person [[NiceCharacterMeanActor in-contrast with his celebrity persona]].
30	* FireBreathingDiner: In "More Than a Meal", Nina reacts this way after tasting the curry she and Anni had cooked which contained red curry powder provided by Pixel Pinkie.
31	* FormFittingWardrobe: Pinkie wears a skin-tight suit that leaves nothing to the imagination.
32	* GenieInABottle: Pinkie is a digital genie imprisoned in a really old cell phone. When Nina frees her, Pixie becomes her servant. This appears to be an unlimited wishes deal, and Pixie is Nina's servant so long as Nina owns the phone. At first, Nina doesn't seem the least bit impressed with any of this.
33	* GirlPosse: Suzi has a [[ThoseTwoGirls pair of]] {{Beta Bitch}}es whose sole function is to attempt to agree with Suzi more than the other.
34	* GivenNameReveal: A surname variant. "To Fern With Love" reveals Nina's family name when the principal refers to her mother Fern as "Mrs [=McPhee=]".
35	* GoshDangItToHeck: Suzi and her posse have their own variation of the BigOMG that goes "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Oh. My. Dog!]]"
36	* HiddenDepths:
37	** In "The B Word", Anni is shown to be good at cheerleading when she replaces Nina who was replacing Nicki after she causes their cheer pyramid to collapse, injuring Nicki.
38	** Despite being shown as complete airheads, Nicki and Emily are surprisingly good at basketball as seen in "Grand Final" when Nina had no choice to make them a part of the team after the original team got sick that day.
39	** Nina can spell long and complicated words enough to almost go through an entire spelling bee as seen in "My Friend Anni, Superstar".
40	* HippieParents: Nina's parents, Zeph and Fern. They wear tie-dyed clothes, are vegetarians, keep chickens in the backyard, and drive a VW Kombi powered by biofuel.
41	* HippieTeacher: Nina's mum, Fern, who is already a hippie, automatically becomes this for one episode when she substituted for a teacher that Nina accidentally wished for to be on vacation.
42	* IdiosyncraticWipes: The wipe transition used to change the scene is accompanied by Pixel Pinkie's glittery pink pixels as a visual effect.
43	* IdiotBall: Most, if not all, of the episodes' plots are kept moving due to Nina's inability to choose her words carefully, constantly forgetting that an "I wish [insert rhetorical statement here]" would be taken literally by [[LiteralGenie Pixel Pinkie]].
44	* InformedAttribute: Inverted. From "Clones R Us", Nina and Anni repeatedly comment how Nina's clone conjured by Pixel Pinkie looks exactly like the former (which is true), but everyone seems to ignore Clone!Nina's [[FishEyes unfocused eyes]].
45	* JackassGenie: Pinkel Pinkie has somewhat of a sassy side to her when being told off by Nina about a wish going wrong.
46	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The last episode of season one is called "Grand Final", and begins with Nina narrating "It's the end of the season."
47	* LimitedAnimation: The show is animated in extremely cheap Flash, and it shows.
48	* LiteralGenie: Pinkie tends to a fairly literal approach to granting any wishes she is given.
49	* MagicAIsMagicA: Pixel Pinkie's wishes cannot be undone but they are always temporary, so when Nina requests Pinkie to take back a wish, she has to be reminded that she's "stuck with it" until the wish "wears off". The amount of time the wishes last are also incredibly arbitrary, though no wish has lasted for more than a day.
50	* MeaningfulName: Pixel Pinkie is a digital genie who incorporates pixels in her magic and is coloured pink all over.
51	* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Coolest Luke, a male TeenIdol who sings a lot of songs that relate to his audience, but acts like a spoiled brat off-stage. After Nina and Anni call him out for this, he sees the error of his ways and tries to be a bit nicer. In his other appearances, his mean attitude has been toned down, having been humbled by Nina and Anni in his initial appearance.
52	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Nina's dad is a spitting image of the late Music/JohnLennon, down to his hippie attitude. The look is specifically based on his solo career, which may explain why we don't see any other Beatle-likes.
53	* NoDressCode: Many girls in Nina's school wear tops that expose their belly buttons, like Suzi's friends, Nicki and Emily. Then there's Suzi herself with her rather short, white strapless dress.
54	* OncePerEpisode: Each episode opens with Nina typing on her laptop journal as she narrates a short comment about the episode's upcoming events.
55	* OneBookAuthor: Magdalena Grubski and Anica Boulanger-Mashberg, Nina and Anni's respective voice actors, don't seem to have any other acting credits beyond this cartoon.
56	* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Pinkie is a digital genie trapped in a really old mobile phone. She has to grant unlimited wishes to whomever owns the phone. She is generally well-meaning, but often falls into LiteralGenie territory.
