document_title: List of Victorious episodes

question_text: how many episodes in season 3 of victorious

text: List of Victorious episodes

text: Series overview[edit]

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Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
19
March 27, 2010 (2010-03-27)
March 26, 2011 (2011-03-26)

2
13
April 2, 2011 (2011-04-02)
December 26, 2011 (2011-12-26)

3
12
January 28, 2012 (2012-01-28)[2]
June 30, 2012 (2012-06-30)

4
13[3]
September 22, 2012 (2012-09-22)[4]
February 2, 2013 (2013-02-02)[5]

text: Episode list[edit]

text: Season 1 (2010–11)[edit]

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No.
overall
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season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
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code [6]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"Pilot"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider
March 27, 2010 (2010-03-27)
101
5.7[7]

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. When Trina's tongue gets swollen and she can't do the singing, Tori's new friend Andre Harris (Leon Thomas III), 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), a shy awkward nerdy student who speaks through his dummy Rex, the handsome Beck Oliver (Avan Jogia), and his mean girlfriend Jade West (Elizabeth Gillies). After accidentally spilling coffee on Beck (and wiping his shirt), Tori finds herself at the wrath of Jade, who thinks that Tori was flirting with Beck. Jade does an improv scene with Tori, letting Tori be a dog and then starts commenting on what a horrible actress she is. She then finds 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 or even belongs at Hollywood Arts. At the insistence of Trina, (who doesn't want to be known as the "freaky girl whose younger sister quit on her first day") and Andre, who tells 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.
Song featured: "Make It Shine" (performed by Victoria Justice), which becomes the series' theme song.

2
2
"The Bird Scene"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider
April 11, 2010 (2010-04-11)
102
3.5[8]

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 Sikowitz, she must master a monologue known as "The Bird Scene" before she can be involved in any school production. Despite her many efforts at it, she fails consistently. She again does "The Bird Scene" and states that she is proud of her work. The secret of "The Bird Scene" was to be proud of one's acting style, which she had been failing to show, and she passes. As well as this, she must also think of a creative and meaningful way to decorate her locker, which is Hollywood Arts tradition. After thinking for days, she decided to decorate her locker with the words "Make It Shine," and lighting them up, as that was the song that she sang that got her into Hollywood Arts. Meanwhile, Andre and Robbie sign up for ballet class as a way to meet girls, but find out they were not the only males with the same idea. They attend the class only to see a bunch of men and want to drop out of ballet. But they must continue the class unless they want to fail the semester. But then, a young girl joins the class to teach, and the boys go crazy about her.

3
3
"Stage Fighting"
Steve Hoefer
George Doty IV
April 18, 2010 (2010-04-18)
103
3.3[9]

Tori finds Beck and a guy named Russ supposedly fighting and tries to intervene. 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, gets a black eye. Consequently, Tori is given a punishment of cleaning the theater after a food fight scene. However, during an altercation between other students the boys poured a cup of ice in the girl's tucked-in shirt she tries to get back at them by throw a cup of water at them but the boys got out of the way and Jade ends up getting wet. As she tries to run off and hide, Andre finds her and discovers that she actually used fake blood and makeup to fake her injury. After this, Jade begins to feel guilty, especially when learning that Tori refuses to tell the truth on her, and she helps Tori clean a little bit and ditch the security guard watching her to clean the hall.

4
4
"The Birthweek Song"
Adam Weissman
Jake Farrow
April 25, 2010 (2010-04-25)
107
3.2[10]

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 song for $500 to a record label, which then invites Trina to record the song, even though she is not the singer on the version they heard. And they realize this 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.
Song featured: "You're the Reason" by Victoria Justice
Guest star: Renée Taylor as Mamaw, Robbie's grandmother.
Absent: Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver.

5
5
"Jade Dumps Beck"
Steve Hoefer
Matt Fleckenstein
May 2, 2010 (2010-05-02)
106
3.3[11]

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 isn't 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've dated. When remembering Beck wants a dog, Jade and Tori bring one to his RV, only for it to attack his father who was sleeping inside. After this, 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.
Absent: Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine.

6
6
"Tori the Zombie"
Russ Reinsel
Dan Schneider
May 8, 2010 (2010-05-08)
105
4.1[12]

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. In 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.
Song featured: "Finally Falling"
Guest stars: Adam Gouldbergh as Murray, the director and Rachel Quinance as Sophia Michele, playwright.

7
7
"Robarazzi"
Steve Hoefer
Arthur Gradstein
June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04)
108
6.0[13]

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 are about making fun of them. His blog becomes a hit, much to his friend's 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 finds another blog that will keep his blog on TheSlap about low fat recipes. Meanwhile, Cat becomes obsessed with purchasing odd things from a catalog called "The Sky Store". Her friends feel that she needs to slow down the purchasing.
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega.

8
8
"Survival of the Hottest"
Russ Reinsel
Dan Schneider
June 26, 2010 (2010-06-26)
117
3.8[14]

When a heat wave hits Southern California, Tori Vega (Victoria Justice), Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande), Trina, Andre, Robbie, Rex, Beck, and Jade decide to go to cool off at Venice Beach, near to Los Angeles, California. 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 left to use the toilet, 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), one of the four hot guys, the group of 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.

9
9
"Wi-Fi in the Sky"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider
August 27, 2010 (2010-08-27)
118
3.6[15]

Tori and Trina's flight home gets delayed, so Tori uses web conferencing 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 by many other things around them. They accept unimportant video chats, the majority from Robbie. Cat distracted by effects of the video chat available. Andre gets distracted by his demented grandmother, and Beck gets distracted by his girlfriend Jade. They are all off chat at the end and Tori is left 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.
Special guest star: Perez Hilton as himself.

10
10
"Beck's Big Break"
David Kendall
Arthur Gradstein
September 25, 2010 (2010-09-25)
104
N/A

Beck has a small role in a movie starring Melinda Murray, a famous actress, and invites his friends to an open casting call for 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, so he turns to Lane, the school guidance counselor, for help.
Guest star: Ellen Hollman as Melinda Murray.
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega.

11
11
"The Great Ping-Pong Scam"
Steve Hoefer
Matt Fleckenstein
October 1, 2010 (2010-10-01)
115
N/A

Tori becomes suspicious when her friends start avoiding her. After finding out that they are all members of the school's "ping-pong team", she also finds out that they are using the team's funds that they get from the school to eat at a very fancy expensive restaurant, and she wants in. At the restaurant, Robbie orders a bowl of expensive caviar that he likes which causes them to pay a lot more money that they have. In the end, Tori and Andre perform live to get out of paying for the dip.
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega.

12
12
"Cat's New Boyfriend"
Adam Weissman
Arthur Gradstein
October 8, 2010 (2010-10-08)
112
2.9[16]

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 kisses Daniel, which Cat witnesses, putting her in a predicament. 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.
Guest star: Matt Angel as Daniel.

13
13
"Freak the Freak Out"[17]
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider
November 26, 2010 (2010-11-26)
119–120
5.3[18]

Tori's parents head out for the weekend, leaving Tori to care for Trina who recently had her wisdom teeth pulled out, who proves to be a handful. Meanwhile, Jade and Cat perform in a karaoke club against two other girls, Hayley Ferguson and Tara Ganz. Despite having mediocre singing skills, the girls win because Hayley's father is the owner of the club. After confronting the girls about this, the group is 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, meanwhile, 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.
Song featured: "Number One", "Give it Up" and "Freak the Freak Out"
Note: This is the first one-hour special, but in the U.K. this episode aired in two different parts, while the U.S. and other countries aired the whole episode as one.
Guest stars: Jillian Clare as Hayley Ferguson, Jamie Snow as Tara Ganz & Tom Virtue as Joey Ferguson.

14
14
"Rex Dies"
Russ Reinsel
Jake Farrow
January 8, 2011 (2011-01-08)
110
4.2[19]

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 doesn't notice the switch is still on suck while Robbie is changing. Tori accidentally sucks Rex in the machine, badly damaging him. The gang take him to a doctor and tell him to pretend Rex dies so Robbie can get over using a puppet in his daily life and move on. The doctor does it for one favor: Tori has to date the doctor's loser son, Lendal, but Tori tricks Trina into doing it. While at the hospital for Rex, Cat is sent to the mental ward by the receptionist, who believe she may be mental, and the doctors become concerned for her and send for a specialist to diagnosis her.

15
15
"The Diddly-Bops"
Steve Hoefer
Matt Fleckenstein
January 17, 2011 (2011-01-17)
111
3.5[20]

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 performs a song with Tori live for the school.
Song featured: "Favorite Food" and "Song 2 You"

16
16
"Wok Star"
Adam Weissman
Jake Farrow
January 17, 2011 (2011-01-17)
116
3.6[20]

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.
Guest stars: Susan Chuang as Mrs. Lee & Jade-Lianna Peters as Daisy.

17
17
"The Wood"
David Kendall
Dan Schneider
February 5, 2011 (2011-02-05)
114
4.4[21]

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's 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.
Absent: Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine

18
18
"A Film by Dale Squires"
Adam Weissman
George Doty IV
March 5, 2011 (2011-03-05)
109
3.5[22]

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.
Guest star: Stephen Lunsford as Dale Squires.

