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Meet Lizzie McGuire, a completely normal 13-year old girl, living a completely normal life. She goes to a completely normal school, with students (The [[Alpha Bitch]] Kate Sanders, [[The Ditz|ditzy]] hottie Ethan Kraft), and friends (dependable but emotional Miranda Sanchez, [[Teen Genius]] David Gordon, aka Gordo). Her home life is completely stereotypical, with a [[Nuclear Family]] that consists of her gnome-loving dad, Sam; level-headed mom, Jo, and bratty brother, Matt.
Also, Lizzie has an animated conscience inside her head narrating her every move.
This (and the transformation of [[Hilary Duff]] into an [[Idol Singer]]) managed to keep this series on [[Disney Channel]] for a full 65 episodes. From January, 2001 to February, 2004. It is commonly [[
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* [[Actor Allusion]]: One is made with David and Robert Carradine in the episode where Gordo and Matt make a kung fu movie.
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** Complete with [[Girl Posse]], right down to having a second-in-command who's even ''more'' of an [[Alpha Bitch]] than she is.
* [[Animation Bump]]: Animated Lizzie gets one [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x_W2dqjRGLw/TiFPlMenTGI/AAAAAAAABQU/-v_7Z9nhNrU/s1600/lizziemcguiremovie19.jpg in the feature film], as compared to her appearance in the series.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Matt.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Lizzie's animated alter ego changed a lot as time went on. She started out as a [http://i.imgur.com/hGjKh.png sketch that a first-grader could draw] and then evolved into her final form, which while simplistic, is leagues ahead of where she started.
* [[Black Hole Belly]]: Toon Lizzie has been seen swallowing some pretty big (to her) food items whole without any change to her size except for maybe a split second of [[Dinner Deformation]] on occasion.
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** On the show, Matt's best friend was Lanny while Melina was a minor [[Recurring Character]]. In the movie, Lanny is gone and Melina seems to have replaced him.
** Danny Kessler, the original "hottie" character, was in only two episodes after the pilot. He and his replacement, Ethan Craft, even appear in one episode together (in which the latter is introduced for the first time, [[Characterization Marches On|and his "wannabe gangsta" traits are played up a lot more]]). He then vanishes without a trace, though he is randomly name-dropped in the movie, two years later.
* [[Cool Loser]]: Lizzie isn't supposed to be ''ugly'', but she's considered a loser. [[Roger Ebert]] laughed at this in his review of the film, wondering how someone with a smile ''that shines brighter than all the stars in the sky'' could be unpopular.▼
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: (in a later episode than the [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]):
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* [[Compressed Vice]]: Several, most notably Miranda's eating disorder, which consisted of skipping lunch.
▲* [[Cool Loser]]: Lizzie isn't supposed to be ''ugly'', but she's considered a loser. [[Roger Ebert]] laughed at this in his review of the film, wondering how someone with a smile ''that shines brighter than all the stars in the sky'' could be unpopular.
* [[Dark Horse Victory]]: An election between rivals Lizzie and Claire and icky geek Tudgeman...who do you think wins?
* [[Dawson Casting]]:
** 17-year old Adam Lamberg as Gordo; because he hit puberty late, he is actually able to pass as a 12-year old pretty convincingly in the pilot, and he managed to remain shorter than Lizzie and Miranda all the way through to the end.
** 18-year old Kyle Downes as middle schooler Larry Tudgeman. Made more [[Egregious]] by the fact that, in the previous series he was in (the [[Retroactive Recognition]]-palooza ''[[Higher Ground]]''), he was cast as a troubled ''high schooler''.
** Also comes up in [[Conversational Troping]] when Miranda acts in a school play:
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* [[A Day
* [[Defictionalization]]: In one episode, Lizzie was inspired to spend more time with her mother after reading a novel titled, ''The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club'', for a school assignment. Disney later published an actual novel with that title, with notes from Lizzie included in the margins.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Kate in [[The Movie]], in which she was built up to more-or-less replace Miranda.
* [[Dojikko]]: Lizzie, strangely enough for a North American series. This was [[Flanderized]] in the movie.▼
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Gordo's roleplaying game experience.
▲* [[Dojikko]]: Lizzie, strangely enough for a North American series. This was [[Flanderized]] in the movie.
* [[Doomed New Clothes]]: In one episode where she bought expensive jeans and spilled smoothie all over them, ruining her plans to return them after the "Best Dressed" contest.
** Also in "Picture Day", you know after angsting on whether to wear her new blouse or her grandma's [[Homemade Sweater From Hell|hideous sweater]] that that new blouse is going down in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
* [[Double Vision]]: Hilary Duff performs a duet with herself in [[The Movie]], playing both Lizzie and Isabella.
* [[Dresses the Same]]: Miranda and Kate where the same outfit in "Picture Day", thus precipitating the [[Doomed New Clothes]] above.
* [[
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Every single Disney Channel original sitcom owes its existence to this show's success.
* [[Former Friend of Alpha Bitch]]: Lizzie and Kate. Actually addressed in a late season one episode when the two work together on a school project.
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* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: Utilized in commercials.
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Lizzie and Mat switch bodies for a day.
* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: During an episode where Lizzie wanted to go to Kate's unsupervised birthday party, Lizzie's mom uses it on her.
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* [[Garage Band]]: Matt once started one for a subplot.
* [[Golden Moment]]: Sometimes occurs in the more [[Anvilicious]] episodes.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Since it's Disney we're talking.
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* [[Greek Chorus]]: The Ani-Lizzie.
* [[Guilty Pleasures]]: Clover and Daisy is a guilty pleasure to Miranda and Lizzie.
