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VampireBuddha Calendar enthusiast from Ireland (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#1576: Jul 9th 2021 at 2:31:45 PM

Hmm. CARA, the MPAAS's rating body, are notoriously vague in what the ratings actually mean and opaque in how they decide them, plus they do have a formal procedure to give a movie a lower rating than it would normally get. That said, they were in general more lenient in 1987, and were willing to give a G rating to a movie with a couple of minor curses. IMDB claims that the 1991 VHS is intact but the 1998 Laserdisc was censored. The time gap suggests it might be a case of changing standards, but it could also just be that nobody noticed. You know what, I'm willing to let that one in, and if we find evidence that it was just changing standards, it can be removed.

The "Wothless" example is definitely Bowdlerise, but I don't think it's radar.

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NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#1577: Aug 1st 2021 at 4:47:16 AM

Radar.Animorphs still exists, and most of the examples on it are either Demographically Inappropriate Humor or... um...

Ax saying in The Sacrifice that he is not a horse but greatly resembles one in some ways has led to a lot of “hung like a horse” comments by readers.

HE'S A CENTAUR! Get your minds out of the gutter.

In fact, entire radar subpages by medium still exist, even though they're no longer linked on the main Getting Crap Past the Radar page.

Edited by NitroIndigo on Aug 1st 2021 at 12:48:32 PM

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#1578: Aug 1st 2021 at 9:13:45 AM

[up] We have to go through them and punt stuff to Demographically Inappropriate Humor, Accidental Innuendo, and Parental Bonus.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#1579: Aug 1st 2021 at 9:35:38 AM

[up]Oh. I'm new to this thread.

costanton11 Since: Mar, 2016
#1580: Aug 1st 2021 at 11:01:01 AM

For those wanting to take a stab at those pages, here's the namespace index.

NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#1581: Aug 1st 2021 at 12:15:56 PM

On second thoughts, the only thing on Radar.Animorphs that strikes me as Demographically Inappropriate Humour is Ax being a stoner. I'm not sure about the references to drugs and homosexuality; would they still count as Radar under the new definition, considering this was the 90s?

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#1582: Aug 1st 2021 at 12:17:36 PM

Only if the publishing company would've normally had that reference get censored.

Anyway, I might run through Radar.Veronica Mars later.

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NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#1583: Aug 1st 2021 at 12:20:31 PM

[up]Anyone familiar with 90s Scholastic franchises?

Also, I'm pretty sure everything on Radar.Animal Crossing should go. I'm not even sure what counts as Demographically Inappropriate Humour, and what's just giggling.

Edited by NitroIndigo on Aug 1st 2021 at 8:20:42 PM

VampireBuddha Calendar enthusiast from Ireland (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#1584: Aug 1st 2021 at 4:08:25 PM

I loved Animorphs back in the day, and no, there's nothing about Ax being a stoner. He's just quirky in his human morph, and fans make jokes.

So I've spent the last while doing a whole lot of work on Fire Emblem: Three Houses and its various subpages. Now I'm finished, let's get back to radar, and since the works of Dan Schreider have come up, I'm going to start on those. Let's start with Radar.iCarly.

Technically the Nickelodeon series iCarly is supposed to be for children (tweens & young teens); however, as you can see, there seems to be so much questionable content (or overzealous editors) this section had to be split into six quoteblocks. Netflix even gives it a warning for "suggestive dialogue," though the original TV broadcasts did not. It also has a Ho Yay page. Remember that not everything that makes you go "tee-hee" is an example of this trope.

Hmmm...

Ratings, as ever, from IMDb:

  • USA: TV-Y7, TV-G
  • Canada: R (TV), PG (DVD, Nova Scotia and Ontario), G(DVD, Quebec and Manitoba)
  • Australia: PG (mostly; some S1 episodes were rated G)
  • New Zealand: G, PG
  • UK: U, PG
  • Ireland: G, PG

Most of the ratings agencies are willing to give out PG ratings when things get a bit racy. America is the exception, but even the TV-G rating allows for the occasional bit of innuendo. In the absence of information on which individual episodes got which ratings, I'm going to err on the side of caution and assume that every episode got the higher rating.

Also, it should be borne in mind that TV ratings are assigned on an episode-by-episode basis, so all that matters for each rating is what happens in that specific episode.

Also also, I've never watched iCarly, so I'm just going by what the examples say.

Season 1

  • iPilot:
    • Carly and Sam actually got away with making a comment about their teacher's boobs (and they did say boobs).
    • Spencer finds a naked female mannequin and acts very possessive about "her".

A little risqué, but sounds like it's within the bounds of TV-G.

  • iWant More Viewers: Carly makes some spaghetti and Freddie says he really likes it, to which Sam replies, "If you like it so much, why don't you stuff it down your pants?"

That's one joke.

  • iScream On Halloween:
    Spencer: So, what are you gonna be doing on iCarly tonight?
    Carly: I dunno, anything Halloweeny, I guess.
    Spencer: He-he. Hallo-''weenie''.
    • Also this.
    Sam: Wait, whose butt is this?
    Carly: Sam.
    Sam: Sorry.

Heh Heh, You Said "X" and Joke of the Butt

  • iSpy a Mean Teacher:
    • There are many suggestive scenes. For example, two teenagers get trapped in a closet together, which makes for some interesting dialogue. Plus, there's a giant talking Randy Jackson cardboard cutout with which the teacher on whom they were spying flirts. Oh, and then she puts her glutes onto the cutout's crotch. They said glutes.
    • Sam mocks Freddie's 'pie cam' by retorting "My aunt Maggie's boobs look more real than that, and they're ridiculous."

These feel stretchy.

Dating is perfectly acceptable in children's media. The first one is one joke.

  • iHate Sam's Boyfriend: Spencer didn't notice his poison ivy until it spread. To places.

Even if this is a penis joke, it's a vague allusion and the kind of joke that is permitted under TV-G.

  • iHatch Chicks: "I picked him up thinking he was a bar of soap. Good thing I realized before..." Spencer stops, "Nevermind."

I don't think this is a joke about prison rape.

  • iMight Switch Schools: One of the mini-golf holes Spencer designs involves hitting a ball at a (cardboard) guy's crotch hard.

I've seen plenty of groin attacks in children's shows. This is fine.

  • iFence: Sam and Freddie bet that Sam can't read a real book in one week. When Freddie loses? He has to do the "ushenote ": shoving the faucet hose down his pants and then Sam turns it on.

It's just an embarassing punishment that makes it look like Freddie wet himself.

We all agreed that Toilet Humour is usually OK, right?

  • iWin A Date:
    • Sam remarks that her mom was banned from a dating site.
    • Earlier, Carly told Sam she had to rub lotion "all over that woman (Sam's mom). And those pox were everywhere."
    • This bit:
    Spencer: I'm gonna go take a shower.
    Sam: Why?
    Spencer: Cause I always get my best ideas when I'm wet.

  1. So Sam's mum causes trouble? She's a troll? There's nothing objectionable here.
  2. This is grossout humour.
  3. Sounds like Spencer is just being quirky.

Season 2

  • iSaw Him First has Sam and Carly fighting over Shane, Freddie's friend and we have this exchange:
    Carly: I don't even care because I have a date with Shane tonight.
    Sam: Obviously.
    Carly: What's that supposed to mean?
    Sam: Why don't you ask your new helping bra?

This is one joke that fits within the bounds of TV-G.

  • iHurt Lewbert:
    Lewbert: This ain't tomato juice!
    Carly: Then what is it?!
    Lewbert: Uh, nothin'.
    • And then there's this:
      Mrs Benson: Wet and sticky is very icky! Sticky and wet makes mommy upset!
      Spencer: I don't know how to respond to that.

There is nothing objectionable about this.

  • iGo To Japan: There's a scene in a spa. Both Mrs. Benson and Spencer are wrapped up in seaweed. When they realize it was a trap, they try to get out of the tightly bound seaweed. Spencer eats his way out of the seaweed, and then he slashes the seaweed covering Mrs. Benson with a sword. She also has to constantly remind him that the towel he's wearing around his waist keeps falling down. And yes, Mrs. Benson sees Spencer naked. Twice.
    • Carly and Freddie are in charge of getting the room key, this conversation happens:
      Carly: We'd like our room key, please.
      Receptionist: Ooh, honeymoon couple? [Freddie turns to Carly and suggestively raises his eyebrows, she then slaps him across the face].

  1. NPAF
  2. Kids will take this is Freddie wanting to be Carly's boyfriend, to kiss her at most.

  • From iPie, when Carly and Sam are walking to Carly's apartment:
    Sam: And my mom keeps telling me over and over: "Don't squeeze it!" But how can I not squeeze it, you know what I mean?
    Carly: No...
    Sam: Well, think of it like a plastic bag just filled with pudding, and you know-

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they talking about a pimple?

  • iKiss
    • The way Freddie and Sam decide to kiss, it seems like Freddie and Sam are both virgins and "kiss" just to lose their virginity because of insecurity. Kissing in this case would be a cleaner version of indicating that the two had sex.
    • Carly's really surprised Sam's never been kissed, because, "You seem so... willing."

But they're not having sex. They're kissing. This qualifies as Does This Remind You of Anything? for older fans, but younger viewers will just see them kissing.

  • iGive Away a Car, Freddie says possibly one of the greatest innuendos in the show:
    Freddie: Then you'd better throw your cupcake hard and hope it's sticky.
    Carly: That's something you don't hear everyday...

This sounds more like A Rare Sentece.

  • iRocked the Vote, the fake "not-Idol" contestant Wade Collins repeatedly calls the cast "hobknockers". As British slang, this generally means "someone who has sex with animals." No wonder it is "Gross... and illegal."
    • Also, Wade Collins using girls who who are wearing some skimpy dresses to dance around his music video, when said girls don't look like they could be older than 15-16. Two of the girls were Carly and Sam.

Yeah, this isn't true.

  • iMeet Fred: While Sam is beating him up with a tennis racket, Freddie screams "No Sam, not there!"

Some places hurt more than other places when they are hit. Everybody knows this.

  • iWant My Website Back: Sam actually gets away with trying to trick Mandy into killing herself, by inflating a garbage bag with her lungs, indefinitely. The lines uses to convince Mandy: "Do you want to help get our website back or not?" "Of course!" "Then blow." (Beat) "On it."
    • Spencer disguised himself as an old woman, responding to questions of his identity with, "I am just a busty old woman." Made all the more questionable by the fact that he jumps up and down to demonstrate while saying this. Then an old man sees Spencer as the old woman and finds him attractive. Spencer tries shooing him away and it blows his cover. Later, Spencer is at his apartment and the old man knocks on the door with Spencer's wig and says something along the lines of "Put it on, we can try again."
    • Also from that episode, which launches the whole "Spencer in drag" plot to begin with. What pushes this onto this page is that Spencer's response comes with no hesitation whatsoever on his part:
      Carly: What size dress do you wear?
      Spencer: 10, why?

  1. One edgy joke, but that doesn't break the TV-G rating.
  2. Attractive Bent-Gender
  3. Haha, Spencer likes to wear girls' clothes.

  • iMake Sam Girlier, Freddie uses a drop of his blood for some sort of DNA test and the results come up with "prone to excessive bleeding." Cue Freddie's finger spritzing out blood from the same finger he pricked.
    • Apparently, Pete "gets me [Sam] going".

What's objectionable about this?

The standards don't say anything about discussing menstruation.

  • iReunite with Missy:
    Carly: That's Kevin.
    Missy: Kevin?
    Carly:If he asks if you want to see his "onion ring," just say no!
    Missy: Why...
    Carly: JUST SAY NO!
    • Also:
    Spencer: Is this water?
    Chuck: You wish it was water!

Noodle Incident, both of them.

  • iTake on Dingo: There is a hobo that sleeps in the outside area from the motel room the quartet rented. One scene shows him reaching out from the window and rubbing Carly's hair rather sensuously. Carly screams, whips his hand with a long rag, and runs to Spencer in terror.

Homeless man is creepy.

  • iMust Have Locker 239: Carly tells Spencer that she needs to talk to him about something. Spencer's first, worried reaction: "You didn't go into my room, did you?"

Noodle Incident

  • iTwins: "You let my enemy penetrate my inner sanctum!"
    • Spencer recalls the time when Chuck locked him in the basement and squirted him with a "suspicious" liquidnote .
      • In the episode, he squirts him with a brown liquid that, based on Spencer's reaction when he tastes it, isn't chocolate.
    • Freddie is upset that Carly and Sam trick him into wearing a clown suit to school by sending him a letter that says it's Clown Day. Spencer tells him that some boys at his school once tricked him into thinking it was Naked Day.
    Spencer: Have you ever played dodgeball naked?
    Freddie: No.
    Spencer: Don't ever do it.
    Freddie: I won't.
    Spencer: Because...
    Freddie: I get it.
    Spencer: OK.

  1. You do realise that's what penetrate means, right?
  2. Sounds like Toilet Humour
  3. NPAF and Groin Attack

  • iFight Shelby Marx: One of the comments calls Carly a twig:
    Carly: I'm not a twig. But I'm getting curvier everyday!
    Freddie: (turns at Carly) I know.
    Carly: (sternly and jokingly) Eyes up, dude.
    • Early in the episode, Spencer mentions a doctor living in their building.
      Carly: In apartment 7-B?
      Spencer: No. The guy in 7-B just likes to dress up like a doctor. ...Don't ever talk to him.

  1. Freddie finds Carly attractive.
  2. Noodle Incident

Season 3

  • iThink They Kissed: When Spencer tells Carly he's going to prison, before he says it's so he can teach art to convicts, Carly's immediate reaction is:
    Carly: Oh my god, what did you download?
    Spencer: Nothing! (Beat) Yeah, nothing.
    • Hey, nice sacks!
    • Sam saying "Holy crap". The closed captions say "crab"note , but she obviously said "crap".
    • One must question the scene where the prisoners come out of the large pair-of-pants sculpture through the zipper area.

  1. Digital Piracy Is Evil
  2. Dead link
  3. Are you sure you didn't mishear?
  4. Where else would they come out?

  • iCook: Ricky Flame's breakdown after his defeat, sulking in his room with tissue papers sticking on his face.

So he was crying? What's objectionable about that?

  • In the opening scene of iSpeed Date:, this is heard:
    All students going to the dance must submit their medical records to nurse Bogart. Thank you.
    • From that same opening:
      Nate: Sorry... Rebecca Berkowitz already asked me to the dance.
      Carly: Oh... I hear she's a lot of fun.
      Nate: Yeah.
      Carly: "Yeah... Well... enjoy her...
    • On the night of the dance, Sam decides goes to his house to pick him up anyway. While she tries to convince him to go a very attractive girl, Tasha, comes out from his door and asks "How long are you gonna keep me waiting?" Sam promptly leaves, but not before the girl exclaims "Gibby, come on! Your mom just brought us strawberries and whipped cream!" Gibby then proceeds to go inside with a very large grin on his face.
    Sam: Well... what's wrong with her (Tasha)?!
    Gibby: Nothing. Nothing at all.
    • After several failed attempts by Carly to get a date, Sam gets an idea to put Carly in a speed dating competition consisting of the webshows male fans. Carly instantly refuses and is somewhat repulsed by Sam's suggestion. During the live airing of the webshow Sam suddenly grabs Carly and somewhat violently ties her down to a chair and gags her then , Sam asks the male audience that if they find her cute, they should enter the contest.
    • This dialogue:
      Carly: You're in trouble!
      Sam: Who has urine trouble?
      • According to show creator Dan Schneider's blog, Sam's response was added the day the scene was shot.
    • When Carly wasn't asked to the dance, it was said that she was being crotchety about it several times. They finished the scene off with, "Haha, crotchety... It's funny 'cause it sounds wrong..."
    • After the speed dating is suggested:
      Carly: How can I get to know someone in 15 seconds?
      Sam: Come on, six of my mom's best relationships started in 15 seconds!

  1. This sounds like just random silliness.
  2. Accidental Innuendo
  3. I looked up some clips on YouTube, and it's pretty obvious the joke is just that Gibby has a disproportionately hot girlfriend. Kids watching will just interpret strawberries and cream as eating something tasty.
  4. Toilet Humour
  5. Heh Heh, You Said "X"
  6. Too vague to qualify.

  • Spencer decides to attempt to have "the talk" with Carly.
    Spencer: I think it's time for you and I to have a little talk about-
    Carly: I'm not having this conversation!
    Spencer: Thank you so much!

