Victorious | Season 1

"Pilot"

Tori Vega (Victoria Justice) gets the chance of a lifetime to attend Hollywood Arts, an elite performing arts school after taking her older sister Trina's (Daniella Monet) place in her school's big showcase. Tori is roped into helping Trina and her project partner Andre Harris (Leon Thomas III) prepare for their performance for the showcase in a few days, including Trina singing a song Andre wrote for her. When Trina's tongue becomes swollen due to an allergic reaction to the Chinese herb gargle and she cannot sing properly, Andre tells Tori to fill in for Trina, but she refuses. They force her on stage and, with the help of Andre, Tori receives a standing ovation from the crowd, and accepts the offer to join Hollywood Arts. On her first day, she meets Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande), a girl who seems to be living in her own head, Robbie Shapiro (Matt Bennett), an awkward, nerdy student who speaks through his dummy Rex Powers (Jake Farrow), handsome Beck Oliver (Avan Jogia), and his mean girlfriend Jade West (Elizabeth Gillies). After accidentally spilling coffee on Beck and trying to wipe the stain off his shirt, Tori finds herself at the wrath of Jade, who thinks that Tori is flirting with Beck. Jade does an improv scene with Tori, having Tori portray a dog, but then takes iced coffee and spills it on top of Tori, causing her to leave the room in humiliation. After the altercation with Jade, Tori wonders if she is good enough for, or even belongs at Hollywood Arts. At the insistence of Trina and Andre, who tell her not to let a mean girl crush her confidence, Tori returns to class and subsequently gets revenge on Jade by besting her in an improv assignment and then by kissing Beck in front of her.

"The Bird Scene"

Tori wants to try out for the lead role in a play called "Moonlight Magic", which Andre is writing the music for. However, according to her teacher Mr. Sikowitz (Eric Lange), she must master a monologue known as "The Bird Scene" before she can be involved in any school production. Despite putting a lot of effort into it, she fails twice. As well as this, she must also think of a creative and meaningful way to decorate her locker, which is Hollywood Arts tradition, but all her efforts are unsuccessful as well. She again performs "The Bird Scene" and indignantly states that she is proud of her own work no matter what anyone thinks. She passes, as the secret of "The Bird Scene" is to be proud of one's acting style. Inspired, Tori decorates her locker with the glowing words "Make It Shine", as that was the song that she sang that got her into Hollywood Arts. Andre and Robbie sign up for ballet class as a way to meet girls, but arrive only to see an all-male class, and are unable to drop out at the risk of failing the semester. But then, a pretty girl joins the class, and the boys go crazy about her.

"Stage Fighting"

Tori walks in on a muscular guy named Russ apparently beating up Beck, so she jumps on Russ to stop him. However, she finds out they were only stage fighting. After a stage fight lesson, Sikowitz gives Jade as Tori's fighting actress in a scene they are assigned to do. Tori is afraid to do it because of Jade and, during the skit, she 'hits' Jade with a cane. Jade's eye begins to bleed and, following this, develops a black eye. Consequently, Tori is punished with two weeks of detention and must clean the theater after a food fight scene. However, after two boys pour a cup of ice in a girl's shirt she tries to get back at them by throwing a cup of water at them only to accidentally splash Jade. As Jade tries to run off and hide, Andre finds her and discovers that she used fake blood and makeup to fake her injury. After this, Jade begins to feel guilty, especially after Tori refuses to tell the truth on her, reasoning that it will not be fun for either of them to go to school if they keep fighting all the time. Jade says Tori cannot be nice to her when she has been mean to Tori; but Tori replies that Jade should try being nice to her some time. Remorseful, Jade helps Tori clean a little bit and ditch the security guard watching her to clean the hall. Meanwhile, Robbie develops an obsessive crush on Trina after she stage-kisses him as part of an audition. As Robbie annoys Trina by constantly pursuing her, Cat kisses him in an attempt to prove that stage kisses mean nothing; only for him to fall for Cat instead.

"The Birthweek Song"

Tori needs to find the perfect gift for Trina's birthday. Andre suggests that she write her sister a song and perform it at her birthday party. After she performs the song, though, Trina proves to be ungrateful; she wants a material gift instead of the sentimental one Tori gave her. Trina decides to sell the flash drive containing the song for $500 to a record producer, who then invites Trina to record the song, even though she is not the singer on the version he heard, which he realizes after several takes. Trina eventually confesses that Tori is the singer, and Tori gets to record the song herself. Meanwhile, Robbie and Cat go see his grandmother Mamaw, so Robbie can fix the internet. As Robbie notices Mamaw's animosity toward Cat, he decides to make a document to trick his grandmother into believing she has no more internet.

