Robbie Shapiro

Robert "Robbie" Shapiro (Matt Bennett) is a shy and very awkward student, but a good friend, at Hollywood Arts who nearly always carries a ventriloquist puppet named Rex around with him.

Characteristics
Robbie is very shy and uncomfortable around pretty girls. When a girl shows even little or fake signs of affection, he gets nervous and tends to overreact.

Robbie played a motivational speaker with jelly legs, named "Kevin Cornbloom".

Robbie is a master ventriloquist and Rex is his alter-ego, a very hip companion who likes to hit on girls, essentially being what Robbie isn't. They frequently argue because Rex talks too much.

He is lactose intolerant and he can play the harmonica and the guitar. He showed this when he played both of his songs. (According to link)

He customized his locker with a mosaic made from his old baby bottles.

In the episode Survival of the Hottest, Robbie is portrayed as being a little selfish. This is most prominent when those who are trapped in the car are sharing the water. Though everyone else is taking their fair share, Robbie gulps the whole drink, angering the others and making him feel terrible.

Robbie also displays a lack of self-confidence. In the episode Tori the Zombie, he keeps asking others about his performance. This also shows that Robbie can be jealous because every time he asks, someone else had been complimented.

In one episode, Robbie is shown to be a computer whiz, helping Mamaw with her new computer. Robbie is Jewish as noted multiple times in the series.

Robbie can make all kinds of different voices as shown here: link and link

Tori Vega
(2010-present; Friend; Crush) Robbie has a crush on Tori. He kept asking Tori to smooth his ear when she tried to get information on The Bird Scene. Rex, Robbie's puppet, shares his expressions to Tori. It could be that Robbie is shy but Rex says things out loud to her for him. In Rex Dies, he asks Tori to stay with him in Rex's hospital room for comfort. Tori turns on the heart monitor reviving Rex to make him happy. It is revealed in the episode, Beggin' on Your Knees, that Robbie secretly spies on Tori from the bushes behind her house. (See: Rori)

Trina Vega


(2010-present; Frienemy) In the episode Stage Fighting, Trina has to kiss Robbie while auditioning in a scene for a play. Robbie mistakes this kiss as her having feelings for him. In the episode Jade Dumps Beck, Robbie felt pressured by an angry Trina to write a good review of her one-woman show. He called her show a "comedy," which enraged her, but she came to accept the review after getting a standing ovation from her audience later on. They don't seem to be on good terms. (See: Tribbie)

Cat Valentine
(2008-present; Friend) In the episode Stage Fighting, the two kiss after Cat tries to convince Robbie that Trina was acting, and the stage kiss didn't mean that she liked him. After the kiss, Robbie suggests she meet his parents. They seem to be good friends, as Cat was the first to tell Robbie her shrimp joke in Wi-Fi in the Sky. Although Robbie's puppet, Rex, has hit on most girls he sees, he has yet to "make a move" on Cat. (See: Cabbie)

André Harris
(2008-present; Best friend) In the episode The Bird Scene, André convinces Robbie to join ballet in order to meet girls. His plan goes awry when they realize that the majority of the class is male. In the episode Jade Dumps Beck, André gives Robbie advice on how to deal with writing a review for Trina's play without insulting her. It seems that André is Robbie's best friend. (See: Rodré)

Jade West
(2008-present; Frienemy) She hates that he thinks Rex is not a puppet although he clearly is. In early episodes it seemed like they didn't get along with each other, however lately it's been shown that they are better friends. For example, In "Rex Dies" she seems to worry about his mental health and actually desires him to be normal, and in "The Diddly-Bops" she is the only one who likes his song "Broken Glass." (See: Rade)

Beck Oliver
(2008-present; Best friend; Possible crush) Beck and Robbie seem to get along pretty well and are on good terms as of now. They have shown to be good friends on several occasions such as in Wok Star when him and Beck tried to keep Mrs. Lee away from Jade's play so Jade can impress her father. In A Film by Dale Squires, Robbie tells Beck that his jeans fit him great. (See: Reck)

Rex
(199?-present; Best friend) Usually, Robbie and Rex argue a lot and have fights. But other times, they get along. Whenever someone calls Rex a puppet, Robbie defends him and says that it is offensive. In Rex Dies, when Rex gets injured by the Turblow Jet, Robbie got upset and even cried. On TheSlap.com, Robbie and Rex mostly comment on each others boards. (See: Rebbie)

Music
Forever Baby

Strangers on a Bus

Robbie's Big Toe

Broken Glass

Monkey Woman

Trivia/ Notes

 * He is the only guy to kiss Trina so far.
 * He is lactose intolerant and can only drink soy milk.
 * Like most characters, he is scared of Trina as seen in Jade Dumps Beck.
 * Robbie can be a little selfish at times, as shown in Survival of the Hottest, but only when it is necessary.
 * Robbie is of Jewish descent as revealed from Stage Fighting.
 * Screen name is RockRobster. He also made a fake screen name called LilSTEPHANIE_21.
 * Robbie tends to take the slightest attention from a girl way too far. An example is in multiple episodes, such as in Stage Fighting.
 * Robbie is easily affected by Rex, as shown in "Beck's Big Break".
 * At times he can even more emotional than Cat (Jade Dumps Beck, Survival of the Hottest, Rex Dies, A Film by Dale Squires).
 * He uses his bar mitzvah money to buy himself Male Make-up, as shown in the episode Wok Star, and he mentions also buying leather pants.
 * He wears Male Make-up, he posted in a blog, he doesn't like it when is skin tone is uneven, he also posted in said blog "A little mascara makes my eyes sparkle."
 * His hair is not a perm, "This is ALL natural, baby." he said himself in a blog.
 * He hates it when someone calls Rex a puppet.
 * Robbie is Jewish, as said in Wok Star he had a Bar Mitzah
 * He has a similar personality to Freddie on iCarly, for both being nerds.
 * In The Wood, people think he looks like Andy Samberg.
 * Early scripts for the pilot name him "Lane." Eventually, the school guidance counselor gained the name.
 * He is allergic to gluten, as seen in Beck's Big Break, where he eats a giant cookie with extra gluten and had intestine pain.
 * As seen in The Great Ping Pong Scam, Robbie loves caviar dip.
 * On TheSlap.com he has a segment where he sings different songs he has written.
 * In A Film By Dale Squires, it can be implied that Robbie is bisexual, because he told Beck that his jeans fitted him great.
 * In Beck Falls for Tori, Rex made it obvious that Robbie can't ride a bike. On TheSlap.com, in a photo in the "Robbie's Car and Dale Squires", Robbie confirms this.
 * In The Diddly-Bops, it seems that Robbie has a bit of a dark personality due to the song he made up about broken glass.

Gallery
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