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.

Trina's birthday is a big deal in her world and because of this, Tori struggles to find the perfect birthday gift for Trina. André suggests that she writes a song, so as a gift from the heart. She then decides to write an amazing pop song for Trina as a present. However, an ungrateful Trina decides to turn her birthday gift into cash by selling the song, because she thinks it isn't an actual gift since Tori didn't spend any money on it. Meanwhile, Robbie is asked by his grandmother to teach her about computers, and Cat decides to tag along. She regrets it, however, when Robbie's Grandmother shows a deep dislike of her.

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.

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.

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.

A heat wave hits L.A. and Tori and the gang decide to go to Venice Beach to cool off. Beck volunteers to take everyone in his Airstream RV. Once there, Cat leaves to find a bathroom while the rest of the gang stay back to get their beach stuff ready. They try to leave but the vehicle door is blocked another RV, leaving them trapped in the unbearable heat. Meanwhile, Cat is hanging out with four boys, not knowing about the gang's horrible ordeal.

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 accidentally gets Beck fired from his role in a film while Robbie starts to have nightmares about his best friend.

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

Cat's new boyfriend happens to be Tori's old boyfriend, and she struggles to restrain her jealousy. Meanwhile Trina gets all her friends into using some illegally imported fish to get smoother feet.

Jade and Cat participate in a karaoke singing competition at Karaoke Dokie with Hayley Ferguson and her friend Terra, and even though the crowd enjoyed Jade and Cat's song more, Hayley won because her dad owned the karaoke place. Meanwhile, Tori is stuck at home taking care of Trina, who is in massive pain due to her wisdom teeth being removed. Angry that Hayley and Terra cheated, Jade makes up a scheme involving Tori. The next day, Jade and Cat show up and bet Hayley and Terra that anyone in the place could impress the audience more, so Hayley picks a hideous girl to compete against (who is actually Tori in disguise) thinking that "Ugly Betty" will lose easily. If Hayley and Terra win, Hayley gets to make out with Beck, and if they lose, they have to take care of Trina whom Cat and Jade know will be torture to work with. However, Tori surprises everyone (except for Andre, Beck, Cat, Jade, and Robbie who know about the plan) especially Hayley and Terra, by taking off her ugly girl disguise and revealing her true self, including her song "Freak the Freak Out". The audience loved Tori more than Hayley, and Hayley and Terra end up having to take care of Trina. In the end, Tori's drama teacher Mr. Sikowitz sings "Number One" by Ginger Fox (from iCarly).

Jade and Cat participate in a karaoke singing competition at Karaoke Dokie with Hayley Ferguson and her friend Terra, and even though the crowd enjoyed Jade and Cat's song more, Hayley won because her dad owned the karaoke place. Meanwhile, Tori is stuck at home taking care of Trina, who is in massive pain due to her wisdom teeth being removed. Angry that Hayley and Terra cheated, Jade makes up a scheme involving Tori. The next day, Jade and Cat show up and bet Hayley and Terra that anyone in the place could impress the audience more, so Hayley picks a hideous girl to compete against (who is actually Tori in disguise) thinking that "Ugly Betty" will lose easily. If Hayley and Terra win, Hayley gets to make out with Beck, and if they lose, they have to take care of Trina whom Cat and Jade know will be torture to work with. However, Tori surprises everyone (except for Andre, Beck, Cat, Jade, and Robbie who know about the plan) especially Hayley and Terra, by taking off her ugly girl disguise and revealing her true self, including her song "Freak the Freak Out". The audience loved Tori more than Hayley, and Hayley and Terra end up having to take care of Trina. In the end, Tori's drama teacher Mr. Sikowitz sings "Number One" by Ginger Fox (from iCarly).

A giant turbo fan for the school stage ends up putting Rex's "life" at risk.

Tori and her friends are booked to perform at a little kid's birthday party. Also André gets the chance of a lifetime when he meets a record producer that might sign him to a record label. But his chances of getting signed are in jeopardy when a video of him and the others performing at the birthday party is leaked on the internet.

Jade writes her own play called "Well Wishes" and wants to perform it at the school, but the school won't let her because they said its too wierd. So Tori decides to help Jade put on the play herself.

Tori, Andre, Beck and Jade are chosen to be the stars of a reality show being filmed at Hollywood Arts called "The Wood". But, the show makes some of the stars look bad. Meanwhile, Robbie and Trina are forced to work at the Glub Truck after hurting the owner.

Tori and her friends are excited to work on a film directed by popular director Dale Squires, who unfortunately makes the kids do all the work, while he takes the credit. Beck helps Robbie fix an old car that his uncle gave him, after it breaks down in a bad neighborhood.

Improv teacher Erwin Sikowitz hosts a sleepover party at his residence so that the kids can learn about method acting.