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"Life is jank! Because sometimes, certain little girls' brothers dump you for no good reason!" |
iHave a Lovesick Teacher is the 25th episode and the season finale of the first season of iCarly.
Plot
After Lauren Ackerman, a history teacher at Ridgeway, gets dumped by her boyfriend, she cries and begins to treat her students very harshly. When she calls Spencer in for a guardian-teacher conference (because Carly criticized her cruel treatment), she falls for Spencer's charm, and they start dating. After that, Ms. Ackerman becomes an extremely fun and easy-going teacher: she makes caramel apples for the entire class and invites them to go ice-skating with her and Spencer.
After only one week of dating, Ms. Ackerman gives Spencer a PearPod, and after he finds out she writes down every time she calls him, he realizes she is a total control freak who wants to know where he is 24/7, and after she freaks out on Spencer, he breaks up with her. However, Ms. Ackerman thought they just had an argument, and are still together. She comes back the next day, and brings Spencer a "panda-pig", which she made by cutting the head off of a stuffed pig, and sewing it on the body of a stuffed panda bear. Spencer breaks up with Ms. Ackerman for real, and she retaliates by ripping the panda-pig apart and throwing it at Spencer. At school, she starts treating the students even worse, especially Carly, Sam, and Freddie. This inspires Carly to come up with a plan to get rid of her for good.
They invite her to appear on the next iCarly to talk about her relationship with Spencer, and trick her into admitting that she gave him a PearPod with 500 illegally downloaded songs as a present. The iCarly fans vote for whether they think Spencer and Ms. Ackerman should make up or break up; the fans vote for them to break up. The next day, after being tipped off by the iCarly gang to watch the show, the FBI come to the school and arrest Ms. Ackerman during class for illegally downloading music. The kids consider telling Principal Franklin that Ms. Ackerman was arrested, but decide to go ice skating instead just as Ms. Ackerman had promised.
Guest Stars
Trivia
- Ashley Argota of fellow Nick sitcom True Jackson, VP, has a minor guest-starring role.
- Jessica Makinson, who played Ms. Ackerman, also appears in a True Jackson VP episode, 'Trapped in Paris'.
- Jennette McCurdy and Nathan Kress also starred in True Jackson, VP.
- This is the first episode in which a teacher is arrested.
- Shown as part of an "iCarly Double-Date Night," following the episode "iWin a Date."
- This episode was the season 1 finale.
- On Paramount+, this episode is misspelled as "iHave a Love Sick Teacher."[2]
- Miranda Cosgrove broke her left pinky finger while filming this episode.
- Suggests that Ms. Ackerman suffers from migraines, as she takes a pill for headaches and it hurts when breaks things.
- Ms. Ackerman's stuffed Panda Pig was actually made from Carly's stuffed animals. That's part of why Carly was so shocked when Spencer says, "But she wasn't ".
- In real life, copyright infringement is penalized by a fine of $750-$30,000 per work. This means that Miss Ackerman would be facing a fine of somewhere between $375,000 and $15,000,000. However, this amount is only set by statute and a court could potentially decide to fine her even more.
- The pig that Ms. Ackerman gets for Spencer looks like Arnold Ziffel from Green Acres.
Allusions
- Wahoo Punch is a parody of the Hawaiian Punch drink beverages.
Character Revelations
- Freddie has a bathtub study tray.
- When Carly was younger, Spencer would get her to stop crying by mimicking her sobs, and if that didn't work, he would tickle her.
Goofs
- In the opening sequence after Sam knocks down three bowling pins, the two remaining pins are located right at the far corners of the blue floor tile, but after the discussion concerning Miss Ackerman and Sam attempts to knock them down, both pins have moved.
- When Ms. Ackerman gives Spencer the PearPod, the box says PearPhone. Although there's a chance that Ms. Ackerman placed the PearPod on a PearPhone box, or that the packaging itself had an error.
- A sign on the whiteboard in Ms. Ackerman's classroom reads "State claims to land in the west in 1776".
- Spencer mistakenly refers to people from Thailand as "Thailamanians". They are actually called "Thai".
- Despite being a major plot device, merely downloading copyrighted music for free is not actually a crime. Rather, it is a civil liability to being sued by the music's copyright holder if one exists and the music was not officially offered for free anyway. It would neither involve the FBI nor result in arrest unless Ms. Ackerman was caught selling the music files for money to other people.
- Why would Carly throw the PearPod to the FBI agent? If he hadn't caught it, it could've broke and destroyed evidence and Ms. Ackerman would've been released.
- Ms. Ackerman could have easily been arrested for teacher abuse. It is possible that she was in fact charged with alleged abuse when the FBI arrested her.
- After the policemen arrest Miss Ackerman, Freddie says that maybe they should tell the principal. That is a mistake because to arrest someone in the school, the policemen have to already have permission from the principal.
- When Ms. Ackerman comes over for the first time when she is wearing the red dress, she notices that Spencer's "soup" is boiling over. With the pot that Spencer was using, he would have easily burned his hand.
Running Gags
To be added
Series Continuity
- In this episode, Spencer is working out. In the next several episodes, he doesn't work out anymore until iKiss and iSpeed Date.
- It is noticeable that in this episode and iWin a Date, Freddie's voice is starting to change.
- In the last scene, Carly wears the same shirt she did at the end of iChristmas.
- In this episode, Freddie suggests that Carly and Sam talk about vegetables (asparagus and squash) on the web show, and they both ridicule him for suggesting this. However, in iThink They Kissed, they do precisely this - at least with squash (which is technically a fruit and not a vegetable)
- Asparagus makes its way onto the web show in iMove Out, where Freddie is forced by his mother to eat his leftover asparagus live on-air. Though as it turns out, Freddie is no longer fond of that particular vegetable.
- In response to his suggestions, Sam points out that she and Carly are the creative people on the web show and Freddie is just the technical producer. This becomes a major plot point in iBalls, where Freddie has a desire to be more creative (including co-hosting the show with Sam) after a news reporter ridicules him for the same reason. This time, Sam tries her best to help him achieve his goal.
- In the scene where Carly, Sam and, Freddie are eating grapes and talking about Ms. Ackerman, Carly is wearing a penny-tee saying 'Parole Baby'. In iStakeout, Sam's cousin Annie, who gave Freddie the tattoo, said the same thing.
- This is the only episode Ms. Ackerman appears in. She has never been shown to appear teaching again.
- This is the last episode to feature Nathan Kress wearing platform shoes.
Quotes
Carly: You have a bathtub study tray?! |
Freddie: [to Sam] Why do you have a bowling ball? |
Carly: But, how are we supposed to write an essay on something you haven't taught us about yet? |
Ms. Ackerman: Well, look! More backtalk from the sass master! |
Ms. Ackerman: Why are you crying? |
Freddie: Okay, how about this: What if you guys do an iCarly segment where you compare vegetables? |
Carly: Ms. Ackerman, you forgot to give me a quiz. |
Ms. Ackerman: There's no talking during the quiz. |
Carly: [To Freddie] Is that it? |
Ms. Ackerman: You set me up! |
Freddie: We should probably tell Principal Franklin that our teacher's been arrested. |
Gallery
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References
- ↑ Nielsen Ratings Cable TV Top 20: The Closer, Nascar and Miley Cyrus TVbythenumbers.com (Jul. 29, 2008)
- ↑ Paramount+