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Ghostwriter

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Surreal, quirky mystery/educational series created by Sesame Workshop and aired on PBS and The BBC from 1992-1995. A group of middle-school kids in Brooklyn, New York are the only ones who can see a benevolent, amnesiac ghost, whom they dub Ghostwriter. He can only see and communicate through writing, and uses his abilities to help the kids solve mysteries. The show never made it clear who Ghostwriter was, or why he chooses to help people. Although some episodes implied that the ghost retained more memories than he claimed to, Ghostwriter's true identity was never revealed.note That is, until a 2010 interview revealed that he was a runaway slave that was killed while teaching other runaway slaves how to read.His abilities, by contrast, were extremely well-defined. For example, when the kids take a comic book as evidence, Ghostwriter can't see anything in it except the speech balloons. His spying often made the perp obvious very quickly, but the kids then had to find other evidence that would be admissible in court — with a few exceptions. Each mystery was a four-part episode, except for the premiere "Ghost Story" and "To The Light," which were five-parters.Presumably because of PBS censorship codes, almost all violence on the show happened off-camera. This made the show painfully slow and talky most of the time, but some scenes were scary nail-biters. For instance, in the "Who Is Max Mouse?" climax, the only chance the heroes had to solve the case was making a high-stakes bet with the perp, and losing it would result in a guaranteed prison term for one of the kids. In an equally scary arc, one of the kids suffered chemical poisoning from improperly discarded dry-cleaning chemicals near a playground that the characters frequently visited and her friends discover in their research that the effects of this poison are potentially lethal. The villains ranged from eccentrics to raving nutcases, and were fascinating — too much so, as they made the heroes look bland. Some episodes managed elaborate mysteries without any villain at all.Although very popular, the show was expensive to produce (it shot on-location in NYC), and with increasing public funding cuts as The '90s wore on, PBS could no longer afford to foot the bill, even with the help of Viewers Like You. It didn't help that the BBC pulled out of co-producing the show by the third season.If you're looking for the trope that could have gone here, see Playing Cyrano. Not to be confused with a literary Ghostwriter, defined by That Other Wiki as "a writer who writes books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person" (which frequently overlaps with Extruded Book Product). Also not to be confused with the film The Ghost Writer.A reboot of the series began airing on the Apple TV+ streaming service on November 1, 2019.
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Parent ex Machina
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Off-the-Shelf FX
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Off-the-Shelf FX: The New Ghostwriter Mysteries simply used PowerPoint for when Ghostwriter communicated via computer.
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Secret Handshake
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Secret Handshake: Jamal, Lenni and Alex make up a team handshake in Part 3 of "Ghost Story".
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Annoying Younger Sibling
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Annoying Younger Sibling:
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Poirot Speak
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Poirot Speak: Alex and Gaby's family, as well as Tina's.
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You Meddling Kids
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You Meddling Kids
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Forgotten Phlebotinum
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Forgotten Phlebotinum: Ghostwriter moves and rearranges existing letters to communicate. The team frequently has to guess at the gaps in his messages. And then in Who Is Max Mouse?, he possesses a computer, and in addition to surfing the 'Net, he gains the ability to write complete sentences at will. Guess how many more times this comes up in the series.
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The Heart
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The Heart: Gaby. She seems to be the emotional center of the group, especially when she saves Ghostwriter with The Power of Love.
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The Rival
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The Rival: Calvin, especially to Alex.
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Fictional Document
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Fictional Document: A fictional series of British children's books called Sophie Madison.
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Gender-Equal Ensemble
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Gender-Equal Ensemble: Unless you count Ghostwriter himself (male), there are four founding members of the Ghostwriter Team, two girls and two boys. For the majority of the series, it's three girls and three boys. Casey's addition late in the series upsets the balance, but she's not always with the team.
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Breaking Bad News Gently
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Breaking Bad News Gently: When a new kid first sees Ghostwriter, the team's first reaction is usually to tell the new person to sit down before beginning to explain Ghostwriter's situation.
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The Friends Who Never Hang
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The Friends Who Never Hang: Some members of the Ghostwriter Team get little to no one-on-one time. For example, Tina and Rob rarely interact without any of the others around. This is ironic, since they probably have the most in common with each other: both are shy, introverted, creative people who start as outsiders before joining the team; Tina even once admitted that she can relate to Rob.
