History Series / HannahMontana

** [[StandByMe Rob Reiner]] in "You Gotta Lose That Job".

* AnAesop: 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.

* {{Adorkable}}: Much of the show's success can be attributed to Miley Cyrus' [[GenkiGirl 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 [[ILoveLucy Lucille]] [[LucilleBall Ball]] and [[TheCarolBurnettShow Carol Burnett]].

* GenreSavvy: Lilly has a fair amount of this. Several times she points out Miley's crazy schemes and why they wouldn't work. [[hottip:*: In "Killing Me Softly With His Height", she even realizes the plan Miley's about to come up with before Miley has thought of it herself]]. Sometimes it's [[LampshadeHanging even implied]] that Lilly agrees to play along only because she knows that Miley will [[AnAesop learn something when the plan fails]].

* PaperThinDisguise: How the cast's {{Secret Identit|y}}ies are kept secret. {{Lampshaded}} when Jackson points out the obviousness of Superman's PaperThinDisguise, and Miley agrees with him as she and Robbie Ray don theirs. [[hottip:*: Hannah's disguise arguably qualifies for WigDressAccent, albeit on an inconsistent basis. Obviously she already has the wig and clothes, then composes herself in a far more confident, flashier manner than the shy, awkward and unpopular Miley Stewart. Also, if you pay attention, Hannah's voice is often a higher register and loses much of Miley's real-life Southern accent - even though the Hannah character is also from Tennessee. This speech convention was more prevalent in the first two seasons, but a recent good example was in "Ready, Set, Don't Go" where there is a marked contrast between how she talks to the DMV worker and how she speaks to Lilly]].

* ThreeAmigos: Miley, Lilly and Oliver. [[hottip:*: Oliver sometimes is included in a secondary ThreeAmigos group opposite Jackson and Rico]].

* TokenMinority: Subverted with Rico. He may be the only Latino in an otherwise [[MightyWhitey monochrome]] cast, but he subverts the TV stereotype of Latinos by being intelligent, wealthy, and motivated. [[hottip:*: He's also greedy, conniving, and selfish]].

* {{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. [[hottip:*: Eventually, Jake and Miley enter an on-again, off-again relationship. From then on, every time they are ''not'' a couple, Miley is generally nice to him, but her [[BelligerentSexualTension angry reactions to any perceived slight]] are well out of proportion to the JustFriends status they are supposedly at]]. Lilly with her usual GenreSavvy is actually aware of Miley's true feelings from the start:

* UnlimitedWardrobe: 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. [[hottip:*: She does end up reusing some outfits, but any repeat appearances are usually for one short Hannah scene in a Miley-focused episode]].

* FeudEpisode: 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. [[hottip:*: While still handcuffed]].

** Oliver performs and Hannah is a guest judge on ''America's Top Talent''. [[hottip:*: Despite [[AmericasGotTalent the name]], it's more a parody of ''Series/AmericanIdol'', complete with thinly-disguised imitations of that show's judges and a [[SpecialGuest cameo appearance]] by actual ''Idol'' judge Kara [=DioGuardi=]]].

* MissingEpisode: "No Sugar, Sugar", pulled for its CluelessAesop regarding diabetes. [[hottip:*: {{Retool}}ed as "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)" and run at the ''end'' of the season rather than the beginning(though the episode did air overseas and can be found online). Since StatusQuoIsGod, [[SoapOperaDisease Oliver's diabetes]] [[CompressedVice was never mentioned again]]. Reportedly, they actually ''had'' done the research needed to portray diabetes accurately, but they made it into a joke.

** [[spoiler: Jake can be seen as this in his story arc due to the fact he constantly breaks Miley's heart and eventually flat out cheats on her.]]

** Lilly and Miley both apply to [[FictionalCounterpart 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 Website/{{Google}} the name, the results pages will keep insisting you meant [[http://www.stanford.edu something else.]]

* DerailingLoveInterests: [[spoiler:"The End of the Jake as We Know It". Some might be inclined to think that the title was taken too literally, with Jake's cheating coming out of left field given his prior development. It's {{egregious}} when the episode right after reintroduces the other love interest Miley rejected for Jake.]]

