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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''.

*** [[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...".

{{quote|'''Spencer:''' "Do girls ''have'' bladders?"}}

{{quote|'''Carly:''' "Do butts have muscles?"}}

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

* [[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'':

{{quote|'''Carly''': What's the temperature in here?

'''Sam:''' Did you try calling him?

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

{{quote|'''Freddie''': "Yeah, way to go Sam. You just ruined iCarly's 50th Web Show Spectac--ooh, popcorn!"}}

** 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.

* [[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]].

* [[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"]].

{{quote|'''Spencer''': This little piggy went to market... and this little piggy [[Amusing Injuries|got hit by a truck]]!" <br />

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

'''Carly''': Well then I might sneak into your room tonight and push a pillow over your face until you stop kicking.

'''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.

* [[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)

** [[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.

** 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.

** 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''.

** Even characters who are generally nice sometimes encourage this behavior-- when they're not the target of it and if they feel the target deserves it. Usually as part of the [[Aesop]] of the day, or just [[Rule of Funny|because it's funny]].

{{quote|'''Freddie:''' I wanna see Sam beat up TV writers!}}

*** 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.

*** 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"?

** 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.

* [[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.

** 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.

** 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

* [[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'':

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Spencer''': ''[exasperated]'' HOW?!}}

* [[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.

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

(students scramble away) }}