In five, four, three, two...
Hey, I'm Nathan Kress from iCarly.
And today I am going to revisit and react to some of my classic moments.
Let's check them out.
Hi, I'm Nathan Kress, I'm 14 years old--
Oh, the hair!
Oh, what is this action?
And it's just going, pfft! Like...
I was startled, not scared.
Oh, it makes me physically uncomfortable.
Who prepared?
Oh sure, everybody jokes about the white balance until the skin tones go magenta.
Jeez. I worked on that one so hard.
- What you don't see-- - That's it. I'm not doing it.
Oh I chucked it. Whoa, strong choice.
I should start doing that in more auditions.
I mean, you might as well just be saying hire me.
Obviously that worked.
They were on the fence until the script chuck happened.
That was total commitment.
And the hair. The hair was total commitment too.
I think my first line on iCarly was, "you dropped this",
when Carly is coming home
down the hallway to her apartment and she dropped her water bottle.
And creepy Freddie is there definitely not looking in the peephole.
And he very eagerly grabs it and shoves it in her face.
And says, "you dropped this!"
It doesn't get much better after that.
Freddie is just being Freddie.
Poor guy.
We can be buds, but you gotta get over this crush thing.
I am over it, seriously.
I'm in love with you, you just wanna be friends.
And I'm totally cool living with that constant pain.
He's not cool with it.
I think we've learned over many seasons
that Freddie is decidedly not cool with it.
I actually remember when we first shot that scene,
it was the first scene that I rehearsed.
And I don't know if it was the combination of the fact that it was just really
cold on set or that I was really nervous but I was shaking,
like quaking, during the entire rehearsal. But I was like holding up the bottle
and like all of my hands were just going absolutely insane.
I think a lot of Freddie energy was actually
just me that I couldn't even contain,
and it just became evident on screen.
Fortunately, I think by like season two we both chilled out a little bit.
Oh.
You can like, already see the tears in my eye bags on this.
Oh this was rough.
Oh the shuffle. This actually was not scripted, this was
at the last second they decided to do this.
It was just gonna be a normal like,
Carly and Sam going into the elevator. Yeah I remember, that was tough.
Right there I'm pretty sure you can tell I was like, actively...
- Love you too. - Love you too, okay.
And that was so legit, saying that like... I mean for at least me personally
that was a very true statement. Like everybody was pretty devastated.
Oh man. Oh that's bringing up some memories.
Jeez.
We wrapped up this big awesome thing and we got to have a goodbye episode
and so many shows don't get to do that. But that honestly made it harder.
The guys were like trying to be really chill about it. We were just like
silently crying in the back. Like just wiping tears away and everything.
I wish I could have seen my face, because it contorted into this thing
that I could probably never recreate, but I just started like ugly crying.
[whimpering]
It starts with Freddie counting down, so it goes
in five, four, three, two...
[imitating drum riff]
I know, you see, somehow the world will change for me and be so wonderful.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Live life, breathe air, I know somehow we're gonna get there
and feel so wonderful.
It's all for real. I'm telling you just how I feel.
I always liked that part.
So wake up the members of my nation.
It's your time to be, there's no chance unless you take one.
And the time to see the brighter side of every situation.
Some things are meant to be so give me your best and leave the rest to me.
Leave it all to me. Leave it all to me. Just leave it all to me.
And then we would do something.
We'd be jumping on trampolines, or throwing bananas or some such sort.
I feel like I'd probably wanna be Captain Man.
He's got a pretty sweet job.
One, indestructible.
If I wasn't indestructible, believe me I'd have been, you know, destructed.
Two, he fights crime, which is pretty sweet.
So he's like helping people.
Three, he's got a Schwoz. Who doesn't want a Schwoz?
I need a Schwoz in my life to build me stuff. Shoot.
Just aim at the target's neck and pull the trigger.
[crowd laughing]
Uh, that's tough, that's like picking your favorite child.
One of my favorites was...
I think it was called iShock America.
We filmed partially outside, because the big thing with iCarly...
We shot on a sound stage,
and even when we were supposed to be like in Japan, we were in our parking lot.
So we shot on our set, but then we also shot at Paramount, on their like
New York street for a part where we were like in front of our hotel.
And we got hit by a cab, that was fun. That was a cool little stop.
And then we flew to New York to be on Jimmy Fallon's set and shot
an episode as if it was the iCarly cast on Jimmy Fallon which was super cool.
My favorite iCarly webcast segment was baby Spencer.
Anything with baby Spencer.
So basically any time you're watching a baby Spencer segment
where we're just messing with him in the crib, you're basically
looking at like a five minute long blooper.
We're not in character at all,
and we're just doing horrible things to Jerry Trainor.
That poor guy. But he committed, he made it funny.
So those were always some of my fonder memories, probably not Jerry's though.
Good heavens! Baby Lamply has cream fish stuck in his gullet!
I'll Heimlich his tummy!
[gasping]
That wasn't very sophisticated.
I have strong culinary thoughts on spaghetti tacos.
They are delicious.
We made some baller spaghetti tacos.
'Cause that's the problem that I've had, when you get those
store bought taco shells they just kinda fall apart,
and your spaghetti all falls out the back.
But if you could like custom craft like kind of a wider mouthed taco shell,
you'd be in some pretty good shape.
Freddie should have ended up with a very nice, normal, not complicated girl.
Have a nerdy little life together and binge watch streaming shows
without Freddie having to worry about getting punched in the face.
Or that suddenly his girlfriend would decide that she doesn't like him anymore.
If he was smart and I could advise him on anything,
it would be to maybe just pull back and meet somebody else.
Or just stay with his mother, because she's safe.
To be honest, I feel like a lot of the tech
things that we talked about on iCarly were completely fake.
We invented a lot of vernacular that probably is never really used.
And we are transparent.
Clear.
I remember like one of our first episodes we did was where
Freddie had to like live auto-tune a really bad singer's voice.
And it was just this little like box.
And I was just like doing dials like up and down like hey guys, I can fix it.
I'm a little bit ashamed of my lack of knowledge, actually.
Honestly most of the camera work was even super fake.
Normally when you're doing camera work you have the camera like up here.
But it would always block my face, so they actually ended up having me
hold the camera down here and I couldn't even like see
what was going on in the lens, so I was basically just guessing
at what I would have been shooting if I was actually rolling.
Yeah, I hate to burst anybody's bubble but Freddie was faking it from day one.
Special 3D effects by iCarly's technical producer Fredward Benson.
That's me.
Oh no, no. I have tried so hard
and it just ends up with me punching myself in the throat.
We did the Nickelodeon cruises a couple of times and Tom Kenny was there.
And he'd always like try to teach us like how to, like...
[imitates SpongeBob laugh]
Like, what? And then my throat just hurts.
You have to be really careful
because you can like send yourself to the emergency room with that stuff.
So no, can't do it. I've gone through enough throat trauma already
trying to do it in my past years as a Nickelodeon youth.
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Here we go.
Oh and anybody who wasn't in the other room, just so you know,
I'm not infecting you, it's the super bloom, this is all allergies.
So I'm not making you sick, it's the poppies.
I had it for a month, not to worry.