iCarly
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 The show's title card, showing from left to right, Jennette McCurdy, Miranda Cosgrove, and Nathan Kress, excluding Jerry Trainor. |
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| Format | Sitcom |
| Created by | Dan Schneider |
| Starring | Miranda Cosgrove Jennette McCurdy Nathan Kress Jerry Trainor |
| Opening theme | "Leave It All To Me" sung by Miranda Cosgrove featuring Drake Bell |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 23 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Dan Schneider
Jacob Kaplan |
| Location(s) | Seattle, Washington |
| Running time | 22 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon YTV |
| Original run | September 8, 2007 – present |
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| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
iCarly is an American television sitcom aimed at teens and preteens, which premiered on September 8, 2007 and is currently airing on Nickelodeon. It first aired on YTV a month later on October 8, 2007, and now concurrently airs on The N. The show first aired on Nickelodeon UK on Easter 2008. It aired Nickelodeon Australia in May 2008. iCarly is also the first show to have the audience send video clips to the official website.[citation needed]
The series stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay, Nathan Kress as Freddie Benson and Jennette McCurdy as Sam Puckett. They create a WebShow called iCarly which becomes wildly popular. Also another main character is Spencer Shay, who is portrayed by Jerry Trainor.
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[edit] Main Characters
[edit] Carly Shay
Carly Shay is the 13-year old girl who created a Web Show (iCarly) which quickly makes her, Sam and Freddie online celebrities. She works with her best friends, Sam and Freddie, whom she describes as "kind and friendly". In iCarly's pilot episode iPilot, it is said her father is in the Navy (in a submarine 3 miles underwater), leaving her 26-year old brother Spencer, who is also her legal guardian, in charge of her (the status of her mother is unknown). Carly frequently drinks decaffeinated coffee (Spencer switches it when she's not looking) and she has asthma, although Carly has not had an asthma attack since she was 7. Carly and Sam have been friends for 5 years (they became friends when Sam pushed Carly and stole her sandwich and Carly pushed her back and took her food back). Carly enjoys getting smoothies at the Groovy Smoothie. Carly is constantly trying to stop her best friends Sam and Freddie from arguing. Carly has numerous enemies, including Ms. Francine Briggs, Nevel Papperman, Mr. Howard and lots more. Carly is played by Miranda Cosgrove, who also starred as Megan in the show Drake and Josh.
[edit] Samantha "Sam" Puckett
Her real first name is Samantha, but her friends call her Sam for short. Sam is best friends with Carly and Freddie but often torments Freddie for her own fun. Sam is Carly's co-host on iCarly. In one episode, it is revealed she hates work of any kind. She is also known to have read only 3 books her entire life: Boogie Bear, Boogie Bear 2, and Boogie Bear 3: The Return of Boogie Bear. She presumably reads her fourth in the episode, iFence. She has a picture of music stars, most notably Drake Bell, who plays Drake Parker in Drake & Josh and Zoey 101 as himself. She also likes Tom Higgenson of the Plain White T's, as revealed in one episode. She likes ham, beef jerky, turkey bacon, pork chops, and bacon flavored bubble gum. Sam is extremely aggressive, obnoxious, and rebellious. Sam has a tendency to commit theft and break-ins (she can expertly pick a lock and takes people's food on several occasions) in addition to editing school records (in the episode iPromisenottotell) . Sam spends most of her time at Carly's house, and makes herself at home there in order to avoid her mother, who is an extremely poor caregiver. It is revealed that Sam was born in a bus. Sam is almost always in detention, and it is revealed in iStakeout that around half of her family members are what she says is "dangerous". Sam is portrayed by Jennette McCurdy.
[edit] Fredward "Freddie" Benson
Freddie is Carly's other best friend who seemingly hates Sam (who teases him mercilessly). He is the tech producer of iCarly, and also Carly's across-the-hall neighbor. Freddie has a monstrously large crush on Carly, and is something of a pushover because of it (though he does have his limits), he will do virtually anything for Carly including making her crush sing better on iCarly. In iSpy on a Mean Teacher, it is revealed that Freddie is extremely allergic to bees. Freddie is a tech-whiz who can do almost anything with a computer. His mother is extremely precautionary and paranoid, and forces Freddie to do outrageous sanitary tasks, including signing a contract saying that he shampooed twice after every shower, and rubbing anti-tick and 'cloudblock' lotion on him. He is also forced to take a tick bath once every week. In iStakeout, his mom called him Fredward. In iFence, it is revealed that Freddie is an amazing fencer and fencing runs in Freddie's family history. Also revealed in iFence is the fact that Freddie's last name of Benson is his mother's surname instead of his father's. It is unknown about his father's status. Freddie is portrayed by Nathan Kress.
