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7-> ''"I had bitmoji before anyone else."''
8-->-- '''Creator/HilaryDuff''' [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BVbAEwIn2KW/?utm_source=ig_embed via Instagram]]
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10Meet Lizzie [=McGuire=], a completely normal 13-year-old girl living a completely normal life. She goes to a completely normal school, with completely normal students (including AlphaBitch Kate Sanders and [[TheDitz ditzy]] hottie Ethan Craft), and completely normal friends (namely the dependable but emotional Miranda Sanchez and the TeenGenius David "Gordo" Gordon). Her home life is completely stereotypical, with a NuclearFamily that consists of her gnome-loving dad Sam, level-headed mom Jo, and bratty brother Matt.
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12Also, Lizzie has an animated conscience inside her head narrating her every move.
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14''Lizzie [=McGuire=]'', created by Terri Minsky, is one of Creator/DisneyChannel's biggest hit series, airing for a full 65 episodes from [[TurnOfTheMillennium January 2001 to February 2004]] and playing a role in the mainstream breakout of star actress Music/HilaryDuff as well as her transformation into a successful IdolSinger. It is commonly {{misblamed}} for being the first of Disney's tween sitcoms geared toward a more suburban audience. That title belongs to ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'', and even then, it wasn't the last show to be produced by [[Series/HannahMontana It's]] [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody a]] [[Series/SonnyWithAChance Laugh]] [[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Productions]] (the last Disney Channel show produced outside of It's a Laugh was ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture''). It also has the honor of being the first live-action Disney Channel series to gain a theatrical movie, a feat followed by ''Series/HannahMontana''.
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16In August 2019, it was announced that a {{revival}} was in the works for Creator/DisneyPlus, with Duff reprising the titular role. The new series would follow Lizzie as a thirty year-old living in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, with her animated asides remaining part of the show. It was going to begin streaming in 2020, but CreativeDifferences between Terri Minsky and Disney+ executives resulted in Minsky stepping down as show runner before production could finish. Duff was vocal that she and Minsky wanted to tell stories about an adult Lizzie and all that entailed (with many articles reporting that the pilot would feature a sexual infidelity), but Disney+ insisted on a more family-friendly presentation, and fired Minsky when she refused to agree. This sent production into limbo, with Duff refusing to go along with Disney+ and hoping for a soft-landing on a more adult-friendly platform like Creator/{{Hulu}}, as had happened with ''Series/LoveVictor''. Whatever progress might have been made was halted altogether by the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, and Duff announced the cancellation of the reboot series on her Instagram on December 16, 2020.
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19!!"I! Want! A! '''TROPE LIST!'''"
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21* ActOfTrueLove: In TheMovie, Gordo distracts Ms. Ungermeyer from discovering that Lizzie's been sneaking out during their trip to Italy, and in doing so ends up getting himself sent home.
22* AscendedExtra: Melina was originally going to be a one-time character, but she became popular enough to become a recurring character, even appearing in the movie.
23* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Instead of using the original opening, the Japanese dub uses a dubbed version of "I Can't Wait" sung by Chieko Kawabe.
24%%* AdultsAreUseless: Averted in a few places (usually with Jo), particularly "Lizzie's Eleven".
25%%* AnAesop: Delivered at the end of each episode.
26* AlphaBitch: Kate is an evil head cheerleader complete with GirlPosse and Lizzie's regular adversary, though even she isn't as horrible as her second-in-command Claire if the latter's given the chance. When Kate broke her arm, Claire not only had her removed from the squad to take her position at the top, she banned non popular girls from using the bathrooms, and wouldn't let non cheerleader students use tables for lunch forcing them to sit on the grass. Once Kate recovers, Claire herself breaks a wrist, but unlike her Kate treats her kindly.
27* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: It varied from episode to episode, but Lizzie's parents would sometimes qualify for this trope depending on their actions, though Jo was usually embarrassing for being overly motherly while Sam was more consistently embarrassing for just being himself.
28* AnimatedOuttakes: The animated version of Lizzie, who narrates some parts of the show as a {{Talking Head|s}}, gets bloopers at the end of the episode with all the real characters, too. Given that some of the animated segments included in the episode deliberately portray the cartoon Lizzie as clumsy and frequently messing-up, the outtakes are typically messing up words, facing the wrong way, or being "pranked" by the crew.
