History WesternAnimation / SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries

After Creator/DiCEntertainment split up from Disney, they produced a MadeForTVMovie titled ''Sabrina: Friends Forever'', which served as the pilot to a new syndicated series titled ''Sabrina's Secret Life'', which was basically a [[SequelSeries follow-up]] to the first series. Many of the original characters from the first series, such as Uncle Quigley, Chloe, and Gem were PutOnABus or [[BrotherChuck brother chucked]] and, since by this point [=DiC=] was no longer a Disney subsidiary, features none of the original voice actors either. In this version, Sabrina now going to high school (further contradicting the main series, but only two years younger) is now at the age where she can attend magic school as well. She quickly finds a new rival in Cassandra, who's a full witch--and will let Sabrina know it every chance she gets and a new best friend in Maritza, who is always there to support her, though unlike Chloe, she does not know of Sabrina's secret. Of course, Sabrina is more than willing to prove that being full blooded doesn't mean you're automatically better.

After Creator/DiCEntertainment split up from Disney, they produced a MadeForTVMovie titled ''Sabrina: Friends Forever'', which served as the pilot to a new syndicated series titled ''Sabrina's Secret Life'', which was basically a [[SequelSeries follow-up]] to the first series. Many of the original characters from the first series were PutOnABus or [[BrotherChuck brother chucked]] and, since by this point [=DiC=] was no longer a Disney subsidiary, features none of the original voice actors either. In this version, Sabrina now going to high school (further contradicting the main series, but only two years younger) is now at the age where she can attend magic school as well. She quickly finds a new rival in Cassandra, who's a full witch--and will let Sabrina know it every chance she gets. Of course, Sabrina is more than willing to prove that being full blooded doesn't mean you're automatically better.

* LicensedGame:
** ''[[VideoGame/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesZapped Zapped!]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesSpooked Spooked!]]'' for the Game Boy Color. A duology of platform games where you control Sabrina.
** ''[[VideoGame/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesMagicalAdventure Magical Adventure]]'' for the PC, a MinigameGame where Sabrina has to thwart Gem's dastardly plot.

* An episode reveals Harvey to be a massive fan of Creator/JackieChan (or at least, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of him). He briefly remarks that Chan is filming his latest movie in Kuala Lumpur, a reference to the then-recent ''Film/SuperCop''.

* DeadpanSnarker: Salem as in the original series, as well as Cassandra's pet rabbit Mavista.

''Sabrina: The Animated Series'' is a American cartoon that's an AnimatedAdaptation of the sitcom ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', which itself was already adapted from a comic book by ComicBook/ArchieComics. Being produced by Creator/DiCEntertainment during the time it was owned by Creator/{{Disney}} and having run on Creator/{{ABC}}'s ''[[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids One Saturday Morning]]'' and its weekday afternoon counterpart ''One Too'' on Creator/{{UPN}}, it was oddly treated like it was as much of a show by Disney as the company's actual productions. The reruns on Creator/ToonDisney placed it in the same primetime block as Disney cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' and ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', even though it was pretty obvious that this was not an actual Disney cartoon. In its original run, the show lasted from September, 1999 to February, 2000 for a total of 65 episodes.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Multiple episodes centered around science class show the kids working on inventions that would be ''revolutionary'' if they weren't used just for science class or the occasional fun thing. Pi is a pretty big offender, given all the stuff he creates even when he's ''not'' in science class!.
* RefrainFromAssuming: There is no song called "Have You Seen Her?" The theme song is officially titled, "She'll Bewitch Ya".

Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies'', this is the AnimatedAdaptation of the sitcom ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', which itself was already adapted from a comic book by ComicBook/ArchieComics.

''Sabrina: The Animated Series'' is a Belgian-American-Canadian indie cartoon. Being produced by Creator/DiCEntertainment during the time it was owned by Creator/{{Disney}} and having run on Creator/{{ABC}}'s ''[[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids One Saturday Morning]]'' and its weekday afternoon counterpart ''One Too'' on Creator/{{UPN}}, it was oddly treated like it was as much of a show by Disney as the company's actual productions. The reruns on Creator/ToonDisney placed it in the same primetime block as Disney cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' and ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', even though it was pretty obvious that this was not an actual Disney cartoon. In its original run, the show lasted from September, 1999 to February, 2000 for a total of 65 episodes.

Now has a [[Characters/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries character page]].

* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The series lasted one season of 65 episodes from 1999 to 2000 (like a number of syndicated weekday/Saturday morning cartoons) but got a spin-off, ''Sabrina's Secret Life'', in 2003, with twenty-something episodes.

** In "Wiccan of the Sea", the CrowdSong at the start turns out to be just a dream Sabrina has during class.

* TheFaceless: Salem in flashbacks to when he was a human warlock.
** Although the comics based on the series showed him as a human in "Kitty Slickers" in which he was allowed to be a human for a day and was a cowboy. However, he looked nothing like his TV series counterpart, having sandy brown hair instead of black.

