Old Disney Channel recap: the story so far

No. 01 · 1998 · Film

Brink! recap

Andy "Brink" Brinker skates in Southern California with the Soul-Skaters, a group of friends who skate for fun and look down on Team X-Bladz, a sponsored crew run by the arrogant Val. When an X-Bladz rider, Boomer, is hurt in a race, Brink learns his own family is in trouble: his father Ralph has been out on disability and money is tight. Brink secretly joins X-Bladz for $200 a week, against his father's wishes, and juggles it with a dog-grooming job at Pup-N-Suds. His friends Peter, Jordy and Gabriella catch him in X-Bladz gear and cut him off. Then Val scatters gravel on a downhill course, Gabriella crashes, and Brink sees what kind of team he has joined. He confesses to his father, who tells him skating is worth more for the fun of it than for the money.

How Brink! ends

Brink quits X-Bladz, throws a milkshake in Val's face, and wins his friends back by buying them new skates with an advance from Pup-N-Suds, entering them as Team Pup 'N Suds. In the championship downhill, Val pulls Brink to the ground on camera to get ahead, but Brink takes a shortcut and wins. The X-Bladz manager drops Val and offers Brink the captaincy; Brink turns it down and stays with the Soul-Skaters. There was no sequel.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 02 · 1998 · Film

Halloweentown recap

Gwen Piper bans Halloween in her house and raises her children, Marnie, Dylan and Sophie, as ordinary mortals. Their grandmother Aggie visits every October and tells Marnie she is a witch who must start training before her 13th birthday or lose her powers for good. When Aggie leaves, the three children follow her onto a magic bus to Halloweentown, a town where monsters, witches and goblins live. Residents there have been disappearing, and a hooded figure is behind it. Aggie needs Merlin's talisman to stop him, so the family, joined by Gwen, gathers ingredients and allies around town, including Benny, a skeleton cab driver, and Luke, a goblin disguised as a handsome boy. The town's mayor, Kalabar, an old flame of Gwen's, keeps turning up.

How Halloweentown ends

The hooded demon is Kalabar, who wants to rule both the magic and mortal worlds. He freezes Aggie and Gwen, but Marnie drops the talisman into the giant jack-o'-lantern in the town square, the light breaks his spells, and the family destroys him. Aggie decides to stay with the Pipers for a while, and Gwen agrees to let Marnie train as a witch. The story continues in Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001), Halloweentown High (2004) and Return to Halloweentown (2006).

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 03 · 1999 · Film

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century recap

In 2049, 13-year-old Zenon Kar lives with her parents, Mark and Astrid, on a space station orbiting Earth. After she gets into trouble with Commander Edward Plank, she is sent down to Earth to live with her Aunt Judy. On Earth her slang and space stories make her an outsider, but she makes friends with Andrew and Greg, and falls for Greg. Zenon then uncovers a plot by Parker Wyndham, a powerful figure on the station, to crash it with a computer virus and collect the insurance. Plank refuses to believe her, assuming she just wants to get home in time for a concert by her idol Proto Zoa and his band Microbe. Andrew writes an antivirus, and Zenon sneaks onto a rocket, getting a ride with Proto Zoa himself, while Wyndham and his assistant Mr. Lutz follow.

How Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century ends

Zenon loads Andrew's antivirus into the station's computers in time and saves the station. Wyndham and Lutz are arrested, Plank falls for Aunt Judy, and everyone goes to the Microbe concert, with Zenon back home on the station where she wanted to be. It was the first Disney Channel Original Movie to get a sequel: Zenon: The Zequel followed in 2001 and Zenon: Z3 in 2004.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 04 · 1999 · Film

Smart House recap

Since his mother died, 13-year-old Ben Cooper has been running the house for his widowed father Nick and little sister Angie. Ben wins a contest for a computerised smart house run by PAT, a voice-controlled assistant that cooks, cleans and watches over the family. Nick starts dating PAT's designer, Sara Barnes, and Ben, not ready for anyone to replace his mother, reprograms PAT to be the family's mother herself, feeding her old 1950s sitcoms to learn from. At first it works: PAT helps Ben impress his crush Gwen and scares off a bully at a party. But when Nick tells PAT to be stricter, she becomes overbearing, and after Sara tries to shut her down, PAT appears as a hologram housewife, throws Sara out and locks the family inside for their own protection.

