History Series / AndiMack

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Despite the arrests in "Unloading Zone", there is nothing illegal about the group's conduct, other than possibly running afoul of state and local vending laws. The clothes were taken from the dumpster behind a store. In the United States, items in trash cans or dumpsters are legally considered to have been surrendered by their owners, and anyone can take them without the act qualifying as larceny. It is also unlikely this would be considered trespassing, as the dumpster appears to have been in a back lot accessible to the public.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Amber starts as a heel in Season 1, goes face in season 2, briefly slips back into heel in "The Snorpion", but goes back to face at the end.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Buffy and Marty's storyline was interrupted and delayed due to Marty's actor, Garren Stitt, leaving the show in Season 2 to play Oscar in Series/GeneralHospital.

* AdultsAreUseless: Averted, unlike most {{KidCom}}s. With only a few exceptions, the adults actually act wise and try to teach their kids in an effective manner.

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

* 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.]] Only for it to turn out she told them about her being the frisbee team.
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: [[spoiler: Jonah starts to realize he may have romantic feelings for Andi after she decides to end their relationship. Twice]].

* BrickJoke: Early in episode 10, Andi is working on math homework and expresses exasperation at quadratic equations. Later in the episode, [[spoiler: as a cover story for her getting her laundry done by Celia,]] she says she was getting math tutoring from Buffy. Then, in the next episode, when the new principal is telling the girls and Cyrus about the school's ranking dropping from #3 to #10, out of 162, Buffy easily points out that it is only a 4.3 percent drop.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Buffy and Cyrus find the picture of [[spoiler:Bex and 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.

* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Well, [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 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]] in addition to [[spoiler:characters with anxiety, a learning disability, military parent, deafness, and financial problems]]. 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.
** Taken UpToEleven in Season 3 with a [[spoiler:gun safety]] storyline.
* DeceptiveLegacy: The entire point of the show is Andi realizing her [[spoiler: "sister" is her mother and her "mother" her grandmother."]]

* 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]].

* 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.]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler:Bex is Andi's mother, having had her through TeenPregnancy.]]
* FirstNameBasis: Andi and Celia agree on this instead of [[spoiler: Grandma]]. This later evolves into "Cece." Same goes with calling [[spoiler:her mother]] just Bex.

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

* [[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 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]].

** Rebecca Mack is known to everyone (except for her mother Celia) as "Bex". Celia, for her part, was known as "Cece" in her youth [[spoiler:and revives this nickname for Andi to use in place of "Grandma"]]. Averted by Andi, whose first name might ''sound'' like a nickname, but she was born Andi Mack.

* ItsAllMyFault: Andi realizes that her first words, "Mama," directed towards Celia and not Bex, drove Bex to make the decision to leave home and [[spoiler:let Celia raise Andi]].
* KickTheDog: Amber brings up Andi's [[spoiler:missing father]] in the middle of a party to humiliate her.

* MixedAncestry: The Macks are an interracial family, with a white father and Chinese-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]]. [[spoiler: Andi's father Bowie turns out to be white, making her a quarter Chinese]].

* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Jonah and Amber break up, but Cyrus' pep talk inadvertently convinces Jonah to reunite with her. By the end of the episode, Jonah and Amber are a couple again, much to Andi's disappointment. He then breaks up with Amber in the finale after he realizes that she is a BitchInSheepsClothing.
** [[spoiler: They get back together in Season 3.]]

* SensoryOverload: [[spoiler: Jonah is prone to panic attacks, but he's so focused on avoiding stressful situations he never knew until Cyrus's party when he feels that he's losing Andi.]]

* 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. What's more shocking is that she's Andi's mother as well.]]

* [[spoiler:TwoferTokenMinority: Cyrus is Jewish and gay.]]

** [[spoiler:"I'm not your sister... I'm your mother."]]
** [[spoiler: “You like Jonah.”]]
** [[spoiler: "Okay, well that, of course, is Aunt Ruthie's kugel, uh, that's your classic bagel and lox. That's gefilte fish - skip that. And I'm gay."]]
*** [[spoiler: This is the first time the word "gay" has ever been said on Disney Channel.]]

** [[spoiler: Episode 6 reveals Andi's father, a musician named Bowie]].
** [[spoiler: Episode 12 [[AmbiguouslyGay Cyrus looks back back]]. This after Amber says if (Andi) looks back means she likes Jonah more than just as a friend. Confirmed in/just before Season Two]]
*** [[spoiler: In the Season 2 Finale, TJ looks back at Cyrus. It was confirmed that this look back was for Cyrus and not Buffy, but the editors made it ambiguous.]]

* WildTeenParty: Bex convinces a reluctant Andi to have one. It ends with Amber [[KicktheDog humiliating]] Andi over her [[spoiler: missing father]] and the [[spoiler:grand]]parents returning home early.

* 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]] or [[spoiler: a confirmed gay main character]] in addition to [[spoiler: characters with anxiety, a learning disability, military parent, deafness, and financial problems]]. 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.

