iCarly
Carly hosts her own home-grown web show, iCarly. She lives with her twenty-something brother/guardian Spencer and produces her webcasts from a makeshift third-floor loft studio. Grappling with adolescence, she never aimed to gain fame as a rising star/underground celebrity to kids. As events unfold in the pilot, it all happens by accident when a teacher puts her in charge of the school talent show. She and her sassy best bud Sam turn the audition process into a show, which Carly's tech savvy smitten friend Freddie tapes - including their hilarious banter and great chemistry - and posts on the Web without telling the girls. The on-line audience clamors for more, and a pop phenomenon blooms, with Carly and sidekick Sam's regular webcasts ultimately featuring everything from comedy sketches and talent contests to interviews, recipes, and problem-solving.
- 2007-2012
- 6 seasons
- Nickelodeon Network
- Comedy, Family, Drama
- TV-G
Carly hosts her own home-grown web show, iCarly. She lives with her twenty-something brother/guardian Spencer and produces her webcasts from a makeshift third-floor loft studio. Grappling with adolescence, she never aimed to gain fame as a rising star/underground celebrity to kids. As events unfold in the pilot, it all happens by accident when a teacher puts her in charge of the school talent show. She and her sassy best bud Sam turn the audition process into a show, which Carly's tech savvy smitten friend Freddie tapes - including their hilarious banter and great chemistry - and posts on the Web without telling the girls. The on-line audience clamors for more, and a pop phenomenon blooms, with Carly and sidekick Sam's regular webcasts ultimately featuring everything from comedy sketches and talent contests to interviews, recipes, and problem-solving.
Season 1 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 2007 - 2008
Episode 1
iPilot
Sat, Sep 8, 2007 28 mins
Carly Shay is a 13-year-old girl who lives with her 26-year-old brother in an artist's loft in Seattle. Her life is normal, until her and her friends Sam and Freddie start a web show called iCarly. It starts out when their teacher asks them to record auditions for the school talent show, but wouldn't let any of the kids they suggested be in the show. This led to them deciding to create a web show just for kids with strange talents.
Episode 2
iWant More Viewers
Sat, Sep 8, 2007 24 mins
Carly and Sam compete with Freddie and Spencer to see which team can increase the number of hits on Carly's website, using the most elaborate techniques available to each team. The losers have to touch the wart of the Bushwell Apartment doorman, Lewbert - a man that Carly & Sam are convinced is the meanest man alive. Judging from their hidden camera in the lobby of Carly's apartment building, it's easy to understand why they hate him.
Episode 3
iDream of Dance
Sun, Sep 16, 2007 24 mins
After enduring Ms. Briggs' lesson on traditional Scottish folk dancing, Carly and Sam call for their viewers to send videos of their own dance routines. Soon enough, the site is filled with so many video files for them to review that it starts to go to their heads.
Episode 4
iLike Jake
Sat, Sep 22, 2007 24 mins
Jake Krandle, one of the cutest boys at Ridgeway Middle School breaks up with his girlfriend, and all the girls at school want a piece of him. Carly thinks she'll get just that when she invites him on her web-show to perform some songs he wrote. But during a rehearsal, Jake is found to be a horrible singer, and Carly has to struggle to convince an already jealous Freddie to digitally enhance his voice.
Episode 5
iWanna Stay with Spencer
Sat, Sep 29, 2007 24 mins
When Carly's grandfather (Greg Mullavey) visits and sees her nearly decapitated by a hammer as a result of Spencer's sculpture Fan of Hammers malfunctioning on iCarly, he grows concerned that Spencer is too irresponsible to be Carly's guardian and wants her to come and live with him in Yakima, WA for safety. Carly tries to avoid leaving for Yakima. She and her friends then decide to make her grandfather change his mind, which ultimately fails when a kitchen fire erupts. Spencer then realizes that he irresponsible and agrees to let Carly move with her grandfather. When Carly is about to leave, Spencer runs upstairs and grabs her inhaler, which she has not needed in several years, and her grandfather realizes how responsible Spencer is and lets Carly stay, promising that he will come by from time to time.
