History Headscratchers / ICarly

* I have some questions about this episode. 1) Since when did Spencer all of a sudden become a strict parent type? I can understand [[MyBelovedSmother Freddie's mom]] not wanting her son to attend, but this is the same brother who nearly decapitated his sister with a hammer because he didn't think through the safety of his artworks, and doesn't seem to care when Carly gets into trouble or dangerous situations in general, and this is even after the events of "iWant To Stay With Spencer". 2) If "iFight Shelby Marx" is anything to go by, he does allow Carly to watch and enjoy mixed martial arts. So why the hell is he so against them in this episode? Did he change his mind about them between the two episodes? 3) Even if he was worried about their safety, why couldn't he have just supervised them? 4) Spencer's not okay with Carly attending an MMA show because it's "too violent" and "a bad influence", yet he's perfectly fine with her hanging around Sam, who's [[HairTriggerTemper very short-tempered]], [[TheBully beats people up]], and borders on being a juvenile delinquent. 5) The fact that he wouldn't let Carly go backstage to do a web show with an MMA fighter, yet in "iFight Shelby Marx", ''[[{{Hypocrite}} allowed her to actually]] [[WhatTheHellHero straight-up fight an MMA fighter]]''. [[SarcasmMode Such a great parental guardian you are, Spencer.]] Yeah, a lot of people say that Carly was in the wrong for being a SpoiledBrat and going against her brother's rules. While I can agree she wasn't in the right either and handled the situation rather poorly, I'm mainly addressing the fact that her normally laid-back, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} brother suddenly turns from not caring about his sister's antics into basically Mrs. Benson out of nowhere in this episode and how hypocritical he is.

* In "IHatch Chicks", Freddie accidentally searches for the site "World of Chucks.com" after attempting to search for a chick information site. This slip-up makes sense considering that the U and I key are next to each other and he was hurrying to find the site.

** Same place Wendy, Shane, Pete, hell, everyone that isn't the current main cast of 6 went. He hasn't been mentioned at all or seen during the filming of the show itself, so it looks like another BrotherChuck.

** The judges were impressed by her... [[BuxomIsBetter stage presence.]]

* Why the hell did ''EVERYONE'' hate Freddie for "killing" Fred? Even his family turned against him. Is Dan trying to teach kids, "If you have a different opinion than everyone else, you will suffer for it"? It's as if he's oblivious that kid shows like iCarly do influence the children demographic. Also, why is Fred's popularity so exaggerated? If Dan did his research, he would've discovered Fred's huge Hatedom! I don't see how he could be oblivious to it every day - people are also commenting on Fred's videos and saying mean, hateful things like that he should kill himself. Freddie and iCarly should've gotten a ''lot'' of positive attention for getting rid of Fred. There would've been more positive reactions than negative reactions in real life. Talk about CriticalResearchFailure...

*** I'm pretty sure that season 4 is 26 episodes total: 13 ending with "iParty With Victorious", then another 13 released later. iTunes still classifies it as season 4 (as far as I know), and according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, all 26 are season 4. The production is screwed up, though, so I could be wrong.

* I have some questions about this episode. While Carly wasn't really in the right for disobeying her brother and sneaking out, Spencer was just...annoying. 1) Since when did he all of a sudden become a strict parent type? I can understand [[MyBelovedSmother Freddie's mom]] not wanting her son to attend, but this is the same brother who nearly decapitated his sister with a hammer because he didn't think through the safety of his artworks, and doesn't seem to care when Carly gets into trouble or dangerous situations in general, and this is even after the events of "iWant To Stay With Spencer". Yet we're supposed to see him as a responsible parental figure? Give me a break. 2) If "iFight Shelby Marx" is anything to go by, he does allow Carly to watch and enjoy mixed martial arts. So why the hell is he so against them in this episode? Did he change his mind about them between the two episodes? 3) Even if he was worried about their safety, why couldn't he have just supervised them? 4) Spencer's not okay with Carly attending an MMA show because it's "too violent" and "a bad influence", yet he's perfectly fine with her hanging around Sam, who's [[HairTriggerTemper very short-tempered]], [[TheBully beats people up]], and borders on being a juvenile delinquent. 5) The fact that he wouldn't let Carly go backstage to do a web show with an MMA fighter, yet in "iFight Shelby Marx", ''[[{{Hypocrite}} allowed her to actually]] [[WhatTheHellHero straight-up fight an MMA fighter]]''. [[SarcasmMode Such a great parental guardian you are, Spencer.]] Yeah, a lot of people say that Carly was in the wrong for being a SpoiledBrat and going against her brother's rules. While I can agree she wasn't in the right either and handled the situation rather poorly, I'm mainly addressing the fact that her normally laid-back, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} brother suddenly turns from not caring about his sister's antics into basically Mrs. Benson out of nowhere in this episode and how much of a damn {{hypocrite}} he is.

** If Gibby hits her, she will fuck him up. The risk/reward in getting physical with Sam is like 90/10.

* Near the end of "iChristmas", Freddie and his girlfriend (her name escapes me, but everyone hated her) were in the apartment with Carly, Nevel, Mrs. Benson and Spencer. This would imply that Freddie hangs out there frequently, because his mother is dating Spencer. However, earlier in the episode at school when Carly greeted him in passing, he replied with a flat "Hey, Carly Shay”, like he didn't really know who she was.
** He didn't say "Hey Carly Shay" it was more like "uhhh hi". In any case, Mitch says that Freddie used to like Carly in this universe but gave up because she was in a long term relationship with Nevel, so she probably didn't talk to Freddie often anymore.

*** Yeah, but, does ''each'' apartment (in the very large building) have its own personal elevator? It always seems to be parked in the Shay household. Whenever they need to go up to the studio, none of the tenants on floors below are using the elevator.
*** [[WordOfGod Dan Schneider]] talked about this in a LifeJournal post (now dead). The elevator in the Shay's apartment is a cargo elevator; you must have authorization or a special key to use it to access their loft. They have this elevator because Bushwell Plaza used to be a commercial building and was later converted into an apartment building. And no, not all of the apartments have them; only the lofts do.

[[WMG: How can the webshow afford such slick production?]]
* The iCarly webshow ''looks'' like they have a huge production team. Honestly, three teenagers couldn't produce a show of that quality ''and'' have all the shenanigans they do - no matter their budget.

** Yeah. Some of the stuff he does just isn't that hard. At least on the webshow with the various graphics and green screened-type stuff, it's actually a pretty plausible aversion of StylisticSuck. The less plausible stuff is the actual internet related things, like him apparently coding the site on his own, the hosting of said website, and the ability to stream it to millions of viewers live. And how people are on their own webcams, yet Freddie can blow it up onto a full HDTV with no loss of quality.
** Most of the stuff is probably pre-made, as well. We know they rehearse for the show, so Freddy probably has most of the SFX, animated titles and such ready to go before they go live, just needs to press the right button. Other stuff like the fact that the show can be shown in HD or altering Jake's voice on the fly so that he sounds awesome is probably just RuleOfCool or RuleOfFunny.

** If their viewers stay at a million people per episode every week they make $260,000 a year. Some of that goes in taxes and they'll probably take a decent amount out as a wage but that still leaves them with an impressive budget for the show.
** It ''is'' possible to do a webshow on their level with today's technology. Companies like livestream.com have a platform that lets you broadcast live using a HD video camera and switch between clips in the same way Freddie does. The downside is the price. It's $350 a month or $3,500 a year. The kids may be able to afford it now but they'd struggle to afford it when they were starting out. Their first episode had 37,000 views which equated to $185; if their second episode got the same amount of viewers, then they've just about made a $20 profit. The point is, it's a significant investment for 13-year-old kids to make but as long as they were consistent and kept building up their audience, it's not impossible for them to achieve a show with that kind of production value.
*** Taxes are paid after expenses. If they spent every cent they made from the show on the show, they'd owe nothing at all. A reasonable approximation of the things they can claim as a business expense include all of the equipment, all of the set stuff, any costumes that aren't clothing that could be worn under ordinary circumstances, their rent for the part of the apartment where the studio is, cost of props, costs involved with making personal appearances, costs involved with flying in guests ("iCarly Awards", for example), any insurance they might need, any costs involving their live streaming and website, any wages they decide to pay themselves (there is no way they could run iCarly as anything but an S corp after season 1, realistically), any legal or accounting fees, and possibly anything Sam eats in the apartment. If they have a remotely competent accountant, they'd probably have a decent retirement plan in place before they finished high school.
*** Sam's behavior in Sam & Cat seems to reflect this: she roams the coarse leisurely, and does not mind the babysitting money unlike what she used to. She could have her retirement planned to the point that she is retired immediately after the webshow terminated. In Sam and Cat their lack of shots of really accepting payment may indicate that their lives is already covered by Sam's retirement plan (she just need to cut back on fat cakes to reserve money for Cat).

