This episode is really weird compared to the rest of the series. If we judge it for what it is, it is just a one-off vlog where real-life Thomas Sanders uses the later known as Sanders Sides characters to help him promote his upcoming appearance in the Disney Channel show Bizaardvark, which was premiering later that week, and in that sense it's a lovely vlog, full of comedic moments by the Sides, and very interesting when Thomas narrates his experience of filming the episode and the friends he made backstage. Plus, it's really funny to see Roman geeking out like the Disney fanboy he is, and that's one of the most iconic moments in the history of the series.
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.
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.