In Miranda Lizzie Does Not Trust

There are two problems I have with the episode IN MIRANDA LIZZIE DOESN'T TRUST

1. The episode tried to broach the very sensitive subject of racial profiling but then quickly backed off in favor of a more generic moral.

Two white kids and a Hispanic girl go into a store and all three of them are goofing around and the white male security guard singles out the Hispanic girl as a possible shoplifting suspect and you are going to tell me oh no our intent was not to do an episode about racial profiling.

2. The moral that They do go for is problematic. You should always trust your friends and be ready to defend them. That is great if Miranda is innocent. Her story I admit is a little flimsy. Later on in the episode when Miranda is accused of plagiarism it turns out She was actually guilty. That time Lizzie did try to defend her but it was pointless. So if Miranda was guilty of plagiarism was She also guilty of shoplifting? Then the moral should be you should always defend your friend regardless of how guilty or innocent they might be? Blind loyalty can be a dangerous thing so that is not a great moral to teach

Lizzie could have at least had called her Mom and told her the situation and have her come down and meet with Mrs. Sanchez.

Have a mom-daughter chat where Jo tries to delicately explain what happened and how She can be a good friend.

The moral then becomes casual racism sadly is a reality that Miranda will face more often than Lizzie ever will. Gordo do will no doubt encounter anti-Semitism. It sucks that it exists and you can't act like it doesn't. The best thing Lizzie can do as a white person is just to be empathetic and be exemplary in her conduct. Let everyone sweep in front of their own door and the whole world will be clean.

That is the BETTER moral and thus would have made for a BETTER episode

As for the Matt plot It is relatively unimportant. I do find it funny that in 2002 Matt McGuire basically became a YouTube personality before YouTube was ever even a thing. The ethics of lowering one's standards just to become more popular is timeless and applicable to a lot of things

Things I did like:

The running gag on this show that Mr. Dig teaches a new subject every time he appears is funny.

The dance routine between the really tall girl and Gordo was pretty cool.

Observation: Writing a 5 page book report on the Red Pony (a novella of only 100 to 131 pages) would be a ridiculous thing to ask a 14 year old kid to do. That may have been a joke on how daunting students always find assignments and they were just using hyperbole to make that point.