** The out-of-universe show is named to mean something in our world, then fit backwards into the ''iCarly'' universe. In our world it's associated with Apple (but wasn't invented by them, nor was the actual idea of a prefix). Apple not existing doesn't change the sense in naming the webshow iCarly.
** Freddie actually summed it up in the first episode:
-->'''Freddie''': Why don't you call your show iCarly? You know, i, internet, Carly, you.

* One thing I don't get is how long this show can last while being marketed to 8-year-olds. Carly, Sam, and Freddie are only going to get older. How is an 8-year-old going to relate to a 25-year-old who has a webshow?
** Um, excuse me, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids but since when is this show marketed to eight year olds?]] As a 14-year-old, I still find the show funny.
*** The show has a very wide demographic. It works for 8-year-olds to 18-year-olds (especially in season 3, usually considered the most diverse season in terms of demographic), and also has a big PeripheryDemographic because of the innuendo and stuff they get in (it's at WesternAnimation levels, which says a lot). Plus, how long it'll last is probably going to depend on the main cast. Physically, the kids are done with puberty, and their in-universe ages are still only about 16. It's the same thing that happened with ''Series/DrakeAndJosh''. The only reason that ended is because the main cast wanted to move on.

*** And? ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' was aimed at children. ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' was aimed at 13 year old girls. Didn't stop them getting fans outside their supposed demographic (particularly the latter), and it doesn't stop ''Series/ICarly'' either.

* It is "illegal" in ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' canon. Given that this show also has a shared universe with ''Drake & Josh'', why did the trio still use the said condiment in a contest? Granted that they also won the contest (that ingredient also ensures victory in ''Drake & Josh'') and the pepper was not mentioned afterward...

* Miranda, Jennette, and Nathan are starting to look noticeably older then fifteen. I never noticed it until "iBeat the Heat". Why haven't the gang aged even one year? Hasn't iCarly, in-universe, been going on for that long? At least Sam is 16 now, but Carly and Freddie are still 15.
** Carly, Freddie and Sam are all 16 now, going by the monitors in "iSpace Out". They just never had anyone say so on the show. Except Sam I think, but I can't remember if her party was for 15 or 16. Sam might even be 17, considering her apparently extra year that is sort of (but not really) canon.

*** Apparently Carly is turning 16 in the newest episode, potentially making Sam 17. If it's a RetCon or just bad continuity (or conflicting continuity from a non-canon source) remains to be seen.

** In "iLost My Mind", it's revealed that Carly can now officially drive. It's barely a passing reference, in that she picks up the car keys and tells Spencer they're leaving. But assuming she's driving a car (she left with Gibby and Freddie), then she's 16 as of season 5. (iOMG took place three days before "iLost My Mind" so she's 16 from "iGot a Hot Room".) As for Sam's age, we know that she's under 18, since she's a minor so she can't leave the mental institute without a signature from her parents. Dan confirmed that on his blog, but we still don't know if she's 16 or 17.

* Seriously? No internet predators exist? The trio go and trust strangers completely and often see them without any parental supervision! And they do some stuff on the show which would be considered kind of dangerous for them and often reveal addresses of the school and their homes on their broadcasts. Is Dan saving this for a special episode?
** Well, I suppose it's like RealLife. There would be millions of kids on Website/YouTube/Facebook/Twitter etc, and I'm sure so many of them would be just as "traceable" as iCarly. Yet there aren't many "predators" doing anything about them. Most internet predators lurk chatrooms and try to get their target alone, and exploit them. I think "iPsycho" (Nora), and the episodes with Mandy are about as far as they'll go on either end of the "stalker/predator" types.

[[WMG: The show being managed on iTunes.]]

** I don't think ''iCarly'' ever got broadcast in HD for the first two seasons. I know they filmed stuff in HD, but that might have had something to do with HD versions of seasons 1 and 2 being late. Does anyone know when HD video became supported on iTunes either? That might also cause delays, if HD wasn't supported until after those first couple seasons.

** Also, season 4 is currently $39.99 ($29.99 if not in HD), and it only has ten episodes (one being two parts, and "iParty with Victorious"), not counting the extras which are free. But the first three seasons were all $39.99/$19.99, so it makes no sense, unless they put the second half included with that. And what's even ''more'' notable is that season 2 of ''[[Victorious]]'', which is apparently going to have 13 episodes (and will most likely have a special), not counting 7 Secrets with Victoria Justice (which is currently free, but will most likely not be soon), is only $24.99/$17.99. I would hope that's the case (that they'd combine both halves).
*** I'm pretty sure that season 4 is 26 episodes total: 13 ending with "iParty With Victorious", then another 13 released later. iTunes still classifies it as season 4 (as far as I know), and according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, all 26 are season 4. The production is really screwed up, though, so I could be wrong.

* Why does Mandy like iCarly when her interrupting the sketch in "iWant My Website Back" shows she doesn't even get their jokes?

* Does anyone find it interesting that [[Series/ICarly Miranda]]'s show has bested [[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Selena's]] for favourite show three times in a row, yet Selena wins best actress over her those same times? Honestly, ''iCarly'''s current season is averaging over 5 million viewers per episode. ''Wizards'' currently has 3.7 I think. So what factored into how she got so many votes? And this is coming from someone who voted Victoria for favourite actress, should that mean anything.
** I'm guessing all the new found Music/JustinBieber related friends couldn't get past the amount of total ''iCarly'' fans. Who else was up for that award Selena won? The other Nick stars probably split the vote. Creator/MirandaCosgrove is considered boring for a reason, and that reason is a lot of the [[Creator/JennetteMcCurdy Jennette]] fans.
*** For favourite actress? She was also against Miley Cyrus, Miranda Cosgrove and Victoria Justice.
*** Pretty much sums that people like rebel/anti-hero characters like Sam and Alex.

[[WMG: Where does the door in the Shay's kitchen lead?]]

** The new episode has a brand new title sequence, something that's only been reserved when they release a new season also in several interviews its talked about as season 5, on the other hand there are press releases that say season 5 starts filming in 2012 so yeah its confusing.

* And I mean ''real'' trolls. I'm talking 4Chan users here. ''iCarly'' shows a terrible understanding of how the internet really works.
** Are you kidding me? Maybe they're absent because an episode about people posting porn and screeching poorly spelled racial epithets would be a poor choice for what's primarily supposed to be a kids show?
** What kinda stupid question is this? Stop expecting kids shows to be realistic.

* I could post this on Dan's Headscratchers page, but I'm posting it here where it's more likely to be noticed. We already know that ''iCarly'' is ending production in June, because I know that Miranda is going off to college and has outgrown the show. I don't know about Nathan, but if Jennette is older than either of them and most of the ''[[Victorious]]'' cast (will be 20 in June), then wouldn't she be too old to start her own show with him by then? How will this work?
** Nick doesn't care about how old their actors are. Almost all their teenaged actors leave on their own because they get restless or the show they are there to film ends. ''iCarly'' would go another four years if Nick was getting results and the actors wanted it. As for Jennette's new show, Jennette has had a clause in her contract about getting a pilot made for her for years. When Miranda signed her contract getting $180,000 per episode the other two got their own contracts as well. Even though the show went on far longer than they intended, they still have to honour the contract. I don't know if they actually filmed a pilot yet, but Nick are probably getting desperate as their ratings have tanked (ironically they only started falling when the Seddie arc aired in September 2011 that Jennette was a major part of). So they gave the green light to a show for her that will probably help Nick replace ''iCarly'' somewhat. I believe they are going to make her character a college age student, and it involves her, Drake Bell and three or so younger kids.
*** True, I can understand why you'd think that (Nick not caring about ages of their stars), because ''Series/BigTimeRush'' is still on and the guys there are well over 18. But where did you hear of Drake Bell being on it? I thought he and Josh had moved on from the Series/NickVerse (though he has been in A Fairly Odd Movie and Rags). With that said, I'm pretty sure Dan will begin Jennette's show after ''iCarly'' has wrapped up for good.
*** Turns out the new show is ''Series/SamAndCat''. Drake Bell hasn't been linked to this one, but was quite heavily linked to the original idea.
* Why of all people is Sam getting a SpinOff? Especially considering the premise to ''Series/SamAndCat'', that they take up babysitting. Are we forgetting "iSell Penny Tees" happened? Sam never learns a lesson, so it wouldn't surprise me if she just beat up the children and got away with it.
** The writers and Jennette apparently have been "toning down" her behaviour in the final season knowing she has to carry the show (well, kind of, since Nick added Music/ArianaGrande to the cast because they know Sam can't carry a show after what happened during the ShippingWars in ''iCarly''). They could have fooled me.

