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"Alright, in 10 seconds I'm gonna start breakin' heads!"
Sam in The Groovy Smoothie

iBust a Thief is the 13th episode of Season 5 and the 107th episode overall.

Plot

After an iCarly webcast, Sam notices her laptop is missing. Soon, she ransacks Carly and Spencer's apartment trying to find it, but to no avail. Freddie gets the idea to access it remotely, so Sam gets the serial number (which she writes on a marshmallow) and they activate the webcam to see an old lady in front of it. They spend the next 11 hours collecting clues to the lady's location, and when they figure out where she lives, they go over there to get the laptop back. Freddie notices the PearBook is blue and not red, like Sam's is. Carly and Freddie check the serial number, only to discover he misread the 4 as a 9. Disappointed that they are never going to find Sam's laptop, they leave. Back at the apartment, Sam gets the clam pizza she left the fridge, and when she opens the box, she finds her laptop in it and awkwardly leaves the apartment. Carly asks Sam where she is going, and Sam responds with "Nothing", and the episode ends.

Subplot

While Sam is searching for her laptop, she hits Spencer in the face with an old lunchbox. Inside, he finds many tickets for Funk E. Fester's he collected fifteen years ago to get their biggest prize, Murray the Magic Dolphin, but then misplaced. When he goes to redeem them, the clerk tells him they are outdated and they now use electronic points. However, he doesn't let Spencer play in the game room without a child.

Since Gibby is annoyed with babysitting Guppy, Spencer takes him to Funk E. Fester's so he can enter the game room. He spends the entire day playing while Guppy tries to kill time, and eventually wins enough points for the dolphin just before closing time.

Guest Stars

Trivia

  • This episode aired one day before Spencer Shay's birthday.
  • BooG!e, who portrays T-Bo, tweeted "All good things come to an end...AMAZING opportunity...AMAZING group of people...I grew up on Nickelodeon."
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  • This episode is the penultimate (second to last) episode of iCarly.
    • This is the last regular, half hour episode of iCarly to air.
  • Dan Schneider voices the announcer for Bitty Big Heads in the introduction during the web segment Hungry Sam in a silly accent.
    • The extended version of the Bitty Big Heads cartoon can be seen on iCarly.com.
  • This episode aired on Drake and Josh star Josh Peck's 26th birthday.
  • Mrs. Benson's voice was heard this episode, but she never appeared in person.
  • The Vegetarian Spaghetti Taco was the winning recipe for the Bird's Eye campaign.[5]
  • When they show the Vegetarian Spaghetti Taco winner on the screen, the "mmmmm" that is heard is the same soundbite that appears at the end of every episode with the Schneider's Bakery logo.
  • Bloopers reveal that they had to do at least two takes of the scene where Gloria bashes Gibby with a lamp [6]

Allusions

  • Bitty Big Heads is similar to South Park. This is most likely because Dan Schneider is a big fan of South Park. Also, when Sam hands Freddie the marshmallow, she says "hyah" like Eric Cartman.
  • The book that Guppy is seen reading in Funk E. Fester's, Nifty Shades of Beige, is a parody of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Judging by Guppy's reaction after reading a page of the book, it probably has similar content.
  • There was a Hungry Girl ad on the website Freddie used to find Sam's laptop.
  • Funk E. Fester's is a parody of Chuck E. Cheese.
  • The Bug Bludgeon game is a Whack-A-Mole edition of the real-life arcade game, Spider Stompin'.

Character Revelations

  • Throughout 4th and 5th grade, Spencer used a Spud Monkey lunch box.
  • When Spencer was a child, he enjoyed going to Funk E. Fester's because he liked the pizza and wiener nuggets.
  • Sam's laptop's serial number is 71281624297-A.
  • Sam writes her 4s and 9s similarly.

Goofs

  • Spencer was thirty when this episode took place and he mentioned he won those Funk E. Fester's tickets when was ten. Yet Todd said those tickets are fifteen years old, which would not add up to Spencer's actual age. However, they may have still been using the tickets for five years after he won them.
  • Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Gibby were spying on Gloria at nighttime. Spencer and Guppy leave Funk E. Fester's when it closes at 10pm. In the following scene, the gang shows up at Gloria's apartment, but in the outside shot, it is daytime.
  • Gloria asks Sam if she wants her kidney back and grasps her abdomen in front on her left side - but kidneys are not located in front in the abdomen, they are located about half-way up a person's back.
  • Sam implies that she is Jewish after mentioning that she got her laptop from her Bat Mitzvah. However, in iSam's Mom, she tells the family therapist that she and her mom are not Jewish.
    • However, due to her telling Freddie not to inform her grandma about it could imply that she scammed her grandma.
  • Freddie misreading Sam's laptop serial number is technically his fault, since he read the 4 as a 9.
  • If Sam's laptop was in the freezer for more than 3 days, it would have been damaged.
  • On June 1, 2020, the TeenNick airing episode of this started after the commercial break when they are at the Groovy Smoothie. So, the episode was only about 17 minutes, excluding the intro web show and theme song.

