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2[[caption-width-right:350:(L-R): [[NeatFreak Garrett]], [[HormoneAddledTeenager Jasmine]], [[NiceGirl Lindy]], [[DumbassTeenageSon Logan]], and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Delia]].]]
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4->''"Well, THAT happened..."''
5-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
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7''I Didn't Do It'' was a short-lived Creator/DisneyChannel KidCom that premiered with a "sneak peek" airing of the pilot episode on January 17, 2014 (after the Disney Channel movie ''[=Cloud9=]''), with the "regular" premiere (of the second episode) on January 26, 2014.
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9And before you ask, [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas no]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E12BartGetsFamous it has nothing to do with]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]].
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11The plot centers around Lindy Watson (Creator/OliviaHolt) and Logan Watson (Austin North), twin siblings who, along with their three best friends, Jasmine Kang (Creator/PiperCurda), Garrett Spenger (Peyton Clark) and Delia Delfano (Sarah Gilman), spend their freshman year of high school together. [[HowWeGotHere Each episode of the series starts with a wacky scene, the five friends telling the story and the happenings they remember, and how they led to that situation.]]
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13In Season 2, the show underwent a {{retool}}, bringing in the writing staff and producers of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' and in the process ditching the original premise and giving the show an ArtifactTitle. The retool won over some new fans, but also alienated those who genuinely enjoyed Season 1. Ultimately it didn't work, and the show ended on October 16th, 2015 along with the series finale of ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' after 2 seasons made up of 39 episodes.
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15!''I Didn't Do It'' provides examples of:
16* ActorAllusion:
17** When Logan points out that the group vote is flawed in "The New Guy", Jasmine goes on about how voting is a constitutional right. [[Series/ANTFarm This isn't the first time Piper Curda has gone on a rant about politics]].
18** Jasmine's surname is revealed to be Kang in "Bad News". [[WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja This isn't Piper's first time playing a character with that surname]]. ([[Series/LivAndMaddie It wouldn't be her last either, at least with a similar name.]])
19** In "The Doctor Is In", Bradley Steven Perry portrays a doctor [[Series/MightyMed again]]. And his character's last name is [[Series/GoodLuckCharlie Gabriel]].
20%%* AdamWesting: Dick Butkus in "Ball or Nothing".
21* AirVentPassageway: In "Dance Fever," Lindy escapes the janitor's room this way.
22* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The alien during the [[TheTag tag]] part of "Earth Boys Are Icky."
23* AlliterativeName: Delia Delfano.
24* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Garrett suffered from this, as revealed by Delia in "If It Tastes Like A Brussels Sprout".
25* AppliedMathematics: In "The Pilot," Lindy and Logan's party plans are shown like this..
26* ArentYouForgettingSomeone: Tom in "The New Guy", when the group hugs without him.
27* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The girls' reasons to get Tom to join the group in "The New Guy". Jasmine thinks he's hot, Lindy thinks he's smart… and Delia likes his socks.
28* ArtifactTitle:
29** On one hand, it is [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]], since the actual sentence "''I didn't do it!''" is used only in "The Pilot." On the other hand, it was [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in Season 1, since, even though the sentence is no more used, all the episodes maintained the structure that can refer to the title. With the removal of flashbacks in Season 2, the title has become completely artifactual.
30*** In the episodes "In the Doghouse with the White House" and "Twin It to Win It," the sentence "''I didn't do it''" is mentioned by Delia.
31* ArtisticTitle: The opening sequence includes interesting pictures that are not from the show's universe, but taken by the cast themselves.
32* AsHimself: Dick Butkus in the episode "Ball or Nothing".
33* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Lindy and Logan.
34* AxCrazy: Sherri in "Dance Fever." She repeatedly threatens to kill Lindy just so that she can be the only person with a perfect attendance record, and she has infected fellow perfect-attendance wielding students with diseases for that same purpose. She's also convinced that by having perfect attendance, she'll become a goddess, specifically the goddess of attendance. She memorized Lindy's schedule and route so that she could place a juice box on the steps she walks on in order to make her fall down the stairs and break a few bones, which would force her to miss school. Later, after Lindy avoided slipping on the juice box, she causes Logan's date to the dance to trip and fall down the stairs so that she could be his date in her place, get into Lindy's house, and make her miss school in any way possible. She even sends Lindy a video message in which she decapitates the head of a doll resembling Lindy!
