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It's My Party, And I'll Lie If I Want To

Episode Number: 5    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday April 21, 2006    Prod Code: 102
After Lilly embarrasses her at a Hannah Montana concert along with added pressure from her "Hannah Friends", Miley decides to lie to Lilly, & tell her that the birthday party for Kelly Clarkson that they were going to was called off. Miley attends the party as Hannah, but must cover up her lie when she lands on the front page of the news. Jackson meets a beautician named Nina at work who asks if she could use him to practice on. He's more than happy to oblige the pretty lady, not knowing that it's one of Rico pranks.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Douglas Lieblein
Director: Roger S. Christiansen
Star: Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana),  Jason Earles (Jackson Stewart),  Mitchel Musso (Oliver),  Billy Ray Cyrus (Robbie Stewart),  Emily Osment (Lily)
Recurring Role: Moises Arias (Rico)
Guest Star: Lisa Robinson (Kay),  Alison Brie (Nina),  Kunal Sharma (Evan),  D. Elliot Woods (Derek The Bouncer),  Romi Dames (Traci Van Horn),  Cutter Mitchell (Paulie The Paparazzo)

Notes

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According to "Keeping Secrets", one of several novels based on episodes of "Hannah Montana", Traci Van Horn's Father is Hannah's record producer. (edit)
This episode aired in Canada on September 15, 2006. (edit)
Apparently, Hannah's friend Traci has "Sinus problems" (edit)
Rico is the son of Jackson's boss. (edit)
Miley likes oatmeal. (edit)

Quotes

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Miley: You spit food on people, you followed people into the bathroom and you walked around for about an hour with a chocolate beard.
Lilyl: Oh, how embarrassing! Why do I always do that?! (edit)
Derek: (About Lilly) She is kinda a dork.
Hannah: I know. But she's my dork! (edit)
Miley: You don't need them as your friends. You got me. (edit)
Miley: What do I do now dad? Look!
(Lilly's outside doing the robot)
Miley: And that's before the party. (edit)
(Nina is on the scene)
Rico: Babe alert, 11:00!
(Oliver and Jackson turn to see Nina looking over at them)
Oliver: WHOO! Older woman checkin' me out!
Jackson: In your dreams, Oken.
Oliver: Normally, yes. (edit)

Trivia

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Goof: When Lilly discovers that she is invited to Kelly Clarkson's party, she runs outside with the helment on. When she is outside dancing, you can see that the helment is off. You can't see the helment anywhere. (edit)
The fictional headline, "Hannah's Wild Ride", is similar to a fictional headline in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (London's Wild Night). (edit)
GOOF: When Lilly discovers she is invited to Kelly Clarkson's party, she runs straight outside and begins dancing. Both doors are open. Then Miley goes and talks to her dad. Miley says "LOOK!" (Because of Lilly's crazy dancing) and the close up of Lilly has only one door open, not both.

There is no signal, sight or sound of the door closing. (edit)
Hannah Montana preforms her song "Just Like You". (edit)
Goof: When Lilly skateboards into the house, Miley opens the door and Lilly skateboards in like she was standing there for a while (Like she was waiting on a mark). Also before she skateboarded in we see Miley going to get the door & you can see that Lilly is just standing there. (edit)

Allusions

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Traci: TTYL!

"TTYL" is computer slang used in instant messaging meaning "Talk To You Later". (edit)
Lilly dancing the "Robot" on the patio:

"The Robot" dance was popular in the 80's. (edit)
Rico: It's Rico time.

This is an allusion to the song, "It's Chico Time". (edit)
Jackson: Thanks, Mini-Me.

Mini-Me is a character from the movie "Autin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me". (edit)
The lazy cat comic is an obvious reference to Jim Davis' Garfield & the pumpkin-headed kid trying to kick the football is a reference to Charles Schultz's Charlie Brown, who was featured in his Peanuts comics. (edit)
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Community Reviews (20)

 
9.6
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It's My Party, And I'll Lie If I Want To
"Cleverly plotted"
If you have ever had a friend that was very embaressing at times, and you lied to them to not hurt them you will love this episode because you can easily relate to this episode.
Continue » Posted Feb 22, 2008 5:29 pm PST
7.5
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It's My Party, And I'll Lie If I Want To
"Not my favorite storyline"
Miley did Lilly dirty.
Continue » Posted Apr 7, 2007 4:40 pm PST
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It's My Party, And I'll Lie If I Want To
"Exactly why I watch this series"
i love this episode!
Continue » Posted Jan 27, 2007 7:20 am PST

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It's My Party, And I'll Lie If I Want To
"Exciting"
great but poor lilly!!
Continue » Posted Jan 23, 2007 9:02 pm PST
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It's My Party, And I'll Lie If I Want To
"A very special episode"
poor lilly!
Continue » Posted Dec 23, 2006 8:07 pm PST
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