i'm sorry i ever doubted you and called me names yes right i am sorry for all those things vin
diesel is dying hey welcome back to i thursdays where every thursday for the rest of season one
for the icarly revival we talk about and discuss the most recent episode of the show that premiered
this morning i have sleeping issues the back half of the first season has been pretty great
for the most part in my opinion and now we have the first of the final three episodes to discuss
today to think season one is already almost over is honestly pretty crazy it feels like it was
just several weeks ago when the show premiered that's because it was and last week's episode
was the most uh adult yet tackling its foray into some more risque topics than it had previously
been doing before but now i'm not expecting this episode today to bring more of all that back right
away but with how much i have enjoyed the last handful of episodes i am still very excited to
see what's in store as well as getting excited with where the final two episodes after this
leave us until season two premieres next year most likely which yes i'll announce it here of course
i will be covering thanks so much for watching if you want to see more of these videos every
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and create a guide that will help you survive school episode 11 i can fix it myself okay bob the
builder we start this week's episode in spencer's apartment where everyone is playing some go fish
as harper is eagerly awaiting to hear back if she got the job working for double dutch an emerging
pop star who is blowing up on social media with over 1 million followers and a blue checkmark
on instagram and as carly has to leave everyone offers to let her borrow one of their cars as they
all know her car has a bunch of issues and well barely runs like me you see the joke is that i
don't run and i also have we know it wasn't funny and of course we cut to carly standing in a taco
costume that she needed to pick up for an upcoming icarly web show sketch next to her broken down old
punch buggy waiting for the mechanic to pull up the said mechanic arrives in magnificent fashion
or in a ford commercial or something ford it do be built carly is a bit flustered and the
mechanic here wes has a great semi-flirty back and forth with carly throughout the whole interaction
we learned the car's name is vin diesel because it has a vin number and it takes
diesel which she quickly finds out that it takes unleaded well ma'am i took a look under the hood
and found your problem wes tells her all the problems with her car that would need to be
fixed letting her know the worth of the car is not what it would be worth for the repairs immediately
carly gets defensive in the conversation towards her car saying you can't put a price on worth well
yes you can carly this pokemon card here means a lot to me and i love it but it's worth like 54
cents carly ends up getting the car towed back to her place but a quick side note in the background
during this whole scene we see many pedestrians filming carly whether it's for her fame for who
she is or the fact that a person wearing a taco outfit had their vintage car broken down on the
side of the road i still found this little never mentioned detail funny back at the apartment she's
showing the others her repairs total out to around fifteen thousand dollars that's like one of these
she should be buying a new car instead obviously but for some reason she just can't let good old
vinnie go the way of the dinosaurs also another side note this episode is directed by freddy
yes nathan kress which is cool to see he may have been taking a bunch of l's throughout the
show so far but this is a big w for fred we're so good on you over at spencer's him and maeve while
enjoying some wine get into a rather interesting discussion regarding faking it which spencer
believes is about the motion of the oceans that took place last night if you catch my drift but
really the motion of the ocean she meant was about the kidnapping story from the last episode which
was heavily predicted by most viewers as something as big as someone being kidnapped for four years
and suddenly showing up being completely glossed over with no real details of how she made it back
truly i do like how they split this coming clean story from last week's episode to have it as the
b plot for this episode giving maeve a fun reason to interact with these characters in fact i would
say that this episode has three plots both b and c interact as c is the smallest but plays a role
that both includes the a and the b plot i'll explain as we go along as to why i personally
see it as three plots split up rather than two but for now let's move on the truth comes down to
when their family lost all their money and her not wanting to deal with the press and more especially
the bill collectors she just gets on a cruise and leaves spencer is happy though about her wanting
to come clean about everything and it feels like there is a real connection between the two it for
once feels like spencer is truly into her beyond his bachelor-esque reasonings we have seen before
only problem is she has to tell harper in which they both know she won't take easily as for the
four years she was gone she did everything she could to search for her and make note of her
disappearance so this wasn't going to be an easy task carly and freddie both take an auto repair
class so they both don't get screwed over in the future by mechanics on costs to fix their car but
it turns out that the instructor of the class is the mechanic yeah saw that one coming a mile away
but most every show at one point has a plot like this not specifically a mechanical one but more
relating to a side character appearing as another character that you weren't expecting but also were
expecting to show up again wow you're really good at describing things thanks which is also
something we've similarly seen in the new episodes of icarly and while almost any tv show at this
point but it's about making the characters plot more interesting based on the characters involved
in it not necessarily creating original scenarios for them to be in carly questions his ulterior
motives as a way for him to make money here as a mechanic by not properly teaching the class
turns out the shot that he is teaching at is his as well but this playful banter continues between
carly and west as she is going full-on skeptic about everything he then asks her to show everyone
how to check the oil since she starts acting like she's above the knowledge needed to be taught and
thanks to her ego on the matter she messes things up and ends up covered in oil we'll touch back on
my full point of her acting this way especially with wes a bit later on back at harper's we see
maven spencer setting up flowers charcuterie board spreads and even a photo of their other
cousin roxy who i think is a picture of francesco ramsay one of the producers and writers of the
show the thought process was to build everything up positively around harper to then have maeve
tell her the truth unfortunately or fortunately harper was super hyped already regarding getting
the job and thought that this is what they were here to do celebrate that she got the job so maeve
doesn't come out with the truth and spencer is a bit disappointed but understands the circumstances
he's willing to help her in figuring out how to get over this massive hump which also shows
me how much he actually has fallen for her she also seems genuinely into him as well and so far
not as a ploy or a fake relationship in order to give her a place to stay currently which if she
lied about something as big as a four-year kidnapping it could be a possible thing she
could lie about this too but so far it seems she's legit in dispenser for the right reasons now it's
