‘HIMYF’ & ‘Lizzie McGuire’ Collide With Epic Flashback Scene: How It All Happened

Hilary Duff‘s 2 worlds collided successful the March 7 occurrence How I Met Your Father, which featured a callback to her days connected Lizzie McGuire. During the episode, Hilary’s Sophie recalls her worst Valentine’s Day experience, which turns retired to beryllium from the beloved Disney Channel show, arsenic footage plays of Hilary’s Lizzie flirting connected the telephone with her fellow Ronnie, successful the Lizzie McGuire episode “First Kiss.”

Sadly, the Lizzie McGuire flashback was short-lived, since Sophie’s friends halt her from continuing the story. The little glimpse astatine Hilary’s days on Lizzie McGuire was specified a invited astonishment for fans, since the planned reboot was scrapped by Disney+.

So, are you wondering however that Lizzie McGuire cameo country cameo to be? HIMYF executive producers Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker told Entertainment Weekly the episode’s writer, Amy-Jo Perry, came up with the idea, and they instantly reached retired to Hilary astir it.

Hilary Duff successful ‘How I Met Your Father’ (Photo: Everett Collection)

“We each loved it, but the archetypal happening we had to bash was instantly occurrence disconnected a substance to Hilary and beryllium like, ‘How bash you consciousness astir this?’ ” Elizabeth said. “And she’s the champion — if she thinks it’s funny, she wholly is connected board. It took her each of 10 seconds to beryllium like, ‘Yes, obviously, we person to bash that,’ ” she added.

Isaac revealed to EW that they didn’t person to get support to usage the Lizzie McGuire footage “because Lizzie was a Disney Channel amusement and we enactment for Walt Disney Television, truthful it’s each the aforesaid large firm umbrella. That makes it each very, precise seamless.”

Hilary Duff successful ‘Lizzie McGuire’ (Photo: Everett Collection)

As for the Lizzie McGuire reboot that ne'er happened, Elizabeth said that the cameo country successful the How I Met Your Mother spinoff series gave fans “a tiny sensation of what they didn’t get with that reboot.” She added, “We conscionable effort and springiness everybody each acquisition they tin ever imagination of. That was truly amusive to do.”

Lizzie McGuire aired connected Disney Channel from 2001 to 2004 and besides spawned the 2003 theatrical movie The Lizzie McGuire Movie. A reboot series was successful the works connected Disney+ backmost successful 2020, starring Hilary and the archetypal cast. Two episodes were filmed, earlier the task was scrapped when Hilary and Disney disagreed with the absorption they wanted to instrumentality her quality in.

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