Spencer Shay

Spencer Shay (born on November 11, 1981, age 42) is Carly Shay's older brother, and the first child of Mr. and Mrs. Shay. Since their father is in the military, Spencer is Carly's legal guardian. His mom has never been mentioned. He is portrayed by Jerry Trainor.

Biography
Spencer Michael Shay was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on November 11th, 1981. His mother, Maria Genaliano, was an Italian citizen living in the country and his father, Bin-shao/Stephen Shay, was a Korean citizen living in the country. The couple was young, Maria only 19 and Bin-shao/Stephen only 20, when Maria gave birth to the baby at Brit Hospital in Prague.

Maria had only been living in Czechoslovakia for three years and Bin-shao one when Spencer was born-both had only limited knowledge of the Czech and Slovak languages. Spencer was born and originally raised quadrilingual-speaking Czech, Slovak, Italian, and Korean in the house. As Spencer got older, Czech and Slovak dominated among the rest when he began attending school at Saint Mary's School in central Prague. Spencer was an awful student in school in Czechoslovakia. He recieved Fs and Ds in almost every class, and was whipped-one time he came home bleeding, skin ripped to the core, because he made a remark about how democracy was smarter than communism. The family secretly planned to leave the country and flee for bordering Switzerland. In January, 1989, the family fled Czechoslovakia and over the border into Switzerland. The family traveled through Switzerland, over the Alps, and finally arived in Paris, France.

The family lived there for almost three years, and over the time Spencer, Maria, and Bin-shao/Stephen started to speak French fluently. Spencer was quintilingual and was a brilliant English student in school. By 1991, Spencer had almost completely forgotten Czech and Slovak, and Maria and Bin-shao/Stephen had never spoken it in the first place. In December of 1992, when Spencer was 11 years old, the family announced that shortly, they would be moving to America.

Maria and Bin-shao began trying to learn English as best as possible, although Italian/Korean and French dominated over English. Spencer was the only one in the family able to speak English with almost no accent whatsoever-even though his native languages were Italian, Korean, Czech, and Slovak. In February, 1993, the family ordered tickets on a plane to Seattle, Washington-where Bin-shao/Stephen had gotten a job working as a computer technician for the United States Armed Forces. The family packed up their bags and arrived in America on February 9th, 1993.

Moving into a apartment on the North Side of Seattle, Bin-shao Shay became known as 'Stephen' at his well-paying job. Maria, who had a normal name for an American, who had gotten a teacher certification at a young age back in Italy, got a fair-paying job as an AP Italian teacher at a local Seattle high school, as well as teaching French classes at the community center twice a week.

Spencer attended Ridgeway Junior High School, where he was in the 7th grade. Spencer had no trouble making friends, no trouble fitting in, no trouble hiding his strange Czech/Slovak/French/Korean/Italian accent. Spencer told his guidance counselor that at home he spoke Italian to his mother, Korean to his father, and the family generally spoke English as a group.

The family began doing very well for themselves, and bought a large home for $815,000 on the North Side of Seattle-seven bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, an outdoor pool, etc. Spencer thought his life was pretty good. In October, 1993, Bin-shao had his name officially changed to 'Stephen Shay.' And after that, in January, Maria announced that she was pregnant.

Maria's pregnancy was tough for Spencer-he had never accustomed to the fact of having a sibling, it had never even really crossed his mind. In December, Maria went in for a sonogram and Spencer said that he realized he wanted a new sister-and wanted her to have an original American name-Carly.

The pregnancy was a tough one. Maria often lay awake at night, sobbing due to intense pains in her lower respitory system. And on July 24th, 1994, Maria began to go into cardiac arrest. Stephen immediately took off from his job, picked up Spencer from school, and rushed him to the hospital. Doctors told the two that her mother was in cardiac arrest and an emergency surgery was going to remove Carly from her stomach-two months premature. At 11:04 A.M on July 24th, 1994, doctors were able to get Carly out of Maria's stomach-just seconds later, her heart stopped, and Maria Florencia DePinto/Shay died at the age of 32.

Although Spencer was deeply saddened by the event, Stephen was even worse. He forced himself to go to his job ever monring, and often cried at night. To contribute to his sadness, Carly was an extremely sick child-doctors predicted she would not be allowed out of the hospital until age five, earliest. Carly was born with several immunodeficiency disorders, including being infected with HIV and cancer cells. A severe mental disorder led Carly's brain to develop extremely slowly.

From there, Spencer's life began to go downward. Stephen felt the house was too big for just two people, and they downsized to a two-bedroom apartment in central Seattle. Stephen stopped speaking Korean to his son at home, they only spoke English if they spoke at all. Stephen was diagnosed with a severe case of clinical depression.

