Did yall noticed that Rex look like Beck. Robbie kind of idolizes Beck so maybe Robbie lives the life he actually would want through Rex since Rex also tends to be more popular than him

Jade's always the one abusing rex because Rex [or robbie as rex] usually says super sexist or down right rude things to her. Im just glad shes beating up the puppet and not Robbie.

Early Rex was scary af

So, Robbie is commercializing the fact that no one believes Rex is alive. Simple. He's actually a mastermind that wanted to attend a renowned school

I feel like saying Rex is actually a puppet, is the MORE fun theory. Cause it’s a lot more interesting if Robbie has split personalties showing through different puppets, instead of just saying that Rex is real.

We need one on Tori’s parents too!

The existence of the doll girl from Sam and Cat really helps the Rex is real debate imo. She was shown as just a doll that didnt move or anything from the viewers POV. When they took the doll to a concert the singer got mad and kicked them out cuz he said that the "creepy doll" kept showing up everywhere he went, at the end of the episode the doll became a girl. The Dan Schnieder universe had super heroes and super villains (one that even dresses up and pretends to be a baby) so a sentient doll isnt surprising.

I was so prepared for Rex and Robbie talking at the same time being mentioned and then it never happened ?? 😭

I can't get over the fact you sighted the wii game as a source for rex being real 💀

I want to note that “multiply personality disorder”, known more modernly as DID, is different than psychosis. If we were arguing that Robbie has psychosis, his beliefs about Rex would be more easily explained as a delusion. Rather than Rex being an alter, Robbie experiences complex delusions that he and other puppets are sentient. That could explain why he claims Rex does things without him, because he genuinely believes it despite evidence to the contrary. From a quick Wikipedia dive I’d say this would be a case of delusional companion syndrome. This is “most often identified in patients who suffer from damage to the brain due to physical trauma, neuronal degeneration or developmental abnormalities”, and focuses on comfort objects like toys. In one case, a mother who lost custody of her children experienced delusional companion syndrome with a baby doll, and even took this doll to the hospital because she was concerned for its health. With delusions like this, it is actually a bad idea to try to force the sufferer to acknowledge that their delusions arent true (or “reality check” them) because it will just cause further agitation and by the nature of a delusion, you’re not going to be able to convince them. … Anyways, that’s just an interesting tidbit if you were convinced of the psychological side. I think it is funnier to consider Rex as partially real, and less depressing, but Victorious is a weirdly depressing show overall if you think about any of the characters personally lives for too long.

It's revealed in one of the later seasons that Robbie's talent was actually supposed to be stand up comedy and not ventriloquism so I mean you're right about that

The Rex being a "puppet" is simply debunked by the fact that he's either bored or unconscious.

Whoever came up with the idea of Robbie/Rex must have been a fan of the late 70s sitcom SOAP. That show also had a character who always went around with an eccentric puppet.

Just cause Rex *says* he's out partying the night before, doesn't mean he was actually out without Robbie. Robbie could just be really into the bit and saying that. I'm on the side of Rex being real tbh but I feel like pointing at him implying he has a life through conversation is pretty weak.

I've always considered that Rex is alive. Especially since super heroes are canon in the universe.

I know people hate the rex killed trina debate, but this episode just made me think Rex is a paranormal being like Chucky and why he is a psychopath. But do agree that Robbie is misyongistic and is hiding how he really feels by speaking through Rex.

Robbie’s actual talent is just being a gateway to some sort of spirit world and Rex, while usually being a puppet, is possessed by one of those spirits whenever Robbie needs him to speak or whenever the spirit thinks it would be funniest.

I would love to see you do a video exploring cat valentine and her brother and stuff (yes IK people have done this but I like the way you dissect everything the most)

Christopher Cane being apparently an adult with a wife having a crush on Victoria Justice who I think was a teenager at the time was super uncomfortable.

I would enjoy a video about the flawed worldbuilding and lack of consistency in the Shniderverse, as I myself have noticed such flaws as a kid. I don't remember any, other than the "is this a fictional show within the show, or just real within the same world?" inconsistencies, but I'm sure I've seen more,

I just found your channel and I’m already binging! Just wanted to let you know that the correct term for what used to be know as multiple personality disorder or split personality is Dissociative Identity Disorder, and the different ‘personalities’ and referred to as alters

i love the idea that rex is a puppet and an extention of robbie. i think it makes robbie so much more interesting and flushed out as a character

Btw multiple personality disorder is not a mental disorder. It was removed from the DSM and ICD and it was replaced with disassociated identity disorder(DID). Also DID is not a psychosis disorder. A psychosis disorder would be something like schizophrenia. A psychotic disorder is when the disorder messes with your perception of reality. DID does not change your perception of reality. Furthermore, if Robbie does have DID then he is missing a lot of the symptoms needed for a diagnosis. The only symptom he has is the appearance of multiple personalities. Robbie's symptoms align more with schizophrenia than DID.

