Managers & Meatballs

"Hey, don't do that to my friend...without doing it to me, too!"

- Austin

"Managers & Meatballs" is the seventh episode in Season 1 of Austin & Ally. It first aired on January 29, 2012.

Overview:
Everyone's loyalty is put to the test when Austin is approached by hotshot manager Demonica Dixon, who wants to sign him, promising to take him to the top of his music career. Austin is backed into the position of having to choose between his friends and the promise of fame. When he learns that Demonica has been purposely sabotaging his friendships with Ally, Dez and Trish, he sticks with his friends and gives Demonica a taste of her own medicine. This episode is mainly about testing the four friends' relationship.

Episode Summary:
Austin gets wooed by a top music manager named Demonica Dixon who wants to wipe Team Austin out so she can work alone with him. She convinces him to fire off his friends, one by one. Later, Austin realizes that he misses his friends. Later, Ally and Trish and Dez find out Demonica's treachery. She throws away Ally's song without even listening to it, and sabotages Austin's Jam-A-Thon gig to make Trish look bad by having her assistant pose as Trish over the phone, impersonating her voice. The gang plots to get revenge on Demonica for what she's done to them.

Featured Song:

 * Better Together

Cast

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

Guest Stars

 * Lisa Arch as Demonica Dixon.
 * Jeff Blum as Statue Guy.

Trivia:

 * DirectTV had mistaken this for an hour-long episode.
 * Despite being Statue Guy's first appearance, it is the only time his movement is seen on-screen and his only speaking role.
 * This episode premiered to 3.5 million viewers.
 * Pop singer, Rihanna, was mentioned in this episode.
 * Demonica Dixon makes her first and only known appearance in this episode. It is unlikely she will return.
 * Trish is fired from her job as Austin's Manager, but re-hired later in the episode.
 * Trish was hired and fired from It's a Racket, Meatballas, and Statue Guy's Manager.
 * The episode title refers to Demonica Dixion taking Trish's role as Austin's manager, and Team Austin getting revenge on her with a tennis ball firing machine firing meatballs at Demonica.

Goofs:

 * When the meatball machine is firing meatballs at Demonica, when the first lot of meatballs are being fired, no sauce is visible on her shirt. But when more meatballs are being fired, and she is closer to the camera, sauce is visible on her shirt.
 * The empty peanut package is actually a shortbread cookie package.