User blog comment:SeddieWarrior/Favorite Seddie Moments/@comment-3276102-20110311020824

I'd like to tell you a little story :

Several years ago, I was doing a documentary film project at an amusement park in upstate New York. It was, admittedly, something of a "fluff" piece - I was profiling a group of singer/dancers who were performing in the park during the summer.

One of the performers was a girl I'll call "Holly" (not her real name). I interviewed her for the film on two separate days, and I was always struck by a marked difference in her behavior during the two portions of the interview.

One day, I was talking to her in a picnic table area near the stage, with her castmates and several other people around, and she was really putting on a show - playing to the camera, cracking jokes (including some rather risque humor that made her castmates wince), flirting with just about everybody around her ... I don't think she gave a single completely serious answer to any question I asked her.

The other time, however ... Holly and I were sitting, alone, in the back of the stage, and her demeanor was completely different. All of that bravado, the attitude, the risque humor, it all just sort of vanished, and now she was just talking, in a normal tone of voice, speaking seriously about whatever happened to come to her mind.

When she was alone with me, there were no jokes, she just answered the questions I asked her, and as I was listening to Holly, I felt like I was now seeing just the "pure" person. And I actually liked her much better that way, when she was just being herself.

This is what I kept thinking about when I was trying to choose my favorite Sam/Freddie moments. To me, it's not so much the obvious one ("iKiss") as the little things :

In iPromote Techfoots, Freddie complains that his Techfoots are squeaking even louder than before, and Sam says, "I know, mine are, too," and the two of them just start walking in circles around the hallway to emphasize the point.

That may sound like a strange choice, but it's one of my favorite Sam/Freddie moments simply because of what they were not doing. For one moment, they were not playing that "I hate everything about you" game, and just being themselves.

In iFix A Pop Star, Sam and Freddie were having a good time just hanging out and watching videos on the Internet together.

When they were looking through Lewbert's "deeply personal items" together in iFind Lewbert's Lost Love, when Sam was cheering for Freddie in iFence and iPie, when Freddie pulled Sam away from her smoking locker in iCook, or when Sam backed off of teasing Freddie when she saw he was really upset in iHurt Lewbert ...

My favorite times in Sam and Freddie's relationship were actually the normal ones ... Well, as much as these kids can be "normal," anyway ... When Sam and Freddie were just hanging out, being themselves, and just not playing that stupid game of theirs for a change.