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'''Hannah:''' You have ''no'' idea.
'''''Hannah Montana''''' (2006-2011) is about a teenager named Miley Stewart (played by [[
For its fourth and final season, the show was [[
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* [[Adam Westing]]: Billy Ray Cyrus plays his own [[Captain Ersatz]].
* [[Adorkable]]: Much of the show's success can be attributed to Miley Cyrus' [[Genki Girl|bright and energetic personality]] combined with her goofy mannerisms and a total willingness to look foolish on camera. She's even been compared favorably to comedy legends [[I Love Lucy|Lucille]] [[Lucille Ball|Ball]] and [[The Carol Burnett Show|Carol Burnett]].
▲* [[Adjective Noun Fred]]: The title of the Japanese dub, ''Secret Idol Hannah Montana''.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: The Hannah character, and much of the music, seems to parody the teen-pop images of the likes of [[Hilary Duff]] and the younger [[Britney Spears]].▼
* [[An Aesop]]: One per episode, generally. More prevalent during the series' early run - the third and fourth seasons have quite a few episodes that manage to avoid this trope.
▲* [[Affectionate Parody]]: The Hannah character, and much of the music, seems to parody the teen-pop images of the likes of [[Hilary Duff]] and the younger [[Britney Spears]].
* [[Alliterative Name]]:
** Oliver Oscar Oken, who gets double credit for this trope as he is played by Mitchel Musso.
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** Special mention goes to Dandruff Danny, Liposuction Liza and Brainless Becky.
** And finally, [[Everybody Loves Raymond|Ray Romano]], [[Jonas Brothers|Joe Jonas]] and Rob Reiner, [[Special Guest|appearing as themselves]].
* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: Miley is also a singer in [[Real Life]]
* [[Back for
** Literally with Oliver who actually only comes back as a [[Plot Device]].
* [[Beneath the Mask]]: A major theme in the show. Thanks to the Hannah Montana persona, Miley is able to see people's [[True Colors]]. She isn't fooled by the facade put up by someone like [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Amber]] or [[Jerk
* [[Be Yourself]]: The show's overarching [[Aesop]], which seems ironic given that the series is all about a girl who puts on a disguise so she can live a life of fame and fortune... until you realize it merely sets up Miley for the supporting lesson, that [[All That Glitters|friends and family are more important]].
* [[Big Damn Movie]]: Hannah has to save her Tennessee hometown from a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|land developer who wants to build a mall there]].
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* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Lilly can't tell a person from a post without her contacts.
* [[Broken Record]]: In the movie, during the filming of the video for "The Best of Both Worlds", the CD that they're lip-syncing to keeps repeating, "Best of both, best of both, best of both..." until the CD player gets smacked, and it finally ends, "Best of both worlds."
* [[Brother Chuck]]: A number of characters were quite unceremoniously [[Put
** Two of Jackson's best friends -- [[Black Best Friend|Cooper]], not seen since Season 1, and Thor, not seen since Season 2.
** Roxy, not seen since early Season 2.
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* [[California University]]:
** Jackson considered The State College of Santa Barbara, then attended Tennessee University for a time, before settling upon Malibu Community College. None of these institutions exist in real life.
** Lilly and Miley both apply to [[Fictional Counterpart|Standford University]]. Yes, spelled like
* [[Can't Get Away
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** "Sweet niblets!"
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* [[Clark Kenting]]: Miley as Hannah.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: Averted. While there are some continuity errors, each season clearly shows the teenage cast progressing to a new school year. Dealing with the issues of growing up is a recurring theme in the series.
* [[Commuting
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: When Hannah is signed up for a celebrity tennis game, Miley seems more concerned with having a signature grunt than you know...actually learning tennis.
* [[Cool Loser]]: Lilly and Miley (and arguably, Oliver) qualify. Both girls are ranked at the very bottom of Amber and Ashley's 'Cool List', causing them to be shunned by the entire school. Matters improve somewhat in high school, though they're still pretty low in the pecking order. We're talking about two attractive, hip, trendy, charismatic girls who turn heads everywhere they go in [[Real Life]].
* [[Costume Porn]]
* [[Crossover]]: ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]] [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|On Deck]] with Hannah Montana'' and ''[[That's So Raven]] [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody|Suite Life]] of Hannah Montana''. Characters and settings from ''[[Cory in The House]]'' appear in the episode "Take This Job and Love It".