35-->'''Lindy:''' All right, Sherri, what's the deal? I mean, first you come after me at school, now you come after me at my house...when does it ''end?''
36-->'''Sherri:''' It ends when you miss school and I become Atenda! ''(ScareChord)'' Goddess of Attendance!\
37'''Lindy:''' Over my dead body!\
38'''Sherri:''' Suit yourself...
39* BabysitterFromHell: Downplayed with Mrs. Klasby from "The Pilot," who is not mean, just a cranky lady who seems to dislike Lindy and Logan for some reason (although Deputy Doug said she used to make him rub her feet when he was a kid).
40* BadLiar: Garrett, at least when keeping secrets.
41** In "Dear High School Self," Lindy shows signals that say she is lying (although only Jasmine is able to interpret them).
42* BerserkButton: Lindy can't stand someone who insults Logan.
43* BigBrotherInstinct: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in "The Pilot," as Lindy stands up to Seth after he insults Logan.
44** Played straight several times as well, such as in "If It Tastes Like a Brussels Sprout" where Logan calls out everyone for being mean to Lindy after her lunch menu changes were poorly received (despite not liking them himself) and "Now Museum, Now You Don't" were he takes the blame for something she did (despite playing no part in the events what so ever for a change) costing him his job at the museum, simply because he knows she deserves hers more.
45** Also, Haley's brother in "Phone Challenge," who goes after Logan after thinking he is ignoring Haley.
46* BigManOnCampus: Seth Wall from "The Pilot."
47* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sherri.
48* BlackComedy: Part of "The Pilot"'s plot involved Lindy and Logan thinking Mrs. Klasby just died right before their party.
49** In "The New Guy," Delia takes "get rid of Tom" the wrong way and she knows a guy (possibly a hitman) who can kill him.
50** In "Logan's Run", Logan fakes a broken toe and uses a pair of clutches he found in the bathroom. In the background of that scene, a boy with a broken leg (and no clutches) attempts to walk through the hall and falls down some time later.
51* BlahBlahBlah: Nora, once in "The Pilot."
52* BookDumb: Logan.
53* BookEnds: The first episode begins and ends with the TitleDrop.
54* BrainyBrunette: Averted with Delia, who's simply a brunette with huge glasses but is of average intelligence, and is merely eccentric.
55** Played straight with Jasmine, who gets good grades as seen in "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station." She's more this than AsianAndNerdy as she subverts a lot of the associated tropes.
56* ButtMonkey: In almost every episode, something goes wrong for Lindy.
57* CallBack:
58** In "Dance Fever," Logan's suit advertises Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station.
59* CassandraTruth: Also in "Dance Fever", when nobody believes Lindy as she repeatedly insists that Sherri is out to get her. They dismiss her frantic claims with the assumption that her (physical) fever is making her delirious, as Sherri is supposedly the nicest girl in school. But Lindy has already become wise to [[BitchInSheepsClothing her]] [[AxCrazy true]] [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon colors]].
60* CastingGag:
61** In "Lindy Nose Best", Delia tries to teach Garrett how to be a place-kicker. In real life Sarah Gilman actually was a place-kicker for her high school football team (some may have seen the "Make Your Mark" featurette on the network about a girl playing that position for her high school. Yeah, that's Sarah).
62** Like Garrett, Peyton Clark played football in high school.
63* CasualDangerDialogue: In "Dear High School Self," the gang is trapped in a garbage room and can't escape. Still, Delia keeps taunting Garrett.
64* CatapultNightmare: Happens to Delia during the [[TheTag tag]] of "Dear High School Self."
65* CatchTheConscience: In "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station," Delia "plays Lindy's conscience" after finding out she got her job.
66* ChekhovsGun: In "In the Doghouse with the White House", Logan gets a card from one of Washington's senators, Senator Snell. It helps them to be freed from prison.
