IBuild a Team

"I'm sorry but I can not work with this guy, okay? Its either him or me!"

- Freddie about Paul to Carly

iBuild a Team is the 6th episode of Season 2 of iCarly (2021), and the 19th episode overall. It premiered on May 6, 2022.

Plot
Carly hires a manager to take her channel to the next level, but when the new guy butts heads with Freddie, Carly must figure out a way to make her team work.

Subplot
Spencer enlists Harper to design his new restaurant uniforms while he tries to please a tough food critic.

Guest Stars

 * Josh Peck as Paul
 * Mary Scheer as Marissa Benson
 * Mia Serafino as Pearl Wallace
 * Edgar Blackmon as Shad
 * Nancy B. Berggren as Tiny Psychic
 * Noah James as Mark
 * Briana Barran as Astrid
 * Danielle Larracuente as Elaine
 * John Dale as Jack

Trivia

 * This episode introduces Carly's manager Paul from Italy, portrayed by Josh Peck, who starred alongside Miranda Cosgrove and Jerry Trainor in Drake & Josh.
 * Carly and Freddie interact properly for the first time since iObject, Lewbert!, episode 2.
 * The plot on logline suggests that Carly hires Paul in this episode, but an interview with Josh Peck shows a clip from the episode where Carly has known Paul since she was in Italy years before.
 * Nathan Kress described the episode as a big one.
 * This is the first episode known to take place in 2022.
 * Nathan Kress described directing this episode fun but scary, due to the moving objects and telling Josh Peck what to do as he was a fan of Peck's work in the past.
 * If you count the episode iBloop, where Drake Bell made a cameo, this episode officially marks all 3 principal Drake & Josh actors (Bell, Peck and Cosgrove) having appeared on iCarly.
 * Information from live tweet:
 * The scene where Harper shoves Carly into the sack took 10 takes.
 * Miranda wasn't sure of doing the snort at first but Nathan convinced her to do it and it made it into the episode.
 * Nathan described filming the episode as fun, exhausting and challenging.
 * Nathan found the chicken costume "disgustingly hot and itchy."
 * Fun fact: the pear phone did actually have 11 cameras.
 * Crew members had to push the walls of the escape room and the cast just kept laughing during takes as the walls got stuck.
 * Jerry had to prepare for the fire scene in advance as he actually did catch himself on fire.
 * Josh Peck pitched the scene between Paul and Freddie.
 * Miranda was winded from doing so many takes on the bike.
 * Nathan loved making Miranda have another one of Carly's panic attacks as it is one of his favourite running gags of the show.
 * There was another moment during the final scene where Carly and Freddie try to make it up the stairs whilst high but it was cut from the episode.

Character Revelations

 * Harper is 29 years old.

Running Gags

 * Paul repeatedly saying "it begins", much to Freddie's annoyance.

Series Continuity

 * Fourth appearance of Pearl Wallace, who only has a minor role.
 * First appearance of Paul who appears in another episode this season.
 * Second appearance of Shay What?!
 * Second episode in the revival directed by Nathan Kress, after iCan Fix it Myself from season 1.
 * Carly's fear of small spaces is mentioned since the original series.
 * Mandy Valdez is mentioned for the first time in the revival series.
 * Fourth appearance of Marissa Benson.