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:
** Miley/Hannah, in practically every
** Lilly also tends to fall into this
* [[Deep South]]: [[Miley Cyrus]] hails from Franklin, Tennessee in [[Real Life]], and her dad comes from Kentucky. The Stewarts, being Southerners, came from the fictional town of Crawley Corners, Tennessee, as [[The Movie]] makes quite clear. The show never lets you forget the Stewarts' Southern roots for too long, the strong accents Billy Ray and Miley have for starters. The episodes
* [[Disney Owns This Trope]]: Rico owns his evil laugh. And the North American rights to the "Hey-yo!" Furthermore, his company is called "Muah-hah-hah Industries."
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Lilly, especially in Season 1.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Robbie Ray will forgive ''anything'' that Miley messes up, as long as he's convinced she's genuinely contrite.
** [[Lampshaded]] in "De-Do-Do-Do, De-Don't-Don't-Don't-Don't Tell My Secret":
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** In "Been There All Along", Jackson actually has to explain this to Miley to stop her from trying another [[Zany Scheme]].
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* [[Empathic Environment]]: When Miley lost an anklet her mother gave her, the weather in Hawai'i promptly turned sour. When Robbie Ray gives a speech telling her how her mother is always with her, [[Magic Feather|anklet or no]], the weather promptly turns gorgeous again.
* [[Escapist Character]]: Hannah. Invoked in some of her songs, such as "Just Like You", which lets the audience identify with her more readily.
* [[Everything's Sparkly
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Brought up]] in one of the DVD extras:
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* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: "Who would have thought that a girl like me -- would double as a superstar?".
* [[
* [[Flat What]]: At least once an episode.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Lilly has a fair amount of this. Several times she points out Miley's crazy schemes and why they wouldn't work.
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* [[The Ghost]]: Uncle Earl and Aunt Pearl until Season 2, when Uncle Earl was finally portrayed in all his larger-than-life glory by David Koechner. Aunt Pearl remained [[The Ghost]].
* [[Good Feels Good]]: Sarah seems to really enjoy her [[Granola Girl|goodie-two-shoes ways]].
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* [[Granola Girl]]: Sarah.
* [[Groupie Brigade]]: Exaggerated in the first season, where just ''saying'' the name Hannah Montana too loudly can trigger a stampede of rabid fans trying to find her. Still played straight throughout the rest of the series, and is the justification behind Miley going to all the trouble of keeping a secret identity.
* [[Happier Home Movie]]: In one episode, Miley watches a family Christmas from when her mom was still alive.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Miley and Lilly.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Jackson will loudly proclaim at every opportunity how disappointed he is that Robbie Ray had a [[Annoying Younger Sibling|second child]], or how much he resents Hannah Montana taking precedence over any of his own
* [[Hollywood Dateless]]: Jackson is portrayed as a uncouth, socially-awkward loser who couldn't get a date if his life depended on it. This in spite of the fact that he's played by the boyishly-handsome Jason Earles, takes a different girl out every third episode, and has even had a few random women come on to him (usually when he's ''not trying'' to be charming).
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Rico charges exorbitant prices for mediocre food at his surf shop, has some questionably-legal business practices (
* [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]]: Most (if not all) of them. Considering the hectic double life Miley has, the show spends a disproportionate amount of time on hers and the others' various crushes.
* [[Hot Dad]]: They don't call Robbie Ray the "Honky Tonk Hearthrob" for nuthin'!
* [[Hot Mom]]:
** Heather Truscott, played by none other than [[
** Susan Stewart, seen in flashbacks, played by [[Brooke Shields]].
* [["I Am" Song]]: The series loves this trope, as several songs qualify. It begins with "Just Like You" and "The Other Side Of Me" in Season 1, progresses to Season 3's "Supergirl" and "Just A Girl", then finishes with "Ordinary Girl" in the final season.
* [[Idol Singer]]: Hannah in the show, Miley in [[Real Life]].
** Emily Osment and Mitchel Musso have followed suit.
* [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It]]: Gender inverted with Miley in
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'''Robbie:''' Please tell me you just said you're a girl who has knees.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Rico.
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Between Robbie Ray and Rico.
* [[I Should Write a Book About This]]: Subverted in one episode:
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'''Lilly:''' About what?
'''Miley:''' I don't care, as long as you stop talking.