29* AnimationBump: The usual doodle look of Toon Lizzie gets replaced by a more fluidly drawn and warmly colored look in the feature film.
30* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Matt spends half the show annoying Lizzie with his pranks and insults.
31* ArtEvolution: 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.
32* BigBad: Kate at first, though in the movie [[spoiler: she had a HeelFaceTurn and the role is taken over by Paolo Valisari.]]
33* BilingualBonus: In the movie, Lizzie's doppelganger is named Isabella, the Italian version of the name "Elizabeth".
34* BitchInSheepsClothing: From the movie, Lizzie's RomanticFalseLead Paolo Valisari is a pop singer who befriends and woos Lizzie during her trip to Italy. He uses Lizzie's resemblance to his ex-girlfriend and singing partner Isabella, to have Lizzie sing in her place at an award show. It turns out he was actually planning to frame Isabella for lip synching and embarrass Lizzie in front of an international audience, just to get back at Isabella and avoid being sued for contract breach.
35* BlackHoleBelly: 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 DinnerDeformation on occasion.
36* BlessedWithSuck: After worrying about not being talented in anything, Lizzie finds out that she's a natural in rhythmic gymnastics....and absolutely hates it.
37--> '''Toon Lizzie:''' Well, that's just perfect. I find the thing I'm great at and it's the stupidest thing in the world.
38* BrainlessBeauty: Ethan is the handsome target of affection for every girl in school, and is buffoonish to the point of being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, complete with "wooshing" sound-effects when he says dumb things. His stepmom is even dumber.
39%%* BrokenTreasure: Subverted in that Mom had broken the treasure years earlier.
40* BumblingDad: Sam, a lot of the time. He has his moments, and isn't a {{Jerkass}} like many sitcom dads are, but he's a gnome-collecting doofus who has no concept of teenage issues.
41%%* TheButlerDidIt: A DiscussedTrope in "Clue-Less", the episode where Lizzie has a Whodunit murder mystery party.
42%%* CannotSpitItOut: Gordo likes Lizzie. If only he could tell her.
43* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Lizzie and Gordo have been friends since they were one day old. The series finale and TheMovie both imply that Gordo does in fact get the girl.
44* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
45** 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, [[CharacterizationMarchesOn 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.
46** On the show, Matt's best friend was Lanny while Melina was a minor RecurringCharacter. In the movie, Lanny is gone and Melina seems to have replaced him.
47* ClipShow: "Bye Bye Hillridge Junior High" features flashbacks from the course of the series.
48* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
49-->'''Gordo:''' Besides, I'm more into those classy European types of girls anyway.\
50'''Ethan:''' Oh, you mean like Music/BritneySpears?
51* CompressedVice: Several, most notably Miranda's eating disorder, which consisted of skipping lunch.
52* ContinuityNod: One episode was dedicated to Lizzie discovering she was good at rhythmic gymnastics. In another episode, she uses those skills to teach Kate to do a cartwheel one-handed after she breaks her arm and her replacement AlphaBitch turns out to be worse than she is.
53* CostumePorn: Lizzie in the movie gets a sequence where Franka the fashion designer forces her to try on several elaborate outfits. She also gets a PimpedOutDress for the concert climax.
54* CreditCardPlot: Gordo gets one...and tries to make a "big budget" movie with a $5,000 line of credit.
55* CutawayGag: A great amount of the humor in the show is based on this. Often, a main character (usually Lizzie, Miranda or Gordo) will discuss a offstage (or fantasized) situation, scenario or characterization, then the scene cuts to a very brief, humorous visual demonstration of who or what is being described.
56* CuteClumsyGirl: Lizzie, strangely enough for a North American series. This was {{flanderized}} in the movie, where she causes DisasterDominoes at her graduation ceremony.
57* DarkHorseVictory: An election between rivals Lizzie and Claire and icky geek Tudgeman...who do you think wins?
58* DeadpanSnarker: Most to all of the characters have their fair share, but this is practically the reason Animated-Lizzie exists.
59* DefrostingIceQueen:
60** Kate in TheMovie, in which she was built up to more-or-less replace Miranda.
