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i'm carly i'm on parole and this is
watched by smart people and
idiots you know which one you are
carly shea is the quirky and
kind-hearted protagonist of the icarly
series
throughout the show's run carly acts as
the mediator for a majority of the
show's conflicts
because of this a lot of people tend to
chalk carly up as
just a plucky nice girl who hardly does
anything wrong
but after re-watching icarly i noticed
something odd the carly shay we start
the series with
is not the same carliche we end the
series with
the most obvious example of this being
her intelligence
you finished your history report no i
finished the greatest history report in
the history of history report
if i get an a on this that means i'll
get an a for the semester
which means i'll have straight a's on my
report card for the first time ever
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you've taped sheet notes to the bottom
of your plate
more cheat notes and you misspelled
russia
so what happened what conditions
confused carly's calculations
and common sense cloudy and callous
curriculum
or creators crafting carly into a
complex character
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there's not enough people with
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janiac
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okay first there's no way that's true
and second i can't believe you said bows
and please
never say it again you're such a pris
the prissiest
because carly lives in an apartment with
no parents no financial obligations and
the freedom to do pretty
much whatever she wants to carly is a
pretty carefree person
pair this with the fame and recognition
she gets from her web show
and it's safe to say that she's also
pretty spoiled
because of that she frequently expects
things to go her way
so whenever this is challenged she tends
to freak out
huh i don't want you going to that fight
either
you're kidding right no i'm serious okay
when did you suddenly turn
uncool uh when did you turn into a
little baby who yells at me the first
time she doesn't get what she wants
right when you stop giving me what i
want but unlike her best friend sam
no matter how angry carly is she very
rarely resorts to violence
that being said juvenile antics aren't
exactly
beneath her in season two's episode i
twins
sam and carly humiliate freddie in front
of the whole school
just so they could have footage for a
gag on her web show icarly
which brings us to arguably the most
quintessential part of carli shay
her web show with all the bras babies
and bad jokes
one must wonder if carly is the primary
writer for the show
like is there an approval process does
everything go through carly before they
start recording
or does everyone have to agree with it
truthfully we may never know
but what we do know is this the icarly
web series has broken records
won awards and most importantly made sam
puckett
freddie benson and especially carly shea
ridiculously famous and you can
guarantee this plays a vital role in her
regular life though carly remains
relatively humble about it
her fame fortune and free spirit grants
her favor with
so many people around her the principal
the teachers
and even the most popular boys in school
tend to treat her
differently than the other students
leading us to a rather
understated aspect of carly her
libido carly begins the series with
little to no knowledge about
relationships
but after having a few serious
boyfriends and a variety of single
episode crushes and dates
carly says something quite notable
you sure you're not gonna come i want to
but already bailed on lance twice and
he's really cool and if i bail again
he's gonna think i don't like him and i
really do like him
besides i haven't kissed a guy in four
months i'm getting itchy
which is just one of many quirks
associated with her
i make no exaggeration when i say that
carly shea may very well be
the quirkiest character i've ever spoken
about
some of my favorites include believing
in bigfoot sitting in the shower when
she's sad
and never wanting to be told to calm
down along with these quirks comes a
talent that
rarely gets brought up carly's ability
to sing
here's a fun song to sing when people
die just jump in if you know it
amazing grace
less quirky and much more serious carly
suffers from claustrophobia
as seen in i space out and i sam's mom
usually resulting in unique reactions
shut up
and in i want to stay with spencer we're
told that carly has to take daily
vitamins for her allergies
and that she had asthma attacks when she
was younger
it should also be noted that in i date
sam and freddy
carly uses a continuous positive airway
pressure machine
while she sleeps sure she claims that
it's just to prevent her from snoring
but these machines are often used to
help people struggling with obstructive
sleep apnea
clearly there's a lot more to carly shea
than her giddy personality
leads us to believe do you know how much
time and money
i spent on these presents i guess the
electromagnet why couldn't you just
gotten a regular tree
one that didn't set all the presents on
fire i wish you'd been born normal
at home carly lives with her older
brother spencer who despite being