I don’t know if I’m overanalyzing this but for the interview portion, I’ve never watched the icarly version but I have seen the victorious version. Some people would say that Robbie is Dans self insert since he is pervy and creepy. So it wouldn’t be surprising that Rex would be the same since Robbie is the voice of Rex. Rex has a disdain for Jerry Trainor, which aligns with Dan as well. Jerry would always protect the icarly kids and get in the way of Dans perverted actions make his self insert and Jerry hate one another. Idk it’s all so weird. Also the fact that Rex is in love with Victoria Justice, which aligns with Dan as well because he might have thought that Vic would be making it big and he had an infatuation with all of the girls on set.

What happened to him after victorious? Did he get abandoned and someone found him or was he placed in the Nickelodeon museum of pops?

I see where you are coming from but I do feel that some of your points could just be because of Robbie wanting Rex to feel more real. For example, Robbie could just be saying that Rex has plans to make it seem like he has his own life. Robbie could have put Rex in Tori’s bag and made up the scenario of finding him. He could have just been fake sneezing for Rex. All of this could have just been made up within Robbie’s mind to make it more real to him. Maybe Rex does meet up with the girls or rly did sneak into the bag, I haven’t watched the show in a while, but that’s how I see it. Sorry if there’s any typos

There is a mandela effect where people remember an episode where rex and Robbie meet when Robbie is 9 he goes into a saloon on holiday and when he's waiting for his lollipop he starts talking to rex and the bartender says that Robbie got him to talk and that he hasn't talked since his last owner left him here. Then Robbie takes rex home and has had him ever since. I've looked for the original episode but no where has it so I think it's a mandela effect

I think Robbie just has spilt personally or DID and Rex is just a manifestation of Robbie's supposed negative feelings, if was going to describe him he's basically Arnold Wesker/The Ventriloquist and split personality Scarface from Batman but if they were a socially awkward nerdy teenagers, hell even Robbie gotten upset when Tori damaged the Rex doll like like if Rex was a real person, just like when Wesker gotten upset when the Scarface doll got shot down gangster style back in the end of their first episode of Batman TAS. They even have nightmares about their respective spilt personalities.

18:48 this could be seen as evidence of Rex being a real boy, but it's even funnier if you look at it through the multiple personalities theory because then it means that either Robbie occasionally enters a fugue state where he drew a hickey on Rex or Rex berated and ordered Robbie to do it and then intimidated him into pretending that it's real

A funny head cannon is that a kid Robbie got Rex as a gift or was drawn to him at a flea market and either way promised a super nerdy loser Robbie that he could make him cool and popular if they promise to be “friends forever” And that seemed like a no brainer of a deal as thanks to him Robbie got into a super cool high school by pretending he has talent by fake a “performance” with Rex but luckily he got by in school as he has talent in the nerdier side of production like lights being originally friends with Sinjin but as he’s less gross he got in with the cool kids to help with their projects and maybe regular school stuff but Rex made him think it was down to him and if he got rid of him then Robbie would be friendless But his friendships grew especially with Beck and Cat so Rex has to bully Robbie to keep him thinking he still needs him But luckily his friends do eventually show him that he’s better without Rex and they should part (Tori made it take longer though) but when Rex was gone Robbie had better luck with Cat and was happier overall and still had all his friends showing that Rex was the loser all along and couldn’t even make good on his side of deal with Robbie giving him “life” as he knows less than Robbie about girls and what’s “cool”

Idk if I agree but very interesting video! For me things like Rex having an active dating life comes off as it’s actually Robbie but the only way he can get the confidence to attend dates or hookup with girls is through Rex. He goes along to these dates telling himself it is Rex’s date when in reality it’s Robbie’s with a girl who probably has a weird fascination with the idea of dating a mentally ill man or saying she hooked up with a puppet. Additionally I could see a girl getting charmed by Rex but thinking “oh this Robbie guy is a flirt” because of the assumption that Robbie IS Rex. Like they think he’s doing a weird pickup line or something

Ngl- what if Rex decides to appear not real to everyone but Robbie to mess up Robbie even more? Like, “now everyone thinks you’re a loser AND insane”?? Definitely giving Robbie a harder time- as well as the whole “getting injured” thing- Rex knows Robbie cares about him, he could definitely play along with playing dead and what not, fully aware of the mentality of Robbie but also slightly aware of Tori, Cat, whoever- knowing Tori isn’t cruel enough to hurt Robbie by letting Rex “stay dead”, etc THAT seems like it makes the most sense, at least to me :))

I always thought that Rex was just a physical outlet for Robbie's schizophrenic second personality. That's why Robbie was like half dead without Rex: Because they are one soul.