* [[Jerk
** [[Jerk
* [[Keeping Secrets Sucks]]: Oh, does it ever. To maintain her secret identity, Miley has to lie to her friends, endure bullying at school, and suffer through constant discrimination or embarrassment... all the time knowing she could make all of it go away so easily. It's no picnic for Miley's family and friends either. Robbie Ray and Jackson both give up their own happiness to protect her, torching their respective relationships with Lorelai and Siena (albeit temporarily, as Miley eventually shares the secret with both). {{spoiler|The realization that the secret demands too much sacrifice from her loved ones is what finally pushes Miley into going on national TV and revealing that she's Hannah Montana
* [[Kid Com]]
* [[Laugh Track]]
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Miley is doing a radio interview from her kitchen while eating spaghetti and claims to be speaking from a cafe in Italy. When she is asked where she is, her father passes her the pasta box. She reads the first words she sees and claims to be in the small village of "Sodium Free". She immediately
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: Every episode title is a [[Shout
* [[Loves Me Not]]: In the episode "Good Golly, Miss Dolly":
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* [[Love Triangle]]: Season 3 introduces Jesse, one of Hannah's band members, as a rival to Jake Ryan for her affections. An unusual situation [[Fridge Logic|when you realize]] that [[Backstory|as far as the world knows]], [[Series Continuity Error|Jake is actually dating Hannah's alter-ego Miley Stewart]], whom Jesse doesn't even know exists. The episode handles this by separating scenes between Miley/Jake and Hannah/Jesse - meaning Jesse is only aware that Hannah is dating ''somebody'' - but {{spoiler|eventually the two guys end up confronting each other in front of Hannah}}. It ''is'' possible that Jesse just didn't know who Jake's girlfriend was supposed to be.
* [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life]]: A recurring trope throughout the series, with increasing significance each time. Early on, it's played for laughs, with Miley going on a date... to a Hannah Montana concert. Later on, she lets Jake in on her secret when the guilt of continually lying to him becomes too much to bear. In the movie, everything comes tumbling down when Miley tries to have a romantic dinner with Travis while simultaneously attending the mayor's banquet as Hannah. Finally, in Season 4, {{spoiler|it's not even enough for Jesse to know that Miley is Hannah -- the [[Keeping Secrets Sucks|burden of dealing with her dual identities]] puts a severe strain on their relationship
* [[Missing Mom]]: Miley and Jackson's mother died some time prior to the pilot. She does appear in a few episodes (played by Brooke Shields), in dream sequences.
* [[Morality Chain]]: Often, Lilly is the only thing keeping a leash on Miley's diva-ness.
* [[The Movie]]: Technically, two
* [[My Hair Came Out Green]]: Miley tries to dye her hair blonde and it ends up green.
* [[New Season, New Name]]: The fourth and final season is re-branded ''Hannah Montana Forever''.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Jesse was the only person to make the connection between Hannah and Miley
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Siena is played by Australian actress Tammin Sursok, whose accent lapses occasionally. In particular, she seems to struggle with saying "Hannah Montana". [[Fridge Logic]] kicks in when one realizes that Siena's nationality was never stated, and thus she has no need to affect an American accent.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: How the cast's [[Secret Identity|Secret Identities]] are kept secret. [[Lampshaded]] when Jackson points out the obviousness of Superman's [[Paper-Thin Disguise]], and Miley agrees with him as she and Robbie Ray don theirs.
** Robbie's Mustache is made even thinner as anyone could easily put 2 and 2 together that Robbie Ray and Robbie Ray Stewart are the same person especially when one considers that he never hides the fact that he is Robbie Ray even without the mustache. It very possible this is an attempt to Lampshade this trope as Robbie seems to be the same person with or without the mustache.
* [[Picked Last]]: Happens to Miley whenever gym class involves teams, and is the setup for the episode "Cuffs Will Keep Us Together". As Hannah Montana, she has the coordination to dance onstage - sometimes in high heels and while also singing, no less - but when it comes to sports, she's unable to do things like catch a ball [[The Klutz|without using her face]].
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* [[Porn Stache]]: Most of Robbie Ray's [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] consists of this. [[Lampshaded]] by Robbie repeatedly.
* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]: Moises Arias, as of Season 2.
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: [[Platonic Life Partners|Lilly and Oliver]], [[Childhood Friend Romance|friends since kindergarten]], become an [[Official Couple]] in Season 3.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Traci Van Horn, who has the unmitigated gall to tell Lola, to her face, how uncool she thinks she is, despite being friends with Hannah, who publicly humiliates herself just as often.
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** The fact that Robbie Ray is always making awful puns and Miley reminding him that 'you ain't funny'. In fact, you could say this is one of Robbie Ray's main schticks in the series.
** In Season 4, Lilly gets a new job running the ticket exchange booth at the amusement park. One of the top prizes is a big stuffed toy tiger that costs 50,000 tickets - a ludicrous amount that would fill a large container. Guess what ''every kid'' tries to exchange his or her measly handful of tickets for. Lilly easily handles the initial incident in the first episode, cheerily explaining the three cheapest prizes that all those tickets are good for. Fast-forward several episodes and many more kids later, and she's just about ready to crack.