Too vague.

Yes, and?

  • iHave My Principals: Principal Franklin got getting fired because the superintendent thought it was inappropriate for him to come out of the fly of a giant pair of pants and sit on fudge balls in his students' webshow.
    • Spencer's bull riding teacher mounts him and yells "You can do better!" and Spencer replies "I'm not so sure about this!"

This is central to the episode. The ratings agency definitely saw that and allowed it.

This is just about romance, not sex.

  • iMove Out: Mrs. Benson is negotiating terms with Freddie to get him to agree to come home, one of his conditions is that she unlocks all the TV channels. Which involves Elephant Love from the Nature Network.
    • Lampshaded in iMove Out was their use of "God" in "Oh My God" and such phrases. It was unheard of in kids shows, and still mostly is. It's usually "Oh my gosh". (However this show and Victorious were full on using "Oh My God" SO MUCH.)
      Freddie: Oh my g—
      Ms. Benson: You better finish that with 'gosh'.
      Freddie: Dear gosh, please make her leave.
    • Earlier, Freddie shows Carly and Sam the "apartment" Lewbert rented to him for $100 per month (really the elevator machine room). When Sam looks around, she mentions "there's no bathroom." Freddie replies, "There's the sink..." Cue the "ewwww" moment.
    • While Spencer is asleep, he was apparently dreaming about Harmoo. He wakes up screaming "NO HARMOO, DON'T BITE THAT!"

  1. Niche Network
  2. This sounds like the joke is aboout Mrs Benson being absurdly strict.
  3. Toilet Humour
  4. Cats Are Mean

  • iQuit iCarly: In the mock horror film about evil wind, the trailer we see at the end has this infamous line: "This wind blows!"
    • It gets better. The title of the movie is called The Blowing. Coming soon.
    • Carly: "I'm jiggly." and "My tongue needs help!"
    • Freddie (to Spencer): "I'm not giving you a spongebath while you watch television! Not after the last time."
    • Freddie also peeks in on Spencer in the shower and comments on a birthmark on his buttcheek.
    • This exchange occurs during the Gibby/Spencer subplot:
    Gibby: A-ho!
    Spencer: Look at your pronunciation sheet.
    Gibby: Ahoy!
    • This:
    Freddie: So cross your fingers... and all other parts of you.
    • The opening suggests that Spencer was watching porn when it was actually about boats.
    • At one point, Sam calls Freddie a "dip-head", which can be easily misheard as "dickhead" and was most likely the intention.

  1. Blows, likes sucks, is a perfectly clean and acceptable word meaning is lame; it hasn't had connotations of oral sex in decades.
  2. Ditto
  3. Sounds like these are being taken out of context.
  4. Noodle Incident
  5. NPAF
  6. This is inappropriate, but since it's one joke, it's just a Parental Bonus
  7. Exaggeration
  8. Does This Remind You of Anything?
  9. But she just says "diphead". This is the sort of bowdlerisation that censors are fine with.

  • In iSaved Your Life, Mrs. Benson's reaction to Freddie and Carly kissing was "What the yuck!?"
    • Before Carly and Freddie kiss for the first time, Mrs. Benson tells them she'll be gone for exactly '36 minutes' to get some medicine. After Carly kisses him, they really get into it, and an ad break appears. They come back, still kissing, and only stop when Mrs. Benson comes back with the medicine. Getting a 30 minute long makeout session under the radar is pretty awesome.
      Freddie: Ow ow ow!
      Carly: It hurts?
      Freddie: Well it doesn't feel good!
      Carly: Okay, um... where's your bed?
      Freddie: (groans) Right here...
      • In the Extended Version of the episode, a girl invited Freddie over to her house for the weekend, when her parents were going to be gone and her older brother was throwing a party. There is also a line of thought that suggests that not only were the parents going away, but that the brother's party was at a beach house somewhere, implying that they'd have the main house to themselves the whole weekend. She's offering him a weekend of sex. Carly then shoos her away by giving him a kiss.
    • Think about this line for a moment. Or better yet, go to your kitchen and do it yourself. See what it looks like.
      Sam: Whatever tickles your peach.
    • Spencer ambushes Sam with the line: "I got to stop saying witty things before I blow!"
    • Spencer receives a package, and suspects that Sam may be hiding inside it to ambush him:
      Spencer: Check to see if there's a girl in there.
      Delivery Guy: No. Why, did you order one?

  1. "Yuck" is not a curse.
  2. ... they're just kissing. Children's media can show teeangers kissing each other unless you live in is Muslim theocracy (or possibly China).
  3. NPAF
  4. If it's the extended version, that scene wasn't submitted to the censors.
  5. Sounds like an Accidental Innuendo
  6. Threatening to explode isn't against the rules.
  7. General silliness.

  • iWas a Pageant Girl: Sam rips off Carly's dress from over the top of one dressing room stall, while she stands in the other. There is a lot of shaking and other movement going on. the stall wall is about nipple level at the end we get this dialogue
    Carly: And thanks for being gentle!
    • (both emerge from their stalls shortly after)
    Sam: I feel hot!
    Carly: I feel violated!
    • Earlier in the same episode, Carly is getting prepared for a pageant. Sam walks up and hands her two white objects that resemble to grapefruits. The dialogue went something like this:
    Carly: What are these?
    Sam: Just stuff them under your bra.
    • Carly asks again what they are and were she got them, Sam explains that they're fake boobs she ordered from the internet. One shot reveals that they are complete with nipples.
      • She then drops them instantly when she hears that Sam's mom wore them last night.
    • Spencer wants "squirtable fruits"

iCarly has explicitly referred to boobs in previous episodes, so the fake breasts are allowed. The thing with the dresses feels more along the lines of NPAF of just general silliness.

  • iEnrage Gibby: Carly tells the critic who gave a bad review of Spencer's work that he was so sad, he died.
    Carly: You killed my brother!

It is acceptable to mention death in a G rating.

  • iFix A Popstar: Mrs. Gibson comes on to Spencer rather... bluntly.
    • Also in that episode, Spencer remarks that Carly and Sam went to Build-a-Bra. Gibby comments that he always gets thrown out of there; Freddie reluctantly agrees.
    • Spencer visualizes Gibby's mom as half Gibby. Since Gibby never wears a shirt, this is how he sees her.
    • The A plot, where they take Britney Spears antics and roll with them. Visible hangovers, implied teen-pregnancy, strange use of the word "sexy" and onscreen graphic violence (fork in the cheek/shoulder WITH blood) make the episode go beyond the radar. Oh, and that suggestive singing.

  1. An adult woman finds an adult man attractive.
  2. As we've established, referring to breasts does not violate the ratings.
  3. Disturbing, but not radar-breaking
  4. This might be valid; I'll need more context.

  • iBelieve in Bigfoot has many sexual references:
    • Beave-coon: Spencer mentions that 2 University students recorded video of male raccoon and a female beaver "socializing" (yes, he did the finger quotation marks) by a river.
    • Carly points out two squirrels "wrestling" and Freddie responds, "Uh, Carly? They aren't wrestling." Carly went right back to staring at the squirrels. Spencer brings it up again, much to her dismay.
    • Robin's Weiners: At one point, Sam falls asleep with one of Robin's Weiners in her mouth; then the "wienery".
    • Sam's mother dated a tall pygmy once. The others don't believe her. She offers to show them "the video". Everyone reacts in disgust.
    • Carly getting water out of Spencer's ear with a turkey baster:
    Spencer: Squeeze the thing on the end.
    Carly: I know what to squeeze.

  1. But they're animals
  2. Again, animals
  3. Schreider knew what he was doing, but this is still the sort of thing that will go over children's heads.
  4. Noodle Incident
  5. Sounds like an Accidental Innuendo

  • iPsycho:
    • This exchange:
    Sam: (referring to the soundboard Freddie was practically ogling at) Cool, why don't you use it to beam yourself to Jupiter?!
    Carly: Is that really necessary?
    Sam: I could've said Uranus...

Joke of the Butt

  • iBeat the Heat:
    • "I have angina!" "..You have WHAT!?"
    • "I don't need this bag of ice in my pants anymore!"
    • "My Pee Wee Babies are more important than your Fallopian City!"
    • Freddie's futile attempts to lift Carly by her waist onto the kitchen countertop, complete with struggled groaning from both of them.
    • This exchange:
    Freddie: Sam, swear you'll be nice.
    Sam: Oh, I'll swear...
    Freddie: Sam!

  1. Angina does not violate the radar, and I'm pretty sure that alluding to private parts is allowed under TV-G.
  2. Sounds like someone is being a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander
  3. Needs more context
  4. Sounds like Accidental Innuendo
  5. "Swear" has a double meaning, but Sam doesn't actually curse.

Season 4

  • iGot a Hot Room:
    • What exactly did that goat do to Carly on her last birthday that was so bad that it made it her worst birthday ever and she refuses to talk about it?
    • Gibby's mostly blind grandpa mistakes Spencer as a girl after feeling his hair, which may be Justified in the fact that he has bad eyesight. But then Spencer says, "I'm a guy!", and to check if he's right, the grandfather pats down Spencer's body until he finds his chest and then says, "Oh yeah."
    • Spencer tells the kids about a wet spot on the carpet that Gibby's grandpa made. All three of them run away from it as fast as possible.
    • After scolding the Italian exchange student, Carly asks how she learned Italian - Sam replies that her mom "likes Italian dudes". Then Sam puts extra emphasis, saying "I mean she LIKES Italian dudes." Carly replies "I get it..." with a look on her face that strengthens the chance of it being innuendo.

  1. Noodle Incident
  2. The TV-G rating allows you to mention breasts.
  3. Toilet Humour
  4. Vague enough that children will think Mrs Pucket just Has a Type

  • iSam's Mom:
    • Sam calls her mom Pam's "parts" "worn out".
      • As if that isn't enough, that entire conversation is a little strange when you really think about it.
    Sam: I don't want any part of you!
    Pam: You don't deserve any of my parts!
    Sam: Why would I want worn out parts?
    Pam: Hey, take a good, long look, baby, because this is your future.
    • Gibby on the spycam. This bit is now in the opening credits, so it will happen every episode for the season.
    • Quote from Dan Schneider: If you're wondering why the Asian gentleman emerges from the restroom, looking at Gibby, with a terrified expression, then runs out screaming in horror… you'll have to ask Noah Munck who plays "Gibby". He's one of the few people who knows why. ;)
    • Further insight on the episode from Dan: You'll hear Carly say, "It's almost four o'clock in the morning." But that was NOT the take I had in this episode a week ago. In that version of the show, Carly said, "It's almost four o'clock in the flippin' morning." But the network called me and said they didn't want me to have Carly say the word "flippin" – so I changed it to another take where she didn't say it. Frankly, I thought it was fine for Carly to say "flippin" – but when the bigwigs at Nickelodeon have an issue with something, I try to accommodate them. And I didn't feel that strongly about keeping the "flippin" line.

  1. Get your mind out of the gutter. Pam is talking about aging, and how every part of her body is wearing out and getting run down, and the same thing will happen to Sam.
  2. Needs more context
  3. Noodle Incident, and the Schreider quote isn't part of the episode
  4. So the radar did its job?

  • iGet Pranky:
    • Carly not having pranked anyone is portrayed like how more dramatic teen tv shows portray teens being pressured into becoming sexually active. When Freddie and Sam are pressuring Carly to prank someone she says, "I'm sure it'll happen... when I meet the right person."
    • Pranks for Spencer are portrayed as being very addictive, to the point where Carly starts an intervention, Spencer recalls hitting Rock Bottom and discussions about how it effects the people around him.
    Spencer: At first I was just pranking on weekends.
    • Gibby's fear of being pranked while peeing forced him to use catheters along his pants.
    • Carly threatens to sneak into Spencer's room at night and cover his face with a pillow until he stops kicking if he doesn't stop pranking. They admit that it's a pretty dark thing to say.

Yeah, here's the thing: They're not talking about sex or drugs. They're talking about pranking. Ratings bodies are perfectly OK with Does This Remind You of Anything? as long as it's not actually the thing it reminds you of.

  • iSell Penny Tees:
    • The episode opens with the gang holding an online auction during their webcast, aptly named "Show You Our Junk".
    • Freddie now has the urge to stab Sam with a knife, but is able to control himself.
    • Sam employs 4th graders to make penny tees with an iron grip and minimum wage labor. Plus, she also feeds them with food from the dumpster or animal food. Seriously, there is no such word as a radar in Schneider's Bakery anymore.
    • Sam spanks Freddie in this episode. And then he keeps going on about how she did it too hard and how much his butt hurts.
    • No mention yet of Spencer saying "I gotta go think about Krustacia!" line, while he runs to his room? Hmm...

  1. Double Entendre, NPAF
  2. American censors are weirdly OK with violence
  3. This doesn't actually violate the radar
  4. Oh for the love of crying out loud, this isn't sexual.
  5. Sounds like the troper is reading too much into things.

  • iDo:
    • At one point in the episode, the groom's mom knees Spencer on the groin. When Carly says something to him about it, she uses the phrase, "That doesn't mean you had to kick him in the-" and is abruptly cut off.
    • Gordon loses control of his bladder when nervous. At one point, he tries to sing a song in front of a group, and ends up wetting his pants. The audience is graced with close-ups of the urine running down. A bit later, when he talks to the girls, he says something about his nervousness and that he's still peeing as they speak. The girls jump away as quickly as possible.
    • Two words: meatball patch.
    • After Freddie says "You two will make real purdy bridesmaids," Sam appears to subtly give Freddie the finger but it is quickly joined by her other fingers to her chin.

  1. So they can show Spencer being kicked in the groin but not say the word "groin"?
  2. Toilet Humour
  3. Needs more context
  4. I'll need to check this one.

  • iStart a Fan War:
    • The word damnation is used in the lyrics of the song Spencer and Aspartamay are singing.
    • When Carly bites Aspartamay's thumb, he exclaims, "Son of a belch, man, she bit my thumb!"
    • Spencer's weapon is a "long staff" while Aspartamay's weapon of choice are 2 "wrist balls".
    • Sam says: "We're all better-than-average looking teenagers. We all have 'those feelings'.
    • Adam mentioned about going somewhere with Carly, asking her to "do it".
    • How satisfied Freddie was after being mobbed by those girls.
      • Which also stems from the sudden worry and attention Carly gave Freddie after Sam dragged him out the first time.

  1. 'Possibly valid, depending on whether damnation qualifies as a curse.
  2. Minced oath
  3. Accidental Innuendo
  4. They're heterosexual
  5. Sounds like it's just the one joke, but I'll want to watch the full episode to be sure.
  6. Yeah, this is fine.

  • iHire an Idiot:
    • When Spencer is suggesting that the gang hire an intern, Sam asks, "Can it bathe me?"

The joke is about how humiliating internship is.

  • iPity The Nevel:
    • As Carly reads viewer comments: " 'Nevel should take a golf club and shove it...' (beat) These comments should really be monitored."
    • The vampire boy has to choose between a (flatchested) farm girl and a bra. Dashed with a hilarious dose of possible triangle foreshadowing with the season ender, if the blatant symbolism is still not making its point.
    • The iCarly gang made Gibby stick his finger into a fishbowl with a fish to prove that it "enjoys the taste of human flesh", which he then agrees while pulling out a bloody finger.
    • Toward the beginning of the episode they're doing a bit on the webcast with Gibby in a tub of ice. He jumps up and runs out because he can't take it anymore and Carly says that they proved "ice is cold" to which Sam quips "Cold enough to freeze your gibbys!".
      • In another episode, Spencer tells Gibby to go do 'whatever it is Gibbys do', so it could just be a play on that.

  1. Curse Cur Short
  2. Referencing breasts is allowed under TV-G
  3. Plenty of children's shows include people getting injured
  4. Haha, Gibby got frozen

  • iOMG:
    • Spencer is trapped in a box and experimented on by Carly and Gibby. When they pump foul smelling gas into the chamber, Spencer shouts "It smells like--" Carly promptly cuts off his mic.
    • Carly suggests to Freddie that they put Sam and Brad together in one room, comparing them to horses in barns they see on the Animal Channel. She clearly implies that the horses would mate and is uncomfortable with saying it, beating around the bush and trying to find other substitutions for the words.
      Carly: You’ve seen the Animal Channel. The... the horses. When they want two horses to... you know, “date” they put them in the same barn together and then they like turn the barn lights down and YOU KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME SAY IT!

