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Sabrina the Animated Series Wag the Witch

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Not to be confused with Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies , this is the Animated Adaptation of the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch , which itself was already adjusted from a comic book by Archie Comics.

Sabrina: The Animated Series is a Belgian-American-Canadian indie drawing. Being produced past DiC Entertainment during the time it was owned past Disney and having run on ABC's One Saturday Morning and its weekday afternoon counterpart I Too on UPN, it was oddly treated like information technology was as much of a show by Disney as the company's actual productions. The reruns on Toon Disney placed it in the same primetime block every bit Disney cartoons like House of Mouse and Aladdin: The Series , even though it was pretty obvious that this was non an bodily Disney drawing. In its original run, the show lasted from September, 1999 to February, 2000 for a full of 65 episodes.

For those out of the know, the cartoon was more like an Alternate Continuity than a prologue to the live action series as it contradicts many things. For example, in the main show Sabrina comes into her powers on her sixteenth birthday and learns that her family (save for her mother) are witches. In the animated prove, Sabrina is a preteen and already has her powers, and she also knows about the magical nature of her family. In this version, Sabrina goes to eye schoolhouse in between learning to use her magic. Harvey goes to the same school along with her and of course the two develop a like for one some other. Her rival at the school is Gem Stone (acting as a preteen version of Alpha Bitch Libby) and her best friend is Chloe, the only human who knows of Sabrina's secret. Her aunts, Zelda and Hilda, are in this version as well but are stuck in teenage bodies for a never revealed penalty. Thus, they take to be looked on past their Uncle Quigley (another original character) till so. Salem still lives with the bunch as usual and, being an blithe show, is given much more than movement than his live action counterpart.

After DiC Entertainment divide from Disney, they produced a Fabricated-for-TV Movie titled Sabrina: Friends Forever, which served as the airplane pilot to a new syndicated series titled Sabrina'south Hugger-mugger Life, which was basically a follow-upwardly to the first series. Many of the original characters from the kickoff serial were Put on a Omnibus or brother chucked and, since by this betoken DiC was no longer a Disney subsidiary, features none of the original voice actors either. In this version, Sabrina now going to high school (further contradicting the chief series, but but ii years younger) is now at the age where she can attend magic school also. She quickly finds a new rival in Cassandra, who's a total witch—and will let Sabrina know it every chance she gets. Of form, Sabrina is more than willing to show that being full blooded doesn't mean you're automatically amend.

Ironically, reruns of both Sabrina: The Blithe Serial and Sabrina's Secret Life briefly popped up on Toon Disney for a while. Later, STAS aired on Sat mornings on CBS'south Cookie Jar Tv block in 2010, with SSL joining information technology on September xviii. On February five, 2011, they were replaced past Trollz and Horseland . From fall 2012 through October 2013, STAS aired on the "This Is For Kids" block on This Television set. A playlist of the entire series is available for viewing on WildBrain's Sabrina YouTube aqueduct hither .

At present has a character page.

Tropes:

