Ms. Francine Briggs

Francine Briggs is a female Scottish-American teacher at Ridgeway High School. She plays the bagpipes and loves Scottish music and dancing. She is also obsessed with Randy Jackson, and has a closet of his merchandise (including Randy-O cereal, a life-size cardboard cut out, and cologne). She dislikes Sam Puckett the most out of all her students. She is portrayed by Mindy Sterling. Ms. Briggs is Carly, Freddie, Sam, and Gibby's English teacher.

Trivia

 * According to iTwins, Sam says Ms. Briggs goes to the teacher's lounge during detention to make out with Mr. Howard.
 * Sam calls Ms. Briggs, "Bubble Butt."
 * Ms. Briggs harbors an intense dislike for Spencer Shay and was glad to have gotten rid of him. She despised him so much, when he came back to the school in "iWant More Viewers",Ms._Francine_Briggs.jpg she gave Freddie detention because Spencer wouldn't leave, and threatened to expel Freddie. Ms. Briggs hated Spencer ever since his very first day at Ridgeway Middle School, and when Carly first mentioned him in iPilot, she has an irritated expression on her face, and says disdainfully, "Ah, the artist."
 * Carly and Sam make fun of Ms. Briggs' "crazy, pointy boobs" in the episode iPilot. Ironically, Mindy Sterling has been a breast cancer survivor since 1998, having undergone a lumpectomy, chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and tamoxifen.
 * According to iPilot, Ms. Briggs used to have a brown lump on her nose, but she had it surgically removed.
 * In iSpy a Mean Teacher, Ms. Briggs states she hates citrus fruits.
 * Her home address is 321 East Argyle. This was revealed in iDate a Bad Boy, when Freddie tried to woo Carly by sending Ms. Briggs a fishy pizza. ("Welcome to Bad Boy Town, starring Freddie Benson!")
 * In iHave My Principals, she and Mr. Howard were principals replacing Principal Ted Franklin (who was fired for coming out of a pair of jeans and sitting on fudgeballs on iCarly.) But, they got fired and Franklin got his occupation back as Principal.
 * According to Dan, screaming at Sam is what she does best.IDreamofDance_0001gg_bigger.jpg
 * Even though Ms.Briggs is single, Mr.Howard is not according to what he said in iHave My Principals when super attendant Gorman fired Ms.Briggs and Mr.Howard as principals at the school he said "Please don't fire me, my wife finally doesn't think I am a loser." Even though in the episode iTwins after Freddie asked "Won't Ms.Briggs realize you ditched detention?" Sam said "No, she only stays for a couple of minutes then she leaves to make-out with Mr.Howard in the teachers lounge." Is Mr.Howard a cheater, who knows? But if it is true Ms.Briggs makes out with Mr.Howard wouldn't she of done something when he said something about his wife?
 * In iBelieve in Bigfoot, Sam takes Ms. Briggs' megaphone and later Freddie takes the blame when Ms. Briggs shows up.