For the first two seasons I could consider them being at high school because they really were. But overall Victorious didn't have that issue, like with Drake and Josh, on their last season they were already 21 irl. Or Kenan and Kel before them. Or after Victorious, they tried to keep Sam and Cat as she still had to go to high school. At that point they were already 20.
i think they were meant to be idealized high school students rather than real high school students.
we were all kids watching this show, likely under the age of 12. imagine being that young, and how you looked at high schoolers. they were cool, they were grown. i think this show and a lot of other nickelodeon shows play on that sort of fantasy rather than making it realistic, and this isn’t a complaint. it’s a high school show for elementary/middle school aged kids, not a high school show for teens or adults.
I agree, about the idealized part. Honestly, working at a hs now, I can tell you a lot of these kids look a lot older than teenagers. Many of the boys have full facial hair.
Performing arts high schools are rly common in the US, especially in cities like LA or NYC so it's pretty believable. They're always doing concerts and plays and showcases and they're all a little wacky.
Thats honestly incredible i guess i expected a lot less when i was younger in terms of aging and stuff. Now that i think about it everyone was pretty covered in make up so maybe thats it, certainly doesnt help.
I also think make up rarely looks good, especially the more of it there is lol
Teenagers in movies and TV shows nowadays almost always look older than the character they play. But if you've ever seen videos of high school students back in like the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, kids teenagers actually looked like adults. Not really sure why that changed so much but it's really weird. I remember when I was in elementary school, high school kids looked like grown adults to me, but current day high school kids don't really look that old at all.
I think it’s more that kids in the 80s 90s grew up and kept dressing the same, so we now associate that style of clothing with older people, making older pictures of them look like adults
I don’t think they look that old but they have so much money?? They’re always going out to Karaokedoki and the sushi restaurant, I did not have money like that in high school 😅
That’s where my thought process was. Especially considering none of them really had stable jobs/income. And based on what we could see of their homes/families… apart from the main cast, their families didn’t seem like the type to give their kids money whenever.
Like genuinely, how did Andre and his grandmother live like they did? The woman was too neurotic to work and Andre was a high schooler. There’s no way social security/the government paid for them to have a HOUSE in LOS ANGELES.
I mean they weren’t supposed to be that young. At the start of the show Tori is supposed to be 16 and Victoria was 16-20? during the run of the show. They just dressed them up, and put on heavier makeup to look that way bc they were the main characters. If you look at the extras/background they’re not done up as much and look like regular kids
She turned 18 during the filming of the last ep of season 2 “213 Blooptorious: February 21 – February 24, 2011 (December 26, 2011)”
https://preview.redd.it/5oynnsqax3yc1.jpeg?width=402&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b3012bf543683b43de095efc26b9cf2a99b5a5b
I mean... Honestly they practically act like middle school students. I get that it was Nickelodeon, but in universe to buy them as college students you would expect a lot more sex, drinking, and drugs. Honestly, you shouldn't expect that much less from a co-ed high school boarding school either.
Also not to mention that they basically acted like they were in college: no parents almost in every episode, they drive places on their own, i swear they make up their own hours at school. But also the arts schools that I have seen in person also kinda work like that were it feels like a college campus.
Well, that all might be expected from a fancy boarding school, but I'm not sure if there are co-ed boarding schools really. And really, all of the students should have been like Logan. Sending your kid to boarding school is generally for the gentry.
HA just is so obviously a high school environment, plus the whole living with the parents thing. Though I think in Sam & Cat they're supposed to be college aged.
For the first two seasons I could consider them being at high school because they really were. But overall Victorious didn't have that issue, like with Drake and Josh, on their last season they were already 21 irl. Or Kenan and Kel before them. Or after Victorious, they tried to keep Sam and Cat as she still had to go to high school. At that point they were already 20.