  • 65-Episode Cartoon: Similarly to other syndicated cartoons of its time, this show has a whopping 60-five episodes over one season.
  • Role player Allusion: Captain Jean Lafitte, voiced past Long John Baldry, shouts "I HATE Salem!" afterwards being defeated in "This Is Your Ix Lives." annotation Lafitte is defeated by Sabrina, Harvey, and Chloe rather than Salem, but Salem'south wrongdoings in the by are the reason why Lafitte became an antagonist in the first place. This is nearly identical to the In one case an Episode Catchphrase used by Dr. Robotnik in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog , who Baldry besides voiced: "I Hate that hedgehog!"
  • An Aesop:
    • The Christmas Episode has the moral that simple kindness is the best manner to get through to a cruel person, rather than some elaborate scheme. Sabrina'south attempted spell merely makes Gem dearest herself even more, and she grudgingly admits that she only wanted revenge, not to change Gem for the ameliorate. Then she ends upwardly giving Gem a existent gift and wishing her Merry Christmas anyway. Gem realizes that no one else cared enough to be with her on Christmas, and joins Sabrina and her friends for the celebrations.
    • Harvey'south Rebuilt Pedestal for his favorite action hero. He learns that actors are actors and most of the fourth dimension, they're ordinary people who don't do the fantastic feats nosotros see on camera. Merely that doesn't mean that they're not capable of great heroics when push comes to shove.
    • "Most Dangerous Witch": Merely because you were bullied at ane point past a sure blazon of person is no reason to concur a grudge against everyone like that person.
    • "Witch Switch": Sabrina believes Precious stone's life is perfect because of her wealth - only to experience for herself the girl's ain difficulties that she kept subconscious from the world. The lesson is that no one person's life is perfect, and we shouldn't be fooled by a filtered version of it that we're shown from the exterior.
    • "The Importance of Being Norma" explores a theme of popularity vs. identity. Sabrina wants to exist popular, but feels bad about ditching her gilded-hearted nerd friend Norma. She wants to remain friends with Norma, but doesn't want to look uncool in forepart of the popular girls. When she uses a powerful spell to make Norma popular in the optics of the other students, it makes Norma miserable considering of a Loss of Identity. As the spell snowballs into making anybody Norma-zombies forcing Sabrina into being Norma, what ultimately breaks information technology is her declaration that she'd rather be herself than exist absurd like she previously wanted.
    • At that place's an episode where Sabrina gets fed up with and so many restrictions like PG-13 rated movies, curfews, lack of coin etc that she casts a spell to become an adult. She soon internalizes the moral that being an developed does not involve having fun all the fourth dimension and that in that location are lots of responsibilities she has to argue with.
  • Appreciating Parody: The show really loved this one. Let'south see...
    • "La Femme Sabrina" - spy films
    • "Xabrina Warrior Witch" - video games
    • "Wiccan of the Ocean" - The Piffling Mermaid (1989)
    • "Hexcalibur" - Rex Arthur
    • "Witchery Science Theater" - horror films
    • "The Senses-Shattering Adventures of Helm Harvtastic" - comic books/superheroes
    • "When In Rome" - Gladiator
  • Afraid of Needles: One episode has Sabrina have to go become treated for "Witch-itis" a disease that turns her tongue dark-green and throws her magical powers out of whack. When she initially goes she gets scared off past the the doctor's supposed needle (information technology was but a watering can) and refuses to get treated because of it causing the symptoms to grow worse.
  • Blastoff Bowwow: Gem. She gains a witch counterpart in the Fabricated-for-Idiot box Movie Sabrina: Friends Forever.
    • One episode revealed Precious stone was a Beta Bitch for the Head Cheerleader, Calista. Weirdly enough, Calista was shown to exist Gem'south lackey in later episodes.
  • Alternative Strange Theme Song: The Italian version has a unlike opening theme.
  • Ambiguously Brownish: Despite her sister Zelda and blood brother Edward beingness white, Hilda was drawn looking darker skinned and looking a chip more than ethnic than the rest of the family.
  • Badass Ambrosial:
  • Badass Normal: Tim The Witch Smeller is a villainous variation of this; using scientific discipline to swore revenge on witches since he got bullied every bit a kid for being a Muggle Born of Mages.
  • Balloon Abdomen:
    • Sabrina in one episode... later chowing downwardly a lot of garlic in The Bat Pack.
    • Salem in Working Witches afterwards downing a boatload of chocolate that Sabrina won in a contest.
  • Ring Episode: In the episode "Witchy Grrrls", Sabrina forms a bubblegum pop band with her aunts and Chloe to perform at the school talent testify. All the same, when they perform, information technology's apparent that they sound awful. After losing the talent show, Sabrina casts a spell to make them into successful and famous musicians
  • Barefoot Sage/Magical Barefooter: the Wise Warlock from "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?" episode. Actually a Double Subversion: he seems to exist a fraud at first, simply turns out to be really wise at the end of the episode.
  • Exist Conscientious What Y'all Wish For: A major theme in the showtime serial as, since Sabrina wasn't powerful enough notwithstanding, she had to rely on the Spooky Jar who would grant Sabrina'due south desire at the moment. Typical of course, these would ever backlash and Sabrina would have to detect a mode to fix the problem.
    • This can even happen without the Chilling Jar. In "Anywhere But Hither", Sabrina becomes an developed, merely finds out the adult world has its own 'disadvantages'. And it is subverted when in "The Senses-Shattering Adventures of Captain Harvtastic", Sabrina makes Harvey grant a wish with assistance from a wishing star but it goes wrong and both of them and Salem are sucked into and wind upwardly inside the comic volume.
    • In Friends Forever, Sabrina and Nicole program a journey to a wish-granting tree in the witches' realm and so that they can become total witches. Sabrina makes her wish get-go, and information technology's granted...she absorbs Nicole's powers, which leaves Nicole mortal and turns her to stone, since mortals are forbidden from being in the witches' realm.
  • Berserk Button: Salem admits in one case his litter box improve not exist touched.
    • Another one of his Berserk Buttons is pressed when Gem refers to him as "the ugliest true cat she has seen in her life".

    Salem: Turn her into a mouse and exit the residue to me!

