User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Are Carly and Spencer *Too* Happy????/@comment-3122172-20110712203601

I'd try and relax and stop over-thinking this if I were you (yes you are over-thinking it!). Some people just have naturally "Cheerful and fun-loving' personalities no matter what. It's called being an optimist. I know a lot of optimistic people and they behave just as Carly and Spencer do, it gets quite annoying. I know a middle aged woman who is very optimistic. She's poor, divorced, and her teenaged son has been kicked out of more schools than I could count, he's been arrested more than once, and she's now had to pay more than she can afford to send him off to military school for discipline.

She's the most annoyingly happy, cheerful person on the planet despite all she goes through. Also where's the proof that there's any hurt behind the story of Carly and Spencer's mother? She could be alive and well. Maybe she has a nice, healthy friendship with their dad. 'Happily divorced', as they call it.

Just because Carly and Spencer's parents aren't always mentioned doesn't mean that there's anything going on with them that would make Carly and Spencer feel upset. Obviously they're quite fine. They live comfortably in a nice apartment, Carly attends school and has good friends, Spencer enjoys his job as an artist.

Don't you see you're creating this problem in your mind that something has to be wrong just because their parents aren't frequently talked about?

Being someone who reads a lot and also watches lots of different genres of movies, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. It really doesn't bother me. It would, perhaps, bother me more if it were implied that something bad had happened to their mom (Like Sam's dad in iPWV, that bothered me...). But things seem perfectly in order without her.

I have many friends who don't have parents or have only one parent and they are perfectly happy, healthy kids. You survive without them. You don't have to be particularly gloomy or aggressive.

Really Cartoonprincess it comes down to your personality in the end. Personality and maturity.

If you're the brooding, aggressive type and you'd lost a parent, then maybe you would behave in the way you described (Sam). If you're a naturally happy, optimistic person, (Carly) you could probably handle the situation more maturely.

As for their father being in the navy, it does take a toll on your life, but it depends on how you take it. I have tons of friends who have military families. Some worry about it all the time, some simply pray and move on with life. Some (this really does happen! Not kidding) don't even care that their relative is risking their life fighting in a foreign country.

Lastly, iCarly is a comedy show. Sure Dan's proved himself a more 'mature comedy' kind of guy. He writes in sexual humor and sometimes dark humor and somehow magically gets away with it. But all the same when it comes down to it, iCarly is a kid's show.

Imagine if the main character was depressed and gloomy all the time, constantly voicing her worries over her father. I'm sorry, but no matter how realistic that would be, I wouldn't get the same joy I get when watching the show with a nice, happy Carly.

The show is directed at children. Dan gives us enough adult themes in the show for kids and adults alike to enjoy it. But really... Carly and Spencer just couldn't behave as if they were distressed all the time. Comedy show on Nickelodeon, not dark depressing soap opera on ABC. So even if (BIG 'If'') that was the situation and Carly and Spencer's parents had a dark history, of course it couldn't be registered through Carly and Spencer's attitudes on the show. It just wouldn't work.