Cuffs Will Keep Us Together

"Cuffs Will Keep Us Together"

"Cuffs Will Keep Us Together" is episode #2.28 of the television series Hannah Montana. The title is a reference to the Neil Sedaka song Love Will Keep Us Together.

Plot

During gym class, Miley is tired of being picked last every time for teams and being nicknamed Stinky. When Lilly is selected as one of the captains for flag football, Miley thinks that she will finally be picked first. However, the other captain, Lilly's rival since second grade, Joanie Polumbo, starts to boast about how she is better than Lilly and can't be beaten. With Miley doing most of the negotiating, Lilly and Joanie make a bet that the loser would get a haircut from the winner. When the teams are picked, Miley is left for last when Lilly picks Sarah ahead of her. After shunning Lilly after a concert the girls refuse to talk to each other. Miley later learns that she has won a country music award, a "bootie" for the song "True Friend" and without her best friend to tell, finds Oliver. Miley and Oliver run into Lilly at the beach and the girls, while fighting over with who Oliver will be friends, are handcuffed together by Oliver until they are friends again. When Miley argues that she has a live speech that night to accept her award, Oliver relents, but cannot find the key to unlock the girls. Miley and Lilly get ready for the speech while Oliver goes to find his mother's spare key. Before the speech Oliver comes to unlock the girls, but the key breaks, so for her speech Miley uses one of Lilly's arms while Lilly crouches behind her chair. During the speech, the girls realize what true friendship is about and make up after Hannah accepts her award. In a subplot Robby Ray gives Jackson the silent treatment until he does his chores.

Lola(s) Appeared

• Lola LaRosa
  *Lola LaTrisha

Continuity

Although Joanie has been Lilly's rival, she had never been seen in the show before this episode and hasn't been see since. Also, having been established that Oliver's mother is a police officer in the previous episode, this one shows that she was promoted to detective.

Production and critical response

As the second episode of Hannah Montana's Freshman High-Five this episode premiered on Tuesday of the week. It placed 15^th in cable viewing in the United States. It was the least watched episode of the series for the week with only 3.51 million viewers and 2.556 million households

Trivia

• Robby Ray says Carrie Underwood is introducing Hannah to receive the award. Miley and Billy Ray introduced Carrie Underwood for an award at the CMT award show.
• The handcuffs Oliver has are not standard-issue police handcuffs but more like prop cuffs used at magic shows. However they appear similar to the old ones used in police transport trucks.
• In the flag football scenes advertisements for Rico's Surf Shop and Malibu Lanes are seen on the scoreboard. These are places seen in previous episodes.
• This episode is similiar to Lizzie McGuire's episode of Sibling Bonds

Goofs

• In the scene where Lilly's legs and feet are on top of Miley's shoulders in Hannah's closet, they are not handcuffed together.
• In the scene just before Hannah is about to accept her award, Miley's brown hair is coming out of the wig.
• During Hannah's concert her sleeve changes between being rolled up and not multiple times during the song.

External links

• Cuffs Will Keep Us Together at IMDb
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