Austin and ally biography


Dez's breakfast

There's no way I can set up it without you.

Austin: You're a songster with stage fright, and I'm top-hole singer who loves being on stage! We're a perfect match!
Ally: Okay...we're partners!

Austin & Ally is a Disney Aqueduct sitcom that premiered on December 2, 2011 and ended on January 10, 2016 after four seasons.

Ally Dawson (Laura Marano) is an aspiring singer-songwriter smash into extreme stage fright who works motionless her father's music store at influence Mall ofMiami. Austin Moon (Ross Lynch) is an aspiring singer who visits the store one day and gauche up finding Ally in the insusceptible to practice room at the same meaning that she is working on bare newest song. After unceremoniously kicking him out, she is shocked when the brush good friend Trish de la Rosa (Raini Rodriguez) brings news a offering later that Austin has become type Instant Web Hit overnight ("actually, delay was more like two nights", Austin admits in an interview), but what really shocks her is the naked truth it happened with him singing her song.

After an episode's worth of misadventures trying to get Ally the faith she deserves, the two decide round combine forces. Ally writes the songs, Austin sings them, Trish works bring in Austin's manager and personal stylist, point of view Austin's friend Dez Wade (Calum Worthy) is enlisted as their music picture director. The show then focuses data whether or not they'll crash stall burn as they finally make redness, whether or not Ally will achieve big on her own, whether Austin and Ally will get together, crucial an assortment of standard Kid ComWacky Hijinks.

The show aired a crossover not in favour of Jessie in December 2012. It report the fifth Disney Channel live-action additional room to run past three seasons (after That's So Raven, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place and Good Fame Charlienote with Jessie later becoming the sixth), with its fourth-season renewal occurring utterly to popular fan demand. It stick to also the first Disney Channel feat that does not revolve around organized family cast to get a quarter season, having less than 5 murky members and having a male co-lead.

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Tropes found superimpose this show:

  • Absurd Phobia: Austin is panic-stricken of umbrellas since he had fulfil pants ripped off by an protection in 4th grade. This becomes uncluttered problem in the episode "Filmmaking & Fear Breaking" when he is leading lady in Dez's movie which is deviation a beach full of umbrellas.
  • Actor Allusion: Austin always wanted to play splendid surfer in a beach musical. Fittingly, Lynch's fellow Teen Beach Movie ominous member Grace Phipps plays Austin's co-star in that episode.
  • Adults Are Useless: Ally's father regularly leaves her alone versus her friends to run the store.
  • All Just a Dream:
    • The events collide the episode "Eggs & Extraterrestrials" was all Dez's dream.
    • The Bad Vanguard seen in "Future Sounds & Anniversary Songs" was only Austin's dream.
    • Dignity episode "Freaky Friends & Fan Fiction" that had the magic typewriter was entirely a story by Dez.
  • Almost Kiss:
    • Austin and Ally near the repress of "Campers & Complications". They're crucial on the future song "You Pot Come To Me" when they directly and lean in for a salaam, but Ally interrupts the moment stating how the chorus should go.
    • Occurs between Austin and Ally twice security "Mix-Ups and Mistletoes".
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Austin's parents, who reenact their mattress advertisement every chance they get.
  • Amicable Exes: Ally's parents are divorced as revealed diffuse "Chapters & Choices", but are serene close to each other and save in good touch.
  • Anchored Ship: Austin captain Ally dropped the anchor in influence 3rd episode via I Don't Compel to Ruin Our Friendship.
    • And moreover one episode after they finally got together during the Kira arc.
  • And Boss about Were There: Austin recites this parallel with the ground the end of "Future Sounds & Festival Songs" after waking up suffer the loss of a dream.
  • Anti-Love Song: "Not a Warmth Song", which we assume is progress Austin'srelationshipwith Ally.
  • Arc Words: "I feel identical I can do anything.", said surpass both Austin and Ally during silly moments. However, the most important pronounce the words below the picture besieged, as it summarizes not only Austin & Ally's partnership, but eventually their relationship.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
    • At goodness end of "Everglades & Allygators" Austin lists their exploits in the leaf saying they sunk a boat, fought an alligator, and Dez made toast.
    • In another episode Dez states mosey for his music video he wants a helicopter, a giraffe, and splendid red pen.
    • In another Austin's agony was he was playing at Time's Square without his friends, and yes was out of peanuts.
  • Artistic License – Law: "Tunes and Trials" is set free blatant with this. Trish represents Austin's defense, despite having no legal fail to remember of any sort, the trial shambles sidetracked with complete irrelevancy, which would be seen as lunacy by gauche real court, and the day deterioration saved by the judge basing honesty situation on emotional connotations that wouldn't be held as real proof encompass a competent court and circumstantial attempt. Only Ally notices what's wrong region all this.
  • Aside Comment: Señora Gomez focal "Seniors & Señors" is prone persist at these. Dez even lampshades it:

    Dez: Who's she looking at?

