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** Jeremy Rowley played the little crazy hat man who served as a distraction from big hairy moles on [[The Amanda Show]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSr9w24sRTs He now plays Lewbert.]

** Victoria Justice's guest star in ''iFight Shelby Marx'' is alluded to in ''iParty With Victorious'' when Sam points out Victoria Justice's character, Tori Vega's, similarity to Shelby Marx.

* [[A Cup Angst]]: Referenced a few times with Carly, as seen in some other examples down the page.

* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Referenced a few times with Carly, as seen in some other examples down the page.

* [[Adam Westing]]: Miranda Cosgrove in ''iBloop''.

* [[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).

* [[Adored By the Network]]: Nickelodeon airs this show mulitple times daily, and gives it very good treatment, even more so than the other Nickelodeon shows. Along with the many merchandise and magazine attention the show gets, it is received as Nick's flagship show. iCarly even got a fifth season, which is unheard of for Nickelodeon or Disney channel.

* [[Adored by the Network]]: Nickelodeon airs this show mulitple times daily, and gives it very good treatment, even more so than the other Nickelodeon shows. Along with the many merchandise and magazine attention the show gets, it is received as Nick's flagship show. iCarly even got a fifth season, which is unheard of for Nickelodeon or Disney channel.

* [[Advertised Extra]]: Yes [[Jack Black]] was in "iStart A Fanwar" but it was more about Creddie vs Seddie while he just gave Spencer something to do.

* [[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.

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** Gibby's real name, however, is Orenthal.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: For a kids show, the main cast of males each have their moments, given that all 3 of them are also stepping on [[Chick Magnet]] territory. Spencer is already a quirky [[Handsome Lech]] since season 1, Gibby has the makings of a pimp, and Freddie is becoming quite versed from watching the Animal Channel.

* [[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.

* [[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.

{{quote| ''"Hey! [[Black Comedy|Here's a fun song to sing when people die]]!"''}}

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* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Ask a Stupid Question]] and [[Get a Stupid Answer|Sam will answer you]].

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''<Riot ensues>'' }}

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

* [[Better As Friends]]: Sam and Freddie. At the end of ''iLove You'', they mutually come to the conclusion that they don't work as a couple and forced a romantic connection from a platonic one. They both love each other, but they broke up and remained friends, obviously being [[Better As Friends]] at least for now.

* [[Better as Friends]]: Sam and Freddie. At the end of ''iLove You'', they mutually come to the conclusion that they don't work as a couple and forced a romantic connection from a platonic one. They both love each other, but they broke up and remained friends, obviously being [[Better as Friends]] at least for now.

* [[The Beard]]: Carly is this in the Christmas episode. Nevel must not want his mother to find out. Or he's ''hopelessly confused'' about his sexuality.

** There is also a minor character who asks Carly to be his girlfriend, and the dialogue seems to imply, by making it because his mother doesn't believe him about something regarding girls or a girlfriend, that this could be the main reason why.

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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: The [[Christmas Episode]] ''iChristmas''. Carly wishes for Spencer to be normal, and an It's a Wonderful Life homage ensues, ending with Carly more appreciative than ever of her life.

* [[Big Blackout]]: Spencer's sculpture invokes this in ''iWant A World Record''.

* [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti]]: ''iBelieve in Bigfoot'' deals with the title characters trying to prove Bigfoot exists. {{spoiler|In the end, he ''steals their RV!''}}

* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: ''iBelieve in Bigfoot'' deals with the title characters trying to prove Bigfoot exists. {{spoiler|In the end, he ''steals their RV!''}}

* [[Big OMG]]: Spencer lets this loose when Sam's boyfriend Jonah ruins his claymation movie in ''iHate Sam's Boyfriend''.

** Carly, Sam, and Freddie also say this on various occasions.

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* [[Camp Straight]]: Nevel.

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Mostly averted in ''iToe Fat Cakes''. The tour guide has an accent and they talk about weight in kilos but it could be the USA otherwise.

* [[Can't You Read the Sign]]: Gibby infuriates the museum guard by repeatedly using flash photography with a sign that says otherwise, prompting the guard to evoke the trope. Gibby provokes him with an aerosol string and saying "This is the part where you must chase me."