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* [[The Scrooge]]: Despite being filthy-stinkin'-rich from both his own and his daughter's record sales, Robbie Ray is notoriously, if a bit selectively, tight with a penny.
* [[Secret Identity]]: Many episodes of the show revolve around Miley trying to keep people from learning she is Hannah Montana. Once, Miley tried to get a phone by taking a bad picture of her as Hannah but learned she was wearing a necklace labled "Miley". Lilly and Oliver adopted their own secret identities as well.
* [[Selective Enforcement]]: Miley is [[Easily Forgiven]], whereas Jackson [[Can't Get Away
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: Oh so many! A few examples:
** There are a number of instances where it seems the episode order (as aired on TV) had been changed from the intended order as they were written. Like when Miley mentions she will "be driving soon", in the episode ''after'' the one where she is driving by herself already. Or when Lilly says Hannah just starred in a movie, but the episode where she auditions for that movie hasn't happened yet.
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** Lilly mentions a brother once, in Season 1 -- then never again. In Season 3, she says sometimes she ''wishes'' she had a brother.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Many, which is understandable given the main characters are all [[Hormone-Addled Teenager|teenagers]]. Notable examples include Becca Weller and Gabe "Hottie Lamati with the Swimmer's Body" Lamati.
* [[She
* [[Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?]]: Hannah has been known to be on tour for weeks at a time, and engages in activities and publicity stunts during school hours, such as reading to a group of preschoolers. Yet, as regular old Miley Stewart, she attends a public school, and her absences are never referenced, nor do they arouse the suspicion of anyone at school.
* [[Shout
** At one point, Miley tells Lilly that her dad's nickname for her is in fact "Miley". In real life, "Miley" was a nickname Billy Ray bestowed on his daughter.
** A very subtle one in "O Say, Can You Remember the Words" in which Jackson makes Jack Nicholson's "[[The Shining|Here's Johnny!]]" face before attacking a pair of chocolate bunnies.
** There's also one in an episode where Miley is trying to learn to climb a rope. After Lilly is distracted by Sarah coming in to tell her (falsely) that Oliver is back from his tour, Miley is at the ceiling in no time. Unable to figure out how Miley pulled it off (she used a hidden wire harness), Lilly asks [[Twilight (
** Jake Ryan probably takes his name from the ever-so-perfect male lead in ''[[Sixteen Candles]]''.
** When Jackson tries to get in to a college:
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'''Robbie:''' [[Harry Potter (
* [[Sidekick]]: At one point, Lilly refers to herself as such saying that she's just a sidekick who needs to learn to say no. She almost never does.
* [[Soapbox Sadie]]: The aforementioned "Saint" Sarah, crusading for such worthy causes as the California Low Flow Toilet Initiative.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Lizzie
* [[Stalker
* [[Standardized Sitcom Housing]]: Almost to the point of an inversion of [[Friends Rent Control]], considering it's supposed to be a Malibu beachfront house that ''two rock stars'' live in. [[Justified]] [[Fridge Brilliance|when you realize]] that it helps Miley pretend to be a normal girl.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Sometimes, Hannah Montana gets an acting job. The character cannot act.
* [[Three Amigos]]: Miley, Lilly and Oliver.
* [[Token Minority]]: Subverted with Rico. He may be the only Latino in an otherwise [[Mighty Whitey|monochrome]] cast, but he subverts the TV stereotype of Latinos by being intelligent, wealthy, and motivated.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Played straight in the first two seasons with Lilly and Miley, respectively. Lilly eventually [[Girliness Upgrade|becomes more of a girly girl herself]], though she remains much more athletic than Miley, who is [[Picked Last|terrible at sports]].
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The official promo for "I'll Always Remember You" showed very few clips from the first half of the episode, and almost entirely put emphasis on Hannah taking off her blonde wig and exposing her identity as Miley Stewart to the world.
* [[Tsundere]]: Miley towards Jake Ryan. When they first meet, she treats him with disdain, calling his antics "disgusting" and turning him down three times when he asks her to a dance. It isn't until Hannah guest stars on Jake's TV show and they almost kiss during a scene that she realizes - or admits to herself - that she actually likes him.
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'''Miley:''' No, I don't! How can you say that?
'''Lilly:''' Because, every time his name comes up, you ''act'' like you can't stand him.
