History Trivia / ICarly

* [[PromotedFaboy Promoted Fangirl]]: See GuiltyPleasure above: Emma Stone got a cameo role in an episode.

** Emma Stone of ''Film/EasyA'' fame has called iCarly her not-so-guilty pleasure, as well as MirandaCosgrove's music. She even appeared in an episode as a crazed fan (of Spencer, no less)

** Emma Stone of ''Film/EasyA'' fame has called iCarly her not-so-guilty pleasure, as well as MirandaCosgrove's music.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original name of the Carly character was going to be Sam. The female sidekick was going to be called Kira. But they couldn't get the [=iSam=] domain name. So Sam became Carly, and Kira became Sam. This has the curious effect of swapping around what the PortmanteauCoupleName's are. The JustFriends Creddie ship would have been known as Seddie, while the JerkAss Seddie ship would have been known as Kreddie. It would have a minor impact on the LesYay Cam ship by changing the name from Cam (Carly/Sam) to Kam (Kira/Sam).

* WordOfGod: DanSchneider. Vary carefully avoids LyingCreator by using ambiguous meanings, hypothetical, counter-questions in response to questions and shrowding common shipping viewpoints in terms of what "his friends" might think about what's happening. Was very active in the fandom up to the start of Season 3, although not as much now that he's dealing with ''{{Victorious}}'' as well as the 4th season of ''iCarly''.

* FanNickname: Some people who don't ship the Sam/Freddie relationship have called the the second half of Season 4 ''iSeddie'' due to the Seddie shipping arc taking up 4 out of the 9 episodes filmed and Sam and Freddie together continually taking the A-Plot with Carly pushed down to the B-plot or C-plot in pretty much every episode where details of the plots are known. Many consider it a {{Spinoff}} or ContinuityReboot instead of a new season with characters who look, sound and share the same names, but aren't the same characters from previous seasons.

* WordOfGod: DanSchneider. Vary carefully avoids LyingCreator by using ambiguous meanings, hypothetical, counter-questions in response to questions and shrowding common shipping viewpoints in terms of what "his friends" might think about what's happening. Was very active in the fandom up to the start of Season 3, although not as much now that he's dealing with ''{{Victorious}}'' as well as the 4th season of ''iCarly''.

** In ''iFind Lewbert's Lost Love'', the woman in the hall is Lara Jill Miller, who voiced Kari in the English dub of DigimonAdventure02 and [[TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee Juniper Lee]].

* ActorAllusion: Principal Franklin's daughter Emily was named after [[StarTrekVoyager Tim Russ]]' real-life daughter who is also a fan of the show.

* GuiltyPleasures: Brent Spiner (yes, Data from ''StarTrek'') has stated that this is currently his favorite TV show.

** Shelby Marx [[ArisaOgasawara is]] [[PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Panty]], KimPossible and [[MobileSuitGundam00 Soma Pieres.]]

** Gibby Gibson [[MotokoKumai is]] [[CardCaptorSakura Li Shaoran]] and [[{{Chobits}} Sumomo.]]

** [[DrakeAndJosh Megan Parker & Crazy Steve]] are Carly & Spencer Shay.
** Familiar sci-fi characters become faculty members! [[StarTrekVoyager Tuvok]] as Carly's principal and [[AustinPowers Frau Farbissina]] as Ms. Briggs.

*** Lewbert's Lost Love was The Janitor's love, "Lady" in {{Scrubs}}.
** Joshua Malina, shockingly enough, guest starred in one episode. [[TheWestWing White House communications director Will Bailey.]] Or [[SportsNight Jeremy]].

** [[GenerationXerox Sam certainly takes after her mom]], [[{{Glee}} Sue Sylvester]]. Or maybe [[CriminalMinds Reid's mom]].
** Part of their competition for the iWeb awards is [[{{Glee}} Mike Chang]].
*** Freddie made sure that [[{{Glee}} Sam Evans]] didn't get through to try and speed date Carly.
** Spencer once learnt to ride like a cowboy from [[{{NCIS}} Mike Franks]], Gibbs' mentor.

** [[DrakeAndJosh Eric Blonowitz, Craig Ramirez, Gavin]] and [[{{Zoey 101}} Stacey Dilson]] were at iCarly's press conference at Webicon.
*** [[{{Twilight}} Maggie]] was also there, as well.
** [[StargateAtlantis Dr. Kavanagh]] is head of Dingo Chanel, and is (surprise, suprise) still a [[JerkAss Jerk]].
** [[TheBigBangTheory Sheldon Cooper]] ends up in an insanity asylum.

