Fencer is the friendship pairing of Freddie Benson and Spencer Shay (F/reddie and Sp/encer). Freddie and Spencer have grown close over the years.
The name can also be taken as a reference to how Spencer taught Freddie how to fence in iFence. Prior to that episode, it was called Speddie (Sp/encer and Fr/eddie) and is sometimes still referred to that.
They have lived in Bushwell Plaza for years, across from each other's apartments. Both Spencer and Freddie have similar interests. For example, they both like Galaxy Wars and World of Warlords. They get' along very well; Freddie hangs out with Spencer and enjoys his company.
It is highly unlikely that Fencer will happen romantically due to the same sex nature, as iCarly is a children/teen show and also the age difference between them (30 - 18 = 12 years difference). This pairing is mostly shipped as friendship and ONLY friendship.
Freddie laughs himself silly when Spencer nearly hangs himself in his own yo-yo sculpture after seeing Harry Joyner in the Shay living room.
Freddie was very concerned about Spencer when he was upset.
Freddie says Spencer shouldn't pay so much attention to Harry Joyner's assessment of the sculptures.
Freddie excitedly tells Spencer that the iCarly viewers "went nuts" over Spencer's sculptures when the kids showcased the pieces on the webcast.
When Carly's meeting with Harry Joyner doesn't go well, Freddie tries to cheer her up by telling her that Spencer may turn out to be a great dental assistant.
Spencer generously gives Freddie, Sam, and Carly some of the money he earned from selling a sculpture because they helped Spencer get his art career back.
After the two detectives shut down the iCarly webcast, Sam, Carly, Freddie, and Spencer complain about the police officers' obnoxious behavior in the Shay apartment. Voice crackling, Spencer snivels that Stu Stimbler ruined sleep-away camp for Spencer as a child. Putting his hand on Freddie's shoulder, Spencer adds, "Do you know what it's like to be harassed every day by some kid?" Freddie silently looks over to a sheepish Sam in answer to Spencer's question.
Freddie is the first to notice Spencer's sock cake in the kitchen. Freddie and the others then applaud the confection when Spencer cues them to.
The plot has Spencer teaching Freddie fencing (which is how the ship got the name "Fencer").
Watching Carly and Sam leave for Build-A-Bra, Freddie moans, "Man, I can't keep hanging out with girls all the time." Spencer then offers to take Freddie fencing at the local fencing studio.
Spencer jokingly calls Freddie jerk for being a better fencer than Spencer is. Whe
n he sees he's hurt Freddie's feelings, Spencer emphasizes that he was just kidding, then teasingly calls Freddie a "sensitive little beast."
When Doug Toder obnoxiously brags about the many times he's whipped Spencer in fencing matches, Spencer pushes Freddie forward and challenges, "I'd like to see you beat my man Freddie here!"
Freddie says it was cool hanging out with a guy for once.
Spencer supports Freddie in his fencing match against Doug Toder.
Fencing with Freddie in the Shay living room while Carly prepares dinner in the kitchen, Spencer calls Freddie a "genius" because of his amazing fencing skills.
Freddie playfully chases Spencer around with his sword.
Freddie also playfully hits Spencer in the back and on the rear end, while Spencer laughs.
Freddie doesn't smile when Carly tells him that Spencer has been tryingFreddie nods while Carly tells Spencer that Emily's mom will like him even if he doesn't win the contest.
Freddie appears rather disgusted when Spencer complains that some dock workers threw clams at him while he tried selling fudge balls down by the ship yard.
Freddie nods in agreement as Carly tells Spencer that he doesn't have to win a bike for Emily just so her mother will go out with him. Both Carly and Freddie seem to be suggesting that Emily's mother will like Spencer even if he doesn't win the Sunshine Girls fundraising contest by selling the most fudge balls.
Freddie shoots a video with Spencer demonstrating the muffin basket Freddie and his AV club friends rigged with a confetti cannon. Spencer seems to have a good time filming the demo, laughing and tossing the confetti Freddie shot at him all around.
