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* [[Above the Influence]]: ''iSaved Your Life'' features something similar to this trope, but not with Drugs/Alcohol. Freddie realizes that Carly is probably only in love with him because he saved her life, so he tells Carly they should wait a while, and see if she still has feelings for him later.

* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Carly (and everyone else) repeatedly say "Yaki-MUH," as in "I'm not moving to Yaki-MUH." It's actually pronounced "Yakih-MAH." [[Played for Laughs|Apparently this was done deliberately]].

** And then she shows up later, having found some "cloudblock" . . .

* [[Acting for Two]]: In the episode ''iTwins'', Jennette McCurdy plays the roles of both Sam and Melanie Puckett, identical twins [[Different As Night and Day|who are polar opposites]].

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Tons, since the actors/actresses have also been cast in earlier [[Dan Schneider]] shows.

*** In ''iGet Pranky'', Carly watches ''Megan's Revenge'' on TV (to learn how to prank) and wonders why Megan is so good at pranking.

** Nathan Kress, who plays Carly's leading man, had a guest role in the aforementioned show where he hits on Megan (played by Cosgrove) to no avail. [[Dan Schneider]] liked his performance very much that Nathan's scene was cut from the episode and was immediately cast as the male lead for Miranda's new show, iCarly. [[Dogged Nice Guy|Guess how Nathan's role began on the show]].

** Jerry Trainor, who plays Carly's older brother Spencer had various goldfish as pets, which seems to allude to this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qeg54XpKIA short film]

*** Spencer watches ''The Storm'' (the part where Crazy Steve watches [[Dora the Explorer]]).

* [[Adaptation Decay]]: ''iCarly Saves TV'' involved the webshow being bought to produce for television. By the end of the episode, Freddie the producer had quit working on the show completely, they added a zany mascot, the [[Deadpan Snarker]] sidekick was fired too, and when the lead quit, she was replaced by a sitcom family, and they changed the title. Yet the network considered it the same show, despite not ''even'' being [[In Name Only]].

* [[Adorkable]]: Freddie. Carly even created a new word to describe him, "cukey" (cute and geeky).

* [[Adult Child]]: Spencer is a sculptor for a living, often making whimsical and sometimes weird sculptures that usually end up catching on fire or exploding before being perfected. He loves light-up socks, has a pet goldfish (that he often forgets to feed, resulting in ''another'' pet goldfish), and once went to law school for three days.

** Carly even calls him an adult child ("manchild") in ''iLove You''.

* [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]: to [[Disney Channel]]'s [[Lizzie McGuire]], despite that the two shows are years apart from each other. Almost everything is a bit similar, excluding the Shipping Wars Lizzie doesn't have.

* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: Carly is quoted on the trope page due to her performance of this in ''iPie'', where she stalls for time at a wake by singing.

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: After the failed attempt to prank Spencer, Gibby asks "Did you hear my ribs crack?"

** In ''iCan't Take It'':

* [[Anchored Ship]]: Carly and Freddie, at the end of ''iSaved Your Life'' because Freddie can't be sure of Carly's true feelings for him. It hasn't had a [[Ship Sinking]] scene since, it's just never been followed through on at all or even referenced again.

** ''iLove You'' ends the Sam/Freddie relationship arc with them breaking up. Despite the litany of issues the arc and Sam and Freddie themselves brought up with them being in a relationship, it's still not a total sinking. It could be because it's the [[Dan Schneider|show-runner's]] way of maintaining [[Status Quo Is God|the status quo]] and avoiding the risk of [[Jumping the Shark]] that could otherwise happen with a blatant [[Ship Sinking]] ''or'' a canon relationship happening.

*** [[Word of God]] via Freddie's actor has confirmed they left things open with Creddie in case they wanted to revisit them.

* [[Angrish]]: Spencer's reaction when he gets home, only to see Carly and Griffin now in full lip-to-lip contact.

* [[Anticipatory Breath Spray]]: Nevel, in his first appearance.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "Made of a super-soft, thick luxurious fabric of some sort, the Sack comes in: rash red, mucus green, pus yellow and blue."

** And in ''iOMG'', Gibby asks what science has ever done for them. Carly says, "Artificial sweetners...man on the moon...liquid soap...".

** Maurice the Chicken. Called a male name. Makes rooster sounds. Is actually a hen, a female.

* [[Artistic License Geography]]: Carly's grandfather claims that it took ninety minutes to drive from Yakima to Seattle. If he added two to two-and-a-half hours more to that, then it would be more accurate.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Gibby/Noah Munck. He was originally intended for only a few lines and a couple gags with him not wearing a shirt, but they loved him so much that by the 4th season, he's listed among the main cast!