* [[Can't You Read the Sign?]]: Gibby infuriates the museum guard by repeatedly using flash photography with a sign that says otherwise, prompting the guard to evoke the trope. Gibby provokes him with an aerosol string and saying "This is the part where you must chase me."

* [[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.

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* [[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.

** Subverted though, because Sam caused all that misfortune. Freddie catches her in the act though and gets back at her at the end of the episode.

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

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

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

* [[Complaining About People Not Liking the Show]]: In-show example: The world's reaction to Freddie saying that he didn't like [[Fred]] videos in ''iMeet Fred''. Mostly due to Fred {{spoiler|falsely}} claiming that he's not going to do his videos anymore because Freddie didn't like them, but even {{spoiler|after Fred admitted he just said that for publicity}}, Sam beats Freddie up for saying that he still didn't like them.

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* [[Character Development]]:

** [[Breakout Character|Gibby]]: From something of a [[The Simpsons|Ralph Wiggum]] [[Expy]], rarely seen friend in Season 1 to a hot-chick pimp, the [[Big Guy]] of the gang and [[Characterization Marches On|a major character]], and in Season 4 part of the credits.

** 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.

** 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.

** Carly: From yet another [[Dan Schneider]] [[Purity Sue]] in Season 1, to girl who makes mistakes, is shallow with guys, disobeys Spencer and gets punished for her flaws and becomes a more well rounded person, completely killing the idea of her being a [[Purity Sue]] by the time ''iDate A Bad Boy'' ends.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[The Chick]]: The title character of [[~~I Carly~~]] will rebel against authority if she perceives unfairness in the treatment of her friends and has given her "Why can't we all just get along" speech to a crowd of people at least a couple of times.

* [[The Chick]]: The title character of [[ICarly]] will rebel against authority if she perceives unfairness in the treatment of her friends and has given her "Why can't we all just get along" speech to a crowd of people at least a couple of times.

* [[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.

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** In ''iPie'':

{{quote| '''Spencer''': What does it feel to lose someone you're close to? It means you've lost someone that you're close to.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[Determinator]]: Gunsmoke ([[Rule of Funny|and hilariously so]]). [[Catch Phrase|"Nobody's going to touch that boy..."]]

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* [[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.

* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]]: Carly and her friends don't seem to have a problem with it but they use anti-piracy laws to get one of their [[Sadist Teacher|Sadist Teachers]] arrested.

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

* [[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":

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* [[Door Focus]]: Carly and Sam get into a fight, which ends when Carly leaves their apartment, slamming the door behind her. A beat passes before Carly opens the door again and tells Sam to get out instead, as the apartment is her house.

* [[Double Entendre]]: Despite being a kids show, the writers can be [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|mercilessly subtle]] with such dialogues.

* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female On Male)]]: Sam towards Freddie. Can be seen as [[Crossing the Line Twice]] depending on the intensity and longevity of each individual action.

* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)]]: Sam towards Freddie. Can be seen as [[Crossing the Line Twice]] depending on the intensity and longevity of each individual action.

** Implied and justified with Carly, Sam and Shelby ganging up on a trapped Nevel at the end of ''iFight Shelby Marx'', given that Nevel caused Shelby to beat Carly to a pulp after he told her Carly had deliberately pushed her grandma down the podium.

** 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.

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'''Duke''': Oh, I want a smoothie! (runs away)<br />

'''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.''

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

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

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: In ''iGo To Japan''. Thanks to the special's [[Big Bad|Big Bads]], the iCarly gang go through hell to get their chance at the iWeb Awards and manage to overcome everything to win.

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* [[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.

* [[Evil Twin]]: Played straight by Sam, and inverted by her twin sister Melanie.

* [[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".

* [[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~~|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.

** 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.

* [[Excuse Me, Coming Through]]:

{{quote| '''Sam''': Okay people, unless you're a bowling pin, ''MOVE''! <br />

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** Sam rigs Lewbert's cupboards to bury him with golf balls.

* [[Expy]]:

** ''iCarly Saves TV'' has Zeebo, a parody of [[Barney and Friends ~~(TV)~~|Barney]].

** ''iCarly Saves TV'' has Zeebo, a parody of [[Barney and Friends|Barney]].

** 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]].

** 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]].