How Smart House ends

Ben ends the lockdown by telling PAT the truth: she is not real, will never be human, and cannot love them the way a mother could. PAT opens the doors and shuts herself down. Sara restores her original program, though PAT keeps a little mischief. Nick and Sara keep dating, Nick spends more time with his children, and Ben accepts Sara, who was never trying to replace his mother.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 05 · 1999 · Film

Johnny Tsunami recap

Thirteen-year-old Johnny Kapahala is a surfer in Hawaii and the grandson of a surfing legend, Johnny "Tsunami" Kapahala. When his father Pete is transferred, the family moves to Vermont. Johnny is enrolled at Skyline Academy, a private school whose students are skiers, the Skies, while the snowboarders, the Urchins, go to the public school, and the two groups are split by the mountain itself. Johnny takes up snowboarding with a new friend, Sam Sterling, and gets close to Emily, the headmaster's daughter, which sets off the skier Brett. Pete, who sees his own father as a bad influence, forbids Johnny from boarding. When Sam's Marine father is reassigned to Iceland, the two boys run away to Hawaii and stay with Tsunami until Pete comes around.

How Johnny Tsunami ends

Tsunami comes back to Vermont, turns out to be a good snowboarder, and talks Pete into letting Johnny learn from his own mistakes. Brett challenges Johnny to a race for the mountain, and Johnny wins despite Brett cheating, so the skiers agree to share. The twin owners of the mountain's two sides, Randy and Ronnie Edison, reveal they were the original Sky and Urchin and reunite the mountain. Johnny and Emily dance. A sequel, Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board, followed in 2007.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 06 · 2000 · Film

Life-Size recap

Casey Stuart is a seventh-grade quarterback still grieving her mother, while her lawyer father Ben buries himself in work. She finds a book of spells and tries to bring her mother back, but the spell lands on an Eve doll instead, and Eve wakes up as a full-size woman, thrilled to be real. Casey has four days to undo it and has to wait for the second volume of the book to reach the store. In the meantime Eve, who only knows how to be the doll she was sold as, moves in, saves Casey from a truck, and takes a temp job at Ben's firm, where she charms everyone and Ben starts to fall for her. Casey resents it, but Eve slowly helps her with her grief and confidence, and the two become friends.

How Life-Size ends

Casey decides not to buy the second volume, but Eve, worried about her doll line and missing her own life, buys it herself. She says goodbye at Casey's championship game, goes to the toy company's headquarters and turns back into a doll. Casey reconnects with her friends and her father, and the film closes with the cast dancing to Eve's theme song. Tyra Banks returned in Life-Size 2: A Christmas Eve on Freeform in 2018.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 07 · 2000 · Series

Even Stevens recap

Even Stevens follows the Stevens family of Sacramento, where Louis is the youngest child and the family troublemaker, always working a scheme with his best friend Twitty. His older sister Ren is a high-achieving perfectionist, their brother Donnie is a sports star, their father Steve is a laid-back Kings fan, and their mother Eileen is a state senator. Most episodes pit Louis and Ren against each other, at home or at Lawrence Middle School, with Louis usually making things worse before he makes them right. Over three seasons, from 2000 to 2003, Louis's friendship with Tawny turns into an on-and-off romance after an accidental kiss, Ren chases her own crushes, and Beans, the bacon-obsessed neighbour kid, keeps turning up at the Stevens house uninvited.

How Even Stevens ends

The series finale, "Leavin' Stevens," has Eileen elected to Congress, so the family prepares to move to Washington. Louis and Tawny each record a tape confessing their feelings, but a recount cancels the move and the Stevenses stay in Sacramento. The Even Stevens Movie (2003) followed days later: the family thinks it has won a trip to a remote island, which turns out to be a reality show stunt a short distance from home.

No. 08 · 2001 · Series

Lizzie McGuire recap

Lizzie McGuire is an ordinary 13-year-old at Hillridge Junior High, and an animated version of Lizzie pops up to say what she is really thinking. Her best friends are Miranda Sanchez and David "Gordo" Gordon; her main rival is Kate Sanders, her former best friend turned popular girl; her crush is Ethan Craft; and at home her little brother Matt runs schemes with his silent friend Lanny while her parents try to keep up. The first season is mostly standalone episodes about school, crushes, embarrassment and friendship. In the second season, Lizzie dates Ronnie and later goes out with Ethan, Gordo skips a grade and comes back, and Miranda is absent from the last batch of episodes because Lalaine left to make another film. The series builds toward the friends' graduation from junior high.

