Brain-A-Rooney

"...After 4 years of being on television and saying things like, 'I love the surprise ending of Titanic', people think I'm dumb in real-life."

- Liv, confessional

Brain-A-Rooney is the eighth episode in season 1 of Liv and Maddie. It aired on November 10, 2013 and received 3.0 million total viewers.

Overview
Ridgewood High is hosting the annual "Brain Olympics," and Joey is intent on forming a team in hopes of winning. Liv, in an effort to shed part her Stephanie Einstein image, convinces Joey to let her join the team. In competition, each team has to build a machine that can ultimately paint a picture on a canvas, but when Joey thinks Liv is not smart enough for the task, Liv decides to build her own. Meanwhile, Maddie holds a yard sale to raise funds for the French Club's trip to Montreal, and a priceless childhood memory accidentally gets sold.

Main Cast

 * Dove Cameron as Liv and Maddie Rooney
 * Joey Bragg as Joey Rooney
 * Kali Rocha as Karen Rooney
 * Benjamin King  as Pete Rooney

Recurring Cast

 * Emmy Buckner as Liv #2
 * Shelby Wulfert as Maddie #2
 * Jessica Marie Garcia as Willow
 * Jimmy Bellinger as Artie Smalls
 * Kurt Long as Johnny Nimbus

Absent cast

 * Tenzing Norgay Trainor as Parker Rooney

Trivia

 * Tenzing Norgay Trainor (Parker Rooney) did not appear in this episode. This was his first and only episode absent in the whole of Liv and Maddie.
 * This is the first episode where Liv and Maddie don't interact at all.
 * It's revealed that Liv portrayed Stephanie Einstein in Sing It Loud!.
 * Due to the rise of the terrorist group of the same name, the episode was edited after its premiere so that Karen would call her cat toilet brush holder "Aces" instead of "Isis".
 * The movie Titanic is mentioned.
 * This episode is similar to Austin & Ally's "Dancers & Ditzes", as Ally (Liv) wants to stop being known as a "sweet piano-playing singer" (dumb blonde) and wants to put up a dancing routine (participate in the Brain Olympics), while Austin, Trish, and Dez (Joey) underestimate her efforts, even though at the end, she proves them wrong.
 * Liv trying to prove to Joey that she’s smart enough to compete in the Brain-Olympics is a reference to the 2001 movie Legally Blonde when Elle was trying to prove to her boyfriend Warner that she was smart enough to be in Harvard Law School and that she was more than just a pretty face.