Tori Gets Stuck
Tori is cast as the lead actress in a school play instead of Jade, and the latter is furious and tries sabotaging the former. This all comes to a head when they go to the hospital so Tori can donate O- blood to Robbie for surgery.
Also, Trina gets a part as a sickly girl with tuberculosis, and she tries various methods to make her performance sound convincing.
Tropes:
- All for Nothing: Every ploys Jade committed was to get the lead she wanted, and make Tori unable to participate. Naturally, Sikowitz connected the dots and decides to denounce Jade as the understudy for what she's done as she deserves.
- Artistic License – Biology: Trina almost immediately shows symptoms of tuberculosis, despite the disease being asymptomatic for months or even years.
- Artistic License – Medicine: There is absolutely no way the hospital would allow Tori to donate blood twice in a row, let alone three times in a row. Whole blood donors are only able to donate at least 56 days from their last donation. Any more frequent than that and patients would risk going into hypovolemic shock. However, all of this is disregarded for Rule of Funny, and the worst Tori experiences is severe fatigue and fainting.
- Big Sister Instinct: Trina is quick to warn Tori that the flowers sent to the latter are bush daisies, which she's allergic to.
- Captain Obvious: Jade's reaction to Cat asking if she got the lead role is to screw the cast list into a ball, throw it across the room and angrily kick a chair.Andre: I don't think she got it.
- Comically Small Bribe: Sinjin quickly folds under interrogation from Tori, saying Jade roped him into helping her get Tori out of the play with the promise of "30 dollars and a complete makeover".Jade: Well you failed, so you don't get thirty dollars and you have to keep looking like that!
- Disproportionate Retribution: Because Jade didn’t get the lead in a school play and only cast as an understudy, she goes to various lengths to make sure Tori doesn’t perform, such as sabotaging a blood bank mission that could potentially kill both Tori and Robbie.
- Genre Savvy: Sikowitz figures out that all these ploys that were happening all week to get Tori out of the spotlight were Jade’s doing to get the lead. So, he refuses to let Jade take over, even though she’s the understudy, by saying that he can’t reward her by giving her the part.
- Gone Horribly Right: Trina is having trouble acting as a character who has tuberculosis. So, while at the hospital, she decides to meet a patient with tuberculosis to see how to behave on stage convincingly. However, this incident causes her to REALLY get tuberculosis from the man, which she lampshades.
- Goofy Print Underwear: According to Tori, Robbie is wearing SpongeBob underwear after seeing them in his hospital nightgown. This causes an embarrassed Robbie to cover them with a pillow.
- Hates Being Touched: When Trina thanks the nurse who tells her where a patient with tuberculosis is, she thanks her by patting her shoulder. This causes the nurse to snap at her, saying not to touch her.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Jade does this while ranting about not getting the lead role:Robbie: So who's playing Suzy?Tori: [checks cast list] Me.Jade: Yeah, her. That. She got the lead!
- Karma Houdini: Played with for Jade. She doesn’t get the lead that she had been preparing for the whole episode, but she still gets away with setting up sabotages for Tori, looking through her medical records, and putting Robbie’s life further down the line.
- Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Thanks to Jade "losing" her first pint of blood and Robbie accidentally spilling the second, Tori is forced to give a third pint of blood, leaving her in no condition to continue as the lead in her play.
- Plot Allergy: Narrowly averted. Tori is apparently allergic to bush daisies. Thus Jade, who seemingly looked at Tori’s medical records, had a man send her a bouquet of bush daisies as a gift. Tori almost smells them, but when Trina lets them know what type of flower they are, she recoils in horror before her face puffs up.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:Tori: Listen to me. I won the part. I got the lead. So I’M! DOING! IT!
- A Rare Sentence: "There's a car parked in Robbie's butt!"
- Rule of Three: Tori ends up getting three pints of blood taken out of her.
- Jade also gives three reasons why Tori might need an understudy to take over her part in the play.
Robbie: An understudy is like a backup actor.Andre: So if you get sick or something, your understudy takes over for your part in the play.Jade: Yeah. Yeah, if you get sick....or go missing...or GET HIT BY A BUS!!!!! [Jade angrily storms out]Tori: Umm... [hears Jade smash something outside] She can't drive a bus right? - Sassy Black Woman: The head doctor at the hospital who oversees Tori’s blood draw.
- The Show Must Go On: When refused the lead, Jade brings out this trope to try to convince Sikowitz to change his mind. This DOES sort of work, but not in the way she was hoping for. The play continues to go on, but instead of Jade as the lead, Sikowitz goes Disguised in Drag and does the part himself, much to the uncomfortable confusion of the audience.
- Spotting the Thread: Tori gets a call claiming to be from Lady Gaga's assistant offering her a part in a new music video, taking place on the same night as the play. Initially conflicted, when Cat remarks that Jade can always take over her role, Tori quickly works out it's a scam.
- Weaponized Allergy: Jade's first sabotage attempt is to send Tori a bouquet of bush daisies, which she's highly allergic to. Fortunately Trina warns her in time.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Jade's reaction to Tori not knowing what an understudy is.
