The essential episodes of iCarly
Watch these 10 in order and you've got iCarly — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Carly is a young teenager living in Seattle. When her friend Freddie accidentally leaks a video of her and her best friend Sam onto the Internet, they decide to create an online web show.
- 02
Nevel Papperman is back, and instead of trashing iCarly in his articles, he has directly sabotaged the website itself. Meanwhile Spencer persuades the Plain White T's to perform on Carly's show as a favor for preventing lead singer Tom Higgenson from being hit by a falling sign at the mall. But how do they expect the band to perform on a show nobody can see?
- 03
Carly and Sam both develop a crush on a friend of Freddie's named Shane.
- 04
When Carly reunites with her long-lost BFF, Missy, Sam fears that Missy is trying to replace her. Meanwhile, a boy traps Spencer in the basement as revenge.
- 05
Surprise, surprise! Sam has a twin sister named Melanie. Even more of a surprise, she's much girlier than Sam and quite fond of Freddie, who suspects that she's actually Sam in disguise. In the meantime, Carly offers to tutor a boy named Chuck, who has been a sworn enemy of Spencer, who struggles to convince her that he's a little brat.
- 06
Gibby thinks Freddie is trying to steal his girlfriend and wants revenge. Spencer finds a newspaper that has erroneously reported him as being dead.
- 07
Carly, Sam, and Freddie finally get to attend a Webicon(see episode #3.17; iPsycho), and take Spencer with them. However when they arrive, Spencer meets an old nemesis, and the web-hostesses find themselves caught in a heated rumor over which of the two girls are dating Freddie.
- 08
Sam voluntarily commits herself to a mental institution over her suddenly emerging feelings about Freddie.
- 09
Spencer has a new nemesis - Chuck's more menacing younger brother, Chip! Meanwhile, Freddie fixes Gibby's toy phaser and gives it a power he never imagined!
- 10
Carly is sad when her father cannot escort her to a military dance; Sam and Spencer fix a motorcycle; Gibby gets his head stuck in an "artificial head machine" (because he sold his first one at the pawn shop); Freddie gets a new phone.
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