oh wow the icarly guy is talking about victorious yeah of course i am again remember that video
no or this one no well they exist regardless i figured since i covered the weirdest episode of
icarly i might as well cover the weirdest episode of victorious and not because all of the comments
telling me i need to do so or anything anyway i thought for today i need to bring in backup
a victorious expert if you will yup you guessed it the one the only no not him i'm talking about
offbeat kiki hey everybody i'm offbeat kiki today i'm here to share my two cents on the
weirdest episode of my favorite live action nick show i'm so excited to have offbeat kiki here
on the channel with me today as their content is among some of my favorite seriously please
check out offbeatkiki's channel i'll link one of their newer videos down below so today offbeat
kiki and i are going to take a look at this weird episode of victorious talk about all
the ways in which this weirdness actually works or doesn't but most importantly have fun with it
this episode is titled april fool's blank this isn't the only next series to do in april fool's
episode but it does stand out creatively breaking away from the typical episode structure yes just
like the icarly one this one is weird in the april fool's day episode except this one isn't a pseudo
look back clip show but i am really at a loss here with thinking of how to explain and go over
the plot because i don't really think i can call it one things happen and then more things happen
and none of it has any rhyme or reasoning to do so so let's give it a shot we start our
descent into madness with tori running into her classroom pretending she lost her hand in a car
door slamming incident been there before the grind don't stop you know you gotta give him a round of
applause no one seems amused and when she says april fools everyone points out how they don't
celebrate april fools anymore and it's just for kids and all that tori keeps trying to question
why this is for some more irregular reasons than normal everyone in the classroom is picking on
tori to a point where she's acting like this is the usual while everyone else is being
unusual the teacher for the class now being mr belding from save by the bell
i guess this connects the save by the bell to the ncu of live-action shows and even makes a
mention of screech then pushes tori down steals her purse and runs out of the class and of course
things just keep getting weirder and weirder with particularly cat and robbie he just floats away
okay after dory falls back onto the ground drake bell runs into the room and hey hey what are you
well this didn't age well wait was that the bell oh there's the bell okay that was a good pun
and he explodes graphically then we get the intro just like icarly's intro for the april
fool's related episode the intro has been altered and messed with and featuring a cameo of the time
travel bubble with the icarly crew flying on by which was at the ending of that icarly episode
thus furthering this weird ncu universe connection sinjin who is already weird enough gets even
weirder and creepier was that the dancing lobster from the amanda show in the background
anyway andre comes running into tori yelling about a war that's happening before twisting it into a
whole thing about a pop quiz right before yelling about the war again being a real danger and you
can even hear leon thomas laughing a little bit when he picks up tori screaming about war
he then runs off singing the national anthem takes
an arrow in the thigh and is carried off by some swedish people andre
was literally just shot with an arrow ace ventura style and no one does a thing about it
and the scene ends with a helicopter picking up tori and taking her to her next class then
we have this even more random wizard of oz bathroom parody with cat as dorothy she even
has a ruby red pair phone and it actually looks pretty fire i'd like to purchase one
please but next we have what may be the most fun and maybe the most nonsensical
steak escalating conversation and situation yet the lunch scene where tori and andre meet for
lunch andre breaks the fourth wall about being late because of the oz skit they just did in
the bathroom then they get served food and kids feed it to them until robbie comes in
scares them away by his sheer presence and tells tori about the beverly hills volcano erupting
and that they only have a little over three minutes left until that erupts andre again
breaking the illusion of the show by stating just enough time for a commercial break but then
the commercial break doesn't happen and i think that is my favorite joke written in this episode
robbie's trying to convince tory to kiss him again a lot of weird creepy energy thrown at tori this
episode andre thought robbie was talking to him for a second so andre says sure to the kiss but
robbie assures that he only wants to kiss tori sorry andre after some pleading tory
goes in for the kiss before the frame pauses and a commercial break teaser narrated by rex happens
stay tuned for the second half of victorious or don't i get paid either way
and now we continue with the exciting second half of victoria's
press play was that the dancing lobster from the amanda show in the background anyway later
in the hallway jade crawls up to tori for a tickle fight it's very awkward and random but somehow it
came off way less creepier than sinjin or robbie but just more examples of tori being treated so
weird this episode especially since everyone was so freaking mean to her just this morning
psykowitz has them go into the janitor's closet as the dancing lobster comes and attacks him so tori
runs into the closet that turns into the elevator of the shae's apartment she says hi to spencer
who's sitting on the couch as he nonchalantly says hi back and once again gets into the hall
and that becomes the set of a 70s game show match game tori can now win five thousand dollars mr b
style if she matches one of the panelists answers with her answer to the sentence psychoid says
if she doesn't get them right the dancing lobster tackles are down to the ground and
okay again what is going on that's not cool my favorite scene from this episode is the outdoor
lunch scene leading into the game show because that's when they really ramp up the weirdness i
love the effort that they put into transitioning between scenes between the endless updates about
volcanoes and butterflies the very sapphic scene of jade tickling tori and everyone's alter egos in
the game show it really cements the absurdism that we see going on throughout the episode
this is where the episode title april fool's blank comes into play with the question and cat's answer
