UA-cam copyright was a little goofy! A little quirky! It auto-flagged the theme song in the video, a month after release. I had to trim out all instances of it, which removed the original clip montage this video opened with. Here's a link to the original opening for the historical record. ua-cam.com/video/qrLTuTCMoFs/v-deo.html
I tried watching the video again and noticed that the edited made everything out of sync Edit: nevermind it was something with watching UA-cam on the TV
Jerry had the best dad energy. He was always caring and understanding and just cool enough while still being a responsible parent. Also he takes the fact that he doesn't have magic pretty well and doesn't get frustrated at the kids for having something he lost. All-in-all a 10/10 TV dad
@@AdanSolas i think if he could have both he would, so its still a sacrifice and it’s understandable that someone could possibly grudge something they gave up. Anyways stand jerry
Can I just say, the "did Mason break up with you" thing in Future Harper coming back, with Mason being a real character, blew my mind as a kid. Like, it was one of the first real instance of foreshadowing/continuity that I really noticed back then and it was a lot for my dumb 12 year old mind to comprehend
@@2011supergamer I don't think it was planned per se, but someone definitely remembered this episode and at the very least thought to reuse Mason. Which is still very good.
i really appreciate just how good David and Selena’s chemistry was on this show, they make very sweet siblings. that bit where he ignores the pressing matter to be like “wow, I can’t believe it…. You got a job?!” and she’s like “I know right! I can’t believe it either!” was just silly and adorable to me
it's pretty a shame how NO ONE mentions or talks about Harper, and she's incredibly overlooked in the show, wrongfully so. I wish more people talked about her more often and appreciated her, but NO, everyone wants to talk about Alex, everyone wants to be Alex.
@@stevenyoung9738 probably a mixture of both, not _every_ comment, but probably piggybacking off a lot of comments like this one, which vaguely mention Alex
As a girl, Selena's entire wardrobe during this series was GOALS for me. I adored how cute she looked in everything, wanted to get the same haircut etc.
this was during the time boots were a big thing and i always kept stuff in my boots like she kept her wand. i started keeping my phone in there. selena/alex were goals
it's so mid 2000s, all of the patterns and textures, the LAYERING lol. Long sleeved thumb hole shirts under ruffle v neck blouses, knee length leggings under a skirt with a belt slung over the hips, costume bead necklaces, the hairbands with dangly/ribbon ends, etc. just, it's an entire delias catalog from 2004 and looking at it gives me whiplash. Every live action show from my high school years had this wardrobe and I just have to know if it was influenced by current styles, or if it influenced current styles. I surely didn't wear a functionless belt over my skirt until I saw someone on a kids sitcom do it.
so true, I used to literally write down in a little notebook descriptions of my favorite outfits of hers so I could theoretically recreate them later lol. I wanted to be her so bad
@@samaramorgan8973 I have a detailed idea for a spin-off idea where Justin starts a class for wizards who lost their family competition and gives them a second chance to compete (with Max being able to be in the class).
@@samaramorgan8973 thank you, they definitely do lol, the show could address how unfair the family wizard competition is and we could see wizardry get exposed (like Future Harper said)
Its a really minor thing to get hung up on, but can we take a minute to appreciate how refreshing it is for a Cool Guy character to say "no don't look at the stripping girl" and all the Dude Bros agreeing? W Dean moment
It was really nice to have a main character with a personality beyond "I don't fit in, I'm clumsy and so relatable" Alex was witty, mischievous and cool. I didn't just want Alex as a friend, I wanted to BE Alex.
@@UriosEditz those are both super great examples , but I feel like at the time when wizards came out Zach was more a slacker and Raven wasn't on as much. Wizards was kinda the generation after them.
As an adult I'm honestly way more like Justin but I wanted to be Alex so badly as a kid and still do. Everyone wanted to be her and at the end of the day wanted her family too.
Justin is such a fucking highlight of this show? Like, he and Selena play incredibly well off one another, I think 90% of episodes are just their chemistry carrying the comedy and plot.
The fact that the Harry Potter coke-bottle glasses are made a mandatory part of the school uniform just to further drive home the already extremely blatant reference is very funny to me
TT Ik this comment is 8 months old, and not to be That Guy, but they aren’t coke-bottle glasses. Coke-bottle refers to lens thickness not shape, they’re just round glasses
i’m just now realizing how hypothetically irresponsible it is for a wizard parent to not have powers. what if the kids really mess up, the dad just can’t fix it?? 😭
@@marissawilson4644that doesn’t change the fact that their aunt and uncle would also have magical children wether or not they have powers though, their characters just don’t have children for what ever reason, so we don’t get to see the full dynamics of how that would play out. Which begs the question, do cousins have to compete against each other, since magic is only passed to 1 family member each generation? (That actually could’ve been a clever twist to the wizard competition, a long lost cousin that no one in the family knew about is a surprise competitor that had some intense magic training or just natural ability) The way it’s setup in this world, there will always be wizards raised by parents without powers anytime someone from a wizard bloodline has more than 1 child. I think this is why I could never get into this show, none of its “lore” makes sense and it constantly contradicts and retcons itself. It would’ve been soooo much better if they actually had set in stone lore and rules that carried through the seasons.
Alex and Justin were the best duo in Disney. Selena and David had such good chemistry and their characters never got flanderized like I think the cast of Lab Rats were. It truly felt like a brother and sister relationship and I like that the story treats them with basically equal importance.
@@ShermTank7272 Just my imagination, that’s all. We have just one more event together, and that is our annual Christmas party at First Presbyterian Church in Duquesne and Kennywood Park. Not forever, but until the middle of January.
i love her but for some reason on the internet it's unanimous that selena was bad at acting and alex was kind of a boring character. idk where that narrative came from. i think alex has a cool personality and i dont get why people dont like her
I think it's cause she got to play a more nuanced character, so she had way more fun with it. And it shows ! I feel like before Alex, she was mostly playing mostly the one dimensional, girly type. Alex is more than that. She's rebellious and outspoken, but still loves fashion and has love interests. Characters that were more the former fell into the, "I'm not like other girls trope". But it never felt like that with Alex. Which is why I think so many ppl my age, as kids, like her sm...myself included 😅 Perfect role for a teenage girl to play, less constricting than Hannah Montana, I'd think.
At the end of the Werewolves vs Vampires special, when Alex says to Justin “please tell me we’ll find normal people” Justin responds with “We’re not normal people”. Genuine chills
Ironically enough Max is the only one who only dated mortal girls (the cucule girl barely counts because she forced him to date her) which kind of makes me happy that he lost the competition because he would most likely end up with a mortal lady anyway
You gotta love Disney sitcoms where all you needed was to be a teenage girl with a nice shirt and makeup and random fashion designers would just give you a job
Y’know, seeing all the weird wizarding stuff together like that makes me realize how messed up the wizard world was in this show. The fantastical racism, the family wizard competition, the rule against wizards marrying non magical people… I’m honestly getting some magical eugenics vibes from the wizard council and that’s pretty damn disturbing. Like seriously, wtf?
Tbh, if a wizarding world existed in real life I would 100% expect this to happen. Imagine if most of the things with reform movements in real life had no publicity to expose them because they were part of a secret society that aggressively kept its secret. It makes sense but I don't think that was the intention of the writers.
The funny thing about the “Harper learning about wizards” situation is that it could’ve been averted by Alex simply saying “oh hi Harper! My nerd brother and parents dragged me here so I guess I’m coming anyway! how’s it going”
I really love these kind of video . Can here somebody suggest me some other youtube channel which make these kind of videos especially if they also make long nicklodean show retrospective
To be honest, being disabled and making up a spell forcing everyone to temporarily live with your disability for the spell to work is 100% something a wizard would do
@@TheFire1290 the one where the magic school is flooded with plastic balls and the guy tries to turn Alex evil Edit: it’s saving wiztech part 1 or part 2, pretty sure it’s part 2 and it’s close to the end
I think the thing that makes me happiest about this show, is that the entire cast seem to have positive memories from this. Which is really hard to say for a lot of children's programming that includes kids/teens.
@@keyzlovesyou4933 where have you heard that? Not saying it’s not true, but Harper and Jerry’s actors have a podcast together reviewing the show, I don’t watch it but I’ve seen some of it and she seems to have positive memories from it. I don’t think she would host a podcast discussing the show and behind he scenes memories if she felt outcasted.
@keyzlovesyou4933 no they did not bully her. She clearly states in the podcast that she has nothing but good memories from the show and that she got along with if not most of the producers/cast/writers. She does say that in the first season she felt excluded alot and that they ended fixing that just for her. Stop spreading bs. Get yo facts straight. And sorry to break the news to yall but most of the shows we grow up with were mostly wholesome behind the scenes. Obviously in hindsight it sounds fucked up because yes hey were kid actors and were kept at a standard. But you got to remember that Disney is a multi billion company and for them to demand alot out of their actors kids or not is childish thinking. Obviously to us normal ppl it looks wrong cause we don't send are children to work at a young age, we send em to school. I'm not saying what happen to some of those kids is okay. Far from it ! But don't play yall selfs! The world is and will be a scary place.
Which is extra funny considering Miley Cirus's recently successful song which mentions buying oneself flowers considering she was also a Disney star who famously had a heated rivalry with Selena Gomez at the time
The quincenera episode always really warmed my heart when I was a kid and it’s one of the ones I still remember to this day. I haaaate the trope of a mom ruining an important moment for her kid by trying to live her dreams through them, so the fact that this one ended with everyone actually getting what they wanted made me so ridiculously happy
MAX OFFERING A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO FIND THEIR AUNT IS THE BEST JOKE I USED TO ALWAYS THINK OF THAT WHEN I HEARD THE WORD “AUNT” FOR A LONG PART OF MY LIFE
"We also learn that Alex is 15 in this episode" if only there was another episode that could've provided this information Like a birthday episode where a party specifically for 15 year olds was thrown
And if only all the characters within that episode would properly pronounce that Party over and over again, only for a certain Mr. Carlile to forget. But, alas, tis not but to be.
as a kid i DEFINITELY noticed the inconsistencies. id remember spells and then use them over and over when i’d play, so like certain situations i’d be like “bro we learned this 8 eps ago duh”
The Wizard family competition bugged me so much. Why did Justin do Monster Hunting and Max and Alex never had to. Also why could Max move the date if it had requirements to be fulfilled. Why was the movie so different. That whole part where Justin and Alex fell behind I didn’t understand and I hated it. I kind of wish they had standardized it and explained the rules to it because then every time they mention catching up or being more likely to win it would actually mean something.
@@freyjathehealer5559 they did explain that, Justin formally completed his wizard training and was able to do independent study, where he chose monster hunter despite dating a vampire
the stuff about the show celebrating mixed heritage families is actually really sweet, I never really picked up on it as a kid but I imagine it was really cool for the kids who got to see elements of their own culture represented
hearing you say you have no memory of harper having a crush on justin is the funniest thing i've ever heard. it's like seeing a cliché play out perfectly irl with no warning
I like that they didn't make a big deal about the friends not knowing at first and then slowly built up to it. Its an important reveal and its way better to build up the characters and relationship first, so the payoff feels way better and like it actually changes things and makes the show refreshed. I tried watching recent Disney shows with similar concept of like, revealing weird identity to friends and they keep doing it in the first episode and it feels so, like it doesn't matter as much as it has the potential to.
Honestly I agree with the Hannah Montana statement. Watching the show as an adult you realize how selfish Miley’s character is. Alex is also obviously selfish but the cast acknowledges it, it’s supposed to be apart of her character. Miley on the other hand isn’t explicitly told to us as selfish she’s the one whose always in the right no one calls her out on it (except her grandmother and Jackson in that one episode). It’s so hard to watch back now. In wowp it feels like the characters are actually a real family. They love each other, but they also don’t get always get along. In Hannah Montana it always feels like billy and Miley are a family and Jackson is just there to be Miley’s personal driver. Idk if this made any sense but yah wowp in my opinion was one of the best Disney sitcoms I still find myself laughing out loud to the show. I think it definitely helps that the cast seem to all actually like each other and like doing the show. Even to this day the cast all seems to have nothing but good things to say about the show and they all.
Jason Earles was the only thing that made Hannah Montana actually have moments of being funny. He was given absolutely nothing to work with but he still managed to shine.
Yes, the family unit is so strong on this show, they did a great job with it. Growing up I didn't have a preference between the 2 shows, I liked them roughly the same. But going back to both and watching certain episodes as an adult, Wizards holds up better, it has better acting, better writing, stronger characters and a more engaging premise
Hannah Montana felt like Disney slowly sliding into their Superstar Launch Era where you could *TELL* they were manufacturing that image, where with Wizards, all the sitcoms before them, Good Luck Charlie and for a while until it got canceled Andi and Sidney to the Max - they were more subtle in trying to push who the next star would be.
@@eatatjoes6751 Hannah Montana was just Disney perfecting with Miley what they tried to do with Hilary Duff a few years earlier. Wizards wasn't exactly subtle about it but they were definitely less obvious than Hannah, in fact the reason I can forgive them doing the band episode is because it was a one-off and singing didn't become permanently part of Alex's character. Compare that to Sonny With a Chance, where Sonny becomes this singer-songwriter, giving little to no separation between Demi Lovato and the character Sonny Monroe
@@AD240pCharlie I hadn't rewatched the show in full in however long, but yeah, Jackson and the soundtrack albums were absolutely the best parts of the series!
I like to think the one leg wizard did the time freeze while hopping on one leg spell like that on purpose bc he could probably do it for a LONG while and it’s impossible to do it for long if you have no practice therefore absolutely DUNKING on the abled bodied wizards. And I’m here for it. It’s the fictional equivalent of the IRL first-ever-named berserker having weak legs.
Forcing all able bodied wizards to live with your disability temporarily for a spell to work is 100% something a wizard would do. That’s the definition of wizardry. Wizard isn’t the male word for “magic user”, THAT is a wizard.
