iQuit iCarly is the 8th episode in the 3rd season of iCarly.
When internet comedians Fleck and Dave are invited to be on the webshow, Carly and Sam help them make a video for an iShorts competition, but a mishap causes the two to fight, and eventually Carly and Sam begin to fight as well.
Meanwhile, Spencer wins a boat from a contest and it ends up docked in the parking lot.
Tropes:
- Abusive Parents: Dave's father crosses the line from Fantasy-Forbidding Father to this when he goes from calling Dave and Fleck's hobby a waste of time (even though they're only 13 and actually good at it) to breaking Dave's laptop for something Fleck did.
- Break the Haughty: After Fleck and Dave get in a spat, Carly and Sam soon find that the respective half they talk to relates to each of them, majorly testing the girls' friendship and leading them to be at each other's throats for the rest of the episode. In the climax of all this, their arguing gets them into a life-threatening situation on a scaffold in which they almost fall to their deaths, forcing Fleck and Dave to team up and rescue them. It is that moment Carly and Sam realize their petty, short-sighted actions nearly killed them, causing them to break down in tears and reconcile.
- Cloudcuckoolander: It is mentioned at one point, Fleck set Dave’s pants on fire just because he wanted to.
- Conflict Killer: After Carly and Sam have a Near-Death Experience that almost causes them to fall off a window washer's platform, the arguments and constant feuding between them are immediately quelled, and the two forgive each other.
- Darker and Edgier: Compared to the previous two Feud Episodes centered on Carly and Sam fighting and temporarily breaking off their friendship, this one is considerably bleaker as it explores their strained relationship based on a character study of the comedy pair. The majority of the special is filled with hard-to-watch heated arguments and eventual vindictive web-show ratings-related competitions between the two comediennes, Carly and Sam, after another argumentative web-show comedy pair, Fleck and Dave, unintentionally manipulated them into turning against each other. Their feuding is mostly heart-wrenchingly mean-spirited and almost ends up costing Carly her life. The climax is so much of a traumatic, emotionally draining experience that both Sam and Carly break down crying before reconciling.
- Dissension Remorse: Carly and Sam tearfully end their feud upon realizing their petty arguing nearly got them killed.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Carly and Sam fighting over who gets to spend time with Freddie is very reminiscent of a divorced couple arguing over who gets custody of their child. There's also Carly and Sam assuring Freddie that their friendship ending isn't his fault and that it doesn't change how they feel about him.
- Everybody Cries: After Carly and Sam are rescued and make amends, they burst into tears, and soon Fleck and Dave join them.
- Feud Episode: Between Fleck and Dave, and eventually Carly and Sam.
- Gilligan Cut: When surrounded by angry baseball players who want their parking spot back, Spencer tells Gibby that they will never surrender this boat. A slide transition later, and Spencer and Gibby are suddenly thrown into a dumpster.
- Homage: To Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, with Carly, Sam, and their webshow's guest comedians, Fleck and Dave, sharing similarities with vaudevillian team Lewis and Clark, who were successful professionally but argumentative personally, which the special focused on when exploring the comedy teams' strained relationship over one another's differences. Carly and Dave act as the seemingly reasonable Al Lewis to Sam's and Fleck's stubborn Willy Clark (though inversely, Carly/Dave acts as the headstrong Clark to Sam/Fleck's laid-back Lewis most of the time), while Freddie helms the role of the middleman, Clark's nephew Ben.
- Hypocritical Humor: When Sam offers Freddie a new flash drive if he chooses her, Carly claims that she shouldn't bribe him to get him on her side. She then immediately offers Freddie $20 to get him to join hers.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Dave's dad isn't exactly wrong to hate Fleck as he's very inconsiderate, such as using Dave's father's toothbrush and painting his car purple without his permission.
- Jerkass Realization: Carly and Sam finally realize what complete jerks they were to each other when they nearly put themselves in danger because of their feud.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After everything that happened throughout the episode, Carly and Sam get their comeuppance by nearly falling to their deaths from the damaged scaffold due to their desire to one-up the other.
- Literal Cliffhanger: Carly when she is dangling for dear life from the collapsing scaffold. We even get a P.O.V. Cam at the streets below to show how serious and life-threatening the drop is.
- Lover Tug of War: A platonic variant. Between Carly and Sam over who gets to have Freddie do the software work such as editing and special effects for their videos. Sam bribes him with a flash drive while Carly bribes him with $20. Freddie refuses both of them and leaves.
- Manly Tears: Seeing how far Carly and Sam's feud has gone when they argue about being friends with him, Freddie nearly breaks down as he says that he just wants things between them to go back to the way they were, before storming out.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": Carly and Sam, along with Freddie, Fleck and Dave, are shocked when Sam accidentally lowers the scaffold she and Carly are on without a harness, which in turn snaps the former two out of their feud. Then they have an even bigger one when the scaffold breaks and Carly is left hanging on for dear life.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- Fleck and Dave have this reaction after they see Carly and Sam outside on the washer platform without a harness and how out of hand their feud has gotten, due to the the former two's own strained friendship. This prompts them to let go of their problems and help the girls.
- Carly and Sam cry when they realize that their feud endangered their lives.
- Near-Death Experience: The scaffold is lowered without a harness, trapping Sam and Carly outside a tall building. Then the scaffold breaks, causing Carly to slide to the edge, and she almost falls to her death.
- Never My Fault: Carly and Sam have been playing this game throughout the episode as they each believe that their respective grievances are the other's fault and not theirs.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Carly and Sam initially have this after trying to talk Dave and Fleck into reconciling, mentioning that he must seem like a nightmare. They then realize the ambiguity and question which one they're referring to.
- Tempting Fate: Played for Drama. After Carly and Sam are saved from the scaffold, they claim neither one of them cried the whole time and they're brave... then they start crying, along with Fleck and Dave.
- The Unapologetic: Carly believes that she doesn't need to apologize to Sam for their argument and that Sam should say sorry instead, after Freddie suggested she do so.
- Was Too Hard on Her: While talking with Freddie at the Groovy Smoothie after her argument with Sam, Carly briefly wonders if she was too hard on her friend, which was before their feud escalated.