[edit] Spencer Shay
Carly's 26-year-old brother and legal guardian. It is revealed in the episode iWanna Stay With Spencer that he dropped out of law school to become an artist, and is usually seen working on a new sculpture. He also stayed in law school for 3 days, as shown in iGot A Sponsor. He is kind, goofy and caring, and his nickname is Spence. He is also single, as he is seen dating or hitting on women in various episodes. He also spends much of his time at the local junkyard, gathering supplies for sculptures. He has many glowing, colorful, and bright socks, provided by his friend Socko, and glowing, colorful, and bright ties, provided by Socko's brother, Tyler. Spencer is portrayed by Jerry Trainor. Jerry and Miranda have worked together in Drake & Josh. Jerry played a man named Crazy Steve who worked at a movie theatre, while Miranda played Drake's biological sister, Megan Parker.
[edit] Recurring characters
[edit] Ms. Francine Briggs
Ms. Francine Briggs is a mean teacher of Scottish descent at Carly's school about whom she and her friends like to make jokes. She also taught at the school when Spencer was a student. She has a crush on Randy Jackson and has lots of pictures of him in her closet and a talking cardboard cut-out of him, plus assorted Randy Jackson-related merchandise. Examples of it are Randy-O's (a cereal, parody of Cheerios), and Randy Jackson cologne. Francine is fond of exercising, as seen in iSpy a Mean Teacher, in her spare time. Her Scottish heritage also came to light when she criticized the entertainment on iCarly. According to Sam's blog on iCarly.com, she tampered with the school computer system and she apparently got Ms. Briggs fired (after that episode, she was not seen any more, so Sam did get her fired, maybe). However, she was mentioned in a later episode, iHeart Art also in iFence, so they apparently realized that she was supposed to be there and re-hired her (although this could be due to the episodes being shown out of production order). Francine was portrayed by Mindy Sterling.
[edit] Ms. Benson
Ms. Benson is Freddie's extremely rude and overprotective mother. She often embarrasses Freddie in front of his friends, and is overbearing, nosy, and prone to loud outbursts. In the episode iStakeout, she made Freddie take swimming lessons in a Speedo. She also broke into Freddie's school to put "cloud block" on him so he won't get "cloudburn". It was revealed in iRue the Day that Ms. Benson doesn't give Freddie much allowance ($8 a month) because she's afraid that he will buy a bus ticket and leave her (however, in one episode, Freddie says that Ms. Benson's reason isn't so crazy, so that suggests he doesn't like his mother very much and that he will eventually leave his mother without her permission whether she likes it or not). Ms. Benson despises Spencer so much and always keeps an eye on him because she is afraid that he will put her son in danger. She also gets angry with Carly because she doesn't know why she doesn't return Freddie's feelings. She also proves in iFence that she is a very skilled fencer because her father made her take lessons as a child. Ms. Benson is portrayed by Mary Scheer.
[edit] Gibby
Gibby is a kid at Carly's school, whom Sam constantly insults, blames for her actions, bothers, and apparently expels him when Sam tampered with the school computer system. Behind Freddie, he's Sam's second-favorite target for insulting. He likes spelling bees and Ryan Seacrest and was once given a Texas wedgie. He is also seen in various episodes. He first appeared in iDream of Dance and has been seen in other episodes. For some reason, he appears to appear without his shirt on more than with his shirt on.
[edit] Minor characters
- Jeremy: Jeremy is a sickly kid at Carly's school. He has been constantly sneezing and coughing since first grade. Sam, Freddie and Carly refer to him as "Germy", since he is the germiest kid in school. He is apparently a technology person, like Freddie, as he once went into a convention of technological things. Jeremy is portrayed by Nathan Pearson. When Freddie left iCarly Jeremy turned into iCarly's tech producer but kept sneezing.
- Lewbert the Doorman: Lewbert is the doorman of Carly and Freddie's apartment complex, who is notorious for stealing cookies from small children. He has a large wart on his left cheek which Carly and Sam named "Little Lewbert." He tends to get irritated when too many people are in his lobby (especially after he's just mopped). He is a victim (without knowing) in the iCarly segment "Messin' with Lewbert." Lewbert is also a self-proclaimed jerk, frequently misinforming the residents of the complex and starting loud, obnoxious arguments.
- Nevel Papperman (Reed Alexander): Nevel is an 11-year-old web critic, whose Web site, Nevelocity.com (which, unlike iCarly, is not a real Web site), receives five million page views per day. He had a crush on Carly when he first met her, and began harboring a major grudge when she revealed that she did not feel the same way about him. He has since attempted to exact revenge upon the iCarly crew ranging from a dishonest review to breaking into the webcast with a virus which would ruin the Plain White T's performance, but thanks to the assistance of Carly's dad's war buddy Colonel Morgan (Christopher B. Duncan), Nevel's plot was foiled. (Note: typing nevelocity.com in your address bar redirects you to iCarly.com.). He is first seen in iNevel, and last seen in iRue the Day.
