CeCe finds herself in trouble when she learns that she is failing algebra class. So, Deuce hires a tutor for her. When the tutor shows up at CeCe's house, CeCe finds out that the tutor is a small fry genius in college. Flynn then breaks CeCe's tutor when Henry (the tutor) is playing video games with Flynn. Henry then reveals a secret Rocky never knew about CeCe, CeCe is dyslexic. Meanwhile, Ty goes on a date with Tinka and Gunther bets Deuce his various objects playing arm wrestling.

Cece and Rocky join karate class. Meanwhile, Ty notices he could be getting fat. He decides to go on a special diet but he just keeps getting fatter.

CeCe tries to play matchmaker for Deuce, but her plan backfires when he gets back together with his up to no good girlfriend, Savannah. Cece, Rocky and Ty scheme up a plan to prove to Deuce that Savannah's only attracted to his money, in order to set him up with Dina, who they feel he is more compatible with. Meanwhile, Flynn helps Henry earn a Coyote Scout camping badge.

CeCe and Rocky start a new dance craze. Mrs. Garcia wants to throw a huge party for Dina's birthday, but Dina wants a simple, small party, so CeCe and Rocky take over organizing Dina's party. However, they throw an over the top party which Dina didn't want, and have to fix it. Meanwhile, Flynn gets a new robot that destroys things with its laser eyes, and he gets his friend Henry to help him. Deuce tries to impress Mrs. Garcia by learning dancing from Ty.

A cute local dancer named Julio comes to perform on Shake It Up, Chicago!, and Rocky, CeCe and Tinka all fall for him. He asks each girl individually to hang out, so they all show up at Crusty's Pizza Parlor the next day, believing they each have a date with him. Meanwhile, Henry becomes the substitute teacher in Flynn's class. Flynn has to decide to either give him a hard time as a sub or be nice because they are friends. Also, Dina starts taking Deuce's customers away and offering them better deals.

At a Halloween party at the Shake It Up Chicago studio, Rocky meets a cute guy and tells Cece to go say hi to his brother who is wearing a hunchback coustume. Cece says he looks weird, but complies. Rocky later tells her that they are going to meet both boys at Crusty's the next day. Both girls find out the next day that Rocky's date is the weird one and CeCe's date is the cute one. Rocky refuses to admit this, and she suffers through 3 hours with her date. Meanwhile, Flynn suspects that his new neighbor, Zane, is an alien from Jupiter after he and Henry observe strange lights from his room and other of Zane's strange mannerisms.

CeCe applies herself and Rocky to audition for the prestigious CFAA (Chicago Fine Arts Academy), but CeCe gets packet qualifying her for a scholarship and Rocky gets letter, thinking that she was rejected. CeCe then shows pieces of the teared up letter to Rocky, stating that she got in CFA as well.

When Gunther and Tinka refuse to pay Rocky and CeCe their money for performing at Klaus's party, the girls take their case to "Teen Court". Gunther and Tinka believe Rocky and CeCe didn't perform as well as they should and claim that they're the ones that ruined Klaus's party. Gunther and Tinka also claim that they ate all the cake and yelled at Klaus. Rocky and CeCe however think Gunther and Tinka ruined the party because they believe its their fault for being so harsh on Klaus. Rocky and CeCe also claim that Tinka smashed the cake in Klaus's face. As soon as Judge Marsha was about to close the case, Deuce comes running in with a surveillance video from Crusty's. The video showed that it was actually all of them who ruined Klaus's party, after smacking his birthday cake out of his hand by an accident. Later, Gunther and Tinka paid back the money to Rocky and CeCe, as they promised, but with a slight catch. Just like the time that they paid Rocky and CeCe back with sequence, this time, they paid them back with pennies. Meanwhile, Henry wants to teach Flynn how to ride a bike after finding out that he doesn't know how to ride one. Flynn is reluctant at first, but then, he sees how useful it is, and he wants to ride a bike. Then, Flynn finds out that Henry tricked him into thinking that he rode the bike all along, but Henry actually rigged the bike so Flynn wouldn't fall off of it.

In the season finale, Rocky and CeCe win a trip to Japan to be in a dance video game and the Blue Man Group performs in an event that’s infused with Tokyo teen fashion and “J-Pop” music.