19
19
"Sleepover at Sikowitz's"
Russ Reinsel
George Doty IV
March 26, 2011 (2011-03-26)
113
4.1[23]

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. Trina is not in this episode, but it is Mr and Mrs Vega's (Tori and Trina's parents) anniversary. Robbie is first to be banished, so he takes a trip over to their house and disturbs their romantic evening. Robbie also invites Jade, Cat, Sikowitz's nephew, and other people round to watch the movie with him when they gradually begin to break character. In the end, Tori is the winner as she doesn't break character.
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega.

text: Season 2 (2011)[edit]

text: A 90-minute iCarly crossover special, "iParty with Victorious", aired on June 11, 2011. Despite it being a crossover episode, it is an iCarly-produced episode instead of a Victorious episode.

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code [6]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

20
1
"Beggin' on Your Knees"
Steve Hoefer
Jake Farrow
April 2, 2011 (2011-04-02)
209
6.2[24]

Ryder Daniels, a popular Senior, asks Tori out. Robbie also tries to attracts girls only to get rejected each time. Tori invites Ryder to her house and Robbie spies on them as he wants to attract girls like Ryder does. However, Ryder leaves the house angry as Tori goes through his phone at Trina's idea. The next day, Ryder forgives Tori, and Robbie comes in dressed like Ryder. Soon after this, though, Tori finds out that Ryder uses girls to get good grades and dumps them afterwards, so she gets revenge on him and sings "Beggin' on Your Knees".
Guest star: Ryan Rottman as Ryder Daniels.
Song featured: "Beggin' on Your Knees".

21
2
"Beck Falls for Tori"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider
April 16, 2011 (2011-04-16)
201
3.9[25]

Sikowitz gets Tori an audition for an upcoming movie. Although she does not get the part, she is instead cast as a stunt double after lying on her résumé and because she looks like the lead actress. Tori must now perform a stunt involving jumping 40 feet off a platform, or risk getting blackballed in Hollywood. She is too frightened to do it and she keeps stalling, so Beck dresses up as Tori to pretend that he is her and does the fall instead. At the end, Tori decides she does want to do the fall to prove she is not a wimp, but she gets scared again, so Jade pushes her off making her fall down. Meanwhile, Cat dresses up in random costumes that she made in her costume design class.
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega

22
3
"Ice Cream for Ke$ha"
Adam Weissman
Arthur Gradstein
April 22, 2011 (2011-04-22)
210
4.0[26]

When Tori is stuck being Trina's assistant after losing a bet they made when they were little kids, she and her friends try to win a private concert from Ke$ha by finding all the letters to Ke$ha under ice cream cartons as a way to free Tori from Trina. They have all the letters except for the $ in Ke$ha so they get it from a little boy, but he says that Tori, Cat, and Jade must kiss him, and he has to be invited to the Ke$ha concert. In the end, Tori locks the little boy outside her home during the concert, but Trina who, feeling sympathy for him, offers him to kiss her, to which he replies "gross" and promptly leaves.
Special guest star: Ke$ha as herself
Guest star: Louie Sebert as Kid.

23
4
"Tori Gets Stuck"
Russ Reinsel
Jake Farrow
May 14, 2011 (2011-05-14)
205
4.2[27]

Tori and Jade compete with each other for the lead role in a play called "Steamboat Suzy." Tori wins the lead, with Jade as her understudy. But when Robbie is rushed to the hospital, Tori jeopardizes her role to give him blood. Jade wants to play the lead, so makes relentless attempts to keep Tori from showing up for the play. Meanwhile, Trina practices her hacking and coughing for the role of a sick girl in the play, but ends up getting tuberculosis after going with Tori to the hospital.
Absent: Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver.

24
5
"Prom Wrecker"
Adam Weissman
Matt Fleckenstein
May 21, 2011 (2011-05-21)
211
3.6[28]

Tori decides to throw a prom at Hollywood Arts. Jade is furious to find out that Tori booked the prom on the same night as her art project and refuses to switch it, so she decides to ruin the prom as revenge. Robbie thinks Cat is lying about having a date to the prom after she turns him down. Trina asks Sinjin to rig the prom queen election so she can win, while in turn she promises to be his date to the prom. Andre's new kissing-obsessed girlfriend is driving him crazy.
Guest star: Tristin Mays as Sherry.
Absent: Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver.
Song featured: "Best Friend's Brother"

25
6
"Locked Up!"[29]
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider
July 30, 2011 (2011-07-30)
203–204
5.2[30]

Tori and the gang are offered a week-long trip to Festus' home country of Yerba to perform as evening entertainment for the hotel. Unexpectedly, the chancellor of Yerba comes to see their performance and in the middle of the song, Tori's shoe flies out and accidentally hits the chancellor's eye, which causes him to go blind. This makes Tori serve a four year prison sentence for assault. While Tori is in prison, her friends go to the chancellor's office and ask for Tori to be freed. The chancellor agrees, but then Robbie accidentally kills the chancellor's octopus, which causes them all to be sent to prison. Sikowitz, however, escapes, then later breaks into the prison in disguise as a guard with a plan to break them all out. Tori and the other prisoners sing a song and at the end of the performance, they all escape.
Song featured: "All I Want is Everything" and "I Want You Back".
Note: This is the second one-hour special, but in the U.K. and Ireland this episode aired in two different parts, while the U.S. and other countries aired the whole episode as one.

26
7
"Helen Back Again"
Russ Reinsel
Arthur Gradstein
September 10, 2011 (2011-09-10)
202
4.4[31]

Principal Eikner resigns as principal of Hollywood Arts. Helen (from Drake & Josh) is hired as the new principal and decides to have every student re-audition in order for them to stay in the school. Despite a stellar audition with Andre, Tori is rejected, and the group tries to find a way to change Helen's mind about rejecting Tori. As it turns out, Helen's assistant mistakenly swapped Tori and Trina's names, so it was actually Trina who failed the audition. Tori then tries to get Helen to accept Trina into Hollywood Arts, and when Helen refuses, Tori asks Robbie to pretend to be a robber to 'rob' Helen in the school. She also plans for Trina to be there so Trina can 'defend' Helen against the 'robber' with her karate skills. In the end, this plans works and Trina gets accepted back into Hollywood Arts.
Special guest star: Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen.

27
8
"Who Did It to Trina?"
Adam Weissman
Dan Schneider
September 17, 2011 (2011-09-17)
208
4.7[32]

Tori directs a play and is forced to cast Trina as the lead when she blackmails her. On opening night, Trina's harness breaks and she falls, and the set crashes down on her. Questions then arise about whether the mishap was truly an accident, or intentional. Lane finds out that the harness on her gimbal had been cut, and calls Jade, Andre, Tori, Cat, Robbie and Rex into his office to try to figure out what really happened. In the end, it is revealed that Rex did it as revenge for Trina whacking him in his face earlier in the episode.
Absent: Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver.

28
9
"Tori Tortures Teacher"
Russ Reinsel
Matt Fleckenstein
October 1, 2011 (2011-10-01)
206
3.8[33]

It is Sikowitz's 10th anniversary teaching at Hollywood Arts, and Tori and the gang celebrate by taking him to a play. But things go awry when Sikowitz becomes depressed after watching the play, and Tori feels guilty and tries to fix it. Meanwhile, Trina tries to impress a boy she likes by pretending to be a pizza delivery girl, and Beck and Jade are text-fighting.

29
10
"Jade Gets Crushed"
Clayton Boen
Dan Schneider
October 8, 2011 (2011-10-08)
207
3.4[34]

Andre develops a crush on Jade after they work together on a song and hearing her sing, and Tori tries to help him get over it. Also, Robbie tries to help Tori prepare for the Tech Theater exam she must take and pass in order to take an R&B singing class, and Cat becomes obsessed with Jupiter boots.
Song featured: "365 Days"
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega.

30
11
"Terror on Cupcake Street"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider
October 15, 2011 (2011-10-15)
212
3.4[35]

Sikowitz gets Tori and the gang to build a float for a parade that his new girlfriend is planning. After finishing the float, the group is stranded in a dangerous part of town when the float gets a flat tire on the way to the parade. They then must try to find a way to fix the flat tire and find a way out of the town.

31
12
"A Christmas Tori"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
December 3, 2011 (2011-12-03)
301
4.4[36]

It is Christmas time at Hollywood Arts and Sikowitz assigns the gang as Secret Santas to one another in order to get them into the Christmas Spirit. The person who gives the worst gift will be forced to go "Christmas Yodeling" with Sikowitz on Christmas Eve. Tori struggles to find the perfect gift for Andre after finding out she is his Secret Santa. Meanwhile, Trina enlists Robbie's help to decorate her giant Christmas tree, and Beck loses sleep due to a pesky cricket in his RV. Also Andre becomes a Christmas "Scrooge" after getting a D on a song he wrote for his creative music class. Robbie gets Cat a candyfloss making machine, which she gets excited about because it comes with a man. She gives Robbie a kiss on the cheek then excitedly rushes away. For Beck's Christmas present, Andre catches the cricket, stating the fact that they apparently like peanut butter. At the end of the episode Andre gets an A thanks to Tori, Cat and Jade singing his song which he wrote for his creative music class.
Song featured: "It's Not Christmas Without You"
Note: This episode has a season 3 production code, and the opening sequence for that season.

