Just a Stevens

Television series
German title	Just a Stevens
Original title	Even Stevens
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2000-2003
Production company	Brookwell McNamara Entertainment, Fireworks Entertainment, Egmont Imagination , Telescreen
length	22 minutes
Episodes	65 in 3 seasons
genre	Sitcom
idea	Matt Dearborn
music	John Coda
First broadcast	June 17, 2000 on Disney Channel
German-language first broadcast	December 12, 2001 on KI.KA
occupation
synchronization

Just a Stevens (original title Even Stevens ) is an American sitcom that was produced by Disney Channel from 2000 to 2003 . It comprises 65 episodes in three seasons. In Germany , the first season of the series was broadcast on the children's channel, the other two seasons have not yet been published in Germany. However, the television film Die Stevens strike back (original title The Even Stevens Movie ), the conclusion of the series, was seen in 2004 on the German branch of Disney Channel.

A Stevens is considered to be the breakthrough for Shia LaBeouf , who embodies the main role and became known to a wider audience through the series (in the USA).

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Louis Stevens lives in a suburb of Sacramento with his parents and siblings Donald and Ren . Louis is considered a black sheep because, unlike Donald and Ren, he is not particularly successful at school and often gets himself and others into trouble. In addition to the everyday school life of the two younger children, the series mainly focuses on the family's private life, which is characterized by disputes between Louis and his sister.

Characters

main characters

Louis Anthony Stevens

Louis is the youngest child in the family. He is immature for his age, rude, lazy , loud, selfish , insidious and likes to play pranks on his fellow human beings together with his best friend Alan Twitty , which is why he is often sent to detention . His behavior doesn't change much over the course of the series, although he gets older. His parents prefer his siblings because of their successes, but despite his nature they still love him and defend their son if he has done something again. Louis is usually not very attractive to the opposite sex, as he has a tendency to curse and pick his nose . Even so, he and his best friend Tawny become a couple by the end of the series. In the twelfth episode of the second season it is mentioned that his birthday is on June 27th.

Ren Stevens

Ren is the middle child and is in eighth grade. She is extremely well-bred, intelligent and perfectionist , qualities that stand in stark contrast to her brother Louis. Ren is the best in class, obsessed with good academic performance and represented in many electives, so she stands up as a candidate for every election, for example for class representative , she is also the presenter of the school's own news program , writes for the school newspaper and the yearbook and was a few Member of the cheerleading team for weeks . She is highly valued by the principal, Wexley, for her grades and dedication, for which she acts as a kind of assistant. Since Ren always tries to thwart Louis' plans, the two of them often conflict.

Donald "Donnie" Stevens

Donnie is the oldest child in the family. He is very athletic and careful about his looks. Because of his attractiveness and his athletic talent, he is a swarm of girls and has a great popularity at school, which continues even after graduation. Donnie is not particularly intelligent and does not get good grades except for sports.

Steven "Steve" Stevens

The family man Steve is a little weird, works as a lawyer and is quite successful in his profession. During his studies at Michigan State University , he played under the nickname "Stiffie" college football , he was also active there as a wrestler .

Eileen Stevens

Eileen, who comes from a Jewish family, is strict with her children, but is always understanding and helpful when they have a problem. She is a senator and started a campaign for the House of Representatives in 2002 , but this narrowly failed.

Minor characters

Alan Twitty

Alan is Louis' best friend. Alan has a similar personality to his friend, but unlike Louis, he never overdoes it when they prank together and therefore usually has to help his friend out of a tight spot. He is called Twitty by his friends. He plays baseball , basketball and guitar and is very popular with the girls.

Tawny Dean

Tawny is Louis' best friend, and at the end of the series she becomes his first boyfriend. At first Tawny is very introverted , has no friends and is considered an outsider , but this changes when she meets Louis. Tawny usually wears very dark clothes that are similar to the Gothic style, which sets them apart from their classmates, but Tawny does not care.

