this christmas i'm returning to my roots my summertime roots and talking about icarly
just a little bit more and probably for my final time until season two of the revival
comes back on which is looking closer and closer each day to happening soon my guess
is pretty early on next year but it just seems wrong this fringe miss without at least taking a
trip back to the world of icarly for the show's christmas special i christmas so welcome back
or hello for the first time to the 25 days of fringemas where i cover something interesting
nostalgic or holiday related every day from the 1st of december to the 25th in order to
find that holiday spirit i lost nearly a decade ago so if you want to be a part
of this daily journey and help me find that good old jolly joy subscribe and come aboard
the episode starts with the christmas special web show it's not very special overall as it's
just the tail end of the show like usual carly and sam are in an inflatable raft
for some reason and freddy is dressed like a flashlight the most festive of things clearly
poor freddy man stays never catching any w's spencer downstairs has set up this year's
christmas tree except it's not it's a trash mist tree that contains a dangerous electromagnet on
the inside so you can hang things like your car keys on it carly isn't particularly happy about
this all she wanted this year was a real tree for things to feel like normal just for once freddy's
mom comes over to embarrass him about going to the mall to see santa sam however now has to
head home to go bond with her mom by beating up their old tv with a baseball bat leaving carly
and spencer to themselves in their new metal tree in the middle of the night though the fire alarm
goes off waking up spencer in a panic smacking into the door before running out to see the tree
has caught on fire while trying to put it out carly comes running downstairs to then turn off
the fire alarm with a pineapple when it's still going off after that she runs over to the fridge
to drop off the now fallen alarm into a pitcher of lemonade and thus it's short circuits but
the battery was right there just rip it out who cares sitcom characters never listen to logic hey
man why can't they listen to my music no i wasn't talking about you logic when the fire gets put out
the presents that were under the tree were burnt to a crisp carly immediately becomes irate with a
mixture of the said effort and money she put into the gifts and spencer's unwillingness to just get
a regular tree this year she yells at him telling him that she wishes he was born normal and storms
off upstairs now in the studio carly pacing around in anger and sadness gets a surprise magical visit
from mitch who just appears in her room and is her christmas angel where's my christmas angel
hey man i'll be your christmas angel hey thanks logic coming up on nick it's icarly
proving that he is magic he performs a card trick which aside from guessing the card right
has a this nightmare fuel on it he's really an angel thanks for that icarly i'll bill you
for my therapy he's actually there to make her wish come true make spencer born normal carly
is still in shock of what's happening and even after all the weird stuff still doesn't fully
believe what's going on when going downstairs it's now the morning the apartment is different
everything is normal well normal in comparison from all the art projects that used to litter
the apartment spencer is seen in a suit and on a business call oh and he's dating freddy's mom
so there's a there's that also the candor in which spencer is speaking here trying to sound
more proper and enunciate his words is so perfect again i've said this many times before but we just
don't deserve jerry traynor he's too pure for this world now at school mitch appears once more
explaining her relationships with everyone we see freddy who has given up on his conquest to date
carly as well his mother is dating carly's brother and he also has a mean girlfriend who no one likes
rona berger man that's a great name also she finally has her own boyfriend and you won't
believe who it is it's neville so i guess she she finally ruined the day huh so now carly screams
into commercial break much like jimmy neutron when he found out his future self married cindy i won't
do the same joke again like in my jimmy neutron video but i thought about it anyway back at the
apartment now the icarly studio is just storage icarly never became a thing in the first place now
carly just wants everything to go back to the way it was because this is all so weird but of course
she hasn't fully learned the reasoning of why this life isn't special like her life before and until
then mitch can't earn his wings meaning he can't revert the wish we then find out what happened
to sam she's well she's in juvie they never were able to become friends growing up because spencer
didn't approve of them hanging out you know he's all proper now she visits sam at joovi and tries
to convince her that they were friends and she knows everything about her first freaking her
out and then slightly convincing her a bit not like anything really comes of that but at least
sam kind of believes her now so there's that as well the guard though i recognize from the show