Because of videos like these I now have an absurdly high knowledge of Disney Channel trivia. There’s a lot of kids in my family so whenever their millennial and gen z parents rewatch the shows with them they’re always very confused why I know so much about the bts and lore. Thank you for all the wisdom you have passed on to me. I have watched your videos more than I’ve spent time studying this semester because what you have been teaching me is much more fascinating.
I didn’t even know these characters in season 1, I knew them a little bit in season 2, our budding friendship happened in season 3, and season 4 was their preparation for adulthood. All in all, great show and great friends!
@@ashylapis6656 That’s awesome! What about PBS Kids and DiC Entertainment? Let’s not forget about 90s boy bands! No offense, but I am a little old school.
@@youniqesparklez Most willing to learn? No way, grow and adapt absolutely. She is far more adaptive than her siblings but in terms of willingness to learn I'd give that one to Justin. That's kinda his problem he spends all his time learning how to do something instead of practicing it and learning to use it practically.
May I just say that Selena’s comedic timing was really good on the show , I think she’s a natural actress and could’ve definitely built successful movie career
it's pretty a shame how NO ONE mentions or talks about Harper, and she's incredibly overlooked in the show, wrongfully so. I wish more people talked about her more often and appreciated her, but NO, everyone wants to talk about Alex, everyone wants to be Alex.
@@dyldog I know her acting career , I meant instead of seriously pushing for music from 2016-2020 I would’ve loved to see her put that energy and hunger for acting , maybe in a parallel universe she has
@@dyldog that’s not what I meant , I mean a serious acting career , instead working towards a Grammy , after Disney channel , I wish she would’ve directed her career towards acting instead of music , aiming for an oscar or an Emmy instead of a Grammy , I know she’s aiming for an Emmy now with only murders in the building , but I just wish she would’ve tried to do that way back right after Disney channel in her late teens early 20’s so by now we would’ve seen a long successful acting career , she would be known for acting like scarlet Johansson or Margot Robbie , Emma stone…….
It would stress me out as a little kid whenever the Russo's would do spell's in public because I took it very seriously when their dad said it was important that they kept their magic a secret.
I love the dynamic between you and Quinton, where you both adopt and improve on each other’s ideas between videos, and he covers all the Nickelodeon shows and you do all the Disney Channel shows. You guys should collab on something
I really appreciate you putting in the old ads. It might be weird but that's part of what made tv special to me. I loved ads as long as they were something i was interested in. Could be part of why I love film in general so much today. Wizards ads were so exciting to me because they always went batshit crazy unlike any other Disney show I watched. Plus it hits me with a lot of nostalgia
@@tvpivmsame it made my childhood it made us look forward to the next episode each week, bts was the best one Who else loved the funky hat song me and sister memorised it
I think David Henrie was the best young actor on the show, I went back and rewatched it and his comedic timing and reactions to certain things was better than what Disney would require for their other actors back then. The episode with the sequence in black and white shows that he actually studies acting on a high level especially physical comedy. Imo he should’ve gotten his own show as he could’ve held his own way back when he was a smaller character on That’s so Raven. He genuinely fits into the character of Justin. You can kind of tell that the leading role was originally meant for him because he gives it his all even when the episode doesn’t serve him any favors. Edit: I don’t understand the disses at Good Luck Charlie, out of all the Disney shows I grew up with, I’d say it’s aged the best, it depicted a modern middle class family in a real yet comedic way. Even as a black person I could relate to it because my family was very similar back when they were together, it was also very grounded in family when every other Disney show was about a cringe group of friends at the time. Good Luck Charlie was a family show.
I agree, Selena is a great actress too, but it took her until after the movie and then in season 3 to truly become exceptional. They found a perfect balance between comedic and emotional scenes
yeah, i remember watching david talk about it, how he sometimes made decisions to just make people laugh, so we would get ridiculous scenes sometimes, and i was rewatchinhg the show, he is just too good
I don’t know if this is true or not but I think I heard that Justin was supposed to be the main character but in the end they changed it so it was Alex
I forgot just overpowered the wizards were. Bringing things to life, erasing memories, stopping time....no wonder we have so many wizards trying to take over the world.
it made me wonder why they have to keep wizardry a secret, no one could do anything against them. In harry potter they at least try to say that they would die out without muggles interbreeding and the implications are that they wouldn't just survive gun shootings.
It’s really interesting having a main character who’s main characteristic is just being bad. When I think about other sitcoms the main character tends to be a bit of a blank slate so audiences can easily relate but having her be so characterized makes the show a lot more engaging
I think the spell less joke was more a hint to Alex being naturally gifted at magic despite her not taking it seriously which is later revealed in the show. It's actually a well-placed hint for the future of the show that paid off.
I think most wizards actually are,… well except for Max. They’re all individually gifted in certain areas that aid their wizardry. Alex can think on her feet, Justin is calculating. Max just vibes because he knows his siblings will likely get him out of trouble.
@@RealogOnlyBrodie True but i meant more in like Alex is the best wizard. Justin studies a lot and knows more than the rest, Max is obviously fighting uphill so he just focuses on life without magic only using it to do fun stuff cause he more or less knows he’s gonna lose anyway, while Alex is just able to do a lot of the stuff without much practice. She regularly just finishes lesson plans whenever it’s clear she won’t be able to have fun without doing them, she’ll even use them for fun on a whim when she’s supposed to be just now learning them. She’s the better wizard between the three by a long shot which is proven during the actual tournament
@@error8119 "Better by a long shot" is a strong sentiment. I think Alex and Justin excel in different areas. Though if I recall, in the movie Justin definitely struggled coping with Alex's natural talent, his smarts have saved her from multiple sticky situations. And he's definitely a better teacher of magic than she'll ever be. On a seperate note, the ending of that series was really satisfying for me, everyone got what they deserved. Everything felt earned, and we ended on a wonderfully high note.
@@coranbaker6401 lots of teachers are teachers because they couldn't make it in their given field (mostly referring to uni professors, not primary and secondary school.)
2:21:09 The delivery on “that’s Harper” is simply funnier than any other show ever. I genuinely woke up my baby laughing. Selena Gomez is quite a talented actor.
it's pretty a shame how NO ONE mentions or talks about Harper, and she's incredibly overlooked in the show, wrongfully so. I wish more people talked about her more often and appreciated her, but NO, everyone wants to talk about Alex, everyone wants to be Alex.
I just realised S2 EP2 about justin dating a werewolf and turning into one is 100% a kid friendly metaphor for going on a date with someone you met online and them not mentioning they have an STD that they can give to you without telling you until it’s too late and that’s just incredible😂
The soap on a rope spell definitely sounds like an improvised spell that his father invented purely to get the kids to work together. Its awkward but works because it rhymes and has an arbitrary rule that doesn't kae sense but serves the father's purposes.
This show meant a lot to me growing up. I’m from a mixed latino family myself, and this was the first time I ever really felt seen in that aspect. Especially in the fact that the kids didn’t know Spanish. My brothers and I got shit for not knowing it despite our father not even speaking Spanish fluently himself. It was nice to know that there were other families like ours out there
My family is Puerto Rican and I'm also half Dominican. My grandparents, who we didn't spend time with since they live far away, spoke Spanish with little to no English. My mom, aunt, and stepfather spoke both Spanish and English. But their kids (there are 7 of us total) speak only English. That's because growing up, they would speak to us only in English, but would speak Spanish to each other if they wanted to talk about something they didn't want us to know about. They never taught us anything except for word pendejo/a because they would call us that often and we eventually found our what it meant. Then they wonder why we can't speak Spanish and make it seem like it's our fault. I'm currently learning Spanish completely by myself because I know they won't ever teach me it.if
Same here! I have lot of Latino friends that try to poke fun at me for not knowing Spanish even though I'm in a mixed Latino family. I always find wowp very important to my childhood because of this
Similar for me- I'm not latina, but there wasn't any Asian family representation back then haha. And where I lived in California, pretty much everyone I knew who wasn't Asian, was hispanic. So even just seeing a family that looked like the families I knew and could relate to meant a lot
I do have to give the cross over episodes credit for having every character feel very…well, *in character* throughout the whole thing. So many shows struggle with that when 2 visions collide, like the lab rats x mighty med cross overs. Here, no one acted in ways I didn’t think they would normally
Yeah that can be a challenge when dealing with crossovers. But these shows had characters who fell under similar archetypes and the fact that they're on the same network made a huge difference. Also this was Disney Channel's 2nd live-action crossover, so u can tell they improved a lot over the last 3-way crossover (That's So Suite Life Of Hannah Montana)
I remember iParty With Victorious suffering from a lot of characters acting "off" because it was written by the Victorious writers, the most glaring example is when Spencer lusts over Tori when Freddie shows him an image of her on Carly's computer because Spencer only is attracted to women either the same age or older on iCarly.
When I initially watch Wizards on Deck as a kid and Mosbey said “magic.” I thought he was serious and it was gonna reveal he somehow knew about the wizard world. Even if it were never acknowledged again I think that would have been a crazy cool thing to do, just… have him know for some reason and never even go into detail. That would be such a Mobey thing.
I feel like if mosbey was a part of the wizard world he’d definetly be the one who’d want their power taken away 😂 I can see his anxious ass being like max when he first got his powers
He could definitely be a past member of the Wizarding world. Maybe he was part of some rebellion or part of the wizard council, he probably created a lot of the anti wizard laws. He seems like the type to want everyone to have an even playing ground, not wanting others to automatically have cheat codes in life. He probably has the storyline of John wick or something, managing to get out of the world impossible to get out of. I really want a "Moseby" action movie.
One of the reasons I loved Wizards was because we were given a protagonist that had major flaws- Alex was continually selfish, took advantage of people, and abused her magic abilities. Other Disney shows I watched, like Hannah Montana, featured main characters that would exhibit these traits but they were never called out for them except for one or two episodes. Out of all the Disney shows I watched, Wizards is one I’ve always returned to (besides Boy Meets World, but that is a completely different level and era of Disney). Even though there isn’t a lot of world building continuity and some plots and characters are underused and underdeveloped, Alex’s character progression throughout the series is my favorite thing. The heart of this show is Alex and Justin’s relationship, it’s the familial love shared through siblings that makes it so special. Personally, I grew up as an older sister with ADHD, though I was diagnosed far later than I watched the show as a kid. I really related to Alex because I was also a “handful” as a child and got myself into trouble, though really I had good intentions and it was the lack of knowing I had ADHD that was the problem. Wizards taught me some very valuable lessons about love for myself and others, even if I got into trouble that didn’t mean I was a terrible person and I didn’t deserve less love when I truly felt remorse and fixed my mistakes. It also taught me how to be an amazing older sister, even if my younger brother is more of a Justin and I’m more of an Alex. My brother is my best friend and we’re very close, he likes to ask me out on “sibling days” where the two of us will go see a movie or go out to the mall and hang out. I seriously love this show, I adore each character and I always will. Side note- Max’s humor has strong Vine energy especially in later seasons, i love it lol
Alex Russo is by far the best protagonist of any teen sitcom, especially around that time. Sure other shows may have had them, but they were often supporting cast, Alex is THE main character and is cynical, sarcastic, selfish and manipulative. But she's also a teenager. What made her stick out to her competition (even on Nick) is that her flaws are what drive the premise of the show, she is suppose to be a flawed person and typically gets up in some of of mishap because of it, never did it feel as if she went to the deeper end to become needlessly mean. The show even played off her behavior as a facade at times. Compared to most Disney or Nick sitcoms at the time, which typically featured more standard teen girl leads (in Nick's case they often tended to be Mary-Sues) while the Alex Russo type was religated to the best friend or part of the friend group type. Alex feels like a more darker lead with some nuanced character traits, it makes her a very interesting protag. Because the point is that she isn't perfect! However If I must say looking back on the show I never liked how Alex would constantly be blamed for everything, and in some cases the world (especially her family) could be needlessly mean spirited toward her for no rhyme or reason. This is more notable in Seasons 3& 4, where Alex starts to develop some.
@@growingupwithdisney Alex Russo always felt like the Anti tween sitcom girl. She never wanted to be popular, never wants to "fit in" never is all about dates in a stereotypical way, in fact she's the opposite of all of those, while still keeping similar vulnerabilities. She felt like a real person and her flaws were the point of the show, unlike Nick sitcom female protags or generic Disney channel female protags (though some were still decent) The show never likes to pretend Alex is perfect, it embraces her being flawed!
And the best part is we see WHY she does bad things. She's selfish because she's a teenager, all teenagers are kind of like that. She's clearly never been super popular, having a rivalry with Gigi who is that most popular girl and school, and so I think that drove her to keep people at a distance, which causes her to be manipulative. She abuses her magic because she's the classic middle child, acting out and seeking attention because she feels undervalued, and because her spirit as an artist makes her naturally rebellious and prone to questioning authority, especially that which she finds ridiculous like the rules of the wizarding world.
the horror movie episode with the hair dryer person gave me literal debilitating paranoia as a child that i probably needed therapy for and never got, made me have anxiety attacks, and permanently affected the way i look at hallways. i had totally forgotten about it until just now and you have no idea how it feels knowing i was scared of the stupidest thing in the fucking world
i feel ya, that episode scared the shit out of me as a kid, i never forgot about it. that hair dryer guy still gives me the chills tbh, the mask is terrifying.
This is both kind of funny and also SUPER comforting. I was a kid who was scared of a LOT of very stupid things (the sun, beards, one very specific drawing from a book I saw at a book fair once, the Little Caesar’s mascot, etc.) and I’m so relieved that I’m not the only one who was like that.
