IPsycho

iPsycho is a Special, and is the combination of the 18th and 19th episodes of Season 3 of iCarly. The episode originally aired on June 4, 2010. The name of the episode is an obvious parody of Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho".

Noah Munck's little brother, Ethan, guest stars as Gibby's little brother Guppy for the first time.

Plot
Carly, Sam, and Freddie try to cheer up a lonely fan named Nora Dirshlitt on her birthday. Nora´s parents abandoned her on her birthday, she has no guests at all and shortly after the iCarly trio arrives, the 87 years old clown has an aneurysm (and possibly died from it). Carly and Freddie decide to do a special iCarly webcast to show people from Nora´s school they are at her party, and a lot of people show up. Nora is happy about her sudden popularity (and even has the courage to kiss a popular girl), and after the party is over, she traps Carly, Sam and Freddie in her basement, believing they are angels sent to her to change her life. To make sure no one wonders where they are, she cancels their appearance at Webicon and texts their respective familys that everything is going fine. After a few failed attempts to escape, Carly gets the idea to make a coded SOS message for Gibby with the hint "Every fourth (Carly). Word (Freddie). Every fourth (Sam). Word (Freddie)". The decoded message then says "The crazy girl trapped us, please save us.

Gibby, in the meantime, is doing home repairs for Spencer in exchange for setting up a camp in the loft. When he gets the message and manages to decode it's meaning, Gibby, along with his little brother Guppy, leaves to rescue them. He breaks the door of Nora's house, and starts fighting her. Nora and Gibby are evenly matched, but luckily, Guppy finds Nora´s keys and releases the iCarly trio. Sam then uses the "Vulcan Nerve Pinch" (a reference to Star Trek) on Nora, which knocks her out. The iCarly trio call the police, and she goes to juvenile detention. While Carly sympathizes for her, Sam says that she'll make friends in prison. The episode ends with Carly, Sam, Freddie, Spencer, Gibby, and Guppy all singing "100 Cartons of Milk on the Wall" around a campfire, which they ironically learned from Nora.

Trivia

 * Daniella Monet, who stars as Trina Vega on Victorious makes a guest appearance. She even appears on the website. The caption reads, "Hey Trina, where's Tori?" As a result of the appearance, Trina Vega was missing from a few episodes of Victorious.
 * Third time a cast member from Victorious guest stars on iCarly, the 1st time was iCarly Saves TV with Leon Thomas as the guest star, and the 2nd time was iFight Shelby Marx with Victoria Justice as the guest star (however, both of these times were before Victorious premiered or even started filming episodes).


 * Nora makes numerous references (most of them pop culture) throughout the episode, some obvious and some very subtle. For example:


 * 1) As Nora is walking upstairs with her "food pocket", she makes a reference to stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan's rant about Hot Pockets.
 * 2) When Carly grabs Nora's arm through the slot and pulls her face against the glass, Nora growls in a weird voice "Release me!", a reference to a scene in Independence Day.
 * 3) The basement where Nora keeps the iCarly gang has about six guitars on the right hand side of the room. One of the guitars was used as Drake Parker's guitar in the Nickelodeon comedy series Drake and Josh (also written and directed by Dan Schneider).
 * 4) When she slams the small window in her front door, she yells, "No one sees the wizard!" making a reference to The Wizard of Oz.


 * This episode does not feature TheSlap in the web toolbar shown in the opening credits when Freddie says "In 5, 4, 3, 2...", even though it comes after several others that do (such as iWas a Pageant Girl and iEnrage Gibby) in both airing and production order.
 * This is the first appearance of Guppy, played by Noah Munck's real life younger brother, Ethan.
 * Nora is similar to (or an amalgamation of) many thriller movie villians:


 * 1) Annie Wilkes from Misery : she is obsessive and holds her favorite people hostage against their will.
 * 2) Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs: keeps her hostages in a basement often obsessively watching them and not letting them out.
 * 3) Michael Myers from the Halloween Series : Michael wears a William Shatner mask and Nora wore a Richard Nixon mask.
 * 4) The Other Mother from Coraline : keeping the protagonists with her and trying to make them her "family" (or in this case, guardian angels).


