40 Fun Facts About Just Add Magic

Which actress who played the mother in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial plays Grandma Becky in Just Add Magic?

Dee Wallace was Mary in the 1982 Spielberg film; her Becky Quinn guarded the cookbook herself when she was about Kelly's age.

Which dish do the Just Add Magic girls cook to find a lost dog, its name a pun on lost and found?

Fondue works too well: the spell draws in everything that has gone missing in the neighborhood, not just the dog.

Which voice of the title character in Steven Universe plays vanished teenager Chuck Hankins in Just Add Magic?

Zach Callison plays Chuck, a boy who disappeared in the 1960s and walks back into the present looking no older once the girls break every curse.

Which company's streaming service made Just Add Magic, whose premiere weekend broke its record for kids' originals?

Amazon released the pilot alone in January 2015 and let the audience's response decide whether a full season would follow.

Which shellfish do the girls cook for super strength in Just Add Magic, though the spell works only on Kelly?

Mussels give the episode Just Add Muscles its pun, and the strength lets Kelly lift Chuck's cookbook, which the three girls could not budge.

Which instrument is music teacher Ms. Silvers cursed never to be heard playing in public in Just Add Magic?

Piano is what Ms. Silvers teaches, and when the curse lifts in the season 1 finale she plays on stage where everyone can hear her at last.

Which fruit do the girls eat in Just Add Magic to travel back to last Halloween?

Dates send the girls back to fetch a root that can be harvested only on that one night, and they wear costumes to hide from their past selves.

Where in Kelly Quinn's house do the Just Add Magic girls find the old cookbook while planning a birthday cake?

The attic is where the girls later turn up a box of magical ingredients too, and the cookbook itself once belonged to Kelly's grandmother.

In an altered timeline in Just Add Magic, which kind of cake does Ms. Silvers use to turn people into statues?

Marble cake does the job after a young Becky's trip through time rewrites history, and Jake is among the frightened statues Kelly finds.

Which pasta sauce do the girls cook in Just Add Magic to boost their brains, only to become insufferable know-it-alls?

Bolognese comes in the second episode, where the girls also learn the cookbook is seemingly endless: however far they read, the end never gets closer.

In which fictional town, home to Mama P's cafe, do Kelly, Darbie and Hannah live in Just Add Magic?

Saffron Falls matters to Kelly's mother, Terri, who gives a speech in season 2 about preserving its heritage.

In the Just Add Magic pilot, which ability does everyone who eats the girls' first cookbook cake suddenly lose?

Speaking deserts whoever eats the cake, which leads the girls to suspect that Kelly's silent, withdrawn grandmother is under a powerful spell of her own.

Which curse binds cafe owner Mama P in Just Add Magic until she breaks it in season 1?

She cannot leave town: when Mama P tries, a mysterious wind stops her at the border, and breaking her curse freezes everyone around her where they stand.

Which magical root, a gift from the Traveler, makes any recipe a thousand times stronger in Just Add Magic?

Morbium came as one seed each for Becky, Mama P and Ms. Silvers, and Becky used hers to cut the trio's magical ties once they began cursing one another.

Which sport do Kelly Quinn and Darbie O'Brien both play in Just Add Magic, with Grandma Becky cheering too much?

Basketball runs through the story: Kelly's grandmother was driving her to a tryout on the day she fell ill.

From which fairground ride does Chuck Hankins vanish in 1965 after biting a spelled apple in Just Add Magic?

The Ferris wheel is also where he comes back: when the girls break every curse at once, it stops and Chuck climbs off in his leather jacket.

What is the subtitle of the Just Add Magic follow-up series in which Zoe, Leo and Ish guard the cookbook?

Mystery City followed in January 2020, sending the new trio after a dangerous magical creation stashed away by a protector from the 1800s.

Which actress, the voice of Mrs. Hasagawa in Lilo & Stitch, plays cafe owner Mama P in Just Add Magic?

Amy Hill first drew notice as the grandmother in Margaret Cho's sitcom All-American Girl, long before playing the selfish but good-hearted Mama P.

Which office does Kelly's mother Terri Quinn win in Just Add Magic after Mama P exposes her rival's corruption?

Mayor Terri Quinn beats Adam Lever, who had promised Mama P nearly rent-free space in the mall he planned to build if he won.

Which younger brother of Kelly Quinn does Chuck Hankins save from a car in Just Add Magic, winning her parents' thanks?

Buddy loves sports and pestering his big sister, and once blames a lost game on Grandma Becky washing his lucky jersey.

