Lizzie McGuire Season #1

Lizzie McGuire

EPISODE #31: GORDO’S BAR MITZVAH – Gordo’s Bar Mitzvah; Jo wants Sam to participate more in parenting Matt. Gordo feels self-conscious when he sees Ethan Craft and other boys growing up sooner than he is. He tries to be “manly” by trying to do manly things but in the end he decides to have a Bar Mitzvah which would initiate him into adult life. Meanwhile, fed up with all the complaints about Matt’s pranks, Jo decides to hand over the task of disciplining the kids to Sam. Gordo is feeling a little left behind, the girls are going crazy over Ethan Craft, who gets a new dirt bike for his 14^th birthday, just like all the “men” in his family have. Even Larry Tudgeman is shaving now, though not very well! Gordo now wishes he had celebrated his Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish ceremony performed on the 13^th birthday that marks the passage of a boy into manhood. Concerned about what makes a boy a man, Gordo takes his camera interviews to many different men to get their experiences. He tries several different “manly” things that they mention, even going to a tattoo parlor! 😊 But he decides they are not for him. He asks his parents why they didn’t insist on a Bar Mitzvah for him. They tell him they trusted his judgement then and that at the time he didn’t think it was necessary or important. But Gordo has made up his mind now – he wants to be Bar Mitzvahed. The ceremony is held with all his family and friends in attendance. Meanwhile, Mrs. Robinson brings home Matt after she’s caught him stealing oranges from her tree once again. When his dad Sam doesn’t seem to think he deserves much punishment, Jo McGuire is outraged. She tells Sam she’s going on strike-disciplining the kids will be his problem. Sam doesn’t prove to be up to the task as a slew of neighbors complain about Matt’s bad behavior. But later, Matt tells his Mom that his Dad doesn’t get it: He punishes him for accidental mistakes he made yet lets him get away with the bigger stuff. Matt asks his Mom to take over handling out his punishment again.

✰ EPISODE #30: GORDO’S VIDEO – Gordo captures embarrassing footage of his fellow students on hidden cameras; Matt wants to be a daredevil. Aspiring moviemaker Gordo (Adam Lamberg) inadvertently leaves his videocam running in his absence, and as a result “captures” Kate (Ashlie Brillault) making a startling confession. Inspired, Gordo sets about to produce a documentary comprised of life’s most embarrassing moments – with the school’s most popular kids as his unwitting “stars”. Fans of Lizzie McGuire leading lady Hilary Duff will no doubt be able to spot her sister, Haylie Duff, in an uncredited bit role. Gordo installs video cameras all over the school, revealing embarrassing secrets about a lot of the students. Further, he plans to enter his film into the district film competition. Miranda gets upset on hearing this as the film showed her in bad light. However, Gordo pleases all when he showcases the film without revealing anyone’s identity. Meanwhile, Matt decides to become a stuntman and tries out various stunts. Gordo has his camera and is filming Lizzie and Miranda in the school cafeteria. He forgets the camera when they leave and when he goes back for it, he finds it was running the whole time. When the friends view the footage, they see Kate telling Claire a big secret – she’s fourteen, a year older than the other seventh graders, because she was held back in kindergarten! This gives Gordo an idea. He sets up several hidden cameras around the school which catch lots of embarrassing moments on tape. Gordo plans to make a movie and enter it in a local competition, hoping to prove with it that even popular kids have things to be embarrassed about. Miranda is having a bad day and at lunch she complains to Lizzie about the school and people in it. Unknown to them, Gordo’s hidden camera filmed them. When Miranda finds out Gordo intends to use her footage in his film, Miranda is outraged. Lizzie is caught right in the middle between her two friends, both of whom expect her support. But when the film “The Gordo Files” is shown at a school assembly, Gordo has altered the voices and digitally disguised the faces so that no one is recognizable. Miranda’s voice is used, but the result turns out good and everyone likes the film – except Kate, that is. Gordo, Miranda and Lizzie are all back on good terms again now that Gordo promises his hidden camera days are over. Also, Matt has decided on a new career for himself – stuntman. He tries to perform some elaborate and risky stunts, but his parents shoot down every attempt he makes. Finally, he switches his career choice – to daredevil this time. Jo is horrified to find Matt has built a “Mile of Death Torture Track” in the back yard. She calls Sam out to the yard. When he gets there, he slips on a skateboard and takes a wild ride down the track. Matt decides to become a rock star instead.

