History ICarly / TropesPToT

** In "iStakeOut", Freddie tries all his best to hide his tattoo of Sam's face from his mom, to the point of giving an excuse of not taking his shirt off to avoid "cloud burn". Mrs. Benson sends him to several pharmacies to find "cloud block", which she later manages to find and lather her son's face with.

'''Carly:''' [[IncrediblyLamePun This -- will ''blow'' you away.]] (laughs)\\

* StalkerWithACrush.

%% * TerribleTrio: In some of their more JerkAss moments Carly, Freddie and Sam apply to this.
* TestosteronePoisoning:

** The names of the chicks in ''iHatch Chicks'' are related to eggs: Poachy, Shelly, Yoko (pronounced Yolk-O), Omelet, Huevo ([[BilingualBonus Spanish of 'egg']]), and Benedict.

-->Carly "If you did have a twin brother, why would his name have to be similar to yours?"

** Parodied on ''iGet Pranky'' after the bloody-pickle-prank bit on the webcast.
--->'''Sam''': When is it not a good time?\\
'''Carly''': When the pickle's children are watching.

* ThisLoserIsYou: The series is quite fond of making fun of its audience using in-universe [[AudienceSurrogate Audience Surrogates]] who are fans of the web-show. Gilbert, the guy in the yellow shirt who yells "SEDDIE!" constantly in ''iStart A Fan War'' and ''iLose My Mind'' is a blatant parody of a specific fan who has had some memorable and not always positive interactions with Creator/DanSchneider in the past and was well known for his tactic of spamming "SEDDIE!" into every WordOfGod blog post.

* ThrowTheDogABone: ''iBalls'' was this for Freddie. After feeling unapreciated due to his lack of creativity, he decides to write a skit with [[StylisticSuck predictable results]] (even causing a garbage bag filled with yogurt to be more popular than him). After a pep talk from Sam, he decides to test out his 3D technology on the latest webcast. However, it goes horribly wrong when it damages everyone who watched's vision. At the end of the episode, Freddie learns that the 3D webcast helped fix a girl from earlier in the episode's eyesight, something worthy of a Nobel Prize.
* TimeSkip: Pops up at random, like in ''iParty With Victorious'' which has a three month time skip as a way of explaining Carly's feelings for her GuyOfTheWeek.

* ToiletHumour: At the beginning of "iParty With Victorious", Mr Howard. catches Carly and Sam texting back and forth to each other and has them read the messages back to the class. Carly mentions she used the emoticon :P saying it ("colon 'P'). Mr Howard says he knows the colon 'p' emoticon, to which everyone starts laughing, as they heard him saying he knows all about "Colon Pee".

* TookALevelInBadass: Freddie at the start of each new season. In Season 2 he comes back with a noticeable voice drop, and in Season 3 he's strong enough to overpower Carly. In a [[Creator/DanSchneider Dan]] [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Schneider]] show, that says a lot.

** Freddie takes a level in ''iCan't Take It''; while he is dating Sam, he edits Carly out of a webshow skit (something he never did even to Sam when they hated each other), and taunts her about being jealous of their relationship as well as being dismissive of how him and Sam are excluding Carly.

** Trailers teased a potential kiss between Sam and Freddie for the episode ''iTwins''. ''iSaved Your Life'' didn't bother teasing a ''potential'' Carly/Freddie, and showing them actually kissing. Also done that way with Griffin and Carly for ''iDate A Bad Boy''. Melanie and Freddie in ''iTwins'' showed their kiss, but teased the idea that Melanie was fake and didn't exist and that Freddie was actually kissing Sam.
** Oddly [[AvertedTrope averted]] for ''iOMG''. Maybe they wanted to preserve the 'mystery' or shock when it actually happened, maybe they were worried about a reaction similar to their trailer fail from ''iStart A Fan War'', but for whatever reason the trailers for ''iOMG'' didn't even suggest Sam would kiss anyone.

** In ''iCarly Awards'':
--->'''Carly''': You know, it's always been a dream of mine to host the iCarly Awards.\\
'''Sam''': Whoa, too much information!\\
'''Carly''': Hey, don't go there!\\

'''Sam''': These guys take this (blows through bottle) to a whole new level.\\
'''Carly''': [[IncrediblyLamePun This -- will ''blow'' you away.]] (laughs)\\
'''Sam''': (shaking her head) Oh, Carly... \\
'''Carly''': Just watch.

