Season 1, episode 28: “Lizzie and Kate’s Excellent Adventure”

Hey, everyone! Don't vote for this stupid show in the People's Choice Awards poll of the greatest Disney Channel show of all time. So this episode has Kate’s name right in the title, which is obviously bad news. For months I've seen it waiting for me in the janky-ass online Disney video player and been …

Season 1, episode 17: “Sibling Bonds”

The good news is I'm officially past the halfway point for season 1, which is progress. The bad news is that I had to watch this week's episode and the fact that I watch this show in general. Lizzie McGuire is not a good show, you guys. It's really not.  Quick housekeeping point: this blog has been …

Season 1, episode 10: “I Do, I Don’t”

A lot of Lizzie episodes start with the trio all chatting on the phone on split-screen. This is one of them, with Lizzie and Miranda analyzing which X-Men power would make Ethan Craft fall in love with them and Gordo complaining about how they could fall for a guy so intellectually inferior. Drink every time Gordo …

Season 1, episode 8: “Misadventures in Babysitting”

And we're back. Another early, rough episode, making the bizarre jump in time in the last one even more inexplicable. You can tell within the first few seconds that it's one of the first ones, both because Hilary Duff looks so young and because of the ska music blasting. Lotta ska in the early episodes. "Misadventures in …

Season 1, episode 5: “I’ve Got Rhythmic”

I wish I could find information on the filming and airing of these early episodes. The confusingly titled "I've Got Rhythmic," is listed as 104 on the clapperboard in the end credit bloopers, and the show at this point was still called What's Lizzie Thinking?, so it's definitely one of the first episodes. But this …