  1. So it smells like something stinky? This is fine.
  2. This is one joke.

  • iParty With Victorious:
    • When Freddie tells Carly what BF means, Sam says it could also mean "Big Finger". The context of the tweet read is that she's sticking with his BF.
    • The scene where Gibby massages cream into Spencer's back. The noises Spencer makes are more than suggestive.
    Spencer: Gibby has the hands of a goddess!
    Gibby: I am here for you, buddy.
    • When Freddie first sees Tori, he responds with a verbal "DOING", which was lampshaded by Carly telling him not to say. When Spencer is shown a picture of Tori, who is only seventeen on the computer, this happens:
    Spencer: (Looking at picture) Wow, that is one nice... (Carly and Sam stare at him) high-resolution monitor.
    • After the trio gets their facial disguises, Sam aptly renames herself Regina Goodbody, complete with hand gestures.
    • Sam's idea of exposing Steven: pulling his pants down. And then getting some hot sauce.
    • This exchange:
      Freddie: It's like she's oozing happy.
      Sam: Kinda like when my mom was taking those "special vitamins."
    • Sam's "Yeah, and my dad told my mom he was coming back!".
    • Marissa's remark on Carly: "I can't see how a boy could make a girl that happy"
    • Everything in the jacuzzi. Sikowitz ducking into the pool, with Spencer in it, to hide from someone. Later on, he has his arm around Spencer, and after a while, Spencer actually tells him to back off.
    • Jade's fantasizing about being kidnapped by witches and made into soup implies a Vore fetish.

  1. Referencing a rude gesture is probably fine
  2. This is acceptable under TV-G
  3. I get the impression that "DOING" is Freddie' catchphrase, and Tori is attractive. Nothing objectionable here.
  4. "Goodbody" just means she's attractive.
  5. Sam is silly
  6. The standard doesn't say anything about drugs
  7. Isn't it established that Pam is a single mother?
  8. What is objectionable about this?
  9. Haha, it looks like those boys are homosexuals.
  10. Witches eating people is a pretty common fairy tale motif.

  • iLost My Mind:
    • In the beginning of the episode, Spencer is seen in his tighty whities putting on Carly's pants. The tighty whities prove to be a bit revealing at times...which is even more old since shows tend to use boxers as Gag Underwear.
    • When Spencer asks where the olive oil is, Carly replies, "In the bathroom, where you left it." One would wonder what he was using it for.
      • He bought an ostrich because a meatball told him to. It wouldn't be surprising if he drinks the stuff.
    • Some of the signs on the walls of the mental hospital say things such as "Friends don't kill friends" and "Urine is for the Restroom."
    • When Spencer has Carly's pants on, evidently they were a bit tight. He tried to take them off, but to no avail. Apparently they were so tight, in fact, that it prompted him to say this:
    Spencer: These pants are squeezing me in places I can't even explain.
    • Spencer is hilariously eager to dress up as Pam Puckett, even uttering the line "I'll get my boobs".
    • "One huge Virginia."
      • One-upped by Carly responding to the comment with "Settle down, Virginia!"
    • "Kick me anywhere below the waist and I won't feel it."
    • Carly tells Spencer that Sam's Mom is in Tijuana getting laser hair removal:
    Spencer: On what part of her body?
    Carly: I didn't want to know!

  1. Grandma's Chicken Salad
  2. The natter says he's a cloudcuckoolander
  3. Crazy people are funny.
  4. Boys are girls are different shapes
  5. Crossdressing is funny
  6. Huh?
  7. Again, groin attacks are acceptable in a TV-G rating
  8. Noodle Incident

  • iDate Sam and Freddie:
    • The lasagna at Pini's is so good that when Sam dies she wants to be 'buried naked in a bathtub full of Pini's lasagna'.
    • Gibby says "I LOVE Pini's," prompting strange looks from the others. With a slightly different inflection, it would sound exactly like a certain male body part.
    • The very title implies a threesome.

  1. So?
  2. It's just a mild gay joke, nothing that violates TV-G
  3. No, it just implies dating multiple people at once.

  1. She did say "crab". Crab is not a curse, it's a crustacean.
  2. That's an ad, not part of the show
  3. ... no we don't.

  • iLove You:
    • The Training Bros is an innuendo referring to training bras. It does fit Nick and Dan's unhealthy obsession with bras.
    • Freddie mentions a "protective cup." Carly asks what it is. He begins to awkwardly explain, "It's this thing that you put on-" and begins to gesture down before Sam interjects: "Hey, hey! She's not ready for that yet!"
    • The whole "make out until midnight" thing is a toned down for kids version of breakup sex. Even just making out without being together is pretty radar worthy for Nick.
      • It's subtly implied they engaged in sexual activity in the elevator, considering they were going to be there for an hour and a half and they were breaking up and everything...
    • The borderline fetishistic relationship between Spencer and his former babysitter manages to straddle a handful of fetishes in one go. The first being a typical dominant/submissive relationship, the babysitter fetish, and infantilisim.

  1. Yeah, but again, mentioning bras does not violate TV-G.
  2. It's also standard sports equipment
  3. They're. Just. Kissing.
  4. I suspect this is GCS, but I guess I'll also have to watch this episode to be certain.

  • iBloop 2: Electric Bloopaloo: In one of the bloopers, Jerry Trainor says "Son of a—!"

So he doesn't say it in the actual episode?

  • iQ:
    • Mrs. Benson invests money in two chickens, but they refuse to create eggs, rendering the Bensons' plan unsuccessful. For the rest of the episode, the cast dances around the subject, finding other ways to say "mate."

The fan wiki's summary suggests this was a small part of the B plot. Not an example.

  • iStill Psycho:
    • Were the censors even watching this one?
    Cassie (to Spencer): Why don't we let him play over there and you and I can play over here?
    • And this exchange:
    Nora: Here I am in the bosom of my youth?
    Gibby: Heh. Bosom.
    • Or this one:
    Ms. Benson: Get Out! And take your big ax with you!

Nothing that violates TV-G.

  • iBalls:
    • The title.
    • The electronic toilet seat which warms your bottom. And it vibrates.
    Assistant: Think of me when you're using it.
    • Spencer's cameraman roommate sleeps beside him naked.
      • They met in a men's room (he was the attendant). Which also brings to mind this exchange which occured in said bathroom:
    Spencer: My hands smell like clams.
    Assistant: Oh, did you have the clams?
    Spencer: No.
    • This exchange between them:
    Spencer: Where will you go?
    Assistant: Wherever the wind blows me.
    Spencer: I hope it blows you someplace wonderful.
    • When Sam sticks a spoon into the camera, Spencer says "Oh my God, it's like I'm actually being spooned".
    • Another good exchange:
    Gibby: "Let's go bathe in the glory."
    Sam: "No one wants (pause) to see you bathe."
    Gibby: "My cat loves to see me bathe."
    • The assistant giving Spencer a piggy-back ride, and Spencer answering a phone call, saying "I'm riding him."

  1. You state an example... and pothole it to a trope which says it isn't an example...
  2. No
  3. NPAF
  4. What's objectionable about clams?
  5. Grandma's Chicken Salad
  6. Spooning is just a form of cuddling. Not an example.
  7. General silliness
  8. Accidental Innuendo

  • iMeet the First Lady:
    Spencer: Some people are just born with the weenie gene.

... Weenie means wimp, loser.

  • iToe Fat Cakes:
    • Carly's Bathtub Scene is a kid-friendly moment of gratuitous fanservice. Her scene started out fully naked in the tub covered in bubbly water. Once her toe gets stuck, she knew she needs somebody's help to get out until she realizes her condition, prompting her to wear only a sweater to cover her. She spends the rest of the episode stranded in the tub with her foot raised. Being in a bath in the presence of TWO males (one adult, one teenage) is eye-raising too.
    • After four months, Carly is "itching" to kiss a guy.
    • Eventually she does kiss her date while she is still in the bathtub, but the implication is that she is still only wearing a sweater.
    • Sam's possessiveness in holding a Canadian fatcake, moaning while licking and biting it with total relish.
      • Freddie watches her do this in abject fascination, in a way that seems to say "Freddie is thinking about Sam licking somewhere else".
    • The subtle demonstration of injecting cream into a fatcake, and later Sam sucks a piping tube of (white) fat cream dry.
      • With these two, the yonic (Fat Cake) and phallic (Fat Bag) innuendoes are covered.
    • Canadian fatcakes being illegal to the U.S. is a metaphor for "certain substances" banned over American soil and are therefore smuggled.
      • The border guards refer to fatcakes in terms of kilos (Canada uses the metric system), mainly used in the USA to describe cocaine and heroin amounts. Fatcakes are said to be full of sugar, which is often mistaken for another banned substance.
    • Spencer mentions Sam's aforementioned Precocious Crush on him.
    • Spencer's fake mayor pants are tight "in the crotch", which he shows the audience by tugging at them.

  1. Part 1, PArt 2. This is NPAF.
  2. Carly is heterosexual. Kissing is allowed.
  3. They're just kissing, and you can't see any of the good bits.
  4. Or Canadian fatcakes just taste that good.
  5. AI
  6. The example even potholes to G-Rated Drug!
  7. Teenage girl is heterosexual, and I believe they're above the age of consent by this point.
  8. No worse than the various references to breasts.

Season 5

  • iOpen A Restaurant:
    • Spencer comes running out of the shower in his room wearing Carly's robe, which Carly has left in the bathroom. Now, consider later in the episode, when Carly says that she's going upstairs to take a bath. Why doesn't she just use the shower in her own bathroom (and we see in iToe Fat Cakes that her tub has a shower nozzle attached)?
    • For that manner - if Carly used Spencer's shower, why would she leave her robe there afterward?
    • When Principal Franklin (at the end of the episode) tells Gibby that he's not shutting 'Gibby's' down, and calls out 'More hot meat for everyone!' as he puts a wad of cash in Gibby's hands.
    • Sam's beatdown of the jerk with the infamous 'butter sock', followed by her comment to Gibby: "I'm sorry I got butter on you."

  1. What are you implying?
  2. Because she was dressed? And got a bit absent-minded?
  3. AI
  4. I'm going to need more context

  1. What's dirty about sushi?
  2. She doesn't say "ass" so it's fine.

Trey is clearly a case of Does This Remind You of Anything?. The whole point of that plot is to address sexual assault without getting too heavy, and there's no actual sex involved, just kissing. It doesn't violate TV-G.

Regarding Spencer's snowwoman, referencing breasts doesn't violate TV-G.

  • iGo One Direction:
    • Sam's moans and, yes screams, as Gibby rubs her feet are positively orgasmic and then when she tells him to do her heel she says "Rub it like a man!"
    • Gibby's behavior to the band is filled with Ho Yay. He's more fangirlish than Carly and Sam.
    • The above-mentioned Double Standard Rape: Female on Male with Sam and Zayn. Sam has an overtly-enthusiastic face, while Zayn has a thrilled-Oh, Crap! expression as the elevator lowers. Being episodes after the Seddie arc, the other characters didn't seem to mind.

  1. He's just rubbing her feet; they're not having sex.
  2. So?
  3. It may well be a double standard, but this still doesn't violate TV-G.

  • iBattle Chip:
    • Carly getting very close to Sam to see if she has pepperoni breath could, with a more casual glance, look a lot different.
    • Spencer shows up completely naked, only a big handful of branches covering himself (Chuck did that). Later, when they ask what's that on the branch, Spencer thinks it might be a beehive while shaking it a bit for a better view (which Freddie warns about). As soon as he asks why, it begins buzzing... Ouch.
    • Directly after this, Spencer forget to wear underwear, again.

  1. Grandma's Chicken Salad
  2. NPAF
  3. Going Commande

  • iShock America:
    • Spencer mentions all of America seeing Gibby's "danger zone".
    • This whole episode is about Gibby's privates being exposed on live TV. TV-G show, people.
    • Mrs. Benson says she's "growing hair in new places." Make of that what you will.

The first two are NPAF, the second is a puberty joke.

  • iGet Banned:
    • After Carly bans T-Bo from her apartment, he calls Spencer.
    T-Bo: [on Spencer's phone] Man, you sister can be a b-
    [Spencer turns the phone in his cast off]

Curse Cut Short

  • iFind Spencer Friends:
    • The entire discussion about how good Sam is at sucking the meat off chicken wings. Doesn't help that Freddie is saying how impressed he is.
    • Spencer plays tennis with a 3rd grader, but loses because his tennis racket is "floppy". Add in that Gibby pronounces tennis like "tenis" and you've got one weird scene.
    • Underage girls trying to pick up guys,each of the adults naturally reacts extremely nervously. Fortunately for them its for Spencer (though why no one thought they were trying to set up a date is beyond me).
    • The scene in the bathroom where Gibby climbs into a stall, stands on the toilet and tries to pick up a guy for Spencer, the guy is freaked out, understandably because a guy is talking to him whilst he's doing his thing with his junk on display. Freddie escapes as quickly as possible.
    • Heather went to a men's restroom to get a picture with him. When she got back she started to scream: "I touched Gibby, I touched Gibby!"

  1. Sounds like AI
  2. Edgy but within TV-G
  3. Silly Misunderstanding
  4. Gibby is silly
  5. Example is pothole to AI

  • iRescue Carly:
    • When Carly insists on meeting Dana, Sam's friend from juvie, Sam's concerns could easily have a different meaning.
    Sam: You're like... whipped cream! And she's like someone who eats whipped cream.
    • And
    Sam: Do not get your toes close to her mouth.
    • And
    Sam's old juvie friend calls Carly "candy-pants" a lot.

These all just mean Dana is vicious. Stop trying to insist everything women do is sexual.

  • iLost My Head in Vegas:
    • Gibby eats an entire bag of sugar, reacts like he's having a bad trip, tells Freddie he's freaking out and then screams "I'm falling".
    • Spencer takes a shower and is washing himself with a brush. He starts washing his backside and then pulls out a watch that he thought he had lost. Although he's only shown from the front and waist up, it's fairly obvious where it came from.

  1. G-Rated Drug
  2. Joke of the Butt

  • iBust a Thief:
    • Gibby asks Sam and Carly about what they want him to rub on his artichokes. What really sells is that he says it in a weirdly seductive voice.
    • Freddy figures out the old lady is living in Whitman Towers. Hope it's not named after this guy in a tower.
    • After Freddie asks Sam if she trashed his apartment(looking for her stolen laptod) Sam says she trashed it and also trashed Mrs Benson and says that he should bring some band aids and a mop.
    • When Sam tells T-Bo at the Groovy Smoothie that someone "horked" her laptop, T-Bo tells her not to say that word there.
    • Gibby says he caught Guppy "marking his territory"

  1. Gibby is silly
  2. Whitman is a pretty common name
  3. Isn't it a running gag that Sam is violent?
  4. "Hork" isn't a real curse word, it was made up for the show.
  5. Toilet Humour

  • iGoodbye:
    • Freddie shows everyone his new oversized Samsung Max Pad phone. When Gibby hears the name, he laughs hysterically, and says he can't even say it, before walking off screen. He then comes back and says that it's so huge. Later, Freddie notes that the purse-like carrying case for his new phone, makes him looks feminine.
    • Freddie tells Gibby they need to cheer up Carly. Gibby who just received a Weasel, says "I could show her my weasel."
    • Not to mention when Carly comments "Her boobs really are pointy" in regards to Ms. Briggs.
      • This is a Call-Back to the very first episode.
    • Again, Sam's reaction while riding in the motorcycle is positively orgasmic as she rubs her butt on the seat, saying "Momma's butt is home!" The extremely close bonding of Spencer and Sam throughout the episode is quite a nod over the entire Precocious Crush theme between them that was recurrent in the series. It doesn't help that the captioned photo of them◊ is like having an OT3 with the motorcycle as "they never left the loft, making Vroom Vroom sounds".
  • When she wants Carly to test the back-scratcher she made, Sam asks her to take her shirt off.
  • Yet again, Ms Briggs' "big, pointy boobs" are mentioned.

  1. Nothing that violates TV-G
  2. He's talking about an actual weasel
  3. TV-G allows mentioning boobs
  4. Sam and Spencer are silly
  5. NPAF
  6. See #1

General/Unsorted

  • Freddie lives in an apartment. His apartment number? 8=D To contrast, Carly's apartment number is 8=C, both resembling opposite parts of the human anatomy.
    • Not surprising from a line of shows that got away using certain parts of a human anatomy (jank, nub, boob) as euphemisms.
    • Come to think of it, people mention bras a lot. Even if there's no joke or plot relevance to be had. For example, the oft mentioned "Build-A-Bra" an obvious take on Build-A-Bear.
      • One of the recurring characters in their Pathetic Plays is George, a bra who tells ghost stories.