** A longer fight scene in ''iFight Shelby Marx'' even had Carly hiding behind the referee.
** In ''iThink They Kissed'', Freddie was so ecstatic of Carly's reaction to the revelation of him kissing Sam, prompting him to ask, "Are you jealous?"
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Any trailer for an upcoming episode marked as a ''special'' or ''movie'' that usually gives away the premise, the twist, and everything but the ending. In the case of ''iSpace Out'' they gave away the ending by showing that the test finishes when Carly gets SpaceMadness, smashes the glass window of the testing pod and jumps out of it. This was also the funniest joke in the otherwise mediocre episode.
** The most egregious example of this was the ''iGot A Hot Room''. They spoiled that it was Carly's birthday, that Spencer burns down the room trying to do something nice for her, that Carly is upset at it, that Carly has a job as part of the episode, that Spencer rushes to redo the room as a surprise, the fact that Carly loves the new room and what the new room itself looked like.
** Inverted or Averted depending on how you look at it, for ''iOMG''. The creators went to great lengths to hide the ending from being leaked, doing a full cast run-through with a fake out ending, then only telling Nathan and Jennette the real ending a week before it was to be filmed, and then filmed it on a closed set, and the trailers continued this. The ending wasn't spoiled, and every clip was about Sam liking [[RedHerring Brad]], with only some mild subtext that it could be Freddie. They even used Gibby as a trailer RedHerring.
** ''iCan't Take It'' aired ''nine'' minutes of sneak peeks out of a 22-minute show, including the final two scenes of the episode.
* TrashTalk: Carly and Sam during ''iFight Shelby Marx''; Aruthor (Spencer) and Aspartamay's taunt war in ''iStart a Fan War''.
* TrashTheSet: An inversion of sorts. The first time they showed Carly's bedroom was after it had burned up in ''iGot A Hot Room''.They then rebuilt the room and it was shown in a few episodes later on.

** Spencer in ''iHeart Art''. Lies down on the dining table with his face in a bowl after being criticized by his art idol.
** Lauren Ackerman in ''iHave a Lovesick Teacher''. Curls on the teacher's table and bawls ''in front of class'' after her recent bad breakup.
** Ricky Flame in ''iCook''. Slumps to the ground after losing in the cooking competition, then once again after Sam pins him down in the wrestling gym.
** Lewbert in ''iFind Lewbert's Lost Love''. Traumatized after seeing his abusive ex-fiancee once again, he locks up himself in his office, rocking to and fro in the corner.
** In ''iPear Store'' Gibby is indecisive about which [=PearPhone=] cover to buy, which gets on salesman Woody's already frayed nerves. When Gibby finally says he has no money to buy one, Woody crawls under the nearest table and engages in said trope.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The A-Plot (Carly, Sam, Freddie) and the B-Plot (Spencer, and in Season 4, Gibby) is the formula for dozens of episodes. Their plots occasionally overlap at the end. Most of the other episodes still follow this formula, but mix up the splits up such as Carly/Sam and Freddie/Spencer in ''iTake On Dingo''.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Spencer uses this analogy to help Carly decide between staying at Ridgeway or switching to Briarwood in ''iMay Switch Schools'':

* TwoTimerDate: ''iWon't Cancel the Show'' features Spencer dividing his time between dating the sophisticated woman Candice and filling in for Sam's (temporarily) vacated co-hosting position in the webshow.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: In ''iHave My Principals'', Mr. Howard and Ms. Briggs turn the school into something out of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.

* ParanoiaGambit: Sam's ''Assassin'' strategy against Spencer to lure him to point-blank range in ''iSaved Your Life''.

** Sam's father's abandonment was finally acknowledged in ''iParty With Victorious''. In ''iGoodbye'' Sam confirms she doesn't even know who her father is.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The Petographers in ''iMove Out'' get away with trashing the Series/ICarly studio because they have bribed [[SignsOfDisrepair Officer Carl]] by taking free pictures of his daughter's bunny. Not exactly the most expensive bribe ever, but it still counts.

** In ''iMight Switch Schools'':
---> '''Spencer''': Okay. There's two roads in front of you. Road A, and... the-the... one on the left. (Pauses, then runs out of the room).
** Also, in ''iBalls'':
---> '''Freddie''': Uh, if you watched iCarly's 3D webcast tonight, raise your hand. ''(everyone in the Groovy Smoothie except him, Sam and Gibby do so)'' Okay...and uh, if you're having vision problems right now, raise your hand. ''(they do so again)'' Okay. Well! Obviously this means that there's some- ''(he, Sam and Gibby frantically run out of the place)''

** In ''iMove Out'', Carly grabs onto the back of Freddie and pulls him toward her when a loud noise is heard in Freddie's apartment.
** Once again in ''iBelieve in Bigfoot'', Carly backs off and holds close onto Freddie's arm when the gang encounters the alleged "Big Foot".

