How to Be Indie/YMMV

• Cliché Storm: Could have been this, but manages to subvert it with Lampshade Hanging and genuinely likeable actors.
• Crowning Moment of Funny:

Chanra: I also used three of your personal items to clean the trashcan, see if you can guess which ones.

• Ear Worm: The opening theme.
  • The new music for the How To Do Something sections. WITH A RAP!
• Foe Yay: Carlos and Indie. He especially likes the idea of playing kiss in the closet with her a bit too much.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Melinda Shankar (Indie) plays Alliah Bhandari on Degrassi. In fact her character was Put on a Bus so she could film this show, and The Bus Came Back when she finished filming and the show ended.
• Hollywood Homely: Abi is supposed to be uncool and a bit plain, but the actress who plays her, Marline Yan, looks like this.
• Ho Yay: AJ and Mike.
• Nightmare Fuel: One episode has Indie getting a pet turtle to try to persuade her parents she can look after a dog. She then has a nightmare that a giant turtle chases her down and eats her.
• Painful Rhyme: The poems Indie writes.

Abi: You wrote this, on purpose?

• Special Effects Failure: Leading to Narm Charm in episode 9.
• Tastes Like Diabetes: Indie's favorite movie.
• Too Good to Last: No matter how good the show was it was still a Canadian kid comedy on YTV.
• Unfortunate Implications: The show's name.