32
13
"Blooptorious"
Russ Reinsel
Darren Thomas, Stefanie Ledar,
Erica Spates & Sam Littenburg-Weisberg
December 26, 2011 (2011-12-26)
213
N/A

This episode features interviews, bloopers, and outtakes of the entire cast since the series began. The show is hosted and narrated by "Christopher Cane", a ventriloquist's dummy, who introduces himself as the actor who portrays "Rex".

text: Season 3 (2012)[edit]

text: This season began filming in October 2011,[37] with filming wrapping on June 30, 2012.[38] The later half of the season began being shot back-to-back with the final season of iCarly which began production in January.[39][40]

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No.
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season
Title
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Original air date
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code [6]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

33
1
"The Breakfast Bunch"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Jake Farrow
January 28, 2012 (2012-01-28)
302[6]
3.9[41]

This episode was a loose parody of the 1985 film The Breakfast Club. After arriving late for class because of Robbie choking on a pretzel, the gang (especially Trina) has to spend a Saturday in detention. During the episode there are a lot of references to the movie, such as the phrases, the dancing scenes and the chasing in the hallway. A lot of the inappropriate dialogue and scenes are changed, such as the drug use (in the episode, taco eating is substituted) and the questions about virginity (in the episode they are about veganism).
Special guest star: Rob Riggle as Vice Principal Dickers.
Song featured: "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by the Victorious cast.

34
2
"The Gorilla Club"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
February 4, 2012 (2012-02-04)
307[6]
3.6[42]

When Tori rehearses her audition for a movie, Sikowitz and Cat are unimpressed by her performance. After she is told she needs to take risks, the gang suggests The Gorilla Club, a dangerous underground club with life-threatening activities which include taking on an actual wild gorilla. Jade makes a bet with Andre and Robbie that if they lose they must do the "Hammer Dance" every time Jade tells them to do it. After they lose, Andre and Robbie are forced to do the dance at very inopportune and embarrassing moments, much to her amusement.

35
3
"The Worst Couple"
Adam Weissman
Dan Schneider & Matt Fleckenstein
February 11, 2012 (2012-02-11)
303[6]
3.4[43]

Sinjin enlists the gang to help him out with his game show, Queries for Couples. He pairs Tori with Robbie, Andre with Cat, and Beck with Jade (the only actual couple). During the game show, Beck and Jade discover that they are unhappy with their relationship. As a result, Tori, Andre, Robbie, and Cat have decided to hang out without them. This forces Jade and Beck to decide whether or not they should remain a couple. Meanwhile, Tori puts up with her heavily-battered phone while waiting for the release of a new phone model. Robbie thinks he and Tori are a couple after being paired together on Sinjin's game show.

36
4
"Andre's Horrible Girl"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
February 18, 2012 (2012-02-18)
304[6]
3.5[44]

Tori notices that Andre's new girlfriend Hope is unfriendly and worries that he is changing to please her. He tells her that he is only dating her because her dad is a famous record producer. Andre wants to break up with her because he knows it is wrong, but does not want to miss the chance to perform at her birthday in front of her dad. After her breakup with Beck, Jade decides to help Cat dog-sit her mother's boss' dog. Things go awry when Jade accidentally damages the boss' guitar autographed by Elvis Presley, which leads them to turn to Robbie and Beck for help.
Guest stars: Meagan Holder as Hope Quincy and Susan Chuang as Mrs. Lee.
Song featured: "Countdown" by Leon Thomas and Victoria Justice

37
5
"Car, Rain, and Fire"
Russ Reinsel
Dan Schneider & Jake Farrow
February 25, 2012 (2012-02-25)
305[6]
3.7[45]

Cat hears her favorite actress Mona Patterson died and wants to honor her, taking Tori and Jade go on a road trip to San Diego. While on their journey, Tori, Cat, and Jade experience many mishaps and things do not go the way they planned. When Tori, Cat and Jade arrive at Mona's house, they learn that Mona wasn't dead, but rather she is going to act in a TV show called "The Dead." Rudely, Mona chases the girls away from her house using a water gun. Later that night, Tori and Cat learn that Mona Patterson's house caught fire from the candle that Cat lit in front of Mona's house, and Mona was sent to the hospital. Due to over inhalation of smoke, Mona Patterson recalls that the candle was related to "a cat with red fur". Meanwhile, Trina has been spreading rumors that Beck asked her out. To get back at her, Beck, Andre and Robbie pretend to all want to date Trina, in an attempt to teach her a lesson about telling lies.
Special guest star: Shirley Jones as Mona Patterson.

38
6
"Tori & Jade's Playdate"
Adam Weissman
Dan Schneider & Matt Fleckenstein
March 3, 2012 (2012-03-03)
306[6]
4.2[46]

Tori and Jade are cast in a play as a married couple, a task that challenges their acting skills and lack of friendship. Sikowitz sends them on a date at Nozu to bond. There, they meet two boys who hit on them and can't take a hint they aren't interested. They sing a song during karaoke to try to get rid of them. Later, the boys show up at the play, and Tori and Jade make a run for it. Elsewhere, Cat and Robbie embark on a business venture in which they tell people negative news by singing to them in an upbeat manner. Unfortunately, Trina does not take her bad news well and smashes Robbie's guitar and their business ends.
Note: In the U.K., this episode used the season 2 opening titles, instead of season 3.
Song featured: "Take A Hint" by Victoria Justice and Elizabeth Gillies

39
7
"April Fools Blank"
Russ Reinsel
Dan Schneider & Matt Fleckenstein
March 24, 2012 (2012-03-24)
311[6]

When April Fool's Day comes to Hollywood Arts, Tori spends her day expecting creative pranks and practical jokes, but is completely oblivious to a series of absurd events and crazy happenings around her.
Special guest stars: Dennis Haskins as Mr. Belding, Drake Bell as himself and Jerry Trainor as Spencer Shay.
Guest stars: The Dancing Lobsters as themselves.
Song featured: "Shut up & Dance" by the Victorious Cast
Note: This episode featured different opening credits. The episode includes references to Saved by the Bell, The Amanda Show, iCarly, Match Game, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz and Saturday Night Live.

40
8
"Driving Tori Crazy"
Russ Reinsel
Dan Schneider & Matt Fleckenstein
April 14, 2012 (2012-04-14)
308[47]
3.2[48]

A movie shoot down the street from Tori's house causes her and Trina to take the long way to school, but after shaving Trina's legs and her armpit she does not want to drive for 40 minutes to school with her anymore. Riding with Beck, a bunch of other obnoxious girls are in the car and Tori gets in a fight with them. With Andre, his grandma causes trouble. With Robbie, he really rides his bike but ends up going very slow. And Jade tries to drive Tori into "Shadow Creek Woods", but Tori jumps out of the car before they enter. After, she walks 11 miles to school and was chased by a beaver. Meanwhile, Cat uses a new app called "Tap It!", which is an online coupon sending company. She finds a deal where a party bus can take Tori to school for 90% off. When the teens are in the bus, they find out that their driver is "Dr. Rhapsody", a rapper from the 90's. The episode ends with Dr. Rhapsody puts on his only hit single "Five Fingaz (To The Face)" and the group sings the karaoke version.
Song featured: "Five Fingaz (To The Face)"
Guest stars: Sloane Avery as Kimberly, Marcus Folmar as Dr. Rhapsody.

41
9
"How Trina Got In"
Russ Reinsel
Dan Schneider & Christopher J. Nowak
May 5, 2012 (2012-05-05)
309[49]
2.4[50]

Tall tales are told about Trina and how she gained admission to Hollywood Arts. Andre says that it is because Trina did have talent back then, but Sinjin accidentally hits her with a stage light, knocking the talent out of her. Jade says that when she did her terrible singing, the staff said no, but then Trina threw a gas bomb, making them pass out (except for her because she wore a gas mask). Trina checks yes for each clipboard, followed by the staff not remembering this. Beck says that when Trina sang terribly, the staff said no. Trina set up another deal by putting up a fighting challenge for the staff, and if she wins, she would get in. The true reason on how Trina got in is revealed by Sikowitz, who says that when the rest of the staff ran to get Sinjin's head unstuck from the soda machine, he watched Trina's audition himself. He had drank rotten coconut milk, which made him hallucinate and see Trina doing talented and funny stuff, and Sikowitz let her in. Meanwhile, Robbie forgets his wallet in his locker and is unable to pay the bill after a meal at Nozu, and Tori and him have to work at Nozu to pay the bill off. They cannot get out because of Kwakoo, one of Nozu's tough workers. All three of them chop 17 pounds of squid. When they try to leave, Robbie accidentally breaks a pile of dishes, and he has to stay and massage Kwakoo's feet.
Guest star: Susan Chuang as Mrs. Lee.

