Freeform, the network known for ruining all your plans for a productive weekend with its endless Harry Potter marathons, is getting deeper into the nostalgia game. Millennials who actually pay for cable will be able to enjoy reruns of Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven, Kim Possible, and Hannah Montana from midnight to 2 a.m., Monday through Thursday, for all of May. In other words, prepare to have all the theme songs stuck in your head for the whole summer.
To celebrate the sudden return to the world of Lizzie, Gordo, and Miranda, we've gathered some of the show's most memorable moments. Some were meant to educate us. Some hold up pretty well after 10 years (and exposure to much grittier television fare). All involve some amount of spiky braids and glitter denim. Your favorite grown-up series are ending this month, anyway. It could be nice to go back to a show that involves no secret pregnancy reveals, no murders, and absolutely no characters coming back from the dead.
Picture Day Bros
Never has the pre-teen white suburban male been so spectacularly captured.
The Bra Episode
I honestly don't remember the exciting conclusion of this episode. Did Lizzie have to deal with a jungle of underwear in a department store, or was she able to pick out the kind of cute, paper-thin bralet you can only get away with when worn purely for decorative purposes?
When Lizzie Lived Out Our Seventh Grade Fantasy
I mean of being in a music video, not dancing with Aaron Carter, specifically. The object of your middle school daydreams was very much a matter of taste.
The Dawning Realization Happening On Purple Inflatable Chairs Everywhere
Everyone remembers their first ship. Gordo comforting his bestie/crush still seems incredibly sweet, all these years later.
That Time Miranda's Parents Helped Her Take On The Mean Girl
Cathartic a nd educational.
The "Very Special Episode"
Lizzie McGuire, glorious beacon of hair and fashion that it is, gets pretty reductive with its eating disorder episode (in which Miranda develops one, and is cured in the space 30 minutes, with commercials). But it introduced young audiences to an important topic and gave friends of teens a script they could use if they were worried.
When Matt & Lizzie Pulled A "Freaky Friday"
The funniest part of this episode is Lizzie's BFFs being immediately concerned about her "weird" hair and outfit. This is a girl who used multiple crimp settings on the same day, and who mismatched patterns and colors and topped everything off with glitter and fuzz.
A Solid Send-Off
Oh, middle school, a time when the bar for a romantic note was so, so low. Seriously, this guy wants to be a filmmaker. He couldn't have added a little emotion to what amounts to his confession of love?
Then Frankie Muñiz Showed Up
It may not have seemed important to teach pre-teens about the dangers of instant fame in 2002, but honestly that may have been the best thing Lizzie McGuire could have done for its loyal young viewers.
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