IGo to Japan (iCarly)

iGo to Japan (also known as iCarly: iGo to Japan) is a 2008 television film, part of the Nickelodeon TV series iCarly. It premiered on November 8, 2008 on Nickelodeon, and November 21 on YTV. It has also been broadcast as three episodes of the second season. It was the first film of the series. The television movie stars Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress, Jerry Trainor, and Mary Scheer. The film was directed by Steve Hoefer. The production of the film began in the spring of 2008, and lasted around 4 to 5 weeks.

iPlot
Carly, Sam, and Freddie are thrilled when their web show is nominated for a prestigious iWeb Award in the "Best Comedy Web Show" category.

iSubplot
Since Spencer is going to Japan with the iCarly trio, he tries to learn Japanese with his cardboard Japanese teacher.

iWhy It Rocks

 * 1) It's the first feature length iCarly episode, as well as the first episode to have 3 parts.
 * 2) Good Charlotte makes a cameo and performs a song at the iWeb Awards.
 * 3) Kyoko and Yuki's Last Airbender inspired fighting is really epic, even though it wasn't a real fight. And it might be the best scene in the episode.
 * 4) As usual for iCarly, nice acting. Even Kyoko and Yuki's actors spoke some decent Japanese.
 * 5) "Get outer my space!"
 * 6) Spencer's Japanese subplot is decent.
 * 7) In the end of the episode, Carly, Freddie, & Sam did win the award and beat Yuki & Kyoko.
 * 8) Henri P'Twa & his "stoopid poopet", Oompe are great comedy artists.
 * 9) Kyoko & Yuki's giant hand sketch.
 * 10) The poster is nicely designed.
 * 11) Freddie's black eye looks very realistic.

iBad Qualities

 * 1) While funny, Spencer being tortured by being shocked can be pretty harsh for fans of him.
 * 2) Kyoko and Yuki, while pretty likable, are generic "incompetent" winners who act as friends to Carly and the gang, but they drive them to the middle of nowhere in order to win the IWeb Award.

iReception
The movie episode received generally positive reviews. Verne Gay of Newsday rated it a 'B−'.

iTrivia

 * The movie was made available to watch on Nickelodeon On Demand for Comcast customers in October, a month before the premiere on Nickelodeon.


 * If one counts this as three separate episodes, it is the first time more than one episode is based on the same plot.


 * This is the first iCarly television movie. It began production in Spring 2008, with a November 8, 2008 release.


 * This is one of the only iCarly episodes to display the episode's title in it, and was the first to do so.


 * Look for a photograph of series writer-producer Dan Schneider, as his Head of the Class TV character Dennis Blunden, on the message sign held up by one of the non-English-speaking studio guards. There is an extreme closeup of the photo during the fight scene.


 * An instrumental version of the iCarly theme song plays in the background during the scene where iCarly wins the iWeb Award.


 * The "stoopid poopet" and the ventriloquist might have inspired Robbie and Rex in Dan Schneider's next show, Victorious.