As has been established in the foregoing examples, this stuff is allowed.

  • Carly and Sam wear some t-shirts that are a little... suggestive for someone of her age. Like 'Peanut Butter Love.'

These seem more like word salads

  • There are a lot of times when they speak so fast or slur the words where they sound like something else:
    • The word "chizz" sounds like "jizz", not only when Freddie originally says it but when Sam says it again on iTake On Dingo.
      • It also sounds like "shiz" in a vague Australian Accent, and Sam even uses it as a substitute.
    • At one point, T-Bo utters the line, "Since when do I care where you sit?" It wasn't said very clearly, and it would be understandable to mistake the last word for the word 'shit'.

Minced oaths and Accidental Innuendo

  • Everyone uses not-so-subtle euphemism's for cursing. At first they seemed like simple child's play but considering their at the age where kids love to curse, and the obvious substitute nature of the words...
    • They always say "Oh My God" which is considered taboo in kids' shows.

This is just minced oaths. And [citation needed] on not being allowed to say "Oh my God!"

  • At one point in a CD for the show, we hear a conversation that goes like this:
    Carly: Hey, sorry, we're out of root beer.
    Sam: That's alright, I'll-
    Carly: WHOA! What are you doing?!
    Sam: Oh, calm down.
    Carly: Sam, are you insane?
    Sam: Would you relax?
    Carly: NO, you can't do that!
    Sam: What's the big deal?
    Freddie: (walks in) Hey, anyone- WHOA! What is she doing?
    Carly: I told her to stop!
    Sam: Okay! (pause) Well... what if I just do... this?
    Carly: Sam, NO!
    Freddie: Are you CRAZY?!
    Sam: Aw, you babies, just play the next song!
    • Who else remembers previously mentioned build-a-bra from the same exact album?

CDs aren't sibject ot TV ratings. There is RIAA, but I believe they only cover songs.

  • Mr. Howard is mentioned, various times, to be married but apparently he makes out with Ms. Briggs when she's supposed to be supervising detention.

TV-G allowd infidelity.

  • One of the online segments on the iCarly website entitled "You're in Luck" had Sam hosting a game show by a urinal in a men's room (via video, she wasn't actually in the room). It's unclear if she could see into the room or if there was only a camera on her end. Oh, and all the questions are about pee or pea or the letter P.

Toilet Humour

  • Like Dan Schneider's other shows since Drake & Josh, characters frequently say "Oh, my God" and there are jokes about dying and death.

Yes, and?

Whew! There are a couple of examples that might be valid; as I said, I'll need to watch the full episodes to be sure.

Edited by VampireBuddha on Aug 9th 2021 at 7:36:15 PM

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#1585: Aug 1st 2021 at 4:18:25 PM

I'll read through the rest later but a lot of that could probably be punted to DIH, like the poison ivy joke (which is very likely a penis joke as he whispers it to Freddie specifically, IIRC). A lot of that can also go on AI or maybe Double Entendre since it is Schneider.

Clams thing is probably read as a pussy joke BTW.

Edited by mightymewtron on Aug 1st 2021 at 7:21:00 AM

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#1586: Aug 1st 2021 at 4:20:00 PM

I'll read through later as well, but I do want to say nice work there, Buddha.

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#1587: Aug 2nd 2021 at 3:05:54 PM

[up][up]Hmm, I guess.

[up]Thanksgrin

I went and watched "iKiss", and it is just about kissing, nothing PG to be seen.

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#1588: Aug 2nd 2021 at 7:39:10 PM

Tackling 90's Nick is gonna be an interesting effort. I'll start with Radar.Rockos Modern Life.

  • "No Pain No Gain":
    • At the gym, there's a scene where a guy lifts weights, but since they're too heavy, we get a wonderful graphic, gory shot of his arms falling off, complete with blood and bones. Could just be Family-Unfriendly Violence or Black Comedy, but...
      • What is even more surprising is that the show has had a TV-Y rating since 1997 and shows with a Y-rating usually don't show blood unless the character is getting a minor wound and almost never shows gore. This addendum may allow it to count.
    • There's a scene where Heffer was sitting at a weight training station with his back to the camera. All we see is his arms moving back and forth. A woman comes up and asks if he needs any help, to which he replies. "Yeah" then holds up a plate, a pair of chopsticks, and says, "These plastic things can't cut my burrito." Given the context, the more likely Bait-and-Switch that he's supposed to be working out or something.
    • One of the exercise machine levels for Rocko is Deliverance, complete with "squeal like a pig" (which here is only tickling a pig with a feather). Parental Bonus — nothing explicit is here unless you get the joke.
    • When Rocko and Heffer play basketball, Heffer throws the ball so hard that it breaks down the wall of the showers, revealing naked women who cover themselves in embarrassment. One of them isn't even bothering covering her breasts. If they got away with showing breasts then maybe. Otherwise it's probably just Naked People Are Funny.
    • At the sauna and juice bar, when Heffer accidentally makes Rocko spill his drink, he tries to clean him up by swiping Mrs. Bighead's towel, which results in Mrs. Bighead naked and forced to flee using a piano to cover herself. Naked People Are Funny
  • "Sand in Your Navel":
    • Rocko chases a bird that kidnapped Spunky. The bird flies over a nude beach. Rocko slips out of his swim trunks and goes in (but not before a blue-shaded censor slaps a black box over his butt). Naked People Are Funny.
    • The hippo lady asks Rocko to help apply lotion. He agrees but the lotion makes the hippo slippery and he winds up in Marshmallow Hell. It's taken Up To Eleven because he is literally stuck between the Hippo's breasts. She angrily throws him into the water and when he climbs out he has a buoy in his shorts. Probably DIH / Something Else Also Rises.
    • A crab exclaims a single phrase in Spanish before running away: "Oi! Mi culito me pica!" It translates to "My ass itches". Anybody good enough at Spanish to recognize whether there's possibly a more innocuous translation?
  • "Bedfellows":
    • There is a scene where Rocko is kept up all night with Heffer's snoring. He solves the problem by using a cattle prod on Heffer's behind, and Heffer says "Mmmmm, Sheila?" Too subtle to be GCPTR, maybe Parental Bonus / DIH?
    • Heffer throws a nudist party with Bev taking a perverted interest in it (and even had her own at the end of the episode). Naked People Are Funny
  • In "To Heck and Back", Heffer goes to Hell. In Hell, there is a sign that has the word "HECK" on it. Underneath the C and the K, there are Ls. Then, when Heffer corrects Peaches about where he is, Peaches slaps a hand over Heffer's mouth and says, "Censors!".
  • "Flu-in-You-Enza":
    • The episode features a scene in a hospital, where a call for "Doctor Philiac, Doctor Ned Crow-Philiac" is heard.
    • The crazy doctor Ben Dova (who, according to the hippo nurse, is a mental patient who was supposed to be strapped to the bed) reaching down (below the black) and asking him to cough, then doing something to him that involved a rubber glove and ended with Rocko walking shakily out of the doctor's office. Later, Dr. Dova appears as a pro wrestler, and is introduced as "the proctologist of pain". Ass Shove jokes may not be the most dodgy. The language is more Parental Bonus cuz kids won't get it.
    • The bluejay smoking in the waiting room, then coughing up his heart and dying. You can also a bloody knife and chainsaw in the doctor's office, and a blood-soaked operating table. The radar pretty much said, "Screw it!" — and this was only in the third episode. Maybe? Due to the aforementioned TV-Y thing. Last sentence is gushy natter either way.
    • After Rocko swallows the comically large pill he got from the doctor, he reads the jar and discovers too late a warning on the back saying that the pill was not to be taken orally, indicating that it was actually a suppository. Too subtle, more a Parental Bonus.
    • Not to mention the name of the episode itself. Think about it... I am, and I think it's a reach to make it sexual.
  • "Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic":
    • Right after Rocko, Heffer and Spunky leave the house, there are naked fairies flying around some flowers. When the Suck-O-Matic sucks it up, a fat, shaved gopher in underwear is seen holding binoculars, looking up and panting.
    • One bit has Rocko pointing at a rebus-like design that shows a dog minus two baseballs as he says, "Gee, maybe we should try the neutering device later."
    • Another joke like it was made in "Ed Good, Rocko Bad" when an unnamed dog says "Somebody neuter me!"
    • The episode opens with Heffer watching a Presidential motorcade that ends up being shot at by a gunman. The reporter also says "Oh my God", which is unheard of in kids shows. He then turns the TV off stating it was boring. To make things even worse, the scene is a reference to the radio coverage of a little incident called the JFK Assasination.
    • Heffer says "My God!" towards the end of the episode.
  • "Carnival Knowledge":

There's a lot... this is just the start. It's a weird situation as this was when there were often real battles with the censors in the animation industry.

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#1589: Aug 3rd 2021 at 4:20:51 AM

Rocko's age ratings:

  • USA: TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G (S4)
  • Canada: G (TV), PG (DVD)
  • Australia: G, PG
  • New Zealand: G (S1-2), PG (S3)
  • UK: PG (S1-3), 12 (S4)
  • Ireland: PG

Rocko is notorious for the sheer amount of adult humour it worked in. It probably doesn't warrant anything higher than those PG ratings, but some of the lower ones are questionable.

EDITS: I've been watching the more questionable-sounding iCarly episodes.

  • "iSpeed Date" is acceptable given a G rating. Spencer starting to have The Talk is the only questionable thing in it, and even that is one joke, which TV-G allows for.
  • "iMove Out" is perfectly clean.
  • "iQuit iCarly" is also fine. The most objectionable thing about the episode is Spencer watching the Boat Network, and even that is just barely suggestive.
  • "iSaved Your Life" is clean.
  • "iFix a Pop Star" is edgier than usual, but two uses of "sexy" do not violate TV-G, and the violence is minimal and somewhat slapstick. There's no implication of teen pregnancy at all.
  • "iSell Penny Tees" is fine.
  • "iDo" does indeed have a sneaky middle finger; I'll have to check if it breaks broadcast standards, but it's probably OK on the grounds of being one joke. The meatball patch is G-Rated Drug.
  • "iStart a Flame War" does have the word "damnation" in it. However, it's used in the mystical and theological sense rather than as a curse. Furthermore, the wiki says that this particular episode is heavily censored on TV, so most likely that line is only the DVD.

Edited by VampireBuddha on Aug 10th 2021 at 8:53:53 PM

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#1590: Aug 5th 2021 at 4:36:27 PM

[up][up] I know a lot of Spanish, and yes, "Mi culito me pica" does mean "My ass itches". Only it's grammatically incorrect, it should be "Me pica el culito".

I think a lot of the examples could go under Demographically Inappropriate Humor.

The "these plastic things can't cut my burrito" remark sounds more like an Accidental Innuendo to me.

Edited by Segal991 on Aug 11th 2021 at 3:04:15 AM

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#1591: Aug 16th 2021 at 12:18:24 PM

Harry Potter has a lot of issues. The books get more mature as the characters age, meaning things could be Radar in book 1 aren't Radar in book 7. Most of the points refer to the books. The most common issues seem to be listing anything sexual and taking lines out of context.

American age ratings for the films:

Philosopher's Stone: PG

Chamber of Secrets: PG

Prisoner: PG

Goblet of Fire: PG

Order of the Phoenix: PG

Half-Blood Prince: PG

Deathly Hallows Part 1: PG-13

Deathly Hallows Part 2: PG-13

Many fans of Harry Potter have joked that the stories are for adults as well as kids. Apparently, J. K. Rowling wanted the series to be in the young adults' genre (and even contained Obligatory Swearing in her first drafts) but the publishing company were not up for it.

It's a real shame for some, however, the books and the movies still contained their fair share of moments that were certainly not intentional for young children... I'm not sure we should be mentioning old drafts in the description.

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    In General 
  • Harry's presence notwithstanding, Ron is very much the teenage boy of the group and will often make suggestive or otherwise vulgar statements. He also perennially makes "rude hand gestures". Ron is ruder than Harry or Hermione, but I have no idea what the writer meant by "the teenage boy of the group." Most of the cast are teenagers!
  • The emphasis on wand sizes. There aren't that many passages talking about wand sizes.
  • The implication that Fenrir Greyback was a pedophile. Especially considering that Rowling used lycanthropy as a metaphor for AIDS, which makes him a pedophile looking to spread AIDS to children, not to mention Remus Lupin's worry that he could pass his lycanthropy (as one passes HIV and other STDs) on to his son... and him, having been infected nearly his whole life, he probably did a fair bit of research on his condition that gave him good reason to fear this happening (i.e. he knows of a case where it has actually happened). This seems accurate, but needs a rewrite. Was the lycan AIDS metaphor a thing while the books were being written or was that something she mentioned years later?
  • The Room of Requirement. It's described as a hidden room where students sneak off to engage in forbidden activities and risk getting into trouble if caught. Hmm... This is a reach. It's unclear how many people actually know about the room's existance, and the description here actually applies to secret Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons. The room is used as a dwelling a few times, but nothing sexual happens there. Voting "cut".
  • A subtle one. Quidditch teams have locker rooms near the pitch, where they change from their school robes into their Quidditch team robes. Quidditch teams are coed (the Gryffindor team, for most of the series, consisting of three girls and four boys). At one point, one of the female team members helps a very nervous Ron get his team robes on straight, implying the changing areas are semiprivate at best. How much, exactly, do Hogwarts students wear under their school and Quidditch robes, again? Or there is a wating area between the changing rooms and the pitch. Voting "cut".

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 
  • He (Harry) pushed the door ajar and peered inside - and a horrible scene met his eyes; Snape and Filch were inside, alone. Snape was holding his robes above his knees. Parental bonus, if it's anything.
  • "What happened between you and Professor Quirrell down in the dungeon is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows." Taking a line out of context and pretending it could be something sexual.

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 
Seeming how the students in Harry's year-group are in the early stages of puberty, some aren't really surprised with the radar barrier pushing. I'm getting rid of this.
  • Vernon Dursley complains that Harry's (actually the house-elf Dobby's) antics upstairs "ruined the punchline of my Japanese golfer joke" he was telling his dinner guests. There's more than one famous Japanese golfer joke, but the punchline to one of the most well-known◊ is, "What do you mean 'wrong hole'?" I'd need to check other versions of the golfer joke, but this seems like a parental bonus.
  • This little exchange:
    "An Engorgement Charm, I suppose?" said Hermione, halfway between disapproval and amusement. "Well, you've done a good job on them."\\ They said X!
"That's what yer little sister said," said Hagrid, nodding at Ron. "Met her jus' yesterday." Hagrid looked sideways at Harry, his beard twitching. Taking things out of context.
  • "...[Harry] contended himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight. Ron read the message, swallowed hard, and looked sideways at the empty seat usually filled by Hermione. The sight seemed to stiffen his resolve, and he nodded." More out of context.
  • This passage◊ is rather an eyebrow raise if you have the mind of a twelve year old or older. Then in the final chapter, it's revealed that Ginny walked in on Percy kissing his girlfriend.note 
  • George's comment from the book:
    George Weasley: And [brother Percy] has been sending a lot of letters, and spending a load of time up in his room. I mean, there's only so many times you can polish a prefect badge! Parental joke.
  • Mandrakes "grow up" similarly to humans, going through puberty, etc. Then this happens: "The moment they start trying to move into each other's pots, we'll know they're fully mature." Crass joke, but one the target audience will get.