61** The episode where a sympathetic Lizzie teaches a broken-armed, ostracized Kate how to do cartwheels and regain her status as head cheerleader plays with this trope.
62** She has a few moments in the series as well. Most notably when she is paired with Lizzie for a school project. The two wonder what happened to their relationship. In the end nothing changes in these episodes.
63* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Gordo's roleplaying game experience, which is treated like a drug addiction, complete with an "intervention" from his friends.
64* DoomedAutographedItem: In one episode, Lizzie is babysitting Matt when he and his friend accidentally destroy their dad's autographed football. They manage to trade for a different autographed football, but when their parents find out, they discover that their mother ''already destroyed'' the original ball- the one ''they'' destroyed was a forgery the mother had made.
65* DoomedNewClothes:
66** In one episode where Lizzie bought expensive jeans and spilled smoothie all over them, ruining her plans to return them after the school's "Best Dressed" contest.
67** Also in "Picture Day", you know after angsting on whether to wear her new blouse or her grandma's [[HomemadeSweaterFromHell hideous sweater]] that that new blouse is going down in a HeroicSacrifice.
68* DoubleVision: Hilary Duff performs a duet with herself in TheMovie, playing both Lizzie and Isabella.
69%%* DressesTheSame: Miranda and Kate wear the same outfit in "Picture Day", thus precipitating the DoomedNewClothes above.
70* ElectionDayEpisode: Lizzie runs against Claire and Larry Tudgeman for student body president.
71* EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: The episode "Rated Aargh!" shows that Lizzie is too young to see the R-rated ''Vesuvius: The Eruption''.
72* EntertainmentBelowTheirAge: The episode "Lizzie and Miranda's Magic Train" shows that Lizzie and Miranda secretly still love their favorite childhood show, ''The Magic Train'', a preschool show about a group of people dressed in animal costumes singing songs to small children. They become eager to see them perform live once they hear their band is coming to town. Deconstruction comes into play when AlphaBitch Kate Sanders sees the duo of friends at their concert and makes fun of them for going there alone, while Kate was only there to chaperone her little cousin. Lizzie takes a stand towards the end when she tells the entire school that Clover and Daisy, the two protagonists of ''The Magic Train'', can teach them a lesson in loyalty and confidence, ending the episode with the entire school (sans Kate) joining in a musical cover of a dorky song from the show expressing pride in silliness.
73* EveryEpisodeEnding: Every episode in the series ends with a HilariousOuttakes reel of the cast comically flubbing their lines or hilarious happenings on the set.
74* EvilDetectingDog; Downplayed; when Paolo brings Lizzie behind the scenes of a fashion show under the guise that Lizzie is actually Isabella, the hostess has a small dog who barks and growls at Lizzie, only to be admonished for barking at Isabella. Since Isabella and Lizzie would have vastly different scents, the dog is able to sniff right through the ruse.
75* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Lizzie and Kate. Actually addressed in a late season one episode when the two work together on a school project. Actually Lizzie mentions that she used to be friends with Kate in the pilot but "then she grew breasts" and blew her off. This fact is not pointed out very often afterwards.
76%%* FourthWallMailSlot: Utilized in commercials.
77* FreakyFridayFlip: In "Those Freaky McGuires", Lizzie and Matt switch bodies for a day.
78* FreudianTrio: Miranda=Id, Gordo=Superego, and Lizzie=Ego.
79* FullNameUltimatum: During an episode where Lizzie wanted to go to Kate's unsupervised birthday party, Lizzie's mom uses it on her.
80-->'''Jo:''' Elizabeth Brooke [=McGuire=]!!
81%%* GarageBand: Matt once started one for a subplot.
82%%* GoldenMoment: Sometimes occurs in the more {{Anvilicious}} episodes.
83* GoshDangItToHeck: Since it's Disney we're talking about.
84-->'''Miranda:''' Parker is such a [[WitchWithACapitalB witch]]...
85%%* GreekChorus: Ani-Lizzie.
86%%* GuiltyPleasures: Clover and Daisy is a guilty pleasure to Miranda and Lizzie.
87* GuinnessEpisode: Matt and Lanny attempt to beat several world records, failing miserably at all of them. At the end, Jo tells them they beat the record for most failed record attempts.