** Emma Stone of EasyA fame has called iCarly her not-so-guilty pleasure, as well as MirandaCosgrove's music.

** Freddie [[MisatoFukuen is]] [[StrikeWitches Yoshika Miyafuji]] and [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Sakura Kasugano]] but only for season 1 and later [[TheOtherDarrin replaced by a male voice actor]]

** Shelby Marx [[ArisaOgasawara is]] [[PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Panty]] and [[MobileSuitGundam00 Soma Pieres.]]

** [[DrakeAndJosh Megan Parker & Crazy Steve]] are Carly & Spencer Shay

** Nevel Papperman [[TomoeHanba is]] [[{{Disgaea}} Etna]] and [[VideoGame/RivalSchools Hinata Wakaba.]]

** Nevel Papperman [[TomoeHanba is]] [[{{Disgaea}} Etna]] and [[RivalSchools Hinata Wakaba.]]

** [[DrakeAndJosh Meagan & Crazy Steve]] are Carly & Spencer Shay

** Spencer once learnt to ride like a coyboy from [[{{NCIS}} Mike Franks]], Gibb's mentor.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: After season three, Nick has taken a decidedly inconsistent approach to the show. It only orders 13 episodes at at time compared to the 26 or so that it was doing in the first three, it airs the show at random times, advertises that the entire season will be played every week, then stops it after 3 episodes, puts on new episodes with little advertising, and then starts putting them on at weird times, such as Wednesday the 28th of December for the second blooper episode, and then 8-9pm New Year's Eve for the iPsycho sequel. Admittedly, Dan Schneider has to take some of the blame, as he seems to have poor time management, which means Nick were only ordering 13 episodes of both iCarly and ''{{Victorious}}'' when they could have fit full seasons in even with the studio split (the two shows share the same studio space, and can't film when the other is filming) taken into account. It is likely one of the reasons for the abysmal ratings for Season 5 compared to seasons 2, 3 and 4.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: After season three, Nick has taken a decidedly inconsistent approach to the show. It only orders 13 episodes at at time compared to the 26 or so that it was doing in the first three, it airs the show at random times, advertises that the entire season will be played every week, then stops it after 3 episodes, puts on new episodes with little advertising, and then starts putting them on at weird times, such as Wednesday the 28th of December for the second blooper episode, and then 8-9pm New Year's Eve for the iPsycho sequel. Admittedly, Dan Schneider has to take some of the blame, as he seems to have poor time management, which means Nick were only ordering 13 episodes of both iCarly and ''{{Victorious}}'' when they could have fit full seasons in even with the studio split (the two shows share the same studio space, and can't film when the other is filming) taken into account.

** In ''iReunite With Missy'', you might recognize Missy if you've seen Gwen from the live-action ''{{Ben10}}'' film and young Jean Grey from [[XMen X3: The Last Stand]], it's Haley Ramm. Schneider took the actress to play the role of Carly's best friend because Ramm and Cosgrove are also real-life best friends.

* FanNickname: Some people who don't ship the Sam/Freddie relationship have called the the second half of Season 4 ''iSeddie'' due to the Seddie shipping arc taking up 4 out of the 9 episodes filmed and Sam and Freddie together continually taking the A-Plot with Carly pushed down to the B-plot or C-plot in pretty much every episode where details of the plots are known. Many consider it a {{Spinoff}} or ContinuityReboot instead of a new season with characters who look, sound and share the same names, but aren't the same characters from.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Nickelodeon will often show nothing but this show and ''SpongeBob'' all day, though it has been replaced somewhat with ''Victorious''.

*** Freddie made sure that [[{{Glee}} Sam Evans]] didn't get through to try and speed date Carly.

** Samantha [[SanaeKobayashi is]] [[ElfenLied Lucy]], [[{{Ptitlej8ixspaskltm}} Allen Walker]], [[SakuraWars Gemini Sunrise]] and [[MacrossFrontier Catherine Glass]]

** [[GenerationXerox Sam certainly takes after her mom]], [[{{Glee}} Sue Sylvester]].
*** Not to mention her competition for the iWeb awards is [[{{Glee}} Other Asian and speed dated Sam Evans]]
*** Sam's mom is also [[CriminalMinds Reid's mom with schizophrenia]].

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[DrakeAndJosh Meagan & Crazy Steve]] are Carly & Spencer Shay

* SoMyKidsCanWatch: [[TheWestWing Joshua]] [[SportsNight Malina]] appeared on the show because his children love it.

** Freddie [[MisatoFukuen is]] [[StrikeWitches Yoshika Miyafuji]] and [[StreetFighterIV Sakura Kasugano]] but only for season 1 and later [[TheOtherDarrin replaced by a male voice actor]]