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 
  • While most cases of profanity in the series were carefully written around, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban makes use of an extended metaphor involving dogs and Harry's nature to have Aunt Marge call Harry's mother a bitch.
    Aunt Marge: If there's something rotten on the inside, there's nothing anyone can do about it — it's one of the basic rules of breeding. You see it all the time with dogs. If there's something wrong with the bitch, there'll be something wrong with the pup. [...] Now, I'm saying nothing against your family, Petunia, but your sister was a bad egg. They turn up in the best families. Then she ran off with a wastrel and here's the result right in front of us.
    • And between the two is an explicit statement about killing weak dogs, like Harry. She calls Lily a bitch but I don't think that's the point of the insult. Possible getting crap past comes from the fact that the reader might not have heard "bitch" in the context of "female dog" as opposed to an insult.
  • When Harry’s reading about medieval witch-hunts, it’s said that any real witches who got caught just cast a charm that turned the flames into a pleasant tickling sensation. One woman liked it so much that she let herself get caught at least 47 times. What particular tickling sensation is that? This might be reaching.
  • The security trolls assigned to guard Gryffindor Tower are described as "comparing the size of their clubs". A reach. Cut.
  • In the film, during the credits (which are designed to look like the Maurader's Map), there are two pairs of feet in the corner◊... overlapping. It also helps that if you look close the *ahem* outside pair of feet clearly squeeze in and out. This might be legitimate.
  • Harry is convinced that Peter Pettigrew is Flipping the Bird, but he's actually using his middle finger to point. Of course, there's a reason for this... Is this a book or a movie point?

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 
  • "Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" J.K. Rowling was surprised when her editor didn't object to that joke. Of course, this pun doesn't exist in every language, leading to some creativity in the official translations. Keep this one, but we might want to cut the translations.
    • The Polish rewrite, translated:
      Lavender: Oh Professor, look! I think I've got an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?
      Prof. Trelawney: It is Uranus, my dear. A very important celestial body.
      Ron: Can I too have a look at Lavender's body?
    • The French version goes with something like "Can I see your moon too, Lavender?" This does have the same connotations as the term "mooning" in English.
    • Danish:
      Lavender: Oh professor, I think my ending number got an unknown aspect, what can it be Professor?
      Prof Trevawnley: That's Uranus, dear.
      Ron: Can I see an aspect of your end as well Lavender?
    • Dutch:
      Ron: Hey, Lavender, can I have a look at your heavenly body?
    • Japanese:
      Lavender: Say professor, which planet is that?
      Prof. Trelawney: That's Pluto, dear. The last planet in the solar system.
      Ron: Ah, the ending planet...can I take a look at your end too, Lavender?
  • After Malfoy taunts Ron while he and the others are fleeing from the Death Eaters, Ron tells him to go do something that Harry "knew he would've never dared say in front of Mrs. Weasley". Writing around the insult.
  • Harry, Hermione and the Weasleys sneak over the border to get to the portkey to see the Quidditch World Cup, with the family dressed in Muggle clothing (such as trousers and shirts and trainers). When they get there, members of the public are amazed and confused with their attire, with one wizard claiming that they could never wear trousers because they like "a nice healthy breeze around my privates, thanks." Too obvious. Cut.
  • As part of the Triwizard Tournament, all of the participants have to have their wands inspected. One of the inspectors, while inspecting Cedric's wand, asks if he polishes it often. With a big grin, Cedric replies that he polished it just last night... Taking things out of context.
  • Mrs Weasley's comment:
    Mrs Weasley: [The Fat Lady] gave me such a telling-off one night when I got back to the dormitory at four in the morning—
    Bill Weasley: What were you doing out of your dormitory at four in the morning?
    Mrs Weasley: Your father and I had been for a night-time stroll. Does anyone know the context for this?
  • From the Goblet of Fire summary: "Harry wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream)". If this was from the 'back of the book blurb', I would count it, but a google search for the phrase only brings up us. Cut, restore if anyone can find the edition.
  • Ron worrying about Hermione being known as a "scarlet woman" because of the newspaper stories. Too obvious, and he's worried about rumours she only dates famous wizards. Cut.
  • Don't forget the couples out in the bushes during the Yule Ball. There's a fairly hilarious moment when Snape is a bit confused to see Harry and Ron there — although they'd actually been eavesdropping on his conversation with Karkaroff. Needs elaboration.
  • Aberforth's illicit charms on goats could imply some sort of sexual activity. JKR was asked exactly what Aberforth had done with said goats at a Q&A session: Keep, given her reaction.
    Fan: In the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore said his brother was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms [JKR buries her head, to laughter] on a goat; what were the inappropriate charms he was practicing on that goat?
    JKR: How old are you?
    Fan: Eight.
    JKR: I think that he was trying to make a goat that was easy to keep clean [laughter], curly horns. That's a joke that works on a couple of levels. I really like Aberforth and his goats. But you know, Aberforth having this strange fondness for goats, if you've read book seven, came in really useful to Harry, later on, because a goat, a stag, you know. If you're a stupid Death Eater, what's the difference. So, that is my answer to YOU.
  • The whole scene in the prefect's bath. Not only Harry spends the majority of it around Moaning Myrtle with nothing to cover his nudity except the bath's bubbles, but we also learn that Myrtle likes going there to spy on prefects while they bathe. "But you're the first one I've spoken to". And then she mentions that Cedric spent a looong time trying to figure out the egg's riddle "Until almost all the bubbles were gone...". Later, Myrtle fumes about the mermaid painted on the wall "flashing her fins" at Cedric. She is meant to make the reader feel uncomfortable.
  • At the end of the movie, when "Moody" has just been exposed as Barty Crouch Jr, he says to Snape "you show me yours and I'll show you mine". He is referring to their Dark Marks, but this phrase is usually used by children to refer to each others' privates. Parental bonus with a dash of "character A trying to make character B uncomfortable.
  • What crappy Christmas gift do the Dursleys send Harry this year? A tissue. Harry is 14 in this book. Interpret a 14-year-old boy's antagonistic relatives "gifting" him a tissue any way you like. This could be valid with a rewrite.

    Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix 
  • Ron uses the Uranus entendre again (though he isn't really in his right mind at the time).
    Ron: Harry, we saw Uranus up close! (still giggling feebly) Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus. Ha ha ha. Way too obvious, and the target demographic would get it.
  • Harry spends 30 minutes offscreen "kissing" Cho Chang in the book. Then after when he meets up with Hermione and Ron again...
    Ron: Well? How was it?
    Harry: Wet.
    book narration Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust; it was hard to tell.
    • OK, Cho was crying because she remembered Cedric. The point was Ron's reaction. Probably can be removed. Where does the 30 minutes come from?
  • At Dumbledore's Army member meetup, a Zacharias Smith bothers Harry constantly, until the Weasley twins intervene to mock him.
    George Weasley: Would you like us to clean out your ears for you? [takes out a strange metal object from Zach's zonko bag]
    Fred Weasley: ... Or any part of your body, really; we're not fussy where we stick this. Fair for demographic.
  • When Fred and George say one of their joke candies causes pus-filled boils that they haven't figured out how to get rid of.
    Ron: I can't see any boils.
    Fred: No, well you wouldn't, they're not in a place we generally display to the public-
    George: —but they make sitting on a broom a right pain in the— Fair for demographic.
  • After Harry does an interview about facing Voldemort and it gets published in the Quibbler, he gets several pieces of mail about it from strangers, and Ron looks through some of them.
    Ron: this one says you've got her converted, and she now thinks you're a real hero — she's put in a photograph too — wow — "
    • Given the context and Ron's reaction, that may not have been a fully clothed photo. And remember that wizarding photos move... Reaching. Cut.
  • At the end of the climax, Umbridge makes racist remarks to centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, who promptly drag her off somewhere kicking and screaming. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Centaurs are given a certain reputation in Greek mythology, so there's little doubt over what happened that night. Rumors fly through the school and students begin to tease her by imitating horse hooves, seemingly triggering post-traumatic stress in Umbridge. The rape part is reaching (the centaurs are seen as hostile in general) but the rest might be accurate.
  • Sirius accused Snape of being Lucius' lap dog, which could mean anything from being his protégé to being his catamite. How is this an issue?

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
  • Harry and Ginny share "final snatched moments in the darkened corners of the castle" before they split up. This is implying things, but what's the target age of this book?
    • After this, Ginny dismisses the rumor that Harry had a tattoo of a hippogriff on his chest… (Although considering that her big brother's in the room, she might well be trolling him.) Is the issue the tattoo or the implied shirtlessness?
    • She also mentions telling Romilda Vane that Ron has a tattoo of a pygmy puff. But she never said where. Needs a rewrite for clarity. (This is paraphrasing her line, not reaching.)
  • Harry apparently has dreams about Ginny that "made him devoutly thankful that Ron could not perform Legilimency". Tee hee sex joke.
  • Ron and Lavender stumble into a classroom where Harry is trying to comfort a distressed Hermione. Seeing as Ron and Lavender were perfectly comfortable making out rather passionately in a crowded common room, one has to wonder (or not) exactly why they suddenly felt the need to seek out an empty room. To clarify, the reason why Ron and Lavender didn't just use the mostly-empty room they found is obvious; Ron didn't want to see a distressed Hermione. Why they left the common room in the first place, however, is a mystery… Likely reaching.
  • Ron being annoyed with his little sister's many boyfriends and protesting to her that he didn't want "people saying my sister's a—", before she points out that Harry was younger than her when he kissed Cho. Might be valid, but needs a rewrite. I don't remember ages being an issue. Rather, it was that Harry, Hermione, and Ron had all dated people.
  • After Christmas, the password to Gryffindor Tower is changed to "Abstinence". The chapter before had Ron admitting that he and Lavender "don't talk much. It's mainly…" "Snogging." Though, "abstinence" doesn't simply refer to not having sex. It can also mean refraining from drinking liquor, and in that scene, the Fat Lady is massively hungover. The Fat Lady's drinking habits have been a joke multiple times in the series. She is hungover.
  • Harry and his friends visit Fred and George's new shop. One of the products on sale is a magical daydream-creator, guaranteed to put the user into a hallucination to pass the time during class. There's a label stating that these are not for sale to anybody below sixteen. Everybody knows what 16-year olds will be daydreaming about… Getting a sweet car. Cutting this.
    • Keep in mind that this is a drug with a more family-friendly name. Also, as the Cracked article above points out, Amortentia, Love Potion, is, essentially, a magical date-rape drug. They distribute this openly. And, in fact, it was actually used to kidnap and rape someone; Voldemort's father. Remove word cruft and keep, possibly moving to "general."
  • We all know what Lavender thought Ron and Hermione had been doing when she caught them coming out of the boys' dormitory together. Of course, they weren't doing that, but the book still discreetly avoids mentioning exactly what Lavender must have been thinking upon seeing her boyfriend exit a bedroom with a girl he has an obvious crush on. Because we never see from her perspective. Reach.
  • Bill tells of a man in Gringotts named Arkie Philpott who "had a Probity Probe stuck up his…" Cut.
  • A relatively quick one from the film: During the Quidditch tryouts, McLaggen rides his broomstick and rubs his hands while (seemingly) staring at Hermione! Going to have to watch this clip, but it seems mundane.
  • An apparition teacher comes to Hogwarts who keeps repeating the "three D's" that are important for apparating (destination, determination, and deliberation). Many students dislike him, and "his three D's... inspired a number of nicknames for him, the politest of which were Dogbreath and Dunghead". It's not hard to imagine what word the third nickname may have started with. Writing around the insult.
  • Ron does his homework with a spell-check quill from Fred and George, but it actually spells words wrong because the charm wears off. Hermione notices and points out that "augury" doesn't start with O-R-G. Legitimate example. What do we do about the translations?
    • Worse in the Dutch translation; it actually fully spells out O-R-G-I-E (Dutch for orgy). How the translator ever got away with that, we'll never know.
    • The Danish translation makes him spell "røvsur" which is a slightly vulgar Danish expression for being very grumpy ("røv" means "ass").

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 
  • In a cafe, Hermione "mutter[ed] a suggestion as to where Ron could stick his wand instead". Writing around the insult. Cut.
    • Immediately prior, Ron stating "It's no wonder I can't get it out, Hermione, you packed my old jeans, they're tight." He is literally talking about his wand being stuck in his pocket, but the double entendre is too obvious to be unintentional. This feels like a reach.
  • Ron: "Why in the name of Merlin's saggy left—" Writing around the insult.
  • In the book, at Bill and Fleur's wedding, Fred and George "disappeared into the darkness" with two of Fleur's veela cousins. Maybe? I'd need to check the phrasing.
  • How about Voldemort taking Lucius's wand in Deathly Hallows and comparing its length to his own wand's?
    • It's worth noting that Lucius' wand, according to source materials, is eighteen inches long, making it by a wide margin one of the longest known wands in the Potterverse, outstripping even Hagrid's. Cue the jokes about Compensating for Something...
      • However, JK states on Pottermore that "In [her] experience, longer wands might suit taller wizards, but they tend to be drawn to bigger personalities, and those of a more spacious and dramatic style of magic", so 'compensating for something' might not always be the case. Can I get a second opinion here? There might be something valid. Rewrite if kept.
  • Ginny's birthday/farewell present to Harry was up in her room. But no wrapped-up objects were evident, and it actually was a rather deep kiss.
    • It's fitting because it's a slight reference to a soldier going to war (much like how Harry sort-of is), and how sometimes their wives like to make sure they were... real men in case they never came back. This might be legitimate.
  • Ron gets Harry a book whose title was something like Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches. Apparently, it's not all about "wand-work". Possibly legitimate.
  • Another Curse Cut Short: Ron's uncle who, at parties, would pull up his robes and pull bunches of flowers out of his— hopefully Ron means his ass... A butt joke. Cut.
  • Hermione: "Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's." Out of context. Cut.
  • When Harry's friends have to drink Polyjuice Potion to look like him, Hermione says "you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" (a reference for when they made Polyjuice Potion to look like those two in the second book). Ron raises his eyebrows and Hermione blushes. She's literally referring to what the potion looks like, as the potion for each person looks different, and Crabbe and Goyle's were described as muddy and unappetizing, but... Reaching. Cut.
  • Rita Skeeter, on the duel between Dumbledore and Grindelwald: "After they’ve read my book, people may be forced to conclude that Grindelwald simply conjured a white handkerchief from the end of his wand and came quietly!" Reaching. Cut.
  • On Harry's 17th birthday, when he's finally allowed to do magic outside of school, he does several spells for fun — but Ron warns him that he should probably zip his fly by hand.
    • You know Ron must've only brought this up because either he or one of his older brothers who warned him beforehand, probably the twins, tried zipping their fly using their wand and caught their, erm... other wand. Needs a rewrite, but might be legitimate.

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  • Unfortunately, several translations have completely missed jokes, such as the Hungarian, Brazilian, and Russian translations. Examples aren't general - easy cut.
  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard is filled with cuddly Radio 4 innuendo in the sections where Dumbledore discusses the content of the fairy tales — particularly when he mentions a female relative refusing to marry a man after seeing him "fondle a Horklump" (a pink mushroom-like creature covered in bristles). This might fit depending on the intended demographic.
  • On the topic of Beedle the Bard, according to Word of God, no woman has ever laid claim to the most powerful wand in the universe. As the book says, "make of that what you will". Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.
  • The lyrics to "A Cauldron Full of Hot, Strong Love":
    Oh, come and stir my cauldron
    And if you do it right,
    I'll boil you up some hot, strong love
    To keep you warm tonight.
    • Made even better by the fact that it's ... jazzy. This is in book 5 if I remember correctly. A flirty song isn't that controversial. Even if it wasn't, it's in the wrong folder.
  • Cracked devoted multiple articles to dark or innuendo-laden readings of the books. Meta doesn't count.
  • In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Myrtle has begun to rather enjoy the sensation of flushing herself through the faucets. The way she describes it makes it sound like her version of A Date With Rosie Palms. Reaching.
  • In the Gameboy Advance version of the Chamber Of Secrets game, one of the collectible Chocolate Frog Cards found around Hogwarts is of a woman by the name of Sacharissa Tugwood. As it's a children's game, this does seem quite innocuous, as children at the intended age for the game would hardly be able to figure that out, until you read the description on the back of Sacharissa's card, which states that she was a pioneer of Beautifying Potions, and is incredibly attractive... DIH. What's with the Porn Stash link?

Edited by VerySunshine on Aug 16th 2021 at 12:21:05 PM

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#1592: Aug 18th 2021 at 6:57:43 AM

Summarily cut any book-exclusive examples. Outside of Islamic theocracies, China, and Australia, there are no censorship bodies for books. The ACB only looks at books in very rare and unusual circumstances, and 99.999% of the time books don't even have to be submitted. For China and the theocracies, there are translation issues, so we'd need a source for any such examples. Rowling's publishers may well have internal rules, but we don't know what those rules are absent Word of God.