88%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Lizzie, being a young, kind NaiveEverygirl.
89* HardTruthAesop: The episode with Lizzie's advice column teaches the often-ignored side effect of bullying. Lizzie tells Veruca to just stand up to the bully - and Veruca then reminds her that "bullies have friends" and those friends gang up on her. Media at the time loved to teach the Aesop that standing up to a bully will automatically make things better, but that is not always the case.
90* HeightAngst: In "A Gordo Story", Gordo develops a case of this after [[KickTheDog Parker says she won't go to the dance with him because he's short.]]
91* HiddenDepths: Kate. One episode revolves around her and Lizzie having to work together and it lead to them remembering they used to be good friends. At the end of the episode Kate and Lizzie smile at each other briefly. While Kate doesn't stop being The AlphaBitch, we do see her have some nice moments with Lizzie over the course of the series and TheMovie.
92%%* HilariousOuttakes: At the end of every episode. [[AnimatedActors Cartoon Lizzie]] always gets one made too.
93%%* HongKongDub: Parodied when Matt and Gordo make an audition tape for being in the new Jet Li film.
94%%* HormoneAddledTeenager
95* HypocriticalHumor: There's an exchange in the movie when they're in Rome where Ethan gushes about different types of spagghetti, and Kate comments that this cultural experience is totally wasted on him. Then she spots an Italian with a Prada bag and gets excited about it.
96* IWishedYouWereDead: Lizzie once wished someone would "knock Kate off her pedestal" just before she fell off the top of the pyramid and broke her arm, prompting Lizzie's animated avatar to ask "Since when do I control the wind?" Lizzie winds up teaching Kate some rhythmic gymnastic moves she can do one-handed.
97* IdolSinger: Hilary Duff. This show started the long trend of the Creator/DisneyChannel using its live-action shows as vehicles for its Idol Singers.
98** ImageSong: A Western example being "I Can't Wait".
99** Lalaine also ventured into a singing career, recording an album, ''Inside Story'', a few singles and some unreleased material.
100* InformedAttractiveness: Kate is portrayed as being the Queen Bee of the school, and much is made of her "bustiness". In a show like this, she's not any more attractive than most background girls. However, it is mentioned in the show that she developed ''earlier'' than the other girls, which probably explains why.
101** Also Ethan Craft.
102%%* InstantWebHit
103* IronicName: In "Bad Girl [=McGuire=]", Lizzie is [[ToxicFriendInfluence led astray]] by a {{Goth}} girl named "Angel". The video Gordo and Miranda make for Lizzie's intervention {{Lampshades}} this, referring to her as "a devil named Angel".
104* {{Irony}}: Paolo gets a bit of this, not only because he's the one who can't sing while trying to "expose" Isabella as the one who can't sing by having a girl who is not a professional singer pretend to be her (without ever checking if she can sing), but when ''he's'' exposed and Isabella demands that he "sing to me, Paolo", he really steps up to miss every note in a screechy voice.
105* IsThatAThreat: Miranda responds this way to Kate, who says "You're gonna pay for this," after taking the blame for Lizzie accidentally spreading a bra stuffing rumor about Kate.
106* ItsAllAboutMe: Kate's cousin Amy hijacked her cousins birthday, invited only her friends, ignored Kate's request for what kind of birthday cake she wanted for something ''she'' liked, allowed her friends to break things in her aunts house [[note]] Not by accident. They were shown intentionally pushing things from tables to break them, then laughing [[/note]], then getting angry at Lizzie's Mom for breaking up the party because it was making Kate upset, because she cared more about the party than her cousins feelings.
107* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Gordo, who assists Lizzie in her pursuits of Ethan (in "Just Friends") and Paolo (in "The Lizzie [=McGuire=] Movie"), despite himself having feelings for her.
108* JustFriends: Gordo to ObliviousToLove Lizzie. She's so oblivious it takes The AlphaBitch informing her before she realizes.
