Austin & Ally is a sitcom that first aired on December 2, 2011.Ally Dawson is an aspiring singer-songwriter with extreme stage fright who works at her father's instrument shop at the Mall ofMiami. Austin Moon is an aspiring singer who visits the shop one day and ends up finding her "Inspiration Room" the same time Ally is working on her newest song. After unceremonously kicking him out, she is shocked when a day later, her good friend Trish brings news that Austin has become an Instant Web Hit over night ("Actually, it was more like two nights" Austin admits in an interview) but what really shocks her is the fact it happened with him singing her song.After an episode's worth of misadventures trying to get Ally the credit she deserves, the two decide to combine forces. Ally writes the song, Austin sings it, Trish is Austin's manager and personal stylist, and Austin's friend Dez is their producer and music video maker.Will Austin and Ally make it big? We'll have to watch and find out.
Adults Are Useless: Ally's father regularly leaves her alone with her friends to run the store. He is also perhaps the only father in all of Disney to discourage his child from following her dream.
Anchored Ship: Austin and Ally have become this, and it's only the third episode.
Dawson Casting: Largely an aversion, with Calum Worthy (b. 1991) hardly being an egregious example and the rest of the main cast being 15-16 at the start of filming.
Austin: These official record officials will be officially recording our official time...*beat*...Officially!
Disproportionate Retribution: Tilly Thompson in "Bloggers & Butterflies" has hated Ally since kindergarten because Ally's good song was picked over her terrible one for an insect-themed play. She even takes this grudge out on Austin.
Good Angel, Bad Angel: In the episode "Secrets and Songbooks", Austin is conflicted as to whether or not to read Ally's book. So a good Austin and a Bad Austin appear on the real Austin's shoulders. Then a Trish dressed in a red pushes the Good Angel away and tells him to read the book.
Happy Dance: Dez in "Managers & Meatballs", which quickly turns sad.
Ally has at least two endearing bursts of these in "Soups & Stars".
Hands Off Parenting: Ally's dad often gives her the responsibility of taking care of the music store herself.
A condensed one when Ally accidently destroys a television studio.
Tilly Thompson gets one in "Bloggers & Butterflies", first accidentally admitting she faked her negative video footage of Austin, then having a meltdown in front of the audience she'd lined up to see Ally embarrass herself. She ends up so humiliated that she had to shut down her blog.
Trish organizes one for Dallas in "World Records & Work Wreckers". She hires a Marching band, a group of cheerleaders with a large banner, and a gospel choir to tell him that he's fired. There are even balloons! Problem: he already quit.
A mix of this and Trauma Conga Line when Dallas turns down Ally's Dance of Romance and Dez crashes both into the DJ station and Trish's table of birthday presents.
Hypocritical Humor: Trish lists a number of jobs she's been fired from in one period of time (for slacking off and generally not showing up at all) and proceeds to call Austin and Ally lazy.
Idiot Ball: Austin is unable to help any of the customers at the store with their instruments even though he may just be more musically talented than Ally.
The Illegible: Ally's chicken-scratch leads to multiple misunderstandings in "Kangaroos & Chaos". Ally claims this is just due to being rushed, because she really went to calligraphy camp.
Improbable Age: Ally's the head of the mall association.
Instant Web Hit: Austin becomes an internet sensation overnight ("Actually, it was more like two nights") but his music video is bumped to second by the end of the episode. The newest hit? Ally accidentally destroying the TV show studio!
Kangaroos Represent Australia: Played with in "Kangaroos & Chaos". The kangaroo causes most of the damage and conflict in the episode, but hundreds of people pay just to see it in the music store.
No OSHA Compliance: Trish and Dez worked at a pirate-themed seafood restaurant that made employees serve food and operate the fryer wearing a fake hook hand.
Noodle Incident: Whatever it was that caused Ally to develop terrible stage fright.
Recently revealed to be because of Ally freaking out during an audition for a prestigious music school, which caused a fear of rejection.
Odd Couple: Calm Austin and neurotic Ally. Their lack of common interest becomes a problem in one episode when Austin dislikes a song Ally writes because it fits her personality more than his, so they spend the whole episode learning more about what the other is interested in.
Shallow Love Interest: Dallas, the cellphone accessory guy, for Ally, because he has "kind eyes", "hair that flops just the right way" and "a great smile".
Shrinking Violet: Ally is this whenever she get's on stage. How bad is it? She accidentally destroys an entire TV studio while trying to get away when Austin gets her on a live TV show.
Status Quo Is God: The Zalien movies set up a sort of Odd Friendship for Dez and Trish... which promptly crashes at the end of the episode due to minor differences (a disagreement of each others' favorite pizza topping).
Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: A Running Gag with Trish. She goes through two or three jobs a day before finally becoming Austin's manager. According to Austin, her resume was eight pages.
Lampshaded in the second episode where Trish comes into the music shop while wearing her work uniform for a part time job.
"Its my first day... And probably my last."
And by the time we see her again, she has another new part time job.
In "Bloggers & Butterflies", we learn that Trish got fired from her first job in Kindergarten because she didn't realize a hall monitor can't charge people to use the restroom. In other words, she's been doing this since she was 5.
Also in "Bloggers & Butterflies", Trish wants to support Ally, but she and Dez have to work. Dez points out that they could just ask for the night off, but Trish decides they need to get fired instead because it's just the way she does things.
In "World Records & Work Wreckers", Trish finds a job she is good at, but ends up quitting anyway.
In "Burglaries and Boobytraps", all the mall store owners are offering a reward for the capture of the burglar. Trish offers yarn (she's working at the yarn store) but says she'll probably get a job with better stuff to offer soon.
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