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A 1990s television series based on the [[Weird Science (film)|1985 movie]] of the same name. [[Hollywood Nerd]]s Gary and Wyatt, unable to hook up with real girls, use a computer to "create" the perfect woman: [[Magical Girlfriend]] Lisa, whose powers initiate wacky adventures.
The series changed settings from Illinois (in the original film) to California. Probably for budgetary reasons, but they could have at least [[California Doubling|pretended it was still Illinois]].
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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: One episode revolves around the guys being given a brand new computer game by Lisa; they then blow her off completely to play the game but are disappointed that the game turns out to be too short. When they complain to Lisa -- well, she's so miffed at being ignored, she brings the video game villain to life. See also [[Turned Against Their Masters]].
** Come on, it's basically the description of [[
** Or the entire series. Except for the [[Noir Episode]]. And maybe the stuff with aliens.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: In season four, Chett ends up convincing Lisa to make him a successful male stripper. Everything goes great until his female fanbase begins to stalk him, his female boss forces him to have sex with her to keep his job, and finds his attempts to become a "legitimate" dancer squashed by sexist talent agents who see him as a glorified whore.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Both male leads but especially Gary. Wyatt usually at least managed to keep some dignity even when kicked by another wish gone wrong. Chett probably qualifies too, though he (mostly) [[Asshole Victim|deserves it]].
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: When Gary and Wyatt sneak onto a talk show (see below) and reveal they have a genie, Chett, Principal Scampi and a [[Jerk Jock]] at school feel "that explains a lot." Gary's father, however, asks, "Where'd Gary get the money for a sex change operation?"
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** "What Genie?" sees Wyatt and Gary going over the former's journal - referencing several past episodes.
* [[Expy]]: The FBI characters in "Fly Boys" are patterened after [[The X-Files|Mulder, Scully and the Cigarette-Smoking Man]].
* [[Gender Bender]]: In one episode, Lisa (annoyed at the boys' sexism) gets her own back by turning the boys into girls. And nobody could forget the episode where an underage online thief steals Lisa's image, replacing it with Abe Vigoda. (Yes, TV's ''Fish''.).
** In Quantum Wyatt, Gary jumps into a phone-sex operator at the end. And in the Pilot, Gary (thinking that Lisa had left forever) told Wyatt that he wouldn't be happy unless Wyatt was a "killer babe." Cue Wyatt turning into a gorgeous blonde. [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|And then cue credits before anything interesting happens.]]
** In "Bee in There", Wyatt asks Lisa to not only send himself and Gary back in time to 1987 but to leap them into their fathers a la ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' so they can teach their younger selves show to throw a baseball. Gary, however, leaps into his mother. This leads his dad and Wyatt's mother to believe that their spouses are having an affair.
* [[Grand Finale]]: "WS4." Aliens invade, Gary is killed by said aliens but then [[Death Is Cheap|resurrected]]; Chet and Scampi have a [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] moment.
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Gary and Wyatt are almost always together, yet are always after girls.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Oz|Tobias Beecher]] plays Chet!
* [[Identity Amnesia]]:
** In “By the Time We Got to Woodstock” when Lisa, Wyatt, and Gary time travel back to 1969, Lisa hits her head on a sign and accidentally zaps herself, causing her to lose her memories and become a stereotypical hippie. Wyatt and Gary track her down to Woodstock and restore her memory by beaning her with a 2x4.
** In “Lisa’s Virus” Lisa is infected with a computer virus that makes her act like a character from a virtual porn tape Gary bought. Then, she becomes convinced she is a character from a trashy soap opera she watched.
* [[Inept Mage]]: Lisa
* [[Jackass Genie]]: ''Not'' Lisa (usually), but her powers seem to do this to her as well without her wanting it by making wishes come true with unnecessary caveats and in ways that cause all kinds of trouble/plot. As one of the guys once puts it, "Your magic sucks."
** Gene the Genie, played by [[Bruce Campbell]].
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Lisa
** Her Catwoman outfit in "A Tale of Two Lisas" is probably the best example of that. Oh, my.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Wyatt's Mom and Dad.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Wyatt and Chett's parents are usually always away on business, leaving them the run of the house.
* [[Parental Bonus]]: During the [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', Gary has a moment that parodies the famous climax to the first ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' movie. Seems like a simple unrelated-[[Shout-Out]], but as the writers knew, ''TZ'' creator [[Rod Serling]] wrote a draft of the movie's script and originated said climax.
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* [[Secret Keeper]]: Chett (begrudgingly) becomes this after repeated memory wipes give him an immunity.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The first episode acknowledges ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' and [[Weird Science (film)|John Hughes]].
** "Bikini Camp Slasher" parodies the slasher/horror genres - throwing out references to ''[[The Exorcist]]'', ''[[Evil Dead]] II'', ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'', ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night|Silent Night Deadly Night]]'', ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the
** The plots of both "Quantum Wyatt" and "Bee In There" are parodies of ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' and it is mentioned in the latter. For you trivia buffs, Michael Manasseri (Wyatt) appeared in the ''Quantum Leap'' episode "Return of the Evil Leaper".
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Taken to the extreme. In several episodes, one of the guys actually got a girlfriend. But since this would've left the writers without an objective to drive future plots, she would quietly disappear between episodes.
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* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: After Lisa brings a video game villain to life, it promptly kidnaps her; Gary and Wyatt must fight for her release.
** Lisa herself fits this at times. In several episodes (such as the above example), she [[Jackass Genie|purposefully misinterprets the boys' wishes]] to teach them a lesson.
* [[Weird Science]]: The [[Trope Namer]], at one remove.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Some episodes ended with Wyatt or Gary actually getting/impressing girls, [[Status Quo Is God|only for them to be single the very next episode]].
* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: In season three, episode nine, Lisa is genie-napped and the boys lose all memory of her. Wyatt, reviewing past entries of his journal, finds references to her. He lists the plots of a few past episode to Gary and exclaims: "Who could come up with this stuff?" Gary remarks: "Oh, please, a 4-year-old could come up with this stuff."
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: Several episodes take the premise of existing shows. In "Sci-Fi Zoned," when the boys were fighting, Lisa zaps them into a world based on their favorite show, ''[[The Twilight Zone|The Sci-Fi Zone]]''. Another episode, "Quantum Wyatt
* It's a [[Wonderful Life]]... [[Subverted Trope|Without You]]
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