"I'm sorry but I can not work with this guy, okay? It's either him or me!" |
iBuild a Team is the 6th episode of Season 2 of iCarly (2021), and the 19th episode overall. It premiered on May 6, 2022.
Synopsis[]
"Carly hires a manager to take her channel to the next level, but when the new guy butts heads with Freddie, Carly must figure out a way to make her team work. Spencer tries to please a tough food critic."
— Official Paramount+ Synopsis
Plot[]
In the cold open, Carly is having trouble coming up with new ideas for iCarly so asks suggestions from fans, after no one found her recent sketch funny so Harper suggests they drink instead.
In the iCarly studio, Carly is listening to something as Freddie, panicking, comes into see if she is okay.
Carly says Freddie wasn't responding to her calls or texts so she used a fake 911 on a text to get his attention. Freddie tells her that his mom abuses the technique as a way to get him to come to watch Kelley Riper on TV. Freddie apologises to Carly for not being around much recently as he has been focused on Pearl and the Kevin app. Carly says its okay and shows him iCarly entries that fans has sent through, including ones by Mandy Valdez, an obsessed fan from many years earlier. A video entry then shows a guy, who Carly recognises as Paul Denham, her producer from when she worked at Italian QVC years earlier. Carly says Paul was the best producer she ever worked with, which offends Freddie, before she says she means in Europe, and Freddie doesn't wanna work with someone else. Freddie then gets an alert about the Kevin app and has to leave.
In the Kevin headquarters, Carly calls out for Freddie, who is dressed as a chicken as Pearl thought it would help find a lost fox. Carly tries to get Freddie to work with Paul, but he declines as Paul comes in. Pearl takes the fox back and Carly introduces Paul to Freddie. Paul tries to come up with ideas that will make iCarly's views skyrocket, but Freddie isn't amused, especially after Paul keeps saying "It begins".
Later during a live webcast with a physic, the Kevin app is disrupting and Paul offers to shoot it with his 11-camera phone, which Freddie declines as he and Carly shoot iCarly on his equipment. However, the two fight and it causes disruption to the woman's "crystal" ball. Furious at Paul, Freddie tells Carly she has to choose between him and Paul as to who she wants as her producer.
Fed up with Paul and Freddie's fighting, Carly takes them to an escape room to try and get them to work together. Carly pretends to get scared about her claustrophobia, which Paul asks if she is okay about, which makes Freddie seem slightly jealous. In the escapee room - which is 70s themed - the walls start to close in and Paul and Freddie still can't get along. Freddie says Paul is trying to take over to get them out, just like he is with iCarly. Carly then says if they can't get along, she will do the show on her own, which she doesn't want to do. Realising Carly is right, Freddie admits he has been feeling threatened by Paul and felt that Carly would not need Freddie anymore if Paul is around. Paul apologises too and shouldn't have come between Carly and Freddie in the way he did as they have been doing iCarly for 15 years.
Carly, Freddie and Paul work together and are able to escape with minutes to spare and she says she faked the claustrophobia as she knew it was gonna happen and took a beta blocker to stop her from freaking out. However, the three of them walk into another room to find it decked out like the 80s, where they learn they still have four more decades to escape from, not just the one like they thought. This causes Carly to panic and Freddie and Paul try to calm her down while also trying to escape.
In the final scene, everyone is hanging out in Spencer's apartment, where Carly and Freddie are high on Harper's "brownies". Carly states that she loves being in the community of artists and that Paul loved all she ideas she and Freddie came up with, including the tiny physic that reviews the food before she eats it. Carly and Freddie seemingly flirt and she tells him she could never do iCarly without him. The two go upstairs and discuss other projects they can do with Paul, while Harper asks Spencer if they should check on the two. Spencer declines as he knows they will come back down for more food.
Subplot[]
Meanwhile, Spencer asks Harper for help as he learns Shay What?! is being reviewed by a food critic. Harper happily agrees as she "always wanted to be an actress". In Shay What?!, Spencer has also asked Mrs Benson and Millicent to test the food and say how good it is so the critic hears. However, the critic turns to be for art, not food so Spencer has to ask Harper to talk about the art instead and he tries to pass the restaurant up as an art intrastate instead. The critic is not too impressed as he thinks Spencer has lost the "magic touch" (setting his sculptures on fire) that makes the restaurant a pity. Spencer then manages to catch himself on fire, which the art critic sees and gives the restaurant a good review as he no longer sees it as a pity, much to Harper and Spencer's delight. Harper then takes Spencer to the hospital after seeing how much pain he is in from the fire.
