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6	''Shake It Up'' (sometimes stylized as ''Shake It Up!'') is a Creator/DisneyChannel Original Series created by veteran TV producer [[Series/LaverneAndShirley Chris Thompson]] (in his final series creator role) that aired from November 7, 2010 to November 10, 2013.
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8	The series revolves around Cecilia "[=CeCe=]" Jones (Creator/BellaThorne) and Raquel "Rocky" Blue (Creator/{{Zendaya}}), two young teen [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friends]] from inner-city UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} who find themselves one step closer to their dream of becoming professional dancers when they're hired as backup dancers on ''Shake It Up Chicago'', an ''Series/AmericanBandstand''-style variety show.
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10	Other characters include:
11	* Flynn Jones (Creator/DavisCleveland): [=CeCe=]'s AnnoyingYoungerSibling who has [[TrademarkFavoriteFood an appetite for bacon]].
12	* Ty Blue (Roshon Fegan): Rocky's older brother, who is himself a skilled dancer. He's also an aspiring rapper, and fancies himself a [[TheCasanova ladies' man]].
13	* Martin "Deuce" Martinez (Creator/AdamIrigoyen): [=CeCe=] and Rocky's long-time friend who is known for his "connections" and his questionable schemes to make a buck.
14	* Gunther and Tinka Hessenheffer (Kenton Duty and Caroline Sunshine): A pair of [[HalfIdenticalTwins fraternal twins]] from an [[{{Ruritania}} indeterminate European country]] who have been [[ForeignExchangeStudent foreign exchange students]] since the first grade, and also dance on the show. [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Depending on their mood]], they can be either friends or enemies toward the girls.
15	* Gary Wilde (R. Brandon Johnson): A handsome {{Narcissist}} of a host/producer of ''Shake It Up Chicago''.
16	* Georgia Jones (Creator/AnitaBarone): [=CeCe=] and Flynn's single mother, who serves as a FairCop.
17	* Dina Garcia (Ainsley Bailey): Deuce's girlfriend.
18	* Henry Dillon (Buddy Handleson): Flynn's best friend.
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20	Exists in the Franchise/DisneyChannelLiveActionUniverse due to [[Series/HannahMontana Teen Court]] appearing in an episode, and later on a full {{Crossover}} episode with ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie''.
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22	Starting with the second season, Disney launched a related spin-off competition called ''Shake It Up: Make Your Mark'' where various people participated in competitive dancing, with the winners becoming guest dancers on a future episode of ''Shake It Up''. The first competition accepted submissions throughout the summer of 2011 with the competition itself televised the weekend of October 18, 2011, and the winners appeared at the beginning of the second season episode "Camp It Up". The second competition likewise accepted submissions over the summer of 2012, and aired on the weekend of October 19, 2012, and the winners for the second competition appear in the episode "Home Alone It Up".
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25	!''Shake It Up'' provides examples of:
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27	* AccidentalMisnaming: Gary Wilde sometimes has trouble remembering the names of his dancers.
28	* AccidentalPublicConfession: Rocky innocently announces that she kissed Logan (on the cheek) when she overhears Flynn objecting that Georgia and Jeremy can't marry Jeremy "because of the kiss", thinking that Flynn knows about her and Logan.
29	* AccidentalProposal: In "Review It Up", [=CeCe=] and Rocky invite a reviewer, along with his girlfriend and her family, to Crusty's Pizza where they put on a flash mob in an attempt to impress the reviewer so that he would stop trash talking ''Shake It Up: Chicago''. After their performance, the reviewer's girlfriend finds in her pizza the friendship ring Deuce meant to give to Dina on their anniversary and thinks the reviewer is proposing to her and excitedly says yes. They accidentally become engaged.
30	* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Flynn, who handwaves that he's "the only responsible person around here", and even got a model to like him, saying he's adorable, and Henry.
31	* AirQuotes: Deuce accidentally hurts himself whilst doing these.
32	* AnAesop: {{Subverted\|Trope}}:
33	-->'''[=CeCe=]:''' So you did all this just to teach me a lesson?\
34	'''Mrs. Jones:''' No. We just thought it'd be fun! ''(she and the coach laugh)'' But the way you said it makes me sound like a better parent, so [[SureLetsGoWithThat let's go with that]]!
35	* AffectionateNickname: Ty calls Flynn "Little ''Noun''", i.e. "Little Dude" or "Little Man".
36	* AfraidOfBlood: In "Break It Up", Rocky accidentally cuts her foot on a broken glass after taking a dare from [=CeCe=] to jump in the lake. Deuce offers to examine Rocky's injury, but faints at the sight of her blood.
37	* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The alien subplot in "Beam It Up" as well as the entire plot of "Switch It Up".]]
38	** And again in the second ChristmasEpisode, naturally YetAnotherChristmasCarol style.
39	* AlphaBitch:
40	** Candy Cho gives off this vibe.
41	** Gunther and Tinka subvert this: they act like Alpha Bitches [[JerkassToOne to Rocky and [=CeCe=]]], but given their FunnyForeigner[=/=]{{Cloudcuckoolander}} status, they're anything but.
42	** Kristen Wibler is a classic example of this. She has her own minions and easily wipes the floor with Tinka in a fashion showdown, showing showoff such expensive and well coordinated items, that Rocky, [=CeCe=] and Tinka all vote her, twice.
43	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The dancers of ''Shake It Up UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}''.
44	** Candy Cho to Rocky.
45	* [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously Bi]]/CampStraight:
46	** Gunther.
47	** Henry.
48	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Flynn.
49	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Oh, Flynn and his video games.
50	-->'''Flynn:''' Oh yeah? Well I just killed a zombie, stole a bus, and spray painted the word booger on the side of a cop car.
51	** In "Slumber It Up", [=CeCe=] says something to the effect of "we'll watch chick flicks, do makeovers, talk about boys & conjugate irregular verbs in Spanish!".
52	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Some episodes are show as being at "Main" station on one of Chicago's elevated rapid transit lines. A "Main" station does exist on the Chicago L, but it's in Evanston, not Chicago itself.
