User blog comment:Rachim/Sad Creddiers/@comment-3419317-20110411204433/@comment-3419321-20110411211138

If this helps, I can supply a comparison here :

In the Harry Potter books, Harry was always portrayed as having been treated very badly by the family he grew up with, the Dursleys. His "bedroom" was a closet underneath the stairs, for example, and sometimes it seemed like the Dursleys never showed him any love or consideration of any kind.

In real life, a child who grew up in that kind of environment would almost certainly wind up with serious psychological issues, instead of being as nice, as noble, and as normal, for the most part, as Harry was.

The reason for all of this is that when J. K. Rowling first wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, she wrote it as a children's fantasy. Because her target audience was young children, she could take certain liberties with realism, that probably wouldn't work if she was writing for an older audience.

Rowling had no way of knowing, at the time, how hugely popular her books would become among readers of all age groups. If she had, she might have written it up a bit differently. As it was, by the time she started writing for a broader audience (around the third book of the series), it was too late to start changing the Dursleys' treatment of Harry into something more realistic. It was already set.

By the same token, because iCarly's target audience is relatively young, the show can take liberties with realism that wouldn't work on shows for older audiences. In this case, that would be Sam recovering from the pain of heartbreak a lot more quickly and easily (by the very next episode, in fact) than a real life teenaged girl in her place would.