If it's any consolation: I had nightmares for what felt like YEARS as a child because I was scared of Doc from Back to the Future. I couldn't walk comfortably through a dark hallway or room for a very long time without being paranoid that this man was hiding there. I was diagnosed with autism earlier this year and yeah that checks out 🧍♀️
Technically the wizarding gene would not be recessive, as their mom does not have any wizards on her side of the family that could pass on that recessive allele. Most likely the gene is dominant with some sort of epigenetic trigger to shut off said gene when one loses the wizard family battle. Cannot believe I am analyzing the genetics of a disney channel sitcom, but here we are.
As a kid, I was SURE that the reason that there was a wizard family competition was to keep the number of wizards down to keep from magic being exposed. And I was positive that the way that the series was going to pan out was that magic would be exposed to the world before the Russo siblings had their competition, which would mean they'd all get to keep their powers. I also always figured that Jerry's kids having powers had something to do with him technically winning the competition. Like, if the other siblings had kids with humans (which Kelbo couldn't do legally anyway), their kids would just be human. Still doesn't make much sense, but that was my theory as a kid and it's still the best I've got.
I haven’t watched through all of the video yet so I don’t know what all is being theorized here, but I figured it was about making sure magic doesn’t get into the hands of the wrong people. It’s a testament to who’s worthy sort of thing. I don’t know.
i always felt like all people who were born wizards have wizard kids, but only one of each sibling set gets to keep powers as an adult. so the number of wizards keeps increasing over time, but not as fast as the general population. like if uncle kelbo and aunt meg had had kids the number of wizards would go from 0-2 (their parents), to 1 (their generation) to a maximum of 3 (their kids). which is population growth, but not as fast as the general population of 0-2 (their parents) 3 (their generation), all of the kids they could collectively have
The Justin/Juliet and Alex/Mason sagas were so dramatic to middle school me 😭 I was absolutely flabbergasted when Mason declared his love for Juliet 💀 Also I’m reminded how I always preferred Bridgit Mendler as Juliet over Teddy
The funny part is. This is just a fact in every single live action Disney show(post that’s so raven monarchs I think). They are all connected, so wizards having shakaira be uncle kelbo makes it a fact in every other show.
the way the entire cast was very talented but you could tell their chemistry as an ensemble just made their performances work. i rewatched season 1 and i think it does stand the test of time there’s of course cultural references that age it but i actually enjoyed it even as an adult. wizards came on when i was in elementary school i was the target audience for sure. selena gomez was one of the first latina actresses i saw on tv and that to me as a young latina made me a lifelong fan fr 😭
fun fact: much of the target audience probably didn't pick up on this because you have to have watched sitcoms from the 60s, Mr Larritate's name is a reference to Larry Tate from Bewitched and Ms Majorhealey's name is a reference to Major Healey from I Dream Of Jeannie
OMG I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING. I had a recurring movie-like dream as a kid involving Alex, Max, Justin, a witch with black wings, and hair tools. I had to brush her wings with a comb to defeat her and I’m now realizing it was rooted in this episode and the evil angel episode, which both scared me a lot. In fact, in the dream I defeated her on my basement stairs which I always sprinted up in a panic. Man so many of my childhood fears wrapped up into one dream.
That episode is one of my favorites. Looking back at it I loved how they did the common theme of a horror movie where the character is running and falls over nothing, I died when Alex told Justin to Just Stand Up 😂
I remember loving Harper (mostly her outfits) as a child and I wasn’t quite sure why. Watching this I realized that it’s probably because, other than the over the top heterosexuality, she was how a wanted to act and dress but didn’t/couldn’t bc of my parents and being forced to mask my adhd. Now as an adult I’m a sewist, cosplayer, sub-culture fashion enthusiast, and part time fashion/costume designer. So thanks Jennifer Stone for helping inspire me to make and wear over the top outfits!
It's crazy how the wizard family pretty much has a personality of an average family but with parents having different perspective on how they treat their kids, jerry wants them to learn spells and act responsible but Theresa wants them to be normal it's brilliant
I wish they kept Amanada Tepe through the whole series. I always thought she was the same person. Since she was in the Wizard World in one episode, I thought she was a wizard, explaining why she had multiple jobs. It'd be interesting if she was meant to be a magical overseer watching the kids as they use their magic publicly. Also, to explain why they don't recognize is because she has a spell on her call the "one of those face" spell making her unrecognizable.
Okay, here’s my interpretation: 1. Set spells are like training tools since statistically most wizards in the world are kids in training due to family wizard competitions that strip many/most adult wizards of their powers. After they develop their skills, they can do improvised and silent spells, along with some of the big emergency spells that you can know off the top of your head for stressful situations. All the set spells would be certified by a superintendent to make sure they are safe enough for inexperienced teenagers to use. So there are spells with wildly different requirements and degrees of usefulness because they’re meant for different skill levels. (Also, I haven’t watched in 10 years so this could easily be proven wrong but can I assume every pseudo-Latin spell is one of the “official” ones and all the rhyming ones are improvised?) 2. Magic requires two distinct things to work, the “fuel” and the “engine”. So, the “engine” would be your innate ability to wield magic which you inherit genetically and the “fuel” would be the thing from the dragons that’s in the tubes in their wall. You can’t do magic without both. Then, when you lose your family wizard competition, the corrupt wizard government takes your innate ability/“engine” the way Professor Crumbs did to Alex in that one episode. 3. I think everyone who has magic in their bloodline has the wizard gene, regardless of their parents’ magic status. Clearly, wizards having a mortal parent doesn’t even dilute their ability level, so the whole anti-mortal marriage law must be rooted in keeping magic secret. And if full wizards could only marry other full wizards and only have one full wizard child, the magic population would be decreasing by at least 50% every generation. Therefore, I would assume that as far as wizard law goes, ex-wizards are still supposed to marry wizards or other ex-wizards (just not other magical creatures due to the danger and the racism). Then, their kids would be magic but not exposing wizardry to any mortals that didn’t already grow up knowing about magic. 4. The magic government has some sort of meritocracy complex where they believe only the most capable wizards deserve to keep their magic abilities, probably trying to protect the world from the dangerous side of magic and themselves from being exposed. That belief is where the root of their corruption lies (other than all the magic creature racism lol).
Was thinking of writing my own comments on my thoughts on it, but this actually sums it up quite nicely and adds more and is way better written than I would have! One thing I'd add is that I have read way too many historic romance isekai recently, so it makes me think of like noble lineage, there's only one actual heir to the magic in the end and when there's a scandal (like Jerry's generation not listening to the authorities and refusing to redo a wizard competition) the whole lineage loses its standing. It would also fit with Jerry giving up his inheritance to marry someone non-magical, the equivalent of a noble wanting to marry a "commoner", losing them their title. Still fits with the whole wizard elitist thing going on, but I thought it was a helpful metaphor to think about it (for me at least)
Just from the clips in the video, I was confused why Keyan said improvised spells never came up again, since I got the sense that all rhyming spells are supposed to be improvised. You can tell someone else the incantation for an improvised spell, but the puesdo Latin spells were probably created through a more intensive process that creates something that's easier for wizards to use- like copying code someone else has made vs downloading a program they made. Despite the use of spells, the show defently seems to have a very soft magic system based on manipulating the fabric of reality with your mind than one with a discrete set of spells.
2:49:59 As someone who recently watched a lot of silent movies for a uni thing(silent movie orchestra), I started dying when David Henrie pulled out a flawless Chaplin run. He really had so many of the mannerisms of the era down pat.
3:19:28 The mention of Cody and Bailey breaking up in Paris brought back such a vivid repressed memory... not of that episode but of the episode where Cody wrote a play about the break up, casted Bailey as herself, and when she quit he continued the play in her place.
Cody saying “And I’ll shall shake my bom boms for each and every one of them” scared for life. It’s hilarious, but dude embarrassed his ex girlfriend of everyone, not cool
I remember watching the premiere of this show with my sister while she was in the hospital. We were so excited for it and it really gave her a boost. (She's better now but was admitted for a month.) It was kind of traumatizing to go visit her every evening, but Wizards gave us something to look forward to. So the show will always have an extra special place in my heart.
it's pretty a shame how NO ONE mentions or talks about Harper, and she's incredibly overlooked in the show, wrongfully so. I wish more people talked about her more often and appreciated her, but NO, everyone wants to talk about Alex, everyone wants to be Alex.
when i was younger i always assumed that the magical items from the earlier seasons were specifically made for younger wizards, or people who were unable to use complex/powerful magic 🤔 which is why we never saw them the more competent they became
That's exactly what I thought ! Like when that mf said the actual spells said out loud were like, "training wheels". We're all these lil knick knacks like ... Baby toy equivalents for wizard training? 🧐😭
i so vividly remember an episode where alex wore a skirt as a shirt and i tried to do the same thing for like three months as a kid before i realized it was atrocious. i remember being so sad when the series ended as a kid. i would go to my best friends house every time a new episode premiered because she had cable. it’s so weird that we’re both adults now and i haven’t seen her in two years and she moved hours away. idk watching this makes me miss childhood so much. this show definitely had a grip on me and i believe i lived and grew up during PEAK disney.
!!!! alex had this specific outfit of layered shirts 10yr old me tried so hard to recreate like!! also the little walmart line of wizards clothes they had made me so mad bc it didnt truly match the essence of alex but it was the closest i'd get to emulating her style
Siblings born in the same year from separate pregnancies, a.k.a., Irish twins! If Justin was born in like January their mom would have like 2 months to get pregnant in time to birth Alex in December of the same year, assuming she wasn't born pre-mature.
I cannot describe the raw excitement I felt seeing that this was your next 4 hour video essay project. I've been hoping you would make a retrospective on Wizards for so long and it's finally here!!
About Alex and Hannah never sharing scenes during the crossover: this was the period of time where Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus *HATED* each other. It was a full-blown feud between the two. It's not surprising to think that, despite Disney corporate pushing for a crossover for their most popular shows, the two main stars of two of the shows refused to be in the other's show, and refused to share any scenes during the show that neither of them were in the main cast for.
they didn't hate each other.. they just kind of ignored each other because they both liked nick jonas but really the only "bad" thing Selena did was date the dude after miley which would probably be a reason for teenage girls to have beef (im just guessing). she never did anything to shade Miley while miley definitely did not like her for that reason (maybe also Selena getting bigger idk it's just something her personality during that time that was very weird) until she grew up and realized it was all because of a guy. If anything I would say it was because of their busy schedules but Selena loved Disney it was just a weird time with all the negative energy miley was sending her way
My crush on Alex was insane back then. I wanted to be her and be with her. It's so weird how we build such strong connections with fictional characters. Even now watching this retrospective I have fond lingering memories and feelings of a crush long since passed lol. This show was great
It finally dawned on me months ago that Suite Life, Wizards, Raven, Hannah all share a universe and that means that all the weird experiences that the normal characters had that they couldn't explain were literally magic. I find it so cool looking back on Suite Life episodes especially like "The Ghost of 613", or the one where they went to the Parallel universe and thought it was just a dream (the end when Carrie found the coin from that universe though always struck me as strange and now I know why), the International Dateline, Bailey being possessed by the warrior Princess, probably even the episode where they wished for superpowers. Can you imagine if the 2nd crossover went differently, where the twins are finally given an explanation where they officially find out about magic and they get to remember in the end? If some strange and evil threat struck the S.S. Tipton, so Zack and Cody team up with the Russos' and become honorary (temporary) monster hunters like Justin in season 3, that or they temporarily get their superpowers back?! Cody and Justin would have worked so well together being brainiacs, while Alex, Max, and Zack would have been SO chaotic (Max and Zack would have been best friends, no question about it). But now my writer brain has so many questions. Raven gets her powers from her mother''s side of the family, the Halloween episode showed that her grandmother just owned a spellbook but it was never explained why. Was Raven part wizard? Was she just a psychic? It was so cool whenever the show expanded on the lore like when she had the psychic cold that gave her mind reading powers, or when she met those other psychic kids, or when Eddie randomly got powers that one time. It makes me really, really wish that the 2nd crossover went differently so that she could have met the Russos' and learned about the existence of actual magic, maybe get to go to the Wizard World and possibly learn more about her heritage. (I have this headcanon that Raven would have been a big deal to the Wiz World because she's a psychic and she would have loved the attention, you already know!) I'm pretty sure That's so Raven was over by the time this crossover came out but man, just imagine the possibilities. The Hannah Montana portions of both crossovers were very self contained and were never as interesting so substituting Raven in instead just appeals more to me. At the very least, Hannah, Raven, and the Russos' could have bonded over mutual understanding over leading double lives but other than that🤷♀I've got no idea what she could have really added to the story. If anyone has any ideas, let me know, I'd love to hear them.
If you go down the rabbit hole of sit com crossovers, you begin to realize how many shows exist in the same universe. The best part is that you realize that there are multiple magical secret societies all coexisting and they have no idea about each other.
@@ExatedWarrior Agreed. I know that they kept doing crossovers like with Jessie, Austin and Ally, and Good Luck Charlie amongst others so it's probably save to say that every show is connected (the DCU if you will). Maybe a crossover between Austin and Ally and Hannah Montana would have better since the characters take different approachs to stardom. Billy Ray and Ally could write a song together, Miley could talk to Austin on his thoughts on fame and how he deals with it, maybe Austin could try altering his appearance to see how people would treat him if he were normal? Out of all the secret societies I'd say the Wiz World is the most developed and if WoWP wanted to they could have really played around with all the characters of the other shows. I wonder how Zack and Cody would have reacted to finding out about the Wiz World and if their adventures had fallen under the radar or something since magic is supposed to be kept a secret from mortals. Why didn't any authority figure ever attempt to erase their memories? Why did they get to indirectly know magic exists? Did they have a special destiny or something? It's just so interesting the more I think about it.
@@scarletgiry3958 I'd like to add, one of Disneys last crossover specials theyve done was this big Halloween crossover between most of the shows they were airing at the time, so most of 2010s era shows are connected in the same universe. I cant remember if Ravens Home did any crossovers but if there was, that would connect 2010s era shows with 2000s era shows.
