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Wild Child
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Wild Child is a 2008 American/British/French teen romantic dramedy film starring Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer and Natasha Richardson. Roberts plays Poppy Moore, a spoiled California brat who is sent to a boarding school in England as punishment for her bad behavior. Hilarity ensues.Sadly, most notable as Natasha Richardson's final screen appearance before her untimely passing the following year in a skiing accident. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The theatrical trailer for the film reveals Poppy finding a picture of her mother and discovering she was a student at Abbey Mount. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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As mentioned above, Freddy and Poppy routinely trade quotes and shout-outs to Alice, which extends to Freddy referring to Charlotte and Jane as "Tweedledum and Tweedledee". | |
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Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: Somewhat of an aversion; Poppy's initially only after Freddy because of the fact that he's son of her school's headmistress, but she eventually comes to genuinely like him and the two ultimately become an Official Couple. | |
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Alice Allusion | |
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Alice Allusion: Mrs Kingsley lends Poppy a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to read. References to it are peppered throughout the story, especially in Poppy's interactions with Freddy, but it is mainly used to mirror Poppy's feelings of being out of her depth and wanting to find her way home, before she ultimately acclimates to her surroundings, grows out of her narrow view of the world and allows herself to be more open and vulnerable. Amusingly enough, the fire and the trial are also reminiscent of key plot points from the book, with extra points for the Honour Court room having black and white tiles, much like a chessboard. Poppy's leaping off the cliff at the beginning of the movie could also simultaneously be a nod to Alice's long fall down the rabbit hole and the pool of tears. The game of lacrosse could be the equivalent of the croquet game from the book, especially given that Harriet - the Queen of Hearts of Abbey Mount - is the one who initially issues the challenge to Poppy. As mentioned above, Freddy and Poppy routinely trade quotes and shout-outs to Alice, which extends to Freddy referring to Charlotte and Jane as "Tweedledum and Tweedledee". | |
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Disposable Love Interest | |
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Disposable Love Interest: Roddy, Poppy's boyfriend back in LA, gets a single line of dialogue and we don't even realize he's supposed to be Poppy's boyfriend until we find out he's sleeping with Ruby behind her back. Poppy easily forgets out about him and moves on to Freddy. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Harriet. Back at her school in California Poppy seems to have been this. After she leaves, Poppy’s close friend Ruby takes over her role as the Queen Bee, though Ruby and Poppy are less obvious. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Poppy was warned to log out of the computer when done using it. She forgets after writing an email she never intended to send, allowing Harriet to print out copies of the email and use it to turn her friends against her. | |
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Self-Proclaimed Love Interest | |
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Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Harriet seems to think her feelings for Freddy are mutual, which... doesn't seem to be the case. | |
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Frame-Up | |
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Frame-Up: Poppy is framed for burning down the school by Harriet. She caused a fire accidentally but put it out, which then Harriet restarted so she'd think it was caused by her. | |
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Custom Uniform: Poppy's uniform on her first day at Abbey Mount, that is basically the school's uniform made stylish. | |
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Kick the Dog: Harriet's treatment of her Year Seven "maid" almost borders on Comedic Sociopathy. Poppy starts the movie this way, by giving away and destroying all the stuff belonging to her dad's girlfriend—though Karma Houdini greatly averted when Poppy's dad punishes her by sending her to Abbey Mount. | |
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Wake Up Make Up: At the beginning of the movie, Poppy has suspiciously perfect makeup for somebody who is supposed to be just waking up. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: After Harriet's confession to restarting the fire after Poppy put it out, Mrs. Kingsley sternly summons Harriet to her office without raising her voice. | |
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Fashion-Shop Fashion Show: Well, it's in a charity shop so not exactly, but the girls do get a clothes montage at one point. | |
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Butt-Monkey: Whenever the plot calls for (or even when it doesn't call for) a student of Abbey Mount to make a fool of herself, get hopelessly drunk and pass out in a puddle of vomit, someone other than Poppy to be bullied or even for someone to be in a life-threatening situation, it WILL be Drippy. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Harriet's treatment of her Year Seven "maid" almost borders on Comedic Sociopathy. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison: Harriet rants at Poppy for starting the school fire, and brings up Poppy's lighter - unfortunately for Harriet, nobody else knew that a lighter was used to start the fire. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "How do you know that, Harriet? No one’s mentioned a lighter before." | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: In the beginning of the movie Poppy jumped off the cliff by her house, which was one of the key factors that her got to sent to Abbeymount. At the end of the film, Poppy jumps of the cliff again, but this time with her new friends reluctantly doing it with her. | |
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure | |
