IWas a Pageant Girl

Season 3, Episode 11

**iWas a Pageant Girl** is the 11th episode of Season 3 of *iCarly* and the 61st episode overall. It was originally supposed to air January 9th, 2010, but it did not air until January 29th, 2010.

## Plot

When Tara, one of Carly, Sam, and Freddie's classmates, mentions on iCarly that she competes in beauty pageants and expects to lose the next one to a girl named LeAnn Carter, who has won 99 pageants in a row, Sam gets upset. She reveals that she used to compete in pageants herself and always lost to LeAnn until LeAnn fell down some stairs and people accused Sam of pushing her, leading to Sam getting banned from competing for seven years. Since LeAnn being about to win the 100th pageant in a row as the first girl ever upsets her so much, she pushes Carly to compete in the pageant.

While Carly is preparing for the pageant, Sam finds out that she's eligible to compete in the pageant (due it being six months past the seven-year mark of her suspension), and enters herself supported by Carly. She does well at first with a speech about "Ending world hunger - for the children." The final portion is the talent competition, during which LeAnn does an impressive saxophone solo--Sam gets nervous about what to do for her turn, and decides to sing the song Carly was gonna sing until she runs into Ernie, who was her dance coach back during her pageant days, and they do a routine that Sam refers to as the "train station routine." Sam manages to win the overall title for the pageant.

### Subplot

Spencer and Freddie decide to go on a double date. Originally, they planned to go rock-climbing, but along with the girls, they decide to play a game called "What Am I?" (Spoof of the well-known game, Hedbanz®) before their scheduled climb time. Eventually, their dates leave out of frustration with how wrapped up in the game the guys are and the occasionally stupid questions they ask each other. After the pageant, the girls try to get the guys' attention, and because the guys are too wrapped up in their game, the girls reveal their cards. The episode ends with the guys getting annoyed and starting over with new cards.

## Trivia

* The episode that was shown instead, "iMake Sam Girlier," was shown with a series of other TV episodes featuring Jennette McCurdy: as a guest star in the new *True Jackson: VP* episode “True Drama,” as well reruns of *Malcolm in the Middle* episodes "If Boys Were Girls" and "Buseys Take a Hostage."
* Dan Schneider said in his blogs that Sam was supposed to admit having pushed Leanne down the stairs, but it was cut out so Sam wouldn't seem *too* violent.
* One of the pageant girls is from Yakima, first mentioned in iWanna Stay With Spencer.
* Jennette McCurdy did all the dancing, as stated in Dan Schneider's Fun Facts on the episode.
* This episode can be seen on the iCarly DVD, iSpace Out.
* Lane Napper, who plays Lane Alexander on Victorious, played Ernie, Sam's dance coach.
* Like all of the fictional websites depicted on the series, instaboobs.com redirects the user to icarly.com.
* Sam's pink dress can be bought here.
* Some viewers asked how Freddie could want to go on a date with another girl so soon after breaking up with Carly (iSaved Your Life). Dan Schneider explained that Freddie *didn't* want to go out with Leslie and only did so because Spencer pushed him into it.
* In the episode iEnrage Gibby, Sam was originally scripted to tell Freddie, *"Dude, you can't even get one of these,"* referencing Carly. The line was cut because Dan Schneider felt it was too soon after iSaved Your Life to say something like that. Curiously enough, though, iWas A Pageant Girl aired immediately after iSaved Your Life and is still after iSaved Your Life in production code, yet Sam told Freddie, *"No girl you have met is gonna go on a date with you!"* which is a continuity error considering he had **just dated** Carly, but Sam could have been exaggerating.
* There are two references to hobos in the episode. There is a running gag in the show referencing hobos:
	+ Sam's dancing teacher, Ernie, is dressed as a hobo in a talent competition for a Late Night Train wait while dancing.
	+ At the end, Freddie puts on a new guessing card and the card's word is *hobo*.
* Sam's Penny-Tee reads 'Follow DanWarp' but was blurred out by Nickelodeon UK for it is product placement for DanWarp's Twitter page.
* On iCarly.com, a photo was posted of Sam standing on her toes during her dance routine with a description that says: "Sam learned to stand on her toes because when she was little her mom used to keep the fat cakes on a shelf".

## References

1. ↑ Nickelodeon’s iCarly and Big Time Rush Top Basic Cable On Friday TVbythenumbers.com (Feb. 2, 2010)
2. ↑ iCarly | Sam Spills | Nickelodeon UK