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* TriangRelations:
** A Type 5. Jonathan has a crush on Rebecca, who has eyes only for hunky jock David, who regards Rebecca only as a friend.
** Christine also wants to date David, but he never gets together with either her or Rebecca, forming a Type 3.
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* FadingAway: One of the conditions for the Ainsworth sisters being allowed to return to the mortal world is that they not flunk out of school. In "Smoke and Mirrors", it is revealed that the BookDumb Rebecca, who is more concerned with fashion and popularity than academics, is failing every subject and she starts to fade out of existence.
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* WearingItAllWrong: In "150 Years Later", Rebecca--a FishOutOfTemporalWater ghost--has never encountered 21st century clothing before, and assumes a bra is bonnet. She is soundly humiliated when she goes to lunch in the dining hall with the bra on her head.

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* WearingItAllWrong: In "150 Years Later", Rebecca--a FishOutOfTemporalWater ghost--has never encountered 21st century clothing before, and assumes a bra is a bonnet. She is soundly humiliated when she goes to lunch in the dining hall with the bra on her head.
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* JacobMarleyApparel: This appears to be a default for ghosts. As 'living ghosts', the Ainsworth sisters can wear other clothes--allowing them to wear their school uniforms--but they revert back to the dresses they died in when not doing so. It is not known is other, non-living ghosts share this ability. Agatha, Buddy, Grendel and Sophus always appear in the clothes they died in but, as they never interact with mortals, they never have reason to change clothes.
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* WearingItAllWrong: In "150 Years Later", Rebecca--a FishOutOfTemporalWater ghost--has never encountered 21st century clothing before, and assumes a bra is bonnet. She is soundly humiliated when she goes to lunch in the dining hall with the bra on her head.
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* NewOldFlame: In "Love's First Kiss", a painting of one of Rebecca's suitors is brought to Ainsbury High. Heathcliffe the suitor jumps out of the portrait, putting Jonathan in there instead, and goes in pursuit of Rebecca.
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* ClearTheirName: In "Gold", Hazel learns that her old friend and sheep herder from her old life was jailed for thieving gold. She summons him up to try to discover the truth in order to win her legal case in an English class and help her friend pass on to the after-death.

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* DemonicPossession: Sophie gets possessed by a malevolent spirit in the last episode

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* DemonicPossession: Sophie gets possessed by a malevolent spirit in the last episodeepisode.
* DressUpEpisode: In "Reliving History", the school recreates life as it was 150 years ago, so the entire school is dressed in period garb.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Headmaster Griffiths is an avuncular, likeable headmaster who would rather avoid a problem than confront it. He is constantly trying to calm Haiwyn Sinclaire down about the mysterious Ainsworth girls.
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* EnglishRose: Sophie, the middle sister, best fits this description, both in appearance (she is blonde and paler than her two brunette sisters) and temperament. Rebecca is prettier, but is vain and a social climber, and Hazel enthusiastically embraces all of the opportunities the 21st century offers girls. Sophie, however, misses the social niceties of the 19th century and attempts to hang on to them by doing things such as establishing a book club to discuss the novels of Creator/JaneAusten. She also prefers the fashions of her home time, unlike her sisters.