relatively laid back
doesn't shy away from protecting
defending or
disciplining carly if need be that being
said
i often wonder if carly's lowered
interest in academics is a result of her
not having any real guidance i mean
think about it
whenever carly is faced with a problem
it's usually
solved with some form of shenanigans
rather than carly having to go through
any serious personal change
usually which raises the question of
where her real parents are
we know that her father colonel shea is
in the u.s
air force not the navy if he was in the
navy he wouldn't be called colonel he'd
be called
captain and that's your janie fact of
the week
and before you go to the comments to
mention what carly says and i want to
stay with spencer
dan schneider himself said it was a
mistake
anyway there's obviously a great deal of
distance between carly and her father
but when he shows up in i goodbye he
shows a stronger preference for carly
than he does for
her older brother spencer as for their
mom
we don't know you want to know the most
polarizing thing about icarly
everyone has a missing parent but unlike
the other missing parents we don't even
have
hints towards who mrs shea might be or
where she might be she could be alive
she could be dead
she could be carly's biological mother
but not spencers
at the end of the day we don't know and
i'm not a theorist
i'm an analyst a character analysis can
help people understand a character
better
or maybe even show them from a different
perspective but fan theories while
amusing
usually just pair tangentially related
information
and make stuff up rarely do fan theories
actually
change anything because at the end of
the day what's written is written and if
something is left unanswered
it always will be unless the creators
themselves
say otherwise so please stop asking me
to analyze people that don't exist
hopefully we get more information on her
in the new icarly revival
and if we do feel free to spam
my comment
then i section griffin he was obnoxious
and he said i should run a sense of
humor and i said oh really
and then while i was telling him how
mature he was i realized he's super cute
and i realized he's really sweet and
smart and his lips were right there in
front of me so i leaned over and i
kissed him
i don't kiss like a i can't like a
princess
as i mentioned earlier carly often plays
the mediator among her peers
often bringing out the best in them she
mellows out spencer's zaniness
she pacifies sam's anger she tolerates
gibby's
gibbiness and she boosts freddy's
self-esteem
when she's not taking advantage of him
that is
remember carly's not perfect and there
are quite a number of times where carly
takes advantage of freddie's crush on
her to get what she wants from him
which really brings some aspects of
their relationship into question
but that's a video for another day we
also know that she used to be friends
with a girl named missy
which is notable because besides sam all
of carly's close friends are
male unless you count wendy seriously
does anyone remember wendy
as for carly's romantic relationships
she's had quite a few
and feel free to correct me if i'm wrong
but none of these relationships seem to
last longer than a single episode
griffin lance stephen carson and freddie
benson are probably the most noteworthy
but steven carson cheats on carly lance
mysteriously disappears
and freddy in i date a bad boy
carly is pretty vocal about why she
likes griffin
i never would have pictured you with a
guy like him me either but there's just
something kind of exciting and cool
about a bad boy
guess what he has what scars ooh scars
are hot
i know uh some are from motorcycle
crashes and some are from fights he's
been in i just love it
but the two ultimately end up separating
because he collects stuff
toys called peewee babies
i didn't know you were there you're
making fun of my pee wee babies
what you don't think peewee babies are
cool
i just thought you were a different kind
of guy what kind
the kind that doesn't collect peewee
babies funny considering the fact that
two seasons later
carly says this to sam and freddie but
you're a couple now
so so part of dating is you learning to
like stuff he likes and you learning to
like stuff she likes
maybe she grew from the experience but
then
one season after that we get trey from
ipear store
who carly eagerly flirts with thinking
that he's just a nerdy guy
but once she discovers he's actually
quite the opposite
she immediately loses interest it also
doesn't help that he forces himself on
her
sure carly was literally throwing
herself at him earlier in the same
episode but i guess through her eyes he
wasn't being genuine
when you pair this with everything we
learned about her relationship with
griffin
it seems like carly has an ideal for
what she wants in a guy
and the minute that ideal is challenged
she shies away from ever trying to
understand him
just a thought speaking of which
carly's quirks keep her from being just
another nice girl
but i'm genuinely curious to see what
direction the new revival series will
take her in
since we're short a few cast members
will we finally get to see a bit more
development for carly
or just more quirks we'll all know soon
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