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Just Add Magic is an Urban Fantasy series developed for Prime Video, based on the book series of the same name by Cindy Callaghan. The Pilot Episode released in 2015 to rave reviews from kids and adults alike, becoming the highest-rated premiere for a kids' program on the service that year, with a full first season airing a year later. Two* or four, depending on how you slice it. Season 2 was divided into "2A" and "2B" parts, and although there is a Season 3B, it only consists of one episode. more seasons were produced from 2016 to 2019.The story starts out like this: tween best friends Kelly Quinn, Darbie O'Brien and Hannah Parker-Kent come into possession of a cookbook previously belonging to Kelly's grandmother, who is afflicted with a mysterious neurological illness in the present day. The girls discover that the cookbook's recipes inflict magic spells on whoever eats them, and that Grandma Quinn's ailment is the result of a curse. Using the power of the book, they seek to find a way to cure Grandma Quinn, inadvertently unraveling more mysteries about magic and its relation to the people they thought they knew.While this plot becomes more complex as more narrative threads are introduced, the episode-to-episode gist usually remains the same: Kelly, Darbie and Hannah get into trouble, attempt to use magic to solve it, the magic backfires, and they learn a lesson. This is reflected in the heavily consequential nature of the magic itself, which is emphasized not to be the cure-all for everything, as all the spells carry some sort of caveat or downside.The series concluded with a Backdoor Pilot special, from which spun off 2020's Just Add Magic: Mystery City. It follows a new trio of protectors introduced in said special and/or the final season: step-siblings Zoe and Leo Chua-Sellitti, and their downstairs neighbor Ish Gupta.
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Control Freak
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The side effect of bringing the garden back in Season 2B, is Kelly turning into a magic Control Freak. It takes most of the season for Hannah and Darbie to figure this out.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The side-effect of the PHO-tographic Memory Soup: Kelly gets to see memories her recent past, but she loses an hour of her life and constantly forgets about various things; and Kelly was addicted to the soup not caring about the consequences. It literally takes the others forcing Kelly to stop by pouring out the soup. It's basically a G-rated version of being drunk from alcohol and having a drinking problem.
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Poor Communication Kills
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Poor Communication Kills: Lampshaded by Ms.Silvers, who notes that if she was better at communicating the current crisis might have been averted.
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Power at a Price
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Power at a Price: Cedronian spice specifically invokes this. It always works as intended, but curses those that poured it. Magic in general tends to work like this.
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It Only Works Once
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It Only Works Once: One of the time-travel spells "Pick a Date Dates" is a spell that can only be used once. So it's usually reserved for something major or important.
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Alpha Bitch
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Alpha Bitch: Charlotte is a wealthy girl who loves to lord her status over other people. She's especially tough to people on the basketball team. She does display a softer side in the Pilot, but "Just Add Halloween" shows that this hasn't changed the girls' opinion of her that much. Leah in Season 3
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Aborted Arc
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Aborted Arc: Remember in the pilot episode where Kelly, Hannah and Darbie make the basketball team, and Charlotte ends up becoming captain? Well, apparently the show didn't, since that subplot was dropped after the premiere, and it never gets readdressed.
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Generation Xerox
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Generation Xerox: In a flashback, it shown that the previous trio was like the current trio with Ms. Silvers being the Hanna, Mama P being like Darby, and Grandma being like her granddaughter.
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Kid Hero
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Kid Hero: Kelly, Hannah and Darbie are the protectors of the Cookbook who just happen to be kids.
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Curse Escape Clause
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Curse Escape Clause: Each type of ingredient comes with a curse attached, but most spells include a way to break the curse as well.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Zig-Zagged with Mama P in Season 1. She's at first hinted to be the villain, but then its revealed she isn't at all and works with the girls throughout most of the season... only to turn on them during the finale, revealing that she's been Evil All Along.
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Halloween Episode
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Halloween Episode: "Just Add Halloween"
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The Dreaded
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"Just Add Summer" ends with The Dreaded Chuck Hankins finally turning up and reuniting with Becky, Ida and Gina after 50 years.
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Bad Present
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Bad Present: When a young Becky Quinn changes the past so Ida and Gina never got in an argument, Becky got stuck in the cookbook when Chuck saved Rose, Gina Silvers was poisoned and turned evil, took over as mayor, and ruled Saffron Falls with an iron fist.