In the spring of 1996, when Carly was almost two and still in the hospital, Spencer illegally emancipated himself from his father-not as an act of defiance, but as an act to let his dad be on his own. In June, 1996, his father joined the U.S Army and was deployed to the Middle East. Spencer took his high school GED test, and got a job to pay off the rent for a new loft that his father had bought. In October, 1996, Maria's mother, Grandmother DePinto, came to live with Spencer in the loft. She did not speak English but Spencer taught her as best as possible.

Spencer was a mischevous teenager. He attended three days of law school in the year 1999, before quickly quitting. In April, 2000, Spencer made an executive decision-he was going to start going to church with his grandmother every single day.

Spencer prayed and prayed, prayed for Carly's safety. Carly still could not speak, talk, read, write, etc. It was already surprising that Carly was still alive. Spencer prayed for a miracle, prayed for Carly to get better-and in May, that miracle happened.

Carly began responding well to treatments. Her brain began growing at a fantastic rate, reaching almost the amount of a four year olds by early June, 2000. Carly began speaking amazingly well, becoming almost fluent in English by June. She began walking, doing simple math, going on a 1 hour per day physical excersise program. Her memory stretched only to May 3rd, 2000-Carly could not remember one single thing past that. On July 24th, 2000, Carly recieved the best sixth birthday present ever-she was able to go home for the first time in her entire life.

Carly began to know Spencer, her Grandmother, and even her "Granddad Shay"-an American soldier who had gotten Stephen Shay's mother pregnant in 1961. During the year of 2000-2001, while her fellow classmates were in the second grade, Carly began catching up on everything-she passed kindergarten by February of 2001, passed first grade by June with the rest of her grade.

Carly was still not allowed to attend a regular school in September of 2001. She was at a medical help school on September 11th, 2001, when 9/11 happened. Shortly after, on September 23rd, 2001, Grandmother DePinto died at the age of 60 due to pneumonia. Granddad Shay moved out of the apartment and to Yakhima-and Carly became a normal girl. She liked Barbies, My Little Pony, etc. She was normal, but she had to visit the hospital once a week to check up on her disorders. She was severely asthmatic, and she had an asthma attack in December, 2001. She was rushed to hospital and stayed there for 3 days-but after that, she did not have an asthma attack for a VERY long time. Spencer felt horrible when his sister was in the hospital-he felt like she was going to die all over again. Grandpa Shay came down from Yahkima to stay with him again for a few months after the attack.

Most of 2002 passed normally-then in late August, 2002, Carly began preparing for the second grade. Stephen Shay actually came home for the first time to see his daughter-she was normal, his depression had faded since his time served in the army. Carly was not emancipated to Shay though; he was not even her legal father, Spencer was her legal guardian. Stephen stayed until Christmas-he was there for Carly's first day of second grade, where she met her best friend, Sam Puckett.

Sam was completely unaware of Carly's horrible medical background-nor was Carly aware that Sam was a cured psychopath, who still suffered from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and a minor case of borderline personality disorder. Sam had temptations to kill her best friend at times, but never did.

Spencer loved Sam, and Carly's new friend, Freddy. Today, Spencer is 30 years old. He loves girls and currently plans on getting married and having children.

Art Projects
As an artist, Spencer is usually making an odd art project for some equally weird reason. A recurring gag is that some of his projects will burst into flames randomly. Added humor comes from the fact that the item subjected to this gag is always either: a: made entirely of material that is non-flammable at room temperature in real life, or b: made of both flammable & non-flammable materials, but it's the parts made of the latter that invariably catch on fire. Spencer gets many of his art supplies from the local junkyard and even claims to have an account there (iAm Your Biggest Fan). Spencer has also made a short claymation film called The Alien, The Space Hamster, and the Burrito.

Girlfriends, Dates, & Crushes
Throughout the series, it has been proven that Spencer is quite the ladies man, dating many women; although most of the relationships don't last for more than one episode.

An unnamed girl: Referred to as 'that girl' by Sam in iWant More Viewers who only liked Spencer because of his socks glowing socks.

Connie: Dated her, but found out she was "juggling for other guys," so he decided to break up with her. It is said she is diabetic.

Stefanie: Dated Spencer, but he broke up with her because she was annoying. She was never seen in the show, but Spencer talked to her on the phone. Apparently, she is a believer in unicorns, claiming she has a pet one.