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: Miley calls it the Hannah Closet, but it's effectively a fashion boutique (that only stocks brightly-colored sparkly items for teenage girls) in her bedroom. Automated revolving carousels and remote-controlled sliding shelves filled with more clothes and accessories than the show has episodes ensure that Hannah never needs to wear the same thing twice.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Miley ventures into this territory at times.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Jackson and Rico. {{spoiler|It takes them until the series finale to admit it
* [[Wakeup Makeup]]: Miley and Lilly always seem to get out of bed with eye makeup, mascara, foundation and lip gloss perfectly in place. They also wear jewelry while sleeping. Averted with
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]: One episode revealed that Miley once had a pig named Luann. The later episode, "Torn Between Two Hannahs" features her obnoxious cousin, Luann, whom she had named it after.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]:
** Most of the episode titles are wordplay on the titles of popular songs.
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* [[Zany Scheme]]: A typical episode starts off with Miley doing something selfish or irresponsible, then instead of taking accountability for her actions, she comes up with some dubious, convoluted plan to cover her tracks. Said plan will often involve the use of a ridiculous animal costume.
** Miley/Hannah herself lampshades this in "He Could Be the One":
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'''Hannah:''' HEY! For your information, you are looking at a girl stupid enough to dress up as a ''chicken'', a ''duck'', a ''swan''...
'''Lola:''' A pirate, a carrot...
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* [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]]: Though no stranger to the occasional bout of egocentrism, Oliver takes it to [[Jerkass]] levels after appearing on ''America's Top Talent'', acquiring his own [[Groupie Brigade]], and very nearly scuttling his relationship with Lilly.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]:
▲* [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'', in which Robbie Ray encourages Rico to find his [[Happy Place]] as he coaches him in horseshoe-pitching.
* [[The Alleged Car]]:
** "Loretta", Mamaw Stewart's rickety old Cadillac Eldorado.
** In Season 1, the car Jackson buys for himself.
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* [[Asian Airhead]]: Ashley DeWitt...[[Brainless Beauty|so pretty, so stupid]].
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Francis Corelli, Seaview High's Social Studies teacher.
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** Do not, I repeat, do ''not'' call Lilly stupid within earshot of Oliver!
** ''It's a NAZEL condition!''
** Never cheat on Miley. It'll lead to Hannah {{spoiler|beating the crap out of you during a live Christmas special
* [[
* [[Boxing Kangaroo]]: Boxing a kangaroo was among the demeaning jobs Jackson subjected himself to in "Wherever I Go".
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: In addition to the aforementioned Ashley DeWitt, there's also Brainless Bodacious Becky, a [[Shallow Love Interest]] of Jackson's.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: From the episode "You Never Give Me My Money", in which the [[Three Amigos|three friends]] arrive at Rico's to find a large tent:
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'''Oliver:''' Oh. There's a tent up.
'''Lilly:''' Thank you, Captain ''Duh''!
* [[Caustic Critic]]: Music critic Barney Bittman, played by the legendary Gilbert Gottfried.
* [[Chained Heat]]: Oliver does this to Miley and Lilly in "Cuffs Will Keep Us Together".
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** In "Get Down and Study-udy-udy", Miley leads her class in singing The Bone Dance to prove she hasn't been cheating, just learning differently. Notable for ignoring the otherwise ongoing plot point that Lilly can't sing by having her be the first one to join in and sing it well. Since Miley Stewart is not the kind of person her classmates would expect to put on a song and dance routine, it leads to Rico having a [[Master of Delusion]] moment.
** Also played straight in [[The Movie]], where Miley gets most of the town to join her in singing and dancing the "Hoedown Throwdown".
* [[Disorganized Outline Speech]]: Lilly lists reasons not to be friends in "When You Wish You Were the Star".▼
* [[Disney Owns This Trope]]: Rico owns his [[Evil Laugh]].
▲* [[Disorganized Outline Speech]]: Lilly lists reasons not to be friends in "When You Wish You Were the Star".
* [[The Ditz]]: Ashley.
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Oliver explains how Miley 'left her head at practice' in "Mascot Love".
* [[Dug in Deeper]]: Lilly is [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]] and Miley [[Cannot Spit It Out]].
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Given to Jackson by a bump on the head from a fight with Miley. Subverted when said amnesia turns out to be fake, a joke played on Miley by Jackson and Robbie Ray to teach her a lesson about fighting with her brother (Jackson is promised a car for playing along).
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* [[Egg Sitting]]: Oliver and Sarah do this in "My Boyfriend's Jackson and There's Gonna be Trouble".
* [[Eighties Hair]]: Robbie Ray wants his mullet back!
* [[Everybody Hates Mathematics]]: Lilly was desperate enough at one point to pretend to be Rico's girlfriend in order to get tutoring.