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A Birthday, Not a Break
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A Birthday, Not a Break: In "Just Add Birthdays": Not only does Darbie have to keep a half-their-aged Kelly and Hannah out of trouble, she had to break into Mama P's pantry to get the ingredients for the cure. Doing it at night also helps.
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Title-Only Opening: The opening for the series' episodes just flashes the title of the show with a familiar music tone.
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Stable Time Loop: Early on in "Just Add Halloween", Darby recalls how she got pushed into a jellybean display at Mama P's during the last Halloween. Darby herself turns out to be responsible for this, using it as a diversion so the girls can sneak into Mama P's spice cabinet.
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In "...Rose", there's a moment that doubles as Five-Second Foreshadowing. When Kelly and the gang confronted Chuck/Charles about how he apparently trapped Rose inside the book on purpose and had to sacrifice another protector (Hannah in this case) into the cookbook to keep his immortality spell going, Charles never confirmed the statements or said she was right, he just claimed she had no idea what she was talking about and that she wasn't there. Because he knew something they didn't. And then the truth comes out...
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Actor Allusion: In Just Add Caroline, Becky, Ms. Silvers and Mama P reminisce about playing animals in a school play when they were in middle school. Becky says she played a wolf, an allusion to Dee Wallace's role in The Howling.
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Butt-Monkey: Jake qualifies as one.
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Big Good
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Big Good: The Traveler, who's the sole guardian of the Cookbook and has been around since the creation of the book, which is at least since the Middle Ages.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: "I have ways of making the others cook."
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Wham Shot: Chuck Hankins returning from the Ferris Wheel. It's also the final shot of Season 1. The first time Chuck Hankins' appearance is personally seen onscreen. The fake Erin turning into Kelly.
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Book Ends: The series begins and ends with Grandma Becky Quinn being in some kind of curse or danger via magic, and the girl trio having to find a way to bring her back.
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Dark Is Not Evil: Ms. Silvers. Lives alone in a creepy house, is very frightening and antisocial, uses a crow to spy on the girls, and ultimately just wants to protect them.
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Genius Ditz: Darbie may not be very good at her schoolwork, but she can draw scale models for a blueprint like a boss.
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Heel–Face Turn: Chuck at the end of Season 2A, since he was only trying to save his sister, Rose. He ends up managing to do so without having to hurt anyone.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Chuck Hankins was tried terrorizing the family for spices because he loved his younger sister, Rose Piezer and didn't like showing his sensitive and caring side. Gina Silvers was right, there was good in Chuck.
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Heroic Sacrifice
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Heroic Sacrifice: Becky Quinn was willing to do whatever it took to get rid of the magic cookbook, so it wouldn't tear the girls apart. One day she cooked something in a large pot, and tried to erase the pages, but the book fought back, and she got cursed to be emotionless and nearly speechless as a result, she knew the consequences, but she took the risk anyway, she really wanted to protect her granddaughter. Happens again when The Traveler uses an unknown recipe to sacrifice her body and protect the girls from Chuck in Season 2.
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Gilligan Cut: When the pampered dog that Kelly was supposed to be watching escapes, Darbie keeps worrying about him. Every time she wonders how scared he is, the camera cuts to the dog thoroughly enjoying himself.
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Idiot Ball: In "Just Add Saphrön", Jake casually takes a breath mint from the girls, despite knowing that they regularly create magical recipes. Fortunately, it's just a lie detecting spell and it actually works out in his favor by allowing him to tell that his would-be new boss is planning to exploit him for cheap labor.
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Missing Time
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Missing Time: The episode Just Add Memories has Kelly make a soup that allows her to recall one memory with perfect clarity (in essence, a temporary Photographic Memory). The downside? The more she uses it, the more time she loses in the present.
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The Faceless: Chuck Hankins, until Season 2. The mastermind behind protectors losing their thought on magic until the season 2 finale.
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"Rashomon"-Style
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"Rashomon"-Style: Of a sort in "Just Add Beginnings": A spell accidentally makes Hannah, Darby, and Kelly forget they were friends and Jake and Miss Silvers need to recreate the exact moment they met in order to restore their memories, but everyone who was there has a different memory of what happened. Fortunately, the one thing all version of events have in common is that Charlotte was there making fun of the girls, so they're able to get the full story from her.
