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"There is no good reason why you and I shouldn't be able to sit here together and have a conversation."
Tori to Jade.

Tori & Jade's Play Date
Season 3, Episode 6
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First Aired March 3rd, 2012
Production Code 306
Writer(s) Dan Schneider
Matt Fleckenstein
Director(s) Adam Weissman
Viewed By: 4.157[1]
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Tori & Jade's Play Date is the 6th episode in Season 3 of Victorious, making it the 40th episode overall. It aired on March 3, 2012.

Plot[]

Sikowitz announces to the class that he has written a new play. After the class starts fighting over playing the lead role, Sikowitz has Beck, André, Jade, and Tori pick roles from slips of paper. Tori and Jade are selected to play a married couple, which they both detest, with Beck and André to play their identical twin sons.

As the group begins rehearsing, Sikowitz isn't satisfied with the believability of Tori and Jade acting as husband and wife. To help them play the role better, he forces them to go on a "date" at a sushi place, Nozu, with Sinjin and Burf keeping watch so they don't escape early, even threatening to fail them for the semester if they leave. Tori and Jade both hate the date and reluctantly try to tell each other what they like about each other. The night gets worse as two random boys (Alan and Chad) try to flirt with them and annoy them. The boys ask Tori and Jade to sing a song, so to get them to back off, they perform the song "Take A Hint".

After the "date", Tori and Jade are able to perform their roles well during the play. Unfortunately, the boys from Nozu showed up at the play, so Tori and Jade run away after the bow.

Subplot[]

During class, Sikowitz asks Cat and Robbie to deliver bad news in a way that seems not so bad to his neighbor, Tanner, so they sing to him. Afterwards, others continue asking Cat and Robbie to sing bad news songs to people to break the bad news without making them too sad, including telling Beck that André spilled his grandmother's urine in his car and telling another kid that others thought she smelled bad. Even though the songs worked for Tanner, Beck, and the other kid to make them less upset, it didn't work for Trina, who doesn't take any bad news well, as she smashes Robbie's guitar after he and Cat tell her that her date stood her up.

Trivia[]

