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16 Wishes

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16 Wishes	label	16 Wishes
16 Wishes	page	SixteenWishes
16 Wishes	comment	16 Wishes is a 2010 Disney Channel Movienote not to be confused as a Disney Channel Original Movie - one of two such premieres on the channel that year with that distinction, the other being Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars produced by MarVista Entertainment and starring Debby Ryan as Abby Jensen.Abby always wanted the perfect 16th birthday and for her 16 special birthday wishes to come true. But when it finally comes, it starts off less than spectacularly - until a fairy godmother shows up with 16 magical candles, each corresponding to one of Abby's birthday wishes. In the process she learns an important lesson - Be Careful What You Wish For.The movie itself turned out to be a surprise success, especially with a demographic not typically associated with Disney Channel - adult males. For this reason, many give credit to 16 Wishes for helping to establish Debby Ryan as being a "face" for Disney Channel and helping her land her own sitcom, Jessie.Not to be confused with Sixteen Candles - even though there are, indeed, 16 candles.
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16 Wishes / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
16 Wishes / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: All promos show the shot of Abby using her final wish to start the whole day over and scenes from the shared sweet sixteen with Krista at the end.
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16 Wishes / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
16 Wishes / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Celeste says the wasp infestation has been "nesting for 16 years." In other words, Abby has had that amount of time to become a pest. She later says that the wasps are all gone "like they never happened."
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16 Wishes / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
16 Wishes / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: Abby's wishes can only be granted once per hour.
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16 Wishes / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
16 Wishes / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The fact that Abby stuck a photo of her Love Interest to her wish list using chewing gum allows her to undo her wish gone wrong at the end of the film. One of the pictures in Abby's room during the opening sequence is a photo from the day that Abby and Jay declared themselves best friends, setting off Krista's grudge against the former.
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16 Wishes / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
16 Wishes / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The movie is set over the course of Abby's sixteenth birthday.
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16 Wishes / int_3429147e	type	When the Clock Strikes Twelve
16 Wishes / int_3429147e	comment	When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Abby's candles will no longer work at the stroke of midnight, and any wishes granted by then will become permanent.
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16 Wishes / int_383fe1b8	type	Embarrassing Old Photo
16 Wishes / int_383fe1b8	comment	Embarrassing Old Photo: Abby's parents take one of these, where she's yelling at them after having just woke up, and Abby's not happy with it. It turns out to be helpful for later on.
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16 Wishes / int_4d91e51	type	Petty Childhood Grudge
16 Wishes / int_4d91e51	comment	Petty Childhood Grudge: Krista has bullied Abby ever since they were little kids, made harder by the fact that they were neighbors and Birthday Buddies. Abby can't understand why Krista hates her so much, until she discovers that when she was a kid at Krista's birthday party, she'd inadvertently took Jay away from her, making him her friend instead of Krista's.
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16 Wishes / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
16 Wishes / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Possibly. Depends on how appropriate a response you feel that making the last eight years of someone's life miserable just because your best friend decided to hang out with them instead of you is. Krista's vengeance would have been better spent on Jay than on Abby.
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16 Wishes / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
16 Wishes / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: When Abby makes her ninth wish for people to stop treating her like a kid, she instead becomes a full-fledged adult.
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16 Wishes / int_551c5085	type	It's a Wonderful Plot
16 Wishes / int_551c5085	comment	It's a Wonderful Plot: Subverted. Through one of Abby's wishes, she learns that the world is better off without her if she continues to act bratty and selfishly.
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16 Wishes / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
16 Wishes / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks: Abby learns this upon her wish to be treated like an adult literally turns her into an adult, meaning she's not 16 anymore and can't do any of the things she used to.
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16 Wishes / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
16 Wishes / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Krista and Abby become friends, after a somewhat overdue apology from Abby.
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16 Wishes / int_626d5022	type	Birthday Buddies
16 Wishes / int_626d5022	comment	Birthday Buddies: Abby and her next-door neighbor rival Krista share a birthday. This is torturous for Abby, who is stuck watching Krista get huge parties, expensive gifts, and even a lot more respect from the adults than she gets. The plot is that Abby wants to have the best Sweet Sixteen ever, and uses a bunch of her wishes to knock Krista down a peg at the same time. This then ties into the reason why Krista bullies Abby: Abby stole Krista's best friend, Jay, from her during a birthday party, and Krista hated her ever since.
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16 Wishes / int_671681af	type	Jackass Genie
16 Wishes / int_671681af	comment	Jackass Genie: Subverted. The candles blatantly twist wish number 9 into an undesirable outcome (see Exact Words), but it was to teach Abby a lesson that she desperately needed to learn.
