Princesses & Prizes

"We can auction off a date with you!"

- Ally to Austin

Princesses & Prizes is the eighth episode in Season 3 of Austin & Ally. It first aired on February 9, 2014 to 2.708 million viewers.

Brief Overview
Austin agrees to be auctioned off on a date in order to help raise money for Ally's charity.

Detailed Plot
The episode begins with Ally who wants to do a charity by selling cupcakes, but Austin and Dez eat them all. In order for them to make up the moeny, Ally  has an idea: to auction a date to spend with Austin along with a bunch of other Austin Moon merchandise.

At the auction, Brooke goes there and in the beginning has the  highest bid for the date with Austin until a beautiful girl named Chelsea bids higher so she wins instead. This makes Ally get jealous, so she attempts to spy on the date they go on, having Dez with her to ensure that she doesn't come off as suspicious.



During the date, Chelsea and Austin are dancing, talking, and laughing while Ally and Dez are dancing (doing the salsa, specifically). Ally is extremely jealous and keeps trying to dance closer to them. To really get Austin’s attention, Dez does a dance move with Ally where he throws up into the air, and then she falls right on top of Chelsea. Austin asks if she’s okay and Ally says that's she's fine, but he was really referring to Chelsea who is also fine. At the end of night, Ally only hopes that maybe they won't go on a second date.



At what Ally assumes to be on a second date, Chelsea and Austin are at Chelsea’s little sister’s birthday party dressed up as a princess and a prince. Afte once again letting jealousy get to her, Ally starts running towards them. But it stops when Brooke is furious and both combine a disaster destroying the table of food. Heidi, Chelsea's sister, says her party is ruined. Though everything eventually gets sorted out. Ally apologizes to Heidi, realizes that the party is not a second date, and admits to Austin that she was jealous of Chelsea. However, Austin tells her that he would have been jealous too if the roles were switched, and the two realize that if they're not going to be together, then it's simply a matter of time before one of them meets someone else. They only want the other to be happy.



In order to make it up to a sad Heidi, Austin decides to sing an accoustic version of Upside Down to which everyone of course, enjoys.

At the end of the episode, Austin and Ally and Trish and Dez are shown to be dancing with each other back at Shredder's Beach Club.

Songs Featured

 * Can't Do It Without You (Theme song)
 * Upside Down (premiere) (Acoustic)

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

 * Sofia Carson as Chelsea
 * Melany Ochoa as Heidi
 * Carrie Wampler as Brooke

Trivia

 * This is the only new episode of Austin & Ally to air in February 2014.
 * Brooke from Season 2 appears for the first time in Season 3.
 * This is the third time Austin and Ally dance together; the first was in Rockers and Writers, and the second was in Club Owners & Quinceaneras.
 * When Ally and Brooke are called witches Ally is supposed to look like the witch from Snow White and Brooke the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.
 * This is the first time we see Ally REALLY jealous.
 * Austin and Ally admit they still have feelings for each other by saying they would be jealous if they saw them with different people.
 * This episode aired on March 12, 2014 in the UK.
 * This episode aired on April 8, 2014 in Australia.
 * When Ross and Laura were dancing together at the end of the episode, their t-shirts were their favorite colours. Ross, yellow and Laura, red.