User blog comment:Lotstar/Is iCarly Being Dragged On For Too Long?/@comment-3250643-20120515032855/@comment-3209350-20120515091559

There's one difference between Spongebob and iCarly. In SpongeBob the characters never matures. A bigger example would be the Simpsons and Pokémon. In real live shows like iCarly, growing up is inevitable especially when you work with teenagers.