Yeah, I missed the Crab Alley event, sadly. At least I think it was there anyway? Nick is still there in Grizzleheim, but unlike Selena who was just there to promote her album (and I assume the quest could be removed without consequence), Nick actually contributed to the world of W101 by making the score for the Wintertusk area, which is the second half of the Grizzleheim arc. I assume that he's still there because they want to acknowledge the work he did even over a decade later.
I was way too obsessed with her back when that event was happening. I ended up doing it on 6 separate wizards to get multiples of the quest reward (a Selena Gomez statue and a wall painting).
@@BlueSparxLPs Yeah, someone did record the event on UA-cam and I guess it's a mildly interesting event? It would've been better if it was Alex Russo the character (or at least a referential character meant to invoke her) rather than Selena Gomez herself. It does give us lore about Crab Alley's existence: It was a piece of Triton Avenue that broke off and fell into the river there and got overtaken by Crabs. I don't recall if they ever brought up this lore again, let alone the potion of waterbreathing needed?
I remember ALL of those "extra" scenes from the first vampire episode when the episode aired on Disney Channel, but I didn't know that they had cut those scenes in the Disney Plus version. I remember loving all of the Bridget Mendler vampire scenes because they helped to flesh out her character and the episode more, so it's sad they cut them out on their main streaming site :/
I'm upset cuz it had a joke that always pops into my head. Where Alucard suspiciously says "You're going to do something your mother wouldn't approve of, like getting a frozen hot chocolate." And then excitedly says "I'm coming with you!"
I noticed that Disney plus has done this with Hannah Montana too!! I was rewatching a couple of episodes and there’s lines and multiple scenes missing. It’s upsetting too cuz a lot of them made the show more fun and I feel like they’ve removed stuff that added more to the characters😭. They got rid of a lot of fun jokes and comedic lines🤧.
Similar thing happened with Phineas and Feb. The Christmas special was a 33 minute episode but Disney+ initially uploaded the abridged 22 minute version. Thankfully Dan Povenmire still works at Disney so he could demand they upload the non abridged version, which they did.
For the longest time, I genuinely thought Max had won/was going to win the family wizard competition as a reversal of expectations. Obviously it was gonna be Alex but I don’t know why I thought this, I think I had a very lucid dream lmao
I am VERY curious how season 1 was produced, because it seemingly escaped the writers strike (which started a few weeks after the premiere) entirely. It’s one of the normal lengths of Disney Channel seasons 14:03
Isn’t it pretty standard for the entire season of a show to be shot before the premiere or was the shooting schedule different? Maybe that would explain why it didn’t get affected by the strike, the writing would have been finished before the strike began.
@@AJ-pu9jq That's likely exactly what happened. It's very normal for an entire season to wrap filming months in advance of airing, with the time in between being used for editing and other post-production work.
UPDATE: I got a reply from Todd J Greenwald some weeks ago. It turns out that while the first season was unscathed, it did make reconvening for season 2 take longer, since you can’t do table reads or shoot without a script. Long enough to be measured by Jake’s significant puberty.
1:15:50 unrelated but david henrie had amazing physical comedy. him trying to prank alex by putting a cup of water on her head but it spilling on him after he falls was so funny to me as a child. i also thought the fashion guy who hires alex in that episode was brendon urie.
So, I think the way the gene pool for wizards works is that Jerry keeps the wizard genes, but Kelob gets the powers. Or to put it in easier terms. Jerry owns the car, but gave Kelbo the keys.
Depending on when they emerged, I also figured it had something to do with neither Kelbo nor Meg having kids. Jerry's kids were the only ones in their family to pass magic onto so they might have allowed or done something after they were born to give them magic or awaken repressed magic.
I really love how you put in the commercials for some episodes! Brought back so many memories, crazy to think I was like 6-8 when I last heard/saw any of them. That’s why I love watching early 2000’s movies on CD, you get to see a bunch of other movie ads from that time & it feels like you were just sucked back in time
The future Harper episode is honestly great. Like series do callbacks all the time, it's not often you see a show reference what they plan to do in the future
The funny thing about the "Justin dates a Werewolf" episode is that they have to hastily explain away why his girlfriend was so weird when Mason comes around
"But I thought if you kiss a werewolf you turn into a werewolf..." "That's only with mutts, I'm a purebred." "Did you hear that everybody my boyfriend's a purebred!" SEARED INTO MY BRAIN
the charlie chaplin sequence + justin/london crossover plotline made me realize how good david henry would be in a bringing up baby remake sorta thing. he's such a gifted comedic actor
One thing I adore about the Disney crossovers is that it basically means that Wizards of Waverly Place, Suite Life, Hannah Montana, and even Jessie and Austin & Ally all basically exist and take place in the same universe
Misty May-Treanor is a beach volleyball athlete who won her second Olympic gold medal a few months before that episode aired. Dwayne Johnson at that point had only done a few movies, mostly in minor roles, and was better known to most as a retired pro wrestler. I think the "acting is my first and only career" line and really that entire conversation is meant to be a direct lampshade of this lol but unfortunately for the long term viability of the episode, Johnson actually became pretty well known for acting too.
I think, now, the joke accidentally turned into a relatively unknown athlete being super hyped up by everyone while a well known superstar is welcomed with lukewarm acknowledgement. It's funny for another reason lol
What’s notable is that about 2 years earlier he appeared in the Disney movie “The Game Plan” and at the same time the movie came out they had him appear as a guest starred on Hannah Montana and Cory in the House as a synergistic promotion (compounded by the fact that his co-Star in The Game Plan, Maddison Petis was also a regular on Cory in the House).
The Rock was not new to movie/TV when the episode aired, the joke was more so that he was actually in quite a bit of Disney content, so the audience were expected to be aware of him. He did a lot of guest appearances on multiple Disney shows and was leading and supporting roles for multiple Disney movies, on top of being in mainstream media. Misty May-Treanor was their attempt to hype up a role model for kids that was an accomplished athlete, it just didn’t stick the way they intended, because Disney is always creating fake in-universe celebrities for their characters to hype over so kids thought she was a fictional celebrity.
UA-cam copyright was a little goofy! A little quirky! It auto-flagged the theme song in the video, a month after release. I had to trim out all instances of it, which removed the original clip montage this video opened with. Here's a link to the original opening for the historical record. ua-cam.com/video/qrLTuTCMoFs/v-deo.html
I tried watching the video again and noticed that the edited made everything out of sync
Edit: nevermind it was something with watching UA-cam on the TV
I started this video a day or two ago and have been watching it in parts, so I caught it with the theme song and it really brought me back
there is another portion included thats making this demonized just an fyi :)
Are you working on season 3 and 4 plus the movies?
'the best of both worlds' also got copyright stuck
Jerry had the best dad energy. He was always caring and understanding and just cool enough while still being a responsible parent. Also he takes the fact that he doesn't have magic pretty well and doesn't get frustrated at the kids for having something he lost.
All-in-all a 10/10 TV dad
Also he has a dumptruck
@@AdanSolas i think if he could have both he would, so its still a sacrifice and it’s understandable that someone could possibly grudge something they gave up. Anyways stand jerry
Till you see the crime show where his character tried to force himself on a lady that was f***ed as a kid
@@rhythmf.4460 Man's got range
Well he did give up his power just to marry a human so he kinda had to
Can I just say, the "did Mason break up with you" thing in Future Harper coming back, with Mason being a real character, blew my mind as a kid. Like, it was one of the first real instance of foreshadowing/continuity that I really noticed back then and it was a lot for my dumb 12 year old mind to comprehend
I thought the same, I remember rewatching the show in 6th grade and being like THIS IS GENIUS
Right up there with Professor Paradox "I could tell you to not lean on the chrono-randomisaton barrier, but you wouldn't listen."
@@2011supergamer I don't think it was planned per se, but someone definitely remembered this episode and at the very least thought to reuse Mason. Which is still very good.
@@2011supergamer exactly
@@2011supergamer real
i really appreciate just how good David and Selena’s chemistry was on this show, they make very sweet siblings. that bit where he ignores the pressing matter to be like “wow, I can’t believe it…. You got a job?!” and she’s like “I know right! I can’t believe it either!” was just silly and adorable to me
it's pretty a shame how NO ONE mentions or talks about Harper, and she's incredibly overlooked in the show, wrongfully so. I wish more people talked about her more often and appreciated her, but NO, everyone wants to talk about Alex, everyone wants to be Alex.
@@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701 bro Harper was my first celebrity crush as a kid 😂
@@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701 are you commenting this under every comment that talks about Alex or just trying to piggyback off of this one
@@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701 bro, chill, wtf is this spiteful vendetta against Alex?
@@stevenyoung9738 probably a mixture of both, not _every_ comment, but probably piggybacking off a lot of comments like this one, which vaguely mention Alex
As a girl, Selena's entire wardrobe during this series was GOALS for me. I adored how cute she looked in everything, wanted to get the same haircut etc.
But it looked so awful at the beginning
this was during the time boots were a big thing and i always kept stuff in my boots like she kept her wand. i started keeping my phone in there. selena/alex were goals
it's so mid 2000s, all of the patterns and textures, the LAYERING lol. Long sleeved thumb hole shirts under ruffle v neck blouses, knee length leggings under a skirt with a belt slung over the hips, costume bead necklaces, the hairbands with dangly/ribbon ends, etc. just, it's an entire delias catalog from 2004 and looking at it gives me whiplash. Every live action show from my high school years had this wardrobe and I just have to know if it was influenced by current styles, or if it influenced current styles. I surely didn't wear a functionless belt over my skirt until I saw someone on a kids sitcom do it.
so true, I used to literally write down in a little notebook descriptions of my favorite outfits of hers so I could theoretically recreate them later lol. I wanted to be her so bad
@@baby.yogurt not "literally"
keyan mispronouncing quinceanera a bunch of times with a clip of alex's mom saying it properly thrown right in the middle truly was something else!
specially a clip of her correcting alex’s mispronunciation 😭
@@archbishopabiabi LMAO
I was thinking the exact same thing
Followed by him pointing out that she is fifteen as if it was a new concept a few minutes later.
And him saying Alex turned into a lion while showing a tiger on screen
The family Wizard tournament sounds like the perfect way to mass produce villain backstories
A perfect opportunity for a spin-off series
@@growingupwithdisney I always thought that max or harper should have had a spin off
@@samaramorgan8973 I have a detailed idea for a spin-off idea where Justin starts a class for wizards who lost their family competition and gives them a second chance to compete (with Max being able to be in the class).
@@growingupwithdisney they need you on the Disney writing team ASAP!!
@@samaramorgan8973 thank you, they definitely do lol, the show could address how unfair the family wizard competition is and we could see wizardry get exposed (like Future Harper said)
Its a really minor thing to get hung up on, but can we take a minute to appreciate how refreshing it is for a Cool Guy character to say "no don't look at the stripping girl" and all the Dude Bros agreeing? W Dean moment
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Yes
Yeah especially after seeing a lot of iCarly and victorious stuff, seeing stuff like *that* in a kids show feels so good and refreshing
Dean was so nice and respectful for being the quote on quote bad boy, I love him.
Fr👏👏
It was really nice to have a main character with a personality beyond "I don't fit in, I'm clumsy and so relatable" Alex was witty, mischievous and cool. I didn't just want Alex as a friend, I wanted to BE Alex.
Zack Martin ??? Raven Baxter ???
@@UriosEditz those are both super great examples , but I feel like at the time when wizards came out Zach was more a slacker and Raven wasn't on as much. Wizards was kinda the generation after them.
As an adult I'm honestly way more like Justin but I wanted to be Alex so badly as a kid and still do. Everyone wanted to be her and at the end of the day wanted her family too.
No seriously and it was just silly and funny
@@UriosEditz zack and Cody were boys, the bland main character syndrome is usually only girls :/
Justin is such a fucking highlight of this show? Like, he and Selena play incredibly well off one another, I think 90% of episodes are just their chemistry carrying the comedy and plot.
i think i read they were casts as love interests originally 👀
Yes and then they wanted them as twins but changed it into siblings (brother and sister)
i dont know about that, but theres definitely an ungodly amount of ppl who ship them
I love how he wasn’t just the “smart strict goodie two shoes sibling” trope that so many sitcoms have and had genuine personality to him
@@denisablaskova3269twins are still siblings.. they’d still be brother and sister.. 😭
The fact that the Harry Potter coke-bottle glasses are made a mandatory part of the school uniform just to further drive home the already extremely blatant reference is very funny to me
I think that they lean so hard into it because any attempt to be subtle would come off as unfunny.
@@ilo3456 that's exactly why I find it absurdly funny.
Like the racism and elf slavery, how did no one catch on?
TT Ik this comment is 8 months old, and not to be That Guy, but they aren’t coke-bottle glasses. Coke-bottle refers to lens thickness not shape, they’re just round glasses
i’m just now realizing how hypothetically irresponsible it is for a wizard parent to not have powers. what if the kids really mess up, the dad just can’t fix it?? 😭
But the only reason that the dad doesn't have partners is because he wanted to marry the mom.
Yeah I know right
Yeah imagine if Alex was an only child.
I guess you could call his brother but knowing his brother errr
@@marissawilson4644that doesn’t change the fact that their aunt and uncle would also have magical children wether or not they have powers though, their characters just don’t have children for what ever reason, so we don’t get to see the full dynamics of how that would play out. Which begs the question, do cousins have to compete against each other, since magic is only passed to 1 family member each generation?
(That actually could’ve been a clever twist to the wizard competition, a long lost cousin that no one in the family knew about is a surprise competitor that had some intense magic training or just natural ability)
The way it’s setup in this world, there will always be wizards raised by parents without powers anytime someone from a wizard bloodline has more than 1 child.
I think this is why I could never get into this show, none of its “lore” makes sense and it constantly contradicts and retcons itself. It would’ve been soooo much better if they actually had set in stone lore and rules that carried through the seasons.
