Robbie Sells Rex

Robbie Sells Rex

 You know, I think Andre might be the protagonist of this show. I'm really starting to consider that he's the best character. While other characters may be generally consistent (Jade) or have frequent high points (Cat, Robbie), Andre is just always in his own world doing his thing. He's got a consistent character that's funny without being unrealistic or having a specific wacky aspect to cling to.

                 anyway. This episode isn't about Andre at all.

  So some music producer comes to the school to give a half assed speech to 20 kids, but while he's there he says "Ay robbie how about you come to my house and be sure to bring your puppet that hasn't been in the show for seven episodes". So Robbie does this, and he also brings Cat and straightens his hair. Let me just interject here to say that Matt Bennett has been hitting the gym lately you can tell. Bet you thought I woulden't notice matt- but I did. 

so the guy has this kid. And the kid is like an asshole or something. It's weird that a show about clearly wealthy teens still paints rich people as assholes, but who am I to judge. So this asshole kid is like "look I really like your puppet I'll pay you two grand for it" and Robbie is like "ya I'll think about it" and panics. 

            so this show manages to read my mind again. Tori says "I think Robbie should sell it, It's not normal for him to be dependent on it" and Jade immediately calls her shit by questioning why she revived the 'dead' Rex in season 1 or two or whatever.  So Rex (the puppet who is connected to Robbie) convinces Robbie to sell.. himself (Rex). So Robbie gets two grand and the asshole kids new puppet (Voiced by Dan Schneider in a way that makes me uncomfortable in a way that he didn't intend it to), but he goes crazy or something? It's just a really stupid scene. He starts hearing Rex and can't sleep and generally goes absolutely bonkers over the loss of his puppet, I dunno. It's just kind of dumb and way too over the top. It comes off less funny than it should just because it paints Robbie as having a very legitimately troubled mental state.

 oh hey here's one of the B plots. Sikowitz has some other asshole kid (a girl who is his neighbor) who keeps throwing eggs and assaulting him. He calls the police on her and the mother tries to apologize so her daughter doesn't get taken to Juvie, but hold on

So they take this girl and have her hook up with the other 12 year old, and the asshole boy 12 year old immediately stops caring about Rex and fucks this girl. I don't know what they would have done if he just didn't give up the puppet? Why would they assume he would not care at all about it anymore? Who cares. Robbie gets Rex back and there's a joke that alludes to Rex and Robbie having a romantic relationship. It is as odd as you would expect a subplot about a 17 year old fucking a puppet in a children's show to be. 

Okay hey here's the real B-plot. There's a mysterous masked and costumed man going around Hollywood Arts throwing flour in people's faces. The gang who isn't involved in the A-plot strives to track him down (in particular Jade) and generally it involves a lot of people getting hit with flour. At the very end of the episode Cat tackles him after the rest of the game corners him. They remove his mask and find that it's just an incredibly casual guy from another school who throws flour at people just because he's kind of bored. But he's not an asshole about it. Everyone shrugs and says variations of "well.. alright then." and they casually go off walking in their own ways- the flour thrower going unpunished and everyone else being vaguely let down with the incredibly benign outcome. It's actually probably one of the best B-plots inthe show, and it's got such a good ending to it. The flour bomber seems like as much of a real person as anyone else in the group.. they just don't really know him. It's funny, and subverts the shows over the top nature.

It's a good episode, everyone has something to do, and a lot gets done in the shows short timeframe. Robbie's freakout is the low point of the episode, but other than that it's very consistently good. I'll give it an 8/10

Side Notes:

• Bibble (Cat's snack) is brought up again. I say again, because apparently it's in one of the TV movies I didn't watch.
• Here's some British 10 year old's review of the episode I got from the Victorious Wiki: one of the worst epi come on robbie should have sold rex for g also the fact that he got another stupid puppet sucks i mean come on robbie needs to undersatand that puppet are not human and needs to grow up its a bleeding dumb pupett how can u miss a dull so stupid this episode is getting a 0 rating y make another episode about this stupid crap unreasitic annoying vdumming no wonder some ppl may this robbie anyways thtas my review tommy boy out peace im never watching this crap episode again