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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[ThemeTune Just leave it all to me.]]''[[note]]From left to right: [[OneOfTheKids Spencer]], [[BigFun Gibby]], [[GirlNextDoor Carly]], [[TheSmartGuy Freddie]], and [[TheLadette Sam]].[[/note]]]]
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->'''Freddie:''' In five, four, three, two...\\
'''Carly:''' I'm Carly!\\
'''Sam:''' And I'm Sam!\\
'''Carly and Sam:''' And this is... iCarly!

''iCarly'' (2007-2012) is a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} teen sitcom created by Creator/DanSchneider. It revolves around [[TheKirk Carly Shay]] (Creator/MirandaCosgrove), a young girl in her mid-teens living in UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} with her big brother and guardian Spencer (Creator/JerryTrainor), as their father has been deployed in the military for a decade or so.

After an accident where Carly's comments on a SadistTeacher's talent show make it onto a Website/YouTube-like site, [[InstantWebHit the positive internet reaction]] inspires her to make a creative web show with her two best friends, [[TheMcCoy Samantha "Sam" Puckett]] (Creator/JennetteMcCurdy) and [[TheSpock Fredward "Freddie" Benson]] (Creator/NathanKress). Sam is a detention hall regular (and had been arrested several times) who craves meat, frequently mentions that her relatives are in prison or in parole, and keeps an array of dangerous tools in her backpack and locker. Freddie is an intelligent tech-savvy boy who works as the cameraman and keeps the iCarly site running. Along with his long-term teenage crush on Carly, he has an extremely overprotective and neurotic mother (Mary Scheer).

As part of the Series/NickVerse, the show is a CreatorDrivenSuccessor to ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', being produced by the same people and also including several prominent actors from that show in lead roles (namely Miranda Cosgrove, who played Megan on ''D&J'', and Jerry Trainor, who played ''D&J''[='=]s EnsembleDarkhorse Crazy Steve). The two shows could be assumed to be in a wider world setting, with various [[Creator/DanSchneider Schneider-verse]] references showing up like Galaxy Wars, Daka Shoes, the Gary Coleman Grill, Peruvian Puff Peppers, and the Parker-Nichols Hotel. It also had a CrossOver with ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' titled "iParty With Victorious" (officially deemed as 3 ''[=iCarly=]'' episodes that are canon for both shows).

The show's sixth and final season began airing in the spring of 2012; it later ended its run with the series finale "iGoodbye" airing on November 23. Since its conclusion, it has inspired the creation of two SpinOff series. The first was ''Series/SamAndCat'', starring Sam and Cat Valentine from ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' in a second crossover, which was picked up for a first season in June 2013 before being cancelled in April 2014. The second would've revolved around BreakoutCharacter Gibby Gibson (Creator/NoahMunck), but it was not picked up for a full series.

In December 2020, Paramount ordered a [[Series/ICarly2021 revival]] of the ''iCarly'' franchise for their online streaming service [[Creator/ParamountPlus Paramount+]] owned by Creator/ParamountGlobal (which also owns Nick). The revival is a sequel that takes place 8 years following the conclusion of the show, and is aimed at adult viewers, featuring more mature content that was off-limits in the original[[note]]namely profanity, alcohol usage and overt sexual references[[/note]]. Cosgrove, Kress and Trainor returned to reprise their roles as Carly, Freddie and Spencer respectively, while [=McCurdy=] and Munck did not return[[note]][=McCurdy=] retired from acting in 2017, now working as a writer and director, and had bad experiences during her time on ''iCarly'' that she eventually wrote about in 2022. Munck moved on to on-camera acting in other movies, and had already disliked that his character Gibby was a [[ButtMonkey punching bag]][[/note]], leading their characters to be written out. The revival debuted on June 17, 2021 but was cancelled in 2023 after three seasons.

Aside from a [[Characters/ICarly character sheet]], other sections are listed on the header links. Subjective and fandom-related tropes are under the YMMV link.

This is the page for the original series; for the 2021 revival, go to [[Series/ICarly2021 here]].
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!!Tropes live in five.. four.. three.. two!

[[index]]
* ICarly/TropesAToE
* ICarly/TropesFToJ
* ICarly/TropesKToO
* ICarly/TropesPToT
* ICarly/TropesUToZ
* [[Series/ICarly2021 Revival Series]]
[[/index]]
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->'''Freddie:''' [[CharacterCatchphrase And we're clear!]]

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