** T-Bo, also formerly a minor character, has been promoted a reoccurring character. While not credited as part of the main cast, he's still heavily featured in the opening as of season 5!

* [[Ascended Meme]]: Again, iStart A Fan War using the Creddie and Seddie [[Portmanteau Couple Name|pairing names]].

* [[As Himself]]: Jerry Trainor in ''iBloop''.

* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: Krustacia in "iSell Penny Tees" wasn't speaking Uzbek, but Russian. For that matter, her actress was Russian, too.

** Freddie's random Spanish usually consists of legitimate Spanish words; although sometimes, as in ''iBeat The Heat'' ("tubos yellos") or ''iBelieve in Bigfoot'' ("El Foot-ah Gigantico") they are just Spanish-sounding nonsense and often without context.

** In ''iHatch Chicks'':

'''Sam''': No, ninety pickles! Yes ninety degrees! }}

** In ''iPity The Nevel'':

'''Sam''': No, Nevel Van Hooter-Schmoozen. }}

** In ''iParty With Victorious'':

'''Sam''': No, Kenan Thompson, the ''butt doctor''! }}

** Carly also tends to answer Sam like this, particularly in ''iFence''.

'''Carly:''' No Sam, I'm just keeping my cellphone warm here between my cheek and my shoulder! }}

** Bunnies. [[Dan Schneider]] owned a pet bunny himself named Cookie (which also appeared in ''iFight Shelby Marx''). Ginger Fox has a pet bunny, while Sam once owned a bunny named Fluffles.

** Names. The female characters all have normal names that you could walk down the street with. Male characters, on the other hand, tend to have some sort of [[Embarrassing First Name]] (Fredward, Lewbert, and Gibby, which Cornelius is an Embarrassing Middle Name; his embarrasing first name, Orenthal, was revealed in ''iStill Psycho''), with the sole refugee being Spencer.

* [[Author Filibuster]]: A non-moral example from [[Dan Schneider]], who uses ''iStart A Fan War'' to portray [[Shipping]] and shippers in a bad light, then finally stops the show so Carly can tell them that the point of the show is comedy, not who is dating who. It comes off as extremely condescending, and it caused a storm of criticism. A lot of which had to do with the fact the episode wasn't very funny.

** Nora in ''iPsycho''. She also held a medieval hatchet and a [[Nixon Mask]] that scared off the trio back to their incarceration.

** ''iStill Psycho'' has her show up again. Not only is she ''even worse'' than before, it's revealed her parents are every bit as crazy as she is!

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Sam, a petite blonde, can kick ''anyone's'' butt. To an extent, Gibby's little bro Guppy also qualifies.

* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: The store clerk's home-made pirate movies (possible [[Shout-Out]] of [[The Amanda Show|Blockblister]]). Also mercilessly lampooned on the webshow's fake movie trailers.

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: ''iCarly Awards'', when one of the titular statuette dolls is shown skirtless.

* [[Base Breaker]]: . An in-universe example is Sam in '' iBelieve In Bigfoot''. Well, technically it's Bigfoot, but Sam does the actual base breaking, when the student body are having a number of civilized discussions about Bigfoot.

''<The students all burst into arguments with one another.>'' }}

** Sam again, this time in ''iStart A Fanwar''

''<Riot ensues>'' }}

** Creddie vs Seddie comes up in ''iStart A Fan War'' in-universe.

** There's an episode titled ''iOMG''.

*** Although the big reveal actually doesn't have a character ''say'' anything, just look shocked, which makes the episode itself, rather than anything anybody says, an embodiment of this trope.

* [[Brick Joke]]: In ''iSpy a Mean Teacher'', Spencer mentions breaking up with Connie (his girlfriend) because he learned she juggles for someone else. While the gang is airing their webcast with Ms. Briggs, one of the show's viewers is shown with his new juggler girlfriend, Connie.

* [[Broken Streak]]: ''iWas A Pageant Girl'' had Sam breaking the streak of the long-running champ of a beauty contest by putting on an amazing dance number.

* [[Beneath the Mask]]: Nevel is a polite, nice kid when within his mom's vicinity, but is a complete [[Jerkass]] outside of it.

* [[Be Quiet Nudge]]: Carly to Sam, most especially when Sam quips that Carly made up the Fladoodles yet Mandy still found them.

** Never pick on Carly in front of Sam.

** Never attempt to cut Sam's hair.

** Carly Shay. She is [[Deadpan Snarker|very sassy at times]] (don't say it to her face, though), but she does have a long temper. To short it out is not a good idea.

