Even Stevens Ranked!

We’ve finally made it out of the 60s to #59! I actually feel like I’m making some progress here, lol. This is the first Season 1 episode to make it into the countdown! Yay! But, it’s probably one of the most generic, cheesy episodes of the entire series. This one is ripe with Late 90s/early 2000s Disney Channel writing and production. It’s such a specific type of vibe. I can’t even explain it. Ren has a placeholder best friend, Charlotte, for only two episodes at the start of the series. Here, the two of them are in charge of decorating the school’s 80s-themed dance. But, when Charlotte’s old BFF Yvette visits from Topeka, she starts monopolizing Charlotte’s time. Ren gets super jealous and feels like a third wheel. This is honestly pretty relatable, though. For the subplot, Louis and Tawny babysit Twitty’s 3-year-old brother. This episode opens with a scene the above image is from. Ren and Charlotte are acting overly “BFF-y” and peppy. They’re on their way to the school gym, ...

Donnie makes a “celebrity” guest visit back to Lawrence Jr. High to be enshrined in the Wombat Hall of Fame. Louis starts to feel extra inadequate, so he rigs Donnie’s pommel horse with the motor from a mechanical bull. While demonstrating one of his winning gymnastic routines, Donnie goes flying off the pommel horse and gets a back injury that could cost him his college football scholarship. For this episode’s B-plot, Beans plays pranks on Ren.