Alex and Justin were the best duo in Disney. Selena and David had such good chemistry and their characters never got flanderized like I think the cast of Lab Rats were. It truly felt like a brother and sister relationship and I like that the story treats them with basically equal importance.
As far as sibling dynamics go, I rank them 2nd behind Ren and Louis from Even Stevens
They were an on and off music couple in high school. They lived together for 4 years until 2021.
@@akrzton1 source?
@@ShermTank7272 Just my imagination, that’s all. We have just one more event together, and that is our annual Christmas party at First Presbyterian Church in Duquesne and Kennywood Park. Not forever, but until the middle of January.
@Phillip Clearman I love reading Alex’s journal entries from time to time as well.
I love Alex, she's the rare kids sitcom character that I think has stood the test of time. Selena just plays her SO convincingly.
i love her but for some reason on the internet it's unanimous that selena was bad at acting and alex was kind of a boring character. idk where that narrative came from. i think alex has a cool personality and i dont get why people dont like her
I think it's cause she got to play a more nuanced character, so she had way more fun with it. And it shows ! I feel like before Alex, she was mostly playing mostly the one dimensional, girly type.
Alex is more than that. She's rebellious and outspoken, but still loves fashion and has love interests. Characters that were more the former fell into the, "I'm not like other girls trope". But it never felt like that with Alex.
Which is why I think so many ppl my age, as kids, like her sm...myself included 😅 Perfect role for a teenage girl to play, less constricting than Hannah Montana, I'd think.
@@MyFictionalChaos because she doesn’t deserve her wizard powers and gets passes on all the terrible things she causes
nah, i think raven symone was more iconic
@@MyFictionalChaos people who dont like her is their respective choice, you cant force everyone to like a certain person all the time
At the end of the Werewolves vs Vampires special, when Alex says to Justin “please tell me we’ll find normal people” Justin responds with “We’re not normal people”. Genuine chills
Still gets me to this day 😭
Ironically enough Max is the only one who only dated mortal girls (the cucule girl barely counts because she forced him to date her) which kind of makes me happy that he lost the competition because he would most likely end up with a mortal lady anyway
goes hard
@@lauracerqueiramachado8979 Not a girl, but Alex did date Dean for awhile.
One of my favorite episodes of the show!
You gotta love Disney sitcoms where all you needed was to be a teenage girl with a nice shirt and makeup and random fashion designers would just give you a job
Y’know, seeing all the weird wizarding stuff together like that makes me realize how messed up the wizard world was in this show. The fantastical racism, the family wizard competition, the rule against wizards marrying non magical people… I’m honestly getting some magical eugenics vibes from the wizard council and that’s pretty damn disturbing. Like seriously, wtf?
JUST WAIT until part 2
@@KeyanCarlile part 2??? WHATTT
@@KeyanCarlile Oh HELL YEAH! I can’t wait!!!
Tbh, if a wizarding world existed in real life I would 100% expect this to happen. Imagine if most of the things with reform movements in real life had no publicity to expose them because they were part of a secret society that aggressively kept its secret. It makes sense but I don't think that was the intention of the writers.
Can't explain why exactly, but Voldemort.
The funny thing about the “Harper learning about wizards” situation is that it could’ve been averted by Alex simply saying “oh hi Harper! My nerd brother and parents dragged me here so I guess I’m coming anyway! how’s it going”
Or something like "im doing forced community service" lol
well she also used magic to make harper fly without any cords attached so..
@@imdva Right but harper didnt really question that part
I cannot describe how happy I am seeing another multi-hour Disney Sitcom review/retrospective
The saddest part is that eventually he will run out of shows since obviously only so many existed
@@dashiefiles he might be dead before he finishes lmao
@@dashiefiles he has more than enough he also has endless reality tv shows to talk about
I hope he makes one on Girl Meets World
I really love these kind of video . Can here somebody suggest me some other youtube channel which make these kind of videos especially if they also make long nicklodean show retrospective
To be honest, being disabled and making up a spell forcing everyone to temporarily live with your disability for the spell to work is 100% something a wizard would do
Absolutely I am also disabled myself so I completely understand how you feel, have a great day 😊🤗
Firing not-dumbledore and him taking the fake beard off in shame is actually a fantastic bit
For real! I remember my jaw DROPPING when he took it off!
Which episode was that?
@@TheFire1290 the one where the magic school is flooded with plastic balls and the guy tries to turn Alex evil
Edit: it’s saving wiztech part 1 or part 2, pretty sure it’s part 2 and it’s close to the end
I think the thing that makes me happiest about this show, is that the entire cast seem to have positive memories from this. Which is really hard to say for a lot of children's programming that includes kids/teens.
they bullied the actress who played harper
@@keyzlovesyou4933 where have you heard that?
Not saying it’s not true, but Harper and Jerry’s actors have a podcast together reviewing the show, I don’t watch it but I’ve seen some of it and she seems to have positive memories from it. I don’t think she would host a podcast discussing the show and behind he scenes memories if she felt outcasted.
@keyzlovesyou4933 no they did not bully her. She clearly states in the podcast that she has nothing but good memories from the show and that she got along with if not most of the producers/cast/writers. She does say that in the first season she felt excluded alot and that they ended fixing that just for her. Stop spreading bs. Get yo facts straight. And sorry to break the news to yall but most of the shows we grow up with were mostly wholesome behind the scenes. Obviously in hindsight it sounds fucked up because yes hey were kid actors and were kept at a standard. But you got to remember that Disney is a multi billion company and for them to demand alot out of their actors kids or not is childish thinking. Obviously to us normal ppl it looks wrong cause we don't send are children to work at a young age, we send em to school. I'm not saying what happen to some of those kids is okay. Far from it ! But don't play yall selfs! The world is and will be a scary place.
@@spide550boy this aged like milk
@@jordashi why?
i have to say, adding the old school Disney promos along side this was just a cherry on top. nostalgia is powerful. 11/10
Ngl the line "I just realized how good it feels to buy flowers for myself" is just so wholesome.
Modern day equivalent of that Twin Peaks, "every day, give yourself a present" quote 🤌🏽
Alex Russo, queen of self love
So that’s what inspired Miley Cyrus’s new song.
Which is extra funny considering Miley Cirus's recently successful song which mentions buying oneself flowers considering she was also a Disney star who famously had a heated rivalry with Selena Gomez at the time
The quincenera episode always really warmed my heart when I was a kid and it’s one of the ones I still remember to this day. I haaaate the trope of a mom ruining an important moment for her kid by trying to live her dreams through them, so the fact that this one ended with everyone actually getting what they wanted made me so ridiculously happy
"wow you're like superheroes!!"
"yeah except we don't do anything for the good of society"
LMAO best line of the show, still remember that one
MAX OFFERING A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO FIND THEIR AUNT IS THE BEST JOKE I USED TO ALWAYS THINK OF THAT WHEN I HEARD THE WORD “AUNT” FOR A LONG PART OF MY LIFE
dude whats with the all caps
@@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701 I’m excited so I’m screaming
I first I didn’t get this comment cause I pronounce it wit a unt sound til I realized how most other people say it🤣
Finally, a multi-hour long retrospective of a show I ACTUALLY watched
FRRRRRR
I watched mighty med, lab rats, elite force and this show so I've seen all of these 😂
@@whynot7507 fr
right? i’m still waiting on a multi hour long analysis on the desperate housewives of beverly hills
@@whynot7507 me too lol
"We also learn that Alex is 15 in this episode" if only there was another episode that could've provided this information
Like a birthday episode where a party specifically for 15 year olds was thrown
I went to look if anyone else mentioned this, like he just talked about the quincenera episode a few minutes ago
Ugh right? If only…….
And if only all the characters within that episode would properly pronounce that Party over and over again, only for a certain Mr. Carlile to forget.
But, alas, tis not but to be.
Bro they didn't even mention the school years, I thought each season was for each year of high school then the graduation and stuff
LMFAOOOOO
“Alex creates a distraction by turning herself into a lion”
That’s a very convincing tiger disguise her lion morph has going on.
And a subtle animorphs reference. Nice
I know when he said that,I said it was tiger
ALEX DE LION!?! VAT DA HELL ARE U DOING IN MY CAR?!
@@lavendernightshade5631 Sameee lol
Maybe he said lion because of Alex the Lion
"I'm sure Alex will never use magic irresponsiblely ever again " killed me every time
Cultured vee fan
@@SsjkidsSaveCosmo08 😳
@@jsostick vee is yes
And then the mixups with science instead of magic, or with Justin instead of Alex.
the "im sure alex will never use *science* irresponsibly ever again" during the crossover actually had me laughing out loud
as a kid i DEFINITELY noticed the inconsistencies. id remember spells and then use them over and over when i’d play, so like certain situations i’d be like “bro we learned this 8 eps ago duh”
Wdym “when i’d play”
@@yooooo8600 Probably means they play-pretended doing the spells as a kid.
The Wizard family competition bugged me so much. Why did Justin do Monster Hunting and Max and Alex never had to. Also why could Max move the date if it had requirements to be fulfilled. Why was the movie so different. That whole part where Justin and Alex fell behind I didn’t understand and I hated it.
I kind of wish they had standardized it and explained the rules to it because then every time they mention catching up or being more likely to win it would actually mean something.
@@freyjathehealer5559 they did explain that, Justin formally completed his wizard training and was able to do independent study, where he chose monster hunter despite dating a vampire
@@yooooo8600 you mean you never went to school with alex’s wand in your boot and pretended like you were undercover all day?
THE MARKER DRESS IS SO UNDERRATED I LOVE IT The way it looks, the noise it makes, the functionality, I love all of it
Her owl outfit is so cute and I never hear anyone talk about it 😭
Same! It was always my favorite of her wacky outfits!
Theory: the ball didn't fall through the soup pot, because WATER STOPPED THE SPELL FROM WORKING PROPERLY
YOOOOOOO
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But then she drinks the soup and the spell transfers to her C.c
@@saltysalamander8519 Yea, but I wouldn't call that working PROPERLY.
@Hero Wither Oh yeah that's true, huh. Man the logic is so screwed up XD
You’re so right about having Latino representation in the show. Theresa reminded me of my own mom and I loved it
the stuff about the show celebrating mixed heritage families is actually really sweet, I never really picked up on it as a kid but I imagine it was really cool for the kids who got to see elements of their own culture represented
hearing you say you have no memory of harper having a crush on justin is the funniest thing i've ever heard. it's like seeing a cliché play out perfectly irl with no warning
I completely forgot about it too but I didn't watch the show as much as he did
I remembered it, it was so weird to me as a kid that it stood out.
Same Here
I love how you note Alex's age as 15 due to the joke but not the quincenera
I like that they didn't make a big deal about the friends not knowing at first and then slowly built up to it. Its an important reveal and its way better to build up the characters and relationship first, so the payoff feels way better and like it actually changes things and makes the show refreshed. I tried watching recent Disney shows with similar concept of like, revealing weird identity to friends and they keep doing it in the first episode and it feels so, like it doesn't matter as much as it has the potential to.
Honestly I agree with the Hannah Montana statement. Watching the show as an adult you realize how selfish Miley’s character is. Alex is also obviously selfish but the cast acknowledges it, it’s supposed to be apart of her character. Miley on the other hand isn’t explicitly told to us as selfish she’s the one whose always in the right no one calls her out on it (except her grandmother and Jackson in that one episode). It’s so hard to watch back now. In wowp it feels like the characters are actually a real family. They love each other, but they also don’t get always get along. In Hannah Montana it always feels like billy and Miley are a family and Jackson is just there to be Miley’s personal driver. Idk if this made any sense but yah wowp in my opinion was one of the best Disney sitcoms I still find myself laughing out loud to the show. I think it definitely helps that the cast seem to all actually like each other and like doing the show. Even to this day the cast all seems to have nothing but good things to say about the show and they all.
Jason Earles was the only thing that made Hannah Montana actually have moments of being funny. He was given absolutely nothing to work with but he still managed to shine.
Yes, the family unit is so strong on this show, they did a great job with it. Growing up I didn't have a preference between the 2 shows, I liked them roughly the same. But going back to both and watching certain episodes as an adult, Wizards holds up better, it has better acting, better writing, stronger characters and a more engaging premise
Hannah Montana felt like Disney slowly sliding into their Superstar Launch Era where you could *TELL* they were manufacturing that image, where with Wizards, all the sitcoms before them, Good Luck Charlie and for a while until it got canceled Andi and Sidney to the Max - they were more subtle in trying to push who the next star would be.
@@eatatjoes6751 Hannah Montana was just Disney perfecting with Miley what they tried to do with Hilary Duff a few years earlier. Wizards wasn't exactly subtle about it but they were definitely less obvious than Hannah, in fact the reason I can forgive them doing the band episode is because it was a one-off and singing didn't become permanently part of Alex's character. Compare that to Sonny With a Chance, where Sonny becomes this singer-songwriter, giving little to no separation between Demi Lovato and the character Sonny Monroe
@@AD240pCharlie
I hadn't rewatched the show in full in however long, but yeah, Jackson and the soundtrack albums were absolutely the best parts of the series!
I like to think the one leg wizard did the time freeze while hopping on one leg spell like that on purpose bc he could probably do it for a LONG while and it’s impossible to do it for long if you have no practice therefore absolutely DUNKING on the abled bodied wizards. And I’m here for it. It’s the fictional equivalent of the IRL first-ever-named berserker having weak legs.
But how did they start time again
@@kaylamorello5478 They would just sit down or smth
Forcing all able bodied wizards to live with your disability temporarily for a spell to work is 100% something a wizard would do. That’s the definition of wizardry. Wizard isn’t the male word for “magic user”, THAT is a wizard.
@@NosebleeddeGroselha the true meaning of wizard is a person who likes to cause mild mischief and discomfort to those around you in a charming manner.