*** The focus of ''iThink They Kissed''. Carly's always open to her best friends about her secrets, but when she learns of her [[First Kiss|best friends' secret]] that is kept from her, she got "whipped up". In such state, NEVER [[Berserk Button|tell her to calm down]].

*** ''iSpeed Date''. Carly never finished one sentence when her talkative dance partner keeps interrupting her. Ultimately pissed, she manages to drive him away with a long [[Big "Shut Up!"|''SHUT UP!]] [[Unstoppable Rage|Shut up, shut up, shut up!'']]

* [[Big Bad]]: The closest the series got to a main villain was Nevel Papperman. ''[[The Movie|iGo To Japan]]'' had {{spoiler|Kyoko and Yuki, two Japanese web comedians, as the main villains.}} The one hour special ''iPsycho'' had the [[Ax Crazy]] [[Fan Girl]] Nora Dirshlitt as its [[Big Bad]].

** She is also an indiscriminate lover of meat, and in the absence of milk, will eat her cereal with root beer.

* [[Big No]]: Spencer beautifully evokes a "[[Non-Lethal KO]]" version in ''iSaved Your Life'', complete with [[Slow Motion Fall]] and distorted voice effects.

'''Delivery Man''': '''[[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|SUCKER]]'''! (slaps Spencer and dives on the floor)<br />

(Sam hangs upside down from the doorbeam, blowtube in her mouth ready for the "kill")<br />

** Carly also evokes this in ''iBeat the Heat'' (again, with distorted vocal effects) when Sabrina blindly tramples on her model of an Utopian City a la Godzilla.

** In their spoof film ''Kelly Cooper: [[Who Writes This Crap?|Terrible Movie]]'':

'''Kelly''': NOOOOOOOOOO! }}

** Carly again, toward Sam. When the former suggests something [[OOC Is Serious Business|criminal]], the latter would ask to confirm.

'''Spencer:''' Wear a jacket!<br />

'''Sam:''' (excitedly) Are we really going shoplifting?<br />

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Whenever Freddie speaks [[Gratuitous Spanish]], chances are the Spanish words he uses are out of context or utterly random.

** ''iGo to Japan'' becomes funnier when you know that the reason the Japanese security guard slapped Spencer is that he called his mother fat.

** In ''iGot a Hot Room'', Sam threatens the Italian exchange student that she'll break his leg unless he greets Carly a happy birthday.

** In ''iKiss'', Carly talks about who her first kiss was with. Sam and Freddie laugh when they hear his last name is "Huebscher," but it's actually a German word meaning "handsome." Bonus points for Carly saying his lips tasted like [[Trademark Favorite Food|potato salad]].

** ''iPie'': [[Amazing Freaking Grace|Here's a fun song to sing when people die!]]

** ''iQuit iCarly'': T-Bo talks about his best friend Eddie Robinson who was hit by a bus and now became [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Dead-die Robinson"]].

'''Carly''': SPENCER! }}

** ''iMove Out'': Spencer jokes that their aunt died falling out of a "winder". He quickly amends that the cause of death is a heart attack.

** ''iDo'': Gibby almost crushes an elderly woman beneath him when reaching for the $5 hanging on a tree. Much moreso when Gibby runs away from the immobile woman who can be thought as dead until she spoke "Do we still get coffee?"

** ''iGet Pranky'':

'''Spencer''': [[Lampshade Hanging|That's some pretty dark stuff]]. }}

** In ''iPie'', Trudy (Mr. Galini's sweaty granddaughter) dragged Spencer to the couch and practically spent the episode repeatedly lip-raping him, leaving the trio in a state of [[Squick]].

** In ''iPsycho'', Sam forces an unwilling Freddie up against a glass partition so Nora (the girl who is holding them prisoner) can make out with him through the glass. Sam yells "Come and get it!" and Freddie cries out "This is so humiliating!" as he struggles in Sam's grip.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: Sam. It is very obvious to the viewers that she caused a random misdeed and often times turns the blame on the resident [[Butt Monkey]], Freddie. [[Karma Houdini|She freely runs away with it]]... she's Sam!

** Unless the show ends with no pairings, then the trailer for ''iStart A Fan War'' is this, having told the audience that the shipping question would finally be answered.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Wade Collins. He lied about his mother needing surgery to gain public sympathy, was rude and nasty to the iCarly gang when they tried to help him make his own music video, and is a big jerk.