✰ EPISODE #29: THE COURTSHIP OF MIRANDA SANCHEZ – Miranda is smitten with a boy in her class but is too nervous to talk to him. So, Lizzie decides to help her out. A misunderstanding leads the boy to believe that Lizzie has a crush on him. Gordo is sick of listening to all the girl-talk between Lizzie and Miranda and decides to indulge in some male bonding with Matt. Lizzie (Hilary Duff) tries to help lovestruck Miranda (Lalaine) make an impression on good-looking Ryan Adams (Shan Elliot). This situation leads (perhaps inevitably) to a replay of Cyrano de Bergerac, with Lizzie hiding in a trash can and “feeding” Miranda her dialogue as she converses with Ryan. The strategy backfires when Ryan thinks that it is Lizzie who is stuck on him – and also when Gordo (Adam Lamberg) gets tired of being left out of things. w

EPISODE #28: LIZZIE AND KATE’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE – Gordo and Miranda visit Lizzie after she was out sick and bring her some scary news – in Social Studies class she has to pair up on a project with KATE! Lizzie reacts hysterically. She tries to get out of going to class the next day but her parents make her go. Kate is mad about working with Lizzie also, but she comes by the McGuire house to work on their project, cooking a Latvian dish called an Alexander Tort (a raspberry pastry). At first the two are hostile to each other, but eventually they have a laugh or two and begin to recall the days when they were friends. Jo McGuire sees them enjoying themselves and tells the girls it seems like old times. Suddenly the girls stop being so friendly, then Kate excuses herself and leaves. At school Miranda and Gordo ask Lizzie how it went with Kate, expecting the worst. Lizzie says it wasn’t so bad. In fact, the two are going to the Digital Bean to do work on a high-speed computer. When they get there, Kate and Lizzie are working fine, but Gordo and Miranda are there arguing with Kate’s entourage, led by Claire. Back at home the girls have an accident with eggs and flour and laugh about it and the good times they used to share together. They wonder what happened to make them drift apart. Lizzie remembers that Kate came back from camp one summer and things were never the same. At school the next day the girls give an excellent oral presentation together and serve their food. After it’s over though, Miranda and Gordo get into a fight with Kate’s posse again. They all expect Lizzie and Kate to join in. The two girls are quiet for a moment, but then they start taking verbal shots at each other. Things appear to have gone back to normal, but Kate and Lizzie share a glance and a smile that lets us know that there is still a bond between them. Meanwhile, a dream Matt had about a canceled Math test a substitute teacher in red shoes comes true, so he immediately assumes he’s a psychic. With the assistance of Oscar, he starts predicting the futures of other students, and surprisingly, things come true in one way or another. Matt’s dad Sam is beginning to believe his son may actually be able to predict the future, but Jo will have none of it and seeks out ways to disprove Matt’s psychic ability.

✰ EPISODE #27: GORDO AND THE MAGIC DWARVES – Gordo becomes obsessed with a Dungeons & Dragons type board game which was gifted to Lizzie by her grandmother. His obsession causes his grades to drop and Lizzie and Miranda take the help of Matt to bring Gordo back to his senses. Meanwhile, Matt has to observe wildlife for a school project. However, Sam and Miranda’s father eventually end up climbing a tree and watching a bird’s nest. Grammy McGuire sends Lizzie one of her frequent “birthday” gifts – a role playing game called Dwarflord: The Conquest. Mom insists that Lizzie play it at least once, so she recruits reluctant Miranda and Gordo for a game. The girls can’t understand the incredibly complex rule, but Gordo likes it. In fact, Gordo joins a “Dwarf Tribe” at school (led by Tudgeman, of course) and begins to spend all his time playing and thinking about the game. Gordo gets so obsessed that he even quits studying and unbelievably gets an “F” on a test! Lizzie and Miranda try to talk some sense back into Gordo, but he refuses to see he is addicted to the game. Matt agrees to help the girls capture Gordo and help to deprogram him. They stealthily invade a Dwarflord game, abduct Gordo and hold an intervention in which they finally convince him to go back to his old lifestyle. Also, Matt has to observe wildlife for a school project. His dad Sam helps him out by climbing up a tree with him to look at a bird’s nest. Matt gets bored right away, but Sam and later Mr. Sanchez get fascinated with it and spend hours in the tree.