53	* AtArmsLength: [=CeCe=] does this to Henry when she joins his karate class in "Kick It Up", even taking the time to apologize to Rocky while switching hands to keep holding him back. Made even funnier when she lets go and Henry keeps running until he falls over Flynn.
54	* AxCrazy: Rocky becomes this toward Ty in "Switch it Up" when he takes her place in the big dance number.
55	* BaitAndSwitchComparison: When Flynn is dog-sitting:
56	-->'''Ty:''' What happened in here?\
57	'''Flynn:''' Whimpering, begging, and I had to clean up after an accident ({{beat}}) [[BringMyBrownPants and that was just Deuce]].\
58	'''Ty:''' So where is that filthy animal?\
59	'''Flynn:''' He's in there giving the dog a bath.
60	* BareHandedBladeBlock: In the episode "Oh Brother It Up", [=CeCe=] Jones performs this technique flawlessly on a quarter tossed by Logan. He even compliments her on her cat-like ninja skills.
61	* BeautyContest: a children's beauty pageant is featured in "Glitz It Up". The girls range from GirlyGirl Sally to {{Tomboy}} Eileen (who wanted to play baseball rather than wear a pretty dress and upon meeting Rocky, her first words are "Get me out of here!")
62	* BilingualBonus: In "Weird It Up", Ty asks Deuce to be a translator for his date with a foreign exchange student that only speaks Spanish.
63	* BillBillJunkBill: Parodied in "Apply It Up":
64	-->'''[=CeCe=]:''' Bill for Mom. Bill for me that I'll give to Mom. Catalog for Mom that I'll take for me.
65	* BlackAndNerdy: Rocky.
66	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Tinka, Rocky, and [=CeCe=] respectively.
67	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In "Fire It Up", one of the reasons [=CeCe=] didn't want to go to prison is because she is afraid to wear the uniform there. She says that she does not look good in orange, nor does she look good in jumpsuits, and she does not look good in orange jumpsuits.
68	* BrokenAesop: In one episode when Gunther learns to be cool and uses an American accent (which amounts to being obnoxious and acting like he came straight out of MTV) he has girls swooning over him. The aesop ends up being "be yourself" but that doesn't stop an unintended aesop of "act like everyone else and people will like you better" from appearing.
69	* BrotherSisterIncest: Tinka had to let Gunther know that they wouldn't grow old and get married. Cue Gunther looking depressed.
70	* ButtMonkey: Every character takes a turn to be the Butt Monkey at times.
71	* CallBack: "Hello, Bay-BEE!"
72	* CampGay: The famous choreographer Theodore [[MeaningfulName Vainglorious]] in the episode "Double Pegasus It Up".
73	* {{Catchphrase}}:
74	-->'''Gunther:''' I'm Gunther!\
75	'''Tinka:''' And I'm Tinka!\
76	'''Together:''' And we are THE HESSENHEFFERS!
77	** Parodied from time to time. Others would introduce themselves in that manner, finishing with, "and we are STAYING!" or "and you are UNEMPLOYED!"
78	** Also Flynn's shout when he answers the door:
79	--->'''Flynn:''' I'll get it, Mom!
80	** The shout is subverted in "Vatalihootsit It Up", when he screams it as the phone rings, it's his mom on the line.
81	* CannotTellAJoke: Rocky.
82	* TheCastShowOff: ''And how''. Several of the stars have had a song featured somewhere in the show, beyond as a parody or gag (Bella, Zendaya and Caroline have songs that were featured during ''Shake It Up Chicago'' dance numbers, for example). And of course, the dancing is central to the show's very premise.
83	* CelebCrush: The two leads are implied to have one on Creator/TaylorLautner.
84	* CelebrityParadox: Between the two of them Creator/BellaThorne and Creator/{{Zendaya}} have four songs that have been played on the show during dance numbers, yet no one in the Shake It Up! universe wonders why [=CeCe=] and Rocky look like them. Could be explained by the fact that the singers of those songs are only heard and never seen, so there's no reason to believe anyone InUniverse actually knows what they look like. Also, the song "Show Ya How" is by Adam and Kenton (Deuce and Gunther respectively) in "Protest It Up"
85	** Like Bella and Zendaya, Caroline Sunshine (Tinka) has a song that has been played during a dance number (specifically during the opening ''Shake It Up Chicago'' segment in "Embarrass It Up") but at least this one could be a "pass" as her singing voice isn't exactly identifiable as Tinka's.
86	* ChainedHeat: [[spoiler:After [=CeCe=] spectacularly fails her audition, Rocky forces Gary to let her be on the show by stealing [=CeCe=]'s mom's handcuffs, chaining herself to [=CeCe=] and dragging her onto the stage.]]
87	** [[spoiler:Switch scenes to Georgia, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments who's trying to figure out how to arrest a crook without handcuffs]].]]
88	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Gunther and Tinka went from being the AlphaBitch FunnyForeigner couple to just the Funny Foreigner couple...''[[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]]''. Moreover, Flynn went from being just a prankster to actually showing a surprising amount of intelligence and even maturity, [[FridgeBrilliance almost as if Rocky is starting to rub off on him]].
89	* ChildProdigy: Henry.
90	* ChristmasEpisode: "Jingle It Up" and "Merry Merry It Up".
91	* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Gunther and Tinka's homeland. {{Lampshaded}} when Rocky and [=CeCe=] meet their family:
92	-->'''Rocky:''' Oh my gosh, Gunther and Tinka are the ''normal'' ones.
93	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Gunther and Tinka are the most obvious examples, but [=CeCe=] has her moments, especially when she tries to concoct a ZanyScheme.
94	* ClownCarBase: Ty's "Man-cave".
95	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
96	-->(''Destiny, Flynn's crush, is twice his age'')\
97	'''Ty:''' Whoa! Little dude, you left out one tiny detail about Destiny.\
98	'''Flynn:''' Didn't I mention she's blonde?
