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''[[A.N.T. Farm]]''
[[Lizzie McGuire|Like]] [[Hannah Montana|many]] [[Wizards of Waverly Place|Disney]] [[Sonny With a Chance|Channel]] [[Jonas|sitcoms]], it serves as a vehicle for their new singing star,
May be a part of the [[
▲May be a part of the [[DCLAU]] due to a recent episode having a [[Wizards of Waverly Place|Tears of Blood]] poster in the background.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Angus to Olive and is one of the rare male cases of this.
* [[Accidental Art]]: Chyna's monologue in "ParticipANTs".
* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: Paisley, sometimes to [[Reality Warper]] levels. She made a helicopter out of
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Susan Skidmore.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Lexi, though she's more of a [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]] [[Odd Friendship|whenever she's interacting with Cameron]] or [[Heterosexual Life Partners|showing genuine care toward Paisley]].
* [[Alternate Reality Episode]]: As a Halloween Special, the first episode was re-created, but with the A.N.Ts being M.U.T.A.N.Ts, complete with monsters and all. Chyna was a Gorgon, Olive was a Mad Scientist, Fletcher was a Vampire, etc...
* [[Artistic License Linguistics]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in-universe, Gibson spoke with a French accent while attempting to do a British accent.
** Chyna exclaims that
* [[Ass Shove]]: Implied to have happened to Fletcher in the episode "Ballet dANTser".
* [[Attention Whore]]: [[Alpha Bitch|Lexi]] would do anything to be in the school paper, even if it means appealing to Olive, despite the fact that she generally dislikes the ANTs.
** Even calls a girl, who is constantly in the school paper for doing genuinely good deeds, a publicity hog while fighting with her over a fire extinguisher. The struggle ends when she gets sprayed with said extinguisher. When Olive takes pictures of Lexi, instead of being embarrassed, Lexi begins posing for the camera.
** In "PatANT Pending", Paisley's broken arm gets all the attention and Lexi gets ignored and becomes jealous, and decides to pretend to have broken limbs in order to get noticed.
* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: Daryl Parks. He isn't necessarily a dirty cop, but he doesn't follow all of the rules and he definitely abuses being an officer of the law. He is more of the
** He takes evidence from the station and gives the items to his kids as gifts, and not good gifts.
*** To his credit, he does pay for the evidence, Not sure if cops can do that. He otherwise plays this straight for the reasons below, but the "gifts" he gets his kids show signs of [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|a completely different trope]].
** He did his marksmanship training with a fake gun made from his index finger and thumb.
** He couldn't find a note that a bank robber gave the teller during a robbery.
*** Chyna found it in her "gift" he gave her. His response, "That's where that went."
** In "The ReplicANT", Cameron asks him to arrest Olive, He says "Why?" Cameron replies "Oh now you need a reason [to arrest someone?]" Leading us to believe that he arrests people for any reason he can think of (or no reason) if it suits him.
** The radio dispatcher announces over the radio a 1-3-9. which Daryl says
*** In that same episode, when he finally makes an arrest, his says it which much enthusiasm, implying that he doesn't make many arrests.
** But to his credit, in the episode InformANT, he apparently is a detective. But that may serve the purpose of showing how bad his precinct is if he is a detective, unless he ends up being a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]].
** Even more evidence that the precinct is full of incompetent cops. In the pilot, Darryl says his meeting hosted by the Chief of Police is cancelled because the chief's car was stolen. Which hints to him having a chief similar to [[The Simpsons (animation)|Clancy Wiggum]].
* [[Big Eater]]: Angus: he once ate everything at a restaurant in less than an afternoon but was still starving so he ordered a pizza. He also bought everything from a bacon truck even though he doesn't like the food that much.
* [[Boastful Rap]]: Although it was written by Chyna, Olive spits one of these. None of the lyrics make any sense, except when she says "...my skills to recount are innately phenomenal" speaking of her talent for remembering everything she sees, hears or reads.