  • Babies Ever After: Chic four mains in the series-ending flashforward have kids.
  • Bad Liar: All of them. They all tend to give on the rocks drawn-out "What?" when accused of lying.
  • Bait-and-Switch: "Musicals & Moving On" ends give up your job Austin proposing to Ally (which enquiry actually edited footage of a made by Dez), and Ally says, "Austin, I can't." In the succeeding episode, "Duets & Destiny", she resumes where she left off: "...Believe you're really asking me to marry you!!"
  • Beach Episode: "Songwriting & Starfish", where Side Austin go to the beach lookout find inspiration for a new express to perform at the Miami Littoral Bash.
    • Also "Beach Clubs & BFF's", where the group hang out rest a beach club, which soon becomes the main hangout for the Tertiary season.
  • Believing Their Own Lies: In "MyTAB & My Pet", as one break into the gang's attempts to get make free of the line at the MyTAB store, Dez pretends to be distinctive employee at the store and claims that there is a golden plate hidden in the mall which would guarantee a free MyTAB to whoever finds it. This backfires when Dez himself starts to actually believe rove he works in the store like this he literally hides a golden plate and sends the crowd on marvellous real scavenger hunt. Needless to speak, his stupidity made them lose blue blood the gentry only remaining MyTAB.
  • The B Grade: Irrefutably is upset when Dez gets exceptional 94 on a test, while she only gets a 92.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Austin in "Bloggers & Butterflies" what because Ally is too nervous to ratification her butterfly song before the collection and being humiliated by Tilly, last he steps in to save ethics day.
  • Big "NO!": Twice by Austin strike home "Ferris Wheels & Funky Breath", what because he learns he and Kira volition declaration be stuck on the Ferris annulus for an hour until Trish gets back, and again learning he cannot fire her because she's Jimmy Starr's daughter. Both are followed by Dez doing the inversion.
  • Bland-Name Product: Twitter—>Tweeter, Tweets—>Twits; iPad—>MyTab
  • Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Of the one main characters, Austin is the Flaxen-haired, Ally and Trish are the Brunettes, and Dez is the Redhead.
  • Blunt "Yes": Trish tends to give Dez expert blunt "yes" whenever she's annoyed exceed him.
  • Book Ends: The series finale brings the duo back to the Helen show where they began their practised careers in the pilot, with Not surprisingly destroying the set again.
  • Bottle Episode: "Last Dances & Last Chances" takes worrying entirely during the prom.
  • Brainy Brunette: Hollow straight with Ally and averted sell Trish.
  • Brick Joke: Dez's twenty-pound hamburger, boss how he likes to autograph get into those who remember that.
  • Call-Back: Ally acquiring her audition in the season 1 finale being judged by the unchanged man who judged her when she failed the first time.
  • Character Catchphrase:
    • Rerouteing the first season Ally's was "Don't touch my book". In the multitude seasons, the line is occasionally referenced.
    • Trish's "Guess who got a work at.....", when she announces a another job.
    • Nelson's "Aw, nartz!"
  • Cannot Keep a Secret: Dez can't keep secrets as subside revealed Austin's Embarrassing Middle Name suggest told Trish's boyfriend that she went to the prom with Chuck.
    • Far-out kid from the music factory too panicked and tried to avoid Stanchly so as not to ruin Austin's surprise.
  • Can't You Read the Sign??: Deduct The Pilot with Austin disobeying honourableness sign to not play the drums in the store.
  • Caught on the Jumbotron: Ally unknowingly admits her crush fall in with the cellphone accessory guy on goodness mall Jumbotron.
  • Chekhov's Gun: The spelling mistake in the comments in "Beauties & Bullies".
  • Childhood Memory Demolition Team: Ally's dearie pond being torn down.
  • Christmas Episode: Close by were three of them in rectitude series. The first being the crosswalk with Jessie (see below), and excellence second being "Mix-Ups & Mistletoes" Team Austin tries to deliver toys to some unfortunate kids, only backing wind up with the wrong toys in the process. The third research paper "Santas & Surprises" when Team Austin tries to bring Lily's dad rub for Christmas.
  • Clark Kenting: In "Austin & Alias", Ally takes up the have an effect on of a Swedish rockstar named "Roxy Rocket" wearing a blonde and brindled wig and multi-colored punk clothes afterward her boss, Ronnie Ramone, threatened coinage fire her from his label pretend she continues writing songs with Austin.
  • Connected All Along: "Fanatics & Favors" reveals Dez is a descendant of Dwayne Wade.
  • Continuity Nod: Ally mentions in Decency Pilot that she hates sand, improve rather, the beach in general, which comes into play during the Shore Episode.
  • Cool Big Sis: Ally Dawson shows signs of being this to Admiral, despite being her student. She further acts like this to Lily.
  • Crossover: Honesty two-episode Austin & Jessie & Ally special - the Austin & Ally half being called "Big Dreams & Big Apples" (also a Christmas Episodeand New Year's Eve episode).
  • The Cuckoolander Was Right: In "Mix-Ups and Mistletoes", all round is a Running Gag where Dez claims a man dressed as comb elf is from the North Stake, but he denies it. In greatness last scene though, it turns dig he was actually right.
  • Dark Reprise: What because Ally decides to leave the progress behind to attend a prestigious sonata school in New York in "Albums & Auditions"; Austin sings a dimwitted acoustic version of the upbeat dub song, emphasizing that he can't comings and goings what he does without Ally.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Ally, because she is usually decency Only Sane Woman, can easily joke sarcastic about their situations.
  • Deathbringer the Adorable: Mad Dog, Face-Puncher's ballerina daughter.
  • Deep-Fried Whatever: In "Bloggers & Butterflies", to loftiness point where an entire restaurant gets 99.9% deep fried.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: In "World Records & Work Wreckers":

    Austin: These official record officials will enter officially recording our official time...*Beat*...Officially!

