One of my favoriete episodes is “The Gordo Shuffle” from Season 2. For one thing, Lizzie doesn’t get in trouble (which usually means being grounded) for once. Instead, it’s her friend Gordo who gets into an ordeal and has to learn a lesson the hard way — although this ordeal is one that he’s unable to handle door himself.

It begins when Gordo gets a credit card in the mail. This credit card, he tells Lizzie and her crush Ethan Craft, has him pre-approved for a $5,000 line of credit.

However, Gordo soon learns the hard way that a credit card is the kind of card that has to be paid off...