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]:
** Chyna on does this twice in the episode "You're the One That I wANT". After Olive explains what theatrical asides are.
{{quote|'''Chyna:''' Can you believe she is pitching an idea where characters breaks the reality of the play and speaks directly to the viewer
** And later she says:
{{quote|'''Chyna:''' Y'all see what I have to deal with? Writers, unbelievable.}}
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{{quote|'''Cameron:''' But dad, does she have to go to my high school? I mean she's only 11.
'''Daryl:''' It's not Chyna's fault that she's gifted anymore than it's your fault that you're...not. }}
* [[Call Back]]: "MutANT Farm" is a Halloween-themed reflection of the first episode and as such reuses a lot of dialogue from that episode.<ref>
* [[Camp Gay]]: Mr. Zimbaldi, the drama teacher, and in "You're the One That I wANT" [[Meaningful Name|Samuel French]].
* [[The Cast Showoff]]:
** Chyna sings in various episodes. Sometimes it's an actually performance, but most of the time it's a song written on the spot and plot-related, such as thinking of a song to cheer up Gibson, a student council campaign song, singing words to the Jack-in-the-box theme to explain a [[Zany Scheme]] during the Christmas Episode and singing about a
** [[Stefanie Scott]], who also is a young up-and-coming singer/songwriter, finally got a chance to sing on the show, albeit a ridiculous song about being a donut.
* [[The Cheerleader]]: Of both types, at that rate.
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* [[The Danza]]: Chyna is played by China Anne McClain. One letter off, but still counts.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Although a mild case of redundancy, Chyna says the same word a lot in this sentence.
{{quote|'''Chyna:''' Cameron, what dance should I dance for the first dance of my first high school dance
* [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]]: Lexi on a couple of occasions.
** In an early episode, when Chyna doesn't know much about her, Lexi talks Chyna into trying out for the cheerleading squad. Chyna surprisingly makes the squad. But at practice, Lexi puts Chyna through a torturous first day, which leaves her bruised up, but more importantly, Chyna loses her voice. And Lexi reveals that she did this to stop Chyna from auditioning for the lead role in the school's musical. When Lexi is introduced in the Pilot, she shows that she was the lead nearly every play or musical at the school, clearly making her a front-runner even with Chyna as competition, since someone in Chyna's position might get a few minor roles, or at least one, before she would be considered a viable threat to Lexi.
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* [[The Ditz]]: Gibson, Paisley, and Fletcher.
** [[Genius Ditz]]: Fletcher's great at art, but thinks snow angels are dead snowmen.
** Also Olive might qualify. While very book smart
* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]: In "TransplANTed":
{{quote|'''Olive:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Let's go to a high school party. It'll be fun]].
'''Fletcher:''' Another one? Wasn't this one bad enough? }}
** Fletcher sometimes doesn't even understand it when ''he'' dishes it out.
{{quote|''' Fletcher:''' Thanks a lot Chyna. ''(walks away [beat])'' And to be clear, I wasn't thanking you.}}
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In "StudANT Council", Olive and Angus talking at the A.N.T. Party the previous night. Olive says that the party was crazy and that she overdid it. While Angus says that "everything is hazy" he even say, "I am never eating candy again." Then eats candy anyway. Almost radar since most kids that age might not understand the joke.
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{{quote|'''Paisley:''' Yay! I want to thank all the other cheerleaders for reminding me that there is no "I" in team, because I use to spell it with an "I".}}
** Lexi isn't exactly a rocket scientist, but much smarter than Paisley.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Played straight and averted. Paisley is dumb as a post, but kind. Chyna, Fletcher and Olive are considered geniuses, but also kind. Lexi is of normal intelligence, but mean and manipulative, though she
* [[Expy]]: Many obvious and subtle ones are present on this show.
** Chyna comes off as a very
*** Chyna even has similarities to [[iCarly|Carly Shay]] when you consider she can sing, is [[Oblivious to Love]] from Fletcher, and has a less than normal older brother.
