Lizzie McGuire Season 2 Episode 31

In one of the Toon Lizzie segments, Gordo is represented by an animated robot. He was also represented this way in "Gordo's Bar Mitzvah," "Dear Lizzie," "A Gordo Story," and "Magic Train."

Continuity: Lizzie reminds Gordo of his obsession with the game Dwarflord in the episode "Gordo and the Dwarves." The name of Gordo's movie is "The Untitled David Gordon Project", a similar name to "The Untitled Stan Jansen Project", an episode of the same name. Toon Lizzie says, "Remember the little people" as heard in Last Year's Model.

The episode's title was suggested by the 1987 film The Hollywood Shuffle, a comedy starring actor/comedian Robert Townsend, who also directed it and co-wrote the screenplay with Keenan Ivory Wayans. It's about an actor struggling to produce his own movie the way he wants to, free of Hollywood stereotypes. Townsend's character borrows money every way he can in the film, and in real-life he really did finance much of the movie by using his own credit cards.

The clapboard on the blooper reel seen at the end of the show gives the date of production as June 29, 2002.

This episode had its premiere in the U.S. immediately before the premiere of The Even Stevens Movie--on a Friday the 13th!

First aired in Australia on May 14, 2003.

Music includes:
"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo, a large, horn-laden rock band from Los Angeles with quirky new wave and alt-rock leanings who were most popular in the late 1980's and early 1990's. The song is most familiar to millions of listeners as the theme for the 1985 John Hughes-directed teen comedy film of the same name, and it was also used for the 1994-97 TV series that followed. The group's vocalist-guitarist Danny Elfman has gone on to write the music for blockbuster movies like Batman, Men in Black, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. He also composed the theme music for The Simpsons TV show. The song is heard when Matt is performing his science experiments.
"Hollywood Swinging" by the urban funk group Kool & the Gang. This was the group's second top ten pop hit ("Jungle Boogie" was the first), rising to number 6 on the chart in June 1974. It was also a #1 hit on the R&B chart. It was also sampled on rapper Mase's top five record "Feels So Good" in 1997. Among the group biggest hits are the party anthem "Celebration" and the ballad "Joanna." The song is heard during the montage scene of Gordo trying to direct his movie.