iCarly (season 4)

iCarly (season 4)
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 13
Broadcast
Original channel Nickelodeon
Original run July 30, 2010 – June 11, 2011
Home video release
DVD release date August 30, 2011[1]
Season chronology
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The fourth season of iCarly began airing on Nickelodeon July 30, 2010 and ended on June 11, 2011. The season features Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove), Sam Puckett (Jennette McCurdy) and Freddie Benson (Nathan Kress) as their own Web Show iCarly is becoming more popular worldwide. Jerry Trainor co-stars as Carly's big brother Spencer. Noah Munck joins the main cast this season as Gibby Gibson. This season is currently the shortest iCarly season up to date. There were more specials in the season then regular episodes, such as, iGot A Hot Room, iSam's Mom, iGet pranky, iDo, iHire An idiot, iPity The Nevel, iOMG.

Contents

Opening sequence

The main sequence opens when Freddie counts backwards from five. The homepage has changed and there is a new window added: SBI Mail. Then, footage of episodes from seasons 2 and 3 are shown. Noah Munck is added as a main character as Gibby Gibson. Also added is a new bookmark at the top of the screen: "The Slap," from Dan Schneider's newest show, Victorious. "iParty with Victorious" was a crossover between these two shows.

Season synopsis

Starting from this season onwards, Gibby begins to hang out more often with Carly, Sam and Freddie than in the past three seasons.

In November of this season, the iCarly crew accidentally starts a fan war at WebiCon over who should date, Carly and Freddie (Creddie), or Sam and Freddie (Seddie). Despite the three confirming that none of them are dating, the fan war still seemingly remains unresolved. However, five months later, the three complete their two month search for an intern for iCarly, at which point Sam—much to Carly's and Freddie's confusion and suspiciousness—begins hanging out with Freddie and Brad, the new intern, every time she gets the chance to. When Freddie tests his selfmade "MoodFace" app on Sam, it confirms that she's actually in love. Thinking that Sam still hates Freddie, he and Carly misunderstand the results, believing that Sam is in love with Brad, and Carly takes great steps into proving this. Sam still tries to convince her that she is not in love with him though. Freddie later finds Sam in the school yard and gives her a heart-to-heart talk about opening up and taking a risk when it comes to romantic feelings, not realizing that he is actually referring to himself. In the middle of the talk, Sam grabs Freddie and kisses him passionately, revealing that in fact he is the one she is in love with, as a shocked Carly watches through the window.

Episodes

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71 1 "iGot a Hot Room" Steve Hoefer Dan Schneider July 30, 2010 (2010-07-30) 301 7.8[4]

Spencer makes Carly a gummy bear lamp for her upcoming 16th birthday. When the lamp accidentally bursts into flames, it causes a fire in Carly's room. When Spencer finds out that their great-grandmother's diamond-encrusted wristwatch was burned in the fire, he eventually tells a lawyer and gets a check for $82,000. He uses the entire amount of of money to make Carly an entire new room, which includes an ice-cream sandwich love seat, a wardrobe with a touch pad clothing selector, a makeup table with a built-in hairdryer, a coffee table with floating ceramic boats, and a trampoline which Carly can literally jump into bed. Also, a gummy bear chandelier made of fire resistant gummy bears. Carly immediately thanks her friends and especially Spencer for being the best big brother ever. Also, in the beginning, Spencer gets an entire new haircut from Gibby's grandfather.

