Thread:Jon23812/@comment-3123404-20120222051928

I think I'm going to need your help here. You seem to understand that "iLost My Mind" to "iToe Fate Cakes" were a new season and not part of Season 4. This is what I'm trying to get DevonAnderson to understand. He assumes because the upcoming season is being labeled as Season 5 is being labeled as such, that it's going to air as such and be listed as such? Um no, because production-wise the episodes "iLost My Mind" to "iToe Fat Cakes" are Season 4 since those episodes came from the show's fourth season cycle hence why they have the 4xx coding, but they aired as Season 5. This is the result of the Season 2 production cycle of 45 episodes were split into two airing seasons and there's a lot of evidence defending that from Dan, Nathan, Miranda, and a Nick press release you can find here:


 * Nathan's interview: (August 2009)


 * Dan's blog: (September 2009)


 * Another Dan's blog where he indicates that "iThink They Kissed" was the airing S3 premiere: (October 2009)
 * This is something I recently came across. This is one Nathan video where he talks about the difference between the two cycles: . Here he tells the interviewer that they were taking a hiatus from shooting new episodes (after spending time filming episodes from April 2008 to August 2009), but within a few months time were going to do their third season of filming, which was going to be their fourth season in airing. He says all of this around the 2:00 minute mark. (October 2009)


 * Another Nathan video interview where the interviewer call the upcoming Season 4 (2010-11) as such and Nathan doesn't correct him if there wasn't a split: (April 2010)


 * Another Nathan video interview where the interviewers call Season 5 (2011-12 ) as such and Nathan doesn't correct them if they were wrong: (May 2011)


 * A Nick press release listing all 2xx coded episodes from the iLove Carly Collection being from Season 2 and Season 3: (May 2011)


 * A third Dan blog where he states that each time there's a new season there's a new opening credits. Since he stated in the first blog that the network was calling the remaining Season 2 production episodes the show's "third season" he made a new opening for those episodes: (August 2011)


 * The tweet from Miranda Cosgrove calling it Season 6: (January 2012)


 * A tweet from some music company on One Direction guest-appearing on iCarly Season 6:

But getting back to this Season 4 and 5 thing, I am trying to get people to understand this because the 26-episode order intended for Season 4 to be shot at one time in the show's third season cycle was split. Dan shot the first half and did the second half later, and that became a whole new filming cycle so it was going to air as a new season. That's why the 13 Season 4 episodes ("iGot a Hot Room" to "iParty with Victorious") that aired over the course of the 2010-2011 season were even released on DVD as the "COMPLETE 3rd Season". "Complete" meaning the whole airing season, and "3rd" in terms of it being produced out of the show's third season cycle (that's actually the real Season 3).

As for the next batch of 13 episodes ("iLost My Mind" to "iToe Fat Cakes"), we Dan saying this was a new season with the next number coding due to being a new filming cycle and not a continuation off the last one. Nick even advertised these as a new season in September 2011 but after "iLost My Mind" aired (due to "iDate Sam & Freddie" being the first produced episode of the season). And since the Season 3 filming cycle aired as Season 4, this was going to air as Season 5. So the next season that's produced as Season 5 will air as Season 6. The labeling of the new season as Season 5 is simply because of it being the show's fifth filming cycle but it's going to air that way. There's some confusion regarding the labeling of the season which had people want to tie up the last 24 episodes together as one airing season as it was meant to be. But it's the use of one label after another due to the situation regarding the Season 2 split. We have sources that use the show's real cycle labels: such as Seasons 2 and 3 as one season (Season 2), Season 4 as Season 3, Season 5 as Season 4 which is why this upcoming season that's airing as Season 6 is being called Season 5 in some places. I just wanted to make this clear with you. Are you on defense with me in this?

 