Just Like Lizzie | |
Episode Information | |
Episode #: | 45 |
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Air Date: | August 9, 2002 |
Writer(s): | Melissa Gould |
Director: | Anson Williams |
Prod. #: | 201 |
Credits | |
Starring: | ■ Hilary Duff as Lizzie McGuire ■ Lalaine as Miranda Sanchez |
Recurring: | ■ Ashlie Brillault as Kate Sanders |
Guest(s): | ■ Amy Castle as Andie Robinson ■ Houston Mack as Student |
Episode Guide | |
Previous: | You're a Good Man, Lizzie McGuire |
Next: | Lizzie in the Middle |
Chronological Order | |
Previous: | Lizzie and Kate's Big Adventure |
Next: | Movin' On Up |
Just Like Lizzie is the fourteenth episode of Lizzie McGuire's second season, and the forty-fifth episode overall.
Summary[]
Lizzie mentors a seventh-grade girl, but when the "sevvy" begins to copy her, Lizzie has second thoughts. Meanwhile, Matt must earn a merit patch with his Wilderness Cadets group, so Sam offers to help, with disastrous results.
Synopsis[]
Gordo and Miranda may be stressed out about starting the eighth grade, but Lizzie feels great about it. She's so self-confident, in fact, that she's taken on mentoring a seventh-grader named Andie, even though Kate sneers at her for associating with a "sevvy." Andie seems to worship the ground that Lizzie walks on, and it appears to be a great arrangement at first. But things start to turn a little creepy when Andie turns into a clone of Lizzie, imitating her hair style, then dying her hair, then dressing exactly like her. Lizzie is more unnerved when Gordo and Miranda begin to fawn over Andie. Gordo is especially taken with Andie, and he actually talks about asking her out.
Lizzie is tormented by dreams of Andie stealing away her best friends, going after Ethan (who Andie has already got her eye on), and even taking her place in the family. So when Lizzie comes home with Miranda one day to find Andi there unexpectedly visiting with Jo and Gordo, she loses her temper. She tells Andie she doesn't appreciate her trying to become a clone of herself and lets her know that her mentoring days are over. Andie walks out in anger. Gordo and Miranda think Lizzie might have been too rough on the girl, but the next day at school they find that Andie has a new role model to emulate: Kate.
Meanwhile, with Matt[]
Meanwhile, Matt faces a crisis with his Wilderness Cadets group: He must earn a merit patch very soon, or be demoted to a Bunny Cadet. Sam tries to help Matt, but ends up injuring his leg, contracting a bad case of poison ivy and nearly setting himself on fire. Later, Jo discovers that as a result of tending to Sam's injuries, Matt has qualified for a patch in First Aid.
Trivia[]
- The filming dates were September 10-15, 2001. It was made about 3 in a half months after the filming of the last episode of season 1, "Lizzie and Kate's Big Adventure". The clapboards seen on the blooper reel at the end of the show are dated September 10 and September 14, 2001. The second one shown, dated September 14th had a small American flag on it, unlike the first. This was obviously a response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States which occurred while this episode was being filmed.
- According to its production number, this was the first episode shot for the second season. But in reality, it is the 14th episode of the second season to be broadcast. This has led to a great deal of confusion among Lizzie fans, who wondered if she has moved on to the eighth grade or was still supposed to be in the seventh.
- Amy Castle, who played Andie, won a 2003 Young Artists Award for "Best Performance in a Comedy Series by a Guest Starring Actress" for this episode. The Young Artist Awards are given to actors under 18 years of age.
- The stunt double for Sam was Tom Ficke.
- Minor changes to the set of the McGuire's home: New refrigerator and blue paint in the bookshelves near the family room.
Music[]
- "I Wanna Be Like You" by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The song is played during Lizzie's dream about Andie taking over her life.
Goofs[]
- When Andie and Lizzie are talking together at Lizzie's locker, the locker door is open at first, then closed in the following shots without anyone apparently closing it.
- After Ethan comes by, Lizzie is shown holding her purse in front of her by the straps, but in the next quick-cut shot it's on her left shoulder. (In the blooper reel, there's a clip of Lizzie moving her purse to her shoulder.)
- After Sam trips over a lawn gnome, a piece of the grass (obviously some kind of artificial turf) moves just a bit when he begins to rise up.
- Almost immediately after rubbing the poison ivy leaves on his face, Sam has red spots appear. In reality, they would take some time to show up.
- When Matt and Jo accidentally push Sam out of Matt's bedroom on his chair, Sam should have just crashed into the banister, and not fallen down the stairs.
- On the last day (beginning just after Lizzie's dream), a stain on the front of Gordo's shirt appears and disappears throughout the day.
Quotes[]
Lizzie: You don't want to be like me. Trust me. I oversleep, I get stains on my clothes, I trip in the cafeteria, I lose my keys, my room is a mess, and I try really, really hard to make my life look easy.
Matt: You know, you also forgot to mention that you snore, you leave hair in the brush, and that your toes stick together when it's hot out.
Miranda: They do?
Miranda: I had to get up in front of my French class today and conjugate a verb. I don't even know how to do that in English!
Miranda: Where did you find her, and how can I get one?
Gordo: She's really cool.
Lizzie: Don't you mean I'm cool?
Gordo: What can I say? She wears you well. Truth is, if she wasn't a sevvy, I'd probably ask her out.
Lizzie: What? Well, you might as well ask me out.
Gordo: Why would I want to do that?