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* DawsonCasting: Avoided in the American version. The original telenovela, most main characters (specially the protagonist) are clearly over 20.
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* TitleDrop: Frankie does that a few times, obviously. But not as much as the Colombian version, where the phrase was basically programmed both as Franky's startup message, and her standard greeting.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Inverted. Frankie and Dayton's counterparts were cousins in the original Columbian series. [[ArtificialFamilyMember Sort of]]. At the very least, she was the Gaines' niece.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Inverted. In the Colombian telenovela, James' equivalent was a bitter, superstitious and socially awkward scientist named Paul, but the actor playing him was too young and muscular to fit in the role, becoming a HollywoodNerd instead. The American version corrects this and cast a middle-aged actor that fits more in the role.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Coupled with BilingualBonus for people who watched the Colombian version; it is hinted for a long time that [[spoiler:Robbie might be James' android considering in the telenovela the android was named Robi]]. Turns out it was [[spoiler:Andrew]] instead.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Inverted. Frankie and Dayton's counterparts were cousins in the original Columbian series. [[ArtificialFamilyMember Sort of]]. At the very least, she was the Gaines' niece.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Weaponized Android Research Project Agency.
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The series is based on the Colombian telenovela ''Yo soy Franky'', which was created by Argentinian author Marcela Citterio and produced by TeleVideo [=TeleVideo=] for Nickelodeon's Latin American counterpart, also named Nickelodeon. It is produced by Nickelodeon's program producing unit, Nickelodeon Productions, alongside Paradiso Pictures, the production company of executive producer Eric Gaunaurd.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: A rare heroic example, EGG have gotten into Sigourney's DroidSync program and are using it to remotely control Frankie. Every attempt to backdoor into the program is blocked by one of EGG's scientists, so Sigourney activates a power overload to burn out every computer system in the building. When Kingston realises every piece of technology is dead, he attempts to call the external security guards only to discover his mobile phone was disabled as well.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: A rare heroic example, EGG have gotten into Sigourney's DroidSync [=DroidSync=] program and are using it to remotely control Frankie. Every attempt to backdoor into the program is blocked by one of EGG's scientists, so Sigourney activates a power overload to burn out every computer system in the building. When Kingston realises every piece of technology is dead, he attempts to call the external security guards only to discover his mobile phone was disabled as well.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: A rare heroic example, EGG have gotten into Sigourney's DroidSync program and are using it to remotely control Frankie. Every attempt to backdoor into the program is blocked by one of EGG's scientists, so Sigourney activates a power overload to burn out every computer system in the building. When Kingston realises every piece of technology is dead, he attempts to call the external security guards only to discover his mobile phone was disabled as well.
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* LeaningOnTheFourth Wall: When Frankie suggests she resolves her double date dilemma by taking both her choices to the dance, Dayton responds with "you can't do that, this is real life, not a television sitcom".
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* LeaningOnTheFourth Wall: LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Frankie suggests she resolves her double date dilemma by taking both her choices to the dance, Dayton responds with "you can't do that, this is real life, not a television sitcom".
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* LeaningOnTheFourth Wall: When Frankie suggests she resolves her double date dilemma by taking both her choices to the dance, Dayton responds with "you can't do that, this is real life, not a television sitcom".
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* NoodleIncident: Whenever the subject of Eliza is brought up, Sigourney Gaines insists that that topic is not to be discussed. [[spoiler: it is eventually revealed that Eliza is Frankie's precursor and flawed because she is inherently evil.]]
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* SesameStreetCred: Applies to director Steve Wright and theme song co-composer Jeannie Lurie. Prior to their work on ''Series/IAmFrankie'', Wright previously directed an episode of ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' and live action sequences on ''WesternAnimation/ElliotMoose'' as well as served as floor director for ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', while Lurie previously co-wrote and co-produced the songs "Kansas", "When I'm With You", "The Witch Is In The House", and "Good Life" for ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'' as well as co-wrote "Pictures In My Head" for ''Film/TheMuppets''.
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* SesameStreetCred: Applies to director Steve Wright and theme song co-composer Jeannie Lurie. Prior to their work on ''Series/IAmFrankie'', Wright previously directed an episode episodes of ''Series/TheBigComfyCouch'' and ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' and live action sequences on ''WesternAnimation/ElliotMoose'' as well as served as floor director for ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', while Lurie previously co-wrote and co-produced the songs "Kansas", "When I'm With You", "The Witch Is In The House", and "Good Life" for ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'' as well as co-wrote "Pictures In My Head" for ''Film/TheMuppets''.
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* CreatorCameo: In the final episode of season 1, "I Am... A Sitting Duck", which takes place at the brain squad state finals, the actor playing the stage manager is executive producer Eric Gaunaurd.
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* SesameStreetCred: Applies to theme song co-composer Jeannie Lurie. Prior to her work on ''Series/IAmFrankie'', Lurie previously co-wrote and co-produced the songs "Kansas", "When I'm With You", "The Witch Is In The House", and "Good Life" for ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'' as well as co-wrote "Pictures In My Head" for ''Film/TheMuppets''.
