Obsession is the sixteenth episode of Lizzie McGuire's first season.
Synopsis
Lizzie becomes obsessed with volunteering after a school volunteer project. Meanwhile, Gordo becomes obsessed with winning the Science Olympics, and Matt goes power crazy with his new hall monitor job.
Plot
The various obsessions of Lizzie, Matt and Gordo are driving friends, family, teachers and themselves to distraction. Gordo is intent on winning the Science Olympics at all costs against defending champion Larry Tudgeman.
Matt becomes hall monitor at his school and the job goes to his head giving out citations to schoolmates by the dozen and even trying to do the same to teachers and family members.
Meanwhile, after she and Miranda work on a successful volunteer project at school, Lizzie becomes an environmental warrior, a fanatic for collecting clothing and food for the homeless, and even a vegetarian. All three eventually learn the hard way that they must put limits on their fanaticism, or else their original causes will suffer as a result.
Trivia
- Lizzie complains to her mother that there is a limited water source. However, this isn't true because water recycles itself.
- Plastic six-pack rings aren't what dolphins get tangled up in (despite what Lizzie thinks in this episode).