** Andrew Hill Newman, one of the show's writers plays as Mr. Henning in ''iGo Nuclear'', where his hippie looks garner himself most of the jokes and insults from his students and Spencer, a Ridgeway alumna.Newman himself co-wrote the said episode. Newman also voices George, the "sentient" Bra who tells Ghost Stories (which are actually NOT horror stories) who is also poked fun by Carly and Sam in their webshows.

** Carly never takes baths because she hates ''sitting in her own wet dirt''. A couple of seasons later, her taking a bath is the focus of her entire B-Plot for ''iToe Fatcakes''.
** Carly in season 1's episode ''iPromise Not To Tell'' has straight A's except for the B-Grade that Sam changes. Season 5, in ''iQ'', she's suddenly a complete moron who needs to cheat to even appear to be smart enough to go out with a worldly British guy.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Kyle, the British boy Carly dates in “iQ”, almost entirely speaks this way.

** In ''iFight Shelby Marx'', Carly makes some joking comments about being able to "take down" an MMA fighter. Said fighter appears ''at her doorstep'' the next day, proposes an exhibition match for charity that is apparently so popular, it fills a stadium and is sold on pay-per-view. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the MMA announcer introduces her as "Carly Shay, who... has a web show."
* SequentialSymptomSyndrome: In "iGo One Direction" Spencer tells the gang the symptoms of Jungle Worms that Carly has. Each one he tells them about, Carly complains about.
* ShaggyDogStory:
** ''iSpaceOut''. The A-Plot and B-Plot. Carly freaks and they lose the chance to go into space, and the freaky little girl just leaves without talking or any explanation about who she is or where she came from.
** The Laptop a-plot in ''iBust A Thief''. They find the supposed thief, but it turns out Freddie read the laptop serial number wrong ([[NeverMyFault though Sam is blamed for giving them the wrong number]]), and the so called 'thief' has the wrong color laptop. The ending is Sam finding her laptop in a pizza box in the Shay's fridge.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: GenderFlip version. In ''iGo To Japan'', the check-in clerk at a hotel mistakes the 15-year old pair for a honeymoon couple. Freddie looks at Carly with a grin and eyebrow raise, thereby getting slapped across the face for his stupidity. In ''iLike Jake'', Carly gives Freddie a kiss on the nose for helping her to fix his terrible singing voice, and Jake mistakes their kiss for them being together.

** Mrs. Benson seemed to be a Creddie shipper in ''iWill Date Freddie'' and through other parts of Season 1.
-->'''Mrs. Benson:''' ''WHY WON'T YOU LOVE MY SON???!!!''\\

** In season 3, she ZigZagged and turned against Carly, blaming Carly for Freddie getting hit by the truck in ''iSaved Your Life'' and for Freddie deciding to move out during ''iMove Out'':
-->'''Mrs. Benson:''' You're the one who got Freddie interested in girls, and ever since then his boy chemistry's been all out of whack.
** Sam's motivations and actions in ''iSaved Your Life'' seem to show that Sam would be fine with them being together, as long as it was for the right reasons.
** Sam also jokes about their relationship, making her appear to support the relationship without being negative or jealous about it, as well as this line from ''iStart A Fan War'':

** Also from ''iStart A Fan War'', Creddie and Seddie fan wars exist in-universe. The episode's main plot involved the iCarly gang trying to pacify a roomful of rabid shippers. Some [[{{Crossover}} shippers originated in]] [[Series/DrakeAndJosh other]] [[Series/{{Zoey101}} shows]]

** When Sam ultimately breaks up with Freddie in ''iLove You''. Despite the numerous agonizingly dreadful issues with their abusively toxic and dysfunctionally dissonant love-hate, they agree to remain as friends.
** As the result of the Sam's story arc with Freddie, this is still the case for Carly and Freddie. Freddie's feelings die and are explained away as being because of the 'intense' kiss, they break up because they are dissonant incompatible polar oppositws. Freddie says he has to be in a relationship with someone closer to him personality wise, that is more 'normal', which is exactly what Carly is. Nowhere during the arc was his feelings for Carly even brought up once. This was likely done deliberately so both shipping pairings could remain 'alive' as the show went on.
** With ''iGo One Direction'' showing Sam dragging one of the boys into the elevator, and then ''iOpen A Restaurant'' showing that Freddie ''still'' Carly (he is into her) ''and'' that Sam smiles when she finds out, it would appear Seddie is done and sunk. Sorry, Seddie shippers. Maybe Sibby has a chance.

