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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]]):
{{quote|'''Gordo:''' Besides, I'm more into those classy European types of girls anyway.
'''Ethan:''' Oh, you mean like Britney Spears? }}
* [[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]]:
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* [[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]].
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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.
{{quote|'''Jo:''' Elizabeth Brooke McGuire!!}}
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* [[Mis Blamed]]: For being the 1st Disney Channel sitcom. It is true that it's the 1st (and the key show that catapulted [[Disney Channel]] to overnight success)... only to be lost by [[That's So Raven]], which stole almost all of its thunder.
** 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]].
* [[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]].
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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.)
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