Season 1

1. Rumors

Gordo has a HUGE portion of broccoli on his lunch plate, easily at least twice the amount a school cafeteria would normally serve.
Lizzie types "Because Kate stuffs her bra" on her instant message, but when Miranda accidentally sends it out, the "Because" has disappeared.
When Lizzie approaches Kate before the cheerleaders do their routine, a stage mark "X" is visible on the ground.
In the hallway scene, where Lizzie tries to confess to Kate she is wearing a red and white shirt without her blue purse. But in one shot, with the camera looking at Kate, the strap to the purse can be seen on her left shoulder just as it was a few moments later when Lizzie is walking to the pep rally with Miranda and Gordo.

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2. Picture Day

Lizzie describes her "Oops! I did it again" outfit as having a red halter top, but when it's pictured, she's wearing a full, long-sleeved top. She also says it has black hip-huggers, which are not shown, but those do show up in her "Shania Twain" outfit. They appear to be spandex, even though Miranda describes Lizzie's Shania outfit as "your denim thing."
Also, Lizzie describes her red halter top as having a bare midriff, but in "Rated Aargh" she says that her mom won't let her buy tops that show her stomach. The Shania outfit as pictured does have a bare midriff.
The closed-captioning refers to Sam McGuire as "Simon." This mistake recurs frequently in other episodes.
When Matt is faking sick, Mrs. McGuire takes the thermometer out of Matt's mouth and walks away with it in her hand. But when she's peaking around the corner talking to Mr. McGuire on the phone, Matt now has the thermometer and is holding a flashlight against it.
Mrs. McGuire asks Matt to go up stairs so that she can take his tempreture, however, he is down stairs when she takes it.
Nitpick: Why on earth couldn't Lizzie just wear a shirt underneath the sweater so she could take it off? Then when it came time to take the picture she could put the sweater back on. Also, why doesn't she just go get another shirt after her original gets paint on it? Gordo does have others in his locker.
Goof or Not a Goof: As Lizzie is walking up to Gordo when he is waiting in the picture line, she calls him Gordon instead of Gordo.
^-- Not goof, his last name is Gordon, first name David, and NICKname, Gordo

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3. When Moms Attack

Lizzie accuses Miranda of saying to Kate that she wore "pink ducky" pajamas. Actually Miranda corrected Kate, who said Lizzie had pink puppy pajamas, by telling her they were ducks, but she didn't mention the color. When a picture of the pajamas was shown, the ducks were yellow.
Lizzie tells her mom the camping trip is "only overnight," but earlier in the episode's intro Toon Lizzie said it was 48 hours in the woods parentless.
Look very carefully at the long shot of the school bus taking the students on the field trip and you'll see that it is almost empty.
It would have been difficult for the boys to sneak on the bus with all those super-soaker squirt guns that they attacked the girls with. Mr. Pettus doesn't seem like the kind of teacher who would have let them take them along.
Lizzie tells her mom, "High fives are always really dorky, though," but in later episodes she gives and receives high-fives on several occasions. Maybe they had a change in status?
Lizzie is holding Gordo's camera when her mom is introduced as the new chaperone. Lizzie is then shown with her hands up to her mouth and Gordo is holding the camera.
2 different video cameras were used during the sequence when Lizzie was filming the "mystery chaperone." She is shown holding a JVC miniDV camera, but the LCD display of a Sony D8 was used for the shot showing Lizzie's mom walking through the door.
When Mr. Pettus is speaking to the students before the field trip it's supposed to be in the morning, but the clock behind him says 3:28.
Lizzie says she has pictures of Kate and her kiddie things, Kate reactes to it like it can destroy her life. In the episode "She Said, He Said, She Said", Lizzie says when Kate snores, "Finally, I have something on Kate, she snores!" Why would she say that when she has those pictures?
Re Lizzie holding the camera: She's shown dropping it when she sees her mom then puts her hands to her mouth. It probably dropped in her lap luckily undamaged for Gordo to pick up.

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4. Pool Party (aka Pilot)

Lizzie is shown in a camera shot from the inside of her locker, where she takes off a bracelet and hangs it up. In the next shot from a camera angle outside the locker, the pictures and other contents of the locker are different. Then when the camera goes back to the inside shot, the bracelet is no longer hanging there.
Lizzie says she'll feed Matt's book to his gerbils, but there is never any mention of gerbils or any pet after that.
In this episode the girls' gym uniforms are grey but in others they are blue.
The gym class in this episode and in "I've Got Rhythmic" is all-girls, but in "Scarlett Larry," which also takes place in the 7th grade, it's a co-ed class. Although, a viewer has pointed out that in some junior high schools there can be separate boys and girls P.E. classes which may combine for activities like dancing in the episode "Scarlett Larry."
Nitpick: The calendar hanging on the refrigerator is turned to the month of May instead of one of the fall months. This seems odd since the early episodes make it appear that the first season begins with the start of the school year.
Nitpick: In the scene where Lizzie is lying on her bed and avoiding her parents, the wide shot shows a book that is open, but in the following shot it can be seen further up her bed and opened to a different page.
The exterior shots of the McGuire house show a white fence around it, but the fence seen on the soundstage has the natural appearance of wood.
Not a goof: In this episode Nana, Jo's mom, is mentioned, while in "Picture Day" Gammy McGuire, who is Sam's mom is mentioned, they are two different people.

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5. I've Got Rhythmic

The announcer at the gymnastics meet gives the name of Lizzie's school as North Hills Junior High. In later episodes, however, the school is called Hillridge Middle School (and also Hillridge Junior High).
In a scene in PE class, the number of clubs in Miranda's hands changes from one to two in several different shots.
While Lizzie's gymnastics routine is still going on, the camera pans by the judges, who already have Lizzie's final scores in front of them ready to hold up.
When Lizzie first looks at the posted list of grades, it has all different names in alphabetical order, but when a close-up of her name on it is shown, the other visible names all end with "...ansen."
Toward the end of the episode, Lizzie pronounces Kate Sanders' last name as "Saunders" instead of with the short "a" sound. In future episodes the pronunciation of this name will go back and forth from one to the other.
NOT a goof!: Kate drops a club on her right foot, but in the locker room afterwards she appears to have her left foot bandaged. That's right, she APPEARS to! A sharp-eyed viewer pointed out to us that when the shot begins, the camera pans across the locker room from right to left and stops on a mirror, where we see the REFLECTION of Kate in it. In the mirror image, of course, it looks like her left foot is bandaged rather than her right!
At the end, Toon Lizzie is looking at a bunch of classmates' pictures and predicting their futures. She comes across three sort-of geeky looking guys pictured in cars and says of them, "Destined to become gazillionaires," then adds "Call me!" But one of the three is Larry Tudgeman! In future episodes, Lizzie doesn't show much desire to have Tudge to "call her."
Some of the Rhythmic Sportive Gymnasts (RSG) rules broken during Lizzie's routine:
1) A gymnast is never to use music with words, in any language.
2) A gymnast must have their hair tied in a bun or small ponytail.
3) A gymnast is never, under any circumstances allowed to switch an apparatus (ribbon, hoop, ball, rope, clubs) in one routine, each apparatus is to have their own routine.
4) A gymnast is never to stop their routine in the middle of the performance.
In the scene where Lizzie throws the hoop and Tudgeman catches it, she does a tumble and comes out of it in a standing position. But, in the next shot when Gordo throws the ribbon to Lizzie, she catches it and comes out of a kneeling position.
In the opening and closing hallway scenes, Miranda has on the same outfit.

