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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]

'''Jade:''' "I kinda was." }}

* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: All four of the main girls are highly susceptible to this.

** Andre dating Hope just to get her father to listen to her music: Was Andre stepping into the Ryder Daniels horizon just to get recognized, or was it [[Justified Trope|justified]] for having to put up with Hope's bitchiness?

** Hayley and Tara: Are they really just stuck up, spoiled snobs or [[Jerkass Facade|insecure girls]] who [[Inferiority Superiority Complex|knew their singing was bad]] and that's why they needed Hayley's father to pronounce them the winner every time?

** And it was awesome.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Tori Vega, Cat Valentine and Jade West to name a few. Not to mention the lead actress' real name, Victoria Justice, which is probably the coolest sounding of all of them.

* [[Base Breaker]]: The entire episode "Prom Wrecker," mostly because of the debate over who caused the entire conflict. [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] comes into play here, too: Was Tori a bitch for not trying to reschedule the prome, which ended up being on the same night as Jade's play, or was this a little payback for Jade's bitchiness? Was Jade's revenge justified because Tori did not reschedule? Was it Sikowitz's fault for not warning Tori about the schedule conflict? Did anybody cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] here, and was the episode itself a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]?

** Rex is either one of the best things about the show/Robbie and has the greatest lines, or is the one thing you would change about the show in a heartbeat and finds everything about him irritating.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: In "Freak The Freak Out", Cat is actually the one to declare that if Hayley and Tara lose against Louise {{spoiler|(Tori in disguise)}} in a round of karaoke by vote of the audience, they would have to 'babysit' Trina, who was drugged up from her wisdom tooth removal and fought off anyone who'd try to tame her. It may show that Cat was more pissed about the contest being rigged than Jade.

** [[The Stoic|Beck]] in ''Tori Tortures Teacher'' or ''A Christmas Tori'' is [[Not So Stoic|not very pretty]] when angry or sleep deprived.

** If Rex is just a way for Robbie to speak his real thoughts, this may apply to him.

** Tori spotting her neighbor, Mr. Busey, lurking around in the patio in "A Christmas Tori." The scene changes right after that.

** Andre's "[[Crazy Awesome|Run Dance]]" in the [[Breakfast Club|Breakfast Bunch]] episode. It ends with a parrot exploding from the awesomeness of his dance.

*** Don't forget the end with the panda and the balloon...

* [[Crack Ship]]: Jade/Andre being explored is one of the crackier ships the show could show.

** [[Word of God|Liz Gillies]] has {{spoiler|jokingly}} said that she ships Jade/Rex.

** [[Crapsack World|Crapsack Country]]- Yerba. '''''Never''''' go there, unless you like civil war, secret police, kangaroo courts, far below sub-standard living conditions, not to mention deadly insects.

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Sikowitz.

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Pretty much anytime Victoria Justice performs.

** Jade and Cat's duet.

** Also, Robbie's dependence on Rex and Andre's rarely-seen grandma come perilously close to "let's laugh at the mentally ill." Some believe Cat also qualifies, since it was said in one episode she has psychological problems.

** We're supposed to think Trina deserves her parents not caring about her because she is selfish and egocentric most of the time. Not only do a lot of viewers disagree, but few find it funny.

* [[Ear Worm]]: Most of the songs so far.

** ''Freak the Freak Out'' drives this all the way, the moment you see Victoria sing the fast-beat chorus in the commercial bumpers.

** "Let me tell you what I think! I think you could use a mint! Take a hint! Take a ''hint''!

** Chop, chop, chop the squid, chop, chop, chop the squid. Chop, chop, chop the squid, disappoint my father.

** Rex, Trina and Jade are also quite popular, though they're not as unanimously liked.

* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: A video/song on TheSlap has this on purpose. It starts off as [[An Aesop]] about not trusting strangers, but later develops into "don't trust anyone".

** More blatant than in most other shows, ''Beggin' On Your Knees'' has REVENGE ROCKS.

** Het pairings: Andre/Tori, Robbie/Cat and Jade/Beck are the preferred couples, and form a nice neat set of [[Ship Mates]], leaving only the older Trina out.

** Jade/Cat was the preferred [[Les Yay]] pairing in Season 1 and was arguably the most preferred couple in the fandom as a whole.

*** Jade/Tori has left it for dead after Season 1 and is easily as popular if not more so than Jade/Beck is.

** Robbie/Beck seems to be the preferred [[Ho Yay]] pairing.

* [[Foe Yay]]: Tori and Jade

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: ''Robarazzi'' spoofed the conference-like format of TMZ along with a paparazzi-style ambush on Beck and Jade. A few months later, the said show caught Beck's actor Avan Jogia in a "compromising" photo with [[Hannah Montana]] star [[Miley Cyrus]] on the latter's 18th birthday.