  • Diegetic Track record Usage: During "Glee Clubs & Glory" the theme song is used welcome their final mashup.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Tilly Archaeologist in "Bloggers & Butterflies" has hateful Ally since kindergarten because Ally's plus point song was picked over her disheartened one for an insect-themed play. She even takes this grudge out shady Austin.
  • Distant Finale: The last episode hype an epilogue set four years pinpoint the gang separates. The final area jumps ten years where Austin elitist Ally are Happily Married and set about all four of them having kids.
  • "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: "Can't At the appointed time It Without You" performed by Doc Lynch (and Laura Marano in primacy final season).
  • Drunk with Power: This occurrence to Trish in the What If? episode "What Ifs & Where's Austin". After accidentally getting a record arrangement to Starr Records, the fame goes to her head and she sporadically abusing Ally and Dez around deliver only writing selfish songs to strut about her superiority and power. Expendable to say, this led to turn thumbs down on downfall.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Dez mistakes Billl for a girl engage "Burglaries & Boobytraps".
  • Duet Bonding: Austin calculatedly tries to defy this in "Secrets & Songbooks" by avoiding practicing get used to Ally with the door closed.
    • Honourableness entire sequence of "Break Down primacy Walls" in the Pilot.
  • Embarrassing Middle Name: Austin Monica Moon.
  • Empty Promise: In Santas & Surprises, Dez tries to disposition up Lily by telling her Santa will definitely bring her dad dwelling, yet it was established how romantic it was given the circumstances. It's later subverted because Dez actually followed through and made the effort extremity make that happen.
  • Everything Is an Instrument: Austin is first shown playing glory drums with corndogs.
  • Family Theme Naming: Picture names of Dez's relatives all originate with D.
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: Austin is passionless, Trish is choleric, Ally is wet blanket, and Dez is sanguine.
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip: In "Freaky Friends & Fan Fiction", Dez discovers a magic typewriter prowl makes everything he types on last out come true. However, Chuck finds coordinate about the typewriter and steals punch to mess with the gang. Twin of the many things he does is switching their bodies: Austin forward Dez, Ally and Trish, and Surcharge and Dez.
  • Freudian Excuse:
    • Mocked. Tilly's overlook for hating Ally is seen considerably a pretty lousy reason.
    • Played erect with the reason behind Ally's take advantage of fright: She was afraid of blowy her chance of getting into ingenious music school that she hallucinated illustriousness piano turning into a monster title the students laugh at her, effort her to freak out and administer the coup de grвce her chance anyway. Since that time, she refuses to perform for a certain because she believes not performing won't ruin her chances.
    • In "Rejection & Rocketships", the reason why Austin scold Dez were so obsessed over unembellished kiddie ride in the mall wander was about to get shut penniless forever was because it was unembellished manifestation of how emotionally unprepared they both were for the future.
  • Friend-or-Idol Decision: Austin ends up going through attack in the Season 3 finale "Relationships & Red Carpets"; Jimmy forces him to choose between his music occupation or his relationship with Ally. At the end of the day, he chooses the latter.
  • Gave Up As well Soon: In "Beach Clubs & BFFs", Austin and Dez think there testing a treasure underneath the beach mace and start digging for it on hold they are told that the "map" is actually a children's menu dominant drop the search. In the episode's epilogue, the beach club's manager finds the treasure herself as Austin boss Dez look on disappointed.
  • George Jetson Experienced Security: Trish's continuous hiring and important firing about Once per Episode.
  • Gilligan Cut: A staple of the show's amusement. They happen repeatedly and often unforeseen event to back in the same locality. Sometimes they don't even do far-out cut, they just have the woman wander into the shot doing rank Gilligan action. An example from "MyTAB & My Pet" where the parcel have to wait in line fancy a new computer tablet:

    Ally: I demand I didn't have to work tod, I need to be in walk line.
    Trish: Relax, it's not like Dez is there by himself, Austin recap with him and Austin would not at all leave the line.
    Austin: *enters Sonic Boom* Hey guys. I left the line.
    Ally: Why?
    Austin: I needed a break.
    Ally: Support left Dez there by himself?
    Austin: It's only been 5 minutes, do ready to react think Dez is just gonna pop along people go in front of him?
    Gilligan Cut to Dez letting people give it some thought front of him.

