The Birthweek Song
Hello. This is an episode about friends giving eachother something for their birthday. Must be nice.
I'll just start with the B-plot because it might as well be the main storyline for what it's worth. Robbie and Cat have to provide tech support for Robbie's grandmother. Thats it. And you know what, it functions much better than the main story. Robbie and Cat tend to do very well in scenes together, which is presumably why every 9 year old in this country wanted them to bang. I have no idea where Nickelodeon gets all of these elderly actors but I honestly respect them for their work.
So the main plot is that it's Trina's birthday and Tori has to get her a birthday gift. She struggles to think of anything for the first 10 minutes before Andre offers doing a song and dance. This might come across as a gift that a child might give and not a 16/17 year old, but I guess they just took the artistic liberty figuring that most everyone watching is a child (and one adult man). The song ends up being strangely romantic sounding. Presumably the writers at Nick tried to walk the thin line of creating a single to be played at 8th grade send-offs but also one that could be forced into the plot of this episode. One of the background guitarists looks like he genuinely wants to die while also staring into Victoria Justice's ass. This might be the first time we see Tori's parents I don't know. You could just throw two different Caucasian people into every scene and I woulden't notice.
Hey, doesn't it seem like the episode should be done by now? It's actually only halfway through.
Anyway. The episode does some stuff and ends with Robbie and Cat lying to an old woman and running off. The main plot also concludes.
That's about it. Rex is immediately put away at the start of this episode, something that should really happen every episode. Robbie's character does fine without him, and his scenes with Cat woulden't work if they also had to write in the puppet all the time. So I appreciate that.
8/10
The main plot of this episode did a very good job of showing more conflict between the Vega Sisters than it did previously, and gave a greater establishment of how Tori's more innocent, self-aware, and logical personality plays off of Trina's more ambitious and imaginative, but lazy and selfish personality.
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