* ItWasAllJustADream: "Wiccan of the Sea" opens with what appears to be a celebration of the summer (see CrowdSong) but it turns out Sabrina was just daydreaming in the middle of class - and it's actually winter outside. The teacher says she was humming the song rather loudly too.

* LimitedWardrobe: Everyone in the show....with the exception of Gem. Gem actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in one episode: "Great outfit, Spellman. I just never get tired of seeing you in it."

* VomitDiscretionShot: Slugloafe eats a moldy sandwich in "Strange New World", and his face starts to turn green after doing so. Cue an [[IdiosyncraticWipes Idiosyncratic Wipe]].

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Bizarrely done twice! The first time, done as the show's Christmas special, featured Sabrina and her aunts trying to convince Gem to change her ways. Funnily enough, the episode also lampshaded how ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' has been adapted to death, and even deconstructed it. The attempt (including showing her lonely grave) has no effect on Gem; she only begins to regret her ways [[spoiler: Sabrina gives her a Christmas present.]]
** The second time was more of a straight example. After Sabrina used some of the money she had earned for charity on a doll, it came to life and showed the horrible futures for her friends. Among other things, it ended with a showdown between Sabrina and a WickedWitch Gem. Although this one had nothing to do with Christmas, it does parody the gravestone scene.

** The series was preceded by a movie called ''Friends Forever'', where Sabrina bonds with another half-witch called Nicole. She does not appear at all in the series, nor is she mentioned. Also Cassandra's character model is the same as another AlphaBitch character from the movie called Portia.

* DeadpanSnarker:
** Salem as in the original series.
** Also goes for Cassandra's pet rabbit Mavista.

* GagHaircut: Not a hair ''cut'' but Cassandra casts a spell to turn Maritza's hair into multi-coloured spikes. She then makes a hand dryer explode on her, singeing the rest of it.

* MagicalAsian: Nicole from Friends Forever is depicted as Asian and is a half-witch.

* LimitedWardrobe: Everyone in the show....with the exception of Gem.
** Gem actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in one episode: "Great outfit, Spellman. I just never get tired of seeing you in it."

** There's an episode where Sabrina gets fed up with so many restrictions like PG-13 rated movies, curfews, lack of money etc that she casts a spell to become an adult. She soon internalizes the moral that being an adult does not involve having fun all the time and that there are lots of responsibilities she has to contend with.

%% AnimatedAdaptation: Of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' for the 1999 cartoon, a notable example being Melissa Joan Hart and Nick Bakay's involvement with the series.

%% * BadFuture: One that is caused by stealing, oddly enough.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Hilda and Zelda's teenage forms are the result for "abusing magic" in the past (which is kinda weird, Hilda one can understand but Zelda?). Apparently being "young and beautiful", as Zelda quips, is a dishonor in the witches world.
** Could also be seen as CursedWithAwesome.

%%* ItWasAllJustADream: see CrowdSong.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Salem, and Gem occasionally.

* KarmaHoudini: "Picture Perfect" ends with Sabrina winning the student of the year award, but then giving it up by admitting she cheated. Instead Gem wins, despite her having also cheated. The closest thing she gets to a punishment is everyone walking out on her victory speech.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Sabrina and Salem what with their constant bickering and Salem acting as a {{Big brother mentor}} to Sabrina especially in ''Sabrina's Secret Life''.

%%* MuggleBestFriend: Chloe.

%%* NakedPeopleAreFunny: At the end of "Has Anyone Seen My Quigley?"

%%* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Uncle Zamboni in "Paranormal Pi".
* SealedEvilInACan: The Spooky Jar.
** Though not all that evil as it at the least gave Sabrina a ResetButton for most of her wishes.

** Tim's [[AntiMagic Spell Scrambler]] looks similar to a [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Proton Pack]].
** "Xabrina, Warrior Witch" is an obvious reference to ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.

* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The series lasted one season of 65 episodes from 1999 to 2000 (like a number of syndicated weekday/Saturday morning cartoons) but got a spin-off, Sabrina's Secret Life, in 2003, with twenty-something episodes.
* TakenForGranite: Nicole in ''Sabrina: Friends Forever''.

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Zelda.

* HumiliationConga: In "Paranormal Pi" when Pi's paranormal activity tracker is homing in on Sabrina's house with a large mob of people following him, Sabrina has no choice but to make it look like the device didn't work, utterly humiliating him.

Ironically, reruns of both ''Sabrina: The Animated Series'' and ''Sabrina's Secret Life'' briefly popped up on Creator/ToonDisney for a while. Afterwards, STAS aired on Saturday mornings on Creator/{{CBS}}'s ''Creator/CookieJarTV'' block in 2010, with SSL joining it on September 18. On February 5, 2011, they were replaced by ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Horseland}}''. From fall 2012 through October 2013, STAS aired on the "This Is For Kids" block on Creator/ThisTV.

