| Sibling Bonds | |
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| Episode Information | |
| Episode #: | 17 |
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| Air Date: | August 3, 2001 |
| Writer(s): | Tim Maile Douglas Tuber |
| Director: | Mark Rosman |
| Prod. #: | 119 |
| Credits | |
| Starring: | ■ Hilary Duff as Lizzie McGuire ■ Lalaine as Miranda Sanchez |
| Recurring: | ■ Ashlie Brillault as Kate Sanders ■ Clayton Snyder as Ethan Craft |
| Guest(s): | ■ Paul Robert Langdon as Heywood Biggs |
| Episode Guide | |
| Previous: | Obsession |
| Next: | Rated Aargh |
| Chronological Order | |
| Previous: | Here Comes Aaron Carter |
| Next: | Gordo and the Girl |
Sibling Bonds is the seventeenth episode of the first season of Lizzie McGuire.
Summary[]
Lizzie's plans to spend the day with Ethan at a school charity drive are complicated when Matt, who's practicing magic tricks, handcuffs them together, then misplaces the key.
Synopsis[]
Matt is irritating Lizzie with his magic tricks while she's trying to do homework. Soon they are fighting like cats and dogs--or brother and sister--much to the annoyance of their parents. But as soon as Sam and Jo stop them, they go right back to fighting.
At school, Ethan speaks to Lizzie and Miranda, but Lizzie is so tongue-tied she can barely utter a word. Mr. Escobar announces a charity drive and asks for volunteers. Lizzie thinks she'll be too busy until she hears that Ethan will be there. At home Lizzie is making some cookies for the event when Matt tries out another trick. This time he handcuffs himself to his sister, but he can't get the cuffs loose. Jo spies the key and hides it, thinking that if the kids are forced to spend a few hours chained together, they might learn to get along better. Now Lizzie is facing the horror of going to the charity drive with her little brother stuck on her arm.
At the drive, Lizzie tries to hide Matt as best she can while Kate takes advantage of the situation and steals Ethan's attention. Meanwhile, with the family gone, Sam settles back at home alone to enjoy the football game, but he OD's on junk food and falls asleep before the kickoff.
Lizzie is furious with Matt for the trouble he's causing her, but she notices that he's particularly avoiding a bully named Heywood. When Heywood trips Matt, Lizzie goes ballistic and scares him off. Now Matt and Lizzie are beginning to understand some of each other's problems. Kate comes by to laugh at Lizzie's situation and to rub it in that she's with Ethan. Matt, returning the favor for Lizzie, comes up with a good way to get back at Kate. Sam finally shows up with the key and the siblings are released from their bonds. Ethan sees Lizzie and tells her he thinks it's cool that she spent the day with her little brother. He invites her out for pizza with some friends, but Lizzie declines when she sees Heywood menacing Matt again, and she goes to his rescue.
Quotes[]
Matt: Dad! Lizzie threw my trick away!
Sam: Lizzie, don't throw your brother's trick away.
Matt: Mom! Lizzie called me Cactus Head!
Jo: Lizzie, don't call your brother a cactus head.
Miranda: You should lock him in the basement until he goes away to college.
Gordo: There's a mini-golf tournament? Ah, great! I could be the announcer! I get extra credit. I unload a ton of canned whitefish. It's like I'm winning the lottery!
Sam: When are you planning on telling them about the key?
Jo: I think they should stay handcuffed together. They'll learn they have to stop bickering and get along with each other. Or they eat each other alive.
Sam: Either way, we win.
Sam: Well, the magic shop is closed. It's a magician's holiday. Who knew?
Lizzie: I just told Ethan that I have to stay in here for a while. If I go out there, he'll think I'm a complete baboon.
Matt: Trust me. There's a million other reasons for him to think you're a complete baboon.
Matt: Thanks.
Lizzie: I didn't do it for you. I did it because no one gets to beat up on you, but me.
Matt: Well, it was still kinda nice, in a twisted kind of way.
Sam: THAT'S Ethan Craft?
Pop Culture[]
Animated Lizzie:: Cute and smart! Like Albert Einstein, only without the Three Stooges hair.
- Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity.[1]
- The Three Stooges were an American comedy trio that starred in 190 film shorts for Columbia Studios in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.[2]
Sam: Don't you know what that jersey is? The Drive! John Elway marched his team 98 years in two minutes to tie the game. Which they went on to win. I was wearing this when I watched it.
- "The Drive" was conducted by the Denver Broncos, an American professional football team, in the 1986 American Football Conference Championship Game, played on January 11, 1987, against the Cleveland Browns. The Broncos came from behind to tie the game with 31 seconds remaining in regulation. They went on to win the game in overtime, with a successful field goal.[3] Sam is misremembering one detail: The Drive lasted five minutes and one second, not two minutes.
- Sam's jersey is not a true football jersey; it is simply a jersey with the number "3" screen-printed on it. While John Elway wore the jersey number "7," the number "3" belonged to Rich Karlis, the placekicker on the game-winning field goal.[4]
Gordo: Man, this is dull. Ethan Craft draws back his flat stick and rolls his rock. It's on line but...what's this? King Tut's mummy has suddenly come alive and is stalking the gallery, tearing the heads off of innocent spectators! And now, the Mir space station is falling out of the sky! Oh, the humanity! Mercy! A piece of debris is heading right at me and I---(crrrkkksssxx)---I'm gonna get me some nachos.
- King Tut is the colloquial name for Tutankhamun, an Egyptian pharaoh from c. 1332 - 1323 BC. His tomb, complete with mummified remains, was discovered in 1922.[5]
- Mir was a Russian space station launched into orbit in 1986. On March 23, 2001, Mir experienced a controlled deorbit and reentry. It landed in the South Pacific, near New Zealand.[6]
- On May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg suffered a catastrophic descent in New Jersey. Due to unknown causes, its highly inflammable hydrogen tanks caught fire while attempting to dock, leading to the deaths of 35 passengers and crew. Because it was the first transatlantic flight of a passenger airship, the docking was covered extensively by American journalists. Among those was Herbert Morrison, a correspondent for radio station WLS, out of Chicago. Morrison's narration of the events was recorded, and among his heartfelt response to the events unveiling before him was the exclamation, "Oh, the humanity!"[7]