50 Fun Facts About Andi Mack

On Andi Mack, which hidden item in Bex's box of memories reveals that she is really Andi's mother?

A baby photo of Andi in Bex's arms was tucked deep in the box, and Celia had warned Bex to keep its secrets from Andi. The truth comes out on the night of Andi's 13th birthday.

Andi Mack creator Terri Minsky had earlier created which Disney Channel sitcom that ran from 2001 to 2004?

Lizzie McGuire was Terri Minsky's first Disney Channel hit, and she was reluctant to write another teen show until network boss Gary Marsh persuaded her in 2015.

Which former Girl Meets World star sings "Tomorrow Starts Today", the opening theme song of Andi Mack?

Sabrina Carpenter recorded the theme in 2017, and a week before season 2 began the entire cast starred in a music video for the full-length version.

Which Andi Mack actor went on to play teenage hero Billy Batson in the 2019 DC superhero film Shazam!?

Asher Angel, Andi Mack's Jonah Beck, played Billy Batson, the boy whose grown-up superhero alter ego is played by Zachary Levi.

On Andi Mack, Andi joins which school sports team to get closer to her crush, Jonah Beck?

Frisbee is the sport Jonah loves, and Andi proves so skilled after a lesson Bex arranges with him that he asks her to join.

What is the name of the diner where Andi, Cyrus and Buffy hang out on Andi Mack, and where Amber waits tables?

The Spoon was no real restaurant: the crew rented an empty lot on a small-town Main Street and built the colourful diner there from scratch.

Which actress, later the lead in Doogie Kameāloha, M.D., plays the title character in Andi Mack?

Peyton Elizabeth Lee was twelve when she first played Andi, and the show's creator liked that she did not look as if she had come off a child-star assembly line.

Millicent Simmonds, who plays Jonah's friend Libby on Andi Mack, starred in which 2018 horror film?

A Quiet Place came out earlier in 2018 than her Andi Mack arc; she had first appeared on the series as a season 1 extra and was invited back.

At Cyrus's bar mitzvah party on Andi Mack, what does Jonah Beck first suffer after a painful talk with Andi?

A panic attack hits Jonah when Andi says her feelings for him have changed. The storyline continued: Bowie later learns of the attacks, and Cyrus comforts Jonah through another.

In the Andi Mack series finale, how do Cyrus and TJ finally acknowledge their feelings for each other?

Holding hands at the Mack house party sealed it for TJ and Cyrus, who was the first Disney Channel main character to have a same-sex love interest.

Which Hollywood actor's real-life discovery that his "sister" was his mother inspired the premise of Andi Mack?

Jack Nicholson learned the truth only as an adult, and creator Terri Minsky built the series around the idea after reading an article about him.

On Andi Mack, which handmade gift from Andi to Jonah does Amber turn up wearing soon afterwards?

A bracelet she made for Jonah runs through the whole series: in the finale he surprises her with it, long after she thought he had lost it.

Which instrument does Andi's father Bowie teach Jonah to play on Andi Mack, uncovering a hidden musical gift?

Guitar lessons with Bowie lead Jonah to write a song and sing it at an open mic night, where Andi answers it with a kiss.

In Andi Mack's season 2 premiere, Bowie arrives with which food when he asks Bex to marry him?

Pizza gives the episode its title, "Hey, Who Wants Pizza?", and all Bex can say to the proposal is "um...". Bowie sends a second one to her work while he waits for an answer.

For Costume Day on Andi Mack, Andi and her friends plan a group costume based on which American landmark?

Mount Rushmore needs four faces, so the plan wobbles when Cyrus leaves to pair up with TJ; he returns after TJ drops him for another partner.

By the end of Andi Mack, Andi has been accepted to a magnet school that specialises in what?

Visual arts are Andi's passion, yet she gets cold feet and tries to delete her application, only to find the school has already received it.

Which actress danced on Justin Bieber's Purpose World Tour before being cast as Buffy Driscoll on Andi Mack?

Sofia Wylie had also danced on So You Think You Can Dance and America's Got Talent, and Buffy was her first major acting role.

During which family celebration on Andi Mack does Andi blurt out that Bex has turned down Bowie's proposal?

Chinese New Year brings Celia's sister Mei to the Mack house, and Celia is eager to host the perfect feast until Andi announces there will be no wedding.

Andi, Cyrus and Buffy are all students at which middle school on Andi Mack, named after a US president?

Jefferson Middle School gets a new principal, Dr. Metcalf, at the end of season 1, and the three friends are soon protesting his strict dress code.

What is the name of the school team that Jonah Beck captains on Andi Mack, and that Andi later quits?

Space Otters is the squad Andi walks out on in "Were We Ever?", after Jonah cares more about the team picture than about her dress-code protest.

Bex, the woman Andi long believed was her sister on Andi Mack, goes by a short form of which name?

Rebecca Mack moves back in with her parents on Andi's 13th birthday, the surprise visit that sets the whole series in motion.

Which actor, also the voice of Bunga in Disney's The Lion Guard, plays Cyrus Goodman on Andi Mack?

Joshua Rush, who is Jewish, asked the show's creator to write a bar mitzvah for Cyrus, and it became a double-length season 2 episode.

On Andi Mack, where do Bex and Andi hide the ring that Bex plans to propose to Bowie with?

Inside a cake is where it goes, served at a dinner party for Bowie, but his old bandmates arrive and offer him a six-month tour before Bex can ask.

On Andi Mack, why does Buffy's mother, Pat Driscoll, spend long stretches away from her daughter?

She serves in the military, and surprises Buffy by walking into one of her basketball games while briefly home from a tour of duty.

