if you're familiar with the channel we've talked a lot about icarly throughout the
summer from some darker episodes in the original series as well as covering in full
the revival series that premiered this year but one thing we didn't do
was talk about weirder episodes more specifically probably just the weirdest episode in general
it's an episode that is truly hit or miss with people in tone of how they take it you either do
see it as random equals funny or you take it at face value of a parody regarding clip show
episodes as characters look back at moments from the show later in their television run
as kind of a buffer episode the episode we are looking at today is the infamous i april fools
episode that premiered in march of 2012. if you know icarly well you know this episode is well
weird may be an understatement it'll surely leave you scratching your head and you may just need to
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warning from the cast as they sit on the steps in the icarly studio warning viewers about what
they are about to watch all with awkward stale looks on their faces as they proceed to eat
soup all right knowing how weird this episode is it could be a bowl of meatloaf crunch
after seeing a redone intro where scenes are all moved around and edited with random special
effects the episode starts with spencer and carly packing up their apartment as they are getting
evicted for get this spencer not paying rent oh and carly stabbing the owner of the building mr
bushwell so you know they're both on the same level of wrong everyone took an improv class
on how to be overdramatic it seems as the acting here between all of them is beyond tongue-in-cheek
joking about remembering a time they were watching a tv show that was flashing back
to earlier moments they actually flashed back to then watching that tv show that was indeed
flashing back to earlier moments from that show i need a drink of water after that they're also
getting overly excited for the flashback as most people in real life probably don't get too excited
for flashback clip episodes also they're eating some renaissance sized thighs for some reason
anyway back to packing up the apartment gibby sneaks in from the elevator to hit spencer over
the head with a stop sign yes a full-on stop sign to the back of his head then saying april fools
when everyone tells him that that's not how april fool's works he kisses spencer on the cheek and
runs away spencer's mostly fine now just sitting on the couch as they all quickly forget and move
on carly thinks it's best they throw a party with the remaining couple hours they have left
until eviction so sam rubs a genie lamp and tebow comes out and becomes this magical entity for the
remainder of the episode to be fair tebow has always been a magical entity he puts things on
sticks that had no business being on sticks and that's commendable he also hits spencer
with a stop sign as well for april fools i guess these are your signs to stop watching this episode
it only gets weirder from here all right tough crowd out here tonight let me try this one what's
the deal with icarly grab a spaghetti taco icarly's coming up on nick now back to icarly
on nick carly breaks the fourth wall by asking tebow to just take him to the next scene for
the party and once there the party is just a few snacks and awkward body movements they
call dancing freddy has a conniption fit about needing a party bush there and nearly passes out
what's a party bush i don't know whatever this thing is that tebow spawns in for everyone the
crew all together start looking back on memorable times from the show that we've seen like the start
of icarly we see carly and sam arguing with miss briggs about the talent show list in which then
all of a sudden spencer dressed up as miss briggs spawns from an alternate universe and is here to
fight this realm's real miss briggs as she warns them of their powers being too strong to meet they
collide anyway and uh they blow up freddy runs over to carly and sam after they say they should
start a web show and says that they should call it icarly sparky the dog barks everyone laughs
and then everyone freezes except for freddy who needed to itch his nose real quick but what makes
this and the upcoming flashbacks we will see is that these aren't altered scenes from the original
episodes they came from they are reacted with the older versions of the actors trying to mimic the
clothes and styles of the original episodes this i actually thought was a great touch not only to
make things feel a bit uncanny but to bring a bit more fun to the tone the actors seem to genuinely
have fun redoing these scenes and playing them in such a perfectly awkward way and luckily when
the bits feel random like this freeze frame or the dog being there and i guess let's not
disregard spencer being from an alternate universe dressed as miss briggs it's played off as you the
audience are in on the random and it gives some good payoffs to the random jokes rather than it
just being random to confuse you and take you out of the show completely also sparky's heads on the
wall it's okay i guess he's still alive i'm also surprised spencer is still alive as gibby sneaks
up on him with another stop sign and smacks him in the head with it now they move on to
remembering pochi after sam makes a comment about fried chicken back when they were all running
around the apartment trying to find all these baby chicks that got loose they even call out the heart
flashback music you always hear by spencer telling the heart player to play already in this flashback
we see the reenactment play out a bit until they call out remembering minko being there who's minko
this is minko all right then during the reenactment gibby breaks into the memory and hits
minko with the stop sign they all call him out for not being in this flashback and then carly starts
