Network: Nickelodeon
Running time: 30 min
Episode name: The Great Ping Pong Scam
Targeted group: tweens
Plot: Tori wants to join the Ping Pong team. The team members Cat, Robbie, Beck, and Andre tell her that she needs to ask Jade the team Captain. Tori asked Jade but Jade said “No”. Tori was not going to give up so she asked the guidance counselor to intervene. All Tori got was a try-out but she still didn’t make the team. Tori know wanted to know why she was being rejected after she defeated all Ping Pong members. She asked one of the guys who designed props for the play to build her something big enough so she can spy on the Ping Pong team. He builds her a soda vending machine. She finds out that the team is just a scam. The team uses the $1500 they get for travel expenses and equipment to go to a fancy restaurant. Tori joins the team and goes out to the fancy restaurant. While at the restaurant, Robbie requested the waitress to bring him a big bowl of caviar which brings their bill to $1300. Just them the restaurant’s owner asked the manger about the live music act. The manger tells him that the live entertainment act had an accident and he was not able to book another act. Tori gets the idea of performing to pay for the meal.
Personal Thoughts/Educational Tie Ins: It was wrong of the students to form the team just so they can have a fancy dinner. It was wrong of the teacher to participate in this. It was also of Tori not to bring this up to the principal. They got lucky when the restaurant’s owner agree to let them perform to pay off their debt.
Running time: 30 min
Episode name: The Great Ping Pong Scam
Targeted group: tweens
Plot: Tori wants to join the Ping Pong team. The team members Cat, Robbie, Beck, and Andre tell her that she needs to ask Jade the team Captain. Tori asked Jade but Jade said “No”. Tori was not going to give up so she asked the guidance counselor to intervene. All Tori got was a try-out but she still didn’t make the team. Tori know wanted to know why she was being rejected after she defeated all Ping Pong members. She asked one of the guys who designed props for the play to build her something big enough so she can spy on the Ping Pong team. He builds her a soda vending machine. She finds out that the team is just a scam. The team uses the $1500 they get for travel expenses and equipment to go to a fancy restaurant. Tori joins the team and goes out to the fancy restaurant. While at the restaurant, Robbie requested the waitress to bring him a big bowl of caviar which brings their bill to $1300. Just them the restaurant’s owner asked the manger about the live music act. The manger tells him that the live entertainment act had an accident and he was not able to book another act. Tori gets the idea of performing to pay for the meal.
Personal Thoughts/Educational Tie Ins: It was wrong of the students to form the team just so they can have a fancy dinner. It was wrong of the teacher to participate in this. It was also of Tori not to bring this up to the principal. They got lucky when the restaurant’s owner agree to let them perform to pay off their debt.
