Campers & Complications

"Campers & Complications" is the 9th episode in Season 2 of Austin & Ally. The episode aired on February 17th, 2013. The episode was the 8th episode filmed of Season 2. It received 4.913 million views on its premiere, making it the most viewed episode of season 2 and the second most viewed Austin & Ally episode to date.

Overview
When Ally’s old summer camp friend, Elliot, comes to town to pay a visit, he and Ally spend a lot of time catching up and reminiscing about the past. Though Austin is now dating Kira, he suddenly finds himself jealous of Ally’s friendship with Elliot.

Episode Summary
The episode starts out with Dez being lonely since Austin is always hanging out with his girlfriend, Kira. After Austin comes back from his date with her, Ally tells them that her friend from camp, Elliot, is coming to town. She shows them some old pictures, and Austin, Dez, and Trish think he's a nerd, but they're proven wrong as a much older and less nerdy looking Elliot comes into Sonic Boom. Ally and Elliot immediately start reminiscing on their old camp memories, which makes Austin feel left out and awkward, and Ally offers to show Elliot around town, rejecting Austin's request to write a song with her.



The next scene shows that it's been 3 days since Elliot's been in town, and Austin and Trish have barely seen Ally since then. Austin mostly complains about it while Trish agrees, which leads her to suggest the idea that Austin is jealous, which Austin denies. Ally and Elliot then appear, talking about camp memories yet again, and when Trish asks Ally about their Girl's Night, Elliot reveals that Ally and he had made plans, and that she was welcome to join them, to which she denies. The pair then walk away once more, and Kira appears, asking about her date with Austin. Austin asks for a rain check, using songwriting as an excuse, and Dez asks Kira if he can go to the movies with her, and Kira says that he doesn't have to do that for her. That leaves him still lonely; lonely enough to willingly go to the spa with Trish.

Dez gets back, having gone through painful procedures, and blames it all on Austin. When he sees what Austin's doing and why, he gets why Austin's doing this. He gets Austin to admit that he likes Ally, to which he corrects Austin. Austin doesn't just like Ally; he loves her.

The next scene shows Dez playing air hockey by himself when Austin runs up to him. Austin tells Dez about having thought about his newly-discovered feelings for Ally, but says that she likes Elliot and he's dating Kira who he really really likes. Dez then gives him some more advice: just hang out with his best friend. Austin claims to want things to stay the same, not wanting to mess up a friendship with Ally because of some "mixed feelings". Dez retorts, saying that he likes Ally way more than Kira, and Austin says he's going to prove that Dez is wrong. Kira then appears, asking Austin why he wanted to see her. He replies that to make up how he's been acting towards her, they're going to go to a Katy Perry concert at the beach club. Austin then says that he should have never had second thoughts, but he then says that he and Ally should be together. Trish then offers to keep Dez company by them cleaning the restaraunt together: or, Dez cleaning and Trish getting the tips.



The next scene shows Ally and Elliot entering Sonic Boom. Much like their other times together, they were talking about camp memories, but at this point, Ally's grown tired of hearing the camp memories. Ally talks to Trish about her worries that Elliot's going to ask her to be his girlfriend, and how she realizes that they have nothing to talk about but camp. When Trish advices Ally to tell Elliot she's not interested and Ally starts to practice saying it, Dez overhears and misassumes things. He assumes that Ally wants to be Elliot's girlfriend. After that, Dez thinks that Austin's moved on, and tells him what he misassumed, and Austin gets upset. When Kira appears, asking Austin if he's ready for the Katy Perry concert, Austin quickly lies that on the way, he has to drop off Ally's lucky pencil.

Elliot repeats yet another of their camp memories, and says that he never gets tired of repeating them. Right when Ally is about to tell Elliot that she doesn't want to be his girlfriend, Austin and Kira appear to give Ally her "lucky pencil". Elliot asks them if they're staying for Trivia Night, and when Kira says they're going to the concert, Austin says that Ally and Elliot want them to stay. Ally then replies that she just wants to be with Elliot- to break the news- but Austin takes that the wrong way, meaning to stay for a few questions. Elliot claims that he and Ally will win, and Austin retorts that he and Kira are going to win. He then wants to go head to head with Elliot, and Elliot being the competitive one he is, accepts his challenge.



