I Carly
It started airing on YTV a month later, and now currently airs on The N and Nickelodeon. In Easter 2008, iCarly premiered on Nickelodeon UK but only the first 12 episodes have been shown.
Main Characters
Carly Shay
Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove) is a 13-year old girl who is the star of her own popular web show (helped by her two friends, Sam and Freddie), iCarly.
She lives with her 26-year old brother Spencer in an apartment in Seattle. Carly sticks up for Freddie when Sam teases him, and tries to encourage Sam to stay out of trouble.
Carly is very aware of Freddie's crush on her, but just shrugs it off for the most part. Carly is quite intelligent and hates to lie about anything or anyone, as shown in the episode iPromise Not to Tell, where she was overtaken by guilt when forced to keep Sam's actions a secret.
Carly has very high grades in school and was even offered a scholarship to Briarwood, an elite private school in iMight Switch Schools. Carly is the most mature character on the show and is usually the mediator between Sam and Freddie, though Carly and Sam did get into quarrels where Freddie was the mediator.
Samantha "Sam" Puckett
Sam Puckett (Jennette McCurdy) is the 14 year old best friend of Carly and Freddie, but often verbally torments Freddie.
Sam spends most of her time at Carly's house, and makes herself at home there. Her mom isn't the best out there and thinks Sam spending time with Carly will keep her out of jail (Many of her family members are/were in jail).
She has unusual cravings for meat (ribs, ham, etc.), and will usually do anything and "will eat anything that does not eat her first", because her mom doesn't feed her. It was revealed in iHate Sam's Boyfriend that she likes to eat porkchops in bed.
She isn't unintelligent, but her poor grades are because of a lack of effort and laziness. Her last name was revealed in the episode iPromise Not to Tell.
Sam was so used in insulting Freddie that she had withdrawal symptoms when she cannot insult Freddie due to a bet, as seen in iHeart Art. It's implied that she has a poor sense of cleanliness by littering soda cans and corn kernels in Carly's apartment, and as said by Freddie in iSaw Him First, "When was the last time Sam washed her hands?", noting Sam's unhygienic nature.
Fredward "Freddie" Benson
Freddie Benson (Nathan Kress) is the girls' closest male friend, as well as Carly's next-door neighbor in her apartment complex.
He has a playful crush on Carly, and suffers insults constantly from Sam; in iDon't Wanna Fight he actually came to Carly's apartment with a baseball bat in order to protect himself from Sam in case she was there. Freddie has a very over-protective mother who is obsessively making sure he is clean.
His mother is afraid to give him more than $8 for his monthly allowance, fearing he may buy a bus ticket and run away, which Freddie says is not as ridiculous as it sounds. He is usually found hanging out with Carly and Sam or rehearsing for iCarly.
He also spends much of his time at the local junkyard, gathering supplies for sculptures. Spencer has won the Jonas World Record for the Sculpture with the Most Moving Parts in iWant a World Record while in the episode iStage an Intervention, Spencer became the world's #1 Pak-Rat player by beating the current score record-holder Sasha Striker (who also developed a mutual attraction with him).
Recurring Characters
Mrs.
As seen on the iCarly website trivia, Lewbert was formerly a male model until the mole grew on his cheek.
Nevel Papperman
Nevel (Reed Alexander) is an 11-year-old web critic, whose website, Nevelocity.com (this URL actually redirects the browser to the iCarly website), receives five million pageviews per day. He has since attempted to exact revenge upon the iCarly crew ranging from a dishonest review into sabotaging the webcast to ruin the Plain White T's performance.
She also taught at the school when Spencer was still a student. She is obssessed on Randy Jackson and has a closet dedicated to him, filled with many pictures of him, a talking cardboard standee, and assorted Randy Jackson-related merchandise like colognes and a cereal brand Randy-Yo.
It is revealed in episode iDream of Dance that she enjoys Scottish music and dancing, calling them enriching entertainment which the students consider as a despicable "torture".
Ms. Lauren was finally arrested by the police for illegally downloading 500 songs for the PearPod she gave to Spencer, as she said so herself in an iCarly webcast which Carly had set up to stop the teacher's detestable behavior.
Gibby
Gibby (Noah Munck) is the other stereotypical bullied kid, who is fond of doing things without a shirt on (he usually takes it off).
He likes spelling bees and Ryan Seacrest and was given a Texas wedgie twice. As seen in iDream of Dance, Gibby runs into Sam's nightmare in his boxers saying, "Am I too late for the test?" to which Sam replies, "Get out of here Gibby, this is MY nightmare!" In iWin a Date, it is revealed that he had a crush on a girl named Shannon, who has a crush on Freddie.
In the same episode, it was revealed that his middle name is Cornelius. It includes the theme song, four original songs by the iCarly star Miranda Cosgrove, several tracks by guest artists, and cast dialogue.
The iCarly Box Set
Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon has recently released iCarly: Season 1, Volume 1 Box Set for DVD on September 23, 2008.