Even Stevens

**Even Stevens** is an American television series created by Matt Dearborn. It follows the life of the Stevens', a family living in suburban Sacramento, California, mainly focusing on the clashing personalities of its two younger children, Ren and Louis.

The series aired on Disney Channel from June 17, 2000 to June 2, 2003.

## Plot

The Stevens family live in Sacramento, California, where the two younger children in the family, Ren and Louis, who have opposing personalities, often clash.

## Cast and Characters

### Main

* Shia LaBeouf as Louis Anthony Stevens
* Christy Carlson Romano as Ren Stevens
* Nick Spano as Donnie Stevens
* Tom Virtue as Steve Stevens
* Donna Pescow as Eileen Stevens
* Steven Anthony Lawrence as Bernard "Beans" Aranguren
* A.J. Trauth as Alan Twitty
* Margo Harshman as Tawny Dean
* Lauren Frost as Ruby Mendel

### Recurring

* Fred Meyers as Thomas "Tom" Gribalski
* Kenya Williams as Monique Taylor
* Gary LeRoi Gray as Nelson Minkler
* Eric "Ty" Hodges as Lawrence "Larry" Anthony Beale
* Jim Wise as Coach Terry Tugnut
* George Anthony Bell as Conrad Wexler
* Lisa Foiles and Krysten Leigh Jones as Carla and Marla
* Brandon Davis as Bobby Deaver
* Eric Jungmann as Ivan

## Episodes

See Also: List of Even Stevens Episodes

 2 | 22
 3 | 22

## Films

### The Even Stevens Movie

The film was released on June 13, 2003 and was written by Dennis Rinsler and Marc Warren. It follows the Stevens family as they win an all-expenses-paid trip to an island located halfway around the world.

## Production

The show was originally produced as a show called Spivey's Kid Brother. A pilot was filmed in July 1999, and was later picked up by Disney Channel as Even Stevens. In the pilot episode, Disney had to dub out the name "Spivey" to "Stevens". In fact, in the gym class scene, a banner is visible in the background reading, "Home of Spivey and the Wild Wombats."

In the theme song of the show, clay animations of Louis and Ren turn their remote controls into lightsabers, alluding to Star Wars. Prior to this, Ren reads a TV guide with live-action photos of Christy Carlson Romano and Shia LaBeouf on the cover.

Lawrence Junior High is apparently a standard three-grade junior high school. Although the show lasted three seasons, the timeline of the show is only two school years, with Louis and his friends remaining in the 7th grade until some point after the middle of the second season. In several third-season episodes there are subtle references to an advance in the timeline that puts Ren and her friends in the 9th grade and Louis in the 8th grade. Ren finally graduates in The Even Stevens Movie.

Shia LaBeouf and Christy Carlson Romano are the only two actors to appear in all 65 episodes of the series.

## Release

The series reran on Disney Channel from June 2, 2003 to September 4, 2006. On July 7, 2007, Disney Channel aired eight episodes as part of their "Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Louis" marathon, to coincide with the release of Shia LaBeouf's film Transformers.

In 2006, Superstation WGN (now WGN America) acquired the rights to Even Stevens and Lizzie McGuire. It aired on the channel from September 18, 2006 to September 12, 2008, during the week originally airing after each other on weekday afternoons before moving to the late-night hours, when both shows' target audiences were generally not awake, with Even Stevens airing Tuesdays and Thursdays and Lizzie airing the rest of the week.

In 2009, after a three-year absence, Even Stevens returned to television on Disney XD; it was removed from the channel in January 2010.

From 2015-2016, Even Stevens aired on Freeform for two hours after midnight on Wednesdays as part of the That's So Throwback block. In the UK, Even Stevens aired on CITV (having previously been shown on CBBC) from 2009 to 2012. The show currently is no longer airing, however, The Even Stevens Movie continues to air on Disney Channel and on Family Channel occasionally.

The series released on November 12, 2019 with the launch of Disney+ in the United States. It is currently not available in all territories where the platform has launched.

## Home Media

The first season of Even Stevens was made available on DVD on Region 4 in Australia and New Zealand on July 25, 2006. To date, no further seasons have been released on Region 4. Region 1 has not released any season of the series, however, the television film, The Even Stevens Movie, was made available on June 28, 2005.