@@kaylamorello5478 Standing still.
Because of videos like these I now have an absurdly high knowledge of Disney Channel trivia. There’s a lot of kids in my family so whenever their millennial and gen z parents rewatch the shows with them they’re always very confused why I know so much about the bts and lore. Thank you for all the wisdom you have passed on to me. I have watched your videos more than I’ve spent time studying this semester because what you have been teaching me is much more fascinating.
Lmaooo you should prank them by telling them you worked on making the shows 😭 It could be a funny joke in the future as they get older 😭
I didn’t even know these characters in season 1, I knew them a little bit in season 2, our budding friendship happened in season 3, and season 4 was their preparation for adulthood. All in all, great show and great friends!
If you haven't heard Quinton review You should check out him because a lot of his like this but nickelodeon
@@ashylapis6656 That’s awesome! What about PBS Kids and DiC Entertainment? Let’s not forget about 90s boy bands! No offense, but I am a little old school.
@@akrzton1 he hasn't made any video about any those. But he made a video about all of Garfield history and the history channel.
Alex won the wizard contest bc she practiced magic in her daily life all the time and learned how to get herself out of situations with it.
Yep, whereas her brother studied magical theory but didn’t put it much into practice.
Also from a "worthiness" perspective she was the one who was most willing to learn, grow, and adapt
@@youniqesparklez Most willing to learn? No way, grow and adapt absolutely. She is far more adaptive than her siblings but in terms of willingness to learn I'd give that one to Justin. That's kinda his problem he spends all his time learning how to do something instead of practicing it and learning to use it practically.
This is an amazing take!
@@ZebsAlleyOriginalMusic you’re taking the way they said “learn” in an academic context .
May I just say that Selena’s comedic timing was really good on the show , I think she’s a natural actress and could’ve definitely built successful movie career
it's pretty a shame how NO ONE mentions or talks about Harper, and she's incredibly overlooked in the show, wrongfully so. I wish more people talked about her more often and appreciated her, but NO, everyone wants to talk about Alex, everyone wants to be Alex.
Wait until you find out she actually did (and does) have a pretty successful movie career
@@dyldog I know her acting career , I meant instead of seriously pushing for music from 2016-2020 I would’ve loved to see her put that energy and hunger for acting , maybe in a parallel universe she has
@@Tarikkbshe’s in like 25 movies
@@dyldog that’s not what I meant , I mean a serious acting career , instead working towards a Grammy , after Disney channel , I wish she would’ve directed her career towards acting instead of music , aiming for an oscar or an Emmy instead of a Grammy , I know she’s aiming for an Emmy now with only murders in the building , but I just wish she would’ve tried to do that way back right after Disney channel in her late teens early 20’s so by now we would’ve seen a long successful acting career , she would be known for acting like scarlet Johansson or Margot Robbie , Emma stone…….
It would stress me out as a little kid whenever the Russo's would do spell's in public because I took it very seriously when their dad said it was important that they kept their magic a secret.
This is making me laugh so hard honestly same
this comment is so funny
I love the dynamic between you and Quinton, where you both adopt and improve on each other’s ideas between videos, and he covers all the Nickelodeon shows and you do all the Disney Channel shows.
You guys should collab on something
I really appreciate you putting in the old ads. It might be weird but that's part of what made tv special to me. I loved ads as long as they were something i was interested in. Could be part of why I love film in general so much today. Wizards ads were so exciting to me because they always went batshit crazy unlike any other Disney show I watched. Plus it hits me with a lot of nostalgia
Same! Growing up I loved watching the ads and those little behind the scenes clips
@@tvpivmsame it made my childhood it made us look forward to the next episode each week, bts was the best one
Who else loved the funky hat song me and sister memorised it
I think David Henrie was the best young actor on the show, I went back and rewatched it and his comedic timing and reactions to certain things was better than what Disney would require for their other actors back then. The episode with the sequence in black and white shows that he actually studies acting on a high level especially physical comedy. Imo he should’ve gotten his own show as he could’ve held his own way back when he was a smaller character on That’s so Raven. He genuinely fits into the character of Justin. You can kind of tell that the leading role was originally meant for him because he gives it his all even when the episode doesn’t serve him any favors.
Edit: I don’t understand the disses at Good Luck Charlie, out of all the Disney shows I grew up with, I’d say it’s aged the best, it depicted a modern middle class family in a real yet comedic way. Even as a black person I could relate to it because my family was very similar back when they were together, it was also very grounded in family when every other Disney show was about a cringe group of friends at the time. Good Luck Charlie was a family show.
I agree, Selena is a great actress too, but it took her until after the movie and then in season 3 to truly become exceptional. They found a perfect balance between comedic and emotional scenes
yeah, i remember watching david talk about it, how he sometimes made decisions to just make people laugh, so we would get ridiculous scenes sometimes, and i was rewatchinhg the show, he is just too good
I don’t know if this is true or not but I think I heard that Justin was supposed to be the main character but in the end they changed it so it was Alex
@@aaanime3166 yea the actor said they reworked the pilot to center around the sister because Disney wanted more female leads at the time.
I agree but I will say that Justin is probably the worst and most annoying Russo in the family
I forgot just overpowered the wizards were. Bringing things to life, erasing memories, stopping time....no wonder we have so many wizards trying to take over the world.
it made me wonder why they have to keep wizardry a secret, no one could do anything against them. In harry potter they at least try to say that they would die out without muggles interbreeding and the implications are that they wouldn't just survive gun shootings.
It’s really interesting having a main character who’s main characteristic is just being bad. When I think about other sitcoms the main character tends to be a bit of a blank slate so audiences can easily relate but having her be so characterized makes the show a lot more engaging
its like Seinfeld for kids
Most British sitcom leads are “bad” people. I agree it’s a lot more interesting
Yeah I feel like that's part of why Netflix Wednesday (+the Addams family movies in general) is doing so well
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i hate how she was my idol as a kid and everyone characterizes her as bad LMAOO most of my traits come from her i stg
I think the spell less joke was more a hint to Alex being naturally gifted at magic despite her not taking it seriously which is later revealed in the show. It's actually a well-placed hint for the future of the show that paid off.
I think most wizards actually are,… well except for Max. They’re all individually gifted in certain areas that aid their wizardry. Alex can think on her feet, Justin is calculating. Max just vibes because he knows his siblings will likely get him out of trouble.
@@RealogOnlyBrodie True but i meant more in like Alex is the best wizard. Justin studies a lot and knows more than the rest, Max is obviously fighting uphill so he just focuses on life without magic only using it to do fun stuff cause he more or less knows he’s gonna lose anyway, while Alex is just able to do a lot of the stuff without much practice. She regularly just finishes lesson plans whenever it’s clear she won’t be able to have fun without doing them, she’ll even use them for fun on a whim when she’s supposed to be just now learning them. She’s the better wizard between the three by a long shot which is proven during the actual tournament
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"Better by a long shot" is a strong sentiment. I think Alex and Justin excel in different areas. Though if I recall, in the movie Justin definitely struggled coping with Alex's natural talent, his smarts have saved her from multiple sticky situations. And he's definitely a better teacher of magic than she'll ever be.
On a seperate note, the ending of that series was really satisfying for me, everyone got what they deserved. Everything felt earned, and we ended on a wonderfully high note.
@@coranbaker6401 lots of teachers are teachers because they couldn't make it in their given field (mostly referring to uni professors, not primary and secondary school.)
@@mentalpopcorn2304
We're not talking about most professors, we're talking about Justin.
2:21:09 The delivery on “that’s Harper” is simply funnier than any other show ever. I genuinely woke up my baby laughing. Selena Gomez is quite a talented actor.
That was genuinely hilarious
Hahaha I feel you
i wouldnt say "talented," more so quirky
it's pretty a shame how NO ONE mentions or talks about Harper, and she's incredibly overlooked in the show, wrongfully so. I wish more people talked about her more often and appreciated her, but NO, everyone wants to talk about Alex, everyone wants to be Alex.
@@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701 comedic timing is a talent LMFAO denial is a river in egypt
David Henrie’s comedic timing isn’t talked about enough, he’s naturally hilarious
I just realised S2 EP2 about justin dating a werewolf and turning into one is 100% a kid friendly metaphor for going on a date with someone you met online and them not mentioning they have an STD that they can give to you without telling you until it’s too late and that’s just incredible😂
Now that is a good point 🤔😂
when you fuck a werewolf you become one
Damn 🤣🤣
It’s not though.
The soap on a rope spell definitely sounds like an improvised spell that his father invented purely to get the kids to work together. Its awkward but works because it rhymes and has an arbitrary rule that doesn't kae sense but serves the father's purposes.
This show meant a lot to me growing up. I’m from a mixed latino family myself, and this was the first time I ever really felt seen in that aspect. Especially in the fact that the kids didn’t know Spanish. My brothers and I got shit for not knowing it despite our father not even speaking Spanish fluently himself. It was nice to know that there were other families like ours out there
The ironic thing is that I think Selena does know Spanish.
My family is Puerto Rican and I'm also half Dominican. My grandparents, who we didn't spend time with since they live far away, spoke Spanish with little to no English. My mom, aunt, and stepfather spoke both Spanish and English. But their kids (there are 7 of us total) speak only English. That's because growing up, they would speak to us only in English, but would speak Spanish to each other if they wanted to talk about something they didn't want us to know about. They never taught us anything except for word pendejo/a because they would call us that often and we eventually found our what it meant. Then they wonder why we can't speak Spanish and make it seem like it's our fault. I'm currently learning Spanish completely by myself because I know they won't ever teach me it.if
Same here! I have lot of Latino friends that try to poke fun at me for not knowing Spanish even though I'm in a mixed Latino family. I always find wowp very important to my childhood because of this
Similar for me- I'm not latina, but there wasn't any Asian family representation back then haha. And where I lived in California, pretty much everyone I knew who wasn't Asian, was hispanic. So even just seeing a family that looked like the families I knew and could relate to meant a lot
@@kpoppy9635 Yess, she used to be fluent when she was younger, and she started to re-learn it seriously lately
I do have to give the cross over episodes credit for having every character feel very…well, *in character* throughout the whole thing. So many shows struggle with that when 2 visions collide, like the lab rats x mighty med cross overs. Here, no one acted in ways I didn’t think they would normally
Yeah that can be a challenge when dealing with crossovers. But these shows had characters who fell under similar archetypes and the fact that they're on the same network made a huge difference. Also this was Disney Channel's 2nd live-action crossover, so u can tell they improved a lot over the last 3-way crossover (That's So Suite Life Of Hannah Montana)
I remember iParty With Victorious suffering from a lot of characters acting "off" because it was written by the Victorious writers, the most glaring example is when Spencer lusts over Tori when Freddie shows him an image of her on Carly's computer because Spencer only is attracted to women either the same age or older on iCarly.
When I initially watch Wizards on Deck as a kid and Mosbey said “magic.” I thought he was serious and it was gonna reveal he somehow knew about the wizard world. Even if it were never acknowledged again I think that would have been a crazy cool thing to do, just… have him know for some reason and never even go into detail. That would be such a Mobey thing.
For all we know, maybe he did secretly know and Mosby decided that it really wasn’t that weird in his strange, miserable world
I feel like if mosbey was a part of the wizard world he’d definetly be the one who’d want their power taken away 😂 I can see his anxious ass being like max when he first got his powers
He could definitely be a past member of the Wizarding world. Maybe he was part of some rebellion or part of the wizard council, he probably created a lot of the anti wizard laws. He seems like the type to want everyone to have an even playing ground, not wanting others to automatically have cheat codes in life. He probably has the storyline of John wick or something, managing to get out of the world impossible to get out of.
I really want a "Moseby" action movie.
Probably means that Dwight Howard is a wizard or something
@@thatguyted4140 I think I might make this my head canon now that Mosby was born a wizard but threw his family competition
One of the reasons I loved Wizards was because we were given a protagonist that had major flaws- Alex was continually selfish, took advantage of people, and abused her magic abilities. Other Disney shows I watched, like Hannah Montana, featured main characters that would exhibit these traits but they were never called out for them except for one or two episodes. Out of all the Disney shows I watched, Wizards is one I’ve always returned to (besides Boy Meets World, but that is a completely different level and era of Disney). Even though there isn’t a lot of world building continuity and some plots and characters are underused and underdeveloped, Alex’s character progression throughout the series is my favorite thing. The heart of this show is Alex and Justin’s relationship, it’s the familial love shared through siblings that makes it so special.
Personally, I grew up as an older sister with ADHD, though I was diagnosed far later than I watched the show as a kid. I really related to Alex because I was also a “handful” as a child and got myself into trouble, though really I had good intentions and it was the lack of knowing I had ADHD that was the problem. Wizards taught me some very valuable lessons about love for myself and others, even if I got into trouble that didn’t mean I was a terrible person and I didn’t deserve less love when I truly felt remorse and fixed my mistakes. It also taught me how to be an amazing older sister, even if my younger brother is more of a Justin and I’m more of an Alex. My brother is my best friend and we’re very close, he likes to ask me out on “sibling days” where the two of us will go see a movie or go out to the mall and hang out.
I seriously love this show, I adore each character and I always will.
Side note- Max’s humor has strong Vine energy especially in later seasons, i love it lol
Ah, remember Vine?
Alex Russo is by far the best protagonist of any teen sitcom, especially around that time. Sure other shows may have had them, but they were often supporting cast, Alex is THE main character and is cynical, sarcastic, selfish and manipulative. But she's also a teenager. What made her stick out to her competition (even on Nick) is that her flaws are what drive the premise of the show, she is suppose to be a flawed person and typically gets up in some of of mishap because of it, never did it feel as if she went to the deeper end to become needlessly mean. The show even played off her behavior as a facade at times. Compared to most Disney or Nick sitcoms at the time, which typically featured more standard teen girl leads (in Nick's case they often tended to be Mary-Sues) while the Alex Russo type was religated to the best friend or part of the friend group type. Alex feels like a more darker lead with some nuanced character traits, it makes her a very interesting protag. Because the point is that she isn't perfect!