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* SesameStreetCred: Applies to director Steve Wright and theme song co-composer Jeannie Lurie. Prior to her their work on ''Series/IAmFrankie'', Wright previously directed an episode of ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' and live action sequences on ''WesternAnimation/ElliotMoose'' as well as served as floor director for ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', while Lurie previously co-wrote and co-produced the songs "Kansas", "When I'm With You", "The Witch Is In The House", and "Good Life" for ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'' as well as co-wrote "Pictures In My Head" for ''Film/TheMuppets''.
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* RobotBuddy: [=PEGS1=]. At first it seems like Kingston ''loathes'' him, but when WARPA's goons abduct [=PEGS1=] to force him to cooperate, Kingston goes to pieces and is genuinely distressed over getting him back.
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** AndroidsArePeopleToo: Frankie, though her own behavior often conforms more to "moody teenage girl" than "correctly functioning android." [[spoiler:Also, Andrew.]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The opening to I Am ... Hungry, in which Dayton gives a very intense speech about the evils of peer pressure.
* ArtificialFamilyMember: Frankie is seen as a daughter by Gaines. Frankie inturn sees her family as her own.
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* TheMenInBlack: The WARPA agents could be described as this.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mr. Kingston and James wouldn't have been going after Frankie, had Sigourney not shown off her creation to them.
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Of the Brain Squad members, Makayla is the nice, Tammy is the mean and Lucia is the in-between.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Gilford Kingston, James Peters and Tammy Gilroy
* BiggerBad: WARPA
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* BookDumb: Cole. Dude's halfway through high school and doesn't know what a variable is. One has to wonder how he even got ''into'' high school without knowing at least basic algebra.
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** BenevolentAI: Frankie, though her own behavior often conforms more to "moody teenage girl" than "correctly functioning android."
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Holy ''hell''. ''Every'' artificial intelligence in this series behaves contrary to their creator's expectations, given long enough. [[spoiler: Fortunately, only one of them is the downright evil version of this trope.]]
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** Inversion: [[spoiler: Andrew.]]
** BenevolentAI: Frankie, though her own behavior often conforms more to "moody teenage girl" than "correctly functioning android."
** Inversion: [[spoiler: Andrew.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Things are getting real.]]
''I Am Frankie'' is a live-action teen drama/comedy/science-fiction series which premiered on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the fall of 2017. The series stars Alex Hook as a teenage android girl named Frankie, whose inventor and "mother" absconded with her when she learned the company she worked for intended to sell her to a rogue government agency that wanted to weaponize her design. Hiding in plain sight (two towns over from her old lab), Dr. Gaines and her family try to live normal lives and keep Frankie off the radar...by enrolling her in the local high school and praying nobody finds out her secret. Of course, with Gaines' old boss hunting for the android, a rival scientist out to win a prestigious award at any costs, and the rigors of teen drama in a high school environment, Frankie is constantly in danger of being exposed.
The first season wrapped airing in November 2017. Season two is scheduled to begin production in the spring of 2018.
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!!I Am ... Detecting These Tropes Within The Context Of This Series:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: To a mild degree, Tammy is this to Cole, at least early on. More or less dropped when Tammy becomes obsessed with discrediting Frankie, although it resurfaces for minor drama on occasion.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Holy ''hell''. ''Every'' artificial intelligence in this series behaves contrary to their creator's expectations, given long enough. [[spoiler: Fortunately, only one of them is the downright evil version of this trope.]]
* AlphaBitch: Tammy.
* BlackAndNerdy: Byron, who builds his own little robot buddy.
* BollywoodNerd: Arguably, Tammy.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every episode. All of them. Every single episode ends on a suspenseful brush with danger, plot twist, or loaded question.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Tammy confesses to framing Robbie for vandalism, her punishment is to grant Robbie three wishes.
* CrazyCatLady: Mrs. Hough.
* [[spoiler: EvilTwin: Eliza.]]
* FullNameBasis: Frankie constantly does this. Getting her ''not'' to do this takes effort, which nobody ever seems to bother with. The only people she refers to by anything less than their full names are her "parents". Worse still, occasionally it "catches" with the people around her.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''I Am ... An Episode Title!''
* {{Jerkass}}: James, whose jealousy of Dr. Gaines' success and determination to steal the robotics prize from her leads him to lie, steal data, manipulate a colleague who trusts him, and build his own (far more sophisticated) android, all with the end goal of destroying Frankie so he can scoop Sigourney on the prize.
* LiteralMinded: Frankie is frequently this, due to being an android. At least she's been programmed to absorb and correctly parse expressions and slang once exposed to them. Robbie has a tendency to be this just because he's [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Sheldon]]-lite.
* LoveTriangle: Surprisingly understated for a teen drama of this type, generally only flaring up organically to push a secondary conflict along. The two main love triangles are Tammy/Cole/Frankie and Andrew/Frankie/Cole.
* ManipulativeBastard: James tries to be this. It doesn't really work out for him.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: More like "get the hypotenuse expelled for cheating/vandalism/not being human", but this is Tammy's general schtick. Downplayed in that it seems to have less to do with Cole and more to do with reclaiming her "smartest girl in school" cred.
