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Not to be confused with the 2014 Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie ''[[Film/Zapped2014 Zapped]]'', with British TV fantasy fiction comic parody ''Series/{{Zapped}}'', or with the [[{{Zapped}} wiki term]].

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Not to be confused with the 2014 Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie ''[[Film/Zapped2014 Zapped]]'', with British TV fantasy fiction comic parody ''Series/{{Zapped}}'', or with the [[{{Zapped}} wiki term]].
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Trope was cut per TRS


* ExcitedShowTitle: The film's title includes an exclamation mark.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Five seconds later, you'll see why Jane is officially an example of the MsFanservice trope for this movie.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Five seconds later, you'll see why Jane is officially an example of the MsFanservice trope for this movie.]]
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Definition only...and a ZCE that explains very little.


* PantyShot: Plenty of them in the prom stripping scene. Also, an InUniverse example when Peyton sneaks up behind Jane and snaps a picture of her panties while she bends over in her cheerleader uniform.
* PowerPerversionPotential: "Potential" nothing, Barney actually does it. The film takes this trope and runs with it. At first, the victims ''sort of'' deserve it (like AlphaBitch Jane and the girls from the rival school who mock him) but he gets a little carried away at the prom scene.

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* PantyShot: Plenty of them in the prom stripping scene. Also, an InUniverse example when Peyton sneaks up behind Jane and snaps a picture of her panties while she bends over in her cheerleader uniform.
%% * PowerPerversionPotential: "Potential" nothing, Barney actually does it. The film takes this trope and runs with it. At first, the victims ''sort of'' deserve it (like AlphaBitch Jane and the girls from the rival school who mock him) but he gets a little carried away at the prom scene.scene.
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The film developed somewhat of a cult following, due in no small part to the large amounts of {{Fanservice}} it provides, and did well enough in video rentals and cable TV showings for a direct-to-video sequel, ''Zapped Again!'', to be released in 1990.

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The film developed somewhat of a cult following, due in no small part to the large amounts of {{Fanservice}} it provides, and did well enough in video rentals and cable TV showings for a direct-to-video sequel, ''Zapped Again!'', ''Film/ZappedAgain'', to be released in 1990.
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We don't trope our own words.


Barney Springboro (Baio) is a science nerd who gains telekinetic powers in a freak high school science lab experiment. Barney's new powers are known about only by his best friend Peyton (Creator/WillieAames) and class president Bernadette (Creator/FeliceSchachter). Over the course of the film, he uses these powers to win baseball games, control roulette wheels, [[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext convince his mother he's possessed,]] and, of course, make women's clothes fly off, particularly those of senior class beauty queen Jane Mitchell (Creator/HeatherThomas). Several elements of the plot borrow from the 1976 film adaptation of ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', with some additional spoofing of ''Film/TheExorcist'' and even ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.

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Barney Springboro (Baio) is a science nerd who gains telekinetic powers in a freak high school science lab experiment. Barney's new powers are known about only by his best friend Peyton (Creator/WillieAames) and class president Bernadette (Creator/FeliceSchachter). Over the course of the film, he uses these powers to win baseball games, control roulette wheels, [[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext convince his mother he's possessed,]] possessed, and, of course, make women's clothes fly off, particularly those of senior class beauty queen Jane Mitchell (Creator/HeatherThomas). Several elements of the plot borrow from the 1976 film adaptation of ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', ''Film/Carrie1976'', with some additional spoofing of ''Film/TheExorcist'' and even ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
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I feel dirty even editing this. How is this any better than porn?


* ValuesDissonance: Hopefully, women being stripped naked without their consent would no longer be considered harmlessly amusing.

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