However If I must say looking back on the show I never liked how Alex would constantly be blamed for everything, and in some cases the world (especially her family) could be needlessly mean spirited toward her for no rhyme or reason. This is more notable in Seasons 3& 4, where Alex starts to develop some.
@@Surgemaster2012 I completely agree, Alex felt the most like a real person, we need more characters that aren’t perfect and “always good intentioned”
@@growingupwithdisney Alex Russo always felt like the Anti tween sitcom girl. She never wanted to be popular, never wants to "fit in" never is all about dates in a stereotypical way, in fact she's the opposite of all of those, while still keeping similar vulnerabilities. She felt like a real person and her flaws were the point of the show, unlike Nick sitcom female protags or generic Disney channel female protags (though some were still decent)
The show never likes to pretend Alex is perfect, it embraces her being flawed!
And the best part is we see WHY she does bad things. She's selfish because she's a teenager, all teenagers are kind of like that. She's clearly never been super popular, having a rivalry with Gigi who is that most popular girl and school, and so I think that drove her to keep people at a distance, which causes her to be manipulative. She abuses her magic because she's the classic middle child, acting out and seeking attention because she feels undervalued, and because her spirit as an artist makes her naturally rebellious and prone to questioning authority, especially that which she finds ridiculous like the rules of the wizarding world.
the horror movie episode with the hair dryer person gave me literal debilitating paranoia as a child that i probably needed therapy for and never got, made me have anxiety attacks, and permanently affected the way i look at hallways. i had totally forgotten about it until just now and you have no idea how it feels knowing i was scared of the stupidest thing in the fucking world
i feel ya, that episode scared the shit out of me as a kid, i never forgot about it. that hair dryer guy still gives me the chills tbh, the mask is terrifying.
This is both kind of funny and also SUPER comforting. I was a kid who was scared of a LOT of very stupid things (the sun, beards, one very specific drawing from a book I saw at a book fair once, the Little Caesar’s mascot, etc.) and I’m so relieved that I’m not the only one who was like that.
If it helps, I was terrified of the good luck Charlie episode where they shave pjs hair in his sleep to the point I would cry if I saw it being rerun
If it's any consolation: I had nightmares for what felt like YEARS as a child because I was scared of Doc from Back to the Future. I couldn't walk comfortably through a dark hallway or room for a very long time without being paranoid that this man was hiding there.
I was diagnosed with autism earlier this year and yeah that checks out 🧍♀️
dude calm down
Technically the wizarding gene would not be recessive, as their mom does not have any wizards on her side of the family that could pass on that recessive allele. Most likely the gene is dominant with some sort of epigenetic trigger to shut off said gene when one loses the wizard family battle. Cannot believe I am analyzing the genetics of a disney channel sitcom, but here we are.
As a kid, I was SURE that the reason that there was a wizard family competition was to keep the number of wizards down to keep from magic being exposed. And I was positive that the way that the series was going to pan out was that magic would be exposed to the world before the Russo siblings had their competition, which would mean they'd all get to keep their powers.
I also always figured that Jerry's kids having powers had something to do with him technically winning the competition. Like, if the other siblings had kids with humans (which Kelbo couldn't do legally anyway), their kids would just be human. Still doesn't make much sense, but that was my theory as a kid and it's still the best I've got.
I haven’t watched through all of the video yet so I don’t know what all is being theorized here, but I figured it was about making sure magic doesn’t get into the hands of the wrong people. It’s a testament to who’s worthy sort of thing. I don’t know.
i always felt like all people who were born wizards have wizard kids, but only one of each sibling set gets to keep powers as an adult. so the number of wizards keeps increasing over time, but not as fast as the general population. like if uncle kelbo and aunt meg had had kids the number of wizards would go from 0-2 (their parents), to 1 (their generation) to a maximum of 3 (their kids). which is population growth, but not as fast as the general population of 0-2 (their parents) 3 (their generation), all of the kids they could collectively have
The Justin/Juliet and Alex/Mason sagas were so dramatic to middle school me 😭 I was absolutely flabbergasted when Mason declared his love for Juliet 💀
Also I’m reminded how I always preferred Bridgit Mendler as Juliet over Teddy
Alex Mason!?
Romance girl
@@ArtipupTHE NUMBERS, MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN???
@@hesnotquitedead WHAT NUMBERS?
this 100 percent. Very lovely actress
To this day, I take every single opportunity I have to remind people that Shakira is secretly Uncle Kelbo. It's my favorite little bit of the show.
Hahahaha me too
The funny part is. This is just a fact in every single live action Disney show(post that’s so raven monarchs I think). They are all connected, so wizards having shakaira be uncle kelbo makes it a fact in every other show.
thank you for reminding me of this hazy memory
@@AAli220 Hannah Montana propably went to events and shows with Uncle Kelbo. How wild is that.
the way the entire cast was very talented but you could tell their chemistry as an ensemble just made their performances work. i rewatched season 1 and i think it does stand the test of time there’s of course cultural references that age it but i actually enjoyed it even as an adult. wizards came on when i was in elementary school i was the target audience for sure. selena gomez was one of the first latina actresses i saw on tv and that to me as a young latina made me a lifelong fan fr 😭
fun fact: much of the target audience probably didn't pick up on this because you have to have watched sitcoms from the 60s, Mr Larritate's name is a reference to Larry Tate from Bewitched and Ms Majorhealey's name is a reference to Major Healey from I Dream Of Jeannie
*Oh, I **_love_** that!*
this just goes on the laundry list of why this show is so good
And Harper Finkle is a reference to Harvey Finkle from Sabrina the Teenaged Witch
That explains why "Laritate" sounded vaguely familiar.
I KNEW Major Healey sounded familiar
The sleepover horror movie episode genuinely scared me as a kid, I felt so paranoid of being chased by a small killer with a small hair dryer
same I watched the episode like once and then never again i've skipped watching it every time since lol
Weirdly enough, that didn't scare me as a kid. I say that's weird because I was scared of the tickle dimension in VeggieTales.
GOD SAME
OMG I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING. I had a recurring movie-like dream as a kid involving Alex, Max, Justin, a witch with black wings, and hair tools. I had to brush her wings with a comb to defeat her and I’m now realizing it was rooted in this episode and the evil angel episode, which both scared me a lot. In fact, in the dream I defeated her on my basement stairs which I always sprinted up in a panic. Man so many of my childhood fears wrapped up into one dream.
That episode is one of my favorites. Looking back at it I loved how they did the common theme of a horror movie where the character is running and falls over nothing, I died when Alex told Justin to Just Stand Up 😂
I remember loving Harper (mostly her outfits) as a child and I wasn’t quite sure why. Watching this I realized that it’s probably because, other than the over the top heterosexuality, she was how a wanted to act and dress but didn’t/couldn’t bc of my parents and being forced to mask my adhd. Now as an adult I’m a sewist, cosplayer, sub-culture fashion enthusiast, and part time fashion/costume designer. So thanks Jennifer Stone for helping inspire me to make and wear over the top outfits!
KIDS WHO LIKED HARPER RISE UP
Wow, that’s amazing! Good for you, sounds like a dream come true
heteorsexuality ?
“Over-the-top heterosexuality”= me, aged 11-14.
What does exactly "over the top heterosexuality" even mean?
It's crazy how the wizard family pretty much has a personality of an average family but with parents having different perspective on how they treat their kids, jerry wants them to learn spells and act responsible but Theresa wants them to be normal it's brilliant
After seeing defunctland's documentary on the Disney channel theme I love that you used various bumpers throughout the video. It's so great.
it literally put a smile on my face that i knew who wrote the 4 note mnemonic every time a bumper showed up
I love how this niche subject is getting so much attention now, and we are all following it across youtube lol
I wish they kept Amanada Tepe through the whole series. I always thought she was the same person. Since she was in the Wizard World in one episode, I thought she was a wizard, explaining why she had multiple jobs. It'd be interesting if she was meant to be a magical overseer watching the kids as they use their magic publicly. Also, to explain why they don't recognize is because she has a spell on her call the "one of those face" spell making her unrecognizable.
Based headcanon, I love this character
THIS SHOULD’VE HAPPENED OMG
My head cannon as a kid was that they were siblings, and that they were part of a wizard family.
@@MrRaymangouw you mean like in Pokémon with Nurse Joy?
this is how im gonna choose to think of this character now lmao
Okay, here’s my interpretation:
1. Set spells are like training tools since statistically most wizards in the world are kids in training due to family wizard competitions that strip many/most adult wizards of their powers. After they develop their skills, they can do improvised and silent spells, along with some of the big emergency spells that you can know off the top of your head for stressful situations. All the set spells would be certified by a superintendent to make sure they are safe enough for inexperienced teenagers to use. So there are spells with wildly different requirements and degrees of usefulness because they’re meant for different skill levels. (Also, I haven’t watched in 10 years so this could easily be proven wrong but can I assume every pseudo-Latin spell is one of the “official” ones and all the rhyming ones are improvised?)
2. Magic requires two distinct things to work, the “fuel” and the “engine”. So, the “engine” would be your innate ability to wield magic which you inherit genetically and the “fuel” would be the thing from the dragons that’s in the tubes in their wall. You can’t do magic without both. Then, when you lose your family wizard competition, the corrupt wizard government takes your innate ability/“engine” the way Professor Crumbs did to Alex in that one episode.
3. I think everyone who has magic in their bloodline has the wizard gene, regardless of their parents’ magic status. Clearly, wizards having a mortal parent doesn’t even dilute their ability level, so the whole anti-mortal marriage law must be rooted in keeping magic secret. And if full wizards could only marry other full wizards and only have one full wizard child, the magic population would be decreasing by at least 50% every generation. Therefore, I would assume that as far as wizard law goes, ex-wizards are still supposed to marry wizards or other ex-wizards (just not other magical creatures due to the danger and the racism). Then, their kids would be magic but not exposing wizardry to any mortals that didn’t already grow up knowing about magic.
4. The magic government has some sort of meritocracy complex where they believe only the most capable wizards deserve to keep their magic abilities, probably trying to protect the world from the dangerous side of magic and themselves from being exposed. That belief is where the root of their corruption lies (other than all the magic creature racism lol).
Nice list and does anyone in season 3 or 4 use silent spells since they are probably better wizards
"Wizard government corrupt" is actually the best possible explanation for the wizard competition.
That makes sense
Was thinking of writing my own comments on my thoughts on it, but this actually sums it up quite nicely and adds more and is way better written than I would have!
One thing I'd add is that I have read way too many historic romance isekai recently, so it makes me think of like noble lineage, there's only one actual heir to the magic in the end and when there's a scandal (like Jerry's generation not listening to the authorities and refusing to redo a wizard competition) the whole lineage loses its standing. It would also fit with Jerry giving up his inheritance to marry someone non-magical, the equivalent of a noble wanting to marry a "commoner", losing them their title.
Still fits with the whole wizard elitist thing going on, but I thought it was a helpful metaphor to think about it (for me at least)
Just from the clips in the video, I was confused why Keyan said improvised spells never came up again, since I got the sense that all rhyming spells are supposed to be improvised. You can tell someone else the incantation for an improvised spell, but the puesdo Latin spells were probably created through a more intensive process that creates something that's easier for wizards to use- like copying code someone else has made vs downloading a program they made. Despite the use of spells, the show defently seems to have a very soft magic system based on manipulating the fabric of reality with your mind than one with a discrete set of spells.
2:49:59 As someone who recently watched a lot of silent movies for a uni thing(silent movie orchestra), I started dying when David Henrie pulled out a flawless Chaplin run. He really had so many of the mannerisms of the era down pat.
3:19:28 The mention of Cody and Bailey breaking up in Paris brought back such a vivid repressed memory...
not of that episode but of the episode where Cody wrote a play about the break up, casted Bailey as herself, and when she quit he continued the play in her place.
This just opened that same repressed memory
Cody saying “And I’ll shall shake my bom boms for each and every one of them” scared for life. It’s hilarious, but dude embarrassed his ex girlfriend of everyone, not cool
I remember watching the premiere of this show with my sister while she was in the hospital. We were so excited for it and it really gave her a boost. (She's better now but was admitted for a month.) It was kind of traumatizing to go visit her every evening, but Wizards gave us something to look forward to. So the show will always have an extra special place in my heart.
genuinely the best 2000’s disney show ever, such a great and equal balance of comedy, emotion, and moral
Nothing beats That's So Raven for me but man this show is damn good, easily top 5
Nah That's So Raven was better
Wizards was cool and all but definitely that’s so Raven
Dean was a respectful king for telling his friends to not look at Alex when her pants were down 1:37:30
I loved him and his hype squad so much 😭😂
It would've been nice to see Alex & Dean get back together at the end imo
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nah, raven symone owns the spot as the GOAT
it's pretty a shame how NO ONE mentions or talks about Harper, and she's incredibly overlooked in the show, wrongfully so. I wish more people talked about her more often and appreciated her, but NO, everyone wants to talk about Alex, everyone wants to be Alex.
This is Fiona Phillips from *So Weird* erasure.
when i was younger i always assumed that the magical items from the earlier seasons were specifically made for younger wizards, or people who were unable to use complex/powerful magic 🤔 which is why we never saw them the more competent they became
That's exactly what I thought ! Like when that mf said the actual spells said out loud were like, "training wheels".
We're all these lil knick knacks like ... Baby toy equivalents for wizard training? 🧐😭
i so vividly remember an episode where alex wore a skirt as a shirt and i tried to do the same thing for like three months as a kid before i realized it was atrocious. i remember being so sad when the series ended as a kid. i would go to my best friends house every time a new episode premiered because she had cable. it’s so weird that we’re both adults now and i haven’t seen her in two years and she moved hours away. idk watching this makes me miss childhood so much. this show definitely had a grip on me and i believe i lived and grew up during PEAK disney.
