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.
Genre	Comedy 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 and Drake Bell
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	29 (List of Episodes)
Production
Production locations	Seattle, Washington Filmed in, Los Angeles, California
Running time	22 min.
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon YTV The N Nickelodeon UK
Release	September 8, 2007 – present

iCarly is an television sitcom that premiered September 8, 2007 on Nickelodeon. It started airing on YTV a month later, and now currently airs on The N and Nickelodeon. In Easter 2008, iCarly premiered on Nickelodeon UK but only the first 12 episodes have been shown.

Main Characters

Carly Shay

Carly Shay (played by Miranda Cosgrove) is a 13-year old girl who is the star of her own web show (helped by her two friends, Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson), iCarly. She lives with her 26-year old brother Spencer in Seattle. Her father is in the Navy and is stationed on a submarine. Her grandfather lives 90 minutes away in Yakima. Even though Carly is considered a "local celebrity", which sometimes helps her get out of sticky situations, Carly is still an average teenage girl and never lets "fame" get to her head. Carly sticks up for Freddie when Sam ridicules him, and tries to encourage Sam to stay out of trouble. Carly is very aware of Freddie's crush on her, but just shrugs it off for the most part. She is usually very calm and peaceful but when she is mad, she tends to act out in a loud voice. Carly is very smart and hates to lie about anything or anyone, as shown in the episode iPromise Not to Tell, where she was overtaken by guilt when forced to keep Sam's actions a secret. Carly has very high grades in school and was even offered a scholarship to an elite private school.

Samantha "Sam" Puckett

Sam Puckett (played by Jennette McCurdy) is best friends with Carly and Freddie, but often torments Freddie. Sam bullies just about everyone, like Gibby, but mainly for humor. She is Carly's co-host on iCarly. She is aggressive, obnoxious, and rebellious. Sam spends most of her time at Carly's house, and makes herself at home there. Her mom isn't the best out there and thinks Sam spending time with Carly will keep her out of jail (Many of her family members are/were in jail). She has unusual cravings for ham and other meat, and will usually do anything just to get a rack of ribs, and was revealed in "iHate Sam's Boyfriend" that she likes to eat porkchops in bed. She is very cynical and sarcastic. Sam gets into trouble in school very often, earning several detentions and a special day to talk to the principal about what bad things she did that week. She isn't unintelligent, but her poor grades are because of a lack of effort and laziness. Her last name was revealed in the episode "iPromise Not to Tell".

Fredward "Freddie" Benson

Freddie Benson (played by Nathan Kress) is Sam's and Carly other close friend, as well as Carly's neighbor in her apartment building. Being a fan of electronics, he is the technical producer of iCarly. He has a playful crush on Carly, and suffers insults constantly from Sam. It is revealed on the episode iFence that he is a descendant of an experienced circus fencer, making him a decent fencer as well. Freddie is sometimes considered the stereotypical nerd who is bullied often, especially by Sam. Freddie has a very over-protective mother who is obsessively making sure he is clean. His mother is afraid to give him more than 8 dollars for his monthly allowance in fears he may buy a bus ticket and run away. Freddie is usually found hanging out with Carly and Sam or rehearsing for iCarly. It is shown that Carly can easily pin him on the ground.

Spencer Shay

Spencer Shay (played by Jerry Trainor) is Carly's 26-year-old brother and legal guardian. His guardianship is put to the ultimate test when the Shays' grandfather visits them and insists that Carly live with him in Yakima, ninety minutes away. This sentiment stems from Spencer's sculpting gone awry, when his sculpture, "fan of hammers", malfunctions and a component hammer flies off and narrowly misses Carly. Their grandfather from Yakima comes to take Carly, since he doesn't think that Spencer is a responsible guardian. Spencer comes through, however, by insisting that Carly be equipped with asthma medication though, as has been shown above, she has not required its use in several years. 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 stated that he stayed in law school for 3 days, as shown in iGot A Sponsor. He is kind, goofy and caring, and his nickname is Spence. Some episodes reveal that Carly, Freddie, and Sam think Spencer is really funny. He is also single, as he is seen dating or hitting on women in various episodes. The last woman he dated was Carly's history teacher. Spencer then broke up with her after he realizes that she is crazy, and then she was arrested by the FBI for downloading 500 songs illegally on a 'Pear Pod' (a pun on the iPod) as a gift to Spencer. 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 a glowing, colorful, and bright tie, provided by Socko's brother, Tyler.