Guest Stars: Jack Carter as Gilbert Gibsson (Gibby's Grandfather), BooG!e as T-Bo, David Dean Bottrell as Bob, Stephen Jared as Chief Donker

Note: The episode was nominated the award, Primetime Emmy Award, for Outstanding Children's Program.[3] Near the end of the episode, while Spencer is doing a roll call, the camera points to two young adults who resemble Karen and Richard Carpenter. Also at the end of the episode, Carly, Sam, and Freddie sing the theme songs from iCarly, Drake and Josh, and Victorious, which of course are Dan Schneider's shows. 
72 2 "iSam's Mom" Adam Weissman Jake Farrow September 11, 2010 (2010-09-11) 305 5.9[5]

After constantly arguing with her mother, Sam moves in with Carly. When Sam's unfortunate habits and messy living conditions become a problem, Carly invites Pam, Sam's mother, to the apartment so her and her daughter could resolve their problems. The solution becomes a enormous argument, in which the Shay sofa gets thrown into the kitchen. Sam and Pam go to therapy and are locked in a tiny room called a therapy box, in which they are not set free unless they make up and act nice. The therapist figures Carly can talk some sense into them, and locks Carly with the ladies, in which Carly eventually has an unfortunate panic attack while in such a small space. Pam and Sam make up and hug, with a happy ending. Meanwhile, Freddie becomes trapped in danger after a criminal discovers his address and identification. So he and Mrs. Benson hide in Carly and Spencer's apartment, along with a body guard who was in the army. This annoys Spencer up to the point that he switches the numbers on Freddie's door with the ones on the door down the hall, which successfully works when the criminal comes to seek revenge.

Special Guest Star: Jane Lynch as Pam Puckett, Sam's Mother
Guest Stars: Mary Scheer as Mrs. Benson, Kyle T. Heffner as Dr. Parper, Anthony Vitale as Gunsmoke, Aaron Aguilera as Shadow Hammer, BooG!e as T-Bo.

Note: The opening seqeunce is slightly modified in this episode to showcase more footage from season 4, a star effect is added to when the iCarly logo comes into focus and the original ending shot used for the season 3 opening sequence was replaced with Carly, Sam, Freddie and Spencer jumping on a trampoline. Also, in one scene, Freddie's body guard is watching Full House, with someone else playing Michelle saying "You got it dude". 
73 3 "iGet Pranky" Adam Weissman Arthur Gradstein September 25, 2010 (2010-09-25) 304 5.2[6]

After Carly recruits Spencer to help her prank Sam and Freddie, Spencer can not stop pulling pranks. The worst part is he didn't learn his lesson from a traumatic pranking experience (which involved dumping garlic powder on kids faces) when he was in high school that occurred 14 years earlier. In the end, Carly and the gang get the kids from Spencer's high school to come to their house. Carly goes upstairs to get her video camera, but by the time she gets down, the now-adult kids have already started beating up Spencer, and the episode ends. Guest Star: BooG!e as T-Bo

Note: During this episode, Carly and Spencer are seen watching episodes of "Drake and Josh", another Nickelodeon show in which they both starred in. When Carly is sitting on the couch watching TV, she is watching the episode "Megan's Revenge". In another scene, Spencer is also on the couch, and is watching the episode "The Storm". Even though you can't see the footage being shown, you can clearly hear it in the background. 
74 4 "iSell Penny Tees" Russ Reinsel Matt Fleckenstein October 2, 2010 (2010-10-02) 303 4.0[7]

When Carly, Sam and Freddie's penny tees are a hit, they decide to go into business to make them, so when Sam decides to hire fourth graders from a bible school to make the Penny Tees, Sam and Freddie both get different ideas on how to treat the children. Later in the episode, Sam splits the kids up and kids with last names from N-Z go to Carly and other kids stay with Sam. Carly and Freddie's kids think that it's all about breaks and having fun, and when they only make 6 tees in 1 day, Carly and Freddie stop the business. In the end, they try to give the kids a second chance but turns out they already started their own Penny Tee business and hired writers their age. Meanwhile in the episode, Spencer dates a girl from Uzbekistan. Spencer doesn't understand what she says, since does not speak a word of English.

