Samantha divorced the first Darrin
for being a lousy father who purposely stunted his daughter Tabitha's magical development. Samantha then quickly married a second mortal whose name was Darrin so her daughter would not have to go without a father figure; and Samantha met him at the first Darrin's workplace, being too much of a busy homemaker to find a replacement elsewhere. Naturally, since she found another guy in such a short time that it was seamless, this guy was as big a jerk as the first guy, and also discouraged Tabitha from developing and using her witchly powers. Samantha keeps marrying jerks because she's a nitwit who drank martinis when Tabitha was still in Sam's womb. Good thing Tabitha has her good loving grandmother.
- This is Jossed by the fact that the new Darrin had the same parents as her old Darrin.
- The same mother anyway. The father was played by multiple actors so maybe they're half brothers.
Samantha and Serena were switched at birth.
Serena could totally be Endora's daughter.
Aunt Clara is Samantha's real mother.
Her father, Maurice, is the brother of Aunt Irma and the brother of Sabrina's grandfather (who we never meet), making him actually Maurice Spellman which in turn, makes Sam the first cousins of Hilda, Zelda, Edward, Vesta, and Sophia.
- The reason that there's no mention of a "Queen of the Witches" in Sabrina like there is in Bewitched is because the monarchy was overthrown sometime in the gap between the end of Bewitched and the beginning of Sabrina, making the Witches Council the head bitches in charge.
- The reason that Tabitha can do magic at her age despite being half-mortal is because her parents were still together. As we know, Sabrina's parents divorced and she didn't discover her magic until her 16th birthday so their separation could have something to do with it. It could also be that Tabitha was just really powerful as was stated numerous times in Bewitched. Or, half-witches can do magic when their babies/toddlers but lose control over sometime after that until their 16th birthdays.
Samantha used her magic to change Darrin's appearance.
Samantha has shown herself to be very protective of her husband, and may have changed the way he looks to prevent other witches who have antagonized him over the years from realizing who he was so they would leave him alone. Of course, her relatives would be none the wiser, but that was unavoidable.
- Another possibility: Apparently Dick York was replaced because his back was so bad that he couldn't act on the show anymore and spent many episodes soon before his departure just lying down. Maybe Darrin's body was failing him and making it hard for him to move around. Samantha used her magic to give him a new and healthy body.
Magic is symbolic of masturbation.
Samantha vows to stop as symbolized by her marrying of an uptight non-magical man. The couple usually keep their daughter, Tabitha, from using magic. Nonetheless, Sam and Tabitha use magic at times when alone. Sometimes magic seems taboo. Aging sometimes alters magical ability and control.
Every case of The Other Darrin on this show was actually
The Nth Doctor Aunt Clara screwed up one of her spells and turned Dick York into Dick Sargent. She ended up doing the same thing to Louise Tate, Gladys Kravitz, and Darrin's dad, too. With some help from Endora, she altered everyone's memories as well as all pictures so that everyone (even Sam) thinks that's what they always looked like. Clara was going to undo all the damage later, but she accidentally turned herself into Esmerelda. This explains why Clara is neither seen nor mentioned in the later seasons.
The question of whether Endora and Maurice are, or ever were, formally married is never outright stated. They do not live together but are not explicitly divorced. In one episode, when under the effects of a love potion Endora nearly marries one of Darren's clients, without any mention being made of her needing to divorce Maurice first. The love potion in question was intended to make Samantha fall in love with her warlock ex-boyfriend and leave Darren. No mention is made of the ethical or moral ramifications of using magic to cause someone to commit adultery and breakup their current marriage. Meanwhile, most of the other witches and warlocks that appear on the show seem to be single, including all of Samantha's family.
- Fridge Brilliance: This would actually explain why Samantha would want to marry a mortal. This way, she gets a loving husband who belongs all to herself.
Bewitched is actually the tragic story of a woman suffering from a severe mental illness, namely...
...
Capgras delusion
.
As The Other Wiki indicates, Capgras delusion is a mental illness that makes people believe that their friends and loved ones are being replaced by lookalikes. Samantha Stephens, a woman with an already fragile mental state, ends up suffering a severe break from reality when she marries a man that her parents don't approve of (Darrin). As a result, she starts claiming she is a witch, as is everyone in her family. She's put into a gated community of non-dangerous psychotics, which is run by a man named Doctor Bombay, for her own safety; Gladys, her next door neighbor, has acute paranoia. The crazy incidents of the show are actually various doctors trying different modes of therapy and role-play to try to heal Samantha's broken mind; that's why Darrin constantly pushes Sam not to use her "witchcraft." As time passes, her Capgras delusion begins to manifest in small ways—her husband's boss's wife is the first person to be "replaced," followed by her father-in-law. Things start looking up when she has a baby...but then the child shows signs of suffering from mental illness. This wreaks havoc on Samantha's mental state, which manifests as Gladys being replaced in her mind as well. When Samantha becomes pregnant again, her fear of this baby turning out "wrong" drives her totally over the edge, and her own husband becomes a total stranger to her. This is why so many of the later episodes seem similar to early ones—the psychiatrists urged Darrin to try to recreate scenarios in which Samantha was more stable. The one person in Samantha's life who constantly supports her is Endora—she visits almost every day and encourages her to do whatever is necessary (including engaging in her witchcraft delusions) to avoid pain—which is why she maintains her identity through the whole run of the show.
Just because, yeah, he's also an ad man in
The '60s, but it'd be fun to think if he was somehow laid off by his current agency and picked up by that one—or if SCDP bought his agency out.
Bewitched takes place in the Potterverse.
Evidence is up to you.
Darren's family has a history with the supernatural, and witches aren't the only magical beings in that history. Maybe the reason they kept bumping into each other was because Samantha was instinctively drawn to
Weirdness Magnet Darren?
Hey,
someone had to say it!
In late 1925, Uncle Arthur, as one of his many pranks, decided to create a fetal, powerless doppelganger of himself and place it into the womb of a mortal woman. Superficially, this doppelganger, named Harold, was a perfect physical copy of Arthur, but their personalities were deeply contrasted. Unlike the playful, adventurous Arthur, Harold was timid and would likely have a heart attack if exposed to Arthur's pranks. However, both could be described as flighty, although Harold's flightiness was much less deliberate and frequently resulted in worse consequences than Arthur's. In 1964, while briefly working as an instructor at his brother-in-law's driving school, Harold was chosen to teach Arthur's niece and as a result of his interactions with her and her mother, grew to become more confident and somewhat less flighty. With this, Arthur grew bored of Harold, and he destroyed him before taking a more active role in the lives of his niece and her husband.
Clara and Samantha's other aunts are significantly older half-siblings to Endora and Arthur.
This would explain how Clara (a blood relative) could end up with up Endora's powers and also explains Endora's claim that she was "an only child until Arthur came along". Most likely, their father left his first wife (Clara's mother) and had a second family with his new one (Endora and Arthur's mother). It also underscores the seriousness of Endora teaming up with her half-sisters to hold Clara and her failing powers to account: it's a family emergency that requires all hands on deck. It may also explain why there are so many "cousins".
Abner Kravitz is a warlock.
How else can his
Unfazed Everyman sort-of reaction to bizarre goings-on in his neighborhood be explained, other than via alcohol/drugs?