✰ EPISODE #26: SCARLETT LARRY – Lizzie discovers that Larry Tudgeman has a crush on her and when he asks her out, she reluctantly agrees to go out with him. Surprisingly, Lizzie enjoys the date, but eventually in the end, they part ways. Meanwhile, while cleaning up some junk, Matt and Sam find an old Soap-Box Derby racer and decide to restore it. Lizzie finds out in Square-dancing class that a guy has a crush on her – but it’s Larry Tudgeman! She asks her mom’s advice about how to get rid of him, but Mom suggests she finds out what he’s all about first, intimating that her Dad wad kind of a geek when she first met him. This isn’t what Lizzie wants to hear, but she doesn’t want to be mean and consents to go out with Larry. To her surprise, he shows up for the date looking very nice and bigger surprise – she actually has fun on their trip to the Science Museum. Still, Lizzie doesn’t want to be Larry’s girlfriend, but at school the next day, Larry assumes that she is. The situation isn’t helped when Kate broadcasts to the whole school that Lizzie and Larry are an item. After talking to Miranda and Gordo, Lizzie decides to let Larry down easy. After a day of letting him act like her boyfriend, Lizzie tells Larry that she doesn’t think they are right for each other. Unexpectedly, he agrees but still tells Lizzie she’s “the nicest person I know”. Then he asks about Miranda! Also, Jo insists that Sam and Matt clean up all the junk accumulating around the house. The guys find Sam’s old Soap-Box Derby racer and along with Gordo, they work to restore it. They get it in shape to run, but Sam accidentally crashes it, putting an end to the guys’ racing days.

✰ EPISODE #25: FACTS OF LIFE – Hoping to win a trip to Miami, Florida, Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo team up to enter the school’s “Fact-athlon” contest. Mr. Digg coaches them for the quiz in an unconventional way but they eventually end up losing. Matt and Lanny hire a drummer and start their own rock band, but in the end, they call it quits. Hoping to win a trip to Miami, Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo team up to enter the school’s “Fact-athlon”. Their rival team consists of Kate Sanders, Larry Tudgeman and Claire Miller. But things start to look a little bleak when the faculty advisor Lizzie and company chose is replaced by substitute teacher Mr. Dig. But to their surprise, Mr. Dig manages to turn studying into something fun and interesting with his unusual approaches. By the time the competition starts, Lizzie’s team is confident while Kate, Larry and Claire are feeling the pressure. But Kate’s team beats Lizzie’s team badly when there are too many questions about dates and names rather than “how and why” problems. Kate and her teammates gloat over their win and Mr. Dig is ready to leave his job at the school because he thinks he let the team down. But Lizzie, Gordo and Miranda convince him they actually did learn a lot and that they had a good time doing it. Lanny wants to start a rock band. After they audition a bunch of kids playing everything from trombone to Jew’s harp, they settle on drummer Rick Marotta and begin rehearsals, which sound pretty bad. Mom and Dad try to talk Matt out of holding a backyard concert, but Matt is determined to do it. When the concert date arrives and the band plays, they actually sound decent. Sam and Jo are proud of their son, but Matt now has a “been there, done that” attitude and the band is already history.