- Principal Ted Franklin (Tim Russ): Ted Franklin is the principal of Carly's school. He is very fond of Carly and Freddie. He also got used to seeing Sam in his office and giving her detention on a regular basis (despite this, the two seem to be on good terms). Ted has kids who are iCarly fans.
- Wesley (Colin Spensor): Wesley is a short schoolmate. He is shown all the time with a microphone, constantly beat-boxing, something he is not very good at and "no one enjoys", as Carly says. He is also a fan of iCarly.
- "Rip Off" Rodney (Christopher David): Rodney is a kid at Carly's school that is known for 3 things. 1, selling things, 2, ripping off people, and 3, getting detention on a regular basis like Sam. He once sold fake hall-passes, and got caught by misspelling hall. He once sold a box of peacock feather tissues for $20, and Cuddlefish concert tickets for $100 each. He also sold burritos (that don't contain "quality meats") for 2 for $6 during iCarly's 50th Webcast Spectacular in detention. Despite his high prices they still pay the prices if it's an emergency. He was first seen in iDon't Want to Fight. He also gets arrested a lot.
Davonte Marquis Fennell has appeared on the episode of icarly called igot detention.He was the boy named billy with the cap cam on trying to help freddy,sam,and carly do there webcast.Davonte Fennell was born on december 5th 1993 in orlando florida.
[edit] Media
[edit] Live specials
- iCarly: Live From Hollywood
The iCarly cast was live from Pauley Pavilion in Hollywood, where the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards is held on March 29, 2008. The cast aired from 9/8c - 11/10c. Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Spencer were at the Kids' Choice Awards because Spencer was hired to make a Kids' Choice Awards Blimp out of wiener dogs. Although Spencer was working on his sculpture, he happened to peek around the show, like the gift bags for the celebrities, going into Jack Black's dressing room, and stealing some mini wienies from the snack table. In the end, his sculpture was destroyed when the snack lady attacked him.
- iCarly Television Takeover
The iCarly cast is going to be live on Nickelodeon on June 13, 2008 to promote the first special, "iCarly Saves TV". Nick is going to air Miranda, Jenette, Nathan, and Jerry's favorite episodes. iCarly begans to air at 4/3c to 8/7c. While airing their favorite episodes, all 4 cast members are arguing about whos favorite episodes are the best.
[edit] Awards and Nominations
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards:
- 2008 Kids' Choice Awards: Favorite TV Show (Nominated)
[edit] Guest Stars
[edit] DVD Release
Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon will release iCarly - Season 1, Volume 1 for DVD on September 23, 2008. [1]
[edit] Facts/notes
| Guest Star (or Stars) | Season | Character | Episode (or Episodes) |
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| Austin Butler | 1 | Jake Crandall | iLike Jake |
| The Plain White T's | 1 | Themselves | iRue The Day |
| Aria Wallace | 1 | Mandy Valdez | iAm Your Biggest Fan |
| Oliver Muirhead | 1 | Harry Joyner | iHeart Art |
| Greg Pattillo | 1 | Himself/Sam's Cousin | iHeart Art |
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- iCarly is the first show ever to have the audience help the show by sending video clips to the official Web site.[citation needed]}
- Dan Schneider has his shows almost cross worlds. For example, Daka Shoes is a company in his previous show Drake & Josh, but it is also one in iCarly. Another product is the Clackers, a European toy that was introduced, again in Drake and Josh. The toy was seen again in Zoey 101, another one of Dan's shows. Also on Zoey 101, Lola was in the dorm changing her ringtone, and the iCarly theme song came up as an instrumental.
- The iCarly Web site is seen in Zoey 101 in many episodes.
- In the episode iWanna Stay With Spencer, Carly and Spencer's grandfather says that he is staying at the Parker-Nichols Hotel, probably referring to the first episode of season 3 of Drake and Josh where Drake and Josh use their house as a hotel.
- In iWant to Date Freddie, when Carly and Sam do a segment on animals dressing up as other animals, they bring in a dog dressed up as a pig. This is "Robin's wiener dog", a reference to one of the show's producers, Robin Weiner, who also produced Drake and Josh.
- In the episode, iWanna Stay With Spencer, when Carly is cleaning her locker, she places a GEO in the box. Two GEO's were seen in the Drake & Josh movie, Drake & Josh Go Hollywood.
- In many episodes, the book Scarlett's Web is mentioned, a pun on "Charlotte's Web."
- Computers seen in iCarly usually have a pear on the back; this is a pun on Apple Inc. used in other Nick shows such as Fairly OddParents, Drake & Josh, and Zoey 101.
