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* AllWorkVsAllPlay: [[MyBelovedSmother Celia]] and [[BlitheSpirit Bex]], respectively. This a major reason they don't get along with each other.

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* AllWorkVsAllPlay: [[MyBelovedSmother Celia]] and [[BlitheSpirit Bex]], respectively. This is a major reason they don't get along with each other.
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* ColorblindCasting: The casting for Andi was colorblind, which led to the family being Asian and white (since the actors cast had to reasonably pass as being Peyton Elizabeth Lee's family).

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* AllWorkVsAllPlay: [[MyBelovedSmother Celia]] and [[BlitheSpirit Bex]], respectively. This a major reason they don't get along with each other.



* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: Andi's father. Bex is reluctant to talk about him and never even told him they had a baby, but Ham later admits to telling him about Andi]].



* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler: Andi. Celia raised her, but Bex starts taking a motherly role in her life]].



* KickTheDog: Amber brings up Andi's [[spoiler: missing father]] in the middle of a party to humiliate her.



* PassionateSportsGirl: Buffy is a very aggressive and competitive athlete, almost to JerkJock levels.



* ScaryLibrarian: Mrs. Devlin. Bex always found her creepy and Andi becomes terrified of her after watching a horror movie about a demonic librarian.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Series/LizzieMcGuire, to an extent. The shows both follow teenage girls and the ups and downs of their lives, have a TokenTrio TwoGirlsAndAGuy setup for the title character's circle of friends, lack the CannedLaughter usually used in a sitcom, and are [[CharacterTitle named after the lead character]].
* StaringContest: Andi and [[KubrickStare Amber]] engage in one. Blinking is apparently allowed.



* SpiritualSuccessor: To Series/LizzieMcGuire, to an extent. The shows both follow teenage girls and the ups and downs of their lives, have a TokenTrio TwoGirlsAndAGuy setup for the title character's circle of friends, lack the CannedLaughter usually used in a sitcom, and are [[CharacterTitle named after the lead character]].
* StaringContest: Andi and [[KubrickStare Amber]] engage in one. Blinking is apparently allowed.
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* FullNameBasis: Jonah Beck is referred to by his full name by just about everyone.
-->'''Cyrus:''' Hey, Jonah Beck.\\
'''Jonah:''' You can just call me Jonah.\\
'''Cyrus:''' Did you hear that? Jonah Beck just said we can call him Jonah.
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'''Bex:''' ''I'm standing right in front of you!\\

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'''Bex:''' ''I'm standing right in front of you!\\you!''\\
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-->'''Celia:''' No! Our daughter ([[LikeASonToMe Andi]]) isn't supposed to be going through this!\\
'''Bex:''' ''I'm'' your daughter!\\

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-->'''Celia:''' No! Our daughter ([[LikeASonToMe Andi]]) isn't supposed I don't want to be going through this!\\
lose my daughter!\\
'''Bex:''' ''I'm'' your daughter!\\''I'm standing right in front of you!\\
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Celia angrily sprays a neighbor using her water hose when the latter calls her [[BerserkButton "grandma"]] (which also means that the secret somehow slipped).
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* FirstNameBasis: Andi and Celia agree on this instead of [[spoiler: Grandma]]. This later evolves into "Cece."
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* CompetitionFreak: Buffy's track team is disqualified when she fails to pass the baton to her teammates during the relay. Her coach is understandably furious.
-->'''Cyrus:''' But winning isn't everything. \\
'''Buffy:''' Of course it is! That's why I like sports. You always know where you stand.
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* BaitAndSwitch: At one point in the pilot we see Buffy and Cyrus' reactions to something Andi has told them. Leading us to believe she has told them about Bex being her mother. Only for it to turn out she told them about her being the frisbee team.

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* BaitAndSwitch: At one point in the pilot we see Buffy and Cyrus' reactions to something Andi has told them. Leading us to believe she has told them about [[spoiler: Bex being her mother. mother.]] Only for it to turn out she told them about her being the frisbee team.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Buffy and Cyrus find the picture of Andi and Bex when she was a baby. They don't seem to put two and two together which leads to hilarity when they think it's a secret baby.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Buffy and Cyrus find the picture of Andi [[spoiler: Bex and Bex Andi]] when she was a baby. They don't seem to put two and two together which leads to hilarity when they think it's a secret baby.
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* BaitAndSwitch: At one point in the pilot we see Buffy and Cyrus' reactions to something Andi has told them. Leading us to believe she has told them about Bex being her mother. Only for it to turn out she told them about her being the frisbee team.


