Pathetic Plays

The Prisoner who Wanted Some Soup, and the Man who Refused to Give Him Some is an iCarly "Pathetic Play" shown only in the episode IOwe You. Written by Sam as part of a class assignment, and given a D-Minus by her teacher, it was evidently designed to be reminiscent of plays that ended up on low-budget, high-quality television shows made during the "golden age of television," such as Studio One or Playhouse 90. Instead, it consisted of Sam and Carly wearing beaten fedoras and talking in masculine grovely voices repeatedly shouting "Just gimme some soup," and "I ain't gonna give you no soup."