ICarly

ICarly
File:Logo icarly.png The iCarly logo
Genre	Teen 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	50 (list of episodes)
Production
Production locations	Seattle, Washington Filmed at Nickelodeon on Sunset in, Los Angeles, California
Running time	23 min.
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon YTV Nickelodeon UK
Release	September 8, 2007 – present
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iCarly is a television series, which premiered on September 8, 2007. iCarly airs on Nickelodeon. It first arrived on YTV a month later on October 8, 2007. The show first aired on Nickelodeon UK during Easter 2008 and Nickelodeon Australia in May 2008.

The series stars Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress and Jerry Trainor. The series is created and executive produced by Dan Schneider. The series focuses on a girl named Carly (Cosgrove) who creates her own web show called iCarly with her best friends Sam (McCurdy) and Freddie (Kress).

Main Characters

Main article: List of characters from iCarly

Carly Shay

Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove) is the teen star of her own popular web show, iCarly, which she produces with her two best friends, Sam and Freddie. She is 13 years old as the series begins. Carly lives with her 26-year old brother Spencer in the Bushwell Plaza, a fictional apartment building in Seattle (which is depicted as an exterior shot of the Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles). Her father is in the Navy and stationed on a submarine (it is said in the first episode that he is currently in Europe), and it's unclear what happened to her mother. Because of iCarly, Carly is a local celebrity, which sometimes helps her get out of sticky situations, but she remains an average teenage girl who never lets fame get to her head. Carly is quite intelligent and hates to lie about anything or anyone, implied in the episode iPromise Not to Tell, where she was overcome by guilt when forced to keep Sam's trouble-making a secret. Carly usually has very high grades in school (but has never had a straight A report card) and is even offered a scholarship to Briarwood Academy, an elite private school. She often acts as a peacemaker when Sam and Freddie fight.

Samantha "Sam" Puckett

Samantha Puckett (Jennette McCurdy) is Carly's best friend and co-host of iCarly. While she's also friends with Freddie, their relationship is strained at best, since Sam enjoys tormenting him. However, her first kiss was with him, though nothing ever came of it. She usually goes to extreme torture such as revealing his secret to the whole viewing world, hitting him continuously with a tennis racket, and pushing him off elevated areas. Sam tends to be the opposite of her best friend; while Carly is the level-headed one, Sam is argumentative, hot-tempered, sarcastic, stubborn, and at times intimidating. Sam is almost always at Carly's apartment to get away from her family; it's implied that she has a dysfunctional home life and an unreliable mother, who apparently never wakes up before 12:00 p.m., and is supported more by Sam than vice versa. Sam is very focused on food, and is often seen eating or talking about food. She is a bit of a bully, her main targets being Freddie, classmate Gibby, and anyone else who crosses her. Sam is also a troublemaker and extremely lazy, and as a result she often gets in trouble with Principal Franklin (who she calls by his first name) and other authority figures, especially Miss Francine Briggs.

Fredward "Freddie" Benson

Freddie (Nathan Kress) is the technical producer of iCarly and Carly's neighbor who lives across the hall, where he stays with his obsessively protective mother who would have preferred a daughter. He has a huge crush on Carly, though Carly has made it clear that at the moment, she is not interested. While he and Sam are actually best friends, he bears the brunt of her abuse and they have a somewhat unreliable relationship. Freddie has had one girlfriend, an iCarly fan with ulterior motives named Valerie in the episode iWant To Date Freddie. However, his first kiss was with Sam in the episode iKiss, although they claimed it was "just to get their first kiss over with," and nothing ever came of it. Freddie is also particularly close to Carly's brother Spencer, whom he tends to rely on as an older male figure. Freddie is regularly seen using a Canon XL2 camcorder in the show during webcasts..

Spencer Shay

Spencer (Jerry Trainor) is Carly's 26-year-old brother and legal guardian. He is an artist by profession and is a sculptor. He is goofy, weird, and immature (which sometimes embarrasses Carly), but he has also proven to others that he is a responsible guardian to Carly in the episode iWanna Stay With Spencer. Spencer went to law school for three days, and his marginal law knowledge has occasionally proven useful to Carly and her friends, such as in the episode iPromote Techfoots, when Carly and the gang use Spencer as their lawyer to get out of a contract with Daka Shoes. As a running gag, whenever Spencer builds or fixes something that has electricity (and sometimes even things that aren't electric), it tends to burst into flames spontaneously like he's pyrokinetic. Spencer's best friend is Socko, who sells socks, and his brother Tyler, who sells ties.The two also have an uncle named Otto, who works with cars (Otto,auto) and a cousin named Rob who steals things.

Minor Characters

Nevel Papperman

Nevel (Reed Alexander) is an 11 year-old boy who runs the nevelocity.com website, a site that reviews other websites. Nevel is a vindictive, conniving little boy who has a crush on Carly. He acts overly mature for his age and has a slightly effeminate demeanor. When Carly refused to kiss him he wrote a scathing review of iCarly.com on his site and later successfully hacked into and sabotaged iCarly.com. More recently he staged a phoney contest on iCarly.com in which the winner (Nevel of course) would win a new car. Nevel lives with his mother, who makes very good olive tapenade, and his senile grandmother. He is afraid of germs and his dream in life is to open up his own haberdashery. His favorite expression is "You'll rue the day!" In the "iChristmas" episode he is shown as Carly's boyfriend.

