History ICarly / TropesKToO

* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: Some of the websites featured on the show are actually real, such as http://worldofchucks.com and http://chickapedia.com.

** [[OneMarioLimit Ironically]], there are two characters named Mario: One works at Galini's Pie Shop, and the other was one of the students whom Spencer dumped garlic powder on when they were still in school.

--->'''Freddie''' (to Spencer): "I'm not giving you a spongebath while you watch television! Not after the last time."

---> '''Spencer''': "I met a freaky rabbi in Vegas once..."

--->'''Spencer''': I can't go back to law school! That was the worst 72 hours of my life!
--->'''Freddy''': Even worse than that time those bikers took you to --
--->'''Spencer''': *Loud obnoxious interrupting noise*

--->'''Spencer''': I remember when they said I couldn't go to camp anymore.
--->'''Gibby''': Why, because you were too old?
--->'''Spencer''': No.

-->'''Carly:''' When did you become so uncool?!
-->'''Spencer:''' Uhh, when did ''you'' become a little baby who yells at me when I don't give her what I want?
-->'''Carly:''' RIGHT WHEN YOU STOP GIVING ME WHAT I WANT!

* NothingIsScarier: PlayedForLaughs. In one episode Gibby walks out of a bathroom holding a plunger, with a victorious expression on his face. Another man walks out behind him absolutely terrified. The audience is not given a single clue what Gibby did with that plunger.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: In "iHire An Idiot", [[spoiler: Ashley, the hot intern Freddie picked. She seems to be as dumb as Cort but in the end is revealed to be a very intelligent college student. She only pretended to be stupid as part of Freddie's plan to get Carly and Sam to fire Cort]].

** Two characters named Tasha have appeared on the show. The first in the season 1 episode "iNevel", and a recurring love interest for Gibby in Season 3, in the episode "iSpeed Date".

** In "iReunite With Missy", Sam invokes this when she goes to Freddy to try to convince him that Missy is trying to split up Carly and her. He doesn't believe her and demands proof, which makes Freddie think about it:
--> Sam: 'Cause I came here. Have I ever come here for help before? For anything?
* OppositesAttract: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] or InvertedTrope with the Fred/Sam story arc in Season 5, depending on how you look at it. The subversion is they are polar opposites that become physically attracted to each other but they eventually break up when the actual relationship fails. They can't find any common ground in their interests and actually end up sabotaging them for each other when they try being involved in each other's activities. It ends up being the main reason why they dump each other. The inversion is Sam wants someone abnormal like herself, and Freddie wants someone more normal and well-suited for himself (like Craly), so that while they did have an OppositesAttract vibe, it's not what they need for a relationship.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Freddie ignoring Carly bawling her eyes out whilst she's crying and curled up in a ball at the end of iChristmas. When Carly tells him to leave her alone, he shrugs his shoulders and then blathers on about rehearsing for their next webshow. It's done so that they can reveal they are back in the 'real' world, and Carly can get better, but there's no way on earth Freddie would ever ''ever'' leave Carly's side when she's crying like that.
* OverlyLongGag:

** Germy's sneezing as he leaves the iCarly studio in "iWill Date Freddie."
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative:
** The Award Show episode includes awards for things like, "The Most Interesting and Yet Frightening Tongue Video" and "Best Milk Squirting from Eye Video"

-->'''Carly:''' We're home!
-->'''Spencer:''' Hi, Sam and Freddie with you?
-->'''Freddie:''' We're here.
-->'''Spencer:''' When ''aren't'' you here?
-->'''Sam:''' Good point.
-->'''Freddie:''' So true.

** In "iFind Spencer Friends," TheCameo from Creator/EmmaStone as a crazed fan who makes Spencer look calm. ''Spencer''.

** Nevel, in almost any episode he appears on. Even emphasized in "iPity The Nevel", where his true colors get revealed to everyone for the JerkAss he really is and becomes a social pariah.

* TheLastStraw: ''iDate A Bad Boy'' with Spencer's pressure trigger plate. An obese postman steps on it but still doesn't activate it. The alarm fires off when Spencer handed the postman a stamp.

