- The Penniless Princess: God's Little GirlEpisode number: 42Original release date: 8/11/12
Sweet Sara Crewe has everything a little girl could want—a loving family, lots of friends, and a closet full of frilly dresses! But when life takes a turn and Sara goes from riches to rags, will she realize that her true worth lies not in what she has, but what's in her heart?
Tropes:
- Adaptational Karma: We don't know what happens to Miss Minchin, but by the end, Miss Amelia seems to run the school.
- Adapted Out: Lottie is not in this version.
- Break the Cutie: Poor little Sara. She gets pushed around by Lavinia and gets belittled by Miss Minchin, who tells her that all her stuff will be sold and she will be sleeping in the attic... while she's grieving the loss of her father. And she doesn't even grow a spine for all of it.
- Gender Flip: The baker and the street urchin are both male here, to account for their actors.
- Genki Girl: Ermengarde is much more hyperactive here than in the book.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Sara loves her teddy bear, Mortimer, especially since he was a gift from her father.
- Hate Sink: Miss Minchin was already mean and cruel in the book, but she’s very loathsome in this version too.
- Kick the Dog: Miss Minchin tells a grieving Sara that since her father died, all of her stuff will be sold, and she will be staying in the school as a servant girl, and that she will be sleeping in the attic. To rub salt in the wound, after she catches Sara having a party in the attic, Miss Minchin throws her beloved teddy bear, Mr. Mortimer out the window!
- No Indoor Voice: Ermengarde speaks with a very loud voice. Justified, since she is a young child.
- Race Lift: Sort of, but the Indian lascars are changed to French here.
- Running Gag:
- Miss Minchin sneezes whenever she is around Mortimer, due to having an allergy.
- Whenever Miss Minchin's name is spoken, a horse is heard whinnying, a la Young Frankenstein.
- Scullery Maid: Becky. By the end, she becomes a pupil.
