Pear Company

The Pear Company
Creator	Dan Schneider
Products	Computers, Phones, Tablets

The Pear Company is a parody of Apple. The Pear Company makes most of the electronics seen in Victorious. It is also seen and mentioned on many shows created by Dan Schneider, including Henry Danger, Sam and Cat, iCarly, Drake and Josh, and Zoey 101. All of the PearProducts were made specially for the shows and are very similar to Apple Products. Like Apple Products, PearProducts are expensive and very delicate. PearProducts were originally rectangular but were shaped like a pear with the start of Season 2.

iPear Desktop

This is the iPear from Robbie's Grandma's house.

On Victorious, desktop computers include the iPear. iPears have been seen numerous times throughout the show and have different features. These computers are said to store many MPEGs (Moving Pictures Expert Group) into a single hard drive and have a mixed software between Apple and Windows. It is sometimes seen on the show and on-screen grabs, that there are icons from Microsoft Windows such as the 'My Computer icon' from Windows XP and the Internet icon, also from Windows XP. The computer also has a dock, but is blue -colored and has many different icons from Windows XP. In the intro, there is also a program very similar to iMovie HD. The computers also have applications on the left side of the screen like Windows XP. It has a Shut Down program. It also has the X button, Minimizer, and the + button on the left side, like the Mac. Robbie's grandmother's computer, shown in The Birthweek Song, is depicted as an iPear. Hollywood Arts seems fond of these computers, as they have a whole section of the library devoted to them. There are several models of it, some of them representing an iMac G5 with a Pear logo, the first aluminum iMacs, and a special one seen on iCarly that resembles an Apple Cinema Display but in red instead of black. One of the original Pear Company desktop computers was the Pear Plus. Only seen on iCarly, they're quite expensive if kept in mint condition.

Transparent Computers

Another form of the desktop shown was the transparent version in Robarazzi. This version is also touchscreen. Another transparent computer was seen in "Merry Christmas Drake and Josh". In that episode, Crazy Steve also had a clear PearPod. One other time was in "iGo to Japan". Later on, the show Henry Danger featured PearPhones and PearPads with a similar transparent design.

PearBook

The PearBook Pro, similar to the Apple MacBook Pro.

PearBooks are some of the most frequently seen PearProducts, tied for second with the PearPad, with only the PearPhone surpassing them both in sightings. As with the iPear, its software is a mix of Apple's OS X, and Microsoft's Windows XP. In looks, the internet browser and every page launched appears to have the OS X look, while the background seems to have Windows XP look to it. With each new generation of PearBooks, the more popular they seem to get seems to get. The PearBook Pro is the current PearBook in production, along with the PearBook Classic. Specifically, most characters from Victorious have PearBook Pros.

PearBook Pro Ownership

Tori's PearBook Pro, and PearPhone XT.

• Red - Jade
• Orange - Trina and Sikowitz
• Green - André
• Special Blue - Tori
• Baby Blue - Robbie
• Pink - Cat
• Black - Beck
• White - None
• Purple - None
• Brown - None
• Tiger Print - None

Find My PearBook

Find My PearBook is an app that tracks your PearBook's location if you lose it. It was seen in the iCarly episode, iBust a Thief.

A Student's Baby Blue PearBook Pro.

You can track its location from a PC, iPear, PearBook, PearPhone, PearPad, or PearPod Touch, with a password. This is a parody of the service that is used on Apple mobile devices as well. You can also remotely lock your PearBook with a passcode, wipe it clean of information, display a warning, or message, or even make it play a sound if you can't see it.

PearBook Model List

PearPhone GX

• PearBook 1 - (1st Generation) - (2007-2008). Looks like an iBook G4 with a colored back and light-up Pear logo, one of the most unique PearBooks ever. 
• PearBook Classic - (2nd Generation) (2008-2010; 2012–Present). Looks like the original MacBook Pro; new Classic version similar to original, but with a dotted silver logo.
• PearBook 3 - (3rd Generation) - (2009) - Similar to the Black MacBook. Rarely seen if ever on Victorious .
• PearBook Pro''' - (4th Generation) (2011–present). Like the current MacBook Pro 13 inch with a colored back.

