iCarly
Pre-watching Thoughts
Good morning, all (as this is the time that I’m writing this!). For some reason, I strongly felt like watching the entirety of the iCarly series recently. I do remember vividly, watching some episodes in full on TV during the late 2000’s and early 2010’s. I even remember watching the iCarly and Victorious crossover on repeat, late at night at a relative’s house when it came out for the first time. I probably won’t do a re-watch of Victorious though. I see a re-watch of “Zoey 101” in my future, hehe.
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I will take my time to write about each episode and movie review in detail, in separate posts! Although I refuse to tag my blog as “Y2K” for some reason, it’s probably due to the unrelated saturation that the term experienced during the early 2020’s. I might write a rant on that in the future. I don’t have anything else to say, except I do remember visiting the website on a few occasions in 2009. Instead of feeling overwhelmed and disinterested like how I felt with a lot of other websites at the time (no offense (・へ・)), I actually felt intrigued and amazed by the website, it was so cool to me and arguably shares a simple aesthetic that a lot of neocities websites strive to have now..
Episode 1: iPIlot (My thoughts!)
Okay so I just finished watching the very first episode. Wow, it’s been a loonngg time. O-O
I don’t know if I ever watched this in the original broadcasting, but wow. Basically, Carly and her troublesome friend Sam get in trouble in their respective ways in a daily day of their high school experience, and Freddy is the endearing yet a little creepy nerdy boy they didn’t know they needed.
I hope that’s an adequate summary of that episode. After the trio teams up, they gain an idea for a webseries, and they all agree to it and bring in some random people from possibly their school. Some guy.. Squirts milk out of his eye?! E.W.
I have to admit, that was really.. Bizarre to see! O-O
I’m not a fan of gross-out humor at all, it’s honestly unnecessary and shows a lack of creativity on the creative team’s part. Also, I thought this show would rely on someone laughing so that you can feel encouraged to laugh too kind of thing, because that was the very first kind of joke in the beginning, although the writing surprisingly held up and carried its weight throughout the 23 minutes of runtime.
You may believe that this show is strangely very random, but I feel like it matches the upcoming internet culture of 2009 to an extent, it was full of an emphasis on randomness and awesome faces, lol. The concepts on their webshow actually do seem like some videos that would go viral back then, so I can say this show has aged surprisingly well.
I like the stylist’s choices of the fashion in this show, too. It would be fantastic if I could stylize my clothes like Carly and Sam’s wardrobe for this show.
Oddly enough, I feel strangely inspired by this show to write a story of my own, so I’m excited to work and cultivate my newest idea. (`･ω･´)
Thx for reading!!
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P.S. I just remembered when I had an iCarly book from a book fair at my school, and I ended up doodling all over it when I was on vacation.. Teehee （´∀｀）
8.10.2025
Season 2, Episode 5: iGo to Japan
Hi everyone. You may have noticed the giant leap of episodes that I’m talking about here. I didn’t know how much more gross-out jokes I could take, so I decided to watch this special episode I vaguely remember watching in my childhood again. I could understand, like, a little less than 50% of Japanese everyone was saying in this episode.
It’s honestly a strange concept that could’ve been re-written a few times, in my opinion. The plot of the special is that ICarly, the webseries, gets nominated to an Internet Rewards Show that’s being hosted in Tokyo, Japan. The writers just wanted an excuse to put the iCarly main cast in Japan for whatever reason, for some reason..
Lucky✮Star has been real quiet after this came out.
I can’t say this episode was done well. There were some moments that spawned a smile on my face, shockingly, but it felt unneeded and definitely felt like meaningless entertainment, if I’m being honest. It’s sad that kids receive hollow entertainment instead of something enriching, not saying that they need to watch whole-hearted educational shows, but something that had a bit more value and a little less silly of a premise.
I tried to like Kyoko and Yuki but.. Was it really necessary to make them evil? What lesson am I learning here, as someone who is interested in Japanese culture? I felt like I might’ve learnt to not trust people who may appear overly kind at first, until I get to know them a bit more. It’s kinda silly how Carly, Sam and everyone else just got duped in two different ways by Kyoko, Yuki and their relatives just for them to get arrested in the end.
It’s not one of my favorite episodes. With that being said, I’m not sure if it’s going to be worth it to put myself through countless episodes of needless gross-out jokes, cheap laughs and other methods of immersion in the iCarly/Zoey 101/etc. Universe just to have content for my blog, you know? I want to watch some of the more memorable episodes, like the one with Nora, so I guess I’ll do that now.
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From, FuwaFuwaBlogger
P..S. This episode surprisingly didn’t spoil my precious childhood memories of this show. Some might call me “blinded by nostalgia”, but I believe I am pretty realistic..
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