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"What Do They Fear?" Episode
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"What Do They Fear?" Episode: "Just Add Camping", in which a spell needs the casters to face their fears in order to work. Hannah fears being unprepared, Darbie fears being alone, and Kelly fears failure, leading to a Despair Event Horizon when the spell convinces her that there's no way to save her grandma.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the Season 1 finale, the curse-breaking cake ends all the curses in Saffron Falls. Unfortunately, this included the curse that kept Chuck Hankins from coming back.
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Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending: In the magic side plot of Season 2 Part 2, Kelly, Hannah and Darbie are able to outsmart the Big Bad and maintain their memories of magic. However this doesn't change the fact that the mastermind had successfully erased everyone else's memories of it — including the heroes' closest allies and friends — meaning the main girl trio were the only ones with the power. This later gets averted when some of allies regain their memories in the next season.
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How We Got Here: Happens in the beginning of Season 2 Part 2 where the spices have be disintegrated and it seemed like there was no hope, and goes back two months to explain what happened and doesn't go back to the same moment until the season finale.
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Driving Question
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Driving Question: Season 1: Who cursed Kelly's Grandma, why, and with what? Answer: It was a consequence of her efforts to get rid of the book. Season 2A: Why does Chuck want the magic from the book? What exactly is his ultimate plan? His sister was trapped in the book as a result of an immortality spell he was trying to make. Everything he did was an attempt to save her by putting one of the girls into the book in her place. Season 2B: Who's cursing protectors to forget about magic knowledge? It's Jill/ Caroline who thought magic was dangerous and tried to destroy it for the good of humanity. And she wasn't too far off from the truth. Season 3: What's the downside of bringing the garden back to life?/ Who stole the night-blooming spice plants? Removing the poison from the garden caused Kelly's mind to be poisoned instead. The poison preyed on her fear that she, Hannah, and Darbie wouldn't be friends without magic. She took the night-blooming mint as part of a larger plan to bind the book to them forever.
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Power Glows
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Power Glows: Lampshaded. Darbie asks why Kelly couldn't tell something was wrong when the cookbook started glowing.
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Spell My Name with an S
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Spell My Name with an S: Darby or Darbie? The episode descriptions on Amazon Prime use Darbie, but the subtitles use Darby.
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Wham Episode
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Wham Episode: "Just Add Jake" is the first episode of the series that truly changes the status quo as it features the girls' friend Jake discovering the cookbook and the fact the magic exists. Then "Just Add Birthdays" and "...Mama P" has Mama P/Ida Perez join the girls as an apparent ally to them, and reveals that she, Becky Quinn and Gina Silvers had all been protectors of the cookbook before the Kelly, Hannah and Darbie and that an argument caused the women to part ways. Also, Mama P was cursed to stay in Saffron Falls. "Just Add Pluots Part 1" shows that Mama P — not Gina Silvers — was the mastermind responsible for all of bad things happening around Saffron Falls and she had been using the girls to help her break her curse, not caring about Kelly's grandmother. "Just Add Pluots Part 2" has the girls find out the Becky herself had taken part in her curse being placed on her, as she had taken the cookbook and confiscated it, tearing its pages out. Also, the rumored Chuck Hankins finally returns after his 50-year absence and a new enemy was brewing... "Just Add Summer" ends with The Dreaded Chuck Hankins finally turning up and reuniting with Becky, Ida and Gina after 50 years.
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Cliff Hanger
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Cliffhanger: Surprisingly, not even a kids' show is safe from having cliffhangers... Season 1 ends with the girl trio accidently getting rid of Chuck Hankins's curse, allowing him to get his revenge on the Original Cooks. Season 2A: After the issue with Chuck is resolved, a man is listening from outside of Mama P's thinking of current protectors. Season 2B: After the girls bring back magic to the world, they lose something equally as important, which is unknown as the screen starts to go white.
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The Bus Came Back: Chuck came back to help the girl trio in the Season 3 finale. Sure it was for one episode only, but he still came back.
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Erin Chua; The real Big Bad of Season 3 is Kelly Quinn after she was poisoned and turned evil.
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Never My Fault: Sometimes when something goes wrong between the trio, Kelly will point the blame on the other people. Luckily, she usually owns up to her mistakes and/or apologizes.
