Talk:IOMG/@comment-3416231-20110323201122/@comment-3276102-20110323203219

What would really be nice is if the ending that won was broadcast on the show as the "official" ending, and then the other one was posted on iCarly.com or nick.com as an "alternate" ending, just so the shippers who don't win, don't have to walk away with nothing.

Multiple endings to a T.V. show or movie have been done before. The popular 1980's sitcom Benson ended with the title character, Benson (played Robert Guillaume) running for governor against his own friend, Governor Gatling (played by James Noble).

They filmed four different endings (Benson winning, Gatling winning, a third candidate upsetting them both, and a cliffhanger-style ending in which the winner was not revealed at all), and ultimately chose to broadcast the fourth one. I suppose that if the other three endings still exist on film, they might finally be shown to the public as extras on a DVD of the show.

Usually, multiple endings aren't all shown to the public. One notable exception to this was the 1985 movie Clue (based on the mystery board game). They filmed three different endings. Every movie theater that was sent the film got one of the three endings, purely randomly. It wasn't until the movie was broadcast on television and released on videotape that it was possible for a person to see all three endings in a single sitting.

That was quite a clever gimmick, I thought. :)