Recurring characters

Ms. Francine Briggs

Ms. Francine Briggs is a mean teacher at Carly's school that Carly and her friends like to make fun of. She also taught at the school when Spencer was a student. She has a crush on Randy Jackson and has a shrine to him inside her closet, which includes many pictures of him and a talking cardboard cut-out of him, plus assorted Randy Jackson-related merchandise. Ms. Briggs enjoys playing the bagpipes, to the dismay of her students. It is revealed in episode iDream of Dance that she is of Scottish decent and enjoys Scottish dancing. She is portrayed by Mindy Sterling.

Mrs. Benson

Mrs. Benson is Freddie's extremely overprotective mother. She often embarrasses Freddie in front of his friends, is nosy, and is prone to loud outbursts. She also appears to be highly paranoid about almost everything and limits Freddie's activities accordingly. Freddie resents this overprotection to the extent that Mrs. Benson gives him only $8 a month in allowance because she's afraid that he will buy a bus ticket and leave her, which Carly comments "That's crazy", and Freddie replies "Eh, not really" (this exchange is in "iRue the Day"). Mrs. Benson despises Spencer and always keeps an eye on him because she is afraid that he will put her son in danger (in one she got mad at Spencer for giving Freddie some fruit, which she thinks Freddie is allergic to, even though Spencer didn't). She also gets angry with Carly because she doesn't know why she doesn't return Freddie's feelings (she also calls Carly "sassy pants" and "missy" in "iFence"). She is a very skilled fencer because her father made her take lessons as a child. Mrs. Benson is portrayed by Mary Scheer.

Gibby

Gibby is a kid at Carly's school, whom Sam constantly insults, blames for her actions, and bothers. Behind Freddie, he's Sam's second-favorite target for insulting. He likes spelling bees and Ryan Seacrest and was given a Texas wedgie twice. He first appeared in iDream of Dance and has been seen in other episodes. He also appears without his shirt on in "iMight Switch Schools", when he plays mini golf in the Shay apartment. As seen in iDream of Dance, Gibby runs into Sam's nightmare in his boxers saying, "Am I late for the quiz?",to which Sam replies"Get out of here Gibby this is my nightmare".In "iMatchmaker" it is revealed that he had a crush on a girl named Shannon, who has a crush on Freddie. In this episode, he took off his shirt once again, in the cheesecake warehouse, to dance on the table to impress Shannon. It is also revealed in iWin a Date that Gibby's middle name is Cornelius. Gibby is portrayed by Noah Munck.

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Jeremy (Germy)

Jeremy is a sickly kid at Carly's school. He is often called "Germy" because he has been constantly sneezing and coughing since kindergarten. He is fascinated with technology, once attending a technological convention. Jeremy is portrayed by Nathan Pearson. When Freddie left iCarly Jeremy turned into iCarly's tech producer but continuously sneezed (on the lens) during production.

Lewbert the Doorman

Lewbert is the doorman of Carly and Freddie's apartment complex, who is notorious for being "the meanest doorman on Earth". He has a large mole on his left cheek which Carly and Sam name "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 a "self-proclaimed jerk", frequently misinforming the residents of the complex and starting loud, obnoxious arguments (one time he stole and ate a kid's cookie and then popped his balloon). As seen on the iCarly website, Lewbert was once a male model. In one episode, Lewbert's wart was nicknamed "Captain Wartburger" by Sam's former boyfriend, Jonah. lewbert is gross ,and anyoing and doesnt like anyone and is stupid and a jerk and is not awhere that carly and sam have a segment called messin with lubert and is retarded.