"Jade Dumps Beck"

Jade becomes jealous when Beck starts hanging out with Alyssa Vaughn, a famous socialite, who may like him. She ends up breaking up with Beck when she feels that he is not taking her feelings of the situation seriously. After having second thoughts, she decides that she wants Beck back, only to get rejected by him, leading her to seek Tori's help. Tori tries to convince Beck to make amends with Jade, only for him to bring up how Jade has never done anything nice for him during the time they have dated. When remembering Beck wants a Rottweiler, Jade and Tori bring one to his RV, only for the dog to attack his father who was sleeping inside. After his father is taken to the hospital, Beck takes Jade back anyway, admitting he still loves her. Meanwhile, Robbie has to write a review of Trina's one woman show for the school's social networking site, TheSlap.com, but does not know how to review it when she threatens him to write a good review despite it being horrible.

"Tori the Zombie"

Tori is to be in a play about a beautiful girl who is caught in a love triangle that is to be reviewed by the famous writer who wrote it. Meanwhile, Cat starts stage make-up classes and cannot find anyone to put her make-up skills on, so Tori agrees to allow Cat to do so with her. Cat uses super-grizzly glue by accident, which is like industrial cement and to be kept away from skin, when putting a zombie-looking mask on her hours before the play is set to begin. Tori forces Cat and Trina to drive to the super-glue factory to get the remover. However, Trina and Cat arrive late and the play starts with Tori looking hideous, confusing the audience. During the end of the play, Trina and Cat arrive with the remover in time for Tori to do the finale of the play with her normal face and the writer gives the play a good review.

"Robarazzi"

Wanting to get more views on his blog on The Slap, Robbie begins filming the personal lives of his friends called "Robarazzi" although his posts end up about making fun of them. His blog becomes a hit, much to his friends' dismay, causing them to become furious with him. After threatening to post a video of him in a towel after having his clothes stolen from the shower room unless he takes his blog down, he retools his blog on TheSlap, focusing on food recipes. Meanwhile, Cat becomes obsessed with purchasing odd things from a catalog from "Sky Store". Her friends feel that she needs to slow down the purchasing.

"Survival of the Hottest" "Trapped in an RV"

When a heat wave hits Southern California, Tori, Cat, Trina, Andre, Robbie, Rex, Beck, and Jade decide to go to cool off at Venice Beach. Beck decides the best way to get there is to borrow his uncle's pickup truck and tow the trailer that he lives in to the beach. But the gang, minus Cat who leaves to use the bathroom, become trapped in Beck's Recreational vehicle (RV) when another huge RV is parked right next to theirs, blocking the only door. While they are trapped, Cat is busy partying with Ben (JC Gonzalez) and his group of three other boys who decide to frolic with Cat, the only girl who could possibly save the rest of them from sweating to death and completely oblivious to her friends' predicament as they try to escape the RV.

"Wi-Fi in the Sky"

Tori and Trina's flight home from New York City gets delayed, so Tori uses video chat via the plane's Wi-Fi service to work on a group project for school with Andre, Cat, and Beck while she is on the plane. While attempting to get it done, the rest of the group keeps getting distracted, making Tori frustrated. They accept unimportant video chats, the majority from Robbie. Cat gets distracted by the special effects of the video chat, Andre gets distracted by his deranged grandmother, and Beck becomes distracted by Jade when she wrongly suspects he is cheating on her with the cheerleader whose dog he is pet-sitting. They are all off chat at the end, leaving Tori to finish the assignment herself. Meanwhile, Trina runs into Perez Hilton in first class and steals his camera so she can "return it," hoping it will make her famous.

"Beck's Big Break"

Beck has a small role in a movie starring Melinda Murray, a famous actress, and invites the gang to an open casting call as extras. Tori accidentally gets Beck fired when she stands up for him during filming, so she tries to get his spot in the movie back for him. Meanwhile, Robbie starts to have strange nightmares about Rex. He turns to Lane, the school guidance counselor, for help.

"The Great Ping-Pong Scam"

Tori becomes suspicious when her friends start avoiding her. They tell her that they are members of the school's ping-pong team, but Tori finds out that they are just using the team's funds from the school to eat at a fancy restaurant, and she wants in. At the restaurant, Robbie orders a bowl of expensive caviar that he likes, causing them to have to pay a lot more money than they have. Tori decides to perform live to cover the expenses.

"Cat's New Boyfriend"

Cat starts going out with Tori's ex-boyfriend from her old school, Daniel. Tori pretends to be okay with it, but ends up becoming very jealous. Her jealousy comes to a head when she fiddles with the cheese fountain, covering the couple in hot cheese, and later kisses Daniel, which Cat witnesses, putting her in a predicament. When Tori finally apologizes, Cat takes her advice seriously of punching her in the face. While Cat forgives Tori and feels remorseful for the punch, Tori says it was justified, and they finally make up. Meanwhile, Trina starts selling doctor fish treatment at her house and Andre, Beck, Jade and Robbie all accept, only for it to turn out the fish are diseased, making them all sick.

