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Nightmare Fuel: A lot of the episodes were actually pretty damn scary.
Complete Monster: The guy who runs the circus in the season 3 episode "Carnival".
Crowning Music of Awesome: It's Mackenzie Phillips, so you could just randomly point to any of the songs she sings on the show and pick a winner. They really managed to write or choose ones that fit the strange, creepy or even light-hearted mood that the episode required.
Replacement Scrappy: Annie, oh so much. Her character wasn't even that off-putting, it was just everyone missed Fiona...
Tear Jerker: There are several in this show, right from the first episode. When Fiona is being haunted by the ghost of an 86 year old boy he reveals during the climax of the episode of how he died. Originally thinking he died in the Chicago Fire, she discovers that the boy drowned when the boat he and his parents were on capsized. In one of the most gut-wrenching scenes in the whole series, Fi gets a flashback to the day the boy died: how he was desperately clinging to the railing and trying to reach his parents who were in turn doing everything in their power to save their (presumably) only son. But before his father could reach him the boy's grip on the railing slips and he slides down the boat while his parents look in horror, screaming out for him. Fi, all the while, watching this can't do anything and even when the boy slips past her she desperately tries to save by grabbing him...and instead grabs his shirt which has his name on it. In the end, Fi manages to unite the boy with his parents in death by having the historical society find his grave so he can buried next to his parents. When Fi is walking back to the bus the spirits of the boy and his parents stand together as a family once more, in a way almost like a thank-you to Fi. That episode gets this troper crying hysterically every single time.
The song Molly sings about her titular childhood friend at the end of the episode "Rebecca". Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
The episode itself too. Going to your best friend's house and finding out she moved away without telling you has got to hurt. Especially because Molly never really found out why.
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