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* AttemptedHomewrecker:
** In the episode "Man's Best Friend", Rodney, an obnoxious young warlock Samantha used to babysit, pops in expecting Sam to run away with him. When she refuses, he returns in the form of a dog to endear himself to an unknowing Darrin while intentionally invoking Sam's wrath to drive a wedge between them. Then, he orchestrates talk of Sam having an affair with him getting back to Darrin to prove he doesn't trust her. When Sam confesses that her alleged affair was with the dog leads to her and Darrin having a fight, Rodney drops the ruse, thinking he's been proven right. Unfortunately for Rodney, Darrin believed Sam from the start, he just wanted to handle the situation without Sam having to break her record for days without using magic.
** In the episode "Once in a Vial", Endora summons one of Sam's exes, Rollo, in hopes there is still enough of a spark between them to make her finally leave Darrin. After a false start, Rollo, eager to correct the one blot on his otherwise flawless love record, agrees to come to a dinner party at the Stephens residence. When Sam continues giving him the cold shoulder, Rollo takes Endora's suggestion and tries to [[SlippingAMickey slip Sam one of his love potions]], but things go sideways when the spiked drink winds up being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard drunk by Endora]] and she falls madly in love with Darrin's latest client.
** In the episode "Man's Best Friend", Rodney, an obnoxious young warlock Samantha used to babysit, pops in expecting Sam to run away with him. When she refuses, he returns in the form of a dog to endear himself to an unknowing Darrin while intentionally invoking Sam's wrath to drive a wedge between them. Then, he orchestrates talk of Sam having an affair with him getting back to Darrin to prove he doesn't trust her. When Sam confesses that her alleged affair was with the dog leads to her and Darrin having a fight, Rodney drops the ruse, thinking he's been proven right. Unfortunately for Rodney, Darrin believed Sam from the start, he just wanted to handle the situation without Sam having to break her record for days without using magic.
** In the episode "Once in a Vial", Endora summons one of Sam's exes, Rollo, in hopes there is still enough of a spark between them to make her finally leave Darrin. After a false start, Rollo, eager to correct the one blot on his otherwise flawless love record, agrees to come to a dinner party at the Stephens residence. When Sam continues giving him the cold shoulder, Rollo takes Endora's suggestion and tries to [[SlippingAMickey slip Sam one of his love potions]], but things go sideways when the spiked drink winds up being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard drunk by Endora]] and she falls madly in love with Darrin's latest client.
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* InjuredLimbEpisode: Zigzagged for one episode. Clara conjures up a newspaper, but it is dated for the next day and has an article about Larry Tate breaking his leg. Darrin, Clara and Samantha travel to the next day to prevent Larry from breaking his leg but [[spoiler: it turns out that the newspaper was from the same date but ten years ago and Larry's leg had already gotten broken and healed.]]
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* InjuredLimbEpisode: Zigzagged for one episode. Clara conjures up a newspaper, but it is dated for the next day and has an article about Larry Tate breaking his leg. Darrin, Clara and Samantha travel to the next day to prevent Larry from breaking his leg but [[spoiler: it [[spoiler:it turns out that the newspaper was from the same date but ten years ago and Larry's leg had already gotten broken and healed.]]
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* RunningGag: A member of Samantha's family being offended by Darrin getting short with them for causing the problem of the week, stating "One more word out of him and I'm leaving!", then popping out with "That's the word!" when Sam prompts Darrin to say "Sorry".
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* AllPartOfTheShow: The most commonly-used explanation for whatever magical wackiness was going on in any given episode: it was all part of Darrin's latest creative {{advertising}} campaign.
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* AllPartOfTheShow: AllPartOfTheShow:
** The most commonly-used explanation for whatever magical wackiness was going on in any given episode: it was all part of Darrin's latest creative {{advertising}}campaign.campaign.
** In the episode "It's Magic", Sam steps in to the role of assistant to down-on-his-luck magician The Great Zeno and discreetly fixes the tricks he fumbles to help him get his confidence back. Then, when his old assistant barges in and takes over on his TV debut, messes with her from offstage in a way that makes it look like part of his act.
** The most commonly-used explanation for whatever magical wackiness was going on in any given episode: it was all part of Darrin's latest creative {{advertising}}
** In the episode "It's Magic", Sam steps in to the role of assistant to down-on-his-luck magician The Great Zeno and discreetly fixes the tricks he fumbles to help him get his confidence back. Then, when his old assistant barges in and takes over on his TV debut, messes with her from offstage in a way that makes it look like part of his act.
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* AnythingButThat: PlayedForLaughs in "The Joker Is a Card." Darrin calls Endora "Mom," and she replies by [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness getting his name right]], much to his and Sam's shock. Endora goes on to say that she promises to try to be nicer to Darrin provided he never, ''ever'' calls her "Mom" again.
