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* AsHimself: In "Meet Your Idol Thing!", Crispo's idol snowboarder Louie Vito appeared as did Fenwick's idol, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared.


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* RunningGag: In the hourlong pilot, the rolling cart that C.J. knocked down the stairs early in the episode was constantly seen rolling down the street. It even helps when the slow driver Ronbie is driving behind swerves to miss it and helps him to speed up.

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This show [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot began as a TV movie in 2014]], which then was turned into a sitcom with pretty much the same cast, though with the principal, who was the main antagonist in the movie, she is pretty much absent.

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This show [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot began as a TV movie in 2014]], which then was turned into a sitcom with pretty much the same cast, though with the principal, who was the main antagonist in the movie, she is pretty much absent.


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* NonIndicativeName: With the show only lasting 24 episodes, there's clearly far less things to do before high school than 100.
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* ExplodingCloset: In "Become a Millionaire and Give It All Away Thing!", C.J. has to clean out the gym store room. Every time she opens the door, she gets buried beneath an avalanche of balls of different sizes.
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* NoodleIncident: In the PilotMovie, it's shown that the "rescue mission" that first brought CJ, Crispo, and Fenwick together was liberating a doll from a high shelf in a classroom. It's later shown that they succeeded in this, as CJ keeps the doll at her house, but it's never shown how, as Crispo failed to bring the rope that CJ intended to use for their initial attempt.
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* ScienceFair: In "Be a Mad Scientist Thing!", stress and competition take their toll on each friend's quest to take home the winning prize at the Pootatuck science fair.
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* FakinMacGuffin: In "Sit at a Different Lunch Table Thing!", CJ drops her worthless ring down the sink in order to trick Principal Hader into thinking she has dropped Mindy's mother's expensive ring down the drain. (ItMakesSenseInContext.)
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* NecktieHeadband: In "Sit at a Different Lunch Table Thing!", Fenwick gets carried away with his impersonation of an 8th grader, and ends up dancing on the 8th grade patio wearing his tie as a headband.
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* BedsheetGhost: In "Stay Up All Night Thing!", Ronbie gets tangled up in a sheet during the school sleepover, which becomes a CoincidentalAccidenalDisguise as the middle-schoolers are panicking about the 'ghost janitor'.

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* BedsheetGhost: In "Stay Up All Night Thing!", Ronbie gets tangled up in a sheet during the school sleepover, which becomes a CoincidentalAccidenalDisguise CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise as the middle-schoolers are panicking about the 'ghost janitor'.
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* BedsheetGhost: In "Stay Up All Night Thing!", Ronbie gets tangled up in a sheet during the school sleepover, which becomes a CoincidentalAccidenalDisguise as the middle-schoolers are panicking about the 'ghost janitor'.


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* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: In "Stay Up All Night Thing!", Ronbie gets tangled up in a sheet, turning him into a BedsheetGhost just as the middle schoolers are freaking out about the 'ghost janitor'.

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* EmbarrassingCoverUp: In "Pilot", Mindy wants to know where Crispo disappeared to during lunchtime (he was actually involved in CJ's ZanyScheme and has come back in different clothes as a result). Crispo replies that he was in the bathroom. When Mindy says that he was gone a long time, he adds "Yeah. It was so bad I had to change clothes". Mindy gets a disgusted look on her face and stops asking questions.

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* EmbarrassingCoverUp: In "Pilot", Mindy wants to know where Crispo disappeared to during lunchtime sixth period (he was actually involved in CJ's ZanyScheme and has come back in different clothes as a result). Crispo replies that he was in the bathroom. When Mindy says that he was gone a long time, for ''an hour'', he adds "Yeah. It was so bad I had to change clothes". Mindy gets a disgusted look on her face and stops asking questions.


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* RushedInvertedReading: In the pilot, Crispo keeps holding a maths book in front of his face to disguise the fact that he is talking to CJ and Fenwick. Most of the time, he is holding it upside down.
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* EmbarrassingCoverUp: In "Pilot", Mindy wants to know where Crispo disappeared to during lunchtime (he was actually involved in CJ's ZanyScheme and has come back in different clothes as a result). Crispo replies that he was in the bathroom. When Mindy says that he was gone a long time, he adds "Yeah. It was so bad I had to change clothes". Mindy gets a disgusted look on her face and stops asking questions.
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* NewspaperThinDisguise: Crispo spends the second half of "Pilot" attempting to disguise his identity by holding a book in front of his face.
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* TaeKwanDoor: In "Pilot", Crispo uses the door to knock out Hall Monitor Paul Schmolitor when he catches CJ in the science room attempting to release the raccoon.

