Hi I'm Marilyn Harris-Smith and I play Andre's grandma I love that role I beat
out ninteen other grandmas for it it belongs to me she's afraid of butterflies, sun,
and pancakes she's a nut thank you I tell people Jesus is my agent my husband Percy
Smith got me into acting and I'm so happy cuz playing crazy is fun it's so much fun
so thank you grand fans thank you Jayniac Jr. I'm doing this I'm doing this cuz you asked
me to now stop instagramming me please everybody stay safe ain't gonna get bye
Don't say I never do anything for you guys
Last month I made a voting poll so all of you could vote for which Victorious
character you'd like me to analyze next and much to my surprise a majority of you voted
for Andre's grandma really well guess I don't need this thumbnail then I'll just throw that
away a big reason for my surprise is the fact that there's so little information
about her but hey you wanted it here it is okay some of you know my grandmother is um
she's a little out there you know what I mean she's a little crazy in the head
but I love her she's the best just for whatever reason she's extremely paranoid
Charlotte Harris is Andre's crazy grandma she's extremely paranoid there's somebody
in my refrigerator there was has no indoor voice take it off speaker phone it's not on
speakerphone and seems to be confused by everyday appliances but why is this what
could have paved the way to dismay for the cray cray grandmother of Andre well let's take a look
on the surface it'd be easy to write her off as just a crazy person but then we have clips of
her trying to teach Andre how to play a strategy game like mahjong on the slap along with this we
know that Andre drives her to school with him every day your grandma rides to school with
you every day if you don't like it why don't you drive yourself
which unless she just stays in the car until Andre finishes school probably means she drives herself
back home afterwards proving that she's capable of some complex thought processes this leads me
to believe that she hasn't always been this way in Tori Fixes Beck & Jade we get this exchange
we know she's 53 years old because of this so maybe it has something
to do with her age or maybe it's her home life
your grandmother's coming to the big showcase yeah it's gonna be the first time she left the
house in six years why cuz the woman's afraid of everything people, umbrellas, rabbis, bikinis,
breakfast foods so if she saw rabbi in a bikini eating pancakes the woman would burst into flames
Andre is probably the person she interacts with the most on a day-to-day basis and based
on their interactions in the show it seems like she has a strong dependence on Andre well Andre
and his cousin Larry the parrot every night when my grandma goes to bed she talks to the bird sure
since he wasn't there last night she made me crawl under her bed and do the Birds voice what kind of
things does your grandma say to the bird stuff like the bird calls your grandma grandma mm-hmm
so you and the birder cousins I guess we also know that Andre has a great-grandfather who may
or may not be ill all right I'll just celebrate my 97 year old great grandpa's birthday with
him next year possibly was he Andre's grandma's father did she lose her mind shortly after losing
a close relative or maybe dude I don't know there's like no information on this character
why would you ask me to analyze her there's nothing to add guys...but I do have one theory
to put it plainly I think she's suffering either from schizophrenia or some form of
dementia for those who don't know dementia is an overall term for diseases and conditions
characterized by a decline in memory language problem-solving and other thinking skills that
affect a person's ability to perform everyday activities now historically schizophrenia was
viewed as dementia praecox this is due to the varying levels of cognitive impairments
schizophrenia causes today they aren't considered as closely related according
to the DSM-V the diagnosis criteria for schizophrenia include and bear in mind
they must have two or more of the following and it must include number one, number two,
or three number one is delusions number two is hallucinations number three is disorganized
speech and number four is disorganized behavior and number five is negative symptoms it should
also be noted that many with schizophrenia are able to function at a low level and that the
symptoms must be present for at least six months with all the information gathered this would
explain quite a few things that Andre's grandma experiences through the show the hallucinations
who do you think was in your refrigerator a bank robber the disorganized behaviors
and the delusions help I think the kid next door is planning to kill me how old is a kid next door
to you he's seven okay and why do you think he's planning to kill you he had a knife and you took
it away from him do you have the knife this is a plastic knife it could barely cut through a tuna
fish sandwich the symptoms have to persist for six months and we know that it's gonna be the first
time she left a house in six years so it's likely that these symptoms manifested six years before
we see her remember if she's 53 now she would have been 47 years old when this started as for
what caused this late onset of schizophrenia we don't have enough information about her
to come to a perfect definitive conclusion it honestly could have been a variety of different
situations or a combination of said situations but there's no way to really know how it started
listen I searched high and low for everything I could find on this character and I'm telling
you this video was not easy with so little information it's hard to know exactly what's
going on with Andre's grandma and as I said this is just my theory about her based on
what little we actually do know about her I will say though it was fun making a video
that you guys voted for let me know if you want me to keep making voting polls for which video
you'd like to see next also special thanks to Marilyn Harris for agreeing to make that video
cameo at the beginning of this video if you didn't know she actually has her own YouTube
channel Marilyn Harris she also has music out on Spotify you can check out both her
YouTube channel and her music by clicking the links in the description below so who should
I analyze next let me know in the comments below until then I'll leave you with this