When the muffin basket confetti cannon blast knocks Lewbert out cold in the Bushwell Plaza lobby, Spencer shoves Freddie aside to ascertain whether or not Lewbert can speak.
When the paramedics arrive and lift Lewbert onto the gurney to transport him to the hospital, Lewbert begins screeching for his wart that has been blown off his face. Spencer turns to Freddie and cringes, "He wants his wart!" Freddie takes the hint and removes the shoe Carly is wearing where Lewbert's wart landed and hands the sneaker to the paramedic.
When Freddie wonders, "Isn't one pie as good as any other pie?" Spencer insists on taking Freddie, Sam, and Carly to Galini's pie shop for a slice of coconut cream pie. Spencer says, "We gotta get this kid [Freddie] a mouthful of Galini magic so he'll understand."
Spencer pats Freddie's shoulder sympathetically after Marissa Benson rather cruelly admits that Baby Stephanie does indeed hate him.
Spencer is the one who comes up with the plan to get Freddie to hack Mr. Galini's computer to find the coconut cream pie recipe.
When Freddie finally manages to make Baby Stephanie laugh by shoving a cream pie in his own face, Spencer is the one who congratulates Freddie with the most enthusiasm.
After the iCarly webcast, Freddie walks downstairs and scolds Sam for not helping him out of his flashlight costume like she promised to. To cheer Freddie up, Spencer gives Freddie a hammer and lets him do the
honors of sticking the tool to the Christmas tree sculpture Spencer rigged with a "dangerously large" electro-magnet. Freddie mutters drily, "Yeah, that's always a good time."
When Spencer and Marissa announce their engagement in the "alternate reality" sequence of the episode, Freddie seems genuinely happy for his mother and Spencer. If Freddie did not think Spencer was a good man who would treat Marissa well, it's unlikely Freddie would approve of the engagement.
Freddie volunteers to help Spencer dispose of the scorched Christmas tree sculpture.
e's fixed the TV so that it swings out 18% faster. Spencer touches Freddie's chest while telling him breathlessly to turn to channel 9 because a newscast is mentioning iCarly. Freddie smiles after Spencer does that.
Surprisingly, Freddie doesn't get irritated with Spencer for interrupting the filming of Wade Collins's music video to show everyone a neighbor's puppy. This is especially surprising since it was a major ordeal for Freddie even to get Wade to start shooting the video.
as mad at him, except Spencer, who didn't seem to care.
Freddie doesn't worry about Spencer hating him for what he said, only about Carly and Sam and the kids at school, which could mean that Freddie knew that Spencer wasn't mad at him.
Freddie is the one who comes up with the idea to get Spencer to pressure Mrs. Benson into allowing Carly, Sam, and Freddie to webcast live from Jackson Colt's MMA fight.
Freddie helps Carly, Sam, and Jackson Colt carry the unconscious Spencer over to the couch by lifting his
legs. Freddie then lifts Spencer's legs again when Sam becomes tangled up in them.
Like a referee at an MMA fight, Freddie tests to see if Spencer is conscious by holding up his arm and letting it drop limply back down. Clearly worried about Spencer's condition, Freddie asks Jackson, "Are you sure he's going to be okay?" Jackson assures everyone that he didn't throw Spencer hard enough to kill him.
Freddie suggests finishing up the interrupted iCarly webcast to let their viewers know that Spencer's going to be all right.
Freddie smiles when Carly tells the audience that the doctor says that Spencer will regain consciousness any minute.
After Spencer rescues Carly from Nevel's clutches in the alley using a fishing rod, Carly decides to dump some guacamole on Nevel's head from the Shays' eighth-story window. Spencer puts his hands on Freddie's shoulders as the iCarly crew and Mandy watch Carly dump the green condiment on their antagonist's head.
Freddie comes over to Carly's apartment asking to borrow a pair of scissors, and Spencer teases Freddie, "We've got a scissors in the kitchen drawer. Think you can handle them?" W"Clown day?"
