iQ is the 14th episode of the fourth season of iCarly.
When Carly starts dating a rather smart boy, she pretends to be smart herself to keep impressing him.
Meanwhile, when T-Bo gets evicted from his room in the Groovie Smoothie, he asks Freddie to change his image so his mother can let him stay with her, while Spencer tries to open a safe.
Tropes:
- Bilingual Bonus:
- Carly repeatedly says the Chinese phrase "Wo bu zhi dao" (I don't know).
- Kyle says Carly has a certain "je ne sais quoi" (French for "I don't know what").
- Bittersweet Ending: Carly loses Kyle, and Spencer finds another safe inside the safe. The only one who got a happy ending was T-Bo, whose gentleman behavior manages to sway Mrs. Benson enough to rent out the Benson's apartment for him.
- Downer Ending: For Carly, as her cheat notes are exposed and Kyle learns she deceived him, prompting him to break up with her and leave. Also for Spencer, whose safe turned out to be a "Shaggy Dog" Story. Only T-Bo averts this.
- Here We Go Again!: Spencer manages to use dynamite to open the safe, only to find another safe inside.
- Liar Revealed: Kyle seeing Carly's pork chop on the table when she flipped her plate over to look at her cheat note is what causes him to spot it underneath. Realizing she was only pretending to be smart, he ends their relationship.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Kyle discovers Carly is reading cheat notes and only pretended to be smart, he breaks up with her and leaves.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Kyle, the boy Carly dates, is an extreme offender of this trope.
