He's just a hippie. I went to school in a yuppie kind of area and I had tons of crazy hippies for teachers. Teaching is a career path with a lot of obvious appeal to former hippies, so you see them constantly either in k-12 or at the university level.
Hollywood Arts being such a decidedly wacky and artistic school, it makes all the more sense that they would embrace and encourage somebody like Sikowitz. He's the kind of person who I could see winning the student vote for "teacher of the year" again and again: fun and laid back, just really levels with the students and respects them.
Classic case of someone who sounds like a creeper on paper, but he's really just innocent and sincere. Outsiders would think it's *beep* up that he might be the sole chaperone with all these teenagers, but people in the community (or at least in the school) would know that he's just Sykowitz and it's fine. Being careful is paramount, but it's also important that people aren't swept under the rug for outward appearances that don't accurately reflect the situation.
Sikowitz was always saying things like "How would you teenagers like to do something for money?" and etc. etc. that sound really creepy but he never once meant anything by it. I mean, in Dan's world, everything is innuendo, so it's hard to avoid it...
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ferrisb1-1
11 years ago
Sikowitz also fills the role of surrogate parent adult characters like Spencer did on iCarly, and countless other adult characters play who aren't officially parents of the main characters in shows like these. TV is built around pseudo family units if there isn't an actual blood relation family unit in place. All TV shows, not just sitcoms e.g. Gibbs is the "Dad" on NCIS, etc.
Even though Victorious showed a few of the parents of the characters, Sikowitz was the "cool uncle" who was just slightly off-kilter, but who did care about his students in the end. He went for help when the parade float broke down, and HE is the one who orchestrated the escape plan from the foreign prison.
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