History Series / AlexaAndKatie

* IllGirl: Alexa. A driving force of many of her plot lines is her desire to not be seen as the sick girl.
** [[IllGirl Ill Boy]]: Spencer, Alexa's new love interest has cancer and is going through many of the same treatments she did.

* HesAllGrownUp: Dylan comes back from Stanford tanned, slightly more buff, and dressing and talking in a more fashionable way. He is still part of a math frat though, so his personality never changed.

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* [[ShesAllGrownUp He's All Grown Up]]: Dylan comes back from Stanford tanned, slightly more buff, and dressing and talking in a more fashionable way. He is still part of a math frat though, so his personality never changed.

* ProudToBeAGeek: Dylan. He's a mathlete and maths tutor. And part of a math fraternity at Stanford.

'''Lori''': Is that your Mocha?\\

'''Alexa''': Climate Change.

-> '''Alexa''':This is the story of how I beat cancer. When it all started, my nurse told me to write down things I'm grateful for to help me be positive. That first day it was grape popsicles, my family and my best friend. I've been grateful for Katie a lot, but this time I'm super grateful for her. You'll see.

** Lucas tells Alexa that, given her baldness and her [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness nickname]], he is totally going to start calling her [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]].

!!Alexa & Katie Tropes:

* RealityEnsues: In "Secret Sleepover," Lucas tells his parents that seeing the doctors help Alexa has made him want to become an oncologist. A semester into college, he realizes that he is going to have a hard time getting grades good enough for medical school and ultimately decides that pre-med's not for him.

* Cloudcuckoolander: Hannah has shades of this, often saying or doing loopy things, such as trying to eat fake fruit used for a play after being told numerous times it is fake. She does have HiddenDepths as she revealed she is in charge of a park wide cleanup group. This greatly surprises her friends.

* CloudCuckooLander: Hannah has shades of this, often saying or doing loopy things, such as trying to eat fake fruit used for a play after being told numerous times it is fake. She does have HiddenDepths as she revealed she is in charge of a park wide cleanup group. This greatly surprises her friends.

** Jennifer mooching food from the Mendozas.

* IResembleThatRemark: In the first episode, Katie starts pacing around the room during Alexa's chemo treatment. Alexa says, "Can you sit down, please? Because you're making me nervous around my IV." Katie starts to protest that she's being very careful. Then she bumps into Alexa's chair and falls down.

* StickySituation: In "Picture Day," Alexa tries to start a prank war with Gwenny and one of her pranks is replacing Gwenny's hand sanitizer with superglue. Gwenny ends up with her water bottle stuck to one hand and her lunch tray stuck to the other.
* [[StraightMan Straight Woman]]: Reagan. Compared to her three friends, she is portrayed as more reasonable and less prone to craziness. However, she is also portrayed as slightly selfish.

* StrugglingSingleMom: Jennifer is a downplayed example--though money is clearly an issue, particularly when it comes to "extras," she has a full-time gig in HR and is able to provide for Katie and Jack reasonably well.

* [[ShesAllGrownUp He's All Grown Up]]: Dylan changes noticeably after a year at Stanford--his skin is now tanned, has buffed out slightly, and dresses and talks in a more fashionable way. He is still part of a math frat though, so his personality never changed.

Alexa is a fourteen year old girl who is in maintenance after undergoing treatment for leukemia. Luckily she has her best friend Katie by her side, no matter what.

* [[ShesAllGrownUp He's All Grown Up]]: Dylan. After only being at college for a year he has noticeably changed. His skin is now tanned, since he goes to Stanford in California, he has buffed out slightly, and dresses and talks in a more fashionable way. He is still part of a math frat though so his personality never changed.

* RunningGag: Jack hanging around the house in his underwear and complaining when his mom or his sister tells him to put on pants.

* StraightMan: Well woman, Reagan. Compared to her other three friends, she is portrayed as more reasonable and less prone to the same craziness of the others. However, she is also portrayed as slightly selfish.