109** Just as the series as a whole was something of a watershed and lead to multiple new shows that were more serialzed and included developing romance arcs, it also paved the way for more JustFriends relationships in the shows that followed: ''Series/ICarly'' (which itself is {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}'s AlternateCompanyEquivalent), ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'', ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'', ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'', ''Series/ANTFarm'', and WesternAnimation such as ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' and ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' all contain such relationships between the main character and a best friend and all came after ''Lizzie [=McGuire=]'' ended.
110*** In a way ''Lizzie [=McGuire=]'' is the TropeCodifier to the JustFriends relationship in post-2000 television, after SlapSlapKiss Love/Hate type couples had dominated the 90's and the Ron/Hermione ship in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' had introduced it all over again.
111* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: 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.
112* LastMinuteHookup: Lizzie and Gordo got to have their kiss in the last scene of TheMovie.
113* {{Leitmotif}}: Whenever Matt is the focus of a scene, the same cheery, bouncy melody can be heard in the background.
114* LighterAndSofter: The Movie compared to the TV show, while the show dealt with serious real life problems that kids face, the film goes for straight-up teen-girl wish fulfillment.
115* LiteralMinded: Matt's jokes can be this. In the movie, on the plane to Italy, his father demands that Matt tell him "everything you know that I don't". Matt comments that the plane ride only lasts fourteen hours.
116* LittleBoySeeksBigGirl: Matt towards Miranda in "Working Girl".
117* ALizardNamedLiz: In the pilot episode, Matt takes care for a lizard named Lizzie.
118%%* LoveMakesYouDumb: Miranda in "Movin' On Up".
119* MacGuffin: {{Lampshaded}}. The murdered character in the Whodunit episode is named "Lord [=MacGuffin=]".
120* ManipulativeBastard: Kate can manipulate boys into doing anything.
121* MeaningfulName: For the movie. [[IdenticalStranger Lizzie's Italian doppelganger]]'s name, Isabella, is the Italian variant of Elizabeth, Lizzie's full name.
122* MickeyMousing: Often goofy sound effects and musical stings in the background are syncopated with the actors' gestures and movements [[RuleOfFunny for comedic effect]].
123* MiddleSchoolIsMiserable: A majority of the series deals with the often hilarious, but painfully awkward realities of being in middle school as Lizzie and her friends Miranda and Gordo struggle to fit in.
124%%* TheMovie
125* MomentKiller: In "Clueless", when Sam [=McGuire=] inadvertently interrupts Lizzie and Gordo to tell Lizzie about an eel-cooking competition on TV just as Gordo is finally about to ask her out.
126* {{Montages}}: OnceAnEpisode. Usually a pop song with some relevance to the action at hand would play over the montage.
127* MustacheVandalism: Discussed when the cast gets issued their school yearbooks. Gordo rhetorically asks his friends what the first thing anyone does with their new yearbook is. Miranda and Lizzie say it's to draw a mustache on the gym teacher.
128* MysteriousWoman: In "Just Friends", Ethan reveals that women who follow this trope are his [[HasAType type]].
129%%* NaiveEveryGirl: Lizzie.
130* NapInducingSpeak: On a school camping trip that Lizzie's mom Jo is chaperoning for, she takes the girls' group on a hike and begins reading from the nature manual when they spot a specific type of bird. The scene then switches to B-plot of Matt and Sam at home, and when it cuts back to the camping trip, the group are all asleep as Jo finishes reading about the bird. The inner Animated!Lizzie segment shows her and said bird snoring against each other.
131%%* NewJobEpisode: "Working Girl", season 2
132%%* NiceJewishBoy: Gordo.
133* NoIndoorVoice: As per Disney Channel sitcom tradition, most of the characters can get pretty shouty at times.
134* ObliviousToLove: Seriously? ''Lizzie''. It's ridiculous that it takes her until [[spoiler:the Whodunit episode]] to figure out Gordo loves her. And she needs to have it spelled out to her by ''[[JerkassHasAPoint Kate]]'' of all people.
135* OddFriendship: In the last few episodes, popular but dim-witted Ethan tells Lizzie he considers Gordo a cool friend, such as being one of the first people he invited to his Murder Mystery party.
136* OnceAnEpisode: Subtle, but for whatever reason Miranda wears some article of clothing (usually a shirt) with a British flag on it at some point in every episode.
137* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In the movie, once Paolo is exposed for his poor singing, he storms off the stage. He's immediately confronted by his bodyguard, where at the end of the exchange he exclaims "You work for me!" in an audibly American accent.
138* OurFounder: Lizzie's school has a bust of the first principal, which Kate wrecks in the episode "You're a Good Man, Lizzie [=McGuire=]".
139%%* ParentalBonus: A surprisingly large number of these.
140%%* PictureDay: The focus of the aptly-named episode.
141* ThePlan: Lizzie and her friends are actually joined by her mom to pull off a surprisingly masterful one in "Lizzie's Eleven".
142* PlayingSick: Matt does this in "Picture Day" to avoid a homework-less encounter with his teacher. He does a poor job making it look real and Jo sees through it, but keeps going along while trying to make his experience miserable. By the end of the episode he actually does end up sick.
143* PopularIsDumb: Ethan, and to a lesser extent Kate. It's revealed in one episode that Kate got held back because she somehow flunked kindergarten.
144** 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.
145* PopularIsEvil: Kate and Claire, plus all their friends on the cheer squad. After all, they did agree to Kate’s plan of public humiliation in the pilot.
146%%* PrecociousCrush: Matt towards Miranda in "Working Girl."
147%%* PutOnABus: Miranda in TheMovie.
148%%* TheRashomon: The food fight episode.
149* RawEggsMakeYouStronger: In "I've Got Rhythmic", 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.
150%%* RiskyBusinessDance: In Episode 10 of Season 1.
151* RomanticFalseLead:
152** In the movie, Paolo.
153** Also, Ronnie the paperboy. This is before Lizzie and Gordo were an OfficialCouple.
154* SequelNonEntity: 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 TheMovie.
155* SeriesFauxnale: "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 PutOnABus.)
156* ShakingHerHairLoose: 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.
157* ShoutOut: The episode "Lizzie's Eleven" Matt and Melina have Gordo sing the yodeling part of "[[Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic The Lonely Goatherd]]" as the secret code of ThePlan.
158* SilentBob: Lanny. The only times he ever talks are when he's on the phone and even then we never hear his side of the conversation.
159** {{Lampshaded}} once:
160--->'''Matt''': Lanny's not talking to me.\
161'''Sam''': How can you tell?
162* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: Lizzie and Miranda are totally gaga for Ethan Craft, a dim-witted popular guy, though he is still very friendly.
163%%* TheSmartGuy: Gordo
164* {{Snapback}}: 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}}.
165** Even after every episode where it seemed Lizzie and Kate were going to reconcile their differences and maybe be best friends again, by the end of the episode or by the next episode, they'd go back to being enemies.
166* SoftGlass: Averted in-universe when Matt decides he wants to be a stunt double and creates his own courses. He’s shown crushing hard candy pieces to bake to make a fake glass sugar piece to crash through. [[spoiler:Sam later demonstrates it working like a charm.]]
167* SplitScreenPhoneCall: Played straight throughout the series, but a three-way variant with Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo is also done.
168* SquashedFlat: Happened quite often to cartoon Lizzie as a visual metaphor for stress she was feeling.
169-->Lizzie, with a bowling ball rolling on her belly: I suddenly have a heavy feeling in my stomach...woah!
170-->*Bowling ball rolls over her entirely and flattens her*
171-->Lizzie, peeling herself off the bowling ball: I gotta stop having these talks with mom.
172* StatusQuoIsGod: Don't worry, Lizzie won't get over her crush on Ethan even after he rejects her, Kate won't be nicer even if she and Lizzie seemed to make amends, and Lizzie won't figure out that Gordo likes her no matter now many hints he drops.
173* StockholmSyndrome: In [="Bad Girl McGuire"=], Lizzie developed this towards Angel.
174* StrawLoser: One of Lalaine's reasons for leaving the show.
175* SuckECheeses: Sort of, a western-themed tourist trap called Grubby Longjohn's Western Emporium.
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177* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Ethan Craft replaced Danny Kessler as the popular guy the girls fawn over. A bit of an odd example since, as mentioned above, Danny and Ethan appeared together in an early episode where the latter was presented as a JerkJock and so later got hit with some CharacterizationMarchesOn to fit Danny's role.