* LineOfSightName: In "iGet Banned" when pressed by Sam for a name for his and Gibby's 'band' Freddie looks around and finally blurts out "The...(glances at the floor)...Floors!"

** Carly, Sam and Pam are intentionally trapped in a room in "iSam's Mom".

* LoveDodecahedron: Carly once briefly dated Freddie (who is enamored with her) in Season 3, only for them to break up because Sam told him that Carly's feelings for Freddie were hero worship. Sam once had a crush on Spencer, and then later has full blown feelings for Freddie, who enters into a relationship with Sam. They broke up too [[spoiler: Then Carly kisses Freddie in the original series finale, which seemingly rekindles their romance.]] Gibby has shown interest in both girls, and had a girlfriend named Tasha, who had an episode where it looked like she cheated on Gibby with Freddie. Melanie, who is Sam's twin sister, had an obvious crush on Freddie, and has kissed him as well.

** Following their amicable split (after this major Creddie romance in Season 3 is put to rest), this is when the Sam/Freddie story arc comes into play in the second half of Season 4, established in the season 4 finale "iOMG", which was a shocking Cliffhanger with plot twists, it flips the romantic agenda on its head by having Sam kissing Freddie, much to Carly's shock. When the show comes back they enter a 4-episode Story Arc early in Season 5, but break up in "iLove You". "iOpen A Restaurant" in Season 6 shows that Freddie is beginning to revisit and subtly rekindle his long lost romance with Carly. Even after everything he went through with Sam, he ''still'' has feelings for Carly, and tries flirtatiously asking her out in the hopes of getting back together and then ended in the finale "iGoodbye", which finally ends the speculation when Carly comes up to Freddie and initiates a LastMinuteHookup smooch. Carly and Freddie passionately kiss.

--> "How would that even be possible?!"

* MagicCountdown: In "iGot Detention" When Carly successfully gets detention and realizes Freddie hasn't yet, she says school's over in three minutes. However, only 30 seconds elapse between when she says that and the time the bell rings.

--->'''Carly:''' Here, I'm just done cleaning the juicer ports.
---> '''T-Bo:''' What?! I told you to ''read the juice reports''!
---> '''Carly:''' (scandalized) What is a juice report?
---> '''T-Bo:''' It's part of the fruit newsletter!

* MeaningfulEcho: After their first kiss in private Freddie stops Sam walking away by jokingly stating "Hey. I hate you" with a smile on his face and Sam responds with "I hate you too". Later, they break up in Season 5, Sam professes her love for Freddie before they part ways and break up.

** Also, Mrs. Benson abruptly interrupts the make-out session between Carly and Freddie in "iSaved Your Life".

* {{Montages}}: Spencer's out-of-control pranking the trio, Gibby, T-Bo and several Groovy Smoothie customers in different instances.

---> '''Carly:''' Yes I did too! He told me he could beat his dad at arm wrestling and I said "No way!" and he said "Oh no, it's true" and I said "Wow, you must be really strong" and he said "I work out a litle bit" and I said "Really?" and he said "Yeah, you wanna feel my biceps?" and I said "Sure, I do" and they felt ''AWESOME''!

---> '''Spencer:''' No, I'm sorry I didn't return the video! I watched it in my buddy Socko's house and his mom got mad because we spilled gravy on her carpet and she threw me out and I thought I left the video there, but I didn't. He says I did, I thought I didn't and I looked for it everywhere so - I don't mean to lie, I don't like lying, I don't like the way it feels. And you know I tell my sister that "Don't lie" and I tell my little sister "You shouldn't lie, it's not good" and they have their "Honesty is the best policy", right? But there's Sam, her friend who tells me how to lie and it makes me nauseous and I feel queasy, and I know I didn't --

---> '''Carly:''' Well, Wendy and I are trying to study, and Griffin kept turning up the music, so Wendy got frustrated and left. Then I told Griffin he's obnoxious and he said I shouldn't ruin his sense of humor and I said "Oh, really?" and he was telling me how immature I was and then I realized he's super cute. And he asked me if he liked music and I go "Who doesn't like music?" So then I turned on some music and we started talking and I realized he's sweet and smart and his lips were right there in front of me so I leaned over and I kissed him! And I don't kiss like (blathers her tongue), ''I KISS LIKE A PRINCESS''!"