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6. Jack of All Trades

When Gordo is talking with Mr. Pettus after his brain project explodes, he has a piece of green slime on his shoulder that keeps disappearing and reappearing from shot to shot. In one shot it can be seen rolling down his shirt sleeve. The same thing keeps happening after he leaves the classroom and is talking with Lizzie and Miranda in the hall. The goop keeps falling off of, then reappearing, on Mr. Pettus as well.
In a scene at the McGuire house, Lizzie puts on her backpack, which is unzipped. A few seconds later a shot from behind her shows the backpack is zipped up.
As Lizzie is about to leave the classroom after Gordo's brain explodes, her face is almost totally covered in slime. But when she enters the hallway her face has almost no slime on it.
When Miranda reaches under her desk and says, "I feel gum," she's holding a pencil in her right hand. The next quick-cut shot shows a right hand (presumably hers!) under the table feeling some stuck-on gum--with no pencil. Then the shot immeditely switches back to Miranda with the pencil in hand again.
After Lizzie gets slimed at school, she's shown at home where she's obviously cleaned up and gotten the slime out of her hair. But she's still wearing the same clothes. Even though her clothes are slime-free, it seems unlikely she would put the same ones back on after cleaning them off. Actually, in the shots after Gordo's brain explodes, Lizzie's clothes appear to be free of slime.
Lizzie and Miranda are shown wearing the same clothes to school on two different days close together. Now, of course this is entirely possible, but the two girls are very clothes-conscious and never do this on any other episode! In the first scene at school, Lizzie wears a dark green print top with the number "2" on the chest and a lighter green print pair of hip-huggers while Miranda wears a yellow long-sleeved T with a purple sleeveless top over it. Later during the scene where the brain blows up in class, the girls are wearing those same outfits. Gordo, however, is in different clothes! To confuse things even further, Lizzie wears a lighter green printed top in a scene in between the other two (when she's making the brain poster.) Also, Lizzie wears the same outfit described above at dinner on the two different days--and so does her mom Jo, who wears a white top and a peach jacket. But in the dinner scenes, Matt and Mr. McGuire both have on different clothes in each!
When Lizzie and Miranda are trying to look through the transom over the door into Mr. Pettus' class, Miranda picks up Lizzie and boosts her up, holding Lizzie's feet in her hands. When that doesn't work, Lizzie suggests that she stand on Miranda's shoulders. This time it works, and Lizzie gets up to the window level, only she's not on Miranda's shoulders; once again, Miranda is holding Lizzie's feet in her hands just like before.
When Gordo, Miranda, and Lizzie are talking in the hall after Gordo says the Bill Gates remark, Miranda first has a 3-ringed binder and a book with the binder on the outside. The next scene it switches. Then the book switched all together.
Nitpick: If Gordo is so smart how come he didnt know the real meaning behind the career aptitude test. He thought it was a type of job placement test until Mr. Pettus told him.

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7. Aaron Carter's Coming to Town (aka Here Comes Aaron Carter)

Miranda mentions that Matt managed to pass for a "super-genius" at their school for half a day. But the episode in which that happened ("Lizzie's Nightmares") wasn't broadcast until three months after this one.
Matt refers to Lanny in this episode, saying he told him where the video shoot was. But Lanny was not introduced as a character until the episode "Come Fly with Me." (This episode was shot after "Come Fly with Me," but it aired before it.)
The director lets Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo onto the set so they can appear in Aaron Carter's video as stunt or dancing elves, but Lizzie and Miranda wear regular clothes in the video and Gordo does not appear at all.
Another continuity goof due to this episode being shown out of production order: Lizzie tells Miranda here that she's a great singer, but Lizzie didn't realize Miranda could sing until "Random Acts of Miranda," which didn't premiere until two-and-a-half months later.
When Lizzie, Miranda, and Gordo are ditching their elf costumes, they're all still wearing their elf hats. In the next shot, they're not wearing them anymore, yet we never saw them take them off.
When Lizzie is dressed like an elf, her hair is in pigtails. Later after she, Miranda and Gordo get rid of the costumes, her hair is styled differently.
When Jo pulls up at the video shoot she looks at the guard and goes "i'm Jo McGuire Lizzie's mom, i spoke to you on the phone." but she never did. She just listened to the machine then left. it is possible that she called them on her cell phone but she doesn't copy the phone number down so how would she had known?
You'd think Sam would've left Jo a pass so she could get the kids into the shoot but when she talks to the security guard she doesn't have a pass. She could have forgot it though.
In a beginning scene, it is stated that it is springtime. But on the set of the video, the security guards says, "While it is Christmastime, so I guess its okay".

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8. Misadventures in Babysitting

Kate's last name is pronounced like "Saunders" instead of Sanders with a short "a" sound like it is spelled and has been pronounced in the past.
After the opening credits when Miranda and Lizzie are in the lunch line, Lalaine (Miranda) delivers her first line and starts to grin, then looks at the camera for a moment as if she expects the director to say "Cut!" But he doesn't and the scene goes on!
When Matt spills grape juice on himself, Gordo agrees to taking him upstairs to get a clean shirt. But when he comes back, you can still see the juice on Matt's shirt.
Matt holds up a book on the end of a vacuum cleaner nozzle, but when the power goes out, the book doesn't fall to the floor like it should, but instead stays on the nozzle, even when Matt drops it.
When Matt is eating the popsicles, there is very little of the purple mess around his mouth that we see just a few seconds later after he's finished them.
Miranda sings a terrible off-key version of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" here, even though it's shown in "Random Acts of Miranda" that she's actualy a good singer. Perhaps she was just trying to raise a ruckus to help scare off whoever or whatever was outside, but good singers usually would balk at purposely singing badly no matter what the reason.
When Miranda had just put some music on and Gordo was coming into the room saying raccoons wouldn't stay for her singing you can see and x on the floor where he stops at.
When Miranda had just put some music on and Gordo was coming into the room saying raccoons wouldn't stay for her singing you can see and x on the floor where he stops at.
Not a goof: Lizzie tells her parents a reason why they should let her babysit Matt, because Kate babysits and that she's the same age as her, but this was before the episode "Gordo's Video" in which we learned that she is actually 14.

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9. Election

Gordo states the Claire did a kick and knocked over Larry's bowl of worms, but Larry was always seen carrying around a bucket.
At the end, when Larry wins the election he says "...and Jar Jar Binks Rules!" after he says that the "Trekkie" club stands up and gives him a hug! Yet a true Trekkie probably wouldn't have done that since Star Trek and Star Wars have been long time box office rivals.
Gordo tells Lizzie not to smile since the Drama Club doesn't smile. Yet when she walks over to their table she smiles at them and the drama club members can be seen smiling at other points during the episode.

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10. I Do, I Don't

Chelsea J. Wilson played Parker McKenzie in the "Picture Day" episode, but is identified only as "Cop Kid" here. Later she will appear as Parker again in "Obsession." Her "husband" in this episode, Mitchah Williams ("Farmer Kid"), has been on the show five times but has never been given a proper name.
Miranda's bra strap is visible in her homemaker's outfit at the reunion, but two episodes later in "Between a Rock and a Bra Place," she and Lizzie say that they don't have bras yet. One veiwer did point out that she may have been wearing a singlet.
Gordo mispronounces "married" and says, "We've been larried less than a period..."
Larry misspeaks and says to Kate, "Maybe if you just work me like I asked," instead of "worked with me."
The uncertainty over Kate's last name continues. Mrs. Stebel calls her her Kate SAN-ders while Toon Lizzie says SAUN-ders.
In the 3-way phone conversation at the end, Lizzie makes the common mistake of saying "not taking people 'for granite' instead of 'for granted.'"
Ashlie Brillault (Kate) can't help smiling during a scene when the contents of a punchbowl are poured over her head.
When Lizzie is getting a drink at the Digital Bean, a waitress walks behind her. In the next quick-cut shot, the waitress is seen at the cash register.
When Larry pulls the paper with his career choice out of the fishbowl, nothing is written on it. This mistake occurs more than once.
Miranda says, "See you guys in gym," to Lizzie and Gordo. But earlier in "Pool Party" and "I've Got Rhythmic" Lizzie and Miranda's 3rd period gym class was all female.

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11. Bad Girl McGuire

When the teacher hands out the test, Angel is saying "Let me see your paper" and trying to cheat off Lizzie before she's even had a chance to write anything down.
When Lizzie first enters ther detention room, there is a pink sticker with "Lizzie" printed on it stuck on her binder--but it's only visible in the shots with Mr. Escobar in them. When the camera goes back to Lizzie, the sticker is gone. The sticker disappears and reappears like this throughout the conversation.
Gordo tells Lizzie he has the answers for algebra. But few, if any, 7th graders take a math class as advanced as algebra. [Ed. note--There has been a lot of disagreement about this one. Many people have told us they either took algebra in the 7th grade or that other kids do or that 7th graders sometimes take introductory lessons to the subject in math class.]
At the start of the episode where the teacher is handing out the quiz, Gordo is wearing a light gray long-sleeved shirt underneath his button-down short-sleeved shirt. But in the hallway when Gordo and Miranda are walking Lizzie to detention, Gordo is wearing a short-sleeved t-shirt underneath his usual short-sleeved button-down shirt. Later when Gordo is talking to Lizzie and Miranda on the phone, he'ss in the long-sleeved shirt again.
In the opening shots Miranda's hair is held up in pigtails by several different-colored elastic bands. Later, near the detention room, the bands have been switched around. Each shot was most likely done on different days.
Lizzie serves her detention the same day it's assigned, though most if not all schools have to give at least 24 hours notice before after-school detention can be served. Another nitpick is that Jo complains she didn't know where Lizzie was after her detention, but some schools notify parents of a student's detention. As for how she got home since the bus had already run, it's likely she walked or got a ride from someone.
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.