  • Between My Legs: During the episode "Nothin' Says Lovin Like Somethin' From a Coven", while Sabrina and Gem are arguing, this shot is used with Gem's legs equally framing.
  • Large "NO!":
    • Precious stone does this in the intro afterwards getting her clothes magically changed.
    • Sabrina in the episode "Most Unsafe Witch" when gets dragged to her room.
    • Sabrina again in "Picture Perfect" during the assembly focusing on the Student of the Twelvemonth.
    • Harvey shouts out one in "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?" during a flashback after the plug of the arcade game he was playing gets accidentally pulled out past a janitor. He then Faints in Shock.
    • Harvey lets out 3 of them in succession in "La Femme Sabrina" when he finds that the spy picture he was looking forrad to has been delayed for one week.
  • Bland-Name Product:
    • "Brina Baby" features a set of plush toys known as 'Eensie Babies'. The evidence did premiere but effectually the time Beanie Babies had become pop.
    • Another episode has a film about Star-Crossed Lovers aboard a sinking ship, chosen "Gargantic". Odd because Chloe outright references Titanic (1997) in another episode.
  • Blond, Brunette, Redhead: Sabrina (blonde), Zelda (redhead), and Hilda (brunette). The roles are palette-swapped - with Zelda being the Brainy Redhead, Hilda the Dumb Brunette and Sabrina the Peppery Blonde.
  • Interruption the Cutie:
    • Harvey when he finds out his favorite cartoon got cancelled and when he was playing an arcade game at a very high level until an employee accidentally restarted it. Played for Laughs.
    • Pi in "Paranormal Pi" when Sabrina is forced to make his magic tracker become on the fritz so her secret won't be discovered, humiliating him in front of a crowd of people in the process.
  • Broke Episode: One episode featured Precious stone'south family losing all their money, with Gem moving into Sabrina's firm.
  • Broken Aesop:
    • The moral of "Moldy Oldie" is basically that it'southward wrong to deny an elderly person a identify in social club simply because they take then many years of experience, never mind the fact that said elderly person may be senile and/or a danger to himself or others.
    • "Anywhere Only Here" teaches kids that you'll never have whatsoever problems as a kid or have anything to await forward to every bit an adult.
  • Butt-Monkey:
    • While definitely not to the extent of the live action series, Salem still often gets the short end of the stick in this evidence. While usually it's his own error, he tends to get this even when he helps out the Spellmans (A Witchmas Carole and Commuter Ed come up to mind).
    • Sabrina herself gets this a lot of the time, constantly being humiliated by Precious stone Stone and suffering Agreeable Injuries from time to time.
    • Uncle Quigley, although he more has it coming thanks to his strict, overbearing attitude towards the other Spellmans a lot of the fourth dimension.
    • Poor, poor Harvey. Either he gets roped into Sabrina'south antics or humiliated in front end of groups of people. And yet, he still remains his chipper, friendly self.
  • By the Pilus: Gem pulls Pi'south (rather long) pilus in "Straight Outta Paris" to prove (somehow) that he was a 'Cyborg From The Futurity!' Needless to say, he was NOT impressed.
  • Catchphrase: Pi had two. "Mi Amigo" and "chyah"
  • Celebrity Is Overrated: Or in the case of "The Importance of Being Norma", it's more than similar "popularity is overrated". Sabrina casts a spell that makes Norma look popular in the eyes of the other kids (and the world over) in lodge to aid her. Simply Norma later bemoans that she'due south fed upwardly with everyone mobbing for her fourth dimension and attention, and is saddened by how everyone becoming similar her has fabricated her simply some other face in the crowd. She doesn't find information technology any fun, and when Sabrina consoles her that popularity isn't nigh fun, Norma questions what so is the purpose of popularity. Sabrina is at a loss for words and realizes Norma was already happy with herself before the popularity spell was cast.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Pi. And depending on the episode, Harvey (The latter flanderized in Sabrina's Clandestine Life).
  • invoked Cliché Storm: Literally, in "Cliché Calendar week", where everyone's figures of speech become... literal.
  • Comedic Underwear Exposure: "Compress to Fit" has magic used to fit into tight jeans backfire as information technology's victims shrink even further to doll size, the first indication of this is the pants becoming too big. Oddly both Chloe (green) and Sabrina (blue) are wearing boxers.
    • Also in "Send In The Clones" Sabrina casts a spell on Jewel, causing her pants to rip, and we can run into she'south wearing panties.
  • Comical Overreacting: In "La Femme Sabrina", Harvey'due south reaction to the spy movie he was looking forward to being delayed for i week is to let out three Big "NO!"southward in quick succession, and then sit around eating cereal and lamenting at that place's no point in living without said movie, to Sabrina'due south annoyance.
  • Compressed Vice: One episode tells us that Sabrina always jumps to conclusions — to set up the plot well-nigh assuming her grandparents are going to divorce and going to elaborate efforts to foreclose it (only to reveal they were going to renew their vows). While Sabrina displays impulsive behavior throughout the series and is too quick to employ magic on several occasions, this jumping to conclusions attitude only shows up in this 1 episode.
  • Absurd and Unusual Penalisation: Hilda and Zelda's teenage forms are the result for "abusing magic" in the past (which is kinda weird, Hilda ane tin empathize but Zelda?). Apparently being "immature and beautiful", as Zelda quips, is a dishonor in the witches world.
    • Could also be seen as Cursed with Awesome.
    • Enchantra punishes them for allowing her to flirt with a conjured up version of Romeo by making them go out in public dressed as Stone-Hopper Penguins for a week.
  • Absurd Loser: Sabrina and Chloe announced to be in the unpopular crowd for no reason other than because the popular kids say so.
  • Crowd Song: "Goin' to the Embankment" from the episode "Wiccan of the Bounding main".
  • Cute Monster Girl:
    • Sabrina in Harvey'southward comic volume world where she appears to be one-half-daughter, half-squid. She also appears to have been aged past a few years - judging by her chest surface area. The comic was drawn by a thirteen-year-old boy.
    • As well, Grimadonna the Netherworld superstar. She's an attractive woman with blue pare, pointy ears and fangs.