Guest Stars: Irina Voronina as Krustacia, Matthew Glen Johnson as Reggie 
75 5 "iDo" Steve Hoefer Jake Farrow October 11, 2010 (2010-10-11) 302 6.7[8]

A couple desperately wants to get married but things take a step when the bride decides that she wants to marry Spencer instead. Carly desperately askes the groom to sing the song to try to marry the bride again, but he wets his pants and feels too embarrassed. So Carly sings the song that the groom wrote. Meanwhile, Gibby and Guppy spot a 5 dollar bill in a tree and try to get help from a woman named Hazel. They then get the five dollar bill and they run away before she sees them. Guest Stars: Ethan Munck as Guppy Gibson, J. D. Walsh as Gordon Birch, Rakefet Abergel as Jodi Flooger, Sherry Weston as Hazel, Joe Dietl as Jeb Birch

Notes: The song which Carly performs, "Shakespeare" is also on Miranda Cosgrove's album, Sparks Fly. Also, J. D. Walsh plays Gordon, which is also his character name for his recurring role on Two and a Half Men
76-77 6-7 "iStart a Fan War" Steve Hoefer Dan Schneider November 19, 2010 (2010-11-19) 308-309 5.0[10]

The iCarly team is going to Webicon and they accidentally start a fan war, a war between fans thanks to Sam. The fans are divided who should end up together: Carly and Freddie (Creddie) or Sam and Freddie (Seddie). Meanwhile Spencer faces battle-to-battle with his online gaming nemesis, Asparatamay (Jack Black) and when Aspartamay finds out his opponent Aruthur has a sister he tries to destroy her. As a sub-plot, Gibby's grandfather is supposed to go to Webicon along with Gibby and Guppy but he complains that wants to have soup first.

Reception from this episode was very negative from iCarly fans, mainly because they had hoped for Creddie and Seddie moments as promised in the promotions. Dan Schneider later issued an apology for this, criticizing the network for poor episode promotion.[9]

Special Guest Star: Jack Black as Aspartamay
Special Guest Appearances By: Alec Medlock as Craig, Scott Halberstadt as Eric, Jake Farrow as Gavin (From Drake & Josh) and Abby Wilde as Stacey (From Zoey 101).
Guest Stars: Jack Carter as Gilbert Gibson (Gibby's Grandfather), Ethan Munck as Guppy, Max Ehrich as Adam, David Boat as Nolan
Co-stars: Marlane Barnes as Tina, Cathy Baron as Sheena, Ryan Bates as David, Nick Clark as Kenny, Kal Mansoor as Ado, Griffin Anglin as Background Chanter #1, Stephanie Cicero as Background Chanter #2, Joe Clark as Background Chanter #3, Francesca Ellana as Background Chanter #4, Gil L. Aroy as Background Chanter #5, John Reha as W.O.W. Fan #1, Mark Antani as W.O.W. Fan #2, Andrea Swain as W.O.W. Fan #3, Nick Armstrong as Warlords Booth Worker, Kent Avenido as Blow Far Nerd, Morgan Bateman as Stunt Fan #1, Matt Deadrick as Stunt Fan #2, Chad Carleton as Bell Pole Player, Matthew Landon as Red Skybot (uncredited)

Notes: This is the second time that Miranda Cosgrove starred with Jack Black, since School of Rock. The film also includes appearances by characters from series already completed by Dan Schneider, including Drake & Josh and Zoey 101. The ending shot where Carly, Sam, Freddie and Spencer are seen jumping on a trampoline is omitted and replaced with a shot of Carly, Sam, Freddie, Spencer and Gibby singing into the microphone. 
78 8 "iHire an Idiot" Clayton Boen Arthur Gradstein February 12, 2011 (2011-02-12) 307 4.9[11]

Exhausted by the work needed to run iCarly, the cast holds interviews for a new intern. Sam and Carly find an interviewee named Cort extremely attractive and hire him on the spot, despite the fact that he is obviously very incompetent and unintelligent. Cort immediately starts causing problems at iCarly, and Freddie insists that he should be fired. Carly and Sam refuse, so Freddie decides to hire an extremely attractive but dumb girl named Ashley as an intern. Cort and Ashley both make too much trouble with their stupidity, so Freddie offers to fire Ashley if the girls agree to fire Cort. Sam and Carly agree and both interns are fired. As she's leaving, we learn that Ashley is actually intelligent and that she was pretending to be dumb for a sociology assignment. Meanwhile, Spencer tries to sneak his Bottle Bot sculpture into an art museum to prevent his grandfather from making him go back to law school.