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12. Between a Rock and a Bra Place

Matt says that Jet Li is looking for a sidekick for his "newish" movie instead of "newest."
When Gordo and Matt are filming the pebble scene for Matt's audition tape, the camera tripod falls down which makes them stop filming (obviously). But seconds later, when they go to get Sam, we see the camera is standing up.
As Lizzie and Miranda are standing at their lockers discussing how to get to the mall, both close their doors. Seconds later Lizzie's locker door can been seen open but in the following shot it is again closed.
Matt supposedly wins the Jet Li sidekick contest, which is a very big deal, but it's never mentioned again for the rest of the series.
In the scene where Jo is in the food court, she is shown in several alternating shots to be holding a drink at mouth level, then holding it while it's on the table.
When Gordo comes over to the McGuire's house he is wearing a long sleeve dark blue pull-over shirt under a pastel white short sleeve shirt. When he returns with his camera the white shirt is no longer white, it has no pastel design and it now has long sleeves. Yet in one of the final scenes where Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo are speaking on the phone he is again wearing the short sleeve shirt over the blue shirt.
Gordo says that he's in all of Lizzie and Miranda's classes "except for gym," but in a later episode in the season, "Scarlett Larry" (which also takes place in the seventh grade), Gordo is shown in a "co-ed gym" class with the girls.
While Lizzie is telling Jo about how she and Miranda aren't children anymore in the dressing room, there is a shot of Jo and behind her is the cashier. This makes it seem like the 'dressing rooms' are dressing cubicles, which would be very unlikely in a bra store or any kind of clothing store for that matter, because Lizzie states "I could've been changing!" when Jo opens the curtain of her dressing cubicle without asking if she was "decent."
Nitpick: How exactly were they able to film Gordo and Sam filming during the credits of the movie that they made?
At one point there is an error in the closed captioning when Sam is identified as Simon.

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13. Come Fly with Me

When Matt and Lanny are trying to set a world record, Matt looks through the record book and says, "Ah, world's largest pancake," when the page he has the book open to is headed "Computer Technology."
As Gordo is showing Lizzie his model planes he makes the statement, "the Allies used this plane in World War II to deliver powdered eggs and rubber to American Samoa." While the plane can't be seem completely, it is clear that he is holding a single engine fighter, not a military transport aircraft. From the shark's mouth nose art on the model it was most likely a P-40 Warkhawk used by the American Volunteer Group in Burma and China, or more commonly known as the Flying Tigers. One other thing, considering the location of American Samoa, resupply by ship would make more sense than using aircraft.
Matt tells Lanny he "only" has to gain 674 pounds to become the world's heaviest person. But Guinness World Records 2000 lists the heaviest person of all time as 6'1" John Minnoch, who in March 1978 was admitted to a hospital with heart failure where his weight was calculated at over 1,400 lbs.! Minnoch was put on a diet and reduced his weight to 476 lbs., but when he died in 1983 he was back up to near 800 pounds.

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14. Random Acts of Miranda

Miranda and Lizzie talk as if neither had ever been in a play before, but in "Lizzie Strikes Out" Miranda says she was in a school "holiday pageant" as a "maid a'milkin'."
A boy with short red hair and a boy with sunglasses who are sitting behind Matt and Lanny at the play are seen in various other locations in different shots.
When Miranda says she'll try out for the Glee Club, Lizzie is worried that she'll be a bad singer. Yet in "Aaron Carter Is Coming to Town," Lizzie tells Miranda she's a wonderful singer and should perform for Aaron. (This is a prime example of confusion caused by showing episodes out of production order. "Random Acts" was shot before "Aaron..," but it wasn't broadcast until after it.)
When Gordo is shown filming the play and the glee club, he's holding his camera at shoulder level, which would presumably get shots of the backs of the head of those sitting in front of him.
After Lanny drinks some of the orange drink he and Matt are having, he shivers, indcating something's wrong with it. Matt then apologizes for his mistake and adds some sugar. But there was already sugar visible in the bottom of Lanny's glass. (Or maybe he justs likes a ton of sugar in his drinks?)
When Lizzie is in the family room with Gordo writing her review, it doesn't appear that her pen is actually touching the paper.
In the scene where Miranda tells Lizzie and Gordo about getting the lead in the play, there are a couple of loose strands of hair in front of Lizzie's face. A moment later, her hair is all neatly pinned back in her ponytail.
In the opening scene Gordo states that cannibalism existed on Trinidad and Tobago until 1850. A review of several sources shows no evidence that the native Carib Indians continued this practice to the nineteenth century.

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15. Lizzie's Nightmares

Lizzie complains that Gordo and Miranda didn't tell her she had spinach in her teeth, which clashed with her red outfit. Yet when they show a picture of her, she's wearing a yellow shirt.
In the episode "Pool Party," Miranda, Gordo and Lizzie all are seen riding the same school bus. But when Matt mistakenly gets on that bus, Miranda and Gordo were not on it. It's very unlikely that Lizzie, Miranda, and Gordo all missed the bus that day and got to school some other way.
The principal says "B.E." one time instead of "P.E."
When Sam is online auctioning off the record albums, Jo comes in and says the school just called about Matt. But later when the policeman is at the house, Sam says he disconnected the phone while he was online!
Matt says he likes Lizzie's school better because it has a bigger playground than his. But it's unlikely a middle school or a junior high would have a "playground."
When they find out that Matt is missing from his school, Mr. and Mrs. McGuire question Lanny at their house about where Matt might be. But shouldn't Lanny be in school also? (In the 2003 Lizzie McGuire book New Kid in School, which contains the story from this episode, it explains that Lanny's school allowed the McGuires to take him out of school and question him about Matt. This is never mentioned on the TV show.)
Lizzie tells Miranda and Gordo that Matt has been grounded for his antics at her school. But at the episode's end, Ethan calls Lizzie and asks for her to pick up a pizza for him and Matt when they have lunch on Saturday, something a "grounded" kid certainly wouldn't be doing. Although, it is possible Ethan didn't know about Matt's grounding. Also, some people point out that in this (and other Lizzie episodes) Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo are still able to use the phone even when grounded. This may or may not be a goof, as different parents have different policies about grounding, with some letting their children still use the phone or reduce the time they can talk on it rather than stricly prohibit its use.
Kate states that Matt couldn't be related to Lizzie because he's so cool. Yet if Kate and Lizzie where such close friends she should have recognized him.
Another discrepancy involving the morning bus. Sam tells Matt "Hurry, you're going to miss your bus," and it's learned that Jo will be taking Lizzie to school. So, we see Matt rush to the bus and get on, despite it being the wrong one. Next shot is Lizzie, Gordo, and Miranda in the school hallway discussing lunch. Then the action cuts back to the bus where we see Ethan confronting Matt. How can this be? If Matt was running late for his bus (and assuming he rushed out the door after the scene in the kitchen), how did Lizzie make it to school so quickly (along with Gordo and Miranda), while Matt is still sitting on the bus?
After Jo listens to the answering machine, she and Sam hug. But in a series of three shots Jo's head moves from Sam's right shoulder to the left and back to the right.

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16. Obsession

Lizzie is supposedly wearing a dress made of burlap, but Miranda doesn't ask about it until the second time she sees Lizzie wearing it.
Plastic six-pack rings aren't what dolphins get tangled up in, like Lizzie alleges!
Lizzie complains to her mum that there is a limited water source. However that isn't true to the fact that water recycles itself (I won't go to far into detail.)
Nitpick: During the Science Olympics, in the slow bicycle race, both Tudgeman and Gordo should know that at those slow speeds, aerodynamics play a very minor role. Balance and center of gravity play a much more important part when riding slowly.