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* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: When Lizzie goes to Rome in [[The Movie]], we learn that Italians all speak English with Italian accents. They even perform pop musical numbers in English. So did the Italian audience spend the whole "What Dreams Are Made Of" number wondering what on earth Lizzie and Isabella were singing about?
* [[Just Friends]]: Gordo to [[Oblivious to Love]] Lizzie. She's so oblivious it takes The [[Alpha Bitch]] informing her before she realises.
** Just as the series as a whole was something of a watershed and lead to multiple new shows that were more serialised and included developing romance arcs, it also paved the way for more [[Just Friends]] relationships in the shows that followed: [[iCarly]] (Which itself is [[Nickelodeon]]'s [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]), [[Zoey 101]], [[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]], [[Phil of the Future]], and even [[Western Animation]] such as [[Kim Possible]] and [[Danny Phantom]] all contain such relationships between the main character and a best friend and all came after
*** In a way
* [[Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films]]: Matt gets scared watching a horror film, though it happens with his parents present. He ends up trying to Feng Shui the house to get rid of evil spirits.
* [[Last-Minute Hookup]]: Lizzie and Gordo got to have their kiss in the last scene of [[The Movie]].
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* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]: Miranda in "Movin' On Up".
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Kate can manipulate boys into doing anything.
* [[The Merch]]: Fortune magazine estimated in 2003 that Lizzie McGuire merchandise had earned the Walt Disney Co. nearly ''$100 million''! That's from Radio Disney's big CD promotion, books based on the episodes being sold, mystery books starring Lizzie (much in the same vein as the [[Mary
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** Many people like to point to ''[[Even Stevens]]'', which started a year before either show, as the transition point from old Disney Channel to new Disney Channel.
* [[The Movie]]▼
* [[Montages]]: [[Once an Episode]]. Usually a pop song with some relevance to the action at hand would play over the montage.
▲* [[The Movie]]
* [[Naive Everygirl]]: Lizzie.
* [[New Job Episode]]▼
* [[Nice Jewish Boy]]: Gordo.
* [[Not Important to This Episode Camp]]: Miranda gets plenty of excuses for not being in the last few eps...but gets fully Chucked in [[The Movie]].
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* [[Popular Is Dumb]]: Ethan, and to a lesser extent Kate. It's revealed in one episode that Kate got held back because she somehow flunked kindergarten.
** Two drones Kate had in one episode left her because they were so stupid they thought Kate had wet herself even when they saw the drink splash on her.
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Miranda=Id, Gordo=Superego, and Lizzie=Ego.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Miranda, after Lalaine left the show for undisclosed reasons.
▲* [[New Job Episode]]
* [[The Rashomon]]: The food fight episode.
* [[Raw Eggs Make You Stronger]]: Lizzie's mother serves her glasses of raw eggs as she trains for a rhythmic gymnastics competition, but Lizzie dumps the eggs into a frying pan instead of drinking them.
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** In the movie, Paolo.
** Also, Ronnie the paperboy. This is before Lizzie and Gordo were an [[Official Couple]].
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: This show was ''very'' popular in its day, to the point that 65 episodes were produced in two years. But even it couldn't beat the notorious "65 Episode Policy". There were plans to spin off a "Lizzie in high school" sitcom onto [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], but it didn't pan out.▼
* [[Totally Radical]]: Most of the kids indulged in this. Not to mention the veritable deluge of references to early-2000s celebrities and music.▼
▲* [[Screwed by the Network]]: This show was ''very'' popular in its day, to the point that 65 episodes were produced in two years. But even it couldn't beat the notorious "65 Episode Policy". There were plans to spin off a "Lizzie in high school" sitcom onto [[ABC]], but it didn't pan out.
* [[Sequel Non Entity]]: Miranda is missing from several of the last episodes of the series, and is only mentioned in passing as being "in Mexico with her family" during [[The Movie]].
* [[Series Fauxnale]]: "Bye Bye Hillridge Junior High" and ''The Lizzie McGuire Movie'' showed Lizzie and Gordo graduate middle school and grow closer romantically, but since Disney Channel aired several of their shows' episodes at this time in an order that often differed drastically from the production order, ten more episodes aired afterward. (This was likely done to conceal Miranda being [[Put on a Bus]].)
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* [[Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy]]
* [[Snap Back]]: It seems that ''every two episodes'' Lizzie finds out Gordo likes her, but in the next episode she goes back to being completely [[Oblivious to Love]].
* [[Suck E. Cheese's]]: Sort of, a western-themed tourist trap called Grubby Longjohn's Western Emporium.▼
* [[Straw Loser]]: One of Lalaine's reasons for leaving the show.▼
* [[Split-Screen Phone Call]]: A three-way variant with Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo.
▲* [[Straw Loser]]: One of Lalaine's reasons for leaving the show.
▲* [[Suck E. Cheese's]]: Sort of, a western-themed tourist trap called Grubby Longjohn's Western Emporium.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: In an earlier episode, Matt and Lanny try to raise the money to buy ninety-dollar walkie-talkies. A floppy disk and a VHS tape make appearances in the same episode.
** Throughout the series, Lizzie, Miranda, and Gordo have landlines in their bedrooms rather than cell phones.
* [[Three Amigos]]
▲* [[Totally Radical]]: Most of the kids indulged in this. Not to mention the veritable deluge of references to early-2000s celebrities and music.
* [[Trope Maker]]: For the [[Disney Channel]] [[Kid Com]] formula.
* [[Two Girls and a Guy]] (With Lizzie ([[Blue Oni]]) and Gordo ending up together.)
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: Matt would ''always'' have a sub-plot in every episode that didn't involve him the A-plot; usually he would drag his parents along for the ride.
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