Tori & Jade's Play Date

Tori & Jade's Play Date

    This one has 10 times as many views because everyone thinks it's porn.

It's not. In this episode Sikowitz says "Hey uh Tori and Jade how about yo be husband in wife in this play here" but follows up 5 minutes later by saying "Tori and Jade you two have terrible synergy you need to like hang out to become friends or whatever". So that's the A-plot.

            The B-plot is Cat and Robbie starting a little thing where they sing songs in order to bring bad news to people. It's pretty good. I've said it before but Robbie and Cat just do well in scenes together. I've also said before that due to the above every 11 year old in the country wants them to bang. Well I'm in too deep now because I want them to bang at this point.

Oh sorry I guess there's more to the A-plot. Tori and Jade hang out at that trendy Japanese restaurant for 16 year olds run by caricatures of Asian Americans. And they don't get along. But then two guys try and hit on them so they solve the problem in a creative way. How do they solve it you ask? You be the judge! Text your vote to 1-866-IDOLS:

A.) They do a song and dance

B.) They do a song and dance

C.) They do a song and dance

D.) They do a song and dance

                                                                                           You're right.

So they do that. And now they're friends I guess? Listen up fellas if you ever see two girls having interpersonal problems in a restaurant just sexually harass them. When you do things right people wont be sure you've done anything at all.

  The song is.. not great. It suffers from the curse of the show- which is that these are 17 year olds singing a 12 year olds kids bop album, so the "Sick burns" in the lyrics end up being a tasteful version of whatever insults the bullies used on me in the 7th grade.

 

 Anyway. It's a pretty good episode. There's some good banter between Beck and Andre (who are cast as twins despite Andre being black and Beck being Canadian) as well as Cat and Robbie (at one point Robbie gets rejected in a way that felt a little close the heart). I think the writers forgot how to write Jade. She yells "No!" a lot like it's her catch phrase but it feels like they just didn't have anything better for her to say whenever she does. All and all this feels like it would be better in season 1.  Nozu is a very gimmicky way to make the characters and setting feel "cool" while providing Tori a place to do song and dances; and it just doesn't make sense that after so many episodes where Jade and Tori become 'friends' they would still absolutely hate eachother in this one.

  That sounds like a critique, but it's still a decent episode all things considered. I'm Ari Shapiro, and this is an 8/10.