42
10
"Tori Goes Platinum"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Christopher J. Nowak
May 19, 2012 (2012-05-19)
315–316[51]
3.8[52]

Tori wins a contest to sing the opening number at the Platinum Music Awards. The show's producer, Mason Thornesmith, and his team want to re-invent her look and personality for publicity. Tori has to dress crazy and act mean, and she is not allowed to tell anyone about this, not even her friends and family, or she won't be allowed to perform. Her friends at school are shocked by it, and it becomes a problem for Tori when everyone believes she is letting the fame get to her head. Eventually, Beck finds out about Tori's secret by himself because he knows that Tori would not change so much on purpose. Beck and Tori almost kiss before being interrupted by Mrs. Vega, but Tori ends up telling Mason and the producers that she cannot take it anymore, which results in Mason not letting her appear in the Platinum Music Awards. They give Jade the chance instead, when Mason recalls her from her audition which he approved of, and she accepts. After Cat accidentally leaves a video chat on, Jade sees Beck trying to kiss Tori, only for her to reject him and explain that she feels that kissing a friend's ex to be wrong. Later, Tori goes to meet Jade at the Boomerang Theatre to support her upcoming performance. Jade then lets Tori perform herself, finally making a friendship, while Jade goes into the audience to watch her. Even though Tori was fired, she performs "Make It In America", which Mason sees. He is annoyed at first since he had dismissed Tori, but eventually likes it when it proves to be a big hit.
Songs : "Make It In America" by Victoria Justice and "Cheer Me Up" by Victoria Justice
Note: This is a one-hour special.

43
11
"Crazy Ponnie"
Clayton Boen
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
June 9, 2012 (2012-06-09)
310[49]
2.6[53]

Tori is befriended by Ponnie, a new student, when meeting her eating lunch inside a bathroom stall. Ponnie, however, keeps disappearing around everyone else, making the Hollywood Arts students think that Tori is losing her mind. Ponnie turns out to be crazy. She runs away at lunchtime, stays away from class, gives Tori a creepy doll that resembles her, and impersonates a Chinese food delivery lady. Ponnie also dumps noodles on Tori's head. Tori talks to her mom about the problem, and they plan on calling the police. When Tori tries to get a can of juice, Ponnie grabs her, and then tells the truth – that her real name is Fawn Leibowitz, and before Tori went to Hollywood Arts, Ponnie was a student there, and she claims that they kicked her out because they wanted to make room for Tori. Once the police arrive and apprehend Ponnie, Sikowitz recognizes her and says that she got kicked out because she was crazy – she stole things, kept weird stuff in her backpack, and called people "Debbie". She is arrested and taken away. The secondary plot of this episode features Cat accidentally waxing Jade's eyebrows off and Jade chasing Cat around, trying to get back at her. When Cat falls asleep in study hall, Jade shaves all of Cat's hair off. Also, Trina keeps blowing her nose, which causes her tissues to have a lot of snot in them, and afterwards, she starts to get a fever. During the final 30 seconds, Tori and Trina get a drive home by a police officer, who, when the camera zooms into her face, is revealed to be Ponnie! This, however, is never mentioned in any episode thereafter.
Special guest star: Jennette McCurdy as Ponnie/Fawn Leibowitz.

44
12
"The Blonde Squad"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
June 30, 2012 (2012-06-30)
313[54]
3.8[55]

Tori, Jade, and Cat decide to go to Nozu after a day of filming Beck's new movie called "The Blonde Squad," but do not take off their blonde wigs and their blue contact lenses because Tori wants to know what it is like to be blonde. At Nozu, Cat meets a cute boy named Evan on her way to the bathroom. After talking to him for five hours, she forgets to tell him that she actually has red hair and brown eyes. Tori and Robbie tell her that she is beautiful, and when Cat talks to Robbie about Evan, Robbie gets jealous. During lunch, Jade checks Evan's SplashFace profile, and shows that all of his ex-girlfriends are blondes, revealing that he prefers blonde girls, and dislikes people not being themselves. Robbie has a sudden outburst and professes that Cat is adorable and any guy would be lucky to go out with her. On the night of the premiere of Beck's movie, Jade and Tori expect Cat to be herself, but Cat walks in to meet Evan wearing her blonde wig and blue contacts. During the movie, Andre's grandmother's pet bird lands on Cat's wig, and begins to shift it out of place. Beck pauses the movie as Cat runs out of the theater, followed by Tori and Robbie. Tori forces Cat to show her true self to Evan, convincing her that he will like her as herself. Cat then shows Evan her real hair color. Evan tells her she is beautiful, but he likes blondes and leaves her. Cat, heartbroken, does not appreciate Tori's advice, but Robbie performs his song "I Think You're Swell" to Cat in the end. However, she only responds by saying that maybe she should dye her hair blonde, which leaves Robbie exasperated. Meanwhile, Andre tries to capture his grandma's pet bird, Larry.
Guest stars: Max Carver as Evan Smith, Michael Eric Reid as Sinjin, Darsan Solomon as Burf.

text: Season 4 (2012–13)[edit]

text:
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Directed by
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45
1
"Wanko's Warehouse"
Adam Weissman
Dan Schneider & Christopher J. Nowak
September 22, 2012 (2012-09-22)
312
3.60[56]

The gang goes to Wanko's Warehouse for an 80%-off sale, but they find out it does not start until the next morning. Jade suggests that they all hide out in the store overnight so they can be the first ones there and avoid the long lines. However, the security system gets turned on, leaving them trapped in an aisle by laser beams. Robbie is able to get under the beams and tries to turn off the alarms, but stumbles upon two burglars. Meanwhile, Jade complains that she is hungry and Cat walks through the laser beams to get her a sandwich but accidentally sets off the alarm. They all run outside, covering their heads with tubs, and manage to get away unseen by the security cameras.
Note: Nickelodeon advertised this as the season premiere. In the U.K. and Ireland, this episode is called "The Warehouse".

46
2
"The Hambone King"
Russ Reinsel
Dan Schneider & Matt Fleckenstein
September 29, 2012 (2012-09-29)
314
2.39[57]

Robbie posts a video online spotlighting his rhythmic talent of hamboning, but Jarold, who claims to be the real hambone king sees it. He challenges Robbie and Robbie messes up and embarrasses himself. Later, Tori reveals that seven years ago she and Jarold hamboned together. Following this, Robbie asks Tori to coach him. During the competition, Jarold's friend throws sushi at Robbie, causing him to mess up. Tori decides to face Jarold and ends up winning and becoming the hambone queen. Meanwhile, Cat practices tap-dancing nonstop for an upcoming audition.

47
3
"Opposite Date"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
October 13, 2012 (2012-10-13)
317
3.65[58]

Tori, Beck, Andre and Robbie plan to go to a museum, but Andre and Robbie back out so they can make a video for a contest. Realizing that it will just be the two of them together, Tori and Beck decide they will go on an "opposite date" so people do not think they are really dating. However, Cat accidentally tells Jade about this and Jade gets upset. Pretending to be Cat, Jade calls Tori and finds out where they are. After eating gross seafood, Tori and Beck have to take Beck's aunt's dog to the vet. While there, they discuss how they are not really on a date, and people in the vet's office overhear. They start to ask Beck why he broke up with Jade and if he has feelings for Tori. Before he can really answer any of them, Jade and Cat walk in. She says she is not mad and Beck can hang out with whomever he wants. Beck and Jade smile at each other until they are interrupted by the vet. Meanwhile, Andre and Robbie make a video to win a new Pear Pad 3, but they fall while wearing giant pear costumes and cannot get up.
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega.

48
4
"Three Girls and a Moose"
David Kendall
Dan Schneider & Christopher J. Nowak
October 20, 2012 (2012-10-20)
319
3.24[59]

Beck, Andre, and Robbie are hosting a fundraiser at Karaoke Dokie to get a new guys' bathroom at Hollywood Arts, and the girls are supposed to help them. However, they get distracted when they meet Beck's Canadian friend Moose and all three of them begin to compete for his attention. Cat brings him hamburgers, Tori pretends to love hockey, and Jade talks to him about her favorite movie, The Scissoring. Despite their efforts, Moose tells them he is more into Canadian girls. Tori and Cat apologize to the guys for neglecting their fundraiser by performing the song "L.A. Boyz" for them. After their song, they wonder where Moose is, and it is revealed that he is in Jade's car kissing her.
Guest star: Brandon Jones as Moose.
Song featured: "L.A. Boyz" by Victoria Justice & Ariana Grande

49
5
"Cell Block"
Adam Weissman
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
November 24, 2012 (2012-11-24)
318
3.50[60]

Sikowitz gets frustrated when the students keep using their phones during rehearsal, so he challenges them to go one week without using modern-day technology. After Cat goes crazy without her phone, the boys realize the girls might make them lose the bet, so they turn it into a boys vs. girls challenge. Jade and Tori have to restrain Cat from using her phone, and they know winning will be very hard, so they try to trick the boys into losing the bet. However, it is unsuccessful. At their next rehearsal, Sikowitz gets angry at everyone and tells them to take their phones if they want to. The girls turn theirs on and the boys told them it was a trick and they lost the bet. Sikowitz said he was helping the boys all along because he is a guy and wanted his gender to win. As the boys shout and dance in victory, the girls realize how popular they were when seeing how many messages and followers they got while they went without the internet happily.
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega.

