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"Well, do you think you could help us get out of a contract?" |
iPromote Techfoots (originally titled as iGot a Sponsor) is the eighteenth episode of the first season of iCarly.
Plot
A shoe company, Daka Shoes, wants iCarly to promote their brand-new shoe, the "Techfoot." The iCarly gang accepts the offer, but the shoe turns out to have multiple technological defects, and they start losing viewers from angry Techfoot buyers.
The techfoot
They try to get out of the contract, but Greg Horvath, the president of Daka, threatens to sue them if they do. Using Spencer's law book from his three days of law school, they find that iCarly has to comment on the Techfoots "in a positive way" in order to not break the contract. So, they reveal the flaws of the shoes by making sarcastic positive comments about them in the process. The Daka executives then begrudgingly pay them $30,000 to stop talking about the shoes completely.
Carly,Sam And Freddie's Reaction
Subplot
Spencer gets frustrated with public transportation and tries other means to get around the city. However, all his attempts end up with his mode of transportation getting destroyed or him getting injured. After helping Carly and her friends get out of the contract with Daka, she buys him a motorcycle with the money Daka paid her in return.
Guest Stars
- Kevin Symons as Greg Horvath
- Liza Del Mundo as Sonya
- Steve Monroe as Braxley[2]
Trivia
- Daka shoes were previously mentioned in the Drake & Josh episodes, "Really Big Shrimp" and "All That" as the providers/producers of The Brute.
Spencer's motorcycle.
- This is the first episode produced where Freddie has a black and red Pearbook.
- In the video, where Horvath shows the girls on how to promote the shoes, "Fake Carly's" voice is panned hard left and "Fake Sam's" voice is panned hard right in the stereo field.
- This is the first episode that iCarly is asked to endorse something.
- Sam doesn't do anything physical to Freddie in this episode.
- Carly's bag of Mercedes Lens was later shown being held by Cat in the Sam & Cat episode "#MagicATM."
- On Paramount+, this episode is misspelled as "iPromote Tech Foots" [3]
- The Daka Shoe Company building used in the B-rolls in real life is the Seattle Central Library.
- A working title for this episode was "iGot a Sponsor."
Allusions
- Daka shoes could possibly be a parody of Nike shoes.
- The store Mercedes-Lens is a parody of the German car company Mercedes-Benz.
- As Carly enters her apartment, she sings "I'm a rich girl", which may be a reference to the song "Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates.
Character Revelations
- Sam (and, by extension, probably her later-revealed twin sister Melanie) was born on a bus.
- Spencer's friend Socko has a brother named Tyler who makes flashy neckties.
Goofs
- During their first visit to the office of Daka Shoes, Sam walks in with a sandwich and sits down with the sandwich in front of her with the partly-eaten side towards her. But right after Carly says "Let's go over the game plan" Sam's sandwich has suddenly turned around so the partly-eaten side now faces away from her. As Sam says "I would hate for anyone to think I'm pushy" the sandwich is whole again. After Greg Horvath says "Deal, we will pay you $100,000" Sam is taking a bite out of the sandwich and starts choking - but after a change in camera angle the partly-eaten sandwich suddenly changes into a whole sandwich again, then just as suddenly changes back to a partly-eaten sandwich.
- When they're filming their webcast, Sam says, "just shove your toes through the front like this". Then when Spencer re-plays it, "to cool 'em off", is added to it.
- When they are filming their webcast, after Freddie says "It wipes out your entire hard drive", Sam says, "isn't that great". Then when Spencer re-plays it, Carly adds, "like a magic eraser!" between these 2 lines.
- In this episode, Freddie states they had recently had their largest audience ever for iCarly, 355,000 viewers. However, in iSpy a Mean Teacher, the screen says that webcast gained over 500,000 viewers.
- Spencer was on his way to the art museum, fell asleep on the bus, and woke up in Vancouver, Canada. Since Spencer took a Seattle city bus, this would not be feasible. To get from Seattle to Vancouver by bus, he would have to have booked a ticket for an long distance bus such as Greyhound and he would have been woken up at the border to show identification such as a passport, enhanced drivers license, etc.
- Spencer claims Canadians are passing off sliced ham as "some kind of fancy bacon". However ham and bacon are entirely different products - ham is cooked during processing and hence sliced ham comes ready to eat, whereas bacon is not cooked and must be cooked before eating.
- Spencer should have also seen the Canadian bacon when he purchased it. Yet he acted surprised when he pulled it out of the bag.
- Daka Shoes has Carly, Freddie and Sam sign contracts. However, in most jurisdictions, people have to be over the age of majority to sign contracts (unless they were mainly emancipated minors), hence any contracts they signed would probably have no force or effect. On a side note, the people from DAKA would not actually be able to sue because the iCarly gang were minors at the time of the contract and didn't have any legal grounding present at the time of signing the contract unless they got one of their guardians (for example, Spencer) to sign the contract. Therefore they would be able to void the contract without being sued.
- In widescreen international airings, during the opening titles, the iCarly logo does not appear.[4]
- When beginning the web show Carly and Sam jog in place with the Techfoot shoes making them squeak. But Carly and Sam are on a rug, so the shoes shouldn't squeak when on a rug.
Running Gags
- Every time Greg Horvath tells Braxley not to do something or somehow insults him, Braxley says, "I'm stupid."
- Spencer's attempts to find an alternative to taking the bus end with some kind of mishap.
- The iCarly gang requesting to be paid in cash every time Greg Horvath offers to pay them with a cheque.
- Sonya mispronouncing "blueberry muffins."
Series Continuity
- The defective Techfoots return in iSell Penny-Tees, when Carly and Sam sell them online. According to Freddie, "iCarly is not responsible for damage caused to your feet, toes, or central nervous system."
- Spencer's motorbike was later stolen/borrowed by Griffin in iDate a Bad Boy.
- This is the first episode to feature the PearPhone because you can see it in Carly's hand. In previous episodes, she was seen with a blue Motorola RAZR.
Quotes
Sam: [groans] I am so hungry! |
Carly: I cant believe you went to Canada. |
Spencer: Awh! This is just sliced ham! How dare those Canadians try to pass this off as some fancy bacon. (Starts eating the ham) |
Carly: [While being handed money] This is fun. This is a fun time. |
Carly: [singing] And I bought some stuff 'cause you know I got paid the other day. |
Spencer: I made myself this bike out of parts I found at the junkyard! |
 Sonya, Sam's personal Chef. Sam: Carly, Freddie, this is Sonya, my personal chef. |
Spencer: I need some milk ... |
Spencer: [Struggling to stay upright on roller blades] If you need me I'll be at the gym! [Keeps falling down on his way from the kitchen to the door] You get the door! |
Mr. Horvath: Problems? Like…? |
Sam: And wait 'til you see this… |
Mr. Horvath : Do you think I am above suing children? Well, I'm not! |
Carly: Where are we going? |
Related iCarly.com Blog Posts
- Spencer's blog: Why I Will NEVER Ride The Bus Again!
Gallery
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See photos of iPromote Techfoots here.
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References
- ↑ Cable Ratings Recap: WWE, SpongeBob, Odd Parents, and Bill O. TVbythenumbers.com (Mar. 18, 2008)
- ↑ Trakt
- ↑ Paramount+
- ↑ https://youtu.be/jv0xWhndjBo