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Deal with the Devil
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Deal with the Devil
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Cousin Oliver
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Cousin Oliver: Two of them.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: In the book "Steer Clear of Haunted Hill", the book is set up so that half is a diary written by Alex and the other by Gabby. You must read both of them to solve the mystery so naturally there are examples of this trope. The stand-outs are a pamphlet detailing the 3 chambers in the cave, allowing the Team to find the missing Max, Max eating plain potato chips while another character was eating sour cream and onion, revealing him to be behind a false trail and a set of maps (an old one Alex got from Max and a newer one Gabby received) holding the key to the missing Rob's location: an old treehouse listed on Alex's map but not Gabby's. In "Into The Comics," the skywriting in the panels is mentioned as early as the hunt for the first location during the Hoodman competition, but it doesn't actively serve as a clue until the final one.
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Aborted Arc
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Ghostwriter's amnesia could also be considered an Aborted Arc, since it is almost never mentioned beyond the first episode.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Jamal frequently plays this role. Whenever people start fighting, he's usually the one to attempt to try and make peace.
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Promotion to Opening Titles
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Promotion to Opening Titles: For Hector, Rob, and Casey.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: A fair amount of Spanish was spoken in the programme.
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Hollywood Hacking
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Hollywood Hacking: Who is Max Mouse? To be fair, it's a little more plausible than other examples.
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Initiation Ceremony
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Initiation Ceremony: Whenever someone new joins the Ghostwriter team, a black pen on a string is placed around their neck to make their joining official. The new member is then often encouraged to use it to ask Ghostwriter a question. The official Ghostwriter pen is like a team badge and lets them talk to Ghostwriter wherever they are.
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Kid Detective
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Kid Detective
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Immigrant Parents
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Immigrant Parents: Alex and Gaby's parents are from El Salvador, and Tina's are from Vietnam.
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Official Couple
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Official Couple: Alex and Tina.
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Feud Episode
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Feud Episode: The episode "Get the Message" featured one of these—when Mr. Fernandez, Alex and Gaby's father, inadvertently spirals out of control while driving and crashes into Lenni's father's music equipment, the families begin to feud; things only get worse when Tina, who would in most cases be a neutral party, is interviewed about the accident and says that she felt frightened by Mr. Fernandez's crazy driving. To compound the issue, resident Jerkass Calvin deliberately plays up the team's anger at each other to try to determine the secret they've been hiding. The trouble is that Ghostwriter apparently lives on The Power of Friendship, and the team's feud is slowly killing him. It takes Jamal and Rob (the latter offering a Big "SHUT UP!") to reconcile the team, save Ghostwriter, and solve a local art heist.
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Stable Time Loop
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Stable Time Loop: the team solves their case in "Just In Time" by finding a newspaper article about the crime they're trying to solve in 1993 and relaying the key information to Catherine and Frank in 1928 so they can make sure the events described in the article happen. It reaches them the day before, and they convince Catherine's father to help them capture the crook.
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Engineered Public Confession
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Engineered Public Confession: How THABTO is defeated, with Jamal even using the tape recorder at the arcade tournament as further proof.
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The Smart Guy
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The Smart Guy: All the team members are smart, but mainly Jamal (the best with science and computers), Alex (the expert on all things related to detective work), and Tina (she thinks outside the box the most).
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Double-Sided Book
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Double-Sided Book: Each side of some books tells the story from a different character's viewpoint.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Hector tries to suggest that a hotel that Tina's friend is stuck in might have once had a different name:
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Guest-Star Party Member
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Guest-Star Party Member: Craig in "Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?", Frank, Catherine, and Lucy in "Just in Time", Becky and Sam in "A Crime of Two Cities". They're all technically members because they can see Ghostwriter and have helped solve cases, but they all only appear for one mystery arc.
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Inexplicably Awesome
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Inexplicably Awesome: Ghostwriter is this.
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Story Arc
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Story Arc: Unusual for a serial kid's show. Every episode would begin with a recap.
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Tagalong Kid
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Tagalong Kid: Casey, the youngest team member. Gaby was this at first but grows out of it.
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Why Couldn't You Be Different?
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Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Rob's father initially thinks he should be more athletic.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Alex.
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Intergenerational Friendship
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Intergenerational Friendship: Rob and Double T, a homeless poet and Vietnam War veteran. Tina and Lana Barnes, a Golden Age movie star. Most of the Ghostwriter team and Jamal's grandma (especially Lenni and Gabi) The Ghostwriter team and Catherine Canellan Flynn, who the team was helping in 1928 and met in 1993.
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Big Good
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Big Good: Ghostwriter: He's the whole reason the team exists.
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Motive Rant
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Motive Rant: Played straight and spoofed.
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The Big Guy
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The Big Guy: Alex. A jock who puts himself at risk the most, as shown in "Ghost Story" and "Over a Barrel". After his growth spurt, he towers over the others.