I've spent the last several days watching substantially more iCarly than I ever expected I would, to the point that I've started watching the revival. My conclusion is that, while there are a small number of jokes you wouldn't expect to see in a children's series, there's nothing that goes beyond TV-G. For DIH, does anybody know what the target demographic was? mightymewtron said earlier in this thread that it was aimed at teenagers and Screenrant says it was 7-14; does that sound right to everyone?

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#1593: Aug 18th 2021 at 7:04:34 AM

[up] When I was a kid it was mostly older children watching iCarly, and it was on a kids network, so I would say older children. (Although being on a kids network isn't really a good standard, since The Ren & Stimpy Show was also on Nick and that show is pretty widely regarded today to not be a kids show, so there's that.)

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#1594: Aug 18th 2021 at 7:42:36 AM

[up]R+S was marketed as a kids' show, it's just a prime example of What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? (and possibly some actual GCPTR).

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#1595: Aug 18th 2021 at 7:53:21 AM

[up] Oh OK. I thought it wasn't, I guess I was wrong.

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#1596: Aug 18th 2021 at 3:53:54 PM

In Canada, on YTV, iCarly aired in a block aimed at teens and tweens.

I'll remove all the book Harry Potter examples.

Removing the Harry Potter book examples leaves:

  • One example from the credits of Goblet of Fire, where the Marauder's Map shows two people possibly having sex
  • Aberforth doing inappropriate charms on a goat, which Rowling mentioned in an interview.
  • Lavender's Uranus joke, which Rowling supposedly says she is surprised her editors let her keep it. I need to find the interview, so it's commented out for now.

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#1597: Aug 19th 2021 at 3:43:04 AM

OK, in that case, I'll take it that iCarly is intended for tweens and younger teens.

As for Harry Potter:

Goblet of Fire ratings:

  • UK: 12A (cinema), 12 (video, DVD)
  • Ireland: 12A
  • Australia: M
  • New Zealand: M
  • Canada: G (Quebec), PG (rest of Canada)
  • USA: PG-13

Those ratings allow for showing people having sex. The only outlier is Quebec, but as we've seen, Quebeçois raters are pretty lenient. Plus, those two characters may well just be making out.

The ratings also allow for an allusion to bestiality, since it's presented negatively and I get the impression it comes across as something absurd. It should be noted that Rowling was speaking to an eight-year-old, who shouldn't have been watching the movie in the first place. If it's from the book, Harry is 15 in Goblet of Fire and so the book isn't intended to be read by people with single-digit ages. I would say that can be cut.

The Uranus joke sounds like Surprisingly Lenient Censor if you can dig up a source.

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#1598: Aug 19th 2021 at 9:22:58 AM

Looks like the Aberforth Goblet of Fire entry never mentioned censors. The interview doesn't mention her editors saying something about that joke. There seem to be three possible interpertations:

  • Bestiality
  • Entirely innocent
  • Aberforth was innocent but the ministry thought it wasn't, hence the arrest.

Based on that, I'm cutting it.The footprints don't seem to have a source either. If I can find a source for the Uranus joke, it can go on the Literature page.

Edit: I still can't find a source for the Uranus joke, so I'm suggesting cutting it, and if someone knows the refferenced interview they can add it back. Is the Carnagie Hall interview enough to put the Aberforth's goat jokes somewhere?

Edited by VerySunshine on Aug 19th 2021 at 9:46:08 AM

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#1599: Aug 20th 2021 at 1:53:49 PM

My final iCarly conclusions:

Episodes were mostly rated TV-G in America, which does allow for the occasional mild innuendo. Based on prior discussion about target demographics, it appears to have been aimed at tweens and younger teens; this is the age around which girls start to develop breasts, and when kids in general tend to get The Talk, so the recurring references to breasts and bras do not appear to constitute DIH.

All of the supposed innuendo in the example list is shoehorning, with a hefty helping of Grandma's Chicken Salad. In addition, several examples are outright lies, describing things that don't happen. I suspect that people were surprised the show was allowed to say "boobs" and figured Schneider must have pulled a fast one, which led to Schneider getting an undeserved reputation for tricking the censors, which in turn led to tropers going over this series with a fine-toothed comb trying to find radar-dodging shenanigans in every word and frame. This also led to a lot of trying to force general silliness into a sexual mould. A few examples can be salvaged by moving them to other tropes, but most of what's on this page will just be cut.

If nobody has any objections, I'll salvage what can be salvaged and cutlist the page tomorrow.

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    Season 1 
  • iPilot:
    • Carly and Sam actually got away with making a comment about their teacher's boobs (and they did say boobs). They're allowed to do that.
    • Spencer finds a naked female mannequin and acts very possessive about "her". It's a mannequin
  • iWant More Viewers: Carly makes some spaghetti and Freddie says he really likes it, to which Sam replies, "If you like it so much, why don't you stuff it down your pants?" General silliness
  • iScream On Halloween:
    Spencer: So, what are you gonna be doing on iCarly tonight?
    Carly: I dunno, anything Halloweeny, I guess.
    Spencer: He-he. Hallo-''weenie''. Heh Heh, You Said "X"
    • Also this.
    Sam: Wait, whose butt is this?
    Carly: Sam.
    Sam: Sorry. Joke of the Butt... maybe
  • iSpy a Mean Teacher:
    • There are many suggestive scenes. For example, two teenagers get trapped in a closet together, which makes for some interesting dialogue. Plus, there's a giant talking Randy Jackson cardboard cutout with which the teacher on whom they were spying flirts. Oh, and then she puts her glutes onto the cutout's crotch. They said glutes. Shoehorning
    • Sam mocks Freddie's 'pie cam' by retorting "My aunt Maggie's boobs look more real than that, and they're ridiculous." They can say "boobs"
  • iWill Date Freddie: "You won't get respect if your back's not erect!". Cue in-show laughs. Accidental Innuendo
    • Plus before that: Shoehorning
    Mrs. Benson: I can't believe it's finally happened! Your first date!
    Freddie: Mom!
    Mrs. Benson: And with a girl!
    Freddie: MOM!
  • iHate Sam's Boyfriend: Spencer didn't notice his poison ivy until it spread. To places. They're allowed to say that
  • iHatch Chicks: "I picked him up thinking he was a bar of soap. Good thing I realized before..." Spencer stops, "Nevermind." They're allowed to say that
  • iMight Switch Schools: One of the mini-golf holes Spencer designs involves hitting a ball at a (cardboard) guy's crotch hard. Shoehorning
  • iFence: Sam and Freddie bet that Sam can't read a real book in one week. When Freddie loses? He has to do the "ushenote ": shoving the faucet hose down his pants and then Sam turns it on. General silliness
  • iCarly Saves TV: "Well, I ain't supervising what you produced in there!" Toilet Humour
  • iWin A Date:
    • Sam remarks that her mom was banned from a dating site. Pam is a terrible person
    • Earlier, Carly told Sam she had to rub lotion "all over that woman (Sam's mom). And those pox were everywhere." Grossout humour
    • This bit: Spencer is silly
    Spencer: I'm gonna go take a shower.
    Sam: Why?
    Spencer: Cause I always get my best ideas when I'm wet.

    Season 2 
  • iSaw Him First has Sam and Carly fighting over Shane, Freddie's friend and we have this exchange: They're allowed to say that
    Carly: I don't even care because I have a date with Shane tonight.
    Sam: Obviously.
    Carly: What's that supposed to mean?
    Sam: Why don't you ask your new helping bra?
  • iHurt Lewbert:
    Lewbert: This ain't tomato juice!
    Carly: Then what is it?!
    Lewbert: Uh, nothin'. Noodle Incident
    • And then there's this: General silliness
      Mrs Benson: Wet and sticky is very icky! Sticky and wet makes mommy upset!
      Spencer: I don't know how to respond to that.
  • iGo To Japan: There's a scene in a spa. Both Mrs. Benson and Spencer are wrapped up in seaweed. When they realize it was a trap, they try to get out of the tightly bound seaweed. Spencer eats his way out of the seaweed, and then he slashes the seaweed covering Mrs. Benson with a sword. She also has to constantly remind him that the towel he's wearing around his waist keeps falling down. And yes, Mrs. Benson sees Spencer naked. Twice. NPAF
    • Carly and Freddie are in charge of getting the room key, this conversation happens: Shoehorning; this is just romance
      Carly: We'd like our room key, please.
      Receptionist: Ooh, honeymoon couple? [Freddie turns to Carly and suggestively raises his eyebrows, she then slaps him across the face].
  • From iPie, when Carly and Sam are walking to Carly's apartment: Grossout humour
    Sam: And my mom keeps telling me over and over: "Don't squeeze it!" But how can I not squeeze it, you know what I mean?
    Carly: No...
    Sam: Well, think of it like a plastic bag just filled with pudding, and you know-
  • iKiss
    • The way Freddie and Sam decide to kiss, it seems like Freddie and Sam are both virgins and "kiss" just to lose their virginity because of insecurity. Kissing in this case would be a cleaner version of indicating that the two had sex. It's just kissing
    • Carly's really surprised Sam's never been kissed, because, "You seem so... willing." It's just kissing
  • iGive Away a Car, Freddie says possibly one of the greatest innuendos in the show: A Rare Sentece, GCS
    Freddie: Then you'd better throw your cupcake hard and hope it's sticky.
    Carly: That's something you don't hear everyday...
  • iRocked the Vote, the fake "not-Idol" contestant Wade Collins repeatedly calls the cast "hobknockers". As British slang, this generally means "someone who has sex with animals." No wonder it is "Gross... and illegal." '''This is a lie
    • Also, Wade Collins using girls who who are wearing some skimpy dresses to dance around his music video, when said girls don't look like they could be older than 15-16. Two of the girls were Carly and Sam. They're wearing normal teenage dresses
  • iMeet Fred: While Sam is beating him up with a tennis racket, Freddie screams "No Sam, not there!" Shoehorning
  • iWant My Website Back: Sam actually gets away with trying to trick Mandy into killing herself, by inflating a garbage bag with her lungs, indefinitely. The lines uses to convince Mandy: "Do you want to help get our website back or not?" "Of course!" "Then blow." (Beat) "On it." Comedic Sociopathy, Accidental Innuendo
    • Spencer disguised himself as an old woman, responding to questions of his identity with, "I am just a busty old woman." Made all the more questionable by the fact that he jumps up and down to demonstrate while saying this. Then an old man sees Spencer as the old woman and finds him attractive. Spencer tries shooing him away and it blows his cover. Later, Spencer is at his apartment and the old man knocks on the door with Spencer's wig and says something along the lines of "Put it on, we can try again." Crossdressing is funny
    • Also from that episode, which launches the whole "Spencer in drag" plot to begin with. What pushes this onto this page is that Spencer's response comes with no hesitation whatsoever on his part: Spencer is silly
      Carly: What size dress do you wear?
      Spencer: 10, why?
  • iMake Sam Girlier, Freddie uses a drop of his blood for some sort of DNA test and the results come up with "prone to excessive bleeding." Cue Freddie's finger spritzing out blood from the same finger he pricked. Blood is acceptable
    • Apparently, Pete "gets me [Sam] going". Shoehorning
  • iDate a Bad Boy: Carly tries to convince Spencer that she's not a little girl anymore and asks, "Remember when I sent you to the drug store for me last month...?" They're allowed to say that
  • iReunite with Missy: Noodle Incident
    Carly: That's Kevin.
    Missy: Kevin?
    Carly:If he asks if you want to see his "onion ring," just say no!
    Missy: Why...
    Carly: JUST SAY NO!
    Spencer: Is this water?
    Chuck: You wish it was water!
  • iTake on Dingo: There is a hobo that sleeps in the outside area from the motel room the quartet rented. One scene shows him reaching out from the window and rubbing Carly's hair rather sensuously. Carly screams, whips his hand with a long rag, and runs to Spencer in terror. Creepy homeless person is creepy
  • iMust Have Locker 239: Carly tells Spencer that she needs to talk to him about something. Spencer's first, worried reaction: "You didn't go into my room, did you?" Noodle Implements
  • iTwins: "You let my enemy penetrate my inner sanctum!" Shoehorning.
    • Spencer recalls the time when Chuck locked him in the basement and squirted him with a "suspicious" liquidnote . Noodle Implements
      • In the episode, he squirts him with a brown liquid that, based on Spencer's reaction when he tastes it, isn't chocolate. Toilet Humour at worst
    • Freddie is upset that Carly and Sam trick him into wearing a clown suit to school by sending him a letter that says it's Clown Day. Spencer tells him that some boys at his school once tricked him into thinking it was Naked Day. NPAF
    Spencer: Have you ever played dodgeball naked?
    Freddie: No.
    Spencer: Don't ever do it.
    Freddie: I won't.
    Spencer: Because...
    Freddie: I get it.
    Spencer: OK.
  • iFight Shelby Marx: One of the comments calls Carly a twig: They're allowed to say that
    Carly: I'm not a twig. But I'm getting curvier everyday!
    Freddie: (turns at Carly) I know.
    Carly: (sternly and jokingly) Eyes up, dude.
    • Early in the episode, Spencer mentions a doctor living in their building. Shoehorning
      Carly: In apartment 7-B?
      Spencer: No. The guy in 7-B just likes to dress up like a doctor. ...Don't ever talk to him.

