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iCarly is a Nickelodeon sitcom starring Miranda Cosgrove that ran from 2007 to 2012, with a revival now streaming on Paramount+!
iCarly is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider that originally aired on Nickelodeon from September 8, 2007, to November 23, 2012. The series stars Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress, Jerry Trainor, and Noah Munck. The series tells the story of Carly Shay, a teenager who creates her own web show called iCarly with her best friends Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson in the apartment loft that she and her older brother Spencer Shay live in. As the web show quickly becomes an internet phenomenon, the youngsters are tasked with balancing their normal teenage lives with the wacky situations their newfound fame lands them in.
In 2021, the series was revived for the streaming platform Paramount+. Set nine years after the events of the original series, Carly Shay has moved back to Seattle, where she shares an apartment with her roommate Harper. Carly's older brother Spencer has become a wealthy artist after accidentally creating a renowned sculpture. Following two divorces and a failed tech start-up, Freddie Benson has moved back to live with his mother, accompanied by his adopted 11-year-old stepdaughter Millicent. When Carly decides to relaunch her iCarly webshow, she receives help from Spencer, Freddie, and her new friends.
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The episode aired on Pluto today and i was always curious on where they got these kids. A little digging and I found this
You guys know the episode where Carly finds out that Sam and Freddie kiss and she freaked out? Towards the end when the giant pants were in the room while Carly was taking to Freddie and Sam. Two prisoners escape and they all got tied up? I never understood why Sam didn't just beat the both of them up and what's even dumber is Carly told them where the tape was.
From what I can tell, Carly really did regret going to Italy with her dad. Because her dad worked all day and she was alone on the other side of the world because she left her 3 best friends and her older brother. In the reboot we find out that she was super lonely and face timed freddie all the time and even had him come for a visit once. I feel as if she made her decision to quickly and if anything she could have finished high school in Seattle and went to Italy after if that's what she wanted to do. But I really do believe that she regretted going to Italy she was so lonely and had nothing there. What do yall think?
I'm currently rewatching all the episodes of iCarly, both new and old. I can't help but be confused about the Seddie ship. I see Seddie shippers blame the bad writing as to why Seddie didn't work out, but tbh, I don't think it matters.
For Seddie to work, Sam should have undergone MAJOR character development and stopped abusing Freddie (both verbally and physically) for a while before dating. No amount of good writing would excuse this relationship. Sam is Freddie's bully. She hits/beats him, insults/disrespects him, and humiliates/emasculates him every chance she gets in public. WHY ON EARTH would that be okay for someone to date a person that does all those things to him. Seddie shippers, let me ask you this, would you date someone that does to you what Sam does to Freddie? would you think it's hot? Would you excuse being beaten and verbally abused as passion? A lot of people excuse Sam's behavior as her not growing up in a healthy environment, well, so do murderers, robbers, and wife beaters, do they get a pass as well? I know it's just a show and it's not that deep, but it is.
Seddie also doesn't work because Sam and Freddie are 2 completely different people. They have nothing in common besides iCarly. If it wasn't for Carly and the show, those 2 wouldn't even be hanging out. And as far as I've seen, Freddie has only liked Carly and never paid attention to Sam in that way. He literally started seeing her in that way after she kissed him in iOMG!
I know this is just a show, but these types of situations happen in real life. I'm sick of people confusing hate/anger with passion. That's not what passion is. You don't abuse someone you love. And the whole "they hit you because they like you" thing is BS. That's not realistic. The only thing it shows is that they are not in control of their emotions or themselves. Those types of people are dangerous.
And again, even if the writers came up with the best Seddie arc in the 4 episodes, it will NEVER excuse what Sam did to Freddie. Part of why I love the new show is knowing that Freddie won't get abused. I love Jennette McCurdy as an actress, but I hate Sam. I start to like her a little around season 5 when she's no longer as extreme.
What I also realized while rewatching is that Carly could have stopped this abuse. Sam listens to her. The fact she allowed Sam to abuse Freddie makes me like her even less. She's not all to blame tho because Freddie could have stopped it himself. I feel like Sam did what he allowed her to. There were many episodes when Freddie was serious and told Sam to stop playing around and she listened. So it makes me think that he does have some power but chose not to use it. He does stand up to her more and more as time goes on, which I'm proud of him for.
