Austin & Alias

"Promise me, no matter how big our careers get, we'll always write songs together."

- Austin to Ally

Austin & Alias is the 7th episode in Season 3 of Austin & Ally and the 52nd episode overall. It first aired on January 26th, 2014, to 2.747 million views.

Overview
After Ronnie Ramone forbids Ally from being Austin's partner, she takes on the alias of "Roxy Rocket" so they can continue to work together. But can Ally keep up the facade?

Episode Summary
Austin & Ally are working on one of Austin's songs when Ally's mogul Ronnie Ramone steps into the office at Sonic Boom, in order to announce the near completion of her first album. But when he finds out she's writing a song for Austin, he insists that she should quit because he is signed for a competing label (Starr Records). Convinced that he doesn't have a choice but to drop Ally, Team Austin tries to hire a new songwriter. His choices include a country & western singer, a death metal guitarist, a Prince-imitator, a female hip-hop DJ, and even a mariachi singer. Eventually he settles on a mysterious girl named "Roxy Rocket," who style fits his musical style perfectly. Ally takes the news unexpectedly well, because Roxy turns out to be a pseudonym created by Ally, which Trish discovers when he makes a cell phone call to her from approximately five feet away, and then literally turns Austin around to face her. Both Trish and Austin agree to go along with this charade, although Dez suddenly gets the notion that Ally is actually Roxy.

After "Roxy" writes her first big hit for Austin, the team creates a fake biography for this girl. The hype over this imaginary new songwriter leads to an interview with Jett Deely on "Miami Countdown Live", forcing Ally to disguise herself as this Swedish firecracker. When Jett trashes Ally on his show, she blows a gasket and loses her fake accent. Somehow, Austin is able to maintain their charade of Ally being Roxy, and when she's on the verge of strangling him, Austin grabs her, throws her over his shoulder and carries her off-stage, all while the audience cheers her on.

After the show, Ally is still excited about playing Roxy. She high fives all three of her friends, knocking Dez to the ground in the process. Ronnie finds out about Roxy's antics and approaches her offering to hire her to write songs for Ally. When he calls her up on her cell phone, he finds out that they're one in the same. Before he can drop her from his label, Ally takes some of the characteristics of her alter-ego and reprimands him over his choice to hire her in the first place, insisting that working with Austin is what makes her so good in the first place. Mr. Ramone is intimidated by her for the first time, and agrees to let her stay with his label and write songs for Austin simultaneously.

Meanwhile, Dez wins a raffle for a $1,000 gift card at the Animal-Print Emporium, angering Trish because there were only a hundred tickets and she bought ninety-nine of them. Dez agrees to give her the gift card at the end of the week, but each time she insults him during the week, he'll go back and buy something, which he does. After Dez accidently spills Trish's Drink all over her shirt, she becomes extremely nasty to him and as a result, he spends the gift card until there's only $7 of credit left.

Songs Featured

 * Can't Do It Without You (theme song)
 * Who U R (premiere)

Main Cast

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

Recurring Cast

 * Joe Rowley as Ronnie Ramone
 * Russ Marchand as Jett Deely

Trivia

 * It's the last new episode of any Disney show to air in January 2014.
 * This is the first time that Dez stands up to Trish.
 * This is the second appearance of Ronnie Ramone on the show.
 * It's shown that Trish still works at Shredder's Beach Club.
 * This episode was the most watched episode of any new Disney episode on the 26th.
 * None of Ally's potential replacements were credited for their roles.
 * Starting from this episode, Austin &amp; Ally's new timeslot is 9 PM EST.
 * This episode aired on March 19, 2014 in Disney Channel Australia.
 * The title is based on the Austin and Ally tv series title with "Austin" and the fact that Ally has to go under a new persona to make music with Austin in "Alias".
 * When Trish is calling Dez names with the amount of money left below, if you look closely at her mouth, she calls Dez a "dork" and a "doofus".
 * This is one of three episodes that has no plurals in the title. (The others being myTAB &amp; My Pet and Real Life & Reel Life.)
 * It is the only episode like this in Season 3.
 * The alias Ally was pretending to be was similair from the popstar Hannah Montana, from the former Disney show, Hannah Montana.

Goofs

 * Austin would have recognised that Roxy's phone number was the same as Ally's as they are best friends and they have dated too.
 * While Austin was singing about being the mayonnaise to your bologna, Dez drops his 'sandwich'. If you look closely, there is nothing in the sandwich. However, Dez might have just wanted a bread sandwich.