iTake on Dingo

"Fine, but if they deny stealing from iCarly, I'm gonna get swingy with this thing!" — Sam to Carly.

iTake on Dingo
Season 2, Episode 21
First Aired	June 13, 2009
Production Code	226
Writer(s)	Jake Farrow
Director(s)	David Kendall
Viewership	3.3 million
Episode Guide
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iTake on Dingo is the 21st episode of Season 2 of iCarly and the 46th episode overall.

Plot

After a webshow of iCarly, Wendy and other kids at school tell them a show on the Dingo Channel called "Totally Teri" plagiarized Random Dancing in an episode, calling it "Random Jumping". Carly and Sam watch an episode and discover they even plagiarized Messin' with Lewbert, calling it, "Messin' with Rupert". So, Spencer and the iCarly team go to Hollywood to settle this, and to look for the frozen head of the leader, Charles Dingo.

The frozen head of Charles Dingo.

They stay at the Come On Inn recommended by Pam Puckett, which turns out to be a run-down, disgusting place with a derelict named Hollywood living right by a window. After visiting Dingo Studios, using fake IDs courtesy of Freddie, Carly and Sam learn the Totally Teri writers are plagiarizing iCarly skits for their own use. They claim they have the rights to do so, since they have money and power. Meanwhile, Spencer and Freddie find Charles Dingo's frozen head and hatch a plan with Carly and Sam to get the writers to stop plagiarizing them since they have access to the head.

The next day, the iCarly group threatens to release high resolution pictures of the Charles Dingo's head on iCarly.com unless the writers swear never to steal the show's ideas again. The writers swear never to steal from iCarly, but before Spencer gives the head back to them, Sam comes up with an additional punishment for them. The episode ultimately ends with two of the writers being forced into the skit Sam came up with earlier called "Bikini Dog Food Fight" on iCarly.

Guest Stars

• Noah Munck as Gibby Gibson
• Mary Ann Springer as Wendy
• Jeremy Rowley as Lewbert Sline
• Biff Wiff as Hollywood
• Drew Butler as Security Guard
• Maile Flanagan as Female Guard
• Joshua Malina as Goldstein
• Patrick Flanagan as Roland
• Jeff Grace as Jerry
• Ajay Sahgal as Lubman
• John T. Woods as Newberg
• Alex Robert Holmes as Glenn

Bikini Dog Food fight

Trivia

• The rip-offs Totally Teri stole from iCarly were never actually seen, only mentioned or heard off-camera.
• A blog based on Hollywood the hobo was posted on iCarly.com.
• When Carly and Sam are watching Totally Teri, a character is talking is the voice of Maile Flanagan, who is the English voice actress of Naruto.
• Sam calls Gibby by his last name (Gibson) in this episode.
• Wahoo Punch appears again in the Dan Schneider show Victorious.
• The head of Charles Dingo was actually a head mold of Dan Schneider.
• In one shot, where the Hollywood sign should be, the sign reads "Los Angeles." This is because Dan has to pay the city of Los Angeles to use an image of the Hollywood sign. It becomes "Hollywood" again, however, in iParty With Victorious.
• There is a theory that the iCarly writers could've been mocking the Disney Channel show, Sonny With a Chance, because many say that it ripped off the original premise for iCarly.
• Dan stated in the fun facts that he got the idea for Sam's line "We're gonna go find them and kick them in their Dingos!" spontaneously while filming the scene and told it to Jennette just before shooting the take.
• The hands which appear out of the Wahoo Punch vending machine Lewbert stands near during the iCarly webcast webshow belong to Lane Napper.
• According to Dan's Fun Facts, Sam's butter sock was originally a sock full of quarters, but he was asked to change it, because it was deemed too violent. This stands in contrast to Nickelodeon approving of a plot where Spencer flings watermelons at people on iQuit iCarly, though none of those watermelons hit anyone, and hitting people was the sole purpose of the butter sock.
• Carly's outfit from the start of this episode was also seen in a piece of 2009 promotional art.^{[citation needed]}

Allusions

• The fake soda machine that Spencer built in order to be "Messin' with Lewbert" says Wahoo Punch. The Wahoo Punch design is a parody of Hawaiian Punch and Yoo-Hoo Chocolate Drink.
• Charles Dingo, Dingo Studios, and the Dingo Channel are all parodies of Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, and Disney Channel, respectively.
  • The side plot about Spencer and Freddie going to find Charles Dingo's frozen head in Dingo Studios is based on the actual myth that Walt Disney was supposedly cryogenically frozen and hidden in one of the rides at Disneyland.

