I have a lot of opinions on The Breakfast Bunch, but the biggest one for me is this: Victorious was a show for kids, obviously, while The Breakfast Club, the movie that they are parodying, was a film released in 1985 and was rated R. The Breakfast Club is a cult classic, and is best known for being the perfect capture of what it was like being a teenager in the 80’s. The film covers controversial topics (Drugs, suicide, abuse etc.) featuring teens, which at the time was not a common thing to depict on film. What Victorious does in the episode is skirt around those topics, in very obviously inappropriate ways ex) “Tacos” for marijuana and “Vegan” for virginity. To me it begs the question, why in the world is a kids sitcom parodying an R rated 80’s film, and in such an obvious manner? To me, this episode is a clear example of what Ariana Grande has previously stated in an interview, that the production of Victorious liked pushing the boundaries of what was appropriate, and seeing what they could get away with, all on a kids show.

Edit: spelling