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* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: Inverted with the version of [[Rock Band]] created specifically for the show. It's very good for what only shows up for maybe half a minute or so once in a blue moon. ''iSaved Your Life'' took it to another level, when they created ''Violin God'', with its ''Bow Power''. The first airing of the show had an error where the notes kept being hit even though Carly stopped playing to talk to Freddie, but after that error was pointed out to them, the [[Re Cut]] extended episode aired a month later had fixed it.

* [[Paintball Episode]]: In ''iSaved Your Life'', the trio and Spencer play a game called ''Assassin'' using only blow tube guns (minus wearing goggles). Carly and Freddie had been "eliminated" early on, leaving behind extreme mind games between Sam and Spencer.

* [[Padding]]: ''iFight Shelby Marx'' could've easily been a half hour episode.

** Another cousin, Bernie (The Depressed Welder), torches various food items.

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Carly towards Freddie or Spencer when making a request with a usual (or variation of) catchphrase "Please, for me?"

* [[Putting a Hand Over His Mouth]]: Happens in a few episodes, notably when Carly licks Sam's hand in "iLost My Mind" and exclaims that it tastes like peanuts and dirt.

* [[Race Against the Clock]]: In ''iHatch Chicks'', the baby chicks have to be found before four hours pass, or... ''bad things'' will happen.

** Any big room needed ends up being a redress of the main iCarly studio set. Examples include Freddie's room from ''iSaved Your Life''. And probably Carly's room in ''iGot A Hot Room''.

*** Actually, Carly's new room is the set used for Spencer's bedroom. iChristmas is the only time I recall them showing the inside of his room. And when you see him room, you'll surprised with how much they didn't change the set. That said, its still possible that both rooms are from the main set.

*** And if you paint the lockers, it becomes the set for [[Victorious]].

* [[Re Cut]]: Nickelodeon aired a special extended version of ''iSaved Your Life'' that included an extra seven minutes of previously cut footage.

* [[Sarcasm Mode]]

* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Nevel

* [[Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up]]: "Spanky" in ''iStakeout'', who used to spank Spencer when they were both kids. It ends with Spencer handcuffing "Spanky" over a couch and spanking him with a broom, much to Spencer's delight. Spanky's son is watching and enjoying it? And yes, the writers do seem to know just how wrong it is, as Carly walks downstairs to get something, sees the scene, and heads right back upstairs.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: ''iSpaceOut''. The A-Plot and B-Plot. Carly freaks and they lose the chance to go into space, and the freaky little girl just leaves without talking or any explanation about who she is or where she came from.

* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: In general, puberty has been very kind to all three members of the cast (not that any of them weren't cute, but they all three dodged that Puberty Bullet that can turn cute kids into awkward teenagers).

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: [[Gender Flip]] version. In ''iGo To Japan'', the check-in clerk at a hotel mistakes the 15-year old pair for a honeymoon couple. Freddie looks at Carly with a grin and eyebrow raise, thereby getting slapped across the face for his stupidity. In ''iLike Jake'', Carly gives Freddie a kiss on the nose for helping her to fix his terrible singing voice, and Jake mistakes their kiss for them being together.

{{quote| '''Mrs. Benson:''' ''WHY WON'T YOU LOVE MY SON???!!!''<br />

'''Freddie:''' Mom! }}

** Sam, Carly and [[Victoria Justice|Shelby Marx]] did one at the end of iFight Shelby Marx.

** A real-life version is in ''iBloop 2: Electric Bloopaloo'' where Jerry Trainor makes Jennette Mc Curdy spit out her water.

** From the latter half of Season 2 onwards to Season 3, [[Character Development|Freddie has practically eliminated this in relatio]]n to Carly, with his crush for Carly perhaps evolving into something [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|more mature]]. The change has helped Carly and Freddie to become far more comfortable around each other, and they have evolved from being just "buds" with in the pilot, to true best friends.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Every plot that involves a conflict between Carly and Sam, or a certain incident threatens the loss of one of the [[Three Amigos]] ends up being resolved on the same episode.

** "I was not looking at my peephole waiting for you to come home!"

* [[Sweet Dreams Fuel]]: ''iSaved Your Life''. Freddie would sacrifice his life to save Carly, Carly realises how much he means to her, they kiss about 8 times in a very cute way. They practically glow with happiness whilst they are together, and the final 'dawww', Freddie has a [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] moment because he doesn't want to hurt Carly by taking advantage of her when he's unsure if her feelings are true. Even though it's a minor [[Downer Ending]], it's a very powerful expression of his feelings for her and that it's not just some random teenage hormonal attraction on a show with practically no morals, aesops or lessons

* [[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.

