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* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Gordo likes Lizzie. If only he could tell her.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Miranda wasn't in the last few eps...or [[The Movie]].
** She was apparently [[Put Onon a Bus|visiting family in Mexico]]. For ''[[Fridge Logic|months]]''.
*** One fanfic writer came up with the explanation that she was having her quinceanera with her extended family. Some people have taken this as [[Word of Dante]] and or Fanon.
*** Except she wasn't 15 she was no older than 14 being in 8th grade and all. So so much for that.
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** 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:
{{quote| '''Animated Lizzie:''' Wow, Miranda's officially in love with acting. Maybe when she's thirty years old, she can play a teenager on ''[[DawsonsDawson's Creek]]''.}}
* [[A Day At the Bizarro]]: The [[Freaky Friday Flip]] episode.
* [[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.
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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: [[I CarlyICarly]] (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 [[Lizzie McguireMcGuire]] ended.
*** In a way [[Lizzie McguireMcGuire]] is the [[Trope Codifier]] to the [[Just Friends]] relationship in post 2000 television, after [[Slap Slap Kiss]] Love/Hate type couples had dominated the 90's and the Ron/Hermione ship in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' had introduced it all over again.
* [[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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** 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 Onon a Bus]]: Miranda, after Lalaine left the show for undisclosed reasons.
* [[New Job Episode]]
* [[The Rashomon]]: The food fight episode.
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** 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 Byby 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 Onon a Bus]].)
* [[Shaking Her Hair Loose]]: In the murder mystery episode, Larry starts chatting up Veruca, both of them dressed in Edwardian era clothes. Veruca shakes her hair down as some faux-dramatic music plays.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Ethan Craft.
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* [[Three Amigos]]
* [[Trope Maker]]: For the [[Disney Channel]] [[Kid Com]] formula.
* [[Two Girls and Aa 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.
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]
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* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: The series finale and [[The Movie]] both imply that Gordo does in fact get the girl.
* [[Walk On the Wild Side Episode]]
* [[With a Friend Andand Aa Stranger]]: Lizzie (the main character), Gordo (the childhood friend and [[Love Interest]] of Lizzie) and Miranda (the stranger).
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Jo is ''much'' more savvy and wise to her kids' games than poor Sam is. Lizzie even says once "Come on- we're just fooling dad here! It's not like we're fooling ''mom''!"
* [[You Go, Girl!]]: "One of the Guys", when Lizzie turns out to be really good at flag football.
 
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