Freddie Benson

Fredward Freduccini Benson, also known as Freddie Benson, is one of the main characters from the iCarly series.
== Charactah Account ==
Freddie is the cameraman and general tech-support guy for iCarly, as well as Carly's other best friend and childhood crush. He is an all-around nice guy, along with growing up under the wing of his overbearing mother Marissa Benson.
Freddie is intelligent and gets good grades in school. He is sometimes described as "geeky" as he gets excited by technology and sci-fi. He is a member of the A.V. Club at Ridgeway Junior High School and a fan of World of Warlords. Because of his love for computers, he became iCarly's technical producer, the one who builds and operates the technical equipment on iCarly, such as the green screen, the flat screen monitor (which he made move 18% faster), Sam's remote, and various special effects.
Freddie is generally calm and even-tempered when dealing with negative people or events. Freddie has very strong morals, and has trouble being mean, taking advantage of people, or lying. He can also be a little clumsy.
== Appearance ==
=== Movies ===
* iParty with Victorious
=== TV Series ===
* iCarly
* iCarly (2021)
* iCarly (2021) Season 2
* iCarly (2021) Season 3
* iCarly Season 2
* iCarly Season 3
* iCarly Season 4
* iCarly Season 5
* Sam & Cat
=== Video Games ===
* iCarly
* iCarly 2: iJoin the Click!
* iCarly: iDream in Toons
== Trivia ==
* Freddie is the one who came up with the webshow name, iCarly.
* Freddie is the only main character in the original show without a sibling (Carly has a brother named Spencer, a fellow main character, Sam has a twin sister named Melanie, and Gibby has a brother named Guppy).
* In iRescue Carly it was revealed that Freddie had formerly taken ballet lessons, most likely due to the fact that Mrs. Benson wanted a daughter.
* Freddie and Gibby are the only main characters that did not have a birthday episode in the original show.
** However, Freddie had his 29th birthday celebrated in the season 2 finale of the revival, iThrow a Flawless Murder Mystery Party.
* In iDate Sam & Freddie, it is revealed Freddie has lost some of his hearing. This became known when Sam revealed she first started liking him after she pushed him into a bike messenger. The bike messenger accidentally knocked Freddie down and his head hit a fire hydrant. He laid there moaning with blood coming out of his ears. Freddie personally believed it was worth the hearing loss.
* Freddie's girlfriend and best friend is Carly Shay.
* Freddie wore a new Penny T in iDate Sam & Freddie. It was gray and had the phrase, "Penny Tease" on it in red letters.
* The audience finds out that Freddie knows about the tracking chip his mother put in his head in iDate Sam & Freddie.
* Freddie's "before the start of the webshow" countdown ("In 5...4...3...2...!") can be considered a catchphrase, even outside the webshow. He used it in iWas A Pageant Girl, iGive Away a Car, and he mocked Sam for saying the "1" in iTake on Dingo ("You don't say the one!"). Also, in iHire An Idiot, he started the countdown, but as he reaches the end, Cort unexpectedly yells, "ONE!" much to his annoyance. This was re-enacted in iLost My Mind, when Freddie does the countdown, and the mental patients shout "ONE!!!" Carly omitted the "one" when she did the countdown (iKiss). It's mentioned again in iChristmas when Carly explains that she doesn't understand why he omits the one, but she likes it anyway. Freddie does say the one in iFight Shelby Marx, but this is in a countdown to the end of a fight. He also skipped it when Sam rolls him from the couch in iStill Psycho. He also used it (without the one) in iFind Lewbert's Lost Love when he was about to roll the scene where Martha, Lewbert's ex-girlfriend was about to enter the building, much to Carly's annoyance. This countdown was also made the introduction in the iCarly opening theme.
** Not saying "1" is a common practice amongst camera people when they do countdowns.
** In iMake New Memories, Freddie starts saying his countdown off-camera when he is about to kiss Carly for the second time, but she stops him by kissing him before he can even down to 3. Freddie getting down to only 4 is the first time he has never gotten down to the 2.
* Freddie has cried seven times so far: in iWanna Stay with Spencer (because he was upset Carly was leaving); in iPromise Not to Tell (because he thought he, along with Carly, was going to juvie); in iQuit iCarly (because he didn't want Carly and Sam to split up); iFix a Pop Star (because he was forked in the shoulder and was under a lot of pain), and three times in iMake New Memories (when confronting Carly about what happened during their date in Italy, when venting to Spencer about his regret from his argument with Carly, and while he is confessing his feelings to Carly).
