The Gorilla Club

The Gorilla Club is an episode of Victorious. It aired on February 4th, 2012. It is the 3rd episode in Season 3, making it the 36th episode overall.

Plot
Tori's trying out for a film role, but her acting is constantly being laughed at. Sikowitz tells her that she needs to take risks as an actor and not to play the scene too safely, so Tori tries to test herself with unusual physical challenges at an underground club called the Gorilla Club, like dodging 40-pound swinging metal balls and fighting a guy in a gorilla costume. Tori loses at the balls of pain at first, but the next day she tries again and wins. She also gets better at the role as a result. Later, Tori attacks the big gorilla and beats it, but then the gorilla attacks her again. Tori has both of her arms broken, and although her audition impressed the producers, they didn't give her the role because of her injuries.

Subplots
André and Robbie are forced to dance like M.C. Hammer on command after losing a bet to Jade during a card game.. Meanwhile, Trina buys a pair of 10-inch Fazzini platform heels and has trouble walking in them. Later in the epsiode she decides to go jogging in them and gets injured.

Quotes
Manager: (hands Tori, Beck, André, and Cat clipboards) Here. Sign 'em!

Tori: Why do we have to sign these?

Beck: It just says that if you try any of the challenges here, you won't sue the place if you get...dead.

Tori: But I wanna take a risk!

Beck: Just being here is a risk.

Tori: But...

Beck: Trust me, the games here are not for nice, sweet girls.

Cat (on the bunny): I'm riding a giant bunny!

Manager: She's (Cat) not supposed to be laughing on the bunny!

André: Well what do you want me to do?

Beck: Who's a rock star?

Tori: Me!

(High-five each other)

Tori: Tori Vega beat the big bad-

Gorilla: (attacks Tori)

Trivia

 * This episode is very ironic because Tori went to the Gorilla Club so she can get the part, but because of the club she didn't get it.
 * We know more about Cat's brother: He went to a home for troubled girls. But this could be an Innuendo for sexual fantasies.
 * They are seen playing an altered version of poker again, just as in Wok Star.
 * Reck_gorilla_club.png episode is most likely the last Season 3 episode that was filmed in 2011.
 * As of this episode, when Ariana Grande is shown in the opening credits, instead of the shots of Ariana in a A Christmas Tori and Blooptorious on the set of Freak the Freak Out, it shows Cat riding the giant bunny and her in a limo.
 * This is the first time Jade imitates Beck's voice.
 * Tori mentioned that there was a long line in the girl's bathroom, so she went to the boy's bathroom. This is a reference to what Moze did in an episode of Ned's Declassified: School Survival Guide (another Nickolodeon show)
 * When Tori is practicing her lines with Sikowitz after they go to the Gorilla Club, there's a quote from Lady Gaga on the white board. It says "I live half way between reality and theater at all times. And I was Born This Way."
 * It could be considered Jade's fault that Tori didn't get the part in the movie since she pressured her into going back to the Gorilla Club and face the gorilla.
 * Cat has a new stuffed giraffe.
 * 'Hammer time!" is a reference to the song "U Can't Touch This' by MC Hammer.

Goofs

 * When everyone is playing the card game Cat has her candies in a heart shape. She puts a few in the middle and makes the heart incomplete. A few seconds later, when you see the heart again, the heart's complete again. The last time you see the heart about 3 or 4 candies are missing again.
 * The contracts they signed would have been invalid considering that they are minors, however they could've used fake IDs to get in.
 * At the beginning after Tori threw Cat's purple giraffe, pulled down Sikowitz's pants, and left the classroom, Cat ran outside to get her purple giraffe from the bushes outside. However, in the next shot when André walks in, Cat isn't seen anymore.

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