---> '''Carly''': Freddie says "in five, four, three, two", then points at us, then we introduce the show. Then after that, we go to that wheel over there and do a bit called "put that in your man purse", which you don't know about, but just play along and you'll figure it out as we go.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: When Carly admits she likes Adam during the Webicon in "iStart a Fanwar", the in-universe Creddie shippers angrily clobber the "Creddie killer", with other Seddie shippers joining in.

--->'''Freddie:''' Hello, ladies. Or should I say lady and Sam.
--->'''Sam:''' (squirts cheese to Freddie's face)

--->'''Freddie:''' Dear Carly and Sam. And Freddie.
--->'''Carly:''' Ooh, they added you.
--->'''Freddie:''' Nah, I just added me.

* NoEnding.

** At the end of "iThink They Kissed". The trio have been tied up with duct tape by escaped felons, and Carly enviouly questions them if they enjoyed their first kiss. Sam gazes at Freddy for a few seconds, then Spencer busts in with his Banjo, plays a few chords and the show ends. Considering we saw Freddie pretentiously try to overimpress Carly in "iDate a Bad Boy" with a prank call involving pizza that hilariously backfired, it's implied that he never stopped loving Carly even after that first kiss with Sam and still had feelings for her, lampshaded when Sam walked in and curiously asked Carly "Will he ''ever'' give up on you?" to which she replies "I don't know.."

** This is is what results in the plots of ''iPsycho'' and ''iStill Psycho''.
*** In ''iPsycho'' the iCarly trio attend a party for Nora Dershlit, a fan of theirs who has no friends and whose neglectful parents left her alone on her own birthday. They even do a webcast encouraging Nora's school mates to come to her party. Their reward for this kindness is being held hostage by Nora. Fortunately, they are able to escape
*** In ''iStill Psycho'', the iCarly trio are called to Nora's probabtion hearing. Carly is at first perfectly willing to let Nora rot in juvie but after seeing both Nora and her parents in tears decides to argue in favor of letting Nora out on parole. Against their better judgement, they also join Nora and her mother for dinner. This turns out to be a trap and they are once again at Nora's mercy only this time, her parents turn out to be just as twisted as Nora is and are in on the plot.

** In "iBeat The Heat" Freddie is bothered when his online girlfriend, Gibby's cousin Sabrina turns out to be '''much''' taller than him.

--->'''Carly''': It's better than the first bunny I drew.
--->'''Freddie''': That is not possible.
--->'''Sam''': Ohhh, it's possible...

--->'''Carly''': That's Kevin. If he asks if you want to see his onion ring, just say no.
--->'''Missy''': Why?
--->'''Carly''': Just say [[BigNo NO!]]

--->'''Freddie''': I assure you, twenty years from now, I'll be Carly's second husband.
--->'''Carly''': What happened to my first husband?
--->'''Freddie''': [[MurdertheHypotenuse Nothing you can prove.]]

---> '''Freddie''' (to Spencer): "I'm not giving you a spongebath while you watch television! Not after the last time."

** The in-universe Seddie vs Creddie fans in "iStart A Fan War". Spencer and Jack Black's character apear to be this in their sub-plot as well.

* OldMediaPlayingCatchUp: It's a basic-cable SitCom / KidCom about kids who do a [[WebOriginal webshow]]. Every character seems to have the latest digital gadgetry.

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* MissingMom: Carly's mother has never been mentioned, the likely choices are her completely abandoning her children (as their father has been deployed in the military since before the show started), being insane, locked up or dead. Sam's mother is something of a psychologically absent type.

* LongTitle: Their "[[WhoWritesThisCrap Pathetic Plays]]" have these: "The Cowboy With A Mustache And The Idiot Farmgirl Who Thought The Mustache Was A Squirrel" and "The Englishman Who Was A Terrible Father To His Two Children Named Fuffley And Peeta," plus the pre-'[[WhoWritesThisCrap pathetic]]' "The Prisoner Who Just Wanted Some Soup And The Man Who Refused To Give Him Some."

* OverprotectiveDad: Spencer generally averts the trope though, trusting Carly to make good decisions about her movements and activities. He does play this trope straight with "iDate a Bad Boy" and "iLook Alike".

