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    iCarly

    As a literature professor, I'm really snobby about the kinds of popular culture I'll admit that I consume (I watch far more than I'll admit), and most of what I see on television is vaccuous nonsense (The Real World, Rock of Love). Thankfully, Joel McHale's The Soup condenses the worst of them into almost palatable snippets that I can stomach. Anyway, a lot of the programming on kids' tv is formulaic 1980's style sitcoms and plots....(i.e. Drake and Josh). However, I must admit that Nick's iCarly is actually watchable. The kids are decent enough, but the older brother Spencer (Jerry Trainor) makes the show worth watching.

    So, if you have kids, and have to watch what they watch, when SpongeBob isn't on, try iCarly. It's hardly groundbreaking, but it's amusing in a comfortably familiar way.
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    Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
    As a literature professor, I'm really snobby about the kinds of popular culture I'll admit that I consume (I watch far more than I'll admit), and most of what I see on television is vaccuous nonsense (The Real World, Rock of Love). Thankfully, Joel McHale's The Soup condenses the worst of them into almost palatable snippets that I can stomach. Anyway, a lot of the programming on kids' tv is formulaic 1980's style sitcoms and plots....(i.e. Drake and Josh). However, I must admit that Nick's iCarly is actually watchable. The kids are decent enough, but the older brother Spencer (Jerry Trainor) makes the show worth watching.

    So, if you have kids, and have to watch what they watch, when SpongeBob isn't on, try iCarly. It's hardly groundbreaking, but it's amusing in a comfortably familiar way.
    My six year old loves iCarly. I like the sarcasm of the Sam character.
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      My kids watch it quite a bit. I sat with them and watched an episode the other day, the one where the older brother (I don't know all their names) is on a quest to get the high score on a video game. I laughed out loud a few times. The older brother character is very funny.

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        It's one of the teeny bopper shows my kids like that I can actually stand watching with them. Pretty funny actually ...
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