History Series / SamAndCat

* ItIsDehumanizing: Nora calls Dice 'it' after kidnapping her, showing all he is to her is a way to hurt Sam.

* JustOneMoreLevel: The plot of [#BrainCrush] involves everyone besides the duo becoming endlessly obsessed with the titular game.

** Sam returns to this role with gusto in Episode 6, doing a series of small but insulting things to Cat throughout the episode, and still winds up getting a bedroom. This can be explained, however, by Cat being the type to forgive and forget easily.

** In "[=#MadAboutShoe=]" Sam impersonates a nurse and she and Cat jump through a (closed) window to escape as part of their successful attempt to steal a hospitalised girl's pink shoe so Cat can have the matching pair (ItMakesSenseInContext). So that's theft, impersonation and destruction of hospital property... and do they get caught? Er, no.

** Lampshaded in the episode "[=#FavoriteShow=]."

** "[=#MotorcycleMystery=]" is essentially ''Film/TheHangover'' that centers on Cat.

*** Nona's past lovers include pro basketball legend [=Bob McAdoo=] and [[RhymesOnADime the poet laureate of game shows]] Nipsey Russell. Perhaps they knew WhereDaWhiteWomenAt.

* TruncatedThemeTune: The theme song when it plays in "[=#BlooperEpisode=]" is a few lines shorter.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In "[=#TheKillerTunaJump=]," Robbie shows up without [[CompanionCube Rex]] by his side. No one of the ''Victorious'' cast wonders where the puppet is. To boot, Robbie ''really'' can't go anywhere with Rex or else he goes crazy.

** In "[=#SalmonCat=]" Sam thinks the old actresses of Salmon Cat reuniting will end their feud. It looks that way at first, but it ends with the 2 literally at each others throats

* AntiClimax: The titular jump in [=#TheKillerTunaJump=] doesn't happen after Cat falls off the dirtbike, knocking Freddie and Robbie off the shooting point and making Sam save Freddie. The in-universe audience was just as disappointed as the out-of-universe one.

* DancePartyEnding: "[=#Twinfection=]".
* DiagonalBilling. Averted. Unlike ''Series/ShakeItUp'', Creator/JennetteMcCurdy's names appears first in the credits instead of with Music/ArianaGrande. This is likely due to the show being at first a vehicle for Jenette before Ariana was added after ''Victorious'' was cancelled.

*** Nona's past lovers include pro basketball legend [=Bob McAdoo=] and [[RhymesOnADime the poet laureate of game shows]] Nipsey Russell. Perhaps they knew WhereDaWhiteWomenAt
*** The key intersection on Cat's StringTheory board honors 70s mime duo [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shields_and_Yarnell Shields and Yarnell]] (which gets mentioned again in "[=#WeStealARockStar=]").

** This is highly emphasized by the way they style their room.
** Also, Melanie is the Girly Girl to Sam's Tomboy.

** BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Later episodes have them be a mix of being bad babysitters and being battered babysitters.

** Don't cross Cat between her and her bibble, or she'll have a fit.

* JumpingTheShark:[[invoked]] "[=#TheKillerTunaJump=]" is an homage to [[Series/HappyDays the Trope Namer]].

* PreemptiveDeclaration: "I'm sorry I pushed you off the bench."

* {{Retcon}}: Despite meeting each other in "iParty with Victorious", Sam and Cat do not recognize each other. This also extend to Jade, Robbie and Freddie. This suggests either the events of the crossover is non-canon or both casts have a ForgottenFirstMeeting.

** Goomer's mom, after she found out he's a professional fighter.

* GeniusBonus: If one pays close attention, the passage in "[=#TextingCompetition=]" that the competitors need to text is actually UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Sam, after Carly moves away to Italy, has decided to wander the country. Leaving UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, she arrives in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, where she meets Cat. After a day of hijinks that end in the two bonding, as well as being awarded a life time of free cheeseburgers, Sam and Cat decide to live together after Cat's grandmother goes to live in a old folks home. During the day the two babysit three kids, Max, Chloe, and Darby, who were supposed to be babysat by Cat's grandma, the mom, happy with how the two babysat, offers to let them do it again which leads to them starting a babysitting business.

*** Remember how Cat failed as a make up artist in ''Victorious''? Well in ''Sam & Cat'' this was semi-continued. Cat tried to make Dice look younger in "[=#ToddlerClimbing=]". It would've been believable, if they were in the 1940's (mentioned by Sam). In the next episode,Cat tried making Dice look like a teenager, (he's 12) and wound up making him look like hippie.