Thomas "Tom" Gribalski

Tom is another friend of Louis and a nerd . Whenever Louis hatches a new plan, Tom doesn't want to know about it and tries to dissuade Louis from his plan. Therefore, he usually does not participate in Louis and Alan's pranks and eventually becomes one of their victims. When he speaks, he often uses scientific and philosophical terms. He is intelligent and is applying for a place in a performing arts school on season three but is not accepted.

Ruby Mendel

Ruby is Ren's best friend and loves spreading rumors about alleged lovers at school. In one episode it turns out that she is very enthusiastic about the boy group BBMak , whose members embody themselves in the episode. Ruby seems to come from New York as she speaks with a heavy Brooklyn accent in the Original Version.

Monique Taylor

Monique is another friend of Ren and a cheerleader. She takes her hobbies extremely seriously and speaks in the original English language with a typical southern accent.

Nelson Minkler

Nelson is a friend of Ruby's and suffers from a variety of allergies . That is why he is overly cautious when he is outside. Although he spends a lot of time with Ren and Donnie, he only spoke to Louis once. He is also fluent in French .

Bernard "Beans" Aranguren

Beans is a Stevens neighbor who comes to them uninvited, acts like he is at home and refuses to leave. A running gag is his predilection for bacon , which goes so far that he visits a bacon fast food restaurant in one episode. During the course of the series, he helps Louis and Twitty with their pranks, but mostly betrays them in the process.

Lawrence Anthony "Larry" Beale

Larry is a classmate of Ren and her greatest rival. Although he is also popular and charismatic , he shows his unpleasant and know-it-all side towards Ren . Larry is constantly trying to destroy Ren's reputation, but it always goes wrong. Sometimes he chooses Louis as a victim and is actually just jealous of Ren, but would never admit it. In the film, he also seems jealous when he watches a kiss between Ren and an actor.

Coach Terry Tugnut

Terry is the sports teacher of Louis, Donnie and Larry. While the latter are his favorite students, he treats Louis extremely severely, which is why he is often a target for his pranks. Tugnut has a pronounced appetite and, according to his own statement, once weighed over 150 kilograms. Tugnut often works as a helper for the school principal Wexley. Is Tugnut also obsessed with dodgeball , a hugely popular in the US Art dodgeball .

Conrad Wexler

Wexler is the principal of Lawrence Jr High. Ren is by far his favorite student, the two of them get on well together. Ren is his assistant, which usually means that she has to do tasks for him that are too good for himself. Ren's brother Louis, however, often drives him crazy with his behavior and pranks.

Carla and Marla

Carla and Marla adore Ren and work with her and Ruby as editors for the school newspaper. After the episode Quest for Coolness of the second season, the two no longer appear.

Robert "Bobby" Deaver

Bobby was Ren's boyfriend in Middle School and appears in seven episodes. The two broke up after Louis revealed that Bobby had cheated on her with Mandy Sanchez, her rival.

Ivan

Ivan is Larry's sidekick in the first season and a yes-man to him, but also to other popular students .

occupation

The synchronization of the series was created at Bavaria Synchron based on dialogue books and under the dialogue direction of Henning Stegelmann .

main characters

role	actor	Voice actor
Louis Anthony Stevens	Shia LaBeouf	Johannes Wolko
Ren Stevens	Christy Carlson Romano	Andrea Wick
Donald "Donnie" Stevens	Nick Spano	Johannes Raspe
Steven "Steve" Stevens	Tom Virtue	Michael Schwarzmaier
Eileen Stevens	Donna Pescow	Dagmar Heller

Minor characters

role	actor	Voice actor
Alan Twitty	AJ Trauth	Florian Beba
Tawny Dean	Margo Harshman
Thomas "Tom" Gribalski	Fred Meyers
Ruby Mendel	Lauren Frost
Monique Taylor	Kenya Williams
Nelson Minkler	Gary LeRoi Gray
Bernard "Beans" Aranguren	Steven Anthony Lawrence
Lawrence Anthony "Larry" Beale	Ty Hodges
Coach Terry Tugnut	Jim Wise	Walter von Hauff
Conrad Wexler	George Anthony Bell
Carla	Lisa Foiles
Maria	Krysten Leigh Jones
Robert "Bobby" Deaver	Brandon Davis
Ivan	Eric Jungmann

