Hannah Montana already had an episode ‘censored’; Check which one!

Who accesses the ‘Hannah Montana’ catalog on the Disney+ streaming platform can get confusing when faced with the episode ‘Nervosa (Oliver Is Fine)’ classified as the last episode of the second season of the hit Disney Channel series.

It is noteworthy that, unlike the episodes of the same season, the character played by Miley Cyrus appears with a short blonde wig, a look that would only be revealed in ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’ and in the third season of the series. In the end, what caused this confusion?

First of all, it is necessary to rescue a fact that many are unaware of: the re-recorded episode of the series that introduced Miley Cyrus to the music world. In a 2019 report, Seventeen magazine recalled that episode 24 of the second season of Hannah Montana upset the parents of the young people who followed the series. With the name ‘No Sugar, Sugar’ (‘No sugar, sugar’, in free translation) portrays the moment when the character Oliver, played by Mitchel Musso is diagnosed with diabetes.

the episode

During the episode, Miley and Lilly (Emily Osment) do everything to prevent their colleague from consuming sugar at a birthday party, however, he cannot control himself. Thus, the way the episode portrays the character’s diagnosis displeased parents of children with diabetes.

A 2008 Wall article reported that the episode portrayed the disease in a ‘silly’ and even inaccurate way. Oliver, who has even been nicknamed the ‘sugar boy’, ends up being barred from eating anything that has sugar in it at all costs. Under pressure, at one point he even ends up climbing into a trash can to retrieve a wasted chocolate bar.

Furthermore, it was also revealed that parents from the Children With Diabetes group checked out an on-demand preview. [do episódio em questão] and they didn’t approve of the way diabetes is treated on the show.

Also in 2008, the Diabetes Forecast reported that Disney revised the episode in the face of complaints. “Disney is currently reviewing ‘No Sugar, Sugar’ in light of the complaints, in particular re-evaluating scenes such as the birthday party, which may or may not remain.”

Correction

Ultimately, Disney ended up revamping the episode. Those who watch ‘Nervosa (Oliver Está Bem)’ will find scenes recorded during the second season in the opening minutes and the scenes reformulated at the end, that is, the moment of the birthday party.

Also, at the end, the characters of Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment and Mitchel Musso present important facts about the diagnosis. One of them even corrects the error in the initial episode, which implied that eating too much sweets only results in diabetes.