They force her on stage and, with the help of Andre, Tori receives a standing ovation from the crowd, and accepts the offer to join Hollywood Arts.
On her first day, she meets Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande), a girl who seems to be living in her own head, Robbie Shapiro (Matt Bennett), an awkward, nerdy student who speaks through his dummy Rex Powers (Jake Farrow), handsome Beck Oliver (Avan Jogia), and his mean girlfriend Jade West (Elizabeth Gillies).
At the insistence of Trina and Andre, who tell her not to let a mean girl crush her confidence, Tori returns to class and subsequently gets revenge on Jade by besting her in an improv assignment and then by kissing Beck in front of her.
Song featured: "You're the Reason" by Victoria Justice Guest star: Renée Taylor as Mamaw Jade becomes jealous when Beck starts hanging out with Alyssa Vaughn, a famous socialite, who may like him.
When remembering Beck wants a Rottweiler, Jade and Tori bring one to his RV, only for the dog to attack his father who was sleeping inside.
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.
Song featured: "Finally Falling" Wanting to get more views on his blog on The Slap, Robbie begins filming the personal lives of his friends called "Robarazzi" although his posts end up about making fun of them.
Beck has a small role in a movie starring Melinda Murray, a famous actress, and invites the gang to an open casting call as extras.
But things get complicated when Mrs. Lee makes drastic changes to the script, and wants to put her daughter, Daisy, in the play.
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.
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: Kesha as herself Tori and Jade compete with each other for the lead role in a play called "Steamboat Suzy".
Tori and the gang are offered a week-long trip to Festus' home country of Yerba to perform as evening entertainment for the hotel.
Later, 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.
Meanwhile, Trina enlists Robbie's help to decorate her giant Christmas tree, and Beck loses sleep due to a pesky cricket in his RV.
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.
Cat hears one of her favorite actresses Mona Patterson died and wants to honor her, taking Tori and Jade go on a road trip to San Diego.
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.
Tori and Jade are cast in a play as a married couple, a task that challenges their acting skills and lack of friendship.
He had drunk rotten coconut milk, which made him hallucinate and see Trina's performance as varied and interesting, and Sikowitz let her in.
She runs away at lunchtime, stays away from class, gives Tori a creepy doll that resembles her, and impersonates a Chinese food delivery lady.
Once the police arrive and apprehend Ponnie, Sikowitz recognizes her and says that she got kicked out because she was crazy – she stole things, carried weird stuff in her backpack, and called everyone "Debbie".
Guest stars: Max Carver as Evan Smith, Michael Eric Reid as Sinjin, Darsan Solomon as Burf.
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.
As the boys shout and dance in victory, the girls are happy to realize how popular they were when seeing how many messages and followers they got while they went without the internet.
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.
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 are kissing.
Song featured: "Faster Than Boyz" Tori is selected to appear on a new game show called Brain Squeezers, and all her friends want to be on her team.
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.
A talk-show host named Chris Burm feels sympathy for Tori and lets her come and sing on his show.