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17. Sibling Bonds

Lizzie is standing outside the men's bathroom while handcuffed to Matt. Seeing that the handcuffs' chains was maybe 6 inches long, there's no chance Matt would be going to the bathroom (or doing anything), since the toilets are not that close to the door.
When Sam orders a pizza he takes a piece out of it, but it's later shown with no pieces missing.
When Sam says, "Hey kids, I've got the key" he actually throws two keys...it says "nitpicks," doesn't it?
The closed-captioning for this episode identified Sam McGuire as "Simon." (This has happened in at least one other episode as well.)
When Matt handcuffs himself to Lizzie, he's wearing a magician's top hat and cape. Then when he and Lizzie are searching for the key, the hat and cape are gone in the first shots, then reappear later in the scene.
When Miranda hands Lizzie the cup while shes standing outside the photo booth, there is obviously nothing in it.

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18. Rated Aargh

When Lizzie, Gordo, and Miranda try sneaking in through the the emergency fire escape it is locked and Gordo says, "The Fire Escape is locked, that can't be a good thing!", but a guy as smart as Gordo should know that fire escape doors ONLY open from the inside, by pushing the silver bar that is on the door. This unlocks the door and turns the fire alarm on.
Gordo acts like he wasn't in Lizzie's health class when Lizzie had to do mouth-to-mouth with Tudgeman. But in the episode "Between a Rock and a Bra Place" he said that he was in all of the her classes.
Lizzie says something about "how to make mock apple pie out of salty crackers" instead of saying "saltine crackers."
When the moviegoer Lizzie saves is choking, the popcorn of the other guy keeps disappearing and reappearing from shot to shot. In addition, his friend's cap is almost knocked off his head in one shot, then in the next quick-cut wide shot, it's back on his head straight.
Generally CPR classes use a life-size doll or dummy for students to learn and practice on, as it is not a good idea to do chest compressions on someone with a normally-beating heart. [But it wouldn't be very funny that way!--Ed.] The doll was later noticed laying on a table behind Lizzie.
Here's something that happens frequently on the show: Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo all get grounded, yet afterward they're all talking on the phone together...about being grounded! Don't any of their parents ever consider taking away phone priviliges as part of grounding?
When Lizzie is talking to Gordo and Miranda, they were talking about how all 3 of their parents said no, so they might as well go play mini golf. But when the kids get back from the movie, Lizzie's parents say something like "Why don't we go see Vesuvius? We've talked it over and we've decided that you kids are old enough." Since when do Lizzie's parents get to decide what Miranda and Gordo get to watch?? They're not the McGuire's kids!
In the scene when Lizzie saves Jeremy from choking, she does not have her purse in the wide shots, but in the close ups it can be seen on her right shoulder.
Why is it that Gordo and Miranda help Lizzie before her parents find out about seeing the movie, when their own parents could see the news as well, shouldn't they be at home distracting their parents?
When Lizzie, Gordo, and Miranda are at the movie theaters, a news reporter is talking about them. While the cameraman is recording, you can see the name of the theater and Channel 4 on the screen. The only prblem is that those images shouldn't be visible while recording.

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19. Gordo and the Girl

Lizzie and Miranda were preparing a "scary movie marathon," despite Toon Lizzie saying in another episode that she didn't like horror movies ("People like me don't do very well at horror movies!")
When Lizzie and Miranda are at the restaurant, they bump into the waiter who is bringing the food for a party of two. But when they fall to the ground, they're covered in enough pasta to feed about a half-dozen people! (Or is it a goof? We've been informed that the restaurant where the scene was filmed--see the "Notes" section above--is famous for their gigantic platters of food.)
Also, the amount of pasta and sauce on Lizzie's face changes from shot to shot.
When Sam is teaching Matt percentages with gumballs, he says there are ten in each row when some rows actually have eleven.
Goof or not a goof. When Gordo was leaving the restaurant with Brooke, a viewer thinks Gordo was heard calling her "Parker" others however believe he did say Brooke. [Ed. After listening to this several times, I think it's safe to say Gordo did not say "Parker."
In the scene where Jo finds Matt's book in the laundry, both Matt and Lanny walk in with arm fulls of stuff. A few seconds later in a wide shot, Lanny has already placed his stuff on the table, but in the next shot he can be seen placing the items on the table and quickly leaving.

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21. Lizzie Strikes Out

After Mr. Dig crashes into the tree, Miranda calls him "Mr. Digs."
Miranda recalls her embarrassment as a "maid a-milkin'" in a holiday pageant when she was younger. But in "Random Acts of Miranda," she and Lizzie talk as if neither of them had ever been in a play before.
After Matt and Lanny 'mummify' Lizzie they fall to the floor and Matt's camouflage hat falls off his head. But in one shot after he stands up it's back on his head, while in all the others it's not.
Closed captioning goof: Ethan's last name is spelled as Kraft instead of Craft.

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22. The Untitled Stan Jansen Project

When they are at the Digital Bean, after Lizzie and Miranda have dumped the whipped cream and chocolate on the floor and Stan Jansen has slipped and is falling, the stuntman doesn't land anywhere near the pile of whipped cream but then the angle changes and his face has moved up about a foot so it would go in.
Nitpick: When the McGuires are at the table and Lizzie keeps changing outfits, Matt gets up and knocks his fork across the plate.
When Lizzie is wearing a green sparkly shirt, you can see she's also wearing an ankle brace. (Hilary Duff sprained her ankle on the set of Cadet Kelly, but this injury seems to have occured before that.)
Goof or not a goof: Larry says "boldy going where no 'shecret' agent has gone before," instead of "secret" agent. Although, one viewer has stated Larry's slurring of the word "Secret" wasn't a flub, it was intentional. He was doing an impression of Sean Connery, famous for his role as 007, James Bond (hence the "secret agent" bit). Connery's voice is famous for its gravel like Scottish accent. Thus the word "Secret" would sound different with said accent applied to it.
Lizzie and Miranda run into a room marked "Girls Bathroom" to escape Gordo at one point. In almost any school, the room would simply be marked "Girls," and if it had any further identification, it would be called a "restroom" rather than a bathroom--unless it contained baths (highly unlikely!)
At the Digital Bean, Gordo writes "GO AWAY" in a notebook using a large, dark marker. When he picks up the notebook to show it to the camera, revealing the back of the previous page, you can briefly make out another "GO AWAY" through the paper.
During the scene at the Digital Bean, when Matt is chased by Stan Jansen, in some of the close up shots of Stan you can see his glasses aren't hanging around his neck. Then as he slips and falls his glasses can be seen flying off of his neck, but in the next shot as he rolls over on the floor, his glasses are again around his neck.
While the two shots of Stan Jansen saying "No can do" to Gordo are different shots, they were likely filmed at the same time based on his position to the items behind him on the wall. In both of those shots Jansen is wearing a gray shirt, but after the second "No can do" when Gordo walks away digusted the following close up of him shows him wearing a black shirt.

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23. Last Year's Model

The pronunciation of Kate's last name has gone from "Sanders" with a short "a" sound to SAUN-ders, then back to SAND-ers again on this episode.
When Lizzie and Miranda are at the country club in line to get water, it shows Kate and a red-haired girl standing in front of them. Kate and the girl turn around to look at Lizzie and it shows Lizzie and Miranda waiting but the other girl is behind them! Then Kate is shown again and the girl is still next to her.
When Lizzie and Miranda are getting in line at the country club for water, Lizzie is telling Miranda that if one of the teachers had known about Lizzie being a model in the future, she would have cast her as the snow princess instead of a sheep in the 5th grade holiday pageant. But in "Random Acts Of Miranda," Lizzie said that neither of them had been in a play before.
When Matt gets the letter from his grandma, he says "Wow, a 50 dollar gift certificate," as he's opening the envelope, but before he gets a chance to take a good look at what's inside. Also, it sounds like he says "birfday" instead of "birthday."
When Lizzie is talking to Mr. Dig about being a model, Lizzie mentions how Gordo and Miranda have been treating her different. Then Mr. Digs says "I don't know who those people are." But Mr. Dig he appears to have known them in earlier episodes "Educating Ethan" and "Lizzie Strikes Out."
Not a goof: In the scene where Jessica asks Lizzie to come to the country club, Miranda's necklace keeps appearing and disappearing. Actually, the shadow from her face is concealing it, but if you look closely the necklace is there the whole time.
When Lizzie, Miranda, Gordo, and Jessica are in the hot tub Lizzie is drinking something and the flower in her cup keeps disappearing and reappearing from shot to shot.
Mr. Dig says "...I was born in East Lansing, Michigan. Go Wolverines!", referring to the sports teams' nickname at the University of Michigan. But Lansing is actually the home of Michigan State University (the Spartans), who are athletic arch-rivals of Michigan. The University of Michigan is in Ann Arbor.
It's seriously doubtful that Lizzie would be reading Lord of the Flies at a 7th grade level. As it says in cultural references, some of content is scandalous and has been banned in some schools. For school districts that do allow it, it's a part of the high school curriculum.
Also, Gordo must not have read the book very closely. There's no cannibalism in it. The boys do "hunt" another boy one time, but it's for sport rather than for food, and they don't even catch him. On the island, the boys eat fruit and pork.
When Lizzie is putting her pencil box in her locker you can see that there is only one book in the locker. But when she notices that the boy is staring at her and she turns around, you get a good view of her locker and you see that she has several notebooks and textbooks in it.
On the same day Lizzie has her one-on-one conversation with Mr. Dig and everyone is treating her entirely differently, Gordo is wearing a gray t-shirt with a circle on it under a yellow shirt and Miranda is wearing her hair in 4 pigtails with an orange and white printed shirt. However, when Lizzie puts "Operation Superstar Brat" into action, Miranda and Gordo are wearing the same clothes, which is a Saturday because she threatens to not take Gordo to the Shango Tango that night if he doesn't redo the book report. In addition, Gordo and Miranda are wearing these same clothes at the second fashion show where Lizzie succeeds in getting out of her contract.
Matt and Lanny buy a hammock with their money, but in "Pool Party" there is a hammock in the McGuire's backyard. So why would they buy a hammock if they already had one.