* Always going through desperate measures whenever Sam wouldn’t be able to come do the show like having the webshow in detention or that ridiculous split screen effect where they do the show from dual locations. Lots of Youtubers are actually able to pull off doing solo videos without a co-host.

*** Yeah, could just be comments on the videos like on Youtube, and when the site was taken over they all get removed.

Ok, I know this is a TV show and this is a Schneider-produced show BUT....how in the world that is holy is Lewbert (I'm pretty sure if that's his name if my memory serves) isn't fired, arrested or even banned literally from any place for his JerkAss stuff? I mean, he acts like a lunatic, especially in the front of adults. I mean, in S1 E3, he starts barking (I think...?) at the innocent lady and/or the Pomeranian and he even popped the kid's balloon in the front of the ''kid's mom''! I'm totally surprised that his boss didn't even fire him or even permanently banned him from the apartment. I mean, yeah, it's a TV show and it's entertainment but if he does that in real life, chances are he could be in a ''deep'', ''deep'' trouble.

* It bugs me how Carly and Freddie didn't get arrested for trespassing on private property in that episode? Especially with how spiteful and mean the teacher is, like she wouldn't report them! It's just encouraging kids to 1: spy on other people, similar to stalking 2: run into someone else's house just because they could, because the owner was gone 3: hide in someone else's closet and steal things from them (the cologne Freddie took and the cereal he ate)! Every one of those things are federal crimes! Why weren't there consequences? (and no, the lady playing bagpipes on iCarly is NOT consequence enough).
** iSpy On a Mean Teacher. Funnily enough, it is not the episode titled iPie. Firstly, they are like 13, maybe 14 in those early episodes. They cops probably wouldn't have bothered, let alone arrested them. The teacher got to inflict a punishment on her own. Also RuleOfFunny.

In the episode mentioned above, Carly and Freddie are trapped inside Ms. Brigg's closet. Sam (on the phone) tells them to "give her sixty seconds, then go for the door." Sam follows up by calling Ms. Briggs and feeds her a load about being from the Federal Bereau of Milk. Now, the entire thing with the FBM is excusable due in no small part to RuleOfFunny. But Sam called Ms. Briggs on the phone. ''How, exactly, did Sam have her phone number?'' She called her immediately after she was done talking to Carly and Freddie. I don't think Sam is likely to have an evil teacher on speed dial.

* Okay, this has been getting at me for a while. I have a very hard time believing that iPilot's 13 million viewers were in one telecast when it premiered on September 8, 2007. I remember hearing that they WERE in two, and the second had around ~30% more than the first. Dan Schneider has mentioned that iSaved Your Life was the most watched episode ever with 11.2 million, and that Victorious had the most watched live action premiere in Nickelodeon history with 5.7. And if memory serves, iWant More Viewers after iPilot had 3.7 million, so I have a hard time believing that a 13 million would serve as a lead-in into a 3.7 million. If the Victorious premiere WAS #1 (or #2 if you count Big Time School of Rocque and its 6.8 million), then iPilot's first airing must have had like, .1 million less...I can't spin my head around this.
** You are right. I did a little digging and found this: [[http://www.buddytv.com/articles/drake-and-josh/icarly-premiere-draws-13-milli-10782.aspx News release.]] It clearly says that it includes both the 8:30 Saturday premiere, and the 11:30am Sunday encore did 30% better. My calculations seem to show the same thing you've done, which is the likely audience for the premiere is 5.6 million. 30% more than this gives the encore an audience of 7.3 million for a total of 13 million.
** Victorious does not have the most watched live action premiere in Nick history. Schneider stated this but the information is false. The title still belongs to Big Time Rush.

* In "iSaw Him First", Shane falls down the elevator shaft after being too busy chewing out Carly and Sam to notice the lack of an elevator. How the HECK did he survive? He fell for about 6 seconds, and I'm no physicist, but I estimate his velocity on impact to be at least 60 mph, which is about 27 meters per second (I might be overcompensating for his air resistance, though). From this speed he landed on hard, sturdy steel, which is enough to break enough bones to kill you. Yet somehow he's in the hospital with just enough broken bones to need a body cast, but still alive. He's not an athlete, so there's not even a small chance for his muscle mass to cushion the impact, nor would his clothes do so.

* What was stopping Shelby Marx from just punching Carly while she was clinging to her leg? Carly is technically grappling and most fighters would punish a failed single-leg takedown with a sprawl and a beating. Even if the league has rules against punching someone who's grabbing you Shelby is supposed to be a highly skilled Mixed Martial Artist. She should still have enough Wrestling and BJJ training to tie the girl who insulted her granny in a knot.
** She was confused as to why Carly wasn't fighting her. If Shelby just pummeled Carly who evidently wasn't putting up the least bit of a fight and had zero experience, she knew it'd be a bad look for her, personal feelings or not.

* Why the hell did ''EVERYONE'' hate on Freddie for "killing" Fred? Even his family turned against him. Is Dan trying to teach kids, "If you have a different opinion than everyone else, you will suffer for it"? It's as if he's oblivious that kid shows like iCarly actually do have an influence on the children demographic. Also, why is Fred's popularity so exaggerated? If Dan did his research, he would've discovered Fred's huge Hatedom! I really don't see how he could be oblivious to it everyday - people are also commenting on Fred's videos and saying mean, hateful things like that he should kill himself. Freddie and iCarly should've gotten a ''lot'' of positive attention for getting rid of Fred. In fact, there would've been more positive reaction than negative reaction in real life. Talk about CriticalResearchFailure...
** Dan Schneider had to be aware that Fred had both a Fandom and a Hatedom, so he probably used "world famous" Schneider-verse to put that episode in a world where Fred is unanimously adored by everyone. The man got One Direction on his show, and even the latter has its Hatedom.

* As a showrunner, you have to find a way to keep your show not feeling its age as the years go by. Unless you're purposefully pandering to your demographic. Drake & Josh did that wonderfully. Yeah, due to the technology, & the fact that it's stuck in 4:3 by the nature of being filmed on videotape, so they can't give it a proper HD remastering 1080p & widescreen, you can easily tell it was made from the early-mid 2000s if you didn't already know. Thing is, even with how old Drake & Josh is, it wasn't nearly as gimmicky as iCarly was. iMeet Fred is the most gimmicky episode of the show. The One Direction episode doesn't even touch this one. If any future kid saw this episode, & actually thought Fred was funny, they could look his videos up on Website/YouTube & discover that they were made back in the mid-late 2000s. Plus, Lucas is a complete non-entity in today's media besides being a laughing stock. So, not only is this episode dated as hell, but it's not even a good one. It's not realistic whatsoever. Fred's audience apparently has a PeripheryDemographic of high school kids & other teens? What? What self-respecting teen liked Fred? Fred was, quite literally, the Pewdiepie of the late 2000s. Over the top acting, obnoxious personality, very gimmicky, & only really appeals to children. I know these shows are made for kids, but I thought the main demographic was set higher than 6-year-olds. Then there's the fact that neither Carly, or Sam back Freddie up. Sam I understand, she could give less of a crap most of the time, but Carly? She's supposed to be the voice of reason/compassion out of the 3 to Sam & Freddie's larger personalities that are parts of them, seeing as they're constantly in conflict with another. Maybe she likes Fred, maybe she's the one that brought up promoting him through their show, but she's really not going to back up Freddie's opinion even if she has to play Devil's advocate? Then, we get to Lucas. The conflict set up sees to be, as PIEGUYRULZ put it, based on the AVGN/Nostalgia Critic war from back in the day, but Lucas doesn't email them that that was his plan only for the sake of drama for the show's audience IRL. I don't blame him, since he was still a teenager & he was written to be that way at the time, but he comes off as a {{Jerkass}}. Especially with the way he reacts to Freddie getting the crap kicked out of him by Sam to force him into a forced, half-hearted apology Lucas didn't even deserve. Then there's the video they shot to announce the fight was over. Why would Freddie volunteer to shoot such a thing? Carly sure, Sam sure, but if I were Freddie, I'd be too justifiably salty towards Lucas to even stay for the shooting, let alone shoot such a thing. I know they haven't had to deal with DMCA's, real world logic, etc, but even shows that run on their own logic, like, say, The Simpsons, still manage to keep the characters realistic, or at least in-character for more than the beginning of the episode. Honestly, what was Dan thinking when he greenlit this idea? I get the want to do it, but 1, couldn't they have picked a better internet personality with staying power passed a few years, & 2, could they not write the episode better? This episode takes the vocal minority of a peripheral demographic, makes the peripheral demographic the main demographic, & turns them from the SilentMajority they would be into the VocalMinority in terms of their mindsets. On top of that, Freddie could easily go to Principal Franklin & tell him about how people are vocally & physically bullying him, even though they'd probably sooner bully him over Facebook, or whatever they have for social media, or their message boards on the site where they have anonymity. I have a feeling he'd care enough to do SOMETHING to help, but knowing the rules of the Schneiderverse, it'd probably sooner backfire somehow than help. Freddie's totally in the right for not liking Fred for his reasons though &, after dealing with fans of a famous band's fanbase who don't know how to take criticism, AKA the vocal minority, I'd say he has a right to be angry at Lucas as well as everyone who bullied him. Lucas was the one that got everyone to point their guns at Freddie in the first place, so if anything, Lucas should make a very public, very heartfelt, apology to Freddie to make up for it at the very least. Had this be real life & Lucas still be relevant, Freddie'd make an "exposed" video on him because of the experience. This episode's just illogical, even for Dan Schneider & Nickelodeon, & terrible.