50
6
"Tori Fixes Beck and Jade"
David Kendall
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
December 1, 2012 (2012-12-01)
320
2.84[61]

A girl named Meredith wants to go out with Beck, but he is uncomfortable with it because he does not want to make Jade jealous. Tori decides to try to find Jade a date to even things out, but when recalling how intimidating Jade is, she and Andre pay a guy to ask her out. He gets scared and admits to Jade that Tori and Andre paid him to ask her out, leading them to hide in the janitor's closet. Furious, she finds and confronts them, but Beck stops her. When Tori explains why she was trying to find her a date, Jade tells Beck he can go out with whomever he wants because they are broken up. Beck takes Meredith to the Full Moon Jam only to find she agrees with everything he says, annoying him. He then tells Tori how he realizes that he wants a girl who "fights back" and can be a challenge to date because easy is "boring". Right after this, Jade performs a song and Beck watches her. After she is done, he goes on stage and admits that he has missed her. They then kiss and get back together. Meanwhile, Cat gets a butterfly that Robbie is "butterfly-sitting" lodged in her ear and Robbie has to find a way to get it out. The episode ends where Jade and Beck are officially a couple again and Robbie finally gets the butterfly out of Cat's ear.
Song featured: "You Don't Know Me" by Elizabeth Gillies

51
7
"One Thousand Berry Balls"
David Kendall
Dan Schneider & Dave Malkoff
December 8, 2012 (2012-12-08)
326
2.70[62]

Robbie wants Cat to be his date to an upcoming Hollywood Arts dance, but she avoids him. After Robbie and another girl go, Cat realizes her feelings for Robbie and becomes jealous. At the dance she tries to make Robbie jealous by dancing with Sinjin and ends up getting kicked in the head by him and goes unconscious. When she wakes up, they talk and Robbie makes his move and kisses her, resulting in her running away from him and riding off on her bike in a panic. The dance is the first social event that Beck and Jade attend since getting back together and Jade becomes stressed over it. The dance at Hollywood Arts is the "CoWow" which is a mix between a Hawaiian and Cowboy theme. Tori and Andre sing at the dance after being held up at Totally Yogurt giving away one thousand of their berry balls. As a result, Tori puts the berry balls in her hat because no one will try them.
Song featured: "Here's 2 Us"
Absent: Daniella Monet as Trina Vega

52
8
"Robbie Sells Rex"
Adam Weissman
Dan Schneider & Christopher J. Nowak
December 15, 2012 (2012-12-15)
321
3.55[63]

Mason Thornesmith's son offers to buy Robbie's puppet, Rex, for two thousand dollars. Robbie gives in and sells Rex, but ends up regretting his decision. Sikowitz has problems of his own when a young girl keeps harassing him, causing him to threaten to get her sent to juvie. Tori decides to distract the little boy by getting the girl to kiss him, making him forget about Rex and allowing Robbie to get him back, in exchange for Sikowitz dropping the charges against her. The plot works and Robbie now has $2,000 and Rex. Meanwhile, a masked person (a.k.a. The Flour Bomber) is throwing flour at people at Hollywood Arts and no one knows who he is. When Jade, Beck, Andre and Cat finally catch him, he turns out to be a stranger from another school.
Guest stars: Cole Jensen as Francis Thornesmith and Mackenzie Brooke Smith as Rhoda Hellberg.

53
9
"The Bad Roommate"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
January 5, 2013 (2013-01-05)
322
3.38[64]

Andre is tired of living with his crazy grandmother and he decides to bunk with Tori, but it does not turn out well. Later, it is also discovered that while Andre's grandmother drives him nuts, she is the main reason he's good at writing music. Tori and Andre get Kojeezy to buy their song, but he would only buy the song if it passed the "baby test", which the song fails the test because the baby cried. Meanwhile, a new app on the Pear Pad which shows satellite images displays a picture of Hollywood Arts, and Jade is in that picture looking like she is picking her nose when she was really scratching it. She plans on getting it re-taken when the satellite passes again, but the picture turns out even worse for her when Robbie falls on top of her, making it look like they're kissing.
Song featured: "Faster Than Boyz"
Guest star: Kool Kojak as Kojeezy.

54
10
"Brain Squeezers"
Clayton Boen
Dan Schneider & Warren Bell
January 12, 2013 (2013-01-12)
324
2.69[65]

Tori is selected to appear on a new game show called Brain Squeezers, and all her friends want to be on her team. Annoyed with them bugging her, she finally picks Andre, Beck, and Robbie. When she goes to the game show to sign in, she finds that Jade is already there, pretending to be Tori. Jade takes her teammates and Tori is left to play with Trina, Sinjin, and Cat. It turns out that the game show isn't as fun as they anticipated. Whenever someone gets a question wrong, they get "doinked" and have something sprayed at them or dropped on their head. After a while, when everyone is injured and unhappy, Tori's team wins $10,000. However, in order to take home the money, Tori has to grab it while a sumo wrestler is holding her down. She is unable to do it, and no one wins the money.
Guest star: WWE wrestler Rikishi as a sumo wrestler.

55
11
"The Slap Fight"
Steve Hoefer
Dan Schneider & Christopher J. Nowak
January 19, 2013 (2013-01-19)
327
2.73[66]

Tori finds out that Trina has 977 followers to her 314 on TheSlap.com. Tori tells the gang about Trina. Right afterwards, the gang starts to post random stuff to get more followers on TheSlap. Their posts include Cat writing everything she does, Jade trying to scare people by screaming at them to follow her, Beck washing his car in a tank top, Robbie getting a makeover, and Tori trying to do a hard challenge. Sinjin finally tells them how Trina got 977 followers, explaining that three months ago he hacked into TheSlap server and changed her number of followers (which was actually 34) to 977 for learning how to jump-rope. He also tells them he finds them ridiculous, as they are the most popular students at Hollywood Arts, have a lot of friends and that its stupid to be worried about how many followers you have. The gang realize he is right and feel ashamed. The final scene shows Trina and Sinjin jump-roping, but he annoys her and Trina leaves.
Note: In production, this was the last Victorious episode ever filmed.

56
12
"Star-Spangled Tori"
Adam Weissman
Dan Schneider & Christopher J. Nowak
January 26, 2013 (2013-01-26)
325
3.01[67]

Tori worries she will forget the lyrics when she is invited to sing the National Anthem at a televised basketball game. But Tori really needs to worry about being dragged across the floor by the team's mascot, a St. Bernard. A talk-show host named Chris Burm feels sympathy for Tori and lets her come and sing on his show. But then he reveals (to the audience) that he is going to pull a prank on Tori. Beck and Andre save Tori from humiliation, by reversing the prank on the host. Meanwhile Jade and Robbie find out that Cat has been acting weird and disappearing every night. They find her living at the tiny attic of the blackbox theater in school because her parents are with her brother in Idaho in some special hospital/rehab. Jade calls her parents, who say her Nona is in Venice, California and suggests that Cat move into her Nona's home instead, thus setting up half the stage for the upcoming, Sam & Cat.¨
Song featured: "Bad Boys" by Victoria Justice

57
13
"Victori-Yes"
David Kendall
Dan Schneider & Christopher J. Nowak
February 2, 2013 (2013-02-02)
323
2.89[68]

Sikowitz makes a bet for the gang to say yes to everything and anything for a day, as long as it doesn't involve people getting hurt. Robbie and Cat have to say yes to giving up their clothes to some men on the street (They end up hiding behind garbage cans). Beck tries to trick Jade into going to a drag race, but instead goes with Sinjin and ends up having a great time. Trina brags being on a Mexican television show called "Divertisimo". She says that it's not shown in the U.S., but Tori and Jade find out it is and go down to the studio. Trina is dressed as a giant cheese who is chased by little children in mice costumes. Tori gets asked to be in the show and she says yes. Then she asks if Jade can be in it too. In the end, all three are dressed as cheese being chased by the little children with giant forks. After being poked by one of the mice children, Jade steals his fork and angrily chases him off stage.


document_title: The Greatest Showman

question_text: who sings never enough from the greatest shiwman

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text: The Greatest Showman

text: Plot[edit]

text: The movie begins with P. T. Barnum and his troupe performing a show at the circus ("The Greatest Show"). As the song continues, the background turns to black, with Barnum singing alone, leading to a flashback to Barnum's childhood where he and his father Philo, a tailor, work for the Hallett family, and he becomes infatuated with their daughter, Charity. Though Charity is being sent to finishing school, Barnum reassures her they will not be separated. The two keep in touch through letters until they meet again in adulthood ("A Million Dreams"), eventually marrying and raising two daughters, Caroline and Helen, in New York City ("A Million Dreams" reprise). They live a humble life; though Charity is happy, Barnum dreams of more.

