Sabrina the Teenage Witch!

So recently I started watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch again. It was my absolute favorite show when I was younger, and to find it on Hulu made me happier than ever. 

Typically in an episode of the show Sabrina will come across an "average teenage" problem, try to fix it with a spell, it will end up backfiring, and she will realize that you can't get everything you want. 

I was watching an episode today that was about Sabrina and her "mortal" boyfriend being nominated for prom king and queen. It caught my eye in a different way because usually in the show she does not cared about her appearance, but in this episode it was all about that. 

She bought a new dress for the dance, and it was a size to small so naturally she found a "weight loss" spell that was going to help her get to the perfect size. After drinking the potion, she was to the weight she wanted to be to fit into the dress perfectly. The salesman then tells her that she needs to lose more weight and puts a spell on her mirror to make her see herself differently. 

To me, this showed how people that do suffer from eating disorders actually feel when looking in the mirror. They feel like they look so fat even though they are getting to an unhealthy small weight. In the episode, her cat says "you've dieted to the point of disappearance," and I think thats the shows way of portraying that the more this affects you, it'll get to a point where you are so unhealthy you could die. 

Watching the show now I think I better understand the messages given. I know when I was younger I loved watching the obstacles and I loved that in the end she realized that she couldn't use magic to get her way because lets face it, thats exactly how the real world is. 


I was just really impressed with this episode in particular because in the end she realizes that she was already in good shape and it was silly to even consider dieting because she was nominated for being someone who didn't conform to what everyone else was doing and for being "down to earth." Even though the show isn't on TV any more, it was a good show that was always giving good messages to teens and adolescents.