Pop culture references

iCarly makes numerous references to real-life TV shows, literature, movies, and a lot of similar media. Dan Schneider said that he tries not to make to many of these references on his shows. He only uses people/things that he feels will be popular for a long time.

A major reference is the Pear Company, a parody of Apple (company). This reference is also used on gadgets on several shows, such as Zoey 101, Drake and Josh, and Victorious.

iPilot
This is a takeoff of the chorus of the Destiny's Child hit song, "No, No, No, Part 1." This website link is shown in the iCarly intro and was first mentioned in Zoey 101. This is a reference to a character from the book, Green Eggs and Ham, written by Dr. Suess
 * Sam: Ms. Briggs 'says, 'no, no, no,' we say, 'yeah, yeah, yeah.
 * Toonjuice
 * Sam: Sam I am!

This website is a mix of YouTube and Facebook and is used a lot throughout the series.
 * Splashface

iDream of Dance

 * The title is a spoof of the show I Dream of Jeannie, which aired on NBC from 1965-1970.

iLike Jake

 * The title may be a reference to the movie, 'Sixteen Candles', where the main character (who is coincidently name Samantha "Sam" Baker) has a crush on a popular guy from her school, named Jake.

iWanna Stay With Spencer
iScream on Halloween Witchiepoo: The evil witch who resides in a castle at Living Island on the 1970s TV series, HR Pufnstuf.
 * Granddad Shay stayed at the Parker-Nichols Hotel, which is a reference to Miranda Cosgrove's TV brothers Drake Parker and Josh Nichols from Drake & Josh, which was created by Dan Schneider.
 * Sam: Get in there, Witchiepoo.

iSpy a Mean Teacher
iAm Your Biggst Fan
 * The title of the episode is based on the popular game and also the look and find books, ISpy.
 * When the gang first meets Mandy, Sam says Mandy is "cuckoo for iCarly". This may be a reference to the cereal Cocoa Puffs, and the cuckoo bird that always says "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!"

iPromote Techfoots
Freddie: Looking good, Carly!

Carly: Feeling good, Freddie!

This is an allusion to the 1983 movie, Trading Places, with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. The last lines of the movie are Dan Aykroyd's character Louis Winthorpe III saying, "Looking good Billie Ray!!" and Eddie Murphy's character Billie Ray Valentine responding, "Feeling good, Louis!!" When Freddie shows his new computer getting crashed on iCarly, he gets the "blue screen of death." The screen shown is the real [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death Windows XP "blue screen of death." ] Daka Shoes was a company also featured in Drake and Josh, in an episode titled "Really Big Shrimp" where Drake's song gets featured on a commercial for the company.
 * Freddie's Laptop Crash
 * Daka Shoes company

iGot Detention

 * Carly and Sam telling Mr. Howard that physical punishments are against detention procedures is a reference to a Washington state law, banning Corporal (Physical) Punishment in state schools . The law was put in place in 1993 by the school board in Washington, where the show takes place.

iStakeout
As seen in the convenience store, when Carly, Sam, and Freddie are planning on how to catch the movie bootlegger. You can see, a Blix machine and a few advertisements of Blix and its logo. Blix is an allusion to the show Zoey 101, where the same drink can be seen. iWin a Date
 * The necklace Carly wore when she was picking up trash was also the necklace worn by Zoey in the Zoey 101 episode "Chasing Zoey."
 * Blix
 * The title is a reference to the television game show The Dating Game.

iSaved Your Life
This is a reference to a scene in the HBO show The Wire, when Michael Lee shoots Snoop Pearson. Snoop asks, "How my hair look, Mike?" and she's answered by Michael saying, "You look good, girl", and then he shoots her in the head.
 * Gibby: How my hair look, Sam?
 * Sam: You look good, Gib. [Shoots him in the forehead with a paintball]

iStart a Fanwar

 * Craig and Eric fight about how Craig got them kicked out of the Teen Choice Awards because he touched Justin Bieber's hair.