  • Dark Horse Victory: In "Wag the Witch", Sabrina runs for class president and Gem tries to ruin her campaign past having a reporter for the schoolhouse newspaper follow her and picket her every motion. Sabrina conjures up a pair of glasses that make the reporter see Sabrina as a normal tween girl. The reporter ends upwardly running an article about how ho-hum Sabrina is and endorses the schoolhouse's resident Strange Boy Pi, who wins the election.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Salem, mostly, but everyone else gets some in at times too.
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • Sabrina, a good number of the times in the show. In one case, she figures Jewel's life is and so easy since she's rich, and then she uses a spell to switch lives with her. Not only does she detect Precious stone's life not every bit glamorous equally expected (she has tutors who constantly have Sabrina do "Proper Etiquette" exercises which run Sabrina ragged). Just since Gem at present has her life, she's a witch and well, you kinda estimate how a Alpha Bowwow would be if she has magical powers.
    • She gets a letter from her grandparents (who have been separated for a while) that they accept a large announcement to brand. She immediately assumes they're getting divorced and embarks on a crazy scheme to brand them fall in honey over again. Turns out they're already planning to renew their vows.
  • Disneyesque: While the show was part of One Sat Morning, Disney didn't produce the series (although Disney endemic DIC at this time)...though the art way is very similar to diverse Disney films.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Tim the Witch Hunter's reason for hunting witches was considering they made fun of him during his schools days.
  • Does Not Like Shoes: The Wise Warlock. And in the "Boogie Shoes" episode, Harvey, which is justified, as he hasn't been able to get them off, and they've been making him trip the light fantastic toe all the time.
  • Dream Intro:
    • The first episode, "Near Dangerous Witch", starts with a nightmare Zelda is having about Tim the Witch-Smeller.
    • In "Wiccan of the Sea", the Crowd Song at the start turns out to exist just a dream Sabrina has during class.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Pi has very feminine features, and on top of that he'south also voiced by a woman.
  • Eldritch Anathema: Harvey's comic book globe has a matter called the Dreaded Dysphilia which takes the form of a giant ball of fungus that functions in the aforementioned mode as The Nada from The NeverEnding Story . Even more Eldritch, Harvey didn't create it and so he has no idea how to destroy it and more than importantly it feeds off his negative self-esteem. That's right, a monster that feeds off the negative cocky-esteem of a teenager.
  • Enfante Terrible: The episode Field Trippin' tries to make the Terror Twins out to be this but it kind of doesn't piece of work; their actions run into more as wanting to accept fun and run around than intentionally crusade whatsoever destruction, and the worst they do is shoot Sabrina and Harvey in the face up with water guns and knock over two huge adults in their energetic dash around the museum. Information technology kind of makes Sabrina and Harvey'due south reactions towards them come off as Asymmetric Retribution. While they definitely shouldn't accept been running effectually in a museum and were knocking over statues, they harbored no breathy malicious intent towards anyone and their destruction of the museum memoribillia was likely accidental.
  • "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Occasionally used, likewise every bit Everybody Laughs Credits at the end of every episode.
  • Fifty-fifty Evil Has Standards:
    • "When in Rome" reveals that even Gem would never intentionally kill someone.
    • In "Documagicary" during the Engineered Public Confession where the evil reality testify director explains that he released Tim, endangering the lives of witches everywhere, for ratings, even Tim is shocked at how evil this guy is.
  • Expy: Being an early 2000s cartoon, it has its share of knock-off celebrities, like Leo DiWolf.
  • The Faceless: Salem in flashbacks to when he was a human warlock.
    • Although the comics based on the series showed him as a man in "Kitty Slickers" in which he was allowed to be a human for a day and was a cowboy. All the same, he looked zilch like his Boob tube series counterpart, having sandy brown hair instead of black.
  • Fat Bounder: Uncle Quigley fits this trope a lot of the time; he'due south ever strict and overbearing to Sabrina, bosses the aunts around even though they're 500 years old and were put into teenage bodies, and forces Salem to sleep outside even though the neighbor's Dobermans are out in "Wag the Witch", all because Salem coughed up a hairball in his slippers, which is practically equivalent to a man vomiting and was likely an involuntary reflex. And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
  • Familiar: Salem to the Spellmans, as role of his punishment.
  • Fantastic Racism: Against mortals and one-half-witches.
    • And in the case of Tim the Witch Smeller, against witches Period.
    • According to the Witch's counsel, half-witches are inferior to full witches.
  • Felony Misdemeanor: In "What Becomes of the Cleaved Hearted?", we encounter flashbacks of Harvey and Precious stone getting their hearts cleaved by trivial things.
  • Freudian Excuse: Tim the Witch-Smeller's hatred of witches comes from them tormenting him when he was a kid. Why was he tormented? Because he was a Muggle Built-in of Mages.
  • Freudian Alibi Is No Excuse: Tim was born with no magic, despite having a witch for a mother, though he does have immortality. Viewed every bit a freak, he was mercilessly bullied by the children of his hometown, mocking him for his lack of magic every bit a kid. He left dwelling with his simply friend, an aardvark named Elton. Becoming the amateur to Leonardo da Vinci, Tim stole some of his inventions and modified them so they could exist used to capture witches and seek revenge for what they did to him all those years, becoming the virtually feared witch hunter of all fourth dimension, Tim the Witch Smeller. Quigley was very sympathetic to Tim and was sad that all those witch and warlock children were cruel to him. Even so, when Quigley stops Tim from hurting his family, he points out how but considering he was bullied by a few witches is no excuse to set on those who've done nix to him. When Tim tries to justify himself by saying that all witches are alike, Quigley revokes him, saying that everybody's an individual responsible for their own actions and that he judges people by their actions, non what they are. At first it appears that Quigley got through to Tim, with him apologizing, but the apology turns out to be a ruse to a trap, showing that he does non intendance if who he hurts is innocent or not, he but wants to hurt witches.

