History Series / BlackHoleHigh

* HopelessSuitor: Lucas ends up as one for Josie over the course of the series, though it's teased as LoveTriangle throughout the first and second seasons.

* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Surprisingly averted, considering it takes place at a boarding school. Blake Holsey is jut one building, and we really only ever see one hallway, three dorm rooms, a few offices, and the cafeteria.

* TheSleepless: The episode "Nocturnal" is devoted to this trope. Josie becomes unable to sleep thanks to the wormhole influence. She starts developing hallucinations of Vaughn's memories.
* TheSnarkKnight: Sometimes Josie comes off as this.
* SternTeacher: Principal Durst. Professor Z occasionally has his moments.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Josie runs against Madison for the position in "Pheromones" but Principal Durst postpones them indefinitely under instructions from Victor.
* TheTalk: When Z loses his memory in "Who?", Lucas and Marshall attempt to jog it by teaching him scientific concepts. Unfortunately, one of the things Z asks them to explain is reproduction.
-->'''Marshall:''' There is ''no'' way I'm giving him TheTalk. My dad had a hard enough time explaining it to ''me!''
* TheWatcher: The mysterious janitor.
* ThreeAmigos: Lucas, Marshall and Corinne are implied to have been this before the series began.

** Used in a way in "Equations". Corinne's wormhole affected equation allowed her to effectively travel so fast that time is virtually stopped.

* WholePlotReference: "Invisible" references the ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' episode "Invisible Girl", "Thursday" is a take off on ''[[Film/GroundhogDay Groundhog Day]]'', "Pheromones" is a take off on ''[[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'', and "Probability" is a take off on the short story ''Behind the News'', the latter two listed both being (originally, anyway) stories written by Jack Finney.

* WholePlotReference: "Invisible" references the ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' episode "Invisible Girl", "Thursday" is a take off on ''[[Film/GroundhogDay Groundhog Day]]'', "Pheromones" is a take off on ''[[InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'', and "Probability" is a take off on the short story ''Behind the News'', the latter two listed both being (originally, anyway) stories written by Jack Finney.

The series shares a number of actors with Disney-produced shows of the same time period, and bears a significant structural similarity to ''Series/SoWeird''. [[TheFonz Henry Winkler]] served as an executive producer and consultant on both. Stars pretty much the same cast as Series/TheZackFiles, another [[OnlySoManyCanadianActors Canadian]] paranormal live-action kid's show.

* DawsonCasting: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Like a [[Series/{{Degrassi}} certain other]] Canadian TV show aimed at adolescents, they actually decided to hire actors who were the same (or very near the same) age as their characters.

* NoExportForYou: A DVD set of the first season ''was'' going to be released in the U.K. ONLY.... but then the trope was [[AvertedTrope averted]] when the release ''was canceled without any explanation whatsoever'', turning this instead into a case of [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Keep Circulating The Tapes]].

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Lucas.]]

* HollywoodScience: Though occasionally averted. Emphasis on the occasionally.

* MissingMom /DisappearedDad: Vaughn's mother and Josie's father, respectively.

* TimeAlteringMacGuffin: The Qi Gong ball.

* RedHeadedHero: Josie

* WhatTheHellDad: Vaughn has a few of these moments over the course of the show.

To a fairly large extent, ''Series/BlackHoleHigh'' is simply ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' with the word "supernatural" crossed out and "science" penciled in (though with the nonviolent and [[NoHuggingNoKissing nonsexual]] baggage implied by its younger target audience). The second episode, "Invisible", for example, is a near-identical copy of the ''Buffy'' episode "Invisible Girl"; the key difference being that, rather than attributing a character's disappearance to magic, the nearby black hole caused it to be ''[[SarcasmMode entirely scientifically plausible]]'' that Marshall would, as a result of feeling unnoticed, lose his ability to interact with light.

The show uses emotional states as a metaphor for physical states, leading some people to believe that the recurring theme of the show is that, near a black hole, [[YourMindMakesItReal one's emotional state and social interactions can reshape the laws of physics]], essentially, trying to make science interesting to kids by ''flat out contradicting how science actually works''.

-->--'''The unimaginably vague OpeningNarration''' to ''Black Hole High''

Canadian series, also called ''Strange Days at Blake Holsey High'' (in Canada and in the USA for reruns on The N), which ran for just over three seasons via the Jetix programming block. The series also aired on Discovery Kids and on Global TV in Canada, and still airs on {{ABC3}} in Australia. The series lasted from October, 2002 to January, 2006. A total of 42 episodes.

* MommyIssues: Josie has them. Her mother is away often for work, her work is very secretive (and in the end, it turns out she's working for [[spoiler: Pearadyne Labs]]), and she and her mother have differing personalities. It's stated that Josie's strong will and independence came as a result of not being able to rely on her mother as a child.

* OtherMeAnnoysMe: In "Culture" Josie accidentally creates a clone. This clone acts much different from her and she is annoyed at how her clone behaves. Things get really weird after the clone spends the afternoon with her mother there for a rare visit and [[MommyIssues her mother doesn't notice]].

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: The growing attraction between Marshall and Corrine, and the UST between Josie and Vaughn. Even though neither of these couples really dated formally, everyone assumed they were. This is lampshaded by Marshall's friends in the epsidoe "Friction."

-> ''"There's nothing wrong at Blake Holsey High.''"
-->-- The unimaginably vague OpeningNarration to ''Black Hole High''.

To a fairly large extent, ''BlackHoleHigh'' is simply ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' with the word "supernatural" crossed out and "science" pencilled in (though with the nonviolent and [[NoHuggingNoKissing nonsexual]] baggage implied by its younger target audience). The second episode, "Invisible", for example, is a near-identical copy of the ''Buffy'' episode "Invisible Girl", the key difference being that, rather than attributing a character's disappearance to magic, the nearby black hole caused it to be ''[[SarcasmMode entirely scientifically plausible]]'' that Marshall would, as a result of feeling unnoticed, lose his ability to interact with light.

!! This show provides examples of:

* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Principal Durst has a moment of GenreSavvy in the finale, when she sees Lucas, Marshall, and Corrine running away from the graduation ceremony with a device to help thwart the series BigBad.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Josie and Corrine, respectively, along with being polar opposites. It creates a lot of tension between them, since they're also roommates.

* PutOnABus: Marshall transfers schools between the end of the third season and the beginning of the fourth (which takes place a year later). He appears in the finale, but only briefly.

The series shares a number of actors with Disney-produced shows of the same time period, and bears a significant structural similarity to ''Series/SoWeird''. [[TheFonz Henry Winkler]] served as an executive producer and consultant on both. Stars pretty much the same cast as TheZackFiles, another [[OnlySoManyCanadianActors Canadian]] paranormal live-action kid's show.

* MythArc