iGot Detention

"Detention!" — Mr. Howard to Carly.

iGot Detention
Season 1, Episode 19
First Aired	March 22, 2008
Production Code	116
Writer(s)	Andrew Hill Newman
Director(s)	Roger Christiansen
Viewership	3.659 million
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iGot Detention is the nineteenth episode of the first season of iCarly.

Plot

The iCarly team plans to make a special 50th webcast, they got all over Ridgeway Junior High School, but when Sam gets detention from Mr. Howard on the same day they planned it, they have to find a way to do it anyway. Carly and Freddie get the idea to do the webcast from the detention room-- and attempt to get detention themselves. Initially their attempts to get detention fail when Freddie attempts to steal a stapler, Carly loosens the bolts of a chair with a ratchet, and they possibly did other attempts not shown. Carly then attempts to pull a fire alarm, and coincidentally, a microwave catches on fire. Sam is blessed that she got out of doing a report on Scarlotte Web. However, Carly finally gets detention after slamming a locker door in frustration too loud and getting caught by Mr. Howard, but Freddie still fails to get a detention. After Sam explains that you can't be in the room unless you have detention but adds that whenever Mr. Howard's the detention advisor he's almost never in the room because he's usually in the teachers' lounge watching the geometry channel, Freddie gets the idea to hide in a closet in the room so they can still film the show.

When detention starts and Mr. Howard leaves the room, Carly and Sam explain their situation to the other students, and that they've got plans for what the should do if Mr. Howard comes back: they have a student named Claire be the lookout, say "dippity-do" if he comes, and another student wear a hat with a hidden camera in it so they can still film when Mr. Howard's in the room, and the iCarly trio also has their friend Wesley ready to distract him in the case of an emergency. He would beatbox loudly in the main hallway. The show goes well but Mr. Howard comes back in the room constantly due to hearing noises from the teacher's lounge. At one point he sees their hangman game of "Mr. Howard Eats Pants." he then takes the time to insult Principal Franklin and decides to stay put, until the distraction from Wesley is activated.

SPECTACULAR!

Unfortunately, the iCarly trio and the others are ultimately caught. When Mr. Howard is yelling at them, Principal Franklin appears, who reveals that he and his family (his daughters in particular) are fans of iCarly, and explains that he heard Mr. Howard call him a "weak, spineless fool" during the webcast. Principal Franklin sends Mr. Howard to his office, releases the students from detention, and joins Carly and Sam in closing the webcast.

Subplot

Freddie, Spencer, Sam and Carly swimming in a cup of Skybucks coffee

Spencer gathers up a bunch of golf balls that he got from a local golf course and sells them to get art supplies, which he uses to build a 10'2" coffee cup filled with 500-gallons of decaf coffee. He eventually starts swimming around in the coffee, mostly to try and look for his cellphone, which he accidentally dropped into the coffee. At the very end of the episode, Carly, Sam, and Freddie join him, and they all have fun swimming in the coffee.

Guest Stars

• David St. James as Mr. Howard
• Tim Russ as Principal Ted Franklin
• Noah Munck as Gibby Gibson
• Erica Beck as Claire
• Christopher David as Rip-Off Rodney
• Randall Park as Mr. Paladino
• Missy Doty as Mrs. Rosenthal
• Tyler Foden as JD Fallon
• Colin Spensor as Wesley

Trivia

• Assuming that the iCarly trio does only one webcast per week, this episode takes place nearly one full year after the events of iPilot.
• Unlike any other iCarly episode, the American TV closed captions for this episode has the speaker's name followed by "SOT" (Sound On Tape?) before their dialogue. Example:
  • Freddie SOT: [unconvincingly] Ca-caw!
  • Carly SOT: Do it like a bird!
  • Freddie SOT: [more like a bird] CA-CAW!!
• Kevin West, who played Mr. Angst on Phil of the Future, guest stars as the unnamed teacher who brings out the burning microwave from the teacher's lounge.
• This episode features Spencer’s smallest role in the series, with him appearing only three times.
• Below is a list of things Carly and Freddie tried to do to get detention, with successful attempts marked in bold and reasons for failed attempts in italics:
  • Freddie: Stole a stapler from his teacher’s desk. (The teacher was unfazed, simply reclaimed it with a “thank you” and moved on.)
  • Carly: Sabotaged a chair to make her teacher fall. (The teacher used the incident as an excuse to take a two-month paid vacation.)
  • Freddie: Wrote “FREDDIE SAYS PRINCIPAL FRANKLIN SUCKS EGGS” on a window outside Principal Franklin’s office. (The janitor cleaned it off before Principal Franklin ever saw it.)
  • Carly: Set off a fire alarm by throwing a banana at it. (A coincidental fire in the teacher’s lounge made the alarm seem legitimate.)
  • Carly: Slammed a locker. (Mr. Howard overheard the noise and gave her detention.)
  • Freddie: Threw Principal Franklin’s PearPhone on the floor. (Principal Franklin assumed Freddie knew the PearPhone was indestructible.)

