7.3/10621 votes#1 - iPilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/2007
Carly's teacher, Ms. Briggs puts her in charge of the school talent show. After Freddie uploads the auditions, hosted by Carly and Sam, to the Internet, it becomes a huge sensation. So Carly and her friends decide to create a weekly variety show.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Dan Schneider
7.4/10453 votes#2 - iWant More Viewers
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/8/2007
It's Carly and Sam versus Freddie and Spencer in the ultimate competition to see who can attract more viewers to the show. Things go crazy when they carry out their plans.
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: Steve Holland, Steven Molaro
6.6/10428 votes#3 - iDream of Dance
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/2007
Carly and Sam get inspiration to dance from dance videos sent by fans of their web show. Carly struts her stuff in a dream with her charming partner.
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: Dan Schneider
6.8/10429 votes#4 - iLike Jake
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/2007
After Jake, Carly's crush, agrees to sing a song on the webcast, Carly gets extremely excited. But, it is soon discovered that Jake is a terrible singer, so Carly asks Freddie to digitally enhance Jake's performance.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Dan Schneider
7.5/10411 votes#5 - iWanna Stay With Spencer
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/29/2007
Carly's grandfather comes for a visit and is appalled by Spencer's unusual behavior, so he questions Spencer's ability to be in charge. Carly must convince him that Spencer is capable of being her guardian.
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: Arthur Gradstein
7.2/10394 votes#6 - iNevel
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/6/2007
Carly, Sam and Freddie want their show to be reviewed. Carly risks receiving a bad review when she insults the annoying eleven year old who runs a popular site that rates web casts.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Steve Holland
7.2/10383 votes#7 - iScream on Halloween
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/2007
Carly, Sam and Freddie do their Halloween webcast from an apartment that is rumored to be haunted. When creepy things start happening, the friends worry that the ghost rumors just might be true. Carly's strangely secretive neighbor, Mrs. Halberstadt, adds to their anxiety. Meanwhile, when Spencer forgets to buy candy, he's got a bunch of angry trick-or-treaters on his hands
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Jake Farrow
7.0/10370 votes#8 - iSpy a Mean Teacher
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/2007
The topic for the next iCarly webcast is figuring out what mean teachers do outside of school. When Carly and Freddie follow Ms. Briggs home, they get stuck inside her house.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Steven Molaro
7.1/10358 votes#9 - iWant to Date Freddie
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/2007
Valerie, a girl from school, shows interest in Freddie, and they become boyfriend and girlfriend. She tries to tear Freddie away from iCarly to film her webcast and tries to recruit Sam, too.
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: Steve Holland
7.4/10373 votes#10 - iWant a World Record
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/2007
Carly, Freddie and Sam want to get into the world record book so they decide to try and beat the record for longest ongoing webcast. Meanwhile, Spencer builds an enormous sculpture.
Director: Roger Christiansen
Writer: Dan Schneider
7.3/10350 votes#11 - iRue the Day
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/2007
The Plain White T's are set to perform on iCarly, but Nevel plans to ruin the event by hacking into the site.
Director: David Kendall
Writer: Dan Schneider
7.3/10332 votes#12 - iPromise Not to Tell
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2008
Carly gets a B on her history paper and becomes upset because she thinks she deserves better. Sam hacks into the school computer to change the grade and all is fine until Carly has to deal with her guilty conscience.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Dicky Murphy
6.6/10353 votes#13 - iAm Your Biggest Fan
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/2008
Carly invites her biggest fan to watch a live taping of iCarly but the girl is so obsessed that they can't get rid of her. Meanwhile, Spencer discovers that his band puts up with him only to use his apartment to rehearse.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Jake Farrow
7.1/10340 votes#14 - iHeart Art
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/2008
Spencer becomes depressed and uninterested in art after his idol criticizes his work. Carly tries to cheer him up by featuring some of his sculptures on the show.
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: Arthur Gradstein
6.7/10330 votes#15 - iHate Sam's Boyfriend
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/2008
When Sam's new relationship starts affecting the web show, Carly and Freddie try everything to get Sam and her new boyfriend broken up. But the problem is, they cannot be separated. Meanwhile, Spencer attempts to make a Claymation film.
