ICarly

ICarly
File:ICarlylogo2.jpg The show's title card, showing from left to right, Jennette McCurdy, Miranda Cosgrove, and Nathan Kress, excluding Jerry Trainor
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	20 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Dan Schneider Jacob Kaplan
Running time	22 min.
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon, The N
Release	September 8, 2007 – present

iCarly is an American television series aimed at young teens and preteens, which premiered on September 8, 2007 on Nickelodeon. It first aired on YTV a month later on October 8, 2007, and now concurrently airs on The N.

The series stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay (the "Carly" of the show's title). Carly creates a webcast Internet program (also called iCarly) with her best friends, Sam, played by Jennette McCurdy, and Freddie, played by Nathan Kress.

Main Characters

Carly Shay

Main article: Carly Shay

Carly Shay is a girl who created a webshow (iCarly) which quickly makes her a webstar. She works with her best friend, Sam, who she describes as "rude and obnoxious". In "iPilot", it is said her father is in the military (in a submarine 3 miles underwater), leaving her 26-year old brother Spencer, who is also her legal guardian, in charge of her. Carly frequently drinks decaffeinated coffee (Spencer switches it when she's not looking) and she has asthma, though she hasn't 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 is played by Miranda Cosgrove.

Sam Puckett

Main article: Sam Puckett

Sam is best friends with Carly but often makes fun of Freddie. Sam is Carly's co-host in iCarly. In one episode, it is revealed she hates work of any kind. She has a picture of music stars, most notably Drake Bell. Sam likes ham, turkey bacon, 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). 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 extraordinarily poor caregiver. It is revealed that Sam was born in a bus. Sam is almost always in detention. She is fondness of the World's Fattest Preist. Sam is played by Jenette McCurdy.

Freddie Benson

Main article: Freddie Benson

Freddie is Carly's other best friend, and has a love/hate relationship with Sam (who teases him mercilessly). He is the technical producer of iCarly, and also Carly's across-the-hall neighbor. Freddie has a monsterously 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.) In iSpy on a Mean Teacher, it is revealed that Freddie is highly allergic to bees. Freddy is a tech-whiz who can do almost anything with a computer. Freddie is played by Nathan Kress. In one episode it hints that he may like Sam.

Spencer Shay

Main article: 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, as is usually seen working on a new sculpture. 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 is played by Jerry Trainor.

Other Characters

Principal Ted Franklin

Ted Franklin is the Principal of Carly's school. He is very fond of Carly and Freddie. He is also used to seeing Sam in his office and giving her detention (despite this, the two seem to be on good terms). Ted has kids who love iCarly. Principal Franklin is portrayed by Tim Russ.

Ms. Francine Briggs

Ms. Francine Briggs is a teacher at Carly's school whom she and her friends like to make jokes about. 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 Jackson-related merchandise. Francine is fond of exercising, as seen in "iSpy a Mean Teacher", in her spare time. She also loves Scottish bagpipe music and has played them once on Carly's webshow (having secured a spot on the show by threatening the cast and crew with expulsion and criminal charges for breaking into her house). According to Sam's blog on iCarly.com, she tampered with the school computer system and she apparently got Miss Briggs fired. Francine is portrayed by Mindy Sterling.

Lewbert

Lewbert is the doorman of Carly and Freddie's apartment complex, who is known for stealing cookies from small children. He has a huge wart on his left cheek. 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 segment "Messin' with Lewbert" on Carly's webshow. Lewbert is also a self-proclaimed jerk, frequently misinforming the residents of the complex and trying to steal Carly's sandwhich with little success.

Ms. Benson

Ms. Benson is Freddie's overprotective mother. She often embarrasses Freddie in front of his friends, and is overbearing and nosy. 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, perhaps suggesting he might leave his mother eventually). Ms. Benson loathes Spencer so much and always spies on him because she is afraid that he will put her son in danger. Ms. Benson is portrayed by Mary Scheer.

Jeremy

Jeremy is a sickly kid at Carly's school. He's constantly sneezing and coughing. Sam, Freddie and Carly refer to him as "Germy" as he is the germiest kid in school. It was revealed in "iNevel" that he has had a cold since the first grade. Jeremy is portrayed by Nathan Pearson.

Minor characters

• Grandfather Shay (Greg Mullavey): Grandfather Shay, frequently referred to as "Granddad", is Carly and Spencer's grandfather from Yakima. He originally feels Spencer is incompetent as a guardian, but changed his mind in "iWanna Stay With Spencer" after Spencer brought Carly her asthma inhaler "just in case." He exercises daily, a habit he cites as the reason behind his ability to walk on his hands.

• Gibby (Noah Munck): Gibby is a kid at Carly's school, whom Sam constantly insults, blames for her actions, bothers, and apparently expells him when Sam tampered with the school computer system. He seems to be Sam's second-favorite target, behind Freddie. He likes spelling bees and Ryan Seacrest.

• Nevel Papperman (Reed Alexander): Nevel is an 11-year-old web critic, whose website, Nevelocity.com, receives five billion 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 non-honest review to hacking into the webcast which would ruin the Plain White T's performance, but thanks to the assistance of Carly's dad's war buddy Colonel Morgan, Nevel's plot was foiled. (Note: Typing nevelocity.com in your address bar redirects you to iCarly.com.)

• Wesley (Colin Spensor): Wesley is a short, African American boy. He is shown all the time with a microphone, constantly beat-boxing.

• Socko is mentioned on various instances, getting supplies and socks (hence his name) for Spencer. Socko himself never appears, though he is occasionally heard faintly while conversating over the phone with Spencer. He has a brother named Tyler, who gets Spencer neckties (hence his name).

Episodes

Main article: List of iCarly episodes

Season	Episodes	First Airdate	Last Airdate
Season 1	20	September 8, 2007	April 5,2008

Live specials

iCarly: Live From Hollywood

The iCarly cast was live from Pauley Pavilion in Hollywood, where the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards is held at. 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 Wieners. 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.

External links

• Official website
• Nickelodeon page