IToe Fat Cakes

iToe Fat Cakes is the 24th episode of Season 4 of iCarly and the 94th episode overall.

The episode reached a total of 4.842 million views on its premiere weekend. up +62% over last year’s time period). The half-hour episode ranks as this week’s number-one entertainment program with kid and tween demos, posting double and triple-digit gains and averaging a 7.1/2.5 million (+54%) K2-11, 9.4/2 million (+68%) K6-11, and 8.9/1.9 million (+128%) T9-14.

Plot
Because Sam didn't get in trouble for ten days, Carly, Freddie and Spencer give her a ticket for a tour of the Fat Cakes World Headquarters in Canada. Sam enjoys the trip a lot, but gets in trouble for trying to smuggle Canadian Fat Cakes, which are illegal in America, over the border. Spencer manages to get her out of it, but she can't return to the US because she doesn't have any kind of ID. Gibby gets the idea to smuggle Sam across the border in his suitcase, but the suitcases get switched and Sam ends up on a flight to Malaysia.

Subplot
Carly has a date with a boy named Lance and doesn't want to go to Canada because she has already bailed on him in the past. When she takes a bath to get ready, she gets her toe stuck in the faucet after seeing a scene like this on TV and trying it herself, not thinking it is really possible. At first, she tries to call Wendy for help, but destroys her PearPhone when she drops it in the water. She then gets Mrs. Benson's attention on accident, but she isn't able to get Carly's toe unstuck, either. While Mrs. Benson tries to get Carly free, Lance comes in. In the end, Carly and Lance eat Chinese food with Carly lying in the bathtub while a man cuts off the faucet with a power saw.

Trivia

 * This episode reached #1 on iTunes Charts for Children's TV along with iMeet The First Lady at #2.
 * Mary Scheer guest stars as Marissa Benson.
 * This episode, like iBalls, features little of Carly in the whole episode, letting Sam, Freddie, Gibby, and Spencer have more airtime because Miranda went on tour.
 * In the sneek peek, Miranda accidentally pulls her toe out of the faucet when Lance comes in and quickly sticks it back in. It was fixed in the actual episode
 * Jennette said in reply to a fan that she "liked the iToe Fat Cakes episode a lot. They were all really fun this season!"
 * Three bloopers shown in iBloop 2 - Electric Bloopaloo originate from this episode.
 * One being, Jennette throwing a metal pan or plate down, where it lands on an extra's foot.
 * Second, Jennette messing up her line because Jerry made her laugh by saying "Shut her!" Jennette responds jokingly, "I hate you! I hate you, so much." She, Nathan, and Jerry all break character and laugh.
 * Third, being a bit from Nathan's yawning montage when they are supposed to film the web cast.
 * The first promo aired after the preview of the FRED: The Show. Icarly-toe-fat-cakes-05.jpg
 * The iToe part has been mistakenly known as iToes
 * The premise of Sam winning a trip to a factory after finding a golden ticket is a similar plot to Charlie &amp; The Chocolate Factory.
 * The Dingo Channel is mentioned again in the episode, where Carly is seen flipping through an episode of Twinjas.
 * Carly mentions she got the idea to stick her toe in the faucet from a person on The Dick Van Dyke Show a sitcom they initially aired on CBS from 1961 to 1966. The episode she saw was Never Bathe on Saturday which aired March 31, 1965, which she saw on The Vintage Network.
 * While flipping channels, Carly once again watches a Megan-centric scene of Drake & Josh, this time from the episode "Peruvian Puff Pepper." She comments "Seen it."
 * This episode aired on the 35th birthday of Jerry Trainor.
 * Carly appears to cry for help in two languages: German (Helfen Mir!) and French (Assistance!); however, the correct way to cry for help in those languages are "Helfen Sie mir" (German) and Aidez-moi or Au secours! (French) respectively. 3-sam-cries.jpg
 * The closed captions spell Carly's cries for help as Helfen meer and Ossy-stonce.
 * This is the first time that Carly still has a significant other i.e Lance at the end of the episode.
 * A reference to Sam's little crush on Spencer, first revealed in the episode IGet Pranky was made when Spencer blurts out, "I know you have a crush on me." and Sam quick responds, "What?"
 * It is not seen how Sam comes back from Malaysia, similar to how it's unknown how Gibby got out of the chimney in iStill Psycho. Itoe-fat-cakes-2.jpg
 * In this episode Canadian Fat Cakes are said to taste better because, they are made with "Cane Fat", unlike American Fat Cakes, which is made with "Corn Fat". This is a reference to soda companies, especially Coca-Cola®, who in the 1980's switched their sweetner from Cane sugar to High Fructose Corn Syrup, which is associated with lesser quality taste, and although not proven, adverse health affects, which inadvertently created a cult following of Mexican Coke, but unlike Canadian Fat Cakes, Mexican Coke isn't illegal, and doesn't have to be smuggled into America, as it's often shipped to supermarkets throughout the US.
 * This is the first episode where the interior of the Shay bathroom (probably Carly's bathroom on the second floor) is seen, where they have a shower, bathtub and a Yatsabishi Television sitting on the edge of the bathtub.
 * Carly was watching Drake & Josh on Nickeldeon. But this episode aired January 2012, and the last time Drake & Josh was on Nickelodeon was August 2011.