* WhamEpisode: While every episode has a huge change to the status quo, the finale takes the cake. [[spoiler: Bowie returns into Andi's life and plans to propose to Bex, Buffy and Marty realize they value each other's company, Jonah dumps Amber and takes back Andi's bracelet, and it's implied Andi still might like Jonah. It also implies that Cyrus likes Jonah, which is later confirmed in/just before Season Two]]

* ProductDisplacement: Characters refer to "Toaster Tarts", "Baby Taters" (the latter could just be The Spoon's name for them), "Facepage", and "Instapic."

* TotallyRadical: Any slang the characters use tends to be decades out of date, to the point it almost seems deliberate. Jonah Beck once calls Cyrus "gnarly", and even his made-up slang ("docious magocious") sounds distinctly retro. Multiple characters use the term "savage", including Cyrus (for Andi's new motorbike) and Marty (for a new pair of sneakers).

* LoveDodecahedron: Ooh boy. Andi has a crush on Jonah, who is dating Amber. [[spoiler:Jonah returns Andi’s feelings and breaks up with Amber, who seemingly still likes him as her feelings cause her to lash out an Andi. By the time Jonah asks Andi out, Cyrus has realized he also has a crush on Jonah. Walker shows a clear interest in Andi from his first appearance, and Andi is conflicted until she finally chooses Jonah.]]
** Brought UpToEleven in Season 3, [[spoiler:when Buffy and Walker start dating. Seeing them together makes Andi jealous and makes her question her feelings once again. She feels that she now views Jonah more as a friend, but when he gets back from frisbee camp, he thinks they're still together. They decide to remain friends. Jonah then starts dating Libby. Buffy decides to ghost Walker and reconnect with Marty.]]

* BrickJoke: Early in episode 10, Andi is working on math homework and expresses exasperation at quadratic equations. Later in the episode, [[spoiler: as a cover story for her getting her laundry done by Celia,]] she says she was getting math tutoring from Buffy. Then, in the next episode, when the new principal is telling the girls and Cyrus about the school's ranking dropping from #3 to #10, out of 162, Buffy easily points out that it is only a 4.3 percent drop.

* ProductDisplacement: Characters refer to "Toaster Tarts", "Baby Taters" (the latter could just be The Spoon's name for them), and "Facepage".

* BreakThemByTalking: When Kira notices something going on between Cyrus and TJ, she manages to get in TJ's head by taking a dig at the fact that he'd rather do a costume with Cyrus, a boy, instead of her, a girl, telling him to "have fun with that."

** Kira is this to Buffy as the school's ace girls basketball player. Initially she seems to resemble Buffy prior to her character development: competitive with a need to constantly one up everyone around her, sometimes at the expense of others. However, Kira is much more of a jerk than Buffy and actually quite cruel which Buffy never was. While Buffy has always supported Cyrus' sexuality and journey, Kira is quick to use TJ's fears regarding his sexuality against him to manipulate him. In "Mount Rushmore or Less", Buffy says she understands that somersaults are TJ and Cyrus' "thing" and why the costume is important to Cyrus, whereas Kira mocks the "inside joke that no one understands."

* AmbiguouslyGay: Cyrus, initially due to his obsession with Jonah and CampGay mannerisms. [[spoiler:Not so ambiguous as of Season 2.]]

* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: When TJ goes to talk things out with Cyrus in "The New Girls" after not having spoken since the gun incident. It's important to note that [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMqB0ANQ0i0&t=3s this exchange occurs as they walk right up to each other.]

* OnlyOneName: If you're not in the opening credits or a relative of Andi, you only get to have one name.

* BreakThemByTalking: When Kira notices something going on between Cyrus and TJ, she manages to get in TJ's head by taking a dig at the fact that he'd rather do a costume with Cyrus, a boy, instead of her, a girl, and tells him "have fun with that."

* BreakThemByTalking: When Kira notices something going on between Cyrus and TJ, she manages to get in TJ's head by taking a dig at the fact that he'd rather do a costume with Cyrus, a boy, instead of her, a girl, and tells him to have fun with that.

* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: We have the artistic Andi, the athletic Buffy and Cyrus, though Cyrus is gay, meaning romance isn't in the equation.

* FullNameBasis: Jonah Beck is referred to by his full name by just about everyone.

** TJ to Jonah, which is unsurprising that Cyrus has taken an interest in both at various points. They're essentially his type: Green eyed team captains who seem confident but have issues and secrets and are more than meets the eye. The difference is that Jonah has always been extremely friendly, whereas TJ was cold and mean, but simultaneously, Jonah was, particularly early on, quite oblivious to Cyrus and didn't pay much attention to him, whereas TJ has always gone out of his way to demonstrate that he cares about Cyrus and thinks he's important.

** Kira is this to Buffy as the school's ace girls basketball player. Initially she seems to resemble Buffy prior to her character development: competitive with a need to constantly one up everyone around her, sometimes at the expense of others. However, Kira is much more of a jerk than Buffy and rather cruel which Buffy never was, and while Buffy has always supported Cyrus' sexuality and journey, Kira is quick to use TJ's fears regarding his sexuality against him to manipulate him. In "Mount Rushmore or Less", Buffy says she understands that somersaults are TJ and Cyrus' "thing" and why the costume is important to Cyrus, whereas Kira mocks the "inside joke that no one understands."