✰ EPISODE #24: NIGHT OF THE DEAD – Lizzie wants to become the “Dungeon Mistress” for the 7^th grade Halloween fright night at school. However, Kate becomes the Dungeon Mistress and Lizzie is forced to become a clown. Peeved by this, Lizzie, Gordo, Miranda along with Matt devise a plan to embarrass and humiliate Kate in front of the whole school. The middle school is putting on a big Fright Night celebration for Halloween. Lizzie wants to appear as Vampira, the Dungeon Mistress, but Kate is in charge and she keeps the job for herself, making Lizzie clean out the janitor’s closet and then giving her the role of a clown handing out balloons. Miranda brings her parents, who are helping her celebrate a Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead. They bring by several items including skulls and skeletons which are meant to represent ancestors who are being honored. Kate is all smiles when Miranda’s parents are around (“Toon Lizzie” calls Kate “phonier than cafeteria cheese,”) but once they leave she yells at Miranda to get rid of that junk they brought. Miranda warns Kate that by disrespecting the dead, she is risking their wrath. Strange things begin to happen at Fright Night. The skeletons disappear and so does Matt (dressed as himself turned inside out!), leaving behind only a handful of dirt! Gordo is gone too, but vis voice is coming from a “burger buddy” doll! Lizzie appears to have turned into a zombie and the skeleton couple reappears in life size! Miranda and (especially Kate) are terrified – what is really going on? Meanwhile, with Lizzie and Matt at the school and the last of the trick-or-treaters presumably having come and gone, Jo and Sam McGuire settle in for some alone time. But the inevitable happens – that last kid who is way too big comes to the door looking for candy after it’s all gone!

✰ EPISODE #23: LAST YEAR’S MODEL – Lizzie is selected as a model to participate in a fashion show presented by Teen Attitude Magazine at a local mall. Her modeling stint earns her fame in the school, but she is annoyed when everyone starts treating her differently because of her new status. Meanwhile, Matt and Lanny buy a hammock from a shop but when it turns defective, the shopkeeper refuses to take it back and give them a refund. Matt and Lanny decide to teach him a lesson. Lizzie auditions to be in a fashion show presented by “Teen Attitude” magazine at a local mall and she gets accepted. At the show Lizzie looks great on stage. Afterward, popular girl Jessica asks Lizzie to come to a party at her country club. Lizzie gets Miranda and Gordo invited also. At the party, all three are enjoying the fun, including the hot tub. But already Lizzie’s friends are acting different. When Jessica asks her about coming to another party, Miranda starts answering for Lizzie like a press agent and she Gordo start negotiating future appearances for her like a supermodel! At school things are very different also. Kids stare at her in the hall like she’s a celebrity. Kate is now fawning over Lizzie, wanting to be her friend. Ethan is so starstruck that he can’t even mumble a coherent sentence around her. Gordo and Miranda are as bad as anybody. Lizzie muses, “Gordo and Miranda aren’t my friends anymore. They’re my people!” Overwhelmed by the attention, Lizzie hides out in Mr. Dig’s classroom. When she explains her dilemma to him, he suggests that if she wants them to stop acting like her lackeys, she ought to treat them like such. So, Lizzie puts “Operation Superstar Brat” into motion. She blows her nose on the book report Gordo wrote for her. She makes Miranda pick out the green Jellybeans in her candy dish. She makes both of them bark like dogs, then walks out on them. But she comes right back and tells Miranda and Gordo that she just wanted to show them what it was like to have a friend treat them so differently and she wants their friendship to go back to normal. Lizzie is ready to give up being a model, but she still has a contract with the magazine. Miranda suggests that she “stink” as a model and Lizzie does just that at the next show, looking like a nightmare and even picking a fight with Miranda in the front row! Lizzie is fired on the spot and things go back to normal for the three friends. Meanwhile, Matt gets a $50 gift card from Gammy McGuire. He and Lanny put their money together and buy a hammock, but it rips apart the first time they try to use it. Sam McGuire takes them back to the store to return the hammock, but a very rude store clerk won’t let them do it. While Sam goes off looking for the manager, Matt and Lanny show that they know how to take care of business with this discourteous clerk.