 * This episode premiered to an audience of 7.5 million viewers.
 * Spencer yells "GIBBY!" four times throughout the movie, three of them in the first half, the fourth telling him to answer the door. People shout this frequently throughout all series.
 * Gibby's desktop is a photo of him with Tasha, implying that they are still dating.
 * Running Gag: Guppy repeatedly says "Happy Birthday!" after seeing the message video. In a blooper from iBloop (which served as a sneak peek as it aired before this did, albeit after this in filming order), Ethan Munck says the line prematurely, causing Noah Munck to break out laughing.
 * When Spencer asks Gibby what his plans are, Gibby replies, "I don't know...sit home, take a bath, watch reruns of Diff'rent Strokes?" When Spencer offers him to camp with him, he says, "What'chu talkin' bout, Spencer?", a reference to a quote from the show. This is also a reference to the show's star Gary Coleman, who died earlier in 2010. Gary Coleman also appeared in an episode of "Drake & Josh".
 * When Spencer and Gibby agree on camping together Gibby expresses his excitement by exclaiming "Dyn-o-mite!" This is a reference to '70s character J.J.'s catchphrase in the sitcom Good Times leading Spencer to conclude that Gibby watches a lot of classic TV.
 * This episode was nominated for Favorite Family TV Movie at the 2011 People's Choice Awards, but lost to Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.
 * It shouldn't have gotten nominated for Favorite Family TV Movie, because it's not a TV movie, just a two-part Special episode.
 * One of the doctors (the one who speaks) when they come to take Cramps the Clown away on the stretcher, is George Doty IV, an iCarly writer.
 * Although the title is an obvious reference to Alfred Hitchcock's Horror film Psycho, there are no elements from the plot of that film.
 * The red phone Nora pulls out is the same phone Sam pulls out in iReunite With Missy.
 * Nora literally tries to kill Gibby with a fireplace poker.
 * For most of this episode Freddie wears the same outfit from the end of iMust Have Locker.
 * The main plot of this episode is very similar to the subplot of iReunite with Missy, where Chuck trapped Spencer for 2 days.
 * The events of this episode were later mentioned in iStart a Fanwar, which took place a year after this episode, although it aired 5 months after (but they were filmed a year apart).
 * Gibby and Guppy's mom also made an appearence in iGo Nuclear and iFix A Popstar, and Guppy makes a future appearence in iDo.
 * If Carly, Sam and Freddie stayed in the basement a little longer, Carly would have probably had a nervous breakdown because she has claustrophobia, as shown in iSpace Out and iSam's Mom. But Carly needs food and sleep if she's in a small space in order to survive.
 * A brief controversy erupted shortly after the episode aired involving what looked like a same-sex kiss between Nora and the girl who was played by Daniella Monet. From an angle, the kiss does indeed look like it's on the lips, but in reality it was more on the cheek.
 * The fight scene between Nora and Gibby can be considered the most "violent" scene the series has seen.
 * Sam references Star Trek by using the "Vulcan Nerve Grip" on Nora to knock her out (although it was called the "Vulcan Squeezy-thing"). An interesting note is that Tim Russ, who plays Principal Franklin, was part of the main cast of Star Trek: Voyager, a spin-off of Star Trek.
 * A sequel to iPsycho will air as part of Season 5. This was evidenced by a photo of Maurice the Chicken on-set. Danielle Morrow also had a cameo in one of Dan Schneider's videos.

