Braceface (Seasons 1–3)

Alicia Silverstone voices the lead in Braceface (2001), a Canadian animated series you can watch online on iFILM, with Michael Cera among the supporting cast.

Sharon Spitz is a junior high student in Elkford, British Columbia. Her new braces interact with electromagnetic fields — popping open garage doors, intercepting radio signals, triggering small technical disasters at the worst possible moments. Alongside that running problem, the show covers first crushes, shifting friendships and the standard humiliations of being thirteen. Three seasons, 2001 to 2003.

The science is obviously made up. The feeling of being the person things keep going wrong for is not — and that gap is exactly where the show lives. Stream Braceface online on iFILM.