* ToiletPaperPrank: Alexa, Katie, and Jack set out to TP Gwenny's house in "Bad Hair Day" but end up doing Principal Trugly's instead. It turns out [[spoiler: this was no mistake--Alexa knew it was Trugly's house and TP'd it so she and Katie would be suspended.]]

* HowWeGotHere: The first episode begins with Alexa's narration of how she beat cancer and got through high school. The series covers how she got to that point. During the series itself, Alexa's cancer is currently in remission.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Hilarious averted. As Lucas doesn't care that Dylan is dating his little sister Alexa but is mad at Alexa for stealing his best friend.

* PrecociousCrush: Katie had one on Lucas. She got over it eventually.

Alexa is a fourteen year old girl who is undergoing treatment for a cancer. Luckily she has her best friend Katie by her side, no matter what.

** In "Sweet Sixteen", a party planner asks Lori if she's an event planner. Creator/TiffaniThiessen played event planner Elizabeth Burke on ''Series/WhiteCollar.''

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Ungroundable", Alexa realizes that Lori doesn't want to punish her because of her illness, so she starts planning ways to take advantage of this.

* CalvinBall: In "The Play, Part 1", Lucas and Jack are running around the house shooting Nerf guns at each other and seemingly making up random rules as they go:

* ExpressLaneLimit: Discussed when Jennifer talks to Dave about her struggles with dating.

* GagHaircut: In "Last First Day", Jennifer gives Jack a haircut before school. A "scissors mishap" leaves him with extremely lopsided bangs. Covering his head isn't an option because Jack's school has a rule against wearing hats in class. Fortunately, Lucas has a large stash of hair products and tools due to an obsession with his own hair, and he ends up fixing Jack's botched hair for him.

%%* HappilyMarried: Lori and Dave. In contrast to Katie's parents who are divorced.

%%* NameAndName: "Alexa and Katie".

* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: In "Writer-Director-Nervous Wreck", Gwenny shows up late to a practice for Alexa and Katie's play.

* PrankInjuries: In "#GWENCAS", Gwenny walks out of cooking class with strawberry jam on her shirt and tells Alexa and Katie, "Every day, Lucas pretends to cut his thumb off, then sprays something red across the room. Not some days. Not once in a while. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Day!]]"

* StickySituation: In "Picture Day", Alexa tries to start a prank war with Gwenny and one of her pranks is replacing Gwenny's hand sanitizer with superglue. Gwenny ends up with her water bottle stuck to one hand and her lunch tray stuck to the other.

* SoupIsMedicine: In "Sweet Sixteen", Jennifer and Jack are PlayingSick to avoid returning to work and school after Christmas break. Lori is fully aware that they're not really sick, but she brings them a pot of homemade chicken soup anyway.

* TechnologicallyBlindElders: In "The Ghost Of Cancer Past", Alexa [=FaceTimes=] Megan, who answers with, "Alexa, I'm so glad it's you. My grandma got an iPhone and has been butt-dialing me all day."

* UnaffectedBySpice: Discussed. In "Tryouts and Latte Doubts", Alexa chats with a young cancer patient named Sasha, who has a bag of candy in her pocket.

* [[ShesAllGrownUp He's All Grown Up]]: Dylan. After only being at college for a year he has noticeably changed. His skin is now tanned, since he goes to Stanford in California, he has buffed out slightly, and dresses and talks in a more fashionable way. He is still part of a math frat though so his personality never changed.

* Expy: Katie has the same characteristics as [[Series/TheThundermans Cherry]]. The actress who played her, Isabel May, even looks like an alternate-universe form of [[https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTp7HAvY_8146-Ejso4HSfg3GrIXRXIJRuRdLKO6aUbcqspZB1A Audrey Whitby]]!

** In "The Play, Part 2," Lori said her first kiss was with a guy named ''[[Series/SavedByTheBell Zack M.]]''