Lizzie McGurie: Life lessons.

    As a kid growing up in the late nineties/early two thousands The Disney Channel was like the Holy Grail. I grew up to the greats like:
    That's So Raven
    Even Stevens
    The Proud Family
    Kim Possible
    Phil of the Future
                             ...to name a few.
    Any of those shows bring back some memories?  Yeah, me too..BUT the show that beats ALL THE OTHERS has to be Lizzie McGuire. In 65 episodes Lizzie, Gordo and Miranda (and animated Lizzie) struggled through the trials of middle school. 
   
 

    What Lizzie taught me about middle school and life.


Repeating outfits is NOT AN OPTION. 

"Only you would think that you could hide that powder blue, puffy sleeved, it's kind of a peasant dress, but it's really a questionable disaster of fiber content that you wore to the spring dance. Lizzie McGuire, you are an outfit repeater!"

The friend-zone is the REAL STRUGGLE.

  Gordo could write a novel on the trials of being locked in the friend-zone. Although he did get an EPIC kiss from Lizzie in Italy (fireworks and all) we never got to see if they took things to the next level and made their 
relationship show-official....
I guess the world will never know if Gordo was released from the friend-zone.

Bras change lives.

   Take Kate for example, her bra made her the most popular girl in middle school.

We got the pleasure of watching the akwardness of Lizzie asking [yelling at] her mom to take her to get a bra. Oh the joy or BOOBIES.

Being popular is not that big a deal. Be yourself.

  Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo may not have been the most popular kids at Hillridge Junior High, but I thought they where the coolest kids around.

OWN your fashion.

WORK that boa Lizzie.

The only acceptable time to eat carbs: In Italy, with a cute boy.
 

Kate Sanders reminded us that sometimes in life boy>diet. [amen Kate, AMEN]

Don't judge a book [boy] by its cover [looks]

PRIME EXAMPLE, The Ethan Craft. The most popular boy in school, this the brain power of a brick. Ethan was always the object of Lizzie's affection but she learned that good looks don't = brains. 

     The Lizzie Mcguire show shaped my view about middle and highschool, may have been slightly off but thats besides the point. I vividly remember crying tears of joy when my mom handed me a copy of Hilary Duff's Christmas album. Lizzie was (MAYBE still is) my idol.
                                                                               


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