PearPhone

Tori holding her PearPhone GX in Beck Falls for Tori.

On Victorious, the PearPhone is the most seen PearProduct. All of the other major characters have PearPhones, as well as minor characters, and even some background characters. The first PearPhone seen was the PearPhone 2G, in the Pilot.

In the Second Season, there's a new PearPhone, the PearPhone GX, in the shape of a pear.

PearPhone 2G in Season 1.

PearPhone GX

The new PearPhone XT was released on February 11, 2012, during the season three episode, The Worst Couple. It has all the same dimensions as the PearPhone GX but has a virtual assistant exactly like Siri.

A fan made PearPhone XT

Cat's Pink PearPhone XT.

Cat's PearPhone phone case!

  PearPhones are available on such networks as F Mobile, SBI Mail, and Mobile Tech. 

Mobile Tech appears to be a poor service provider, with very little service connectivity, and a lengthy 5-year contract. Robbie had his PearPhone GX on Mobile Tech. Sometime before How Trina Got In, Robbie stopped paying for his Mobile Tech service on his PearPhone XT, deciding to not have any service at all because of the $45 monthly bill.

Tori on The Slap Mobile App.

All the main characters (excluding Robbie ) seems to use SBI Mail on their new PearPhone XT's. SBI Mail is an offspring company of SBI, which seems to also make speakers, amps, and other products.

On the PearPhone XT, the headphone jack is on the left side, in the deepest ridge, as seen in Driving Tori Crazy on Cat's PearPhone XT. (See the picture on the lower right, with the Tap It app).

Cats PearPhone XT, on the app Tap It.

In Cat Teaches The Elderly, Cat attempts to help the elderly people from the "special home" down the street with their new PearPhone XT's.

In Crazy Ponnie, we see Holly Vega with her Black PearPhone XT.

In Wanko's Warehouse, we see that PearPhone XT's have an advanced measuring system. We also learn the text tones of some of the gang's PearPhone XT's.

In Star-Spangled Tori, it is finally shown that Sikowitz has an Orange PearPhone XT.

In Victori-Yes, Beck updates his Slap profile with his black PearPhone. He had the last status update of the series.

PearPhone XT Ownership

• Tori - Special Blue
• André - Green
• Robbie - Baby Blue
• Cat - Pink
• Jade, Rex - Red
• Beck, Lane, Holly Vega - Black
• Trina and Sikowitz - Orange
• Sinjin - Purple
• David Vega - Brown
• None - Tiger Print
• None - White

PearPhone XT Apps

• Lingo, this is a texting app.
• SplashFace, this is a parody on YouTube.
• Thumb 
• Tap It!, an app Cat uses to get discounts on random items.
•  PearTunes, a parody of iTunes. 
• TheSlap Mobile, an app where you can post something on your school's website.
• Tinkle Time, a not very popular app that Robbie mentions that will try to help you not wet the bed. 
• Squirt Alert, which is an app basically the same as Tinkle Time.
• FontPantry, an app on the Pear Store where you can download fonts on your phone.
• DanWarp, this is a supposed shortcut to Dan Schneider's blog.
• Image, this is a camera app.
• Chrono, this is an app used as a (world) clock, stopwatch, timer and alarm.
• Zaplook, this is a search engine.
• Weather, this is a weather app.
• Music, this is an app to buy music on like iTunes
• Monkey, this is rumored to be a game.
• Remark, a writing app like 'Notes' on the iPhone
• Settings
• Phone
• PearPod, a music playing application (not to be mistaken with the electronic device)
• SBI, this is a mail app
• Explorer, this is a web browser
• Unknown Video Effects App Andre' Used

Some other apps are mentioned throughout the series, including "TheSlap Mobile", "Squirt Alert" ,"Tinkle Time", "Grumpy Gerbils", "Tap It", and "Talking Reggie ".

In Robbie Sells Rex, Cat and Robbie's PearPhones are featured during cutscenes.