* [[Feud Episode]]: Lilly and Miley get into a fight one episode prompting Oliver to lock them up with handcuffs so they will stop feuding. But by the end of episode Miley and Lilly make up so that they are friends again.
* [[Fictional Counterpart]]:
** Miley once mentions her dad likes to go to Boscoe's House of Chicken and Pies.
** A segment of one episode takes place inside a Make-A-Moose.
** Hannah uses her [[Brand X|zPhone]] to post messages on Flitter.
** Oliver performs and Hannah is a guest judge on ''America's Top Talent''.
** Lilly and Miley send in their college applications to Standford University.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: As a kid, Amber was teased because she was a nerd. This prompted her to become one of the mean girls herself once she moved on to middle school.
* [[G-Rated Drug]]:▼
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* [[Girl Posse]]: Subverted with Ashley in that she's just one girl.
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: A plumber.
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* [[Greek Chorus]]:
** Early on in Season 4, Rico had a gospel choir following him around and singing about his actions.
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* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: When Jackson eats too much chocolate, he has nightmares about a Godzilla chocolate bunny.
* [[Homage]]: A rather disturbing one for a [[Disney Channel]] show, in which Jackson's ventriloquist dummy Franklin, having apparently survived going through a wood chipper and taken on a life of his own, takes his revenge on Rico. Not to be intimidated, Rico delivers the following [[Lampshade Hanging]] before fighting back:
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:
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* [["I Am Becoming" Song]]:
** "The Climb" from ''Hannah Montana: [[The Movie]]'', which neatly encapsulates Miley's emotions, the lessons she's learned in the movie, and the general message of the film.
** Season 4 gives us "Wherever I Go", which Miley sings {{spoiler|to say goodbye to Hannah, as she discards the secret identity and moves forward to face the world as her real self
*** Another version of "Wherever I Go" was released, in which {{spoiler|Miley and Lilly are saying goodbye to each other
* [[It's All About Me]]: [[Inverted]] in the episode where Miley meets the Queen of England, with Jackson expressing the complaint that everything was always about Hannah Montana.
* [["Just Joking" Justification]]: Issued, then immediately revoked, by the Simon Cowell parody in "Judge Me Tender", after saying both Hannah and the judge for whom she filled in were boring.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In the episode where they go to Washington, Miley asks Lilly if they can't resolve their fight, at which point 'the audience in her head will go aww', when they do make up, the audience, both in show and on the track says 'aww'.
* [[Master of Delusion]]: In "Get Down, Study-udy-udy", where for her biology test, Miley uses dance moves from Hannah's stage performance of "Nobody's Perfect" to memorize the names of the bones in the human body. Rico recognizes the moves and is reminded of Hannah Montana, but then dismisses the idea, saying that Miley isn't smart enough to pull a trick like that off.
* [[The Mean Brit]]: The second of the two Simon Cowell parody characters was played by [[The Nanny|Charles Shaughnessy]], an actual Brit.
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** At the start of Season 3, Lilly not only predicts a daydream, but also points out to Miley where on screen it will be appearing.
** In the Season 4 episode "California Screamin'", Miley returns the favor by showing Lilly a flashback.
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'''Lilly:''' (looks around, confused) ... I don't see it, where...?
'''Miley:''' Here. (holds Lilly's chin and turns her head to the correct angle)
'''Lilly:''' Oh.
** Further [[Lampshaded]] by Miley in "Been Here All Along", when she tells Lilly to "Hold on, I'm in a flashback moment."
* [[Meet Cute]]: In "The Way We Almost Weren't", Miley and Jackson [[All Just a Dream|time-travel]] back to the diner where Robbie met their mother for the first time. When they accidentally interfere with the initial encounter, Jackson starts [[Shout
* [[Meganekko]]:
** The episode "You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Zit Is About You" reveals that Lilly wears contacts, and when her dog eats them, she had to wear glasses. Even though she hates them, they place her nicely into this trope.
** Also, Miley dons a pair of glasses while she's Lilly's "lawyer" in the episode "You Are So Sue-able To Me".
* [[Mirror Monologue]]: In "I'll Always Remember You", a famished and exhausted Miley hallucinates a reflection of herself as Hannah in the mirror. It turns out that Mirror!Hannah is Miley's own guilty conscience, who proceeds to berate her for {{spoiler|letting Jesse and Lilly make [[Keeping Secrets Sucks|huge personal sacrifices to protect her secret]]}}. After years of [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|Miley]] [[Little Miss Snarker|being obnoxious to other people]], it's incredibly amusing to watch her try to out-sass herself.