99	** Also:
100	--->'''[=CeCe=]:''' She's a gold finger.\
101	'''Rocky:''' Digger.\
102	'''[=CeCe=]:''' No, I don't dig her. She's a user.
103	* CommutingOnABus: Kenton Duty who plays Gunther Hessenheffer has dropped down from main character status to recurring character status as of Season 3. There is a WrittenInAbsence in the season premiere as it is explained that [[spoiler:Gunther has returned to his homeland to both care for his ailing grandmother and help squelch a revolution.]]
104	* CompressedVice: [[spoiler:It is mentioned in exactly one episode that [=CeCe=] has dyslexia]]. It is never brought up again.
105	* CoordinatedClothes: Gunther and Tinka are extravagant twins who often wear matching outfits, but not the same ones (e.g. Gunther's will sport a 'G' and Tinka's a 'T'). Gunther's outfits might be seen as slightly creepy.
106	* CreditCardPlot:
107	** [[spoiler:In the second episode, the girls open bank accounts in order to manage their income as dancers on ''Shake It Up Chicago''. Now wielding debit cards, they find it surprisingly easy to lose track of how much they've been spending, and find themselves holding a check they can't pay at an expensive Italian restaurant.]]
108	** [[spoiler:Although debit cards don't get overdrawn, they get declined due to insufficient funds.]]
109	* {{Crossover}}: With ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'', entitled "Charlie Shakes It Up".
110	* CuteWitch: [=CeCe=]'s costume in "Beam It Up".
111	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:Henry doesn't appear nor get a mentioned in season 3.
112	* DawsonCasting: InUniverse example in the episode "Age It Up": "teen sensation" Justin Starr is really 24 and married (his wife goes on tour with him as his "manager"), and plays 16 to appeal to teenage girls. The show itself avoids this--none of the leads are in their twenties, with only Roshon Fegan (whose character is older than the rest anyway) being over 16. Ainsley Bailey who plays 14 year old Dina Garcia is 20 in real life.
113	* DefyingTheCensors: In "Give It Up", Mrs. Locassio mentions that she used to dance as a Vegas showgirl ''[[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn in her birthday suit]]''.
114	** From the same episode:
115	--->'''Deuce:''' FYI, Seraphina told me couture means fancy clothes. I thought it meant lady parts.
116	* DiagonalBilling: Even InUniverse the two can't determine who is the sidekick and they seem to have equal screen time and plots centered around each of them.
117	* DisappearedDad: The only thing we know about [=CeCe=]'s dad is he isn't there.
118	** [[spoiler:Now we know that her mom and dad are divorced.]]
119	** Rocky's dad has gone overseas, joining Doctors Without Borders. Potentially starting with "Apply It Up" it's now implied that Rocky's dad is staying with the family again.
120	* DisproportionateRetribution: In ''Hot Mess It Up'', on Rocky and Cece’s new web show, Cece gives bad advice to a boy who couldn’t get a date for his school dance, telling he change schools and start over, leaving him separated for his twin sister, who sends them an angry e-mail for the bad advice. Then Rocky believes it is Gunther and Tinka, and makes Cece be his date for the school for it. However, Rocky goes too far by enjoying Cece’s humiliation and suffering, even helps publicly humiliate her. While did Cece need to be punished for giving bad advice to someone, it was by much on Rocky’s part to embarrass Cece in front of everyone at school, [[spoiler:especially when it was revealed to Gunther and Tinka’s cousins whom were being separated because of Cece’s bad advice not them. At the end of the episode, Cece is rightfully furious at Rocky for publicly humiliating her.]]
121	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: {{Averted\|Trope}}, unusually for the Disney Channel. Music/SelenaGomez sings the theme song, but she never appears on the show.
122	** Creator/BellaThorne and Creator/{{Zendaya}} ''do'' sing the song "Watch Me" [[CelebrityParadox which has been played a few times]] during the [[ShowWithinAShow Shake It Up Chicago]] dance numbers. Zendaya does "Something To Dance For" in "Apply It Up," while Bella sings "TTYLXOX" in "Judge It Up".
123	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: When Henry ([=CeCe=]'s tutor) shows up with his clothes torn and multiple bruises, the audience's reaction is "aww." When it's revealed that his abuser is a girl, ''cue audience laugh track''.
124	* DownerEnding: "Party It Up". [[spoiler:After Mrs. Jones forces Ty and Deuce to reveal [=CeCe=] and Rocky's whereabouts by making them drink lots of water and fill them with urine, she finds them at Gary Wilde's party, brings them home and grounds them for a month. In the last scene, the whole group is forced to clean up the kitchen of their apartment.]]
125	** "Show It Up", which is also a TheBadGuyWins ending.
126	** ''Ty It Up", and while mileage varies since [[spoiler:Ty becomes the new host and [=CeCe=]] and Tinka pass the audition. But Rocky isn't brought back to the show even though there was a spot for her since Ty becomes host instead of a regular background dancer.]]
127	* DramaticSpotlight: An interesting example in "Start It Up", in that the spotlight itself causes the drama (specifically, it effectively dazes [=CeCe=], nearly disqualifying her from being on ''Shake It Up Chicago'', at least until Rocky steps in).
128	* EekAMouse: In one episode, Deuce gets scared and jumps onto a chair when he sees a mouse, which CeCe's brother, Flynn, mocks him for.
129	* ElderlyFutureFantasy: "Reunion It Up" features a double version, with both Rocky and [=CeCe=] imagining what their life could be like if their friendship broke up. In Rocky's fantasy she imagines [=CeCe=] went on to be a rich successful dancer (who due to plastic surgery still looks young) whilst due to never having [=CeCe=] to push her into doing things outside her comfort zone, she never amounted to anything and is still a background dancer on Shake It Up Chicago. In [=CeCe's=] fantasy she imagines that Rocky went onto have an important professional career and become a wealthy businesswoman, whilst without Rocky to be her common sense, she failed at everything she ever tried and is now an elderly homeless woman with no prospects.
130	%% * EnfantTerrible: Gunther and Tinka's cousin, Klaus.