** ''iOpen A Restaurant'' is full of Creddie and Sibby teasing. Freddie outright states he still has a crush on Carly, that could easily be love.
** Dan couldn't resist egging shippers on one last time in the finale "iGoodbye". Sam gets one brief ShipTease moment with Freddie where they briefly chat over the phone, and he jokingly asks her if she wants to 'get back together'. It gets out of hand causing him to quickly change the subject perhaps worried Sam will reply in the positive. For what it is worth Sam doesn't bring it up again and the whole exchange is peppered with [[LaughTrack canned laughter]]. At the end of episode Carly goes up to the studio to see Freddie and kisses him, he returns the kiss and as they are leaving the room he celebrates. That's cold Dan. Ice cold.
* ShipToShipCombat: In-universe, this is the focus of ''iStart A Fan War'', where Creddie and Seddie fans fight.

* ShowWithinAShow: the ''iCarly'' webcast.

** Sam does this to Freddie in the Season 4 finale''iOMG''.
** Freddie returns it in ''iLost My Mind''.

** The Stick: Mrs Benson.
* SixthRanger: Played with in terms of the web show itself, and [[ExecutiveMeddling subverted outright]] in ''iCarly Saves TV'' (when the TV exec gets rid of him from [[InNameOnly the network version of the show.]]) Even though Sam berates him constantly and occasionally alludes to the fact that he's not as important to the show as herself and Carly (because he does the tech work), the fact is that ''Freddie actually is the third cast member of 'iCarly' ''. If ''iWill Date Freddie'', ''iDon't Want To Fight'' and ''iKiss'' didn't hammer the message home, the upcoming ''iStart A Fan War'' proves it beyond all doubt. [[FridgeBrilliance Otherwise, why would any of the fans care about who Freddie is, what he does on the show, or which of the girls is dating him?]]

** Carly and her TemporaryLoveInterest [[RomanticFalseLead Griffin]] in ''iDate a Bad Boy''. Carly makes it clear they were in the middle of a pretty heavy fight when she suddenly kissed him.
* SleepCute: ''iDream Of Dance''. Carly and Freddie, Freddie and Sam, Sam and Carly all have their own moment. With Carly/Freddie and Sam/Freddie, it's textbook shoulder to shoulder.

* SniffSniffNom: Spencer ''almost'' does this on more than one occasion, but either he stops himself or Carly has to stop him. Happens with rotten food in "iHatch Chicks" and again when we find out [[BrattyHalfPint Chuck]] filled Spencer's helmet with a strange red goop in "iTwins."
* SnipeHunt: In ''iAm Your Biggest Fan'' Carly tells Mandy that they need [[PerfectlyCromulentWord 'fladoodles']] for the show to get her off their backs. Mandy eventually finds them.

* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: In ''iBalls'' Freddie co-hosts the webcast with Sam. His Fred-Bot 3000 sketch invokes this trope.

* SpeakingSimlish: Every character except Carly, Sam, Freddie, Spencer and Gibby in the ''iCarly 2: iJoin the Click!'' video game.

** Sam spits out her root beer in ''iOweYou'' after hearing she owes Carly and Freddie over $500.
** Spencer spits out the punch in ''iThink They Kissed'' that his prisoner student had prepared... from his own toilet.
** Sam, Carly and [[Music/VictoriaJustice Shelby Marx]] did one at the end of iFight Shelby Marx.

* TheStakeout: In the aptly titled episode iStakeout. Police officers use the Shay residence to spy in the video store across the street.

** From the latter half of Season 2 onwards to Season 3, [[CharacterDevelopment Freddie has practically eliminated this in relatio]]n to Carly, with his crush for Carly perhaps evolving into something [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy more mature]]. The change has helped Carly and Freddie to become far more comfortable around each other, and they have evolved from being just "buds" with in the pilot, to true best friends.

* StockAudioClip: Spencer's falling and grunting sounds from ''iPilot'', Carly's yelp, all that jazz.
* StoryArc: A 5 episode arc that starts with ''iOMG'' about Sam's feelings for Freddie.
* StraightMan.

* SuddenDownerEnding: In ''iGo Nuclear'', Carly ends up getting a D- on her Green Week project and seeks help from new neighbor Cal, who assists her in creating a nuclear power generator. When science teacher Mr. Henning changes her grade to A+, it is revealed Cal is wanted by the FBI because the power rod he used for the generators' fuel supply was made by black market uranium, which is extremely illegal. As a result, Carly's project reverts to D- and she is forced to attend the "Root and Berry Retreat" for extra credit.
* SuddenSchoolUniform: In ''iHave My Principals'', Briggs and Howard have a uniform policy in effect at the start of Act III with no indication that more than a day has passed since Act II. And by Act IV it's gone.