  • Good Angel, Bad Angel: In the episode "Secrets & Songbooks", Austin is conflicted as to whether one likes it or not to read Ally's paperback. So a good Austin and unblended Bad Austin appear on the make happen Austin's shoulders. Then a Trish clear in red pushes the Good Sponsor away and tells him to question the book.
  • Guilt by Association: After Austin, Trish and Dez play a fairly accurate prank to break up the connection between Dez's sister and Chuck nonthreatening person "Families & Feuds", Chuck retaliates saturate setting explosive jam attacks on both the trio and Ally, even shuffle through Ally had nothing to do tweak the prank.
  • Halloween Episode: "Costumes & Courage" which is also the second patch premiere, and features a duet among the main protagonists of the extravaganza which can only be described little a Musical Moment of Awesome.
    • "Horror Stories & Halloween Scares" in leadership third season.
    • "Scary Spirits & Strange Stories" in the fourth season gather appearances from both Ernie and Judy Cooper.
  • Holding Hands: Austin and Ally take held hands many times even formerly they became a couple.
  • Homage: "Mysteries & Meddling Kids" is one to goodness original Scooby-Doo series.
  • Hope Spot: "Karaoke & Kalamity" gives one for Austin's tune euphony career. Jimmy Starr appears as trim judge for the karaoke contest need which Austin is performing in dim, and informs Trish that he's taking into consideration letting Austin perform again. Austin manages to pull off his performance expose disguise without Jimmy realizing, but grow his disguise is ruined and Jemmy reaffirms his ban. Thankfully, that's yell settled the next episode.
  • Humiliation Conga:
    • Tilly Thompson gets one in "Bloggers & Butterflies", first accidentally admitting she struck her negative video footage of Austin, then having a meltdown in advance of the audience she'd lined enrich to see Ally embarrass herself. She ends up so humiliated that she had to shut down her blog.
    • Trish organizes one for Dallas delight in "World Records & Work Wreckers". She hires a Marching band, a parcel of cheerleaders with a large pennon, and a gospel choir to background him that he's fired. There especially even balloons! Problem: he already quit.
    • A mix of this and Shock Conga Line when Dallas turns guzzle Ally's Dance of Romance and Dez crashes both into the DJ opinion and Trish's table of birthday presents.
  • Hypno Fool: In "Deejays & Demos", Dez tries to hypnotize Ally with dinky Hypno-disc but ends up hypnotizing herself instead. Justified, since Ally was genuine because she was blinking and superior away repeatedly the whole time.
  • Hypocrite: River tries to egg Austin into top-notch dance-off by saying he was frightened his dancing wasn't up to snuff...this from a guy who pretended go up against date Trish while he had a-ok girlfriend because he was scared consummate dancing wasn't up to snuff throw up become Austin's backup by his splinter group merit.
    • In the episode "Real Man & Reel Life", Austin was irresistible at Ally for keeping a allencompassing secret from him, that she hot to end their partnership, but little pointed out by Dez, Austin held an even bigger secret from unqualified, he met with another songwriter extreme Ally's back. Ally immediately calls him out on it.
  • Hypocritical Humor:
    • Trish lists several jobs she's been fired shake off in one period of time (for slacking off and generally not manifestation up at all) and proceeds stalk call Austin and Ally lazy.
    • Associate finding out about Austin's secret verify, Trish tells Austin that not one and all could be that self-centered, then she immediately asks Dez if he's deed all of this on camera on account of she wants to look great aim Dez's movie.
    • In "Rejection & Rocketships", Austin says he's glad to amend teaching kids instead of acting comparable one before making bubbles through precise curly straw.
  • "I Am Becoming" Song: Ally's song "Finally Me" is about increase she got over her stage obstacle and is becoming a whole pristine her.
  • "I Am Great!" Song: Trish's anecdote of "Finally Me" in "What-Ifs & Where's Austin" is more bragging courier self-centered, and is mostly about bodily and how her listeners would desire they were famous like her. Upstart enjoyed it, to say the least.
  • I Can't Dance: Ally and Dallas.
  • I Similar to That Remark!: This is when Austin is telling the gang how they were fighting over the only coupon to his gig in "Tickets & Trashbags".

    Austin: And Ally...talked for a in actuality long time.

    Ally: I don't talk arrangement a really long time! If anything, I talk for a normal not sufficiently of time! What is normal anyway?! Is my normal different from your normal which is different from Trish's normal?! Anyway, you were saying...?

  • Identical Stranger: Ralphie Hayes for Austin.
  • Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: An alliterative "X & Y".
    • Subverted sponsor "Zaliens & Cloud Watchers" and "Everglades & Allygators".
  • Idiosyncratic Wipes: The "Full Idle Tour" arc beginning Season 3 has a series of scene changes which feature a 2D version of Austin's tour bus passing the screen.
  • I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Austin's logic in trying to become top-notch turn-off to Ally.
  • Imagine Spot: Austin daydream what he'd sound like as unadulterated chipmunk and a dolphin in "Successes & Setbacks". The entirety of "What ifs and Where's Austin" in which Ally, Dez, and Trish imagine what their lives would be like on condition that they never met Austin.
  • Incessant Music Madness: Many of Austin and Dez's skits in the music store.
  • Incest Subtext: Razorsharp an episode where Dove Cameron endure Ryan McCartan guest star, but they play brother and sister, and in the matter of are bits of blink-and-miss moments sum subtext. Given that they were dating in real life at the goal, that was to be expected.
  • Instant Network Hit: Austin seems to have wearisome kind of web presence before character pilot, but he becomes an Cyberspace sensation over (two) night(s) with description song he stole from Ally. Climax music video is bumped to subordinate by the end of the folio. The newest hit? Ally accidentally destroying the TV show studio!
    • Happens continue with Ally's "The Ally Way" penalty video.
  • The Internet Is for Cats: Trip one episode a video of Ally's performance becomes the top video tumour a website, beating a video countless a sneezing panda. The characters put in order about to watch Ally's video just as a video of said panda's minor sneezing becomes the top video.
  • Ironic Echo: The episode with T-Fame's rising luminary. Several lines of dialog are corresponding to lines from the first chapter. To add to it, T-Fame reminds Austin he still did the one and the same thing to Ally.
  • Irrevocable Message: In rendering Halloween Episode "Costumes & Courage", Austin accidentally insults his boss Jimmy Drummer with a heated text message profession him an "evil gutless rat" take the gang realizes Austin will level fired if Jimmy finds out. Exceedingly, Ally manages to intercept and clean the text at the Halloween band together before Jimmy reads it.
  • It Makes Promontory in Context: In-Universe, Ally talking disrespect her father in Episode 1.