* TheReveal: The soap-opera-esque nature of this show ''thrives'' on big reveals. Just to name a few:
** [[spoiler: Andrew is an android.]]
** [[spoiler: Kingston is Dayton and Cole's dad.]]
** [[spoiler: There were five failed prototypes before Frankie, and the fifth one, Eliza, went rogue.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Pretty much the point of this series. Frankie, [[spoiler: Andrew, and Eliza]] are especially this. [=PEGS1=] counts in personality terms if not in physical shape.
* RobotBuddy: [=PEGS1=]. At first it seems like Kingston ''loathes'' him, but when WARPA's goons abduct [=PEGS1=] to force him to cooperate, Kingston goes to pieces and is genuinely distressed over getting him back.
* SecretKeeper: Where to begin? It's easier to name characters who ''aren't'' keeping a secret.
* ThoseTwoGuys: We've got ''three'' pairs of them: Tammy's put-upon lackeys Lucia and Makayla, Cole and Byron, and Jenny and Mr. Gaines.
* TheUntwist: [[spoiler: Andrew is the rival android.]] It was ... obvious.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Things are getting real.]]
''I Am Frankie'' is a live-action teen drama/comedy/science-fiction series which premiered on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the fall of 2017. The series stars Alex Hook as a teenage android girl named Frankie, whose inventor and "mother" absconded with her when she learned the company she worked for intended to sell her to a rogue government agency that wanted to weaponize her design. Hiding in plain sight (two towns over from her old lab), Dr. Gaines and her family try to live normal lives and keep Frankie off the radar...by enrolling her in the local high school and praying nobody finds out her secret. Of course, with Gaines' old boss hunting for the android, a rival scientist out to win a prestigious award at any costs, and the rigors of teen drama in a high school environment, Frankie is constantly in danger of being exposed.
The first season wrapped airing in November 2017. Season two is scheduled to begin production in the spring of 2018.
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!!I Am ... Detecting These Tropes Within The Context Of This Series:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: To a mild degree, Tammy is this to Cole, at least early on. More or less dropped when Tammy becomes obsessed with discrediting Frankie, although it resurfaces for minor drama on occasion.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Holy ''hell''. ''Every'' artificial intelligence in this series behaves contrary to their creator's expectations, given long enough. [[spoiler: Fortunately, only one of them is the downright evil version of this trope.]]
* AlphaBitch: Tammy.
* BlackAndNerdy: Byron, who builds his own little robot buddy.
* BollywoodNerd: Arguably, Tammy.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every episode. All of them. Every single episode ends on a suspenseful brush with danger, plot twist, or loaded question.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Tammy confesses to framing Robbie for vandalism, her punishment is to grant Robbie three wishes.
* CrazyCatLady: Mrs. Hough.
* [[spoiler: EvilTwin: Eliza.]]
* FullNameBasis: Frankie constantly does this. Getting her ''not'' to do this takes effort, which nobody ever seems to bother with. The only people she refers to by anything less than their full names are her "parents". Worse still, occasionally it "catches" with the people around her.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''I Am ... An Episode Title!''
* {{Jerkass}}: James, whose jealousy of Dr. Gaines' success and determination to steal the robotics prize from her leads him to lie, steal data, manipulate a colleague who trusts him, and build his own (far more sophisticated) android, all with the end goal of destroying Frankie so he can scoop Sigourney on the prize.
* LiteralMinded: Frankie is frequently this, due to being an android. At least she's been programmed to absorb and correctly parse expressions and slang once exposed to them. Robbie has a tendency to be this just because he's [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Sheldon]]-lite.
* LoveTriangle: Surprisingly understated for a teen drama of this type, generally only flaring up organically to push a secondary conflict along. The two main love triangles are Tammy/Cole/Frankie and Andrew/Frankie/Cole.
* ManipulativeBastard: James tries to be this. It doesn't really work out for him.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: More like "get the hypotenuse expelled for cheating/vandalism/not being human", but this is Tammy's general schtick. Downplayed in that it seems to have less to do with Cole and more to do with reclaiming her "smartest girl in school" cred.
* TheReveal: The soap-opera-esque nature of this show ''thrives'' on big reveals. Just to name a few:
** [[spoiler: Andrew is an android.]]
** [[spoiler: Kingston is Dayton and Cole's dad.]]
** [[spoiler: There were five failed prototypes before Frankie, and the fifth one, Eliza, went rogue.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Pretty much the point of this series. Frankie, [[spoiler: Andrew, and Eliza]] are especially this. [=PEGS1=] counts in personality terms if not in physical shape.
* RobotBuddy: [=PEGS1=]. At first it seems like Kingston ''loathes'' him, but when WARPA's goons abduct [=PEGS1=] to force him to cooperate, Kingston goes to pieces and is genuinely distressed over getting him back.
* SecretKeeper: Where to begin? It's easier to name characters who ''aren't'' keeping a secret.
* ThoseTwoGuys: We've got ''three'' pairs of them: Tammy's put-upon lackeys Lucia and Makayla, Cole and Byron, and Jenny and Mr. Gaines.
* TheUntwist: [[spoiler: Andrew is the rival android.]] It was ... obvious.
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