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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Buffy and Cyrus find the picture of Andi and Bex when she was a baby. They don't seem to put two and two together which leads to hilarity when they think it's a secret baby.
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* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: Celia refuses to acknowledge Bex. A heated discussion after [[spoiler:Bex reveals Andi's true parentage]] ends with Celia admitting this, though judging by how [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone distraught]] she looked during the situation, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation it might've just been something she blurted out and didn't actually mean in spite of her actions to Bex]].

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* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: Celia refuses to acknowledge Bex. A heated discussion after [[spoiler:Bex reveals Andi's true parentage]] ends with Celia admitting this, though judging by how [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone distraught]] she looked during the situation, situation and how stressful it was, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation it might've just been something she blurted out and didn't actually mean in spite of her actions to Bex]].
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-->'''Bex:''' I would just like to say you've done a good job of taking care of Andi. As much as I'd hate to admit it, you've done a better job than I ever would have done with her.\\

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-->'''Bex:''' [[SincerityMode I would just like to say you've done a good job of taking care of Andi. As much as I'd hate to admit it, you've done a better job than I ever would have done with her.\\]]\\

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* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Well, thirteenth. [[spoiler: Andi is shocked when her sister is revealed to actually be her mother.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: A minor example, but you probably never expected a Disney Channel KidCom to feature [[spoiler: the results of a TeenPregnancy affecting someone's life]].

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* DamnedByFaintPraise: Bex tries to at least get on better footing with her mother, if not end their estrangement, though Celia isn't interested.
-->'''Bex:''' I would just like to say you've done a good job of taking care of Andi. As much as I'd hate to admit it, you've done a better job than I ever would have done with her.\\
'''Celia:''' ...I was gonna say I like the way you do your makeup.\\
'''Bex:''' ...IllTakeThatAsACompliment!
* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Well, thirteenth. [[spoiler: Andi [[spoiler:Andi is shocked when her sister is revealed to actually be her mother.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: A minor example, but you probably never expected a Disney Channel KidCom to feature [[spoiler: the results of a TeenPregnancy affecting someone's life]]. There's also some slightly more explicit GettingCrapPastTheRadar stuff like a joke averting NoPeriodsPeriod and mistaking "diskhead" for an insult in the first episode alone.
* DrivingQuestion: [[spoiler:Who is Andi's father? Why was Bex traveling around the world instead of staying to care for Andi, and why has she only returned home now? And generally, what exactly happened to Bex in the lead-up to Andi's birth and the immediate aftermath?]]



* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Bex is Andi's mother, raised as her sister. She discovers this in the first episode.]]

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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Bex [[spoiler:Bex is Andi's mother, raised as her sister. She discovers this in the first episode.]]
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler:Bex is Andi's mother, having had her through TeenPregnancy.
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--->'''Buffy:''' What did you just call us?\\

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--->'''Buffy:''' -->'''Buffy:''' What did you just call us?\\



* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: Celia refuses to acknowledge Bex. A heated discussion after [[spoiler:Bex reveals Andi's true parentage]] ends with Celia admitting this, though judging by how [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone distraught]] she looked during the situation, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation it might've just been something she blurted out and didn't actually mean in spite of her actions to Bex]].
-->'''Celia:''' No! Our daughter ([[LikeASonToMe Andi]]) isn't supposed to be going through this!\\
'''Bex:''' ''I'm'' your daughter!\\
'''Celia:''' No, not you!\\
''[Bex is shocked, then storms off to comfort Andi.]''



* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Bex. What's more shocking is that she's Andi's mother as well.]]

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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Cyrus thinks that Andi is being so private about what happened on her birthday because she had her first period the same day.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr. Mack tries to mediate between Celia and Bex.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Andi's friends think that her secret is that Bex was absent from her life because [[spoiler:she was busy taking care of her secret baby]]. [[FromACertainPointOfView But it's not like they were that far off from the truth...]]
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Bex.[[spoiler:Bex. What's more shocking is that she's Andi's mother as well.]]



* StaringContest: Andi and Amber engage in one. Blinking is apparently allowed.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I'm not your sister...I'm your mother."]]

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* StaringContest: Andi and Amber [[KubrickStare Amber]] engage in one. Blinking is apparently allowed.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I'm [[spoiler:"I'm not your sister...sister... I'm your mother."]]
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* EducationMama: Celia gives Andi ''The Unabridged History of Math'' for her birthday.