dancing i have nothing to interpret here if there's something to interpret it's lost on me
all i saw was assault via stop sign again and carly dancing over what could have turned into a
corpse glad mikko was okay though they look back on having a cat that ran away and the flashback
is just them staring at a cat that walks out of their apartment as they just sit there and watch
it leave first sparky then the baby chicks and now a cat keep animals away from these monsters geez
but an unlikely hero returns minko comes back outside of the flashback to hit gibby with a stop
sign and advertise that we are going to commercial break and then sam shocks him with the shock pin
now a fake commercial or something would have been funny here but when this was on the air
this was just a regular commercial break so here's a commercial i like instead hey little buddy want
a ride yeah whatever after the break the party bush needs some water and it talks tebow makes
a rain cloud form and it waters the bush someone please explain to me what a party bush is whatever
i can't get hung up on that we'll be here all day and i got things to do but what icarly does in a
flashback when everyone told her about the time she was mean and out of character is when they're
all collectively reading books tebow walks into the apartment with stuffed mushrooms carly becomes
irate screams and tossed her book at him knocking him down to the ground as he now sadly eats his
mushrooms while i don't agree with her methods i do agree that stuffed mushrooms sound absolutely
repulsive yuck but when they come out of this flashback now they all appear on one of the
victorious sets specifically tori and trina's house as they all look around uncomfortably
gibby has turned into robbie from victorious and sam is rocking back and forth singing let
it shine before they magically shift back to their apartment and correct casting for gibby probably
one of the better quick gags from this era of nickelodeon shows i'm not gonna lie they also go
back and look at spencer having long hair during the assassin game when sam takes down spencer even
when he's losing he's still winning sheesh for some reason spencer rushes out of the room to go
wash his thumbs you don't want to know why and nor do i but the doorbell rings and behind it is
lubert and mr bushwell here to kick them out of the apartment gibby deep pants himself and runs
out like he's patrick starr but through the power of manipulating flashbacks they trick mr bushwell
into remembering to let them stay living here by cutting back to the same scene we just saw playing
out again of them walking through the door and now for some reason mr bush while changing his mind
and letting them stay which makes actual sense when you think about the weird way flashbacks are
portrayed in this episode it's quick and clever and a fun way to wrap up the situation quickly
and probably the only way to convince bushwell to let them stay after i don't know the failure
to pay the rent or maybe even the fact that carly stabbed him he looks okay though once they leave
doc spencer comes running out in a back to the future parody outfit where they must go to the
future to solve a situation involving their kids and the show calls out the whole long fought
online debate will freddie be with carly or sam by the end of things as spencer isn't sure whose kids
it will be in the situation will it be freddie and sam will it be freddie and carly even they don't
know tebow comes out in this magical orb time traveling device they all jump in spencer says
reruns where they're going they don't need reruns because they got a sequel revival series nearly a
decade later the episode handles weird very well and when the random bits play their effect to me
it never comes off minus maybe a couple times of being random for the sake of confusing the
audience but rather playing into an overdramatic parody of clip show episodes that every sitcom
eventually has if successful enough while still at the end of the day being a clip show itself
by them not taking the flashback seriously and re-enacting them as their older selves while
adding new situations to them was a good twist on what could have been a forgettable episode
this is not a forgettable episode it almost feels as if i watched something that in my own
remembrance would be something that couldn't exist but it sticks out like a sore thumb
or a dirty thumb maybe spencer was right about watching them it would be easy with the success
of icarly to take a chill easy clip show episode approach film a few shots of everyone looking
back on some moments and just replay those exact moments as they played out these type
of episodes are forgettable for the most part because they don't in most cases offer any value
to the series icarly evaded this issue by creating something that worked within
the weirdness the show had already offered and bumping it up to 11. now yes in earlier seasons
of icarly there was the episode i bloop which was a clip show episode mostly focusing on bloopers
hence the name but in that it featured these conference clips between miranda cosgrove and
jerry traynor that made it pretty fresh for a regular clip show already and then a bit later
we did see eyebloop 2 electric bloopaloo where this time the clips and bloopers were presented
under the guise of an evening with icarly where the puppet rex from victorious would sit down
with the individual cast members as we looked over footage pertaining to them another unique
way to have fun with the clip show it's good to see that after this rather than recreate it again
or make a part 3 they opted out to make something new entirely and for that i give it props do you
think there were any weirder episodes than this ever in icarly's history let me know down below i
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