Freddie appears as if he wants to help Spencer up off the floor after he gets electrocuted by Sam's wired locker, but is afraid of getting kicked by Spencer, who is convulsing on the ground.
Freddie gives Spencer a glass of water while he was laying on the couch. Also, when Freddie was giving the water to Spencer, he made a sad and concerned face.
ithout success) to warn him that the models are male.
Spencer promises Freddie, Carly, and Sam that the award he built for the webcast will "knock [them] out of [their] pants."
Spencer pats Freddie on the shoulder several times and promises to make ten one-foot tall iCarly Awards for the webcast. Freddie smiles after Spencer does this.
Later, Spencer yells at Freddie for not telling him that the swimsuit models were "dudes."
Spencer pulls Freddie around by his tux lapel while yelling at him about the male swimsuit models.
Spencer loves that Freddie's toes stick out of his cast and sings "This little piggy went to market. And this little piggy got hit by a truck" while wiggling Freddie's toes.
Freddie didn't seem to mind when Spencer sang the "little piggy" song and wiggled his toes.
Spencer and Freddie smile and laugh knowingly at one another when Spencer talks about one of his girlfriends who was, presumably, very good looking.
Spencer invites Freddie to go on a rock climbing double date with Spencer and his girlfriend Alison. When Spencer makes his request, he puts his arm out to fist bump with Freddie.
Spencer puts his hands on Freddie's shoulders and calls him "delightfully awkward." Freddie smiles back and swats Spencer's hand away.
When Freddie refuses to go on the blind date with Leslie, Spencer dives onto the couch and throws a tantrum. Freddie gives in to going on the date to please Spencer, not to meet Leslie.
Before their dates arrive at the Shay apartment, Spencer and Freddie play around with a toy hand laser gun he got at a Galaxy Wars convention.
Freddie and Spencer spend their whole night on playing the What Am I? game.
Spencer and Freddie go wild with congratulations when Leslie guesses her card ("Pants") in the What Am !? game correctly.
Spencer and Freddie are happy about missing their rock climbing time, as now they can finish their game.
Spencer and Freddie ignore their dates when they ask, "You guys wanna make out with us?" and then leave.
Freddie doesn't seem all that upset when he finds out Spencer shredded the Bensons' copy of the newspaper. On the contrary, Freddie seems somewhat amused by it.
Freddie walks into the Shay apartment to find Carly playing a ukelele. Fred
die then asks if Spencer is still mad at the newspaper for printing an incorrect obituary about him, but Carly replies that Spencer's more angry about Oliver Dixon's bad review of Spencer's sculptures than he is about the incorrect death notice.
Freddie also wonders where Spencer is, and Carly says he went to the Seattle Civic Center to volunteer with the Angels of Seattle charity, a program wherein local artists teach sculpting to underprivileged kids. Freddie says, "Nice!" and is clearly impressed at Spencer's philanthropy.
Spencer touches Freddie on the shoulder when he and Tasha sneak upstairs to look at Freddie's camera in the iCarly studio.
tionalize the fact that Spencer has avoided telling his father about dropping out of law school.
When Spencer expresses disbelief that Marissa would allow Freddie to go up in a helicopter, Freddie tells Spencer that Marissa doesn't know anything about the helicopter ride because she's out of town at an aggressive parenting conference in Fresno.
Spencer facetiously calls Freddie a "lucky booger."
Spencer doesn't snitch to Marissa about Freddie's helicopter ride.
sophisticated girlfriend thinking he spends his time "hanging with teenagers doing goofy stuff." Carly reminds Spencer that hanging around with her, Freddie, and Sam doing goofy stuff is all Spencer ever does.
Spencer agrees with Carly but says he doesn't want Candace to know he does that stuff.
When Carly starts to pout and cry to guilt Spencer into helping out with the show, Spencer looks up at Freddie as if to ask for his help comforting Carly. Freddie smiles and shrugs back at Spencer, likely hoping that Carly's guilt trip will work on him.
