The essential episodes of iCarly
Watch these 25 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
Carly and Sam compete with Freddie and Spencer to see which team can increase the number of hits on Carly's website, using the most elaborate techniques available to each team. The losers have to touch the wart of the Bushwell Apartment doorman, Lewbert - a man that Carly & Sam are convinced is the meanest man alive. Judging from their hidden camera in the lobby of Carly's apartment building, it's easy to understand why they hate him.
- 03
Jake Krandle, one of the cutest boys at Ridgeway Middle School breaks up with his girlfriend, and all the girls at school want a piece of him. Carly thinks she'll get just that when she invites him on her web-show to perform some songs he wrote. But during a rehearsal, Jake is found to be a horrible singer, and Carly has to struggle to convince an already jealous Freddie to digitally enhance his voice.
- 04
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?
- 05
Love becomes a distraction for the iCarly Crew once again, as a boy named Jonah monopolizes Sam's time.
- 06
On the fifth anniversary of their friendship, Carly gives Sam a one-of-a-kind iCarly T-Shirt as a gift. Desperate for an attempt to return the favor, Sam tries to buy a pair of hard-to-find concert tickets for Carly's favorite band from a scalper. With no other means to purchase the tickets, she sells him the shirt and puts both Carly's show and their friendship at risk.
- 07
Plans for the landmark 50th web cast of iCarly are at risk of being curtailed when Sam gets detention. Realizing she can't do the show without her co-host, Carly and Freddie try to get in trouble themselves, so they can do the live web cast from their school's detention room. However, deliberately trying to get detention proves to be far more difficult than Carly can imagine, and even harder for Freddie.
- 08
Carly and Sam both develop a crush on a friend of Freddie's named Shane.
- 09
When Sam hears that Freddie is fed up with her "borrowing" money, and Carly convinces her his complaints are legitimate, Sam takes desperate measures to try to pay back everybody she owes, ranging from pleading for money on Carly's web-show to... of all things, getting a job! Meanwhile, Spencer volunteers to sell fudge-balls for a shy Sunshine Girl in order to impress her attractive single mother.
- 10
Carly, Sam, and Freddie are thrilled when their web show is nominated for a prestigious iWeb Award in the "Best Comedy Web Show" category.
- 11
When Sam overhears Freddie admit he has never been kissed, she decides it would be fun to expose this confession on Carly's web show, until the rampant humiliation he receives at school makes her regret her decision.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
Carly, Sam, and Freddie hold a speed-dating contest when so many boys want to escort Carly to a dance.
- 15
Gibby thinks Freddie is trying to steal his girlfriend and wants revenge. Spencer finds a newspaper that has erroneously reported him as being dead.
- 16
Spencer makes a birthday gift for Carly that sets her room on fire.
- 17
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.
- 18
The gang decides to hire an intern for the web series. Carly and Sam hire a guy they think is cute, but the new intern proves to be more trouble than he's worth. Freddie has to prove to Carly and Sam that they're better off without an intern.
- 19
An online video of Nevel Papperman verbally abusing a little girl in a supermarket makes him one of the most hated kids in the world. With nowhere else to turn he attempts to seek help to restore his reputation from the most unlikely source... his sworn enemies, Carly Shay and her friends!
- 20
Carly is enjoying life with her new boyfriend Steven Carson, a home-schooled boy with divorced parents who spends part of his life in Los Angeles. What she doesn't know is that while in Los Angeles, Steven has another girlfriend, a student at Hollywood Arts High School named Tori Vega. An internet search makes Carly's friends suspicious of her new beau, and sends them on an LA road trip to a party at the home of Kenan Thompson in an attempt find out whether or not he's cheating on her.
- 21
Sam voluntarily commits herself to a mental institution over her suddenly emerging feelings about Freddie.
- 22
After the events of "iLost My Mind," Sam and Freddie begin a rocky relationship. Meanwhile, Gibby hopes to bond with Carly over a puppy and Spencer enjoys the new lawn in the apartment.
- 23
Mrs. Benson discovers Sam and Freddie's relationship after Gibby, now the subject of Sam's abuse, concocts a plan to split them up.Will Carly fight for Sam and Freddie, or help Gibby break them up?
- 24
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!
- 25
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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