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  • The season 2 theme song is used in international airings.[citation needed]
  • This episode premiered to 5.078 million views in the UK, more than the US viewers.[citation needed]
  • This is one of the rare times that a background actor confirms an episode before Dan, Nickelodeon, or the cast members mention it.
  • This is the third time Jade's name has been used in the title of an episode (after Jade Dumps Beck and Jade Gets Crushed), and the sixth time Tori's name has been used.
  • This episode plays a major factor in the Jori relationship.
  • Part of this episode was seen in the new Season 3 trailer.
  • This is the episode in which Tori and Jade perform Take A Hint, which is the first Jori duet. This is also the episode that features the first Cabbie duet(s).
  • This is the first time that Jade has been/seen in Nozu.
  • This is the third episode where Jade hugs Tori, the first two being Wok Star and Locked Up!.
  • This is the only episode where Sikowitz, Sinjin, and Burf have been in Nozu.
  • This is the second time Tori and Jade play a married couple, although this seems to be more challenging acting-wise than their first attempt (during one of Sikowitz's acting exercises in Helen Back Again).
  • This marks the first school play shown in season 3.
  • This episode continues the series running gag of Jade yelling "NO!" when people are annoying her and Jade saying "OH" in a deep meaningful tone (the latter of which Tori mocks at one point during the episode).
    • This is the third time Jade has yelled "NO!" at someone. She previously yelled this in Terror on Cupcake Street and André's Horrible Girl.
    • It is also the first time that Jade has yelled at someone other than Cat (in this case Tori)
  • "Tori and Jade Should Date" trended on Twitter after the episode premiered.
  • Two people do karaoke to "The Joke Is On You," a song featured on Dan's show iCarly in the episode iGet Pranky and briefly heard in the episodes iParty with Victorious & How Trina Got In.
  • This is the second time Lane appears in Season 3 (although he has no lines, he is in the audience at the end, unless you count the deleted scene), the first one being in The Worst Couple.
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  • This is the first time Robbie has sung in season 3.
  • This is the episode with the largest number of duets.
  • Dan Schneider confirmed on Twitter that he wrote some of the songs Cat and Robbie sing during the episode.
  • The song that Robbie and Cat sing to Beck about Andre's grandma accidentally spilling her pee in his car sounds like a modified version of Tommy Tutone's song "867-5309/Jenny."
  • There are two (known) deleted scenes from this episode that have been posted on TheSlap.
    • There was a deleted scene where Tori sits on Jade's chair and "grounds" her and where Robbie pees a little. It was posted on TheSlap. It is called Jade Grounds Tori. You can watch the clip here.
    • There is also another deleted scene where Robbie and Cat sing a song telling a boy he is expelled for Lane. It is called The Extra Bad News Song. This scene appears to have been cut early on in post-production, as it is of worse quality than the above scene. Although it is a bonus end scene during the credits of the actual episode. Though the sound quality is not very good, you can watch the clip here. Even though the title says it is deleted from Driving Tori Crazy, that is false.
  • This episode marks the first time we see Tori wearing a wristwatch.
  • The characters Tori and Jade are portraying in the play are named Nancy and Walter. Many believe that these were the names of characters from Dan's previous show 'Drake & Josh', but actually only Walter was the name of a character from that show. Nancy was the name of the actress playing the character Audrey. (The actress playing Audrey is Nancy Sullivan.)
  • This is the second time Victoria Justice dresses up as a boy/man in one of Dan Schneider's shows. First was in the Zoey 101 Season 2 episode, 'Girls Will Be Boys'.
  • Chad wears a shirt that says "England's Screaming" on the front. This is a band from Northeastern England who plays new wave/punk music from the late-seventies.
  • This is the first episode since The Breakfast Bunch to reach the top 10 on the overall charts on iTunes and not just make #1 on Kids, peaking at #5.
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  • During the classroom scene, there is a list of tips on Sikowitz's whiteboard:
    • Only drink water that is room temperature or warm, cold water will restrict your vocal cords.
    • Sip hot water and lemon between scenes.
    • Support your voice by using your diaphragm, not your throat, to control your breath and vocal cords.
    • In between shows, keep your jaw loose. Bette Davis used to walk around her apartment with a cork held loosely between her upper and lower front teeth. Try it, it works!
    • There is also a quote by J. Cameron: "Magic doesn't come from the director's mind, but from the heart of the actors."
  • Sikowitz scaring Tori, and Tori saying, "I hate when you do that." could be a reference to Dan Schneider's own habit of scaring his actors and posting the videos on YouTube.
  • A scene from the updated Season 3 Opening Credits had a scene from this episode but was another take when Tori and Jade are bowing. You could clearly see their facial expressions and body-movements and timing are different from the take they kept for the episode.
  • This is the second time that Cat Valentine has sung in season 3.
  • Ending tagline: "My box has spoken!" - Sikowitz
  • Running Gag: Awkwardly dancing around the subject of Beck and André being "identical" twins.
  • This is the second time an episode has had karaoke, the first being Freak the Freak Out.
  • Trina smashing Robbie's guitar is a reference to a scene from Animal House.
  • Take A Hint is the third single by Victoria Justice to enter the Bubbling Under Hot 100 and her sixth song to never enter the Hot 100.
  • This is the second time someone says "________ has spoken". First was Rex in Wok Star, saying "The cookie has spoken!".
  • When Tori and Jade are singing "Take a Hint" Jade sings the line "I am not your missing link". This is a reference to the Theory of Evolution, about the missing link between homo erectus and others.
  • Rex does appear in this episode and has no lines during Scene 1. But on the deleted scene on where Jade tries to get Tori off of her chair, he has lines.
  • In Tori's TheSlap update about the worst date of her life, she puts :{(. The { is a mustache which is probably a reference to Victoria Justice's obsession with mustaches in real life.
  • The line "Don't touch Mommy" was improvised by Elizabeth Gillies.
  • Song heard when Tori and Jade are "complimenting" each other, All The Way by Stiletto.
  • This is the first time that we hear Jade say something nice about Tori. We also hear them sing a duet together.