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Sassy Black Woman
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Sassy Black Woman: Jamal's grandma. Jamal's older sister also applies but she doesn't appear much due to being off attending college at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Dramatic Sit-Down
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Dramatic Sit-Down: A Running Gag is that whenever the titular ghost appears in front of someone new (usually scaring the crap out of them), the current members of the gang will guide the newbie to the nearest convenient chair and say "Sit down!"
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The Empath
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The Empath: Ghostwriter can sense the feelings of the team and says that that's how he knows where they are. In fact, in "Get the Message", when the team is in a nasty fight, their anger seriously hurts him.
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Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy
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Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: In the book "Disappearing Act", this pops up twice in discussions about how people are distantly connected to the Russian throne. Lampshaded both times. Example A Example B
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Enemy Mine
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Enemy Mine: In "Four Days of the Cockatoo", the Ghostwriter Team is forced to turn to their rival Calvin Ferguson for help because he's an ornithology expert.
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Not Himself
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Not Himself: Invoked by Calvin pretending to be Ghostwriter in "Get the Message".
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The Un-Reveal
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The Unreveal: Ghostwriter's identity. Though Word of God can point out that Ghostwriter could be the ghost of Jamal's great-grandfather Ezra. A 2010 interview revealed that Ghostwriter was a runaway slave who was killed while teaching other runaway slaves to read. Whether he was Ezra is still up for debate, however. Ghostwriter's amnesia could also be considered an Aborted Arc, since it is almost never mentioned beyond the first episode.
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_5a3b8032
 Ghostwriter / int_5b9cf82b
type
Education Mama
 Ghostwriter / int_5b9cf82b
comment
Education Mama: Tina's parents, who especially won't let Tina's older brother drop out of school to join a band, and scold Tina herself for not helping out enough around the home.
 Ghostwriter / int_5b9cf82b
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_5b9cf82b
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_5b9cf82b
 Ghostwriter / int_5beef860
type
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
 Ghostwriter / int_5beef860
comment
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ghostwriter is terrified of dogs due to one of the few memories he has left. The thought that they might be nearby almost stops him from helping save Jamal. Since Ghostwriter can't even see or hear dogs, and they can't actually do anything to him, his fear must run really deep.
 Ghostwriter / int_5beef860
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_5beef860
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1.0
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hasFeature
Ghostwriter / int_5beef860
 Ghostwriter / int_5f52cfcf
type
Intrepid Reporter
 Ghostwriter / int_5f52cfcf
comment
Intrepid Reporter: Fannie Mae Banner. She hosts a show called Caught Ya where she helps regular people with their problems by finding and exposing anyone who's been caught doing something wrong, like corrupt landlords, stores overcharging customers, or people burying toxic waste.
 Ghostwriter / int_5f52cfcf
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_5f52cfcf
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_5f52cfcf
 Ghostwriter / int_5f6c6cc1
type
Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
 Ghostwriter / int_5f6c6cc1
comment
Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
 Ghostwriter / int_5f6c6cc1
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_5f6c6cc1
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_5f6c6cc1
 Ghostwriter / int_60b21fa3
type
The Lancer
 Ghostwriter / int_60b21fa3
comment
The Lancer: Lenni. The second person to see Ghostwriter and Jamal's implied Number Two. She's headstrong and outspoken, while he's more grounded and practical.
 Ghostwriter / int_60b21fa3
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1.0
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_60b21fa3
 Ghostwriter / int_611a1a5e
type
Nosy Neighbor
 Ghostwriter / int_611a1a5e
comment
Nosy Neighbor: Calvin.
 Ghostwriter / int_611a1a5e
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_611a1a5e
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_611a1a5e
 Ghostwriter / int_615fdb1f
type
Dream Sequence
 Ghostwriter / int_615fdb1f
comment
Dream Sequence
 Ghostwriter / int_615fdb1f
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_615fdb1f
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1.0
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hasFeature
Ghostwriter / int_615fdb1f
 Ghostwriter / int_64265de8
type
Multigenerational Household
 Ghostwriter / int_64265de8
comment
Multigenerational Household: Jamal's grandmother lives with him and his parents.
 Ghostwriter / int_64265de8
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_64265de8
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_64265de8
 Ghostwriter / int_653c5c73
type
Cannot Spit It Out
 Ghostwriter / int_653c5c73
comment
Cannot Spit It Out: In “Who’s Who”, where Tina reads fan mail and answers phone calls for Lana Barnes, she begins to get phone calls, only for the caller hang up on her! Since Lana begins getting threatening post cards at about the same time, Tina thinks that the phone calls are also coming from the same person. In reality, Alex is trying to ask Tina to go out with him, only for this trope to take effect. Fortunately, he does find a way to ask Tina out at the end, when she realizes Alex had been the caller.
