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iCarly: Season 5

11 episodes Premiered Aug 13, 2011
Previously on iCarly

Season 5 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of iCarly Season 4.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 5 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 5: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (8): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S5·E1 Mytharc

iLost My Mind

Aug 13, 2011

Three days after the lock-in at Ridgeway, Carly and Freddie find out that Sam put herself in the Troubled Waters Mental Hospital, for thinking she has lost her mind when she fell f

S5·E2 Core

iDate Sam & Freddie

Sep 10, 2011

Carly settles a disagreement between Sam and Freddie, and soon they rely on her to play peacemaker.

S5·E3 Core

iCan't Take It

Sep 17, 2011

Gibby wants to sabotage Sam and Freddie's romance, and Carly is torn about whether to help him.

S5·E4 Core

iLove You

Sep 24, 2011

Carly suggests that Sam and Freddie try each other's favorite hobbies; Spencer asks his former babysitter to dinner. Also, Sam and Freddie go see her Uncle Carmine and his friend,

S5·E5 Core

iQ

Oct 1, 2011

Carly pretends to be very brainy to score points with her new boyfriend. Meanwhile, T-Bo needs to find a new home after he's evicted from the Groovy Smoothie.

S5·E6 Core

iBloop 2: Electric Bloopaloo

Dec 28, 2011

Christopher Cane (Rex from Victorious) interviews the cast and shows their bloopers from the show. This is the sequel to iBloop, a Season 3 episode, where it showed every cast memb

S5·E7 Core

iStill Psycho (1)

Dec 31, 2011

Nora has a parole hearing, and Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Gibby are invited to give their opinions whether she should be kept in prison or be released. After allowing her release, th

S5·E8 Core

iStill Psycho (2)

Dec 31, 2011

After Nora once again kidnaps the iCarly cast, they are forced to participate in a birthday party that lasts "forever and ever and ever and ever..."

S5·E9 Core

iBalls

Jan 7, 2012

Freddie decides he wants to be a creative member of the iCarly team which includes him wanting to perform on the show. Freddie wants to co-host the show with Sam while Gibby works

S5·E10 Mytharc

iMeet the First Lady

Jan 16, 2012

It's Carly's dad's birthday, and things don't go as planned. He was supposed to come home for his birthday and celebrate it with Carly and Spencer, but can't make it because of som

S5·E11 Mytharc

iToe Fat Cakes

Jan 21, 2012

After Sam wins a golden ticket for a Canadian Fat Cake VIP Tour, Sam, Freddie, Spencer, and Gibby go to the Fat Cake factory in Canada, but Sam's greed finally gets the better of h