* SympathyForTheDevil: The plot point of ''iPity the Nevel''. (See also EnemyMine.)

* TakeAThirdOption: In iDon't Want To Fight, on a poll asking whether Sam or Carly is right, [[spoiler: the voters take one offered by Freddie. "Carly and Sam are both acting dumb and should just make up and be friends again." It won by around 200 times the other two options combined.]]

** The B on Carly’s history report in “iPromise Not to Tell”, though we do get to see it for a split second when Mr. Devlin hands it to Carly.
** The neck infection video and Freddie’s scar in “iDate a Bad Boy”.
** Carly’s first poorly drawn bunny in “iMust Have Locker 239”.
** The ''iCarly'' ripoffs on ''Totally Teri'' in “iTake on Dingo”.

* TakeThatKiss: In ''iSaved Your Life'', Carly victoriously shuns away a girl who is hitting on Freddie by engaging him in a lengthy French Kiss right in front of the girl.

--->'''Carly''': Why is that whenever there's a popular TV show, they gotta put it '''ON ICE'''?!

** During "iFind Lewbert's Lost Love" while the iCarly team watches Lewbert and his ex-girlfriend fighting, Sam quips about how that would beat anything on NBC if it were a reality show, mildly poking at the ratings troubles of the said ''actual'' network.

** The episode ''iMeet Fred'' is probably written as a TakeThat to those people who don't like the Fred videos. However, it just backfired considering on the abuse suffered by Freddie from the hands of Fred fans ''everywhere''.

* TeamMom: Carly takes the "parental" role towards the other 3 main characters: to Sam in ''iWas a Pageant Girl'', to Freddie in ''iWill Date Freddie'' and to Spencer in majority of the episodes. ''iKiss'' had her to be a "mom" to all 3 of them in a single episode by motivating Spencer's workout, sympathizing with Freddie and later reprimanding Sam for her on-air attack on Freddie.

* TenMinutesInTheCloset: Played straight in 'iOMG' when Carly and Freddie trick the other students into leaving Sam and Brad alone, and played with (almost to the point of an InvertedTrope) when Freddie goes outside to talk alone with Sam.

** Freddie's bodyguard Gunsmoke in ''iSam's Mom'' " who thinks even drinking lemonade is "for ballerinas"!
** The bullrider in ''iHave My Principals'':
--> '''Bucky''': This ain't a real bull. Real bulls kick, buck and stomp you on the chest until your ribs are broke and you're coughing up blood. And mucus!

* PaintballEpisode: In ''iSaved Your Life'', Sam and Spencer engage in a cutthroat no-holds-barred paintball war game called ''Assassin'' using only blow tube guns (minus wearing goggles). This episode primarily focuses on Carly and Freddie's romance, leaving behind extreme mind games between Sam and Spencer.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: In ''iReunite With Missy'', Missy broke Sam's cellphone on purpose and offered to buy her a new one. When Missy wins the 6-month cruise ([[spoiler:Freddie is really the one who won it, but he gave it to Missy instead]]), Carly asks Sam how Missy could still compensate for her phone. Sam then reveals that she stole Missy's phone.

** In ''iAm Your Biggest Fan'', Carly tells Mandy that they need "fladoodles" for their web show just to get her off their backs. Sam asks what it is, but Carly says that she just made it up. Even subverted when Mandy ''actually manages to find them!!'' Sam blurts out how it happened when they didn't even exist, only for Carly to immediately elbow her in the gut.
** In ''iStakeOut'', Freddie tries all his best to hide his tattoo of Sam's face from his mom, to the point of giving an excuse of not taking his shirt off to avoid "cloud burn". Mrs. Benson sends him to several pharmacies to find "cloud block", which she later manages to find and lather her son's face with.

* PlotParallel: ''iLove You''. In the A-Plot, Sam and Freddie were trying to become closer. In the B-Plot, Spencer and his older babysitter (he was 10, she was 15) entered a relationship that got creepy as she started acting like his babysitter again and bossing him around. Carly ends the B-Plot by telling Spencer and the babysitter that their relationship is creepy and weird, and that they were forcing a romantic connection out of their babysitter/child relationship. Sam and Freddie overhear this, and both realize that even though Carly wasn't talking about them, they were forcing their connection into a romantic one. They discuss it, then break up, then declare their love for each other.
* ThePrankster: Spencer used to be one and temporarily becomes one again when he gets addicted to pranking in ''iGet Pranky.''

--->'''Spencer''': (annoyed at himself) I've gotta quit saying witty things before I blow.

