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GoogleWe're guessing that the crossover audience between "iCarly" and "The Wire" is, give or take a few parents who watch the former with their kids, pretty much nonexistent. Which could explain how a clip from "iCarly" that spoofs/pays homage to "The Wire," and which aired in January 2010, is just now being discovered online.
We wish we would have known about this sooner, but frankly, we're just glad it's there. Consider our day improved a little. (Thanks to Buzzfeed for bringing it to our attention.)
The episode in question involves the "iCarly" characters playing a game of Assassin using paintballs and blowtubes. Sam (Jennette McCurdy) has Gibby (Noah Munck) dead to rights, and Gibby channels his inner Snoop. (The "iCarly" wiki also notes that elsewhere in the episode, Sam declares that "Spencer gonna get got!")
Peter Tibbals and Eric Goldberg are credited as writers of the episode, and if we ever meet, drinks are on us.
The original scene from "The Wire" is below. There's a good deal of NSFW language, and the portion that "iCarly" spoofs is in the last 30 seconds.
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Oh, my God! I never noticed it until now!
It's the whole reason I started watching iCarly....
iCarly is an underrated and underestimated show. It's no wonder that Nick keeps backing up the dump truck of money into Miranda Cosgrove's driveway in order to keep it going. The writing on the show is pretty stellar.
It's really a great show and gets more clever each year. I mean, they got Jane Lynch to play Sam's mom--what else can you ask for?!
On one of the ICarly episodes they spoofed teen coming-of-age movies perfectly. Hilarious.
One of my favorites was when Carly was taking art classes behind her brother's back. He finds her art book and demands to know what she's doing with it. She shoots back, "It's not mine. I was holding it for a friend."
This really is an awesome show and I'm sure a lot of parents don't want to admit how much they don't mind watching it with their kids. My husband and I watched the Jane Lynch epp and the Jack Black epp after the kids were in bed because that was the only time we were both available to watch it and we weren't disapointed.
I am certainly not in iCarlys demographic but enjoy the show. The writing is witty and funny. I actually watched this eppisone when it was first aired and was amazed by the referrence. great job