Goofs

 * In the 'Happy Birthday' message, Freddie, Carly, and Sam send Gibby, there is no mention of the address of Nora.
 * In iWin a Date, Gibby was unable to recognize the obvious hints made by Carly and Sam. However, in this episode, he (fairly) easily understands the secret message in the video. Despite that, Gibby could have been pretending to not understand in iWin a Date, possibly hinting he wanted to date Carly, but didn't want her to know that. (see: Cibby).
 * In iSpace Out, Carly says Spencer hates tomatoes, but at the very beginning he puts a tomato on his sandwich.
 * Danielle Morrow's voice occasionally slips to her regular voice in a scene when she's excited.
 * Freddie says "Feliz Navidad" to Nora but that means "Merry (or Happy) Christmas," not "Happy Birthday". The term he is looking for is "Feliz Cumpleanos".
 * When Gibby and Guppy travel to Nora's home, the audience is shown an exterior shot of a private house that is implied to be hers. However, when the boys walk up to Nora's door, the porch they are on is clearly not the one in the exterior shot.
 * After breaking down Nora's door (and showing barely a scratch, and no apparent pain, for it), Gibby engages in a vicious battle with Nora. The two perform a number of technical fighting maneuvers, repeatedly throw each other onto the floor and against the walls, use a fireplace poker with intent to kill, smash and often completely destroy various objects and furniture (including a table and a set of shelves), and fall down a flight of stairs at top speed. By the end, both Gibby and Nora should have been showing serious, visible injuries, but Gibby barely needs a Band-Aid and Nora seems completely unharmed.

Gallery
View the gallery for this episode HERE.

Quotes
Carly: [to Spencer] It's not nice to kill things!

Spencer: [to Carly]Oh yeah, I guess you're right.

Spencer: [to fly] I'm gonna kill you so hard.



Freddie: Guess what's in this box?

Sam: Donuts.

Freddie: No.

Sam: Muffins.

Freddie: No.

Sam: Corndogs.

Freddie: No.

Sam: Chocolates.

Freddie: No, it's not food!

Sam: Then who cares?

Carly: What's in the box?

Freddie: Oh, just some photos...

Sam: Of donuts?!

Freddie: No!!!

Carly: That girl has a sad life!

Sam: So does Freddie! We can´t fix the world!

Nora(in v-mail):There's gonna be games

Sam: Gross!

Nora: ...and karae-o-kay!

Sam: Lame!

Nora: ...and a clown!

Sam: Oi!

Nora: .and a big chocolate fountain!

Sam :I say we go!

Freddie: Hey, look. I've typed a complete itinerary for our whole trip.

Carly: You're so your mother.

Freddie: Don't be vicious!

Spencer: Do girls have bladders?

Carly: No..we store pee in our feet.

Spencer: Don't joke about urine!

Carly: Sorry.

Nora: Here's a tasty tape...

Freddie: Tape?

Nora: We all rock. Together!

Carly : We did not sleep well!

Nora : Why not?

Carly : Because I had a nightmare that a psycho monster locked me in a cage and wouldn't let me leave!

Nora : [Smiles reassuringly] Well, that monster won't bother you anymore! You're safely trapped in my sound booth!

Carly : [To Freddie] How could she not get my metaphor?

Freddie: You've been gnawing on that duck bone for ten minutes.

Sam: You're a duck bone!

Nora : Sing with me! ''One hundred cartons of milk on the wall, one hundred cartons of milk! Take one down, open the spout, drinkity-drink 'til the milk runs out!'' Sing it!

[Gibby goes to the bathroom after Guppy is dropped off]

Spencer: [having not seen Guppy enter] Gibby, who was at the door? [he sees Guppy] AND WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU?!

Gibby: Check it out. A Happy Birthday message from Carly, Sam, and Freddie! Nice. (thinks for a moment) Wait...it's not my birthday.

Carly, Sam, and Freddie: (on video) Happy Birthday, Gibby!

Guppy: Happy Birthday!!

[Nora is playing a word game with Carly, Sam and Freddie]

Nora: OK Sam, your turn, gimme a noun.

Sam: Blood...

Nora: Okay, now Freddie, you supply an adjective.

Freddie: Psychotic...

Nora: Ooh, good one. and Carly, a verb.

Carly: Choke...

Nora: Well, you've already used choke three times ..... but OK!!

Carly : Maybe we shouldn't have called the cops on Nora.

''[Sam and Freddie stare at Carly incredulously]  Sam : She kidnapped us! '' Carly : Yeah, but she just wanted friends. And she bought us Chinese food.

Sam : She'll have plenty of friends in prison.

Carly : Well, yeah, but those aren't quality friends.

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