Cat's PearPhone XT during cutscenes

Robbie's Baby Blue PearPhone XT during cutscenes

Cutscene PearPhones

Throughout Victorious many cutscenes are shown, some of which feature Tori Vega's PearPhone allowing the audience to see her type and post her TheSlap.com statuses. In the last few episodes of the series, other characters are seen to post statuses like Cat, Robbie and Beck (who features in the last cutscene of the show). The PearPhones in the cutscenes are actually wrong, as the front of the PearPhone is shown to be colored as well as the back of the phone when really only the back is colored. As seen numerous times throughout the episodes the front of all PearPhones are black. It is possible that Tori's PearPhone 2G (from season 1) did have a pink front screen, however, since it wasn't shown much on the show it is probably black as well.

Ruby Cellphone (PearPhone XT)

Some different colored PearPhone XT's.

The Ruby PearPhone XT was used in the episode "April Fools' Blank " in a "Wizard of Oz" sketch. When Dorothy (Cat) was in the Hollywood Arts' bathroom, she pulls out a sparkling ruby red PearPhone. Just then, red smoke bursts out of a stall accompanied with The Wicked Witch of the West (Jade), who asked "Who took my ruby cell phone?! Was it you?!" Dorothy tried to give it back, saying she didn't mean to, but it electrically shocked the witch. Claiming she won't be able to get that Ruby PearPhone as long as it's April Fools' Day, the witch exits. Since this episode wasn't canon, this edition of the PearPhone doesn't exist in the Dan Schneider universe.

Tori's goof Black PearPhone XT.

Virtual Assistant

On the PearPhone XT, this feature is built in to help with common problems or questions. This feature was used in the season 3 episode, Andre's Horrible Girl. Robbie asked it where he could find a window fixer, but instead, it researched his last request and looked for adult diapers. The name is still unknown and is only available on the PearPhone XT.

Find My PearPhone

Find My PearPhone is an app that tracks your PearPhone's location in case you lose it. You can track the phone's location from a PC, iPear, PearBook, PearPhone, PearPad, or PearPod Touch, with a password. This is a parody of the service that is used on Apple mobile devices as well, Find My. You can also remotely lock your PearPhone with a passcode, wipe it clean of information, display a warning, or message, or even make it play a sound if you can't see it.

Text Tones

The tones that the gang gets when they receive a text are:

Tori measuring the distance on her PearPhone XT.

• Beck - Tri-tone
• Jade - Breaking glass
• Robbie - Rex saying 'Ha'
• Andre - Guitar strum
• Cat - Honking
• Tori - Tri-tone
• Trina - Unknown
• Sinjin - Unknown
• Holly Vega - Unknown
• David Vega- Unknown
• Lane - Unknown
• Sikowitz - Unknown

PearPhone Model List

• PearPhone G1 - (1st generation)- (2007-2008). Looked like original iPhone. Had a rectangular design, purple or blue light up logo. (Based off of iPhone)
• PearPhone G5- (2nd Generation)- (2009). Had bronze backing, same rectangular design. (Based off of iPhone 3G)
• PearPhone 2G- (3rd Generation)- (2010- 2011). Same rectangular design, black back, no light up logo. (Based off of iPhone 3GS)
• PearPhone GX- (4th Generation)- (2011- 2012). Had a new pear-shaped design, came with PearChat. Metal signal band. (Based off of iPhone 4)
• PearPhone XT- (5th generation)- (2012–present ). Released on Feb. 11, 2012. Same Pear shape retained, Same metal signal band, and has a feature the same as the iPhone 4S's Siri. (Based off of iPhone 4S).
• PearPhone 6- (6th generation)-(2013–present)- An upcoming phone that was seen on Sam and Cat, it is a parody of The iPhone 5. It was released June 2013 during the Sam and Cat episode #TheBritBrats.
• PearPhone 7- (2014-2016)- The shape of the PearPhone was reshaped back into a rectangular design. It was a parody of an iPhone5C, and/or iPhone 5S, and was seen in Henry Danger.

PearPad

The Spin A-Ma-Jig app

The show host holding his PearPad 2 from Beggin' On Your Knees (episode).