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* TaeKwanDoor: TaeKwonDoor: In "Pilot", Crispo uses the door to knock out Hall Monitor Paul Schmolitor when he catches CJ in the science room attempting to release the raccoon.
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* TaeKwanDoor: In "Pilot", Crispo uses the door to knock out Hall Monitor Paul Schmolitor when he catches CJ in the science room attempting to release the raccoon.
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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Isabela Moner, the actress who stars as CJ, sings the theme song.

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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Isabela Moner, Creator/IsabelaMoner, the actress who stars as CJ, sings the theme song.
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On November 25, 2016, it was announced the show had been canceled and not renewed for a second season.
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* OncePerEpisode: Every episode has CJ announce what she, Crispo and Fenwick are going to do and she holds up her phone showing what they'll be doing in the episode (doubling as the EpisodeTitleCard), before cutting to the theme song.

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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Isabela Moner, the actress who stars as CJ, sings the theme song.



* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Isabela Moner, the actress who stars as CJ, sings the theme song.
* EggSitting: A non-school example in "Adopt a Flour Baby Thing!". In order to prove to her mother that she is responsible, CJ's mother gives her a bag of flour to protect. Crispo, Fenwick and CJ's father also participate.



* FoodFight: Subverted in "Sit at a Different Lunch Table Thing!" when Crispo and the boys accidentally hit the emo girls with food twice. The lunch lady even started to give out food to start a food fight, but Crispo, who was very hungry, took the graham crackers at the girls' table with the marshmallow fluff at their table, and made a S'more with some chocolate sauce. This made everyone happy and acerted the food fight.

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* FoodFight: Subverted in "Sit at a Different Lunch Table Thing!" when Crispo and the boys accidentally hit the emo girls with food twice. The lunch lady even started to give out food to start a food fight, but Crispo, who was very hungry, took the graham crackers at the girls' table with the marshmallow fluff at their table, and made a S'more with some chocolate sauce. This made everyone happy and acerted averted the food fight.
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* ObliviousJanitorCut: In "Have the Best Halloween Ever Thing!", the garbage man is wearing headphones and so fails to hear Principal Hader screaming at him as she falls into the dumpster he is hoisting into his truck.
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* GoofySuit: The school's bear mascot costume is notoriously hot, stuffy, and hard to see out of, which causes the mascot to keep walking in to walls. At one point, the coach remarks that he's lost three bears this, causing CJ to wonder how you can lose three bears in a week. In "Say Yes to Everything For Day Thing!", CJ becomes the new mascot and has to wear the bear suit.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: In "Be a Fairy Godmother Thing!", Fenwick mounts his godmother's dead cat on top of a remote-control car and zooms it around her house in an effort to persuade that he is still alive.
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* MakeoverMontage: In "Be a Fairy Godmother Thing!", CJ gives a makeover to a girl named Scout as part of her attempt to be a fairy godmother
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* MeritBadgesForEverything: In "Be a Fairy Godmother Thing!", CJ asks Scout what merit badges she is currently working on. The response: Love Poet, Necklace Maker, Scone Chef, and Crowbar Master.

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* MeritBadgesForEverything: In "Be a Fairy Godmother Thing!", CJ asks Scout what merit badges she is currently working on. The response: Love Poet, Necklace Maker, Wizard, Scone Chef, and Crowbar Master.
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* BrutalHonesty: In "Always Tell the Truth (But Not Always) Thing!", CJ, Fenwick and Crispo vow to always tell the truth. However, CJ and Fenwick quickly find themselves trapped in a web of lies, Crispo keeps the vow and winds up becoming brutally honest: becoming a CausticCritic in his cooking class and landing himself in hot water.

