Babe and Kenzie’s plans to hang with Mason are ruined when Bunny and Ruthless crash a birthday party; Dub uses Hudson to make Trip jealous when Trip chooses work over hanging out with him.

I decided to revisit Game Shakers to see how the show has evolved since its debut.  Sad to say, it has not.  I’m mystified why even a tween would laugh.

With most Dan Schneider/Dan Warp shows, there are quirky characters, inside jokes and sly references.  This episode feels like a ripoff of iGo Psycho from iCarly, except Peggy doesn’t rise to the Nora Dershlit level of lunacy.  She does have an odd penchant for fruits and vegetables.

The episode revolves around Babe’s crush on Peggy’s brother, Mason (played with utter coolness by Tanner Buchanan, who is much, much better as Charlie Gardner on Girl Meets World).  Babe and Kenzie agree to go to Peggy’s birthday party (yep, they are the only ones in attendance); the party is interrupted by Bunny and Ruthless, as Bunny is trying to get his manicurist’s license (say what now?) and he sees the party as the chance to make some money (wouldn’t he be in trouble for practicing without a license).  There’s the usual series of missteps as, just as Babe is about to get close to Mason,something happens to steer it off course.  Its neither original nor funny.

The B story involves Dub trying to make Trip jealous by taking Hudson out to dinner, supposedly in the Hamptons.  Trip cancels the father-son night so he can finish his work at Game Shakers (he has a deadline after all) so Dub decides to have a father and HUDson night.  At the end of the episode, as they are finalizing plans for an impromptu father-son night, Dub gets a call for some action with Valerie (after all she is Valerie).  He actually cancels on Trip.  The wise father would have spent time with his son.  And after all that mumbo jumbo throughout the episode, that would have made sense.

The acting here is still rather raw and the storylines are nothing new.  So it’s no great shakes about Game Shakers.