* [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]: At a Halloween party, Miley's evil [[Uncanny Family Resemblance|identical cousin]] Luann is impersonating Hannah.
{{quote|'''Lilly:''' Ha! I've ''got'' you! I'm not gonna let you ruin my best friend's life!
▲* [[Mistaken for An Imposter]]: At a Halloween party, Miley's evil [[Uncanny Family Resemblance|identical cousin]] Luann is impersonating Hannah. Miley -- as Hannah -- arrives late to the party only to find herself immediately accosted by Lilly, who is trying to catch Luann.
▲'''Lilly:''' [[Your Costume Needs Work|You can't fool me with that fake Miley accent!]] }}
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Miley can spit out some fast lines, most notably in the finale.
* [[Near-Death Clairvoyance]]: When Miley was unconscious in the hospital, she leaves her body and observes what's
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Perhaps the greatest fake-out in the history of television occurred when the promos for "Miley Says Goodbye, Part 2" edited footage from the episode to give the impression that Miley intended to follow through in her desire to return to Tennessee, when in fact the Stewarts were just getting a new pad.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]:
** Hannah and her friends sometimes end up on morning talk shows. Early in the series, the show would be ''Wake Up, It's Wendy!'' hosted by an ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah]]'' parody. Later on, Hannah appears several times on ''Mack and Mickey in the Morning'', which closely mimics [[FOX]]'s ''The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet''.
** The host on ''[[Fictional Counterpart|Singing with the Stars]]'' was a parody of [[American Idol|Simon Cowell]].
** "Byron", another Simon Cowell parody, shows up in "Judge Me Tender", now teamed up with his ''[[American Idol]]'' co-judges Randy Jackson (well, a parody named "Andy") and Kara DioGuardi (the real deal).
* [[No Matter How Much I Beg]]: Miley gives Lilly her checkbook so she doesn't spend, and Lilly being true to the request refuses to give it back, even when Miley has a 'Miley doesn't live here anymore' moment.
* [[The Obi
* [[Oblivious Guilt Slinging]]: In "Wherever I Go", Miley seriously considers accepting a movie role, which would require her to go back on her promise to go to college with Lilly. When she tries to talk to Lilly about it, Lilly starts gushing about how happy she is that Miley is going to college with her instead of going on a world tour or accepting some movie offer.
* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: In "People Who Use People", Miley attempts this on Jake to try and get him to break up with his girlfriend. She fails spectacularly... but then it turns out that Jake wasn't really in a relationship - it was just him successfully [[Counter Zany|using Operation Jealousy on Miley]].
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]:
** Played straight in Season 1 with Richard Martinez, the President from fellow [[Disney]] [[Kid Com]] ''[[Cory in The House]]''.
** Subverted in Season 4. In "Hannah Montana to the Principal's Office", Barack Obama impressionist [https://web.archive.org/web/20120101150142/http://www.reggiebrown.net/ Reggie Brown] makes an appearance. Miley Stewart mentions in one scene that Hannah Montana once sang for the President's kids. In real life, Miley Cyrus performed (though not as Hannah) at the ''Kid's Inaugural: We Are The Future'' concert where First Daughters Malia and Sasha Obama sat in the front row.
* [[Overly Long Name]]:
** Rico's Australian-Mexican cousin's name is '''A'''lejandro '''N'''úñez '''G'''onzales '''U'''mberto '''S'''ifuentes. They call him [[Fun
** There was also a TV reporter in Season 1 named Bree Yang Shixian Takahashi Samuels.
* [[Paparazzi]]: Including a recurring one that once followed Miley (as Hannah) home in order to find out where she lived. This set up the plot for "My Boyfriend's Jackson and There's Gonna Be Trouble".
* [[Perfume Commercial]]: Hannah does one of these in the episode "Smells Like Teen Sellout", telling viewers that the fragrance "completes the circle", and it involves her standing in front of a picture frame with a pair of gymnasts rolling behind her.
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'''Miley:''' I think they're the circle.
* [[Playing Cyrano]]: When Lilly and Oliver's relationship is on the rocks, Rico finds that Oliver's moping is bad for business. In order to shut him up and bring the customers back, Rico helps mend their relationship by sending Lilly a love letter in Oliver's name.
* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: Hannah does this twice, while reading off a teleprompter in "People Who Use People".
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[[Revised Ending]] The original ending was a [[All Just a Dream]]
* [[Scout Out]]: The Sunshine Girls, who originally appeared on ''[[That's So Raven]]''.
