User blog comment:IEmbargo/iCarly - What Do You Think?/@comment-24341760-20140319151609

If Dan Schneider really wanted to make sure that you interpreted the Creddie kiss as a mere goodbye kiss, he would have made sure it got into the broadcast. The episode is rather padded; it would have been easy enough to edit a few seconds out of another scene to make that clear. Even if it weren't, he could edit something too long and then time compress it by 1% so that no one would notice. But he didn't.

See, I could say the same: if Dan Schneider really wanted to make sure that you interpreted the Creddie kiss as romantic, he would have made sure THAT got into the broadcast. But he didn't. Me hen you've just realized you're in love with your long-standing best friend, the thing you say is not "I'll go get my bags," and the thing he says is NOT "I'll help you with those bags." It's just not.

So that's a wash. Hence, my general assertion that the igoodbye kiss, while it LOOKED romantic, was not an actual Creddie romantic ending. The whole thing was ambiguous and contradictory. Also- you have to remember Dan DID include the phone conversation. Under the established conventions of television writing, that scene would not have been written except to convey that both of them were thinking about getting back together provided the other was interested. This is a case of the writers wanting to throw a bone to both ships, nothing more.

I do not seem as you do, Creddie nudges in every episode toward the end of the series. Since I don't see them, I will just address the three you mentioned. First: Carly did not see Sam and Freddie while while she was talking to the babysitter. The camera included them in the shot, because it wanted to show that they were taking Carly's words to heart, and that the words might apply to them. (Though whether WE, THE AUDIENCE, are meant to believe her advice applies to them is not clear to me as it is to you. I took it to mean only that Sam and Freddie believe it.  Maybe the show wanted us to believe it, maybe it didn't.  I don't believe the advice applies to Sam and Freddie at all.  Their relationship is in no way analogous to that of Spencer and the babysitter, who are clearly not actually having a boyfriend -girlfriend relationship.  Sam and Freddie are- that is in fact the source of most of their problems). Second: I agree with Starshine- Sam CAN, AND DOES comfort Freddie in iballs. That's the express purpose of the scene: after talking with Sam, Freddie figures out what to do. Sure, she does it awkwardly, leading him to come up with the answer himself, but that's just their dynamic. She's trying to comfort him- she wouldn't spend so long talking to him otherwise. She admits it's the type of advice he would get from "someone who cares." You could argue that she's being sarcastic, implying she doesn't care, but that's who she is. This is not to be taken literally, it's a joke. He is actually helped by their conversation, and she does care. Third: Carly may agree Ms. Benson is crazy, but she most certainly does NOT have sympathy for Freddie in iget banned. She is dating another guy. She doesn't particularly care when she's told Freddie is in a band (contrast to Sam, who is completely pissed, both that he's formed a band and that girls are responding). She doesn't really chastise Sam for setting up a gig which can only result in embarassment for Freddie (contrast to ikiss, when she lectured Sam for hurting him). When Freddie gets knocked out, she doesn't get up to help him at all. Sam does. (Contrast to earlier, when Carly's date got knocked out, and she rushed to him and checked his pulse, THE SAME GESTURE SAM LATER USES ON FREDDIE). The pulse-checking is an intentional parallel used for comic effect- when the guy you care about is on the floor, you check his pulse. It's a running gag in the episode and a callback to earlier in the series - in igetpranky, when Sam used the shock pen on Freddie, it is Carly who says "I'll check his pulse." So her failure to do so in Igetbanned is a notable instance of a lack of care for Freddie.

I appreciate your concern for young kids, but a show where people treated each other perfectly nicely, never had any conflict, and got together with their crushes without any obstacles, would not be interesting to watch. Drama needs conflict. Perhaps you believe this show is not appropriate for children, as they are simply not able to understand that it is unrealistic. I am inclined to agree with you. I grew up in the days when kids' shows had to have a moral or lesson at the end. They still managed to be interesting, with some conflict, though not of the romantic variety usually. But that's not Dan Schneider's thing, he likes more sophisticated comic themes.