Episode list

season 1

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
1	1	Sister on offer	Swap.com	June 17, 2000	Dec 13, 2001	Paul Hoen	Ehrich Van Lowe
2	2	A Stevens rarely comes alone	Stevens Genes	June 24, 2000	Dec 12, 2001	Sean McNamara	Ehrich Van Lowe
3	3	The talent competition	Take My Sister ... Please	July 1, 2000	Dec 17, 2001	Paul Hoen	Lore Kimbrough
4th	4th	Sherlock Stevens	What'll Idol Do?	July 8, 2000	Dec 14, 2001	Allison Liddi	Terry Maloney Haley & Mindy Morgenstern
5	5	Best friends	All about Yvette	July 15, 2000	Dec 19, 2001	Allison Liddi	Terry Maloney Haley & Mindy Morgenstern
6th	6th	The lifesaver	Louis in the Middle	July 22, 2000	Dec 18, 2001	Jonathan Winfrey	Mark Fink
7th	7th	TV fever	Foodzilla	July 29, 2000	Dec 20, 2001	Peter Baldwin	Marc Warren
8th	8th	With hard bandages	Family picnic	Aug 5, 2000	Dec 21, 2001	Mark Rosman	Matt Dearborn
9	9	The scrubbing day	Scrub Day	Aug 12, 2000	Jan. 2, 2002	Neal Israel	Dennis Rinsler
10	10	Napping for those in need	Easy way	Aug 19, 2000	Jan. 3, 2002	Sean McNamara	Tom Burkhard
11	11	The case of karaoke	Secrets and Spies	Aug 26, 2000	Jan. 4, 2002	Peter Baldwin	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
12	12	Sweet seduction	Deep chocolate	Sep 2 2000	Jan. 7, 2002	Savage Steve Holland	Jessica Simpson
13	13	The time is running	After hours	Sep 9 2000	Jan. 8, 2002	Steve Dubin	Matt Dearborn & Todd Elliasson
14th	14th	Louis and Band	Battle of the Bands	Jan. 5, 2001	Jan. 9, 2002	Savage Steve Holland	Marc Warren
15th	15th	For free	Heck of a Hanukkah	Jan. 12, 2001	Jan. 14, 2002	Neal Israel	Dennis Rinsler
16	16	The big wrestling	Luscious Lou	Jan. 19, 2001	Jan. 10, 2002	Mark Rosman	Tom Burkhard
17th	17th	An animal tip	Get a job	Jan. 26, 2001	Jan. 11, 2002	Jonathan Winfrey	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
18th	18th	The star director	Movie Madness	Feb 2, 2001	Jan 15, 2002	Peter Baldwin	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
19th	19th	Who dances the rumba	Strictly ballroom	Feb 9, 2001	Jan. 16, 2002	Matt Dearborn	Matt Dearborn
20th	20th	Fiesta Mexicana	Almost perfect	Feb 16, 2001	Jan. 17, 2002	Sean McNamara	Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn
21st	21st	Rocked up	A Weak First Week	Feb 23, 2001	Jan. 18, 2002	David Steinberg	Matt Dearborn