In the Victorious series, we see the PearPad. Like the PearPhone, they were first rectangular shaped and later in Season 2, they became pear-shaped. In some cases in Season 1, Robbie uses it to give information to the friends, such as in Survival of the Hottest and Sleepover at Sikowitz's.

Robbie and his PearPad 1.

It is more common in Season 2. Robbie uses it in Ice Cream for Ke$ha to look on the ice cream company's website. He also uses it multiple times in Terror on Cupcake Street, which causes Andre to become very annoyed and eventually break the PearPad, which Robbie held a grudge against him for.

In Prom Wrecker, Tori uses her PearPad to announce the prom king and queen results. Cat also uses her PearPad 2 a lot such as in Tori Gets Stuck, Prom Wrecker, Locked Up, Car, Rain, and Fire, and Brain Squeezers. Robbie using his PearPad 1 to solve problems is a running gag in the show.

In How Trina Got In, Nozu has PearPad 2's hanging on the walls.

In Tori Goes Platinum, Robbie is finally seen with his new PearPad, a Baby Blue PearPad 2.

In The Breakfast Bunch, we see the library has a whole shelf of PearPad 2's, most likely for student usage. 

In Opposite Date, the PearPad 3 release is announced, and Robbie and Andre work together to win a 2 of the 3 being given away for free. Andre's PearPad 2 is broken by "the Slingshot Kids".

In Tori Fixes Beck and Jade, Beck is finally seen with his PearPad, a Black PearPad 3. It's also the first PearPad 3 seen.

In The Bad Roommate, an updated PearMaps app is used with high resolution zooming. This is a parody of Apple Maps Fly-Over.

One app shown is the Spin A-Ma-Jig.

PearPad 2 Ownership

• Orange - None
• Green - None 
• Blue - None 

  

  (Top Left) PearPhone XT, (Bottom Left) Mini PearPhone keyring, (Right) PearPad 3

• Purple - Sinjin
• Pink - Cat
• Baby Blue - None
• Black - None
• Red- None
• White - None
• Brown - None
• Tiger Print - None

PearPad 3 Ownership

• Orange - Trina
• Green - Andre
• Blue - Tori
• Purple - None
• Pink - None
• Baby Blue - Robbie
• White - None
• Black - Beck
• Red - Jade
• Brown - None
• Tiger Print - None

Find My PearPad

Find My PearPad is an app that tracks your PearPad's location in case you lose it. You can track its location from a PC, iPear, PearBook, PearPhone, PearPad, or PearPod Touch, with a password. This is a parody of the device that is used on Apple mobile devices as well. You can also remotely lock your PearPad with a passcode, wipe it clean of information, display a warning, or message, or even make it play a sound if you can't see it.

PearPad Model List

PearPad

Trina and her PearPad 2.

• PearPad 1- (1st generation)- (2010-2011). Extremely big screen, very thin, and the size of small child. Rectangular design. (Based off of Original iPad.)
• PearPad 2- (2nd generation)- (2011- 2012). Brand new Pear design, similar to PearPhone GX/XT in overall design, but about triple size. (Based off the iPad 2.)
• PearPad 3- (3rd Generation)- (2012–present ) Released Oct. 13, 2012. Similar to the PearPad 2, but with a slightly better screen. Was announced and released during Opposite Date [1] (Based on Apple's 3rd Generation iPad, which in reality had a much better screen than the iPad 2.)

PearPad Mini

• PearPad Mini - (1st generation)- (2010). Reduced screen and body size, and increased thickness. Similar rectangular design to original PearPad. Never seen on Victorious. (Based off the Original iPad.)

PearChat

PearChat was introduced to some Pear Products in 2010, and to all products in 2011.

The first time PearChat was used on Victorious and was featured in Wi-Fi in the Sky, when Tori, Beck, Cat, and André used it to work on their eleven-page story due for class the next day. Robbie, Sinjin, and Jade also used PearChat to join in the others' conversation.

Cat on her PearPad 2.

Later, Tori uses it to PearChat with Sikowitz in The Gorilla Club, while acting the part of a role.

