Sam & Cat (TV Series) #FirstClassProblems (2014) User Reviews

If it were a finale this would be semi decent but...

[NewOCFan · 10/10 · 29 April 2014]

As a regular episode, as it has been filmed, it's a really good one! It may be a final one since Jennette McCurdy is no longer happy with the network and Ariana Grande is more focused on her music. So Sam & Cat babysit two very spoiled kids that can only seem to do things based on their schedule. They get offered first class tickets for a flight to the Bahamas if they escort the Baums children there since not even their parents like flying with them. But they forgot to bring their timers they usually have on them and get Dice and Goomer to bring the timers to the airport. There's a couple of jokes about the airport security in this episode which I really liked such as the one security guard completely missing the man that went through the metal detector behind his back and caused it to beep. Goomer and Dice bring the timers in a bag but Goomer makes the terrible mistake of saying he brought timers for the Baums as everyone believes he means bombs. The show really felt more like one for adults with this episode. If there was any evidence that this show could also be for adults, besides the fact that Sam & Cat lived together independently from parents or have faced some problems adults do go through but in a more comical fashion, this episode was a big one. Goomer and Dice get interrogated by two people and the whole time Goomer is interrogated it's very funny! In fact, this time around, Sam, Dice and Goomer, got more of a chance to shine and make one laugh than Cat did, that's what I noticed. Meanwhile, Sam & Cat and the Baums children wait for their flight and we come across those people that might fill up the chairs around them with luggage and other stuff, Coco from Zoey 101, and then they have to wait for other people to get on the plane even though they're first class and each time they think they'll be next it'll be somebody else. I was surprised Sam never pretended she had a pet so they could get on the plane to be honest. Dice and Goomer start arguing because Goomer talking during their interrogation isn't helping either one of them at all. Goomer gets chocolate milk like he wanted ever since getting arrested and he splashes it in the two agents' faces and he and Dice take off. Sam & Cat are finally able to pass through the gate to the plane but are closed off when the airport is on a lockdown because of Dice and Goomer. And what's worse for them is everyone else that's on the plane gets to leave but Sam & Cat and the Baums children and everyone else are kept back from going for awhile. As a sudden finale, I could just say Sam & Cat went to the Bahamas and that's the last we see of them: in paradise. As a regular episode, it's still alright. I found it very enjoyable and exciting, for a last episode that may have been filmed for the show. In case things aren't patched up with everyone on the Sam & Cat team, I'll say now that this show has been a fun one nonetheless. Funny, sweet, sometimes even suspenseful and once surprising, full of throwback to iCarly and Victorious, and even emotional at times. All in one season. A big thank you to the team for bringing us a good show and one I already have fond memories based around this show. If this is the end, goodbye Sam & Cat. It was fun while it lasted and hopefully everyone can move on to great(er) things for themselves.

Wasted Potential

[rcwriteshonestreviews · 2/10 · 25 January 2022]

The start of the episode was quite funny as we get an insight into the rich kids and how they behave (plus the water Sam gives them.) However things quickly get frustrating when Dice and Goomer are accused of bringing timers for bombs into the airport (when in actuality it was a yeast timer for the Baums kids.) Watching them trying and failing to explain what happened and Goomer not being funny, just annoying was just painful to watch, scenes like that can be done right and I've seen that before in a deleted 'Friends' scene, but this was done so wrong.

Sam and Cat waiting to be boarded wasn't as frustrating but wasn't that enjoyable either apart from the "Ravioli Woman." Once Goomer breaks out with Dice, the airport gets shut down, preventing Sam and Cat from boarding with the Baums kids, however right after, the yeast timer goes off which does little to save the episode...at all. I think it could've been so much funnier if they tried.