* [[Blowing a Raspberry]]: Not much used in the show, but is taken to adorable effect in ''iSaved Your Life'' when Freddie and Carly blow raspberries on each other playfully after they break-up.

** In ''iHurt Lewbert'':

'''Sam:''' Uuuuuugh... (spits chewed junk food back into packet) }}

** In ''iDate a Bad Boy'':

'''Carly:''' Okay.<br />

'''Freddie:''' Whatever.<br />

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Both Shays. Carly acts like this during Spencer's [[Overprotective Dad]] episodes, while Spencer can also behave like this whenever Carly acts as the [[Team Mom]].

* [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs]]

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: This VERY hilarious dialogue in the iCarly website about the 2009 Teen Choice Awards.

'''Baby Spencer:''' Don't say that! You're [[Lampshade Hanging|breaking the fourth wall!]] Nooooo!<br />

'''Freddie:''' Aw, sometimes it's OK to break the fourth wall.<br />

'''Baby Spencer:''' SHUT UP! I'm so uncomfortable with this in so many levels! }}

** In the [[Parody]] film ''The Blowing'':

'''Sam:''' Oh. }}

* [[Breakout Character]]: Gibby, as of season 4 he's finally been Promoted to a Main Character.

** The show seems not to care about the victimization on Freddie, sometimes even seeming to encourage it i.e. ''iMeet Fred'', with an Aesop that boils down to "Unpopular opinions are bad".

* [[But Thou Must!]]: In ''iDate a Bad Boy'':

'''Spencer''': GAS BUBBLE! }}

* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Discussed by Sam and Carly in ''iWas A Pageant Girl''.

* [[The Cameo]]: [[The Amanda Show|Josh]] [[Drake and Josh|Peck]] has a very stealthy appearance in ''iReunite With Missy'' as a Groovy Smoothie customer in a blonde wig and shades.

** [[Victorious|Daniella Monet]] was at Nora's party in iPsycho.

* [[Camp Gay]]: The Petographers Stuart and Ollie, complete with a cat they named Harmoo.

* [[Camp Straight]]: Nevel.

* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: So far Nickelodeon seems to be turning it into this, what with all the merchandise.

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: The entire focus of ''iTwins''. Freddie disagrees that Sam really has a twin sister after being pranked twice and since he never saw both Sam and Melanie at the same time. Also, Carly doesn't believe Spencer's accusations of the multitudes of abuse he got from Chuck.

* [[Chalk Outline]]: Tape version used in ''iTake On Dingo''

* [[Chain Letter]]: Freddie gets a chain letter regarding Consuela, a Spanish woman who had died. He must pass it on, or suffer such misfortunes as red socks getting mixed with white shorts, his sandwich getting run over, and his computer shorting out and making weird popping sounds.

* [[Christmas Episode]]: Complete with ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''-based plot and [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Peanuts]]''.

* [[Clip Show]]: ''iBloop''

* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Freddie in ''iMeet Fred''. The pic of Freddie after he got beaten up by the tennis racquet is even currently the page picture.

* [[Consolation World Record]]: ''iWant a World Record''

** Sam usually calls herself ''Mama'' to describe herself or whenever she feels competitive.

** Recent episodes have Freddie showing a habit of saying random Spanish words, usually as alternatives for saying "goodbye" like "''Pantalones!''" or "''Agua!''"

** Guppy quips "Happy Birthday!". His big bro even lampshades it being his catchphrase.

** Gibby's "Gibb-eh!" and "I ''love'' that!" (Season 4 and 5)

* [[Character Blog]]: Part of the extensive tie-in website.

* [[Character Development]]:

** Freddie: From a very nerdy and shy kid to a smart, confident teenager. His feelings for Carly develop from a minor [[Stalker with a Crush]] vibe in the first season, into something more mature in Season 2, and then in Season 3 he saves her life, becomes her boyfriend, and then leaves the relationship because he's worried it's not real love on her part. Despite this he retains his feelings all the way up to the end of Season 4, which is when the [[Wham! Episode]] ''iOMG'' happens and from there who knows.

** Sam: Grows up a little in the episode ''iReunite With Missy'', where she actually comes to Freddie and asks for his help.

* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]: Played straight, when Federal agents burst in when they hacked the school computer and averted it with the live webcast from detention that doesn't get punished.

** While the first half of the episode iGot Detention is about the group ''trying'' to get in trouble (and failing) what gets Carly in detention is ''slamming her locker in frustration.'' As opposed to pulling the fire alarm in the middle of school.

* [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin']]: When Carly and Freddie try to get detention for the 50th webshow spectacular.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Whenever the main characters seek help in searching something, [[Deus Ex Machina|the webshow itself is their main form of problem solver]].

