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"Alex Gives Up" is the second episode of Season 4 of Wizards of Waverly Place, and the eighty-first overall of the series. It first aired on November 27, 2010.
Plot
Alex quits her wizard training after she decides there will never be enough time to regain her status and compete for the title of family wizard. However, she is shocked to learn that, as a mortal, she will no longer be able to date Mason. Meanwhile, after meeting with the Wizard Family Competition Commissioner, Justin decides to tutor delinquent wizards and do whatever it takes to get himself back in the running for the wizard competition. Meanwhile, Max becomes popular because he will become a family wizard so a family of Cucuys (filthy rich Latino monsters) invites them to a yacht party on the Hudson River.
Justin tutoring wizards.
Lisa Cucuy is attracted to Max, and they start dating. Alex invites Chancellor Tootietootie to the yacht so she could make him overturn the rule outlawing relationships between mortals and werewolves. Everything goes wrong when Lisa begins to like Mason and tries to steal him, so Alex, jealous of Lisa, teases Mason so he'll become a werewolf. He does, scaring the family of Cucuys, and the Cucuys scare Theresa, causing her to push them out into the sea. Jerry then jumps to save them and Theresa runs away. Max, who is clueless, jumps thinking they are all going to swim. Chancellor Tootietootie is left soaking wet and Lisa finally jumps out into the water. After that, Chancellor Tootietootie declares that the rule is not overturned after what he saw and flashes away. Alex and Mason break up and agree on becoming friends.
Cast
Main Cast
- Selena Gomez as Alex Russo
- David Henrie as Justin Russo
- Jake T. Austin as Max Russo
- Jennifer Stone as Harper Finkle
- Maria Canals Barrera as Theresa Russo
- David DeLuise as Jerry Russo
Recurring Cast
Guest Cast
- Andy Kindler as Rootie Tootietootie
- David Barrera as Carlos Cucuy
- Roxana Brusso as Julie Cucuy
- Samantha Boscarino as Lisa Cucuy
- Kari Wahlgren as Helen
Trivia
- Harper writing a book about Alex's wizard life is a callback to her future self, H.J. Darling, who became famous writing stories about the Russo's wizarding adventures back in "Future Harper".
- Chancellor Tootietootie flashes into the Russo family home spontaneously, causing Alex to tell Harper to hide while chiding him for flashing in when he was not aware whether there might be a mortal around. Had Harper not been aware, to begin with, Tootietootie would have exposed wizardry to her.
- Coincidentally, when Alex was told she can't see Mason because she's now "mortal", it is the same thing Jerry went through with Theresa.
- Samantha Boscarino is the third Good Luck Charlie actor to appear on this show. The first being Eric Allan Kramer and the second being Bridgit Mendler.
- This episode was originally scheduled to premiere on November 19, 2010.
- Maria Canals Barrera’s husband guest starred in this episode.
Goofs
- At the end of the episode, Rootie Tootietootie says he is wearing an Admiral's uniform but the stripes are clearly those of a Captain.
| Wizards Beyond Waverly Place Episodes |
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| Season 1 |
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| Everything is Not What it Seems • Mortal Vibes Only • Saved by the Spell • Something Wizard This Way Comes • Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun • The Legend of Creepy Follows • We're Gonna Need a Bigger Float • You Can't Handle the Tooth! • Wiz-Taken Identity • Ain't Gnome Party Like a Wizard Party • Potions Eleven • Battle of the Wands • There's Something About the Russos • Ready Player Wand • Quest Birthday Ever! • While You Were Sleepcasting • Abraca-Disaster! • Hit Me With Your Best Bot • Raiders of the Locked Archive • When You Wish Upon a Squonk • Nigh is Now! |
| Season 2 |
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| Curse Me Baby One More Time • Ooze!...I Did it Again • Howdy with a Trance of Gumballs • Don't Go Changeling My Heart • Spells Like Halloween Spirit • Cruel Detentions • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Wizmas • Boogie and the Beast • The Wizard at the End of the World: Part One • The Wizard at the End of the World: Part Two |

