this is important so i put together a presentation your generation will understand do it just do it
wanna try some 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 now i'm not gonna lie this episode has some big shoes to fill the last two weeks have had
at least in my opinion some rather great episodes and it seems that the show has finally found some
decent footing for itself so i guess we shall see if it truly is continuing this upward momentum
trail or will it end up in a disappointing fail thanks so much for watching and if you want to
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video and i will perform shakespeare in the park 8 a.m this sunday don't be late we have brunch after
episode 9 i m l m not the most clever title there but you know we'll let it slide the episode
starts off at carly's apartment where she's having a conversation with spencer about how he's not an
attentive listener and not so sensitive towards others feelings specifically in the case of
someone who he's recently seeing spencer turns it around on her though calling out carly as
this meddler who puts herself in everyone else's business to feel like she's adding to the solution
of their problem right as harper walks in in a rush to go to her job interview where carly jumps
right into metal in her business as she is well getting ready to go and i actually like that this
right here is a call out to the specific character flaws and no i don't mean that as an attack calm
down there cameron i mean that in the intentional way these characters have been written since the
beginning we get into this further on but i really love that we are poking fun and digging into
this within this episode carly mentions that later she is meeting griffin at skybucks yes
that griffin peewee baby collecting extraordinaire griffin who was this tough really cool character
from the original show who carly had a small fling with now as adults they are set here to meet again
to see well how their adult lives connect after all this time and see what has truly changed
between them freddie comes over rocking a headset mentioning that he's been working
as an i.t support to help save up a few thousand dollars to move out of his mom's place and start
getting his life back in order and a couple things to take away from this specifically one
good for freddie love seeing him on the up and up we need more dubs for my boy big f over here but
secondly carly as far as we know still has freddie help her out with the web show in which she has 3
million subscribers where she can at least afford part of an apartment in seattle from the money she
earns from ads which having that many followers based on the views we've seen the show get before
not including possible sponsorships donations and maybe even some form of memberships ad revenue
on views alone should have some left over for freddy to make a nice chunk of change for himself
unless carly isn't sharing hmm what's the truth to this miss shea if that even is your real name and
while we're at it with all these speculative questions where's your mom regardless freddy
deserves to be paid for my carly for helping out producing the show harper is late to work because
of her demanding shifts there while she is trying to get this stylist job that she truly does want
her friend boss or as i like to call it her frost does hold over harper's head a threat
of being fired if she is late again carly meets up with griffin at skybucks who was reprised by
the original actor and he mentioned some crucial things here specifically that he sold his peewee
baby collection to cover a settlement that he was in he's infertile and he's extremely calmer than
he used to be and before we move on to why he's here i just want to say i truly love seeing these
characters large or small like the principal duke or old returning villains come back to give us a
glimpse at who these people are now and what they've been up to in the interim between the
original show and the revival as well as it's just darn good to see them again honestly bring more
back and put them in the show i always love seeing stuff like this and it helps keep the world icarly
built feel like a nice warm cozy fire you're cuddled up near in your home during a strong
winter blanket of snow on the ground or like a really good book if that's something you're into
where was that oh yeah griffin so here griffin shows carly sand a calming enhancing powder that
you shake into your drink and it's supposed to help you well for this version of the sand feel
relaxed and calm it's like g-fuel what are you looking at me for they they haven't sponsored me
yet actually kind of reminds me of that nero drink that came out a while back that had like those
sonic and bliss option based boosters anyway carly gets hooked on it and gets a free sample pack with
a bunch of different uh flavors i mean i guess that's the easiest way to classify them and both
freddy and spencer take their own that pertain to their character flaws all it took was a little
free taste and you knew they would be back for more just like my icarly videos some of you just
can't get enough you want more sure coming right up harper comes back to the apartment letting them
know that she didn't get the stylist job and is feeling held back due to her skybucks job and now
she's just one big old ball of sadness she's the only one who doesn't take any of the sand to boost
herself though first we check in on freddy who before having a sit down with millicent regarding
her wanting something freddy mixes in some of this brave sand for courage he takes a big sip
and when millicent presents a full-on video on why she should have a pet dog freddy daddies up
and actually tells her no but not just no explains why and how it's not as easy to take care of a dog
as she thinks they negotiate back and forth ending on a fish as her first pet and millicent is pretty
proud of how he handled the situation and how he wasn't just the usual pushover he's been and
freddie is proud for himself because his parents skills got a little level up right there spencer
on the other hand took some sensitivity sand going back to the original conversation from the start
of the episode here we see him very in touch with his emotions listening skills and overbearingness
and since it is jerry traynor he takes his performance to a whole nother parody level that
only he could pull off for the rest of the episode progressively getting more and more like that one
girl you know yes that exact one you know the what i'm talking about who's all about the crystals but
more so than the other ones it lives off nothing but air and the smell of sea foam rolling in from
the pacific tide we see freddy show up to the icarly studio with pallets on pallets of sand
products that he bought off griffin for the low low price of all the money that he had
