History Series / ICarly2021

The series premiered on June 17, 2021, for a 13-episode first season. The following month, it was renewed for a 10-episode second season. The second season premiered on Paramount+ on April 8th, 2022. On July 27, 2022, it was renewed for a 10-episode third season to premiere on June 1, 2023.

The series premiered on June 17, 2021, for a 13-episode first season. The following month, it was renewed for a 10-episode second season. The second season premiered on Paramount+ on April 8th, 2022. On July 27, 2022, it was renewed for a 10-episode third season to premiere in 2023.

** Freddie caught a penis parasite in season one finale, "iReturn to Webicon". It has cleared up in season two premiere "iGuess Everyone Just Hates Me".

** There is a two month time skip between "iReturn to Webicon" and " iGuess Everyone Just Hates Me".

** The return of various recurring and minor characters from the series, such as Marissa (aka, Mrs. Benson), Nora, Nevel, Principal Franklin, Griffin, and even Duke (who only ever appeared once in the first season of the original series, in "iHatch Chicks").

** The season one finale "iReturn to Webicon" ended with both Beau and Wes professing their love for Carly, seemingly setting up a LoveTriangle arc. The season two premiere "iGuess Everyone Just Hates Me" reveals that she dumped the both of them and is single again.

** In "iGuess Everyone Just Hates Me" Double Dutch says that phone sex is illegal in Germany. It isn't.

* OffscreenBreakup: The original series finale implied a TheyDo RelationshipUpgrade between Carly and Freddie since they shared one last smooch before parting ways. Unfortunately, they didn’t pursue a long distance relationship as they both went on to date other people and Freddie move on from his even got married and divorced twice. This series doesn't seem to focus much of their former romance, as they are still trying to move on from their recently failed relationship with their significant other. However, they seem to still have some old yet awkward lingering feelings for one another since Carly nervously reminisces about their previous romantic entanglement, as seen in "iTake a Girls' Trip".

* GrowingUpSucks: Carly and Freddie are now in their late twenties and must face new challenges in their lives. For Carly, she has difficulty moving on from her teen years since she no longer has Sam, her old fame as an Internet celebrity and finding new love. For Freddie, he has been divorced twice, raising a stepchild and a fail attempt to start his own tech firm.

In this revival series, Carly and Freddie are all grown up and Spencer is now filthy rich after his half-melted[[note]]Due to his cell phone randomly catching fire next to it.[[/note]] marshmallow white house sculpture received lots of praise and sold for a ton of money. Carly has her own apartment right across from her brother, which she shares with her new best friend Harper Bettencourt (played by Creator/LaciMosley) a pansexual barista who dreams of being a stylist. Carly's long-time boyfriend Beau dumps her during a livestream and she falls into a deep depression. A month later, Carly encounters NewOldFlame Luke at one of Spencer's parties and, to make Beau jealous, plans to launch a new web show with Luke, only for her to call things off her mind after realizing she and Luke have no chemistry. Carly really misses doing the iCarly web show and decides to resurrect it. But since Sam is no longer around after having joined a motorcycle gang called the Obliterators, Carly hosts the show on her own, with Freddie once again behind the camera (actually a Pearphone this time) and Spencer providing assistance whenever needed. Freddie, meanwhile, has been through two failed marriages and his startup company went under, so he's back living with his mother, only now he's joined by his adopted stepdaughter Millicent Mitchell (played by Creator/JaidynTriplett), a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], middling internet creator who views Carly as a rival.

** The season one finale "iReturn to Webicon" ended with both Beau and Wes professing their love for Carly, seemingly setting up a LoveTriangle arc. The season two premiere "iGuess Everyone Just Hates Me" reveals that she dumped both of them and is single again.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Due to being aimed at the kids who grew up with the original show who are adults themselves now (as well as airing on the streaming service Paramount+), the revival has much more liberties, as such the characters can use profanity and drink alcohol. The jokes are also noticeably darker. One episode has Spencer accidentally hook Freddie up with a prostitute, and another one has a fortune teller die onscreen from an aneurysm. Both are PlayedForLaughs.
* DerailingLoveInterests: Beau and Wes in the second season. In the first season they were nice guys who Carly dated, who Carly had to choose between at the finale of the first season after both of them declared their love for her. The season 2 premiere reveals that Carly chose neither of them and the two turned into petty and childish jerks who have created a webshow together just to humiliate Carly.