 Ghostwriter / int_653c5c73
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_653c5c73
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Ghostwriter / int_653c5c73
 Ghostwriter / int_66dfe36a
type
Missing Mom
 Ghostwriter / int_66dfe36a
comment
Missing Mom: Lenni's father is a widower.
 Ghostwriter / int_66dfe36a
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_66dfe36a
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_66dfe36a
 Ghostwriter / int_680bb6b1
type
Hot-Blooded
 Ghostwriter / int_680bb6b1
comment
Hot-Blooded: Alex, at times.
 Ghostwriter / int_680bb6b1
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_680bb6b1
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_680bb6b1
 Ghostwriter / int_69681e01
type
Big Brother Instinct
 Ghostwriter / int_69681e01
comment
Big Brother Instinct: Alex to Gaby. Although they have a bit of a Sibling Rivalry, he's protective of her. When she is accidentally exposed to toxic waste, he can't stop worrying about her health. And when she's framed for the theft of a model spaceship, he's the only one who believes that she didn't do it, even when the rest of the team are willing to consider her a suspect when all clues point to her.
 Ghostwriter / int_69681e01
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_69681e01
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Ghostwriter / int_69681e01
 Ghostwriter / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Ghostwriter / int_6b11ff57
comment
Soapbox Sadie: Lenni is a downplayed version of this. She never tries to force anyone to think her way, thus avoiding the usual Broken Aesop that comes with the trope, but she often speaks out about her beliefs, especially through her music.
 Ghostwriter / int_6b11ff57
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_6b11ff57
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_6b11ff57
 Ghostwriter / int_6bda9a30
type
Meaningful Name
 Ghostwriter / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: The receptionist at the hotel in the "Who's Who" story arc refuses to help Lenni and Rob at first, and responds to them with derision and a mocking tone. His name? "Mr. Smarmworth".
 Ghostwriter / int_6bda9a30
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_6bda9a30
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_6bda9a30
 Ghostwriter / int_6c313cd
type
One-Hit Wonder
 Ghostwriter / int_6c313cd
comment
One-Hit Wonder: Invoked. Leif, the electrician for Lenni's music video, was teen popstar in the 70s with a hit called "Girl". It's implied that the success didn't continue because he tried to follow the same formula and refused to branch out.
 Ghostwriter / int_6c313cd
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1.0
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_6c313cd
 Ghostwriter / int_6f66bef7
type
But Not Too Foreign
 Ghostwriter / int_6f66bef7
comment
But Not Too Foreign: Hector had much more Spanish influence in his speech than the other Hispanic characters did. Further, Tina's mother had more of a foreign accent than her father.
 Ghostwriter / int_6f66bef7
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_6f66bef7
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_6f66bef7
 Ghostwriter / int_71fa50b5
type
New Transfer Student
 Ghostwriter / int_71fa50b5
comment
New Transfer Student: Rob, later Hector.
 Ghostwriter / int_71fa50b5
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1.0
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_71fa50b5
 Ghostwriter / int_7220ed55
type
Token White
 Ghostwriter / int_7220ed55
comment
Token White: Lenni. Given that the show takes place in ethnically diverse New York, the other main characters are of Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Vietnamese and African-American descent.
 Ghostwriter / int_7220ed55
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_7220ed55
 Ghostwriter / int_737a65f4
type
The Watson
 Ghostwriter / int_737a65f4
comment
The Watson: Tina serves this role in what was originally the pilot episode where the team explains to her what they know about Ghostwriter, what he is and what his powers are. Footage from this scene was adapted into the series intro so that anyone tuning in for the first time would know it through Tina.
 Ghostwriter / int_737a65f4
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 Ghostwriter / int_737a65f4
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Ghostwriter / int_737a65f4
 Ghostwriter / int_754df088
type
Put on a Bus
 Ghostwriter / int_754df088
comment
Lenni/Rob: Lenni was the first one Rob truly warmed up to, and the two frequently worked together while Rob was on the team. Lenni seemed to be the one most upset about Rob having to move to Australia.
 Ghostwriter / int_754df088
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_754df088
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Ghostwriter / int_754df088
 Ghostwriter / int_75538142
type
Friend to All Children
 Ghostwriter / int_75538142
comment
Friend to All Children: Ghostwriter. When he first appears, he is worried about "the children". It's not clear what children he means, but he cares about children in general.