* In "iGive Away a Car", how can they have a car giveaway contest and give away a "new car that travels at 30 miles per hour" to a person who doesn't even have a driver's license, or isn't old enough to drive? Highly illogical. Aren't these kinds of contests only for people that are 18 and up? The iCarly contest is intended for the webshow audience (mostly children and teens).
** I don't think the age of the winner, or if they have a drivers license matters. I'm sure you can give away almost anything you want as a prize to anyone who enters correctly, but you would need to check Seattle city/state law to be sure. A requirement for the car to drive x fast and the whole risk of losing the website is just RuleOfDrama though. The fact they didn't bother to check if the car actually existed is a bit of a problem. Many websites/magazines and whatnot can actually run into trouble in a similar way to how this happened on the show, as like in the show, most prizes given away are done via sponsors and have nothing to do at all with the actual site/magazine, so if the sponsor pulls out or delays, the winner can be left in the lurch because the Magazine/website can't do anything, and doesn't have the prize.

** But in real life, these contests are held by people who are 18 and up, and are for people who are 18 and up.

*** But you saw Nevel getting the car (fake!prop from Galaxy Wars) and driving it away, then crashing it into the flower shop? And how does that thing have an engine already?
*** I think [[TheUnseen Socko]] put the engine in the car, and presumably Nevel was on private property or something and thought it was okay to test. Personally, I'd go for RuleOfFunny from everything after they decide to convert the prop into a car.
*** Just because it's a prop doesn't mean it doesn't work. The Batmobile's technically considered a prop and most movie and live-action television versions were functional.

* Okay, so in the beginning of iHatchChicks, Chet traps Freddie in his armpit and they bribe him with beef jerky. Freddie owes same $5 for the jerky. Sam pulls Chet of Freddie again, but claims he doesn't owe Sam because she took his wallet. So does Freddie still owe Sam money?
** I doubt anyone paid anyone any money. They only really seem to care when it's larger amounts, such as the $30 Sam borrowed, which caused the plotline in iOwe You. They are probably just like most sets of friends, who 'borrow' money from each other, and no-one really tracks it, until it becomes heavily one-sided (like with Sam), or large amounts (again, like Sam).

* Why does everyone call Carly a coward for not entering the fight, yet congratulate her when she goes through the fight by clinging on to Shelby's leg. Come to think of it, why would Shelby go through with the fight at all? She wanted payback because of her grandmother yes, but you know who also started a fight with internet geeks with the intent to beat them senseless? UWE BOLL. Would Shelby really want to flush her popularity by doing something that made Boll even less popular?
** Completely agree with you on your first question, but at first, Shelby was not coming into the fight to beat anyone senseless. After Carly insulted her grandmother, she wanted to beat Carly's face in to defend her. I don't think her fans or the general public would've been upset with Shelby for winning in a fight against Carly. iCarly is popular in their universe, but certainly not as popular as a young, hot, vicious martial arts fighter (in a world where martial arts fights are popular and their competitors' are celebrities). Her fans would want her to win the fight. The comparison with Uwe Boll doesn't really work because Boll didn't fight fair by not bothering to give his opponents proper training.
[[WMG: Sam's mom, and Freddie being a buttmonkey.]]
* When Sam's mom accidentally drives through a wall in the school, destroying a locker, why is it that as soon as she leaves the teacher who finds Freddie standing next to the wreckage assumes he his somehow responsible?

** Car vs. school building. The car's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Corolla_(E70) 30-year-old model]] with a reputation for rusting badly, the school looks to be pre-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and probably very solidly built. ''''HOW'''' the ''''HELL'''' does the school come out the worse in that!?! (yeah, yeah, RuleOfFunny...)

* To win the contest for the huge locker, is there an actual reason for why Sam knows how many meatcakes there are? It just seems like a random ability created to make Freddie suffer.
** [[InsistentTerminology Fatcakes]]. And no, there is no reason, except for ''Mama knows her fatcakes.'' You'd think they'd have her cheat or something, but they just had her guess the right number, and had Sam HandWave it with the above quote (I think, that could've been from another episode).
** "Mama knows her fatcakes" was intended to mean just that-- Sam knows fatcakes better than anyone else. She knows them when it comes to size, texture, relative volume of the packaging and all physical characteristics that would indicate how they behave when they're piled up or stuffed into something. She can't do the math behind it, but she can be pretty observant when she cares enough to try. It's still a stretch, but it's a somewhat reasonable stretch given that she's actually pretty familiar with the product in question.

[[WMG: Carly's attitudes of girlyness in "iMake Sam Girlier"]]
It may just be me (a guy), but didn't Carly's advice of how to be girly kinda seem odd. Like the "nice girls don't get into fights", when it was practiced it made it sound like you shouldn't defend yourself from bullies instead of don't seek fights which may have been Carly's intent. And the way she prues her, is that the way she thinks of being a girl or [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation is it a way she secretly wants Sam to be?]]
** Personally I thought it was implied that Carly had no idea how to be girly so picked the most stereotypical traits that dont always work in reality.
** I think the point was that this is Carly's idea of what being a girl is because that is how she is allowed to behave. Basically, Carly can be a "girl", who never has to fight or even stand up for herself too much, because Sam is always there to fight her battles. Since, Carly doesn't have a mother or any other close female friends she just assumes that is what all "real" girls are like.

The reason they met in the first place was because Carly wanted him to write a review of iCarly on his website. Since the show didn't exist in the world where Spencer was normal, it's very unlikely they ever met let alone date each other.
* The normal Spencer world is just mysterious like that. They apparently don't live too far from each other, maybe in their world a boundary for Nevel going to Carly's school shifted just enough for that to happen. Maybe Nevel lives in a different location. There are probably dozens of reasons why it might happen.

* I have some questions about this episode. While Carly wasn't really in the right for disobeying her brother and sneaking out, Spencer was just...annoying. 1) Since when did he all of a sudden become a strict parent type? I can understand [[MyBelovedSmother Freddie's mom]] not wanting her son to attend, but this is the same brother who nearly decapitated his sister with a hammer because he didn't think through the safety of his own artworks, and doesn't seem to care when Carly gets into trouble or into dangerous situations in general, and this is even after the events of "iWant To Stay With Spencer". Yet we're supposed to see him as a responsible parental figure? Give me a break. 2) If "iFight Shelby Marx" is anything to go by, he actually does allow Carly to watch and enjoy mixed martial arts. So why the hell is he so against them in this episode? Did he change his mind about them between the two episodes? 3) Even if he was worried about their safety, why couldn't he have just supervised them? 4) Spencer's not okay with Carly attending a MMA show because it's "too violent" and "a bad influence", yet he's perfectly fine with her hanging around Sam, who's [[HairTriggerTemper very short-tempered]], [[TheBully beats people up]], and borders on being a juvenile delinquent. 5) The fact that he wouldn't let Carly go backstage to do a webshow with an MMA fighter, yet in "iFight Shelby Marx", ''[[{{Hypocrite}} allowed her to actually]] [[WhatTheHellHero straight-up fight an MMA fighter]]''. [[SarcasmMode Such a great parental guardian you are, Spencer.]] Yeah, a lot of people say that Carly was in the wrong for being a SpoiledBrat and going against her brother's rules. While I can agree she wasn't in the right either and handled the situation rather poorly, I'm mainly addressing the fact that her normally laid-back, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} brother suddenly turns from not caring about his sister's antics into basically Mrs. Benson out of nowhere in this episode and how much of a damn {{hypocrite}} he is.
** My question for this episode is simpler: did the kids just assume that Spencer wouldn't watch iCarly that night? Because if he had, he would have instantly seen that they had disobeyed him and gone to the MMA fight. And it's not like he just never watches it: the very next episode "iWant My Website Back" and several others demonstrate that he does indeed watch the webshow, at least sometimes. Even if the lookalikes hadn't been caught, the plan was stupid from the get-go.
** Carly didn't actually get in any real danger in her fight with Shelby Marx, and Shelby made it pretty clear it wasn't gonna be an all-out brawl. Another possibility is that Spencer somehow thinks Carly shouldn't be around male MMA fighters as if female MMA fighters aren't just as equally dangerous.

