iCarly

iCarly

Episode 13: iAm Your Biggest Fan

Episode 14: iHeart Art

Mini-Review

By: Carlos Uribe

iCarly is a show about a girl who does a weekly webcast with her two best friends. It runs on Nickelodeon.

Spoilers Ahoy!

“iAm Your Biggest Fan” is an episode that manages to work effectively because of the show's premise. It isn't a completely original idea, but it's one that the series manages to actually use well. That is the idea of having a crazy fan that starts to stalk the protagonists. It starts out innocently enough by allowing her to come to the show and be a one-person live studio audience. She seems friendly enough when she cooks the iCarly gang some cookies in the shape of their faces. Her obsession starts to become worrisome for our heroes when she refuses to leave and even transfers schools to be with them. It does stretch credibility that her parents and aunt would allow her behavior or that she would be in the actual same school as them. She looks to be in elementary school while our main characters seem to be in middle or high school. The episode resolves itself when the fan becomes obsessed with a band that had used Spencer in the sub-plot. While the sub-plot is nothing special to speak of, it ended up serving a purpose to the main plot of the episode.

“iHeart Art” is an episode that centers more on Spencer and his desire to be an artist. When his idol sees Spencer's work and insults it, Spencer gives up on his dream to become an artist. He doesn't care what most people have to say about his art, but he gives a lot of credence to what his idol has to say. His idol is obviously jealous and it's revealed by the end of the episode, but it's a plot that manages to show just how important Spencer's silly sculptures are to the character himself. While the episode largely uses his art for comic relief, they are very important to him. Even the sub-plot explored Sam's character more by having her try to not insult Freddie for most of the episode. This becomes more difficult since Freddie tries his best to goad Sam into insulting him. “iHeart Art” isn't any funnier than it's previous episode but it is a more effective episode in that it keeps it's focus within the main characters and develops them rather than focus on just one character we'll never see again.