 "Bad Hair Day" delivered 4.0 million viewers for its television premiere and has had 435,000 views on the WATCH Disney Channel app since it was released on February 6.Amy Amatangelo of The Hollywood Reporter found the duo of Baker and Marano "played well off each other", and that Marano's character was "refreshingly age-appropriate".She found the movie to be goofy but not slapsticky, and that it was "like a junior version of "Thelma and Louise" albeit with a much, much happier ending."