* Wait a second. Sam has been shown beating up huge bullies and adults on a regular basis. It's been implied that she can beat up the entire high school football team. So how, in "iThink They Kissed", did she manage to get overpowered and restrained by two unarmed criminals?

* Why is it that Principal Franklin can be fired for doing things "that are unbecoming of a principal", yet Briggs and Howard can be basically abusive towards students (giving Gibby detention for "being ''too'' Gibby"?) and suffer no consequences?
** And why would the district hire someone like Lauren Ackerman without any kind of background check? She's abusive and unfair to her students, and her excuse is that her boyfriend dumped her. She's clearly got mental issues, and yet the district has no problem with her being a teacher?
*** RuleOfFunny, with a touch of AdultsAreUseless. Everyone on this show is fucked up. The teachers are like extreme versions of teacher cliches (old witch teacher, crazy science teacher, strict mean guy teacher, mid-20's nice teacher who brings her personal life into the classroom) combined with the typical view of teens that teachers get away with doing whatever they want because they are teachers. Since Principal Franklin is the only recurring teacher who the students like, of course he's going to get fired.

*** Briggs and Howard are able to keep the students in line through fear and force. Remember that the superintendent's problem with them at the end was that the students were out of control. As for firing Franklin over the iCarly appearance, you could easily chalk that up to a lapse in judgment on his end.

* Okay, in the episode where Spencer was pretending to be dead, why was no one considered about Carly's living arrangements? Her only guardian is "dead" and they're just going to leave a young girl to live by herself?!
** First, he wasn't legally dead. It was just a mis-printed newspaper. Generally the stuff like guardianship and whatnot is done by official government sources and only when things are set into motion by police.

*** Only 3 people actually turned up because of his death. An art critic, an art buyer, and an ex-girlfriend. None of them were at all close to Carly, and they would likely have expected that she was being taken care of by her close family and friends.
*** Yes, but what other people who read the newspaper that know Carly? Her dad is in the military, and her mom is...well...who knows, and no one brought up her living arrangements at all.
*** Because it wouldn't have been [[RuleOfFunny funny]] and a waste of time on the actual show? For all we know, maybe Carly had to deal with a bunch of phone calls from relatives and family members where all she said was "No, he's not dead, it's a mis-print" over and over.
** What bugs me about this is the fact that Spencer is committing FRAUD and it is viewed as a GOOD thing. Spencer could've contacted the newspaper and told them there was a mistake and gotten it corrected, instead he decides to go on with it so he can get money. That is fraud, that is illegal, but even his own sister does nothing to stop him. What?
*** Spencer isn't actually committing fraud, that's why. To commit fraud, there has to be an intrinsic monetary value in his artwork, and there isn't. People are paying more money for it because they think he's dead, sure, but at the end of the day that isn't fraud, the same way playing up the sympathy card with a customer isn't legally fraud.

*** Why did Gibby spend hours trying to get $5 out of a tree? Why was he so excited to massage Spencers back? Why does he take his shirt off? Why does Gibby do anything? Calling the cops would have been far too logical for Gibby.
*** And when you think about how dumb Gibby is portrayed in the first two seasons, you cab see how he forget to call the cops, and Spencer. He isn't as dumb as he was back then, not to the point of Flanderization, IPWV proves how dumb he can be.
** I don't think the following question need its own section, but why does Guppy take so long to go downstairs during the fight? Is he slow, or the other kind of slow.

* Granted, the dance number was good, but I can't imagine that saving an otherwise flop of a performance. And once we learn that Sam doesn't actually have a legitimate reason to hate her rival (she's too nice), Rule of Funny goes out the window.
** There's many reasons why Sam is an example at JerkSue. This is one of them.

*** It's a beauty pageant. The girls are supposed to appear MarySue-ish. There just isn't any reason why Sam should win here, except that she's a main character.

** The judges could easily have been fans of the iCarly webshow (like every minor character on this show seems to be) or just happen to know Sam is "famous". Its not like judges pain-stakingly weigh all factors before coming up with a decision for a minor beauty pageant. They have a very attractive girl who is an "internet celebrity" and did fairly well in her talent. I don't think its strange at all that she won.

** She probably meant for a long period of time.


[[WMG: iThink They Kissed, Carly being upset over the secret]]
* Why was Carly so upset because Freddie and Sam didn't tell her they kissed? What reason did she have to know? Just because they're best friends doesn't mean they have to tell each other everything. She was acting like they're married to each other! There's nothing wrong with friends, no matter how close, having secrets.
** Indeed, Carly took the entire secret kiss thing like a best-friends-MistakenForCheating scenario, from Sam's unintentional admission to Carly forcing the truth out of Freddie. Carly's being upset has a more evident tone of jealousy than Sam's vague expression of being left alone in ''iSpeed Date''. It's rather funny to note that Carly was so curious if Freddie and Sam liked their 8 second kiss (something that is ''very personal''). And when the brief stint Carly became infatuated with Freddie came, he proclaimed in his blog that Carly and him shared a '''glorious''' kiss in the duration of Mrs. Benson's absence. Carly sure knows how to leave her mark.

** It's to play up the UnresolvedSexualTension between the trio, and to make the Shippers ask questions.

That was tons of money, and it came from her ''dead grandmother's destroyed watch''. Why wasn't Carly angry that Spencer didn't consult with her about what to use the money for? Also, why ''did'' Spencer do it? He can't seriously be so inconsiderate that he'd use the insurance money from their dead grandmother's watch which was given to Carly on a new room ''without her consent''.
* MostTropersAreIdiots is apparently at play here. If my older sibling '''destroyed''' my room, and he spent money to renovate it because he felt bad, I wouldn't be mad at him. And how is it inconsiderate if your older brother puts money towards making you happy?
* Neither of them seemed to have been to close to her. They made a joke about not going to her funeral and then shrugged it off with a laugh.

*** Most of Carly's furniture comes from a company called Jellio including the lamp that set on fire, Carly has something the company calls a Candelier, the mini version costs $2,400 but Carly more than likely has the big one which is listed as up on request, so its probably about $5,000, her ice cream bench costs $950, the cupcake table costs $750, she has at least 9 lamps which cost $125 each so that's another $1125, she has a pear pad which is basically an iPad which would cost at least $500. Were already up to $8325 and thats barely made a dent on the stuff in her room, the computer and tv screen looked super expensive, all her clothes had to be bought, her bed, the table with the boat in it. Her room is expensive.
** I agree about the 40,000 thing. 8325 bucks is barely 1/10 of 80,000. They didn't spend CLOSE to 80,000.
** Don't forget that they basically had to gut the walls and rebuild everything. Supports, walls, electricity, insulation, repair that section of the air system, cleaning afterwards. Even assuming they didn't pay anyone labor, materials for everything could add up trying to get it all done in only a few hours.

*** True, but {{Lampshaded}} in that it's mentioned that the new room still doesn't contain her personal mementos.
*** $80,000 is a crapload of money. You could fix the room up for next to nothing, and Carly would have the rest of the money for buying a car, and paying for college so she doesn't have massive student loans hanging over her head.

* *sigh* Well I've been keeping this to myself for a long time, thinking everyone else got the same answer. But I guess not. So here we go, if you've been to Zoo's very often, or if you have seen some of the America's Funniest Home Video clips, you could see that what the goat did to Carly was [[spoiler:It thought that Carly was it's mother, and tried being nursed from her. It most likely had been a baby goat.]]

** Is it just "iSam's Mom"? That doesn't even makes sense. If it's something like 'iMeet Sam's Mom' that's still kinda stupid because you have to figure that they've seen her mom before the audience.