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text: Barnum loses his job as a clerk at a shipping company after the company goes bankrupt. Taking a risky bet, he takes out a large loan from a bank, deceiving the bank into accepting his former employer's lost ships as collateral. He uses this loan to buy Barnum's American Museum in downtown Manhattan, an attraction showcasing various wax models. Initially, sales are slow; on the suggestion of his children to showcase something "alive", Barnum searches for "freaks" to serve as performers for his museum ("Come Alive"). This attracts a large audience despite protests and poor reviews, prompting Barnum to rename his venture "Barnum's Circus".

text: Searching for ways to further his reputation amongst the upper class, Barnum meets playwright Phillip Carlyle and convinces him to join his venture ("The Other Side"). Carlyle is enchanted with Anne Wheeler, an African-American trapeze artist, but he hides his feelings. During a trip Carlyle arranged for Barnum and his troupe to meet Queen Victoria, Barnum meets Jenny Lind, a famed Swedish singer, whom he convinces to perform in America, with him serving as her manager. Lind's first American performance is a rousing success ("Never Enough"). While Barnum gains favor with the aristocratic patrons, he begins to distance himself from his original troupe, refusing to socialize with them. Dejected, they decide to stand against their local harassers ("This Is Me").

text: Carlyle and Wheeler attend the theatre together one night, only to run into Carlyle's parents, who insult Wheeler's lowly status, causing her to leave. Carlyle chases her and tries to convince her that they can be together, but she rejects him despite her feelings towards him ("Rewrite the Stars"). As Barnum takes Lind on a US tour, Charity feels isolated from her husband as she stays home with their daughters ("Tightrope"). While on tour, Lind begins falling in love with Barnum, but when he refuses her advances, she calls off the tour and kisses him at the end of her last show, which is photographed by the press ("Never Enough" reprise). Barnum returns home to find his circus on fire, caused by a fight between the protesters and the troupe. Carlyle, who had tried to save Anne not knowing she had already escaped, is rescued amid the chaos by Barnum but suffers severe burns. Most of the sets and props are destroyed. Word of Lind's cancellation and Barnum's public intimacy also reaches New York, resulting in his mansion being foreclosed upon and Charity taking Caroline and Helen back to her parents' home.

text: Depressed, Barnum retreats to a local pub, where his troupe find him there and persuade him to rebuild the circus. Barnum has an epiphany that causes him to realize the circus was for his friends and family rather than for himself ("From Now On"). Meanwhile, the injured Carlyle wakes in a hospital with Wheeler by his side and they share a kiss.

text: Barnum leaves and finds his estranged wife, and they decide to mend their relationship. Faced with the financial difficulty of rebuilding the circus, the recovering Carlyle steps in, offering to use his earnings from his share of the circus's profits to rebuild it under the condition of becoming partners, which Barnum happily accepts. As rebuilding the circus in its original location would be too expensive, Barnum rebuilds it as an open-air tent circus by the docks. The new, revamped circus is a huge success, and Barnum gives full control of the show to Carlyle so he can focus on his family ("The Greatest Show" reprise).

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum, an ambitious showman and entrepreneur.

Ellis Rubin as Young P. T. Barnum

Ziv Zaifman provides Young P. T. Barnum's singing voice

Zac Efron as Phillip Carlyle, a playwright who becomes Barnum's partner. He is a composite character partly based on James Anthony Bailey.
Michelle Williams as Charity Hallett Barnum, the wife of P.T. Barnum.

Skylar Dunn as Young Charity

Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind, a famous Swedish singer known as the "Swedish Nightingale".

Loren Allred provides Lind's singing voice.[8][9]

Zendaya as Anne Wheeler, an acrobat, trapeze artist, W.D.'s sister and Phillip Carlyle's love interest
Keala Settle as Lettie Lutz, a bearded lady. She is a composite character partly based on Josephine Clofullia and Annie Jones.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as W. D. Wheeler, an acrobat and Anne's brother.
Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Deng Yan, a Chinese blade-specialist.
Paul Sparks as James Gordon Bennett, the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald.
Sam Humphrey as Charles Stratton, a dwarf performer who is also known by his stage name, General Tom Thumb.
Austyn Johnson as Caroline Barnum, one of Barnum's daughters.
Cameron Seely as Helen Barnum, one of Barnum's daughters.
Eric Anderson as Mr. O'Malley, a former thief whom Barnum employs at his circus.
Daniel Everidge as The Lord of Leeds, The Huge Man.
Caoife Coleman and Mishay Petronelli as the Albino Twins
Shannon Holtzapffel as Prince Constantine, The Tattooed Man.
Luciano Acuna Jr. as Fedor Jeftichew, The Dog Boy.
Danial Son and Yusaku Komori as Chang and Eng Bunker, The "Siamese Twins".
Jonathan Redavid as Frank Lentini, The Three-Legged Man.
Nick Jantz as Jeff Harris, The Juggler
Gayle Rankin as Queen Victoria.
Will Swenson as Philo Barnum, a tailor and the father of P. T. Barnum.
Fredric Lehne as Benjamin Hallett, father of Charity and abusive father-in-law of Barnum.
Kathryn Meisle as Hannah Hallett, mother of Charity and mother-in-law of Barnum.

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text: Production[edit]

text: The project was first announced in 2009, with Jackman already set for the title role.[10] In August 2011, Michael Gracey was chosen to direct.[11] In 2013, Fox hired lyricists Pasek and Paul to write the songs.[12]

text: On June 15, 2016, Zac Efron began negotiations to star in the film,[13] and in July 2016, Michelle Williams was cast.[14][15][16][17]

text: Filming[edit]

text: Rehearsals on the film began in October 2016 in New York City, and principal photography began on November 22, 2016.[18][19]

text: Post-production[edit]

text: In December 2017, it was reported that James Mangold, who had worked with Jackman on several projects (including 2017's Logan), had been brought in to serve as an executive producer during the film's post-production. In an interview, director Michael Gracey noted, "There were eight producers on this film, and it was amazing having one of them be a filmmaker."[20]

text: Music[edit]

text: Musical numbers[edit]

text: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote nine songs.[21]

text:
"The Greatest Show" – Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya
"A Million Dreams" – Ziv Zaifman, Jackman, Michelle Williams
"A Million Dreams" (Reprise) – Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Jackman
"Come Alive" – Jackman, Settle, Daniel Everidge, Zendaya
"The Other Side" – Jackman & Efron
"Never Enough" – Loren Allred
"This Is Me" – Settle
"Rewrite the Stars" – Efron & Zendaya
"Tightrope" – Williams
"Never Enough" (Reprise) – Allred
"From Now On" – Jackman

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text: Soundtrack[edit]

text: The soundtrack album features eleven tracks performed by the cast. In the United Kingdom, it became only the second album in 30 years to achieve 11 consecutive weeks at number 1.[22] The Greatest Showman now draws level with Adele's 21 for the longest unbroken run at the UK summit in the last 30 years. The cast album is now at 465,000 combined units, according to the Official Charts Company, made up of 197,000 physical copies, 107,000 downloads and 35% streaming.[23]

text: Release[edit]

text: The Greatest Showman held its premiere on December 8, 2017, aboard the RMS Queen Mary 2, while it was docked in New York City. The film was then released in the United States on December 20, 2017.[24][25] Like Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast, a sing-along version of the film was released in the United Kingdom on February 23, 2018.[26] The film had a limited IMAX release on February 2.

text: Marketing[edit]

text: On June 28, 2017, 20th Century Fox released the first international trailer to promote the film. On November 13, 2017, the second trailer was released.[27]

text: On December 17, 2017, Fox televised a live performance of "Come Alive" from Warner Bros. Studios during its live musical special A Christmas Story Live! (which was based on fellow Pasek and Paul work A Christmas Story: The Musical). The number featured the film's stars and a cast of 150 dancers.[28][29]

text: Home media[edit]

text: In the United States, the film was released via digital download on March 20, 2018, and will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD on April 10, 2018.[30] In the United Kingdom, the film will be released first on digital download on April 27, 2018, while Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD and DVD copies go on sale on May 14. These versions will include the sing-along version, two hours of behind-the-scenes footage and music machine jukebox features.[31]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: As of April 3, 2018[update], The Greatest Showman has grossed $172.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $242.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $415 million, against a production budget of $84 million.[3] It is the fourth- and fifth-highest grossing musical ever in North America and globally, respectively, and Deadline Hollywood estimated the film should turn a profit between $50–100 million.[32]

text: In the United States and Canada, The Greatest Showman was released alongside Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and was projected to gross around $21 million from 3,006 theaters over its first six days.[33][34] It took in $2 million on its first day and $2 million on its second. Over the three day weekend, it grossed $9 million (for a six-day total of $19 million), finishing fourth at the box office, behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Pitch Perfect 3.[35] In its second weekend, the film grossed $15.5 million, again finishing 4th at the box office.[36] The weekend-to-weekend increase of 76.3% marked the largest ever for a film playing in over 3,000 theaters, and the fourth biggest ever.[37][38] In its third week, the film dropped 11% to $14 million.[39]

text: The film made $13 million in its fourth weekend and $11 million in its fifth, finishing 4th and 5th at the box office, respectively.[40] The film continued to hold well in its sixth week of release, grossing $9.5 million and returning to 4th place,[41] and again finished fourth in its seventh week, this time grossing $7.8 million (a drop of just 18%).[42] It is the 13th highest-grossing film to never top the American box office.[43]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 55% based on 204 reviews, and an average rating of 6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Greatest Showman tries hard to dazzle the audience with a Barnum-style sense of wonder – but at the expense of its complex subject's far more intriguing real-life story."[44] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[45] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while it earned a 70% "definite recommend" from comScore.[35]

text: Owen Gleiberman of Variety gave the film a positive review, writing, "The Greatest Showman is a concoction, the kind of film where all the pieces click into place, yet at an hour and 45 minutes it flies by, and the link it draws between P.T. Barnum and the spirit of today is more than hype."[46] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3/4 stars, saying, "With all that corn and cheese and old-timey sentiment, The Greatest Showman ends up scoring some very timely social arguments. P.T. Barnum himself would have approved the dramatic sleight of hand."[47] Steve Persall of Tampa Bay Times gave the film an 'A', and said, "The Greatest Showman is the feel-good movie the holiday season needs,"[48] while William Bibbiani of IGN gave The Greatest Showman a score of 7.9/10, and called the film, "wildly entertaining."[49]