*** Sam mentions Freddie and brings back the [[ImprovisedWeapon Butter]] [[EpicFlail Sock]] in "[=#ToddlerClimbing=]".

*** Cat's Nona was first mentioned in "Star Spangled Tori", and now makes her appearance in the series.
*** Remember how Cat failed as a make up artist in ''Victorious''? Well in ''Sam & Cat'' this was semi-continued. Cat tried to make Dice look younger in "[=#ToddlerClimbing=]." It would've been believable, if they were in the 1940's (mentioned by Sam). In the next episode,Cat tried making Dice look like a teenager, (he's 12) and wound up making him look like hippie.
*** Also from ''Victorious'', Cat's obsession with an online shopping catalog leads to her ordering "underwear that floats!" One ep of ''Sam and Cat'' has two kids making prank phone calls, leading to a mention of "poof panties".
*** The same ep has Cat running pizza through a juicer, when Sam does something similar in this show. With the addition of root beer.

*** Cat's got every right to overreact to Robbie singing to Sam - he's singing the "I think you're swell" song that ''he wrote for Cat in the first place!''

** "[=#RevengeOfTheBritBrats=]" is a sequel to "[=#TheBritBrats=]."

* AbusiveParents: Butler's mom. She won't let Butler enjoy his childhood because good things keep happening to him, so she want him to participate the texting competition so she can get the prizes.

* GamesOfTheElderly: The episode "The Brit Brats" mostly takes place at Nona's retirement home, where Sam has to help her set up a bingo game in order to get a signature on her community service form. Nona wants a good, memorable game, so Sam set it up as "Extreme Bingo", complete with a rap...that made all of the elders leave within minutes. She later sets up a "Slightly Less Extreme Bingo" with a prize of a new, 5,000 dollar TV. Though the TV prize is all to trick the con-artist kids they're watching, the police show up because such a prize was supposedly illegal in a bingo game.

* UnfortunateName: "[=#FirstClassProblems=]." The last name Baum is an awkward one to have in an airport.

*** The salesman at the Fresno Girl Doll shop has many effeminate mannerisms and speech patterns.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Wouldn't be a Dan Schneider show if it didn't have [[Radar/SamAndCat its own page]].

*** Remember how Cat failed as a make up artist in ''Victorious''? Well in ''Sam & Cat'' this was semi-continued. Cat tried to make Dice look younger in "[=#ToddlerClimbing=]." It would've been believable, if they were in the 1940's (mentioned by Sam). In the next episode, Sam tried making Dice look like a teenager, (he's 12) and wound up making him look like hippie.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The promo for the series finale, "[=#GettinWiggy=]", makes the episode out to a dramatic, intense series finale. In reality, however, the episode plays out as an ordinary episode would, and most of the "dramatic" moments presented in the promo were taken out of context.

* BaitAndSwitch: Cat and Sam take an accident prone boy to Bots where multiple dangers are shown (a man losing his pet tarantula, and fishermen carrying loaded spearguns one of which has a loose trigger). Instead of one of those hurting him, a Bot accidentally squirts him with cheese.

* SayMyName: Cat does this to Robbie when he sings "I Think You're Swell" to Sam, In the episode #TheKillerTunaJump.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Sophia Grace Brownlee's sister Rosie, aka the "[[FanNickname hype girl]]", never sang along with Sophia or even said much of anything in those videos, until she appeared in this show.
** [From "Revenge of the Brit Brats"]
** Cat: Oh, yeah? You're not the only one who can exit angrily! But I better get a sweater first because it's kind of chilly out here... [goes back inside]
** Gwen: [appears out of bushes with Ruby] See, Ruby? Now Sam and Cat hate each other!
** Ruby: We've done it.
** Gwen: Indeed.
** Ruby: Shall we high-five?
** Gwen: No! In America, the cool kids now celebrate with a fist bump. [fist bumps with Ruby]

* MyBelovedSmother: Two boys Sam and Cat babysat fit this a lot. First was Butler from "#Texting Competition" who controls nearly everything about her son, including not allowing him to have his own bike so he can't do things on his own. The second was Oscar from "#Oscar The Ouch" who was very accident prone and whose mother did everything he could to keep him safe. This was deconstructed at the end of the episode when Oscar told his mother that having fun is worth risking getting hurt (which he did in nearly every activity they brought him to).