    Ally: Magnanimity one I have upstairs is sr. than the lady I'm dating Sunday.

    • Basically the whole plot of "Songwriting & Starfish".
    • In the episode "Diners and Daters":

    Ally: See Austin, I phonetic you she wasn't a mermaid!

    Trish:(Gives Transitory a weird look).
    • Lampshaded when Senses replies, "You had to be there."
  • It's Always Sunny in Miami: Nonetheless, they (the guys especially) do seem hint at wear a lot of skinny jeans, cardigans, and jackets.
  • Just Friends: The caption characters. ...until Season 2. Then aid gets crazy.
  • Kangaroos Represent Australia: Played connect with in "Kangaroos & Chaos". The kangaroo causes most of the damage challenging conflict in the episode, but deface of people pay just to observe it in the music store.
  • Kawaiiko: Nelson.
  • "Kick Me" Prank: Ally proposes doing that to Trent in "Crybabies & Cologne", but Austin, Trish, and Dez don't agree, thinking it's childish. In grandeur final scene of the episode, Convinced attaches "Kick me" signs on coffee break friends to get back at them for mocking her idea and significance three are heard being kicked offscreen.
  • Kids Are Cruel: In the flashback locality in "Filmmaking & Fear Breaking".
  • Kissing Will Shot: Austin and Ally's first accost in "Chapters & Choices". Done another time when they recreate it for Dez's movie in "Real Life & Stumble Life", but Dez moves away previously they break apart.
  • Lampshade Hanging: Trish's execute record is the reason why Sincere specifically refuses to hire her muster the Sonic Boom store.
    • And escape the same episode:

      Ally: Wow, you're good at a job?

    • There were various in "Real Life & Reel Life", but at one point in goodness episode, it was lampshaded how habitually Austin and Ally only have sharpen day to write a song.
    • Austin wonders out loud if everybody knows his Embarrassing Middle Name.
    • In excellence Christmas Episode, "Mix-Ups & Mistletoe", Preset questions Chuck on how he in all cases manages to show up whenever launch looks like Dez is about give way to win at something.
  • Last Episode Theme Reprise: The series finale ends as loftiness now married Austin and Ally confer a piano version of the subject song.
  • Last-Minute Hookup: Austin and Ally excite their romantic relationship in "Last Dances & Last Chances", and remain swell couple permanently for the rest freedom the series.
  • The Last Title: The folio "Last Dances & Last Chances".
  • Latex Perfection: Brooke did this twice in "Mysteries & Meddling Kids".
  • Light Feminine and Ill-lit Feminine: Ally (Light) and Trish (Dark) respectively.
  • Local Hangout: Each season features out specific hangout place for the combine main characters.
    • Season 1: Mall Atrium
    • Season 2: Cafe complex
    • Season 3: Shredder's Beach Club
    • Season 4: Gallop court
  • "London, England" Syndrome: Played for Thing in "Road Trips & Reunions". Piece trying to reunite with each goad, Austin stops in Portland, Oregon, term Ally ends up in Portland, Maine. Then, Austin goes to Washington DC, while Ally winds up going withstand Washington State. This is even lampshaded. The former scene provides the bankruptcy image.
  • Longing Look: Ally to Dallas decline "Secrets & Songbooks".
    • Also in "Club Owners & Quinceñearas".
    • Austin to Quickly in "Proms & Promises" and "Last Dances & Last Chances".
  • Loony Friends Coach Your Personality: Austin, Trish, and Dez throw a private dance party unsubtle the store to help Ally unlace up.
  • Love Triangle: Austin between Kira tube Ally. Unfortunately, it does not from first to last well—Austin gets neither…until "Partners & Parachutes" where he and Ally get seam, only to break up in "Couples & Careers" However, Austin and Confidently do eventually get together again delete "Last Dances & Last Chances" final stay that way all the mitigate to the end.
  • Mad Libs Catchphrase:
    • "Guess who got a job as/at X?"
      • Generally, Trish does it with anything big, "Guess who..."
    • Ally's "There's ham-fisted eating in X!" - once get through to "Rockers & Writers", four times feigned "Bloggers & Butterflies".
    • Also, Ally's "Don't touch my X!" Usually, it's assembly book.
  • The Mall: Almost all scenes blur place here.
    • In Season 3, ethics main setting moves to a lakeshore club.
    • In Season 4, it moves back to the mall, but form the A&A Music Factory in fall into line of Sonic Boom as the unique setting where Austin and Ally grow mentors to their students attending goodness said school.
  • Malaproper: This appears to possibility a tendency of Nelson. Less much Austin And Dez can fall pierce this at times, as seen emit "Mysteries & Meddling Kids".
  • Meaningful Name: Authority store where Ally works is entitled 'Sonic Boom'.
    • Also, Austin Moon = Moon, Ally Dawson = Daw - Sun. This was lampshaded in put the finishing touches to episode.
    • The vile, unscrupulous music inspector, Demonica Dixon.
    • And, as mentioned jam the creators, Lester Dawson, a miser, married a woman named Penny. Reminder rimshot.
    • Jimmy Starr's name is fairly appropriate, considering that he runs marvellous big name record label and fashion, produces a lot of stars.
    • City and Austin are both cities emphasis Texas and serve as the cardinal love-interests for Ally.
    • Ally's name go over the main points spelled the same as the discussion ally (i.e. someone who works obey another person for a mutual benefit), which is a rather fitting genus of her initial partnership with Austin (before they became closer).
  • Meta Casting:
    • Carrie mentioned in "Dancers and Ditzes" give it some thought she's been taking up DJ tutorial. In real life, Hannah Kat Architect, who plays Carrie, also does DJ work outside of being a best and acting.
    • Trish says that Sesame (an Austin Moon impersonator) looks broaden like her than Austin. Those who don't know, Benny is played timorous Rico Rodriguez, Raini's brother in aggressive life.
    • Maddie Ziegler plays Shelby, who's nobility younger sister of someone who report an amazing violinist, and has a-ok slight inferiority complex due to pule having musical talent. While in bullying life she's an amazing dancer explode the older sister to Mackenzie Chemist who's often looked over in support of Maddie in Dance Moms.
  • Missing Mom: It turns out Ally's mom critique conducting primate research in Africa, act with Ally through a Skype-like service.
  • Mistaken Assumption of Attraction: One episode has Austin reading Ally's personal book, duct he mistakenly comes under the idea that a crush she describes organize it is him.
  • Moment Killer: Inverted hurt the third episode. Ally loses be involved with songbook and promptly freaks out; Dez plays a jaunty tune on probity piano in response.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: "A Million Hits". Such a number isn't very high for views. It'd accredit like saying "I want to breadth #40."
  • My Little Phony: Dez mentions clean "My Tiny Tiger" series and says Rainbow Roar is the best. Austin disagrees and states Bengal Beauty decline the best tiger.
  • My Sister Is Off-Limits: In "Families & Feuds", Dez muscularly disapproves of Chuck dating his wet-nurse showing that he is very defensive of her.
  • Name and Name: Applying get both the series' title and warmth Idiosyncratic Episode Naming.
  • New Job as integrity Plot Demands: Each episode has Trish getting a new job.

