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I started watching iCarly in the middle of season 3 or 4. I found the show to be nonsensically funny. While the Sam character has reasons to be so mean there are times where she goes way overboard in my opinion. Of course this can be attributed to teen age hormones running rampant I suppose. Freddy is the only real reason they have a web show from what I can tell. Without his tech knowledge it doesn't seem as if there could be a broadcast. What's with Gibby and pulling his shirt off all the time? He sure ain't purty to look at with a shirt on. Carly is a warm hearted cutie who appears to only see the best in most people she runs into. Although she will go after a really bad one. The brother is a bit off center but he is an artist. How they earn income is never addressed. The brother sells a piece from time to time but where does the money come from for all the monthly expenses? Maybe daddy colonel? I find this show to be funny and at times it actually seems to address some aspects of teenage angst and growing pains. (With Sam around actual pain too, the butter sock is cool but wouldn't it start to drip or squish out when it warmed up)? Freddy's mom is even more off center than the brother. How Freddy turned out fairly normal with her around is a credit to the writers.

ICarly is a worthy successor to Dan Schneider previous hit, Drake and Josh with great characters, strong humor and just the right amount of heart and character development...is what I would say if the show didn't drop the ball less than half way through it's run. Like, this is a classic case of a show overstaying its welcome and going from an ambitious and unique show with a well executed premise to a generic sitcom with tired cliches and lackluster storytelling. Ever since I last saw the show, I've always wondered what happened to the quality in the latter seasons. Well, let's pull a classic Saberapark and find out what ruined iCarly (for me, I know a lot of people still have fond memories of it; this is just my opinion). The first season actually showed a lot of promise and in hindsight was so ahead of it's time I almost want to believe Dan Schneider and his team of writers were psychic. The first episode portrays almost exactly how something went viral and how these kids decided to continue making funny videos. It wasn't for the money or fame, but because they liked making the audience laugh. The season also had episodes wher they tried to get more views, filmed in detention, tried catching an alleged criminal, and even exposed one of their teachers for illegally downloading songs. They even tackle sponserships and tv deals in a hilarious and clever way. The show started out with a bang and you'd think that same level of quality would continue into later seasons. Spoilers, it didn't. Alot of people point to the Seddie arc as the downfall of the show, and that's a fair assessment. Although I'd argue that the Seddie arc was climax of a common problem that started all the way back with the first episode of season 2. That problem was having the web show, the very foundation of the series, take a backseat in favor of romance and drama. Many episodes post Season 1 don't have the web show integral to the plot and some don't even have the web show present at all. This leads to many episodes feeling really generic and beneath the show's concept. Like, did we need an hour long special where Carly dates a "bad boy?" Or an episode where they try to make Sam "girly?" Then came the Seddie arc, which I never understood why the writers thought Sam and Freddie being together would be either interesting. They been at it with each other since the very beginning. At best, they'd learn to respect each other but even then a romantic relationship would be out of the question. They lack any real chemistry, they never agree on anything, and they take focus away from what the show is supposed to be about. There are other problems with the show as well and it baffles me how they weren't fixed as the show went on. In the first season, Freddie's Mom, Marissa, was overprotective but still loved her son and respected his boundaries. In the later seasons, she might as well put Freddie in a plastic bubble and she was so ungrateful that he saved Carly's life, she got vindictive on her for "almost killing her son." This isn't even funny, this is just mean. Ms. Briggs and Mr. Howard are such bad teachers, they make Mrs. Hayfer look like Professor McGonagall in comparison. They clearly despise kids, they make unjust punishments to them, they kiss up to the superintendent, and it's confirmed that they're in a relationship despite Mr. Howard still being married. If I had to pick the worst sin this show commits is having One Direction, David Archuleta and Good Charlotte feel wasted. They didn't let David Archuleta sing because they spent too much time on an unlikable character who deserved to lose the music competition. Good Charlotte was completely superfluous to the plot of the TV movie and the best they could do with One Direction, the biggest boy band on the planet at the time, was have Harry pretend to be sick? I here by dub thee LAME! Ultimately, the reason why iCarly fell from grace is because Dan Schneider and the writers chose to make the show less about wacky antics in front of a camera and more about the romance and gags outside the web show. I suspect they did this to prevent the show from being dated, but like I said before: the first season was a head of its time. The Internet gave rise to many popular celebrities such as Arin Hanson and Dan Avildan (Game Grumps), Doug Walker (Nostalgia Critic), the Fine Brothers, James Charles, Salman Khan (Khan Academy), and the biggest ones of all, Felix Kjellberg (Pewdiepie) and T-Series. It's no longer a niche novelty that'll become dated in a few years; it's now part of our modern society. The decline of iCarly happened because Dan Schneider and the writers had an inherent misconception about the longevity of content made on the Internet. It's ironic that in an effort to not feel dated, the show ended up using tropes and cliches that were tired even before the show first aired. In conclusion, iCarly could've been one of Nickelodeon's best shows had it stayed consistent in quality. The characters were likable and funny, the humor was on point, the sets were well done and and there's just the right amount of heart to prevent it from being schmaltzy. However, all those positives only apply to the first season, about half of season 2, very little of seasons 3-7 and of course the finale. The show overall is a mixed bag with a lot of good episodes but also a lot of mediocre episodes. My advice, just stick with first season and some of season 2.