    Tim: Allow go of me, yous're a mortal, don't you see how horrible these witches are?

    Quigley: That's a load of hooey. Sure, maybe a group of witches excluded you lot hundreds of years ago, only that's got nothing to do with these girls. They've never lifted a finger against you.

    Tim: No, you don't understand old man! Witches are all alike!

    Quigley: You're horsefeathers! Everybody's an private responsible for their own deportment. I judge people by what they say and do, non by skin color or sexual activity, or nationality or whether they happen to accept magic powers.

  • Fur Is Vesture: When Sabrina finally gets her wand in Friends Forever, she temporarily messes with it, causing Salem'south fur save for his face to disappear. He later gets Goofy Print Underwear when Zelda tells Sabrina "a witch uses magic wisely".
  • Gasshole: See Airship Belly in a higher place. After eating all of that garlic, Sabrina becomes victim to frequent garlic-scented burps which come up in quite handy when fighting vampires .
  • Germanic Efficiency: Frau Strudel is very strict and precise, but she tin can take it a bit too far.
  • Daughter Grouping: Sabrina, Hilda, Zelda and Chloe class 1 for a talent competition. They cast a spell to become legit famous. The spell to practice so reference The Bangles, The Go-Go's, Spice Girls and The Supremes.
  • Give Geeks a Chance: Harvey isn't exactly the coolest guy effectually, yet Precious stone has an all likewise transparent crush on him.
  • Godiva Hair: Rainbow/ Frau Strudel at the end of "Has Anybody Seen My Quigley?" while running from the constabulary.
  • Graceful Ladies Like Purple: When Gem is auditioning for the part of Juliet, she wears a purple period gown. Notably when Sabrina plays the role, the dress she wears is pink. Also Hilda, the more feminine and fashionable of the ii aunts, has a purple dress every bit her default outfit.
  • Hiccup Hijinks: At that place are two brief scenes of Sabrina getting hiccups in "Stage Fearfulness". The first is at the beginning, where she's nervous nigh auditioning for the play, and she literally has butterflies in her stomach. The second is near the stop when she'south taking part in the play.
  • Subconscious Eyes: Pi's eyes are ever hidden under his hat.
    • Y'all do see them for a second in "Paranormal Pi" when Slugloaf knocks him into a bush, but they're closed the whole time.
    • You can see them properly in "Hexcalibur" when Arthur and Merlin fall through the trap door. They're dark-brown.
  • Hollywood Old: Sabrina's adult self simply has glasses and is slightly taller than her teenage self. Nevertheless she's referred to as an old lady by numerous other characters. Sort of justified by the fact that Sabrina is half-witch, and a witch's physical age rarely corresponds with their existent one (considering they're all Really 700 Years Quondam).
  • Hot Witch:
    • Both Hilda and Zelda (especially Hilda that vesture oft mini-dress). Mostly considering, due to abusing magic, they are stuck in teenage bodies for 100 years.
    • Enchantra too. She's clearly drawn to resemble a PG dominatrix.
  • Humans Are Ugly: A rather odd instance, since witches look exactly like humans. Hilda and Zelda are cursed to appear as teenagers for undisclosed reasons. One episode has Zelda bemoan her lost haggard appearance. Hilda does not seem to mind, though, especially since she looks similar Victoria Beckham. Weidly enough, Enchantra resembles an attractive, young woman, herself. Though it seems to be a cultual thing since historic period garners respect in the witch customs.
  • Humiliation Conga: In "Paranormal Pi" when Pi's paranormal activity tracker is homing in on Sabrina's house with a large mob of people following him, Sabrina has no option but to make information technology look like the device didn't work, utterly humiliating him. Sabrina even so is non proud of information technology, and does make it up to Pi past giving him paranormal testify (Uncle Zamboni's flying chair used as show of a UFO), which he can apply to write a hit story.
  • I Buss Your Pes: In "Witch Switch", witch Gem made Harvey her hypnotized slave and forced him to kiss her feet.
  • Incredible Shrinking Human: The episode "Shrink to Fit". Sabrina and Chloe apply a shrinking spell to fit into some tight jeans. Though they continue to shrink until they're practically microscopic. Magic Pants is averted at first, until they find some doll dress, which continues to shrink with them for the rest of the episode.
  • Informed Flaw:
    • In the episode Working Witches, nosotros're told at the cease that Sabrina had permit the fame of winning the contest go to her head. Withal, other than one glimmer-and-you'll-miss-it scene where she's proudly posing for pictures without Salem (which the guy right next to her threw away, not her), she doesn't show whatever signs of Caused Situational Narcissism, and instead is perfectly justified by everything she does. Salem doesn't even seem to mind her getting all of the attention, and his biggest gripe is her near using his camcorder without his permission, which was justified to keep their family secret.
    • The Halloween Episode has Chloe give Sabrina a "Reason You lot Suck" Speech for about ruining her ain party because she was too busy "trying to outdo Gem". Except Sabrina'south beliefs was quite reasonable — making certain everyone had plenty of food and trying to liven the party up when Precious stone was going out of her fashion to sabotage everything. Had Gem non sabotaged the food or tried to preclude the other guests from talking, the party would have been fun.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting:
    • Sabrina into a fish in the episode "Fish Schtick". A partial instance as she said she wanted to swim like a fish, so the magic turned her into one.
    • Sabrina, Chloe and Salem transforming into mermaids in "Wiccan of the Bounding main".
  • It's a Costume Party, I Swear!: A variant. In the episode "Rock Broke", Precious stone tells Sabrina that the clemency ball has a Western theme. Cue the humiliation when she, the simply poor girl at the ball, shows up dressed as a cowgirl in front of several incredibly wealthy people, as well as her crush, Harvey.
  • Jerk with a Centre of Aureate: Salem, and Precious stone occasionally.
  • Jerk Ass Ball: In "Sabrina: Friends Forever", Salem is a lot more of an obnoxious Jerkass, even brushing it off when Nicole presumably dies and attempting to bail upon finding out that they need to salve her.
