Locked Up!
Tori scores a vacation to Festus's country Yerba with her friends, but the location turns out to be a complete nightmare. Things get even worse when Tori accidentally hurts the Chancellor's eye during a performance, causing the group to wind up in prison.
Tropes:
- Banana Republic : Yerba
- Big Sister Instinct: When Tori is arrested, Trina becomes concerned and tries to help her get out of jail.
- Continuity Nod: Trina is seen wearing her Nike Air Prestige sneakers from The Diddly Bops and Jade Dumps Beck.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- Tori's punishment for accidentally flinging her shoe in the Chancellor's eye is four years in Yerbanian prison.
- The rest of the gang get thrown behind bars for Robbie unintentionally killing the Chancellor's pet octopus.
- Extra-Long Episode: The second for the series.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Sikowitz drives everyone away, a message in the parking lot below says, "no escaping".
- Got Me Doing It: After Jade's latest round of mocking Tori's voice in a Southern Belle accent, Tori briefly talks in that voice, before insisting she doesn't sound like that.Jade: [about Trina] You really gonna let your screechbox of a sister sing with us?Tori: The guys are gonna keep her mic turned off.Jade: [in a Southern Belle accent] Well that's swell news!Tori: I don't talk like that!Jade: Whatever. [leaves]Tori: Do I talk like that? [attempts a southern accent] Do I talk like that? [annoyed] No I don't talk like that!
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It's said that during a game of mini golf, Trina got mad when missing a put, and threw her club at her father.
- Hell Hotel: Where the gang stay in Yerba. There was a foreign man in the girls' closet, a grenade in the guys' toilet, etc. And it was supposed to be the best hotel in the country!
Just how terrible are the rest out there? - Hidden Depths: Trina's choreography was actually very in-sync and well performed.
- Hope Spot: Tori's friends and Sikowitz confess to the Chancellor that Tori's shoe "entering his eye" was just an accident, and he chooses to let her go and it seems everything will be right...but then Robbie kills the Chancellor's octopus, causing everyone to get arrested.
- Middle Eastern Terrorists: While it's not confirmed exactly what continent Yerba is in, the Yerbanians themselves look and behave exactly like stereotypical Middle Easterners.
- Old Media Playing Catch-Up: The send-up of the Filipino Michael Jackson "Thriller" Prison Dance scene
, with the original being at least four years old and probably pre-dating iCarly! - Prisoner Performance: After Tori and her friends get locked in a prison in the (fictional) island nation of Yerba after slighting the island's chancellor, Tori puts on a musical performance of "I Want You Back" to distract the Yerbanian chancellor while everybody else escapes.
- Product Placement: Trina is seen wearing Nike Air Prestige III's in this episode.
- Shout-Out:
- Sikowitz: (to Robbie, after killing the Chancellor's octopus) Way to go, Urkel.
- The scene where Tori and the gang escape the prison, and everyone realizes they're gone is like the climax of The Sound of Music.
