Viral Videos & Very Bad Dancing

"Viral Videos & Very Bad Dancing" is the eighteenth episode in Season 2 of Austin & Ally. It aired from 8:30 PM EST to 9 PM EST on July 14, 2013. The episode was the nineteenth episode to be filmed of season 2. The episode earned 3.226 million viewers on its premiere.

Overview
Ally is nominated as one of Miami’s up and coming new artists, and attends a party with Austin, Trish and Dez to celebrate. However, when producer Jean Paul Paul-Jean notices Ally doing her signature dance, he warns that this may prevent her from winning.

Episode Summary
Ally gets nominated for the Miami Music Future Five; when she goes to the nominee party, Jean Paul Paul-Jean thinks of her as flawless--or in his own words, albino panda--but once he sees Ally's horrendous dance moves, he urges the rest of Team Austin to make sure that she does not dance and ruin her chances of winning. Trish, Austin, and Dez think that they will have no troubles with such a goal, but then Ally declares that she wants to make a dance video for the contest. They try to talk her out of it--first by making a chart that has her strengths and weaknesses and then by following her around to try to videotape her dancing--and when those two attempts fail, Dez simply asks Ally to dance for him to record, and she is okay with it.

She dances and they then go back to Sonic Boom, where they show Ally her dancing; much to their irritation, Ally does not think badly of her dancing but thinks that she has improved a lot! The video ends up on the Internet, and even though Ally gets a lot of hating comments for it, she still sticks by her decision to make a dance video. Austin tries to talk her out of it again, but after hearing Ally stick up for herself, claiming that she likes her dancing which is enough, he decides to help her out with the video.

Ally ends up making The Ally Way, and she ends up winning the contest; in fact, her video goes viral which creates Ally Way parodies. Meanwhile, Austin and Dez try to relax and enjoy their 'vacation' since Austin is completely free this week.

Songs featured

 * Can't Do It Without You (theme song)
 * The Ally Way

Cast
Main cast: Guest Cast:
 * Ross Lynch as Austin Moon.
 * Laura Marano as Ally Dawson.
 * Raini Rodriguez as Trish De La Rosa.
 * Calum Worthy as Dez
 * Arturo Del Puerto as Jean Paul Paul-Jean
 * Janelle Marie as Dancer
 * Duncan Tran as B-Boy

Trivia

 * The U-Mix Show (A Latin American TV show) released a clip from this episode, where it's shown something similar to a video-clip where Ally appears (along with Austin, Trish and Dez) explaining how to dance like her step by step.
 * Ally submitted her dance video and was announced the winner.
 * Austin found parodies of Ally's song "The Ally Way".
 * At the party, everyone was dancing to "The Ally Way."
 * Ally believes that she is a great dancer even though her friends say that she looks like a "chimp trying to climb an invisible ladder."
 * Trish told Ally that she looks like a chimp trying to climb an invisible ladder.
 * This is the first episode with a post-credit ending. The "international" version of "The Ally Way" video is seen after the closing credits finish rolling.
 * The episode title refers to Ally's very bad dancing and how her video "The Ally Way" went viral.