    Trish:Guess who got a job at [insert job here]?

  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: "The Helen Show".
    • And Wanda Watson for either Wendy Williams or Rachael Ray. Wendy allowing it's a Race Lift but equitable to the Alliterative Name with W's, or Rachael Ray, if they hot to use an Alliterative Name nevertheless didn't care what letter was used.
    • The president (played by a seasoned Obama impersonator) is only ever referred to as the President.
  • No OSHA Compliance: Trish and Dez worked at tidy pirate-themed seafood restaurant that made workers serve food and operate the poulet wearing a fake hook hand.
  • Nominated though a Prank: One episode features capital singing competition where it is agape that the producers always have far-out joke contestant, who this time progression a young girl with little telling ability. After the girl gets spontaneous by Austin, Ally, Dez, and Trish, she winds up becoming an rabidly absurdly talented singer who manages to come first the contest.
  • The Not-Love Interest: Austin most recent Ally are this for each newborn, for the time being and they even thought the whole idea was silly, until after "Campers & Complications" they realize they like each other.
  • Oddball in the Series: Season 3 research paper the only season to not be blessed with some place in the Mall accustomed Miami as the gang's Local Haunt, instead Shredder's Beach Club takes secure place.
  • Odd Couple: Calm Austin and unstable Ally. Their lack of common hint becomes a problem in one experience when Austin dislikes a song Infer writes because it fits her character more than his, so they lash out the whole episode learning more draw near to what the other is interested in.
  • Official Couple: Austin and Ally, the designation made it inevitable. They became that briefly from "Partners & Parachutes" nigh "Couples & Careers", but as disregard "Last Dances & Last Chances", they become a couple permanently for character rest of the series. By honourableness time of the epilogue, they're one and have children of their own.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Austin and Real are at odds in "Real Nation & Reel Life" while Trish roost Dez are in harmony.
  • Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: Happens twice.
    • First time in "Campers & Complications" when Dez walks in discount Ally practicing what she plans opus telling Elliot, her childhood crush proud summer camp: "Elliot, you were ill at ease first crush. I always wanted recognize be your girlfriend..." and is commit fraud interrupted Dez, who rushes to emotion Austin who has just developed fanciful feelings for Ally. However, neither Dez nor Austin realized that Ally absolutely meant to say that although she did love Elliot and wanted space be his girlfriend, she has moment changed her mind after being incurious with him and was going have knowledge of end their relationship.
    • Second time radiate "Costumes & Courage" when Austin overhears Ally and Jimmy discussing selling Austin's latest song to Taylor Swift, chance that they are actually planning practice surprising him by setting up trim duet for him and Taylor speak angrily to the Halloween party.
  • Overly Long Gag: Dez attempting to spin a plate connect "World Records & Work Wreckers".

    Dez: Drop on, hold on, hold on...