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** Another episode does a gender-flipped version: Darrin insists that he knows what a pregnant Sam is going through, and Endora makes him eat his words by hexing him to be a MisterSeahorse who experiences pregnancy symptoms. When Darrin and Sam realize what's going on, Darrin has a lengthy ImagineSpot about him giving birth, and we see a panicky expectant ''Sam'' pacing the lobby and handing out cigars after she hears the good news!
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* RhymingWizardry: Rhyming spells occasionally appear in the series, usually as a sign of high-level magic, while simpler feats, like telekinesis or conjuring objects, are accomplished through physical gestures, including Samantha's famous nose-twitch. A few examples:
** In one episode, Endora tries to teach Tabitha a spell that goes ''"Wizards from the yesteryear, from this moment disappear!"''.
** [[IneptMage Aunt Clara]] is a frequent victim of this trope. After bungling a spell, she will try to remember the exact rhyming counter-charm needed to undo it, only to struggle to get the wording right and cause more trouble.
** As a general rule, it seems that casting spells to directly affect mortal minds requires rhyming power. The episode "Samantha's Shopping Spree" proves that they don't have to be good rhymes, either, as Samantha's ResetButton charm (spoken to a salesclerk who's been transformed into a mannequin) is "You won't remember anything bad, / And you'll follow my lead when I talk to your dad!"
** In one episode, Endora tries to teach Tabitha a spell that goes ''"Wizards from the yesteryear, from this moment disappear!"''.
** [[IneptMage Aunt Clara]] is a frequent victim of this trope. After bungling a spell, she will try to remember the exact rhyming counter-charm needed to undo it, only to struggle to get the wording right and cause more trouble.
** As a general rule, it seems that casting spells to directly affect mortal minds requires rhyming power. The episode "Samantha's Shopping Spree" proves that they don't have to be good rhymes, either, as Samantha's ResetButton charm (spoken to a salesclerk who's been transformed into a mannequin) is "You won't remember anything bad, / And you'll follow my lead when I talk to your dad!"
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** The stocks were also used in another episode in Season 7, "Samantha's Old Salem Trip".
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** The stocks were also used in another episode in Season 7, "Samantha's Old Salem Trip". Darrin Stephens walks by a woman in feet stocks, but he too ends up in the pillory later in the episode.
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* StockPunishment: The season 7 episode "Samantha's Hot Bedwarmer" has Serena finding an old woman, Widow Patterson (played by Ysabel Mac Closkey, un-credited) stuck in the pillory. She helps her by using her magic to release the lock by making it levitate.
** The stocks were also used in another episode in Season 7, "Samantha's Old Salem Trip".
** The stocks were also used in another episode in Season 7, "Samantha's Old Salem Trip".
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* AerithAndBob: While the male family members have mainstream names like Darrin, Maurice, Arthur, and Adam, this trope applies to the female family members. Endora, Hagatha, Enchantra.... and Clara, the only name in the group that anybody had ever heard before. Samantha, Serena, and Tabitha are somewhat common now, but weren't when the series began. The series is what popularized those names.
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* AerithAndBob: While the male family members have mainstream names like Darrin, Maurice, Arthur, and Adam, this trope applies to the female family members. Endora, Hagatha, Enchantra....Enchantra, Grimalda.... and Clara, the only name in the group that anybody had ever heard before. [[note]]Mary (Madge Blake) only appeared in the Season 1 episode "The Witches Are Out"; Aunt Bertha is in several first-season episodes, played by Reta Shaw, who also played Hagatha.[[/note]] Samantha, Serena, and Tabitha are somewhat common now, but weren't when the series began. The series is what popularized those names.
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* GenericName: Darrin's father has the very plain and unimpressive name of Frank, which is a problem when Darrin and Samantha decide to name their son after him. Samantha's father Maurice is particularly incensed, refusing to stand by while ''his'' grandson is given such an unforgivably bland name. When the two grandfathers meet, Maurice hopefully asks if "Frank" happens to be short for "Franklin", only for Frank to tell him it isn't. Ironically, they eventual settle on an even ''more'' generic name -- Adam -- which Maurice likes because it was ''his'' father's name. (No, he wasn't ''that'' Adam.)
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** The 1999–2008 SoapOpera ''Series/{{Passions}}'' features Juliet Mills as Tabitha Lenox, a genuine witch whose daughter is named Endora and whose parents are a mortal named Darrin and a witch named Samantha. Furthermore, Bernard Fox has made two appearances on the show as his ''Bewitched'' character, Dr. Bombay.
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** The 1999–2008 SoapOpera ''Series/{{Passions}}'' features Juliet Mills Creator/JulietMills as Tabitha Lenox, a genuine witch whose daughter is named Endora and whose parents are a mortal named Darrin and a witch named Samantha. Furthermore, Bernard Fox has made two appearances on the show as his ''Bewitched'' character, Dr. Bombay.