What do Andi and Cyrus build to remember Buffy by when she is about to move away on Andi Mack?

A time capsule holds Buffy's team jersey and a basketball signed by her teammates, but when her friends arrive to deliver it, the Driscolls have already left.

Which organisation gave Andi Mack its first-ever Kids & Family Programming award for Cyrus's coming-out story?

GLAAD created the category in 2018 and Andi Mack was its first winner, beating Steven Universe and The Loud House among others.

On Andi Mack, Cyrus gives basketball captain TJ Kippen advice about which learning disability?

Dyscalculia makes numbers a struggle for TJ, whose failing maths grades had made him ineligible to play. After Cyrus's advice he tells his teacher and is allowed back on court.

Which caricature artist does Andi meet at Cyrus's bar mitzvah party on Andi Mack, making Jonah jealous?

Walker draws Andi a portrait she loves, later designs her a pair of shoes, and ends up dating Buffy in season 3, which Andi finds awkward.

Which transfer student on Andi Mack is cut from Buffy's team and then comes between Cyrus and TJ?

Kira is a gifted player, but Buffy drops her over her attitude to teamwork. She then befriends TJ to get back at Buffy, until he finally stands up to her.

On Andi Mack, what does Cyrus discover TJ's friend Reed has brought along on a dirt-bike outing?

A gun belonging to Reed's father turns up in a two-part story that the show built around firearm safety and peer pressure. TJ himself later reports it to the police.

On Andi Mack, what lands Andi, Cyrus, Buffy and Jonah under arrest and doing community service?

Giving away discarded clothes was their protest against Mint Chip, a brand that burned unsold stock to protect its image. They had taken the clothes from its bins without permission.

On Andi Mack, Bex takes a job at which shop, where her boss Brittany is a girl she once babysat?

The Fringe later struggles for money, prompting Celia to post glowing online reviews in secret and then to try buying the shop outright.

On Andi Mack, what new name do Bex and Celia give the shop where Bex works after redesigning it?

Cloud Ten opens near the end of season 2, and it is there that Jonah asks Andi out on their first true date.

Bowie, Andi's father on Andi Mack, spends long spells away touring with which band?

The Renaissance Boys were about to start a 40-stop tour when Bowie first met Andi, and he put off joining them to stay with her and Bex.

On Andi Mack, which first word did Andi say to Celia as an infant, prompting Bex to leave home?

Mama, said to Celia instead of to her, was why Bex left: she decided Andi would be happier that way. Celia later thanks her for the sacrifice.

On Andi Mack, where does Bowie work after settling in town, alongside his future girlfriend Miranda?

A plant nursery is the workplace Bex uses as bait, inventing a "plant emergency" to lure Bowie to his surprise birthday party.

In season 1 of Andi Mack, what does a vice principal order Buffy to change about her appearance?

Her curly hair gets Buffy into trouble at school, and when she damages it with a flatiron she turns to Bex for help because her own mother is overseas.

Which actress, the voice of Amy Wong on Futurama, plays Andi's grandmother Celia on Andi Mack?

Lauren Tom won an Obie Award on stage and broke through on screen in The Joy Luck Club before a run on the sitcom Friends.

Rather than Los Angeles, Andi Mack was shot on location in and around which Mountain West destination?

Salt Lake City hosted the shoot from September 2016, and much of the crew was hired locally, creating about 150 jobs.

In the Andi Mack finale, TJ Kippen finally reveals that the "T" in his name stands for what?

Thelonious Jagger Kippen is his full name, kept from viewers until "We Were Here", the very last episode.

Which director of the High School Musical films directed Andi Mack's "Better to Have Wuvved and Wost"?

Kenny Ortega, who also made Hocus Pocus and the first three Descendants films, directed the season 2 episode in which Buffy learns she will have to move.

On Andi Mack, which ancient text does Celia have Andi consult when she senses something is wrong?

The I Ching gives Andi a hexagram of a serious nature, which she is left to interpret, shortly before Jonah tells her he is "not into labels".

In season 2 of Andi Mack, Andi nearly misses the bus for a school trip to a singalong of which musical?

Grease also supplies the episode's title: "You're the One That I Want" is the hit duet John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John sing in the 1978 film.

On Andi Mack, Jonah's text calling Cyrus "girly" turns out to be an autocorrect of which word?

Gnarly was the compliment Jonah meant, but not before a stung Cyrus lets Buffy coach him on acting more like a man.

On Andi Mack, what does Andi decorate her shack with, hoping to stop Celia and Ham selling the house?

Paper cranes cover Andi Shack in "There's a Mack in the Shack", and the sale is postponed once her grandparents admit they need longer to decide where to live.

What is the name of Bowie's mother, who meets her granddaughter for the first time in season 3 of Andi Mack?

Cookie, played by Colleen Camp, rearranges the apartment and pampers everyone because she lives overseas and rarely gets to see her family.

On Andi Mack, what do Buffy and Jonah learn that Principal Metcalf has, changing how they see him?

Tattoos make the pair think differently about the principal who once banned leggings and split the whole school into two groups for an experiment.

In the Andi Mack finale, what is Celia wearing when she surprises the guests at the Mack house party?

A dinosaur suit is how Celia turns up at a party thrown while she was meant to be away, and she ends up enjoying it.

On Andi Mack, Amber talks Andi onto which amusement park ride on the night she leaves her stranded?

The Ferris wheel trip follows a sleepover the two sneak out of, and it ends with Andi in police custody after Amber storms off over a call from Jonah.

On Andi Mack, which girl does Jonah set Cyrus up with for a double date in season 1?

Iris and Cyrus get off to a rough start when he is sick on a carnival ride. They date for a while, then agree to be just friends.