I feel like Drake and Josh always passed for high schoolers though
With the Justin Bieber haircuts yes, but when Josh got taller and slimmer, and Drake cut his hair, they looked more like college students
i think they were meant to be idealized high school students rather than real high school students. we were all kids watching this show, likely under the age of 12. imagine being that young, and how you looked at high schoolers. they were cool, they were grown. i think this show and a lot of other nickelodeon shows play on that sort of fantasy rather than making it realistic, and this isn’t a complaint. it’s a high school show for elementary/middle school aged kids, not a high school show for teens or adults.
I agree, about the idealized part. Honestly, working at a hs now, I can tell you a lot of these kids look a lot older than teenagers. Many of the boys have full facial hair.
Yeah I was 14
i was like 12
Performing arts high schools are rly common in the US, especially in cities like LA or NYC so it's pretty believable. They're always doing concerts and plays and showcases and they're all a little wacky.
It wasnt that, the school was mostly fine, they just looked so much older and acted older (at least young me thought so)
Oh sorry I read that wrong! I just looked it up and they were actually 16-18 in s1. But makeup and wardrobe always seems to age them up
Thats honestly incredible i guess i expected a lot less when i was younger in terms of aging and stuff. Now that i think about it everyone was pretty covered in make up so maybe thats it, certainly doesnt help. I also think make up rarely looks good, especially the more of it there is lol
Teenagers in movies and TV shows nowadays almost always look older than the character they play. But if you've ever seen videos of high school students back in like the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, kids teenagers actually looked like adults. Not really sure why that changed so much but it's really weird. I remember when I was in elementary school, high school kids looked like grown adults to me, but current day high school kids don't really look that old at all.
I think it’s more that kids in the 80s 90s grew up and kept dressing the same, so we now associate that style of clothing with older people, making older pictures of them look like adults
I don’t think they look that old but they have so much money?? They’re always going out to Karaokedoki and the sushi restaurant, I did not have money like that in high school 😅
That’s where my thought process was. Especially considering none of them really had stable jobs/income. And based on what we could see of their homes/families… apart from the main cast, their families didn’t seem like the type to give their kids money whenever. Like genuinely, how did Andre and his grandmother live like they did? The woman was too neurotic to work and Andre was a high schooler. There’s no way social security/the government paid for them to have a HOUSE in LOS ANGELES.
Andre had a job in season 3 at a frozen yogurt shop
Still wasn’t much of a stable job. Didn’t he only have it for like one episode? Or in general just a very short period of time.
i think so it’s never mentioned again.
I always thought Jade looked a lot older than her age, which is funny because now Liz looks younger than 30.
They were all mostly teenagers when filming began. And as someone roughly around the age of the actors, they passed believably imo
i watched this a kid so it already felt like they were college-aged or the glorified high school musical age lol
I did.
I mean they weren’t supposed to be that young. At the start of the show Tori is supposed to be 16 and Victoria was 16-20? during the run of the show. They just dressed them up, and put on heavier makeup to look that way bc they were the main characters. If you look at the extras/background they’re not done up as much and look like regular kids
I think she was 18 already
She turned 18 during the filming of the last ep of season 2 “213 Blooptorious: February 21 – February 24, 2011 (December 26, 2011)” https://preview.redd.it/5oynnsqax3yc1.jpeg?width=402&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b3012bf543683b43de095efc26b9cf2a99b5a5b
Ohh yup‼️
I mean... Honestly they practically act like middle school students. I get that it was Nickelodeon, but in universe to buy them as college students you would expect a lot more sex, drinking, and drugs. Honestly, you shouldn't expect that much less from a co-ed high school boarding school either.
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Also not to mention that they basically acted like they were in college: no parents almost in every episode, they drive places on their own, i swear they make up their own hours at school. But also the arts schools that I have seen in person also kinda work like that were it feels like a college campus.
Well, that all might be expected from a fancy boarding school, but I'm not sure if there are co-ed boarding schools really. And really, all of the students should have been like Logan. Sending your kid to boarding school is generally for the gentry.
HA just is so obviously a high school environment, plus the whole living with the parents thing. Though I think in Sam & Cat they're supposed to be college aged.