Guest Stars[]
- Josh Peck as Paul Denham[1]
- Mary Scheer as Marissa Benson[1]
- Mia Serafino as Pearl Wallace[1]
- Edgar Blackmon as Shad[1]
- Nancy B. Berggren as Tiny Psychic[1]
- Noah James as Mark[1]
- Briana Barran as Astrid[1]
- Danielle Larracuente as Elaine[1]
- John Dale as Jack[1]
Trivia[]
- This episode introduces Carly's manager Paul Denham from Italy, portrayed by Josh Peck, who starred alongside Miranda Cosgrove and Jerry Trainor in Drake & Josh.
- Carly and Freddie interact properly for the first time since iObject, Lewbert!.
- The plot on logline suggests that Carly hires Paul in this episode, but the episode reveals Carly has known Paul since 2012, in Italy.
- Nathan Kress described the episode as a big one.[2]
- This is the first episode known to take place in 2022.
- Nathan Kress described directing this episode fun but scary, due to the moving objects and telling Josh Peck what to do as he was a fan of Peck's work in the past.[2]
- If you count the episode iBloop, where Drake Bell made a cameo, this episode officially marks all 3 principal Drake & Josh actors (Bell, Peck and Cosgrove) having appeared on iCarly.
- Information from live tweet:
- The scene where Harper shoves Carly into the sack took 10 takes.[3]
- Miranda wasn't sure of doing the snort at first but Nathan convinced her to do it and it made it into the episode.[4]
- Nathan described filming the episode as fun, exhausting and challenging.[5]
- Nathan found the chicken costume "disgustingly hot and itchy."[6]
- Fun fact: the pear phone did actually have 11 cameras.[7]
- Crew members had to push the walls of the escape room and the cast just kept laughing during takes as the walls got stuck.[8]
- Jerry had to prepare for the fire scene in advance as he actually did catch himself on fire.[9]
- Josh Peck pitched the scene between Paul and Freddie.[10]
- Miranda was winded from doing so many takes on the bike.[11]
- Nathan loved making Miranda have another one of Carly's panic attacks as it is one of his favourite running gags of the show.[12]
- There was another moment during the final scene where Carly and Freddie try to make it up the stairs whilst high but it was cut from the episode.[13]
- This is the first time someone is actually seen affected by drugs (in this case Carly and Freddie).
- Freddie says "Shit there's a crisis with the Kevin (app)", making it the first time the word shit is used. It is then used again in iBuckled, by Carly.
Character Revelations[]
- Harper is 29 years old, making her 1 year older than both Carly and Freddie, and makes her birth year 1993.
- Carly tells Tiny Psychic that her preferred cause of death is by poisoning.
- Carly always wanted to learn to play the flute.
- Harper always wanted to be an actress.
- Paul is from Iowa and was born 2 weeks early.
Goofs[]
- Freddie says he and Carly have been doing iCarly for 15 years, but they stopped doing it for 9 years, until 2021.
Running Gags[]
- Paul repeatedly saying "it begins", much to Freddie's annoyance.
- Freddie and Paul arguing.
Series Continuity[]
- Fourth appearance of Pearl Wallace, who only has a minor role.
- First appearance of Paul, who reappears in i'M a USA Bae.
- Second appearance of Shay What?!
- Second episode in the revival directed by Nathan Kress, after iCan Fix it Myself from season 1.
- Carly's fear of small spaces is mentioned since the original series.
- Mandy Valdez is mentioned for the first time in the revival series.
- Fourth appearance of Marissa Benson.
- Paul mentions Carly could get her own iCarly doll, which she gets in i'M a USA Bae, which also features Paul.
- This is one of several episodes that is referenced/mentioned in the episode iMake New Memories, one year later. Freddie has kept the chicken suit and he mentions meeting Paul in this episode.
Quotes[]
[referring to Shay What?!] |
[Spencer's other arm catches on fire] |
Carly: [to Freddie] Freddie, see? I could never do this show without you. |
Harper: [referring to Carly and Freddie] Maybe we should check to see if they're okay. |
Harper: I've always wanted to be an actress. |
Paul: It begins. |
Paul: If I wanted to turn this computer on, all I would have to say is "what's up, girl?" |
International Premieres[]
Platform | Premiere date | Title |
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Paramount+ UK & Ireland
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July 18, 2022[14] | iBuild a Team |
Gallery[]
See photos of iBuild a Team here.
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Ending credits
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Josh Peck Joins iCarly Season 2! Nickrewind
- ↑ Miranda's tweet #1
- ↑ Miranda tweet #2
- ↑ Nathan's tweet #1
- ↑ Nathan tweet #2
- ↑ Nathan tweet #3
- ↑ Miranda tweet #3
- ↑ Miranda tweet #4
- ↑ Nathan tweet #4
- ↑ Miranda tweet #5
- ↑ Nathan tweet #5
- ↑ Miranda tweet #6
- ↑ iCarly | Series 2 Trailer | Paramount Plus UK & Ireland