*** Musically talented girl who finds herself in a [[Fish Out of Water]] situation when she begins attending a new school? Chyna is essentially the black [[Victorious|Tori Vega]].
** Olive is [[Hannah Montana|Lilly Truscott]] as a middle schooler.
*** In the episode "The ReplacemANT", Her school teacher look makes her look like a female version of [[The Fairly
*** She also seems a lot tougher than Chyna, and is sometimes mean to Fletcher, given who Fletcher is an expy of,see below, Olive is a more book-smart version of [[iCarly|Sam Puckett]] without all of the drama and binge eating. She might even live in a dysfunctional household, but not much is stated about Olive's
*** Olive even has a similar hairstyle and color to that of Sam.
*** In "StudANT Council". she shows can even [[Boastful Rap|spit some fire into the M-I-C]]. Even though she didn't write the rap in-universe, she didn't sound corny. And she, much like Sam, has moderate mic skills [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy|for a white girl]].
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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every episode title has "ANT" in it somewhere in capital letters. They also do this when the word that "ANT" is a part of isn't pronounced as it normally would be such as "You're the One That I wANT".
* [[Innocent Prodigy]]: Despite her intellect, Olive is very much a child. Chyna is able to trick Olive into spending the night in the "haunted locker" (to prove it's not haunted) by leading her to the school blindfolded. Olive believes she's in Chyna's house playing a game of Pin The Tail on the Donkey.
** Also when she has to {{spoiler|go back to kindergarten for losing her memory, which at the time of her grade demotion, came back, she enjoys being in the same class as 5-year
* [[It's All About Me]]: Lexi.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Possibly Lexi in the episode when she and Cameron find Principal Skidmore's phone. In the end, Cameron is punished by his father, however Skidmore says she will deal with Lexi later. After Lexi walks away, Skidmore realizes her phone is insured and gets rid of it anyway and walks off. There is a good chance Lexi gets off scott-free, but maybe not considering how cruel Skidmore is.
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** In one episode, Cameron dislikes being "locker buddies" with the admittedly irritating Olive, so he fools her into believing the locker is haunted by a ghost because she has a phobia of ghosts. [[Disproportionate Retribution|He procceeds to milk this for all it's worth, even laughing about how fun it is.]] At the end, when he's found out, he pays no consequence whatsoever for basically bullying someone with a phobia.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In "CANTonese Style Cuisine", Goo Goo tells Chyna "don't bother with the birthday song, people just like hearing-" and then gets cut off by the theme song.
* [[Literal
{{quote|'''Chyna:''' What is Gibson's idea of a perfect date?
'''Gibson:''' November 3rd!
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'''Chyna:''' I didn't mean her skeleton! }}
** Olive also did this when Chyna didn't study for her science test and Chyna says that since Olive memorized the entire book, and asks her to tell her everything in the book. Olive proceeds to recite the inner cover including the special thanks and copywrite info.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Lexi, like all [[Alpha Bitch
* [[A Minor Kidroduction]]: The episode "Bad RomANTs" featured a flashback of Gibson 25 years in the past with his last girlfriend. The flashback explains his hair and the breakup which caused him to think of his ex everyday of his life through to the present.
* [[My God, You Are Serious]]: Angus reacts this way when he realizes Chyna wasn't joking about Gibson having an ex-girlfriend.
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: After the A.N.T. are seen complaining about the faulty climate control of the school, Chyna asks Principal Skidmore to cut something unnecessary from the school budget. {{spoiler|She, in-turn, fires Gibson and they spend the rest of the episode trying to raise the money to re-hire him.}}
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: One of [[Lady Gaga]] in one episode.
** Pauly D and ''[[Jersey Shore]]'' as a whole in the "America Needs TalANT" episode with Nicky G. and "Yo, I'm from Jersey".
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: The science teacher.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Strangely, Lexi and Cameron seem to get along okay.