** Carly has also been shown watching Megan-centric scenes of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' episodes ''Megan's Revenge'' and ''The Peruvian Puff Pepper'' on TV in the episodes ''iGet Pranky'' and ''iToe Fatcakes'' respectively, and Spencer has been shown watching a Crazy Steve-centric scene in the ''Drake & Josh'' episode ''The Storm'' in the episode ''iGet Pranky.'' Also doubles as an ActorAllusion since Carly's actress, Creator/MirandaCosgrove, played Megan Parker in ''Drake & Josh'', and Spencer's actor, Jerry Trainor, played Crazy Steve.

** Spencer included one in his janitor disguise in ''iDate A Bad Boy''.

* PostKissCatatonia: Freddie did this twice in ''iSaved Your Life''.
** When Carly finally kissed Freddie on his bed, the show abruptly cuts into a commercial break. When the scene resumes, Freddie became stiff and wide-eyed as he and Carly continue kissing throughout the half-hour absence of his mother. In the extended version, Freddie was dumbfounded and tased himself to prove that Carly had really kissed him.
** After he broke up with Carly, Freddie requested for a kiss that would be their "last" for a while, so she gave Freddie a goodnight kiss on the cheek. As he leaves by the elevator, Freddie goes rigid and blurts, "What did I do?"
** in ''iOMG'', Freddie also does this when Sam kisses him. He also stutters a little bit.

* PracticeKiss: In ''[=iKiss=]'', Freddie confesses that he's never had his FirstKiss, and is ridiculed for it. He talks to Sam about it, and (even though they usually can't stand each other) they end up kissing just to get it over with, and declare not to tell anyone. Ends up being a plot point several episodes later.

* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Noah Munck (the actor who plays Gibby) was promoted to opening titles towards season 4.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: All over the place. Biggest example would be ''iMake Sam Girlier''. There is a bully who ends up being the villain of the episode. There is ''zero'' difference in her actions compared the actions Sam has done in the past and continued to do so, except that Sam is "strong for her size" whilst the bully is physically large, and that the bully picked on Carly whilst Sam bullies on everyone except Carly.

** Lewbert's ex-girlfriend Marta Trundel in ''iFind Lewbert's Lost Love''. She's violent and abusive.

--->'''Spencer''': "Don't worry, Mr. Toasty, soon you'll be back and ''butter'' than ever."\\

'''Spencer''': "Thank god no one heard that."

--->'''Spencer''': "What kind of burglar will break into people's apartments just to steal TV remotes?"\\
'''Carly''': ''(stifles laughter)'' "A ''remote control freak''?"\\

--->'''Spencer''': "I am Spencer's twin brother, S-pun-cer!"\\
'''Carly''': "If you had a twin brother, why would his name need to sound similar to yours?"

--->'''Carly:''' "One might call him... [[ItMakesSenseInContext hobnoxious]]." ''(laughs)''\\
'''Sam:''' "Ohohoho, Carly..." ''(looks away in horror)''

--->'''Sam:''' "Their videos are hi-larious."\\
'''Carly:''' "Which is the opposite of low-larious." ''(chuckles)''\\
'''Sam:''' "I begged her not to say that."\\
'''Carly:''' "I should have listened."

*** iFind Spencer Friends has Socko gone away on a safari with his cousin Hunter.
*** In iGoodbye, Spencer restores a motorcycle for Socko's cousin Ryder.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: In ''iHatch Chicks'', the baby chicks have to be found before four hours pass, or... ''bad things'' will happen.

* ReallyGetsAround: Rebecca Berkowitz. It's implied in ''iSpeed Date''. Sam's mother also seems to date a lot of different men, and Spencer!

** Carly delivers a scathingly frustrated version of this tirade to Sam after she and Freddie snap her patience after spending the entire ''iDate Sam & Freddie'' episode aggressively clashing, butting heads, and locking horns at each other’s throats, even dragging Carly into it.
** Freddie drops one of Sam after he gets fired in ''iPear Store''.

** Nickelodeon aired a special in-cut extended version of ''iSaved Your Life'' in Season 3 on Valentines Day 2010 that included an extra eight minutes of previously cut footage.
** Other episodes have extended versions, like ''iPilot'', ''iCarly Saves TV'' and ''iSaw Him First''. Some are DVD only, and some are only available through online bootleg downloads.

** Every school kid who ends up in the plot except [[MrExposition Wendy]], [[BigFun Gibby]] and Rebecca Berkowitz. Some of the teachers, too. For some reason, most of the guys (who are usually a love interest) are introduced as seniors, which kinda makes it creepy in the couple seasons when they hit on Carly and Sam who haven't even reached the 'growth' stage of puberty yet. Then they give ChuckCunninghamSyndrome to them all anyway. It's averted once, where Brad is looked over as a new intern to drive the plot of ''iHire an Idiot'' then gets re-introduced in ''iOMG'' in a way that makes it obvious he's a NewTransferStudent.