Gibby Carlson

Gibby is a classmate of Carly, Sam and Freddie. He is physically immature for his age, slightly chubby and likes to dance shirtless. He is often a target of Sam's bullying.

Jeremy

Jeremy (nicknamed "Germy" by Freddie) is another classmate of Carly, Sam and Freddie. He is an overweight boy who always appears to have a bad cold. He sneezes and sniffles constantly. In iRue The Day the gang paid him to attack Nevel and infect him with his germs, but Nevel offered him more money to leave him alone.

Mrs. Benson

Marissa Benson (Mary Scheer) is Freddie's neurotic, overprotective mother. She always wanted a daughter but had to settle for Freddie instead. She hovers over him constantly and always reminds him to shampoo twice, change his underwear and brush his teeth, much to Freddie's embarassment and Sam's amusement. She thinks Spencer is an irresponsible parental figure and a bad influence on her son.

Principal Franklin

Principal Franklin is the principal at the junior high school attended by Carly, Sam and Freddie. He never hesitates to discipline troublemaking students (particularly Sam) but does so in a fair and kindhearted way. He goes out of his way to be fair and on occasion sides with students over teachers who pick on students or make false accusations. He is the only adult character (regular or recurring) who is not portrayed in a comically inept or negative light.

Ms. Briggs

Francine Briggs (Mindy Sterling) is an English teacher at the junior high school attended by Carly, Sam and Freddie. She is impatient and hostile towards her students. Her lessons are boring, and students tend to goof off or nod off (or in Sam's case, eat breakfast) during her class.

Lewbert

Lewbert is the doorman for the building in which Carly, Spencer and Freddie live. He is in his 20s, has a large wart on his left cheek and is very slovenly. He is loud, obnoxious and hates kids. He has a crush on Freddie's mom and they briefly dated when Lewbert was injured on the job and Freddie's mom offered to take care of him.

Episodes

Main article: List of iCarly episodes

Season	Episodes	Season Premiere	Season Finale
Season 1	25	September 8, 2007	July 25, 2008
Season 2	25	September 27, 2008	2009

Special Guest Appearances

Guest Star	Season	Character	Episode(s)
Austin Butler	1	Jake Crandall	iLike Jake
Greg Mullavy	1	Grandpa Shay	iWant to Stay with Spencer, iWant a World Record
Estelle Harris	1	Mrs. Halberstadt	iScream on Halloween
Carly Bondar	1	Valerie	iWill Date Freddie
Aaron Albert	1	Jonah	iHate Sam's Boyfriend
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
David St. James	1	Mr. Howard	iGot Detention
Lise Simms	1	Mrs. Peeloff	iMight Switch Schools
Daniel Samonas	1	Doug Toder	iFence
Jessica Makinson	1	Miss Lauren Ackerman	iHave A Lovesick Teacher
James Maslow	2	Shane	iSaw Him First
Lorena York	2	Sasha Striker	iStage An Intervention
Good Charlotte	2	As Themselves	iGo to Japan
Danny Woodburn	2	Mitch the Angel	iChristmas
David Archuleta	2	Himself	iRocked the Vote
Lucas Cruikshank	2	Himself/Fred Figglehorn	iMeet Fred
Malese Jow	2	Carly's Look Alike	iLook Alike

Media

Music

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

DVD releases

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

iCarly: Season 1, Volume 2 Box Set will be released on April 21, 2009 with 13 episodes on two discs, including a bonus episode because there was an odd number of episodes in this season. So far bonus features have been announced.

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 features on the site include characters' blogs, pictures from the set, songs, games, and comments from viewers. Many fictional websites from this show and other TEENick shows redirect to this page. For example, Zaplook (a parody of Google), SplashFace (a parody of YouTube), Nevelocity and NeverWatchiCarly.com redirect to this page. Also, fictional websites from the show Drake & Josh (mysweetmonkey.com) and from Zoey 101 (highschoolcrazy.com), redirect to this page.

Worldwide

iCarly has premiered worldwide as well in the following countries:

Region	Network(s)	Series premiere
United States	Nickelodeon	September 8, 2007
Canada	YTV	October 8, 2007
Germany	Nickelodeon Germany	February 23, 2008
Brazil	Nickelodeon Brazil	April 17, 2008
United Kingdom	Nickelodeon UK	Easter 2008
New Zealand	Nickelodeon New Zealand	May 4, 2008
Australia	Nickelodeon Australia	May 8, 2008
Israel	Nickelodeon Israel	May 15, 2008
Philippines	Nickelodeon South East Asia	May 31, 2008
Latin America	Nickelodeon Latin America	April 16, 2008
The Netherlands	Nickelodeon (Netherlands)	May 17, 2008
Belgium
United Arab Emirates	E-Junior	June 2008
Singapore	Okto	October 19, 2008
Ireland	The Den RTÉ Two	May 8, 2008
South Korea	Nick Korea	2008

External links

• Official Web site
• Nickelodeon page
• Y-TV (Canada)
• iCarly at IMDb
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