• This episode marks the only time Freddie is seen shirtless.
• Although PearPhones may have appeared in previous episodes, this episode marks the first direct reference to them in the series.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Mr. Howard.

Allusions

• The coffee cup Spencer builds is labeled Skybucks, a parody of Starbucks, the famous coffee company that originated in Seattle, where iCarly is set.
• The scented markers Carly takes from Freddie's locker parody Mr. Sketch scented markers.
• Pear Phones parody the iPhone.
• The line “dippity-do” references the song “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” from the Disney film Song of the South.
• Sam mentions a book called "Scarlett's Web," a parody of Charlotte's Web.
• Crusty Cream is a parody of Krispy Kreme.
• Mr. Howard mentioned The Geometry Channel, likely a parody of the National Geographic channel.
• The story is loosely based on The Breakfast Club, a film that Schneider’s Bakery later paid homage to in Victorious.

Character Revelations

To be added

Goofs

• Freddie installs a surveillance system, including a camera, in order to determine who has been breaking into his locker and stealing things (e.g. his fruit-scented markers). This is illogical, because anyone breaking into his locker in the future would most likely steal the camera.
• When Carly throws her banana to activate the fire alarm it lands some distance away, but after the teacher comes out of the teachers' lounge and tells her the microwave oven has burst into flames the banana has moved across the floor and is lying at the teacher's feet. A sandwich can also be seen in the same shots.
• Freddie hides his camera and computer equipment in the closet, then uses a ladder to climb up to enter the window - this doesn't make much sense because he could simply have hidden in the closet along with his equipment beforehand.
• Mr. Howard should not be in charge of detention if he prefers to watch TV on the Geometry Channel instead of watching the students in the detention room.
• During the web show, Sam always pushes the same button on her remote, but it has a different effect every time she does (this includes the time Principal Franklin pressed the button).
• Wesley's spoon disappears when he throws a water balloon at Mr. Howard.
• When Wesley throws a water balloon at Mr. Howard, it hits the right side of his jacket only. Yet when he goes to the detention room to find the kids doing iCarly, the entire front of the jacket is wet.
• When Mr. Howard gets hit with the water balloon, he has a dark mark on his jacket, but when he goes to the classroom, the mark has faded. Realistically, his jacket would still be darker due to the water in the short trip it takes to get to the classroom.
• Principal Franklin says that Mr. Howard called him a "weak, spineless fool," but Mr. Howard never said the word fool. He only said Principal Franklin was weak and spineless. This must’ve been a script error.
• When Carly slammed her locker and got detention, she said that there were three more minutes left in school. However, the bell rings thirty seconds after this.
• Doing an iCarly webcast would have caused noise disruption so Carly would have had to turn the sound off.
• Carly, Sam and Freddie shouldn't have gone home between regular school and detention. While Sam's offense would've warranted a Saturday detention, this definitely would have been the case with Carly.
• One of the times Freddie came out of the closet, on the screen of his laptop, the section where the 'iCarly' plays it said ICARLY, instead of showing what was happening on the cap cam.

Running Gags

• Carly and Freddie trying to get detention.
• The kids having to go back and forth between filming and pausing the web show.

Series Continuity

• This marks the second and last appearance of Rip-Off Rodney until iReunited and It Felt OK, a Season 3 episode of the revival series.

Quotes

Mr Howard: [muffled, to Principal Franklin about Sam] Thish girl ish a menashe! I want her eshpelled! Principal Franklin: What? Mr Howard: I want her eshpelled! Principal Franklin: What? Sam: He wants me expelled. Principal Franklin: Mr. Howard come on, I know it was wrong of Sam to throw a football in the hallway. Mr Howard: She almosht killed me!! Sam: (sarcastically) Yeah, almost.

