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it just calm down it's okay no need to vomit icarly is no stranger to having some interesting
episodes but there is one that stands out when i think about the show so as we get ready for
paramount plus's revival of icarly which we will be covering here on the channel once it comes out
i figured we would take a look more into icarly i've recently been re-watching the original show i
also just made an essay video on the series about its perfect timing for when it originally came out
checked out that video if you haven't it was one of my favorites to put together but in doing the
re-watch and seeing these episodes again i really wanted to talk about the time that the icarly crew
were essentially kidnapped by a crazed obsessive fan and why looking back on this episode was a bit
dark quickly here at the start i just want to say thank you for all the support recently i am truly
appreciative of all of you and all i ask is for you to drop a like on the video as it really helps
the video out and also that i hope you enjoy so the episode that we're talking about today is i
psycho and right off the bat you can tell that this is going to be a rather intriguing episode
for sure maybe it'll be about neville he's a little psycho right nah instead we're going
to focus on a brand new character so increasingly evil it would eventually cause neville to help out
sam in the sam and cat's spin-off show but here is i guess the super villain origin of nora this
episode spends the beginning half of its double length run time building up the awkwardness of
nora a fan of icarly who reaches out to them about no one attending her birthday party
and in hopes that since the icarly crew is going to a convention called webacon and that her house
is 15 minutes away from the event that they might have time to make a surprise visit to her so of
course thanks to carly's good spirited nature and drags the gang along to nora's house and
which doing so shows that nora and her 87 year old clown are the only ones there in a later
two-part special we would actually get to meet said parents who are just as if not more weirder
than nora the pair doesn't fall far from the pear pad cut to a little bit later of awkward chitchat
and creepy dancing the clown has an aneurysm and is taken away in a stretcher this leaves nora a
giant wreck crying profusely and vomiting in the fireplace as most do to get her spirits up and
give her a party with the people she invited to her school carly comes up with the plan to host an
impromptu icarly episode inside of norah's house doing this brings a bunch of students nora goes to
school with to the party giving her that popular moment she's dreamt of albeit it's superficial and
here is where the episode while starting off weird starts turning a bit dark i also can't stress this
enough dark doesn't necessarily mean scary darker themes don't have to relate to scaring you but at
the same time it also very much can so please keep that in mind when i make these episodes that they
aren't always going to relate to something being scary as the main factor once all the
party guests leave the house and it's just nora and the icarly crew they for some reason can't
find their luggage they brought so they can leave and head to the convention nora says she hid it
away downstairs so the guests wouldn't mess with it they all follow her downstairs where in which
nora's father has a soundproof recording booth for his job as a jingle maker for various brands
she ends up locking them inside the sound booth and holds them captive for the reasons of not
wanting her to lose them as friends and in some ways her newfound popularity the back half of the
episode now plays out like a non-accident-based version of misery which is a stephen king's story
about a crazed fan holding captive a famous author through this nora and her chicken maurice sit
outside the sound booth annoying the icarly trio driving them to near insanity from music to mad
libs she constantly keeps an upbeat spirit as they slowly get angry and more aggressively mad towards
her they can't call or text anyone to help because she stole their phones and even reached out to all
their relatives pretending to be them saying that they are fine she also reached out to webacon as
carly to say they were canceling their appearance which is kind of scary that she knew how to do all
this stuff almost like maybe she has kidnapped someone famous before nah i'm just looking too
deep into things for the entire weekend they are trapped in this sound booth with getting one meal
of chinese food and this is where sam sharpens a duck bone and picks the lock after diverting nora
back upstairs for a moment she picks the lock but as they make a break for it nora comes back
downstairs in a richard nixon mask while wielding an axe scaring the gang back into the booth where
she locks it once more with no way out carly comes up with a plan to reach out to gibby for help
without directly reaching out to him for help this way she can evade nora's suspicions of them doing
any kind of obvious activity that would result in them reaching out to someone she asked if she can
send gibby a birthday video message and within that message they leave another cryptic message
that even gibby could figure out where every fourth word would be the real message about them
being kidnapped by nora gibby receives the message and after figuring out everything and putting
it together hops on a train to olympia with his younger brother guppy and busts down norah's front
door this causes them to get into a full-on wwe smackdown match throughout the house and down the
stairs to the basement and while gibby is taking down nora guppy snatches the key and lets out the
crew nora is knocked out and the police are called on her as the trio gibby and guppy head back home
safe and sound this also leads nora down an even crazier path for a return in a two-parter episode
i still psycho as well as the icarly and victoria spin-off sam and cat like we mentioned earlier
she really gets quite the major villain arc and it looks like her arc may not be over as in the new
icarly trailer for paramount plus we can clearly see nora is back and based on the
fact that spencer tases himself it means that he was probably just as shocked to see her as we all
are so only time will tell what her role is to play going forward while a lot of this is played
for laughter the crew were still held captive for a whole weekend with minimal food and no contact
to the outside world by a crazed awkward fan with no social cues take out the laugh track and the
whole vibe changes it's not a bad episode though by any means i think the way they built up nora
throughout the episode leading to her kidnapping them was done quite well she starts off as just
this awkward girl but when the people she's obsessed with are nice your parents abandoned
you nobody showed up to your party and your clown burped and had an aneurysm how could you have had
a worse birthday or sometimes nice to her and help her amass some semblance of popularity with
her peers creating this connection in her brain that in order to keep this taste of the life
she's wanted she must keep them around as friends even if it's against their will there are definite
darker correlations to real-life influencers dealing with a fan or a supposed fan going too far
as the online space has grown into what it is now so seeing it in today's light rather than
watching it when it first came out shines a new perspective on that yeah this isn't far off from
similar stories that have happened since and one more time yes this episode was played for comedy
it still has its silly ridiculous moments and means no intentional harm by it but like how i
spoke about this show in relation to the rise of content creators in the online space in my
previous icarly video this shows once again how tapped in the show was to said space and what it
would become whether you feel a certain way about how this episode portrays it or not so yeah that
was a darker episode of icarly and watching it again now knowing just how weird some people on
the internet can get definitely shifts the tone even further into the dark category than it may
have originally intended i mean it's still played for comedy of course but there's just a little too
much possible realism that keeps it from being just another sitcom episode and like i said i'll
be covering the new icarly revival later this month when it premieres on june 17th so be on
the lookout for that video discussing my thoughts on it it's been really fun covering icarly and
re-watching the original show in preparation for the new show so i hope you've enjoyed these videos
as well i truly appreciate the support you all have shown me and i love hearing your thoughts
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