* {{Retcon}}: A barely noticeable example is Carly's birthmonth. Earlier versions of the iCarly site stated Carly was born in January, Sam in April (a year before, since she repeated 3rd Grade), and Freddie in February, making Freddie the youngest of the trio. It even makes more sense since Carly mentioned her astrological sign '''Capricorn''' in ''iScream on Halloween''. However, before the Season 4 premiere aired, the website changed Carly's birthdate (and birth sign) to July in lieu of Carly's birthday episode airing on the said month, making her the youngest of the three and breaking the continuity of her being a Capricorn.
* TheReveal: In a behind the scenes look of the {{crossover}} that aired with the extended version, after it ends we find out who's behind that panda suit. Guess who it is? [[spoiler: T-Bo.]]

* RoadsideWave: Happens to Carly, Sam, and Freddie in ''iGo To Japan''.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue:
** Sam in ''iRescue Carly'', and Gibby in ''iPsycho''.
* RomanticFalseLead: Carly's love interests Griffin in ''iDate A Bad Boy'' and Adam in ''iStart a Fanwar''. Freddie suffers some severe GreenEyedMonster and schadenfreude towards Griffin, but doesn't sabotage their relationship beyond questioning Carly's choice to date him. Despite his sarcastic groaning on Carly's reactions toward Adam, Freddie rather became supportive of her especially during the Webicon proper.

** ''[=iSaved Your Life=]'':
--> '''Freddie''': "My mom thinks I'll choke on pills so she pounds them with a mallet and puts them in my fruit sauce."\\
'''Spencer''': "Fruit sauce?"\\
'''Freddie''': "My mom thinks I'll choke on fruit so she pounds it with a mallet--"\\
'''Spencer''': "Okay yeah, we get it."\\
'''Spencer''': "What happened to those flowers?"\\
'''Mrs. Benson''': "I soaked them in bleach and then pounded them with a mallet!"
** In ''iTwins'', Freddie was pranked twice, first into thinking it was Clown Day, and again thinking he got a gift card when it's really lettuce. The third time (Sam's sister visiting), he assumed it was a prank, but this time Carly and Sam are really telling the truth; however, he doesn't believe them.
** In ''iFight Shelby Marx'', Carly is VERY worried about the outcome of the match on her facial appearance. She asks them for assurance, but got unanswered twice. She got fed up on the third one.
---> '''Carly''': "But I won't get hurt, ''right?'' Someone say 'right'!"

** In ''iHave My Principals'': Carly asks thrice why they were called to the Principal's Office.
---> '''Carly''': (frantically) "Why are we in trouble?!"
** In ''iQuit iCarly'', after Sam & Carly have been pulled inside the building, they burst into tears and Spencer turns them to face one another so that they hug, whilst Fleck & Dave do the same thing. Spencer & Freddie look at each other & shrug, before hugging too.
** In ''iToe Fat Cakes'', Carly sticks her big toe in the tub spout 3 times to prove that it won't get stuck. [[TemptingFate Guess what happens the third time.]]

** A LOT. The "could that happen"-"will not happen" exchange between Freddie and Carly; Anything Spencer sculpts or fixes has a high chance of bursting into flames(Season 2 onward); Gibby almost always takes off his shirt in every appearance(Until season 3-4, with Gibby even mentioning he wasn't going to do it anymore); Sam equipping her locker with cooking or entertainment appliances; T-Bo's serves various food items by the stick, someone yells "GIBBY!" if he gets too random or weird.

*** In ''iHave a Lovesick Teacher'', when Ms. Ackerman leaves in frustration, just before exiting, she swats the tiny vase off of the bureau and it breaks.
*** ''iMust Have Locker 239'' has Freddie getting in trouble with Mr. Howard from stuff that Sam does.
*** ''iMove Out'' has the gears in Freddie's apartment turning when someone uses the elevator, etcetera.

-->''"You don't live here!"''

** In the episode “iPromise Not To Tell,” Carly’s finds out that Sam changed her grade into an A after feeling bad for getting a [[TheBGrade B]]. She then feels guilty and she wants her grade changed back into the grade she deserved. When Carly & Freddie attempt to hack into the school system to change it back, the Computer Security Agency (CSA) promptly bursts into Carly's apartment and catches them in the process.