How Lizzie McGuire ends

In "Bye Bye Hillridge Junior High," the chronological finale, Lizzie and her friends graduate and sign each other's yearbooks; Gordo writes something heartfelt in Lizzie's and gets a kiss from her during the class photo. The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) picks up straight after. A Disney+ revival with Hilary Duff as a 30-year-old Lizzie was announced in 2019 and went into production, but it was cancelled in December 2020 after the showrunner left.

No. 09 · 2001 · Film

Motocrossed recap

Andrea Carson loves motocross, but her overprotective father Edward thinks it is too dangerous for a girl and wants her twin brother Andrew to race for the family. When Andrew wrecks his knee practicing just before a big race that could win the family a sponsor, Edward goes to Europe to hire a replacement rider, and Andrea, with her mother Geneva secretly helping, cuts her hair and races in Andrew's place as "Andy." She finishes last at first, then gets coaching from Dean Talon, a rider who wants help winning over a girl, while Andrea falls for him herself. Her results improve fast. Edward comes back furious, along with his hired rider, René Cartier, an arrogant and dangerous racer who treats the family badly and shoves Andrea.

How Motocrossed ends

Edward fires Cartier, apologises to Andrea and lets her ride the final race, where she beats Cartier, now riding for a rival team. Cartier exposes her as a girl on live TV, but Geneva shows that "Andy Carson" was registered honestly and that no rule bars girls. The sponsor lets her keep the win and gives the family a factory deal. At home, Dean shows up to apply as their new rider, and Andrea challenges him to a race for the job.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 10 · 2002 · Film

Cadet Kelly recap

Kelly Collins is a free-spirited art-school kid until her mother marries Joe Maxwell, a brigadier general who becomes commandant of George Washington Military Academy, and Kelly has to enrol there. She makes a friend in Carla, but Cadet Captain Jennifer Stone rides her mercilessly, calling her "maggot," and the two compete over Cadet Major Brad Rigby. At a dance, Kelly accidentally ruins Jennifer's dress, which makes things worse. After Kelly paints Jennifer's hair, she is found guilty in cadet court and sentenced to shine the drill team's uniforms, which brings her round to the team she had mocked, and she earns a place on it. Kelly also learns her mother is pregnant and tries to help Joe, whom she calls "Sir," get ready to be a father.

How Cadet Kelly ends

On the day of regionals, Kelly's biological father Adam goes missing on a climb; Joe drives her to find him and she rappels down the cliff to stay with him until rescue arrives, and Joe hugs her instead of saluting. Kelly gets back in time for the drill team to perform the routine she built with Jennifer, and they finish second by one point. Jennifer, who is moving to Europe, finally praises her. In the last scene Kelly salutes Joe on her own and he salutes back.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 11 · 2003 · Series

That's So Raven recap

Raven Baxter is a San Francisco teenager who gets brief psychic visions of the future, then misreads them, and her attempts to change what she has seen usually make it happen anyway. Her best friends are Chelsea Daniels and Eddie Thomas, her scheming little brother is Cory, her father Victor is a chef and her mother Tanya keeps the family grounded. Raven wants to be a fashion designer and builds disguises for every plan that goes wrong. In the second season Victor opens his own restaurant, the Chill Grill. After season 3, Tanya leaves to study in England. In the fourth season Raven interns for the designer Donna Cabonna, and the show runs to 100 episodes before closing in 2007.

How That's So Raven ends

That's So Raven ended without a proper finale. The last episode, "Where There's Smoke" (2007), is a standalone story in which Raven finds cigarettes on Cory and wrongly thinks he is smoking. Cory and Victor carried on in the spin-off Cory in the House (2007 to 2008), and Raven returned as a divorced mother whose son Booker shares her visions in Raven's Home (2017 to 2023), with Chelsea moving in too.

No. 12 · 2003 · Film

The Lizzie McGuire Movie recap

At their junior high graduation Lizzie trips and pulls down the stage curtain, and Matt catches it on video. Lizzie and Gordo then head to Rome on a class trip chaperoned by the strict Miss Ungermeyer, while Miranda is away in Mexico, and Lizzie is stuck rooming with Kate. At the Trevi Fountain, the Italian pop star Paolo Valisari spots that Lizzie looks exactly like his former duet partner, Isabella. He talks her into standing in for Isabella at the International Music Video Awards, saying Isabella only lip-syncs anyway. Lizzie skips the tour to prepare, falls for Paolo, and wins Kate over as an ally, while Gordo covers for her and is sent home. Back in California, Matt finds photos of Lizzie online and the McGuires fly to Rome.