** There was a fanfic that parodied [[The Breakfast Club]]. Then several months later, an actual episode paying homage to the movie aired.

* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Trina and Robbie suffer the most:

** The reason the gang had to particpate in Sinjin's game show in "The Worst Couple" is because the original contestants were not better looking, even though all of them looked like average teenagers.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: A visual one in the Christmas episode. When Cat, Tori, and Jade are dressed and lined up like Christmas showgirls: "Ho-ho-ho"

** Tori unleashes a load of food related ones on [[The Slap]] during the events of "The Diddly Bops"

** Rona Patterson can count within the show's standards, while she was mean and grouchy to the girls she becomes this when {{spoiler|Cat's candle causes a fire that burns her house down}}.

** Robbie. He's the resident [[Butt Monkey]], his mother left him, his dad is embarrassed of him, and he has trouble trying not to cry.

* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: Kicking Tori out of Hollywood Arts in the upcoming episode with Helen from [[Drake and Josh]].

* [[Love It or Hate It]]: "April Fools Blank" takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. Opinions have ranged between the two opposite ends of the spectrum-it's either the funniest thing in the history of the world, or a piece of trash. There was practically no middle ground whatsoever.

** The thing with Cat and [[North Star]]. Cat misled a whole bunch of people who were probably in life-threatening situations for a week. A bunch of people probably died because of her, and she didn't even get upset when her friends pointed it out. Granted, it's Cat so she probably didn't fully understand the implications, but still...

** In "Wok Star," Jackie Bonet (Trina in disguise) feigns a heart attack in the middle of a restaurant, and while the other patrons are concerned, the owner (Ms. Lee) takes a picture with her while Trina's on the floor to have put it placed on her "wall of celebrities". When the waiter asks what to do with her, she tosses it out this lovely gem:

'''Everybody''': [[Oh Crap|O_O]] }}

* [[Never Live It Down]]: Tori kisses Beck in the pilot. Both of them still take flak for it.

** Justified, as it's mostly from Jade. Jade is clingy and jealous towards Beck, and spiteful towards... well, everybody, but especially Tori.

** "A Film by Dale Squires", Cat's character Monica kisses Beck's character, but then dies. Jade's character tries to make sure she's alive, to no avail. Beck's character is then interrogated, followed by a scene where Jade's character takes a bloody knife and cleans it off. (Cat, watching this, gasps.) Jade's character then puts the knife in a drawer with a picture of Monica. After she shuts it, the last scene shows a car driving in the night on a lone road. Plus, that music really feels creepy.

** Also in "Beck's Big Break", when Robbie has a dream of a GIANT REX towering over him in a darkened atmosphere while he's in a cereal bowl, and the giant Rex ''blasts him with snot''. Doubles as [[Nausea Fuel]].

** Tori gives Robbie three pints of blood. The first is stolen by Jade. The second he drops and gets all over himself and Tori. I will have nightmares forever...

** That horrifying video Jade played at the prom in "Prom Wrecker."

* [[Protection From Editors]]: It's becoming more and more obvious as the radar list grows.

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Leon Thomas III played the homeless guitar player Arthur in ''[[August Rush]]''.

* [[Shipping]]

** [[Ship Mates]]: A common triple [[Ship Mates]] consists of Tori/André, Jade/Beck and Cat/Robbie. It avoids anyone having to [[Die for Our Ship]] or even having to break the only canon pairing up.

*** Tori/Beck can be this for [[Hide Your Lesbians|Jade/Cat]] shippers, either to set the stage (if Tori steals Beck away) or as a means of throwing Beck a bone (if Tori and Beck get together after he and Jade break up).

*** Things get a little more interesting if your [[One True Pairing]] is Jade/Tori. The [[Ship Mates]] for that one can end up being Cat/Beck or Cat/Robbie (the former being ideal, as it allows you to avert both of the popular Jade pairings). May also involve a nasty breakup between Beck and Jade in order to set the stage. Unfortunately, there aren't many people who've been willing to set those two up together.

** Likewise, Cat/Jade stories will often develop a Beck/Jade friendship after the break-up, or [[Your Cheating Heart|have Beck and Jade still together]].