** Spencer's episode-acquired possessions usually join the main plot like the fishing rod, the Proton Cruiser and the mechanical bull.

** The locator chip in Freddie's head introduced in ''iGo To Japan'' is a major plot point in ''iStill Psycho''. With no other escape options, the gang resorts to shocking Freddie's head to disable the chip and trigger an alarm that will alert Mrs. Benson to their plight (with Spencer's shock pen from ''iPrank'', which also counts as a [[Chekhov's Gun]]).

*** The highly conspicuous swords hanging on the wall of the house can also count.

** ''iRue The Day'' involved Nevel hacking iCarly.com. Earlier in the episode, "Uncle Roger", a member of the military and friend of the Shays' dad said he was staying for a month. Guess who came back at the end of the episode?

** in ''iStill Psycho'', T-Bo has to stay with Mrs. Benson. When Mrs. Benson finds out Freddie and the girls are in danger, he assists her in a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.

** Gibby's kickboxing. For that alone, do not make him angry. [[The Incredible Hulk|You won't like Gibby when he's angry.]]

** Mrs. Benson's fencing history. Not only did it turn up later in ''iFence'' to beat up some bullies, she uses her skills to defeat the [[Ax Crazy]] Nora and her mother in ''iStill Psycho''.

* [[Chew Toy]]: Lewbert is the main example; Freddie in ''iMeet Fred''; Spencer sometimes gets this in ''iLook Alike'' and whenever he's with Chuck.

* [[Claustrophobia]]: Carly suffers from this, freaking out after being trapped in small rooms in both ''iSpace Out'' and ''iSam's Mom''.

** Ms. Ackerman (although more than a mere girl) in ''iHave a Lovesick Teacher''.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: ''Everyone'', especially Spencer.

'''Freddie:''' ''(Stares at Spencer in disbelief)'' ...Uh-huh. }}

* [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: Intentionally invoked by Freddie to make Sam insult him and lose a bet in ''iHeart Art''.

* [[Collective Groan]]: Done numerous times in ''iDream of Dance''.

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: One of the main sources of humor within the show, most especially the abuse Freddie (and Gibby) suffer from Sam; and the rare instances between Carly and Spencer (ex. ''iLook Alike'')

*** Justified - the audience is expected to laugh about [[Big Bad|Nevel]] loses his popularity, not that he's tormenting a little girl.

* [[Comic Book Time]]: Averted in the first and second seasons, with them clearly moving up a grade, as well as the cast clearly entering puberty and growing up. They also explained how their school was a combined Middle and High school as they moved to a grade, that in almost all US education systems, means moving from from a Junior or Middle school, to a new High School.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: When Spencer reports something to Carly, she usually diverts the subject.

** Spencer finally manages to show video evidence to Carly that Chuck is a horrible kid toward him.

'''Spencer:''' Stop squishing it! }}

** Spencer explains the prank that sent a group of kids to the hospital when Carly notes his grammar.

'''Spencer:''' You're missing the point! }}

** In ''Ipity The Nevel'''s B-plot, Freddie gets attention for a bunch of vampire [[Fan Girls]] for his intentionally horrible acting in a parody of popular vampire fads, not seeming to get that he did it to make fun of said fangirls and their favorite things.

*** When Gibby's mom visits him at the Shay's she quickly declines to stay and say hi to Spencer, whom she had briefly dated in ''iFix A Pop Star''.

** In ''iFind Lewbert's Lost Love'', Carly and Sam are shown singing Ginger Fox's song, heard in full later in ''iFix a Popstar''.

** ''iSam's Mom'' cements Sam's hatred of the word "panties" as a fact, as well as her "I Love Las Vegas" underwear, the mention of her twin sister, and Carly's claustrophobic freakout.

** In one episode, [[Britney Spears]] [[Expy]] Ginger Fox stabs Freddie with a fork. Go back a few years (and across the [[Nick Verse]]) and what did [[Zoey 101|Zoey]] (played by Britney's sis Jamie Lynn) threaten to do to [[Royal Brat]] Logan in "Hands on a Blix Van"?

* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]: Averted in ''iMove Out'': Carly was averse to vandalizing the Petographers' studio.

** Almost averted in ''iLook Alike'':

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Everything in the iCarly-verse (and Schneider-verse in that matter) are colorful and jolly, with a cast full of eccentric characters. And then there's [[Sadist Teacher|SadistTeachers]], evil rival celebrities, [[Jerkass]] neighbors, all in the name of comedy. Interacting with them is just another normal day for our iCarly gang.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Mrs. Benson probably has bought and possessed a care-for-your-child product for ANY occassion and keeps a first-aid kit the size of a luggage bag.

