Fourth Wall

The Fourth Wall is the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theater, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. The idea of the fourth wall was made explicit by philosopher and critic Denis Diderot and spread in nineteenth-century theater with the advent of theatrical realism, which extended the idea to the imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience. Speaking directly to or otherwise acknowledging the audience through the camera in a film or television program, or through this imaginary wall in a play, is referred to as "breaking the fourth wall" and is considered a technique of meta-fiction, as it deconstructs the boundaries normally set up by works of fiction.

Lampshading is the writers' trick of dealing with any element of the story that threatens the audience's willing suspension of disbelief — whether a very implausible plot development, or a particularly blatant use of a trope — by calling attention to it... and then moving on. In simple terms - the author points out the improbable subject through some medium (character, passerby, narration, etc.) and says it exists regardless of logic.

Season 2

 * In the Ice Cream for Ke$ha, when Tori says she remembers the deal she made with Trina when she was younger, she looks up as if she were going to set up a flashback before Trina interrupts her.
 * In Who Did It to Trina? right before Robbie tells his version of the story André complains by saying, "Oh, no, no. Now we gotta hear another version of the story from a unique point of view?"
 * In Tori Tortures Teacher, André notes that they don't sit at a certain end of the table; that end happens to face the camera and anybody sitting there would have their back to the audience.
 * In Terror on Cupcake Street, Sikowitz says that the other kids in class never talk, and everyone agrees, and Tori says they just sit there and react.

Season 3

 * At the end of A Christmas Tori, Tori is reading the end to a book entitled 'A Christmas Tori'.
 * In The Breakfast Bunch when André takes off his shirts when he's run dancing his last shirt says "Final Shirt" on it.
 * In The Breakfast Bunch, after Tori is locked in the janitor's closet she finds a secret passageway to the library with a sign that reads "SECRET PASSAGEWAY TO LIBRARY".
 * In April Fools Blank, Cat says that Jade spoke her stage directions. Also, a director comes in and addressees Andre as Leon, saying he's late for a scene with Victoria. At the end of the episode, Tori/Victoria thanks the audience, the cast, the crew, and Dan, the creator.
 * In April Fools Blank,when Rex says there's going to be a commercial break, he says "Stay tuned for the second half of Victorious, or don't. I get paid either way."
 * During the Match Play show in April Fools Blank, Trina's answer is "cut to next scene," which causes the show to cut to the next scene.
 * In April Fools Blank, when the characters yell "where's the beef?", Tori says that kids won't get that refrence.
 * In How Trina Got In right before Beck tells how he heard Trina got into Hollywood Arts Ardré starts to rub his temple in order to "visualize the story."
 * In How Trina Got In, Sikowitz looks up to the ceiling as if to visiualize the past, and everyone else looks up, and then awkwardly look at him when he says nothing.
 * In the beginning of Tori Goes Platinum Sikowitz tells the class that most TV show and Hollywood movie writing is terrible, prompting Jade to say, "Don't we know it."
 * In Crazy Ponnie, Ponnie refers to herself as "one of the quiet kids who sit in the back and just reacts to stuff," after which Tori replies, "You're a shrugger?!"

Crossovers/Specials

 * In iParty with Victorious Sikowitz jumps up out from underneath a counter and blares a trumpet, saying "It's me!", looks to the camera showing his trumpet, then says "With a trumpet!"

Possible Fourth Wall Breaks/Lampshading

 * In The Bird Scene after Tori successfully completes The Bird Scene she posts "FINALLY... I... am... VICTORIOUS!!!"
 * In Wok Star, Mrs. Lee's wall of celebrities has a picture of Dan Schneider, the creator of Victorious. There is also a picture of him in Tori's locker.
 * In Sleepover at Sikowitz's, Beck mentions Dan Schneider while in character at Sikowitz's house.
 * In Sleepover at Sikowitz's Tori yells, "I am VICTORIOUS!" when she stayed the longest without breaking character.
 * In Beggin' on Your Knees a girl tells Robbie that guys never ask her out, and he smiles and looks toward the camera.
 * In the TheSlap/iCarly.com video, Random Debate, the iCarly characters are doing a random debate when Ariana Grande, Matt Bennett, and Daniella Monet come into the video and start calling all the iCarly characters by the actors names. As the video continues, the iCarly cast is left wondering if they're in character or playing themselves, especially when Rex appears even when Matt is nowhere near him.
 * In 2010, a video was posted on iCarly.com of Liz Gillies and Victoria Justice. They were dressed as and acting like their characters, but they were asking people to vote for iCarly and Miranda Cosgrove, and also promoting the show Victorious. They even stated themselves in the video, "We're breaking the fourth wall!"
 * In The Breakfast Bunch when Jade's harassing Cat about being a vegan Jade briefly looks toward the camera when she sits down.
 * In The Breakfast Bunch, when, Mr. Dickers reads the note you can hear Rex's voice reading the note along with the others:
 * Tori: "A future pop-star"
 * André: "A musician"
 * Beck: "An actor"
 * Robbie: "A nerd with temporarily straight hair"
 * Jade: "A girl who likes scissors"
 * Cat: "And meeeeee..." "Oh, it's Cat. Bye."
 * In Car, Rain & Fire, when Tori and Cat see the news story about Mona Patterson's house being burned down, they change the channel. The show they change it to is Hungry Girl, a Food Network cooking show hosted by Dan Schneider's wife Lisa Lillien.

The Slap Fourth Wall Breaks

 * "Bloopers are hilarious. Unless, they're yours. Then they're embarrassing. Oy, It's going to be a long night." They were referring to the Victorious blooper episode: Blooptorious.
 * Rex posted a worried question about the episode "Rex Dies."
 * When you went on TheSlap.com it was promoting The Worst Couple and André's Horrible Girl.
 * Robbie's song, "Robbie's Big Toe" mentions the show's title and the basic plot of Tori being a new student there, saying that there is a "crazy cast of characters", that Tori and Jade's conflict makes for a good story, and finally ends it by saying the show should be renamed "Robbie's Big Toe."
 * Beck's status: "Had to pick up some production equipment in Burbank today and drove by a high school that looks exactly like Hollywood Arts. Weird." (Burbank HS is where they shoot the exterior of HA.)

Cast Reactions

 * Matt Bennett said, “We don't break the fourth wall yet. But I feel like there’s room to do it. I think we’re gonna get really post-modern. Really strange.” in the last part of this video.