Guest Stars: Daniel Booko as Cort, Teresa Castillo as Ashley, Justin Prentice as Brad, Malcolm Devine as Roy, Abby Wilde as Stacey, and Greg Mullavey as Grandad Shay
Co-stars: Rudy Martinez as Stu, Dale Waddington as Museum Curator, Lavelle Roby as Lady at the Art Museum

Note: This is the second time the same character from Zoey 101 appeared: Abby Wilde as Stacey Dillsen. At the end of the episode Freddie tells Carly and Sam that Ashley works at the Pear Store, which is a parody of the Apple Store
79 9 "iPity the Nevel" Russ Reinsel Matt Fleckenstein March 19, 2011 (2011-03-19) 306 4.6[12]

A video of Nevel yelling at a little girl goes viral and ruins his image, so he asks the iCarly gang for help in restoring his reputation. The iCarlies help Nevel by posting a video of him buying smoothies for customers at the Groovy Smoothie and giving them creamed corn, but the attempt fails to restore his reputation. Nevel then chooses to sincerely apologize on iCarly to the little girl he yelled at. This succeeds in gaining the public's sympathy and Nevel is no longer hated. That is, until he is caught on video losing his temper with a man in a wheelchair who bumped into him.

Guest star: Reed Alexander as Nevel Papperman

Note: The title is reference to famous Mr.T line "I pity the fool." Also, Stacey Dillsen's name can be spotted on iCarly.com at one point during the episode. When Nevel is seen on the bench, the advertisement in the back was Schneider's Pickles All Varieties. It is stated that Schneider likes to throw in his name in episodes. 
80 10 "iOMG" Adam Weissman Dan Schneider April 9, 2011 (2011-04-09) 310 7.4[13]

Ridgeway High School is holding a lock-in during which students pull all-nighters and work on finishing projects. At the beginning of the episode the character Brad (previously seen in iHire an Idiot) is hired as an intern for iCarly. He and Freddie team up for their school project, which is a mood reader application for the PearPad called Mood Face. To everyone's surprise, Sam volunteers to work with them on their project, and they accept her help. In the following scene we find out that Sam has uncharacteristically been choosing to hang out with Freddie and Brad often. Spencer agrees to help Carly and Gibby with their project, which includes performing psychological experiments, by being their test subject. At the lock-in, Freddie becomes suspicious of Sam's nice behavior towards him and Brad. When he tests his Mood Face app on Sam, the results say she's in love and Freddie immediately assumes that Brad is the object of Sam's affection. He runs to tell Carly the news, which leads Carly to confront Sam about loving Brad. Sam denies having feelings for Brad, but Carly doesn't believe this to be true. Taking matters into her own hands, Carly decides to set Sam and Brad up (with Freddie's help) by leaving them alone in a classroom. Afterwards, Sam angrily confronts Carly about her matchmaking attempt and insists that she doesn't love Brad. Carly remains unconvinced, mainly because of Sam's recent eagerness to spend time with Freddie and Brad any chance she gets. Sam leaves and goes to sit alone outside the school. Freddie goes out to where she is to talk about what's happened. Sam once again denies being in love with Brad and, frustrated—as she has to admit to herself that Freddie can't even imagine her being in love with him and still thinks she hates him due to all the things she herself had done to him in the past years—tells Freddie to leave. However, he instead decides to stay and gives her advice about taking a risk with love. Halfway through Freddie giving Sam advice, Sam kisses Freddie. The episode ends with a shocked Carly watching the scene from inside the school through a window.

