Beauty & the Beasts

> Gee, you get your head stuck in a bucket for two minutes and you miss so much!
>
> Zuri talking to Jessie

## Information

### **Director**

Phill Lewis

**Beauty & the Beasts** is the eighteenth episode in the first season of *Jessie*. It first aired on May 4, 2012 to 2.62 million viewers.

## Plot

Jessie enters Zuri into the Little Miss Big Apple Competition against Lindsay, a kid who Agatha's watching. But when Zuri can't sing *The Star Spangled Banner* right, Jessie wants her to lip sync. Meanwhile, Luke and Ravi play practical jokes on Bertram while doing experiments for Ravi's science project.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Debby Ryan as Jessie Prescott
* Peyton List as Emma Ross
* Cameron Boyce as Luke Ross
* Karan Brar as Ravi Ross
* Skai Jackson as Zuri Ross
* Kevin Chamberlin as Bertram Winkle

### Recurring Cast

* Jennifer Veal as Agatha
* Nikki Hahn as Lindsay

## Quotes

> '***Agatha**: Piano! How boring. I actually just dozed off for a moment.*
> **Jessie**: That explains the drool and bad breath.**...**

> '***Jessie:'* First, I'm going to cry, maybe something good will come out of that.**...

> '***Emma:** Wait a minture. You said who ever loses, and you both lost.****'***Jessie: **Now you listen to me?! Where were you when I said "Having a penpal in Juvie was a bad idea?"**

## Trivia

* The title of this episode is based on the Walt Disney movie, *Beauty and the Beast*.
* The movie, *Dolphin Tale*, makes Ravi cry and go through a lot of tissues.
* Agatha returns in this episode.
* It is revealed that Zuri takes ballet lessons.
* Zuri was seen wearing a tutu only once in this episode
* This is the first and only appearance of Lindsay.
* This was the 22nd episode produced and shot but it aired as the 18th.
* This is the fourth episode directed by Phill Lewis
* A reference to The Wonderful Wizard of OZ was made
* Taylor Swift was mentioned
* Chubby the Bear and seen and mentioned in this episode
* Bertram, Ravi and Luke do not interact with Zuri, Emma and Jessie in this episode.
* It is revealed that Zuri takes piano lessons
* When Zuri tells Jessie that she's going to enter the Little Miss Big Apple Competition, Jessie told her that beauty pageants are sexist and demeaning to women. Ironically, in The *Suite Life on Deck*, Cody told Bailey (also portrayed by Debby Ryan) this when she told him she is entering a beauty pageant as well.
	+ Also, when Zuri asked how many pageants Jessie lost she replied 3, Ironically Bailey said she won the Miss Jr. Mulch 3 times at the KettleCorn Mulch Festival.
	+ Coincidentally, Phill Lewis directed this episode. He was part of the show TSLOD, he played Mr. Moseby.
* This is Agatha's second appearance.
* This is the only episode to feature a cutaway.
* We learn that Emma once had a penpal in juvie.
* Emma is wearing the same headband that Jessie wore in Are You Cooler Than a 5th Grader?
* This is the first episode of May in 2012.

## Goofs

* When Agatha told Jessie that Lindsey takes karate, Lindsey and Agatha were standing on the left in front of the popcorn stand, but in the next shot, after Lindsey had flipped Jessie, they were standing on the right side of the park.
* Ravi mentioned that Bertram found the cheese in 12.7 seconds which is not true. If you ran a stopwatch on your phone/device, he took 23.04 seconds.

## Transcript

*To view the **Beauty & the Beasts** transcript, click here.*