67* ChildhoodFriends: Lindy and Logan have known Jasmine, Delia and Garrett since the third grade.
68* ChristmasEpisode: "Merry Miss Sis."
69* CloserToEarth: Garrett, who is described as the group's voice of reason.
70* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Delia, who keeps an unknown animal in her clothes, among other things.
71* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
72** In "Earth Boys Are Icky":
73-->'''Logan:''' Oh, man, that new vice principal is so strict.
74-->''[...]''
75-->'''Danica:''' You think he's tough at school, you should try living with him.
76-->'''Logan:''' You live with the vice principal?! ''[heavily whispering]'' Do your parents know?!
77-->'''Danica:''' Logan, Mr. Bricker is my father.
78-->'''Logan:''' And you live with him?! Oh, wait, that makes sense.
79* ComicalOverreacting: In "Dear High School Self," Lindy is shown to get over excited for petty things. As does Garrett in "Logan's Run."
80* CompetitionFreak: In "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station", it is stated Lindy have an one-upping problem.
81* ConveyorBeltODoom: Garrett accidentally gets stuck to a mail packing conveyor belt in "Dear High School Self."
82* CoveredInGunge: So far, characters have been covered in spaghetti sauce, blue vomit, toilet water, and Lindylicious smoothie mix.
83* TheCouch: Three. One in Lindy and Logan's living room, one in their basement and one at Rumble Juice.
84* CutawayGag: The show often uses these.
85* CuteAndPsycho: Sherri. She's sweet to most people, but she can quickly morph into a psychotic, soul-crushing demon if some poor sap gets in the way of her having the perfect attendance record to herself.
86* DeadpanSnarker: Delia. Lindy is this to Logan too.
87* {{Deconstruction}}: Starting to become one for Creator/DisneyChannel [[KidCom Kid Coms]]. All the characters at first appear to conform to standard positions and stereotypes commonly found in such shows, however they more often subvert, defy or deconstruct the associated tropes than confirm to them. Standard comical plotlines always end with them being caught, and often face the consequences for such actions etc. This element was mostly abandoned in season 2, and contributed to BrokenBase over whether the series got better or not.
88* DescriptionCut:
89** From "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station":
90-->'''Logan:''' Guys, look. That's our couch, this is our place, and they love us here. They even know us by name.
91-->'''Manager:''' ''(to Logan and Garrett)'' Hey, Rugby! Hoodie! Drinks are ready!
92* DisproportionateRetribution: In "Lindy-licious," where Lindy wins a smoothie contest in the Rumble Juice. Cole, the guy who choose Lindy's smoothie as the winner, takes it off the menu because she didn't want to date him.
93* DistinguishingMark: Lindy and Logan both have a birthmark shaped like Finland.
94* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Olivia Holt sings the series' theme song, ''Time of Our Lives''.
95* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Logan's Run", Logan and especially Lindy are described as living in a "blonde bubble", in which they get special treatment from people for being blonde. Sounds essentially like an exaggerated, narrower substitute for white privilege, doesn't it?
96* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In the episode "Earth Boys Are Icky," Logan's first girlfriend, Danica, tells them they have to keep their relationship a secret so her scary, overprotective father, who also happens to be the new strict assistant principle, won't find out. Danica is sweet to Logan when they're alone, but verbally and physically abusive when they're around other people. When Logan does try to break up with Danica for how she treats him, she blackmails him into staying with her by threatening to tell her father that Logan broke her heart. By the end of the episode, Logan tells Danica's dad that they're going out, and he ends up being okay with it, presumably putting Danica's abuse to an end. But still, the audience wouldn't be laughing as much if that was a girl having her first boyfriend yell at, beat up on, and berate them in public, even if it was just for show.
97* [[DumbBlonde Dumb Blond]]: Though not all the time, Logan has his moments.
98** Outright averted with Lindy, who's among the most intelligent of the group.
99* DumbassTeenageSon: Logan at times.
100* TheDreaded: In "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station," Flamey the Dog to Jasmine.
101* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Lindy's middle name is Gertrude.
