"Yeah. She's never heard me sing before, so, when I told her I was gonna be on your show, she went out and bought her very first computer." |
iLike Jake is the fourth episode of the first season of iCarly.
Plot
Jake Krandle, a hot guy at Ridgeway, breaks up with his girlfriend and is single for the first time since the third grade. This is major Girl's gossip as every girl (excluding Sam) has huge crushes on him. With Sam's help, Carly gets a chance to talk to him, and she invites him over to her house after school.
When Jake visits Carly she's pretty embarrassed by Spencer's actions of throwing paint and quickly takes Jake up to the iCarly studio. After he mentions that he plays the guitar and sings, she tells him he can perform on the next iCarly webcast.
During a run-through before the show starts, they find out that Jake is actually a horrible singer and Carly, Sam and Freddie need to figure out a solution - they do not want to embarrass themselves or him in front of all the viewers by letting him sing on the webcast (though Freddie doesn't mind). After trapping Jake in the elevator doesn't work, Carly suggests that Freddie can edit his voice to a clearer tone (although Freddie initially refuses due to his growing jealousy of Jake), and it works. Carly is so happy that she gives Freddie a kiss on the nose.
The next day, Jake says he saw the kiss, and Carly tries to tell him that "it was strictly nasal". He doesn't listen, mistaking Carly and Freddie as a couple and gets back together with his ex-girlfriend who heard his singing - or so she thought - on iCarly the night before.
Guest Stars
- Austin Butler as Jake Krandle
- Joseph Buttler as Mr. Stern
- Norma Michaels as Jake's Grandmother
- Lexi Ainsworth as Lexi
Trivia
- Austin Butler, who portrays Jake Krandle, has appearances on Zoey 101, Drake and Josh, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, and the movie Aliens in the Attic. He starred on ABC Family's Ruby & the Rockits and Life Unexpected on The CW.
- The music video for Jake's song "Whatever My Love" can be seen fully on iCarly.com without the auto-tune.
- In the beginning of the episode, Sam says she switched her locker with Arthur Gradstein, who is a writer for iCarly and Victorious
- Austin Butler's voice is never actually auto-tuned. Butler recorded a separate audio track of him using his actual singing voice without autotune. A quick comparison of the two versions of Jake's song reveal they are different videos entirely, with the "autotuned" track having Butler take a deep breath before singing.
- Jake's Grandma's house is the same set as Jade's house in Victorious.
Allusions
- When Carly suggests that Freddie can change Jake's voice to a clearer sound, it is a reference to auto-tune, which is very controversial in the music industry.
Character Revelations
- Freddie carries a photograph of Carly in his back pocket.
Goofs
- When Carly and Spencer are splattering paint on the sculpture a doorbell rings and Carly answers the door to find Jake outside - but there is no bell push outside the front door to the apartment.
- When the audience heard Jake sing without the auto-tune, Sam was reacting in a negative way. After Carly put the headphones on the auto-tune performance was heard and Sam was now reacting in a positive way, but she never put the headphones on and should have still heard Jake's horrible singing.
- Note that if you compare the footage of Jake Krandle with auto-tune and without auto-tune, you can obviously see it's not the same footage.
- Carly says to Sam that her locker was between "the two sweaty wrestlers" to which Sam replies that she had traded Freddie's locker with someone and made Freddie take hers. However in iDream of Dance (the previous episode) Sam has her usual locker beside Carly's (This is a continuity error because the episodes were aired out of order - had the episodes aired in production order this error would not have happened).
- When Spencer was in the head sculpture he claimed to have a necessary breathing tube however if he had a hole the same size as the opening for the tube it would have worked just as well.
- Also while Spencer was in the head sculpture he held the tube on his left for breathing and the one on his right for food and drink. When he asked Carly to pour some coffee he held the tube on his left for the drink hole. Then when he said "How's my breathing tube" he held the same tube up.
- Did Spencer really need to be in the head while the plaster dried? He could have just put it on the table and let it dry that way.
Running Gags
To be added
Series Continuity
- This is the first episode the Bensons' apartment is seen in; when Jake wants to see Carly, you can see part of the apartment as the door behind Freddie is left open.
Quotes
[Carly and Sam are admiring Jake from the top of the stairs in the hallway] |
[Sam throws an apple at Jake] |
Sam: Tell me everything! |
Freddie: Just keep kissing those frogs, Carly. This prince can wait. |
Jake: [Looking at the Splatter Man sculpture] So, your older brother is actually shaped like that? |
Freddie: [while testing the microphone] Cinnamon Buns! Cinnamon Buns! Cinnamon Buns... |
Carly: But I just can't tell him his singing's too poo-ish. |
Carly: When it comes to the part when Jake was supposed to sing, we'll just improvise and talk about something funny. |
Carly: So now you can be on the show. |
[Talking to Jake about the Freddie nose-kiss] |
Related iCarly.com Blog Posts
- Carly's blog: Jake Was ALMOST My Boyfriend
- Carly's blog: Rumor Control!
- Freddie's blog: Mr. Awesome isn't So Awesome
Gallery
See photos of iLike Jake here.
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References
- ↑ Nielsen Top 20 Cable TV Show Ratings, Sept 17-23 TVbythenumbers.com (Sep. 25, 2007)