User blog comment:Kittygirl7878/what's wrong with Nick?/@comment-2027677-20110624050445

When you think about it, Nick is the one who is actually getting hurt by all of this. What we've all got to admit, though it's not a pleasant thing to think about, is that fairly soon the iCarly crew is going to graduate. If Dan Schneider, God forbid, decides to go on past high school and into college I'm fairly certain that the show would promptly jump the shark. (Does anyone remember Saved by the Bell: The College Years?) Remembering this, you'd think that Nickelodeon would be pressuring Dan to make more episodes in a condensed period of time and air the episodes closer together. I suppose they could mess up the timeline and have them be in high school for an indefinite period of time, (like, say, That 70's Show or, once again, Saved by the Bell) but I'm probably not the only iCarly fan who would find that really annoying. Anyway, my point is, Nick would seem to me to make less money by separating the episodes so far apart, because then, and this is just me thinking aloud, there would seem to be fewer episodes overall, and the more episodes, the more money they make. But, again, what do I know? I can be an idiot. (Also, I don't think it's ALL Nick's fault. They did order something like 25 episodes for this season, but Dan only made around half of them. I don't know why he did this, and he may have had a legitimate reason, but I think they could have at least started filming the episodes after iOMG a bit earlier than they did. Of course, it might not have helped if Nick was still so intent on pushing the episodes apart...)