Goofs

 * Carly once said in iStage An Intervention that taking a bath was gross, but then takes a bath in this episode.
 * The first few times Carly put her toe in the faucet (before it got stuck) you could tell that it just went behind the faucet hole
 * To enter Canada in the first place, Sam would've needed her passport, although she could've had her pass when she came to Canada but lost it before she needed to leave, and it's also much easier to get into Canada than into America because of tighter security.
 * The family taking Sam to Malaysia would have to pass through airport security, and it would be impossible for them to continue because a body would be seen during the X-ray. They probably would have been jailed for this.
 * The family taking Sam to Malaysia should have known that they picked up the wrong suitcase because of the weight.
 * When they were going to leave the border the kid asked if he could get an autograph from Gibby. Freddie took a pic of them instead even though there was a big no photos sign (a camera with a no sign around it) right behind them. But this could just be a kid disobeying the rules, or hadn't noticed the sign (or it could just be a gag the writers threw in).
 * As Carly's date walked into the room, while Mrs. Benson was inside also, Carly actually took her toe out, and then put it back in (As you'll see when you scroll up)GOOF_OF_PICTURE.jpg

Quotes
Sam: [staring at a Fat Cake cream piping bag, stretching out the word] What?! (Cut from the final cut of the episode)

Sam: [holding a Golden ticket] No way, shut up!

Spencer: [as Mayor Mustachio] We shall not shut up!

Freddie: [asking Sam after he, Spencer, Gibby and her walk into a Fat Cake assembly line] What do you think of that?

Sam: [crying over a Fat Cake] I think, they're beautiful. Mama's home! [hugs Spencer]

Fat Cake Factory Worker: Which of you Americans would like to be the first to try a Canadian Fat Cake?

Gibby: [reaching for the first Fat Cake] Hey, I wouldn't mind if...

Sam: [punches down Gibby]

Gibby: [falls down on the floor] Aaaah!

Spencer and Freddie: [gasp and grimace, mouthing] Ooh! Sam: [twiddling her fingers, sweetly] May I?

Freddie: [to Sam] OK, Sam, take a bite and....

Sam: [yells] Shut up! [throws tray on the floor]

Carly: [after dropping her phone in bathtub] There's no app for that.

Gibby: If Idaho wanted to be a country, could it?

Freddie: They could try, it'll probably start another civil war.

Gibby: War? War is wack!

Freddie: Well said, my friend.

Spencer: I know you have a crush on me...

Sam: What?!

Spencer: [looking away quickly, as if embarrassed] Nothing!

Border Guard: What did you plan to do with all these Fat Cakes?

Sam: Well, mustache, I was gonna put 'em in my face, chew 'em a little, send them down to a trip to my stomach, and I think we all know what would have happened to them after that.

Freddie: [to Gibby] Dogs really like you.

Gibby: Yeah, dogs and girls with low self-esteem.

Border Guard: [about Sam] And, she... she called me a dumb wazz-bag.

Spencer: I object!

Border Guard: So did I. I don't even know what a wazz-bag is.

Freddie: Well, if you had a bag, and you know, you needed to wazz... then, the uhh...

Spencer: He doesn't need to know!

Border Guard: Who was the first U.S. president?

Sam: [blank stare]

Border Guard: The father of our country?

Sam: Abraham Franklin?

[cut to Freddie, Spencer and Gibby: Freddie and Spencer hang their heads in shame; Gibby gestures "Yes!"]

Gibby: [notices Freddie and Spencer have bowed their heads] That's not it?

Carly: [stuck in the bathtub] Help! I have a cute date in less than thirty minutes!

Related iCarly.com Blog Posts
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