- The "Pear Phone" is a pun on the iPhone. The Pear Phone is exactly the same as the iPhone except that it has a pear on the back. This is seen in iGot A Sponsor and iGot Detention. Similarly, in the episode iStakeout, the Pearpod is a parody of the iPod.
- In iWant a World Record, the world record book, The Jonas Book of World Records, is a parody of The Guinness Book of World Records.
- As shown on Nick's A Closer Look The Pear Laptop where the monitor is, is a green screen.
- In iGot A Sponsor, Carly buys designer sunglasses, with the name of Mercedez Lenz; this is a pun on Mercedes Benz.
- In iGot Detention, Spencer makes a 10-foot cup of coffee with the label "Skybucks" on it. This is a pun on Starbucks.
- In the episode iHatch Chicks, they go on Freddie's laptop and one of the Web sites they visit is "Chickipedia" which is a parody of Wikipedia. If you go to this Web site, it goes an actual wiki Web site about female celebrities.
- In iFence, Carly, Freddie, and Sam are seen looking up 'the Fencing Bensons' on Zaplook.com, a parody of Google.com. Zaplook redirects you to iCarly.com.
- In iFence, Freddie's family comes from the 'Tingling Brothers' Circus; a parody of the Ringling Brothers Circus.
- If you check Sam's locker on the inside you can see cut- outs of Drake Bell and Fall Out Boy's Andy Hurley.
- In iFence, Carly and Sam are going to go to Build-A-Bra, which is a pun of Build-A-Bear.
- In iStakeout, Mrs. Benson mentioned "Mall-Mart", A pun on Wal-Mart.
- In iStakeout Carly mentioned "Peppy Cola", a pun on Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
- In iStakeout, Sam is seen drinking "Mocha Cola" which is also seen on Drake and Josh.
- In the beginning credits of "iCarly", you see some quick links to Web sites. One of these is to ToonJuice.com. This is seen in Zoey 101 as the Web site on which Chase and Michael put their cartoons. Going to toonjuice.com redirects you to the Nickelodeon site of Zoey 101.
- In iNevel there was iBoring on the iCarly picture on nevelocity.com. Later in the episode Nevel had to change the review of iCarly. But in iRue the Day there was iBoring on the picture again. The page could have been archived.
- The computer screen shows mixes of Windows and Mac Interfaces, much like Zoey 101 and Drake & Josh.
- The transition to a new scene, is much like iMovie.
- In iCarly, they watch a TV show named Girly Cow. You can't see the screen, but the sound you hear is:
- Everyone: Surprise!
- High Pitched Voice: (talks a lot)
- (after a while)
- Low Voice: Monkey-
- High Voice: -Marmoset!
- Low Voice: Moron!
- This is heard in a lot of episodes of iCarly and Zoey 101 and in one Drake and Josh episode Megan's Revenge, right before Dianna Vosh comes in.
[edit] Fictional Web sites that Redirect to iCarly.com
- In the opening credits, several fake Web sites can be seen as bookmarks. Any of these Web sites redirect you to iCarly.com. The only one that does not redirect you to iCarly.com is ToonJuice.
- In Zoey 101 when Lola uses one of Stacey's prized cotton swabs, she freaks out and mentions buying them from specialtyswabs.com; if you go to specialtyswabs.com it redirects to icarly.com.
- In Zoey 101, Quinn and Lola visit highschoolcrazy.com. If you go this Web site, it redirects you to iCarly.com.
- In iFence, they mention iSnarly as Web site of a snarling dog, if you go to isnarly.com it redirects to iCarly.com.
- In iHatch Chicks, Freddie accidentally goes to "Worldofchucks.com." If you go to this Web site, chickapedia (a play on Wikipedia), or "worldofchicks.com" which is what Freddie meant to go to, they redirect you to iCarly.com.
- In iWill Date Freddie, Freddie helps Valerie create a WebShow, and the Web site that they create is called "www.thevalerieshow.com". If you go to this Web site, it redirects you to iCarly.com.
- Nevelocity.com a Web site mentioned in iNevel that was created by Nevel redirects you to iCarly.com.
- In iPilot Freddie uploaded the video from the audition to a site called Splashface (a play on YouTube). Splashface is also in the "Friends of iCarly" list on the bottom of the iCarly Web site. Going to splashface.com redirects you to iCarly.com.
- In iMight Switch Schools, Carly had a dream that there was a WebShow called iGibby. If you try to go to iGibby.com, it will redirect you to iCarly.com.
- In iHeart Art, at the end of the webcast, Sam and Carly say to go to iCarly.com. "Not iCarly.net. .Net is for losers." (which has offended many fans). If you try to go to iCarly.net, it redirects to iCarly.com.
- In iFence', at the end of the webcast, Sam and Carly say go to iCarly.com. "Not iSnarly, its a dog". If you try to go on iSnarly.com, it redirects to iCarly.com.
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