[[WMG:Carly Watching Drake and Josh]]
Is it just me or is Carly watching ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' in iPrank? The girl she was listening to on the TV sounded alot like a younger Miranda and Carly comments on the girl's pranking ability possibly making this a shout out to the fans. And if Carly is watching Drake and Josh, does this mean that Miranda Cosgrove is a real person in the iCarly Universe?

** She may had been watching the show that the two kids that looked like Drake and Josh had. In that episode of D&J the main chracters themselves watched it at the end.

* Penny tees are those t-shirts all the characters wear. They were supposed to have been the creation of Socko's sister, Penny, but apparently that fact got dropped somewhere along the line. I also have to agree the episode definitely crossed a line. This troper is usually pretty forgiving of Sam's JerkAss tendencies but keeping a bunch of kids in a sweat shop is just too much. And then at the end of the episode, Freddie and Carly get treated as just as much in the wrong for being "too nice."
* Aside from being named after Penny, the shirts are labeled as such because of its "trademark": a single penny sewn onto the trim of its left sleeve. Perhaps this episode is also an attempt how far Dan's shows can be: the Ping-Pong Scam of Series/{{Victorious}} also tackled something that is "illegal", much like Sam's child-labor sweatshop. Seeing that Nickelodeon also aired these themed episodes ''on the same weekend'', it proves that Nick's radar has totally malfunctioned. And it also shows that Sam is on her way to claim her place as Megan's righthand <cue ''Dies Irae''>.

* The can itself said that it "may contain meat", so it's probably some vegetarian meat analogue, similar to things like the impossible burger.

The Jack Black trailers are.. Confusing.
* Hmm. Carly, Freddie and Sam head to Webicon (like Comicon) to do a 'panel'.
** Spencer and Jack Black get into a constume/fanboy contest about who has the best costume or knowledge of some fictional show.

[[WMG:The relationship with Drake and Josh]]
Ok this bugs me. In iGet Pranky Drake and Josh is a TV show within the show itself, that's fine, but THEN we get the cameos in iStart A Fan War. How does this work!? Is Drake and Josh a show in the setting or not?
* That is like questioning how "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} John Connor sends Kyle Reese to the past to protect his mother without knowing Kyle would be John's own father]]" works. There's already the CelebrityParadox of Carly AND Craig/Eric not recognizing Carly's resemblance to Megan, plus the Parker-Nichols Hotel (and many more D&J elements) also exist within the iCary-verse. I don't find it a big deal if the writers would like to inject some reference to the D&J AND having it exist in iCarly.
** Well, to start off with, undoubtedly, Zoey 101, Series/{{iCarly}} and Series/{{Victorious}} are connected and part of the same universe. Characters from Zoey 101 were mentioned and have now shown up in cameo appearances in Series/{{iCarly}}, and Series/{{iCarly}} and Series/{{Victorious}} are having a crossover.
** Series/DrakeAndJosh is clearly a tv show in that universe, as Drake Bell the actor and not Drake the 'Drake' in ''Drake & Josh'' showed up in Zoey 101. Carly and Spencer have both watched episodes of ''Drake & Josh'' during Series/{{iCarly}}.

*** That the actors of Craig and Eric are both named Craig and Eric (just like Drake and Josh were played by a Drake and Josh), and essentially play themselves on ''Drake & Josh''. Meaning they acted on the in-universe tv show of ''Drake & Josh'', and they are the actual real actors showing up at the Series/{{iCarly}} webicon event.
*** That there is some kind of LiteraryAgentHypothesis going on, and that in the Schneiderverse, Crazy Steve, Megan, Craig and Eric (and probably Lola and anyone else who was played by the same person but different characters on Zoey 101 and iCarly) were played by different people for the non-real life 'in-universe' version of ''Drake & Josh''.
*** This breaks down though because of the SeriousBusiness of iCarly's webshow and Shelby Marx's fighting fame. How come none of their fans point out the resemblance between them and Carly and Tori respectfully?
*** Possible HandWave: In this universe it is just coincidence, they never actually said it was ''Drake & Josh'', let alone the characters' names, it was just a shout out for those who have seen the show. This can explain explain why Craig, Eric, and Gavin can exist in iCarly in character because there is no ''Drake & Josh'', just a really similar show. Of course I don't know the WordOfGod, so this is speculation.

*** In one episode of Drake and Josh they find near duplicates of each other and in the end we see that those two duplicates got their own tv show couldn't it have been that Carly was watching that fake tv show. If the fake show was a copy of the guy's life than they may have included an annoying little sister.

*** Then in the next episode of Victorious, "Who Did It to Trina?", the cast mention "Drake and Josh" as a show (and they actually said "Drake and Josh"). At this point, I'm pretty sure the Schneiderverse has exploded by now.

The kids in iSell Penny Tees. Why can't they sue them? I'm pretty sure you can sue ten year olds, and even if they couldn't they could sue their parents of something.

*** Even if they couldn't get the for the T-shirts they could sue them for technically stealing money from them when they took the money and refused to work.

* ''iHire an Idiot and a Pretty Boy Hard Worker'' seems long for an episode. It also ruins the main premise of the episode that the girls hire a moron, which triggers Freddie to go "rogue" and hire is own idiot without the girls' approval.
* Well the main problem seemed to be less that they didn't get the guy that was good with tech stuff, and more that the guy they did get kept wrecking stuff. I mean would hiring the first guy have stopped the dumb guy from eating the props? Would it have stopped him from killing Freddie's laptop? Would it have stopped him from writing on Freddie's pear pad? Unless they hired him to follow him around and keep him from touching stuff, probably not. Yes, they could have hired both, but they'd still have the problem of the dumb guy being "dangerously stupid".
** Actually, it would mostly fix the problem. Most of those screw ups were from him trying to do his job, and if Brad was doing it instead, they could just have Cort hangout with them. Problem solved.

When Sam and Carly first see Tori's picture, they remark on how she looks like that Shelby Marx chick that Carly once fought with. Why is it that no one commented on how Andre looks like Harper from iCarly Saves TV. If they could notice the similarities between Tori and Shelby, why not Andre and Harper?
** Out-of-universe, making the same joke twice would be redundant and clumsy. In-universe, Tori and Shelby Marx are both major characters the iCarly gang has a ton of interaction with. Harper was a minor character from years ago, and they barely even saw Andre.

It's not really a normal headscratcher, but I was wondering what made Schneider think it was a good thing to say in a kids' show.

*** The supervision period is 72 hours, and it was stated that Sam had been missing for 72 hours in the opening of the episode. And the 72 hour supervision period is for those who are involuntarily committed. People who commit themselves may check themselves out anytime they want.

Why did Freddie have all of his iCarly equipment with him at the mental hospital? He didn't know beforehand that they'd be forced to do the show from the hospital, and I'm sure he doesn't lug all of that stuff around with him everywhere he goes. They said that they had to iCarly in ten minutes or something, so they couldn't have run back to get everything to do the show.
* Well, he seems to have it on him most of the time. They did iCarly from a party about 1500 miles from home in iParty with Victorious, and from a closet in Japan, neither of which were the result of planning ahead. Also, it seems he can probably run the whole show off his phone if he needs to, so...

[[WMG: What happened to "Sort out your own problems"?]]
They spent the entire 2nd episode of the arc building up to Carly telling Sam and Freddie to fix their own problems. Then the 3rd episode has Carly do exactly what she said she wouldn't. She fixes their broken relationship for the 4th time in two episodes, by getting involved and solving the camp/college issue that was completely Sam's fault.
* The fights in the previous episode were pretty much pointless, stupid arguments that Sam and Freddie started themselves. The N.E.R.D. camp issue, while Sam's fault, was brought up because of Carly. Carly probably felt guilty for trying to break her friends up, or responsible for the whole N.E.R.D. application issue being brought up.

It's not as if Sam has the "I'm a girl don't hit me" mentality, Gibby was shown to not have any problem hitting a woman in ''iPsycho''. He could probably take her if ''iEnrage Gibby'' was anything to go by. Sam has never ''ever'' taken an actual shot on the show, so for all we know, she could be just a scrappy fighter who gets lucky, or has a glass jaw and if anyone tried they'd put her down easy.
** There are some episodes that imply Gibby is afraid of Sam. And just like Sam could be a scrappy fighter, she could also be a skilled one. Not to mention, if Sam and Gibby were both as good at fighting as it seems to be implied, they'd probably put each other in the hospital and then, a whole new can of worms would just open up.
** If Gibby hits her, she will absolutely fuck him up. The risk/reward in getting physical with Sam is like 90/10.