Guest star: Justin Prentice as Brad, Kyle Goleman as Screaming Boy, Tim Russ as Principal Franklin (voice), Ben Begley as Food Cart Guy, Ethan Munck as Guppy (in ending credits)

Note: This episode ends on a cliffhanger and will be resumed in "iLost My Mind." iOMG's storyline continues for four episodes. This episode takes place after iParty with Victorious
81-83 11-13 "iParty with Victorious" Steve Hoefer Dan Schneider June 11, 2011 (2011-06-11) (original)
August 27, 2011 (2011-08-27) (extended)
311-313 7.3[14] (original)
3.7[16] (extended)

Carly is in a brand new relationship with a boy named Steven. Sam goes online to TheSlap.com and sees Steven with another girl by the name of Tori Vega and tries to inform Carly that Steven is cheating on her but Carly refuses to believe her unless she has proof, saying "everyone is innocent until proven cheaty". The group, including Gibby, decide to fly over to Los Angeles and crash a party at Kenan Thompson's house to find out if Steven is really cheating on Carly. But before they arrive at Andre's party, they get disguises for the party in case anyone recognizes the iCarly gang (which would cause major distractions). They stop at the house of Moni, who was Spencer's past girlfriend and is also a celebrity makeup artist. Moni transforms them into different looking people. Carly catches Steven with Tori, and she sees him giving Tori the same exact charm bracelet that he gave her and telling her, "it's one of a kind, just like you", which he also had told Carly at the beginning of the episode. Tori then tells Steven that she loves him and Steven says "I love you too". Carly is devastated, but she tells Tori about Steven's cheating, and together, she, Tori, Sam, Freddie, and Kenan come together with a plan to expose Steven's bad nature live on iCarly in front of a million people in a small closet where Tori and Steven originally planned to have their 100-day kiss. Steven angrily leaves the closet while the iCarly gang party inside, with the graphic "Random Humiliation" flashing on the screen.

Special Guest Appearance By: Kenan Thompson as Himself

Special Guest Stars: Victoria Justice as Tori Vega, Leon Thomas III as Andre Harris, Matt Bennett as Robbie Shapiro, Elizabeth Gillies as Jade West, Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine, Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver and Daniella Monet as Trina Vega

Guest Stars: Eric Lange as Erwin Sikowitz, Michael Eric Reid as Sinjin Van Cleef, Mary Scheer as Mrs. Benson, Jake Farrow as Rex Powers, Cameron Stewart as Steven Carson, Kwame Patterson as DJ Mustang, David St. James as Mr. Howard, Jen Liley as Monie, Lane Napper as Lane, Marilyn Harris as Andre's Grandmother, Cierra Russel as Mabel, Walt Shoen as Wilson, Dabier as Rex Challenger, Justin Castor as Mark and BooG!e as Panda.

Note: Victoria Justice also played Shelby Marx in an iCarly episode, Due to this, Tori is mentioned looking like Shelby Marx by Sam. The episode was the highest rated television program for the week. It also took the #1 spot, ranking as the number-one entertainment telecast of 2011 across all TV with kids 6-11, and tweens 9-14. It posted huge triple-digit gains over last year’s like time period and averaged a 9.8/3.5 million K2-11 (+188%), 13.3/2.9 million K6-11 (+136%) and 13.7/2.9 million T9-14 (+234%). The primetime premiere also led its direct competitor in the same time period by huge triple and quadruple-digits, with total viewers and all kid and tween demos. [14] The total number of viewers were 7.316 mil., ranking #1 for the week on cable. The immediate repeat from 9:30pm-11pm (EDT) ranked #8, drawing 4.610 mil. viewers. Another repeat on Sunday June 12 7pm-8:30pm (EDT) ranked #17, drawing 3.916 mil. viewers. [15] In the U.K. Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland) renamed it iParty to promote it as an iCarly episode, but the actual title of the show still appears as iParty With Victorious

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