 Ghostwriter / int_75538142
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_75538142
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Ghostwriter / int_75538142
 Ghostwriter / int_7570a10c
type
Bond Villain Stupidity
 Ghostwriter / int_7570a10c
comment
Bond Villain Stupidity: Spoofed in one episode.
 Ghostwriter / int_7570a10c
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_7570a10c
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Ghostwriter / int_7570a10c
 Ghostwriter / int_7886d4d0
type
December–December Romance
 Ghostwriter / int_7886d4d0
comment
December–December Romance: Jamal's grandma seems to start a relationship with a Caribbean immigrant. "Who's Who" also implies that Golden Age movie star Lana Barnes will reunite with her first husband but we don't see it.
 Ghostwriter / int_7886d4d0
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_7886d4d0
 Ghostwriter / int_7a143509
type
Shell-Shocked Veteran
 Ghostwriter / int_7a143509
comment
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Rob's homeless friend Double T is strongly hinted to have PTSD from his time in the Vietnam War.
 Ghostwriter / int_7a143509
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_7a143509
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_7a143509
 Ghostwriter / int_82518cf7
type
Motor Mouth
 Ghostwriter / int_82518cf7
comment
Motor Mouth: Gaby is a very talkative girl. After she's back from being sick and acts like her usual fast-talking self, everyone says, "She's fine."
 Ghostwriter / int_82518cf7
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_82518cf7
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Ghostwriter / int_82518cf7
 Ghostwriter / int_83a903f6
type
Stepford Smiler
 Ghostwriter / int_83a903f6
comment
Stepford Smiler: Safira, a Mozambican girl who is actually the daughter of the Mozambican ambassador and his wife and whom Tina later befriends, is this as despite her apparent wealth and privilege, she is actually unhappy because she misses her older brother, Malenga, who walked out on the family after a very bitter and nasty feud with their father. Even sadder, however, is that her father has forbidden both herself and her mother from mentioning Malenga's name ever again.
 Ghostwriter / int_83a903f6
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_83a903f6
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Ghostwriter / int_83a903f6
 Ghostwriter / int_86daf505
type
Parental Bonus
 Ghostwriter / int_86daf505
comment
Parental Bonus: The only question is whether or not it was intentional. Jamal on Rob seeing Ghostwriter:
 Ghostwriter / int_86daf505
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_86daf505
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Ghostwriter / int_86daf505
 Ghostwriter / int_8ad43dc9
type
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
 Ghostwriter / int_8ad43dc9
comment
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
 Ghostwriter / int_8ad43dc9
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_8ad43dc9
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Ghostwriter / int_8ad43dc9
 Ghostwriter / int_901dbf9a
type
Cliff Hanger
 Ghostwriter / int_901dbf9a
comment
Cliffhanger: Many of the episodes ended with them due to the Story Arc nature of the show.
 Ghostwriter / int_901dbf9a
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_901dbf9a
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_901dbf9a
 Ghostwriter / int_91df3195
type
Military Brat
 Ghostwriter / int_91df3195
comment
Military Brat: Rob.
 Ghostwriter / int_91df3195
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_91df3195
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_91df3195
 Ghostwriter / int_9203bf6
type
Arc Number
 Ghostwriter / int_9203bf6
comment
Arc Number: The number 4 shows up a lot. There are 4 episodes per story arc, 4 founding Ghostwriter Team members, 4 Sixth Rangers, the story arc "Four Days of the Cockatoo", 4 THABTOs, 4 Thunder Heads, 4 husbands of Lana Barnes, 4 parts of the Hoodman contest, etc.
 Ghostwriter / int_9203bf6
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9203bf6
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_9203bf6
 Ghostwriter / int_92f863b6
type
Revival
 Ghostwriter / int_92f863b6
comment
Revival: There are several: 1997's The New Ghostwriter Mysteries, which aired on CBS, replaced the entire cast, and made a number of other changes to the series including the girl from Harriet the Spy being added to the cast. The 2006's radio show. Apple TV+'s Ghostwriter (2019).
 Ghostwriter / int_92f863b6
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 Ghostwriter / int_92f863b6
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_92f863b6
 Ghostwriter / int_9315c635
type
Lovable Jock
 Ghostwriter / int_9315c635
comment
Lovable Jock: Alex.
 Ghostwriter / int_9315c635
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9315c635
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_9315c635
 Ghostwriter / int_9335ac5d
type
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold
 Ghostwriter / int_9335ac5d
comment
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Rob is treated like this during his introduction, becoming a suspect for the Ghostwriter team for not much more than being unsociable and writing fiction (Granted, they didn't know it was fiction at the time). Ghostwriter helps clear his name by communicating with him, and he later joins the team.