102* EndangeredSpecies: Snot otters in "Logan's Run" (snot otters, also called hellbenders, are not particularly endangered in real life).
103* EnfantTerrible: Kyle from "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station." He stole a teacher's car in fourth grade.
104* EveryoneLovesBlondes: In "Logan's Run," Delia and Jasmine spend the entire episode convincing Lindy that she gets treated better than them (such as Santa coming by when she was younger and giving her loads of presents... in July!) because of "The Blonde Bubble". [[spoiler:Lindy is convinced when she sees Logan benefitting from it.]]
105%% * EvilLaugh: Sherri has a rather terrifying one in "Dance Fever."
106* EyeTwitch: Jasmine has this in "Lindy Goes to the Dogs" when she tries to rhyme her name with "fashion".
107* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Sherri might ''look'' kind and innocent, but beneath that sweet façade is a dangerously unstable girl who has an extreme obsession with being the only person with a perfect attendance record, and God help you if you get in the way. Lindy learned this the hard way in "Dance Fever."
108* FalseConfession: Logan does it in "Now Museum, Now You Don't". See BigBrotherInstinct above.
109* {{Fictionary}}: Delia's "Delionics" from in "Dear High School Self."
110%% * FiveTemperamentEnsemble:
111%% ** Sanguine: Logan.
112%% ** Choleric: Jasmine.
113%% ** Melancholic: Garrett.
114%% ** Phlegmatic: Lindy.
115%% ** Leukine: Delia.
116%% * {{Flashback}}: Lots of them.
117%% * {{Flanderization}}: Garrett comes closer to this in some episodes.
118%% * FlashbackCut
119%% * FoodSlap: In "Lindy-licious," Garrett sees Logan sleeping and pours water on his face to wake him up.
120* FreezeFrameBonus: At the very end of "Bad News", Delia's notebook reads "I ♥ Logan Watson".
121* {{GASP}}:
122** The gang in "The New Guy," during Tom's story:
123-->'''Tom:''' So I hopped off my surfboard and shoved it hard at the shark's head. Once!
124-->''[All gasp]''
125-->'''Tom:''' Twice!
126-->''[All gasp again]''
127-->'''Tom:''' Then a third time.
128-->''[Only Garrett gasps and everyone stares at him]''
129-->'''Garrett:''' Oh, we're not screaming anymore?
130** Also in "In the Doghouse in the White House":
131-->'''Logan:''' Quick! The mini-fridge has a thirty second counter, and if everything isn't back exactly as it was, they'll charge us for it!
132-->''[Garrett gasps]''
133-->'''Logan:''' We don't have time for your weird gasp!
134** And again in "Logan's Run":
135---> '''Delia:''' I thought we were never going to mention Garrett's weird gasp thing.
136---> '''Garrett:''' ''[[IResembleThatRemark [gasps]]]'' What weird gasp thing?
137* TheGhost: Jasmine's, Garrett's and Delia's parents. Garret's siblings.
138* GilliganCut:
139** In the pilot, Seth suggests that Logan and Garrett sit with the other freshmans, on the table that is right under the food vent and Logan replies, saying they are a special kind of freshman. The scene cuts to them sitting on that table.
140** In "Dear High School Self":
141-->'''Jasmine:''' Well, I think we all know what we have to do.
142-->'''Garrett:''' If it means going anywhere near that garbage room, we most certainly do not!
143-->''[Cuts to Logan, Jasmine and Garrett entering the trash room, much to his dismay.]''
144* GoGetterGirl: Jasmine.
145* GoofySuit: The Flamey the Dog suit from "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station."
146* GroupHug: Happens in "The New Guy" and "Dear High School Self."
147* [[GrowlingGut Growling Guts]]: Garrett, Lindy, Jasmine, and Delia when tried the vegetable spray in " If It Tastes Like A Brussels Sprout."
148* HatesBeingTouched: Logan by Lindy.
149* HeterosexualLifePartners: Lindy, Jasmine and Delia; Logan and Garrett.
150* HormoneAddledTeenager: Jasmine has a "dude pyramid", for starters.