With his camera, Freddie zooms in on Spencer's artist's rendering of the beavecoon during the iCarly webcast, even though Carly tells Freddie not to do it.
Freddie raises his eyebrow enigmatically and looks over at Spencer when he says he met a freaky rabbi in Vegas.
Freddie helps Spencer for searching a beavecoon (and Bigfoot also).
While setting up some cameras in a tree, Freddie hears some rustling in the forest. Freddie then runs screaming through the forest back to the RV. Spencer puts his hand on Freddie's shoulder and asks him if the rustling he heard in the forest might have been the beavecoon.
Freddie and Spencer share a window when they are looking out for Bigfoot (while Carly and Sam are on the other side).
Freddie is surprisingly rough when he installs a special camera on Spencer's helmet. When he complains, Freddie tells Spencer to "man up."
Spencer tells Freddie to shut up, but he doesn't take it personally.
Freddie helps Spencer rebuild Carly's room.
After Spencer shoos the professionals he paid to renovate Carly's room out the back door of the apartment, Spencer puts his hand on Freddie's back and instructs the iCarly crew to go up to Carly's room and get it ready for her.
14 year old Spencer bears a resemblance to Freddie.
For his prank on Freddie, Spencer rigs Freddie's media cart so that it will be lifted up to the roof of the studio when Freddie's back is turned. When Freddie notices his media cart gone, Spencer inexplicably runs out from the back of the studio wearing only his swimming trunks and gloats over the trick he just pulled on Freddie.
When Jodi Flooger tells Spencer over the webcam that she thinks he should be on iCarly every week, Spencer agrees but says that Sam and Carly think he's too old to appear on the show regularly. It's quite possible that Freddie supports adding Spencer to the regular cast but was overruled by Carly and Sam.
When Spencer shows off his butt to Sam to prove that it's not flat, Freddie glances down at Spencer's rear end as well.
Spencer touches Freddie on the chest and asks, "Hey, wanna help me glue the jewels on my butt flap?" Freddie taps Spencer's belly and answers excitedly, "Sure!"
Spencer got worried about Freddie being trampled by the fans.
Spencer tried to save Freddie from the fans.
As Sam refuses to save Freddie from the iCarly fans a second time, Spencer orders Carly and Sam to step aside, then bellows, "I am Aruthor! I will save Fredward by using my longstaff."
Spencer poutingly counts screws in front of Freddie, Sam, and Carly so they'll start paying more attention to him.
When the iCarly crew tell Spencer that they don't need his advice on how to solve Nevel Papperman's bad publicity problem, Spencer starts spreading butter all over his face so Carly and her friends will notice him.
With his camera, Freddie zooms in on Spencer drinking soda when he crashes Nevel and Molly's reconciliation scene on the iCarly webcast.
Freddie lets Spencer have the pizza that he stepped on.
When Freddie asks Spencer how one goes about hiring an intern to help out with iCarly, Spencer recommends posting an ad on Sniffmeajob.com. Spencer then pats Freddie's back several times and predicts iCarly "will get a ton of responses."
Spencer tells the iCarly trio that attending law school for three days was the "worst 72 hours of my life." Freddie appears to be privy to some information Sam and Carly don't know about because he says to Spencer, "Worse than the time those biker dudes took you -" Spencer screams at Freddie to prevent him from repeating the apparently embarrassing story in front of the girls. Freddie smiles back at Spencer in amusement.
When Carly skips around the apartment, chipper about her blissful relationship with Steven, Spencer asks Freddie, "Is it possible she's in too good a mood?"
Freddie puts his hand on Spencer's back and leads him to the nurses' station at Troubled Waters to sign Sam out.
Spencer puts his hands on and drums on Freddie's shoulders when the Troubled Waters security guard allows the iCarly gang to webcast from the hospital.
Spencer calls Freddie and Sam "wienies" when they refuse to help Spencer break the disappointing news to Carly that their father Col. Shay will be unable to make it home for his own birthday party.