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24. Night of the Day of the Dead

Before turning into a zombie Lizzie has a purple ring on her left hand. Later, when she turns into a zombie and walks into the room, you can see the ring on her right hand. When she drops the weapon, she puts her hands up again, you can see that the purple ring is on her left hand again.
Kate is seen wearing a cross necklace while she's dressed as Vampira, despite the aversion that vampires are supposed to have with to crosses.
When Mr. Sanchez gives the fake hand to Kate, she takes it with her right hand, then in the next quick shot it's in her left.
The whole thing was a prank to freak Kate out, that would mean that Miranda would have to act. But in "Random Acts of Miranda", she was terrible at acting.

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25. Facts of Life

When Matt is reading off a list of Rick the drummer's credits, he pronounces Linda Ronstadt's last name as "Ronstand."
A scholarly goof: Tudgeman gives an answer to a question as Marc Antony's fleet at the battle of Alexandria in 12 B.C. Actually, Marc Antony died eighteen years earlier in 30 B.C. Tudge also makes the common mistake of calling him Marc Anthony, rather than Antony, causing Miranda to ask, "Marc Anthony the singer?"
Larry Tudgeman answers the question what is the square root of Pi as 1.98324 that is wrong, the square root of Pi is actually 1.772453.
When Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo are getting ready for there first study with Mr. Dig after school, Gordo says he took out all the math books from the library, then near the end of the episode Miranda says "We have a library?" Shouldn't she know about the library when Gordo mentioned it? Not only that but in "Gordo's Video" some of the tape Gordo shot was from the library and that episode was filmed before this one.
When Lizzie says she found out that Queen Elizabeth I was fat, bald, and looked like a clown from a book she read, she must have misread. While it is true that Queen Elizabeth lost her hair during her reign, which caused her to wear wigs as other men and women in that century, and she did wear heavy makeup to cover up scars from smallpox, she was not fat. In reality, she took after her very thin mother, Anne Boleyn. Perhaps Lizzie mistook the Queen for her father, King Henry VIII, who became known for his obesity.

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26. Scarlett Larry

In "Between a Rock and a Bra Place," Gordo said he was in all of Lizzie's classes, "except for gym." But in this episode, he's in her "co-ed" gym class.
In this episode while Lizzie is walking in the hallway with Gordo and Miranda, she looks at the bulletin board. But in "Gordo's Video" she said she didn't even know the school had one. ["Gordo's Video" was filmed before this episode, but was not aired until after it--Ed.]
Tudgeman is supposed to have been wearing the same shirt since the second or third grade, but it fits him now as a seventh grader.
How does Kate get away with wearing a gym uniform with a bare midriff when super-strict Coach Kelly is the gym instructor?
Jo McGuire says that it's a curse in her family to marry geeky men, but she says it's the "McGuire" curse. McGuire is her married name, not her maiden one.
Is Ethan some sort of deaf-mute? When Lizzie's talking about her possible "crushers", she mentions, excitedly, and therefore rather loudly, Ethan Craft. And Ethan is standing right there, dancing with the rest of them. Shouldn't he have heard her?
In the sequence where Lizzie is pretending to be Larry's girlfriend, you can see that the boy playing the violin isn't really playing it because he's not even touching the strings.
After Sam crashes the soap box racer, he falls into a dirt/grassy area. When he first gets up, the front of his shirt is stained and dirty, but in the next shot, his shirt has very little grass on it.
In the opening scene, when Kate tells Lizzie that someone has a crush on her, Toon Lizzie states, "A crush on me? I'm the crushee, not the crusher." This is actually stated backwards. Lizzie is the one who has the crush on Ethan which makes her the crusher and Ethan would be the crushee.
In the Lizzie McGuire book Totally Crushed, it states that the square dancers are eighth graders, when in reality, they are seventh graders in the episode!

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27. Gordo and the Dwarves (aka Gordo and the Magic Dwarves)

Probably not a Goof: Mrs. Sanchez comes to the McGuires' house to get her husband Edward and says he's been there for four hours. In the meantime, in the story's other action, night has fallen and the kids have gone back to school. Editor: In this scene Sam, Jo, and Edward are wearing different clothes from the scene where Edward joins Sam in the tree, so I beleive it should be assumed that the events occurred on different days.
Matt talks about when Gordo rescued him from the stair case (his head was stuck in it). The posts that Matt's head was stuck in are much smaller than all the other posts.
Jo calls Matt "Indiana Jones" when he announces he's going out to hunt for snakes, something the actual Indiana Jones character wouldn't do as he had a phobia of the creatures.

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28. Lizzie and Kate's Big Adventure (aka Lizzie and Kate's Excellent Adventure)

Is it SAND-ers or SAUN-ders? The pronunciation of Kate's name is back to the latter again.
When Lizzie and Kate slip on the eggs and fall, the flour bag that Lizzie's holding doesn't fly up in the air. But when the girls are on the ground, the flour comes cascading down from above them.
Toon Lizzie says at one point, "After all, this is junior high." Which is it, junior high or middle school? The school has been called both on the series, and there is a difference. Generally, a middle school contains grades 6,7, and 8, while a junior high contains grades 7, 8 and the freshman year of high school, grade 9.
The patio door which is broken by the bookbag is different from those seen in other episodes. Usually doors with full glass and grids are seen but the door that is broken has two separate panes of glass and no grids. Later, when Matt runs into Kate there is a wide shot of the kitchen which shows the doors, with grids, that are normally seen. (Actually, the doors with the grids had no glass in them, as we noticed in a goof in "Over the Hill" where Gordo stuck his hand through one of the "panes." But they needed a real glass door in this episode.)
When Lizzie opens her locker to scream into it, her hand is on the door. But when the shot cuts to the inside of the locker, her hands are at the bottom of it. Then she's shown once again with her hand on the door.
Claire says she's paired up with Ethan on the cooking project, but he's never seen in this episode. When Lizzie and Kate are making their presentation near the end, there's a shot of the students in the class, and Ethan is not shown among them.
Goof or not a goof? Toon Lizzie says, "It's deja vu all over again," which is redundant, since deja vu is French for the feeling a person has that he or she has experienced a present moment at some time in the past. Actually, the phrase "deja vu all over again" has become sort of a standard joke. (It was supposedly uttered once by Yogi Berra, famous for his twisting of language.) But so many people use it seriously that we're not always sure who knows it's a joke and who doesn't.

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29. The Courtship of Miranda Sanchez

During a scene where Lizzie and Miranda are walking down the hall, a girl wearing an orange vest passes behind them. Immediately afterwards, she's seen walking behind them from the same direction once again.
Ryan must have a bad case of "sitcom hearing." He and Miranda sit together at a table, virtually the same distance from Lizzie hiding in a trash can. But while Miranda clearly understands every word Lizzie says, Ryan hears not a word.
The garbage can that Lizzie hides in looks pretty bogus in terms of the trash that's in it. It's mostly filled with newspaper. It's not at all what you'd expect to see in a trash can located where people eat their lunch, except for one lone banana peel. There are no milk cartons, bread crusts, apple cores, paper bags, food wrappers, tinfoil, etc. Of course we don't think Hilary Duff should have had to climb into a can full of old, smelly food and garbage, but it could have been a little more realistic!