178* TakingTheBullet: Well, more like the "paint glob" when Lizzie jumps in front of Miranda to save her outfit that she shared with Kate.
179* TakingTheHeat: Miranda in "Rumors" when she tells Kate that she started the rumor, when in fact Lizzie was the one who started it.
180* TookALevelInJerkass: Kate prior to the start of the series as it's implied by her previous friendship with Lizzie that she was much nicer before hitting puberty and hanging out with the popular kids.
181* TotallyRadical: Most of the kids indulged in this. Not to mention the veritable deluge of references to early-2000s celebrities and music.
182* TownGirls: Kate is a stereotypically high-maintenance AlphaBitch (Femme), Miranda is a very blunt DeadpanSnarker with a deep voice and a punk style (Butch), and Lizzie is a nice NaiveEverygirl who also doesn't mind getting dirty (Neither).
183* TropeMaker: For the Creator/DisneyChannel {{Kidcom}} formula. Something of an UnbuiltTrope as well, since ''Lizzie [=McGuire=]'' lacks many elements of the formula, most notably a LaughTrack or a HighConcept premise.
184* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: With Lizzie and Gordo ending up together, and no LoveTriangle involved.
185* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Matt would ''always'' have a sub-plot in every episode that didn't involve the A-plot; usually he would drag his parents along for the ride.
186* UninvitedToTheParty: In one episode, Miranda is throwing a party at her house and wants it to be perfect. This means she invites everyone...except for the geeky Larry, who she fears will ruin her party. Larry is heartbroken to not get an invite while everyone else is excitedly preparing for the party, and Lizzie decides to sneak him inside. He's disguised as a cool and mysterious student named "Lawrence", who Miranda starts flirting with, claiming she'd have invited him if she saw him at school. Hurt, Larry breaks the disguise, and Miranda feels guilty enough to let him stay at the party.
187* UnlimitedWardrobe
188** Except Tudgeman. And animated Lizzie.
189** {{Lampshaded}} (kinda) in the movie, when Kate accuses Lizzie of being an "outfit repeater".
190* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A few lines on the show and commercial spots stated that Lizzie had a crush on Gordo when they were in the fourth grade. Come junior high, Gordo is the one crushing on Lizzie, who instead has other crushes on her mind.
191* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode "Inner Beauty" deals with Miranda thinking she looks fat in a music video and going on a crash diet. Lizzie and Gordo manage to snap some sense into her by the end of the episode.
192%%* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode
193* WeWantOurJerkBack: In the episode "The Rise and Fall of the Kate Empire", when Kate dislocates her shoulder and Claire takes her position as captain, Lizzie and friends consider Claire ''worse'' than Kate, which prompts Lizzie to help Kate gain back her popularity.
194* WildTeenParty: Kate's unsupervised party was initially played up as this, however Kate didn't actually want a party and just wanted to spend time with her friends; her mother insisted she have a "grown up" party and then left town with Kate's older cousin Amy in charge, who hijacked it and invited only ''her'' friends, who proceeded to deliberately break stuff.
195%%* WillTheyOrWontThey: Lizzie and Gordo for the entirety of the series.
196%%* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Gordo.
197* WitchWithACapitalB: The girls were fond of calling most of the bad girl characters "witches." The most memorable was Lizzie once calling Claire the "Claire Witch Project."
198* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Lizzie (the main character), Gordo (the childhood friend and LoveInterest of Lizzie) and Miranda (the stranger).
199* WomenAreWiser: 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''!"
200** Inverted in one episode where Sam manages to get Lizzie to open up to him, which Jo has trying trying and failing at doing, by sitting there and letting her talk. It's meant as an aesop for Jo who learns she has to listen to whats wrong with her daughter rather than 'telling' her whats wrong with her "with words like 'Hormones'".
201** Inverted quite a lot when it comes to Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo. Gordo is often the mature and wise voice of reason among his friends and is appreciated by his friends because of that. In fact, after Parker's rejection of Gordo, animated Lizzy even asks how do you help someone who knows all the answers.
202* YouGoGirl: "One of the Guys", when Lizzie turns out to be really good at flag football.
203* YoureJustJealous: Said of Miranda (by Lizzie) in "First Kiss" after she confronts Lizzie about her non-stop gushing over Ronnie.
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