Episode 6
iNevel
Sat, Oct 6, 2007 24 mins
A tip from a potential fan prompts Carly to seek a review of her Web site by another site called Nevelocity.com, one of the major tastemakers for tweens on the Internet. Its Web master turns out to be Nevel Papperman, a creepy and slightly effeminate 11-year-old boy who seeks the same thing from Carly that Freddie has been trying to get since he met her. When she spurns his advances, he trashes the show. The only thing that can save it is for Carly, Freddie, and Sam to persuade him to write an honest review.
Episode 7
iScream on Halloween
Sat, Oct 20, 2007 24 mins
Carly, Sam, and Freddie shoot their Halloween web cast from an apartment that is rumored to be haunted. When creepy things start happening, the friends worry that the ghost rumors just might be true. Meanwhile, Spencer forgets to buy Halloween candy, and he ends up giving children odd and random objects, which leads them to the point of rolling him down the ocean with him inside a giant pumpkin that he carved. During the show, Sam shows viewers how to pull Halloween pranks using masks.
Episode 8
iSpy a Mean Teacher
Sat, Nov 3, 2007 24 mins
Because Ms. Briggs is mean to everyone, Carly and Freddie spy on her to see what mean teachers do after school for a segment on iCarly. They find out she is addicted to Randy Jackson. They eventually get caught when Sam tries to get them out, and Freddie accidentally breaks her bagpipes by tripping over them. She threatens to call the police and expel them unless she performs on their webshow. She ends up performing on the bagpipes and their view count drops instantly. When they use the green screen, that Freddie recently installed for the show, to get hilarious backgrounds, people come back and iCarly has more viewers than ever.
Episode 9
iWant to Date Freddie
Sat, Nov 10, 2007 24 mins
While doing a "Blab Cam" bit on iCarly, Freddie gets a date with a girl named Valerie (Carly Bondar), who goes to the same school as him, Carly and Sam. They have a dinner date in Carly's apartment, and Spencer is their waiter. They start to like each other, but soon she wants to do her own webcast on the same day as iCarly. She then points out how Sam does not treat him like an important member of iCarly, which entices Freddie to begin working only with Valerie and production of iCarly suffers. Things get worse when Valerie invites Sam to come to her webcast. However, Freddie realizes his mistake and breaks up with Valerie, though Sam is forced to tell him how important he is to iCarly before he can come back as their technical producer.
Episode 10
iWant a World Record
Sat, Nov 17, 2007 24 mins
Carly, Sam, and Freddie want to break a world record for the longest webcast, currently set at 24 hours and 8 minutes. However they still continue webcasting while being evacuated from the apartment after a gas leak in the studio and resort to dipping their heads in ice water when they become tired during the show. Meanwhile, Spencer builds a large sculpture full of moving parts out of all the trash stored in crates. Unfortunately, when Spencer powers-on his sculpture, the power goes out, interrupting the show for four seconds before it can break the world record. Spencer inadvertently sets his own record, because his kinetic sculpture has the most moving parts in the world. Feeling bad, he asks Carly, Sam, and Freddie to attach the last part onto his sculpture, including them in the record so that they can get their picture in the book. The world's fattest priest also comes as a surprise for Sam, but he falls through the floor.
Episode 11
iRue the Day
Sat, Dec 1, 2007 24 mins
Nevel Papperman is back, and instead of trashing iCarly in his articles, he has directly sabotaged the website itself. Meanwhile Spencer persuades the Plain White T's to perform on Carly's show as a favor for preventing lead singer Tom Higgenson from being hit by a falling sign at the mall. But how do they expect the band to perform on a show nobody can see?
Episode 12
iPromise Not to Tell
Sat, Jan 12, 2008 24 mins
A ridiculous technicality costs Carly her straight A average. The next day as Sam is being punished, she manages to fix Carly's grades with the school computers(and for some reason, Freddie's), and makes her promise not to tell anybody. Because Sam's scheme involves Freddie, Carly decided to tell only him about it, and Carly can't decide whether the guilt over Sam's amateur hacking or Freddie's sophisticated effort to undo the fix will gnaw away at her conscience first.
Episode 13
iAm Your Biggest Fan
Sat, Jan 19, 2008 24 mins
When the iCarly crew invite their biggest fan, Mandy, to the set of the show, they realize that she is more than they bargained for. Meanwhile, Spencer joins a rock band.