Goofs[]

  • When Sikowitz is telling the girls about their date, you can see their glasses on the counter. After he introduces Burf, the glasses are missing, then reappear in a later shot.
  • In class, when Cat and Robbie are about to tell bad news for the first time, the camera shows Rex in the background, the camera cuts back and Rex moves positions.
  • When the girls are at Nozu and they try to start talking to each other, the spoon Tori was using to eat her miso soup disappears, then it reappears again.
  • Likewise, the ice cubes in Tori's green tea seem to be missing at first, but later mysteriously appear in another shot
  • In a deleted scene, Robbie was said to have wet himself enough to make Rex's leg damp, but his pants were completely dry.
  • After Trina breaks Robbie's guitar, captions says that she said "later," but she does not say anything.
  • When Tori and Jade sing "You'd be here and I'd be on a yacht, oh", in one shot, the guy who works at Nozu is facing the table and in the next shot, he is facing Tori and Jade with no time for him to turn around.
  • In the first few scenes, Jade has green highlights, but when they are rehearsing for the play (and for the rest of the episode) Jade has blue highlights. However, in the next episode her highlights are green again. She could have changed it before the play started.
    • Jade might have switched highlights though.
  • In this episode, Trina was talking on the phone with her grandmother. However, in Jade Dumps Beck, Tori says her grandmother is dead.
    • Trina could have been talking to her other grandmother.
  • When Trina smashed Robbie's guitar, you can tell its cardboard.
  • On Netflix, when Chad says that Tori has a "Chad infection", the subtitles say she has a "chat infection".
  • Tori and Jade should've called the police on the boys, because they were stalking and harassing them.

Running gags[]

  • Cat and Robbie were singing bad news to people.
  • Burf eating a bell pepper.
  • The boys coming and flirting to the girls.
  • The fact that André and Beck are supposedly 'identical twins'.

Quotes[]

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Rex: They found out coconut juice makes your hair fall out?
Sikowitz: (laughs) No!

Robbie: This kind of news is always hard to tell someone.
Cat: And we really hope it doesn't break your heart.
Robbie: But somebody ran.
Cat: Yeah somebody ran.
Robbie: A woman or a man.
Cat: Maybe in a van.
Cat and Robbie: But somebody ran over your go-cart!
Robbie: (singing stops) And it got crushed!!!
Cat: It's unfixable!!!

André: (pulls a card out of a box) Tommy. Ten year old identical twin brother of Carter.
Sikowitz: (imitates car noise) Beck. Pick a role.
Beck: Carter. Ten year old identical twin brother of Tommy. (looks at André) I guess we're twins.
André: Then Momma's got some explaining to do.


André: Eh, Sikowitz, I think I just heard something movin' there with the go-cart parts. (A raccoon climbs out of the box with the go-cart parts) Sikowitz: I knew it!


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Robbie: Hey, Mr. Beck.
Cat: Your life's going swell.
Robbie: Now here's some news.
Cat: That's not so fun to tell.
Cat & Robbie: Ohhhhh...
Robbie: Now, André would like to thank you for the use of your car.
Cat: But something icky happened and it's kind of bizarre.
Robbie: His grandmother peed in a clear plastic cup.
Cat: André put it in the car then he started it up.
Robbie & Cat: Now...comes...the bad part.
Cat: He was on his way to the doctor and he took a sharp turn...
Robbie: The cup fell over and spilled all the urine.
Cat: 64 plus 9 equals 73.
Robbie: But please don't feel bad now that your car smells like pee.
Cat & Robbie: 'Cause you're still good-looking!