✰ EPISODE #22: THE UNTITLED STAN JANSEN PROJECT- A big-time movie director offers to follow Gordo around to see a day in the life of a regular kid. Gordo starts saying rude things to the camera, though and every coaxes Lizzie and Miranda to tell each other’s secrets in front of the camera during which it is revealed that Lizzie had a crush on Gordo in the 4^th Grade. Meanwhile, Matt gets blamed for all the troubles created by Melina and he admires her qualities as a troublemaker. Director Stan Jansen is filming a documentary at the junior high and everyone is trying to get on camera – except Gordo, who wants to be a director himself. But Stan singles out Gordo as his star and tells him his appearance in the film could lead to a career in directing. Gordo is eager to go along, so when the director tells him he wants conflict, Gordo trashes Kate on camera. Lizzie and Miranda think that’s great, but it’s not so great when Tudgeman gets upset after the same treatment. Then when Gordo manipulates Lizzie and Miranda into revealing long-held secrets about each other, the trio’s friendship is on the rocks. The girls can’t stay made at each other though and they convince Gordo that their friendship should be the most important thing to all of them. The kids find then a way to get back at Stan Jansen. Meanwhile, Matt’s classmate Melina is a real troublemaker – something he can appreciate. She’s so good at it that she manages to get Matt blamed for every bad thing she does. Despite all this, Matt can’t help but admire her for it anyway.

✰ EPISODE #21: LIZZIE STRIKES OUT – Ethan invites Lizzie, Gordo and Miranda for bowling, with on the same day Lizzie’s dad wants to spend some quality father-daughter time with her. Meanwhile, Matt and Lanny plan on what they can do to stop the bully Heywood Biggs from ripping on them. Lizzie’s plans with Ethan and her dad clash on the same night; Miranda tries to help Gordo overcome his bowling phobia. The “athletivally challenged” Gordo is nervous about going bowling with Lizzie, Miranda and Ethan. To build Gordo’s confidence, Miranda offers to be Gordo’s “life coach”. At the same time, Lizzie may not be able to keep her bowling date with handsome Ethan thanks to (of all people!) her dad, Sam. And as far for Lizzie’s brother, Matt, he and his pal Lanny are plotting a fiendish plan for dealing with school bully Heywood. Ethan invites Lizzie, Gordo and Miranda to go bowling with friends on the weekend. Of course, the girls are thrilled but Gordo isn’t so happy – bowling is something he’s not good at. In fact, he got so nervous doing it before that his fingers swelled up and the ball had to be cut off his hand! Miranda says she will be Gordo’s “life coach” for bowling and tries to teach him a kind of mystical philosophy “Be the ball!”. Meanwhile, Matt and Lanny are trying to think of what they can do to stop the bully Heywood Biggs from picking on them. When Sam McGuire hears Lizzie talking about her sort-of date on the phone, he worries that he’s not involved enough in his daughter’s life. He asks her if she’d like for just the two of them to go out to dinner on Friday night so they can spend some time together. Lizzie agrees, but later realizes that the bowling date is the same night! She decides she’ll have to ask her father to reschedule. Lizzie explains to her dad about the bowling and he agrees to postpone their night out, but he seems disappointed. Matt and Lanny practice their revenge technique “Operation Mummy” for Heywood on Lizzie. Lizzie talks to her mom who says her dad understands about her wanting to go bowling with her friends, but Lizzie feels a little guilty afterwards. At school, Gordo sees Mr. Dig wipe out badly on a scooter but is surprised to see that he takes it as a positive, learning experience. Miranda tries to tell Gordo he doesn’t need to excel at everything. The advice seems to be working, because at the bowling alley, Gordo throws a gutter ball, but his fingers don’t swell up. Lizzie bowls a strike, to the admiration of Ethan – and her dad too, who she invited along.