[[WMG: Seddie Arc: Carly isn't jealous like every other time a girl has Freddie's attention, to point where she's shipping Sam and Freddie apparently?]]
Getting some early iLMM annoyances out there.. this is probably the worst part of this 'arc', even in the damn crossover Carly gets jealous again, or possessive or whatever you like as long but still has Carly not liking Freddie watching other girls, then she turns around and starts shipping them together, pushing them to keep kissing and watching them like a love struck hawk? This better be very well explained, because her blatant jealously is one of the main parts of Carly's character that isn't 'perfect' and has kept at her core. And it's been there so long that even if they HandWave it with some 'character development' it's still stupid because of how long and how recently Carly has acted like that, it shouldn't just vanish for Seddie.
* A lot of people are comparing it to a bad Seddie fan fic and that accusation seems pretty plausible judging from the promo, but we'll just have to wait and see.
* It's possible that it's a IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy scenario, and that it'll develop more now that Freddie and Sam are actually in an established relationship.
** Semi-confirmed on that last point, one of the reasons Carly helps Sam and Freddie is that she wants them to be happy. Not quite IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy, but she is giving up her own happiness and time and energy to try and make Sam and Freddie happy together.
* Because Freddie isn't just with any girl, he's with Sam. Going by the show's canon, the romance between Freddie and the girls simply doesn't hold the same weight that the friendship ([[LesYay or romance]]) between Carly and Sam does. Their relationship is the longest, it's the strongest, and despite feelings of jealousy Carly may be experiencing, they don't trump her desire to see Sam happy and fulfilled. iHate Sam's Boyfriend, iMake Sam Girlier, and iOMG show a strong desire on Carly's part for Sam to be with the person she's expressed attraction to (or in the case of iOMG, the person Carly believes she's hiding her attraction to.) Carly is the one who encourages Sam to act on her feelings, and before Sam does as much, Carly explicitly tells her "I just want you to be happy." The situation can certainly be chalked up to IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy in regards to her jealousy, though some might argue whose happiness she values most. This would also explain why she fixes things purely for Sam's benefit in iCan't Take It and has considerably less regard for Freddie's feelings in the situation, because she knew breaking up was not what Sam wanted even though Freddie would be justified in doing so.

He first appeared on the show trying to get a job on iCarly as an intern, because it was getting to be too much work for the gang to do by themselves. They eventually got around to hiring him in iOMG, and he helped them on a total of ''one'' show before vanishing again. Three episodes later and he hasn't been so much as mentioned. I get that his purpose was largely to kick off the Seddie arc, but in-universe, what the hell happened to him?
* So far we haven't actually seen a whole lot of the webshow being filmed or prepared, so its possible he's still around.

** Carly had to cancel a show when Sam and Freddie didn't turn up (''iCan't Take It''), because she couldn't do it alone with Gibby. That sounds like exactly the time when Brad should have been there. Wendy/Shane/Pete/etc. are excusable, because they're just people at Ridgeway, but Brad was explicitly hired to work on the webshow, so he really should be there when the film the webshow!

Forgive me if this is a stupid question. Nora and her parents are pretty much are psychotic, delusional sociopaths willing to kill people over the smallest things. In real life, if they were to be convicted and arrested, would they simply be sent to prison or would they be sent to a mental facility? I'm just asking because I've heard of such happening before.
* That would really depend on if they qualify for insanity during their trial, which isn't as open-and-shut as you might expect.

In iStill Psycho, Spencer comes to pick up Carly, Sam and Freddie, and he really needs to pee. So Nora's mom shows her down to their 'best toilet' downstairs, in the basement, as an excuse to get him on the wheel. How could Nora and her mom know that Spencer would have to pee when he got there?
* '''Spencer:''' I really have to pee.
** You misunderstood my question. For Nora's elaborate scheme to work, Spencer would need to be tied on the wheel. So how did Nora's mom know he would need to pee before he arrived at the house? [[WildMassGuessing Did she sneak laxatives into Spencer's drink magically?]] Come on!
*** What you're asking doesn't really make sense... If he didn't have to use the restroom, they would've used something else. Like, "hey, we just bought some new sculptures and would like your opinion!"
*** According to Google, it's a 1 hour and 24 minute drive from Seattle to Olympia (both in Washington State). Someone on a road trip for that long would likely have to use the bathroom at some point, provided they make no stops. Now how she knew it'd be Spencer who would need to pee is still moot, but my point still stands.

[[WMG:Sam's lack of passport]]

[[WMG: Can the fire department really stop responding?]]
* In the newest episode, Spencer causes a fire (again) and the chief says they're through with coming to their apartment and if a fire breaks out again, they're on their own. My question is are they really able to do that? Isn't there a law that REQUIRES firefighters to responds when they're called?
** No they can't. It's rule of Creator/DanSchneider. Everything is made up and reality doesn't matter.
** The most that could happen is that they could get the police involved and arrest Spencer for reckless endangerment to not just Carly but potentially to the building's other residents. I'd say arson too but that would imply Spencer intentionally set things on fire, which evidently he doesn't.

* Why would Canadian fatcakes be illegal in the US? Why would a snack cake be made illegal at all, especially one that's already readily-available in the US. Why illegalize a certain version of it?

* Wasn't it expressed in ''iOwe You'' that you can't solicit money from minors? Granted, Jimmy is host of a popular late night show but i'm not sure how excusable it would be. Also, I am aware that it's not illegal for adults to donate money, but the odds of it being solely them to pitch in would be rather situational.

** Gibby was the reason they had to sell the head - he was being so naive that he let a random guy "sell him" a "moon rock". And then, despite being responsible for this, he refused to help them regain the money. Mind you, the purpose of all of it was to get Sam's mom out of JAIL. In the last episode, Gibby got his head scanned and was probably on his way to getting a new head anyway.

* In iOpen A Restaurant, the Shay's apartment is robbed after someone kicks the door in during the webcast, and later Spencer develops two quirky security systems for them because, quote, they ''can't afford'' a real security system. My confusion is two-fold: I know the kids are doing the webcast upstairs and could maybe miss the loud crash of the intruder, but Spencer is just in the other room. Even granting that everyone missed the noise or assumed the other occupants in the house made it (the webcast is wacky, Spencer's inventions are wacky, loud noises might be too common to cause alarm) ''since when can the Shays not afford home security?'' The amount of money that went into Spencer's inventions seems like it would be in the same ballpark as a real alarm, and regardless, the two of them have always appeared pretty well-off.
** It's been implied that Spencer doesn't make a lot of money with his sculptures. The anti-intruder systems that Spencer make are probably clobbered together from things he [[RunningGag found in the junkyard]] and other cheap items. Flashbulbs, motion sensing cameras, wires, corn kernels, and plastic guns powered by some sort of pneumatic pump aren't as expensive as a legitimate security system, especially since they'd have to pay a monthly-yearly fee.

** 11 hours is a pretty average inter-continental flight. There is a commercial airline route from New Jersey to Singapore that takes 18.5 hours. In 1962 a B-52 bomber took an un-refuelled flight from Japan to Spain via the US that took 19.5 hours.

*** Slightly confirmed- the first shot of Sam and Cat is Sam rolling up in her bike. I saw it as a passing the torch of sorts.

[[WMG: Why did they declare the webshow going on hiatus?]]
* Carly was moving away, and the tv show itself was ending. So why not have it be the final broadcast? It would make alot more sense.
* Unless your question is why a hiatus and not an out and out finale, then in that case, they never said Carly was living in Italy for the rest of her life, so they can still return to the show in due time. Hiatuses can last for very long periods of time after all.

Why cant they make up their mind? Hasn't he had three or four different names? early on in the series his name was confirmed to be Gibby (his little brother is called Guppy) but now it looks like its been downgraded to a nickname, replaced with an overly long one.

* Carly gets punished about as often as her alter-ego Megan. In particular, the episode iHurtLewbert, where they give the titular character a booby-trapped muffin basket that explodes, and get off virtually scot-free. Now, I understand that we have to suspend disbelief, but do they really expect us to believe that you can set off an explosion in a building without causing a mass panic or ending up in jail?

** It was loud enough for Spencer to hear from several floors up, and powerful enough to injure Lewbert.
*** Spencer was watching iCarly and knew what was about to happen. Odds are, he saw it on the show and checked it out. Even if he wasn't watching (was he? I don't remember exactly) it was on the monitor upstairs, and who knows how loud the volume is on that thing? If it could really be heard from seven floors up, why didn't anyone else go downstairs? As for Lewbert getting hurt...he was in relatively close range, and maybe he fell the wrong way.
*** He was lying down on the couch, and heard the explosion and Lewberts scream on the computer on the kitchen bench which was tuned into the webshow.