I can’t wait for the Schneiderverse video

Cat's Brother please

now i wanna do an in-depth analysis/phycological diagnosis on robbie😭

Hey, thanks for the amazing video, I'm a huge Cabbie shipper so I would love to see an analysis of the interesting, weird but often wholesome relationship of Cat and Robbie as I ship them way more than Beck and Jade.

Reupload and we will be rewatching fuck youtube copyright

The thing about Rex is you can see Robbie’s mouth move even when Rex is put down he’s just a creep with a puppet.

Idk, if rex is part of Robbie as an identity then it’s important that he’s able to communicate with rex and that rex is treated as a person, but if it’s psychosis that’s completely different- an imaginary person from a psychotic belief is very very different than a split personality- the treatments are very different too because DID and split personalities are actually all one person who’s brain wasn’t able to make the proper connections in childhood due to trauma, psychotic hallucinations is the brain malfunctioning and receiving improper signals- You heal from psychosis with medication for the most part, DID on the other hand is healed by building connections between the personalities

I’m excited to watch this, Robbie was my favorite character!

I went to a magic camp for young magicians. There was a guy who was 16 or 17 who carried around a puppet and constantly did ventriloquism with it. Everybody just sorta played along with it, so it kinda makes sense.

I mean the idea that Robbie is just insane and has a puppet with whom he expresses his personality disorder is ultimately more funny then just a regular speaking puppet. Imagine there is a guy in school who is just insane and talks with his puppet all day and thinks it is an actual person. That would be pretty funny.

I love it when ventriloquist characters are addressed as plural

Are you from the Caribbean? Some of your pronunciations are reminiscent of how my family speaks (we’re Jamaican) and my Bahamian friend too!

thinking about the 18 hour voctorious videos again.....

31:20 is when i knew i had to like and subscribe

I have a cool head cannon for Robbie. Basically he was bullied, hard, throughout school. Possibly by women primarily hence his misogyny. But either way he figured out the way to get the bullying to stop was to beat them to the punch, self deprecating humor so they were laughing with him not at him. Rex became his way to tell the jokes, and he essentially became a court Jester making the royals laugh and when he wasn’t funny he was back to the bullying. So Rex became a self defense mechanism, hence why he always panics whenever Rex isn’t at his side, and it got to the point that Robbie wasn’t even thinking about the things he made Rex said. Hence why he’ll sometimes seemed shocked at what Rex says or does, or even talk to Rex when no one else is around. Since to an extent he can talk to Rex, having a full conversation a bit.

I've been waiting for someone to make this video for so long ! thank you

25:22 so this is how I found out Christopher cane doesn’t actually exist?

oh yes, Schrödinger’s Rex

i just want to say that for theory 1, Robbie wouldn’t have DID or formally known as “split personality disorder” he would have schizophrenia. This is because Robbie has hallucinations when not having Rex. Because people with DID, for one, don’t develop fully formed alters until their 30’s. also they don’t perceive their alters through inanimate objects.

Cat as rex was truly one of the most troubling things ive seen in a while

Considering that superheroes exist in this world, Rex actually being alive wouldn’t be that out there

Can you do a video about the parents from Disney's Jessie? They were terrible parents tbh

That ending had me dying 😂😂

i wonder if there was a "rule" in the writer's room about rex being alive or a puppet, or if the rule was just "whatever is funnier for the episode"

I can’t remember the actors name but that’s not a puppet. That’s an actual person, he hosts the clip show episodes.

I think Robby is my favourite Tally Hall member

honestly, he's like a less evil Slappy from Goosebumps

I think that Rex is just a separate entity from Rex who sometimes acts like a p-word in order not to raise suspicions

The first option is if it was in our world the second it's in victorius universe

WHATTTT…. Matt isn’t the voice of Rex?! Okay now I’m heartbroken and shaken

just subbed, this guy is amazing.

I love the rex dies part on this video on here today

there is kind of depression where depressed person makes fun of themselves (sometimes saying really rude or hurtful things about themselves), in order to seem fun

Great video, keep up the great work

this is the best video essay ive ever seen.