In 5...4...3...2...live from Felix in the Future Productions, I'm here to do the review of a highly praised show, but my opinions will be interesting. If you were watching Nickelodeon a lot throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, you'd know that ICarly was their most favored sitcom. It was so inescapable that you couldn't went 30 minutes without seeing Miranda Cosgrove in some way (music videos or promotion for the show). True story, I couldn't get into the show because of that reason. Cool concept but Nick kept shoving it down my throats while I was busy watching SpongeBob and other animated shows at the time. I felt like it was never going to end, and so it did after 5 years with a record breaking 109 episodes (including specials) something that no other Nick sitcom achieved until 2019. The show got so mainstream that I considered it the Simpsons of Schneider's Bakery (clever comedy, decent characters, and forced celebrity guests). The longer it went on, the more they became gimmicky. It was already a gimmicky show to begin with since it does has the "Famous teen sensation" formula that Disney loved abusing at the time. However it's different this time in that it was mostly about the Internet and not a singing star. People claimed Carly was a bland character, but honestly she's not that bad (at least early seasons, anyway). Miranda Cosgrove still does a decent job even if the directing has gotten more louder forcing her to shout her lines when possible compared to her snarky and mischievous character from Drake and Josh. Sam is a love or hate character. Personally I'm neutral to her but yeah her abusive behavior to Freddie was unwanted (don't get me started with that one gimmick I'll tackle later in the review). Freddie is the Squidward of the show meaning that he's always suffering abuse and misfortune from everyone he interact with. And let's face it, while we enjoyed most of the ICarly Sketches, we mostly watched just for Spencer alone. Jerry Trainor will always delivery his lines flawlessly no matter what character he's playing. I don't recalled a Spencer plot while the other main characters had at least one bad episode under their belts. Oh and Gibby somehow became the main character in season 4 and became part of the ICarly cast, because promoted fanboy or something. He used to take off his shirt all the time but then he matured and usually utter his name in a surfer dude accent. If I'm being honest, once I finally sat down and watch the entire show, I wasn't expecting much but it was better than I thought. Of course, it's not consistent in quality because I got a lot of pros and cons to talk about especially the cons. Let get the positives out of the way first: the show's humor and storytelling g was at its peak in season 1 and parts of season 2. Not all of them were winners, but this is what I defined ICarly: a show with teenagers making a webshow and hijack ensures. I also think the character development were at its best in this era because they were more tolerable and weren't spoiled brats because the plots demand it. It also had a great finale and while I hate to say that so soon, it's true. The middle seasons were a step down (at least the last season was half-good). This is not the ICarly everyone knows and loves. The ICarly everyone knows from late 2010-early 2012 become a pandering piece of garbage because Nick and Dan got too cocky with the show's success. I can't blame myself for avoiding the show like the plague at the time because we wouldn't even had Fred Figglehorn on Nickelodeon or One Direction widely known if it wasn't for ICarly. The Victorious crossover was praised by most fans, but I'm just going to confess right now: I didn't cared for it. While it's far from the worst crossover ever, I just thought it was overhyped to the extreme. The character interactions between the ICarly and Victorious was nonexistence and it took forever for both shows to collide. At least Kenan Thompson and the theme song mashup bumped it up to a 5/10 rather than a 3/10. But let's bring the elephant in the room, which is the whole stupid Creddie vs Seddie love triangle plot that plagued the show during 2011. This is when I feel like Dan Schneider started to pander to the fans (this includes references to his older shows because he's too egotistical to reference other TV shows) and his works started to go downhill as a result. If you're a person that wants to be entertained but have no time for these love stories, I suggest you to skip season 5 altogether. Trust me it's not worth your time. Shipping wars like this are the reason why people can't have nice things. It's a shame to see this show last like 100 episodes and see it go downhill because of the gimmicks they kept churning out to please the fan base. Overall, stick to seasons 1-3 and 6, and just avoid seasons 4-5 altogether if you don't want to fight with the fandom over ships.