    Season 3 
  • iThink They Kissed: When Spencer tells Carly he's going to prison, before he says it's so he can teach art to convicts, Carly's immediate reaction is: Digital Piracy Is Evil
    Carly: Oh my god, what did you download?
    Spencer: Nothing! (Beat) Yeah, nothing.
    • Hey, nice sacks! Shoehorning
    • Sam saying "Holy crap". The closed captions say "crab"note , but she obviously said "crap". She says "crab"
    • One must question the scene where the prisoners come out of the large pair-of-pants sculpture through the zipper area. Accidental Innuendo
  • iCook: Ricky Flame's breakdown after his defeat, sulking in his room with tissue papers sticking on his face. GCS
  • In the opening scene of iSpeed Date:, this is heard: Silliness
    All students going to the dance must submit their medical records to nurse Bogart. Thank you.
    • From that same opening: Buffy Speak
      Nate: Sorry... Rebecca Berkowitz already asked me to the dance.
      Carly: Oh... I hear she's a lot of fun.
      Nate: Yeah.
      Carly: "Yeah... Well... enjoy her...
    • On the night of the dance, Sam decides goes to his house to pick him up anyway. While she tries to convince him to go a very attractive girl, Tasha, comes out from his door and asks "How long are you gonna keep me waiting?" Sam promptly leaves, but not before the girl exclaims "Gibby, come on! Your mom just brought us strawberries and whipped cream!" Gibby then proceeds to go inside with a very large grin on his face. This is a lie. The entire scene is completely innocent. It's general silliness, the joke of which is Gibby having a girlfriend so far out of his league
    Sam: Well... what's wrong with her (Tasha)?!
    Gibby: Nothing. Nothing at all.
    • After several failed attempts by Carly to get a date, Sam gets an idea to put Carly in a speed dating competition consisting of the webshows male fans. Carly instantly refuses and is somewhat repulsed by Sam's suggestion. During the live airing of the webshow Sam suddenly grabs Carly and somewhat violently ties her down to a chair and gags her then , Sam asks the male audience that if they find her cute, they should enter the contest. Shoehorning
    • This dialogue: Toilet Humour
      Carly: You're in trouble!
      Sam: Who has urine trouble?
      • According to show creator Dan Schneider's blog, Sam's response was added the day the scene was shot.
    • When Carly wasn't asked to the dance, it was said that she was being crotchety about it several times. They finished the scene off with, "Haha, crotchety... It's funny 'cause it sounds wrong..." Heh Heh, You Said "X"
    • After the speed dating is suggested: Pam is a serial dater
      Carly: How can I get to know someone in 15 seconds?
      Sam: Come on, six of my mom's best relationships started in 15 seconds!
  • Spencer decides to attempt to have "the talk" with Carly. They're allowed to say that
    Spencer: I think it's time for you and I to have a little talk about-
    Carly: I'm not having this conversation!
    Spencer: Thank you so much!
  • iCarly Awards: Spencer hired European Swimsuit models. The male kind. One of them makes a skirtless Carly statuette. They're allowed to do that.
  • iHave My Principals: Principal Franklin got getting fired because the superintendent thought it was inappropriate for him to come out of the fly of a giant pair of pants and sit on fudge balls in his students' webshow. General silliness
    • Spencer's bull riding teacher mounts him and yells "You can do better!" and Spencer replies "I'm not so sure about this!" General silliness
  • In iFind Lewbert's Lost Love, Carly is trying to tell a woman that Lewbert doesn't like her anymore. The woman then comes up with an unexpected (and terribly wrong) interpretation of Carly's words with Unfortunate Implications... Romance is fine
    Marta: You skunkbag!
    Carly: HUH?!
    Marta: You want me out of the picture, so you can have Lewbert for yourself!
    Carly (confused): Me have... Lewbert for my... I'M FIFTEEN!!
  • iMove Out: Mrs. Benson is negotiating terms with Freddie to get him to agree to come home, one of his conditions is that she unlocks all the TV channels. Which involves Elephant Love from the Nature Network. This is a lie
    • Lampshaded in iMove Out was their use of "God" in "Oh My God" and such phrases. It was unheard of in kids shows, and still mostly is. It's usually "Oh my gosh". (However this show and Victorious were full on using "Oh My God" SO MUCH.) They're allowed to say that
      Freddie: Oh my g—
      Ms. Benson: You better finish that with 'gosh'.
      Freddie: Dear gosh, please make her leave.
    • Earlier, Freddie shows Carly and Sam the "apartment" Lewbert rented to him for $100 per month (really the elevator machine room). When Sam looks around, she mentions "there's no bathroom." Freddie replies, "There's the sink..." Cue the "ewwww" moment. Not remotely against the rules
    • While Spencer is asleep, he was apparently dreaming about Harmoo. He wakes up screaming "NO HARMOO, DON'T BITE THAT!" Harmoo biting Spencer is a running gag in that episode
  • iQuit iCarly: In the mock horror film about evil wind, the trailer we see at the end has this infamous line: "This wind blows!" Grandma's Chicken Salad
    • It gets better. The title of the movie is called The Blowing. Coming soon. Grandma's Chicken Salad
    • Carly: "I'm jiggly." and "My tongue needs help!" Silliness
    • Freddie (to Spencer): "I'm not giving you a spongebath while you watch television! Not after the last time." Noodle Incident
    • Freddie also peeks in on Spencer in the shower and comments on a birthmark on his buttcheek. NPAF
    • This exchange occurs during the Gibby/Spencer subplot: Gibby is mispronouncing things because he's silly
    Gibby: A-ho!
    Spencer: Look at your pronunciation sheet.
    Gibby: Ahoy!
    • This: Grandma's Chicken Salad
    Freddie: So cross your fingers... and all other parts of you.
    • The opening suggests that Spencer was watching porn when it was actually about boats. It's one joke
    • At one point, Sam calls Freddie a "dip-head", which can be easily misheard as "dickhead" and was most likely the intention. Shoehorning
  • In iSaved Your Life, Mrs. Benson's reaction to Freddie and Carly kissing was "What the yuck!?" "Yuck" is not a dirty word
    • Before Carly and Freddie kiss for the first time, Mrs. Benson tells them she'll be gone for exactly '36 minutes' to get some medicine. After Carly kisses him, they really get into it, and an ad break appears. They come back, still kissing, and only stop when Mrs. Benson comes back with the medicine. Getting a 30 minute long makeout session under the radar is pretty awesome. They're just kissing
      Freddie: Ow ow ow!
      Carly: It hurts?
      Freddie: Well it doesn't feel good!
      Carly: Okay, um... where's your bed?
      Freddie: (groans) Right here...
      • In the Extended Version of the episode, a girl invited Freddie over to her house for the weekend, when her parents were going to be gone and her older brother was throwing a party. There is also a line of thought that suggests that not only were the parents going away, but that the brother's party was at a beach house somewhere, implying that they'd have the main house to themselves the whole weekend. She's offering him a weekend of sex. Carly then shoos her away by giving him a kiss. It's just romance
    • Think about this line for a moment. Or better yet, go to your kitchen and do it yourself. See what it looks like. Accidental Innuendo
      Sam: Whatever tickles your peach.
    • Spencer ambushes Sam with the line: "I got to stop saying witty things before I blow!" Shoehorning
    • Spencer receives a package, and suspects that Sam may be hiding inside it to ambush him: Silliness
      Spencer: Check to see if there's a girl in there.
      Delivery Guy: No. Why, did you order one?
  • iWas a Pageant Girl: Sam rips off Carly's dress from over the top of one dressing room stall, while she stands in the other. There is a lot of shaking and other movement going on. the stall wall is about nipple level at the end we get this dialogue Shoehorning
    Carly: And thanks for being gentle!
    • (both emerge from their stalls shortly after)
    Sam: I feel hot!
    Carly: I feel violated!
    • Earlier in the same episode, Carly is getting prepared for a pageant. Sam walks up and hands her two white objects that resemble to grapefruits. The dialogue went something like this: They're allowed to say that
    Carly: What are these?
    Sam: Just stuff them under your bra.
    • Carly asks again what they are and were she got them, Sam explains that they're fake boobs she ordered from the internet. One shot reveals that they are complete with nipples. No they're not; this is a lie
      • She then drops them instantly when she hears that Sam's mom wore them last night.
    • Spencer wants "squirtable fruits" Spencer is silly
  • iEnrage Gibby: Carly tells the critic who gave a bad review of Spencer's work that he was so sad, he died. They're allowed to say that
    Carly: You killed my brother!
  • iFix A Popstar: Mrs. Gibson comes on to Spencer rather... bluntly. They're just kissing
    • Also in that episode, Spencer remarks that Carly and Sam went to Build-a-Bra. Gibby comments that he always gets thrown out of there; Freddie reluctantly agrees. They're allowed to say that
    • Spencer visualizes Gibby's mom as half Gibby. Since Gibby never wears a shirt, this is how he sees her. It's her head on Gibby's body
    • The A plot, where they take Britney Spears antics and roll with them. Visible hangovers, implied teen-pregnancy, strange use of the word "sexy" and onscreen graphic violence (fork in the cheek/shoulder WITH blood) make the episode go beyond the radar. Oh, and that suggestive singing. Stuff they can say, some shoehorning, and some lies.
  • iBelieve in Bigfoot has many sexual references:
    • Beave-coon: Spencer mentions that 2 University students recorded video of male raccoon and a female beaver "socializing" (yes, he did the finger quotation marks) by a river. They're allowed to say that
    • Carly points out two squirrels "wrestling" and Freddie responds, "Uh, Carly? They aren't wrestling." Carly went right back to staring at the squirrels. Spencer brings it up again, much to her dismay. Acceptable given the vagueness and the target audience, and the fact that it's one joke
    • Robin's Weiners: At one point, Sam falls asleep with one of Robin's Weiners in her mouth; then the "wienery". Shoehorning
    • Sam's mother dated a tall pygmy once. The others don't believe her. She offers to show them "the video". Everyone reacts in disgust. Noodle Incident
    • Carly getting water out of Spencer's ear with a turkey baster: Grandma's Chicken Salad
    Spencer: Squeeze the thing on the end.
    Carly: I know what to squeeze.
  • iPsycho:
    Sam: (referring to the soundboard Freddie was practically ogling at) Cool, why don't you use it to beam yourself to Jupiter?!
    Carly: Is that really necessary?
    Sam: I could've said Uranus...
  • iBeat the Heat:
    • "I have angina!" "..You have WHAT!?" Chest pains.
    • "I don't need this bag of ice in my pants anymore!" Gibby is silly
    • "My Pee Wee Babies are more important than your Fallopian City!" Malapropism
    • Freddie's futile attempts to lift Carly by her waist onto the kitchen countertop, complete with struggled groaning from both of them. Shoehorning
    • This exchange: Acknowledging the existence of dirty words is acceptable.
    Freddie: Sam, swear you'll be nice.
    Sam: Oh, I'll swear...
    Freddie: Sam!

    Season 4 
  • iGot a Hot Room:
    • What exactly did that goat do to Carly on her last birthday that was so bad that it made it her worst birthday ever and she refuses to talk about it? Noodle Incident
    • Gibby's mostly blind grandpa mistakes Spencer as a girl after feeling his hair, which may be Justified in the fact that he has bad eyesight. But then Spencer says, "I'm a guy!", and to check if he's right, the grandfather pats down Spencer's body until he finds his chest and then says, "Oh yeah." They're allowed to do that.
    • Spencer tells the kids about a wet spot on the carpet that Gibby's grandpa made. All three of them run away from it as fast as possible. Toilet Humour
    • After scolding the Italian exchange student, Carly asks how she learned Italian - Sam replies that her mom "likes Italian dudes". Then Sam puts extra emphasis, saying "I mean she LIKES Italian dudes." Carly replies "I get it..." with a look on her face that strengthens the chance of it being innuendo. This is a lie, Sam does not have a suggestive look on her face. Pam has a type.
  • iSam's Mom:
    • Sam calls her mom Pam's "parts" "worn out". They're allowed to say that
      • As if that isn't enough, that entire conversation is a little strange when you really think about it.
    Sam: I don't want any part of you!
    Pam: You don't deserve any of my parts!
    Sam: Why would I want worn out parts?
    Pam: Hey, take a good, long look, baby, because this is your future.
    • Gibby on the spycam. This bit is now in the opening credits, so it will happen every episode for the season. Grandma's Chicken Salad
    • Quote from Dan Schneider: If you're wondering why the Asian gentleman emerges from the restroom, looking at Gibby, with a terrified expression, then runs out screaming in horror… you'll have to ask Noah Munck who plays "Gibby". He's one of the few people who knows why. ;) Noodle Incident
    • Further insight on the episode from Dan: You'll hear Carly say, "It's almost four o'clock in the morning." But that was NOT the take I had in this episode a week ago. In that version of the show, Carly said, "It's almost four o'clock in the flippin' morning." But the network called me and said they didn't want me to have Carly say the word "flippin" – so I changed it to another take where she didn't say it. Frankly, I thought it was fine for Carly to say "flippin" – but when the bigwigs at Nickelodeon have an issue with something, I try to accommodate them. And I didn't feel that strongly about keeping the "flippin" line. This is the exact opposite of the trope
  • iGet Pranky: This is all Does This Remind You of Anything?
    • Carly not having pranked anyone is portrayed like how more dramatic teen tv shows portray teens being pressured into becoming sexually active. When Freddie and Sam are pressuring Carly to prank someone she says, "I'm sure it'll happen... when I meet the right person."
    • Pranks for Spencer are portrayed as being very addictive, to the point where Carly starts an intervention, Spencer recalls hitting Rock Bottom and discussions about how it effects the people around him.
    Spencer: At first I was just pranking on weekends.
    • Gibby's fear of being pranked while peeing forced him to use catheters along his pants.
    • Carly threatens to sneak into Spencer's room at night and cover his face with a pillow until he stops kicking if he doesn't stop pranking. They admit that it's a pretty dark thing to say.
  • iSell Penny Tees:
    • The episode opens with the gang holding an online auction during their webcast, aptly named "Show You Our Junk". Accidental Innuendo
    • Freddie now has the urge to stab Sam with a knife, but is able to control himself. They're allowed to do that.
    • Sam employs 4th graders to make penny tees with an iron grip and minimum wage labor. Plus, she also feeds them with food from the dumpster or animal food. Seriously, there is no such word as a radar in Schneider's Bakery anymore. Comedic Sociopathy
    • Sam spanks Freddie in this episode. And then he keeps going on about how she did it too hard and how much his butt hurts. Grandma's Chicken Salad
    • No mention yet of Spencer saying "I gotta go think about Krustacia!" line, while he runs to his room? Hmm... They're allowed to say that
  • iDo:
    • At one point in the episode, the groom's mom knees Spencer on the groin. When Carly says something to him about it, she uses the phrase, "That doesn't mean you had to kick him in the-" and is abruptly cut off. They're allowed to do that.
    • Gordon loses control of his bladder when nervous. At one point, he tries to sing a song in front of a group, and ends up wetting his pants. The audience is graced with close-ups of the urine running down. A bit later, when he talks to the girls, he says something about his nervousness and that he's still peeing as they speak. The girls jump away as quickly as possible. Toilet Humour
    • Two words: meatball patch. G-Rated Drug
    • After Freddie says "You two will make real purdy bridesmaids," Sam appears to subtly give Freddie the finger but it is quickly joined by her other fingers to her chin. That, surprisingly, does happen. It's one joke so it doesn't violate the age rating, but it goes far enough that it might be DIH.
  • iStart a Fan War:
    • The word damnation is used in the lyrics of the song Spencer and Aspartamay are singing. In context, it's not a curse, so is acceptable.
    • When Carly bites Aspartamay's thumb, he exclaims, "Son of a belch, man, she bit my thumb!" Unusual Euphemism
    • Spencer's weapon is a "long staff" while Aspartamay's weapon of choice are 2 "wrist balls". Accidental Innuendo
    • Sam says: "We're all better-than-average looking teenagers. We all have 'those feelings'. They're allowed to say that
    • Adam mentioned about going somewhere with Carly, asking her to "do it". Shoehorning
    • How satisfied Freddie was after being mobbed by those girls. Shoehorning
      • Which also stems from the sudden worry and attention Carly gave Freddie after Sam dragged him out the first time.
  • iHire an Idiot:
    • When Spencer is suggesting that the gang hire an intern, Sam asks, "Can it bathe me?" Sam want to exploit the intern; this isn't unacceptable.
  • iPity The Nevel:
    • As Carly reads viewer comments: " 'Nevel should take a golf club and shove it...' (beat) These comments should really be monitored." They're allowed to say that
    • The vampire boy has to choose between a (flatchested) farm girl and a bra. Dashed with a hilarious dose of possible triangle foreshadowing with the season ender, if the blatant symbolism is still not making its point. They're allowed to say that
    • The iCarly gang made Gibby stick his finger into a fishbowl with a fish to prove that it "enjoys the taste of human flesh", which he then agrees while pulling out a bloody finger. Gibby is silly and gets injured
    • Toward the beginning of the episode they're doing a bit on the webcast with Gibby in a tub of ice. He jumps up and runs out because he can't take it anymore and Carly says that they proved "ice is cold" to which Sam quips "Cold enough to freeze your gibbys!". Grandma's Chicken Salad
      • In another episode, Spencer tells Gibby to go do 'whatever it is Gibbys do', so it could just be a play on that.