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* EnglishRose: Sophie, the middle sister, best fits this description, both in appearance (she is blonde and paler than her two brunette sisters) and temperament. Rebecca is prettier, but is vain and a social climber, and Hazel enthusiastically embraces all of the opportunities the 21st century offers girls. Sophie, however, misses the social niceties of the 19th century and attempts to hang on to them by doing things such as establishing a book club to discuss the novels of Creator/JaneAusten. She is demure and soft-spoken, but not afraid to stand up for what she believes in, and is kind to all, even those who are mean to her. She also prefers the fashions of her home time, time to modern ones, unlike her sisters.
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* EnglishRose: Sophie, the middle sister, best fits this description, both in appearance (she is blonde and paler than her two brunette sisters) and temperament. Rebecca is prettier, but is vain and a social climber, and Hazel enthusiastically embraces all of the opportunities the 21st century offers girls. Sophie, however, misses the social niceties of the 19th century and attempts to hang on to them by doing things such as establishing a book club to discuss the novels of Creator/JaneAusten. She also prefers the fashions of her home time, unlike her sisters.
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: Christine is a decent person inside but really not one who likes to let it show.
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* BornInTheWrongCentury: Hazel adapts extremely easily to the modern world and, unlike her sisters, seems much happier in the 21st century than she ever would have been in the 19th.
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* BookDumb: Rebecca believes being pretty and popular are more important than being smart. As a result, she neglects her studies in favour of fashion and gossip magazines. In "Smoke and Mirrors" it is revealed that is failing every subject, which nearly causes her to fade out of existence.

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* BookDumb: Rebecca believes being pretty and popular are more important than being smart. As a result, she neglects her studies in favour of fashion and gossip magazines. In "Smoke and Mirrors" it is revealed that she is failing every subject, which nearly causes her to fade out of existence.

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* SadistTeacher: Miss Sinclaire. She makes it her life mission to have the Ainsworth sisters expelled

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* SadistTeacher: Miss Sinclaire. She makes it her life mission to have the Ainsworth sisters expelledexpelled.
* SealedEvilInACan: In "The Baharee", a box is opened containing a pipe or a horn. When Christine blows on it she unleashes a spirit called the Baharee which forces people to do things they wouldn't normally do.
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* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: The 'fashion of the future' outfits Christine and her GirlPosse create for a fashion show in "Smoke and Mirrors", which cause the entire school to laugh them off the stage. When you surround yourself with [[YesMan yes-men]], there is no one to tell you how ridiculous you actually look.
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* AccidentalAthlete: Twice Sophie discovers that she is naturally gifted at sports, only to the discover that she has been subconsciously using her ghost powers to triumph. It happens with basketball in "Sisters of the Mind", and running in "A Friend Indeed".

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* AccidentalAthlete: Twice Sophie discovers that she is naturally gifted at sports, only to the discover then learn that she has been subconsciously using her ghost powers to triumph. It happens with basketball in "Sisters of the Mind", and running in "A Friend Indeed".



* GorgeousPeriodDress: In the first episode, the Ainsworth sisters are wearing simple dresses for most of the beginning. Lots of it in episode eight as the school reacts life in the Victorian era.

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* GorgeousPeriodDress: In the first episode, the Ainsworth sisters are wearing simple dresses for most of the beginning. Lots of it in episode eight as the school reacts recreates life in the Victorian era.
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: In the first episode, the Ainsworth sisters are wearing in simple dresses for most of the beginning. Lots of it in episode eight as the school reacts life in the Victorian era.

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* SickEpisode: The plot of "Grendel's Cold" involves most of the school becoming infected by Grendel's ghostly cold.


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* UndignifiedDeath: In "Grendel's Cold", it is revealed that Grendel did not die in battle as she always claimed, but rather from a cold she contracted on the way to the battle. Every year, on the anniversary of her death, the cold returns to haunt her.
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* BookDumb: Rebecca believes being pretty and popular are more important than being smart. As a result, she neglects her studies in favour of fashion and gossip magazines. In "Smoke and Mirrors" it is revealed that is failing every subject, which nearly causes her to fade out of existence.
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* AccidentalAthlete: Twice Sophie discovers that she is naturally gifted at sports, only to the discover that she has been subconsciously using her ghost powers to triumph. It happens with basketball in "Sisters of the Mind", and running in "A Friend Indeed".


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* ProtestByObstruction: In "Hazel's Tree", Hazel is distraught to learn that a peppercorn tree that she planted with her mother as a young girl is to be torn down to make way for a new hydraulic water pump. Posing as an unwashed, energy saving environmentalist, Hazel starts a campaign intent on educating the school on all things "green". This culminates in her and many of her schoolmates tying themselves to the tree as a protest.

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