0:54 I just discovered your channel today and watched a few vids. Love the work you put into these. I just started this video. Less than 1 min in and I’m immediately reminded of professional ventriloquists who say that they consider their dummy or puppet real. Candace Bergen was a famous actress who played Murphy Brown in the 1990’s. Her father was a famous ventriloquist in the 1950’s and his puppet was treated as a member of their family. It had its own room and a seat at the table during mealtimes. The puppet was effectively her little brother. Performers will sometimes say that when they’re on stage with the puppet, and it’s time for them to change their voice to speak as the puppet, the ventriloquist will forget and just stare at the puppet waiting for it, the puppet, to talk and say it’s line. The ventriloquist will forget they’re just a doll and they speak for them. So weird. 🫢

Imagine if Rex's "death" stuck and Robbie was plagued by hallucinations for the rest of the show

I quote “YOU DONT KNOW WHAT I GOT!” all the time still 😂

Wonderland mention- goodbye Diana lives in my mind

I watched all of Quinton Review's iCarly miniseries, I am very over prepared

Love the video. Desperately wish you blurred out that snot scene oh my gosh my eyes. 😭

i literally died laughing at the end when you said that whole schpiel about why you’re right LOLL i love it

the video title would kill a victorian child lmao

Ngl I feel like Rex is just what Robbie wants to say but cant

the amount of ads on this video is insane

Couldn't it be both like a split personality that became a own being similar to Diavolo in JoJo

What if Ricks and Plank meet each other!?

Best video outro I've ever seen😂

It’s always interesting to hear the original voices of something you watched as a kid. Rex sounds so weird. If Rex is an actor, then both are just right. Because he’s both alive as an actor, but also playing a doll on the show

The conclusion ate up tho!!😂😂

how does this have less than 1k💀💀 fuck the algorithm

The vast majority of people prioritize unimportant and useless things if you hadn't noticed, at least you acknowledge the fact, thats respectable, you don't/can't have/do anything particularly helpful (which is untrue for all bigger youtubes for example yet they choose to not use their influence to help except a select few) so you make this, that makes logical sense, unlike the hundreds of millions to billions of people who focus on unimportant/useless things yet have the wealth influence or general power to do something about it, for example I have none of the 3 so I can only hope for an opportunity to arise

the ending of this video is so unhinged 😭

My personal belief is a combination of the DID and the Alive version. Personally, I think that Robbie has a kind of latent knowledge or ability, whether he is aware of it or not, that brought Rex to life as an outside voice for Robbie's other main/most prevalent personality. Scenes where Rex is 'not real' are sort of like those parts where an alter is not present in the front/cofronting. The alter was out, so on some level, and on some occasions, Robbie was partially controlling Rex. But most of the time, it was the alter, Rex, possessing/controlling the puppet. Also, when Rex is 'off on his own', such as in the party example, or Rex making other plans, this could refer to other alters in the system, whether Robbie is aware that they are there or not. Perhaps Robbie doesn't know about the alters, and does think Rex is going out, but really, Rex is just going to move the puppet body and then have a night with another alter in the mind space. Or maybe Robbie does know, and is just peeved that Rex wants to hang out with other alters instead of him. As for Rex showing up less and less, I see this to mean that either Rex was a protective alter, and was needed less and less to shield Robbie, or Robbie's alter used to be a little, maybe a bit older of a little, like 10-11, and Rex was, still a protective alter, watching over him. But then the alter of Robbie grew up, either all at once or gradually, and Rex just wasn't needed to protect him.

Rex is a physical representation of Robbie's compartmentalized toxic masculinity/homophobia he was surrounded by as a child.

Robbie and Rex are based on Stine and Slappy.

Would love to see you cover. Ore things!

My theory is, if we do the all the shows are connected theory, that Robbie has a superpower. Since shows like henry danger and the thundermans exist i like to imagine that Robbie's power is that whenever he puts his hand in a puppet it becomes sentient but because he is in one of the normal shows everyone just thinks he's crazy.

Rex is just a puppet in universe but treated like an actor on set. The instances that seem like he acted independently are just robbie forgetting or blacking out when he had rex do it or robbie is just imagining rex's plansand rexa actor is still in character when driving. Simple

Obviously Rex, the puppet in the show isn’t real, but he’s played by a real puppet actor

like i sead he is like a zumpakto were he need some one to "use" him to move or speak

Lmao that last bit almost got me 😅💀

Toy story energy here

31:51 ok so Ik you were saying just kidding to everything you just said or r u kidding about thinking Rex is real cuz I got confused LMAOO

They remind me of Scarface and ventriquilist.

KZfaq is so lame bro This was doing good views too

The conclusion was so funny 😭😭😭