  • Karma Houdini: "Flick Perfect" ends with Sabrina winning the pupil of the yr award, just then giving information technology upwardly by admitting she cheated. Instead Jewel wins, despite her having besides cheated. The closest thing she gets to a punishment is everyone walking out on her victory speech.
    • "Strange New World" ends with Pi getting an even worse detention than he caused 'Tom' to get so averted.
    • Due to being the "parent character" and the voice of reason, Uncle Quigley often gets away with bossing Sabrina and her aunts around and controlling them. I episode even portrays the witches in the wrong when they go tired of his crap.
  • Large Ham: Alvin. Don't EVER laugh at him!
  • Licensed Game:
  • Similar Brother and Sister: Sabrina and Salem what with their abiding bickering and Salem acting every bit a Big blood brother mentor to Sabrina especially in Sabrina'due south Surreptitious Life.
    • Pi and Chloe also have shades of this as she is seen hanging out with him when Sabrina is occupied with Harvey similar in "Witchitis" and information technology's rather clear that their relationship is platonic
  • Limited Wardrobe: Everyone in the show....with the exception of Gem.
    • Jewel really lampshades this in one episode: "Great outfit, Spellman. I just never get tired of seeing you in it."
  • Manic Pixie Dream Daughter: When Sabrina transforms the Eiffel Tower into a human, the boy fills this role to everyone.
  • Magic Pants: In "Shrink to Fit" when Sabrina and Chloe are small enough to fit into doll clothing the apparel shrink with them to the indicate when they became practically microscopic. Which is very odd by the fact that their normal wearing apparel did not compress with them at all Empty Pilesof Clothing
  • Meaningful Name: Enchantra's servant Stabbenback. Sabrina and Enchantra learned the pregnant the difficult style.
    • Norma, equally she is an average Joe who doesn't fit in.
  • Morality Pet: Alvin from the episode "Planet of the Dogs" starts off similar this merely later being neglected and gaining the power to speak, becomes a Knight Templar and Noble Demon for the neglected and abused neighborhood dogs.
  • Muggle Born of Mages: Tim the Witch-Smeller. In this serial he seems to be a unique case, which is why all his empowered peers fabricated his life hell.
  • Mushroom Samba: Salem goes into a Samba in "Truth or Scare", merely it happens after getting squashed by Quigley rather than coming into contact with a hallucinogenic.
  • Musical Episode: "Witchy Girrrls" is generally songs. Namely the Flavor Girls' hit vocal. Complete with a Weird Al advent with his ain parody of the song.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Sabrina gets this when she humiliates Pi in front of the crowd in "Paranormal Pi". While her mitt was forced into making a tough decision, she isn't proud of what she did, and makes it up to Pi past giving him paranormal evidence so he could write a hit story.
  • Our Mermaids Are Different: Sabrina, Chloe and Salem are unwillingly turned into mermaids past the Spooky Jar. They can exhale and communicate underwater just fine though there'southward a fourth dimension limit on the spell and they accept to return to the island they started out on when it runs out or else they'll be mermaids forever. Sabrina'due south fins are also powerful enough to outswim a torpedo.
  • Overnight Age-Up: "Anywhere But Here" has Sabrina wanting to be an adult due to existence unable to exercise a few things such as buying a Funkhouse Ferrets CD with a Tin't Purchase sticker on information technology, or even watching a PG-xiii picture. She does go an adult, with the aid of a magical pocket-lookout. However she finds out being an developed "has some really yucky parts to it", afterward a long hunt involving a motorcycle taking the sentinel with it.
  • Nowadays Company Excluded: Uncle Quigley says this later on he learns well-nigh Tim'southward Freudian Excuse, makes a annotate about how witches can be very cruel and is given disapproving looks from Hilda and Zelda.
  • Punny Name: Gem Stone, anyone?
    • Also, the Ane-Shot Character, Dorsala Finn (who merely then happens to be a swimmer).
    • Pi, the kid genius who is a math lover.
  • Reed Richards Is Useless: Multiple episodes centered around science class prove the kids working on inventions that would be revolutionary if they weren't used only for science form or the occasional fun thing. Pi is a pretty big offender, given all the stuff he creates even when he'southward not in science grade!.
  • Refrain from Assuming: In that location is no vocal called "Have You Seen Her?" The theme song is officially titled, "She'll Bewitch Ya".
  • Refugee from Telly Land: Sabrina accidentally brings Cinderella into the real world for a while. Due to her whiny nature and Annoying Laugh, Sabrina finds her more obnoxious than expected.
  • Reset Button Ending: "No Fourth dimension to be a Hero" ends this way followed past Sabrina telling Harvey, Precious stone, the reporter and her aunts the truth (the others thought she saved Harvey though she didn't practice anything at all).
  • Reused Grapheme Design:
    • When Sabrina tries to aid Harvey escape a world populated by fairy tale characters, she notices that Cinderella's stepsisters look and sound exactly like Gem, except for the fact 1 of them has a unlike hairstyle. She lampshades this by commenting, "Isn't it amazing how all pain in the neck girls kind of look alike?"
    • The i-time characters from "Xabrina, Warrior Witch" and "The Senses-Shattering Adventures of Captain Harvtastic" have a similar example. Those from the video game in the one-time really look like those from reality. And in the latter, the characters from Harvey's comic book are drawn in similarity to the real-life characters as well.
  • Sarcasm Failure: Harvey is decumbent to this.
  • Scaled Up: During "Harvzilla", Harvey'southward overuse of Sabrina'south "lucky cologne" makes him more large and muscular over the fourth dimension, and finally turns him into a Kaiju.
  • Sealed Evil in a Tin: The Spooky Jar.
    • Though not all that evil as information technology at the least gave Sabrina a Reset Push button for most of her wishes.
  • Surreptitious-Keeper: Chloe knows that Sabrina is a witch.
  • Shaking Her Hair Loose: When the girls turn their strict nanny into a Granola Girl, she immediately unties her hair and shakes it free.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: Lampshaded and discussed in "La Femme Sabrina" virtually how it always shows up in spy movies. She and Harvey are indeed in a gown and tux respectively. Subverted though when information technology turns out they're at a rodeo and therefore overdressed.

