Carly Shay is the protagonist of iCarly.com. Carly is shown to be nice and girly and hates fighting with everyone. Carly has an older brother named Spencer Shay and two best friends, Sam Puckett, who's the opposite of her and Freddie Benson who likes her and a good friend, Gibby Gibson. Carly is now residing in Italy with her dad for a short period of time as said in iGoodbye. Carly will probably not be making any appearance for now since the show's script has ended for now. She was portrayed by Miranda Cosgrove.
Carly is sweet, girly and very easy to talk to. Carly hates to be lied to. Carly never had a prison record like Sam and is now residing in Italy with her father who's in the millitary.
(2002-2012; Best Friend)
Carly and Sam met when they were about eight years old and Sam wanted to steal Carly's tuna sandwich. When Carly fought back, Sam was impressed and the two eventually became friends. To this day, they share a close friendship that some fans even think of as romantic to a certain degree (see Cam Relationship).
Carly acts as a moral guardian to Sam, trying to keep her out of trouble and occasionally taking the blame for her pranks. Although Sam frequently causes Carly trouble, she likes her for being "creative, smart, fun and awesome". In iChristmas, it was shown that Carly's life would be very different without Sam; iCarly would never have existed and Carly would be dating Nevel Papperman.
At times, Carly and Sam's fights are extremely bad, such as in iDon't Want to Fight and iSaw Him First. In iQuit iCarly, one of their fights even lead to a near-death situation for both of them. They seem to be close as sisters as they look out for each other (see Cam Friendship).
Freddie and Carly dressed in 80s costumes for an iCarly sketch.
(2005-2012; Best Friend)
Carly is very aware of Freddie's crush on her, and sometimes exploits that he would do anything for her if she says "Please? For me?" in a sweet, cute voice. They keep up a good friendship, though, and know they can rely on each other when it's necessary.
Freddie and Carly have in common that they maintain high grades, don't like getting in trouble, and both live in the Bushwell Plaza. They are really good friends (See Creddie Friendship). They have been girlfriend and boyfriend once, (see iSaved Your Life) but Sam convinced Freddie to break up with Carly (Saying he was "foreign bacon"). Carly has shone possible jealousy over two girls that Freddie has possibly been attracted to (iBeat the Heat and iHire An Idiot) as Freddie has been of guys that Carly likes in previous episodes. Carly has also been seen slightly flirting with Freddie (iSaved Your Life, iStart a Fanwar, etc.). In the series finale iGoodbye, Carly comes up to the iCarly studio while Freddie is packing up. Carly stops him by placing her hand on his, and then she kisses him. Freddie returns the kiss, and as they are leaving the iCarly Studio, he is seen raising his hands up in a triumphant gesture, because he was happy Carly finally made a move. It is possible that they go out in the future, because in iGoodbye, Carly kisses Freddie and he reacts by a fistpump like in iSaved Your Life. (For more on their relationship, see Creddie)
Spencer boasts to Carly about how he easily pranked her.
(1994–Present; Siblings)
Carly and her brother usually have a very good relationship and have fun hanging out together. Carly acts as the voice of reason or as an emotional support when needed, but can also rely on him when she has trouble. She is used to him letting her have a lot of freedom and gets irritated when he doesn't give her what she wants, as shown in iLook Alike. Their brother/sister relationship is very important to the show, (See Sparly).
Carly and Gibby have known each other for four years. She has shown a little attraction to Gibby, and Gibby might have an attraction to Carly. They are very good friends, and he's a recurring guest on her webshow. Carly once mentioned that Gibby was "sweet, cute, and fun". (See Cibby).
Boyfriends/Dates/Crushes
Ben Huebscher
(First kiss)
In iKiss, Carly tells Sam and Freddie that her first kiss was with a boy named Ben Huebscher, who she kissed under a kumquat tree and he tasted like potato salad. It is unknown whether they were dating or not. He is named after an iCarly writer.
Freddie has had a huge crush on Carly ever since he met her. At times, he looked through his peephole and waited for her to come home. Carly never seemed threatened by this behavior, but rather amused.
They were in a relationship in "iSaved Your Life", but Sam convinced Freddie that Carly was only touched that he saved her life and wasn't in love with him, but what he did. They broke up afterwards, but said they would be interested in going out again when Carly is over the "hero thing". In iOpen a Restaurant, Freddie asks Carly, "Is it too late for you to love me?" out of nowhere, leading many to believe that Freddie has feelings for Carly. Then, in the series finale, iGoodbye, the two share a kiss (initiated by Carly), and Freddie is seen fist-pumping into the air triumphantly directly after this. (Also, see Creddie).
In iLike Jake, she had a crush on Jake and he liked her back. After Jake saw Carly kiss Freddie on the nose (for helping to make Jake's singing voice sound good for the web show), he believed that they were a couple. Because of this, Jake decided to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, leaving Carly single.
