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"Are you talking about Brain Squeezers?"
Sinjin to Jade.

Brain Squeezers
Season 4, Episode 10
BS 1
First Aired January 12, 2013[1]
Production Code 324[1]
Writer(s) Dan Schneider
Warren Bell
Director(s) Clayton Boen
Viewed By: 2.690 million [2]
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Brain Squeezers is the 10th episode of Season 4 of Victorious and the 57th overall.

Plot[]

Tori is chosen to be a team captain on the game show Brain Squeezers. She tells everybody about it and explains that the winning team will win $10,000 and they all get to split it. Soon, all her friends and people she knows constantly bug her to try to bribe her to pick them to be on their team. Robbie tries and cleans Tori's locker and gives her $20, but when Tori says she's not promising to put him on her team, he takes the $20 and shoves dirt on her locker. Then, Cat tries to convince Tori that she will be smart when she shows her a new PearPad app she downloaded called Test Easy that will give her answers to things she will need to know. Tori realizes that Beck is playing cool just to get her to ask him to be on her team, which he starts to deny, but ends up begging to be on the team.

Later at the house, Trina comes in and suggests different "perfect" teams that she could pick. They get into an argument, which leads to Tori putting her pie in Trina's face and Trina biting Tori's ear, before Trina leaves and goes upstairs. Jade then shows up and fakes a sob story to get Tori to choose her to be on the team, but Tori sees through this, and they end up getting into a fight. When Trina comes back down, she is upset that Jade's there because she's not part of her idea of a "perfect" team. Tori, fed up with them, gets out her phone and tweets her team. Much to Trina and Jade's disapproval, she chooses André, Beck, and Robbie.

The next day, Tori arrives at the studio with her team to find that Jade has checked in, saying she was Tori, minutes before. They all get into an argument about whether or not Jade is who she says she is, and one of the people who runs the backstage crew tries to straighten things out. After Jade shows him a fake school ID proving she's Tori Vega, which André and Beck thinks looks impressively real, and Tori has no identification of her own to give, he gives Robbie, Beck, and André to Jade as the Yellow Team. When Tori complains, he lets her captain the Blue Team with Trina, Cat, and Sinjin as her teammates.

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When they play, it proves to be a very dangerous game. First, Robbie gets a question wrong which gives Tori's team, the blue team, 100 points. When he gets doinked, he gets sprayed with pus. Trina soon gets picked to answer a question, and, she gets doinked with nuts and bolts. Then when Jade picks Beck to answer a question, he decides to pass and then doesn't even answer, then gets a doink. He gets The Gut Whack, in which they use a bowling ball with a stick to hit him in the gut. Then, when they pick Math as a topic, Tori chooses Cat. When Cat gets the wrong answer to the question, she gets a double-doink, two red punching gloves punch her in the face.

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Cat's Doink

Soon, Jade gets asked a question about her favorite movie, The Scissoring, but she did not know the answer. The host, Dave, says that she is a victim of "A-Salt and battery," Then, salt gets spilled on her. However, the tiny batteries hit

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Jade being hit by a car battery.

André. André tells Dave that Jade got the question wrong, leading the batteries go all over Jade. Soon, a car battery hits Jade as a sarcastic suggestion from Beck. Sinjin answers a question and then he gets doinked by accident, he gets hit with a toilet on his head.

After a break, everyone, save for Tori, much to Jade's rage, has been doinked. When Cat is asked a geography question, she pronounces "Hawaii" as "Hawa-eye-eye", but still gets it right. When they tell Tori to grab the cash, however, a buff and strong man lies on top of her and she must get the cash within the next 10 seconds. Unable to even get out from under him, the adventure ends with no one having gotten the money.[3]

Trivia[]