* Freddie is allergic to bees (mentioned in iSpy a Mean Teacher) and onions (mentioned in 12 Days of Christmas Torture, Sam's Christmas Blog on iCarly.com).
* The equipment on Freddie's cart includes an old TV antenna, a PlayStation Controller, and a dashboard. Most of the equipment on the cart are things Nathan Kress doesn't even recognise.
* During the Drake & Josh days, Dan Schneider had cast Nathan Kress as Toplin, a nerdy boy who had a crush on Megan Parker (Drake's sister and Josh's stepsister, played by Miranda Cosgrove) in the episode "Battle of the Panthatar." However, when he saw the potential Kress had, he gave him a character on iCarly, this time as a boy who had a massive crush on Carly (also played by Miranda Cosgrove). As for Toplin's scenes, they were ultimately cut, because the producers were worried that the young Nickelodeon fans would be confused by seeing Nathan on Drake & Josh playing a character similar to Freddie.
* In iGet Pranky, Freddie revealed that Marissa Benson was a Boy Scout (although he should have been a Boy Sprout, since on the show, the Girl Scouts are known as the Girl Sprouts).
* Freddie can Fence, and was a member of the Ridgeway High School Fencing Club. In iMeet Fred, he was also said to be a member of the Junior Bow and Arrow Club, as well as the Mathletes (iSaw Him First). He was also a member of the AV Club.
* In iMove Out, it is revealed that Freddie's mom, Marissa Benson, kept him inside her for eleven months ("I wanted to make sure you were done!") and it is said that Carly got Freddie interested in girls. (“You’re the one who got Freddie interested in girls, and ever since then his boy-chemistry’s been all out of whack”) stated by Marissa Benson.
* Freddie's star sign is an Aquarius.
* In the second season, Freddie's voice got lower due to puberty, although it's noticeable that his voice slowly gets lower as the finale of the first season approaches.
* In a promo for an episode, it shows a timeline of the episodes. Freddie's name is misspelled when it shows the title of the episode - iWill Date Freddy (instead of the actual title, iWill Date Freddie).
* Over the course, Freddie has had 4 girlfriends. (Valarie in IWin a Date, Carly in ISaved Your Life, Sam in a few episodes of season 4 and Pearl in season 2 of the revival.)
** It was revealed in iLove Your Shoes that Pearl was his girlfriend for a year
** Freddie later gets back together and ends up with Carly in iMake New Memories.
** By the time of iHave A Proposal, Freddie has been with Carly for seven episodes, making it his longest relationship after Pearl.
* Freddie has a scar from picking a chickenpox blister when he was young.
* Starting from when Freddie was born, his mother Marissa Benson would de-wax his ears on every third Friday.
* In iApril Fools it is implied that Freddie MAY have kids with Carly (Sam isn't in the revival) in the future.
** This subject is brought up in iCreate a New Ecosystem, when Freddie thinks Carly is pregnant and gets excited about the idea of having a baby with her.
** It was revealed in iFauxpologize that Freddie never wanted kids, but wants one with Carly by the time of iCreate a New Ecosystem, showing his views on fatherhood have changed after adopting Millicent and how important Carly is to him.
* Freddie is the first main character to get kissed (on the nose by Carly), and the first main character to get kissed on the lips (by Valerie), although in iKiss, he reveals he has never kissed anyone.
* Freddie has had one job throughout the show in iPear Store at the Pear Store.
* Freddie was supposed to be born in December but his mom was pregnant with him for 11 months, 2 more months than she should have, so he was born in February.
* Freddie likes baseball (as revealed in iToe Fat Cakes).
* Freddie says the last line of the original series "And we're clear."
* In iSaved Your Life, it was shown that Freddie had a huge picture of Carly on his closet door.
* It seems as though Freddie frequently wore striped shirts in season 1, which may explain why Sam hated him so much, considering the fact Sam hated stripes.
* In the Sam & Cat special, #TheKillerTunaJump, Freddie revealed he still had feelings for Sam.
** In that episode, Marissa said to Freddie that Carly would never love him, but ironically it is proven not true in the revival show as Freddie would actually enter a real relationship with Carly 9 years later in 2023.