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16 Wishes / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
16 Wishes / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The picture of Abby and Jay as childhood friends is shown to have a hidden meaning: when the photo was taken, Krista was standing next to Jay and was cut out of the picture, figuratively and literally.
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16 Wishes / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
16 Wishes / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Played with. The rules of the candles are fairly specific: Only one wish can be granted per hour and Abby can't rewrite the wishes, so she's stuck with what she wrote down. However, the definition of "hour" is pretty loose: You can get one wish at 8:56 and then another one at 9:01 if you want. Also, Abby manages to pull off a little Loophole Abuse on the second one; by removing the "wish", which was just a picture, and replacing it with another one, she changed her wish.
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16 Wishes / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
16 Wishes / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: When Abby uses her sixteenth wish to start the whole day over, all of her previous wishes are undone.
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16 Wishes / int_7360a2f8	type	Growling Gut
16 Wishes / int_7360a2f8	comment	Growling Gut: Thanks to skipping breakfast so she can focus on doing her makeup, Abby's stomach lets out a hungry rumble before the wasps infesting her house chase her outside.
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16 Wishes / int_7a3aa8ea	type	You Must Be Cold
16 Wishes / int_7a3aa8ea	comment	You Must Be Cold: Jay gives Abby his jacket when she's forced to go to school in her pajamas and slippers.
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16 Wishes / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
16 Wishes / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: When Abby is accidentally turned into an adult by her ninth wish, her curly hair becomes straightened.
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16 Wishes / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
16 Wishes / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: After Abby becomes an adult, her parents leave her to fend for herself, her friends literally forget she exists at what was supposed to be her 16th birthday party (and their lives go on better without her), and when she tries to go home her car runs out of gas. And if that wasn't enough, her shoe heel breaks on the walk home - and she naturally gets splashed by a passing car.
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16 Wishes / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
16 Wishes / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Despite supposedly being the Alpha Bitch, Krista never acts openly nasty to anyone but Abby, hinting at The Reveal that she has a personal grudge against Abby.
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16 Wishes / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
16 Wishes / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Abby wishes to be treated like an adult...and becomes an actual adult.
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16 Wishes / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
16 Wishes / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Abby's sixteenth wish is simply a picture of popular boy Logan attached with bubblegum; she switches that with a picture of herself taken that morning and wishes she could go back to the beginning of the day, undoing all her wishes and becoming 16 again.
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16 Wishes / int_b3c730b	type	Celestial Deadline
16 Wishes / int_b3c730b	comment	Celestial Deadline: The candles' magic will no longer work at midnight, and the wishes granted will become permanent.
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16 Wishes / int_c280632d	type	Dreaded Kids' Table
16 Wishes / int_c280632d	comment	Dreaded Kids' Table: One of Abby's wishes is to be treated like an adult, which she decides upon during a Thanksgiving dinner at which, although her rival of the exact same age was at the adult table, she is stuck eating with the little kids who torment her.
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16 Wishes / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
16 Wishes / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Krista actually had a pretty decent one for her treatment of Abby. Abby stole her best friend, Jay, and the two of them went on to do everything together, leaving Krista out.
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16 Wishes / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
16 Wishes / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: Abby hits it at the end, using her sixteenth wish to start the entire day over and undo all her wishes so she can make things right.
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16 Wishes / int_e1ec1b15	type	Make a Wish
16 Wishes / int_e1ec1b15	comment	Make a Wish: The main theme of the movie revolves around Abby using magic birthday candles to make her wishes come true on her birthday.
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16 Wishes / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
16 Wishes / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Abby's 9th wish was to be treated like an adult and the candles grant it by turning her into one.
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16 Wishes / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
16 Wishes / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The saleswoman who condescendingly treats Abby and Jay, teenagers, as if they were infants. This, however, is subverted because Krista bribed her.
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16 Wishes / int_f791e275	type	Roadside Wave
16 Wishes / int_f791e275	comment	Roadside Wave: While sitting on the bench trying to fix her broken high heel, a vehicle drives past and splashes Abby.
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16 Wishes / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
16 Wishes / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: One of Abby's wishes is for a taste for sushi. Guess what's on the plate Celeste is serving in the party?
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16 Wishes / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
16 Wishes / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: What sparked Abby and Krista's lifelong rivalry. Abby came between Krista and Jay when they were little. The three of them could have been friends all along if Abby hadn't written Krista off as a mean girl.
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