Back Falls For Tori

Beck Falls For Tori

   I hope reading that title has roused your preteen enthusiasm for this episode. 

          Anyway. This is a pretty good one. I was legitimately a bit worried this show would take a nosedive following Season 1, as I haven't previously watched many of the episodes from seasons 2, 3, and 4. Turns out that last one was just garbage. The first four minutes are a general Sikowitz class scene- and they're funny and for once include (even if it is in jest) a single character telling Tori to maybe chill out with her aspirations.

      ok so Sikowitz (for some reason) offers Tori a role in some movie he has a connection to. She says yes, but realizes that her resume is garbage, presumably because she spent the entire last season just making out with other girl's boyfriends and singing on pianos. Honestly, absolutely what skills or qualifications does Tori add to th

  I don't know why she even has to apply to the role if Sikowitz is offering her it in the first place. Maybe he's just saying she could apply? Why woulden't he tell the entire class then? It makes no sense. But whatever. All of Tori's friends tell her to just lie on her resume like literally every other 17 year old in the country.

   However Tori doesn't think about things too well and instead of just saying she's proficient in Microsoft Excel like a normal person says she's a trained stunt double. So the casting director assigns her to be a stunt double. And she accepts. 

  So Tori just refuses to do the stunt, and nothing really happens until Beck accepts to do it for her- wearing a dress and wig and all. It's funny. Despite Beck getting no credit and Tori once again simply being bailed out of the problem she caused herself- it's a nice kind of ending, and it works in the show.

The B-Plot is more minor in this episode, and is mostly just Cat trying on new outfits she created in her costume design class. It's good, and she has one scene with Sikowitz in the middle that I enjoyed. 

   Overall a surprisingly good episode. Nothing too "unique" (like Wifi in the Sky or Ping Pong Scheme), but simply doing an 'standard' episode very well. I would give it an 8/10.

Side Notes:

• At one point Robbie's puppet is said to have tricked Robbie into buying woman's jeans. Note that they are the same person.
• Robbie wears a size four.
• I don't know how women's pants work.
• Cat is noticeably dumber in this episode- a trend which more or less continues for the rest of the show. Instead of being simply 'extremely spacey', everyone treats her like she is six. 
• On the plus side, the laugh track is much less loud and frequent. Some would say they shoulden't have a laugh track at all.
• I would. I would say that. 
• At one point Andre says "In this town.. everybody knows everybody.". You're in Hollywood Andre. Part of Los Angeles California- population 4 million. There is no fucking way everybody knows everybody.
• One of the better running jokes is in this episode; which is Sikowitz asking a vaguely euphemistic question (Ex. "How would you teens like to do something for money?") before being asked ".. can we get some details?". It makes me chuckle.