saved up for to move out with real responsible there i must say he fell into believing that
yeah he could sell it all and make even more money than he spent on it and life will be pretty
pretty pretty good for himself carly starts getting concerned but takes more of her sand
to calm down as to not be the meddler she is known to be again i like that all these characters have
to face their character flaws head on obviously in an overly dramatic way for some of them but
in a way that makes sense for these characters to truly realize the exact people they are and
have been all along after speaking with harper though carly figures out a way that could help
out freddy in a way that freddy would want anyway and that is to sling this product on
icarly i mean she only has 3 million subscribers of course it would be easy to throw products
in their face to reap the personal benefits from what i still am not sponsored by g fuel
she brings the idea up to freddy who thinks that it's such a great idea that he should now go get
a loan from his mother invest in even more sand and make even more money even though he hasn't
sold any except to spencer but he's rich so he can afford to do stupid things freddy can't but he's
still gonna freddie in fact is so confident that he wagered points in the company over making money
from his sales to get a quote unquote promotion within the sand corporation and got a sick scooter
as a bonus perk he also quit his other job rad once freddy leaves harper exclaims that this is
an mlm multi-level marketing essentially a pyramid scheme built to only keep the top of the pyramid
rich while the levels underneath tell two friends and they tell two friends and they tell two
friends and then they're all out there just all buying into something that they won't sell but
have already given the money to the person before them listen every person after high school either
gets contacted by one or two of these mlm scam companies some unfortunately get indoctrinated
into this cult-like scheme but if you haven't yet experienced this in all seriousness please
be careful out there these snake oil salesmen will do whatever it takes to fake sign you up and have
you become one of their cronies they tried it on me when i was fresh out of high school promised me
that i can get the dream car i've always wanted but really all they wanted was my money and the
contacts in my cell phone carly doesn't want to believe in any of this and goes forward with
promoting the stuff on icarly to help out freddie and by extension griffin as well back at skybucks
millicent has a fish parent meetup playdate thing and it's just good to see some of that
icarly weirdness still remaining in here somewhere and she ends up accidentally feeding the fish sand
mixture instead of fish food and harper notices that the flakes inside look exactly the same as
the fish food she rips off the label on the sand product to reveal that it's the same fish food
underneath the whole time she ends up needing to leave to go save carly from embarrassing herself
and selling this scam on her show her frost isn't happy with her wanting to go and leave but she
ends up just quitting in the pursuit of her dreams as her job was getting in the way of them anyway
but here it is are you ready sit down or stand up i don't care yes it's the return of icarly
let me try that again and no i don't mean as in the revival itself obviously i mean it's the
return of icarly the web show within the show yes we finally get an episode being broadcasted with
carly awkwardly being between freddy and griffin who began slinging that good good sand to the
okay we'll talk about those numbers here in a second spencer here gives a full testimony to
the audience about the product and is now in this full sensitive spiritual spencer mode god this man
is a treasure while the product is being promoted harper runs into the room trying to tell carly
that the sand is actually fish food fish food and carly starts putting all the pieces together in
her head and realizing the truth she loses her calm factor that she thought she had because it
was completely a placebo effect the whole time she tells freddy the truth and their live on
air confront griffin who knew about this all along and carly thought he originally wanted to get back
together but it was really the end game of getting on the show and selling it to her massive audience
which again we'll get to those numbers griffin runs well scooters away and everyone realizes
that they had the strength to address their own character flaws without some secret magical powder
and something cool is that both harper and freddie connect on a level of both quitting their jobs and
being excited yet terrified first i want to say to the icarly viewing audience that this could have
just been played off as a skit to them while poking fun at these scams being run like this
which would have been a funny way to play it off but wouldn't have left the same impact
of the lesson upon these characters as much also about the audience you see the numbers are really
low throughout this segment never surpassing the double digits within earlier episodes the audience
is shown to be a larger size still because once again she has 3 million subscribers but to me it
kind of mimicked how a real audience would view a creator when they are specifically just trying
to sell you something or how not many show off a large interest in ad placements and wouldn't
tune in as heavily or it's just the fact of a fluctuating audience which happens to every person
online but to this degree of having millions of subs and barely a fraction of a percent tune into
the show to support it that's not very good and i guess that makes sense why freddie isn't getting
paid from all this after all hey mom i need a loan as far as my enjoyment over all of this
week's icarly revival episode this one was another solid banger that makes three for three the past
few weeks for me and i am loving the back half of the season so far i am happy to see the web show
come back and be used in a new age way and for the plot i like the use of griffin the grifter here
and even though i literally called every detail this episode out in full detail a week before
it premiered during a phone call with janiak jr it's true he did call it i still ended up having
a great time with this episode it came out the way i envisioned myself writing it to an extent i
also like that it shows the dangers of how mlms can prey on anyone and how they can come from
someone we know and even sometimes we trust so please again be careful out there but 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 digging this episode were you not digging this episode do you
have any experiences with mlms please feel free to share all that down below i appreciate you all
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