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| ICarly | |
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| File:Logo icarly.png The iCarly logo | |
| Genre | Teen Sitcom comedy |
| 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 | 38 (list of episodes) |
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| Production locations | Seattle, Washington Filmed at Nickelodeon on Sunset in, Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 23 min. |
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| 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
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. 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. 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 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 (Sam also makes fun of his real name after his mom shouts it in exclamation when she thinks Freddie got a tatoo). Freddie has had one girlfriend, an iCarly fan with ulterior motives named Valerie in the episode iWant To Date Freddie. 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.[citation needed].
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. 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.
Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Season Premiere | Season Finale |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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.[1] 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 |
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| United States
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Nickelodeon | September 8, 2007 |
| Canada
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YTV | October 8, 2007 |
 Germany
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Nickelodeon Germany | February 23, 2008 |
 Brazil
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Nickelodeon Brazil | April 17, 2008 |
| United Kingdom
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Nickelodeon UK | Easter 2008 |
 New Zealand
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Nickelodeon New Zealand | May 4, 2008 |
 Australia
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Nickelodeon Australia | May 8, 2008 |
 Israel
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Nickelodeon Israel | May 15, 2008 |
 Philippines
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Nickelodeon South East Asia | May 31, 2008 |
 Latin America
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Nickelodeon Latin America | April 16, 2008 |
 The Netherlands
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Nickelodeon (Netherlands) | May 17, 2008 |
 Belgium
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 United Arab Emirates
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E-Junior | June 2008 |
 Singapore
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Okto | October 19, 2008 |
 Ireland
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The Den RTÉ Two | May 8, 2008 |
 South Korea
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Nick Korea | 2008 |