** Then he finds himself on the receiving end when [[Cute Bruiser|Sam]] takes him on.

* [[Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists]]: Spencer after his arrest for causing the worst traffic jam in Seattle history. In an effort to get more viewers, he made a far too bright glowing sign above ''a major highway.'' When dropped off at home he requested some lotion for his raw wrists, leading into a little comedic bit with the officer.

** And in a non [[Unstoppable Rage]] moment in ''iCook'' she wrestles a full grown man to the ground without working up a sweat.

** Shelby Marx. Freddie calls her "smoking hot".

** Inverted: Gibby in ''iEnrage Gibby''.

* [[Dating Service Disaster]]: Spencer, using whynotdateme.com

* [[Damned By Faint Praise]]: Used against the Daka shoe company in ''iPromote Techfoots'' when the shoe is a hunk of crap, burns out when used, crashes computers with its wifi, and causes a backlash against their show.

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Averted with the main cast. However, Griffin, Carly's love interest in ''iDate A Bad Boy'', was played by a 23-year-old and looked like it. The episode involved some heavy make out sessions with the star of the show Miranda Cosgrove, who was 15 when they filmed them. Miranda apparently got to choose which guy they casted.

** In ''iPsycho'', the girl who keeps the trio hostage looks like a 22-year-old instead of a 16-year-old.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Each of the main characters had their moments of snarkiness, but Sam and Mrs. Benson are the harshest of the lot.

** In ''iGet Pranky'':

'''Sam''': You got him dinner. }}

** In ''iSaved Your Life'':

'''Mrs. Benson:''' Broken... damaged... And I see you look fine, isn't that nice? }}

* [[Dean Bitterman]]: When Mr Howard and Mrs Briggs take over the school during ''iHave My Principals''.

* [[Deconstruction]]: ''iDate Sam & Freddie'' and the rest of the Seddie arc shows what happens when Sam and Freddie, two people who continually bicker, fight argue and often act in ways that show they legitimately hate each other start dating. They fight, bicker, argue, piss each other off constantly, drag each other down into fighting harder than the did before, and need Carly to fix their fights even more than usual, to the point Carly snaps and tells them they shouldn't be dating at all. It doesn't get better. The last episode shows them being unable to share an interest of the other without ruining it for the person whose interest it is, that they have no ''shared'' interests outside of filming the webshow and that their relationship fades away naturally because they have no reason to see each other for anything but making out. Finally, they both realise their personalities are too different to work in a relationship for more than a few weeks. As Sam and Freddie are a pretty standard [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] ship, it also serves to deconstruct that type of relationship as a whole.

** A rough list of sites that redirect are: nevelocity.com; thevalerieshow.com (which are websites of their ''nemesis'' Nevel and Valerie, who tried to steal Freddie); sampuckett.com; instaboobs.com; whynotdateme.com; spraymychildren.com; aggressiveparenting.com; exerciserox.com (OR exerciserocks.com); and beavecoon.org. icarly.com will not help you with any of these things.

* [[Delayed Reaction]]: Used quite a bunch of times throughout the series, usually by Freddie and Spencer.

** In ''iMust Have Locker 239'', Freddie negotiates with Sam about getting her half of the locker as Sam mentions that her mom is driving a car to fetch her just ''after having an eye surgery''. Freddie still goes on his negotiation until Sam's statement sinks in.

** In ''iHurt Lewbert'':

'''Freddie''': Yeah... (pauses) '''[[Big "What?"|WHAT?!]]''' }}

* [[Delinquents]]: Sam is the resident bad ass of the group. She has been to jail, as well as juvie, numerous times.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The book ''[[Big Foot]]: True or Real?'' and also, the ''Seat of Sitting''.

** In ''iPie'':

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: [[Stalker with a Crush]] {{spoiler|Nora}} from iPsycho. {{spoiler|She kisses a girl at her party, as well as demanding a kiss from Freddie.}}

* [[Derailing Love Interests]]: Used to break up Jonah and Sam in ''iHate Sam's Girlfriend''. They spent 60% of the episode being sickenly sweet to each other, with Sam spending all her time with him. Rather than have Sam and Jonah deal with how that was hurting her friendships and their webshow, Jonah suddenly tries to cheat on Sam with Carly, giving them a quick solution and easy end to their relationship.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Freddie's Mood App plot device in ''iOMG'' being the biggest example. Its accuracy or how it works was never questioned, and its sole existence is simply paving the way for the 4-episode Sam/Freddie arc.

* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Invoked in ''iStart a Fan War.'' While denying having a relationship with Freddie, Carly attempts a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] by pointing out her actual romantic interest. The in-universe Creddie shippers to whom she was preaching take the wrong message from the speech and attack him.

* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Jerry Trainor directs the ''iApril's Fools'' episode.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Carly/Spencer's father is in the military, Sam and Freddie's are completely absent, never even mentioned.

** Sam's father's disappearance was finally addressed in "iParty with Victorious":

'''Sam''': Yeah, and [[Black Comedy|my dad once told my mom he was coming back]]! (Everyone stares at her in horror) ...Moving on. }}

** And again in "iLost My Mind", when asked where her father is, Sam yells back, "You tell me!"

* [[Discontinuity Nod]]: Sabrina appeared as a random partygoer in ''iTwins'' where Freddie and Melanie dated, and budged Freddie causing him to spill the fruit punch he was holding. In ''iBeat the Heat'', Sabrina appears again and behaved as though she had never seen Freddie before.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Briggs threatens Freddie to get expelled because of Spencer's presence; Howard gives Gibby triple detention for being "too Gibby" and his smart-ass replies; Devlin marks down Carly's report for being printed on three-holed paper which he hates; Ackerman gives Carly an F for a quiz she never took [[Love Makes You Crazy|after Spencer broke up with her]]. The list goes on...

** Nevel Papperman. After being refused to be kissed by Carly and soiled on the face with tapenade, the rest of the episodes involving him are plots of his desire to get rid of iCarly.

** Freddie's fate for stating his opinion in ''iMeet Fred''. Seeing someone take that much abuse for dissing the Fred show '''HAS''' to count as this.

** Chuck Chambers. He was breaking a building rule by playing raquetball in the lobby, and Spencer couldn't get him to stop, so he told Chuck's dad, who grounded him for 2 days. Chuck got revenge... By keeping Spencer locked up in a storage cage in the basement (and squirting him with a "suspicious liquid"). And then he's perfectly willing to beat the crap out of Spencer. All for a 2-day grounding over something he wasn't supposed to be doing in the first place.

** The petographers. They destroyed Carly and Sam's studio just because they refused to shut down their pet photography business.

** In ''iCan't Take It'' Freddie got his application to N.E.R.D. camp denied because Sam sabotaged it. Why? Because he didn't know what time it was when she asked him.

* [[The Ditz]]: Carly's role in the ''Idiot Farm Girl'' skit. Gibby may also have his moments wherein he is quite slow in the uptake.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Carly meeting Nevel for the first time is oddly reminiscent of meeting an internet pedophile. Obviously it's toned down for kids, though the flamboyant mannerisms of the character make this hold traces of [[Unfortunate Implications]].

** Carly and Sam fighting over Freddie in ''iQuit iCarly'' was very much like divorcing parents fighting over the affection of their kid.

** Mrs. Benson interrupting their webshow holding a bag which looks identical to a bag of weed and asking Freddie what it was. It turns out to be the asparagus that Freddie didn't eat for dinner, but it's obvious what it was meant to resemble

** When Carly stopped dating the guy in "iQ" Sam gives Carly the huge fork which she took from the Shays at the beginning of the episode. When Carly asks Sam why is she giving up her beloved fork, Sam pulls out a huge fork. Carly replies " That is comically big." Which, not only reminds us of a body part that can sometimes be comically big,also reminds some of us of what one woman might give her now-lonely girl friend to compensate for not having a boyfriend any more. If you know what I mean? Probably the closest a kid show ever came to making a masturbation joke. And its with females at that

** Freddie's extremely overbearing mother is actually a case of emotional abuse, yet this dynamic is only played for laughs. Many of her behaviors, including purposefully embarrassing him in front of his friends, being overprotective about things like scissors, and implanting a chip in his head so that she can track him are definitely not okay and would easily by classified as child abuse.

** There are several moments when female-on-male violence is portrayed as bad, such as Miss Ackerman with Spencer (''iHave a Lovesick Teacher'') and Marta with Lewbert (''iFind Lewbert's Lost Love''). Even still, they are only played for laughs, which is disappointing considering the long-term trauma it is implied to have caused Lewbert.

* [[Do Wrong Right]]: The tummy-rub antic of the Shays.

(Carly tummy rubs with a siren sound as Spencer and Granddad resume theirs. Sam and Freddie follow suit, to Lewbert's chagrin.) }}

* [[Dream Within a Dream]]: Spencer's dream about the soup-eating monster in "iDate A Bad Boy."

