[birds chirping]
[music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
Hey, everyone. I'm Miranda Cosgrove,
and we're back for season two of iCarly.
What's up, YouTube? It's Jaidyn Triplett.
Hey, this is Nathan Kress.
My name is Laci Mosley.
Hey, everyone, this is Jerry Trainor
and this is season two of iCarly and it's going to be lit.
Are people still saying lit? Nothing's lit anymore?
It's going to be lit, fam. Is that better? Nailed it.
[music playing]
We're having so much fun this season.
I feel like the first season
was kind of setting up this new world,
and it's still a little of the old world.
But also there's a lot of new stuff.
I'm so excited for you guys to see the wild,
crazy stuff we're getting into. If you thought
season one was wild, just wait.
I'm ready to be taken seriously as an artist!
Here we go. [chuckles]
How does it feel to be nude?
It's freak... renewed. Right.
Uh, feels great. Uh, it's great to be back.
[Nathan] I feel like at the end
of season one, we finally just started getting
into this flow of really getting a sense
of who our characters were and their- their direction.
Their arcs as individuals and as a group,
and I feel like this season
is getting to capitalize on all of the decisions
that we started making, and the directions
that we started going in the first season.
I am super excited for season two
because I missed all the pranks
that we used to play on each other.
And now I hope season two is going to be even more fun.
Now with the second season,
I just feel like we already settled that up.
So we just get to have a lot of fun
and, like, get even crazier and do wacky insane stuff.
And the energy has been awesome.
I feel, you know, we had a couple of months off,
but getting here on the first day,
I feel like we slipped right back into
what we had been doing in the first season.
Everybody was flowing, and we were working off
of each other. And, uh, the whole thing
has just been a blast this time around.
Yeah, Carly, this party is so fun!
[chuckles] Yeah, Pearl really nailed it.
- Mm-hmm. - She knows you, dude.
[chuckles] She just knows you.
You know? She just-- [chuckles]
Are you buffering? What's happening?
How's it feel about being
the number one show on Paramount Plus?
What?
I didn't know we were the number one show
on Paramount Plus until today but that is amazing.
It's super exciting and couldn't be more grateful
to everybody that's watching.
Season two is gonna be funnier than season one.
Apparently, season one was the most watched thing
on Paramount Plus. Take that Star Trek.
Well, uh, surprised, surprised.
I do wish that, maybe we had been told that
at some point.
That would have been... good to know,
a little confidence boost.
Sorry, we have a little- It's like a sibling rivalry
between iCarly and the Star Trek people,
but there's more lasers on that show,
so whatever, you win both ways. Watch both.
Number one show on Paramount Plus, really?
Okay. Okay. Good. Feels good.
Do you want iCarly to be the most successful
web series in history?
or do you want it to just be like a, like a massive failure?
I mean probably the most successful web series
- in history. - Duh.
Freddie, you don't have to answer a question like that.
[sighing] It begins.
The reaction took to the revival of iCarly was
sort of over- overwhelming.
I think the most surprising thing
wasn't so much one specific reaction
as it was, how broadly liked the show was
in terms of its direction and just the idea
of we took a kid's show that people watched
when they were very young,
and we grew the show along with them.
Nobody's really done that yet, and it was kind of a risk.
We didn't know if people would like that or not,
and it turns out they really did.
Well, I watched a lot of people on YouTube
and just getting to see people's reactions
and, like see people excited
to see all of us back together again.
That was really fun.
Interesting.
The most surprising reaction
that I saw online when we announced
that we were coming back for a season two,
definitely has to be the TikToks.
Wow, y'all are impressive. I've seen so many TikToks,
I've seen so many photoshops of us in different shows
and like, it's just really dope to see online
the fans getting involved
and being really excited for another season.
I knew people would be interested but the reaction,
like on the street when I'm out, you know,
because it's for the kids
that were growing up watching it then
who are now grown up now.
And so, you know, I'll see them out at bars
and they'll come up and go... and it's just like, whoa.
Oh, my God, Spencer Shay, I'm such a fan.
Oh, that's so sweet.
It's nice to be recognized for one's work.
Your meatball brother.
Also that.
The amount of overwhelmingly positive response
was surprising, in a way, but, uh, but very welcome
and really helped us to want to keep doing some new stuff.
There was a guy that I saw that like cried a little bit
and that was really nice.
You know, occasionally, like a parent would come up to me
be like, my kid loves the show.
But now it's like a generation of families
will just come and be like, "Hey...
do you want to come over and have dinner?"
And I'm like, "No, I can't."
I'm actually eating right now at a restaurant
so maybe just like pump the brakes on that.
And they're like, "Okay, here's some cornbread."
And then, you know, I never run out of food
is what I's saying.
I need to eat my feelings.
Not a waiter?
I'm just excited to get to play the Carly character
at 28 years old. Like that's so much fun.
It's something I never thought
that I was gonna get to do in my life.
A lot of really interesting things are happening
for Freddie this season. So much of the feedback
that I heard from the fans was how bad people felt
for Freddie. That he was in this really low place
in his life and that so many bad things
were happening to him. And people were really rooting
for him to want to break out of this sort of rut
that he was in. And find a lane, finds something
that he was passionate about and sort of have good things
happen to him for a change.
Oh, my God, he loves you.
Spencer was right, you're the best there is.
What I'm looking forward to most for my character, Harper
this season is to see the growth that she's having,
but also realizing
that she's not made it to the top yet.
Which is really fun to watch her
get knocked down or be embarrassed,
or, you know, I do some wild stuff.
Thanks, bestie.
Oh, I love that word.
The way you Gen Zers just use it all over the place.
I mean, us Gen Zers. I'm a Gen Zer, right, bestie?
I think people are really going to enjoy
Spencer's evolution into idiocy. He's getting dumber, weirder,
and I think that's what people want from Spencer
and we're going to deliver.
Bailiff! Bailiff! Tase me, bro!
[screaming] Thank you, bro!
[laughing]
I think this season we kind of pushed the boundaries even more,
and we do a lot of crazy stunts. And just like weird fun stuff.
That's very iCarly.
That's one of the things that I've been most excited about.
That we really wanted to hit even before we started writing
the second season, was where is Freddie going to go,
As he kind of emerges from this really bad place
that he was in in the first season?
It's not because I, Jerry Trainor,
am getting dumber.
Or maybe I am.
You're not ranked third in the state in women's parkour.
And you're not a [speaking in a foreign language]
Also, your message isn't respectful at all.
You said, "Party ran long, your loss."
Oh, so honesty isn't respectful now?
I think fans should be excited for season two
because there are a lot of fun new sets.
You get to see the characters grow
and do a bunch more crazy stuff.
Get in to really insane situations this season
that we weren't able to get into the first season.
I think that the fans will be really excited to see so many
of the original characters coming back on iCarly.
They're, you know, older,
they maybe they have different careers now.
Maybe they have different vibes.
We'll see. I don't want to give too much away,
but I think it's a nice blast from the past
to see so many people that you saw in the original
popping back up in new ways this season.
And just have fun. It's like, it's a really solid fun time.
All right. Thank you guys so much for checking out
this behind the scenes look at iCarly, season two.
I- Oh, no. Okay, right now? Okay, I got- I gotta go.
I've got to go back to work. Bye.