Ibinged Icarly (Season 3)
Here’s the first thing you arguably need to know about iCarly season 3: it very easily could have been the last season of the show. Not because there was a dip in popularity, far from it, but because at that point in Nickelodeon history, 3-4 seasons was the standard for even the most popular live-action sitcoms. And that made sense, these shows were usually set in a school setting, either Middle School or High School, so three to four years was basically the maximum length they could go on for before people started to ask questions. And furthermore, there was always a short window of time for teen sitcoms to remain marketable, because teenagers, fun fact, eventually become adults who don’t watch Nickelodeon anymore. And because of this, season 3 is packed full of massive event stories which were heavily advertised and tend to focus a lot on character-driven drama. One thing I remember that really pissed me off at the time, was they’d air these commercials for episodes that had some really funny or notable moment, and you’d watch the episode, and it just wouldn’t be there. It always felt so cheap, like were they filming scenes just for the TV trailers? Were they that low? Nowadays the understanding is that the trailers often just used deleted scenes, but I still think it’s a pretty lame thing that they did. Visuals for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQqBqAVlrqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3MWk3mF0TU [The girls screaming about iCarly being canceled and the girls fighting over Freddie as he says “hey look a Freckle” are both deleted scenes] The reason I’m bringing this up, is that while for seasons 1 and 2 I typically caught most of the episodes in re-runs, kind of randomly depending what was on after school, with iCarly season 3, I saw most of these episodes the day they originally aired, and when they came out in the season thus feels important.
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