But I have a quick theory, I think Sam started liking Freddie when she realized he was no longer a doormat and started standing up to her more and more. But I could be wrong.
I had just discovered that not everyone watched it on 4:3 like I did in my home country (it was filmed at HD????) so I decided how about we discuss it? Did you watch it in widescreen or SD? Dubbed? Subbed? Did you have a localized iCarly.com?
For starters I watched in SD (movies were letterboxed) with Hebrew subs and iCarly.com just redirected to the horrendous nick.co.il
Hello everyone.
I’m a lifelong iCarly who only recently got around to watching the revival. I’ll admit it took a while for me to fully warm up to it but I’d been having a great time catching up to all the episodes. I was really enjoying season 3 and the finale where they tease Carly’s mom making an appearance gave me legit goosebumps. I was so excited that I went online to look for any news about a new season only to find out that the studio canceled the series. And I know that I’m definitely just one of many people who complained/are complaining about it but it genuinely pissed me off so much. The excuse the studio gave was such blatant bullshit imo. If they weren’t planning on making a new season or even a movie or something, then why include it in the finale?? I’d have been perfectly content seeing Marissa and Lewbert’s wedding as the climax of the episode. Or just a sweet moment between Carly and Freddie. Teasing additional content and then denying your fans that satisfaction is genuinely insane stuff. I don’t want to say that I wish I never watched it (cause that would be a massive overreaction) but this feels like such a below-the-belt move on their part. I’m so frustrated.
We all know Freddie liked Carly through seasons 1- around season 3. But do you think he ever stopped liking her? I believe he only dated Sam because he liked the fact she was no longer tormenting him (physically at least.) and if Carly came along and asked him out even in season 5 he would have said yes. And we all know in season 6 Sam says to Freddie “have you got another little crush on her” referring to Carly. What are all your thoughts. Did Freddie always love Carly but suppress it or did he go through fazes of liking her and not liking her romantically?
In I spy a mean teacher when Carly and Freddie are trapped inside Ms. Brigg's closet. Sam (on the phone) tells them to "give her sixty seconds, then go for the door." Sam follows up by calling Ms. Briggs and feeds her a load about being from the Federal Bureau of Milk. How did she get her phone numbers in the first place? She called her immediately after she was done talking to Carly and Freddie. I don't think Sam is likely to have an evil teacher on speed dial. She's not the type of student who would want to call a teacher, also Ms. Briggs wouldn't give her number out to everyone.
Im trying to find info about something on the icarly website, there was a feature where if you lost a minigame thing they would gove you some kind of punishment, one of them would really be harmfull as it would send spam messages or something to all your contacts, i dont fully remember, anyone?
So I remember a joke about how Sam, Freddie and Carly were fishing out of their window and making jokes about it being called “winder” and Spencer said his grandma fell out of a winder and the kids asked if that happened and he said “no she died of a heart attack” or something and it was kinda dark for a kids show so I remember it clearly.
Maybe someone can help me find it, I just wanna know if it’s as weird as I remember.
https://youtube.com/shorts/BmbeybMPGmQ?si=4EWMYtL4GqU0UxNA
Took me a bit to realize it wasn't actually an iCarly reference. Apparently there was a similar walk off homer in the eighties by a guy named Gibson?
That’s not a chicken, she looks more like if a green macaw and a scarlet macaw had a baby! I mean, this is what she would dress up as if everyone got an A on their test?! 😂
From the original show take any of the episode plots or endings or even characters from the original ICarly show and alter them in a way that you believe would make them a lot better, be creative and be specific.
For example if you hated the plot of IMeet Fred like many other people how would you rewrite it to make it better or if you just hated the ending, how would you change it. If you hated Carly or Sam or anyone how would you rewrite their characters to make them more likeable and therefore better especially focusing on character development for them. Try to emphasize character development for the characters to make them more likeable or just what you believe what have made the episode plots better.