 Ghostwriter / int_9335ac5d
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9335ac5d
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_9335ac5d
 Ghostwriter / int_95265081
type
Leeroy Jenkins
 Ghostwriter / int_95265081
comment
Leeroy Jenkins: Rob has shades of this - he doesn't go in and disrupt a plan so much as he charges into dangerous situations on his own with no backup. Examples: getting trapped in an abandoned subway tunnel because he didn't tell anyone where they were going, entering a dressing room to find out what an unhinged stunt actress was up to and getting knocked out and tied up for his trouble, and finally going by himself to a gang hideout to look for a friend of his and nearly getting beaten up by the gang members.
 Ghostwriter / int_95265081
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_95265081
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_95265081
 Ghostwriter / int_9843db6
type
Gangbangers
 Ghostwriter / int_9843db6
comment
Gangbangers: The Thunderheads who show up in "Building Bridges"; they are a vicious Latino street gang terrorizing the neighborhood of the Ghostwriter team. At one point, they are suspects behind the vandalism happening at school but turns out to be someone else.
 Ghostwriter / int_9843db6
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9843db6
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_9843db6
 Ghostwriter / int_984763bb
type
555
 Ghostwriter / int_984763bb
comment
555: Many phone numbers which prove key to solving cases.
 Ghostwriter / int_984763bb
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_984763bb
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_984763bb
 Ghostwriter / int_99699561
type
Questioning Title?
 Ghostwriter / int_99699561
comment
Questioning Title?: "Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?" "What's Up With Alex?" "Who is Max Mouse?"
 Ghostwriter / int_99699561
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_99699561
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_99699561
 Ghostwriter / int_9a7f6233
type
Fictional Video Game
 Ghostwriter / int_9a7f6233
comment
Fictional Video Game: The Double Defenders video game, about a group of two-headed superheroes.
 Ghostwriter / int_9a7f6233
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9a7f6233
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_9a7f6233
 Ghostwriter / int_9d12bbc1
type
Foreshadowing
 Ghostwriter / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: Every episode.
 Ghostwriter / int_9d12bbc1
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9d12bbc1
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Ghostwriter / int_9d12bbc1
 Ghostwriter / int_9d3f4777
type
My Nayme Is
 Ghostwriter / int_9d3f4777
comment
My Nayme Is: Downplayed. Lenni often introduces herself, particularly if someone needs to write her name down, as, "Lenni, with an 'I'", to which the other person usually responds with "okay Lenni with an 'I'".
 Ghostwriter / int_9d3f4777
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 Ghostwriter / int_9d3f4777
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Ghostwriter / int_9d3f4777
 Ghostwriter / int_9d6427ec
type
Time Travel
 Ghostwriter / int_9d6427ec
comment
Time Travel Specifically Intangible Time Travel and Write Back to the Future: Ghost Writer is the one doing the TimeTraveling, and he carries messages back and forth. He ends up having to take The Slow Path when he finally becomes too weak to return to 1993.
 Ghostwriter / int_9d6427ec
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9d6427ec
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Ghostwriter / int_9d6427ec
 Ghostwriter / int_9dab0a6e
type
Continuity Nod
 Ghostwriter / int_9dab0a6e
comment
Continuity Nod: In "To Catch a Creep," the team blackmails Calvin with embarrassing secrets, like the fact that he can't get to sleep without his stuffed booger bat. In "Am I Blue?" Rob calls him "Booger Bat" as an insult.
 Ghostwriter / int_9dab0a6e
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9dab0a6e
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Ghostwriter / int_9dab0a6e
 Ghostwriter / int_9e65fb7
type
Team Hand-Stack
 Ghostwriter / int_9e65fb7
comment
Team Hand-Stack: The Ghostwriter team sometimes do one in the form of the Ghostwriter cheer, which is finished with them all saying "Ghooooost...WRITER!".
 Ghostwriter / int_9e65fb7
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9e65fb7
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Ghostwriter / int_9e65fb7
 Ghostwriter / int_9f6fb586
type
Leitmotif
 Ghostwriter / int_9f6fb586
comment
Leitmotif: Tina has a four-note string piece that plays in scenes about her, including her appearance in the show's opening.
 Ghostwriter / int_9f6fb586
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_9f6fb586
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Ghostwriter / int_9f6fb586
 Ghostwriter / int_a3c0c1df
type
Dance Party Ending
 Ghostwriter / int_a3c0c1df
comment
Dance Party Ending: A few episodes end this way, particularly when a new member joins the team.