* GenreSavvy: Lilly has a fair amount of this. Several times she points out Miley's crazy schemes and why they wouldn't work. [[hottip:*: In "Killing Me Softly With His Height", she even realizes the plan Miley's about to come up with before Miley has thought of it herself.]] Sometimes it's [[LampshadeHanging even implied]] that Lilly agrees to play along only because she knows that Miley will [[AnAesop learn something when the plan fails]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Mamaw is played by [[MamasFamily Mama]]

* KeepingSecretsSucks: 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.]]

* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: 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 [[KeepingSecretsSucks burden of dealing with her dual identities]] puts a severe strain on their relationship.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: How the cast's {{Secret Identit|y}}ies are kept secret. {{Lampshaded}} when Jackson points out the obviousness of Superman's PaperThinDisguise, and Miley agrees with him as she and Robbie Ray don theirs. [[hottip:*: Hannah's disguise arguably qualifies for WigDressAccent, albeit on an inconsistent basis. Obviously she already has the wig and clothes, then composes herself in a far more confident, flashier manner than the shy, awkward and unpopular Miley Stewart. Also, if you pay attention, Hannah's voice is often a higher register and loses much of Miley's real-life Southern accent - even though the Hannah character is also from Tennessee. This speech convention was more prevalent in the first two seasons, but a recent good example was in "Ready, Set, Don't Go" where there is a marked contrast between how she talks to the DMV worker and how she speaks to Lilly.]]

* ThreeAmigos: Miley, Lilly and Oliver. [[hottip:*: Oliver sometimes is included in a secondary ThreeAmigos group opposite Jackson and Rico.]]

* TokenMinority: Subverted with Rico. He may be the only Latino in an otherwise [[MightyWhitey monochrome]] cast, but he subverts the TV stereotype of Latinos by being intelligent, wealthy, and motivated. [[hottip:*: He's also greedy, conniving, and selfish.]]

* {{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. [[hottip:*: Eventually, Jake and Miley enter an on-again, off-again relationship. From then on, every time they are ''not'' a couple, Miley is generally nice to him, but her [[BelligerentSexualTension angry reactions to any perceived slight]] are well out of proportion to the JustFriends status they are supposedly at.]] Lilly with her usual GenreSavvy is actually aware of Miley's true feelings from the start:

* UnlimitedWardrobe: 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. [[hottip:*: She does end up reusing some outfits, but any repeat appearances are usually for one short Hannah scene in a Miley-focused episode.]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: Jackson and Rico. [[spoiler:It takes them until the series finale to admit it.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: TaylorMomsen, {{Jojo}}, and AmericanJuniors finalist Jordan Mccoy were all considered for the role. And lets not forget Miley originally auditioned for the role of Lilly ''Romero'' and the various names that both the main character (Zoe, Chloe) and her alter ego (Anna Cabana, Alexis Texas, Samantha York) went through before they settled on Miley and Hannah Montana.

-->'''Jackson:''' Jackson Stewart, come on down! You are the proud owner of a brand new... USED CAR! Yes, over the last fifteen years this pre-owned beauty has been driven around by heavy smokers and sloppy eaters, and one Wilma [=McDermott=] whose cat popped out six kittens in the front seat! Yes, some stains just don't come out!

** Never cheat on Miley. It'll lead to Hannah [[spoiler:beating the crap out of you during a live Christmas special.]]

* FeudEpisode: 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. [[hottip:*: While still handcuffed.]]

** Oliver performs and Hannah is a guest judge on ''America's Top Talent''. [[hottip:*: Despite [[AmericasGotTalent the name]], it's more a parody of ''Series/AmericanIdol'', complete with thinly-disguised imitations of that show's judges and a [[SpecialGuest cameo appearance]] by actual ''Idol'' judge Kara [=DioGuardi=].]]

** 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,]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} giving a nod to the series finale]] when [[spoiler:Lilly goes off to college but Miley doesn't, which proves ineffective as Miley ends up joining Lilly at college anyway.]]

