Saturday, 12 January 2013

iMeet Fred Review


iMeet Fred #8 of Season 2 to air on YTV
Originally Aired: February 16th,  2009 (13th), Filmed 12th (212)

Synopsis: Web star Fred (Lucas Cruikshank) is shown on iCarly.  Sam and Carly LOVE Fred but Freddie remarks that he doesn't love the videos.  Fred retorts by canceling his videos, which brings tons of hate on to iCarly.  The iCarlys try to talk to Fred and when they finally do, he admits he wasn't going to stop making the videos, he only did it to get more attention for both their web sites.  Freddie and Fred make up on the iCarly show and all is well.

Fun Facts:  
Grade 7 was Spencer's best year of his life.
The Magic Meatball is a parody of the Magic 8 Ball that was out in the 80s and 90s.  In fact, I owned one!
Things the magic meatball tells Spencer to do:  Drink Ketchup, go surfing (which is NOT easy to do in Seattle),  buys an ostrich,
Sam is seen eating a fat cake for the first time and then Freddie talks about the low fat, fat cakes when someone throws one at his head.
Clubs Freddie is kicked out of:  Mathletes, Junior Bow and Arrow Club, and other unmentioned ones.
Sean is played by the same actor who plays Hon in 2 Broke Girls.  Sean appears again in several episodes.
Freddie has an Aunt Jennifer.
Gibby is mentioned when he texts them, but is not seen.
Sam has been arrested 3 times.
The iCarly war video is shown on Nevelocity.com, but Nevel is not in the episode.
Fred lives in Shelby Idaho which they say is 4 hours from Seattle.  There is no Shelby, Idaho, only a Selby, Idaho and it is 9 hours and 40 minutes away from Seattle.
Spencer is shown driving a VW beetle, silver.  Although I am not sure where he got that car, as he only has a motorcycle and all other times drives an RV that Socko lends him.
Fred is apparently a fan of iCarly but he doesn't know who Spencer is.  Spencer has been featured multiple times on the webshow.
Fred is the second character to try to get a kiss from Carly (besides Freddie), Nevel was the other one.
Jennette McCurdy appeared in the Fred Movie.
The part where Spencer says "this ostrich thinks I'm a lady" or getting married is in the blooper reel.
In a podcast Freddie and Sam appear in the same pool that is used in this episode.

Spencer Side Count:  Finds his magic meatball and goes about the episode making decisions based on it, including owning an Ostrich named Marvin.

Penny Tee Count:  The Mushroom Room - worn by Carly

Review: Well since I hate Fred videos, well this one is one of my so-so episodes.  My husband HATES this episode and never watches it, he will leave the room.  I'm not a big fan of this episode.  Although I like Spencer's hilarious meatball moments, it doesn't tip the scale into awesome.  This does have one of my favourite Sam quotes.  When she tells Freddie the reason she picks on him is because she LOVES IT."  I also think the video at the end is cute.  This episode is a tribute to Fred and Lucas which is not my fave thing.

Total Score: 2/5

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