Thomas has fulfilled one of the dreams of his life, appearing on a Disney show. So the Sanders Sides appear to ask him how the experience was.Thomas has fulfilled one of the dreams of his life, appearing on a Disney show. So the Sanders Sides appear to ask him how the experience was.Thomas has fulfilled one of the dreams of his life, appearing on a Disney show. So the Sanders Sides appear to ask him how the experience was.
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- Thomas Sanders(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis episode was done as an announcement of Thomas Sanders' upcoming appearance in an episode of Bizaardvark (2016) that was going to be premiered on Disney Channel in less than a week.
- GoofsWhen Anxiety enters in this episode, he rises up instead of suddenly appearing as he does in all of the rest of his entrances. This apparently trivial detail would create an issue as in the second season, in Moving On Part 2: Dealing With a Breakup (2017), it was established, for yet undisclosed but important reasons in the story arc of season 2, that when Anxiety rises up instead of suddenly appearing, he gets dizzy and lightheaded, and he says he never did rise up before, contradicting this episode.
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Logic: Clickbait works, Thomas! You put STORYTIME and then something like...
Princey: [overdramatic voice, zoom to the eyes and the sentences on the screen while a dramatic chord sounds] I kept Disney Channel stars from starving?
Thomas: [calmly] I gave someone on the set a sandwich.
Logic: I almost died on a Disney Channel Set?
Thomas: Completely untrue.
Anxiety: The Dark Side of Disney!
Thomas: [a little annoyed] That was the title of a video from a couple of weeks ago!
Dad: [muffling, the screen is covered with question marks] Weee... weee... weee... weee... woooo... weee... wah...
Thomas: [really annoyed] Would everyone just STOP?
Dad: [zoomed out, with a piece of pizza in his hand] Sorry, I was saying this is really good pizza.
- ConnectionsFeatures Sanders Shorts: If I Was a Disney Star (2015)
But apart from that, if we judge it as part of a series, this episode has some major inconsistencies, including some contradiction with later established canon that have proved to be problematic for the narrative. That can be excused as at the time there was no projected narrative to begin with. What really seems off is having real life Thomas Sanders in the episode, instead of the later established fictional character Thomas. The two are very similar, the fictional being based on the real-life one, but it would be established that the two have different personalities and character experiences. The biggest plot hole is that if Thomas in this episode managed to appear on a Disney Channel show, invited by Disney themselves to guest star, how is it that he's struggling so much in later episodes to make it big in the show-business? He surely wouldn't have trouble at least in landing castings if Disney themselves had already put their eyes on him. Narratively, it doesn't make sense.
But of course, as I said, this is still part of the first age of the series, and at this time, the show was still trying to find its path. And it wouldn't take too long for it to find it as from the next episode onwards, the evolution would put the pedal to the metal. A lot of huge changes were just around the corner.
- manbemel
- Nov 24, 2020
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- Runtime6 minutes
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- 720p