* Freddie was the first iCarly star to appear on Sam & Cat. (Second if you include Sam since she is the main character, then followed by Gibby in a seperate episode).
* Freddie appeared in an episode of Sam & Cat called #TheKillerTunaJump. In one episode however, Sam contacted Freddie off screen to trace an IP address.
* In a 2019 interview for NickRewind, Anthony Padilla asked Nathan Kress what Freddie would be up to today. Kress initially replied by saying Freddie would have moved to Palo Alto and met a cute programmer, but after thinking about it some more he and Padilla agreed Freddie would still be living with his mom. Padilla and Kress's theory was confirmed in the first episode of the revival.
* Freddie's Spanish outbursts are in English instead in both the Latin American Spanish and Castilian Spanish dubs.
* According to Nathan Kress in the official iCarly locker tour video by Nickelodeon, Freddie really wanted to learn to drive at some point, which he ended up doing.
* Freddie is one of the three main characters from the original series ICarly that is also a main character in iCarly (2021), along with Carly Shay and Spencer Shay.
* Freddie shares custody with his ex-wife Gwen over Millicent Mitchell his adoptive daughter.
* Freddie was married to Millicent's mother, Gwen, for 14 months.
* Freddie's mom still tucks him into bed.
* Despite his name being Fredward, Freddie seems to be embarrassed by it as he is mostly known as Freddie.
* Freddie doesn't know how to tie a tie.
** Although it seems he may have learned how to, because in iMake New Memories, Freddie walks out of his room with his tie already tied while his mother was in the living room.
* Freddie is good at salsa dancing.
* Unlike the original series, Freddie has only spoken Spanish for the first time in the revival, in iCause A Cat-Astrophe.
* Freddie is terrified of Richard Nixon after being lost in a gift shop in a presidential library, with a load of masks of Nixon.
* Miranda Cosgrove confirmed that Freddie and Carly would end up together and be "endgame".
** They are again confirmed to endgame in IHave A Proposal, when it said outright that they are.
* In the episode iSpy a Mean Teacher, Freddie mentioned that he would be Carly's second husband, but ironically he was the one to be married and divorced twice by the time of 14 years later. He wouldn't actually enter a real relationship with her until 16 years later.
* Freddie shares minor similarities with Ross Geller from Friends, with his two failed marriages and struggle with a career at some point in their lives.
* Freddie's middle name is Freduccini This could explain why Freddie spoke a lot of Spanish in the original show.
* Freddie hates flat white coffee, but likes a cupachino.
* Freddie is an honorary genius at the Pear Store, but has to pay more than the standard price.
* Freddie appears to get easily excited over the smallest things, as shown in episodes such as iMake New Memories, when he gets excited over a phone update.
* Whenever Freddie gets nervous, he tends to put his hands in his pockets, as seen in iSpeed Date and iMake New Memories.
* Freddie loves power point presentations.
* Freddie is a yellow belt in karate and drives a Yaris.
* Freddie was the most popular kid in school, in his senior year and was very rebellious to the point where he would break into places like bowling alley's and drank out of paper bags.
* Freddie has a fear of cats, but one of his blogs showed Freddie wanting a cat with Carly if they were married with kids. This means he developed the fear later on in life. It is revealed in iCause A Cat-Astrophe that the fear started after the events of iQuit iCarly, when Freddie heard a cat in the walls of Bushwell Plaza.
* Freddie no longer owns the Kevin (app) company, as he sold the app after he broke up with Pearl.
* Freddie is making music as a side career after he sold his company.
* Freddie almost marries Carly in iHave A Proposal, until they get interrupted.
* Freddie claims in iCause A Cat-Astrophe that he prefers to wear a youth XL suit rather than a men's one as he thinks he looks better in them.
* According to iFauxpologize, Freddie never originally wanted kids until he adopted Millicent, but by the time of iCreate a New Ecosystem, in 2023, its revealed that Freddie wants a biological child with Carly.
* Freddie liked wearing crocks when he was younger as he found them easy to clean and liked shoes that came in fun bold colors.
* Freddie is a good singer and writes instructional tunes about technology. The singing is a talent he shares with Spencer and Carly.
* Freddie, his mom, Nevel and Nora are the only characters to appear in all three shows.
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== External Links ==
* Freddie Benson at iCarly Wiki
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