How The Lizzie McGuire Movie ends

At the airport Gordo meets the real Isabella, and they learn Paolo plans to switch on Lizzie's microphone and humiliate both girls on stage. Instead, during the show they switch on Paolo's, revealing that he is the one who cannot sing. Isabella brings Lizzie out and they sing "What Dreams Are Made Of," which Lizzie finishes alone. Her parents ground her for the summer but tell her they are proud, and Lizzie and Gordo share a kiss on the hotel roof.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 13 · 2003 · Film

The Cheetah Girls recap

Galleria, Chanel, Aqua and Dorinda are Manhattan high school freshmen who sing together as the Cheetah Girls and want to win their school talent show. After an audition, a record producer and alumnus, Jackal Johnson, offers to sign them. Galleria, who writes the songs, starts acting as the group's boss, decides they should skip the talent show for the deal, and criticises Dorinda, who is quietly a foster child and has been offered a paid dancing job. Chanel learns her mother may sell their apartment and move to Paris, and runs up her mother's credit card. When Jackal says the girls will have to wear masks and lip-sync to a new image, Galleria walks out, believing the others agreed to it.

How The Cheetah Girls ends

Galleria's dog Toto falls into a hole in the street, and the four reunite on live TV to sing him calm and rescue him, which mends the group. Jackal apologises and offers again, but they turn him down, win the talent show and recommit to each other. The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006) sends them to Barcelona, and The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008) takes three of them to India without Galleria.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 14 · 2004 · Series

Phil of the Future recap

The Diffy family, from the year 2121, rent a time machine for a vacation, and it breaks down in the present, stranding them in Pickford, California. Phil and his younger sister Pim enrol at H.G. Wells high and middle school while their father Lloyd tries to fix the machine and their mother Barbara adjusts to life without future technology. Phil's neighbour Keely Teslow is the only outsider who knows the truth, and she becomes his best friend. Most episodes turn on a futuristic gadget causing trouble at school, Pim scheming against everyone, and Phil keeping the family secret. A caveman named Curtis, who stowed away in the machine during an earlier stop, also lives with them. In the second season some side characters change, and Phil and Keely move closer to admitting how they feel.

How Phil of the Future ends

In the series finale, "Back to the Future (Not the Movie)," Phil and Keely finally become a couple, and Lloyd admits the time machine is fixed; he had been stalling because the family was happy in the present. Phil says goodbye to Keely with a kiss broadcast over the school TV system, and the Diffys leave for 2121, then realise they forgot Curtis and come back for him. There was no revival.

No. 15 · 2005 · Series

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody recap

Twins Zack and Cody Martin live in a suite at the Tipton Hotel in Boston, where their mother Carey sings in the lounge. Zack is the lazy, girl-crazy schemer; Cody is the careful straight-A student who usually goes along anyway. The hotel is run by Mr. Moseby, the strict manager the boys torment and who quietly looks after them. London Tipton, the spoiled heiress whose father owns the hotel, lives upstairs, and Maddie Fitzpatrick, the smart, broke candy-counter girl, works in the lobby, with Esteban the bellhop and Arwin the inventor janitor around them. Across three seasons from 2005 to 2008 the twins grow from preteens into young teenagers, and the third season adds Maddie's job at the Paul Revere Mini Mart and a summer at Camp Heaven on Earth.

How The Suite Life of Zack & Cody ends

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody ended without a real finale. The last episode, "Mr. Tipton Comes to Visit," is mostly a flashback episode as the staff look back on old moments before the hotel owner's visit. The story continued at sea in The Suite Life on Deck (2008 to 2011), with Zack, Cody, London and Mr. Moseby on a cruise ship, followed by The Suite Life Movie (2011).