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Poppy's friends oddly don't question the origin of the damning printed email taped to their door and easily believe that Poppy actually wrote it. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: A mild example with Poppy and her little sister Molly, respectively: Poppy is vain, spoiled and frequently causes mayhem to spite her father, whereas Molly seems more prudent and timid, and her pleas for Poppy to rein in her destructive behavior fall on deaf ears. Molly also seems aware of Ruby's two faced nature since she clearly dislikes her, whilst Poppy naively thinks of Ruby as her best friend. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Drippy regularly sneaks into the school freezer at night for an ice-cream fix, plus she can't resist some cream eggs when the girls are attempting to buy alcohol. | |
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Rich Bitch | |
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Rich Bitch: Poppy is this for most of the film, until she softens up. Harriet is also one, contrasting Poppy's spoiled Malibu princess qualities with her chilly upper class toffness. | |
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Culture Clash | |
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Culture Clash: Strong-minded, independent American girl Poppy does not fit into the atmosphere of Abbey Mount, an old boarding school in the UK at first, since they're more strait-laced and reserved. | |
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Those Two Girls: Harriet's minions, Jane and Charlotte. At least until the Honor Court, when they get suspicious of Harriet after she mentions Poppy's lighter that she used to start the fire, which Freddie found and returned to Poppy before anybody saw it. They even agree with Poppy when says she’s innocent after she realizes it was Harriet that restarted after Poppy put it out. | |
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Academic Alpha Bitch | |
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Academic Alpha Bitch: Head Girl Harriet is a perfect example of this trope, she rules the school with an iron fist, but uses intellectual prestige and extracurricular overachieving instead of fashion and hotness. Her Beta Bitch posse are deputy Head Girls, and it's clear they have been sucked into being her minions because she's on such a power-trip. | |
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Hate at First Sight | |
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Hate at First Sight: The moment Poppy arrives at Abbey Mount, she and Harriet take an instant and mutual dislike of each other, not helped by Poppy's bad attitude. It only intensifies when Poppy gets Harriet's crush Freddie's attention, and then replaces her as Captain of the school's lacrosse team. | |
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Stern Teacher | |
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Stern Teacher: Mrs Kingsley initially doesn't come across as this since she is a kindly, mild mannered headmistress, but she makes it very clear that she cares about her students and believes in them; not once does she flake out on Poppy for the sake of convenience, though she does counter Poppy's attitude with a fair amount of unimpressed cheek. She's doubly unimpressed with Kate and Drippy's hangover the day after the school formal, but the fire truly consolidates the fact that Mrs Kingsley does not mess around with the students' safety. In fact, she's utterly livid when Harriet outs herself as the culprit. | |
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Driven by Envy | |
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Driven by Envy: Despite her assertion that she dislikes Poppy for basically going against everything the school stands for, this is arguably the real, root cause of Harriet's vendetta, starting when Poppy makes her flashy entrance onto the school grounds, instantly capturing the attention of the first years and earning a miffed glare from Harriet. It gets worse when Harriet's crush Freddy starts displaying some interest in Poppy, but Poppy taking Harriet's position as the lacrosse team captain is the straw that breaks the camel's back. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Poppy mentions Hogwarts once in the film; Shirley Henderson, who plays Matron, also portrayed Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter film series. | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change: Poppy gets one about halfway through the film, switching from blonde to brown as she becomes less of a shallow jerkass. Interestingly, Harriet dyes her hair from blonde to brown as well, but she changes hers back after the school dance. (She was dressed as Keira Knightley at the time.) | |
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Teacher's Pet | |
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Teacher's Pet: Harriet tries to be this to Mrs. Kingsley, but her attempts are fairly transparent. | |
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Vanity Is Feminine | |
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Vanity is Feminine: Poppy is vain and spoiled and she is also dresses very traditionally feminine. Harriet is shallow, snobby and has very traditional views. Ruby is shown to be vain and unconventionally feminine. | |
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Cold Ham | |
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Cold Ham: Harriet mostly acts hoity-toity and coldly arrogant, but she still reacts in a hilariously over-the-top way to things that upset her. | |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter | |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter: Poppy. Though, it is mostly a fabricate to hide her sadness with losing her mother and struggle to move on. | |
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Cruella to Animals | |
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Cruella to Animals: Harriet's love of hunting and shooting are used to show she's not a nice person. | |
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National Stereotypes | |
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National Stereotypes: The girls assume Poppy is sexually experienced because she is from California. Turns out she's a virgin. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: After Poppy changes her hairstyle to something more "natural", her Character Development quickly begins, such as begins acting nicer and more like a proper young lady, acts less spoiled, and becomes true friends her roommates, showing that from this point she is starting to accept her mother's death and being a student at Abbey Mount, especially when she discovers her mother was a student there. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Harriet, after the above mentioned I Am Spartacus moment and her slip up about Poppy’s lighter, which inadvertently helps Poppy piece together what really must've happened the night of the fire. Harriet flies off into an unstoppable rage, ranting and cussing out Poppy and accidentally admitting in front of the entire student body that it was she who restarted the fire. | |
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Oop North | |