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30. Gordo's Video

Wouldn't many of the people in Gordo's video be recognizable by their clothes and body types, even if their faces and voices were altered?
When Gordo hides the camera in the tree, the camera catches a girl tugging at her underwear. The camera actually pans down--how did it do this if Gordo wasn't in the tree? [There are remote control cameras that could do this, but Gordo would have to be watching on a monitor. We doubt he could afford such equipment--Ed.]
When Sam smashes through the wood the hole he makes is a very clean-cut sqaure, but in the next scene the wood is all messed up and not so clean-cut.
The pane of "fake glass" that Matt makes is bigger than any pan he uses.
When Gordo shows the girls the paper from the bulletin board, the locker behind Lizzie is open, but in the next shot it's closed.
When Gordo, Miranda and Lizzie sit down to watch the hidden video at Lizzie's house, Gordo says "let's see what we got" as if he hasn't seen the video before. But all of the funny images are already edited together.
After a confrontation with Gordo in the hall at school, Kate and Claire walk off into the foreground. They're then seen in the background.
When Gordo mentions the school's bulletin board, Lizzie responds, "We have a bulletin board?" But she's been seen reading from it before, like in "I've Got Rhythmic."
Thanks to minnymouse35 for pointing out something that should have been obvious to us from the first: You don't get "held back" in kindergarten! Kate might have started late, but she wouldn't be held back as if she failed a grade! (There's been a good bit of disagreement about this "goof." Someone pointed out that the youngest students, those with birthdays late in the year, sometimes don't advance to the first grade with others, but that has to do with social skills and maturity, not anything "academic." Others have said that yes, indeed, kids do get held back in kindergarten for academic reasons.)
In the scene where Gordo decides to enter his film in the film festival Miranda has her backpack, but in the next scene she says she left her backpack on the bus.
In the hallway scene with Lizzie and Miranda, just prior to the the screening of Gordo's video, Miranda is wearing a different necklace from the one seen during and after the screening.
When Miranda comes out during lunch to tell Lizzie about her horrible day, Lizzie is seen sitting at a table with no trees or bushes behind her, but in the next shot, when Miranda sits down, there is a big bush right behind Lizzie.
Nitpick or Not: If Lizzie, Miranda and Kate were such best friends, wouldn't they have known that she was a year older than them? Best friends would have known that about each other.
When Lizzie,Gordo,and Miranda are in the hall way after Gordo finds his videocamera Lizzie says Come on to Miranda but instead of saying "Come on Miranda", Hilary says "Come on Lalaine."

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31. Gordo's Bar Mitzvah

Gordo wonders how he will know when he becomes a man, and tells the girls that they will know when they are women because their change is "biological." But surely a smart guy like Gordo must know that there are biological changes for boys as well (which we won't go into here!) which mark the onset of maturity.
The girls act like they know nothing about bar-mitzvahs, especially Miranda ("a bar, like where you drink? At 13?" and they say he's not 13 anymore later on..., "I didn't know what to wear, I've never been to one of these before"). But in "Last Year's Model", they say they were invited to Whitney's bat-mitzvah (the equivalent of a bar mitzvah for Jewish girls).
More of a nitpick: Gordo has his bar-mitzvah a few days after making his video, leaving only a few days for him to study his portion of the Torah. However in, reality it would take him months to learn something like that; normally a Jewish boy leading up to his bar-mitzvah would be studying for quite a few months. Although Gordo is smart enough to learn it very fast, it's doubtful he could do it that soon.
While Gordo is talking to his father about why he wasn't "bar-mitzvahed", they say it's because he's not 13 anymore. That means he is 14+, and still in the seventh grade, which was the gossip he captured about Kate in "Gordo's Video". The show has not signified a change of grade levels yet.
Nitpick: In the scene where Gordo's family is eating, some of the plates they put in the sink have a good deal of food on them.
Although Gordo reads the part at the end in perfect Hebrew and it is what is said at a Bar-Mitzvah, it is not however read directly from the Torah. Gordo is seen reading from the Torah, however why would he be reading from it when that part is always read from a prayer book?
Lizzie and Miranda are wearing very slinky clothes, however, when in a synangoue it is best to wear clothes that are less revealing. So why would Lizzie and Miranda wear such clothes, also considering that both their mothers are wearing more formal clothes. Although one viewer has stated in modern bat mitzvah services, slinky clothes in temple are accepted, especially if you aren't Jewish. There is no proper dress code for bar mitzvahs, except adults normally dress more conservatively.

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Season 2
32. First Kiss

Malina's name was spelled Melina in the credits for "The Untitled Stan Jansen Project," the first episode in which the character appeared.
Lizzie never gives back the ring, she just holds it in her hand. Although it is also possible that she throws it on the ground.
When Ronny first comes to the door, Lizzie turns and hollers "Paperboy!" The scene cuts to her mom Jo saying "Where's my purse?" but she appears to be in the middle of a fit of laughter. What's so funny about "paperboy?" Or was this a blown take they decided to use anyway?
When Matt and Sam are talking about their baseball cards, Sam gets up to look for his card collection. Matt has the cards in his lap, and then the camera turns away and turns back and they're beside him. Then, it turns away again and its on his lap. There wasn't enough time for him to move them.
A nitpick: Lizzie only names five people when she's talking about the "six degrees of separation" theory Ronny told her about. In the theory, people can be linked by less than six people, but Lizzie specifically mentioned six then goes on to use five as an example.
Many viewers think that the name of this episode is a misnomer because Lizzie got her "first kiss" from Aaron Carter in "Aaron Carter Is Coming to Town." But others think the name is appropriate because this is Lizzie's first kiss from a boyfriend.
Lizzie's parents are very concerned about her going out with Ronny, but they didn't show any hesitation in letting her go out with Larry Tudgeman earlier in "Scarlett Larry."
When Lizzie and Ronny are playing their game of "you hang up first!" on the phone, Miranda presses her finger down on the receiver cradle to cut off the call. But the dial tone is still audible even when she still has her finger pressed down.
When Lizzie's voice is electronically speeded up while she's talking about the "six degrees of separation" theory, it sounds as if she's repeating the same thing.
After Lizzie says to Miranda, "You never cared what was in my notebook before. You're just jealous because I have a boyfriend and you don't," Toon Lizzie is shown literally eating the words Lizzie just said. However, the "don't" that she eats is spelled "don,t" with a comma instead of an apostrophe.
While Matt is opening up packages of baseball cards, Jo and Sam can be seen in the background putting away dishes. At one point Jo hands Sam a light blue dish which changes in color to navy blue just a second later.
This story takes place on Valentine's day yet one of the chores Matt has to do for Melina is raking leaves, a task done in the fall. Not to mention the fact that all the trees in the background have a ton of leaves, all of which are green.
When Matt and Sam are talking about baseball cards, Sam mentions having Roberto Clemente's rookie card as well as Willie Mays' card from when he first started putting "chicken on the hill." In reality, this wasn't Mays, but Pittsburgh Pirates' great Wilver (Willie) Dornel Stargell (1940-2001), who played in the 1960s and 70s with Roberto Clemente. The saying "chicken on the hill" came from the fact that Stargell had a chicken restaurant in Pittsburgh's Hill District and one night the game announcer stated that if Willie hit a homerun everyone in the restaurant at the time would get a free meal. This was news to Willie, but it stuck and he kept doing it. (Thanks to ednamae19 for this information.)