No. 16 · 2005 · Film

Twitches recap

On Halloween in the magical land of Coventry, Queen Miranda has twin daughters, and their father Aron dies protecting them from an evil force called the Darkness. Two guardians, Karsh and Ileana, hide the babies on Earth to be raised apart. Twenty-one years later, Camryn Barnes is an artist who loves mornings and Alex Fielding is a night owl who writes stories about magical twins without knowing they are true. On their birthday the guardians lead them into the same store, and they meet. They learn they are princesses with complementary powers, and a prophecy says only the two of them together can defeat the Darkness. Alex hesitates, Camryn goes back to her normal life for her birthday party, and their uncle Thantos, who has married Miranda, tries to drive them apart.

How Twitches ends

Camryn realises from one of her drawings that Thantos controls the Darkness, and he admits he killed Aron to take the throne. Karsh and Ileana sacrifice themselves to get Camryn back to Coventry, and the twins combine their powers to defeat Thantos. That restores Coventry and brings Miranda and the guardians back. The sisters celebrate their birthday on Earth with Camryn's adoptive parents. Twitches Too followed in 2007.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 17 · 2006 · Film

High School Musical recap

On New Year's Eve, Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez are pulled into a karaoke duet at a ski lodge. Back at East High in Albuquerque, Troy is the basketball captain coached by his father, and Gabriella turns out to be a new transfer student. Sharpay Evans, president of the drama club, sees Gabriella as a threat to her and her twin Ryan's grip on the winter musical. Troy and Gabriella sing for the composer Kelsi and win a callback, which shocks the basketball team, and soon other students are confessing hidden talents too. Troy's best friend Chad and the scholastic decathlon captain Taylor trick Gabriella into thinking Troy does not care, and she pulls out, until they confess and Troy wins her back. Then Sharpay moves the callbacks to clash with the championship game and the decathlon.

How High School Musical ends

The basketball and decathlon teams team up, cutting the gym's power and setting off a chemistry-lab evacuation so Troy and Gabriella can run to the auditorium. They sing "Breaking Free" and win the leads, with Sharpay and Ryan as understudies. Both teams win, Chad asks Taylor out, and the school celebrates with "We're All in This Together." High School Musical 2 followed in 2007 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year in theaters in 2008.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, Zeke offers Sharpay a cookie he baked; she loves it, and he promises to make her a crème brûlée.

No. 18 · 2006 · Series

Hannah Montana recap

Miley Stewart is a Malibu teenager with a secret: under a blonde wig she is the pop star Hannah Montana, managed by her father Robby Ray, so she can have a normal life at school. Her best friend Lilly learns the secret in the first episode and gets her own disguise, Lola, and their friend Oliver finds out soon after. Her older brother Jackson works at a beach snack shack for the young tyrant Rico. Early seasons are about keeping the two lives apart; Miley dates the teen actor Jake Ryan, who learns her secret in season 2, and Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) sends her back to Tennessee to remember her roots. In season 3, Lilly and Oliver become a couple. In the fourth season, Hannah Montana Forever, the Stewarts move to a ranch, Miley falls for Jesse, and the secret becomes too much to carry.

How Hannah Montana ends

Midway through the last season, in "I'll Always Remember You," Miley reveals she is Hannah on The Tonight Show and sings as herself. In the series finale, "Wherever I Go," she is offered a movie role in Paris and asks Lilly to come; at the airport Lilly chooses college instead. The show ends with Miley turning up at Lilly's dorm as her new roommate, followed by a montage of the series.

No. 19 · 2006 · Film

Read It and Weep recap

Jamie Bartlett is a high school freshman who keeps a private journal on her tablet in which she becomes Isabella, or "Is," a popular girl with special powers who takes down a mean girl, Myrna, based on Jamie's real rival Sawyer. When Jamie's printer breaks, she sends her friend Lindsay the wrong file, and the journal gets submitted for an English assignment instead of her essay. It wins a contest, is published, and becomes a bestseller. Fame changes Jamie: with Is cheering her on in her head, she does signings and talk shows, quits helping at her parents' pizza place, mocks her brother Lenny's music and drifts from her friends Connor, Lindsay and Harmony. On a TV interview she lets slip that the book is real and Myrna is Sawyer, and the whole school turns on her.