We have also seen Cat PearChat with Tori, André, Robbie, and Beck while helping Jade backstage at the Boomerang Theatre. 

So far we've only seen PearChat on the PearBook 2 (now Classic), and the PearBook 4 on Victorious, but on iCarly, we've seen PearChat used on an iPear, a PearPad 2, and we have heard that Carly used her PearPhone GX to PearChat. Also, in some episodes such as Tori Goes Platinum and Wi-Fi in the Sky, some of their usernames are displayed:

• Tori - ToriVega
• Cat - HappyCat
• Andre - AndreH
• Beck - GotBeck
• Jade - ScissorLuv
• Sinjin - MrSkinnyJeans
• Robbie - RockRobster, LIL_STEPHANIE21 (as alternative)
• Rex - RexAndTheCity
• Trina - TrinaRina123

PearStore

The PearStore

First mentioned in The Worst Couple, by Trina, when she picked up her new PearPhone XT. The retail PearStore is a store that sells all PearProducts, in a physical store. It features all devices on display, that you can use and test out before you buy them. The store also features a Brainiac Bar, where owners of PearProducts can be helped with setup, questions, updates, and repairs. All employees wear a red shirt with a Pear logo on it, and an ID on a lanyard.

PearCloud

The PearCloud transfers all new documents, apps, music, events, and bookmarks, to your other PearProducts. It is a parody of iCloud.

Jade's PearBook Pro.

PearPort

PearPort Express

A PearPort Express is a wireless internet connector, which can be used at home or easily on the go. It uses 802.11n type of WiFi.

PearPort Extreme

A PearPort Extreme is also a wireless internet connector, which should only be used at home due to its increased size. It also uses 802.11n wifi.

PearTV

PearTV's home screen.

PearTV, a parody of AppleTV, is a set-top box, which you connect to the internet, it was first seen on Victorious in Tori Goes Platinum when Sikowitz used it to show a scene from an old TV show he was on. He appeared to be using PearPlay from his PearBook Pro to mirror it to the PearTV, which then displayed it on the screen, he was later interrupted by Cat, when she used it to view the live stream on TheSlap. Later in the episode, Jade uses the PearTV to stream the SplashFace video of Tori flipping out on the waitress, from her PearBook Pro.

The PearTV's dvd/video display.

The device itself hasn't been seen,  just the display, which is extremely similar to the AppleTV's display.

PearOS

PearOS is the operating system on all mobile PearProducts and the PearTV. It uses a multi-touch user interface with downloadable content. Interface control elements consist of sliders, switches, and buttons. The response to user input is immediate and provides a fluid interface. Interaction with the OS includes gestures such as swipe, tap, pinch, and reverse pinch, all of which have specific definitions within the context of the iOS operating system and its multi-touch interface. Internal accelerometers are used by some applications to respond to shaking the device (one common result is the undo command) or rotating it in three dimensions (one common result is switching from portrait to landscape mode). PearOS has basic, generic apps built into it like:

PearOS Built-in Apps

• PearPod: A music playing app.
• PearPics: A photo holding app.
• PearCam: A camera operating app.
• PearClock: A clock app.
• PearVids: A video holding app.
• PearMaps (PadMaps on the PearPad 1): A map app, with angle rotation and high resolution zooming options.
• PearNotes: A simple note-taking app.
• PearNet: An internet app.
• PearMail: An e-mail app.
• PearRuler (So far only seen on PearPhone): An advanced measuring app.
• PearChat: A video calling app.
• PearPhone (On PearPhone only): A phone calling app.

Episode Influence

Pear Products have been seen throughout series, even sometimes annoying people, such as Robbie with his PearPad 1, which was eventually broken by Andre in Terror on Cupcake Street.

Most of the time the products help the gang out by showing them updates on the contest, like in Ice Cream for Ke$ha.

And by keeping them connected, through The Slap Mobile App.

Tori trying to get Robbie's PearPhone XT.

The whole episode Wi-Fi in the Sky was using PearChat on a PearBook 2 to connect the friends up to finish the story for class. The subplot of The Worst Couple, Tori awaits the release of the new PearPhone XT release, and her PearPhone GX malfunctioning, from being dropped in a toilet too many times.

