Talk:Stage Fright/@comment-24215546-20160912004311

This episode was certainly one of Season 9's "standout" episodes, but I don't think it was nesscessarily good.

First off, half of this thing was wasted on a Pirate/Mr. Bickles/Timmy's parents subplot, which wasn't in anyway funny or interesting. Secondly, the way Vicky becomes an actress in this episode felt so forced and lacked justification. It felt like the writers of this episode didn't care about Vicky at all, and just wanted to rush her scenes by throwing in the most cliched, uninteresting, and anti-character development material possible. Since the plot focused so much on Mr. Bickles and pirates, there was no time for Vicky's story of becoming an actress to play out. The writers of this episode were so clueless about where this episode was going, that they just randomly throw Crocker in at the last minute for no apparent reason, turning an otherwise lukewarm episode into a frustrating one.

This episode had so much potential for character development for Vicky, but they absolutely blew it. While this episode surely was a pathetic flop, it was at least better than the rest of Season 9.