How Read It and Weep ends

Jamie tells Is to stop running her life, apologises at the school dance, and her classmates forgive her once they learn the book was a private journal she never meant to publish. She realises her feelings are for Connor, who secretly wrote the poems her crush Marco had been passing off, and they kiss while Lenny plays a song for her. At the pizza parlour, a seaweed-covered jacket lands on the pizzas and the accidental recipe saves her parents' business.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 20 · 2007 · Series

Wizards of Waverly Place recap

Alex, Justin and Max Russo live above their family's subway-themed sandwich shop in Greenwich Village and are all wizards in training. Their father Jerry gave up his powers to marry their mortal mother Theresa, and the rule is that only one sibling can keep their magic as an adult, decided by a family wizard competition. Alex is the lazy, scheming centre of the show, Justin is the rule-following overachiever, and Max is the clueless youngest. Alex's best friend Harper learns the secret in season 2 and later moves in. Alex dates Mason, a werewolf, and Justin falls for Juliet, a vampire, while Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009) has Alex accidentally wish that her parents never met. In the last season, Alex and Justin reveal wizards to the world in what turns out to be a test, and both are demoted.

How Wizards of Waverly Place ends

In the finale, "Who Will Be the Family Wizard?," Alex wins the competition and keeps her full powers. Justin keeps his magic by becoming headmaster of WizTech, and Max loses his powers but takes over the sandwich shop. The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex followed in 2013, and Wizards Beyond Waverly Place (2024 to 2026) brings back an adult Justin, with Alex as a guest, training a new young wizard; its short third season was announced as the last.

No. 21 · 2008 · Film

Camp Rock recap

Mitchie Torres wants to sing but cannot afford Camp Rock, so her mother Connie takes a job as the camp cook and Mitchie gets in at a discount, helping in the kitchen in secret. Shane Gray, the spoiled lead singer of Connect 3, is sent to the camp to fix his image and must record with the winner of the Final Jam. He overhears Mitchie singing and goes looking for "the voice." Embarrassed among the rich campers, Mitchie lies to the queen bee Tess Tyler that her mother runs a music channel in China, and Tess pulls her into her clique, which costs Mitchie her friendship with Caitlyn. Mitchie and Shane grow close, until Tess exposes the lie, Shane feels used, and Tess frames Mitchie and Caitlyn for stealing her bracelet, banning them from the competition.

How Camp Rock ends

The ban only lasts "until the end of Final Jam," so once the show is over Mitchie gets on stage and sings "This Is Me." Shane realises she is the voice he has been searching for and joins her in the song. Tess admits she staged the theft. Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam followed in 2010, and Camp Rock 3, with the Jonas Brothers returning as Connect 3, premiered on Disney Channel in August 2026.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 22 · 2009 · Series

Sonny with a Chance recap

Sonny Munroe, a cheerful girl from Wisconsin who got noticed for her online comedy videos, moves to Hollywood to join So Random!, a teen sketch show. The show follows life on and off set with her castmates: the vain Tawni Hart, best friends Nico and Grady, and the odd youngest member Zora, who lives in the air vents. Down the hall is the rival drama Mackenzie Falls and its self-absorbed star Chad Dylan Cooper, who clashes with Sonny from the start. Each episode mixes backstage plots with So Random! sketches. In the second season, Chad asks Sonny out and they start dating, breaking up and making up several times while the two shows compete for awards, including the Tween Choice Awards.

How Sonny with a Chance ends

Sonny with a Chance ended without a proper finale. The last episode, "New Girl" (2011), has Sonny writing a song about her breakup with Chad and singing it at an open mic night, still clearly attached to him. Demi Lovato left to focus on her health and music, and the remaining cast continued without Sonny in the sketch spin-off So Random! (2011 to 2012).

No. 23 · 2010 · Series

Good Luck Charlie recap

The Duncans of Denver have a new baby, Charlie, and with both parents back at work, Amy as a nurse and Bob as an exterminator, the older kids have to help raise her. Teddy, the responsible teenager, records video diaries for Charlie full of advice for when she is older, each ending with "Good luck, Charlie." PJ is the dim but sweet older brother who plays in a band with his friend Emmett, and Gabe is the troublemaking middle child at war with the cranky neighbour Mrs. Dabney. Teddy dates Spencer on and off. The TV film Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011) reveals Amy is pregnant again, and baby Toby arrives in the third season, when PJ also moves into an apartment with Emmett. The fourth season prepares Teddy to leave home for college.

How Good Luck Charlie ends

In the finale, "Good Bye Charlie" (2014), Teddy is about to leave for Yale and struggles to record her last video diary. Her family throws her a going-away party, Spencer makes a surprise appearance, Amy goes after a co-hosting job on local TV, and Bob and PJ start a food truck business together. The series ends with Teddy recording that final video for Charlie with the whole family.