151* HowWeGotHere: This is the format of every episode in Season 1.
152* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Following Lindy's healthier lunch plan being badly taken, Logan calls everyone out on being mean to his sister, and then moments later tells her she has ruined lunch.
153* HypocriticalHumor: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] [[{{Deconstruction}} sometimes]].
154* IAmSpartacus: The ending of "Now Museum, Now You Don't," when Logan takes the blame for messing with the mummy in order to protect Lindy, which costs him his job.
155* ImOkay: Garrett says it in the end of "Snow Problem," after the OffscreenCrash while he is snowboarding.
156** And again with another OffscreenCrash when he falls down the stairs in "Now Museum, Now You Don't."
157* ImStandingRightHere: In "Twin It to Win It":
158-->'''Ms. Park:''' Maybe you should have thought of that before you let that bizarro kid out of Mr. Vaughn's office.
159-->'''Garrett:''' I'm sitting right here!
160* InMediasRes: In Season 1, each episode starts off with a chaotic scenario before the story is told from the beginning. This no longer happens in Season 2.
161* IronicEchoCut: Becomes a RunningGag in "Phone Challenge".
162* IsThisThingOn: In "If It Tastes Like a Brussels Sprout", Logan does this with a test tube.
163* ItsALongStory: Considering the plot, it's kinda expected. Used in several episodes.
164* ItsAWonderfulPlot: "Merry Miss Sis".
165* IWasJustJoking: Also serves as an [[InvokedTrope invoked]] DescriptionCut in "Snow Problem":
166-->'''Delia:''' ''[to Jasmine]'' You don't even look that different without make up.
167-->'''Logan:''' Hey, Delia. Who's the dude?
168-->'''Jasmine:''' I'm never leaving this cabin!
169-->'''Logan:''' Hey, I was just kidding.
170* {{Jerkass}}: Kyle and the other kids with whom Logan and Garrett fight over a couch at Rumble Juice in "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station."
171** At times Logan and Jasmine can fall into being more light hearted versions of this, though at times the entire main cast can.
172* KarmaHoudini: Cleverly averted with [[spoiler:Sherri in "Dance Fever", [[JustInTime right in the nick of time]]]].
173* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Betty, for once, in "Elementary, My Dear Watson."]]
174* LazyBum: Logan's lazy behavior is called the Loganing by his friends.
175* LeadIn
176* LittleBoySeeksBigGirl: Zane towards Delia in "Phone Challenge."
177* LocalHangout: The Rumble Juice.
178* MissingTrailerScene: The promo for "Lindy-licious" shows a scene with Logan laying on the couch using a long straw to take a sip of a smoothie, which isn't in the episode.
179* MundaneSolution: Averted in "Phone Challenge. Logan wanted to text the new girl he met but his phone was broken. All he had to do was use one of his friends/sister's phones and say it was him.
180* MyCard: Senator Snell to Logan in "In the Doghouse with the White House".
181* MyEyesAreUpHere: Male version. Said by Delia's "date" (a young boy) in "Phone Challenge."
182* MyGreatestFailure: The plot of "Dear High School Self" stems from Lindy's regret over the fact that her letter included [[spoiler:a wish that she would have better friends in high school.]] She spends most of the episode trying to cover it up and telling her friends how much she loves them.
183* NeatFreak: Garrett. He's obsessed about cleanliness so much that he wore a full-body suit when they were about to go to the hotel.
184* NegativeContinuity: Young Logan is played by two different actors in the first two episodes (Jacob Johnson in the first and Max Page in the ones after this one). Eight years-old Lindy also wears glasses in one episode, and doesn't in the others.
185** Possibly averted since Lindy might have gotten contacts in between flashbacks.
186** In the episode "Earth Boys Are Icky," Logan gets his first girlfriend. Then, in the very next episode, "Lindy Nose Best," Jasmine tells him that the girl he likes isn't into him because he's never had a girlfriend before. The girl he began dating just an episode ago is never mentioned. This is probably due to "Earth Boys Are Icky" being the last episode in the [[{{Front13Back9}} Front 13]].
187* NervousWreck: Garrett.
