When Mr. Stuffleby, a wizard guidance counselor, informs the kids that they must have a viable profession to fall back on in the event that they don't become wizards, Max chooses to become a street magician while Alex and Justin decide to form a band. They all test their skills by hosting a Waverly After Dark performance at the Sub Station.

Alex gets the lead as Tinkerbell in the school's production of Peter Pan but doesn't want the part. So when she enlists the help of a real fairy to sub in and play the part, it causes the production to get out of control and the play is not necessarily performed in the same way as the traditional Peter Pan fairytale!

When Justin invents a helping hand, Alex wears it out by getting it to do her chores.

Alex helps Harper care for a famous designer's gown during fashion week, but she accidentally ruins it. In order to repair the gown, she must use magic to fix things.

Justin decides to use magic to change the weather, but when Mother Nature finds out about it, she begins to cause weather trouble for Justin.

Alex uses a spell to switch brains with Harper, but she keeps on getting the spell wrong, including accidentally leaving Harper with no brain.

Alex is selected to paint the school's mural, which she is very excited about. However, after using magic to make the mural, she ends up messing up her own artistic ideas.

Alex tries to outdo Justin by giving their dad Merlin's hat, which grants unlimited wishes for his birthday. When she thinks Jerry's wishes are too simple, she takes matters into her own hands, but is unprepared for the consequences, including a visit from an alien spaceship.

After Dean moves away, Alex continues to date him by using magic to enter his dreams. When he pays her a surprise visit and the real date isn't as great as she had dreamt, she searches for a way to break up with him. Meanwhile Justin tells his vampire girlfriend Juliet that he is not allowed to go on her family camping trip.

Justin becomes fed up with Alex constantly going through his stuff and creates a female monster to guard his room and to think like Alex. However Justin's plan backfires when the monster and Alex become fast friends.

The Russo family comes together to create the scariest haunted house ever for Halloween.

When Justin completes his ten-thousandth spell, he signs up for a Monster Hunting class.

Alex starts to date Mason, a transfer student from England. He is perfect in very way with the exception of his view of art. In order to make him a better artist, Alex takes matters into her own hands by putting a spell on him.

Alex has a crush on a boy who won't talk to her because of her sour attitude. She then uses magic to make herself positive. Justin joins the basketball team and tries to capture a big senior year moment on video

Justin’s chances at becoming Student Body President are put in jeopardy after someone wallpapers Principal Laritate’s office with posters from Justin’s campaign and he is accused of masterminding the prank. Meanwhile, Alex befriends Stevie, a rebellious new girl in school, and Jerry, Max and Harper get stuck on a Ferris wheel during their trip to Coney Island.

When the school's superintendant fires Mr. Laritate because of Alex, Mr. Laritate gets a job at a western place. When the school hires a strict new principal, Alex transports Mr. Laritate back to the Old West in an attempt to show him that it's not what he thought it was and make him want to come back to Tribeca Prep.

Harper and Alex find out that Max has a girlfriend named Nancy Lueke, but has been keeping it a secret so not to get embarrassed by his family. Later his mother finds out about it and tells him that it's not okay to hide the truth from anyone. Since he took his mothers advice, he tells Nancy his secret about being a wizard. The Russos make up another lie to cover the truth, and Nancy breaks up with him.

Alex is punished for buying a vending machine with her parents money. Alex sees a mirror that says "Do Not Go In Alex". After Alex steps through a magical mirror, the universe becomes all about her, and when the mirror breaks after she doesn't want to come back to the real world, Alex is possibly stuck in the parallel 'you-niverse' forever.

Wilmer Valderrama guest stars on Wizards of Waverly Place in the episode 'Uncle Ernesto'. Uncle Ernesto has no idea that the Russo's have magic abilities, so they promise a magic free night so that he can come over for a birthday dinner. Meanwhile, the kids get a magical chicken that can tell them the answer to anything. They ask it the age-old question, "Which one of us is going to win the wizard competition?" But when the chicken runs amuck, they have to catch it before he lays the answer and Uncle Ernesto finds out about magic.

The Russo family's lives might be in jeopardy when a secret government agency suspects that they're wizards.