In iWin a Date Gibby chose Carly as his date, probably by mistake, although maybe he chose Carly on purpose, despite her obvious hints that she wasn't Shannon. They went on a triple date to The Cheesecake Warehouse: Carly and Gibby, Sam and Reuben, Freddie and Shannon. Carly tried to help Shannon to like Gibby. After that, Carly and Gibby become good friends. (Also, see Cibby)
She went out with him for a brief time in iSaw Him First, but since Sam was also dating him at the same time, the two of them fight and decide that the one who kisses him first gets to date him. Shane broke up with them when he found out about their competition for him.
Nevel kissed Carly on the cheek in iNevel, and has tried to get kisses from her ever since, but Carly constantly refuses.
In the episode iChristmas, if Spencer was born normal, Nevel was going to be Carly's boyfriend.
She dated him in iDate a Bad Boy until she found out he collected PeeWee Babies. She tried to make the relationship work, but then Griffin overheard Carly and Sam making fun of his PeeWee Babies and then broke up with her. He comes back in iBeat the Heat and tries to kiss her, but she rebuffs him. (Also see Criffin)
Carly chose him as her date in iSpeed Date. At the end of the episode, she dumped him because he kept interrupting her with random sentences whenever she wanted to say something.
He seemed to be interested in her, too, but in the end, he was attacked by Creddie fans and Carly just left after Sam said “he belongs to them now". (Also, see Cadam)
Carly has had multiple near-death experiences: in iWanna Stay With Spencer (nearly getting hit in the head with a hammer); in iQuit iCarly (almost falling off a window washer platform, along with Sam); and in iSaved Your Life (almost getting hit by a taco truck, but rescued by Freddie, off-screen).
Carly has a bikini with a floral design, skirt bikini bottom, and a g-string in the back. (iHatch Chicks)
Carly has shown her midsection the most out of any female on the show, due to her wearing a bikini (iHatch Chicks), a hula skirt with a coconut bikini top (iSaw Him First), and a two-piece mixed martial arts outfit (iFight Shelby Marx), a little bit of her belly in a plaid pink - black cami (iBeat the Heat), and in a black-pink shirt before she left (iSpace Out).
Her great-grandmother gave her a heavily insured diamond-encrusted watch when she died, although it seems Spencer and Carly did not go to her funeral. It came in handy when her room was destroyed in a fire and her heavily insured diamond-encrusted watch was destroyed in the fire. It was insured for $82,000. (iGot a Hot Room)
Carly had stuffed her bra once or gotten a pushup bra at Build-A-Bra because Sam noticed and said, "Thanks to your little helping!" to which Carly replied "There's nothing wrong with a little help. (iSaw Him First)
She appears to really like bad boys, like Griffin, possibly because they are like her best friend Sam.
Despite the fact that Carly's birthday is on July 24, in iScream On Halloween, she says she's a Capricorn (which would place her birthday in early January or late December). On iCarly.com, her birthday originally was said to be January 14, but it was changed shortly before the finale of Season 3, probably to make it closer to the airdate of iGot a Hot Room.
Although it would be logical to think that her full first name is "Carlotta" ("Carly" is short for "Carlotta") because she gets called that several times in the series, in fact, there is no proof in the series or the website that "Carlotta" is her true first name. It is eventually proven false in iStill Psycho when the
Carly in Season 4
police send a text to Carly which has the characters' full names.
Carly cries 8 times in the series; iChristmas because she wanted things back to the way they were, iTake on Dingo because the hobo pulled her hair and kept trying to climb into the hotel room, iQuit iCarly, because she and Sam almost fell to their deaths off of a window washer, and also because she was sorry for getting in a fight with Sam, iGot a Hot Room, because her room burned down, iPity The Nevel, during a webshow when Nevel apologizes to Molly, iParty with Victorious, because she found out that her boyfriend Stephen was cheating on her with Tori Vega, iStill Psycho, whenever she took sympathy on Nora Dershlit and iGoodbye, when she discovered that her father was unable to take her to the last Air Force father-daughter dance she can go to until later on in this episode.
Carly is the youngest of the iCarly trio (Sam, Freddie and herself), as her birthday is in July and Freddie and Sam's birthdays are in February and April, respectively. Though again it is thought that her birthday may be in January, so her age as opposed to that of her friends is debatable.
Although Carly is the main character in the series, she no longer appears in new iCarly.com segments due to Miranda Cosgrove's busy schedule. The gang only say she's on camera.
Carly sometimes pokes people when she wants to get them to focus (iPromise Not to Tell).
She apparently loves asking people to have a bath.
Caleb predicted that she would be the future Vice President of the United States.
In iLost My Mind, Carly grabs a set of keys on the way out of the door on the way to Troubled Waters. This poses the possibility that Carly can drive.
The amazing Carly Shay!
Carly's star sign is Leo.
The only time Carly has had a boyfriend by the end of an episode is in iToe Fat Cakes.
In iDate Sam & Freddie, it is revealed that she uses a machine that keeps her from snoring.
Carly, until the episode iRescue Carly was made known, was the only one of the main characters (including Gibby) not to have her name featured in an episode title. Instead, iCarly was used (the webshow's title).
In iGet Pranky, when Carly is watching TV, she is watching Drake & Josh, in the episode when Drake and Josh think they killed Megan's pet hamster. Then she says 'why is that girl so good at pranks?' she's talking about herself.