Nevel Papperman

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 pageviews per day. He has had a crush on Carly since he first met her, and harbors a major grudge when she reveals that she does not feel the same way about him (and when she shoved tapenade in his face) . He has since attempted to exert 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. However, thanks to the assistance of Carly's father's friend Colonel Morgan (Christopher B. Duncan), who bursts into Nevel's house with an army assault squad and confiscates his equipment for "illegal hacking, which is a threat to internet security" and decides not to arrest him, instead, he dangles him around his living room with a harness until he apologizes to Carly and calls himself a weenie, Nevel's plot was foiled. He is first seen in iNevel, and last seen in iRue the Day. Nevel is portrayed by Reed Alexander. Nevel is 11 years old and is full of evil that likes Carly and so does Freddie and Nevel doesant like any of them beacause Carly shoved topanad is his face so he crashed there wb show!

Principal Ted Franklin

Ted Franklin is the principal of Carly's school. He is very fond of Carly and Freddie. He has also gotten used to seeing Sam in his office and gives her detention on a regular basis (despite this, the two seem to be on good terms) but he often is nice to her. Ted has kids who are iCarly fans and he is an iCarly fan himself. Like his students, Ted seems to dislike Mrs. Briggs. He is portrayed by Tim Russ, who also played Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager.

                     He is really nice and he doesn't have to yell @ sam because she is there all the time and is always bad !!!!!!!!!!!!

Wesley

Wesley, whose last name is unknown, is a friend of Freddie. He is very skilled in the art of beatboxing which he shows during the iCarly 50th webshow spectacular when Sam gets detention and they are forced to do their show in detention. He plays a part in distracting the teacher in charge of the detention in which he starts beatboxing into the P.A. When the teacher goes down to investigate, Wesley bombs him with water balloons disguised in a paper bag mask. Wesley is played by Colin Spensor.

Episodes

Main article: List of iCarly episodes

Season	Episodes	First airing	Last airing
Season 1	25	September 8, 2007	July 25, 2008
Season 2	25	September 27, 2008	TBA

Media

CD/DVD Releases

Columbia Records and Nickelodeon Records has released a soundtrack for the show entitled iCarly. It includes the theme song, four original songs by the iCarly star Miranda Cosgrove, several tracks by guest artists, and cast dialogue.

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The iCarly Box Set

Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon has recently released iCarly: Season 1, Volume 1 Box Set for DVD on September 23, 2008. The DVD has 13 episodes on two discs which means it is only half of season one, and bonus feature of the song, Leave it All to Me by Miranda Cosgrove.

Website

The iCarly.com website contains many promotional videos by the cast (as their respective characters), as well as content created and sent in by viewers. Other things on the site include a characters' blog, pictures from the set, songs, and comments from viewers. Many fictional websites from this show and other TEENick shows redirect to this page.

Video Segments on the website

The website based on the show has repeated video segments. Some of them start with "i" to match the show's title.

Random Debates- This segment features two of the four main characters (always sitting on or in something strange like a bathtub or swings). The two characters debate about two things that have nothing to do with each other such as spoons and roller coasters or milk and hammers.

Hey! What Am I Sitting On?- In this segment a character is blindfolded and must sit on an object in the "Chair of Wonder" (a chair shaped like a giant hand) and they have twenty seconds to guess what they are sitting on. Sam always seems to guess it right before 20 seconds is up.

iHave a Question- In this segment Sam, Freddie, and Spencer try to answer questions sent in by viewers, but never do. Sometimes the viewers shown with a strange appearance are actually actors, rather than non-actors.

iCrush It- In this segment Spencer crushes items with a sledgehammer

Wake Up Spencer!- In this segment Freddie and Sam wake up Spencer at a very early time in the morning and ask him random stuff or tell him random stuff, such as "Spencer, you left the milk in the fridge!" or "Spencer, what's 1+1?" Because Spencer is half asleep, he is very confused and also says random things.

Worldwide

iCarly has premiered worldwide as well.

• UK:Nickelodeon UK premiered Easter 2008
• India:Disney Channel premiered September 1, 2008
• Brazil: Nickelodeon Brazil premiered April 17, 2008
• Philippines :Nickelodeon Premiered Unknown
• United Arab Emirates :E-Junior Premiered Unknown

External links

• Official Web site
• Nickelodeon page
• iCarly Nickelodeon