 Ghostwriter / int_a3c0c1df
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_a3c0c1df
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Ghostwriter / int_a3c0c1df
 Ghostwriter / int_a681bfc6
type
Amicable Exes
 Ghostwriter / int_a681bfc6
comment
Amicable Exes: Lana Barnes and her second husband Carlo Perretti, the father of her daughter Janine, stayed friends after they divorced.
 Ghostwriter / int_a681bfc6
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_a681bfc6
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Ghostwriter / int_a681bfc6
 Ghostwriter / int_a94eaaa4
type
Odd Friendship
 Ghostwriter / int_a94eaaa4
comment
Odd Friendship: Rob, the shy, bookish son of an Air Force Colonel and Victor, a poor, Hispanic former gang member.
 Ghostwriter / int_a94eaaa4
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_a94eaaa4
 Ghostwriter / int_b408c009
type
City of Adventure
 Ghostwriter / int_b408c009
comment
City of Adventure: Usually Brooklyn, once London, seeing as the BBC co-produced the series.
 Ghostwriter / int_b408c009
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_b408c009
 Ghostwriter / int_b7e74b77
type
Five-Token Band
 Ghostwriter / int_b7e74b77
comment
Five-Token Band: Justified. The story takes place in Brooklyn, New York, where the population is diverse.
 Ghostwriter / int_b7e74b77
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_b7e74b77
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Ghostwriter / int_b7e74b77
 Ghostwriter / int_bc848be9
type
Intangible Time Travel
 Ghostwriter / int_bc848be9
comment
Specifically Intangible Time Travel and Write Back to the Future: Ghost Writer is the one doing the TimeTraveling, and he carries messages back and forth. He ends up having to take The Slow Path when he finally becomes too weak to return to 1993.
 Ghostwriter / int_bc848be9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_bc848be9
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1.0
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Ghostwriter / int_bc848be9
 Ghostwriter / int_be009bbc
type
Alliterative Name
 Ghostwriter / int_be009bbc
comment
Alliterative Name: Jamal Jenkins.
 Ghostwriter / int_be009bbc
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1.0
 Ghostwriter / int_be009bbc
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Ghostwriter / int_be009bbc
 Ghostwriter / int_beb932ca
type
Big Applesauce
 Ghostwriter / int_beb932ca
comment
Big Applesauce: The show takes place in Brooklyn.
 Ghostwriter / int_beb932ca
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 Ghostwriter / int_beb932ca
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Ghostwriter / int_beb932ca
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Reading and writing is the characters' solution to every problem. Justified when Ghostwriter is involved because he can't hear, speak, or see anything besides writing, but since the show was designed to encourage literacy in kids, the creators seemed to go out of their way to create situations that reading and writing could solve.
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Feet of Clay
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Feet of Clay: Almost every episode.
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: Gaby is a huge fan of the Galaxy Girl TV series. There's also Caught Ya, a news show hosted by a reporter named Fannie Mae Banner.
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Fun with Acronyms
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Fun with Acronyms: The first arc has the Double-Defender group call themselves THABTO which is short for Two Heads Are Better Than One.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Gabby, in "Four Days of the Cockatoo", after hearing that Audubon Poulet and Honey Hawke about to perform taxidermy on her palm cockatoo, Calypso.
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Craig. The second episode (which was Craig's first, and only, appearance) was actually the pilot of the show; producers would later shoot a new premiere episode to better explain the origins of Ghostwriter.
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Horrible Judge of Character: Mrs. O'Boyle, the Canellans' housekeeper in 1928. She's convinced that Frank must be guilty of a series of local burglaries and that "Millard Fillmore Smith" is just a salesman trying to earn a living. Apparently, the idea that people aren't always what they seem never occurred to her.
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Unbelievable Source Plot
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Unbelievable Source Plot: The basic premise of the show. The main cast is a bunch of amateur teen detectives who are helped by a ghost who can cannot see anything but words and can only interact with the world by reading said words and then rearranging letters and words elsewhere to show what he read. The team uses the information from Ghostwriter to solve crimes but they also have to collect conventional evidence to get adults to believe them since telling them that a ghost gave them the clue is not going to help the kids or the victim.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The X-Men franchise, whose popularity was peaking around the time the show was airing, got a few scattered nods, seemingly thanks to a similar arrangement that had Spider-Man appearing on The Electric Company. The arcade game shows up in at least the first story arc, and a rally call shows up on the cover of an issue of the comic book once.
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Clock Discrepancy
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Clock Discrepancy: Jamal is accused of burning a one-man run electronic store. His friends were able to prove him innocent when they discover that the store's display clock was running one hour slow, meaning he has an alibi for the actual time of the crime. The store owner, however, loses his alibi in the process and ends up being the real culprit, as he was destroying evidence of a mass videotape duplication system.