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* EducationMama: Celia gives gave Andi ''The Unabridged History of Math'' for her birthday.
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* EducationMama: Celia gives Andi ''The Unabridged History of Math'' for her birthday.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Upon meeting them, Jonah Beck calls Cyrus and Buffy "disc heads." Buffy thinks he called them something else.
--->'''Buffy:''' What did you just call us?\\
'''Andi:''' Disc... heads.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: The way Cyrus acts around Jonah...
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* BigEntrance: Bex makes one on her motorcycle upon her return home.
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* StaringContest: Andi and Amber engage in one. Blinking is apparently allowed.
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* Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: [[spoiler: "Bex is my mother, and my mother is my grandmother,]] and Amber is wearing my bracelet!"

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* Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[spoiler: "Bex is my mother, and my mother is my grandmother,]] and Amber is wearing my bracelet!"
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* Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: [[spoiler: "Bex is my mother, and my mother is my grandmother,]] and Amber is wearing my bracelet!"

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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I'm not your sister...I'm your mother."]]



* SpiritualSuccessor: To Series/LizzieMcGuire, to an extent. The shows both follow teenage girls and the ups and downs of their lives, have a TokenTrio TwoGirlsAndAGuy setup for the title character's circle of friends, lack the CannedLaughter usually used in a sitcom, and are [[CharacterTitle named after the lead character]].

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Series/LizzieMcGuire, to an extent. The shows both follow teenage girls and the ups and downs of their lives, have a TokenTrio TwoGirlsAndAGuy setup for the title character's circle of friends, lack the CannedLaughter usually used in a sitcom, and are [[CharacterTitle named after the lead character]].character]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I'm not your sister...I'm your mother."]]
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* TokenTrio: Andi and her friends Buffy and Cyrus are this, being an Asian-American girl (Andi) , an African-American girl (Buffy), and a white guy (Cyrus). The stereotypical formula is subverted since Andi is the lead. Also qualifies as TwoGirlsAndAGuy.

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* TokenTrio: Andi and her friends Buffy and Cyrus are this, being an Asian-American girl (Andi) , (Andi), an African-American girl (Buffy), and a white Jewish guy (Cyrus). The stereotypical formula is subverted since Andi is the lead. Also qualifies as TwoGirlsAndAGuy.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: A minor example, but you probably never expected a Disney Channel KidCom to feature [[spoiler: the results of a TeenPregnancy affecting someone's life]].
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* TokenTrio: Andi and her friends Buffy and Cyrus are this, being an Asian-American girl (Andi) , an African-American girl (Buffy), and a white guy (Cyrus). The stereotypical formula is subverted since Andi is the lead. Also qualifies as TwoGirlsAndAGuy.

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* TokenTrio: Andi and her friends Buffy and Cyrus are this, being an Asian-American girl (Andi) , an African-American girl (Buffy), and a white guy (Cyrus). The stereotypical formula is subverted since Andi is the lead. Also qualifies as TwoGirlsAndAGuy.TwoGirlsAndAGuy.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Series/LizzieMcGuire, to an extent. The shows both follow teenage girls and the ups and downs of their lives, have a TokenTrio TwoGirlsAndAGuy setup for the title character's circle of friends, lack the CannedLaughter usually used in a sitcom, and are [[CharacterTitle named after the lead character]].
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* CannedLaughter: Surprisingly averted. It makes sense given that the show is from the same creator as Series/LizzieMcGuire, which didn't have the laugh track of the sitcoms that followed it, and isn't produced by It's a Laugh Productions (the company responsible for most of the Disney Channel [[KidCom Kid Coms]]).

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* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Bex. What's more shocking is that she's Andi's mother as well.]]

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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Bex is Andi's mother, raised as her sister. She discovers this in the first episode.]]
* MixedAncestry: The Macks are an interracial family, with a white father and Asian-American mother, making Andi and Bex this. [[spoiler: Andi is a bit more complicated. Neither her or the audience know the identity of her real father]].
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Bex. What's more shocking is that she's Andi's mother as well.]]]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "I'm not your sister...I'm your mother."]]
* TokenTrio: Andi and her friends Buffy and Cyrus are this, being an Asian-American girl (Andi) , an African-American girl (Buffy), and a white guy (Cyrus). The stereotypical formula is subverted since Andi is the lead. Also qualifies as TwoGirlsAndAGuy.
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''Andi Mack'' is a 2017 Creator/DisneyChannel KidCom. The show first premiered on demand and on the Creator/DisneyChannel App on March 10, 2017.

Andi's (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) [[CoolBigSis big sister]] Bex (Lilan Bowden) returns home the day before Andi's thirteenth birthday. When she does, she reveals a big secret that will change her world forever.

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!!The show provides examples of:
* AlphaBitch: Amber, Jonah Beck's high school girlfriend.
* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Well, thirteenth. [[spoiler: Andi is shocked when her sister is revealed to actually be her mother.]]
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Bex. What's more shocking is that she's Andi's mother as well.]]

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