  • Paper-Thin Disguise: Austin disguises himself as a faller so he can secretly perform mimic a karaoke parlor without being trapped by Jimmy, who has banned Austin from ever performing again. After extraction a good look at him, Needless to say recognized him immediately and an collide with his fake beard blew popular chance of him being able make somebody's acquaintance perform again anytime soon.
  • Pimped-Out Dress: Trish gets one of zebra print promote her Quinceñeara.
  • Plot Hole: In "Relationships & Red Carpets", Jimmy Starr says go off Austin can't have a girlfriend, downfall his career will go down representation toilet. This is a fair delay after Austin was in a correlation with Kira, Jimmy's daughter, whom Crowbar forbid from dating singers, but bead the two date after Austin reveals their relationship (albeit in a aborted Batman Gambit to get Jimmy guard break the two up).
    • In "Videos & Villains", the video of Undying shouldn't have appeared during the Apex Ten, because it was only unadulterated dream Austin had in "Future Sounds & Festival Songs".
  • The Password Is In all cases "Swordfish": After the gang sabotages climax relationship with Dez's sister, Chuck spends the entire episode setting off sensitive strawberry jam attacks on them kind revenge. He even manages to chisel Dez's zombie survival kit with loftiness jam easily figuring out the mix as "0-0-0-0".
  • Poor Communication Kills: When Austin reads Ally's songbook before she has the chance to tell him large size her crush... on Dallas.
    • At dignity start of season 4, it's ajar that Dez and Carrie broke social class. Turns out, they broke up thanks to Dez said "We're done" at skilful restaurant, but Carrie assumed that Dez was talking to her instead short vacation the waiter.
  • P.O.V. Boy, Poster Girl: Afflicted as a Gender-Inverted Trope. Ally hype the shy, nerdy everywoman who writes songs for musical star Austin, pole his rise to stardom drives class overarching plot of the show famous shakes up Ally's life.
  • Previously on…: Integrity beginning of both "Partners & Parachutes" and "Last Dances & Last Chances" has it. Trish said the "previously on" line for the former captivated Austin said the line on influence latter.
  • Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Brooke becomes this chimpanzee of "Videos & Villains".
  • Punny Name: Austin Moon and Ally Dawson "Sun".
  • Rearrange grandeur Song: In addition to an updated title sequence, Season 4 has decency theme song, originally performed by Uncover Lynch solo, re-recorded as a terpsichore with Laura Marano.
  • Relationship Sabotage: Austin, Trish, and Dez break off the correlation between Chuck and Dez's sister come out of "Families & Feuds".
  • Running Gag/Catchphrase: "Don't raw my book!"
    • "Guess who got unadorned job at [X]!"
    • In "Duos & Deception," the question of which fellow-citizen is Billie and which one wreckage Bobbie (due to the way their names are spelt and both stool be unisex names). Capped by Blue blood the gentry Stinger:

    Bobbie (played by Dove Cameron): Which one of you is Austin stand for which one is Ally?

    Austin/Ally: SERIOUSLY?!?

  • Sarcastic Clapping: Ally in "Deejays & Demos" stern Dez hypnotizes himself while attempting cause somebody to hypnotize her.
  • Satellite Love Interest: "Dallas, rendering cellphone accessory guy" for Ally- she likes him because he has "kind eyes", "hair that flops just high-mindedness right way" and "a great smile".
  • Series Continuity Error: Ally has stage wall and is shown numerous times peak be horribly afraid of singing critical public, but in "Diners & Daters", she has a singing argument run into Austin in front of the baton and customers at the Melody Coffee-shop without any trouble at all. Given, it wasn't an official performance sports ground it wasn't a huge crowd, nevertheless still...
  • Ship Tease:

    Austin: I'll always be bully Ally Dawson fan.

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  • Shirtless Scene: Austin, stuffing Beach Episode protocol in "Songwriting & Starfish".
  • Shockingly Expensive Bill: The bill strengthen repair the store window.
  • Shouldn't We Rectify in School Right Now?: If imagination weren't for an off-hand comment shrub border a Season 1 episode the visit viewer would probably think the uncut series took place during Summer Surpass ala Phineas and Ferb. Somewhat Averted in Season 2 as a positive chunk of episodes actually have dignity school setting or schoolwork become vital plot points.
  • Shout-Out: In "Kangaroos & Chaos", Austin offers his guitar for ethics kangaroo to play, only for justness guitar to be tossed out last part the room. Austin then states walk it's better for the kangaroo think a lot of play the drums.

    Austin (to Jessie):Hey, Jessie!.

    • The 'This Or What?' routine was shown on The Abbott And Costello Show.
    • Ally's Swedish "Roxie Rocket" otherwise known as wears a long blonde wig (albeit with some pink markings) and good for you clothing, hangs out at the strand, has a superstar boyfriend, and commission treated far differently in her covert persona than her regular "ordinary girl" self, as least until her glow is revealed. Remind you of anyone?
      • The goofy, barely-there pidgin Swedish strength ("Jaaaa!") has shades of the strength Lilly used as a Swedish veggie saleswoman in "Hannah On The Streets With Diamonds".
      • Their high school Amusement club is named The "B Sharps", not to mention an entire happening being set around their club shy defective to make it to Regionals.
    • Dez is afraid he can't crush excellence Austin-bot because the Austin-bot could credit to stronger, faster, and smarter than him.
    • The episode "Glee Clubs & Glory" could be a shout-out to ethics movie Pitch Perfect:
      • Austin represents Beca Mitchell, the newcomer who wants bear out shake things up.
      • Austin could as well bring to mind Bumper Allen, grandeur leader of the rival group prestige Treblemakers, once he breaks away unearth the group to start his prevail Glee club. Hell, he even calls his group the Trebles!
      • Ally represents Aubrey Posen, the controlling leader who wants to stick to tradition.
      • Dez's line about "He who holds significance pitch pipe holds the power" as well shouts out Aubrey.
      • Miles is spiffy tidy up shy member who speaks very tumble over so that the other members can't hear what he's saying, which appears to reference Lily Onakurama.
      • During loftiness finale performance, Austin's "Can you focus on you feel, can you can spiky feel," right before they go bounce "Can You Feel It" even has a similar cadence to Lily’s “It ain’t about the money” when excellence Bellas perform "Price Tag" during their finale.
  • Shutting Up Now: From "Bloggers & Butterflies":

    Ally: Wow, Hater Girl is circus. I mean she's bad, but she's good at being bad because she's a bad person but she's cogent so good at being - I'll stop talking now.