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Two Lines, No Waiting
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Two Lines, No Waiting
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Toxic Friend Influence
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Toxic Friend Influence: Calvin Ferguson to Jeffrey Baxter. More than once, Calvin ropes Jeffrey into his schemes to cause trouble for the Ghostwriter Team. However, "What's Up With Alex?" implies that Calvin is also the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. When we finally see Jeffrey without Calvin around to tell him what to do, he causes problems for Jamal in other ways.
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Ghost Amnesia
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Ghost Amnesia: Ghostwriter can hardly remember anything from when he was alive, not even his own name. It's hinted that he remembers more than he lets on, but it's never been enough to reveal his identity.
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Postmodernism
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Postmodernism: The anti-finale.
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Cool Old Lady
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Cool Old Lady: Jamal's grandma
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Just a Kid
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Just a Kid
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Murder Simulators
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Murder Simulators: One mystery involved a cult of schoolkids who would meet in secret to reenact their favorite arcade game, and had taken to organized theft to feed their addiction.
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One of Our Own
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One of Our Own: The single most common plot on the show.
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Sixth Ranger
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Sixth Ranger: Tina, Rob, Hector, and Casey. They all join the team later, in episodes 8, 17, 50, and 58 respectively.
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Ship Tease
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Ship Tease: There were several throughout the series. Alex/Tina: The only one that actually did occur. Lenni/Jamal: They were the first two to discover Ghost Writer and worked together early and later on. Lenni/Rob: Lenni was the first one Rob truly warmed up to, and the two frequently worked together while Rob was on the team. Lenni seemed to be the one most upset about Rob having to move to Australia.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Tina was around in the first arc as Gaby's friend, but didn't see Ghostwriter until the second. Rob is one as well in "To Catch a Creep". He is a suspect, but ultimately helps the team take down the culprit by getting information for a fake blackmail.
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Playful Hacker
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Playful Hacker: It's revealed that Max Mouse is actually Janice, who does it because nobody notices her at all.
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Drugs Are Bad
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Drugs Are Bad: See Very Special Episode
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Functional Magic
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Functional Magic: Ghostwriter's abilities are precisely defined.
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Amateur Sleuth
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Amateur Sleuth: All the kids are middle-schoolers with no formal training whatsoever, who go around solving crimes of all kinds thanks to their ghost pal.
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Morality Pet
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Morality Pet: Jerkass Calvin really loves his pet parrot Attila and is devastated when it dies. In fact, losing Attila seems to have been the catalyst for Calvin's Character Development.
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The Hero
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The Hero / The Leader: Jamal. First person to see Ghostwriter and the de facto leader of the Ghostwriter Team. Often the Only Sane Man who makes decisions for the group.
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The Team
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The Team: Big Good: Ghostwriter: He's the whole reason the team exists. The Hero / The Leader: Jamal. First person to see Ghostwriter and the de facto leader of the Ghostwriter Team. Often the Only Sane Man who makes decisions for the group. The Lancer: Lenni. The second person to see Ghostwriter and Jamal's implied Number Two. She's headstrong and outspoken, while he's more grounded and practical. The Big Guy: Alex. A jock who puts himself at risk the most, as shown in "Ghost Story" and "Over a Barrel". After his growth spurt, he towers over the others. The Heart: Gaby. She seems to be the emotional center of the group, especially when she saves Ghostwriter with The Power of Love. The Smart Guy: All the team members are smart, but mainly Jamal (the best with science and computers), Alex (the expert on all things related to detective work), and Tina (she thinks outside the box the most). Sixth Ranger: Tina, Rob, Hector, and Casey. They all join the team later, in episodes 8, 17, 50, and 58 respectively. Tagalong Kid: Casey, the youngest team member. Gaby was this at first but grows out of it. Guest-Star Party Member: Craig in "Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?", Frank, Catherine, and Lucy in "Just in Time", Becky and Sam in "A Crime of Two Cities". They're all technically members because they can see Ghostwriter and have helped solve cases, but they all only appear for one mystery arc.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Calvin Ferguson.
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Viewer-Friendly Interface
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Viewer-Friendly Interface: Complete with ridiculously slow typing.
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The Power of Friendship
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The Power of Friendship: The team solves cases by working together. Since Ghostwriter is The Empath, their friendship is also what keeps him from fading out of existence.
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Master of Disguise
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Master of Disguise
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: Calvin genuinely loves his pet parrot Attila and is really sad when Attila dies. Calvin loves birds in general enough to once help the team crack the mystery of a palm cockatoo.
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