* [[Secret Relationship]]:
** In a nod to ''[[Star Wars]]'', when Jake and Miley are secretly dating they use the code-names 'Anakin' and 'Queen Amidala'.
** Subverted in the case of Lilly and Oliver. They decide to ease Miley into it, and manage to keep it from her for all of about five minutes.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Both played straight and subverted in the episode
* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: Lilly and Oliver, after being friends since kindergarten, suddenly turn into this, even calling each other "Lillypop" and "Olipop".
* [[Special Guest]]: Quite a few.
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** Jesse McCartney in "When You Wish You Were the Star".
** [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] in "Don't Stop 'Til You Get the Phone".
** [[Stand
** [[Jonas Brothers|The Jonas Brothers]] in "Me and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas".
** Nancy O'Dell in "Cheat It".
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** [[Sports Center|Robin Roberts]] in "Can You See The Real Me?".
** [[All My Children|Kelly Ripa]] in "I Am Mamaw, Hear Me Roar!".
** [[
* [[Stepford Smiler]]:
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'''Flight Attendant:''' And I'd like to have a job where I don't have to smile all the time no matter how annoyed I am.
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]:
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'''Lilly:''' ...me too.
(beat)
'''Miley and Lilly''' (in unison): Awkward!
* [[Sure, Let's Go
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]:
** Hannah doth protest too much about not knowing Oliver in "Judge Me Tender".
** From "California Screamin'":
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'''Miley:''' ...It's not like I'm twelve anymore, not like I'm gonna follow them into some restaurant and hide behind a potted plant and then get underneath the dessert cart when I can't hear them anymore. Pfft! ''Please!''
** They also tend to do this when they try to explain/excuse something. One episode had Miley [[It Makes Sense in Context|curse Taylor Swift and her bonus track]], followed by Lilly saying "She just hates bonus tracks. It's not like she's a popstar or anything!".
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Miley and Lilly pose as the rock duo Milo & Otis to try and drive a wedge between the [[Jonas Brothers]] and Robbie Ray. [[Large Ham|Overacting ensues]].
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: Hot for student variation: The school nurse has a conversation with Lilly and Miley that makes it sound like she's having an affair with Oliver, though it turns out she's actually talking about him having diabetes. The girls are appropriately horrified, though they'd have a harder time getting away with this joke [[Double Standard|had the genders been reversed]].
* [[This Is the Part Where]]: The lyrics of the song "If We Were a Movie"
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''And I'd be the best friend that you [[Childhood Friend Romance|fall in love with]]''
''In the end we'd be laughing, [[Watching the Sunset]]''
''[[Fade to Black]], [[Closing Credits|show the names]], [[Ending Theme|play the happy song]]''
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Played straight in "Killing Me Softly With His Height", where Miley goes on a date with the much-shorter Connor.
* [[Toilet Humor]]: From the episode "Judge Me Tender":
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'''Miley:''' Please tell me that's a blueberry muffin.
* [[Too Much Information]]: From the episode "I Honestly Love You (No, Not You)":
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'''Miley:''' I could've gone my whole life not knowing that.
* [[Totally Radical]]: In-universe example, [[Lampshaded]] by Miley:
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* [[
* [[Twist Ending]]: {{spoiler|In the finale, when Miley and Lilly are about to leave for Paris, Lilly doesn't want to go, and tells Miley that her own dream has always been college, no matter what Miley's is. So she stays at Standford while Miley takes off on her flight to Paris. But ''then'', Miley comes back to Standford, admitting that she has to take the one chance to go to college with her BFF, as opposed to many chances for big movies and the like
* [[Two Girls and
* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]:
** Rico and his rival Australian cousin, Angus.
** Miley's identical cousin, Luann.
** Robbie Ray's brother and Luann's dad, Bobby Ray Stewart.
* [[
* [[Vacation Episode]]
* [[Very Special Episode]]: "Been Here All Along"
* [[Well
* [[Wimp Fight]]: When Miley and Jackson were fighting over whether or not they were going to tell Siena the "Hannah" secret, it escalated to physical violence. And by physical violence, I mean the both of them slapping each others hands.
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'''Miley:''' I ''am'' a girl, what's your excuse?
* [[Wonderful Life]]: In the episode "When You Wish You Were the Star", Miley wishes upon a star that she could be all Hannah, all the time. In this [[Alternate Timeline]], Jackson is a hermit, Robbie Ray is married to a [[Gold Digger]], Lilly is the [[Alpha Bitch]] (with Ashley and Amber as her [[Girl Posse]]), and Rico and Oliver have gone into business together as sleazy paparazzi-wannabes.
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