Marilyn Ramer: Spencer was flirting with her in iWant a World Record, even when she mentioned she had a boyfriend. She eventually does bring her boyfriend (Calvin, the Guy Who Never Blinks) to the Shays' apartment when she takes a photo of Spencer's completed sculpture. When Spencer says, "Wait, I blinked", Calvin says, "I Didn't." Spencer finally relents and says to Marilyn, "I can see why you love him."

Lauren Ackerman: Dated her, but couldn't take her anymore because she was obsessive, and overreacted if Spencer wasn't thinking of her, so he broke up with her. (see Spauren)



Sasha Striker: No real relationship as seen on the show, but she offered to "take him for a ride," and they kissed for 7 seconds passionately after Spencer won the title for best Pak-Rat player in the world. (see Spasha)

Marissa Benson: In an alternate reality, if Spencer was born normal, then Mrs. Benson and Spencer might have married, making Mrs. Benson Carly's sister-in-law and Freddie her nephew. In reality, however, she treats him like she's his mother. (see Sparissa)

Trudy Galini: He dated Trudy, although he found her rather unattractive and repulsive, in order to get Mr. Galini's delightfully delicious pie recipe, and Trudy kept kissing Spencer for some reason, calling his kissing, "Good stuff," much to Spencer's revulsion.

Veronica: A supermarket clerk at Hey Food, who Spencer was convinced only liked him when he was in a tuxedo, since she had hated him before. (see Speronica) Unlike most of the women Spencer has dated, Veronica appears in more than one episode-iMake Sam Girlier, and then later in iEnrage Gibby, when it is made clear she had dumped Spencer in her previous appearance. She feels bad that Spencer has "died," but when Spencer shows her he's not dead and tries to convince her to date him again, she leaves.

Ms. Fielder: The art teacher at the community center. They have no real relationship, but they made out at the end of iMust Have Locker 239, after covering each other in paint during the art class.

Gabriella: She only appeared for minutes. She is Mrs. Benson's Building Watch Patrol assistant. It is obvious Spencer had a crush on her.

Alison: She only appeared in iWas a Pageant Girl. He was supposed to go on a double date with her along with Freddie, and her 15 year old cousin Leslie, but while waiting at the apartment for their rock climbing reservation time, Spencer and Freddie became obsessed with a party game Leslie suggested, and their dates eventually left when they couldn't get either Freddie or Spencer's attention off of the game.

Charlotte Gibson: Dated her, but he saw a vision of Gibby (especially her 'Gibby lips') when he saw her face, and Gibby's mother also saw a vision of Carly on Spencer's face, so they both ran away screaming in horror. (see Sparlotte)

Candace: A sophisticated young woman. He had a date with her, but they broke up when she found out he helps children with webcasts, and she was out of his league.

Gia Chambers: The hot older sister of his nemesis Chuck Chambers. In iBeat the Heat, Spencer kept flirting with her and even put up with Chuck tormenting him in order to keep him from taking her away from his house.

Jodi: She was meant to marry Gordon Birch, but when she saw Spencer, she decided that she wanted to marry him (something that Spencer is not exactly pleased about). However, when Carly sings, Jodi realizes she belongs to Gordon. (see Spodi)

Krustacia: A woman from Uzbekistan who didn't speak any English. Spencer went out with her because he thought she was hot. Gibby tried to help him translate, but instead he got a man who only spoke Uzbek as well and stole Krustacia away from Spencer. (see Spristasia)

Deidre: An employee of the art museum in iHire An Idiot. Spencer kissed her twice near the end of the episode.

Moni: A make-up artist Spencer dated six years before iParty with Victorious. He broke up with her and due to his bad driving, he backed over her leg with his car. Still, she is upset that he ran over her.

Stephanie: Another girl mentioned in iParty with Victorious. Spencer backed over her leg with his car, too.

Jennifer: A girl mentioned in iHate Sam's Boyfriend, who Spencer dated while he had poison ivy for two weeks and didn't even notice. He noticed when the poison ivy, spread to 'places.'

Hardware Store Girl: A girl Spencer met at a hardware store who likes moist chicken in iDate Sam & Freddie. At the end of the episode she stole Spencer's wallet, which had four dollars in it. Carly had called her icky and Spencer had called her dumb.

Jenna Hamilton: Jenna was Spencer's ex-babysitter. Spencer and Jenna broke up due to Carly telling them that they're forcing their relationship. Jenna was also treating Carly and Spencer like she was the babysitter of them.

Enemies/Rivals

 * The Pirates (iQuit iCarly)
 * Chuck Chambers
 * Doug Toder (iFence)
 * Harmoo (iMove Out)
 * the Petographers (iMove Out)
 * Porkchop (iHurt Lewbert)
 * Sledgehammer (iHurt Lewbert)
 * Gary (iLost My Mind)

Gallery
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