57	* ProtagonistCentredMorality:
58	** Nina is openly crushing on Max, who is actually Suzi's boyfriend, which Anni informs Nina of in the first episode. Despite this, she repeatedly pursues him and is even dared by Pixel Pinkie to kiss him (which fortunately does not happen) in one episode. Not once is she portrayed in the wrong for encouraging a boy to cheat on his girlfriend, even if that girlfriend is an AlphaBitch.
59	** Nina has used Pixel Pinkie's magic to cheat, such as during a school sports event in "If the Shoe Fits" and in a bowling match in "Bowled Over" where Anni even expresses delight in 'annihilating' Suzi. Speaking of, Suzi also does some things that could be considered cheating, but, of course, [[CheatersNeverProsper she doesn't get away with it]] because she's not the main character, nor can her actions be easily {{hand wave}}d since she has no help from a digital genie.
60	* QuarterHourShort: Each episode lasts 11 minutes minimum.
61	* ResetButtonEnding: "Pixel Punkie" ends with Nina accidentally wishing for the day to start over without the basketball game so they could celebrate Pixel Pinkie's birthday without interference. The exact same animation used after Nina's narration is literally used again just before the credits roll.
62	* RiseOfZitboy: "Tran Zit" has Nina finding a pimple on her face on the day of her audition, and naturally, she panics. When Pixel Pinkie tries to get rid of it for her, the zit only moves to another person's face based on the order of Nina's phone contacts, eventually leading to the zit evolving into a large sentient blob which explodes.
63	* RoseHairedSweetie: Pixel Pinkie has pink hair, and has a [[CheeryPink cheery personality]].
64	* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Nina is the main protagonist while the titular Pixel Pinkie is the deuteragonist.
65	* SecretKeeper: Anni is the only one besides Nina who knows about Pixel Pinkie, and often has to make up cover stories when Pinkie's magic causes thing to go awry.
66	* SequelEpisode: The episode "Tran Zit" has an audition as its subplot in which Nina and Suzi end up in a tie, and so in the next episode, "The Lost Voice", deals with what happens as a result of that audition.
67	* SplitPersonality: Pixel Pinkie adopts a different personality depending on the faceplate installed on Nina's phone. The normal pink faceplate gives Pinkie her default GenkiGirl personality, a grey faceplate makes her an EmotionlessGirl, a cammo faceplate gives her TheSquadette attitude, while a flower-themed faceplate makes her as much as of a NewAgeRetroHippie as Nina's parents.
68	* StatusCellPhone: Nina immediately feels out of place upon seeing the entire student body owning cellphones, due to being a child of two HippieParents who either cannot afford to buy her one or are simply too aloof about anything digital. Hence, she ends up buying a very old cellphone in a dusty box that turns out to contain the titular digital genie, and the rest is history.
69	* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: The last episode opens with an unusually sad narration from Nina's journal entry, foreshadowing Pixel Pinkie's departure from her life and states that she will never see her again. Pixel Pinkie divulges to Nina that genies only get a certain number of wishes and that Nina only has 19 more wishes left. After some escapades that led to most of the wishes being wasted, Nina and Anni give Pixel Pinkie a chance what she wishes for, which is for Nina and Anni to visit the digital genie world, and so Nina wishes it for her. Whilst making the most of their visit in Pixel Pinkie's world, the wish (as per usual) wears off and Nina and Anni are transported back to the real world, ending the episode and the series as a whole.]]
70	* SupernaturalPhone: Pinkie is a digital GenieInABottle imprisoned in a really old mobile phone.
71	* ThreeWishes: Subverted in that Pixel Pinkie seems to grant unlimited wishes to the owner of the phone [[spoiler: until the finale reveals that she's only given a limited number of wishes (exactly how many of them was never stated nor did Pixel Pinkie even tell Nina about the rule in the first place despite Pixel Pinkie having known about it all along) and by the time there were only 19 wishes left, the phone gives a warning, prompting Pixel Pinkie to explain that once the remaining wishes are gone, she must move on to another phone]].
72	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight:
73	** A lot of the time, when anything weird happens mostly involving Pixel Pinkie's magic, it's rarely pointed out by the other characters with the exception of [[YouHaveToBelieveMe Nicki]] and even then, only when it's plot relevant.
74	** The pilot episode is a glaring example of this in which Nina and Anni don't even question the existence of a digital genie flying out of Nina's mobile phone.
75	* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: In "Rebel Yell", the scholarly Anni unexpectedly [[TheBGrade gets an F]] on her test [[spoiler:which later turns out to be meant for Nina]], and she gets into a deep funk that causes Nina to wish Anni wouldn't care so much about school. Unfortunately, Pixel Pinkie's magic turns Anni into a rebel that constantly challenges authority and getting in trouble with the teachers.

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