* {{Mondegreen}}: In "iStakeout", detectives infiltrate the Shays' apartment to spy on the owner of the shop next door because they think he's sells pirated movies, as in illegal copies. He actually sells ''pirate'' movies, homemade movies about pirates, which are not illegal at all.

* KidCom

* TheLadette: Sam Puckett is this minus the sex and drinking because, well, it's a kid show [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids (kinda ...)]]

** Lewbert, Carly, Freddie and... [[HamAndCheese Spencer]].

* LastMinuteHookup: Carly and Freddie in the final few minutes of "iGoodbye".

** If new viewers of the show saw the trailer of "iThink They Kissed" without watching the prequel "iKiss", Carly yells [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil ''Sam and Freddie KISSED!'']].

** Carly's final speech during "iStart A Fan War".

* LimitedSocialCircle: Their social circle consists of Sam, Freddie and Carly. You can stretch that to include Spencer, and maybe Gibby and Wendy, [[BrotherChuck when she was around]].

** The trio in "iSpace Out".
** Carly, Sam and Pam in "iSam's Mom".

* LoveEpiphany: Sam had have one for each Freddie, but their moment is not shown on-screen. In Season 5, Sam reveals she thought Freddie was cute for the first time, after she shoved him into a bike courier, who hit Freddie, knocked Freddie into a fire hydrant with so much force he started bleeding from the ears. Considering we never saw it happen or known it happened, it violates TheLawOfConservationOfDetail, is an unsatisfactory AssPull (because it invents a moment that should have been shown on screen) even though they had a surfeit of potential moments to have chosen from and knew about, because Creator/DanSchneider had spent entire blogs teasing said moments as potentially shippy. Which means that buried underneath her clashing and tormenting maltreatment, Sam does have feelings for Freddie, in her own abusively twisted way.
** Carly gets one in "iGoodbye" sometime before coming up to Freddie to kiss him.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy:
** [[ClingyJealousGirl Ms. Ackerman wants to know where Spencer is for every minute of every day, and actually keeps logs on when he doesn't answer his phone.]]
** In a platonic!love ([[LesYay or not?]]) kind-of way, Sam got [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge really, really mad]] when Carly was harassed by a bully in "iMake Sam Girlier".
* LoveTriangle / TriangRelations: Begins with a major plot twist featuring Sam privately kissing Freddie mid-Season 2, merely to overcome their sexual frustrations of having never kissed anyone before and her way of mending fences with Freddie after jerkishly exposing his dirty secret, as it turns out that they don't truly hate each other's guts, even though they can't stand each other most of the time. After Sam privately shares her first kiss with Freddie, they agree to keep it a secret and this changes the dynamic of their status, as they seem a little more friendly to each other most of the time, while simultaneously Sam sometimes is more jerkishly mean towards him. This can be because Sam's feelings for Freddie actually began to grow after they shared their first kiss with each other. And her being mean to Freddie even more could've been her way of trying to hide her crush on him in an abusively twisted way, then their smooch becomes a major plot device early on in Season 3 "iThink they Kissed", when Carly becomes outraged when she finds out about their first kiss in private, confronts them both about it and acts jealous. Considering we saw Freddie try to pretentiously over-impress Carly in "iDate a Bad Boy" with a prank call involving pizza that hilariously backfired, it's implied that he never stopped loving Carly even after that first kiss with Sam and still had feelings for her, lampshaded when Sam walked in the room and curiously asked Carly "Will he ''ever'' give up on you?" to which Carly replies "I don't know." adding that she probably never should have told Freddie about her taste in guys. A major turning point occurs in Season 3, where Carly and Freddie affectionately enjoy their romance, starting with a romantic slow dance at the end of "iSpeed Date", Sam's softer side is shown to Gibby and Carly enjoys a Dance of Romance with Freddie, then they spend the entire episode romantically dating and kissing in "iSaved Your Life" in Season 3, which features Freddie and Carly embarking on a romantic adventure, where Carly becomes smitten with Freddie (who just risked his own life to rescue her and injured himself), only for Sam to break them up by warning Freddie that Carly only admires his actions because of hero worship, which causes him to amicably break up with Carly on good terms, but they agree to remain as friends. Following their amicable split (after this major Creddie romance in Season 3 is put to rest), this is when the Sam/Freddie story arc comes into play in the second half of Season 4, established in the season 4 finale "iOMG", which was a shocking Cliffhanger with plot twists, it flips the romantic agenda on its head by having Sam kissing Freddie, much to Carly's shock. When the show comes back they enter a 4-episode Story Arc early in Season 5, but break up in "iLove You". "iOpen A Restaurant" in Season 6 shows that Freddie is beginning to revisit and subtly rekindle his long lost romance with Carly. Even after everything he went through with Sam, he ''still'' has feelings for Carly, and tries flirtatiously asking her out in the hopes of getting back together and then ended in the finale "iGoodbye", which finally ends the speculation when Carly comes up to Freddie and initiates a Last Minute Hookup smooch. Carly and Freddie passionately kiss. Seddie has sunk.