* [[Ship Sinking]]: "Tori Goes Platinum" officially sinks Tori/Beck

* [[The Scrappy]]: Fans did NOT react well to Rex's, or should we say Christopher Cane's, greatly increased roles in the "Evenings with Victorious" and "iCarly". Possibly a reason for his [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] status is getting in a few funny lines and dissappearing for a majority of the episode. In-universe, Trina seems to be this to everyone around her.

** Cat has been descending into this territory as of Season 2 due to [[Flanderization]].

** "Jade Gets Crushed"-Andre falling in love with Jade, they could have him and Beck fighting, Jade feeling conflicted, and maybe giving Cat an actual role. But no.

** "How Trina Got In" could've been a good opportunity for Trina to receive [[Character Development]] and reveal that she does have talent, but instead, {{spoiler|she performed during Sikowitz's [[Mushroom Samba]]}}, thinking she was talented.

* [[The Woobie]]:

** Cat in "WiFi in the Sky". The poor girl was just having some fun with the effects... Granted, she was distracting everyone from the project and not really helping, but she's Cat. Tori could've known what was going to happen if she yelled.

** Cat again, in ''Cat's New Boyfriend''. Her squeaking voice and devastated facial expression when she caught Tori on the act of kissing her boyfriend makes you want to hug her. When she asks "Why would you be mean to me?" the moe/woobiness is just amplified.

** Don't forget Sinjinn. I mean, he's not COMPLETELY ignorant.

** Robbie.

'''Robbie:''' Sometimes, it's hard for me NOT to cry... }}

*** He's a [[Jerkass Woobie]], but it's mostly played for laughs. The other examples tend to be more serious.

*** In one episode, its implied that his mother left because of him. Definitely [[The Woobie|Woobie]] status.

** And then there's Andre in "Jade Get's Crushed."

** [[True Companions]]: The gang themselves are kind of an deconstruction of this: Sure, they're now hanging out with Trina, but as Jade claims, no one likes her. Robbie and Sinjin are treated like social rejects, though Sinjin has it worse. Cat, according to Jade, is just a pet. The only characters who avoid this treatment are Tori, Andre, and Beck.

** They could also be viewed as a reconstruction: Yeah, the group has some issues, but they still work. It's been shown multiple times that when the chips are down, they're bound by a strong friendship.

** How about the mob of male ballet students, ganging up on the lone female student.

** Trina can't remember the name of the only black main character. Makes you wonder...

** In Freak the Freak Out, Haley and Tara still look rather complacent when Tori proves herself a better singer than them and don't start getting intimidated until she also removes her ugly disguise.

*** Well they ''were'' the vain, obnoxious jerks, so it makes sense.

** Trina's parents obviously don't care much for her, if at all. Trina, most of the time, acts like a [[Spoiled Brat]]. It may or may not be intentional, but the show is apparently trying to justify her parents not caring about her with her obnoxious behavior. Umm...

** Robbie and Tori's conversation in Helen Back Again:

[[Played for Laughs|Audience laughs and Tori, annoyed, rolls her eyes at this]]. }}

** A Japanese/Chinese restaurant being owned by an immigrant Asian woman (Mrs. Lee) with a poor accent? It's bad, but not that bad because this ''does'' occur in real life quite often. But when that woman is the ''only'' prominent Asian character featured on the show...ouch.

** [[Greedy Jew|Robbie doesn't have phone service]] [[All Jews Are Cheapskates|because he doesn't want to pay 45 dollars a month]].

** Any song about a girl will be about having her affection (every Tori/Andre duet we've had except the Make It Shine remix), but any song about a boy is about telling him off (Give It Up, Freak the Freak Out, Take a Hint, Beggin' On Your Knees <ref>the latter two are obvious</ref>), except Best Friend's Brother. [[Double Standard]], much?

** Even ''Best Friend's Brother'' falls under this trope, as dating your best friend's sibling isn't exactly something smiled upon.

** ''All I Want Is Everything'' qualifies as well. The song is supposed to be about not just settling for "good enough", but with lines like "Too much is not enough", it sounds more like she's being greedy and arrogant. Not to mention the music video has her essentially ''stalking'' the boy she's after.

** In an interview Gillies explains that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zygd5N-iR3A she was actually too pale] and needed to be darkened. This change may not have been wise in conjunction with the other alterations to her appearance.

* [[Wangst]]: Andre. Certain plotlines usually had him lamenting about a certain disaster either to his talent or a budding musical career, prompting Tori to step in and help for the rest of the episode.

** Other examples of this include him doing the same thing with his always kissing girlfriend and never being stung by a bee.

*** At least the wangst about his girlfriend was somewhat reasonable. She was forceful, which isn't exactly pleasant.