Talk:ITwins/@comment-3419321-20110312062318/@comment-3276102-20110312212656

It's just too bad that Carly and Sam didn't seem to learn anything from this experience.

Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, since I've heard that Dan Schneider sitcoms are notorious for having broken morals. His shows seem to appeal to kids who don't like being "preached" to.

But to me, this isn't so much a moral lesson as a basic reality of life : If you lie, then people will stop trusting you. That's just how it is.

It always irked me that so many people seem to believe that Freddie was the one at fault here, that he was just being stubborn and unreasonable by refusing to believe what the girls were telling him. And it's not just the fictional characters (Carly and Sam) who seem to think this, but also real people - the creators of this episode, and a large part of the audience as well.

It's like inverting the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf to make the villagers out to be the bad guys, since the boy was telling them the truth and they refused to believe him. Never mind that it was because he had lied to them too many times before.

Sigh.