Episode 14
iHeart Art
Sat, Feb 2, 2008 24 mins
Spencer is demoralized when his artistic idol Harry Joyner gives a bad review of his work. It's up to his little sister and her web show to bring him out of his funk and keep his artistic ambitions going, otherwise he may give them up for good. Freddie makes a bet with Sam that she can't go through life without insulting him, which is driving her almost as crazy as her mother.
Episode 15
iHate Sam's Boyfriend
Sat, Feb 9, 2008 24 mins
Love becomes a distraction for the iCarly Crew once again, as a boy named Jonah monopolizes Sam's time.
Episode 16
iHatch Chicks
Sat, Feb 23, 2008 24 mins
Carly and Sam decide to hatch baby chicks for a science project. However, the chicks all escape and get lost in the apartment. Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Spencer learn that if they don't find the chicks in time, the baby chicks will die, and must search frantically before time runs out. In the end, they find all the chicks and they survive.
Episode 17
iDon't Want to Fight
Sat, Mar 1, 2008 24 mins
On the fifth anniversary of their friendship, Carly gives Sam a one-of-a-kind iCarly T-Shirt as a gift. Desperate for an attempt to return the favor, Sam tries to buy a pair of hard-to-find concert tickets for Carly's favorite band from a scalper. With no other means to purchase the tickets, she sells him the shirt and puts both Carly's show and their friendship at risk.
Episode 18
iPromote Techfoots
Sat, Mar 15, 2008 24 mins
Carly, Sam, and Freddie get a cash-boost for their show when a shoe company gets them to promote a trendy new pair of shoes. The trouble is that the shoes are extraordinarily bad, and the backlash they get at school and on the web hits them hard. It doesn't help that they find themselves unable to break out of their contract with the shoe company... or are they?
Episode 19
iGot Detention
Sat, Mar 22, 2008 24 mins
Plans for the landmark 50th web cast of iCarly are at risk of being curtailed when Sam gets detention. Realizing she can't do the show without her co-host, Carly and Freddie try to get in trouble themselves, so they can do the live web cast from their school's detention room. However, deliberately trying to get detention proves to be far more difficult than Carly can imagine, and even harder for Freddie.
Episode 20
iStakeout
Sat, Apr 5, 2008 22 mins
The Seattle Police Department uses Carly and Spencer's apartment for surveillance when a suspected video pirate is seen in the background of an iCarly webcast. One of the cops turns out to be a former bully that Spencer knew at summer camp, who sadly hasn't change that much since he was a kid.
Episode 21
iMight Switch Schools
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 24 mins
Carly's fame draws the attention of a private boarding school, who want her to enroll as a new student.
Episode 22
iFence
Sat, May 10, 2008 24 mins
Realizing that his time with Carly and Sam has become too girly (despite his lingering crush on Carly), Freddie seeks some "guy time" with Spencer, which happens to be a fencing class for which Freddie turns out to be quite the swordsman. During this period, Freddie gets caught up in the rivalry between Spencer and a snobbish posse of fencers lead by Doug Toder, and finds himself competing with him in a duel. When his fretful mother finds out, she reveals a family secret in a last-ditch effort to try to talk him out of the competition. In the meantime, Carly is forced to endure and prepare for an upcoming visit from some embarrassing, ultra-geeky relatives.
Episode 23
iCarly Saves TV
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 28 mins
A television programming director realizes that iCarly is funnier than anything his network currently has available for the upcoming fall lineup. Unfortunatley, upon acquiring the show, the network takes it further and further away from Carly's original vision, and exploits and torments Freddie more than Sam and his mother combined.
Episode 24
iWin a Date
Fri, Jul 25, 2008 24 mins
Carly tries to set up Gibby & Shana by playing a game called "I Win A Date".
Episode 25
iHave a Lovesick Teacher
Fri, Jul 25, 2008 24 mins
Lauren Ackerman, Carly, Sam, and Freddie's history teacher has become an emotional wreck after her boyfriend dumps her, and she takes her heartache and anger out on everybody in class, including the ICarly trio. When Spencer discovers her agony during what passes for a parent-teacher conference, he decides to be her new knight in shining armor and fills the hole in her heart. Though things go smoothly for Spencer, Miss Ackerman, and her class at first, soon Spencer, Carly, Sam, and Freddie find that it's going to take a lot more than just a little loving to keep the teacher happy, and her class safe.