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* MistakenForBadVision: As a RunningGag, Gladys the Neighbor frequently spies on Darrin and Samantha's home. Gladys rubs her eyes and often gets more than she bargains for when she catches some magical oddity going on.
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* DebatingNames: When Samantha and Darrin have a new son, they decide to name him "Frank Maurice Stevens". However, Samantha's high-strung father does not agree with having his name as the child's middle name and he has a magical tantrum about it. At the end of the episode, everyone agrees to change the baby's name to "Adam".
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* TruthInTelevision: Aunt Clara in particular. At the time ''Bewitched'' came out, it was genuinely believed that senility and feebleness are inevitable and inescapable consequences of aging, not realizing how much of this came instead from having had childhoods during the Great Depression and earlier and how much of this would be countered by modern medicine, and so modern notions of Alzheimers and such do not apply to the assumptions of the series. ScienceMarchesOn indeed! For this reason, many of the episodes involving Aunt Clara include a plea to the audience to show compassion for their elders and what was believed to be inevitable losses (of the sort famously recounted in Shakespeare's ''All the world's a stage'' monologue).
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* ShownTheirWork: From the perspective of a mythologist, folklorist, or literary scholar, ''Bewitched''s is impressive with a fairly accurate sitcom recreation of real world Western European images of faeries, including their constant shapeshifting, their trickster side, their reality-warping powers (though more often illusion and glamour in folklore), and the tragedy inherent when a faerie and a mortal fall in love. Both the term "mortals" and the use of rhyming magical spells come directly from Shakespeare's oeuvre, and Maurice and Endora might as well be named Oberon and Titania.
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* ShownTheirWork: From the perspective of a mythologist, folklorist, or literary scholar, ''Bewitched''s ''Bewitched'' is impressive with a fairly accurate sitcom recreation of real world Western European images of beliefs and tropes regarding faeries, including their constant shapeshifting, shapeshifting and indifference to many of the laws of physics, their trickster side, their reality-warping powers (though in folklore, it is more often illusion and glamour in folklore), glamour), and the tragedy inherent when a faerie and a mortal fall in love. Both the term "mortals" and the use of rhyming magical spells come directly from Shakespeare's oeuvre, and Maurice and Endora might as well be named Oberon and Titania. From the perspective of a scholar of myth or literature, ''Bewitched'' is impressively thought out.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Because Dick York was in the latter half of his 30s when he first played Darrin, it's easy to forget that in ''Bewitched'' continuity, Darrin is supposed to be in his early 20s and only recently out of college. Both witches such as Endora and Uncle Arthur and mortals such as Larry Tate repeatedly refer to him as "young man" or "boy" (a common term of affection for a young man at the time albeit seldom used with affection by most of Samantha's relatives), and he frequently uses "sir" for Maurice and "ma'am" for Endora the few times he is trying to make peace with her. So many of his behaviors that seem regressive or childish in a man Dick York's real age make more sense for someone as young as Darrin is supposed to be in the series continuity.
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** Endora finds the confusion hilarious, suggesting that it is not that uncommon an experience in the witching world
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* LiteralGenie: Many spells go off ''exactly'' as specified, not as desired.
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* LiteralGenie: Many spells go off ''exactly'' as specified, specified not as desired.desired, most often according to RuleOfFunny or RuleOfCool and most often involving puns or a MondegreenGag: Esmeralda accidentally summons a prehistoric saurian when she scolds Tabitha to stop teasing her friend Dinah or she will make "Dinah sore" ... Uncle Arthur accidentally summons the historical figure Napoleon when trying to conjure the dessert of the same name ... Endora tries to make Darrin's fears about speaking Spanish disappear and instead Darrin himself disappears whenever he tries to speak Spanish ... Uncle Arthur tries to conjure a cotton-tail bunny and instead conjures a cocktail bunny, with some LampshadeHanging as he openly complains to the Magic that it misheard the words of his spell
** Endora finds the confusion hilarious, suggesting that it is not that uncommon an experience in the witching world
** Endora finds the confusion hilarious, suggesting that it is not that uncommon an experience in the witching world
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Uncle Arthur to Aunt Clara (even though that position had been intended for Esmeralda) after Marion Lorne's passing. Uncle Arthur becomes the new FriendToAllChildren, such as playing "stage magician" at Tabitha's birthday; he becomes the new IneptMage, with hilarious doubletakes when something goes wrong in the tradition of Aunt Clara (such as when he tried to conjure a cottontail bunny and conjured instead a ''cocktail'' bunny); he carries on Aunt Clara's role as the TokenGoodTeammate, defending Darrin from Endora and the Witch's Council at times and even admitting he likes Darrin even though that never stops him from pranking him.