season 2

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
22nd	1	-	Starstruck	June 15, 2001	-	Jonathan Winfrey	Marc Warren
23	2	-	Shutterbugged	June 22, 2001	-	Peter Baldwin	Marc Warren
24	3	-	Duck Soup	June 29, 2001	-	Sean McNamara	David Brookwell & Sean McNamara
25th	4th	-	Quest for coolness	July 6, 2001	-	Donna Pescow	Dennis Rinsler
26th	5	-	Secret World of Girls	July 20, 2001	-	Fred Savage	Tom Burkhard
27	6th	-	Broadcast blues	July 27, 2001	-	KC Lynn De Stefano	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
28	7th	-	Thin ice	Aug 3, 2001	-	Jonathan Winfrey	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
29	8th	-	Head Games	Aug 24, 2001	-	Peter Baldwin	Tom Burkhard
30th	9	-	Love and basketball	Aug 31, 2001	-	John Tracy	Edward C. Evans
31	10	-	Devil Mountain	Sep 7 2001	-	Matt Dearborn	Matt Dearborn
32	11	-	Wild Child	28 Sep 2001	-	Paul Hoen	Dennis Rinsler
33	12	-	Easy Crier	Oct 5, 2001	-	Marc Warren	Barbie Feldman
34	13	-	A very scary story	Oct 19, 2001	-	Sean McNamara	David Brookwell & Sean McNamara
35	14th	-	Sadie Hawkins Day	Nov 2, 2001	-	Gregory Hobson	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
36	15th	-	Sibling rivalry	Nov 3, 2001	-	KC Lynn De Stefano	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
37	16	-	Wombat Wuv	Nov 30, 2001	-	Donna Pescow	Tom Burkhard
38	17th	-	Uncle Chuck	Dec 21, 2001	-	Ken Ceizler	Dennis Rinsler
39	18th	-	The Thomas Gribalski Affair	Dec 28, 2001	-	Paul Hoen	Scott Frazee & Brooke Kaiser
40	19th	-	Ren gate	Jan. 4, 2002	-	Neal Israel	Matt Dearborn
41	20th	-	Tight end in traction	Jan. 11, 2002	-	Philip Charles MacKenzie	Matt Dearborn
42	21st	-	Influenza: The Musical	Jan. 25, 2002	-	Sean McNamara	Marc Warren
43	22nd	-	Gutter Queen	Feb 15, 2002	-	Dennis Rinsler	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry Idea: Matt Dearborn

season 3

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
44	1	-	The Kiss	Feb. 22, 2002	-	Matt Dearborn	Matt Dearborn
45	2	-	Where in the World Is Pookie Stevens?	March 1, 2002	-	David Brookwell	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
46	3	-	My Best Friend's Girlfriend	March 22, 2002	-	KC Lynn De Stefano	Marc Warren
47	4th	-	Your toast	Apr 19, 2002	-	Sean McNamara	Dennis Rinsler
48	5	-	Band on the roof	May 3, 2002	-	Gregory Hobson	Tom Burkhard
49	6th	-	Little Mr. Sacktown	May 10, 2002	-	Neal Israel	Marc Warren
50	7th	-	Raiders of the Lost Sausage	May 31, 2002	-	Fred Savage	Scott Frazee & Brooke Kaiser
51	8th	-	Close Encounters of the Beans Kind	June 14, 2002	-	KC Lynn De Stefano	Steve Slavkin
52	9	-	Short story	June 21, 2002	-	Peter Baldwin	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
53	10	-	Hutch boy	July 5, 2002	-	Savage Steve Holland	Tom Burkhard
54	11	-	Hardly Famous	Aug 9, 2002	-	Gregory Hobson	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
55	12	-	The King Sloppy	Aug 16, 2002	-	Richard Wafer	Tom Burkhard
56	13	-	Boy on a rock	Aug 30, 2002	-	Marc Warren	Marc Warren
57	14th	-	Dirty work	6 Sep 2002	-	Donna Pescow	Matt Dearborn
58	15th	-	The Big Splash	Sep 9 2002	-	Paul Germain	Matt Dearborn
59	16	-	Beans on the brain	16 Sep 2002	-	Dennis Rinsler	Dennis Rinsler
60	17th	-	Snow job	23 Sep 2002	-	Jonathan Winfrey	Dennis Rinsler
61	18th	-	Stevens' Manor	Oct 28, 2002	-	David Grace	Tom Burkhard & Matt Dearborn
62	19th	-	Model Principal	Nov 29, 2002	-	Grant Heslov	Josh Lynn & Danny Warren
63	20th	-	Surf's Up	March 31, 2003	-	Paul Hoen	Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie Villandry
64	21st	-	In Ren We Trust	May 19, 2003	-	David Kendall	Marc Warren & Dennis Rinsler
65	22nd	-	Leavin 'Stevens	June 2, 2003	-	David Brookwell	David Brookwell & Sean McNamara