spencer's talking about all this double dutch the pop star harper just got the job for turns out to
be in spencer's kitchen and overheard everything but don't forget harper works out of his apartment
now so she was there waiting for a meeting and presentation from harper or elsa would have just
been a weird break-in and no one questions it she turns out to be your typical diva who thinks ultra
highly of herself and hey maybe even speaks to herself like i do no she's not as weird as you
i need sleep double dutch loosely makes it seems like she might let the secret out to
harper which worries them and causes them to focus on not letting her spill the tea in the
parking garage carly and freddie are working on her car with the help of millicent until the car
completely starts falling apart leaving her with no other option but to call over the only person
she knows personally at this moment who could fix it wes also freddy gets electrocuted here
and dang you almost made it through this episode without taking an l but since you directed it
you partially did this to yourself sir she begs west to fix the car and try saving it from being
totally junked out as she exclaims again that she can't give up on this car she won't even
consider getting a new one and he agrees to help her on the spot and gets to work during harper's
meeting with double dutch spencer interferes as to make sure she doesn't tell harper the secret
causing a bunch of commotion and distractions resulting in him being told to leave but when
he's about to go he knocks over the tea that he brought all over the floor so when maeve walks in
spencer with specific wording says he spilled the tea you can already tell where this is going now
maeve takes that as if he told her the truth and begins apologizing and explaining everything to
harper all while in the background spencer is showing her that he didn't spill the tea
he spilled that tea but hey double dutch didn't do it carly and harper go back and forth about
their respective issues like they usually do with each other as we wait to hear the news on the car
we could see how harper is greatly frustrated with her cousin now as well as how frantic carly is in
waiting for the news when wes finally comes in to let her know about her car he lets her know that
it didn't make it and it cannot be repaired carly gets super emotional about it and wes pokes in on
why that is carly begins explaining why as her and sam actually bought that car together while
she was in college sam also named the car vin diesel we hear all about the stories of trips they
went on together in the car and since she moved away with the biker gang she views this car as
her last attachment to her it was never about the car it was about sam i'm not crying you're crying
no you're crying you're right but so are you oh my god you're right i am crying as well it was
quite a touching scene at least speaking about sam and how much her friendship meant to carly
i know a lot of people aren't interested in the show without sam but i do like that they try
their best here to keep the spirit of sam alive in the universe and not turn that aspect of it
into the punchline of a joke plus the cool little details we get to hear about the gap between shows
helps fill in the universal lore the show has built carly then tries to pay wes but he says
keep it and put it towards a new car instead but before he leaves he asks her out on a date here is
what i was mentioning earlier it was clear from the beginning that carly already was into him
and their flirty banter made that even clearer but something carly does a lot especially when
someone she kind of likes but is at odds with at some points is do this half flirting half i'm an
independent person and don't need you ask dialogue like we saw in the repair class she's done it
before with many guys she's been interested in throughout the original icarly show and it looks
like that character trait hasn't been lost to time i do think wes and carly had pretty good
chemistry during this episode now i don't know if this is a lasting relationship that will show
up again later or it will be turned into a joke about them not working out in the next episode
either way the lesson we get here is did he fix her car for free to ask her out on a date i leave
you all with that to ponder over spencer reveals that he made a new piece for the studio and it was
completely turning the old buggy into a freshly put together art piece and sitting display similar
to the old car seats they once had symbolizing the beautiful memories carly has from what once was a
car fading away due to time it's also good to see spencer creating stuff especially stuff that feels
inspired by the current events happening in the episode to relate to it as well as representing
a piece of the old show that people remember fondly i guess this truly puts the car in icarly
boo you suck maeve reconciles with harper with a full-on apology and it to me makes it seem
that she may be here to stay as a cast member for good whether she stays spencer's love interest or
not she really settled in here with the cast time will tell on that now remember the a b and c plots
i was speaking about earlier to explain that more the a plot was for sure carly's car situation with
freddie and millicent being smaller supporting characters to that story left with not too much
to do that's fair as freddie was busy directing the whole episode i guess the b plot being spencer
and maeve's coming out with the truth of her kidnapping story to harper which interacts with
a smaller c plot of harper getting the job and working with double dutch now not that it matters
a whole lot but you can easily combine b and c and just call that whole thing the b plot but i feel
that there was enough standalone substance and multiple weaving stories that interacted outside
of the b plot that harper's story had to consider its own plot the c plot overall this was a decent
episode not my favorite but nothing near the worst outing we've seen definitely still on the better
side of things completely feeling naturally in its own groove i think the interactions between carly
and wes fell in line with how carly's character is and their chemistry felt right just like spencer
and maeve's feels pretty solid already for their relationship there's still a whole lot up in the
air for how the season is going to end but with this episode feeling less affecting to the bigger
picture it did a great job feeling self-contained and yet super connected to everything else that
has been going on a nice blend of everything plus having freddy direct the episode that
pays some good tribute to sam added just a nice little cherry on top of all of it i would have
liked to have seen freddie and millicent used for something more than a few background aided moments
throughout but now having 6 main lead characters i am sure this juggling act will only get better
going forward as they hopefully in season 2 will feel less restricted to the tv sitcom guidelines
of 22 to 24 minutes again it's on a streaming service but we will speak more on this in the
larger discussion when season one is over that was this week's episode of the icarly revival you've
heard my thoughts now i would love to hear yours down below in the comments were you feeling this
episode were you not please feel free to share all of that well only two episodes left so what
are you expecting to see before the show ends its first season what cameos any cliffhangers there's
a million possibilities but i've had a lot of fun on this journey of taking a show i enjoyed when
i was younger and making it something for a more adult audience i appreciate you all checking out
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