Director: Roger Christiansen
Writer: Dan Schneider
7.3/10348 votes#16 - iHatch Chicks
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/2008
Carly and Sam have a science project to hatch chicks. When the eggs hatch earlier than expected, they have to search the apartment for the runaway chicks.
Director: David Kendall
Writer: Steven Molaro
7.0/10354 votes#17 - iDon't Want to Fight
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/2008
Carly becomes angry at Sam after she trades the shirt Carly made her for concert tickets. Meanwhile, Spencer invents a contraption to feed his fish
Director: Roger Christiansen
Writer: Arthur Gradstein
7.3/10337 votes#18 - iPromote Techfoots
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/2008
Daka Shoes wants iCarly to promote their new shoe, Techfoots. Carly accepts and tells all her viewers to buy the shoe. Unfortunately, the shoes are no good and fans began to complain. The gang has to find a way out of the contract. Meanwhile, Spencer expresses his dislike for public transportation after he falls asleep on a bus and ends up in Canada.
Director: Adam Weissman
Writer: Arthur Gradstein
7.8/10368 votes#19 - iGot Detention
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/22/2008
Carly's show's 50th airing is coming up but Sam gets detention. Carly and Freddie do bad things to get in detention to shoot the show from there. Meanwhile, Spencer drops his phone into a large coffee cup built by him
Director: Roger Christiansen
Writer: Andrew Hill Newman
6.9/10322 votes#20 - iStakeout
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/5/2008
The police use the loft as a stakeout to catch movie bootleggers; Spencer is shocked when one of the policemen turn out to be his childhood bully. Meanwhile, Freddie and Sam make a bet and the loser has to get a tattoo of the winner's face.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Andrew Hill Newman
6.9/10342 votes#21 - iMight Switch Schools
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/26/2008
Freddie, Sam and her webcast, iCarly. Freddie and Sam scheme to make sure that Carly stays. Meanwhile, Spencer builds a mini golf course that becomes popular.
Director: David Kendall
Writer: Dicky Murphy
7.4/10337 votes#22 - iFence
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/2008
Freddie's in need of some guy time, so he tags along with Spencer to go fencing. Freddie's a natural, but things get complicated when Spencer gets him involved in a match with the amazing Doug Toder. Meanwhile, Carly has to plan a dinner for her weird relatives, the Dorfmans, and with Spencer busy fencing, she might not get much help. Sam reveals that she has never read a real book, and a bet begins between her and Freddie: can Sam finish a book?
Director: Russ Reinsel
Writer: Dan Schneider
6.9/10368 votes#23 - iCarly Saves TV
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/13/2008
A television programming director realizes that iCarly is funnier than anything his network currently has available for the upcoming fall lineup. Unfortunatley, upon acquiring the show, the network takes it further and further away from Carly's original vision, and exploits and torments Freddie more than Sam and his mother combined.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Jake Farrow
7.3/10338 votes#24 - iWin A Date
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 7/25/2008
Carly tries to get her web show viewers to take a boy in her school on a date.
Director: Steve Hoefer
Writer: Andrew Hill Newman
7.1/10345 votes#25 - iHave a Lovesick Teacher
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 7/25/2008
Lauren Ackerman, Carly's history teacher has become an emotional wreck after her boyfriend dumps her, and she takes her heartache out on everybody in class, including Carly. When Spencer discovers her agony during what passes for a parent-teacher conference, he decides to be her new knight in shining armor and fills the hole in her heart. Though things go smoothly for Spencer, Miss Ackerman, and her class at first, soon Spencer, Carly, Sam, and Freddie find that it's going to take a lot more than just a little loving to keep the teacher happy, and her class safe.
Director: Roger Christiansen
Writer: Ethan Banville
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"iPilot" is the best rated episode of "iCarly" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 621 votes. Directed by Steve Hoefer and written by Dan Schneider, it aired on 9/8/2007. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "iWant More Viewers".