** In "iPity The Nevel", Nevel's jerkassery and [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] comes back to haunt him when a viral video is released of him screaming at a little girl and destroying her lollipop after she [[DisproportionateRetribution accidentally bumped into him at the supermarket and made him drop his jar of pickles]]. As a result, Nevel ends up being ostracized by everyone he meets after they see his true colors. Out of pity, the "iCarly" gang decide to help him repair his image by having him apologize for his actions and make up with the little girl he mistreated. However, just because Nevel apologizes, doesn't mean he's changed from the petty, selfish jerk he is and ends up [[HereWeGoAgain defaming himself once more]] after losing his temper with a handicapped old person who bumped into him.

* ShippingGoggles: In-universe in "iStart A Fan War". A Creddie shipper has a giant iPad knock off full of pictures trying to prove Carly and Freddie loved each other. Ironically, this is a ''much'' stronger trait in Seddie shippers. In fact, the entire episode portrays the Creddie shippers more like the 'real life' Seddie shippers.

** Inverted or Averted depending on how you look at it, for ''iOMG''. The creators went to great lengths to hide the ending from being leaked, doing a full cast run-through with a fake out ending, then only telling Nathan and Jennette the real ending a week before it was to be filmed, and then filmed it on a closed set, and the trailers continued this. The ending wasn't spoiled, and every clip was about Sam liking [[RedHerring Brad]], with only some [[ShippingGoggles mild subtext]] that it could be Freddie. They even used Gibby as a trailer RedHerring.

* ThreeAmigos: Carly, Sam, and Freddie obviously.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Every plot that involves a conflict between Carly and Sam, or a certain incident threatens the loss of one of the ThreeAmigos ends up being resolved on the same episode.

** ''Moonlight Twi-Blood'' is a shot at ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and it ridicules the entire vampire vs. werewolves fad.

%% * TheyDo: Carly and Freddie.

* PutOnABus: Ms. Briggs, SadistTeacher, after playing a prominent role for the first half-season, disappeared until mid-season two. It would've been more of a BrotherChuck if Sam's CharacterBlog hadn't mentioned that she accessed the school computers and manually removed any chase of Ms. Briggs from the schools' files. [[StatusQuoIsGod Apparently, it's been cleared up.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
** Sam in ''iMake Sam Girlier'', and Gibby in ''iPsycho''.
** Also Sam in ''iOwe You'', although the manager was just doing his job.

** In one episode, Spencer creates a "Fan of Hammers" that nearly kills Carly after one of the hammers detaches and is flung towards her head. Afterwards, their grandfather makes a surprise visit, only to reveal that he came over because he saw the incident live on the Internet and now he wants to take Carly away from Spencer because he believes that he's an unfit guardian.
** The gang features [[PuttingThePalInPrincipal Principal Franklin]] as a guest in one of their shows where they have him play a game where he sits blindfolded on Fudgeballs (an in-universe candy similar to a truffle or donut-hole) and has to guess what he's sitting on. The next day, he's forced to resign from his position after the school superintendent learns about his appearance on the show because, as an authority figure, it looks bad when a school principal does stupid things like sit on candy while on a webshow run by his students.
** Most of Nevel's defeats are a result of this trope:
*** In his first appearance, Carly meets with him so that the webshow gets noticed by the people who frequent his review site, only for the meeting to go bad when he tries to kiss Carly, who retaliates by smearing tapenade (a caper spread) on his face. As revenge, he posts a negative review of "iCarly" on his site. So how does the gang solve this problem? [[BoringYetPractical They tell his mom]], who after being told what Nevel did, punishes him and makes him take down the review.
*** In his second appearance, Nevel hacks the webshow, preventing the gang from doing anything without Nevel screwing up their webcasts and jeopardizing a chance for the Plain White-T's to preform on the show. Nevel is defeated when the gang sics a friend of Carly's father (both of which are in the U.S. Navy) on him when he hacks the show again while dressed as Carly and singing an embarrassing song about her; the Navy commandos are allowed to break into Nevel's home because cyberattacking a website is a felony, however, the Navy guys are merciful and leave Nevel tied up in their entry ropes instead of arresting him.
*** In "iPity The Nevel", Nevel's jerkassery and [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] comes back to haunt him when a viral video is released of him screaming at a little girl and destroying her lollipop after she [[DisproportionateRetribution accidentally bumped into him at the supermarket and made him drop his jar of pickles]]. As a result, Nevel ends up being ostracized by everyone he meets after they see his true colors. Out of pity, the "iCarly" gang decide to help him repair his image by having him apologize for his actions and make up with the little girl he mistreated. However, just because Nevel apologizes, doesn't mean he's changed from the petty, selfish jerk he is and ends up [[HereWeGoAgain defaming himself once more]] after losing his temper with a handicapped old person who bumped into him.