IBust a Thief

iBust a Thief is the 13th episode of Season 5 and the 107th episode overall. This episode premiered to 3.374 million viewers.

Plot
After a webcast, Sam notices her laptop is missing. Freddie remotely activates the webcam with the laptop's serial number, and they see an old lady in front of it. After watching her for eleven hours, they figure out where she lives and go to her apartment, breaking down the door. However, once there, they find out that Sam gave them a wrong serial number and now think that Sam's laptop is gone forever. When they get home, Sam goes to the fridge to get food and finds her laptop in a pizza carton. She leaves and takes the carton with her without telling anyone.

Spencer finds a box of his ticket points for his favorite arcade he collected for years to win a plush dolphin and then lost. However, when he gets there, he finds out they are worthless since the arcade switched to electronic points. Since adults aren't allowed to enter, he takes Guppy with him to get in. After spending the entire day at the arcade, he manages to get the 1000 points he needs just before it closes.

Trivia

 * Jean Sincere will guest star as Gloria
 * BooG!e, who portrays T-Bo, tweeted "All good things come to an end...AMAZING opportunity...AMAZING group of people...I grew up on Nickelodeon."
 * There was a Hungry Girl ad on the website Freddie used to find Sam's laptop.
 * Noah's younger brother Ethan Munck returns as Guppy
 * Funk E. Fester's, which will be seen in this episode, is a parody of Chuck E. Cheese's.
 * This episode is the penultimate (second to last) episode of iCarly.
 * This is the last regular, half hour episode of iCarly to air.
 * The animation of the iCarly cartoon is similar to South Park. This is most likely because Dan Schneider is a big fan of South Park. Also, when Sam hands the marshmallow to Freddie she says "hyah" like Cartman.
 * Dan Schneider voices the announcer for Bitty Big Heads in the introduction during the web segment Hungry Sam in a silly accent.
 * Ms. Benson says "what the yuck!?" for the second time on the show, the first time being in the episode iSaved Your Life.
 * This episode aired on the 26th birthday of Drake and Josh star Josh Peck.
 * There is a Pak Rat machine in Funk E. Fester's (first seen in iStage an Intervention).
 * Mrs. Benson's voice was heard twice this episode but she never appeared in person.
 * The Vegetarian Spaghetti Taco was the winning recipe for the Bird's Eye campaign.
 * When they show the Vegetarian Spaghetti Taco winner on the screen, the "mmmmm" that is heard is the same soundbite that appears at the end of every episode with the Schneider's Bakery logo.
 * In reality, since Sam's laptop was in the fridge for at least 12 hours, the fridge could have caused damage to it.
 * The book that Guppy is seen reading in Funk E. Fester's, Nifty Shades of Beige, is a parody of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Judging by Guppy's reaction after reading a page of the book, it probably has similar content.
 * It's shown in bloopers that they had to do at least two takes of the scene, where Gloria bashes Gibby with a lamp

Goofs

 * Spencer is thirty years old and he mentioned he won those Funk E. Fester's tickets when was ten. Yet Todd said those tickets are fifteen years old, which would not add up to Spencer's actual age. However, they may have still been using the tickets for five years after he won the tickets.
 * Funk E. Fester's closes at 10 PM but when the scene cut to the next one it showed outside and it looked like it was around noon.
 * When Sam said that she lost her Pear Book she said that she got it as a Bar Mitvah gift even thought in Jewish traditions a girl has a Bat Mitzvah.
 * Sam said she got her laptop as a Bar Mitzvah gift. To have a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, you have to be Jewish. But in iSam's Mom, she told the therapist "Oh that's cool, we're not Jewish." Although, it is possible that she changed religions or just threw one for herself for presents, which isn't surprising if she did.

Quotes
Sam: [looking through her backpack] Where's my laptop?

Carly: I don't know.

Sam: [putting her backpack down, worriedly] My laptop's gone!

Sam: I'll clean all this up later!

Carly: [to Freddie] Now you see I know that's not true.

Sam: [unknowingly throws a lunch box at Spencer from behind]

Spencer: [gets hit, falls on the floor, groaning] Oh my god.

Carly: [watching Sam rummage through drawers and such] I know you wanna find your laptop, but you're kinda destroying my house.

[Sam hands Freddie a marshmallow]

Freddie: [strangely, looking at Sam, grabbing the marshmallow] You wrote your laptop's serial number on a marshmallow?

Sam: [defensively] I didn't have paper.

Sam: [breaking down a door] I've come to take back what's mine!

Gloria [placing her hand on her stomach] Are you my kidney donor?

Carly:  [To Sam] Hey, where you going?

Sam:  [after finding her Pearbook in the pizza box, walking out the door] Nothing...

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