131	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Cecilia and Raquel are not particularly fond of their first names. It doesn't help that [[HypocriticalHumor one always laughs upon hearing the other's real name]].
132	* EnterStageWindow: [=CeCe=] and Rocky live in the same apartment building. As such, Rocky usually enters via the fire escape.
133	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Danika in "Embarrass It Up". ''Seriously''. Rocky and [=CeCe=] chase after her ''after'' she insulted them both.
134	* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: In "Hot Mess It Up", [[spoiler:Deuce, Flynn, and Ty host an internet show called "Zombie Talk". This is later transformed into "Zombie Idol".]]
135	* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When [=CeCe=] and Rocky show up to the audition for ''Shake It Up, Chicago!'' in the pilot, they see Gary Wilde, the host of the show, for the first time in person. [=CeCe=] remarks that he looks taller on [=TV=].
136	* {{Expy}}: WordOfGod has it that Gunther and Tinka were inspired by [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Ryan and Sharpay Evans]]. Right down to the IncestSubtext and the brother being AmbiguouslyGay. However, while just as showy, Tinka's not an AlphaBitch like Sharpay.
137	%% * FairCop: [=CeCe=]'s police officer mom Georgia.
138	* FakeGuestStar: For the first season, Caroline Sunshine as Tinka. She doesn't appear in the opening [[PromotionToOpeningTitles until Season 2]], even though her character appeared in one episode more than Gunther.
139	* FeigningIntelligence: [=CeCe=] does this twice. First when she starts dating James and tries to be smart like him and second when she goes on a date with a blind guy who is also very smart and pretends to like whatever he says.
140	* FiremenAreHot: Georgia's relationship with Jeremy qualifies just as much.
141	* {{Flanderization}}: [=CeCe=] goes from being an average student to a girl who doesn't know what Pittsburgh is ''in one episode''.
142	* FlirtyStepsiblings: [=CeCe=] and Logan give off these vibes, in a BelligerentSexualTension sort of way. [[spoiler:Their parents end up calling off the wedding in the end]]; however, [[spoiler:in the future-set episode, we learn that Logan and [=CeCe=] are married]].
143	* FoodAsBribe: Flynn will do anything if you give him ice cream.
144	* FunnyForeigner: Gunther and Tinka.
145	* FriendlyEnemy: Gunther and Tinka to Rocky and [=CeCe=].
146	-->'''[=CeCe=]:''' We're frenemies, right? And the first part of that is "friends."\
147	'''Tinka:''' And the last part is "enemies."
148	%% * FriendsRentControl
149	* GaveUpTooSoon: In the episode "Slumber It Up", Flynn Ty Deuce and Gunther go on a treasure hunt to find a lost treasure hidden in "Crusty's Pizza". They then realize the map was a fake and call off the search, but after Ty Deuce and Gunther leave Flynn ends up finding the treasure himself anyway.
150	* GenerationXerox: From "Future It Up", Cece's son [[spoiler:with Logan]], L.J. looks almost exactly like Flynn.
151	* {{Golddigger}}: In "Match It Up", a girl named Savannah only wants Deuce because he is participating in a "Cash Tornado" hoping he will win a lot of money for her. [=CeCe=] and Rocky trick her into revealing her true colors by disguising Ty as a famous billionaire.
152	* GRatedDrug: Energy drinks. Rocky {{lampshade\| hanging}}s this by comparing it to [[DrugsAreBad steroid use]] and painting a {{slippery slope\| fallacy}} picture of what will happen to her and [=CeCe=] if they resort to them.
153	%% * HalloweenEpisode: "Beam It Up".
154	* HammerspaceHideaway: Flynn stows away inside [=CeCe=]'s suitcase to get on the ''Shake It Up, Chicago!'' field trip in "Shake It Up, Up and Away".
155	** Flynn, along with [=CeCe=] Rocky and Deuce, does this again in the crossover episode with ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' where the ending gag reveals that the four have stowed away in Teddy's luggage back to Denver; [=CeCe=] and Rocky in Teddy's suitcase, Flynn in her carry-on and Deuce in her purse...heh heh "her purse"!
156	* HandshakeSubstitute: [=CeCe=] and Rocky do a slap swear instead of a PinkySwear.
157	* HandsomeLech: Gary Wilde, using lines such as:
158	-->'''Gary:''' You have the right to remain ''foxy!''
159	%% * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Gunther and Tinka.
160	* HeterosexualLifePartners: [=CeCe=] and Rocky, who do absolutely everything together, and have the same hopes and dreams. Reinforced by Rocky's refusal to be on the show if [=CeCe=] can't be on.
161	* HollywoodGenetics: Zendaya is biracial, but both Rocky's parents are dark skinned African-Americans.
162	* HypocriticalHumor:
163	** In "Meatball It Up", Flynn complains about [=CeCe=] and Rocky swimming in the money they got from the bank; however, the girls catch him trying to steal half of the money.
164	** Rocky is a LoonyFan of Justin Starr and throughout "Age It Up" keeps obsessing over him and trying to have him all to herself. When it is revealed in the end that [[ReallySeventeenYearsOld he is really 24 years old and married to his manager]], what is her reaction? "I knew there was something about you the moment I first saw you, which is reason why I was never that big of a fan".
165	** In "Party It Up", [=CeCe=] and Rocky blackmail Ty and Deuce into covering for them while they sneak out to Gary Wilde's party by threatening to expose them for hijacking a golf cart. Later, Flynn finds out and shakes each of them down for 20 bucks.
166	-->'''[=CeCe=]:''' I can't believe I'm being blackmailed by my own brother!
167	-->'''Deuce:''' [[LampshadeHanging Really? You didn't have a problem in the concept of what you were doing to us.]]
168	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The episodes are titled as "(Plot Point) It Up", with [[OddNameOut the exceptions]] of "Shake It Up, Up And Away" (which, due to the TitleDrop episode name, still has the words 'It' and 'Up'; however those two words aren't at the end of the episode name like all other episodes); the 90-minute special ''Shake It Up: Made In Japan''; and the SeriesFinale "Remember Me," the only episode not to have "It Up" in the title at all.
