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The TV Station #11 - iCarly (iKiss)

iTalked about this at the beginning of the write up about Victorious episode Terror on Cupcake Street, way back at entry #3, that I enjoy the Dan Schneider trio of shows - iCarly, Victorious and Sam & Cat - despite their faults and me at this point in my life not falling anywhere near the target age group. I also have a preferred order with Victorious number 1, iCarly 2nd and Sam & Cat 3rd. I think Victorious overall as the most rewatchability and the characters a bit more likable (despite one them going to be a lead in Sam & Cat, though I think she regresses there). I also Victorious beat iCarly for other reason such as iCarly's messages sometimes get a bit dodgy for a kids how, notably the character of Sam Puckett (Jennette McCurdy who do find likable) just getting away with horrible behaviour and rarely getting commpuance - a Karma Houdini.

iKiss as a dodgy message but ultimately as a rather sweet ending. Firstly, this episode seems to make a big issue of having your first kiss when your still a young teen, and the reality when you get older it really didn't matter when you're first kiss was. The episode sees Freddie (Nathan Kress) get revenge on Sam for a prank she pulled by handcuffing her to Gibby (Noah Munck, a character who is certainly better in small doses. Sam and Carly (Miranda Cosgrove) go see a rubbish romantic comedy along with Freddie and get talking about first kisses, with the girls telling which boys it was with but Freddie doesn't answer, and whilst Sam is out the room Carly asks him and he says he never kissed a girl but Sam as overheard all of this. Sam then blurts out he has never kissed a girl over the next episode of iCarly (in show) - what a bitch!

And he bullied at school, surely by a bunch of kids who have never kissed anybody yet either, but this does have the thing of Carly actually calling Sam out on the crap thing she did, and on the next (in show) iCarly, Sam feels bad and confesses she has never kissed anybody before.

So yeah my problem really is the entire story of the episode. The show makes not having had a kiss yet a big school, this is an episode I don't think that of happened and for the most part Sam got away with being a crappy human being (to the rest of the school anyway).

Like I said the ending is sweet, Sam finds Freddie on the fire escape and the two share a kiss so there first is with each other and it's other way (again importance put on it that's there).

Overall, an episode because of those issues leaves a bad taste in my mouth considering it's target audience. iCarly has a lot better episodes so watch them instead.
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