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I couldn’t have planned it this way. At the end of a week in which I wrote exclu­sively about iCarly, often in ways far too seri­ous, a spe­cial double-length (if there’s one thing about watch­ing Nick­elodeon shows that makes me feel self-consciously old, it’s how they call hour-long episodes “movies,” and how irra­tionally I respond …

While it’s not among my favorite episodes, iDo is an appro­pri­ate end to my week of writ­ing about iCarly. After all, it focuses on a cou­ple of 30-something (pos­si­bly 20-something) iCarly fanat­ics. Obvi­ously, this res­onates with me a great deal, and lets me know that the writ­ers believe that I exist. On the other hand, …

One one hand, to call any episode of iCarly either “dark” or “polit­i­cal” would prob­a­bly be over­do­ing it a lit­tle. On the other hand, it’s all rel­a­tive, and iSell Penny Tees is prob­a­bly both the dark­est and most polit­i­cal episode of iCarly. The set-up is that the iCarly crew auc­tions off some of the items …

iGet Pranky is my favorite iCarly episode. I will take a closer look at the episode’s theme (and it is very rich with metaphor), but I want you to know that it’s my favorite episode because it cracks me up. The exec­u­tive pro­ducer, Dan Schnei­der, and the iCarly writ­ers have a unique ear (it’s a …

Besides sport­ing what must be either the worst or the best title in the show’s run, iSam’s Mom also fea­tures iCarly’s best ever guest appear­ance in Jane Lynch, who plays, as the title sug­gests, Sam’s mom. As always, Jane Lynch is incred­i­ble. She has great on-screen chem­istry with Jen­nette McCurdy (“Sam”), and man­ages to deliver …

Part of the appeal of iCarly to me, as an adult fan (a good 15 years, give or take a cou­ple years, from the old­est of the tar­get demo­graphic) is that it can be enjoyed at var­i­ous lev­els. At its most basic, iCarly has some of the best jokes on tele­vi­sion, some of the best …