"No Sugar, Sugar" was supposed to be the the 30th and final episode of season two of Hannah Montana. The title is a reference to the song by The Archies called "Sugar, Sugar."
Due to inaccurate depiction of diabetes, the episode was later reshot and renamed to "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)," now counting as the 23rd episode of the third season.
Plot[]
Miley and Lilly mistakenly believe that Oliver has a crush on the school nurse when they see him giving her candy. When they instead we learn that Oliver's secretly dealing with the news of being a diabetic, the friends work overtime to keep him away from all things sweet. Meanwhile Robby Ray schemes to keep Jackson's latest girlfriend, Allison (who has been successfully tutoring him, thus improving his grades) from wanting to break up with him.
To cheer Oliver up, Hannah and Lola take Mike Standley III to meet Traci Van Horn for the first time at her Sweet 16 celebration. To their shock, the party has a candy theme (making it a literal "sweet" 16), and sugary confections are everywhere. In attempting to keep Mike from temptation, Hannah and Lola cause chocolatey chaos, disrupting the gathering, and ultimately making messy birthday girl, Traci, eschew desserts forever. When confronted by Mike over their behavior, Hannah and Lola confess they know about his condition.
The three can talk things out: Oliver admits to the girls that while he certainly appreciates them looking out for him and their concern about his condition, he told us that he can still have sugar, he just has to be a lot more careful about what he eats and has to be sure to regularly check his insulin and blood sugar levels.
Airdate[]
No Sugar, Sugar was supposed to air on November 2, 2008 and ended up serving as the finale of season 2, but the episode was pulled due to complaints from parents that belonged to the non-profit "Children with Diabetes" organization after watching a sneak peak of the episode on Disney Channel On-Demand.[1]. Parents of the organization saw the episode in being in poor taste and being completely misinformed of its main topic. It did aired on Disney Channel networks internationally, however, except for the United States. The episode was then "re-evaluated" and a modified version aired on September 20, 2009 in the United States.
According to Mitchel Musso, the episode was edited, some scenes re-shot, and the episode title was changed to Uptight (Oliver's Alright).
Even though the original take was pulled, the original episode aired during a re-run block of the show on the American Disney Channel once, on December 12, 2016 at 6pm EST, most likely as a programming error[2].
Trivia[]
- Miley stated that a girl named Pamela was a survivor of the "Oken Natural Gas Disaster of 2006." This reveals that Oliver once had let one rip, hence the 'Natural Gas'.
- Lola told Tracy that no one believes she is 16 years old.
- If the episode did air on November 2, 2008, there could have been a continuity error. Miley and Lilly suspected that Oliver had a crush on the school nurse, but he began dating Joannie two episodes earlier.
- Due to the episode's re-filming, there are a lot of changes:
- In No Sugar, Sugar, when talking about his diabetic issues, Oliver says that he wants to eat sugar really badly, but cannot have it. However, in Uptight (Oliver's Alright), he corrects them and says that he has Type 1 Diabetes, which describes he can have sugar as long as he checks his diet and blood sugar.
- In No Sugar, Sugar, Jackson's hair is exactly how it was shown in Season 2, but at the end of Uptight (Oliver's Alright), his hair is short as shown in Season 3.
- Miley, Lilly and Oliver look older at Tracy's birthday party in Uptight (Oliver's Alright) than in No Sugar, Sugar.
- Tracy's complaining about "Hannah" and "Lola"'s craving for sugar at the party is different from both versions: No Sugar, Sugar - She got chocolate poured on her and ran off crying "I'm so done with sweet 16s!". Uptight (Oliver's Alright) - She complained to the leaving guests that she had enough food to feed two whales.
- In No Sugar, Sugar, "Lola" visibly gets a stomach distension after eating too much at Tracy's birthday party. In Uptight (Oliver's Alright), both "Lola" and "Hannah" wound up bloating themselves up.
- At the end, in No Sugar, Sugar, Oliver raps about growing to accept his diabetes. In Uptight (Oliver's Alright), Miley, Lilly and Oliver state what they learned about diabetes, then Jackson barges in boasting about his future to which Miley replies that she learned that her brother is "really annoying. Oh, wait, I already knew that."
- A mother complained in a on-demand version of No Sugar, Sugar so it had to be re-filmed and edited.
- While all four seasons of Hannah Montana are currently available to watch on the streaming service Disney+ (as of November 2019), due to of the status of this episode and likely due to the episode being initially pulled off, the original take of the episode is unavailable to watch on any American digital streaming platforms. Instead, the modified episode[3], Uptight (Oliver's Alright), is replaced as the season 2 finale.
- Regardless of the episode status of No Sugar, Sugar in the United States, the original version has sometimes been shown in some international Disney Channel networks after 2009, such as Latin America. The reasoning as to why it's airing after the episode was pulled and replaced with Uptight (Oliver's Alright) remains unknown, but is most likely a regional mastering error as the modified episode does air internationally.
- The original episode was dubbed into Latin American and European Spanish, Brazilian and European Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Czech, Romanian and Polish. Other countries only recieved the edited version.
- "No Sugar, Sugar" was pulled from Disney Channel in France but aired on Vrak TV in Quebec, while the Polish and Romanian dubs aired on national channels TVP 1 and TVR 1 respectively but not on Disney Dhannel.
- In Latin America, "No Sugar, Sugar" still airs on television, but "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)" is on Disney+. But the only scenes that change are Tracy’s party. What changes is Hannah’s hair, in this version is short and the pink glove she has on, Lola’s hair, and Jackson’s hair.
- The original episode was dubbed into Latin American and European Spanish, Brazilian and European Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Czech, Romanian and Polish. Other countries only recieved the edited version.
- The events of "You Are So Su-Able To Me" were briefly mentioned by Miley.
Quotes[]
- Miley: It says here that Oliver's body just doesn't process sugar the way it's supposed to. But if he takes his insulin and doesn't eat to many sweets, he can lead a normal life. (she takes out an ice cream sundae from her knee and digs into it) I don't know why he is so afraid to tell us. (through a mouthful) I could totally help him stay away from sugar.
- Robbie: I agree. You are quite the little robot.
- Miley: That's not the point. I mean, he's gotta' tell us eventually. What's he waiting for?
- Robbie: I can't imagine. It's not like you didn't tell him you were Hannah Montana right off the back. I mean, you didn't keep him waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting ...
- Miley: I got the point Captain Subtle!