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33. El Oro de Montezuma (aka El Oro del Diablo)

Mr. Dig introduces himself to his class as Mr. Digs.
In the episode "Night of the Day of the Dead" Miranda knew a lot of Spanish words, but in "...Montezuma" she acts like she knows practically nothing. For instance, she seems to not know what "bueno" means when it is one of the most commonly used words in the Spanish language, meaning "good" or "OK" or just an affirmative word in general.
In this episode, Miranda says she was taught to swim by her cousin Carlos. But in "Jack of All Trades" she says she took swimming lessons with Lizzie.
On the game show, Carlos is separated from the team and put into a soundproof box where they can't hear him. Yet somehow he seems to be able to hear the game instructions in Spanish and tries to shout them out to his team.
Lizzie tells Li that Mr. Dig is substitute-teaching their class for a week. This guy gets more work than any substitute we've ever seen! Either Lizzie, Gordo and Miranda's teachers are all a bunch of layabouts, or there is some kind of epidemic disease among faculty members, because the substitute Mr. Dig is by far the teacher we see most often!
Possibly a minor goof. While Lizzie is having trouble communicating with Li, Miranda can be seen in one shot trying to hold back a laugh. That would be a natural reaction, except no one else seems to be having it.
During the rice pudding fight on the game show, the host Alejandro throws his index cards up in the air. They go behind him, but somehow one of the cards immediately floats down right in front of the camera.
Closed captioning errors: Mr. Dig is identified as "Digg" and Li's name as "Lee."
When Lizzie, Miranda and Carlos are dressing up Gordo in the costume. Gordo says, "Will you guys hurry up, my pants are itchy." Well, the costume pants were put on OVER his jeans!
When Gordo is making his presentation to the class, he's reading from an empty folder.
Since "Just Like Lizzie" was filmed with the thought that it would be the first episode of season two, everything after that point on would have to be in the 8th Grade. Therefore, all of season two takes place in the 8th Grade. So why does Lizzie act as if she has never learned any form of Spanish here, if in "The Gordo Shuffle" she and Ethan are talking about their Spanish class. She must have been taking this Spanish class throughout the 8th Grade, and therefore during the time of "El Oro de Montezuma"!
Jo asks the kids what they are watching and seems to have no idea about the show. But she then names a character from the show, how does she know his name after only a few seconds of watching?
After the kids start throwing pudding at each other, there is a shot of Montezuma where he appears to be hit for the first time, but there are already stains from the pudding on his shirt. Also in this scene, the booth Carlos is sitting in can be seen, but there is no pudding on it even though a few seconds earlier it was seen being splattered by some.
Mr. Dig mentions the Xingu River, but closed captioning spells it Zingoo.

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34. Mom's Best Friend

Lizzie says, "We made pots and got free facials," referring to the dab of clay her mom put on her face. But Lizzie's the only one who got a "facial," not Mrs. McGuire.
Near the end when Jo drops Lizzie off at the Digital Bean, Lizzie is wearing her charm necklace that appears to be scrunching her gray top together. In the next shot, the heart is behind the shirt, and in the next, it's back scrunching the t-shirt together.
During the pottery-making scene, the shape and the amount of clay on Lizzie's nose keeps changing.
Mr. McGuire complains about the German shepherd winning the dog show he's watching on television, but the picture shown is of a Bernese Mountain Dog.
Mr. McGuire grounds Matt after the chimp incident. So if he's grounded, why is Lanny still coming over to his house and hanging out?
When Lizzie and her mom are painting their pottery, the amount of red on Jo's pot changes from shot to shot.
In the dream sequence Jo says "Welcome to the The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club." But when Lizzie talks to her mom she says, "We can start an Orchids and Gumbo Poker Society."
In one shot at the Digital Bean, Miranda can be seen with some fries in her left hand. But in the close up shots before and after that one, she doesn't have anything in her hand.
It is stated that Fredo ran away, yet he goes through three changes of clothes in the episode.

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35. The Rise and Fall of Kate (aka The Rise and Fall of the Kate Empire)

Toon Lizzie says in this episode, "I don't even like beaches," but in "Facts of Life", she said she wanted to go to Miami so bad and sit on the beach.
Toon Lizzie mentions that she hates monster movies. But in "Gordo And The Girl," Lizzie is looking forward to having a "scary movie marathon."
As one of the tallest, if not the tallest cheerleader on the squad, it is very unlikely that Kate would be put on top of the pyramid formation.
Toon Lizzie imagines herself as a contestant on the game show Jeopardy!, saying "I'll take humiliation in front of the whole school for $500, Alex!" Unfortunately, the show has doubled the prizes starting November 26, 2001, so there is no longer a clue worth $500!
The pronunciation of Kate's last name is back to Sanders (short A) again after being "Saunders" in a few episodes.
Doesn't the cheerleading team have a coach or some sort of adult supervisor? Wouldn't that coach make sure that Kate wasn't kicked off by the other team members and be allowed to participate as soon as she recuperates? Also it's unlikely that a student would have the ability to force another student to move to another locker, as was done to Kate or keep people from sitting at the tables for lunch.
Closed captioning error: Jennie Woods' first name is spelled "Jenny." This is a completely understandable error, since the only way we know the spelling of it is by reading it in a couple of the Lizzie McGuire books.
Kate supposedly dislocated her shoulder, but at the episode's end her arm is already out of a sling, after only about a week or so.
A nitpick: When Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo go to sit in the grass with Kate, Miranda says, "So scoot over, Sanders." But there's no need for Kate to "scoot over," there's lots and lots of room for all three of them to sit down beside her comfortably.
When Lizzie and Kate are talking in the hallway, Lizzie's purse goes from being on her shoulder in one shot, to disappearing in the next, and then reappearing in the one after the camera pans to Kate. Also in that scene, one wide shot shows Kate holding two textbooks and a notebook followed by another shot which shows her holding only one textbook and the notebook. But the final shot shows Kate dropping the computer textbook.

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36. Working Girl

After being credited as Malina in the last episode she was in ("First Kiss"), Carly Schroeder's character's name is once again spelled Melina, like it was in the first appearance ("The Untitled Stan Jansen Project"). Also, Matt prononces her name "Muh-LANE-uh" in this episode.
Lizzie is a busboy, right? Well if she was then why did she give those people the muffin in the beginning of the episode? Busboys clean, not serve.
The card that Matt gives to Miranda is green in one shot, then yellow in the next, then green, then yellow, etc.
After being fired, Lizzie returns home still wearing her stained uniform shirt. (When she came home after her first day on the job she was wearing her own clothes.)
In the scene where Toon Lizzie shows her "sad eyes" look, we can see that her eyes are blue. Yet the real Lizzie has brown/hazel eyes.
Not a goof? You decide. More than one person has noted that Lizzie's parents are very uncertain about the wisdom of Lizzie getting a job, yet they both encouraged Matt and Lanny to earn their own money in other episodes. But some of us think there is a big difference between "getting a job" with a local business where one works set hours, gets a Social Security card, pays taxes, etc., and "earning some money" by doing tasks like cleaning up a neighbor's attic or yard. Parents might naturally be much more concerned about their child getting a "real" job, which carries with it more responsibility and could interfere more with schoolwork.
Goof or not? At the beginning when Jo is making her beef Stroganoff, she sits it down on the counter on a pad or potholder, yet the dish still continues to boil even though it is around no heat source. But a boiling pot or dish will still continue to boil for a couple of seconds even after it's removed from a stove's burner. Should the Stroganoff be boiling or not?
When Lizzie gets up from the floor at the Digital Bean from slipping on Claire's smoothie and has her rant, she turns to walk to the guy who has the bagle, and if you look closely at her back, you can see that there's no smoothie remains on her back. Actually, the first time she turns around after getting up there are some stains on her shirt, but they are fewer than should be. When Lizzie is first shown falling a wet spot can be seen on the upper left portion of her shirt even before she hits the floor. Also the various spots on her shirt change size and location from shot to shot.
Goof or not: It has been noted by some that Lizzie should have looked more closely at the cake and seen what was written on it, but it's also understandable that something would go unnoticed if the person was thinking about something else.
When Lizzie slips on the spilt smoothie as she is falling she turns as if to fall on her face but after she falls it shows her on her back.
After Lizzie tells Gordo and Miranda she got fired, Gordo states she was caught drinking straight from the shake machine, saying it was what he would have done. But if you think of the way you use a shake machine, that is really impossible. You have to put ice cream and other ingredients in a silver cup and use the shake machine to mix. A shake machine is really a standing blade you turn on. IT would be impossible to put your mouth over or under it, and if you could you wouldn't want to because the blade would hurt your mouth.
Nitpick: Before Lizzie tells her parents that she got a job, Jo says that she has been good for two days and wonders what is going on. Yet it was only the afternoon before that she got the job, which would be less than two days.

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37. And the Winner Is

When Sam and Jo are in the kitchen acting stupid with the food, Sam is shooting the whipped cream and some lands on his shirt. But then the camera angle changes and it's not there anymore.
Miranda and Lizzie wear shirts (barely) showing their stomachs, but Lizzie said in "Jack of All Trades" that her mother would never let her wear bare midriff stuff.
Mr. Dig tells Matt he has won the scavenger hunt and gets an "A" before Matt tells him he doesn't go to his school. Immediately afterward Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo cross the finish line, only to be told that somehow "Anita and Jeremy" finished first. Actually, there is some time before Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo cross the finish line. It's while they are saying their apologies, so someone could have approached Mr. Dig from another direction as Matt did.
Mr. Dig states that the Stamp Act was passed in November of 1765, actually it was in March of that year.
In the last scene, Matt is playing his game boy, but he has no game cartrigde in it.
In an early scene, Tudgeman's name appears as "Judgement" and "Touchman" in the closed captioning.

