Victorious Season 2, Episode 11 "Terror on Cupcake Street"

Victorious is about Tori Vega, a girl at Hollywood Arts High School, and her friends. The show tells all of the adventures and problems she goes through. Tori has a sister, Trina, who goes to the same school. Her friends are Robbie, Jade, Cat, Andre, and Beck.

In this episode Mr. Sikowitz, Tori's teacher, asks her and her friends to design and create a float for the 'Parade' Parade. They randomly choose Cat to pick the theme for the float, which turns out to be a giant pink-frosted cupcake. On the way to the parade at 1:00 in the morning, the float gets a flat tire in a dangerous back street of LA. Mr. Sikowitz goes to find help, but ends up getting his pants stolen by 'hooligans', then getting arrested by a couple of police officers. Tori finds a few scary looking men who were really quite nice, and they help her change the tire. The men had actually been planning to watch the parade, and Tori invites them to come along in the float. Mr. Sikowitz escapes while the policemen are distracted, and the episode ends with him running after the float being chased by the policemen.

Victorious has a fairly balanced cast, though there are slightly more girls than boys. Tori is the main character and often solves the problem unconventionally. Cat and Trina are stereotypical dumb, pretty girls. Jade gives Cat her 'shiny' keys to occupy her, and Cat ends up eating one of them. Cat also designs the float to be pretty and cute. Jade is more of a dark, mean girl. She can be a bully and scares people into doing what she wants. Robbie is kind of a nerd, while Andre and Beck are more 'tough guys'. At one point in the episode, Tori tells Andre and Beck that they should go look for Mr. Sikowitz because they are the only guys in the float. Robbie is offended at not being considered a boy, which brings up the fact that many people think that guys who don't act tough or follow the stereotype are not really guys. Mr. Sikowitz, who teaches improv, dresses eccentrically and acts like he is high most of the time. The police arrest Mr. Sikowitz, because they think he is crazy or on drugs when he asks them to help children inside a giant cupcake. Tori is scared of the men that she finds, even though they turn out to be helpful and polite. They do not act like thugs, nor like the 'hooligans' that jumped Andre and Beck. Overall, the show has pretty solidly stereotypical characters.