"Freak the Freak Out"

Tori is left to care for Trina, who recently had her wisdom teeth yanked out and proves to a very difficult, while their parents are spending the weekend in Santa Barbara as an excuse to not look after Trina themselves. Meanwhile, Jade and Cat perform in a karaoke club against two other arrogant girls, Hayley Ferguson and Tara Ganz. Despite having mediocre singing skills, the girls win because Hayley's father is the owner of the rigged club. After confronting the girls about this, the duo are unfairly banned from singing there again. Determined to get back at them, Jade tricks Andre, Robbie and Beck to stay and take care of Trina while taking Beck's car keys to drive her, Tori and Cat to the club for a rematch. Jade and Cat offer a challenge – Hayley and Tara get to pick someone from the audience to sing against them and if the person wins by a crowd vote then they have to babysit Trina, but if Hayley and Tara win then they can make out with Beck (offered by Cat, much to Jade's dismay). They pick Tori (disguised as an ugly girl). Tori sings "Freak the Freak Out" and, at the same time, removes her disguise. Tori wins over the crowd quickly, easily beating the girls. Meanwhile, Robbie and Sinjin are tricked by two Northridge girls who steal their things. In the end, Sikowitz sings a song and receives applause while Hayley and Tara are stuck trying to babysit Trina.

"Rex Dies"

Tori is in charge of creating a fake tornado in a play that Robbie is in by using a machine that blows and sucks. Andre shows Tori how it works, but she leaves the switch on suck. Tori watches Rex while Robbie goes to change because Rex laughs at him. Tori sets him down and plays with the machine, but does not notice the switch is still on suck while Robbie is changing. Tori accidentally sucks Rex in the machine, badly damaging him. Concerned about Robbie's mental health, Jade convinces the others to fake Rex's death at the hospital so Robbie can move on and live a normal life. The doctor agrees on the condition that Tori dates the doctor's loser son, Lendle, but Tori tricks Trina into doing it. While at the hospital, Cat is sent to the mental ward by the receptionist, who believe she may have mental health issues, and the doctors become concerned for her and send for a specialist to diagnose her.

"The Diddly-Bops"

Tori and her friends are booked to perform at a little kid's birthday party as a favor for Sikowitz's friend. Also, Andre gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets a call from a record producer he met who says he is interested in signing him to a record deal. But his chances of getting signed are in jeopardy when a video of their birthday party performance is leaked on the internet. So, in order to get his big break, he rewrites the kids' song into a love song and performs it with Tori live for the school.

"Wok Star"

Jade writes her own play called "Well Wishes," but the school will not let her perform it at school due to its content. Tori helps Jade produce it themselves with the help of Mrs. Lee, the owner of Tori's favorite Chinese restaurant Wok Star, who volunteers to pay to produce Jade's play. But things get complicated when Mrs. Lee makes drastic changes to the script, and wants to put her daughter, Daisy, in the play. After finding out that Jade's father will be at the showing, Tori tries to find a way to work things out for her. They work out a way to prevent Mrs. Lee from coming to see the play, so that Jade can put on "Well Wishes" the way that she had intended to. Trina poses as a celebrity by the name of 'Jackie Bonet' to keep the celebrity obsessed Mrs. Lee occupied, effectively leading to her missing the play.

"The Wood"

Tori, Andre, Beck and Jade are excited to hear that they will be the stars of a new reality show called "The Wood" being filmed at Hollywood Arts. After the producers decide to edit together two separate phone calls making it look like Tori and Beck are dating behind Jade's back, they find out that the producers just want drama even if it is fake. So the group decide to stage the drama for the show. Meanwhile, Robbie and Trina have to work the Grub Truck after injuring Festus, but running it is harder than they first expected.

"A Film by Dale Squires"

The group is excited to find out that they get to work on a film being directed by Dale Squires. But he turns out to be lazy during the project, leaving them to do all the work. After he takes all the credit for the film, they plot revenge, only to discover that Squires regrets getting all the credit. Meanwhile, Beck and Robbie work on Robbie's new convertible, and Robbie tries to get the attention of girls that come to watch Beck fix the car.

"Sleepover at Sikowitz's"

Sikowitz invites Tori and her friends over to his house to teach them a lesson on method acting; however if one of them breaks character, they will be banished from Sikowitz's house. Meanwhile, at the Vega residence, Mr. and Mrs. Vega (Tori and Trina's parents) try to celebrate their anniversary by watching a sad and romantic movie. But Robbie is first to be banished from Sikowitz's, so he takes a trip to the Vega house and disturbs their romantic evening. Robbie also invites Cat, Andre, and Jade over to watch the movie with him when they eventually break character. In the end, after an extremely close match between Tori and Beck well into the night, Tori becomes the winner the next morning as she does not break character.