* He's always complaining about it, saying how terrible his life has been since he got it. But in the episode where he gets it blown off, he demands to have put on ice that way it can be ''surgically put back on his face''. One: Squick. Two: Why in the world would he want ''that thing'' put back on? He could have let the spot heal and have a better life, but no, he had to have his gross cheek wart.* Shudders*

Freddie is not a billionaire. Freddie has a single mom who does not appear to have any significant amount of money. And yet, Freddie's room (as seen in iSYL) and his laptops, video cameras, etc., belie this. Freddie seems to have an unlimited budget, when really he shouldn't be able to afford the majority of his gear.
* The web show seems to be, in-universe, a smash hit and nationally famous. Besides the gear, Freddie doesn't really have many expenses, being a child, and the website probably gets good money from advertising.
* The biggest issue is probably their ability to stream the webshow live. Everything else can probably be handwaved by "Freddie spending the techfoot money on stuff for the webshow" or possibly some kind of sponsorship in-universe that is limited. Or advertising. As for the computers in his room? Most computer nerd type kids gain access and scrounge up a lot of old computers. He's just taken time to get them all working, rather than junking them as he's got better ones. If I kept all the computers I had till I was 18, I'd have about 10.
* He IS in various tech clubs. He very likely could've gotten his supplies from there or made them himself, like he did with the specialized iCarly remote. I mean come on the guy even builds a fully functioning ray gun at one point.

** It's the same reason the kids put up with [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Cartman]]. In every group of friends, there's one friend that everyone hates but still hang out with (and if you think that's not true, YOU'RE that friend).
*** I get that, but I still wonder just why Carly would decide to let this rude, aggressive lunch stealing girl be her friend? Hmm... {{Fanwank}} time: I could see that it happened when Carly first moved to Seattle so she had no friends, and Sam having none either. So when Carly fought back, Sam decided to follow Carly around for a while whilst Carly didn't want to get rid of someone she could be friends with. Freddie came later, became infatuated with Carly as she was the GirlNextDoor, and he probably figured out that Sam was pretty much glued to Carly's hip and he'd have to deal with her.
*** This would be a totally plausible theory if they, you know, hated her. But they don't. Carly tends to pick Sam's friendship over Freddie's (''iTwins'', ''iWant More Viewers'', and that one moment ''in iOwe You'' come to mind), Spencer has a big brother-like relationship with her, and she and Freddie have their moments...occasionally. But they definitely don't hate her.
** It's called ComedicSociopathy. She does something crazy, Freddie complains about it, Carly shakes her head in resignation, and we laugh. The fact that they still hang out with her (Carly ponders about this issue in the ''very first'' episode, yet four years later they're closer than ever) is supposed to tell us they ''can'' see some good in her, despite her (sometimes dangerous and/or illegal) antics. Presumably they love her (as a friend, at least) for her good qualities, and ''despite'' the bad ones.
** Plus I'm sure having a person like Sam as your friend would mean no would mess with you.

Her mother is clearly unemployed, so where does Sam get the money to afford all her nice clothes? She's wearing what seems to be [[{{UnlimitedWardrobe}} a new designer outfit in every scene]], it just seems strange that this has never been brought up in the show.

* Various nefarious activities I assume. Maybe she just steals them all. Plus as it happens, the actual wardrobe budget on the show is small, from regular cheap stores, and reused constantly. It's just that the costume people are apparently really good at mixing and matching.

* Is "Fredward" even a real name? It's Edward and Fred mixed together.
** You just answered your own question.
** Is "insert other weird name" a real name?

It seems that everyone's tone of voice has changed recently (duller), and that the lighting is different.

Kids age at different rates, and not everyone looks their age but.. Sam and Freddie look older [[DawsonCasting then they're supposed to be]], especially Sam. It looks like they aged quite a lot, which makes more biological sense for Freddie. Sam has.. Filled out a lot.. Gibby and Nevel look a bit older then their ages (they're like 15 and 14, right?).
** They are more like 16/17 by now on the show. They can't really get any older since they'd be running into graduation age and that can't happen since they are still going to film another 13 episodes in 2012. The ages on this show got a bit wacky, they looked too young for their ages in the earlier eps (Nathan looked like an 8 year old in the Pilot), and now they've grown up Sam/Jen is a badonkadonk blonde bombshell and Carly/Miranda has incredible beauty and Nathan/Freddie is now He-Man they look a bit older than what their ages on the show are.

* Got promoted to main cast, joke was getting stale.

*** The fact he doesn't do any more is turning it into its own joke.
In "iEnrage Gibby", we learn that he's a skilled kickboxer and is on the same fighting level as Sam. This should beg the question, why hasn't he skilled this knowledge before when he was being harassed, even by Mr. Howard. Sure it could end in trouble, but considers the options... he should've at least apply his skills [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight since it'll help in the long one]].

Because I'm looking through my list of episodes, and I'm coming up with nothing. Did I miss some revelation that this episode is based around? Sam starts the episode 'in love' with Freddie. It's out of nowhere and had no development.
* With Sam's ending expression in ''iSpeed Date''; with the bacon theory of ''iSaved Your Life'' further confirming a possible ulterior motive on Sam's part. But yes, most of the plot is an AssPull given the earlier events of this season which could have been a perfect chance to build them up more for the plot to be reasonable.
** Sam's expression in ''iSpeed Date'' didn't really show (in my opinion) that she was in love with Freddie.

** Well Dan's not exactly the best when it comes to build up. I think he has all the ideas in his mind as to why this works, but it didn't translate on screen. If you wanna reach far enough: Sam is extremely abrasive and especially to Freddie, and after iKiss, she might have been developing some sort of feelings. I mean, in iTTK, Sam brought up their kiss, and it seems too far fetched for laughing has to magically bring secrets like that up. It must've been on her mind at the time. Shows like this that adhere religiously to the status quo make it impossible for any development to occur. And besides, apparently it's hilarious for Sam to grievously injure Freddie...*cough* Also, there may have been pressure to keep the status quo as well between the 3 best friends. Note how Sam was nice and helpful when alone with Freddie and Brad. I guess Brad was just an excuse? I mean they are a bit more civilized whenever Carly isn't around. Hopefully Dan realistically explains this, because I like this ship and I don't want some lazy ass-pull.

*** ''iKiss'' shortly followed by ''iMeet Fred'' is too ironic and inexcusable to mention in terms of the first sentence, so no surprises if Dan pulls another such episode again in the aftermath of iOMG. WesternAnimation/HeyArnold works for a cartoon. iCarly is live action. But it would be quite interesting if they ''actually'' get Sam and Freddie together and then Sam gets nothing short like Melanie in terms of girliness around her BF. It will kill the established VitriolicBestBuds comedy since the pilot and would be just as "boring" and "perfect" (if those 2 words even work together) as some claim against the friendship of the other major (yet minority) pairing. Time will tell.
** Was eventually referred to. Sam pushed Freddie into an oncoming bike courier. The courier hit Freddie and caused him to fall face first into a fire hydrant. While he was bleeding from the ears, Sam suddenly decided he was cute. There. That's the true love of Sam/Freddie. Likely to have happened just before ''iOMG'' based on Sam's unchanged behaviour previous to that episode.

** It's not a ShipSinking (because that is in-universe relationship 'death' and that clearly hasn't happened), but it is the biggest event for AbandonShip that Seddie has. Which is a fandom trope.

** Because it's ''worse'' than Sam's typical behaviour, beating him with a tennis racquet and then throwing him out of a treehouse because of his opinion? Also, many people still ship Seddie anyway, and prefer to ignore it or claim it as 'RuleOfFunny'.

* He hasn't explained his own role in the relationship, his initial reaction in ''iOMG'' and the start of ''iLose My Mind'' basically shows us he didn't like her back. Did he just go away for 3 days and then decided after going to the mental hospital he couldn't be bothered waiting for Carly and took what Sam was offering without really caring all that much about her to start with?
** [[WildMassGuessing If anything]], [[FridgeBrilliance it could be the possibility]] that the reason why he decided to hook up with her in the first place so that she would stop abusing him ([[DomesticAbuse Not that it did anything]]).

** Quite interesting. On the iCarly site Freddie wrote a blog before iLost My Mind about how awesome it would be to have a girlfriend.

** In the end the physical side of the relationship (ie kissing and/or screwing) couldn't make up for the litany of issues in their romantic, friendship and emotional aspects of the relationship.

* IN "I Got Detention", why didn't Freddie slam the locker like Carly did if he wanted detention?

[[WGM: Same thing, Same Consequence.]]

[[WGM: Same thing, Same Consequence]]
* IN "IGot Detention", why didn't Freddie slam the locker like Carly did if he wanted detention?