Icarly is a good kids show for kids and very funny show.

reasons to like Icarly 1.) It is funny.

2.) It is unpredictable.

3.) Wide range of shows.

4.) Good kids show.

Reasons not to like it.

1.) It is sometimes repetitive So it is mostly a good show.

Icarly is about a girl named Carly played as Miranda Cosgrove and her brother Spencer played as Jerry Trainer and Carly's friends the wild Sam who Carly does her web-cast with, who is played by Jenette McCurty, and Freddy who is the tech guy of the group who is played by Nathan Kress, and then there less important, but still important Gibby, who who is played by Noah Munck. Together these people kind of live a second life with each other. They must survive the adventures they get into being famous, from losing a member of the gang to getting kidnapped... twice!

I give this movie a 7.5 out of ten and recommend this not to adults, but definitely to kids.

ICarly, the longest running and beloved series, introduced me to the Internet and the first of YouTubers like YouTube. I discovered it in 2009 when I watched the video for Miranda Cosgrove's opening song with Drake Bell. This show made me a loyal Nickelodeon viewer and showed me that online fame and passion are achievable. Crazy fans love Carly like Ponny. And Sam was and still is my favorite character. The romance between Sam and Freddie in later seasons surprised me the first time, and then I realized that these characters don't really need it, because in the end it won't be in the new series, which is a shame. The leg scenes were weird to be honest. Despite the oddities, this is a cherished childhood favorite of mine.

This show is based on the concept that loud + obnoxious + repetition = funny. The comedic writing is non-existent, in fact I face serious repercussions by even comparing it to entertainment of any sort. Here is the premise. Two girls accidentally get their shenanigans posted on the internet and hilarity ensues after their initial success, they contrive the idea that they should make a web-cast to showcase their brilliance.

OK, so where should I begin? Let's start with the laugh track, the oft used but never successful reminder that, we the viewing audience should laugh. According to the foley guys, this show is the funniest thing on the planet. We should all be dropping loads into our pants because of the brilliance of the humor placed before us. The laugh track seriously goes every few seconds. It quite possibly usurps Scooby-doo for the king of laugh track over-use.

Then the in-your-face-shout-at-the-top-of-our-lungs-the-craziest-grouping-of- words-to-seem-silly trick is also employed with little to no success. Whoa and let's not forget creating new words to sound funny trick. That is web-o-licious and poop-tastic? What the hell...

Finally, the acting. I can't entirely complain here. The actors are young and inexperienced, but this should and can be corrected by good professional help. Because of the inexperience nick should be helping the actors define their craft. Instead, in usual nick fashion, the actors are placed in front of the camera and told "act". Which for the most part is robotic recitation of lines, missed timing and overall epic fail.