Character Revelations

To be added

Goofs

• Freddie states that Dingo Studios is in Hollywood, to which Carly replies, "Which is, like, 900 miles from here." In actuality, a non-stop trip in a car from Seattle, Washington to Hollywood in California is approximately 1,130 miles, and would take 17 hours 30 minutes.
  • Carly could've simply been making a rough estimate.
• If the freezer in the basement of Dingo Studios really was cryogenic, then Spencer and Freddie would have to wear protective clothing just to enter it. When the door is opened, clouds of vapor are seen and are clearly produced by dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) as Freddie and Spencer walk through them unharmed. A cryogenic freezer uses liquid nitrogen at a much colder temperature and this would result in Freddie and Spencer receiving severe burns just from walking through the clouds of vapor.
• Spencer should have worn gloves to handle the frozen head of Charles Dingo if it was in a freezer for years.
  • Spencer probably waited for the container to thaw so he could hold it without gloves.
• Usually, shots taken through Freddie's camera, either when recording or webcast live, are identified with a rectangular viewfinder frame with right angles in each corner, a "Rec" indicator in the top left and a battery level indicator in the top right. However, when the Totally Teri writers are recorded swearing they will never steal ideas from iCarly ever again, the rectangular frame is missing.
• It doesn't make much sense for the iCarly crew to bring two of the Totally Teri writers all the way back from Hollywood to the iCarly studio in Seattle just to film them for the Bikini Dog Food Fight. They could have easily recorded it in Hollywood and filmed iCarly there.
• Sam said she never heard anyone on Totally Teri do Freddie's countdown before the show starts, but no one hears Freddie do it, so the writers could not have thought to steal it.
• When the hotel worker removes the tape from the floor in the room, the jacket moves from Spencer’s left arm to his right arm and back every single time the shot changes.
• Technically, Dingo Studios could be sued regardless, and the iCarly gang would win the case because the evidence of plagiarism makes arguments by the opposing side null and void.
• Carly, Freddie, and Spencer could've looked up the hotel online and seen how disgusting it is.
  • Unless the hotel wasn't always gross and the pictures online were from a while ago.
  • It is also possible that the hotel wasn't very well known and there were no pictures of it.
• When everyone is in the hallway of the Dingo studios, Carly's necklace is below the neckline of her shirt. When she and Sam storm in the writers' room, the necklace is above the neckline, touching her neck.

Running Gags

• Carly and Sam trying to persuade the Totally Teri writers.
• Carly not liking the word "bowels."

Series Continuity

• Carly wears the same shirt from iLook Alike, but not the same vest.
• Sam's weapon of choice, the Butter Sock, appears for the first time. It reappears frequently from iParty With Victorious onwards.
• This is the first time the gang takes a road trip to Hollywood. The second time is in iParty with Victorious, with Gibby.

Quotes

Sam: Those Dingo people are dead! Carly: What are we gonna do? Sam: We're gonna go find them and kick them in their Dingos!

Spencer: Look, I think it's really jank that they are ripping off iCarly, but I can't just drop everything and drive you guys 900 miles to Dingo Studios. Carly: When we get there, maybe you could find the head of Charles Dingo… Sam: The frozen head! Spencer: We leave at midnight.

Spencer: See? I said it was in the bowels, too! Carly: Okay, next person who says “bowels” sleeps in the bathtub! Hollywood: BOWELS! I got the bathtub! Carly: No, no, no, no, no, no-no, no! [closes shades]

Freddie: I'm a big part of iCarly, too! Sam: Yeah, well, I've never heard Totally Teri say [mocking voice] "In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!" Freddie: [also using mocking voice] You don't say the "1!"

Sam: Let's shake 'em up. Carly: What is that? Sam: A sock full of butter. Carly: For what? Sam: For swingin'! I could brain an elephant with this thing! Carly: We're not just gonna walk in there and start hitting TV writers with a big, buttery sock! We're gonna be professional and firm. Sam: Fine, but if they deny stealing from iCarly, I'm gonna get swingy with this thing! Carly: Not unless I say it's okay.

Totally Teri writer: [after Sam whacks him with the butter sock] Hey, what's in that sock!? Sam: PAYBACK!

Sam: May I get swingy? Carly: Yes. Sam whacks a Totally Teri writer with the butter sock]

Sam: We don't care which one of you fudge bags thought of stealing our ideas! Carly: We just want it to stop!

Carly: Then, how do you explain these cards on the wall under a sign that says “Ideas we can steal from iCarly?!” Totally Teri writer: [stands up] I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.

Sam: They're stealing our banter right in front of us!

Security Guard: Well, I-I didn't know he was… Spencer: YOU DIDN'T KNOW?! Isn't it your job to know what's happening in these hallways?! Security Guard: Yeah, sure, but I… Spencer: I guess I'll need to speak to Mr. Fufferman about this. Security Guard: Who's Mr. Fufferman? Spencer: MAN! WHAT ELSE DON'T YOU KNOW?! Security Guard: I, I, I… Spencer: DISMISSED! GO! Security Guard: OK, OK! Spencer: Wait! I'll need your keys. Security Guard: For what? Spencer: For Mr. FufferMAN!

Freddie: This motel is disgusting. Sam: Oh, you're such a bunch of prancies!

[Carly goes to wash her hands in the bathroom] Hollywood: Hey! Carly: [screams] AHHHHHH! A HOBO IN OUR BATHTUB!!!!

Teri: What are you doing? Male kid voice: Playing a joke on my doorman, Rupert. Sam: His doorman, Rupert? Uh, that sounds a lot like Lewbert. Carly: Yeah. Teri: Ew! Look at that wart on Rupert's face! Sam: Hey, there's a wart on Rupert's face! Carly: Yeah, just like Lewbert's! Sam: Just not as plump. Carly: Well, yeah, but still. Male kid voice: Now, watch what happens when Rupert tries to buy something out of that snack machine. Carly: Two hands just popped out of that snack machine! Sam: Yeah, where have we seen that before? Carly: They ripped off iCarly! Sam: No chizz!

Gallery

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