169	* ImagineTheAudienceNaked: [=CeCe=] suggests this to Rocky at the audition so she's not intimidated by the other dancers. It backfires horribly when this produces some rather disturbing mental images.
170	** [[spoiler:It backfires again when [=CeCe=] comes down with PerformanceAnxiety and Rocky reminds her to do this. The only person [=CeCe=] can imagine naked is herself.]]
171	* IncrediblyLamePun: Deuce and Flynn's jokes during the talent show.
172	** Ty, Flynn & Danika also use these in "Embarrass It Up".
173	* IndyEscape: PlayedForLaughs in "Match It Up". Deuce is being manipulated by a GoldDigger named Savannah who is only dating him for the money he is collecting during the Cash Tornado tournament. When he sees Savannah flirting with Ty (whom Rocky had disguised as a famous billionaire to expose Savannah's true colors), he immediately rips the tornado ball out of its place and rolls it whilst inside of it like a hamster wheel trying to run Ty over.
174	* InformedAbility: [=CeCe=]'s matchmaking skills. It's only brought up in one episode, and the match in that episode didn't hold up so well.
175	%% * IronicEcho: At least once an episode.
176	* ItWillNeverCatchOn: In the episode that tells us about Shake It Up Chicago's 1950's counterpart, the past equivalent of Flynn has a RunningGag where he suggests a modern-day convenience (e.g. the microwave, cell phones), and is regularly dismissed.
177	* JerkassDissonance: {{Invoked\|Trope}} InUniverse by Gunther and Tinka towards the Bulldogs' cheerleaders:
178	-->'''Gunther:''' I know they're calling us losers, but they do it in such an entertaining way that it's infectious!
179	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [=CeCe=] Jones.
180	* LargeHam: From the pageant episode, when [[spoiler:Ilene wins.]]
181	-->'''[[spoiler:Ilene]]:''' [[spoiler:I wish all the little girls could feel as pretty as I do!]]
182	** Gunther and Tinka have their moments of this too.
183	** As does Flynn.
184	** [[KidAnova Ty]] certainly does.
185	%% * KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Flynn watches a horror movie in "Party It Up".
186	* KissOfLife:
187	-->'''Ronny:''' I caught her kissing my boyfriend!
188	-->'''Angie:''' He was drowning! I was giving him mouth-to-mouth!
189	* LIsForDyslexia: [[spoiler:[=CeCe=] has it. [[ActorAllusion So does Bella Thorne]].]]
190	* LittleBoySeeksBigGirl: Flynn towards Destiny[[note]]her actress happens to be the same one pictured on the Tropes page[[/note]] in one episode.
191	** And [[Series/GoodLuckCharlie Teddy]].
192	* LocalHangout: Crusty's Pizza Shop, as of Season 2.
193	* LoonyFan: Subverted in the episode "Copy Kat It Up", wherein a shy, socially-awkward girl named Kat seems to have a near-stalkerish obsession with the girls, especially [=CeCe=]. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a BatmanGambit to get a spot dancing on the show.]]
194	* LovableAlphaBitch: Gunther and Tinka simultaneously live up to and subvert this trope (specifically the "AlphaBitch" part).
195	* {{Malaproper}}: In "Hook It Up", Gary is seen consistently using incorrect names for everyone he talks to:
196	-->'''Gary:''' Look Coco, Ricky, I like you. If I didn't, [[HypocriticalHumor I wouldn't have even bothered to remember your names]].\
197	'''[=CeCe=]:''' [[LampshadeHanging You didn't]]. It's [=CeCe=] and Rocky.
198	* ManipulativeEditing: In "Reality Check It Up". Makes sense since the episode was about a RealityShow.
199	* MegaMealChallenge: In "Meatball it Up", Rocky had to take on one called the "Big Fat Heart Attack", which features a 10-pound meatball atop a big plate of spaghetti, with all meals free if she finishes within an hour. A later episode revealed the restaurant had to be shut down when one of the customers almost died upon taking the challenge.
200	* TheMatchMaker: [=CeCe=] plays Matchmaker for Deuce and Dina in "Match It Up".
201	* MeaningfulName: The nickname Deuce doesn't make much sense until his real name is revealed to be [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Martin Martinez]].
202	* MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody: [=CeCe=] is terrified to go to prison in "Fire It Up". Rocky tries to console her by telling her she can do this trope there with fellow prisoners. It then cuts to an ImagineSpot of this happening. It then cuts back to the two girls, and they think this is not sound endearing.
203	* ModestyShorts: Rocky wore this at least once. She wore biker shorts during a spotlight dance in "Copy Kat It Up", and for good reason since the skirt spent almost as much time up as it did down.
204	* MrFanservice: Ty Blue and Deuce.
205	** Deuce tries to make Gunther this InUniverse [[SheCleansUpNicely after a little makeover]]. Ends up applying outside the universe, too.
206	* MsFanservice: [=CeCe=] & Rocky can be seen as this, through use of PaintedOnPants and LegFocus, respectively.
207	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Debit cards, ''debit cards'', '''debit cards'''.
208	* NeverMyFault: [=CeCe=] selfishly causes her mother and Jeremy to break up in "Merry Merry It Up" and insists throughout the episode that she has nothing to do with the breakup, repeatedly saying "SHE BROKE UP WITH HIM!!!!". It wasn't until she had {{Yet Another Christmas Carol}} experience that she finally realizes her mistake and gets them back together.
209	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
210	** Gary Wilde is a parody of Ryan Seacrest, who is also a known host of competition programs.
211	** Justin Starr is a parody of Music/JustinBieber, with his gentle features, pop songs, and comfortable style of dress. Of course, as far as we know, [[spoiler:Bieber wasn't an adult pretending to be a teenager]].
212	%% * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Gunther, sort of.
213	%% -->'''Gary (and later, [=CeCe=]):''' Stop reading my e-mails.
