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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Carly and Spencer's father is in the military. The whereabouts of their mother, as well as Sam's and Freddie's fathers is unknown, and Sam's mother is a depressed lump who rarely gets up before noon.

** Sam's father's abandonment was finally acknowledged in ''iParty With Victorious''.

* [[Parody]]: The fake movie trailers. [[Teen Drama|"Kelly Cooper]]: [[Who Writes This Crap?|Terrible Movie"]] is about cliched teen chick movies, and [[Disaster Movie|"The Blowing"]] pokes fun on disaster films, mostly '''The Happening''' where the monster is essentially the wind .

* [[Parody Commercial]]: ''The Sack'' is a dead-on spoof on the many uses of the sleeved blanket '''Snuggies''', but sans the sleeves. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Spencer, in the [[Backstory]].

* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: All over the place. Biggest example would be ''iMake Sam Girlier''. There is a bully who ends up being the villain of the episode. There is ''zero'' difference in her actions compared the actions Sam has done in the past and continued to do so, except that Sam is "strong for her size" whilst the bully is physically large, and that the bully picked on Carly whilst Sam bullies on everyone except Carly.

** Arguably, Sam counts as this considering the amount of people she's injured who either liked or were her boyfriend.

* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: The suit actor of Zeebo in ''iCarly Saves TV'', except he is the one being pounded (by Sam, no less).

** However, there have been other times in the series, before and after this episode, that Sam has put a dress on, and she looks quite good in them.

** The new and very feminine look for Sam in Season 4 may have been as a result of dating Freddie, but appears to have stuck even after their breakup. Sam now wearing heels all the time is one example of this.

** Freddie returns it in ''iLost My Mind''.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: In ''iMight Switch Schools'':

{{quote| '''Sam:''' It's true, Carly and Freddie are deeply in love.}}

** Also from ''iStart A Fan War'', Creddie and Seddie fan wars exist in-universe. The episode's main plot involved the iCarly gang trying to pacify a roomful of rabid shippers. Some [[Crossover|shippers originated in]] [[Drake and Josh|other]] [[Zoey 101|shows]]

** [[Zig Zagged]] in ''iDate Sam & Freddie'' where Carly clearly thinks the two of them shouldn't be dating because they keep dragging her into their arguments, and tells them directly that if they can't sort out their problems on their own they shouldn't be dating at all.

*** And finally Carly stops shipping them indirectly as her words about Spencer and his old babysitter apply perfectly to Sam and Freddie, leading both couples to break up.

** An in-universe example is that Carly appears to not be averse to giving Freddie [[Ship Tease]] for her own satisfaction/ego/amusement, to the point where it seems cruel. Really, if you can start making out with a guy after 20 minutes because was pissing you off, you would think you might give the one guy who would follow you to the end of the earth a chance. The most obvious example of this was asking Freddie if he wanted to taste the lip gloss she just put on, making him close his eyes, then rubbing it over her hand and smashing his mouth with it.

** ''iOpen A Restaurant'' is full of Creddie and Sibby teasing. Freddie outright states he still has a crush on Carly, that could easily be love.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Gibby does this so often he could give [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Armstrong]] a run for his money.

* [[Shower of Angst]]: Carly takes showers that can be one or two hours long when she is unhappy.

* [[Show Within a Show]]: the ''iCarly'' webcast.

** Carly and her [[Temporary Love Interest]] [[Romantic False Lead|Griffin]] in ''iDate a Bad Boy''. Carly makes it clear they were in the middle of a pretty heavy fight when she suddenly kissed him.

* [[Sleep Cute]]: ''iDream Of Dance''. Carly and Freddie, Freddie and Sam, Sam and Carly all have their own moment. With Carly/Freddie and Sam/Freddie, it's textbook shoulder to shoulder. With [[Les Yay|Carly and Sam]] however, Sam has her head on Carly's lap, and later Carly has her head NEAR Sam's butt.

* [[Snipe Hunt]]: In ''iAm Your Biggest Fan'' Carly tells Mandy that they need [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|'fladoodles']] for the show to get her off their backs. Mandy eventually finds them.

* [[Sock It to Them]]: Played with. Sam lays into a writer with a sock full of butter.

* [[Take a Third Option]]: In iDon't Want To Fight, on a poll asking whether Sam or Carly is right, {{spoiler|the voters [[Take a Third Option]], offered by Freddie. "Carly and Sam are both acting dumb and should just make up and be friends again." It won by around 200 times the other two options combined.}}

* [[Take Our Word for It]]: The neck infection video.

* [[Take That]]: The focus of ''iTake on Dingo'' is clearly a [[Take That]] aimed at Disney (most explicitly a reference to the urban legend about Walt Disney's head being frozen), while the show whose writers are ripping iCarly off of seems to be unseen swipes at [[Sonny With a Chance]] and [[Hannah Montana]].

** This is especially blatant in ''iGo to Japan'', when Carly snipes (at a Japanese security guard who can't understand them and uses a sign to communicate) "You're [[Sonny With a Chance|'So Random'!"]]