iCarly (season 5)

After the events of iOMG, Sam has been missing for three days. Carly and Freddie track her phone and discover she is in a mental institution. Upon visiting her, they learn she has checked herself in, unable to deal with her complicated feelings for Freddie. After talking with Freddie, Sam decides she is not insane and tries to leave, but the guards won't allow her to as she is under 18 and needs a parent to sign. Since Sam's mom is away and they need to shoot iCarly the next night, they have Spencer dress up as Sam's mother, though this plan backfires when a patient recognizes him from law school. The gang then decide to do the webshow from the mental hospital, which consists of Carly reaching out to various iCarly fans to ask how they would feel about Sam and Freddie as a couple, all of whom seem enthusiastic about the idea. Freddie then cuts in, explaining that nobody has taken his feelings into consideration. Sam, assuming he is about to reject her, begins scolding him, but he abruptly cuts her off with a kiss, symbolizing the start of a new relationship. Meanwhile, Gibby becomes acquainted with a patient named Caleb, who believes he is from the year 2077.

Sam and Freddie have begun a very rocky relationship, constantly arguing with one another and enlisting a reluctant Carly to act as their "couple's counselor" and resolve all their fights, even sometimes at 3 in the morning. Freddie and Sam later go on a date, but take Carly with them and have her sit at a nearby table so she can continue to mediate their conflicts. As another argument brews between the couple, Carly snaps and says that if they can't work out their issues on their own, they shouldn't even be dating at all. Meanwhile, Gibby gets a puppy and wants to raise it with Carly in an attempt to get closer to her.

Sam and Freddie have finally stopped arguing, but their relationship proves to create problems for those around them - Sam and Freddie skip iCarly shoots to go on dates, and Sam has begun taking out her violent tendencies on Gibby now that she's dating her former bullying target. Planning to break them up, Gibby tells Mrs. Benson about Sam and Freddie's relationship. A disapproving Mrs. Benson conspires with Gibby to meddle in their relationship. Meanwhile, Freddie's application to a prestigious technology camp is rejected. Mrs. Benson and Gibby manage to force Carly to reveal that Sam had purposefully sabotaged his application a few months prior, information they later share with Freddie. Initially upset, Freddie contemplates breaking up with her, but Carly manages to convince them to make up. Gibby, having had a change of heart, sings a love song to celebrate their mended relationship.^[11]

Carly convinces Sam and Freddie to participate in each other's activities. Freddie takes Sam to his train engineer club, which ends in disaster when Sam reprograms the trains to make them crash into each other and thus explode, resulting in Freddie getting kicked out of the club. Later, Sam takes Freddie to the Seattle Penitentiary to visit her Uncle Carmine and Cousin Chaz, smuggling ham in his pants to deliver to them. They get caught, leading to a heated argument between the two. Meanwhile, Spencer begins dating his old babysitter, although she still treats him like a child. Carly gives them a talk and accuses them of trying to force themselves into a romantic relationship despite the fact that they are not compatible. Sam and Freddie overhear and realize that Carly's advice could apply to them as well. In the elevator, they profess their love for each other but decide to break up, although alluding that they may give their relationship a second chance if they become more compatible, leaving the future of their relationship uncertain. Freddie checks his phone and sees that it's only 10:30, and they decide to prolong their relationship until midnight. The episode ends as they step back into the elevator and share a kiss.

Carly is in love with a very smart British guy named Kyle. She becomes self-conscious when she learns that Kyle broke up with his last girlfriend for lacking intelligence, and begins studying so she can impress him. Unable to remember all the things she studied, she writes notes on her arms and under her plate. She gets caught in the middle of her date with Kyle, so he breaks up with her for her dishonesty. Meanwhile, T-Bo is evicted from The Groovy Smoothie. Freddie gives him a chance to move into his and Mrs. Benson's loft. In order for Mrs. Benson to approve, he, Gibby, and Sam dress T-Bo in sensible clothing and have him put on the persona of a polite and respectful gentleman. Mrs. Benson is impressed by him and allows him to move in. Meanwhile, Spencer tries to open a safe he found at the junk yard.

Christopher Cane, a ventriloquist dummy who plays Rex from Victorious, interviews the cast and shows their bloopers from the show, while invariably insulting the actors and/or forcing them to record plugs for his brand of salsa. (He makes an exception for Noah Munck, instead commending his acting skills.) The interviews go in the following order: Jennette McCurdy (Sam), Nathan Kress (Freddie), Jerry Trainor (Spencer), BooG!e (T-Bo, though they did not review his bloopers), Noah Munck (Gibby), and Miranda Cosgrove (Carly).

Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Gibby are invited to Nora Dershlitt's parole hearing. As victims of her crime, the four have a say in whether or not Nora should be released from prison, although Carly is adamant that Nora remain in prison. They decide to let them release her after seeing how her situation is affecting her parents, and after Nora and her mother invite the iCarlys to their house for a Norwegian supper, the gang make peace with Nora once again. However, when Spencer comes to pick them up, Nora's mother locks him in the basement on a spin wheel which is controlled by a special remote. Nora and her mother trap the gang in their house and refuse to let them leave. Nora says that her birthday party will go on "forever, and ever, and ever..." Gibby, while trying to escape for help, gets stuck in the chimney and finds himself pelted by tennis balls from kids who do not understand his requests for help. The next morning, Nora's dad returns from his camping trip and becomes part of the scandal, revealing that he is just as crazy as his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, T-Bo is kicked out of the Benson's apartment after Mrs. Benson finds out who the real T-Bo is. When Carly and Sam use Spencer's shock pen to short-circuit Freddie's head computer chip, Mrs. Benson gets an emergency notification on Freddie's "tracking device" saying that he is in trouble. Setting aside their dispute, Mrs. Benson and T-Bo rush over to Nora's house on T-Bo's motorcycle and crash through the front door. Sam easily retrieves Spencer's remote from Nora during the scuffle and T-Bo kicks down the basement door to allow Carly to rescue Spencer. T-Bo fights Nora's dad, while Mrs. Benson uses her "Fencin' Benson" talents to defeat Nora and her mother. Sam uses Spencer's shock pen to zap the Dershlits unconscious, and they wind up going to prison together. In gratitude for his help rescuing Freddie, Mrs. Benson decides to let T-Bo stay with them permanently. At the end of the episode, Carly wakes up in bed in the middle of the night, realizing that they had forgotten about Gibby, who is still lodged in the chimney, with kids still pelting him with balls in the middle of a rainstorm.

iCarly is interviewed by a TV station, though the reporter shows no interest in interviewing Freddie as he is not a "creative" member of the show. Carly goes to Yakima to take care of her grandfather who is recovering from foot surgery, leaving Sam to host the show by herself. However, Freddie, desperate to prove his own creativity, convinces Sam to allow him to co-host the show with her while Gibby works the camera. Things go awry when nobody finds his skit funny. Sam convinces him to focus on technical inventions, which leads to him developing new 3D technology and showcasing it on iCarly. iCarly fans are originally impressed by the 3D effects, though they later complain of negative effects on their eyesight. Initially feeling guilty, Freddie later becomes reassured when he learns that his 3D technology had cured the eyesight of a teenage girl with severe vision problems. Meanwhile, Spencer hires a personal assistant named Marty.

Carly and Spencer's father plans to come home to celebrate his birthday with his children, but cannot make it at the last minute due to an emergency. The iCarly team sympathizes with an upset Carly, so they celebrate her father's birthday in the middle of the show by connecting her to a video chat with him. When the Secret Service learns of the video call and shows up at Carly's apartment, Carly, Sam, and Freddie fear that they may be arrested. Later, Michelle Obama visits the iCarly crew and explains that they are not in trouble, but that she was very touched by what Freddie and Sam did for their friend and how proud Carly was of her father. The episode ends with the First Lady appearing as a guest on an iCarly webcast.

Special guest star: Michelle Obama as herself, Taran Killam as a Secret Service agent, Dan Schneider cameo as a random dancer

To reward Sam for a 10 day streak of no bad behavior, Freddie and Carly gift her with a tour of the Canadian Fat Cake factory. Sam, Freddie, Gibby, and Spencer visit the factory, but Sam's greed finally gets the better of her when she tries to smuggle over 100 Canadian Fat Cakes, which are illegal in the United States, over the border. She is briefly detained, and is later held back again because she does not have an identification card, therefore unable to prove that she is an American citizen. Gibby decides to hide Sam in his suitcase to sneak her over the border, but the suitcase is later accidentally swiped by a man with an identical-looking suitcase while Gibby is distracted by a fan. This results in Sam being taken to Hong Kong. Elsewhere, Carly, who stayed home to go on a date with a boy named Lance, gets her toe stuck in the bathtub faucet after imitating a scene she saw from The Dick Van Dyke Show, Never Bathe on Saturday. Several attempts to free herself fail. The episode ends with Carly and Lance having a date in the bathroom. They kiss while a plumber fixes the faucet.