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Eye of Newt: One of the ingredients for the magic recipes is a special spice that varies by the spell. Cedronian for Balance, Lapsus for mobility, Taurian for time, Werpoes for the body, etc.
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Foreshadowing: In the first half of season 2, there were several elements that predicted Chuck's true plan and age. In "...1965", Chuck tells Mr. Quinn that he used to live with his sister, but things didn't work out so well. He was right about that part, but he left out just how it didn't work out... In "...Fixings", Kelly comes across Chuck while under the fixing spell and realizes Chuck was "emotionally broken". It's possible this is because he's traumatized after his sister's loss, and was beginning to lose hope of ever being able to help. In "...Muscles", Chuck tells Becky Quinn that he didn't want to go after the Quinn family and that his plan started long before she was even involved. A subtle hint that Chuck's from a time older than the 1960s. In "...Fire", while Chuck was looking through his cookbook near the end of the episode, he comes across the sketch of the girl and immediately recognizes it as "Rose". It's almost as if he somehow knew the girl... In "... Meddling", Chuck (while in Jake's body) learns that him magically getting Ida's father fired from his job tore her family apart, Chuck immediately regrets doing so and feels pity for her. This makes sense in hindsight, considering he knows what it's like to have a broken family. In "...Rose", there's a moment that doubles as Five-Second Foreshadowing. When Kelly and the gang confronted Chuck/Charles about how he apparently trapped Rose inside the book on purpose and had to sacrifice another protector (Hannah in this case) into the cookbook to keep his immortality spell going, Charles never confirmed the statements or said she was right, he just claimed she had no idea what she was talking about and that she wasn't there. Because he knew something they didn't. And then the truth comes out... There are several signs that show that Kelly was poisoned and turned evil in Season 3 and wanted to keep the cookbook permanently. In Just Add Time Travel, during the Bad Future where Ms. Silvers took over, Ida said Ms. Silvers got poisoned and turned evil, when she was trying to rescue Becky from the cookbook. In Just Add Plants, it feels peculiar that the downside for bringing the magic spice garden back was apparently the magic plants growing out of control all over town. For Cedronian spells, the downside typically involves the opposite of what the spell was intended to do, meaning that if the magic spice garden was unpoisoned, something else would need to get poisoned in its place. And Kelly's the one who poured the liquid restoring the magic garden, which means... During another point in Just Add Plants, During another point, Kelly said the magic spice plants overgrowing was a better downside than losing the cookbook. This indicates that she wanted to keep the book. In Just Add Piper, "Erin" said that the spell she cooked didn't attract the morbium she needed, just "a bunch of dusty relics" as she calls them. Ironically this was from the same location the girls went earlier and found the strange watch. In Just Add Rot, When "Erin" was stealing some of the spices from the cabinet, Kelly was the only one who wasn't tracking her down. In Just Add Tomorrow, the reason the girl trio ended up in the time-loop was because Kelly turned up the oven heat to 450° when it should have been 400°. Considering previous episodes have shown Kelly to be a serious Control Freak with cooking, extremely paranoid about the magic and a cooking expert, it's pretty out-of-character for Kelly to made such an avoidable mistake with a magic recipe... unless she did it deliberately.
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Mr. Fixit: "Chicken and Fixits" turns anyone into this, able to fix anything, no matter how badly broken. However, if you don't finish the original task, you become compelled to fix anything and everything, without rest or breaks.
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Secret-Keeper: Jake, although it takes an episode to convince him. Piper becomes this in Season 3 until Evil Kelly wipes her memory of magic.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All the episodes have "Just Add _____" in the name.
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Oh, Crap!: Kelly's grandmother is visibly terrified to learn that Chuck Hankins has been released from his curse.
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Be Careful What You Wish For: BFFPBJ turns anyone who eats it into your best friend forever. The downside? The "forever" part is Not Hyperbole. The person will never leave you alone, even if you'd prefer they did.
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"Groundhog Day" Loop: Happens in Just Add Do-Overs when the girls cook a do-over spell so, Kelly can prevent his brother Buddy from destroying something in the house, Hannah can secretly sneak around in Ms. Silvers, and Darbie can work on a model stage, for her art class. Happens a second time in Just Add Tomorrow, which happened to be the main plot of the episode.
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Emotionless Girl: Part of Becky Quinn's curse.