text: Britton Peele of The Dallas Morning News said, "The story is interesting and the beats are well-acted, but it's the musical numbers that make The Greatest Showman."[50] Jackie K Cooper of HuffPost gave the film a score of 10/10 and wrote, "You will be overwhelmed by the music and magic that explode on the screen. The film has a message that should resonate with today's world concerning acceptance and courage."[51] Hugh Armitage of Digital Spy said, "The Greatest Showman is a broad and solid crowd-pleaser. An undemanding spectacle for all the family."[52] Alan Jones of Radio Times called it "A joyously uplifting potpourii of visual resplendence, stylish choreography and solid gold magic, one engineered to approximate the lavish spectacle the movie musical once offered."[53]

text: Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com gave it 3.5/4, stating "The Greatest Showman is an unabashed piece of pure entertainment punctuated by memorable songs."[54] Douglas Davidson of CLTure called the film, "An undeniable spectacle with a infectious soundtrack, a movie that dazzles and delights."[55] James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film a 3/4 score, and said, "The film has show-stopping well-choreographed numbers with catchy tunes,"[56] and Calvin Wilson of St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the film "highly enjoyable."[57]

text: Carl Kozlowski of Pasadena Weekly gave the film an 'A', calling it "Groundbreaking & grandly innovative."[58] Sean P. Means of The Salt Lake Tribune gave The Greatest Showman 3.5/4 stars, stating, "A strong cast give emotional power to this romanticized, tune-filled biography."[59] Manuela Lazic of Little White Lies gave it 4/5, saying, "The Greatest Showman deserves to become a Christmas classic. the film's severe romanticism and ridiculous but affecting enthusiasm make it irresistibly life-affirming."[60] Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood gave the film 4 out of 5 stars and called it, "A fantasia of song and dance, a joyous exercise in pure entertainment that is made for the holiday crowd."[61]

text: Conversely, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a negative review, criticizing the songs and characters and saying "There's idiotic, and there's magnificent, but The Greatest Showman is that special thing that happens sometimes. It's magnificently idiotic. It's an awful mess, but it's flashy. The temptation is to cover your face and watch it through your fingers, because it's so earnest and embarrassing and misguided – and yet it's well-made."[62] In a negative review for The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney wrote "This ersatz portrait of American big-top tent impresario P.T. Barnum is all smoke and mirrors, no substance. It hammers pedestrian themes of family, friendship and inclusivity while neglecting the fundaments of character and story."[63]

text: Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, saying, "How do you cast a virtuoso Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, spare no expense in production values, add a score by Oscar and Tony winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and still end up with the shrill blast of nothing that is The Greatest Showman? Ask first-time director Michael Gracey, who cut his teeth on commercials and music videos without ever mastering the crucial knack of building snippets of musical comedy and drama into a satisfying whole."[64] Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film's failures "are rooted in something deeper: a dispiriting lack of faith in the audience's intelligence, and a dawning awareness of its own aesthetic hypocrisy. You've rarely seen a more straight-laced musical about the joys of letting your freak flag fly."[65]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipient(s) and nominee(s)
Result
Ref(s)

AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards
February 5, 2018
Best Grownup Love Story
The Greatest Showman
Won
[66][67]

Academy Awards
March 4, 2018
Best Original Song
"This Is Me" – Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Nominated
[68][69]

Casting Society of America
January 18, 2018
Big Budget – Comedy
Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Rori Bergman and Patrick Goodwin
Won
[70]

Costume Designers Guild
February 20, 2018
Excellence in Period Film
Ellen Mirojnick
Nominated
[71]

Critics' Choice Movie Awards
January 11, 2018
Best Song
"This Is Me" – Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Nominated
[72]

Dorian Awards
February 24, 2018
Campy Flick of the Year
The Greatest Showman
Nominated
[73]
[74]

Empire Awards
March 18, 2018
Best Costume Design
The Greatest Showman
Nominated
[75]
[76]

Best Make-up And Hairstyling
The Greatest Showman
Nominated

Georgia Film Critics Association
January 12, 2018
Best Original Song
"This Is Me" – Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Nominated
[77]

Golden Globe Awards
January 7, 2018
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Hugh Jackman
Nominated
[78]

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
The Greatest Showman
Nominated

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
"This Is Me" – Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Won

Golden Reel Awards
February 18, 2018
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Musical
Jen Monnar, Jim Harrison, Jeff Carson, Peter Myles and Sheri Ozeki
Won
[79]

Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
February 8, 2018
Best Music Supervision for Film: Budgeted Over 25 Million Dollars
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Nominated
[80]

Best Song/Recording Created for a Film
"This Is Me" – Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Nominated

Heartland Film Festival
December 31, 2017
Truly Moving Picture Award
Michael Gracey
Won
[81]

Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild
February 24, 2018
Feature Motion Picture: Best Period and/or Character Makeup
Nicki Ledermann, Tania Ribalow and Sunday Englis
Nominated
[82]

Saturn Awards
June 2018
Best Action or Adventure Film
The Greatest Showman
Pending
[83]

Best Costume Design
Ellen Mirojnick
Pending

Best Music
John Debney and Joseph Trapanese
Pending

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document_title: Nil Darpan

question_text: who had translated the bengali play nil darpan

text: Nil Darpan

text: Critical summary[edit]

text: The play was received with mixed results upon its release. The play was translated by Reverend J.Long for which he was sentenced to prison and charged with sedition.[2]

text: "I PRESENT" The Indigo Planting Mirror "to the Indigo Planters' hands; now, let every one of them, having observed his face, erase the freckle of the stain of selfishness from his forehead, and, in its stead, place on it the sandal powder of beneficence, then shall I think my labour success".

text: It was evident from this wish that it is a piece meant to raise a voice among the elite intellectuals of Kolkata so that the farmers revolt will be integrated with the urban thinkers. Unlike the Sepoy Revolt, the Indigo revolt is effectively a revolt integrating the whole population of Bengalis with no distance kept between the several classes of society, which can be attributed to the effort by Mitra and Rev. James Long and Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

text: Indian literature has a long-standing tradition of drama writing. Almost for a millennium the only form of literature other than odes was drama. The distinction of the genre of Sanskrit Drama by the luminaries like Kalidasa were strong enough to keep the millions absorbed for centuries. But it was coming at a dwan by the mid 1800 in Bengal where the Bengal Renaissance say the rise in western education and ideas, and therefore the styles of new forms of literature were seeping in.[3] For example, Ram Narayan Tarkaratna (1823–1885) had already left the Sanskrit tradition and started writing about social realism.[3] The drama is markedly different from the earlier dramas of that period, notably the first modern drama written in Bengali by Ram Narayan still had the old sadhu bhasa the artificial sanskritised dialect of modern Bengali as the writing medium.

text: The characters in the drama are the villagers and the indigo planters who got the money and the law in their hand.

text: Characters[edit]

text:
Gokul Chunder Basu, a rich farmer. (গোলক চন্দ্র বসু, একজন সম্পন্ন চাষি)
Nobin Madhab, son of Gokul Chunder Basu. (নবীন মাধব, গোলক বসুর বড় ছেলে)
Bindu Madhab, son of Gokul Chunder Basu. (বিন্দু মাধব, গোলক বসুর ছোট ছেলে)
Sadhu Churn, a neighbouring Ryot. (সাধু চরণ, গোলকের প্রতিবেশি রাইয়ত)
Ray Churn, Sadhu'a brother. (রাই চরণ, সাধু চরণের ছোট ভাই)
Gopi Nath, The Dewan. (গোপীনাথ, নীলকরের দেওয়ান)
Torap, A heroic figure.(তোরাপ, একজন প্রতিবাদী চরিত্র)
Indigo Planters. নীলকর :
J. J. Wood. (জ়ে জ়ে ঊড, প্রধান নীলকর)
P. P. Rose J. (পি পি রোগ, উডের ছেলে)
The Ajiving or Land measurer. (জমির পরিমাপকারী)
Amin Khalasi, a Tent-pitcher. (আমিন খালাসী, নীল সংগ্রাহক)
Tadagir Native Superintendent of Indigo Cultivation.
Magistrate, Amla, Attorney, Deputy Inspector, pundit, Keeper of the Gaol, Doctor, a Cow-keeper, a Native Doctor, Four Boys, a Latyal or Club-man, and a Herdsman.

text:
Sabitri Wife of Gokul Chunder. (সাবিত্রী, গোলক বসুর স্ত্রী)
Soirindri,  Wife of Nobin. (সৌরিন্দ্রী, নবীন মাধবের স্ত্রী)
Saralota Wife of Bindu Madhab. (সরলতা, বিন্দু মাধবের স্ত্রী)
Reboti Wife of Sadhu Churn. (রেবতী, সাধু চরণের স্ত্রী)
Khetromani Daughter of Sadhu+Reboti. (ক্ষেত্রমনি, সাধুচরণ ও রেবতীর মেয়ে)
Aduri Maid-servant in Gokul Chunder's house. (আদুরি, গোলকের বাড়ির কাজের মেয়ে)
Podi Moyrani A Sweetmeat Maker. (পদী ময়রানী, বিনোদনকারিনী, রোগ সাহেবের সহচরী)

text: Legacy[edit]

text: The legacy of black humor in the play is well shared by contemporary dramatists like Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Girish Chandra Ghosh. It was also important in development of the chalit bhasa, or colloquial dialect, which is free of the Sanskrit influenced Sadhu bhasa.

