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"Why don't you name your show iCarly? You know, I: internet, Carly: you."
Freddie suggesting the webshow name, in iPilot


iCarly is both the name of the webshow, and the name of the TV show on Nickelodeon from 2007-2012, as well as Paramount+ from 2021. The original starred Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay, Jennette McCurdy as Sam Puckett, and Nathan Kress as Freddie Benson (2007-2012), and the revival now stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay, Nathan Kress as Freddie Benson, and Jerry Trainor as Spencer Shay (2021-present).

Background[]

2007-12[]

Studio

The iCarly studio from 2007-12

At the age of thirteen, Carly Shay, Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson created a webshow called iCarly, performed at first to break Ms. Briggs's talent show rules. Carly is the main star, as Sam just wanted to be her "amusing little sidekick", as she said in iPilot, while Freddie is the tech producer. The three become reasonably famous, and have adventures in each episode to make iCarly better, or to keep it from being shut down. Topic of discussion often includes Bras, Hobos and Wedgies. The show has had many guest appearances such as the band, The Plain White T's, and Aria Wallace as Mandy Valdez. Gibby appears on the show most times to do crazy things with Carly and Sam or celebrate something.

Five years after they began, iCarly had to temporarily stop because Carly was moving to Italy and Sam moved to L.A.

2021-present[]

ICarly Live Stream (iFaked It)

The studio in 2023

iCarly relaunched in 2021 after Carly returned to Seattle. After her boyfriend Beau (who she was planning to start a channel with) broke up with her on a livestream, Carly decided to relaunch the show. Freddie returned as producer, but Sam didn't return as co-host after it was revealed she joined a biker gang.

Carly’s new roommate Harper is only minimally involved, while Spencer continues to occasionally guest star as Baby Spencer. The newly relaunched iCarly features live streaming alongside short-form videos, some of which are comedy and some which are not. The show has been re-imagined as a YouTube channel, and Freddie is seen with significantly less video equipment due to advancements in live-streaming since the original series ended.

The webshow isn't shown as much in the revival, but is shown several times in season 1 especially in IStart Over and IMLM, hardly in season 2 and is first seen in season 3 in the episode IMake New Memories when Carly does a live stream, and then again in IGo Public, where Freddie tries to get Carly to say they are dating, which leads them to accidentally revealing their new relationship to the world. The couple reveal their love for one another, live on the live stream.

In IFaked It, Carly goes live to reassure people that Tastes Famiglia is not endorsed by her as they had assumed from a deepfake. Nevel - who is behind the deepfake - later poses as Carly's boyfriend Freddie, to trick people into believing he is now selling the rancid pasta dish. Carly and Spencer - with Freddie's help - go live on iCarly as Nevel and his wife Prunella to get them to admit they are the ones behind the endorsing and manages to get them to stop. Carly later live streams briefly in IHave A Proposal, when she is decorating the wedding venue for Marissa Benson and Lewbert Sline's upcoming wedding.

Cast[]

Freddie, Carly and Spencer promo

The current cast of iCarly since 2021

Current cast[]

Former cast[]

Icarly win

The former cast of iCarly from 2007-12

Conflict with Nevel Papperman[]

Nevel Papperman has tried to ruin the show too many times but he has failed miserably.

In the episode iChristmas, Nevel did not try to ruin the show, but was portrayed in Carly's alternate reality as her boyfriend.

Nevel appeared in iPity The Nevel, in which the iCarly gang helps Nevel after he receives wide spread hate following a video of him being mean to a little girl goes viral. In the revival episode IFaked It, Nevel, this time with his wife Prunella, tricks Seattle residents into believing Carly is selling a rancid pasta dish named Tastes Famiglia, by deepfaking her and her boyfriend Freddie to make her look bad. Carly and Freddie later get back at Nevel and Prunella, with Spencer's help, by deepfaking them into admitting they are the ones selling the rancid food product.

Achievements the iCarly trio earned[]

Trivia[]

  • The iCarly password was revealed in iWant My Website Back. The password was and still might be "Sam loves Ham."
  • The iCarly segment at one point did not contain the usual enthusiasm; in iSam's Mom, Carly and Sam were unaware that the show had already started, and continued a previous conversation about Sam and her mother. When they discovered that the whole internet had seen the conversation, they immediately broke out into their usual enthusiasm.
  • The first webcast of iCarly got over 37,000 views.
  • The first webcast premiered on September 8, 2007.
  • The most recent webcast occurred on July 27, 2023.
  • It is shown in two different Dan Schneider shows - Zoey 101 and Sam & Cat. In Zoey 101 it is shown in an early Season 2 episode just after iCarly had started. It is unknown how it is so popular in the episode considering it was only it's first or second webcast. It was acknowledged in Sam & Cat once people recognized Sam.
  • In 2009, iCarly (in-universe) stopped webcasting for a very brief amount of time due to an argument between the shows hosts Carly Shay and Sam Puckett.
  • It stopped airing in 2012 when Carly decided to go to Italy with her father, but returned in 2021 when she decided to reboot her webshow with Freddie returning as the technical producer and without Sam hosting.
  • It is mentioned in IGo Public that Carly does a Q&A on iCarly every Tuesday, live.
  • The website does not exist in the revival.

Gallery[]

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