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"Carly, you're seriously gonna fight Shelby Marx?" |
iFight Shelby Marx is the 24th-25th episodes of iCarly and the 49th and 50th episode overall. It is the season finale of Season 2.
This episode won an honorable mention for Best Long Episode at the iCarly Wiki Awards!
Plot
After seeing MMA-fighter Shelby Marx win the female CFC-title as the youngest person ever, Carly jokingly challenges her to a fight on "iCarly." However, the paparazzi twists the fake-challenge to make it seem like Carly really is challenging Shelby. Much to Carly's horror, Shelby shows up at the apartment, saying she's ready to fight. Carly ends up running away from her knowing that she is going to get beat up. Shelby assures her that she's not angry nor offended by Carly's challenge, and simply wants to hold an exhibition match with her for publicity and charity for both of them. Although Carly is deeply worried about it, she agrees when Shelby and Sam assure her that she won't get hurt.
At a press conference before the fight, Sam starts a riot by trash-talking Shelby, and Carly is pushed onto Shelby's ailing grandmother. Shelby, thinking that Carly has purposely attacked her, is furious and wants to seriously hurt Carly. Carly cancels the fight out of fear, but afterwards, she is ridiculed by her classmates and Nevel. She manages to calm Shelby down and explain what happened with her grandmother was purely accidental they agree to the exhibition fight again.
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Nevel, seeing a chance to cause trouble for iCarly again, manipulates a video of the press conference to make it seem like Carly and Sam planned to push down Shelby's grandmother. Shelby is furious again and attacks Carly for real during the fight. Carly manages to get over the scheduled three-minute round by holding onto Shelby's leg and flees as soon as the door to the cage is opened.
When Shelby finds and confronts Carly, Shelby tells her about the kid who showed her the video of the press conference and the iCarly team comes to the conclusion that it is Nevel, tricking her into believing that Carly did mean to attack her grandmother. After Freddie and Gibby find him, they pull him into the ring, where the girls, Carly, Sam, and Shelby, beat him up (off-screen).
In the end, Shelby appears on an iCarly webcast to do a spontaneous spit take.
Subplot
Spencer decides to take experimental allergy pills that have numerous side effects such as itching, sweating, constant thirst, short term memory loss, and muscle spasms. His spasms make him whip spaghetti around, hit Gibby's popcorn bucket, and accidentally smack Shelby which makes her hit him back.
Guest Stars
- Victoria Justice as Shelby Marx
- Mary Ann Springer as Wendy
- Noah Munck as Gibby Gibson
- Reed Alexander as Nevel Papperman
- Sean Smith as Dr. Dresdin
- Julien Cesario as Juan
Trivia
This is Victoria Justice ALREADY on the show as Shelby.
- In the first scene, Spencer walks in and says, "Hola, muchachas y muchacho" (which is Spanish for "Hello, girls and boy"), and all three of the kids say "Hello" back. Later, in the editing bay, Dan Schneider noticed that Sam said something else in addition, which he couldn't quite make out. He played the tape for Jennette McCurdy, who thinks she said "Heyyy, skillet-biscuit." On his blog, Schneider said, "I don't know why she said that, and, surprisingly, neither does Jennette." Interestingly, the episode's Netflix transcript lists the line as "Oh, Limp Bizkit".
- Victoria Justice, who portrays Shelby Marx, also played Lola in Zoey 101 and would later star in Victorious, a Nickelodeon show created by Dan Schneider where she plays the role of Tori Vega.
- Fred appears in the crowd during the fight.
- This episode marks the final on-screen appearance of Wendy.
- When Spencer brought Carly downstairs (carrying her over his shoulder) to see Shelby, the girl Jerry Trainor was carrying was actually a stunt double, not Miranda Cosgrove. Because Jerry's body was covered in lotion (and therefore slippery), it was judged too dangerous for him to carry Miranda down the wooden stairs over his shoulder. The footage of Jerry carrying the stunt double was later cut together with a shot of Jerry setting Miranda down on the floor in the living room.
- If you listen closely to the crowd in the scene where Shelby punches Carly, you can hear someone shouting "You're a great puncher, Victoria!"
- This was the second episode, following iKiss, to hit #1 on iTunes.
- There are several known deleted scenes from this episode:
- Shelby bodyslams Carly.
- Carly tries to hide behind the referee during the fight.
- Freddie describes how he made his raisin-bread toast. This scene is shown in IBloop.