214	* NotMeThisTime: After ruining Rocky and Logan's date in "Love & War It Up", Cece feels bad and tries to fix things by being more supportive of the relationship at Logan's badminton game, which even Rocky thought was lame. Casper Carrington III walks in and joins them. Rocky understandably suspects she set her up, but Cece swears he came without her knowledge. Casper verifies this and explains he's a fan of badminton. Since he didn't try to hide the fact Cece invited him the previous night to ruin their date, Rocky believes him.
215	* OfficialCouple: Deuce and Dina are a romantic pairing.
216	** And, according to "Future It Up", [[spoiler:Ty and Tinka and Cece and Logan, though Ty and Tinka won't get together for 22 years and Cece and Logan won't until some time after the show ends.]]
217	* OlderThanSheLooks: Georgia Jones is more than likely in her mid-to-late thirties considering [=CeCe=]'s age. However Anita Barone is 48 years of age which is almost old enough to be Flynn's Grandma. And while she looks closer to 50 than 40 in the face, her body doesn't look older than 35.
218	* OneSteveLimit: Invoked InUniverse.
219	-->'''Flynn:''' Who is it?\
220	'''Deuce:''' Deuce.\
221	'''Flynn:''' Deuce who?\
222	'''Deuce:''' How many Deuces do you know?
223	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Apply It Up", when Flynn begins the RunningGag mentioned below, Henry simply responds "Hi Flynn", which prompts the following response:
224	-->'''Flynn:''' What? "Hi Flynn?" Where's the insult? Where's the big words I'll have to look up after you leave?
225	* OppositesAttract: [[spoiler:Logan and ''Cece'' will get married and have a kid some time in the next 22 years, according to "Future It Up".]]
226	* OutOfContextEavesdropping: In the episode "Hot Mess It Up", [=CeCe=] and Rocky think Gunther is moving back to the old country due to taking bad advice from [=CeCe=] on their webshow when they overhear him telling Tinka that he bought a plain ticket to the old country and Tinka being very sad about it. However, it turns out they misinterpreted the conversation as the plain ticket is really for a sequence convention across town and Gunther and Tinka's cousin is really the one moving back to the old country.
227	* OverlyLongGag: "Show it Up" begins with a long string of Rocky winning second place awards while Candy Cho wins first.
228	* PacManFever: A BlandNameProduct ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' that plays on Platform/Nintendo64, a system older than most of the cast. Bonus points for playing it with wireless Platform/PlayStation controllers.
229	* PaintedOnPants: [=CeCe=] seems to like these.
230	* PardonMyKlingon: In "Split It Up", upon hearing that Gary has chosen [=CeCe=] over her as Gunther's dance partner for a ''Wake Up Chicago'' appearance, Tinka rattles off a blue streak in her native tongue that Gunther declines to translate.
231	* PerformanceAnxiety: [[spoiler:[=CeCe=] suffers it in the Pilot episode, which is ironic since she was the most confident about the audition.]]
232	%% * {{Pilot}}: "Start It Up".
233	* PlayingCyrano: Rocky and Ty both play Cyrano for [=CeCe=] and James respectively in "Opposites Attract It Up".
234	* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The 1950's episode, where the multi-racial main cast co-exist quite peacefully and comfortably in and out of class in spite of the pre-Civil Rights Movement racial politics of the day.
235	* PrizedPossessionGiveaway: In the ChristmasEpisode "Jingle It Up", Cece spends the episode being in-love with a handbag she finds at the mall while Flynn tricks Rocky into buying him a brand new video game console. At the end, however, they discover their neighbor's house suffered a fire and they lost everything. Flynn jumps at the chance to donate his new game console, and though she's reluctant at first, Cece also gives them her handbag.
236	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: A fire occurred at the Shake It Up Chicago! set in real life, so they incorporated that into the plot.
237	* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Inverted in the episode "Age It Up".
238	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [=CeCe=] gets the biggest one in "Oh Brother It Up", from Logan; You can't really argue with him when he calls [=CeCe=] out on her work ethic and attitude.
239	* RefugeInAudacity: [=CeCe=] at the [[ColdOpen beginning]] of "Meatball It Up".
240	* [[RunawayBride RunawayCouple]]: Georgia and Jeremy decided not to get married and call off the engagement at the alter.
241	* RightBehindMe:
242	** In "Throw It Up, [=CeCe=] makes fun of a British band called "The Highlighters" who are scheduled to perform on ''Shake it Up, Chicago!'' Unfortunately, the Highlighters just arrived and were standing right behind her. Thanks to [=CeCe=], the band [[RageQuit quits offended]] and [=CeCe=] and Rocky have to stop Gary from finding out.
243	** Subverted in the BootCampEpisode. [=CeCe=] tries to convince her cabinmates to sneak out after curfew to a party across the lake and starts making fun of Rocky for her promotion to drill sergeant. Her cabinmates suddenly get frightened and she then asks if Rocky is standing behind her, only to turn around and see [[DrillSergeantNasty Major Dance.]]
244	* RummageSaleReject: Gunter and Tinka are never seen without these kind of clothes. At one point they wore burglar outfits that ''[[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles sparkled]]''.
245	* RunningGag: Flynn: Hello (long-winded description of Henry that includes mockery of Henry's nerdiness). Henry: Hello (equally long-winded description of Flynn that includes a derisive comment about his lack of intelligence).
246	** Rocky and [=CeCe=]'s occasional speaking in-sync.
247	** "I'LL GET IT, MOM!"
248	* {{Ruritania}}: Wherever it is Gunther and Tinka are from.
249	* SarcasticConfession: In "Party It Up", [=CeCe=] pulls this trick on her mom, "jokingly" telling her that she and Rocky are sneaking out to Cary Wilde's party while she leaves for work. Georgia easily buys it, even jokingly asking them to buy milk after they "sneak out".
250	* SassyBlackWoman: Rocky's mom, and Rocky when she gets mad.
251	-->'''[=CeCe=]:''' You know, you scare me when you move your head like that!
252	* ScoutOut: "Boot it Up" has the Rainbow Girls and the Coyote Rangers.
