Tori Vega gets the chance of a lifetime, after filling in for her sister's performing act, she is given the opportunity to attend the elite Hollywood Arts High School. However, fitting in proves difficult when she is targeted by Jade when she sees her with her boyfriend, which causes her to wonder if she truly belongs there.

Tori finds out that everyone who attends Hollywood Arts must complete "The Bird Scene." So, she works hard on preparing the monologue for her drama class. Elsewhere, André and Robbie enroll in a ballet class to meet girls, but their plan backfires.

Tori gets a chance to perform an act of stage fighting, but things look bad for her when she gets paired up with Jade. However, when the two perform their scene, she encounters a problem when she is accused of deliberately hurting Jade during a fight scene. Meanwhile, Trina struggles with Robbie's constant displays of affection after an on-stage kiss.

Jade has second thoughts about breaking up with Beck, so she asks Tori to help her win Beck back. Also, Robbie warns Trina that she is going to get a bad review for her one-woman show.

Robbie is running into problems with his video news blog because it is stale and not very popular. However, Tori tells him that he can make it more interesting by uploading videos of his classmates' lives. Unfortunately, Robbie gets into trouble with his classmates when he goes too far. Meanwhile, Cat gets addicted to online-shopping.

Tori and Trina are on a plane ride which is delayed, and keeps Tori from finishing a homework assignment for script writing class, so she agrees to work on the script through a video chat with the help of Beck, Andre, and Cat. Unfortunateley, all end up facing distractions during the assignment. Among these distractions, Andre has to deal with his crazed grandmother, Beck is distracted by the jealousy of Jade, Cat is distracted by the special effects on her computer, and Tori is distracted by a fight between Trina and a little boy who keeps kicking her back seat.

Tori can't figure out why Jade, Beck, André, Cat, and Robbie won't let her join the Hollywood Arts ping-pong team.

Cat and Jade get banned from a hip karaoke bar. Meanwhile, Tori nurses Trina after her wisdom teeth are removed.

Tori encounters some bad luck when she gets a bad makeup job, which leaves her looking like a zombie. Things go from bad to worse when Tori has to give her first lead performance looking like a zombie on opening night.

The Full Moon Jam is coming up. The cutest boy in school wants to perform a duet with Tori, but she finds out he has a reputation. Is Tori just having trust issues or is this guy bad news?

Tori auditions for a role in a movie. But after exaggerating on her resume, she gets hired as a stunt double. When Tori finds out her stunt is falling off a building, she's not sure she can do it.

Trina and her friends take a vacation in a country that turns out to be a ruthless dictatorship, that arrests them on trumped-up charges.

Tori and her pals have only one night to get a float to the big parade for a chance to be on television. The effort to do so becomes more difficult when they get stuck in a dangerous part of Los Angeles while trying to transport their float to the parade.

It's holiday time at Hollywood Arts and the kids have to find the perfect Secret Santa gifts for each other because whoever gives the worst gift has to go door-to-door yodeling with Sikowitz.

After a lunch mishap, Tori, Andre, Robbie, Beck, Jade, and Cat are forced to spend Saturday in detention.

After being told to take more risks, Tori goes to a dangerous underground club called the Gorilla Club which includes doing potentially life-threatening activities. Meanwhile, Andre and Robbie are forced to dance like "M.C. Hammer" in front of Jade after losing to her in poker.

Tori notices some changes in her friend Andre, whose girlfriend seems to be overbearing and controlling. Meanwhile, Jade and Cat try to earn easy money dog-sitting in Beverly Hills.

Tori wins a contest to sing the opening number at a big music awards show, but the producer wants to totally change her look and behavior. Tori agrees, but finds that she doesn't like her new image.

Wearing a blond wig from a movie shoot, Cat meets and falls for a boy named Evan Smith. When she finds out he prefers blondes, she decides to continue the ruse.

Tori and Beck go on a date where they do things not typically done on dates

André stays with Tori to work on a song, but they hit a dissonant chord as roommates. A compromising photo of Jade appears on the internet.

Tori and the gang are caught up in a competition to see who can get the most followers on The Slap.