Real Life & Reel Life

"I don't know Trish. We shot dozens of scenes already. Trust me; neither one of them is that good of an actor."

- Dez to Trish

"Real Life & Reel Life" is the twenty fourth episode in Season 2 of Austin & Ally. It first aired on September 22, 2013.The episode was the twenty fourth episode filmed of season 2.This episode earned 3.231 million viewers on the night of its premiere.

Overview
When Dez and Trish decide to make a movie about Austin and Ally, they bring up unknown issues in Austin & Ally’s musical partnership that strain the duo’s current friendship.Trish and Dez are left to bring Austin and Ally back together as a team while still finishing their movie.

Episode Summary
Dez and Trish are making a "Rockumentary" about Austin and Ally. Rather than a genuine rocumentary, the movie contains multiple genres depicting various aspects of their lives together. The first scene they shoot is the one where Ally first meets Austin, but Dez makes it more exciting by making Austin seem like a James Bond-type spy and adding a fight between him and a pair of ninjas. Then Trish makes a new scene in the style of a soap opera where both she and Ally play glamorous femme fatales. The script reveals that Ally originally wanted to break up her partnership with Austin, and Austin is instantly offended, despite the fact that Ally changed her mind about him. Austin leaves the set, but later they have to do the scene about the time he loses his voice before being signed on with Starr Records, but in the style of a Broadway musical. During this, Austin doesn't exactly act that well because of him being mad with Ally. He promises Dez that he'll put the issue behind him, but he can't, and it interferes with his performance in the next scenes. First they do the scene where Ally has to sing at Jimmy's party in the style of a pirate movie, presumably the Pirates of the Caribbean series, and Austin strays from the script often berating Ally. They then do the scene where Austin has to play Times Square on New Year's Eve in the style of a football-themed movie. Austin breaks character once again and during another argument, Ally finds out Austin met with another songwriter after she overcame her stage fright, and so she gets mad at him.

They both leave and the next day, they have to read a script for the next scene, but both hate it. Trish and Dez first try to pretend to be the songwriter and pop-star, then suddenly transform into the 1960's adaptation of Batman. Even after this fails, they want them to be professional and make up. So, they come up with a plan to remind the both of them why they're friends and partners in the first place. They have them shoot the scene where Ally overcame her stage fright in the style of a teen vampire movie. They end up kissing like when it really happened and make up--and sort of make out too.

Trish and Dez are convinced that their kiss was genuine, and not simply done for Dez's movie, which ends in a Chaplin-esque silent film depicting Dez's own fight with a kangaroo over a championship jacket owned by MMA fighter "Facepuncher." The kangaroo was played by Trish.

Songs Featured

 * Can't Do It Without You (theme song)
 * Lost His Voice Song
 * You Can Come to Me

Main Cast

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

Guest Cast

 * Tamiko Brownlee as Ninja
 * Travis Wong as Ninja

Trivia

 * Katy Perry's movie is mentioned in this episode.
 * The character Dez was playing during the black and white silent clip was supposed to be Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp in Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), Chaplin's second released film.RL & RL-22-.jpgFnadnlhglfd.jpg
 * Trish, while they were shooting a segment from the movie, mentioned she had an evil twin called Francesca.
 * During the soap opera segment of Dez's movie, Ally and Trish wore dresses that were the real life favorite colors of Laura Marano (red) and Raini Rodriguez (purple).
 * When Team Austin was filmming a movie, they filmed scenes from these episodes: Rockers & Writers, Kangaroos & Chaos, Tickets & Trashbags, Successes & Setbacks, Costumes & Courage, Big Dreams & Big Apples and Chapters & Choices.
 * Austin and Ally kissed for the second time.
 * In this episode in a certain scene Trish & Dez and Austin & Ally 's roles were switched. Austin and Ally were always in harmony and Dez and Trish were always fighting, but in this episode Austin and Ally were fighting and Trish and Dez were along.
 * This is the second episode episode that has two 'topics' that are said the same, but have different spellings. The first is Girlfriends & Girl Friends.
 * The vampire scene is a reference to the movie Twilight, where Ally plays Bella and Austin plays Edward.
 * The pirate scene is a reference to the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, where Austin plays Captain Jack Sparrow.
 * When Trish was playing Ally, her impression of Ally was a reference to Backups & Breakups.
 * Austin and Ally kissed in this episode for 26 seconds.
 * Austin and Ally had their first big fight in this episode.
 * The 'Auslly Arc' continues in this episode.
 * The first scene they were shooting was a reference from James Bond when Austin plays James Bond.