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Oop North: Several of the girls have Northern accents, particularly Josie, while Kiki's accent is distinctly Scottish (Glaswegian, to be precise). Drippy, Kate and Harriet all have more Southern accents, though. The setting is in the North, however. | |
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False Friend | |
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False Friend: Poppy initially thinks of Ruby as her closest friend, and routinely tries to reach out to her while she's away at boarding school, whereas it's made abundantly clear to the viewer that Ruby scorns Poppy to the point where she puts in zero effort to maintain contact and even sleeps with Poppy's boyfriend. Thankfully Poppy wises up to it near the climax. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Mrs Kingsley rightfully suspects that the fire was no accident, and tells her students as much during assembly the following day. She addresses the culprit and says "You have until the end of the day to come forward". The camera pans to a stricken Poppy, but not before lingering uncomfortably close to Harriet. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Poppy starts the movie this way, by giving away and destroying all the stuff belonging to her dad's girlfriend—though Karma Houdini greatly averted when Poppy's dad punishes her by sending her to Abbey Mount. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Drippy is actually her nickname, except when Mrs. Kingsley calls her name on the school register. Her real name is Jennifer. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: A lot of the girls, especially Kate. | |
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Make Way for the Princess | |
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Make Way for the Princess: Averted; Poppy seems to expect this at first, only for Harriet to coldly inform her that Americans rank somewhere below vermin in the school's pecking order. | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Harriet, Charlotte and Jane, respectively. | |
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DirectToDVD | |
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Direct-to-DVD: Unlike many US/UK films produced by Working Title, this was its fate in the US. It would not be the last time this happened to a Britflick starring Emma Roberts. | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
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Strong Family Resemblance: Poppy remarks she looks like her mother after she gets her hair dyed brunette. A photo of her mom from her youth confirms this (it's the same actress in the image), with her dad also later being astonished, saying they look just alike. | |
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I Am Spartacus | |
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I Am Spartacus: During Poppy's trial, Mrs Kingsley asks her if anyone was with her the night of the fire, to which Poppy says she doesn't think so. Kate, Josie, Kiki and Drippy lead every single girl in the room (except Harriet) into getting up one after the other and saying they were with her that night. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Poppy, even though her younger sister Molly has experienced the loss of her mother as well and doesn't act like a brat. However, it's possible she was too young to remember the incident. Poppy states she herself was eleven when it happened. | |
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Off to Boarding School | |
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Off to Boarding School: After Poppy plays a very mean-spirited prank on her dad's girlfriend, Mr. Moore punishes her by having her sent to Abbey Mount in England. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Mrs. Kingsley is a kind and responsible headmistress who cares about each of her students and wants nothing more than for Poppy to be happy and well adjusted. | |
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Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch | |
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Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: Harriet's minions decide not to tell her crucial information about how close Poppy is getting to Freddy because she'll shoot the messenger. | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Harriet. At least until she set the school on fire and tried to frame Poppy for it! | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Molly seems to be this to Poppy, as up until she was sent to Abbey Mount the only time she was nice, kind, and sweet was towards Molly. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot: Drippy is sick on the grass right by Poppy's feet after the school dance, but you only hear it. | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: Implied in the beginning that Poppy is this to her little sister. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Drippy and Kate's attempts at pretending to be old enough to buy alcohol. | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
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Cool Big Sis: Poppy to Molly. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
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Darkest Hour: Occurs right after Poppy's date with Freddy, when all four of her friends turn against her after they find an insulting and inflammatory message from Poppy's email written about them, and Freddy finds a similar one about him. With nowhere to turn, Poppy calls her friend Ruby for support, but the latter winds up blurting out both her true colors and ongoing affair with Poppy's boyfriend. Poppy messes around with her lighter and accidentally sets the curtain alight, but successfully puts it out and runs back to her room when she hears approaching footsteps. Next thing you know, the cook's sitting room is ablaze with Drippy trapped inside. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Poppy constantly using hand-sanitiser on everything. She stops once she goes through her Character Development. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Harriet's errand girl winds up getting back at her during the trial by joining in on the wave of support for Poppy, which causes Harriet to flip out. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: Ruby, Poppy's BFF from before she got sent to Abbey Mount, hooks up with Poppy's boyfriend while she's in England—eventually, Ruby (accidentally) reveals how much she dislikes Poppy and how Roddy's been cheating on Poppy with her. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Despite Poppy's mean attitude towards everyone, she remains kind to younger sister, Molly, acting the surrogate mother figure to her and cutting the crust off her peanut-butter and jelly sandwich for her sister. | |
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