Family & Feuds

"Zero-zero-zero-zero is the best you can come up with?"

- Chuck

"Family & Feuds" is the twenty third episode in Season 2 of Austin & Ally. It aired on September 1st, 2013. The episode was the twenty third episode to be filmed of season 2. It earned 2.44 million viewers on the night of its premiere. This episode currently holds the title of the least viewed episode to date.

Brief Overview
Austin, Ally, and Trish join Dez at a birthday celebration for Dez's younger sister, Didi, but are mortified to find that Didi's new boyfriend is Dez's arch enemy Chuck.

Detailed Plot
Dez decides to sleep in at Sonic Boom when one of his father's inventions (a robot guard dog) goes haywire, even though the rest of his family is staying at a hotel. Just then, Trish announces that she has a job as a DJ at FM 109, and is hosting a contest with a pink scooter as the prize, which Dez decides to win as a gift for his sister Didi's 16th birthday party. Dez enters to win it for Didi, but suddenly Chuck strolls into the crowd to compete with him for the bike and ends up winning. Team Austin goes to Didi's birthday party to find that Chuck is her new boyfriend, which causes Dez to faint. The rest of Team Austin find out that there has been a feud between Dez and Chuck's families, which dates back to the middle ages. In spite of this, Chuck convinces his parents to put their differences aside and let them date. Dez however, wants no part of this agreement, and Austin decides to support Dez. Trish's loyalties are simply based on monetary compensation, which Dez gladly provides. The next day at school, Dez, Austin, and Trish to pull a prank on Chuck. Trish uses her broadcast time at FM 109 to claim Chuck dedicated the Austin Moon song "I Think About You" to an imaginary girlfriend he was supposed to spend more time with after dumping Didi, which causes Didi to break up with him. He gets back at Team Austin with lots and lots of strawberry jam. So much of it, that Dez decides to camp out in the practice room of Sonic Boom with stockpiles of tuna fish cans from his father's survivalist shelter until Chuck goes to college. Once they realize how depressed Didi has become as a result of the break-up, Dez's family, along with Austin, Ally and Trish(for $20 once again), decide that it is time for the feud to end. Ally purposely lures Chuck into Sonic Boom using a cover story about a non-existent pie-baking contest at the store. Suddenly Trish broadcasts a fake Emergency Broadcast System alert, and both are misled into believing that the zombie apocalypse that both boys and Dez's father believed was inevitable has started. Austin and Ally help Trish with the scam, although Austin's not exactly impressed with her zombie impersonations. Nevertheless the fake zombie alert makes them work together and put their differences aside. At the end, the two become friends, even after Austin, Ally, Trish, and Dez's family reveal they faked the whole incident. Chuck and Didi reunite, and Dez even goes so far as to loan him his Panini press, with extensive conditions.

Songs Featured

 * Can't Do It Without You (theme song)
 * I Think About You (part of it on the radio)

Main Cast

 * Ross Lynch as Austin Moon
 * Laura Marano as Ally Dawson
 * Raini Rodriguez  as Trish
 * Calum Worthy as Dez

Guest Cast

 * John Paul Green as Chuck
 * Jamie Kaler as Dennis
 * Vicki Lewis as Donna
 * Galadriel Stineman as Didi

Trivia

 * This episode will be the first time that we meet any of Dez's family members.
 * Dez's sister's name starts with the same letter as his does.
 * This episode has a reference from the Season 2 episode Future Sounds & Festival Songs; Dez's father's job as an inventor is once more mentioned.
 * Didi is revealed to be dating Chuck.
 * Dez and Chuck end their feud.
 * At the beginning of the episode, Trish wears the same shirt Sam wears in the Sam & Cat episode "#NewGoat".
 * The episodes Freaky Friends & Fan Fiction and Spas & Spices are mentioned when Dez tells Chuck he beat him in the chili contest and short story contest.
 * Chuck's surname is revealed to be McCoy.
 * In some parts of the episode a reference to the Hatfields and the McCoys a family feud that goes way back is similar to Chuck and Dez's families as their own feud goes far back and as Chuck's last name is McCoy.
 * Twice in this episode, Dez's last name is almost revealed.
 * I Think About You is played in this episode.
 * Austin reveals he knows Romeo and Juliet well enough to complete a quote from it. The fact he can suprises him.
 * In this episode The Cast Of Austin & Ally And Chuck Made Weird Voices.
 * It is revealed that Dez and Chuck both believe in zombies.
 * From this episode, all of Team Austin's parents have been seen on the show.