text: The trial of Nil Durpan[edit]

text: The proceedings of the trial of Reverend Mr. James Long first appeared in the second Edition (India) of the English version of the play, Nil Durpan (transcribed as Neel Darpan or Nil Darpan). It included all the relevant documents and comments of the Indian and British Newspapers. It was published in 1903 by Messers A. N. ANDINI and Co., Calcutta. Mr. Kumud Bihari Bose compiled it under the title: The Trial of the Rev. James Long and the Drama of Nil Durpan with "Indigo Planters and all about them" as a sub title.[4] The play, Nil Durpan, dealt with the upheaval between the Indigo planters and Indian Rioters in different parts of Bengal, Bihar and U.P. This conflict gave rise to the rift and division between the different classes of the society and between the different sections of the Government as well.

text: Background of the trial of the play Nil Darpan[edit]

text: James Long believed that the British mercantile community and even the Government unjustly and oppressively treated the Indigo cultivators. His view concurred with Dinabandhu Mitra who expressed his sentiments in a play entitled Nil Darpan (the original Bengali play was written by him) and published anonymously from Dhaka in 1860. Mitra sent Long a copy of the play as early as 1861. Long brought it to the notice of W. S Seton-Karr, Secretary to the Governor of Bengal and ex-President of the Indigo Commission. Seton-Karr, sensing its importance, mentioned Nil Durpan in conversation with the Lieutenant Governor, Grant.Grant expressed a wish to see a translation of it and print a few copies to be circulated privately amongst friends. After the discussion, Seton-Karr asked Long to arrange for a translation of the play in English. Michael Madhusudan Dutta translated it under the supervision of Long. Long as the editor cut out some coarse passages and wrote a short prefatory note for the play. When the translation was complete, Seton-Karr ordered printing of five hundred copies in lieu of Grant's wish of a few copies. Then Long sent the translated manuscripts to Clement Henry Manuel, the proprietor of the Calcutta Printing and Publishing Press to print five hundred copies and the cost came to around Rs.300. It was published in April or May 1861. Unknown to the Lieutenant Governor, Long began sending out the copies in official Government envelopes that had the heading: "on her Majesty's Service".[5] The translation revealed the nature of the oppression against the indigo planters. It naturally offended the establishment of the play so much that a razing propaganda was started by the Anglo-Indian Press against the publisher and the translator. One of the leading newspapers named The Englishmen and some indigo planters instituted a libel suit against Long and the printer- C. H. Manuel. The words mentioned in Long's Introduction to the play stated that what was presented in it was "plain but true". This was subsequently used by the planters in their prosecution of Long for publishing defamatory statements.

text: Counsel (acting on Long's advice) named Long as the one responsible as Long had given Manuel a copy of the play for publication.

text: The planters filed for only nominal damages even as they had decided to prosecute Long for libel in a criminal suit.

text: Friday, 19 July 1861 was fixed as the first date for the trial and it lasted from then to 24 July, at the Calcutta Supreme Court. It was regarded as the first of the "state trial of India under the Empire". Mr. Peterson and Mr. Cowie were prosecuted. Mr. Eglinton and Mr. Newmarch appeared on behalf of the defendant. Sir Mordunt Wells presided as the Judge.

text: It is true that it becomes difficult to censor any literary work when it becomes so available in the public domain. That is why it became very urgent to find out the list of people who had the books after its printing. The issue of finding out the list was the concern for the first day of trial on 19 July 1861. The list given in at the trial contained the number of copies that had been issued was said to be two hundred and two.

text: The agenda for the days of 20 to 24 July was to justify the two counts brought against James Long. The first count referred to a libel or the supposed libel against the two leading newspapers named the Englishman and Hurkaru published from the city of Kolkata. These two papers were alluded to in the preface of the play, Nil Durpan:

text: The Editors of two daily newspapers are filling their columns with your praises; and whatever other people may think, you never enjoy pleasure from it, since you know fully the reason of their so doing. What surprising power of attraction silver has! The detestable Judas gave the great preacher of the Christian religion, Jesus and others, into the hands of Odious Pilate for the sake of thirty rupees; what wonder then, if the proprietors of two newspapers, becoming enslaved by the hope of gaining one thousand rupees, throw the poor helpless of this land into the terrible grasp of your mouths.[6] Being aggrieved, Mr. Brett, the managing proprietor and formerly joint editor of the Englishman, brought a criminal prosecution against James Long. He claimed that the implied meanings of the allusions were defamatory because the extract symbolises, they wrote for reward from the indigo planters and not otherwise.

text: The second count which concerned the interests of the society at large was the alleged libel against that portion of the community called as the indigo planters of Lower Bengal.

text: Sir Mordunt Wells accused Long of slandering the European women in the Nil Durpan the question of shame was brought up through the episode of a woman riding on horseback with Magistrate of Zillah through the village)as well as injuring the reputation of every European in the country by calling Planter or Civilian or Soldier.The fictitious characters named Mr. Wood and Mr. Rose in the play represent the indigo planters. This also became a reason for attacking Long.

text: Bibliography[edit]

text:
Dinabandhu Mitra: Nil Durpan or the Indigo Planting Mirror, translated by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, edited by Sudhi Pradhan and Sailesh Sen Gupta (Calcutta: Paschimbanga Natya Academy, 1997)
Geoffrey A. Oddie, chapter Eight, The Aftermath: Nil Durpan, Trial and Imprisonment, Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal 1814–87 (London: Routledge, 1999)
Nurul Hossain Choudhury, "James Rev. Long", Banglapedia.


document_title: Maria (West Side Story)

question_text: who falls in love with maria in west side story

text: Maria (West Side Story)

text: Character summary[edit]

text: Maria is in her late teens when she arrives on the US mainland. Her older brother Bernardo is the leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks. He has a girlfriend, Anita, who Maria is friends with and looks up to. Maria is eager to start a new life in New York, but Bernardo is protective and keeps a close eye on her. He intends for Maria to marry his friend Chino, but Maria is uninterested. She meets Tony who used to be part of the Sharks’ enemy gang, the Jets, at a community dance at the gym. They immediately fall in love. The couple meet several times after (on her balcony, at Anita’s shop, and at Doc’s, Tony’s workplace) before deciding to run away together after the rumble. They are about to leave when Chino shoots Tony for killing Bernardo. Whatever happens to Maria after Tony dies is left a mystery.

text: Maria is based on Shakespeare’s Juliet, who falls in love with Romeo after their first encounter, just like Maria did with Tony.

text: Best known portrayal[edit]

text: The best known portrayal of Maria was by Natalie Wood in the 1961 film, although the singing voice was provided by Marni Nixon.[1][2]

text: Songs[edit]

text: The songs sung by Maria include:

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"Tonight" sung with Tony. Tony visits Maria on her balcony after the dance they had met at. The song acknowledges their new relationship:"Tonight, tonight / It all began tonight!"[3]
"I Feel Pretty" is sung with Maria’s co-workers (except Anita) in the dress shop. The song is about Maria feeling pretty, as well as “dizzy” “witty” “charming” because:"I'm loved / By a pretty wonderful boy."[4]
After the girls leave the shop, Tony meets Maria there, and they sing "One Hand, One Heart." This is sung after they pretend to get married."Now it begins, Now we start / One Hand, One Heart. / Even death won't part us now."[5]
The Quintet is a medley that the Sharks, the Jets, Anita, Tony, and Maria sing in. Tony and Maria sing a continuation of "Tonight."
"Somewhere" is also sung with Tony. He returns to Maria's house after he killed Bernardo at the rumble. The song represents their decision to flee from the city to:"Peace and quiet and open air"[6]
"A Boy Like That / I Have a Love" is sung with Anita after she discovers that Maria was with Tony after the rumble. She tries to convince Maria to find another love, but Maria fights back with:"I have a love and it's all that I have / Right or wrong, what else can I do?"[7]

text: In both the film and the play is a song named "Maria", which is sung by Tony in both. He sings this right after he meets and kisses Maria for the first time. Her name is sung 29 times in total.[8]

text: 1961 actress choices[edit]

text: Natalie Wood was not the first choice to play Maria in the 1961 film version. Audrey Hepburn was considered, but she did not take it due to her pregnancy.[9] Like Wood, Hepburn was not Puerto Rican; she was British, Dutch, and Austrian.[10]

text: In popular culture[edit]

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Maria is referenced in the chorus of the song "Maria Maria" by the band Santana:“Oh Maria, Maria / She remind me of a West Side story.”[11]
West Bank Story, an Academy-award winning short film, is based on West Side Story. The rivalry is between Palestinians and the Hummus Hut stand versus the Jews and the Kosher King stand. Fatima, a Hummus Hut employee, is infatuated with David, a Kosher King employee, who feels the same way about Fatima. Fatima and David represent Maria and Tony.
A dance battle movie called Boogie Town is also based on West Side Story. It is set in 2015 New York City where dance battles are illegal. There are two rival dance crews, one led by Jay and the other by Micah. Micah falls in love with Jay’s sister, Natalie, who represents Maria.