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.  You can always tell a Dan Schneider series – cooky characters, sly references, inside jokes.  I really wanted to like GS but I’ll be honest, its pretty standard (or even below standard) fare.

Here, Babe and Kenzie accept an invitation to lonely Peggy’s party so that Babe can get close to her crush, Peggy’s cool brother Mason (played by Tanner Buchanan, who is Charlie Gardner on GMW, in a much better role).  Peggy apparently has a love of fruits and vegetables (this may explain why she has no friends); her house reminded me of Nora Dershlit’s in iCarly.  There’s funny and then there’s just weird.  This is just weird.

The party is “ruined” when Ruthless and Bunny show up at the party, because, since Bunny is getting his manicurists license, he sees this as an open market for business.  Best line: This color is Fi Fo Fo Plum.  Babe tries to be alone with Mason in the hot tub but this ploy doesn’t work either.  By the end of the episode, I wasn’t particularly interested in whether she found love with Mason at all.

In the B story, Double G is trying to plan a father-son night with his son.  However, Triple G is busy with work (wasn’t this what Double G wanted for his son in the pilot – responsibility) so Double G spends the evening with Hudson instead (for Dad and HUD-son night).  Its all a ruse to make Triple G jealous.

I usually like Schneider’s shows (except maybe for Wendell and Vinnie) but Game Shakers fails to move the need (or shake the needle) for me.