TV Series
- Any scene with Animated Lizzie.
- Jo's attempt at emotional blackmail to get Lizzie to wear the sweater her grandmother knitted for her school pictures ― that she "might not be around much longer", making it seem like Gammy Maguire is a frail old lady ― is quickly shot down by Lizzie reminding her that not only does she teach wind-surfing lessons, but her mother is still alive too.
- From the Halloween episode, Lizzie is put on balloon animal making duty and has no idea how to do it so she just holds up completely straight balloons.Lizzie: Here. It's a snake. Here, it's a worm. Here. It's, uh, spaghetti. (to Matt) Here. It's a caterpillar.
Matt: This is a lame balloon animal.
Lizzie: Oh, sorry, let me fix it... (she pops the balloon) There. Now it's extinct. - "I! WANT! A BRA!
" - In the episode "Sibling Bonds", this trifecta of Comically Missing the Point:Teacher: (paraphrasing a famous quote by the writer Saadi Shirazi) You know, kids, the other day, I was feeling sorry for myself 'cause I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Lizzie: He had no feet? How did that happen?
Gordo: Was it a shark attack? I bet it was a shark attack.
Miranda: (shocked) Where'd you meet him? Was that at a hospital? I mean, is he okay? - In one episode, Matt decides he wants to be a stuntman when he grows up.Matt: (wearing a helmet and with pillows taped all over his body) Dad, will you please run me over with the car?
Sam: (not paying attention): Sure, son, in a minute. - The episode where Matt pretends he's a superhero. He hides Lizzie's shoes, claiming they were stolen by the "Evil Shoe Baron". Prompting this exchange.Jo: You tell the Evil Shoe Baron that if he doesn't return your sister's shoes right away, he's going to spend the rest of his life in the Fortress of Solitude.
Matt runs off.
Lizzie: Good work, mom.
Jo: I have battled the Evil Shoe Baron before. - Lizzie is panicking over how Kate's knocked over the bust of the principal and left her holding the bag. She asks Gordo for advice, expecting something that'll help. His idea: Canada.
- Later, after a botched attempt to fix things...
Gordo: (singing) O Canada... (gets elbowed to stop) That's all I know anyway. - When Kate breaks her arm and her friends turn their backs on her and kick her off the Cheerleading Squad. Lizzie feels bad for her. Miranda and Gordo...Together: (singing) Ding dong, the witch is dead!
Gordo: Which old witch?
Miranda: The wicked witch!
Together: Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead!
(Lizzie looks on, exasperated) - Upon finding out what Matt's doing to get a baseball card Melina owns:Sam: That's exortion.Jo: That's brilliance.
- During the "Freaky Friday" Flip episode:
- While in Matt's body, Lizzie is now able to understand Lanny. Animated!Lizzie lampshades this.
- Matt-in-Lizzie comes up with an excuse for why 'Lizzie' is wearing such a bizarre assortment of clothes to school - Matt donated her clothes to a travelling circus. Matt then gets an Oh, Crap! when Miranda suggests their parents send him to military school.
- Melina proving to be Genre Savvy and accepting the "Freaky Friday" Flip without question.
"We knew something was up when you walked past Clark Benson without sneezing in his pudding."- Kate's Humiliation Conga - frogs in her locker, slipping on a banana peel and getting chili poured all over her.
Kate: Lizzie McGuire!Matt-as-Lizzie: You rang?Kate: You owe me an apology.Matt-as-Lizzie: I'm sorry you ran into a big bucket full of chili. - When Mr Digg and Sam become friends, Matt tries to do the same by inviting his Stern Teacher over so she can become friends with Jo. It doesn't go well. At all. Until she runs into Mr Digg - and turns into a Defrosting Ice Queen at once."Matthew, don't worry about that homework I gave you. I have a feeling I won't even have time to grade it."
- Jo realises that Matt is faking being sick and decides to let him have the day off school...by torturing him psychologically. He has to drink cold borscht, do fraction drills and have his hands out while she winds yarn around them. He ends up actually catching a cold when he drops ice cubes down his pants, and Jo discovers his temperature now shockingly raised.Jo: How did you get so sick?
- Jake Thomas delivers that last line the same way Marlon Brando did "the horror...the horror" and it is glorious.
- Miranda showing she's able to one-up Kate in the Escalating War after taking the fall for Lizzie's "Kate stuffs her bra" rumour; she fills Kate's entire locker with toilet paper and adds a note "in case you run out". And when Kate posts "lost dog" posters with Miranda's face on them, Miranda puts green hair dye in Kate's shampoo.
- In "Working Girl" the entire subplot with Matt having a crush on Miranda and Gordo's amused reaction to the whole thing.
- Paolo's first impression of Ungermeyer.Paolo: She makes me very scared.Gordo: Welcome to the club.
- The fact Matt sent a video of Lizzie's clumsy accident to a news station.
- When Lizzie finds out she's going to be Kate's roommate.Animated!Lizzie: For the record, I will never, ever, under any circumstances, share a room with-(cuts to Kate unpacking her things)Kate: I'll be taking the bed by the window. You don't mind, do you?(cuts back to Animated!Lizzie)Animated!Lizzie: Um, YEEEESSSSS!!!!
- Ethan claims he finished his summer reading list.Ungermyer: You read eleven books?Ethan: I mean I read the list.
- When Isabella leaves Lizzie to sing onstage.Animated!Lizzie: (gulp) RUN!! (Lizzie actually attempts to do this but is stopped by Gordo offstage)
- Gordo explains how important it is that he impress the new principal.Gordo: If you get on her good side, it's a one-way ticket to an Ivy League school.
Matt: And...what if you get on her bad side?
Gordo: Well, you...(gestures at a passing janitor)
Janitor: Excuse me! I need to mop up some puke.
Matt: (incredulously) You wind up as that guy?
Gordo: (laughs anxiously) No. You wind up working for that guy.- Immediately afterwards, Ungermeyer is deluged by concerned parents. She turns on her headset to cause feedback, then announces "Shut your pie-holes!"
- The scene where Paolo gets his comeuppance after being exposed for lip-synching. Especially the part where the audience jeers him for being Hollywood Tone-Deaf.
- This conversation between Ungermyer and Ethan when Lizzie is found missing:Miss Ungermeyer: You tell us where Lizzie is or this deck is gonna catch some serious air!
Ethan: Well it's possible that she's at the Italian Music Video Awards doubling for the Italian pop star Isabella who's like totally her twin.
(Ungermeyer and Lizzie's family stare at him dumfounded)
Ethan: Why does everyone always look at me like that?