* TwistEnding: [[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.]]

* MissingEpisode: "No Sugar, Sugar", pulled for its CluelessAesop regarding diabetes. [[hottip:*: {{Retool}}ed as "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)" and run at the ''end'' of the season rather than the beginning(though the episode did air overseas and can be found online). Since StatusQuoIsGod, [[SoapOperaDisease Oliver's diabetes]] [[CompressedVice was never mentioned again]].]]

** In a nod to ''StarWars'', when Jake and Miley are secretly dating they use the code-names 'Anakin' and 'Queen Amidala'.

For its fourth and final season, the show was {{retool}}ed and re-branded as ''Hannah Montana Forever''.

* MissingEpisode: "No Sugar, Sugar", pulled for its CluelessAesop regarding diabetes. [[hottip:*: {{ReTool}}ed as "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)" and run at the ''end'' of the season rather than the beginning(though the episode did air overseas and can be found online). Since StatusQuoIsGod, [[SoapOperaDisease Oliver's diabetes]] [[CompressedVice was never mentioned again]].]]

** Oliver performs and Hannah is a guest judge on ''America's Top Talent''. [[hottip:*: Despite [[AmericasGotTalent the name]], it's more a parody of ''AmericanIdol'', complete with thinly-disguised imitations of that show's judges and a [[SpecialGuest cameo appearance]] by actual ''Idol'' judge Kara [=DioGuardi=].]]

** The host on ''[[FictionalCounterpart Singing with the Stars]]'' was a parody of [[AmericanIdol Simon Cowell]].
** "Byron", another Simon Cowell parody, shows up in "Judge Me Tender", now teamed up with his ''AmericanIdol'' co-judges Randy Jackson (well, a parody named "Andy") and Kara [=DioGuardi=] (the real deal).

** [[AmericanIdol David Archuleta]] in "Promma Mia".
** [[AmericanIdol Kara [=DioGuardi=]]] in "Judge Me Tender".

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In a way, as the show deals with a pop star coming to fame in the late 2000's, this show has elements of this. Plenty of pop culture references in the jokes and plot lines, from Jesse [=McCartney=] to KellyClarkson to LadyGaga to KatyPerry, a few AmericanIdol references, the second War in Iraq (as covered in Season 4), a BarackObama {{Expy}} also in the final season, maybe even the [[IdolSinger Teen Pop]] aspect in general---help to put the show in a specific time and place.

** FridgeLogic kicks in when you realize some of her tours go on for ''months'', but she is made out to still attend a full school year.

* SeriesContinuityError: Oh so many! A few examples:

** Lilly and Miley both apply to [[FictionalCounterpart 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.]]

* ChildhoodFriendRomace: Lilly and Oliver.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Mamaw is played by [[MamasFamily Mama]]

* TeacherStudentRomance: 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 [[DoubleStandard had the genders been reversed]].

* MissingEpisode: "No Sugar, Sugar", pulled for its CluelessAesop regarding diabetes. [[hottip:*: {{ReTool}}ed as "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)" and run at the ''end'' of the season rather than the beginning(though the deleted scenes and original endings did find their way onto Youtube). Since StatusQuoIsGod, [[SoapOperaDisease Oliver's diabetes]] [[CompressedVice was never mentioned again]].]]

* MissingEpisode: "No Sugar, Sugar", pulled for its CluelessAesop regarding diabetes. [[hottip:*: {{ReTool}}ed as "Uptight (Oliver's Alright)" and run at the ''end'' of the season rather than the beginning. Since StatusQuoIsGod, [[SoapOperaDisease Oliver's diabetes]] [[CompressedVice was never mentioned again]].]]

* BizarroEpisode: The episode "Kiss It All Goodbye", where Miley is suddenly hated and accused of being a liar, was highly implausible given Hannah's universal popularity [[spoiler:and the initial warm reception to her revelation of the secret.]]

-->'''Jackson:''' Amnesia? What do you think this is, an episode of ''GilligansIsland''?

* LargeHam: ''Everyone''.