188* NeverSayDie: When Lindy and Logan think Mrs. Klasby is dead they use silent stares and the phrases "passed on," "gone," and even, "one more than old."
189** Averted in later episodes.
190* NeverTrustATitle: From a certain point of view. While the name of the show is "''I Didn't Do It''", it revolves around the characters explaining exactly what happened, and that means "how they did it".
191* NeverTrustATrailer: The commercial for "Bad News" portrayed Jasmine as not wanting to do the morning announcements, and her [[EmotionlessGirl monotonous]] reading to be because of her disinterest, while in the actual episode she was excited to be do the announcements.
192** Similarly, the synopsis for the same episode released before it aired, said that she ends up doing the announcements as a punishment for trying to get a boy. Yet, this is never mentioned.
193* NewJobEpisode: "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station," "Lindy-licious" and "Now Museum, Now You Don't."
194* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The President in "In the Doghouse with the White House."
195* NoodleIncident: In "The Pilot":
196-->'''Logan:''' Yeah, too bad we're grounded for the next six weeks.
197-->'''Delia:''' My parents kept me in the basement once, too.
198-->'''Lindy:''' Delia, we're allowed to go upstairs.
199-->'''Delia:''' Yeah, so was I!
200* NoseNuggets: In a CutawayGag seen in "Lindy-Licious," Logan sneezes and cover his hands on snot. Then he wipes it on a pillow.
201* OddCouple: Logan is the opposite of both his twin sister Lindy and his best friend Garrett. While Lindy is book smart, Logan is [[BookDumb book dumb]]. While Garrett is [[NervousWreck anxious and timid]], Logan is very chill and laid-back.
202* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Logan does this in "Twin It to Win It", where he only accepts to be part of a twin study for some easy money (even though he later gets interested on travelling to Switzerland), and in "Logan's Run", where he helps Lindy in a campaign for a prize.
203* OnlySaneMan: Lindy is normally this, however it was Deconstructed in "Lindy Nose Best" where its revealed her habit of acting like this has led to multiple people (including her own friends) deeming her a nosey meddler, and that while her advice is normally sound, she is wrong more often than she thinks she is. Likewise Lindy is presented as having sever trouble not acting like this, to the point she outright explodes to her friends after trying to stop herself for most of the episode.
204* PardonMyKlingon: Played with Delia's own language is in "Dear High School Self."
205-->'''Delia:''' Save it. No one is buying your ''curfloogan''.
206-->'''Lindy:''' Okay, Delia. I know you're upset but that kind of language is not necessary!
207* PeoplePuppets: In "The Pilot," Jasmine and Delia move a sleeping Mrs. Klasby's arms, Garrett moves her head, while Lindy does her voice in order to keep Deputy Doug from stopping the party and calling the cops.
208* {{Pilot}}: "[[ADogNamedDog The Pilot]]."
209* PrecisionFStrike: Lindy does it in "Earth Boys Are Icky," in order to show she is not a goody two-shoes. It is censored, of course.
210* PottyEmergency: Garrett's plot in "If It Tastes Like a Brussels Sprout."
211* PrisonEpisode: "In the Doghouse with the White House."
212* PsychoticSmirk: Sherri seems to be fond of these.
213* PungeonMaster: [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Floating Head!Jasmine]] in "Bad News".
214* RebusBubble: See AppliedMathematics above.
215* [[RedAndWhiteComedyPoster Red-and-White Comedy Title Screen]]: The show fits the trope in that its title screen (not its poster, but close enough) is red & white.
216* {{Retool}}: With the second season the original writing staff was dumped and the staff and producers from ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' were brought in. Also gone are the BookEnds that give the show its name, which is now an ArtifactTitle.
217* RuleOfPool: In "Phone Challenge," Logan falls into a fountain in the mall. It is a plot point, since it is what Logan explains how it happened. Invoked with Jasmine near the end of the episode.
218* RuleOfThree: Episodes usually have three [[CutawayGag Cutaway Gags]].
219* ScareChord: Used several times in "Dance Fever" whenever Sherri says something indicative of her AxCrazy-ness.