  • Brain Squeezers is the first game show of season 4.
  • This is the fifth episode in this season the episode title is mentioned.
    • Hence the episode title, "Brain Squeezers" is the name of the game show Tori competes on.
    • This is also the last episode where the episode title is mentioned in the entirety of the series.
  • This is the third game show on Victorious. The first two were Queries for Couples from The Worst Couple and Match Play from April Fools Blank.
  • The title, "Brain Squeezers", is a pun on brain teasers.
  • This is the third time the movie, The Scissoring, is mentioned. The first two were A Christmas Tori and Three Girls and a Moose.
  • This episode reveals that Tori is 17 years old.
  • This is the last episode written by Warren Bell.
  • In the video Jade Gets Doinked, it is seen that on the blue team, there are marbles on the floor. They might have been dropped on them before the A-Salt and battery.
  • Every character (except Tori) got a different doink as listed (from first to last):
    • Robbie: gets sprayed with pus
    • Trina: gets hit with nuts and bolts
    • Beck: gets whacked with a bowling ball
    • Cat: gets punched in the face twice with a red punching glove
    • Jade: gets covered in salt and hit on the head with little batteries and a car battery.
    • André: gets batteries hit on the head
    • Sinjin: gets a toilet hit on his head by accident
      • André was the only character who didn't get a different doink compared to the other characters, but he got Jade's doink, although he was never asked a question.
  • This is the second time Jade has pretended to be Tori to ruin things for her, the first being in Prom Wrecker when she pretends to be Tori and calls to have the scheduled band cancelled. Both times, Jade's schemes ultimately ended up backfiring on her.
    • This is also the third episode where Jade pretended to be someone else (when she claimed that she was Tori to the Brain Squeezers crew), after Prom Wrecker and Opposite Date, when she pretended to be Cat.
  • "A-Salt and Battery" is a pun on "assault and battery," a term usually used to describe certain crimes.
  • "Nuts and Bolts" is a reference to the iCarly episode "iMeet The First Lady" when Sam gives the First Lady a bag of nuts and bolts from "Peggy's Nuts and Bolts".
  • In the US airing, after Beck sarcastically says they should drop a car battery on Jade's head, they do, but however in the UK airing the line is said but the bit where Jade gets hit with a car battery is cut out due to UK broadcasting regulations being more strict. However, this scene was kept in when the episode first aired in the UK but has since been cut in later airings.
  • The sumo wrestler is played by former WWE wrestler, Solofa Fatu Jr., who goes by the ring name Rikishi.
  • This is the second time Sinjin has spent more on-screen time with Tori and the gang.
  • This episode provides yet another hint that Tori might have a higher intelligence compared to the rest of the gang, seemingly having been able to correctly answer any question posed to her (although she couldn't have not answered any).
  • We can assume that she had to take a survey in order to qualify for the game show and she passed, that's how she became team captain
  • This is the first time we see André's chest, since his shirt got ripped while playing the game show.
  • After the break, all the characters, except Tori, are shown to be doinked in a different way.
    • André: Having his clothes shredded.
    • Jade: Bodily damage with some missing teeth.
    • Beck: His clothes (except for his boxer and shoes) off with red dots on his body.
    • Cat: Face covered in soot.
    • Robbie: Walking in a limp along with a black eye.
    • Trina: Covered in feathers.
    • Sinjin: Bandages on his head and right arm from the toilet.
  • Ending tagline: Yes, yes, YES!!! - Tori.
  • In the episode, Cat is seen pronouncing "Hawaii" wrong. This becomes a small running gag in "Sam & Cat", as Cat sometimes pronounces those types of words wrong.
  • Sinjin posted on TheSlap in this episode.
  • Ironically, Jade’s scheme to take Tori’s place in the game show was for nothing. Mainly because: Jade lost against Tori in the end, if Jade had won she wouldn’t have been able to get the $10000, and Jade could have participated as the leader of the Blue Team like Tori had.

Running Gags[]

  • People trying to convince Tori to let them be on her team.
  • Cat pronouncing Hawaii like Ha-way-i-i/ Ha-wy-i-i.
  • People getting doinked.

Goofs[]

