iAm Disappointed

 A few days ago, I was excited for the umpteenth iCarly special. This one was going to answer the shipping question. Or so I thought. Most of it sucked.

Somewhere on Tumblr, I saw a ‘5 reasons to watch this special’, and it included these 5 reasons:

I was already worried when I saw Jack Black guest starring, and Spencer singing wasn’t much better. Spencer’s already my least favorite character of the show, so I was annoyed. And Guppy returning wasn’t exactly some I was looking forward to.

And Carly’s crush has already been revealed. She liked that one guy from the beginning of the show who wanted to sing but couldn’t- Jake or something? She also liked Shane in iSaw him first, and she had a semi-crush on Freddie in iSaved your life. And there have been lots of shipping fan war episodes already, so… why did we watch? And on another note, why are all of Carly’s love interests satellite characters?

At first, when this episode was getting promoted a couple weeks back, it was a “Which ship will last?” ish episode, and it looked like it would be serious about the topic, and leave fans and shippers satisfied. However, as Nickelodeon was getting closer and closer to yesterday, it was getting promoted as a “Jack Black special omgomgomg!!!1”

I remember for iSam’s Mom, I got annoyed with how they put Jane Lynch, an actual actress outside of kidcoms, aside for a Freddie subplot. However, for this, they got an actual actor outside of kidcoms (Jack Black), and they put him in a subplot, but that subplot became the main plot. Nickelodeon executives, relax, I don’t think this will be Jack Black’s only iCarly guest star appearance.

The episode had not so subtle references to characters on other Schneider shows, like the two nerds (Craig and Eric) and the mullet guy (Gavin) from Drake and Josh, and the lisp girl (Staci) from Zoey 101. It was funny at first, but then the D&J guys got ovations from the studio audience/sound effects people. Last time I checked, didn’t only legitimate celebrities get applauded (Like ones not on kidcoms)?

Then Carly had a not at all subtle speech about how “iCarly is about the comedy and not the relationships, and how we’re supposed to just laugh at it.” And then average shippers became compared to nerds with no lives, who just religiously ship people for a living. Yeah, they’re totally the same, right?

The problem with that is that the show’s not that funny for the stuff Dan wants us to laugh for. Like the stuff which the ‘studio audience’/sound effect people laugh for is a bunch of bad puns, and all the innuendos with no laugh track are the better jokes in the series. And in show, the webshow’s not really that funny.

And how does Dan expect fans of iCarly not to ship? He’s had a bunch of shippy episodes, like iTwins, iSaved your Life, iKiss, iThink they kiss, iSpeed Date, and iReunite with Missy. With episodes like that, what does he expect us to do? And on fellow Schneider show Victorious, it’s practically all about shipping!

But hey, they didn’t spoil everything this time, so that’s a start.

And Disney aired the Hannah Montana movie at the same time-ish. Ratings duel much?