220* SecretRelationship: Logan and Danica in "It Came From Canada," and [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]], since they don't want ''anyone'' to know they are dating (but they have a good reason for it). However, it is exaggerated mostly from Danica's part, since she shows hatred of Logan when someone sees them together.
221* SeinfeldianConversation: The LeadIn of "Now Museum, Now You Don't."
222* ShipTease: Between Logan and Jasmine in "If It Tastes Like a Brussels Sprout" and "Lindy Nose Best."
223* ShoutOut:
224** ''Barracuda Boardroom'' from "If It Tastes Like a Brussels Sprout," a ''Shark Tank'' parody.
225** In "Phone Challenge":
226-->'''Garrett:''' This morning I saw birds outside my window. And they were happy birds, not [[VideoGame/AngryBirds angry birds]].
227** In the same episode, when Jasmine [[spoiler:gets her emergency phone]], she calls it [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "my precious" in a rather pushy voice.]]
228* ShowWithinAShow: "If It Tastes Like a Brussels Sprout" had ''Barracuda Boardroom''.
229* SlumberParty: "Slumber Partay".
230* SmartBall: The voice of reason of the group tends to switch between Jasmine and Lindy. This is actually played with with Garrett, who is consistently shown to understand his friends' flaws while being oblivious his [[HolierThanThou own]].
231** Also, in "Lindy Goes To The Dogs", somehow [[BookDumb Logan]] has it. Lampshaded by himself and Lindy.
232* SoProudOfYou: PlayedForLaughs in "Snow Problem." Jasmine is proud of Lindy because she started crushing Dash, the snowboarding instructor, even after she said they weren't going snowboarding to see guys.
233* StereotypeFlip: Delia, Garrett and Jasmine fit it. Delia because of her eccentric personality, averting the BrainyBrunette trope. Garrett because he is a [[NiceGuy relatively nice guy]] with an [[NeatFreak affinity for cleanliness and order,]] and he seems to be generally smart. Also, he's a high school football player who isn't [[DumbJock dumb]] or a [[JerkJock bully]], and doesn't seem to be [[BigManOnCampus outstandingly popular]] either. Similarly, Jasmine is a girly girl who isn't an airhead.
234* {{Sting}}: Used many times, including a piano "chung!" and an horror-like "ding-ding-ding!"
235* StreetSmart: Logan.
236* SuckECheeses: Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station.
237* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Garrett can be especially prone to this when asked to keep a secret, like in "Snow Problem" when Lindy asks him to play along with her charade in pretending to be a beginner on account that she thinks the snowboarding instructor is kind of cute.
238* TheTag: There is one in each episode, not unlike every other Disney sitcom.
239* {{Tagline}}: "Well, THAT happened..."
240* TeamPowerWalk: In "The New Guy," when the friends are walking to the plane. It turns out it was Garrett's SelfServingMemory.
241** This scene was also shown to be [[PlotHole recorded]] in "In the Doghouse with the White House".
242* TheTeaser: There is one in each episode, again just like every other sitcom from Disney. It usually shows the end of the story, before the friends explain it.
243* TerrifiedOfGerms: Garrett.
244* ThematicThemeTune
245* ThemeTwinNaming: '''L'''indy and '''L'''ogan.
246* TitleDrop: Lindy and Logan's "''I didn't do it!''" in the pilot and said again by Delia in "In the Doghouse with the White House."
247** And again by Dick Butkus in "Ball or Nothing."
248* TitleIn: Since "The New Guy," episodes use a "A few days earlier..." (or some variation) line to indicate the flashback.
249* ToiletHumour: in "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station":
250-->'''Logan:''' Remember the bathrooms and those little hydrants? You know, it's just 'lift your leg and do your business'!
251-->'''Garrett:''' The hydrants were ''next'' to the toilets. They were trash cans!
252* TokenMinority: Jasmine, the only Asian in the group.
253* TVTeen: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the premise. What happens onscreen is what the characters say happened. To take ThePilot as an example, we didn't see beer or weed at the WildTeenParty because [[FridgeBrilliance they wouldn't admit to it unless their parents found evidence of it]].