The lack of anything in this show makes it a disgusting representation of how not to be funny. Don't waste your time. This show is debasing to all of humanity

I... No words. No words can describe this. I will try for the sake of those few brave people who stick knives into their toasters... after watching this show.

This... Cosgrove person... Her acting is like watching a female gorilla dance upon the nest of highly agitated insects. Perhaps I exaggerate. However, I have a feeling that the description fits a regular day of writing this show.

The characters in this repulsive pile of raw sewage are as useless as a small piece of space rock that flies into the sun on any day of the week. Though heart attacks have not been experienced while watching them act like fools on the cheaply built sets, I have no doubt that it will happen eventually.

The main plot of this *belches loudly into the faces of the actors* is that of a foolish girl who hosts a live weekly web-cast on the creatively titled iCarly.com with her brainless friends, one of which owns equipment that the producers of this show probably couldn't afford. Her legal guardian is some kind of moron who is apparently her older brother.

I haven't watched all of this show for fear of developing cancer, or perhaps a cold, but some of the plot points I have seen involve the brother getting stuck in an elevator, the doorman of the apartment almost dieing, and the world's fattest priest coming for a visit. No, really.

Avoid this if you are over the age of unborn or if you have a history of joining mysterious cults due to mental trauma. If you do decide to watch it, laugh when the laugh-track tells you to, as this will drown out the repetitive noise that will eventually put you in a coma if you listen to it for too long.

The show receives a one star rating because the IMDb inexplicably has not adopted the use of negative numbers.

It seems that Nickelodeon has chosen to copy Disney and make a bunch of preppy "sitcoms" to make kids feel like they're watching "grown-up shows" like Seinfeld or Friends. Watching a single episode of this show will quickly prove otherwise.

As usual, the concept of the show is actually pretty good, but the delivery is just god-awful. It's all about a girl and her friends making a webshow. Something almost always goes wrong and threatens to cancel the webshow. Carly and her friends must band together to keep it running. All with a healthy dose of humor. So, what could possibly go wrong with such a great concept? Surprisingly, a lot.

There is no humor in this show. At all. Sure, there may have been a time or two where I chuckled a bit, but that is the height of this show's comedic genius. They don't use a live audience and for good reason. You couldn't pay people to laugh at this. But for some reason, the guy who's in charge of the "canned laughter" button seems to get some kind of sexual thrill from pressing it over and over and over again. Literally, after every single sentence, the laugh track is played. The jokes ARE NOT FUNNY! Sam's "prison" escapade jokes are not funny. Spencer setting things on fire is not funny. Carly and Spencer's strange way of talking to each other is not funny. Saying "no chiz" is NOT funny. And the webshow. Oh, the WEBSHOW! I will tell my grandkids horror stories about that god-awful, satanic webshow.

Others have already commented about the "cheapness" of the show and I have to wholeheartedly agree. I could spend $50 making a movie and still make it look better than this. First, like Disney, they use maybe 2-3 sets for the entire duration of the show. But when they have to make a new one, God forbid they actually use some of that multi-million dollar budget to make a decent set. It looks like something straight out of an elementary school play. Just terrible.

I won't criticize the acting too much since they're just kids and I probably couldn't do much better. But when the adults act just as bad, you know something's wrong. I actually don't blame the actors themselves. It's the convoluted scenarios they force the actors to portray. All I know is, they better be paying these actors truckloads, because they essentially lose all of their acting credentials just from being associated with this show.

Lastly, the webshow. It is the worst thing that has ever happened to children's entertainment. Period. Sitting through one of these is like sitting through 10 Fred videos. (Incidentally, there was an episode when Fred appeared on the show. For the sake of my sanity and yours, I will not mention details of it here.) Apparently, SOMEONE on the production team thought this was a good idea and NOBODY bothered to criticize him. If there was any doubt as to the childishness of this show, watching one of these will remove all doubt. A 5-year-old would cringe at it.

Nick, what have you become? You used to have great cartoons. But now that you have become a Disney clone, I have no choice but to vent and make this review about how stupid you are. Burn in hell!