History Series / AndiMack

* SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty: It even *looks* much realer than a typical Disnick KidCom with almost everything done outdoors or on location, but it's still a well-scrubbed, bright look with a new school, a picture-perfect house and street, and even the funky urban spaces the kids and younger adults inhabit by choice exhibit a very...Utah Mormon version of a hipster aesthetic, further cleaned up by Disney (the show has earned a reputation for leaving locations cleaner than they found them)

* FirstEpisodeTwist: Bex is Andi's mother, having had her through TeenPregnancy.

** TJ also falls under this based on his affection for Cyrus, [[spoiler:look back]] at the end of Season 2, and lack of interest in girls. Buffy, Andi, and Kira have all (both offscreen and in subtext) taken note of the fact that TJ likes Cyrus. [[spoiler: Also no longer ambiguous as of the finale, thanks to his RelationshipUpgrade with Cyrus. [[WordOfGod Luke Mullen in a post-finale interview confirmed that TJ is in fact gay, and that Terri Minsky told him before filming his second episode]].]]

* BuffySpeak: Buffy, Cyrus, Jonah, and [[spoiler: Jonah's mom]] all refer to [[spoiler: Bex and Bowie's surprise wedding]] as ''the thing.''

** Jonah [[spoiler: performs Bowies song from ''Best Surprise Ever'' at Bex and Bowies wedding]] in ''A Moving Day''

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** [[spoiler: Episode 13 of Season 3 has Cyrus sadly look back at TJ on the swings with Kira, confirming his feelings for TJ.]]

* MultitaskedConversation: The back-and-forth Cyrus and Buffy have in "Unloading Zone" over whether he should give TJ the shirt... isn't just about the shirt, is it? It's a coded way of expressing the anxiety that comes with having a (gay) crush.

** [[spoiler:A few plot threads were dropped when the writers were informed season 3 would be the last and they only had limited time to wrap things up. The most notable of these is probably Jonah's panic attack storyline. Also, Cyrus never comes out to his parents (that likely would have happened in season 4)]].
* WildTeenParty: 3 to be exact.

* LeftHanging: [[spoiler:A few plot threads were dropped when the writers were informed season 3 would be the last and they only had limited time to wrap things up. The most notable of these is probably Jonah's panic attack storyline. Also, Cyrus never comes out to his parents (that likely would have happened in season 4)]].

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Except for an EstablishingShot in an early episode the electric bike hasn't been seen since ThePilot.

** There's a lot of similar problems throughout the Andi Mack timeline that make it pretty much impossible to work out when things are happening or how much time has passed since the show's beginning - or, in some cases, even between individual episodes.

* BuffySpeak: Buffy, Cyrus, Jonah, and [[spoiler: Jonah's mom]] all refer to [[spoiler: Bex and Bowie's surprise wedding]] as ''the thing.''

Andi's (Creator/PeytonElizabethLee) [[CoolBigSis big sister]] Bex (Creator/LilanBowden) returns home the day before Andi's [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteenth birthday]]. When she does, she reveals a big secret that will change her world forever.

* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Well, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky thirteenth]]. Andi is shocked when her sister is revealed to actually be her mother.

* HasTwoMommies: Andi. Celia raised her, but Bex starts taking a motherly role in her life.

* ProductDisplacement: Characters refer to "Toaster Tarts", "Baby Taters" (the latter could just be The Spoon's name for them), "Facepage", "MeTube", and "Instapic."

->Once upon a time there was a girl whose world turned upside down.
->But she didn't.
-->-'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uWcx8YGAzM Official Music Video]]'''

* DarkerAndEdgier: A minor example, but you probably never expected a Disney Channel KidCom to feature the results of a TeenPregnancy affecting someone's life in addition to [[spoiler:characters with anxiety, a learning disability, military parent, deafness, and financial problems]]. There's also some slightly more grownup stuff like a joke averting NoPeriodsPeriod and mistaking "diskhead" for an insult in the first episode alone. Taken UpToEleven in Season 3 with a [[spoiler:gun safety]] storyline.

** Brought UpToEleven in Season 3, [[spoiler:when Buffy and Walker start dating. Seeing them together makes Andi jealous and makes her question her feelings once again. She feels that she now views Jonah more as a friend, so the two agree to be friends now. Jonah then starts dating Libby. Buffy eventually decides she's over Walker, ghosts him, and reconnects with Marty, who now has a girlfriend, Rachel. Libby then dumps Jonah, and Jonah almost immediately gets back with Amber, much to Andi's concern, after bonding with her over their family's situations, bringing us back to square one.]]

** There's a lot of similar problems throughout the Andi Mack timeline that make it pretty much impossible to work out when things are happening or how much time has passed since the show's beginning - or, in some cases, even between individual episodes.[[MST3KMantra Really, it's best to just not think about it.]]

* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Libby, a deaf character introduced in Season 3, is played by Millicent Simmonds, a deaf actress.

''Andi Mack'' is a 2017 Creator/DisneyChannel KidCom slash TweenDrama about MiddleSchool kids. The show first premiered on demand and on the Creator/DisneyChannel App on March 10, 2017. It ran for three seasons, with the series finale airing on July 26, 2019.

* MixedAncestry: The Macks are an interracial family, with a white father and Chinese-American mother, making Andi and Bex this. Andi is a bit more complicated. Neither her or the audience know the identity of her real father. [[spoiler:Andi's father Bowie turns out to be white, making her a quarter Chinese]].

* CannedLaughter: Surprisingly averted. It makes sense given that the show is from the same creator as ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', which didn't have the laugh track of the sitcoms that followed it. And like ''Series/StuckInTheMiddle'' (which also gets by perfectly well without a laugh track), it isn't produced by It's a Laugh Productions (the company responsible for most of the Disney Channel {{Kid Com}}s).

** ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', to an extent. The shows both follow teenage girls and the ups and downs of their lives, have a TokenTrio TwoGirlsAndAGuy setup for the title character's circle of friends, lack the CannedLaughter usually used in a sitcom, and are [[CharacterTitle named after the lead character]].

* RealityEnsues: Bex gets her own place and takes Andi to come live with her, but her first attempt at being a full-time parent without any help from her parents doesn't go as well as she would have liked.
** Cyrus writes his first ever movie, and while he impressively got the whole thing down, the end result is very unappealing. As many writers can tell you the first stories you write tend not to be very good. It doesn't really help that Cyrus is a kid with a huge ego.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Amber starts as a heel in Season 1, goes face in season 2, briefly slips back into heel in "The Snorpion", but goes back to face at the end. By Season 3 she's at the heel again and seems to be sticking to it as she's noticeably getting along with the others more.

* OneMarioLimit: This show acknowledges this trope even as it defies it with a character named Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}} among the regulars. In the pilot, Buffy dismisses the connection[[note]]calling it a "[[TheNineties show of the last century]]" - yes, a girl who was born after ''Buffy'' ended its original run is now old enough to be in middle school. Let that sink in.[[/note]] even as she admits she's been watching the eponymous show lately and thinks it's pretty good.