    Sabrina: E'er detect how at that place's e'er a big formal wear scene?

    Harvey: I know. Information technology gets the hero into a tux.

  • Shout-Out:
  • Sick Episode: Sabrina catches witchitis... Magic Misfire and Hilarity Ensues.
  • 65-Episode Cartoon: The series lasted one season of 65 episodes from 1999 to 2000 (similar a number of syndicated weekday/Saturday morning cartoons) but got a spin-off, Sabrina's Clandestine Life, in 2003, with twenty-something episodes.
  • Taken for Granite: Nicole in Sabrina: Friends Forever.
  • Temporary Bulk Change: In "Harvzilla", Sabrina douses Harvey with dragon spray, eventually making him taller and buffer to the point that his amorphous shirt became formfitting. Of grade, as an illustration to steroids, this dragon spray made Harvey considerably more ambitious and mean-spirited, shocking fifty-fifty Sabrina when he glowered at Gem. He too became obsessed with good luck, needing Sabrina's "cologne" to have the confidence to function earlier a big match and even then he was clinging to four-leaf clovers and rabbit anxiety. After the aforementioned Scaled Upwardly, he was returned to normal.
  • This Looks Similar a Task for Aquaman: In Harvey'south comic book globe Sabrina's ability to shoot squids out of her easily is as useless every bit you'd expect...until the hero whose power is to make annihilation he draws come to life runs out of ink and Sabrina remembers what squids are good for.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The usual reaction past mortals whenever a spell is cast right in forepart of their eyes.
  • Vomit Discretion Shot: Slugloafe eats a moldy sandwich in "Strange New World", and his face starts to plow green later on doing and then. Cue an Idiosyncratic Wipe.
  • We Want Our Wiggle Back!: Subverted. When Sabrina unwittingly made a cake that reversed its eater'south personality, Gem became a overnice girl clever enough to figure out Sabrina's secret. Together, the ii of them developed an antidote that turned everyone back to normal and fabricated them forget everything. When Gem was the just i left, Sabrina tried to convince her Non to drink it because she likes the new Gem ameliorate. The new Gem decided that bringing dorsum the old one was the right thing to do and, as her parting words, told Sabrina she'll even so be deep somewhere inside the original Gem.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: In "What Becomes of the Cleaved Hearted?" Sabrina is told to search for ane person who never had their eye broken. Somewhen she gives upwardly, maxim she checked everyone she could. This would imply Pi was amid the people she checked, merely nosotros never see his broken eye flashback and it's difficult to imagine how someone as laid back every bit him could have his heart broken.
  • What Kind of Lame Ability Is Eye, Anyway?: Harvey'due south superheroes in his comic book earth don't like their powers which involve - turning into a gazebo to trap villains (Gazebo Boy), Atomic Tantrum Ability (Mega Girl) and shooting a squid out of your hands (Calamari Queen).
    • Center Is an Awesome Power: Mega Girl's power does subdue the villain. And when Harvey'due south 'depict it and information technology comes to life' pen runs out of ink, Calamari Queen remembers what squids are adept for.
  • Weirdness Censor: Salem often talks in forepart of people without anyone reacting.
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyhow?: Harvey's comic book superheroes lampshade their own lame powers (including the villain). They include Gazebo Male child who turns himself into a gazebo to trap people in, Mega Daughter with "Atomic Tantrum Power" (though that'due south arguably more constructive than she makes it out to be) and Shoe Horn who has gadgets that appear to be monster shoes. There's also Calamari Queen who tin shoot squids out of her easily (though it'due south helpful when Captain Harvtastic runs out of ink necessary to finish the story).
  • Who'south Laughing Now?: Tim when he actually becomes a threat to the witches who once mocked him.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Or morever "Who Wants To Be Young And Cute Forever"?
  • Nonetheless Another Christmas Carol: Bizarrely done twice! The offset fourth dimension, done equally the show's Christmas special, featured Sabrina and her aunts trying to convince Gem to change her ways. Funnily enough, the episode also lampshaded how A Christmas Ballad has been adjusted to expiry, and even deconstructed it. The try (including showing her lonely grave) has no effect on Gem; she simply begins to regret her ways Sabrina gives her a Christmas nowadays.
    • The second time was more of a direct instance. After Sabrina used some of the money she had earned for charity on a doll, information technology came to life and showed the horrible futures for her friends. Amid other things, it ended with a showdown between Sabrina and a Wicked Witch Precious stone. Although this i had nothing to do with Christmas, it does parody the gravestone scene.

