Jaynalysis: iCarly vs. Victorious (feat. Jordan Fringe)

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:25 Protagonists
3:18 Supporting Characters
6:33 Story & Themes
8:58 Presentation
13:15 Website & Merchandise
15:32 Final Thoughts

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[JordanFringe]

Thanks so much for having me apart of this! You’re such a talent and I appreciate the friendship we gave! Video came out great! 😄🙌 can’t wait to see what’s next for ya!

[nlc]

Maturing is realizing that Spencer was never an idiot, he was just you’re average 20 year old guy

[joejames]

Victorious to me is a better show with a much stronger cast. One thing I’d give iCarly over Victorious is there’s a semblance of continuity and clearer plot progression. But victorious is a more fun show to go back and rewatch for me, the cast is just so varied and fun to watch interact. Though one can argue iCarly’s main cast is better written overall.

[princeapoopoo]

From what I remembered of iCarly, I didn't find either Sam or Spencer to be *entirely* stupid. Sam is book dumb, yeah, but with her lawlessness, she still thinks out of the box. She's street smart. Spencer less so, as he holds the manchild ball *a lot, * but at the same time I feel like it takes a lot of out of the box thinking to approach situations from an artistic angle. I think the problem hinges more on them existing as the butt of jokes, compared to creating plots that deal with their mental strengths.

But that's just from what I remembered of the show.

[icecreamhero]

Sycowitz isn't dumb just eccentric. He is like an acting Mad scientist. Cat is the only really stupid one.

[sirmel]

I liked that iCarly wasn't bound to the webshow. You shouldn't be bound to a concept, you should expand on it. I liked that the show was entertaining with the webshow in the plot and without.

[JulietteVeronica]

I personally prefer iCarly because the atmosphere felt more raw, like you were watching people's daily lives unwind. Victorious felt more artsy and theatrical, which I do love, because it only ever revolved around the school. Even in different settings, the events still surrounded Hollywood Arts. To me that sort of closed off the rest of the world, which I love in a live performance but in film not as much. As for iCarly, it was still creative in the webshow but it didn't feel closed off from everywhere else. Events and scenarios had occurred whether it based on the webshow, the school, Groovy Smoothies, etc.

[reinaortiz]

Icarly deserves more credit in how it related to its central theme. The icarly web show itself may have not been funny, but the award shows, webacon, production differences or whatever situation the gang found themselves in because of the web show was done flawlessly. And although Victorious did a spectacular job at infusing music, it didn’t use all its characters, even though they were performers! Icarly was sam, Freddie and Carly, all the time. Even though the web show itself was named after Carly, the writers always treated them as an ensemble rather than shove one character down our throat the way victorious did. Regardless, I love both shows equally and I love both of your channels. Thanks for the content!

[jathanblake]

To me I think Victorious may have better writing in terms of maturity but the delivery for iCarly was something that didn't feel one sided. There were so many moments and episodes that I can remember from iCarly than Victorious

[Hiccupanda]

Sam certainly is not an idiot. Sure she's not booksmart like Carly and Freddie, but she is definitely streetsmart and outwits the guys on the show all the time.

[kaeleighgilmore]

let’s agree that icarly is for younger people and victorious is more for teens- at the time anyway

[maayanona]

I do like the "random = funny" kind of humor, but I felt like iCarly has like, wayyyy too much of it. I like random stuff when you don't expect them, but in iCarly I feel like every single moment something random is about to happen, especially on the actual webshow.
For me, Victorious takes it big time. Victorious is really one of the best sitcoms I ever watched.

[protog]

I feel like the Icarly cast overall had better chemistry. Looking at Carly and Sam, their on camera and off camera dynamic is so natural and fun. And their funny banter is what made them famous in the first place. It’s difficult to name a friendship in victorious that’s nearly as iconic. Andre and Beck are claimed to be best friends, yet we don’t really see them hang out with each other. We have Jade and cat, but it feels like a very toxic friendship where Jade is always bossing her around and yelling at her when cat is enjoying herself.

When it comes to sibling relationships, it’s always depicted how much Carly and Spencer love each other. You were always see them joke around being sarcastic towards one another and it’s a really fun dynamic to see. With Tori and Trina however, we mainly only see them bickering, screaming, competing or being annoyed and you get the sense that they are just trapped with each other instead of them truly loving each other.

[Dm]

I think victorious is more quotable than icarly. Victorious had a memorable setting, eccentric characters, and many quotable innuendos

[sweetc]

For me, I definitely enjoy Victorious more, I think the humor is so much better, as you said each character is so different that the jokes they make are all so much better and they make more sense with the overall storyline of the episode its not just little jokes like in ICarly, I really like iCarly as well but the writing in victorious is just to funny and I just love the vocabulary they chose for the show

[eph_loves_s]

Both are amazing shows. Really love them. ICarly somehow has better writing, Victorious has better character development.

[impatientjones]

I think what makes both shows hard to compare is the audience it's written for. Although it isn't a huge age gap iCarly started out for children 6 and older and set up characters and jokes to be liked by kids while Victorious came to supplement the teens aging out of iCarly who needed edgier and more relatable characters. As a network both shows together airing at it's time is genius

[Glynn]

This is coming from an icarly fan is that victorious felt like you were all friends with them and it was a comfort show although icarly was a sitcom

[seoul]

i enjoy victorious more because of the side characters. in icarly, sam was the only one that stood out to me as funny. but victorious just has such great side characters that’s so entertaining. cat, jade, trina, andre, robbie, sikowitz ect.

[kylepickus]

ICarly was more bold, taking on the Internet video theme long before anyone really knew it would be so big. It often took on actual issues teenagers face, while Victorious was much more situational.

The ICarly web-show part was a bit “loud=funny, ” but let’s remember who the show was for, children. What the webshow did to appeal more to children was more than made up for by its show outside of the webshow, which had the ability to appeal to other demographics. After rewatching the show as an adult, I can confirm this to be true for me. I used to love the web-show bits as a child, but as I grew I appreciated it less as I began to appreciate the other parts more.

Victorious always struck me as more theatrical and less personable. The characters were more fleshed out in Victorious, but this actually made them less relatable. It’s much easier to see yourself in a character which fits a certain archetype than it is a character who is “too real.” Tori, Beck, Andre, and even Trina struck me as “too human.”