Lizzie McGuire

Jo McGuire: Soylent Green is people!
This is a quote from the 1973 movie Soylent Green. Starring Charlton Heston as a cop in the future, the movie takes place in the year 2022 where the world is overcrowded and the population is forced to live in poverty-stricken mega-cities. The greenhouse effect has rendered all natural forms of food non-existent. Instead, humanity is fed a mystery substance known as "Soylent Green." The payoff is that it turns out that 'Soylent Green' is actually made out of people.

Sam McGuire: I know, it's hard to believe. The Bears have won three in a row.
Another references to the Chicago Bears professional football team. There have been so many of these sprinkled throughout Lizzie episodes that a person might think that the show's location is Chicago! We suspect that writer and sometimes actor Jeremy Bargiel is a big Bears fan.

Toon Lizzie: "We're from two different worlds, like Romeo and Juliet. And look how they ended uuuuup!"
Actually, Toon Lizzie is a little off the mark here, we think. Although Romeo and Juliet's families (the Montagues and the Capulets, respectively) were bitter enemies, both clans were wealthy and well respected in their town of Verona, Italy. In fact, the first line of the Prologue is "Two households, both alike in dignity..." So while there might have been a lot of forces working to keep them apart, Romeo and Juliet were basically in the same "world."

Gordo: "It was kinda Movie-of-the-Weekish."
The big TV networks CBS, NBC and ABC used to program movies in prime-time more often than they do now, and they all had a "Movie of the Week" in their lineups at various times. Many were theatrical movies, but there were plenty of made-for-TV films also, which often have the reputation of being inferior and less edgy than theatrical releases. Therefore, Gordo is not being very complimentary when he says this to Frankie about some work he's done.

Lizzie: "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?"
This is one of the most famous lines from one of the best-known plays, Romeo and Juliet, of the man most scholars consider to be the greatest writer in the history of the English language, William Shakespeare. It was first published in 1597, but is based on an Italian legend that is even older than that! The two title characters are teenagers who fall in love and marry, despite the bloody feuding between their families. Through tragic circumstances and misunderstandings, both of the young people take their own lives. The scene Lizzie is reading from is the famous "balcony scene." Frankie Muniz also quotes a famous line of Romeo's from the same scene: "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and you are the sun," substituting the words "you are" for "Juliet is."

Mr. Dig: "Now you go to your proverbial corners and come out acting."
This is a paraphrase of the instructions given by a referee to boxers, "Go to your corners [of the boxing ring] and come out fighting."