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* BrutalHonesty: In "Always Tell the Truth (But Not Always) Thing!", CJ, Fenwick and Crispo vow to always tell the truth. However, while CJ and Fenwick quickly find themselves trapped in a web of lies, Crispo keeps the vow and winds up becoming brutally honest: becoming a CausticCritic in his cooking class and landing himself in hot water.
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* HippyTeacher: Miss Claymore, the ceramics teacher. She spends a lot of time talking abut auras and healing energy.
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* DeanBitterman: Principal Hader is the principal of Pootatuck Middle School. In the first episode she serves as the main antagonist, but in the rest of the series she serves as the secondary antagonist/anti-heroine. She is a very strict authority figure and usually doesn't care about others' opinions. Her nickname is 'Darth Hader'.
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* SnowballLie: In "Always Tell the Truth (But Not Always) Thing!". CJ tells a lie about her grandmother in order to get into drama class and play Juliet to her crush's Romeo. This lie spirals completely out of control until they are doing a special production of the play solely for CJ's grandmother.
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* ItTastesLikeFeet: In "Always Tell the Truth (But Not Always) Thing!", Crispo becomes a Caustic Critic in his cookery class. He tells one pair their cookies are "Too buttery... As in too much butt!" and compares his teacher's cookies to elephant dung.
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* BrutalHonesty: In "Always Tell the Truth (But Not Always) Thing!", CJ, Fenwick and Crispo vow to always tell the truth. However, CJ and Fenwick quickly find themselves trapped in a web of lies, Crispo keeps the vow and winds up becoming brutally honest: becoming a CausticCritic in his cooking class and landing himself in hot water.
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* CausticCritic: Crispo becomes one in his cooking class in Always Tell the Truth (but Not Always) Thing!" His teacher initially liked his BrutalHonesty but Crispo [[UpToEleven went overboard]].

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* CausticCritic: Crispo becomes one in his cooking class in Always "Always Tell the Truth (but Not Always) Thing!" His teacher initially liked his BrutalHonesty but Crispo [[UpToEleven went overboard]].



* EggSitting: In "Adopt A Flour Baby Thing!", CJ agrees to adopt a flour bag baby for 24 hours to prove she is responsible enough to own a Guinea pig. A spirit of competitiveness cause Crispo, Fenwick and CJ's dad to join the contest. Because he is allergic to wheat, Fenwick has to parent a bag of potato chips.

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* EggSitting: In "Adopt A a Flour Baby Thing!", CJ agrees to adopt a flour bag baby for 24 hours to prove she is responsible enough to own a Guinea pig. A spirit of competitiveness cause causes Crispo, Fenwick and CJ's dad to join the contest. Because he is allergic to wheat, Fenwick has to parent a bag of potato chips.



* MeritBadgesForEverything: In "Be A Fairy Godmother Thing!", CJ asks Scout what merit badges she is currently working on. The response: Love Poet, Necklace Maker, Scone Chef, and Crowbar Master.

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* MeritBadgesForEverything: In "Be A a Fairy Godmother Thing!", CJ asks Scout what merit badges she is currently working on. The response: Love Poet, Necklace Maker, Scone Chef, and Crowbar Master.



* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr Roberts, the guidance counselor. He gently encouranges the kids while giving them appropriate discipline.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr Roberts, the guidance counselor. He gently encouranges encourages the kids while giving them appropriate discipline.



* SleepingDummy: In "Stay Up All Night!", CJ, Crispo and Fenwick stuff their sleeping bags when they sneak out of the school sleepover to see the sunrise.

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* SleepingDummy: In "Stay Up All Night!", Night Thing!", CJ, Crispo and Fenwick stuff their sleeping bags when they sneak out of the school sleepover to see the sunrise.



* ThisIsNotADrill: Combined with CryingWolf in the spisode "Find Your Super Power Thing!". The principal is trying to beat the record for fastest fire drill and won't accept not beating the record. Therefore, she held multiple fire drills each day for a couple of days, infuriating the teachers and annoying the students. She also misused the fire extinguishers much to the consternation of the guidance councelor, Mr Roberts. When finally no one reacted to one fire drill, she tried to get the sprinkler system to go off in the science room, but accidentally started a fire with no way to put it out. Now it was up to Crispo to tell everyone it was not a drill.

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* ThisIsNotADrill: Combined with CryingWolf in the spisode episode "Find Your Super Power Thing!". The principal is trying to beat the record for fastest fire drill and won't accept not beating the record. Therefore, she held multiple fire drills each day for a couple of days, infuriating the teachers and annoying the students. She also misused the fire extinguishers much to the consternation of the guidance councelor, counselor, Mr Roberts. When finally no one reacted to one fire drill, she tried to get the sprinkler system to go off in the science room, but accidentally started a fire with no way to put it out. Now it was up to Crispo to tell everyone it was not a drill.

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