One Thousand Berry Balls
The A-Plot of this is garbage. Or maybe it's the B-plot. It's not really clear. The berry balls one. It's bad.
also, hey remember in season 2 when it seemed like a pretty big piece of worldbuilding where Tori is shocked that Hollywood Arts doesn't have a prom and everyone else replies it's just no big deal? Yeah, probably because they have fifty other dances during the year. There are like three a season.
Alright so Tori is strapped for cash. I'm not really sure if Hollywood Arts is supposed to be a private school the students pay for or not, but whatever. Andre asks her what she needs money for anyway, and she gives the response "yunno clothes and makeup and stuff". She could have just said "yunno to move the plot along" and it would have the same impact. Andre hooks her up with a job and literally all she has to do is hand out free samples to get $100 in a single shift, but she isn't nearly charismatic enough to do this so she ends up putting all the free samples (of frozen yogurt mind you) inside of her hat. Not in the trash or a local plant or anything, just on top of her own damn head. They end up melting all over her, but I guess the boss is a dumbass because she quickly explains "It's just my makeup running!" and he pays her. I mean honestly this plot would work and probably be funny in an episode of Drake and Josh or something (like the sushi episode), but it just drags on and is never really sells it's jokes. It's honestly one of if not the the worst scenes of this entire show- not because it doesn't make sense or anything, it's just not good. The Gorilla Club was pretty awful, but at least the premise for that was nonsense.
Is that over? Thank god. Meanwhile Robbie attempts to ask Cat to the prom. Or not the prom. It's called something else, and it's supposed to be a combination of cowboy and Hawaiian themed, so it's got some name about that. So Robbie is trying to ask Cat to the prom, but Cat runs away from him. He ends up tracking her down only to tell her that he asked another girl to the dance because Cat kept running away from him. Now she's angry.
So at the prom Cat is like "heyo Shinjin (the rapist) I am going to fuck you" and Shinjin (the rapist) is like "finally" but hey surprise she's just doing it to get back at Robbie. And Robbie is just genuinely having a good time for once with a girl who appreciates him, but Cat gets RKOed while dancing and asks Robbie to comfort her. He does this by pushing his face against her face in a movement which I have been told is the loving embrace of a kiss and she runs away again.
Are you concerned about Robbie's date? Well don't be, Sinjin (the rapist) does a sock puppet show for her.
oh and there's a song and dance at the end but who cares.
So overall this is a pretty polarizing episode. The A-plot is so bad. But the B-plot is good and fun. Normally I would rate this lower, but a user named "Cabbie_rox2me" commented on the Victorious wiki in 2013 that this was her favorite episode, so I'll have to give it an 8/10.
Side Notes:
also, hey remember in season 2 when it seemed like a pretty big piece of worldbuilding where Tori is shocked that Hollywood Arts doesn't have a prom and everyone else replies it's just no big deal? Yeah, probably because they have fifty other dances during the year. There are like three a season.
Alright so Tori is strapped for cash. I'm not really sure if Hollywood Arts is supposed to be a private school the students pay for or not, but whatever. Andre asks her what she needs money for anyway, and she gives the response "yunno clothes and makeup and stuff". She could have just said "yunno to move the plot along" and it would have the same impact. Andre hooks her up with a job and literally all she has to do is hand out free samples to get $100 in a single shift, but she isn't nearly charismatic enough to do this so she ends up putting all the free samples (of frozen yogurt mind you) inside of her hat. Not in the trash or a local plant or anything, just on top of her own damn head. They end up melting all over her, but I guess the boss is a dumbass because she quickly explains "It's just my makeup running!" and he pays her. I mean honestly this plot would work and probably be funny in an episode of Drake and Josh or something (like the sushi episode), but it just drags on and is never really sells it's jokes. It's honestly one of if not the the worst scenes of this entire show- not because it doesn't make sense or anything, it's just not good. The Gorilla Club was pretty awful, but at least the premise for that was nonsense.
Is that over? Thank god. Meanwhile Robbie attempts to ask Cat to the prom. Or not the prom. It's called something else, and it's supposed to be a combination of cowboy and Hawaiian themed, so it's got some name about that. So Robbie is trying to ask Cat to the prom, but Cat runs away from him. He ends up tracking her down only to tell her that he asked another girl to the dance because Cat kept running away from him. Now she's angry.
So at the prom Cat is like "heyo Shinjin (the rapist) I am going to fuck you" and Shinjin (the rapist) is like "finally" but hey surprise she's just doing it to get back at Robbie. And Robbie is just genuinely having a good time for once with a girl who appreciates him, but Cat gets RKOed while dancing and asks Robbie to comfort her. He does this by pushing his face against her face in a movement which I have been told is the loving embrace of a kiss and she runs away again.
Are you concerned about Robbie's date? Well don't be, Sinjin (the rapist) does a sock puppet show for her.
oh and there's a song and dance at the end but who cares.
So overall this is a pretty polarizing episode. The A-plot is so bad. But the B-plot is good and fun. Normally I would rate this lower, but a user named "Cabbie_rox2me" commented on the Victorious wiki in 2013 that this was her favorite episode, so I'll have to give it an 8/10.
Side Notes:
- From this point on Robbie and Cat are mostly characterized as being in a relationship together? It's never really said, but I think that's kind of how they treat it.
- Sinjin (the rapist) gets kind of a happy ending here. This isn't the last appearance of his character, but the episode ends with a girl taking a genuine interest in him and sharing his humor. He hits on Jade later on in the season still, but I like to picture this as his canon ending.
- This is Lane's (the school counselor) last episode. Kind of sad, he was a nice character. Sikowitz is obviously the more prominent "adult" role in the show, but Lane works as kind of the "Responsible adult" that gets brought back when he's needed. His whole lotion thing is never really explained, but I appreciated scenes where he was featured. He's kind of goofy without having to be loud or 'random' or anything. This isn't nearly a serious (or well written) enough show to warrant any of the characters having to have a serious conversation with an adult about anything, but if it were it's clear Lane would fill that role.
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