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10. 10. After Anne’s glorious night at the ball with Diana, she dares her bosom friend to race her to the guest bedroom of the Barry farmhouse. However, as the two girls excitedly jump on the bed, they are met with a very disgruntled Aunt Josephine. “Merciful heavens! What is the meaning of this!” she cries out after the girls throw themselves on her. She then threatens to tell Diana’s parents about it and cancel the music lessons she had planned for her neice. Luckily, Anne is able to win Aunt Josephine's friendship the next day, but not before accidently calling her an “old ogre”!

9. When Marilla’s amethyst broach goes missing the blame falls on Anne, who admitted to trying it on, but also claimed to have put it back on the pin cushion. However, Marilla doesn’t believe her and Anne’s next move involves giving an elaborate lie about losing the broach. Her false confession leads Marilla to tell Anne to “pack her bags and start imagining her life with Mrs. Bluett”.

8. Anne’s cow Dolly is the bain of Rachel Lynde’s existence. So when Anne thinks she sees Dolly trampling through Rachel Lynde’s field, she feels her only choice is to chase the cow out of the field herself. The result: Anne and Diana completely covered in mud, just in time for Gilbert to come wandering by.

1. “I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair. Green is ten times worse. You don’t know how utterly wretched I am,” Anne cries to Marilla after seeing the results of a hair dye she bought off a peddler. Anne was so agitated after having just smashed her slate over Gilbert’s head that she was desperate for anything to change her hair colour. The peddler promised the dye would turn her hair into “a beautiful raven black”, but the result throws Anne into “the depths of despair.”

2. We see Anne’s most violent flare of temper when Gilbert Blythe dares to call her carrots and pull on her hair. She smashes a slate over his head (“very hard, I’m afraid," she laters admits to Marilla) in a rage of fury that leaves Gilbert dumbfounded and Mr. Phillips incensed.

3. If it was anyone else besides Josie Pye who dared her to climb the ridge pole of Moody Spurgeon’s kitchen roof, then perhaps Anne might not have done it. Anne ignores Diana’s argument that it wasn’t a fair dare and is even more resolved to try it when Gilbert says it’s too risky. “I shall walk that ridge pole or perish,” she says. The result: a horrendous fall and a sprained ankle.

4. A distracted Anne – so excited about her duties as host to Diana at tea time - mistakenly serves her guest red current wine instead of the raspberry cordial Marilla had left for her. Getting her bosom friend drunk on Marilla’s famous wine is one of the most comical - but consequential - scenes in the series.

7. Rachel Lynde receives the full wrath of Anne when she makes the grave mistake of telling Anne to her face that she is “terribly skinny and homely” and that her “hair’s as red as carrots”. The following biting remarks unfurl from Anne’s furious face: “You’re a rude, impolite, unfeeling woman and I hate you! How would you like to have nasty things said about you – how would you like to be told that you’re fat, ugly and a sour old gossip?!”

6. Anne’s performance of Elaine, “The Lily Maid”, ends with her clinging to the pole of a bridge after her boat sinks in the middle of her recitation. Unluckily for Anne, Gilbert is the only one available to rescue her. Anne’s response to his inquiry as to what “in heck” she was doing?: “Fishing for lake trout.”

5. Anne is too mortified to tell Marilla that a mouse drowned in the plum pudding sauce because she forgot to place a cover on the bowl the night before. As Anne watches their unexpected dinner guest, Miss Stacey, slowly bring the pudding to her mouth, she cries out at the very last second, “Don’t eat it Miss Stacey!” Marilla’s angry response is soon muffled by the laughter of the highly amused Muriel and Matthew.