Running Gags

To be added

Series Continuity

Quotes

Sam: [looking through her backpack] Where's my laptop?
Carly: I don't know.
Freddie: Did you sell it and use the money to buy meat?
Sam: [Worried] I'm not kidding around, my laptop's gone!


Sam: That laptop's the only nice thing I've got! It was a Bat Mitzvah gift from my grandmother.
Freddie: You're not even Jewish.
Sam: [grabs Freddie by the collar, pulls his face up to hers so their noses touch] You tell my grandma that and I will break you.
Freddie: [nervously] Shalom!


Carly: [watching Sam rummage through drawers and such] I know you wanna find your laptop, but you're kinda destroying my home.
Sam: I'll clean all this up!
Carly: [to Freddie] Now, you see, I know that's not true.


Sam: [throws a lunch box behind her, hitting Spencer in the face]
Spencer: [falls on the floor, groaning] Oh my god.


[A loud crash is heard as Sam breaks down Freddie's door]
Mrs. Benson: What the yuck?!


Freddie: Did you tear my apartment to pieces?!
Sam: Yes, and your mother!
Freddie: WHAT?!


Todd: No adults allowed in the game room without a kid.
Spencer: I don't have a kid. I'm not even dating anyone.
Todd: No surprise there.


Carly: Sam doesn't have files, she has piles.


[Sam hands Freddie a marshmallow]
Freddie: [looking at Sam strangely, grabbing the marshmallow] You wrote your laptop's serial number down on a marshmallow?
Sam: [defensively] I didn't have paper.


Guppy: Happy birthday!
Gibby: It's no one's birthday.
Guppy: You're such a downer!
Spencer: Yeah!


Todd: Who is that kid?
Spencer: My little sister's weird friend's weirder little brother.
Guppy: Like you're normal?
Spencer: Hey!


Guppy: [To Spencer] I gotta pee!
Spencer: You can pee in the ballpit.
Guppy: YES!


Sam: [breaking down a door] I've come to take back what's mine!
Gloria: [placing her hand on her stomach] Are you my kidney donor?


Carly: [To Sam] Hey, where you going?
Sam: [after finding her Pearbook in the pizza box, walking out the back door] Nothing ...


Reception

  • This episode premiered to 3.374 million viewers.[2]

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References

ved iCarly episodes
Season One
iPilotiWant More ViewersiDream of DanceiLike JakeiWanna Stay With SpenceriNeveliScream On HalloweeniSpy a Mean TeacheriWill Date FreddieiWant a World RecordiRue The DayiPromise Not to TelliAm Your Biggest FaniHeart ArtiHate Sam's BoyfriendiHatch ChicksiDon't Want to FightiPromote TechfootsiGot DetentioniStakeoutiMight Switch SchoolsiFenceiCarly Saves TViWin a DateiHave a Lovesick Teacher
Season Two
iSaw Him FirstiStage An InterventioniOwe YouiHurt LewbertiGo To JapaniPieiChristmasiKissiGive Away a CariRocked the VoteiMeet FrediLook AlikeiWant My Website BackiMake Sam GirlieriGo NucleariDate A Bad BoyiReunite With MissyiTake on DingoiMust Have Locker 239iTwinsiFight Shelby Marx
Season Three
iThink They KissediCookiSpeed DateiCarly AwardsiHave My PrincipalsiFind Lewbert's Lost LoveiMove OutiQuit iCarlyiSaved Your LifeiWas A Pageant GirliEnrage GibbyiSpace OutiFix a Pop StariBloopiWon't Cancel The ShowiBelieve In BigfootiPsychoiBeat the Heat
Season Four
iGot A Hot RoomiSam's MomiGet PrankyiSell Penny-TeesiDoiStart a FanwariHire An IdiotiPity The NeveliOMGiParty with VictoriousiLost My MindiDate Sam & FreddieiCan't Take ItiLove YouiQiBloop 2 - Electric BloopalooiStill PsychoiBallsiMeet The First LadyiToe Fat Cakes
Season Five
iApril FoolsiGo One DirectioniOpen A RestaurantiHalfoweeniPear StoreiBattle ChipiShock AmericaiGet BannediFind Spencer FriendsiRescue CarlyiLost My Head in VegasiBust a ThiefiGoodbye
Films & Specials
iGo To JapaniDate a Bad BoyiFight Shelby MarxiQuit iCarlyiPsychoiStart a FanwariParty with VictoriousiStill PsychoiShock AmericaiGoodbye
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