ICarly/Trivia

Trivia tropes

• Actor Allusion: Principal Franklin's daughter Emily was named after Tim Russ' real-life daughter who is also a fan of the show.
• Adored by the Network: Nickelodeon will often show nothing but this show and SpongeBob all day and treat it better than the others, though it has been replaced somewhat with Victorious.
• Fan Nickname: Some people who don't ship the Sam/Freddie relationship have called the the second half of Season 4 iSeddie due to the Seddie shipping arc taking up 4 out of the 9 episodes filmed and Sam and Freddie together continually taking the A-Plot with Carly pushed down to the B-plot or C-plot in pretty much every episode where details of the plots are known. Many consider it a Spin-Off or Continuity Reboot instead of a new season with characters who look, sound and share the same names, but aren't the same characters from previous seasons.
  • The imaginative, pejorative names of "Sucky" and "Cruddie" for Seddie and Creddie respectively.
• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Megan Parker & Crazy Steve are Carly & Spencer Shay.
  • Familiar sci-fi characters become faculty members! Tuvok as Carly's principal and Frau Farbissina as Ms. Briggs.
  • Bob Pinciotti is Freight Dog in iGo to Japan.
  • One of the calendar props on the walls of their school during the Green Aesop episode included a photo of actor Ed Begley, Jr., known for his support of "green" causes, and also known as the Dean of Hearst College from Veronica Mars.
  • In iReunite With Missy, you might recognize Missy if you've seen Gwen from the live-action Ben 10 film and young Jean Grey from X3: The Last Stand, it's Haley Ramm. Schneider took the actress to play the role of Carly's best friend because Ramm and Cosgrove are also real-life best friends.
  • In iFind Lewbert's Lost Love, the woman in the hall is Lara Jill Miller, who voiced Kari in the English dub of Digimon Adventure 02 and Juniper Lee.
    • Lewbert's Lost Love was The Janitor's love, "Lady" in Scrubs.
  • Joshua Malina, shockingly enough, guest starred in one episode. White House communications director Will Bailey. Or Jeremy.
  • Principal Franklin's secretary is Debbi Deriberry, voice of Jimmy Neutron.
  • Sam certainly takes after her mom, Sue Sylvester. Or maybe Reid's mom.
  • Part of their competition for the iWeb awards is Mike Chang.
    • Freddie made sure that Sam Evans didn't get through to try and speed date Carly.
  • Spencer once learnt to ride like a cowboy from Mike Franks, Gibbs' mentor.
  • Gibby's grandfather is longtime comedian Jack Carter.
  • Jack Black is Aspartamay, Spencer's online gaming nemesis in iStart A Fanwar
    • He also starred in School of Rock alongside Miranda Cosgrove.
  • Eric Blonowitz, Craig Ramirez, Gavin, Stacey Dilson and Maggiewere at iCarly's press conference at Webicon.
  • Dr. Kavanagh is head of Dingo Chanel, and is (surprise, suprise) still a Jerk.
  • Sheldon Cooper ends up in an insanity asylum.
• Guilty Pleasures: Brent Spiner (yes, Data from Star Trek) has stated that this is currently his favorite TV show.
  • Emma Stone of Easy A fame has called iCarly her not-so-guilty pleasure, as well as Miranda Cosgrove's music.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: The Japanese-dubbed version has a nice top-notch cast for many of the regular characters:
  • Carly is Fate Testarossa, Hinata Hyuga and Utau Hoshina
  • Samantha is Lucy, Allen Walker, Gemini Sunrise and Catherine Glass
  • Freddie is Yoshika Miyafuji and Sakura Kasugano in the first season. He is currently voiced by a male voice actor
  • Amber Tate is Tomoe, Ai Enma and Angol Moa
  • Nevel Papperman is Etna and Hinata Wakaba and later replaced by Athrun Zala and Kaworu Nagisa.
  • Gibby Gibson is Li Shaoran and Sumomo.
  • Marissa Benson is Tsunade and Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune.
  • Shelby Marx is Panty, Kim Possible and Soma Pieres.
  • France: Carly is Chihiro, Freddie is Ma-Ti, Sam is another Sam, and Spencer is Jet Black.
• Lying Creator: The week before the "iSaved Your Life" episode aired, a promo aired showing Carly/Freddie kissing. Dan Schneider, in an effort to calm the shippers of the Sam/Freddie pairing, implied it might not be what it appeared. Cue the episode, where they ended up kissing 7 or 8 times, and it was as it appeared.
  • He posted a picture of Carly and Freddie kissing as a tease for iSpeed Date.. then cut the kiss out later because of a kiss would have impacted on the story of iSaved Your Life. The kiss was likely to have been removed from the script before filming because they would have done the 2nd script already, so he basically created a blatant piece of lying Ship Tease for no reason..
• Screwed by the Network: After season three, Nick has taken a decidedly inconsistent approach to the show. It only orders 13 episodes at at time compared to the 26 or so that it was doing in the first three, it airs the show at random times, advertises that the entire season will be played every week, then stops it after 3 episodes, puts on new episodes with little advertising, and then starts putting them on at weird times, such as Wednesday the 28th of December for the second blooper episode, and then 8-9pm New Year's Eve for the iPsycho sequel. Admittedly, Dan Schneider has to take some of the blame, as he seems to have poor time management, which means Nick were only ordering 13 episodes of both iCarly and Victorious when they could have fit full seasons in even with the studio split (the two shows share the same studio space, and can't film when the other is filming) taken into account. This odd handling of the show and it's timeslots is one the bigger reasons for the abysmal ratings for Season 5 compared to seasons 2, 3 and 4.
• So My Kids Can Watch: Joshua Malina appeared on the show because his children love it.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Before Season 3 had started airing, Dan posted a script fragment from a future episode. He took it down quickly, but it was reposted on various sites. Naturally, shippers from both sides went nuts, especially on LiveJournal. After heavy criticism about Dan ruining the fandom and the LJ communities with his interaction he quit and deleted his LiveJournal, without warning or notice (meaning the fandom lost alot of interesting interaction with him), and eventually setup his own blog site, which he claimed was for better control, but his first post was about being pissed off with reponses to his script.
• Word of God: Dan Schneider. Vary carefully avoids Lying Creator by using ambiguous meanings, hypothetical, counter-questions in response to questions and shrowding common shipping viewpoints in terms of what "his friends" might think about what's happening. Was very active in the fandom up to the start of Season 3, although not as much now that he's dealing with Victorious as well as the 4th season of iCarly.