  • A game show like this would be banned, if allowed to start filming in the first place, due to every doink having the capacity to kill, or at least seriously injure, the victim.
    • Dropping nuts and bolts and batteries would cause a concussion at the worst (revealed from Trina and André).
    • A toilet or car battery on the head would have caused head trauma, skull fracture, or a concussion (revealed from Sinjin and Jade).
    • Using a bowling ball to hit in the gut could have been dangerous through badly broken ribs or not being able to walk again.
    • Dropping salt onto someone would lead to blindness if any gets into the eyes.
    • A game show should not use pus because it would lead to sores on the body.
    • Getting punched that hard on the chin can cause you to break your neck (from it snapping back).
    • A toilet being dropped on Sinjin's head could either kill him or lead to permanent damage.
  • The clip of the Blue Team's reactions is used twice. First: When Jade gets batteries dumped on her head. Second: When Jade gets a car battery dropped on her head.
  • Whenever someone got a question wrong, Dave never stated what was the correct answer.
  • Just about all of the doinks in the show would be illegal.
  • The game show could immediately get sued for assaulting the contestants (though they may have signed a waiver, with parental consent).
  • Some questions had no correct answer (i.e. species that eat dead rotten flesh, which U.S. president used to bathe with his mother's dog, what is the only number that is both even and odd).
    • The latter question is, in fact, a riddle. And the answer would be 6 or 9 since flipping either number would give you the other.
    • The main point of the game show is to injure or humiliate the contestants, so they probably purposely ask impossible or ridiculously hard questions to lead to the doinks.
  • In the actual episode, Beck got hit with a bowling ball. However, on TheSlap.com, it says that Beck got hit by a watermelon.
  • At the end of this episode after Dave left the Brain Squeezers set, you can see the whole cast at their respective podiums, but the next scene they're all gone.
  • When Trina grabs Tori's laptop and throws it you can see it drop on the couch. But afterwards, Jade sits down and it's not there.
  • The dirt on Tori's locker keeps changing portions in the background every time the camera is pointed at Tori and Beck.
  • Tori should've been given information on the show and the content of it, mainly the consequences.
  • When Robbie throws dirt on Tori's locker, it seems to stick quite thickly. However, when Tori says, "Like a game show?", it is not present. When Cat says, "I guess that is a good example," the dirt is back.
    • Also, when Cat asks about the Aloha State, the section above the M is complete, but just after that, you can see two finger streaks in the dirt.
  • Even though Tori didn't have a piece of ID on her, the words of those with her should have been enough to disqualify Jade from competing.
  • The game show should've also known what Tori really looked like, since that's part of applying to compete in game shows.
  • Cat got her answer wrong, but Dave didn't give any points to the Yellow Team.
  • The salt and batteries can be seen on Jade's podium before she gets doinked.
  • Jade's podium says Tori: 800 points, but the Yellow Team has 700 points. The Blue Team has 800.
  • As seen, the blue team was formed just a few minutes before the episode was aired. Normally, there wouldn't be a possibility for a second team to be formed just before the show started, because the 2 teams should have been pre-made.
  • Tori posted on TheSlap that she is feeling lachanophobic, which is the fear of vegetables.
  • The players not getting the money at the end would be fraudulent and illegal.

Quotes[]

Dave: In the movie The Scissoring...,
Jade: Yes!? Yes!?
Dave: How many times the is word scissors spoken?
Jade: I don't know! Who would know that?

Cat: Ooh, I love this song too! I wonder if the person I'm on hold with is my one true love!
Robbie: Well, you know what they say about-
Cat: (Interrupting him) Shut up!

Cat: Hawa-eye-eye!

Sinjin: I know all about bugs.
Trina: Yeah, 'cause you are one.
Sinjin: I wish.

Cat: I've never been doinked before. I am not ready.
Dave: What is the only number that is even and odd?
Cat: Ninety-four-three.
Cat: I am a girl. Can't you just skip my doink?

Jade: No human being has ever heard about Brain Squeezers!
Sinjin: You guys talking about Brain Squeezers?
Jade: I said human being.

Dave: Any contagious diseases?
Sinjin: Contagious? (thinks for a moment) No!


André: What was that?!
Dave: That was a load of batteries.
André: I know what they were! But why did you drop it on me?! She got the answer wrong!
Dave: Good point, more batteries!
Jade: Wha-? (the batteries fall on her head) Gyaaaaow!!!
Robbie: Okay, that's borderline dangerous.
Beck: Yeah, why don't you just drop a car battery on her head?!
Dave: Car battery!
Jade: (After she gets hit on the head with the battery) Ow!
Tori: I'm Tori Vega!
Jade: I'm Tori Vega.
Cat: I'm Tori Vega!
(Everyone stares at Cat)
Cat: Aha! I'm not Tori Vega.

Tori: I thought it was just a game show. I'm so sorry, you guys.
Jade: No, we're sorry because you didn't get doinked yet!

(After Sinjin gets doinked while answering a question)

Tori: He didn't even answer the question!
Cat: Why did you drop a toilet on his head?
Dave: Not sure. Sometimes things go wrong. But why don't we give each team 100 points and pretend this never happened?!

Reception[]

Reception for this episode was largely negative, most finding the plot to be nonsensical, stakeless, and cruel especially the ending, despite some amusement at the dark comedy.

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Video Gallery[]

References[]

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