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If You Have A Low Threshold For Secondhand Embarrassment, You Probably Hate These 31 Awkward Scenes We Let Disney Channel Get Away With
Debby Ryan's face in <i>Radio Rebel</i> is just the start.

Look, I love Disney Channel. It was basically my entire childhood. But looking back…there were a few moments that I thought were cool that are actually reallyyyyyy cringey.

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Like…so bad that I can’t even watch them. But in case you’d like to suffer through, here are 31 super awkward Disney Channel moments that I just really can’t believe we let them get away with.

I also included some noteworthy comments from BuzzFeed readers themselves!

1. Lizzie’s “rhythmic gymnastics” scene on Lizzie McGuire:

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“Lizzie doing ‘rhythmic gymnastics’ with the ribbon to the score of Chariots of Fire and everybody in awe like she was Kerri Strug.”

—AndreBa

The music, the intensity of this scene, the guy trying to sabotage Lizzie’s performance, Lizzie spinning around with a ribbon….iconic, yet very cringey.

Watch the scene here:



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“We recently rewatched Phil of the Future (my husband’s favorite ’00s show, lol), and there are a lot of cringe moments. I think the worst was the last episode when Keely and Phil decide to date. I almost had to turn it off.”

—s4e3512291

There’s no clip for this, but if you want to watch it, it’s the beginning of the series finale!

4. When Lizzie called the fireworks beautiful and Paolo replied, “Yes, you are” in The Lizzie McGuire Movie:

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Just so bad.

5. Just *this* iconic face from Radio Rebel:

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WHY DID THE DIRECTOR NOT SAY ANYTHING?!? Also…her hair…

Watch the scene here:


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Suggested by 19biancahercules

Watch the scene here:


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“My niece was watching a Disney movie called Adventures in Babysitting. They have a ‘rap battle’ scene. Oh, it is soooo cringe. Two little teen girls rap with their crew of kids. Oh, and I remember the chorus — yep, chorus — was like, ‘She ain’t no quitter, she’s the babysitter.’ Oh, so so bad! Why Disney, why!!!???”

—u/mce7011

Watch the scene here:


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“‘Bet On It’ will never not be entertaining. And the incredibly fake reflection makes it all the more better.”

—emmelineanderson

Watch the full scene here:





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First, Oliver gets his fingers stuck in it, then they rip it off, and it hits Hannah….ugh. Just bad.

I can’t find the scene online, but it happens during Season 2, Episode 14, “Everybody Was Best Friend Fighting”!

14. Everything about Derek and Casey in Life with Derek, but ESPECIALLY this scene:

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I cannot even watch this scene because I start rooting for them to kiss (which is 100% the way you’re supposed to feel), and then I’m like, HOLD UP. THEY’RE STEP-SIBLINGS.

Watch the clip here at 7:41:


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“The writing and chemistry for Alex and Justin was more than brother and sister. In one episode where everyone but Alex forgets Justin, their mother says they’d be great dating each other, much to their horror. That one was actually written, not just two actors who work very well together.”

—jbmasta

16. Oh, and by the way, that episode also includes Justin getting naked in the living room (after he turns invisible):

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Literally just standing naked next to his sister.

17. As well as his dad sitting on him, Justin putting a pillow over his crotch, and his mother making a joke about the pillow drawing her eye to his…you know what:

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All good family fun!

Again, I don’t have a clip, but it’s Season 1, Episode 12, “Justin’s Little Sister”!

18. When the girls rescued Toto by singing to him at the end of The Cheetah Girls:

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Toto couldn’t hear the girls shouting, but when they start singing quietly, the firefighter’s all like, “OMG, IT’S WORKING”?!? I just can’t deal with the cheesiness. At the time, I thought this was realistic and sweet.

You can watch a (low-quality, sorry!) version of the scene here:


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Was she, though? Was she?

Watch the scene here:


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Demi, I love you, but this writing wasn’t doing you any favors.

There’s no video, but it happens soon after Mitchie meets Tess!

21. Last Camp Rock one…this weird dance/march scene from Camp Rock 2:

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You may have seen this on TikTok, where people hilariously edit it into other scenes.

Watch the scene here:


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This was so weirdly possessive to me?? And she was so flattered?? Also, that necklace was ugly as hell.

Watch the scene here:


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Look, I appreciate that Lizzie McGuire talks about real preteen issues, but I still cringe at “I WANT A BRA! WE WANT A BRA!”

Watch the scene here:


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I remember freaking out over Aaron Carter kissing Lizzie in Lizzie McGuire when I was younger, but looking back…it is one of the most awkward things I’ve ever seen. The look he gives her before! The fact that they do not even seem to kiss, and then he SHUTS THE DOOR IN HER FACE!!!

Wacth the scene here (starts at 1:55):


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Oh man, this scene. Luke being attracted to Jessie was already cringe; then you add on the fact that it’s actually Zuri here and he’s attracted to her personality, and THEN you add on the fact that Debby Ryan as Jessie is imitating a Black character in a pretty caricatural voice…this scene is too cringe.

I can’t find the clip, but this is from Season 2, Episode 13, “To Be Me, or Not to Be Me.”

26. Also on Jessie, when Luke wouldn’t stop flirting with Jessie and at one point revealed he’d set up a camera in her room:

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:/

Again, I can’t find the clip, but it’s during Season 4, Episode 1, “But Africa Is So… Fari!”

27. AND this super weird joke from Jessie:

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Why were there so many suggestive jokes on Jessie???

This one happens in Season 4, Episode 19, “The Fear in Our Stars.”

28. When Zack and Cody formed a physical link in The Suite Life Movie (so they could feel everything the other felt), and started hitting themselves to hurt the other one:

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29. Also, when they turned into weird, glowing versions of themselves and fought for twin superiority:

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This movie is a fever dream.

30. And when Cody ran his fingers down a machine in the lab and affectionately (and kinda sexually???) said, “Shh, baby, don’t speak”:

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My friend and I still quote this to each other.

I can’t find clips for these, but you can see a few of them in the trailer for this truly bonkers film:



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What Disney Channel moments always make YOU cringe? Let us know in the comments below!

Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.

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