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38. The Longest Yard

Sam says that the highlight of his trip to the Sports Expo was having his picture taken with "last year's Super Bowl mascot." But they show a picture of the mascot of the St. Louis Rams, who were in Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000 and XXXVI in 2002, rather than in 2001. (Even though this episode was not broadcast until May 2002, it was filmed in December 2001. Confused? We hope so!)
If Sam is as fanatical about his autographed football as this episode suggests, than wouldn't he have known the difference between Jo's and Walter Payton's handwriting style?
Even though the "official" 1986 Super Bowl football signed by Walter Payton has some gold lettering on it that says "1986 Super Bowl," it has no Super Bowl logo which an official souvenir ball would have.
The Dick Butkus football that Lanny replaces near the episode's end appears to have no autograph.
Nitpick: How long is Gordo's King of Norway joke he tells Sam's softball buddies? He starts it when Lizzie, Miranda, Matt and Lanny are at Collector's Corner, but is still telling the same joke when they sneak back into the house. Either it's one long joke or Collector's Corner is really close to the McGuire's home.
At the beginning of the episode when Sam is talking to the football, there is a brown vase next to it. Later, when Matt steals the football, the vase is gone. Then when Lanny is replacing the football, the vase is back again.
Near the beginning of the episode the closed captioning identifies Sam as Simon.

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39. Just Friends

In "Jack of All Trades", Lizzie states that her mom would never let her wear anything with a bare midriff, but in this episode Lizzie and Miranda both were seen showing their bellies. [Just barely, though!--Ed.]
Lizzie drinks Matt's smoothie, which contains strawberries, even though in an earlier episode it was said that she was allergic to strawberry ice cream.
In the opening scene, one shot shows MIranda with folded arms, but the next quick shot shows her tucking her hair back. This goes on for about ten shot changes. She always has her arms folded in one shot and then up in the next, without time to change positions.
Somehow Lizzie, looking in the mirror of her compact from several feet away, manages to get a close-up reflection of Ethan, close enough to read the label on his soda can.
Ethan runs into a pole when the birds are chasing him and Lizzie states that he's nearsighted. But the inability to see objects up close means a person is farsighted.
Nitpick: When Lizzie uses a hand mirror to see what type of cola Ethan likes the image appears normal, but the lettering should be reversed.

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40. Those Freaky McGuires

Kate gets doused with what Lizzie (Matt) calls chili, but it appears to be baked beans.
When Lizzie and Matt's parents come out in the hall at the end of the episode, Sam McGuire doesn't have on his glasses until they appear in the very last shot before they go back in the bedroom. Even if he was holding them in his hand, there was no time for him to put them on between shots.
When Lizzie and Matt switch they both yell "I'll stay out of your life!" But when they try to switch back and they say it again, they say "stay out of my life" instead of what they first said.
When Matt and Lizzie first switch bodies, they immeditely turn on their heels and go to their rooms before they realize what happens. But they go straight to the rooms they came out of, which would now be the other person's room. Right?
In the series of shots when Miranda and Gordo see Matt (as Lizzie) for the first time there are two girls who appear in many of the shots. One is wearing a red top and blue jeans and the other a pink top and short blue skirt. In two separate shots, when the camera is on Lizzie, they enter the hallway from the same classroom. Then in shots of Miranda and Gordo both girls can be seen walking behind them when they should still be approaching Lizzie.
Kate slips on a banana peel and goes sliding on her stomach through a set of double doors. But when the bucket of chili on top of those doors falls on her just a second later, she's on her back.
Jo tells Matt and Lizzie they are going to be late for school if they don't hurry up. Then they go and change clothes and hairstyles several times before leaving for school and still manage to be early!
A nitpick: If the banana peal was just sitting there in the middle of the hallway, shouldn't someone besides Kate have slipped on it?
Nitpick: When Lizzie (Matt) puts the frogs in Kate's locker she has to know what Kate's combination for her locker is.

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41. In Miranda Lizzie Does Not Trust

When Beth dances to the "Waltz of the Flowers", the closed captioning shows "[music from Swan Lake playing]". Apparently the captioning producer from WGBH confused the music with the also famous Waltz from Act I of Swan Lake, another ballet masterpiece by Tchaikovsky.
Miranda identifies Gordo's dance partner as Beth Ludberg. Later Mr. Dig pronounces her last name "Lubderg."
At the mall, Lizzie tries to open a makeup compact from the wrong side and almost drops it.
Lizzie and Miranda talk about showering in gym class with two hundred other girls. That sounds like an awfully large (and unlikely) gym class!
Not a goof? Several viewers have pointed out that in "Between a Rock and a Bra Place," Gordo said he was in all of Lizzie and Miranda's classes but gym, yet in this episode he's in a co-ed gym class with them. But in the earlier episode, they were in grade seven, not eight, and they're likely in a different gym class now. It might be a goof for the episode "Scarlett larry," which took place during season 1 (the seventh grade season).
When Lizzie is down in the basement with the laundry, the phone rings and Lizzie answers it. She then says hello, and then says "No one's there!" in a confused way. You can hear a dial tone but Matt says that it must be Lanny, and he speaks to him on the phone.

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42. Over the Hill

As Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo walk out on to the porch you can see Gordo's hand go through what's supposed to be a glass window. For an explanation of this see the Notes section for the episode "Lizzie and Kate's Big Adventure."
For the second time in her five appearances on the show, Carly Schroeder's character is listed in the credits as "Malina." The other three times it's been spelled Melina.
When Lizzie falls in the trash can she falls in it upside down but then they cut to her rightside up. It is impossible for her to get up that fast in that thin of a trash can.
Also, when the janitor first wheels the trash can by, there is no garbage visible in it. But a second later when Lizzie falls in, trash can be seen sticking out over the top of the can.
During Lizzie's dream sequence, Gordo's limo driver orders five orders of curly fries for him. But when he gets them, they appear to be regular French fries.
When the McGuire's are watching the scary movie, the amount of popcorn in Sam's bowl changes from shot to shot.
As Sam is seated on the couch watching the movie with Jo and Matt his position changes from shot to shot. In some shots he is reclining fully into the couch, but in the very next shot he is seated upright leaning forward a bit only to switch back in the next shot.
When Lizzie gets up from bed to go to her parents, she was wearing make-up. Why would she wear make-up when she is sleeping
Nitpick: In this episode Lizzie says that the law is boring, yet in "I Do, I Don't" she's excited about having chosen lawyer as a career when she's "married" to Gordo. Although, it could be that the idea of playing a lawyer is less boring than actually being one.

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43. Best Dressed for Much Less (aka Kiss My Budget)

Here's a big blooper: In this episode Matt is already "famous" after doing a rock climbing ad with an animated dragon for a product called Cardio Punch--but the episode in which he makes the ad, "Party Over Here," has not yet aired.
At the mall, Matt gets his right sleeve ripped off by a fan. Then after posing as a mannequin, both his sleeves are gone. When Matt and Sam meet up with Jo, it's Matt's left sleeve that is missing, and finally when they get back home, the right sleeve is missing once again.
In the beginning scene, one of the girls mentions that Gordo blew his brain project up "this year", although that happened during the last school year when they were in the 7th grade. (However, when this episode was first broadcast, it hadn't been made clear yet that they were now in the 8th grade.)
When the slushee drink gets spilled on Lizzie, it's done rather poorly. It appeares that someone standing just out of camera range merely pours the contents of the cup straight down on her, then drops the empty cup a second later.
During a montage of shots showing Lizzie to be clumsy, a brief clip is included from the episode "Just Like Lizzie," which didn't air until after this one.
Gordo gets his picture taken with the Wrestling Club. A wrestling CLUB? Most schools would have a wrestling TEAM, right?
Lizzie says the pants she wants from the Style Shack are still on "the world's best-dressed mannequin." Actually, they weren't on a mannequin, but rather some sort of wire display rack.
When Lizzie has the slushee spilt on her some of it also gets on Gordo, but in the next shot when she exits the restroom there are no stains at all on Gordo's pants.
Nitpick: In the opening scene Lizzie, Miranda, and Gordo enter the classroom, listen to the announcements and get up to leave the classroom, yet no teacher was present to call the roll.

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