This is as current as I can be. This show ended on 11/23 and I’m getting to it on 11/30. That’s the quickest turnaround time for my review (review) ever. I would have posted it on that day but the finale hadn’t aired yet, and that technically goes against the rules set out by the MIA Madison carter. I can only do cancelled/finished shows. The recent Nickelodeon cash cow “iCarly” ended last week and it needs to be discussed. Why is it so urgent? Because this is the time to bombard Dan Schneider with ideas for his next smash hit. The man has basically owned the network since 1994 when he was working on “All That” and this was his latest monster. There is already talk of Sam (Carly’s sidekick) getting a spin-off, and I’m sure that’ll do well, but he will need a new smash hit. If I had his email I’d give it out because his kid show genius is ripe for the picking.
Clearly he's doing well. Some people can't even afford one chin.
Now I’ll admit that I’m a little uneasy reviewing this show. A tween girl show isn’t really my bag. Sadly throughout most of the shows run I worked at Kmart and I saw just how freaking huge it was. Every other rack of girl’s clothes had “iCarly” on it. Carly’s face of course being on most of it. Book bags, DVDs, toys, bedding, you name it, “iCarly” was on it. They even had had the Carly Halloween costume, which was a shirt and jeans. How lazy is that? They didn’t even throw in a black wig. How does that cost $20? Fairly cheap for jeans I admit, but that’s not a costume. Send your little girl out in normal clothes and you have the costume. If a little girl has dark hair she is wearing that costume every day. If they’re blonde they are Sam. Hell, I wear a Spencer costume everyday by way of being a mid-20’s male. Okay, Kmart rant over, let’s dive in.
Even if I watched Carly's show a lot, it'd be nothing on the Pony fans. Right freaks?
I watched this show maybe 4 times and have to admit that it’s not horrible. It’s stilted, incredibly unnatural and not very funny, but that being said, it kicks the crap out of most shows in the genre. I remember it blew up about the same time as “Hannah Montana” and I’d watch “iCarly” every day if I had to pick between the two. Perhaps that’s why this show just ended and Miley Cyrus is doing guest spots on “Two and a Half Men”. That title doesn’t make sense since the half man is now in the Army, but that’s discussion left for another day. Miley rose like a phoenix and fell off a little faster, but “iCarly” managed to sustain its popularity. One of the great tactics Nickelodeon uses for its big shows now is smart. Instead of running new weekly episodes (I don’t even know if they do that for anything anymore) they only do events. This show particularly didn’t have a very set time of when new episodes came out. They just kind of threw them out there every so often to keep buzz up and leave cliffhangers and questions. It’s kind of horrible for the kids because they get strung along, but it makes megabucks for the network I’m sure.
Spoiler: The show ends just like when Angela left “Boy Meets World”.
God that was a lot of talking without saying much. This show started when pals Sam and Carly got in trouble and sought revenge on the horrible teacher that punished them. They used the help of dorky tech lover Fred and they made some kids laugh. They then decided to make it a weekly internet show and boom, they were famous. It was odd though because despite their national popularity, the kids in their school rarely seemed to give a crap about them. Somehow they still were shy and unpopular. At times random attractive guys would go after Carly, but it didn’t work because she’s oh so quirky. They were world famous and still the freaks of their class. That always sucks doesn’t it?
I know right?
I know the main cast should be my focus, but there are two guys that really made this show a little better than other shows in its vain. Their names are Spencer and Gibby.
One thing I hate about comedy today is how they pass off random as funny. Gibby and Spencer are big proponents of this. I’m being somewhat hypocritical in liking them the most. The later seasons (which I haven’t watched any of really other than the finale) made these two characters jump the shark it seems, but early on they gave me reason to watch this show once more before I ignored it forever. Gibby was a little fat kid who took his shirt off and was a player. For real. How awesome is that? Look:
Part time web show actor, full time PLAYA!
Spencer is Carly’s older brother/guardian and is mentally challenged. Maybe that’s harsh but he seems to at least have a head injury. They both live in a really sweet apartment that is funded by their military father. Spencer is a weird artist that doesn’t seem to make money and Carly is in high school so they are totally not paying for an apartment with a personal elevator by themselves. Spencer though goes in and out of being a good person to a raving lunatic, but it’s that shade of gray that makes his character a little more interesting.
Carly is a boring, nice person. Sam is wild, meat eating and tough. Fred is a dork. They all play their parts well in this kind of a show. Fred of course has a crush on Carly but ends up with Sam. That’s a whole thing in itself. He pines after her forever and she keeps chasing 45 year old men (at least the actors look it) and he ends of settling for the weird girl. Oh well, if that weird little love triangle is fine with it who am I to judge? But the internet is a really weird damn place because I found all kinds of ship work about the three, and I’m appalled.
I'll be waiting to see all of you in hell.
This show is like many: it started with the premise of the internet show, and that kind of gets less and less important and turns into a show about the people. That’s all well and good because the show with in the show is awful. It’s two teen girls trying their hardest to be wacky and it just sucks. I mean, if we get into the world of that show, I think all of citizens might have head injuries like Spencer. Weird shows like that exist in our world and they are widely ignored and mocked. Just like that show should have been.
We are all here to mourn the loss of such a great program. Not great in quality, but great in financial gain, but isn’t that what we all strive for? It’s hard to imagine a world without “iCarly”. I mean, I was still in high school when it started. Since then I’ve graduated college and started working a crappy office job. What will my life become without this show? What will all do without it? Will Nickelodeon go bankrupt? Will we as a society have a gaping void that we can’t fill? Maybe they Mayans were right. Maybe this is marking the end of the world.
Peace out losers. I'm gonna go make it in Hollywood like Drake Bell.