✰ EPISODE #20: EDUCATING ETHAN – Lizzie and Miranda are thrilled when Gordo begins tutoring Ethan Craft; Matt and his friends become superheroes. When handsome but dense Ethan Craft scores an 11 out of a possible 100 on a Math test, the time has come for the boy to be tutored. Gordo is elected to help Ethan out, but Lizzie is determined to replace Gordo so that she can be nearer to her dream boy. The ensuing “Best Tutor” war threatens to clash the long-standing friendship between Lizzie and Gordo to bits. Meanwhile, Matt and his pal Oscar don homemade costumes and emerge as “superheroes” Matt Man and the Incredible Oscar, performing noble deeds throughout the neighborhood… whether anyone wants them to or not! Gordo becomes Ethan’s Math tutor because he needs the money to buy a new stereo. However, once Lizzie shows Ethan an easier way to do Math, he decides he wants Lizzie as his tutor and not Gordo. Meanwhile at home, Matt and his friend Oscar try to emulate superheroes by trying to help people. But their noble intentions are not well received by people around them as they unknowingly cause harm to them. Gordo wants to raise money for a new stereo, so Miranda and Lizzie suggest he tutor students who need help in Math. His first student is Ethan Craft, much to the girls’ delight. When Gordo is working with Ethan at the Digital Bean, Lizzie and Miranda keep trying to horn in on the action and end up spilling drinks all over the guys’ papers. Gordo gets mad at them and suggests that they aren’t smart enough to help him tutor anyway. The girls get angry right back at him and leave. Meanwhile, Matt and his friend Oscar are looking for something exciting to do. They decide to become “superheroes” Matt Man and the Incredible Oscar. They go around the neighborhood in costume trying to do good deeds, but all they do is annoy the neighbors.

At lunch the next day, Gordo is having trouble explaining fractions to Ethan. As a peace offering, Lizzie tries to help. Gordo is not too happy about it, especially when Lizzie’s explanation is clearer than his own. Ethan asks Lizzie to tutor him instead. Lizzie doesn’t want to hurt her friendship with Gordo and reluctantly turns Ethan down. Miranda thinks she’s crazy to have done that, but Lizzie is determined to be the bigger person. But then Gordo tells the girls they owe him an apology, which gets them mad at him all over again. Back at home, Mr. and Mrs. McGuire put a stop to Matt and Oscar’s “do-gooding” outside of the house. At school, Lizzie gets an “A” on the Math quiz, but Ethan fails, despite Gordo’s tutoring. Ethan again asks Lizzie to help tutor him and this time she can’t resist. But when she gets ready to leave home to meet Ethan, she can’t find any shoes! Matt and Oscar say the “Evil Shoe Baron” got them all. Mom says the superheroes better find them right away. They do, then she puts an end to the do-gooding business once and for all. At the Digital Bean, Lizzie uses a visual aid to help explain fractions to Ethan – cheerleaders! 😊 At school, Gordo apologizes to the girls for the way he acted. Ethan “ace” the makeup test with a 72 and gives Lizzie a big hug as a reward.

✰ EPISODE #19: GORDO AND THE GIRL – Lizzie and Miranda envy the time Gordo spends with his girlfriend; Matt gets candy using newfound Math skills. Gordo breaks a move date with Lizzie and Miranda but neglects to inform them that he is going out with attractive Brooke Baker. When the girls find out, they can’t understand why Gordo is lying about his “relationship” with Brooke. To get to the truth of the matter, Lizzie disguises herself as a boy and starts trailing Gordo everywhere – and nearly breaks up a beautiful friendship in the process. Lizzie and Miranda feel neglected, when Gordo spends more time with his new girlfriend Brooke. They are unable to come to terms with the fact that Gordo has a girlfriend now and he is drifting away from their group. Meanwhile, Matt learns about “percentages” from his father and starts accepting bets from his friends, but he eventually lands in trouble when his mother finds out about this.