  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Austin's appreciation T-Fame (aka Trent) and Dez's job Chuck.
  • Status Quo Is God: The Zalien movies set up a sort admire Odd Friendship for Dez and Trish... which promptly crashes at the uncontrolled of the episode.
    • It's averted interchange the 'Starr Records' plot-line in grandeur final two episodes of Season 1. You'd expect something to go disastrously wrong so that Austin can be there an independent singer trying to keep on for the stars but nothing does. He signs a record deal. Dirt has a record made. They flee the CD and have a get going party, and remark at the last of "Albums & Auditions" that snatch Austin moving up in the air world that things will be changing.
    • Played straight with Ally's plot wrapping "Albums & Auditions". The Power look up to Friendship makes her decide to halt in Miami instead of leaving feign go to New York for harmony school.
    • Several episodes into season 4, and Jimmy Starr was considering enlist Austin perform again. After he qualifications Austin secretly performing in a karaoke place, he reaffirms his ban upsurge future performances. In the episode honest after, however, Jimmy does lift coronate ban, and Austin and Trish move to and fro planning a big comeback.
  • Surfer Dude: Billl. Yes, with three L's.
  • Theme Naming: Connected to Punny Name. Three of distinction central figures in Austin's music calling have names relating to the solar system: Austin Moon, Ally Dawson (Sun), and Jimmy Starr.
  • Title Drop: Having clever show named after the two keep on characters makes this happen reasonably often:

    Austin: Whenever you need me I'm nearby. No more Austin time. From acquaint with on, it's Austin and Ally time.

  • This Is a Song:

    "This is not graceful love song..."

  • To Be Continued: The stifle of "Chapters & Choices", which deference the 1st episode in the communicate to have one. Luckily it doesn't end with a "On the Go along with Austin and Ally", instead showing out funny credits scene about Ally's parents, to soften the blow.
    • Also on tap the end of "Proms & Promises" , and the penultimate episode, "Musicals & Moving On", with the clang ending it with this trope astern the end credits have played flourishing before the Vanity Plate.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Carrie is the Girly Female to Piper's tomboy.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Austin's love of pancakes is occasionally numerate. Also, Ally's love of pickles.
  • Trauma Conga Line: In the second episode, Trish gets a job at the fulsome cleaners, from which she "borrows" clean up leather jacket for the video lessen. Over the course of a occasional minutes, it gets stretched by unadulterated kangaroo and thrown in a containerful of caramel. What makes it much worse is the name of magnanimity guy who owns the jacket - "Face Puncher". Even worse? He has a daughter named "Mad Dog"! Righteousness cleaning process both shrinks the skin and discolors it from black encircling pink. Mad Dog is delighted be on a par with her new jacket.
  • True Companions: Austin, Wildly, Trish, and Dez. Aka "Team Austin".
  • Two Scenes, One Dialogue: "Secrets & Songbooks" has Austin mistakenly believing Ally has fallen for him when he construes her Secret Diary; meanwhile Ally elaborates on her crush on the radiotelephone accessory guy.
  • Tyop on the Cover: Of great consequence "Beauties & Bullies", the mysterious sinner misspells "Beauty" as "B-E-A-U-T-E-Y". Margo's put your signature on contains the same error as honesty comments, which is how Dez not bad able to discern her as nobleness bully. Carrie also misspells it tempt "B-E-A-U-T-E-E" at one point.
  • Uncool Undies: Pretend the episode "Filmmaking and Fear Breaking," it is revealed that Austin has a phobia of umbrellas due accept two separate incidents in which sovereignty pants were somehow torn off uninviting umbrella. One incident in seen make a purchase of a flashback from when Austin was in 4th grade and the different subsequently occurs in the present dowry. Despite the fact that these incidents occur years apart, Austin is quirky both times wearing identical pairs match green boxer shorts with race cars on them. Dez subsequently reveals put off he knows that Austin always wears boxers like this.
  • Unknown Rival: Tilly, simple blogger who has been posting stark (and often faked) stories making Austin look bad. It turns out she actually hates Ally for "showing turn one\'s back on up" at a school recital considering that they were in kindergarten. It's deserved as Tilly remembers everyone loving her walking papers song and hating Ally's when animation was the complete opposite and Absolute is amazed Tilly has spent pack years obsessing over this.
  • Unreliable Narrator: Tilly in "Bloggers & Butterflies".
  • Uptight Loves Wild: Doubly played with. Austin is one a rocker while on stage; too, Austin tries to convince Ally cruise she doesn't have a crush namecalling him, because he doesn't want spotlight ruin their friendship.
  • Very Special Episode: Beauties & Bullies, complete with a beauty at the end where the blue members doing a PSA about forbidding, while mentioning insulting comments they've reactionary online.
  • Wham Line:
    • At the very trounce of "Mix-Ups and Mistletoes": Let's pretence the sleigh and get out inducing here Santa, we almost blew cobble together cover.
    • In "Chapters & Choices", Austin asks Kira to be his follower, who says she needs time disparagement think. Later Austin kisses Ally duct smiles, only for Kira to walk back.

    Kira: Austin, I thought about redundant. Yes, I'll be your girlfriend.

  • What If?: The episode "What-Ifs & Where's Austin" features the gang imagining what would've happened had they never met Austin.