Bad Girl McGuire is the 11th episode of the first season of Lizzie McGuire.
Synopsis
Lizzie becomes friends with a bad girl and develops bad habits and a bad personality. Miranda and Gordo are concerned with this and decide to help Lizzie become her old self. Matt is given the freedom to stay up late at night but after initial euphoria, Matt starts having problems with staying awake during the daytime. Miranda and Gordo create a short video to convince Lizzie to be good again.
Plot
In math class, punked-out troublemaker Angel puts gums in Lizzie's hair, then tries to cheat off her test paper. The teacher is annoyed with the distractions and sends them both to detention. Lizzie is nervous about entering the detention hall for the first time and facing Angel again, but she actually finds that the experience is a different one for her--almost fun. When she gets home, Mom is mad at her for not calling about being late. Lizzie lies about where she's been. Mom is also mad at Matt for being late. When he complains about the freedoms his friends have, including no bedtimes, Mom makes a deal: if he comes home on time, he won't have a bedtime. Matt is overjoyed about this, but Jo seems to know what she's doing.
At school Lizzie is now dressing like Angel and hanging with her. She's also forging notes and cutting classes. Angel invites her to a high-school party on Friday. When Lizzie later finds out there will be no parents at the party, she's secretly worried. Gordo and Miranda decide that Lizzie needs an intervention, so they sit her down and make her watch a video they've made, "Before They Were Bad Girls." Lizzie admits that being bad is a lot of hard work. She tells Gordo and Miranda that she'll spend next Friday with them and she puts Angel back in her place. Meanwhile, Matt has been staying up late at night and walking around like a zombie in the daytime. Soon he asks for his old bedtime back.
Trivia
- In this episode, Lizzie lies to her mom, and has no trouble or difficulty doing it. But in the next episode, "Between a Rock and a Bra Place ", she says she can't lie to her mom, and then cracks under the pressure.
- Nitpick: When Angel is putting gum in Lizzie's hair, Lizzie looks to the side at Miranda, but when the close up shot is shown of Angel pulling the gum back, Lizzie is looking straight ahead.
- In the opening scene in the math class, it looks like the prop person opened up a box of pencils and gave every kid in the class a new one, they're all the same length, color, etc.
Quotes
Miranda: [sarcastically] Great. A pop quiz.
Gordo: [sincerely and excitedly] Great! A pop quiz! I love the smell of pop quizzes in the morning!
Angel Lieberman: What planet are you from again, Gor-dork?
Angel Lieberman: Hey, Frizz, did you get the answers for the test from Gor-dork?
Lizzie: A: My name is "Lizzie, not "Frizz!" B: Gordo's no dork, he is one of my best friends, and C: I don't cheat!