254** Also played straight, as some episodes don't have the characters explaining the situation.
255* TwinTelepathy: The plot of "Twin It to Win It" involved a doctor inviting Lindy and Logan to be part of a twin telepathy study.
256* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: Overlapped with HypocriticalHumor in "Now Museum, Now You Don't":
257-->'''Dr. Lommen:''' She (Nefertiti) was never interested in the fashion of the day. She had her own sense of style.
258-->'''Delia:''' ''[to Jasmine]'' See? Unfashionable!
259-->'''Dr. Lommen:''' And she was one of the first people in history to wear spectacles.
260-->'''Delia:''' ''[to Jasmine]'' Really? Spectacles is another word for glasses!
261-->'''Dr. Lommen:''' And supposedly she was a bit of an oddball.
262-->'''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Delia]]:''' Well, two out of three ain't bad.
263* TWordEuphemism: in "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station":
264-->'''Logan:''' Shh! Don't say the J-word [job] so loud.
265* UrgentMedicalAlert: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in "Phone Challenge." The "patient" is Logan's phone.
266* UncannyValleyMakeup: Delia's makeup in "Fireman Freddy's Spaghetti Station" and Jasmine's makeup in "Snow Problem."
267* VacationEpisode: "Snow Problem."
268* VomitIndiscretionShot: Happens in "If It Tastes Like a Brussels Sprout." The vomit is blue, though.
269* WhatTheHellHero: In "Logan's Run" Jasmine guilts Delia for getting a woman fired from her job after she drank from her smoothie, and then from her second job at the School Cafeteria that Delia got her after she found a long strand of her hair IN HER FOOD. Delia then got her a third job, that she stole money from.
270* WheresTheFunInThat: in "Dear High School Self":
271-->'''Logan:''' You do know there are stairs and a door.
272-->'''Delia:''' And how much fun did you have getting here?
273* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Towards the end of "The New Guy," the gang finds out Tom is really afraid of heights. Their plan to make him leave them? Pretend they love skydiving and they always do it!
274** Also Jasmine towards the Fireman Freddy's mascots.
275** Garrett has moments of this in "Dear High School Self".
276* WholeEpisodeFlashback: So far, "Dear High School Self" is the only one to avert this.
277* WildTeenParty: In "The Pilot." Downplayed, of course.
278* WoundedGazelleGambit:
279** Danica in "Earth Boys Are Icky". When Logan tries to break up with her because of her abuse, she {{blackmail}}s him into staying with her by telling her father he broke her heart.
280** Also Sherri in "Dance Fever"; first when she lies to Logan that Lindy attacked her (when it was actually the other way around,) and later when she pretends to be locked in the janitor's closet so that Lindy will hear her and open the door for Sherri, only for Sherri to forcefully pull Lindy inside the janitor's closet and lock her in for real so as to ensure she'd be marked absent during role call and thus lose her perfect attendance record. [[spoiler:Of course, Lindy escapes through a roof vent, and [[HoistByHerOwnPetard ends up falling right on top of Sherri WHILE ATTENDANCE IS BEING CALLED]], [[HumiliationConga which causes the latter to experience severely broken bones in the process and in front of the entire class; and to make matters even worse for Sherri, she ends up getting SUSPENDED from school for locking Lindy in the janitor's closet]], [[LaserGuidedKarma forever ruining HER OWN perfect attendance record instead of Lindy's!]]]]
281** Even Lindy pulls this in "Snow Problem" because she thinks Garrett's snowboarding instructor is kind of cute, and so, she pretends to have a broken leg in hopes that he will pay more attention to her instead. [[spoiler:Too bad for Lindy, he eventually finds out she was faking it the whole time and doesn't appreciate her dishonesty, [[CryingWolf and then when she breaks her leg for real, he doesn't believe her.]]]]
282* WritersCannotDoMath: In the episode "Earth Boys Are Icky," Garrett, who is a ninth grader, says he signed up for the Big Buddy System when he was in the first grade ten years ago.
283* YoungerThanTheyLook: The fact that the main characters are freshmans is the only hint that they are 14 years old given in the series.

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