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* EvilMatriarch: Darrin's mother Phyllis even more so than Samantha's mother Endora: Endora is clearly looking out for Samantha, even tries to make friends (in her own way) with Darrin a number of times before giving up, and initially treats Darrin's family with grace and courtesy, but Phyllis constantly manipulates both son and husband and acts with passive-aggressive rudeness to any of Samantha's relatives from the moment they are introduced, making it clear that she thinks that Samantha and her family are "beneath" Darrin and her. Her favorite ploy is to interrupt anything that annoys her by claiming to have a "sick headache".
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* JerkassHasAPoint: From Endora's perspective, Samantha's marriage to a mortal will be over before you know it since a mortal lifespan is implied to 1/10 or less that of a witch's lifespan, but she still objects because she knows that marrying a mortal will set up Samantha (and their children!) for centuries of grief after he dies. (The series all but states that witches can do nothing to prolong mortal lifespans.)
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* MismatchedAtomicExpressionism: Used for the intro, which uses LimitedAnimation, simplified shapes in place of fully-detailed designs, asterisk-like sparkles, and a swooping cursive logo.
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* VagueAge: Samantha, along with all the other witches and warlocks in the series, are implied to be at least several centuries old, but exactly how old they are is never established. The closest we have is Endora admitting to being "over 1,000" according to Serena.
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* ChoresWithoutPowers: A self-inflicted example. Samantha Stephens, a witch married to a human, chooses (for the most part) to do housework without using her magical powers out of respect for her husband Darren's wishes for a "normal" home life.
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* BalefulPolymorph: A staple of the show, with various regulars and guest characters being hit with this.
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* RecycledInSpace: ''Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family'', a 1972 [[SaturdayMorningKidsShow Saturday Morning Cartoon]] by Creator/HannaBarbera.
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* RecycledInSpace: ''Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family'', a 1972 [[SaturdayMorningKidsShow Saturday Morning Cartoon]] SaturdayMorningCartoon by Creator/HannaBarbera.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Happens with the aforementioned "Dick Switch" - at the beginning of Season Six, in an attempt to make the transition between Creator/DickYork and Creator/DickSargent as Darrin as seamless and unnoticeable as possible, producer/director William Asher confessed he tried to get Sargent to act in a more animated fashion to reflect York's performance; when this didn't work well, they let Sargent act the part in his own way. Because of this, Darrin, while still easily flustered by the chaos from Samantha's family, was considerably more mellow by this time (something York actually hoped would have happened eventually anyway).
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** Serena was noticeably more grounded in her first appearance, lacking much of the kookiness and wild-child tendencies which would eventually differentiate her from Samantha.
** Happens with the aforementioned "Dick Switch" - at the beginning of Season Six, in an attempt to make the transition between Creator/DickYork and Creator/DickSargent as Darrin as seamless and unnoticeable as possible, producer/director William Asher confessed he tried to get Sargent to act in a more animated fashion to reflect York's performance; when this didn't work well, they let Sargent act the part in his own way. Because of this, Darrin, while still easily flustered by the chaos from Samantha's family, was considerably more mellow by this time (something York actually hoped would have happened eventually anyway).
** Serena was noticeably more grounded in her first appearance, lacking much of the kookiness and wild-child tendencies which would eventually differentiate her from Samantha.
** Happens with the aforementioned "Dick Switch" - at the beginning of Season Six, in an attempt to make the transition between Creator/DickYork and Creator/DickSargent as Darrin as seamless and unnoticeable as possible, producer/director William Asher confessed he tried to get Sargent to act in a more animated fashion to reflect York's performance; when this didn't work well, they let Sargent act the part in his own way. Because of this, Darrin, while still easily flustered by the chaos from Samantha's family, was considerably more mellow by this time (something York actually hoped would have happened eventually anyway).
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* InsignificantAnniversary:
** One episode has Darrin and Samantha really excited, as, in two more days, they will be celebrating an entire month that Samantha has gone without using witchcraft, only for Sam to use it to stop Darrin from hacking on a particularly strong drink.
--->'''Darrin:''' Sam! You broke your record!
--->'''Samantha:''' Oh well... there's always next month...
** In "'A' is for Aardvark," Darrin prepares to celebrate his and Samantha's sixth anniversary; Samantha points out they haven't been married six years, but Darrin specifies that it's their six-''month'' anniversary.
** One episode has Darrin and Samantha really excited, as, in two more days, they will be celebrating an entire month that Samantha has gone without using witchcraft, only for Sam to use it to stop Darrin from hacking on a particularly strong drink.
--->'''Darrin:''' Sam! You broke your record!
--->'''Samantha:''' Oh well... there's always next month...
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* MsFanservice: Notice how Elizabeth Montgomery's skirts kept getting shorter and shorter in the last few seasons ([[VaporWear and her bra straight up disappeared]] in the last season). Cranked UpToEleven whenever she played Serena.
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