253	* SecretTestOfCharacter: Deuce is put into one in "Glitz It Up" when he takes the blame for Dina "losing" her father's pet pig, which he was tasked to babysit for three days in order to inherit the Garcia family treasure. In reality, Dina actually gave the pig back to her father and there was never any treasure in the first place. The ''real'' purpose of the assignment was to test Deuce's protectiveness over Dina.
254	* SheCleansUpNicely: Tinka, [[spoiler:when she goes on her date with Ty in "Add It Up".]]
255	** And again in "Tunnel It Up" after [[spoiler:she loses all of the ridiculous, extravagant outer layers of her dress. It's even lampshaded by Deuce.]]
256	** Also, Eileen in "Glitz It Up".
257	* ShipperOnDeck: Rocky towards [=CeCe=] and Gunther in "Hot Mess It Up" as a way of teasing the former.
258	** Rocky and [=CeCe=] towards Georgia and her ex-husband, and again with Georgia and Jeremy.
259	* ShipTease: "Add It Up" teases a Ty/Tinka pairing. SheCleansUpNicely, they end up dancing on an elevated train platform, and they both say they had a nice time and might go out again.
260	* ShoeSizeAngst: In "Add It Up" Rocky confesses having enormous feet, big enough to wear her brother's shoes.
261	* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Surprisingly and regularly {{Averted\|Trope}} as Creator/JohnHughes High School is a prominent setting.
262	* ShoutOut: In the episode where [=CeCe=]'s mom and Coach go out, we get this:
263	-->'''Coach:''' I was babysitting my niece this weekend, and she ''begged'' me to turn on her favorite show. Guess what it was.\
264	'''[=CeCe=]:''' ''Series/{{Wizards Of\| Waverly Place}}''...\
265	'''Coach:''' ''Shake It Up Chicago''.
266	** According to Gunther, the twelfth thing on [=CeCe=]'s list of things to do before she's 16 is to have [[Literature/{{Twilight}} werewolves and vampires fight over her]].
267	*** [=CeCe=]'s list of things to do before she's 16 might itself be a Shout Out to ''Film/SixteenWishes'', a highly successful Disney Channel Original Movie of the time starring one of the cast from ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck''.
268	** The girls attend Creator/JohnHughes Junior High, home of the [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Bulldogs]].
269	** [=CeCe=] often uses Series/HannahMontana's "Ya think?" {{Catchphrase}}.
270	** [[Series/AntFarm "Calling All The Monsters"]] plays in "Beam It Up"'s dance number, and an instrumental version is used in "Fire It Up".
271	*** And again during the prison dance sequences in "Fire It Up", though it's only the instrumentals this time. More properly, it's a Shout Out to prison courtyard recreation of Music/MichaelJackson's ''{{Thriller}}'' made popular on Website/YouTube.
272	*** It also shows up in "Made in Japan" during the karaoke scene.
273	** The episode "Film/HomeAlone It Up".
274	** In "Stress It Up", Flynn and Deuce's favorite snack food [[BlandNameProduct Spongi Cakes]] is ceasing production, so they buy the last case of them in Chicago and plan to ration them for 'Spongi Cake worthy' moments. This was almost the exact plot of the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode, "The Sponge" (which was about contraceptive devices instead of snack cakes).
275	** In Future it Up the waitress Brenda looks like, and [[DeadpanSnarker snarks]] like [[Series/TwoBrokeGirls Max]] after 22 years.
276	* In "Wild It Up", this exchange occurs between Rocky and a teacher:
277	-->'''Teacher:''' What are you rebelling against, Blue?\
278	'''Rocky:''' [[Film/TheWildOne Whadda ya got?]].
279	* ShowWithinAShow:
280	** ''Shake It Up Chicago''.
281	** ''Teen Court''.
282	** ''True Teen Life''.
283	* ShownTheirWork: Rocky's quip about shrimp from "Party It Up" is accurate - ''those aren't veins''.
284	* SilentSnarker: Rocky, especially when Ty brags.
285	** When [=CeCe=] is lying to her gym coach about her injured leg, we see reaction shots of Rocky scoffing and rolling her eyes.
286	* SlipperySlopeFallacy: Rocky commits this fallacy once in "Start It Up", regarding energy drinks. She does this again in "Wild It Up", regarding cutting class.
287	* SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond: Rocky Blue is particularly adamant that everyone likes her, and spends an entire episode trying to win the favor of the cantankerous old witch Mrs. Locassio.
288	* SpaghettiKiss: [=CeCe=] and Rocky almost share a SpaghettiKiss while eating a giant meatball on a big plate of spaghetti in "Meatball It Up". It was a funny {{Les Yay}}.
289	* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Flynn objects to his mother marrying Jeremy when he catches his parents kissing the night before the wedding.
290	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/HannahMontana'' and, to a degree, ''Series/SonnyWithAChance''. Zendaya has even said the similarities to ''Hannah'' are intentional.
291	* SpitTake: PlayedForLaughs. In "Age It Up", both [=CeCe=] and Rocky hear something outrageous, pause for a second, take a swig of water, and do a spit take.
292	* StatusQuoIsGod: The entire 3rd season ran this way.[[spoiler:Shake It Up! Chicago burns down. A few episodes later, it was rebuilt. However, Gary Wilde is fired with Ty Blue as the new host, and Rocky is no longer a dancer. A few episodes later, both Gary and Rocky return to their respected positions on the show, though Ty still keeps his position and has to share it with Gary]]. There was even a marriage story arc involving Georgia Jones [[spoiler:but even that didn't go anywhere.]] The irony of that? [[spoiler:[=CeCe=] marries Logan instead]].
293	* SuddenSchoolUniform: in "Protest It Up". [=CeCe=] did ''[[BigNo not]]'' [[BigNo take the news well]]. Gunther and Tinka, on the other hand, had over-the-top amounts of free time opened up by no longer coming up with over-the-top outfits on a daily basis.
294	* TakeThat: Against Child Beauty Pageants.
295	* TakingTheBullet: The last part of Cece's dream in "Switch it Up" has Rocky about to drop a safe on Ty's head, but Cece pushes him away and takes the hit.