Trivia

• When the pilot was filmed, the series was still called Spivey's Kid Brother , when Disney took over in 1997, it was renamed Even Stevens . This change is referred to in the last episode of the first season ( A Weak First Week , German title Hochgeschaukelt ). This shows scenes from the said pilot episode as flashbacks , including a banner with the words Home of Spivey and the Wild Wombats in the gym .
• A time-lapse is used in every episode of Eben ein Stevens .
• In the opening credits, Ren reads a television magazine , the cover of which features photos of the leading actors Shia LaBeouf and Christy Carlson Romano . In the opening credits is also on Star Wars alluded because the remote controls of Louis and Ren (as clay figures are shown) in lightsabers turn.
• The school Louis and his siblings attend is junior high school . This goes from the seventh to the ninth grade, but the period in which the three seasons long series takes place is only two years, since Louis and Ren are in the seventh and eighth grade at the beginning of the first season, respectively, at the end of the third season however, only attend the eighth or ninth grade.
• Shia LaBeouf and Christy Carlson Romano are the only actors to star in all of the series' 65 episodes.

Charisma

In addition to the actual broadcast from June 17, 2000 to June 2, 2003, reruns of the series were broadcast on the Disney Channel until September 4, 2006. On July 7, 2007, on the occasion of the premiere of the film Transformers , in which Shia LaBeouf plays the lead role, a Eben ein Stevens marathon was shown, which consisted of eight episodes.

WGN America acquired the rights to the Disney series Lizzie McGuire and Eben ein Stevens in 2006. There Eben ein Stevens was repeated weekly until September 2008.

The series aired on Disney XD in 2006, from 2009 it was there again until January 2010. On the Canadian offshoot of Disney XD, it ran from June 1, 2011 to December 2012.

From 2015 to 2016, Eben ein Stevens was broadcast on Freeform , along with other Disney productions from the 2000s .

The television film The Even Stevens Movie is still occasionally broadcast on the Disney Channel. When it premiered on June 13, 2003, 5.1 million viewers tuned in, making the film the most-watched program on a cable station in June 2003.

Awards

The series won a British Academy Children's Award in 2002 for Best International Children's Series . That same year, Christy Carlson Romano received a Young Artist Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, and Lauren Frost was victorious in the Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series category . In 2003 Shia LaBeouf won a Daytime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Children's Series , in the same year Steven Anthony Lawrence was named Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series at the Young Artist Awards , and Romano was again named Best Actress in a Comedy Series .

Web links

• Even Stevens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Just a Stevens at Fernsehserien.de

Itemized list

1. ↑ German synchronous index | Movies | The Stevens strike back. Retrieved June 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Mike Hogan: Landing in Hollywood. In: Vanity Fair. January 21, 2008, accessed December 19, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} 8 Things You Need to Know About Even Stevens ASAP. In: Teen.com. March 22, 2015, accessed December 19, 2018 . 
4. ^ Mike Reynolds: Disney Channel Shows to WGN. In: Multichannel News. April 17, 2006, accessed December 19, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Rick Kissell: NBA Finals don't awe. In: Variety. June 17, 2003, accessed December 19, 2018 . 
6. ↑ BAFTA Awards Search. In: BAFTA.org. February 24, 2002, accessed December 19, 2018 . 
7. ^ Twenty-Third Annual Young Artist Awards 2002. In: www.youngartistawards.org. April 7, 2002, accessed December 19, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Shia LaBeouf win Emmy 2003. In: Youtube.com. October 5, 2009, accessed December 19, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Twenty-Fourth Annual Young Artist Awards. In: www.youngartistawards.org. March 29, 2003, accessed December 19, 2018 .