* PutOnABus: Sam is noticeably absent. Her disappearance is mentioned in universe by the returning main cast joined a biker gang called the Obliterators. Gibby is absent as well but his disappearance is not mentioned.

The series premiered on June 17, 2021, for a 13-episode first season. The following month, it was renewed for a 10-episode second season. The second season premiered on Paramount+ on April 8th, 2022. On July 27, 2022, it was renewed for a third season to premiere in 2023.

** Chuck Chambers was shipped off to military school in the final season of the original show, with his younger brother Chip tormenting Spencer in his stead. Chuck returns in "iObject, Lewbert!"

** "iM Cursed" brings back minor character, Duke Lubberman, who hasn't appeared since season one episode,"iHatch Chicks".

** The season 1 finale, "iReturn to Webicon", is a parody of the infamous Fyre Festival, another large event that ended up being poorly planned.
** In "iHit Something", when Carly is letting out various frustrations while hitting a pillow, the final thing she vents about is Bran becoming the king in the end of ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

* OneHourWorkWeek: Harper is the only character we see working on a regular basis and she quits her Skybucks job in "iMLM" so that she can pursue fashion full time. Carly's online content probably generates enough ad revenue and sponsorship money that she doesn't have to work a 9-to-5 job. Spencer is now insanely wealthy after his partially melted marshmallow white house sold for a ton of money. "iMLM" reveals that Freddie works from home in tech support, only for him to quit that job in order to sell sand. After finding out he was scammed, he realizes that he's an entrepreneur at heart and decides to start a new business.

The series premiered on June 17, 2021, for a 13-episode first season. The following month, it was renewed for a 10-episode second season. The second season premiered on Paramount+ on April 8th, 2022.

** Freddie caught a penis parasite in season one finale "iReturn to Webicon". It has cleared up in season two premiere "iGuess Everyone Just Hates Me".

* DarkerAndEdgier: Due to being aimed at the kids who grew up with the original show who are adults themselves now (as well as airing on the streaming service Paramount+), the revival has much more liberties, as such the characters can use profanity and drink alcohol. The jokes are also noticeably darker, one episode has Spencer accidentally hook Freddie up with a prostitute, and another one has a fortune teller die onscreen from an aneurysm, both are PlayedForLaughs.

* DontTellMama: Although Nora's not as bad as she used to be, she does stalk Carly and Freddie for a bit upon seeing them for the first time in years. When Nora realizes that she went too far by climbing into Carly's apartment, she begs Carly and Freddie not to tell her parents in her. Which is strange since Nora's parents helped her kidnap Carly, Sam, Freddie, Spencer and Gibby in "iStill Psycho". (Though Nora implies it's because she lied and told her parents that she went somewhere else.)
* FakedKidnapping: [[spoiler: "iTake a Girls' Trip" has Harper reunite with her cousin Maeve who went missing years ago, claiming to have been kidnapped. The next episode reveals that Maeve was actually never kidnapped and only faked it to escape debt collectors and the paparazzi after her family went broke.]]
* FakeHigh: In "i'M Wild and Crazy", Carly asks Harper to take her out for a wild night, drugs, alcohol and so forth. Harper gives Carly a drug called "ACD" and Carly spends the night drinking and doing crazy stuff such as kissing a stranger and getting a tattoo. After they get placed in mall jail, Carly takes a breathalyzer test and her blood alcohol level is 0.0. Harper reveals that she ordered non-alcoholic drinks for Carly and the ACD pill was just a multivitamin. As a bonus, they guy she kissed was Harper's dentist and the tattoo was temporary.
* FakeRelationship: Carly & Freddie fake a relationship in the first episode of season 2 to avoid a genderflipped GirlfriendInCanada situation when Carly blurts out that she does in fact have a boyfriend due to her two ex-boyfriends ragging on her for being an "Ice Queen". They go on a few fake dates, but it crashes down when Freddie 'cheats' on Carly with another woman, in public at his new app's opening event.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Reconstructed. Lewbert may be insufferable, but he's entirely right in that many of the gang's pranks actually hurt him. Carly thinks she can get off by showing Lewbert's true nature. While the court agrees Lewbert is an awful person, that doesn't make their abuse of him legal so he still wins the case.
* LoveTriangle: The Season 2 finale ends with one developing between Pearl, Freddie and Carly..