(While jumping up and down)
Cat: This is so fun!
Robbie: Yeah, maybe we should make out sometime
Cat: Robbie, you're so gross! (Pinches Robbie's cheeks and runs away laughing).


Jade: Don't touch Mommy.


Tori: I'm so darn narcoleptic, I can't even tell my own twin sons apart!
Jade: It's not your fault. They're identical. Look at them.
(Beck and André smile awkwardly and exchange looks)

Sikowitz: You girls meet me for dinner at Nozu! Tonight! 7pm!
Tori: But I don't wanna...
Sikowitz: NOZU!
Jade: But why are you..... Sikowitz: (speaking gibberish in Japanese) Jade: At least let us.....

Sikowitz: (speaking very fast) SEE YOU GIRLS AT NOZU AT 7PM!

Sikowitz: Listen. I once did a show where I had to play a man in great pain. So, to prepare, I threw myself down a flight of stairs. You wouldn't believe how many times I hit my head.
Jade: Yeah, we would.
Tori: We really, really would.

Alan & Chad: Whoa! Babe sandwich! Whoa!! (moves closer to Tori & Jade)

Tori: I admire how you're never afraid to say what you think.
Jade: That's stupid.
Tori: See?


Alan: We wanna hear a little songy-song action!


Tori: (to waiter) Excuse me? My date and I were wondering if you have a flight of stairs we could throw ourselves down.


Tori: (slurps her soup and stops a few times)
Jade: NO!!!


Tori: Run, Nancy!
Jade: Yes, Walter!


(in the deleted scene) Jade: Why is your butt in my chair?
Tori: I'm not sure, I guess you'll have to speak to my butt about that. [Wiggles her butt]
Jade: (Leans down) Get away from my chair!


Robbie: (shocked after Jade glares at him)
Cat: Did you just pee a little bit?
Robbie: Nooooo.......
Rex: Then why is my leg damp?


Tori: You really ran over the boy's go-cart?
Sikowitz: Three times... I thought it was a raccoon!


Tori: There is no good reason why you and I shouldn't be able to sit here together and have a conversation.
Jade: I got a good reason.
Tori: Which is?
Jade: I don't like you!
Tori: Really? You can't think of one thing that you like about me?
Jade: I like it when you're sad.


Sikowitz: (opens door) Good morning, little mutants. (laughs in a deep voice)

Gallery[]

Click here to see the photo gallery for Tori & Jade's Play Date.

External links[]

References[]

ved Victorious Episodes
Season One
PilotThe Bird SceneStage FightingThe Birthweek SongJade Dumps BeckTori the ZombieRobarazziSurvival of the HottestWi-Fi in the SkyBeck's Big BreakThe Great Ping Pong ScamCat's New BoyfriendFreak the Freak OutRex DiesThe Diddly-BopsWok StarThe WoodA Film by Dale SquiresSleepover at Sikowitz's
Season Two
Beggin' on Your KneesBeck Falls for ToriIce Cream for Ke$haTori Gets StuckProm WreckerLocked Up!Helen Back AgainWho Did It to Trina?Tori Tortures TeacherJade Gets CrushedTerror on Cupcake StreetA Christmas ToriBlooptorious
Season Three
The Breakfast BunchThe Gorilla ClubThe Worst CoupleAndré's Horrible GirlCar, Rain & FireTori & Jade's Play DateApril Fools' BlankDriving Tori CrazyHow Trina Got InTori Goes PlatinumCrazy PonnieThe Blonde Squad
Season Four
Wanko's WarehouseThe Hambone KingOpposite DateThree Girls and a MooseCell BlockTori Fixes Beck and JadeOne Thousand Berry BallsRobbie Sells RexThe Bad RoommateBrain SqueezersThe Slap FightStar Spangled ToriVictori-Yes
Films and Specials
Freak the Freak OutiParty with VictoriousLocked Up!Tori Goes Platinum
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