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• Ear Worm: The opening
• Girl Show Ghetto: Airs exclusively on PopGirl in the UK despite being a unisex show.
• Ho Yay: It happens often between Jonesy and Jude. They've been Mistaken for Gay, they've kissed, and another time they reenacted the pottery scene from Ghost (keeping it PG-rated... sort of) in the episode Unhappy Anniversary.
• Les Yay: Most fans are set that there's something between Jen and Caitlin. Sometimes happens in canon if you look hard enough.
  • Nikki and Caitlin.
  • Tricia and Caitlin: Seriously Tricia's whole character revolves around Caitlin and how to make her life a misery. The brief time that Caitlin stopped working at the Lemon suddenly Tricia dumped her other friends to get back with Caitlin.
  • In "J is for Genius" Jen develops a crush on the temp boss Jane.
    • Actually it was a girl crush, which Jude pointed out that it was a none sexual thing.
• Like You Would Really Do It The fans' initial reaction to the announcement of the series finale episode "Bye Bye Nikki", whose plot was announced to involve Nikki leaving the group forever. No way a light-hearted comedy show about a bunch of teenagers hanging out at the mall could have a Bittersweet Ending, right? As it turns out, they weren't bluffing, and the show really did end that way.
• The Scrappy: Serena. Breaking up with nice guy Wyatt over a text message did not go well with fans.
• Values Dissonance: A lot of characters and personality traits would be very hard to put into a modern show today, especially a kids show.
  • One of Jonesy's main personality traits is that he is The Casanova, where he frequently hits and flirts with multiple women, even when he is officially dating Nikki. Furthermore, he very frequently flirts with females unprompted, and later during a special, abuses his position in a store to watch women change. Despite all of this, Jonesy is still depicted as a good person and his flirtatious actions are frequently Played for Laughs. Nowadays, none of Jonesy's womanizing antics would be seen as funny, instead being seen as sexual harassment, and he would be automatically seen as an adulterer for flirting with women while still dating Nikki.
  • Ron the Rent a Cop is frequently depicted as stalking and harassing the teens to look for an excuse to arrest them or hassle them. While this is justified in some instances where the gang does cause trouble, this would be seen in the modern era as a severe case of law enforcement abusing their power, as police behavior towards suspects has fallen under much harsher scrutiny.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The show is very clearly set in the 2000s, especially the first half of the decade.
  • The fact that video rental stores are still in business, along with people still having video cassete players. While in decline in the early 2000s, those types of entertainment were still going strong. Just two years after the film season aired, video rental stores utterly crashed, with VHS no longer being created. Perhaps not surprisingly, Wayne and Underground Video began to make a lot fewer appearances in the show's second half, a likely tacit acknowledgement that the VHS era was gone.
  • Every single cellphone shown is a flip phone and not everyone has them. The cell phone boom was only just starting, and the first mass cell phone sold to the public in the 2000s was the flip phone, along with the fact that not everyone has them because they were not truly popular. Now, the major cellular phone would be the iPhone, and everyone would have them, and while flip phones are undergoing a small revival, the vast majority of cellphones are still iPhones.
  • Caitlin's impetus for joining the group is that she needs to pay off the credit card debt after her card hits her limit, and this is punctuated by Chrissy cutting her card in half. With digital payment in its infancy in the early 2000s, the credit card being destroyed was still a perfectly valid option. However, now, a card is more likely to be frozen and replaced should it be necessary, rather than a store owner taking the card and destroying it.
  • A recurring Running Gag is that the bosses either abuse their power, treat the teens poorly, fire them for very petty reasons or try to date them, with the amount of times the bosses are good people can be counted on one hand, and it is all played for comedy. Now, it would never be possible for any boss to be depicted doing any of these things and it being depicted as funny. Instead, it would likely be depicted as a severe abuse of power, and the teens would have every right to sue.
• What Do You Mean It's for Kids?