The Breakfast Bunch

The Breakfast Bunch

  This one is a parody of The Breakfast Club. 

   It works better than you think. I'm not sure if the modern average 13 year old (what is the target age for this show, actually?) has watched The Breakfast Club, but it doesn't really matter because the plot simply works it into being a "silly" storyline that ends up working either way.

  So you might be saying "Well how does that work? The Breakfast Club only has 5 characters and Victorious has 6". And well you got me there. And everyone else. The characters kind of overlap and shift as the episode goes on- and while it's initially confusing it ultimately works out. For a listing:

• Andre is most consistently Andrew with little deviation
• Robbie is nearly always Brain, but takes Allisons role after a while
• Jade is either Bender or Allison
• Cat is generally Claire, but sometimes does Allison scenes
• Beck is generally Bender (though he tends to have the most non-parody lines)
• Tori s kind of just whoever, and is basically anyone except for Andrew and Brian. 

It works pretty well, given that the Victorious cast tends to be partial representations of different 'cliques' already.

The plot is more or less that of The Breakfast Club, though with most themes replaced by more PG ones. It ends up being pretty funny most of the time. In particular Robbie has two scenes where he delivers Brian's "You're so conceited" line- but each time they're absolutely out of context and have Robbie crying without reason. Tacos are used as an allusion to both sex and weed, with the "Are you a virgin?" scene from the original movie being replaced with "Are you a vegan?". Judge me all you want it's clever.

  So yeah, it's a good little non-canon episode. It definitely helps to have watched The Breakfast Club in the last year or so- as a good handful of the jokes are references to fairly minor scenes. But as it happens I like the Breakfast Club a good deal, so it's an 8/10 from me.