296	* TalentContest: Averted - odd for a show that focuses so much on singing and dancing, there's yet to be an actual episode that truly follows the spirit of the trope (the closest two is in "Auction It Up", but that was almost strictly an endurance test, and the Beauty Pageant episode, though that was a straight-up beauty pageant). However, the ''Make Your Mark'' SpinOff competition certainly counts as a RealLife example.
297	** There actually ''is'' a Talent Contest - [[spoiler:Rocky [[TheBadGuyWins lost]] to [[AlphaBitch Candy Stinkin' Cho]].]]
298	* TeacherParentRomance: Georgia goes on a date with [=CeCe=]'s gym teacher, Coach Lessor. [=CeCe=] is disgusted by this at first, but then sees it as a saving grace when Lessor considers letting [=CeCe=] off the hook for faking an injury earlier in the episode. It ends up backfiring, however, when the date ends very badly making Lessor even harsher on [=CeCe=] than before.
299	* TechnoBabble: "Did you use the open-source software to save time and the virus was hidden inside it?" Since this actually is meaningful, the Internet was not pleased.
300	* ThematicThemeTune: "Shake It Up" sung by Creator/DisneyChannel veteran Music/SelenaGomez.
301	* TokenWhite: [=CeCe=] among her circle of friends.
302	** Subverted backstage: Bella Thorne is actually Latina! [=CeCe=] is meant to be Caucasian, though.
303	* {{Tomboy}}: Eileen in "Glitz It Up".
304	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: [[WordOfGod According to Bella Thorne]], [=CeCe=] and Rocky, respectively. However, recent episodes tend to [[OutOfCharacterMoment have them randomly swap these roles]], DependingOnTheWriter.
305	* TomboyishName: Rocky. Just her name, thank you. [[DependingOnTheWriter Mostly]].
306	* TookALevelInKindness: Tinka, after Gunther left. Now she has become best friends with Rocky and [=CeCe=].
307	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Flynn and his bacon. At the end of the pilot, he comes home with several pounds of it.
308	* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailers for "Quit It Up" show the ending scene of the Shake It Up! Chicago set, without giving anything about the actual episode with [=CeCe=]'s new job.
309	* TrashTheSet: Occurs in the Season 3 premiere of the show when the girls return from their trip to Japan [[spoiler:to find the Shake It Up, Chicago set has burned down. Not the whole building, as they were able to get in, just the main set.]]
310	** Could lead to a RebuiltSet since details about future episodes indicate [[spoiler:only a temporary shutdown of Shake It Up, Chicago and possibly an hour-long special to mark the return of the ShowWithinAShow.]]
311	*** If there is a RebuiltSet, it could have had something to do with the stage itself. Bella Thorne stated earlier this year, during a Radio Disney Takeover, that the dance stage is both way smaller than it appears on television and really slick making it really difficult/dangerous to dance on sometimes.
312	* TVNeverLies
313	-->'''Flynn:''' Excuse me, it was on the internet. It must be true.
314	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Often divided by gender, although Gunther could be used in either one.
315	* TheUnfairSex: Dina towards Deuce, frequently. For instance, slapping him for kissing Rocky when it was ''her plan''.
316	* UnderTheMistletoe: Deuce bribes Deuce into letting her into his family's caroling band with a kiss under a makeshift mistletoe (actually a piece of parsley).
317	** Georgia and Jeremy get back together in "Merry Merry It Up" and kiss pretending that the crack on the ceiling is mistletoe.
318	* UnlimitedWardrobe: Especially noticeable with [=CeCe=] and Rocky and Tinka and Gunther, due to their wacky fashions, though other characters may qualify. {{Justified\|Trope}} though, as that's what they spend their ''Shake It Up Chicago'' money on.
319	* UnusualEuphemism: In "I Do It Up", Rocky and Logan meet at Crusty's to discuss their kiss from the previous episode and Rocky suggests substituting the word "kiss" for "puppy".
320	-->'''Logan:''' You gave me a ''puppy'' first.
321	-->'''Rocky:''' But you gave me a ''puppy'' right back.
322	-->'''Logan:''' Are you going to deny that you like the ''puppy''?
323	* VerySpecialEpisode: "Add It Up", [[spoiler:where we find out that [=CeCe=] has dyslexia ([[RealLifeWritesThePlot as does Bella Thorne]] in real life). This was essentially a special episode for her]].
324	* VoicesAreNotMental: In the FreakyFridayFlip episode, when [=CeCe=] and Flynn swap bodies, their voices stay with the original bodies and don't swap with them.
325	* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: In one episode, Rocky is tired of her reputation as a perfect student and buzzkill and creates a 'bad girl' persona, including a leather jacket and different make-up.
326	* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: [=CeCe=] is particularly fond of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} Union Jack]], and wears it on everything from jackets to karate uniforms.
327	* WhamLine: "Gunther is...gone-ther."
328	* WhatAreRecords: Flynn doesn't know what a jukebox is. When told it's a machine that plays records, he asks what records are. When told that they're like CD's, he doesn't know what ''those'' are either.
329	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Gunther and Tinka.
330	* WhyWasteAWedding: This happened in "I Do It Up", when Georgia and Jeremy decided to canceled their wedding as he wanted to have second thoughts about it, [[spoiler:though her ex-husband J.J. insisted that should get back together.]]
331	%% * WillTheyOrWontThey: Ty and Tinka after "Add It Up".
332	* WorldofSnark: Because pretty much everyone on the show is a DeadpanSnarker.
333	* WithFriendsLikeThese: Henry/Flynn. Flynn mocks Henry for being an InsufferableGenius; Henry makes fun of Flynn for being a RidiculouslyAverageGuy.
334	-->'''Henry:''' Mock me now, but when I invent time travel, I'm going to come back and slap you.
335	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "Merry Merry It Up".
336	* YoungEntrepreneur: Deuce, who sells everything from defective watches to counterfeit Music/LadyGaga tickets. Dina fits in this trope as well.

Context Series / ShakeItUp