!!!! alex had this specific outfit of layered shirts 10yr old me tried so hard to recreate like!! also the little walmart line of wizards clothes they had made me so mad bc it didnt truly match the essence of alex but it was the closest i'd get to emulating her style
i unironically think so much about the skirt as a shirt u haven't lived if u haven't tried that
Siblings born in the same year from separate pregnancies, a.k.a., Irish twins! If Justin was born in like January their mom would have like 2 months to get pregnant in time to birth Alex in December of the same year, assuming she wasn't born pre-mature.
Gigi not being a main characters took me by surprise I watched like every episode as a kid and remembered her being soo important for sum reason
I had the biggest crush on her when I was like 10 😭
@@tvpivm tbh I thought she was a Lil creepy as a kid I had a crush on the vampire chick that Justin dates XD
I cannot describe the raw excitement I felt seeing that this was your next 4 hour video essay project. I've been hoping you would make a retrospective on Wizards for so long and it's finally here!!
About Alex and Hannah never sharing scenes during the crossover: this was the period of time where Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus *HATED* each other. It was a full-blown feud between the two. It's not surprising to think that, despite Disney corporate pushing for a crossover for their most popular shows, the two main stars of two of the shows refused to be in the other's show, and refused to share any scenes during the show that neither of them were in the main cast for.
i heard that their beef was actually a stunt of sorts?
@@willywillybumbum9851 nah it was all real but they’ve moved past it
they didn't hate each other.. they just kind of ignored each other because they both liked nick jonas but really the only "bad" thing Selena did was date the dude after miley which would probably be a reason for teenage girls to have beef (im just guessing). she never did anything to shade Miley while miley definitely did not like her for that reason (maybe also Selena getting bigger idk it's just something her personality during that time that was very weird) until she grew up and realized it was all because of a guy. If anything I would say it was because of their busy schedules but Selena loved Disney it was just a weird time with all the negative energy miley was sending her way
Wait their feud was real life? I thought it was just a site role on Mileys show.
@@oida10000 Nope. They both wanted Nick Jonas.
My crush on Alex was insane back then. I wanted to be her and be with her. It's so weird how we build such strong connections with fictional characters. Even now watching this retrospective I have fond lingering memories and feelings of a crush long since passed lol. This show was great
OHH BIG MOOD every time she's on screen im like "omg i wanted to be her so bad" and "that's my wife 🥺" in my mind alex can do no wrong lol
It finally dawned on me months ago that Suite Life, Wizards, Raven, Hannah all share a universe and that means that all the weird experiences that the normal characters had that they couldn't explain were literally magic. I find it so cool looking back on Suite Life episodes especially like "The Ghost of 613", or the one where they went to the Parallel universe and thought it was just a dream (the end when Carrie found the coin from that universe though always struck me as strange and now I know why), the International Dateline, Bailey being possessed by the warrior Princess, probably even the episode where they wished for superpowers.
Can you imagine if the 2nd crossover went differently, where the twins are finally given an explanation where they officially find out about magic and they get to remember in the end? If some strange and evil threat struck the S.S. Tipton, so Zack and Cody team up with the Russos' and become honorary (temporary) monster hunters like Justin in season 3, that or they temporarily get their superpowers back?! Cody and Justin would have worked so well together being brainiacs, while Alex, Max, and Zack would have been SO chaotic (Max and Zack would have been best friends, no question about it).
But now my writer brain has so many questions. Raven gets her powers from her mother''s side of the family, the Halloween episode showed that her grandmother just owned a spellbook but it was never explained why. Was Raven part wizard? Was she just a psychic? It was so cool whenever the show expanded on the lore like when she had the psychic cold that gave her mind reading powers, or when she met those other psychic kids, or when Eddie randomly got powers that one time. It makes me really, really wish that the 2nd crossover went differently so that she could have met the Russos' and learned about the existence of actual magic, maybe get to go to the Wizard World and possibly learn more about her heritage. (I have this headcanon that Raven would have been a big deal to the Wiz World because she's a psychic and she would have loved the attention, you already know!)
I'm pretty sure That's so Raven was over by the time this crossover came out but man, just imagine the possibilities. The Hannah Montana portions of both crossovers were very self contained and were never as interesting so substituting Raven in instead just appeals more to me. At the very least, Hannah, Raven, and the Russos' could have bonded over mutual understanding over leading double lives but other than that🤷♀I've got no idea what she could have really added to the story. If anyone has any ideas, let me know, I'd love to hear them.
If you go down the rabbit hole of sit com crossovers, you begin to realize how many shows exist in the same universe. The best part is that you realize that there are multiple magical secret societies all coexisting and they have no idea about each other.
Omg with raven they could’ve done hoodoo inspired magic with her too 😭
@@ExatedWarrior Agreed. I know that they kept doing crossovers like with Jessie, Austin and Ally, and Good Luck Charlie amongst others so it's probably save to say that every show is connected (the DCU if you will). Maybe a crossover between Austin and Ally and Hannah Montana would have better since the characters take different approachs to stardom. Billy Ray and Ally could write a song together, Miley could talk to Austin on his thoughts on fame and how he deals with it, maybe Austin could try altering his appearance to see how people would treat him if he were normal?
Out of all the secret societies I'd say the Wiz World is the most developed and if WoWP wanted to they could have really played around with all the characters of the other shows. I wonder how Zack and Cody would have reacted to finding out about the Wiz World and if their adventures had fallen under the radar or something since magic is supposed to be kept a secret from mortals. Why didn't any authority figure ever attempt to erase their memories? Why did they get to indirectly know magic exists? Did they have a special destiny or something? It's just so interesting the more I think about it.
This sounds really fascinating!! I love little analysis stuff like this!
You should totally write this fanfic crossover you envisioned! I'd read it!
@@scarletgiry3958 I'd like to add, one of Disneys last crossover specials theyve done was this big Halloween crossover between most of the shows they were airing at the time, so most of 2010s era shows are connected in the same universe. I cant remember if Ravens Home did any crossovers but if there was, that would connect 2010s era shows with 2000s era shows.
Fun fact: For those who know about Wizard101, Selena actually did an ad for the game promoting her album Round and Round at the time!
And Nick Jonas is still there to this day
Yeah, I missed the Crab Alley event, sadly. At least I think it was there anyway? Nick is still there in Grizzleheim, but unlike Selena who was just there to promote her album (and I assume the quest could be removed without consequence), Nick actually contributed to the world of W101 by making the score for the Wintertusk area, which is the second half of the Grizzleheim arc. I assume that he's still there because they want to acknowledge the work he did even over a decade later.
I remember being so excited for her in-game event lmfaooo but I don't think I ever passed the final battle
I was way too obsessed with her back when that event was happening. I ended up doing it on 6 separate wizards to get multiples of the quest reward (a Selena Gomez statue and a wall painting).
@@BlueSparxLPs Yeah, someone did record the event on UA-cam and I guess it's a mildly interesting event? It would've been better if it was Alex Russo the character (or at least a referential character meant to invoke her) rather than Selena Gomez herself. It does give us lore about Crab Alley's existence: It was a piece of Triton Avenue that broke off and fell into the river there and got overtaken by Crabs. I don't recall if they ever brought up this lore again, let alone the potion of waterbreathing needed?
I remember ALL of those "extra" scenes from the first vampire episode when the episode aired on Disney Channel, but I didn't know that they had cut those scenes in the Disney Plus version. I remember loving all of the Bridget Mendler vampire scenes because they helped to flesh out her character and the episode more, so it's sad they cut them out on their main streaming site :/
Ive also seen the full cut of the wizards vs vampires stuff when it priginally aired. Had no clue that its seen as an extended cut now.
I am so glad someone else said this because I definitely remember seeing the "extended" versions and was really confused by him calling them that.
I'm upset cuz it had a joke that always pops into my head. Where Alucard suspiciously says "You're going to do something your mother wouldn't approve of, like getting a frozen hot chocolate." And then excitedly says "I'm coming with you!"
I noticed that Disney plus has done this with Hannah Montana too!! I was rewatching a couple of episodes and there’s lines and multiple scenes missing. It’s upsetting too cuz a lot of them made the show more fun and I feel like they’ve removed stuff that added more to the characters😭. They got rid of a lot of fun jokes and comedic lines🤧.
Similar thing happened with Phineas and Feb. The Christmas special was a 33 minute episode but Disney+ initially uploaded the abridged 22 minute version. Thankfully Dan Povenmire still works at Disney so he could demand they upload the non abridged version, which they did.
For the longest time, I genuinely thought Max had won/was going to win the family wizard competition as a reversal of expectations. Obviously it was gonna be Alex but I don’t know why I thought this, I think I had a very lucid dream lmao
I'm like 90% sure that they had alternate movies/episodes with the other siblings as the winner
I think it was bc in season 4 Max was winning the Wizard Competition for a while until Alx and Justin got back in the Competition
OMG SAME
I am VERY curious how season 1 was produced, because it seemingly escaped the writers strike (which started a few weeks after the premiere) entirely. It’s one of the normal lengths of Disney Channel seasons 14:03
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Isn’t it pretty standard for the entire season of a show to be shot before the premiere or was the shooting schedule different? Maybe that would explain why it didn’t get affected by the strike, the writing would have been finished before the strike began.
@@AJ-pu9jq That's likely exactly what happened. It's very normal for an entire season to wrap filming months in advance of airing, with the time in between being used for editing and other post-production work.
UPDATE: I got a reply from Todd J Greenwald some weeks ago. It turns out that while the first season was unscathed, it did make reconvening for season 2 take longer, since you can’t do table reads or shoot without a script. Long enough to be measured by Jake’s significant puberty.
1:15:50 unrelated but david henrie had amazing physical comedy. him trying to prank alex by putting a cup of water on her head but it spilling on him after he falls was so funny to me as a child. i also thought the fashion guy who hires alex in that episode was brendon urie.
3:04:44 yes
So, I think the way the gene pool for wizards works is that Jerry keeps the wizard genes, but Kelob gets the powers. Or to put it in easier terms. Jerry owns the car, but gave Kelbo the keys.
so technically according to your theory if Kelbo had kids, they would be non-magical?
@@spntageous5249 I think Kelbo has his own car with a key, its just that he also has Jerry's key
@@spntageous5249I guess the opposite would work better? With Jerry still having keys but he gave the car away
@@spntageous5249 That is what I think, yes. I don't think Kelbo has the genetics to pass on wizard powers any more.
Depending on when they emerged, I also figured it had something to do with neither Kelbo nor Meg having kids. Jerry's kids were the only ones in their family to pass magic onto so they might have allowed or done something after they were born to give them magic or awaken repressed magic.
I really love how you put in the commercials for some episodes! Brought back so many memories, crazy to think I was like 6-8 when I last heard/saw any of them. That’s why I love watching early 2000’s movies on CD, you get to see a bunch of other movie ads from that time & it feels like you were just sucked back in time
2:47:54 *”Next time you meet a girl, Justin, do not bring her home”*
This has got to be the single most goated advice in a Disney sitcom.
The future Harper episode is honestly great.
Like series do callbacks all the time, it's not often you see a show reference what they plan to do in the future
They cop out and don't follow a lot of it though :(((
The funny thing about the "Justin dates a Werewolf" episode is that they have to hastily explain away why his girlfriend was so weird when Mason comes around
"But I thought if you kiss a werewolf you turn into a werewolf..."
"That's only with mutts, I'm a purebred."
"Did you hear that everybody my boyfriend's a purebred!"
SEARED INTO MY BRAIN
the charlie chaplin sequence + justin/london crossover plotline made me realize how good david henry would be in a bringing up baby remake sorta thing. he's such a gifted comedic actor
Very well predicted, cause that's exactly what Justin's gonna be in the upcoming reboot 😂
One thing I adore about the Disney crossovers is that it basically means that Wizards of Waverly Place, Suite Life, Hannah Montana, and even Jessie and Austin & Ally all basically exist and take place in the same universe
And that's so Raven!! You separately have psychics and wizards in the same universe.
And ultimate Spider-Man! Jessie did a Halloween crossover
And don´t forget Good Luck, Charlie!
@@lashka-chan148
And Shake It Up
Jessie and KC Undercover had a Halloween crossover episode, so they exist canonically in the same universe too!
The wizards movie made me cry unironically, and I can’t believe we still haven’t met mason yet. I need part 2 expeditiously!!!
Misty May-Treanor is a beach volleyball athlete who won her second Olympic gold medal a few months before that episode aired. Dwayne Johnson at that point had only done a few movies, mostly in minor roles, and was better known to most as a retired pro wrestler. I think the "acting is my first and only career" line and really that entire conversation is meant to be a direct lampshade of this lol but unfortunately for the long term viability of the episode, Johnson actually became pretty well known for acting too.
I think, now, the joke accidentally turned into a relatively unknown athlete being super hyped up by everyone while a well known superstar is welcomed with lukewarm acknowledgement. It's funny for another reason lol
What’s notable is that about 2 years earlier he appeared in the Disney movie “The Game Plan” and at the same time the movie came out they had him appear as a guest starred on Hannah Montana and Cory in the House as a synergistic promotion (compounded by the fact that his co-Star in The Game Plan, Maddison Petis was also a regular on Cory in the House).
The Rock was not new to movie/TV when the episode aired, the joke was more so that he was actually in quite a bit of Disney content, so the audience were expected to be aware of him. He did a lot of guest appearances on multiple Disney shows and was leading and supporting roles for multiple Disney movies, on top of being in mainstream media.
Misty May-Treanor was their attempt to hype up a role model for kids that was an accomplished athlete, it just didn’t stick the way they intended, because Disney is always creating fake in-universe celebrities for their characters to hype over so kids thought she was a fictional celebrity.