User blog comment:XxiOMGxx/"Are you Dan?"....No, I'm just not blind to logic and the creator's intentions/@comment-4196911-20111008175421

"If Dan had intended for Carly to be jealous of Seddie because she likes Freddie, he would have clued the audience in by now."

Yes. This is what I've been telling people for ages. But Dan specifically has Carly behave in such a way so that the LAST thing you're supposed to think is that she's jealous. The reason Dan has Carly look like she's not jealous is because she's NOT.

Hiding things from other characters is OK. Completely hiding something from the audience indefinitely so that they think the opposite is not what successful writers do.

This is the big reason why Dan had Sam react that way at the end of iSpeed Date. He specifically wants to clue in the audience that Sam likes Freddie while keeping it hidden from the other characters. The events in iSpeed Date leads directly to the events in iOMG, even though there are many episodes in between. Dan has never done anything similar with Carly. You're never clued in to the idea that she might be feeling something that the other characters aren't aware of.