In André's Horrible Girl, Robbie uses his PearPhone XT's personal assistant to ask for a window repairman in Beverly Hills, California, it malfunctions and searches for his last request, adult diapers.

In How Trina Got In, Robbie pretends to use his PearPhone XT to call for money to pay the bill. Tori and Robbie fight over the phone, eventually Tori tickles Robbie in order to take the phone Tori finds out that Robbie did not buy a plan because the service provider charges $45 a month, he just has it to make other people think he has a PearPhone XT. Though since this episode he has used his PearPhone XT.

Sikowitz with his PearBook Pro.

In Tori Goes Platinum, everyone uses their PearProducts to hear about the Platinum Music Awards competition. It is also revealed that Sikowitz has an Orange PearBook Pro.

In Opposite Date, Robbie and Andre go to extremes to win two of PearPad 3's being given away. They even writing a song and wear pear costumes, later falling down in the outfits, becoming trapped.

Robbie and Andre preparing for the PearPad video shoot.

In Cell Block, the gang is dared to not use technology by Sikowitz, including all PearProducts.

In Robbie Sells Rex, while Tori's posted updates on TheSlap are shown, Cat's and Robbie's are shown too.

In The Bad Roommate, Andre' has an green-colored PearBook Pro. Also, Tori's, Andre's and Cat's updates on the TheSlap are shown. The updated PearMaps app is talked about in this episode, which is based on the new maps update for Apple Products. The subplot of this episode is Jade trying to remove an unattractive picture of herself on the new PearMaps app.

In The Slap Fight, the gang is seen using their PearProducts constantly, in an attempt to gain more followers.

In Star-Spangled Tori, it is revealed that Sikowitz has an Orange PearPhone XT and that Robbie has a Baby Blue PearPad 3. Also, when Tori ask Sikowitz what "perilous" means, he says it could mean "Pear-less" in which that means a person is without PearProducts, he later recants that definition, because, as he states, "...you all have that phone."

Student's Color Coordination

There is a color coordination with the characters PearProducts:

Trina's PearPad 2.

• Tori - Blue - PearPhone XT, PearPad 3 and PearBook Pro.
• Cat - Pink - PearPhone XT, PearPad 2, and PearBook Pro.
• Sinjin - Purple - PearPhone XT, and PearPad 2.
• Jade - Red - PearPhone XT, PearPad 3, and PearBook Pro.
• Trina - Orange - PearPhone XT, PearPad 3 and PearBook Pro.
• Robbie - Baby Blue - PearPhone XT, PearPad 3, and PearBook Pro.
• Andre - Green- PearPhone XT, PearPad 3, and PearBook Pro.
• Beck - Black - PearPhone XT, PearPad 3, and PearBook Pro.
• Sikowitz - Orange - PearPhone XT, PearBook Pro.

Trivia

A PearBook Pro's display.

Cat taking control of Sikowitz's PearBook Pro.

• The Pear products are based on Apple and its iPhone and iPad products.
• The metal band on the PearPhone GX/XT were modeled after the iPhone 4/4S.
• PearPad 2's were being used as speakers in the episode Prom Wrecker.
• The PearPhone GX is a parody of the iPhone 4.
• The PearPhone XT is a parody of the iPhone 4S.
• The Hollywood Arts Library has many PearProducts: including a whole desk block of iPears, and a shelf full of PearPad 2's.
• If you look closely you can see that all PearProducts have colored fronts during cut-scenes. But during live-action scenes, they have black fronts.
• On both DanWarp shows, we've seen that the Pear Logo is different sizes, and colors throughout both of the series.
• PadMaps, is a special map service offered only on the PearPad 1, seen on Terror on Cupcake Street.
• Color coordination is popular with all mobile PearProducts such as the PearPhone, PearPad, PearBook, and PearPod lines.
• The PearPlus is obvious a parody of the Apple Macintosh. Though never shown on Victorious, it has been shown on iCarly. In mint condition, it can be worth around $4000.
• The Pear products that are pear-shaped are actually carvings with a chroma key "screen".