Hannah Montana
That's What Friends Are For?
TV Flash files “That's What Friends Are For?” as hour 44 of 99 in the TV Flash guide — Hannah Montana (2006–2011) on Disney Channel, season 2, episode 18, aired 2007-10-19, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E18: listed hour 44 of 99 in the Hannah Montana guide, hour 18 of 29 in season 2. It aired 2007-10-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Don't Stop 'Til You Get the Phone” (S02E17). Next is “Lilly's Mom Has Got It Goin' On” (S02E19).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jake Ryan comes back and wants to be just friends with Miley. Miley thinks this plan is perfect, but then finds out that Jake is doing a movie where he has to kiss her enemy Mikayla. Rico makes a bet that causes Oliver and Jackson to appreciate cleanliness more than ever.
Viewer FAQ
Where does That's What Friends Are For? sit in the Hannah Montana guide?
S02E18 is listed hour 44 of 99 — hour 18 of 29 in season 2, season 2 episode 18.
When did Hannah Montana S02E18 air?
That's What Friends Are For? aired 2007-10-19 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Kids' sitcom or pop-star documentary?
Disney Channel sitcom: school by day, pop star by wig, identity jokes and catchy songs. The concert film was a box-office event around it.
In the series
Why this series still plays
School by day, pop star by wig: Miley Cyrus's double life as Disney Channel industrial policy. Hannah Montana manufactured a global teen-star machine — catchy identity jokes, a concert-film event, and an afterlife that turned the franchise into a culture argument of its own.
Hannah Montana is a sitcom about a secret that is also an industrial policy. Michael Poryes, Rich Correll, and Barry O'Brien's Disney Channel series (2006–2011) turns Miley Cyrus into a worldwide star with a double life: school by day, pop star by wig, Emily Osment, Mitchel Musso, Jason Earles, Billy Ray Cyrus as Robby Ray. Catchy songs and identity jokes as soft power. Best of both worlds as the factory floor. Four seasons, 99 episodes. A concert film as a box-office event around the sitcom. Late-2000s Disney…
Filed against
- Miley Cyrus as Miley Stewart / Hannah Montana
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- Emily Osment as Lilly Truscott
Emily Osment played Lilly Truscott on Hannah Montana — school by day, pop star by wig, Disney Channel industrial policy with a best friend who kept the double life a sitcom. Catchy identity jokes, a concert-film afterlife. TV Flash files…
- Mitchel Musso as Oliver Oken
Mitchel Musso’s Oliver Oken kept Hannah Montana’s school-by-day half from becoming only a wig — 2000s Disney Channel industrial policy, Miley Cyrus’s double life, catchy identity jokes, a concert-film event. TV Flash files him as the…
- Jason Earles as Jackson Stewart
Jason Earles’s Jackson Stewart kept Hannah Montana’s double life from being only a wig — school by day, pop star by night, Disney Channel industrial policy with a brother as the apartment’s other gag. 2000s catchy identity jokes. TV Flash…
- Billy Ray Cyrus as Robby Ray Stewart
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