Gordo begs off going to horror movie marathon with Lizzie and Miranda, saying that he’ll be spending some time “bonding” with his father. But at the Digital Bean before the show, the girls see him with Brooke Baker. At first, they don’t think he’s on a date because he didn’t tell them about it, but then they see him kiss Brooke! The girls aren’t sure what to think about this. The next day at school, Gordo tells Lizzie he was with his father the day before. When he skips lunch with Lizzie and Miranda to help a “friend” with homework, the girls are even more confused. They just can’t picture their longtime friend as anyone’s boyfriend. Later, when Gordo is about to tell the girls about Brooke, Lizzie tells him first that she thinks Brooke is using him and that she’s hurt he didn’t tell her about his girlfriend before now. Gordo, for his part, is upset with Lizzie and Miranda for reacting the way they do. Miranda becomes more accepting of the idea of Gordo having a girlfriend, but Lizzie is still troubled by it.

When she overhears Claire Miller saying that she has to help get Brooke ready for a “hot date” that night, Lizzie is sure she can’t be talking about Gordo and thinks Brooke is two-timing him. She goes to spy on Brooke at an Italian restaurant and takes along Miranda, dressed as a boy! At one point, to make sure it’s Gordo, Lizzie makes Miranda follow him into the men’s bathroom, much to her displeasure. The girls are about to leave when the host thinking they’re a couple on a date, seats them. When they try to bolt out of the restaurant, they run right into a waiter and end up on the floor in front of Gordo and Brooke, covered head to toe in pasta and sauce. Gordo is very disappointed with the two of them.

Lizzie and Miranda are lamenting the loss of friendship with Gordo when he comes by to talk with them. He’s still not happy about the way they acted, but he realizes that they do care about him. He tells the girls he broke up with Brooke. It seems that he wasn’t ready for a relationship like she wanted. Brooke was asking too much of his time, including time he spent with his friends Lizzie and Miranda. The trio is back on good terms once again, but that doesn’t stop the girls from pestering Gordo to describe the “lip-lock” with Brooke. Meanwhile, Dad helps Matt learn a Math lesson about odds and percentages by using candy to illustrate the principles. Matt learns the lesson too well. He and Lanny begin making bets with classmates like a couple of bookies and start winning things from them. When Mom finds Matt’s betting book in the laundry, she confronts him. He says people just gave him stuff because they were grateful that he helped them learn about odds and percentages, but Jo McGuire is no dummy and she tells him he must give all his winnings back.

✰ EPISODE #18: RATED AARGH -After sneaking into an R-rated movie, Lizzie saves a moviegoer’s life and is interviewed by the local news. Lizzie and her friends lie at their homes and sneak off to see an R-rated movie that everyone at school has seen. While at the movie theater, Lizzie saves a man who is choking on a candy ball and gets interviewed by a TV crew. Lizzie’s parents come to know of it and Lizzie gets busted. Meanwhile, Matt is having a fair at school and Jo decides to build a Velcro-wall in which kids can jump onto.

Lizzie’s fantasy almost comes true when she is paired up with Ethan Craft in a CPR class at school, but he’s so dense that the teacher chooses Tudgeman instead to give Lizzie mouth-to-mouth! Lizzie, Gordo and Miranda realize they are about the only three at school who haven’t seen the latest blockbuster movie Vesuvius: The Eruption, which is rated R and they’re determined to get in to see it. When their parents all say “no” to their arguments, Gordo decides they should say they are going to play miniature golf, then go see the film. Lizzie is very nervous about lying to her parents, but she pulls it off with ease. The trio can’t get past the ticket taker, though and can’t slip in the bac, so they mingle with the crowd as it is departing a showing and sneak in that way. While at the concession stand, they notice a man choking. Lizzie has had the training, so she goes and performs the Heimlich Maneuver on the man, dislodging a sourball from his throat. A local news crew comes by and films a segment about Lizzie for the news that night. But then the trio realizes that their parents will watch the news and will find out where they’ve been unless they stop them. Back at home, Lizzie’s parents get a phone call from the theater telling them about their daughter’s heroic actions. They are happy at first, but they soon realize that they’ve been deceived about the movie. When Lizzie and friends come home Mom and Dad make them squirm for a while by threatening to watch the news, then telling them they want to take them to see Vesuvius themselves. Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo all get grounded for a week or two. Also, Matt volunteers his parents to build a booth for his school’s carnival and they come up with the idea of a Velcro wall people can leap onto while wearing a special Velcro suit.