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'''Hannah:''' You have ''no'' idea. }}

 

 

For its fourth and final season, the show was [[Retool|retooled]] and re-branded as ''Hannah Montana Forever''.

 

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* [[Adam Westing]]: Billy Ray Cyrus plays his own [[Captain Ersatz]].

** 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]] -- as Hannah Montana as well as herself, no less.

** Literally with Oliver who actually only comes back as a [[Plot Device]].

* [[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]].

* [[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."

** 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.

** 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 that -- it's quite visible on a couple of folders in the episode, and Miley clearly sounds out the first D more than once. There's no such school, and if you [[Google]] the name, the results pages will keep insisting you meant [http://www.stanford.edu something else.]

* [[Catch Phrase]]:

** "Sweet niblets!"

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Brought up]] in one of the DVD extras:

{{quote| '''Miley:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|I never wear sparkles!]]}}

* [[Hot Dad]]: They don't call Robbie Ray the "Honky Tonk Hearthrob" for nuthin'!

* [[Hot Mom]]:

** 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.

'''Lilly:''' About what?<br />

'''Miley:''' I don't care, as long as you stop talking. }}

* [[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]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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.

** 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:

{{quote| '''Jackson:''' There's only one thing that will get me into that college!<br />

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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 Robbie -- although never shown, he has a strict routine of grooming to always keep his hair looking nice.

* [[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.

* [[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).

* [[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!

** A segment of one episode takes place inside a Make-A-Moose.

** Hannah uses her [[Brand X|zPhone]] to post messages on Flitter.

** 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.

* [[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:

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:

{{quote| '''Jake Ryan:''' Oh, and [[Natalie Portman]], [[Britney Spears]], and Jake Gyllenhaal? Name droppers!}}

* [[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]]:

** 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).

** Subverted in Season 4. In "Hannah Montana to the Principal's Office", Barack Obama impressionist [http://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]]:

** 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".

** 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".

** [[Jonas Brothers|The Jonas Brothers]] in "Me and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas and Mr. Jonas".

** Nancy O'Dell in "Cheat It".

(beat)<br />

'''Miley and Lilly''' (in unison): Awkward! }}

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]:

** Hannah doth protest too much about not knowing Oliver in "Judge Me Tender".

* [[Tradesnark]]: Jackson and Oliver ended their (in)famous cheese jerky rap with "Sizzlin' Stewart & Smokin' Oken Enterprises. Patent pending." Also, Rico owns the North American rights to his [[Catch Phrase|catch phrases]] "Hey-O!" and "Muahahahaha!"

* [[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.}}

* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]:

** Rico and his rival Australian cousin, Angus.