**** So its a rare case of paying Homage and giving a [[Take That]] at the same time to the song and performance respectively. They possibly would have [[Bowdlerise|made more similarities to the original song if the lyrics wasn't so racy]].

** The episode ''iMeet Fred'' is probably written as a [[Take That]] to those people who don't like the Fred videos. However, it just backfired considering on the abuse suffered by Freddie from the hands of Fred fans ''everywhere''.

** And finally, ''iStart A Fan War'', towards the fan shippers. Every time any of the three deny any romance between them, the fans tell them they're wrong ([[Sarcasm Mode|Because fans know the relationship status of the three better than the three themselves]]), but the Creddie shippers accept the [[Word of God]] from Sam that Carly and Freddie are dating, whereas the Seddie shippers deny it. {{spoiler|[[Die for Our Ship|And when Carly points out who her love interest of the episode is, they decide it's time to beat up the poor guy]].}}

* [[The Talk]]: Spencer tries to give Carly this, only for Carly to shut it down completely. I don't see how much he could explain when her date comes to the door about 10 seconds later. Perhaps it was a reinforcing short version, a "be safe etc".

** Adam could be potentially returning for a future episode, since he was so poorly characterized in ''iStart a Fan War'' where he just stood and sat a sitting pretty boy. Griffin garnered more characterization than him being the titular ''Bad Boy''.

** Averted with Sam/Freddie. There's going to be at least five episodes devoted to their romantic relationship.

* [[Terrible Trio]]: In some of their more [[Jerkass]] moments they apply.

* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: Freddie's bodyguard Gunsmoke in ''iSam's Mom'' " who thinks even drinking lemonade is "for ballerinas"!

'''Carly''': When the pickle's children are watching. }}

* [[Third Person Person]]: At times, Sam refers to herself as ''Mama''. ''Mama knows her fat cakes.'' ''Mama does love the meat.'' ''Mama came at the right time!'' and '' Mama plays to win!'' She also refers to herself as "Sammy". "Look at Sammy's wad!".

* [[Those Two Guys]]: The longer the show has gone on, the more the trio has split into duo's long enough for all three combinations to appear like this:

** Carly and Sam are practically inseparable, pre-series and in the first season with only Freddie and very rarely Gibby or Wendy breaking up the [[Those Two Guys]] vibe.

* [[Throw It In]]: On iQuit iCarly, Dan Schneider remarks:

{{quote| Listen to how Gibby delivers his line: 'Uh-oh! Looks like trouble off the stern... port... bow.' You'll notice how he seems confused and slows down at the end of that line. The reason? Noah ("Gibby") forgot the line as he was saying it! He couldn't remember how it ended. Later, when I watched it in editing, I felt it played really funny, so I used the take where he forgot the line.}}

* [[Time Skip]]: Pops up at random, like in ''iParty With Victorious'' which has a three month time skip as a way of explaining Carly's feelings for her [[Guy of the Week]].

* [[Tim Taylor Technology]]: Spencer's magnetic Christmas tree. He could have just made a regular metallic Christmas tree. Instead he added a supercharged magnetic generator. It caught fire after [[Idiot Ball|he left it on during the night.]]

** He also fixes up a fire extinguisher to "make it more powerful." It turns the fire extinguisher into a ''flamethrower'' instead.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: In their own words, they're the "dirty blonde" and the "sweet (and prissy) brunette".

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Freddie at the start of each new season. In Season 2 he comes back with a noticeable voice drop, and in Season 3 he's strong enough to overpower Carly. In a [[Dan Schneider|Dan]] [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male|Schneider]] show, that says a lot.

* ''[[Took a Level In Jerkass]]'': Sam was a bully from episode 1, but she takes level after level. A couple of her points include the episode she bashed Freddie with a tennis racquet and chucked him out of a treehouse for a differing opinion, and then later starting a basement sweatshop using elementary school kids to mass produce their Penny Tee Shirts.

** Carly is of the Type B. She is usually sweet, kind-hearted, calm and collected. Just don't let yourself get into her nerves way too much, since things won't get pretty once the fuse of her temper snuffs out. [[It Gets Worse]] if you even try to calm her down.

* [[Tuckerization]]: Used occasionally, such as St. Schneider's Hospital and Schneider's Convenience Store.

* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: The A-Plot (Carly, Sam, Freddie) and the B-Plot (Spencer, and in Season 4, Gibby) is the formula for dozens of episodes. Their plots occasionally overlap at the end. Most of the other episodes still follow this formula, but mix up the splits up such as Carly/Sam and Freddie/Spencer in ''iTake On Dingo''.

* [[Two Roads Before You]]: Spencer uses this analogy to help Carly decide between staying at Ridgeway or switching to Briarwood in ''iMay Switch Schools'':