in general to the sentence trina uses her answer as a scene transition to get them back into their
home and trina asks for an oompa loompa the rest of the cast jump up and scream happy birthday
seems like a guppy reference tonight carly then asking where's the beef a reference that we're
told kids won't get it's from a 1984 wendy's commercial why's the beef torey's neighbor
comes over eating a banana and tells them his wife says that he talks too much and doesn't dance so
tori turns on some backing music everyone starts dancing and they sing a group song called shut up
and dance for their album my least favorite thing about this episode is the song at the end not
because i think it's bad or anything but shut up and dance has nothing to do with the rest of the
episode and even though the rest of the episode is full of unrelated segments this one still feels
out of place ariana grande sounds amazing in this song though anyone who watched the show knew she
was gonna be big they could have done a song about everything being confusing or how crazy their day
was but it kind of feels like they just had a song that they needed to slap in somewhere for
album sales exactly remember nickelodeon wanted to sell music at this point to make larger returns
on their intellectual properties they all drop to the floor at the end of the song even the dancing
lobster also that snl style ending is funny but the way they think dan schneider makes me gag
and that was almost definitely not lady gaga yeah it sure is a weird and awkward snl ending goodbye
the shout outs to the not real lady gaga gibby's head replica that also by the way has made cameos
throughout the whole episode and yeah this episode is just a weird mismatch of almost improvised
feeling scenes that only interact or intersect by tori asking questions about why no one likes
april fools anymore why does no one celebrate it maybe the big overall joke this whole time
was on us we're playing an april fool's prank on the audience maybe there is no joke
maybe the real question we need to be asking is where's the beef cat's hair color the dorothy
outfit it all makes sense now the numbers mason what are they nine plus ten the big overall point
is that wendy secretly has a plot to take over the fast food market in the television landscape
or not just could mean nothing it's the craziest episode ever it some of it makes
absolutely no sense it's not there's no real plot line to the episode we just kind of like
go about and make weird jokes and people explode so how does april fool's blank differ from the
regular episode format of victorious if we take a look at a classic banger like jade gets crushed
the plot is much more typical and formulaic the episode opens with a problem tori and andre both
have a goal they need to meet in three days and we see other characters having some small side plot
like cat having some random fixation this time jupiter boots and beck working on a photography
project tori passes her exam with robbie's help and jade helps andre with a song and then the real
main plot of the episode arises andre catches feelings for jade tori helps andre figure out
how to cope with how he's feeling they sing a song at the end of the episode which completes andre's
goal and then he meets a girl which resolves the whole feelings for jade issue as the episode ends
so we can break this down into the following steps which i think can apply to a lot of episodes
of victorious step one plot a is introduced and centered around tory and maybe another member
of the gang step two little peeks at what the other characters are doing step three plot b is
introduced step four plot a is resolved step 5 the character sing a song and then step 6
plot b is resolved now if we take a look at april fool's blank the plot does not follow
this formula at all it's much more of an ensemble episode and there's only one problem introduced
if you could even call it that and there are so many things happening all at once that you
can't really consider any one thing a subplot so what's the purpose of this episode why did they
write it can you even do character analysis on an episode where everyone is behaving so
differently and non-canon from how they normally do my first thought trying to understand april
fool's blank was that maybe this is a metaphor for how tori doesn't really fit in with her classmates
yes they like her and she and her friends get most of the roles in the school's projects but everyone
else at hollywood arts is multi-talented and tori is just a singer who got into the school through
circumstance so for her as a student relatively new to the school to not understand a joke that
everyone else is in on would make sense and that does seem like what's happening in the beginning
everyone in drama class is speaking nonsense while telling tori they don't celebrate april fool's day
but the more i let this episode tumble around in my head the more i realize that trying to
extrapolate meaning from this episode is a blatant misunderstanding of what they were trying to do
absurdist comedy is a form of humor based in violations of conventional reasoning and audience
expectation and it's usually achieved through non-sequiturs irrational or absurd situations and
nonsensical expressions there are multiple moments that can be described by each of those in this
episode absurdism doesn't have a point and that's why i like it so much you're not supposed to try
to figure it out because there's nothing to figure out it's an episode of references and weirdness
and non-sequiturs just for the sake of it it's just reveling in silliness and i think it suits
april fools and victorious perfectly like a lot of dan schneider shows the humor and victorious has
always been a little weird and a lot ridiculous like and jade gets crushed tori and andre eat
the guidance counselor lane's sour cream and onion lotion and it's not questioned at all really more
secondary members of the regular cast like robbie cat or sinjin often do things that are kind of
gross or strange and they usually just get a weird look or a quip from everyone else in the scene so
for everyone to be acting weird and nobody saying anything about it is sort of flipping the show on
its head i think in the grand scheme of the show april fool's blank speaks to the willingness of
the writers to do silly things and the working relationship that the actors have with each other
everyone on set is clearly having fun with this episode concussion i want to give a huge thank you
to my friend offbeat kiki for stopping by the channel today discussing some victorious with
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