Mr. Howard: [muffled] I want something done about this. Principal Franklin: I understand, sort of. (to Sam) Sam, you did break the rules, so I'm going to give you detention with Mr. Howard tomorrow night. Sam: Fine I'll be there tomor...(realizes) Wait, I can't do it tomorrow night.

Woman: (over Speaker) Principal Franklin, some ninth grade boys are giving Gibby a Texas Wedgie. Principal Franklin: A Texas Wedgie? All right, meet me there with a bag of ice and a bottle of lotion.

Carly: Why'd you have to get detention tomorrow night? Freddie: Yeah, way to go, Sam. You just ruined iCarly's 50th web show spectac-- Ooh, popcorn.

Freddie: So why don't you just talk to Mr. Howard and explain it's iCarly's 50th-- Sam: Tried that, didn't work. Hey, what If we kidnap Howard them keep him tied up till after the show? Carly: Okay, what have I told you about kidnapping? Sam: It's illegal and rude. Carly: Good girl.

[Freddie and Sam sneak into the principal's office] Sam: Dude, this is the principal's office! Freddie: I know! I'm so bad. Look what I did! [pulls up the window blinds to reveal a spray-painted insult] Sam: [reading the words on the window] "Freddie says: Principal Franklin--" Sam and Freddie: "--sucks eggs!" Freddie: Ha ha! Sam: Impressive, that might get you double detention! Freddie: Yep! When Principal Franklin sees that, you better believe he's gonna-- [A man washes the paint off the window to Freddie's horror and dismay]

[Carly throws a banana at the fire alarm and hits it, causing it to go off] Mr. Stern: [Runs out of the teacher's lounge] Who pulled that fire alarm? Carly: It was me! Mr. Stern: Well, thank goodness you did. The microwave in the teacher's lounge just burst into flames! Another teacher: [Runs out of the teacher's lounge carrying a burning microwave] Out of the way!

Carly: Why is it so hard to get detention?!?!? [slams her locker shut in frustration] Mr. Howard: Who slammed that locker? Carly: Me? Mr. Howard: Detention! Carly: Really?! Mr. Howard: Tonight. Carly: Yay! Mr. Howard: Yay? Carly: [sarcastic, making face] Darn!

Claire: Carly, what's the signal for “Mr. Howard's coming”? Carly: Uh, dippidido. Claire: Dippidido! Carly: [to everybody] Everybody sit back down! Freddie: [to anybody] Quick, pull me in! Sam: [runs to the window and pushes Freddie down] Too late! Freddie: No, don't! Ahhh!

Freddie: (panting, after he fell) I fell in a shrub!

Mr. Howard: I have ears like a hawk! I distinctly heard laughter, and I hate laughter! Sam: I thought you hated your wife. Mr. Howard: Her too! Now keep your mouths shut!

Rip-Off Rodney: Please, call me "Rip-Off."

Mr. Howard: [sarcastically] Uh-huh. Everybody's so innocent! [sniffs air] Do I smell burritos? Rip-Off Rodney: [Closes his coat gently] Mr. Howard: [Turns around] I have a feeling ... [Sees the hangman game words on the board and points] Who wrote this!? Who wrote this lie!? Never in my entire life have I eaten one pair of pants! Somebody gonna confess? Or do you all want to do 200 push ups?

Mr. Howard: You are all REALLY in trouble now! I am talking suspension! I am talking expulsion! Deportation! And you can all start with 500 push ups! I don't care what Principal Franklin has to say about it. [Principal Franklin walks in behind him] Principal Franklin: You don't? Mr. Howard: [to students] No, I do--[turns around and notices Franklin; stuttering] Oh dear ... Principal Franklin!

Principal Franklin: While I was watching, I heard Mr. Howard call me a "weak, spineless fool". Mr. Howard: No, no, no no! I said, [rubbing Principal Franklin's sweater] "sweet ... stylish ... cool!" Principal Franklin: In my office. Mr. Howard: But ... I ... I ... Principal Franklin: Now. Mr. Howard: [In a muffled tone while walking away] Why does everything always happen to me ...?

Related iCarly.com Blog Posts

• Sam's blog: How to Get Detention by Sam!

Gallery

	See photos of iGot Detention here.