** Carly begins with a nice dream, and wakes up when it turns into a nightmare in ''iMight Switch Schools''. She goes back to sleep to "reboot" her good dream. Ooh, watch out, ''[[Inception]]''.

** Sam as well, and is more of one than Freddie as she lives somewhere that requires a car or bus ride (or presumably a long walk) hardly ever goes home.

** Lampshaded by Spencer in ''iParty With Victorious'':

* [[Dueling Shows]]: vs ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]''. Moreso with ''[[Hannah Montana]]''. Well, they were really dueling over who gets [[Fred]].

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: The portrayal of Ginger Fox throughout ''iFix a Popstar''.

'''Ginger Fox''': What did she say? }}

** Inverted in ''iHire An Idiot'': Cort was a dumb male brunet hired by the girls. Ashley, hired by Freddie, also had dark hair, appeared to be dumb at first {{spoiler|but was only playing the part to help Freddie trick the girls into firing Cort}}.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Duke Lubberman in ''iHatch Chicks''.

'''Freddie''': Wait, wait! (groans) Tell them to add some intelligence boost! }}

* [[Dunno What's Going On, But...]]...: Carly and Spencer say this during their dream sequence in ''iDreamOfDance.''

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Gibby in ''iPsycho''.

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: In ''iCan't Take It'', Sam ruins Freddie's chances of getting into an exclusive science camp that would help him get into any college he wants. Because [[Disproportionate Retribution|Freddie didn't know what time it was when Sam asked him]]. Freddie finds out and gets angry, then, after prodding by Carly, forgives her about 2 minutes after and kisses her again to end the episode.

* [[Eiffel Tower Effect]]: Got a late start, it wasn't until the third season that the Space Needle was added to the rotation of [[Establishing Shots]].

* [[Elevator School]]: Ridgeway is a combined [[Junior High|Middle]] and [[High School]], as it was easier than building new sets and casting new teachers when they moved from Grade 8 to Grade 9.

** [[Truth in Television|Actually, it might just be a junior high, with 8th and 9th grade in the same school.]]

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: ''Fredward'' Benson. No wonder he goes by "Freddie".

** ''iStill Psycho'' reveals that Gibby's name is Orenthal Gibson. His embarrassing middle name, Cornelius, was revealed in ''iWin A Date''.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Chuck.

* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: In ''iTwins'', Jerry/Spencer messes with Miranda/Carly's hair and her cries for him to stop was just Miranda doing it on her own, as the entire piece was unscripted.

* [[Epic Fail]]: In multiple episodes, something Spencer is doing bursts into flames, prompting him to lampshade its ridiculousness.

** ''iAm Your Biggest Fan'': Spencer's police light props on the car seat shorts out and catches fire. Later, he enthusiastically beats on his drum set's cymbal with his drumstick, and the cymbal bursts into flames.

** ''iHurt Lewbert'': Spencer simply fixes the bell with a screwdriver. It catches fire in thin air, which he douses with his soda. It lights aflame again shortly.

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Carly and Freddie. Despite Carly's "he is not my boyfriend" moments with Freddie, a lot of characters assume them as a couple, in addition to the teasing from Sam in iSaved Your Life. Jake thought Carly's nose-kiss to Freddie as them being together, a Japanese receptionist mistook them for a honeymoon couple (when they were only 14), and T-Bo is beaming with pride watching Freddie dance with Carly in the Groovy Smoothie.

* [[Evil Brit]]: Wade Collins in ''iRocked The Vote''.

* [[Evil Gloating]]: Missy does this in ''iReunite With Missy'', allowing Carly to overhear and finally figured out that Missy was trying to get rid of Sam.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Exactly What It Says On The Box]]: Literal versions: Lewbert's stash of "Deeply Personal Items" and Carly's box of "Inexpensive Meatballs".

** The [[Long Title|overly long titles]] of the iCarly skits. For titles like "''[[Who Writes This Crap?|Pathetic Plays]]: (insert [[Long Title]])''", "''The Prisoner Who Wanted Some Soup and the Man Who Refused to Give Him Some''" and "''The Cowboy With a Mustache and the Idiot Farm Girl Who Thought the Mustache Was a Squirrel''", guess what the looping plot line of each skit is.

(students scramble away) }}

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Parodied in ''iCarly Saves TV''.

** Ripoff Rodney is a very close expy or [[Homage]] to [[Fast Times at Ridgemont High|Mike Damone]], except for not being a [[Casanova]] or a [[Casanova Wannabe]].