* InformedFlaw: In the episode ''Working Witches'', we're told at the end that Sabrina had let the fame of winning the contest go to her head. However, other than one blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene where she's proudly posing for pictures without Salem (which the guy right next to her threw away, not her), she doesn't show any signs of AcquiredSituationalNarcissism, and instead is perfectly justified by everything she does. Salem doesn't even seem to mind her getting all of the attention, and his biggest gripe is her almost using his camcorder without his permission, which was justified to keep their family secret.

* FiveManBand: Sabrina, her friends and Gem actually have one of these going, albeit lightly.
** TheLeader - Sabrina. It's her show after all.
** TheLancer - Chloe. She's slightly more level headed than Sabrina at times and often provides her conscience (the Halloween episode has a good example).
** TheSmartGuy - Pi. He's a genius. He's also physically weak (Harvey often protects him as in "Paranormal Pi")
** TheBigGuy - Harvey. The only masculine boy in the group. The others are girls and Pi is a feminine boy. He's also not very smart at times.
** TheChick - Gem. She's much girlier than Sabrina and Chloe and far more hung up on trends and beauty.

** "The Importance of being Norma" explores a theme of popularity vs. identity. Sabrina wants to be popular, but feels bad about ditching her golden-hearted nerd friend Norma. She wants to remain friends with Norma, but doesn't want to look uncool in front of the popular girls. When she uses a powerful spell to make Norma popular in the eyes of the other students, it makes Norma miserable because of a loss of identity. As the spell [[GoneHorriblyRight snowballs into making everyone Norma-zombies forcing Sabrina into being Norma]], what ultimately breaks it is her declaration that she'd rather [[BeYourself be herself]] than be cool [[CharacterDevelopment like she previously wanted]].

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The director in "Documagicary" is a GiantSpider named [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Quentin Tarantulino]].

** Salem's ex-girlfriend Sheharezade speaks with the Hungarian accent of [[Creator/ZsaZsaGabor Zsa Zsa Gabor]].

* OvernightAgeUp: The episode "Anywhere But Here" has Sabrina wanting to be an adult due to being unable to do a few things such as buying a ''Funkhouse Ferrets'' CD with a Can't Buy sticker on it, or even watching a PG-13 movie. She does become an adult, with the help of a magical pocket-watch. However she finds out being an adult "has some really yucky parts to it", after a long chase involving a motorcycle taking the watch with it.

* CelebrityIsOverrated: Or in the case of "The Importance of being Norma", it's more like "Popularity is Overrated". Sabrina casts a spell that makes Norma look popular in the eyes of the other kids (and the world over) in order to help her. But Norma later bemoans that she's fed up with everyone mobbing for her time and attention, and is saddened by how everyone becoming like her has made her another face in the crowd. She doesn't find it any fun, and when Sabrina consoles that Popularity isn't about fun, Norma questions [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what then is the purpose of popularity]]. Sabrina is at a loss for words and realizes Norma was already happy with herself before the popularity spell was cast.

** Subverted. Due to only Creator/DiCEntertainment and Les Studios Tex working on the series (Disney split up with Creator/DiCEntertainment, who became independent again, and Creator/MelissaJoanHart didn't produce the show anymore), the animation and character design was pretty lazy, such as how Maritza was just a recolored version of Chloe, and Cassandra was copied from Portia in Friends Forever, changed from a ginger to a brunette, and Portia was copied from a blonde background student shown in Gem's posse in the 1999 series.

* {{Flanderization}}: Harvey started out as a sweet but kinda ditzy guy. He's a full-blown idiot in ''Sabrina's Secret Life''.

''Sabrina: The Animated Series'' is a Belgian-American-Canadian indie cartoon. Being produced by Creator/DiCEntertainment during the time it was co-owned by Creator/{{Disney}} and having run on Creator/{{ABC}}'s ''[[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids One Saturday Morning]]'' and its weekday afternoon counterpart ''One Too'' on Creator/{{UPN}}, it was oddly treated like it was as much of a show by Disney as the company's actual productions. The reruns on Creator/ToonDisney placed it in the same primetime block as Disney cartoons like ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' and ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', even though it was pretty obvious that this was not an actual Disney cartoon. In its original run, the show lasted from September, 1999 to February, 2000 for a total of 65 episodes.

After Creator/DiCEntertainment split up from Disney, they produced a MadeForTVMovie titled ''Sabrina: Friends Forever'', which served as the pilot to a new syndicated series titled ''Sabrina's Secret Life'', which was basically a [[SequelSeries follow-up]] to the first series. Many of the original characters from the first series were PutOnABus or [[BrotherChuck brother chucked]] and, since by this point [=DiC=] was no longer half-owned by Disney, features none of the original voice actors either. In this version, Sabrina now going to high school (further contradicting the main series, but only two years younger) is now at the age where she can attend magic school as well. She quickly finds a new rival in Cassandra, who's a full witch--and will let Sabrina know it every chance she gets. Of course, Sabrina is more than willing to prove that being full blooded doesn't mean you're automatically better.