If you wanted to see a character like mostly Sam or Carly get their karma and face actual punishments for their wrongdoings whether it be legally or otherwise against people like Freddie or Gibby or anyone that either of them or both of them blatantly mistreated how would you execute that as a writer.
The subplot in “IPear Store” where the fire department decides not to answer anymore of Spencer’s calls is just absolutely ridiculous. Even by fiction tv logic, this is completely unrealistic.
The Fire Department can't just decide to ignore someone's 911 calls and/or refuse to help them put out a fire just because the person caused/started numerous fires in the past. That's illegal and they would get sued for that. That really shows that Dan does absolutely ZERO research on that kinda stuff before writing his scripts.
Two opposite personality woman roommates living in a major USA city and trying to make money by starting a business. Even Sam is like Max and Cat is like Caroline (except Caroline isn't as dumb). And instead of starting up a cupcake business like in Two Broke Girls, Sam and Cat start up a babysitting business.
Did Sam and Freddie need to tell Carly that they kissed? Personally, they didn't have to. Best friends don't need to tell each other everything. Especially, if they're not comfortable with the other person knowing their secret. While Sam knows that Carly won't make fun of her for it or go and tell another person, she probably wasn't comfortable with anyone knowing and that's okay. When the time is right for her. Besides, how does Carly not knowing impact her in anyway. It's not like they were dating behind her back. It's one thing if it was a secret that pertained her, but it wasn't. This wasn't a Cassie and Maddy situation from Euphoria, lol. This also kinda reminds me when Riley from Girl Meets World gave Lucas a hard time for not divulging in his past. Any thoughts?
Carly dated so many guys but never spent more than one episode with one until the revival when she met Beau, then dated Freddie again. Not even Sam or Freddie dated that many people. Just how many people has she even been with, original and revival?
I’m shocked this hasn’t gotten more talk in recent years. In “iScream on Halloween,” there’s no sugarcoating it. What that angry mob of kids did to Spencer over him not giving them candy wasn’t just breaking and entering, it was ATTEMPTED MURDER. They took the pumpkin and literally rolled it down the street then cheered, and it was revealed in a later episode that the pumpkin sank in the water and Spencer almost drowned to death. It shocks me that nobody ever talks about how dark that episode really was that a whole group of kids literally tried to MURDER Spencer all bcuz he gave them strange items that weren’t candy. There were well over hundreds of apartments in that building so the kids could’ve easily moved onto the next one. It was so beyond words messed up I just can’t even with that. What those kids did was beyond words messed up.
In iThink They kissed and iLost My Mind, Carly made it such a big deal that her best friends were keeping secrets from her and that she doesn't keep secrets from them, but that's not true. When it was revealed that Sam sabotaged Freddie's chance at getting into N.E.R.D. Camp, she knew the entire time and didn't tell him. Even she doesn't tell Freddie everything. And yes, I understand that she kept the secret out of loyalty to Sam and it really should have been Sam to have told Freddie the truth, Carly could have at least reasoned with Sam to tell him under normal circumstances. This also shows that Carly is more biased towards Sam than Freddie even though Freddie is her best friend as well, which makes sense because she has known Sam longer. Honestly, Freddie deserved better friends than both Sam and Carly.
When i was teen/kid, i used to watch Icarly, Big Time Rush and Victorious. Those were like the top 3 shows when i was growing up. I call them the 3 musketeers.
BTR, and Victorious were both music shows. One about kids at a talented music high school. And the other one about a band who grew up in Minnesota, hoping to become a band.
But Icarly is not a music show. It was about comedy. about carly doing a webshow. And was not a music-intended show. But yet icarly held it's own. Everyone watched it. It was really popular, the most popular nickelodeon show.
What made the show Icarly Hold it's own, with not being a music sitcom like the other two?
Looking at the series, who would you all saw Carly, Sam, Freddie, Spencer, and Gibby each saw as their closest friend among the main group? Or in Sam, Spencer, and Gibby's cases, who they see as their second best friend since it is obvious all four would pick Carly?
I'd personally say it'd be:
But I could be wrong, what do you all think?