- This and Season 5 are the only seasons that conclude with a one-hour finale.
- Although this episode is the Season 2 finale, the title sequence for Season 3 is used in the two-part version of this episode.
Allusions
- The CFC is a parody of the real-life mixed martial arts organization UFC.
- CFC sponsor Pink Bull is a parody of the real-life energy drink Red Bull.
- The names of the news anchors, Jack Schneider and Marvin Lillien, are a reference to iCarly creator Dan Schneider and his wife, Lisa Lillien.
Character Revelations
- Sam's cat Frothy only has three legs.
- The Shays' pay-per-view password is 1234.
Goofs
- The amount of popcorn in the bowl Carly is using at the start changes in each shot.
- Despite the fact that Shelby Marx is one of the strongest fighters, she does not have any visible muscle that a real fighter would have.
- If you look closely when Carly was falling on Shelby's grandmother, Shelby was actually the one who pushed her so she could not have blamed Carly.
- When Nevel is making the fake video in his hideout, Carly and Sam's mouths don't move when they say "Push her grandmother down" and "I'll do it!", but when he shows it to Shelby, Carly and Sam's motions are perfectly synched with the voice clips.
- When Nevel is making the fake video in his hideout, we see a straight-on camera shot that includes Freddie's full torso, whereas when he shows the video to Shelby we see an angled camera shot that only includes part of Freddie.
- After Shelby hits Carly, Carly takes out her mouth guard. When the referee admonishes her that she can't call a time-out, she has it in again. Likewise, when she starts talking to Spencer, Sam and Freddie, her mouth guard is out again.
- When Shelby describes Nevel, she says that Nevel is "[about] their age." However, Nevel is actually 2 years younger than the iCarly trio and Shelby.
- The edited video of Carly calling out Shelby on SplashFace does not have the same playback as the webcast, as Carly and Sam's gestures are different and it is filmed at the front of the studio instead of diagonally right.
- When Carly is punched, she has an orange mouthpiece in her mouth. It disappears, then reappears.
- It is said in this episode that Shelby is a CFC champion at age 15. In the UFC, the real organization that the CFC is based on, competitors must be at least 21 years old to compete. They also cannot be older than 34 years old, so therefore, Shelby would be stripped of her title.
Running Gags
- Spencer suffering various side effects from his medication.
Series Continuity
- Victoria Justice appears as herself later on in the actual iCarly website videos. In the videos, Freddie often comments that she looks like Shelby Marx, to which she replies "Yeah, I get that a lot."
- She also appears in a future iCarly episode iParty with Victorious, as Tori Vega. Sam mentions Tori looks like Shelby.
- Although Wendy does not appear on screen again after this episode, she is mentioned in iLove You and iToe Fat Cakes.
- CFC would later appear in Sam and Cat.
- This is the first time we actually see Sam at her house.
- In this episode, Nevel says that he is afraid of Sam, but in iRue the Day, he said Sam doesn't scare him. This is mainly because Sam couldn't harm him as he was on the internet and not directly in front of her.
- This is the first time we hear Freddie say 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 when the audience is counting down the last seconds of the round.
- Nevel would not appear again until season 4 episode iPity The Nevel.
Quotes
Carly: Has everyone heard about this girl but me? |
[everyone is watching the Shelby Marx fight on TV] |
Spencer: That's Pay-Per-View! |
Freddie: [reading the comments on SplashFace] "That Carly chick is out of her mind. Bring on the fight. Shelby would destroy that twig." |
Shelby: Carly, Hi. I'm Shelby Marx. I saw your video about me. |
Freddie: [to Shelby] I made you some raisin bread toast. |
Wendy: Carly, you're seriously gonna fight Shelby Marx? |
Carly: I'm gonna fix this. |
Shelby: Let go of my leg! |
Shelby: Will someone pry this girl off my leg so I can punch her?! |
Sam: You were awesome! You didn't throw one punch or kick, and you looked like a total spaz out there, but you lasted a whole round with a top-notch professional fighter. Way to be, kid! |
Carly: Nevel's head is kinda round. |
Nevel: I'm not scared of you, Freddie Benson! |
[A spotlight reveals Shelby] |
Gallery
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References
- ↑ iCarly, Burn Notice, The Closer, Royal Pains, WWE RAW and Monk top week's cable shows TVbythenumbers.com (Aug. 11, 2009)