glee not an important detail at all but one that i want to go all leo pointing at the screen on back
at the apartment we see everyone over there minus carly and once she walks in spencer and freddie's
mom announced that they are getting married carly has a full-on breakdown regretting everything
she wished for and yells at everyone roasting the ever-loving crap out of them even more so neville
and the burger girl before running upstairs crying looking for mitch to reverse everything
and saying that she's learned her lesson but mitch doesn't show up the wish is still in effect
carly falls to the floor crying right outside of the studio but just when all hope is lost
a light from outside shines in and thanks to the magical noise cues maybe something has changed the
regular freddy comes to see carly mentioning some ideas for icarly which sparks her to realize that
she's back to her original life being thankful to see the studio and see freddy and sam she
runs downstairs to hug spencer and stops him from throwing out the burnt metal tree as it is now her
favorite christmas tree ever they all together start putting stuff on the tree to decorate it
and mitch appears on a laptop screen carly goes over to it to see that he has earned his wings
chicken wings lucky also no one's the wiser to carly just speaking to a christmas angel through
a laptop five feet away regardless they start awkwardly caroling at the tree all while trying to
not break character as it just goes on for so long that it even continues into the show's credits and
carly never said sorry to spencer for saying what she said in the first place which felt a bit odd
like sure she said it without saying it but i feel just telling spencer sorry for saying what
she said would have been nice but hey i'm just a dude on the internet the weirdness of her life
is what makes it special what makes it her normal yeah her brother isn't perfect sometimes at the
detriment to herself but it's what makes it unique and exciting that normalcy in which
you think is considered normal may not be your normal speaking of normal this episode gets
unnormal taking a spin at the wishing you were never born trope and seeing life in a new or
different perspective which proves to always be effective in the end the thing you think you
seek is not the thing you think it is adding this whole mystical element to the show meaning that
in the world of icarly christmas angels exist and magic is real or maybe carly had too much eggnog
the spirit is real
focus focus
you're watching icarly you're watching icarly
why i do enjoy this episode is because it's another story that happens around and on christmas
but it isn't really about christmas it's about character and finding the joy with what you have
in your life relating to it sure i don't have a hyper creative older brother i only live with
who i wish would sometimes be normal but i can relate to taking things for granted and wishing
for my life to be different sometimes with people and sometimes with life situations seeing what
others have and how much they got on their plate versus mine it's easy to get caught up in those
things and over the past few years specifically is something i had to deal with getting over
and finding myself finding the love for me who i am and what i am fortunate enough today to have
many years were spent in a dark place and i'd be lying if i hadn't been there throughout my own
journey here now again but trying to find that peace with myself has been the real reward the
journey isn't over per se but i am grateful for a lot in my life finally being around the right
people in my life doing and creating the things that make me happy and that i enjoy disconnecting
more from the internet and taking in life as it is i'm not here to preach to you what to do just
sharing my own personal thoughts and feelings everyone's different and what helps me may not
be what you may be needing or searching for all i can say is thank you for being with me throughout
this creative outlet i love being able to discuss my interests and see others online share their
love or thoughts on it as well much like spencer i'm not perfect heck i mispronounce things all the
time thanks to how my brain sees words sometimes jumbling them up mixing that in with my adhd but
at least i can finally say that i feel like me i am who i am take it or leave it i don't mean to
get so personal about it all but this fringemiss journey to find this missing joy isn't about oh
it's the holidays i need to be cheery it's about finding that peace with this time of the year that
has utterly been ruined year after year for so long from different jobs like retail and
the food industry to people who were close to me who have made it miserable this episode of
icarly reminds me of what matters in life and that i shouldn't take what i care about for granted a
reminder that seems like something one shouldn't need but it helps reinforce a better mindset when
thinking that way aside from the mystical element of this episode it really isn't too special from
any other icarly episode it's definitely not one of my favorites but it's a nice revisit that does
bring me joy ultimately but what about you how do you feel about this episode of icarly let me
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