In Just Add Magic season 2, which sister of Chuck Hankins turns out to be trapped inside the cookbook as a drawing?

Rose first shows up as a drawing of a girl with a flower in her hair; Chuck trapped her by accident with a spell meant to keep the cookbook forever.

Which 1990s protector in Just Add Magic disguises herself as campaign manager Jill to make people forget magic?

Caroline blames magic for ruining her life: a time-jump spell once left her stuck in the future, and her ballet hopes never recovered.

Where do the girls find Chuck Hankins has been living in Just Add Magic, after a vinegar pie spell misfires on Kelly?

An invisible trailer hides him among the trees; the pie that lets the girls see it first turns Kelly invisible, just when her mother expects her at a speech.

Which noodle soup does Kelly cook in Just Add Magic for a photographic memory of the day her grandmother fell ill?

Pho lets Kelly replay that day, at the cost of losing time and other memories, and shows her that her grandmother had wanted a word with her.

Which food do the Just Add Magic girls cook to watch a day in 1965, its name a pun on talking walls?

Tacos show the girls the day the three older cooks prepared a caramel spell, and Darbie reuses the trick to learn whether her parents are reuniting.

Which author wrote the novel Just Add Magic, the basis for the series, and its sequel Potion Problems?

Cindy Callaghan spent nearly 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry and began the book in 2003, seven years before it was published.

In Just Add Magic, what happens when Mama P steals the cookbook and tries to look through it for herself?

Its pages go blank for her, so the girls try three random recipes on a doubting Jake to win his help getting the book back.

Which fruit names the festival where Mama P tells off the whole town in the Just Add Magic season 1 finale?

Pluot also titles the two-part finale, Just Add Pluots; Kelly's dad lets her go only because he wants the family together before his mother is sent away for treatment.

Which actress, later Charlotte in Disney Channel's Coop & Cami Ask the World, stars as Kelly Quinn in Just Add Magic?

Olivia Sanabia earned a Young Artist Award nomination as Kelly and came back to the role as a guest in the 2020 spin-off.

What do Kelly, Hannah and Darbie each forget in Just Add Magic as the price of preserving their memory of magic?

Their friendship vanishes from memory: each girl still recalls doing magic but believes she cooked it all alone, until Jake and Ms. Silvers work out how the three first met.

Which Babylon 5 and Lost actress plays the Traveler, keeper of the cookbook, in Just Add Magic?

Mira Furlan was Delenn and Danielle Rousseau in those two shows; her Traveler turns up now and then to advise each generation of protectors.

Which dip brings a young Becky Quinn from 1975 in Just Add Magic, its recipe a pun on a walk through time?

Guacamole from the past causes chaos: when the 1975 Becky meets her older self both disappear, and the girls must follow her back to repair history.

Which three utensils form the symbol on the Just Add Magic cookbook, also engraved on a golden pocket watch?

Fork, knife and spoon also mark a carved box that shows its real contents only when Hannah opens it with a book-shaped key.

In Just Add Magic, how does 1990s protector RJ first make Kelly suspect that he is using magic?

He wins the lottery and cleans up at the racetrack too, and Jake's sleuthing then catches him buying cake mix for a spelled cupcake.

In Just Add Magic season 3, what do Kelly, Hannah and Darbie learn the new spice Parquinnien is named after?

Their own surnames, Parker-Kent, Quinn and O'Brien, blend into the word, and the girls fetch the plant from their future selves because it takes fifteen years to grow.

In Just Add Magic, inside which long-lost item, returned by the girls, had Ms. Silvers kept a magical seed?

A charm bracelet, silver and missing for years, came back to her through a finding spell; she then opened one charm and planted the seed inside.

In the Just Add Magic spin-off, what gold-attracting creation of the Wesson brothers must Zoe, Ish and Leo hunt down?

A sourdough starter fed the brothers' gold-drawing bread and grew so destructive that a fellow protector travelled to the future to hide it from them.

In Just Add Magic season 2, what are the numbers that appear on the cookbook counting?

Steps to a hidden place: the figure changes with the direction Kelly walks, and it reaches zero at a spot where she can see nothing but trees.

Which Good Luck Charlie actor plays Zoe's late father, a protector from the 1800s, in the Just Add Magic spin-off?

Shane Harper, Spencer in that Disney sitcom, plays Ian Maddox, whose handwriting in the cookbook first tips Zoe off that her dad knew magic.

Which sweet treat makes Kelly's mom tell only the truth in Just Add Magic after she eats one meant for Mama P?

Truffles work on Hannah and Darbie too, but Mama P dodges every question by knowingly eating a second one, which cancels the spell.