* ManInABikini: "Bikini Dog Food Fight"

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Sam to Freddie.

* MasterOfTheMixedMessage:
** Carly did this to Freddie in Season 1, despite her "We are just friends" lines, she will often act in ways that lead him on.
** Creator/DanSchneider in his fan interactions.
* MayDecemberRomance: Mrs. Benson and Spencer during "iChristmas" would be this. Mrs Benson would realistically be at least in her 40's (although it's possible she could be in her mid-30's), with Spencer about 27 years old. The popular fandom ships of Sam/Spencer and Freddie/Spencer would be these also.

* MegaNekko: Ms. Fielder, Carly's art teacher in the episode "iMust Have Locker 239".

* {{Misblamed}}: A few people think Dan deletes criticism from his [[Creator/DanSchneider DanWarp]] blog, but it is explained [[http://danwarp.blogspot.com/2001/11/to-any-icarly-fan-who-didnt-like-istart.html here]] that admins do this instead.

* MistakenForCheating: Tasha and Freddie, mistaken by Gibby, in "iEnrage Gibby".

* MrAltDisney: Charles Dingo with with its theme park, the dingo as the beloved cartoon animal and its own version of Creator/DisneyChannel. The whole episode was a massive TakeThat against Disney Channel.
** plus the fact that Mr Dingo's head was in cryogenics, which is a well known rumor about Walt Disney being frozen.
* MsFanService:
** Carly, as much as a kids' show will allow: a two-piece bikini, a hula girl outfit, then a sports bra and boxing shorts, among others. The bikini scene in "iHatch Chicks" emphasizes it by putting Sam in a less revealing one-piece and Bermuda shorts to contrast.
** Sam shrugs off most of the girly outfits for their live skits, but perhaps Sam is merely pandering to a [[WholesomeCrossdresser different]] [[ButchLesbian sort]] [[LipstickLesbian of audience]]. On the rare occasions she does dress "girly" ("iMake Sam Girlier", "iSpeed Date", "iCarly Awards", "iWas A Pageant Girl") SheCleansUpNicely.
*** Almost every woman Spencer goes out with or even just flirts with. Like Carly's teacher Miss Ackerman from "iHave a Lovesick Teacher". She starts dating Spencer and shows up at their in a '''hot''' minidress before turning into a psycho girlfriend.
** Though Carly rarely appears on the actual website videos (where apparently she doubles as camera woman), whenever she does appear, chances are there will be some sort of innuendo in her segment while joining the others.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Sam is apparently strong enough to manhandle anyone she needs to, despite Creator/JennetteMcCurdy being absolutely ''tiny''. Notable when Freddie, after his actor gained a ton of muscle, lost an arm wrestling match with her, despite it being clear his arm is nearly twice as thick as hers.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Freddie, every time he does a good deed, [[ButtMonkey expect it to bite him on the ass later]]. In "iSam's Mom", he catches an elusive criminal on video when no one else could. He's rewarded with nothing but a coupon (buy a dozen smoothies, get 10% off on your 13th), which expired the very next day. Then on national television, T-Bo and a female schoolmate reveal his full name and address while the crook is still on the loose.

* NoRespectGuy: Freddie.

* OldMediaAreEvil: "iCarly Saves TV".