Sabrina's Secret Life contains examples of:

  • Adaptational Wimp: Sabrina's magic becomes weaker in this series, due to her only existence a half-witch.
  • Adaptational Heroism: Enchantra, who was a strict and rude woman has get a kind-hearted, friendly sage, although she is still strict.
  • An Aesop: The writers clearly have an Anvilicious attitude towards anorexia.
  • Art Evolution:
    • Subverted. Due to only DiC Entertainment and Les Studios Tex working on the series (Disney separate upwardly with DiC Amusement, who became independent again, and Melissa Joan Hart didn't produce the show anymore), the animation and graphic symbol design isn't as dynamic as the original series, such as how Maritza was just a recolored version of Chloe, and Cassandra was copied from Portia in Friends Forever, changed from a ginger to a brunette, and Portia was copied from a blonde background educatee shown in Gem'south posse in the 1999 series.
    • Ane example of actual development was the eyes of the characters. They became more "shiny".
    • It was mainly the dress and hairstyles that changed (similar to Disney'south Doug ).
  • Characterization Marches On:
    • Weirdly enough, Salem has become Sabrina's mentor and voice of reason. Confusingly, his backstory of one time being an evil warlock is withal retained and brought up virtually every other episode.
    • Sabrina was gone through this in every incarnation, simply here she is a blithering idiot who nearly destroy Greendale past doing something stupid with her magic. This was due to the testify becoming more educational than the previous testify.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome:
    • We nevertheless don't know what happened to Pi, Quigley, or the Spooky Jar. The original comics featured a story that wrapped upward the Sabrina: The Animated Serial versions of the characters being used in the book at the fourth dimension, and shifted the comic back to its traditional setting. They explained that Quigley had taken a job outside of the land (in Europe?), and then moved away. Pi is unexplained but due to his grades he might have gotten into a loftier ranking high school/boarding schoolhouse.
    • The series was preceded by a movie called Friends Forever, where Sabrina bonds with some other half-witch called Nicole. She does non appear at all in the series, nor is she mentioned. Likewise Cassandra'southward character model is the same every bit some other Blastoff Bowwow character from the movie called Portia.
  • Clearly Selective Perception: Strangely, in this series Hilda and Zelda don't seem to understand Salem, or at the very least ignore him and not react to anything he says. That is, until Hilda all but threatens to kill him during this substitution in "Spell-ing Bee":

    Sabrina: Salem, practise something!

    Salem (grumpily): Similar what?

    Hilda (whispering): Something that'll keep you in one slice when we leave of this.

  • Deadpan Snarker:
    • Salem every bit in the original series.
    • Also goes for Cassandra'due south pet rabbit Mavista.
  • Flanderization: Harvey started out as a sweetness but kinda ditzy guy. There are quite a few moments of him being full-blown idiot in Sabrina'southward Secret Life, but on the contrary, he is shown to be rather intelligent and mature, especially when Sabrina crosses the line.
  • Fog Anxiety: The Wish Spirit has this.
  • Evil Redhead: Olivia.
  • Gag Haircut: Non a pilus cut but Cassandra casts a spell to turn Maritza's hair into multi-coloured spikes. She so makes a hand dryer explode on her, singeing the residual of information technology.
  • One thousand-Rated Drug: Dreamland in "Living Her Dreams".
  • Heel–Confront Turn: Cassandra at the cease of the show.
  • Lovable Blastoff Bowwow: Cassandra, although she's Gem Rock's replacement.
  • Magical Asian: Nicole from Friends Forever is depicted as Asian and is a half-witch.
  • Newspaper-Thin Disguise: Mr. Snipe'south mortal disguise consists of just human being clothes. His grotesque features should make him really stand out, merely no-one seems to see annihilation weird about him.
  • 1-Shot Character: The Wish Spirit and Olivia, villains of "Living Her Dreams" and "Witchyology" respectively.
  • Put on a Bus: Gem and Chloe'southward departures were explained.
  • Retcon:
    • Witches are at present identified past a star tattoo on the palm of their manus, and one-half-mortals only accept a half a star. This was never seen, nor mentioned in the previous series. Sabrina now as well all of a sudden has to occasionally apply a wand to do magic.
    • Enchantra now has a different character design and emphasis (British in the first series, American in the second). What's more is that she is introduced in the Friends Forever picture - as if she'south never met Sabrina before. It'southward not clear whether it'southward meant to be the same character, or else two rulers of the Netherworld accept the same name.
    • The Friends Forever motion-picture show introduces an Alpha Bowwow chosen Portia. The series uses her grapheme model, but a different palette and vocalisation actress, for Cassandra.
  • Reused Character Blueprint: Many side characters have designs that are recycled from the showtime serial. For example:
    • Every bit said beneath, Maritza is merely Chloe with lighter skin, smaller eyes and different clothes, while Cassandra and her lackeys were recycled from Portia and her lackeys from Friends Forever.
    • Bildebaar from Wizenheimer, the elder wizard from "Teacher's Pet", looks exactly similar the Wise Wizard from the offset series.
    • When anybody becomes monsters in "School Spirit", the mummy baseball player from "Field of Screams" can be seen multiple times in the background, among with many other one-shot characters from the first series.
  • Sailor Fuku: Olivia's default outfit is a pink ane.
  • Screw the Rules, I Take Connections!: Cassandra is Enchantra'southward niece and occasionally uses this to her reward.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
    • Maritza replacing Chloe, who reportedly moved away.
    • Maritza uses the aforementioned basic character design used for Chloe, only with slightly lighter pare color to indicate that she is vaguely Hispanic.
    • Cassandra also uses a similar grapheme design to 1 of Gem's lackeys. Her grapheme design was also used, admitting with a different color scheme, for the Friends Forever picture character Portia. There is some speculation Portia and the unnamed lackey are the same character, since a graphic symbol resembling Gem can exist seen at graduation.
    • The design of Portia'due south black lackey Britney was reused for Tiffany, 1 of Cassandra's two lackeys. It is a scrap jarring since the latter is non a witch.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Sabrina in between the two shows. Mostly because the prove became more educational, and Sabrina had to larn more than Aesops.

Sabrina the Animated Series Wag the Witch

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