* [[Older Than They Look]]:
** Fletcher's actor, Jake Short. He's playing an 11-year old character who looks and sounds like he's around 9. He's actually ''14''.
** Cameron's actor, Carlon Jeffery, is pretty noteworthy. While he isn't an A.N.T., he looks 15 and plays a sophomore, but the actor is 18.
* [[Once Per Episode]]: [[Mascot|Wacky the Wolf]] appears in every episode, despite being a minor character and not having any lines.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Frequent designated antagonist figures on the show, Lexi and Cameron, have some from time to time.
** Subverted once, however. When Cameron and Lexi found Principal Skidmore's cell phone, Lexi's initial reaction was that they should return it, which is probably the one nice thing she's ever even considered doing. However, Cameron talked her out of it.
* [[Police Brutality]]: In "The InformANT", a midget police officer called 3-9 is seen beating a thuggish looking man. As the man runs away, the officer goes on to say "That'll teach you to double park!" He is later seen beating another person up, probably for another minor "crime".
* [[Preemptive Declaration]]: Olive uses this when Fletcher calls her ugly.
{{quote|'''Olive:''' At least my face isn't black and blue.
'''Fletcher:''' My face isn't black and blue.
'''Olive:''' Not yet. }}
* [[Punny Name]]/[[Meaningful Name]]: A handful scattered here and there. "Olive Doyle" clearly evokes [[Popeye (comic strip)|Olive Oyl]]. "Paisley Houndstooth" is named for two kinds of fabric. "Dixon Ticonderoga" is named for the Ticonderoga pencil brand from manufacturer Dixon. "Samuel French" in "You're The One That I wANT" is named for the [www.samuelfrench.com Samuel French theatrical licensing agency].
* [[Running Gag]]: Although all of the A.N.T.s have been in costumes at various times, Olive does this way more than the rest of them, Examples included:
** Queen Elizabeth the first.
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** A Goth chick along with Agnus as an [[Ozzy Osbourne]] [[Expy]].
* [[Sand in My Eyes]]: Subverted by Daryl. He tears up about Chyna being old enough to go out with a boy, unsupervised. He says that their is tear-gas in the riot uniform Chyna is wearing. But then he wipes his eyes with her sleeve only to realize it does have tear-gas on it. Happens later while watching a [[Chick Flick]] on the couch.
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: Not completely a confession, but in this exchange with Lexi's Pageant Judge in which his trying to convince her that he is an
{{quote|'''Cameron:''' I lived here before they finished building the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. I can still hear the sound of all 1.2 million rivets being put in.
'''Mrs. Busby:''' Wow, You can remember that?
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** When Chyna is working on the fortune cookie machine, she recreates the famous [[I Love Lucy|chocolate conveyor belt scene]].
** The number [[Les Misérables (novel)|24601]].
** The tune Fletcher hums while making a puppet of Chyna play the trumpet sounds
** On "America Needs TalANT", Lexi, upon hearing Paisley tell her she is going to be on a [[Game Show]], tells Paisley that she is not [[Are You Smarter Than a
** The [[Game Show]] on which Paisley and Olive competed
** Skidmore mentions [[A Christmas Carol|being visited by the three Christmas ghosts]].
** "The InformANT" has a midget police officer
** Cameron names the cat he disguises as a dog to enter and win a dog show, [[Snoop Dogg]].
** Olive goes [[The Fairly
{{quote|'''Olive:''' You know what funny starts with? '''F!'''}}
** As of "Some EnchANTed Evening", Chyna and Fletcher's friendship/relationship is now similar to Lizzie and Gordo's from ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]''.
* Gibson's Jewfro, which acts as a [[Bag of Holding]], may be a shout-out to [[Excel Saga (anime)|Nabeshin]].
* [[Sleepwalking]]: Olive does this during a slumber party. While sleepwalking she makes rooster noises, plays golf and sleep-knits, and isn't aware that she sleepwalks.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[That's So Raven]]'', but replace "Teen Psychic" with "Tween Prodigy".
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