* OffscreenBreakup: The original series finale implied a TheyDo RelationshipUpgrade between Carly and Freddie since they shared one last smooch before parting ways. Unfortunately, they didn’t pursue a long distance relationship as they both went on to date other people and Freddie move on from his even got married and divorced twice. This series doesn't seem to focus much of their former romance as they are still trying to move on from their recently failed relationship with their significant other. However, they seem to still have some old yet awkward lingering feelings for one another since Carly nervously reminisces their previous romantic entanglement, as seen in "iTake a Girls' Trip".

*** Once that 'breaks up', she is immediately onboard the "Preddie" ship with Freddie & Pearl, supporting whatever relationship she thinks is or will make Freddie happy. In that same episode there is also a trio of characters who track the pair down on a fake date to exclaim their support of them. Unfortunately a few episodes later, she goes the exact opposite and tries to break them up.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: Spencer became a multi-millionaire after he accidentally melted a White House marshmallow sculpture and he let people assume it was some avant-garde political commentary rather then an accident.

** Spencer and Maeve (Harper's cousin) fall in LoveAtFirstSight and Spencer lets her move in with him until she can find her own place. They find out the hard way that these type of relationships don't work out. Things are great at first, but they quickly turn on each other and begin fighting all the time. They both realize that they aren't compatible and moved too fast, so they break up.
** In "iObject, Lewbert!" Lewbert sues Carly as payback for all of the torture he was put through in the "Messin' With Lewbert" sketches. Unable to prove her innocence, Carly makes a last ditch effort to bait Lewbert into revealing his true, nasty self in court. While successful, it doesn't win her the case, since, as the judge points out, she did torture him and there's video proof. Whether Lewbert deserves it or not, it doesn't make Carly innocent. The judge ends up ruling in favor of Lewbert and Carly must pay him $250,000 (less than the $1,000,000 in the initial suit). Fortunately, Spencer foots the bill.

*** In Washington, the civil statute of limitation for personal injury is three years, so Lewbert shouldn't have been able to sue Carly.

*** In Washington, the civil statute of limitation for personal injury is three years, so Lewbert shouldn't been able to sue Carly.

** The season one finale also featured Harper and Dutch getting a relationship upgrade. They break up in the season two premiere due to Dutch's busy schedule and Harper is dating other people starting in the next episode.

** After two divorces and a failed startup, Freddie is back living with his mom. Subverted, as it is revealed he actually works at home in tech support.

* TakeThat: Downplayed. In the first few episodes, whenever Creator/DanSchneider's name appears in the post-opening credits, a character is making a cringed or disgusted face.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Carly and Freddie haven't been in a relationship for nearly a decade and are still hanging out with each other. The duo even get MistakenForRomance in "iTake a Girls' Trip".

* ShipTease: Carly and Freddie continue to get a similar amount of ship tease that they got in the original. They even have another slow dance together in one episode. They have what is very near to an AlmostKiss in an early episode of Season 2.

* StatusQuoIsGod: By the end of the season two premiere Carly and Harper are both single, having ended the relationships they ended the previous season with, and any chance of Creddie firmly quashed for the time being.

* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: Downplayed with Griffin, While he is indeed a bad boy who stole Spencer's motorcycle when he was younger, he doesn't antagonize Carly and they broke up because Carly made fun of him for liking "Pee-Wee Babies". Now grown up, he is a ConMan who runs a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme who tricks Carly and Freddie to help him sell his product.

** In "iObject, Lewbert!" Lewbert sues Carly as payback for all of the torture he was put through in the "Messin' With Lewbert" sketches. Unable to prove her innocence, Carly makes a last ditch effort to bait Lewbert into revealing his true, nasty self in court. While successful, it doesn't win her the case, since, as the judge points out, she did torture him and there's video proof. Whether Lewbert deserves it or not, it doesn't make Carly innocent. The judge ends up ruling in favor of Lewbert and Carly must pay him $250,000. Fortunately, Spencer foots the bill.

** On a more positive note in the same episode as above, even though the judge does rule in Lewbert's favor, she points out that he still legally cannot prevent Carly from making her webshow