  • iOMG:
    • Spencer is trapped in a box and experimented on by Carly and Gibby. When they pump foul smelling gas into the chamber, Spencer shouts "It smells like--" Carly promptly cuts off his mic. Shoehorning
    • Carly suggests to Freddie that they put Sam and Brad together in one room, comparing them to horses in barns they see on the Animal Channel. She clearly implies that the horses would mate and is uncomfortable with saying it, beating around the bush and trying to find other substitutions for the words. It's one joke, and they're allowed to say that
      Carly: You’ve seen the Animal Channel. The... the horses. When they want two horses to... you know, “date” they put them in the same barn together and then they like turn the barn lights down and YOU KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME SAY IT!
  • iParty With Victorious:
    • When Freddie tells Carly what BF means, Sam says it could also mean "Big Finger". The context of the tweet read is that she's sticking with his BF. General silliness
    • The scene where Gibby massages cream into Spencer's back. The noises Spencer makes are more than suggestive. Gibby gives a good massage.
    Spencer: Gibby has the hands of a goddess!
    Gibby: I am here for you, buddy.
    • When Freddie first sees Tori, he responds with a verbal "DOING", which was lampshaded by Carly telling him not to say. When Spencer is shown a picture of Tori, who is only seventeen on the computer, this happens: Shoehorning
    Spencer: (Looking at picture) Wow, that is one nice... (Carly and Sam stare at him) high-resolution monitor.
    • After the trio gets their facial disguises, Sam aptly renames herself Regina Goodbody, complete with hand gestures. They're allowed to say that
    • Sam's idea of exposing Steven: pulling his pants down. And then getting some hot sauce. General silliness
    • This exchange: They're allowed to say that
      Freddie: It's like she's oozing happy.
      Sam: Kinda like when my mom was taking those "special vitamins."
    • Sam's "Yeah, and my dad told my mom he was coming back!". Shoehorning
    • Marissa's remark on Carly: "I can't see how a boy could make a girl that happy" Shoehorning
    • Everything in the jacuzzi. Sikowitz ducking into the pool, with Spencer in it, to hide from someone. Later on, he has his arm around Spencer, and after a while, Spencer actually tells him to back off. General silliness
    • Jade's fantasizing about being kidnapped by witches and made into soup implies a Vore fetish. General silliness, and Jade is an emo goth
  • iLost My Mind:
    • In the beginning of the episode, Spencer is seen in his tighty whities putting on Carly's pants. The tighty whities prove to be a bit revealing at times...which is even more old since shows tend to use boxers as Gag Underwear. This is a lie, you can't see anything
    • When Spencer asks where the olive oil is, Carly replies, "In the bathroom, where you left it." One would wonder what he was using it for. Spencer is silly
      • He bought an ostrich because a meatball told him to. It wouldn't be surprising if he drinks the stuff.
    • Some of the signs on the walls of the mental hospital say things such as "Friends don't kill friends" and "Urine is for the Restroom." This is a lie
    • When Spencer has Carly's pants on, evidently they were a bit tight. He tried to take them off, but to no avail. Apparently they were so tight, in fact, that it prompted him to say this: They're allowed to say that
    Spencer: These pants are squeezing me in places I can't even explain.
    • Spencer is hilariously eager to dress up as Pam Puckett, even uttering the line "I'll get my boobs". They're allowed to say that
    • "One huge Virginia." Grandma's Chicken Salad
      • One-upped by Carly responding to the comment with "Settle down, Virginia!" No thanks, grandma, I've had enough of your chicken salad for today.
    • "Kick me anywhere below the waist and I won't feel it." General silliness
    • Carly tells Spencer that Sam's Mom is in Tijuana getting laser hair removal: They're allowed to say that
    Spencer: On what part of her body?
    Carly: I didn't want to know!
  • iDate Sam and Freddie:
    • The lasagna at Pini's is so good that when Sam dies she wants to be 'buried naked in a bathtub full of Pini's lasagna'. They're allowed to say that
    • Gibby says "I LOVE Pini's," prompting strange looks from the others. With a slightly different inflection, it would sound exactly like a certain male body part. Accidental Innuendo
    • The very title implies a threesome. No it doesn't. Shoehorning. And also the titles aren't normally shown on screen.
  • iCan't Take It:
    • A milder example. When Freddie tells Sam that he pushed her back inside Carly's apartment due to seeing his mom come out of the elevator: Unusual Euphemism
    Sam: Oh, crab!
    Spencer *gasps*
    Sam: I said "crab".
  • iLove You:
    • The Training Bros is an innuendo referring to training bras. It does fit Nick and Dan's unhealthy obsession with bras. Shoehorning
    • Freddie mentions a "protective cup." Carly asks what it is. He begins to awkwardly explain, "It's this thing that you put on-" and begins to gesture down before Sam interjects: "Hey, hey! She's not ready for that yet!" They're allowed to say that
    • The whole "make out until midnight" thing is a toned down for kids version of breakup sex. Even just making out without being together is pretty radar worthy for Nick. They're just kissing
      • It's subtly implied they engaged in sexual activity in the elevator, considering they were going to be there for an hour and a half and they were breaking up and everything... You're reading too much into it
    • The borderline fetishistic relationship between Spencer and his former babysitter manages to straddle a handful of fetishes in one go. The first being a typical dominant/submissive relationship, the babysitter fetish, and infantilisim. General silliness
  • iBloop 2: Electric Bloopaloo: In one of the bloopers, Jerry Trainor says "Son of a—!" It's not in the episode
  • iQ:
    • Mrs. Benson invests money in two chickens, but they refuse to create eggs, rendering the Bensons' plan unsuccessful. For the rest of the episode, the cast dances around the subject, finding other ways to say "mate." This is a lie
  • iStill Psycho:
    • Were the censors even watching this one? They're allowed to say that
    Cassie (to Spencer): Why don't we let him play over there and you and I can play over here?
    • And this exchange: They're allowed to say that
    Nora: Here I am in the bosom of my youth?
    Gibby: Heh. Bosom.
    • Or this one: Grandma's Chicken Salad
    Ms. Benson: Get Out! And take your big ax with you!
  • iBalls:
    • The title. Grandma's Chicken Salad - it's a pun on "eyeballs"
    • The electronic toilet seat which warms your bottom. And it vibrates. Accidental Innuendo
    Assistant: Think of me when you're using it.
    • Spencer's cameraman roommate sleeps beside him naked. This is a lie. The guy never moves in. And it's just a bit of NPAF
      • They met in a men's room (he was the attendant). Which also brings to mind this exchange which occured in said bathroom: Grandma's Chicken Salad
    Spencer: My hands smell like clams.
    Assistant: Oh, did you have the clams?
    Spencer: No.
    Spencer: Where will you go?
    Assistant: Wherever the wind blows me.
    Spencer: I hope it blows you someplace wonderful.
    • When Sam sticks a spoon into the camera, Spencer says "Oh my God, it's like I'm actually being spooned". They're allowed to say that
    • Another good exchange: Gibby is silly
    Gibby: "Let's go bathe in the glory."
    Sam: "No one wants (pause) to see you bathe."
    Gibby: "My cat loves to see me bathe."
  • iMeet the First Lady: Shoehorning
    Spencer: Some people are just born with the weenie gene.
  • iToe Fat Cakes:
    • Carly's Bathtub Scene is a kid-friendly moment of gratuitous fanservice. Her scene started out fully naked in the tub covered in bubbly water. Once her toe gets stuck, she knew she needs somebody's help to get out until she realizes her condition, prompting her to wear only a sweater to cover her. She spends the rest of the episode stranded in the tub with her foot raised. Being in a bath in the presence of TWO males (one adult, one teenage) is eye-raising too. NPAF
    • After four months, Carly is "itching" to kiss a guy. They're just kissing
    • Eventually she does kiss her date while she is still in the bathtub, but the implication is that she is still only wearing a sweater. NPAF
    • Sam's possessiveness in holding a Canadian fatcake, moaning while licking and biting it with total relish. This is a lie; there's nothing remotely sexual.
      • Freddie watches her do this in abject fascination, in a way that seems to say "Freddie is thinking about Sam licking somewhere else".
    • The subtle demonstration of injecting cream into a fatcake, and later Sam sucks a piping tube of (white) fat cream dry. Shoehorning
      • With these two, the yonic (Fat Cake) and phallic (Fat Bag) innuendoes are covered.
    • Canadian fatcakes being illegal to the U.S. is a metaphor for "certain substances" banned over American soil and are therefore smuggled. This entire subplot is acceptable under TV-G
      • The border guards refer to fatcakes in terms of kilos (Canada uses the metric system), mainly used in the USA to describe cocaine and heroin amounts. Fatcakes are said to be full of sugar, which is often mistaken for another banned substance.
    • Spencer mentions Sam's aforementioned Precocious Crush on him. So?
    • Spencer's fake mayor pants are tight "in the crotch", which he shows the audience by tugging at them. They're allowed to say that

    Season 5 
  • iOpen A Restaurant:
    • Spencer comes running out of the shower in his room wearing Carly's robe, which Carly has left in the bathroom. Now, consider later in the episode, when Carly says that she's going upstairs to take a bath. Why doesn't she just use the shower in her own bathroom (and we see in iToe Fat Cakes that her tub has a shower nozzle attached)? I thought they only had one bathroom
    • For that manner - if Carly used Spencer's shower, why would she leave her robe there afterward? Lots of people leave their robes in the shower
    • When Principal Franklin (at the end of the episode) tells Gibby that he's not shutting 'Gibby's' down, and calls out 'More hot meat for everyone!' as he puts a wad of cash in Gibby's hands. Shoehorning
    • Sam's beatdown of the jerk with the infamous 'butter sock', followed by her comment to Gibby: "I'm sorry I got butter on you." Grandma's Chicken Salad
  • iHalfoween:
  • iPear Store:
  • iGo One Direction:
    • Sam's moans and, yes screams, as Gibby rubs her feet are positively orgasmic and then when she tells him to do her heel she says "Rub it like a man!" This is a lie. And it's established that Gibby gives good massages.
    • Gibby's behavior to the band is filled with Ho Yay. He's more fangirlish than Carly and Sam. That's the joke
    • The above-mentioned Double Standard Rape: Female on Male with Sam and Zayn. Sam has an overtly-enthusiastic face, while Zayn has a thrilled-Oh, Crap! expression as the elevator lowers. Being episodes after the Seddie arc, the other characters didn't seem to mind. They're allowed to do that.
  • iBattle Chip:
    • Carly getting very close to Sam to see if she has pepperoni breath could, with a more casual glance, look a lot different. Grandma's Chicken Salad
    • Spencer shows up completely naked, only a big handful of branches covering himself (Chuck did that). Later, when they ask what's that on the branch, Spencer thinks it might be a beehive while shaking it a bit for a better view (which Freddie warns about). As soon as he asks why, it begins buzzing... Ouch. NPAF
    • Directly after this, Spencer forget to wear underwear, again. Spencer is silly
  • iShock America:
    • Spencer mentions all of America seeing Gibby's "danger zone". NPAF
    • This whole episode is about Gibby's privates being exposed on live TV. TV-G show, people. NPAF
    • Mrs. Benson says she's "growing hair in new places." Make of that what you will. Shoehorning
  • iGet Banned:
    • After Carly bans T-Bo from her apartment, he calls Spencer. It's one joke, and they don't say the bitch-word
    T-Bo: [on Spencer's phone] Man, you sister can be a b-
    [Spencer turns the phone in his cast off]
  • iFind Spencer Friends:
    • The entire discussion about how good Sam is at sucking the meat off chicken wings. Doesn't help that Freddie is saying how impressed he is. Grandma's Chicken Salad
    • Spencer plays tennis with a 3rd grader, but loses because his tennis racket is "floppy". Add in that Gibby pronounces tennis like "tenis" and you've got one weird scene. Accidental Innuendo
    • Underage girls trying to pick up guys,each of the adults naturally reacts extremely nervously. Fortunately for them its for Spencer (though why no one thought they were trying to set up a date is beyond me). This is a lie. The adults are confused but there's no indication anybody is thinking anything untoward
    • The scene in the bathroom where Gibby climbs into a stall, stands on the toilet and tries to pick up a guy for Spencer, the guy is freaked out, understandably because a guy is talking to him whilst he's doing his thing with his junk on display. Freddie escapes as quickly as possible. Gibby is silly
    • Heather went to a men's restroom to get a picture with him. When she got back she started to scream: "I touched Gibby, I touched Gibby!" Accidental Innuendo
  • iRescue Carly:
    • When Carly insists on meeting Dana, Sam's friend from juvie, Sam's concerns could easily have a different meaning. Shoehorning. This is a variant on "I eat wimps like you for breakfast."
    Sam: You're like... whipped cream! And she's like someone who eats whipped cream.
    Sam: Do not get your toes close to her mouth.
    • And Shoehorning
    Sam's old juvie friend calls Carly "candy-pants" a lot.
  • iLost My Head in Vegas:
    • Gibby eats an entire bag of sugar, reacts like he's having a bad trip, tells Freddie he's freaking out and then screams "I'm falling". G-Rated Drug
    • Spencer takes a shower and is washing himself with a brush. He starts washing his backside and then pulls out a watch that he thought he had lost. Although he's only shown from the front and waist up, it's fairly obvious where it came from. It's one joke. And this is Spencer we're talking about
  • iBust a Thief:
    • Gibby asks Sam and Carly about what they want him to rub on his artichokes. What really sells is that he says it in a weirdly seductive voice. This is a lie. And GCS
    • Freddy figures out the old lady is living in Whitman Towers. Hope it's not named after this guy in a tower. Shoehorning. And Whitman is a very common name
    • After Freddie asks Sam if she trashed his apartment(looking for her stolen laptod) Sam says she trashed it and also trashed Mrs Benson and says that he should bring some band aids and a mop. Comedic Sociopathy
    • When Sam tells T-Bo at the Groovy Smoothie that someone "horked" her laptop, T-Bo tells her not to say that word there. General silliness
    • Gibby says he caught Guppy "marking his territory" Guppy is silly
  • iGoodbye:
    • Freddie shows everyone his new oversized Samsung Max Pad phone. When Gibby hears the name, he laughs hysterically, and says he can't even say it, before walking off screen. He then comes back and says that it's so huge. Later, Freddie notes that the purse-like carrying case for his new phone, makes him looks feminine. They're allowed to say that.
    • Freddie tells Gibby they need to cheer up Carly. Gibby who just received a Weasel, says "I could show her my weasel." Gibby is silly
    • Not to mention when Carly comments "Her boobs really are pointy" in regards to Ms. Briggs. They're allowed to say that.
      • This is a Call-Back to the very first episode.
    • Again, Sam's reaction while riding in the motorcycle is positively orgasmic as she rubs her butt on the seat, saying "Momma's butt is home!" The extremely close bonding of Spencer and Sam throughout the episode is quite a nod over the entire Precocious Crush theme between them that was recurrent in the series. It doesn't help that the captioned photo of them◊ is like having an OT3 with the motorcycle as "they never left the loft, making Vroom Vroom sounds". Sam's reaction is a lie. The rest is GCS
  • When she wants Carly to test the back-scratcher she made, Sam asks her to take her shirt off. General silliness
  • Yet again, Ms Briggs' "big, pointy boobs" are mentioned. They're allowed to say that

    General/Unsorted 
  • Freddie lives in an apartment. His apartment number? 8=D To contrast, Carly's apartment number is 8=C, both resembling opposite parts of the human anatomy. This is a lie. They're 8-D and 8-C
    • Not surprising from a line of shows that got away using certain parts of a human anatomy (jank, nub, boob) as euphemisms. They're allowed to say that
    • Come to think of it, people mention bras a lot. Even if there's no joke or plot relevance to be had. For example, the oft mentioned "Build-A-Bra" an obvious take on Build-A-Bear. They're allowed to say that
      • One of the recurring characters in their Pathetic Plays is George, a bra who tells ghost stories. They're allowed to say that
  • Carly and Sam wear some t-shirts that are a little... suggestive for someone of her age. Like 'Peanut Butter Love.' Grandma's Chicken Salad. The penny tees are just supposed to be silly.
  • There are a lot of times when they speak so fast or slur the words where they sound like something else: Unusual Euphemism
    • The word "chizz" sounds like "jizz", not only when Freddie originally says it but when Sam says it again on iTake On Dingo.
      • It also sounds like "shiz" in a vague Australian Accent, and Sam even uses it as a substitute.
    • At one point, T-Bo utters the line, "Since when do I care where you sit?" It wasn't said very clearly, and it would be understandable to mistake the last word for the word 'shit'.
  • Everyone uses not-so-subtle euphemism's for cursing. At first they seemed like simple child's play but considering their at the age where kids love to curse, and the obvious substitute nature of the words... Unusual Euphemism
    • They always say "Oh My God" which is considered taboo in kids' shows. They're allowed to say that
  • At one point in a CD for the show, we hear a conversation that goes like this: This isn't part of the show.
    Carly: Hey, sorry, we're out of root beer.
    Sam: That's alright, I'll-
    Carly: WHOA! What are you doing?!
    Sam: Oh, calm down.
    Carly: Sam, are you insane?
    Sam: Would you relax?
    Carly: NO, you can't do that!
    Sam: What's the big deal?
    Freddie: (walks in) Hey, anyone- WHOA! What is she doing?
    Carly: I told her to stop!
    Sam: Okay! (pause) Well... what if I just do... this?
    Carly: Sam, NO!
    Freddie: Are you CRAZY?!
    Sam: Aw, you babies, just play the next song!
    • Who else remembers previously mentioned build-a-bra from the same exact album?
  • Mr. Howard is mentioned, various times, to be married but apparently he makes out with Ms. Briggs when she's supposed to be supervising detention. Cheating is allowed under TV-G
  • One of the online segments on the iCarly website entitled "You're in Luck" had Sam hosting a game show by a urinal in a men's room (via video, she wasn't actually in the room). It's unclear if she could see into the room or if there was only a camera on her end. Oh, and all the questions are about pee or pea or the letter P. There's nothing here that isn't on the show
  • Like Dan Schneider's other shows since Drake & Josh, characters frequently say "Oh, my God" and there are jokes about dying and death. They're allowed to say that

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#1600: Aug 20th 2021 at 7:37:25 PM

Some of that could be moved to DIH or PB if it's referencing anything a bit too raunchy for anybody under 13 (the "honeymoon couple" line has more sexual connotations for adults who know what happens in a honeymoon suite... and yes it's weird that it's a pair of young teens being told this, but Schneider shows can get weird in that regard).

But yeah, most of this and its sister pages is full of shoehorning. Which is saying a lot when the show legit has a reputation for DIH.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

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