Trish asks the first question, which is about "Rolling in the Deep", and Elliot admits that he's not really into music. The next question is asked, which is about a tie-dying method, and Elliot knows the answer: batikis. Kira once more asks to go to the concert, and Austin claims to go after one more question. That quickly turns into a lie as they end up staying to answer all 50 questions- Austin and Elliot end up tying, for last place. Ally is revealed to have won. Kira wants to go to the concert and Ally wants to talk to Elliot about not wanting to be his girlfriend, but Austin needs to beat him, and states the perfect way to settle it: air hockey. After they both end up being too good of a defense, they switch to basketball, where they keep tying for the number of baskets. They then go to rock paper scissors shoot, and they keep thinking of the same motion. They then go into a thumb war, but since neither win, they go to the final game: tug of war. Ally and Kira ask them why they care so much, and after Elliot says that he doesn't and lets go, Austin wins...but is covered in egg salad and buffalo sauce. Happy from his victory, Austin asks Ally if she still wants to be Elliot's girlfriend, and Kira takes offence, telling Austin to make up his mind on what he wants. Meanwhile, Elliot tells Ally that he just wants them to be friends: they can only talk about camp, which gets boring after a while.

Trish and Ally are then talking about the whole Austin and Elliot thing, and Trish says that he was acting jealous. They then realize that Austin has feelings for Ally! Trish then tells Ally to wait for him to come to her, since boys are like birds, and if they get freaked out, they fly away. She makes the same bird motion that Dez did, and then admits that she's spent too much time with him. Austin tries to apologize to Ally about the night fiasco, but she says it's fine, and then they start to work on the song, You Can Come to Me. They're about to kiss, but Ally turns away, starting to play the chords for You Can Come to Me. Trish then tells Dez that she had fun with him tonight; he's a good friend. Dez gives Trish her tips, and asks Trish to play with him since the restaraunt is clean. They then play rock paper scissor shoot, and the episode ends.

Main cast

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

Guest cast

 * Cody Allen Christian as Elliot
 * Kiersey Clemons as Kira Starr

Trivia

 * This episode was the third episode to air in 2013, and the first one to air in February of 2013.
 * This marks the third episode where we meet a character from Ally's past (the first being Bloggers & Butterflies, and the second being Soups & Stars).
 * This is Part 2 of (what fans know it as) "The Auslly Arc".
 * This introduces Ally's 3rd love interest for Season 2; first was Ethan from Costumes & Courage and second was AustiCampersComplications22.png in Girlfriends & Girl Friends.
 * Austin realizes that he has feelings for Ally in this episode.
 * Austin and Ally almost kiss.
 * Austin and Ally reveal their feelings to their best friends, first, Ally telling Trish in Girlfriends & Girl Friends and now Austin telling Dez.
 * It is revealed that Elliot was Ally's first crush.
 * In this episode, Austin acts somewhat like the way he acted with Cassidy.
 * Kira and Austin are still dating in this episode, yet Kira openly admits that she thought Elliot was cute, right in front of her boyfriend.
 * Austin mentioned having to write a song alone as the reason for a rain check with Kira, he can't write songs.
 * Austin and Kira break up in this episode, and Kira tells him to give her a call when he decides what he wants.
 * A metaphor was used in this episode. The metaphor, "To every girl with a broken heart, there's a boy with a glue gun," is portrayed through Ally- the broken hearted girl- and Elliot- the boy with the glue gun.
 * Two known artists are mentioned in this episode. Austin and Kira mentioned Katy Perry a few times, and Trish said Adele is the singer that sang 'Rolling in the Deep' in Trivia Night.
 * It is revealed that when Ally was at camp she had bushy eyebrows and braces.
 * This episode aired to 4.913 million viewers.
 * This episode is the second most watched episode in A&A history. 1st is Rockers & Writers with 5.7 million views, and coming after this episode, the crossover episode got around .1 million views less.
 * Kira probably thinks that Ally does have a lucky pencil since no one ever told her otherwise.
 * Ally may be a master at trivia since she won 1st place in the trivia competition.
 * The first part of the episode title, "Campers", most likely refers to Ally reuniting with her camp friend, Elliot, and the second part, "Complications", refers to the complications that arise once Austin realizes he likes Ally.
 * This is the fourth appearance of Kira Starr on the show.

Goofs

 * Elliot says he's not into music, but at the beginning, he is revealed to be a big fan of Austin and said his album rocks.
 * Ally says she had bushy eyebrows and braces but in an episode in season 1 they show ally when she was little and she did not have bushy eyebroes and braces however she might have gotten bushy eyebrows and braces soon after.