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The Paranoiac: A side effect of the "Trust Me Tabouli" spell: It makes whoever eats it trust you, but you lose your own ability to trust people as a consequence. Even without the above spell, Kelly has a habit of freaking out over nearly anything. See Control Freak above.
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Decoy Antagonist: RJ in season 2B The real Big Bad of Season 2B is Jill/Caroline Palmer Erin Chua; The real Big Bad of Season 3 is Kelly Quinn after she was poisoned and turned evil.
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Plucky Comic Relief: Darbie's usually the source of jokes in the series.
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Cutting the Knot: The girls need to use three ingredient families to break a curse, but mixing families can be very dangerous. The girls get around this by cooking a triple layer cake so they don't need to mix.
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True Companions: The main three girls, obviously.
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Shout-Out: One of the many recipes in the cookbook is Lazy Lasagna. Guess where that's from.
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Mundane Made Awesome: Cooking. Justified since it's magical.
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What the Hell, Hero?: Darbie gives one to Hannah in part 1 of Just Add Pluots, when she rats out Kelly for the bad things she's done, and makes up some the nonsense so Kelly would get grounded. Hannah says she's trying to protect Kelly, but that's no excuse for what she did.
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Does Not Like Magic: Kelly's grandma, who sees it as what drove the original trio apart and as a danger to her family. She is not happy to have her granddaughter cooking again.
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Addictive Magic
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Addictive Magic: Kelly quickly becomes addicted to the use of magic in Season 2. Her friends even stage an intervention for her.
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Temporarily a Villain: Ms. Silvers becomes the main antagonist of the Bad Present segment of the Season 3 premiere. The side effect of bringing the garden back in Season 2B, is Kelly turning into a magic Control Freak. It takes most of the season for Hannah and Darbie to figure this out.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Willy, introduced in "Just Add Dogs", later gives Hannah information on the missing Chuck Hankins.
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Bad Future
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In Just Add Time Travel, during the Bad Future where Ms. Silvers took over, Ida said Ms. Silvers got poisoned and turned evil, when she was trying to rescue Becky from the cookbook.
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Functional Magic
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Functional Magic: Each ingredient "family" influences something different, like Cedronian for balance, Taurian for time, etc. Individual spices within the families have different effects, combining families is difficult, and being able to make your own spells rather than rely on recipes takes years of study.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Grandma snaps out of her silence to warn Kelly to trust her instincts since she's opened the cookbook.
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Early-Bird Cameo: Chuck Hankins appeared in a photo in the first few episodes, who will later become the focus of Season 2 Part 1.
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Easily Forgiven: Averted. No one is eager to forgive Mama P for freezing the town, least of all Jake, even though she claims she knew the girls would find a way to break the spell.
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Birthday Episode
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Birthday Episode: The pilot episode is Becky Quinn's birthday "Just Add Birthdays" is Darbie's birthday "Just Add Surprise" is one for Kelly.
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Darkest Hour
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Darkest Hour: Just Add Pluots is easily the darkest episode of Season 1, with Kelly trying to cure her grandma with a cure with a dangerous price, even after Hannah told her it was too risky. Kelly finally being punished by her mother, The girls friendship at risk, Mama P's true intentions revealed and The story of how Becky got cursed and an old enemy of the girls coming back One happens in the Season 2 episode Just Add Fire when Chuck got his cookbook and the morbium seed back, and most of the girls' recipes were in the hands of Chuck. And if that's not bad enough, Grandma Becky turned out to be the one who destroyed the Original Cooks protectorship of the cookbook, and Kelly didn't trust her grandma anymore, because she thought she was lying about other things as well. It seemed like there was no way to stop Chuck.
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Caroline, the Big Bad of Season 2B, also known as Jill, Terry's campaign manager. She's a former protector who believes that magic is dangerous to those who use it and needs to be destroyed for the good of everyone. Brainwashed Kelly from the third and final season thought keeping the cookbook forever was the only way to keep in from falling in the hands of bad protectors, and she's not completely wrong, as all the opponents they had faced were former protectors that went rogue, and since they had always managed to beat them, it makes sense that Kelly would get an ego. Plus even without the curse, Kelly had insecurities about whether or not Hannah and Darbie would still be her friends after the cookbook is no longer theirs to keep, and the poison made Kelly see the bad sides of her close ones and released her own dark side.
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