OOC: Oh hey, it's info post time.
I'll get to my other kids, later, but first, the new girl.
Meet Sam Puckett, the rough and tumble internet star with a heart of -- well, pyrite, at the very least.
Sam’s from iCarly, Nickelodeon’s hit sitcom about three friends who run a hit web variety show called (drum roll) “iCarly”. It might have been called “The Carly and Sam Show” or something of the like, but Sam figured if her name wasn’t in the title, she could probably get away with doing less work on it. Because that’s just how Sam rolls. (Seriously, even her best friend thinks she’s kind of horrible.) She comes from a long line of cons and delinquents, and carries on the family name quite well. She has a parole officer and everything. She’s sneaky, underhanded, selfish, and lazy, and usually pretty proud of being all of the above. If she sees your character as a nub*, she will prank them or talk them into doing something ridiculous, and quite possibly then post a video of it online (this, naturally, depends entirely upon prior OOC arrangements, so do let me know if you’re up for it).
Seriously, Sam’s the kind of girl who does this:
Fun fact! That’s not her couch!
Sam loves food. To extremes. That icon up there is her cuddling and kissing a ham sandwich. She’s worn meat patches to try to overcome the urge to eat all the meatballs. She carries fried chicken and ribs (pork AND beef) in her purse for emergencies. She’ll pack more fat cakes** than clothes when going on a trip, says that pudding is more important than legs, and has a recurring dream about a monster stealing her soup. When Carly’s older brother tries to help her get over this dream by giving her soup and then attacking her dressed like a monster, she throws him over her shoulder and beats him up with a ladle. This is because Sam is also super scrappy, and able to throw people who are, like, three times her weight and carry guys around like they’re a sack of feathers. She’s not formally trained, but unless your character has super powers, she can probably hold her own in a fight.
Want to see her in action? Gotcha covered here (embedding disabled) and here. (Watch out for the mad amounts of “Seddie” videos on YouTube -- I blame Nickelodeon for actually making the smush names canon.)
Sam’s coming in between seasons three and four of the show. She got herself arrested one too many times, and the judge recommended enrolling in Fandom as an alternative to juvie. Since Sam’s identical twin sister Melanie has been attending private school on scholarship for years and is actually a good person, Sam’s mom thought it was a great idea and signed her right up.
* iCarly follows the grand tradition of Farscape and BSG in making up its own slang. “Nub” is an insult, rather like “dork”. There’s also “chiz”, which seems to function as a synonym for “shit”, and on one memorable occasion, Freddie’s mother shouted “What the yuck?!”
** iCarly also metas the hell out of things. The Dingo Channel is a very clear parody of the Disney Channel (the head of the original founder, Charles Dingo, is kept frozen in the basement of the LA studios), Apple products are Pear products (ie the PearPod and PearPad, as well as Pear computers), World of Warcraft is World of Warlords, fat cakes are essentially snowball-like snack cakes, etc., etc.
The iCarly web show airs live from the third floor studio of Carly’s apartment in Seattle (yeah, Carly’s apartment has three floors, and it’s not even a penthouse) on a weekly basis, and is the hottest thing among 10-18 year olds in Sam’s universe. It’s won an iWeb award for best comedy, presented in Tokyo, Japan, and is popular enough that the Dingo Channel** copies their stuff, shoe manufacturers have offered their sponsorship, and Sam and her friends have been comically abducted over it more than once. Sure, maybe Sam can’t commute back to Seattle once a week to film the show while she’s in Fandom, but she figures that doesn’t need to stop them. She has the technical producer, Freddie, in Fandom with her, after all, and now there’s this whole new set of kids to get to do guest spots.
I don’t know how much of this will be handwaved or what day we’ll try to do it on or, well, a lot of the details at all, but this means that iCarly guestage will likely be on offer to the students (and possibly teachers and townies, when filmed outside the dorms) who are interested. Guests on the show usually either show off some bizarre and possibly disgusting talent (the first iCarly ever had a guy on who could squirt milk out of his eyes) or participating in games like “hey, what am I sitting on?” which . . . is hopefully fairly self-explanatory. Other possibilities include guest spots in sketches like “The Cowboy and the Idiot Farmgirl Who Thought the Cowboy’s Mustache Was a Squirrel”. So keep an eye out if that sounds like something you’d be interested in putting your character through participating in!
In the meantime, this post is open for questions, comments, and offers of new victims targets chumps friends? for Sam to target with a prank or two.
Meet Sam Puckett, the rough and tumble internet star with a heart of -- well, pyrite, at the very least.
Sam’s from iCarly, Nickelodeon’s hit sitcom about three friends who run a hit web variety show called (drum roll) “iCarly”. It might have been called “The Carly and Sam Show” or something of the like, but Sam figured if her name wasn’t in the title, she could probably get away with doing less work on it. Because that’s just how Sam rolls. (Seriously, even her best friend thinks she’s kind of horrible.) She comes from a long line of cons and delinquents, and carries on the family name quite well. She has a parole officer and everything. She’s sneaky, underhanded, selfish, and lazy, and usually pretty proud of being all of the above. If she sees your character as a nub*, she will prank them or talk them into doing something ridiculous, and quite possibly then post a video of it online (this, naturally, depends entirely upon prior OOC arrangements, so do let me know if you’re up for it).
Seriously, Sam’s the kind of girl who does this:
Fun fact! That’s not her couch!
Sam loves food. To extremes. That icon up there is her cuddling and kissing a ham sandwich. She’s worn meat patches to try to overcome the urge to eat all the meatballs. She carries fried chicken and ribs (pork AND beef) in her purse for emergencies. She’ll pack more fat cakes** than clothes when going on a trip, says that pudding is more important than legs, and has a recurring dream about a monster stealing her soup. When Carly’s older brother tries to help her get over this dream by giving her soup and then attacking her dressed like a monster, she throws him over her shoulder and beats him up with a ladle. This is because Sam is also super scrappy, and able to throw people who are, like, three times her weight and carry guys around like they’re a sack of feathers. She’s not formally trained, but unless your character has super powers, she can probably hold her own in a fight.
Want to see her in action? Gotcha covered here (embedding disabled) and here. (Watch out for the mad amounts of “Seddie” videos on YouTube -- I blame Nickelodeon for actually making the smush names canon.)
Sam’s coming in between seasons three and four of the show. She got herself arrested one too many times, and the judge recommended enrolling in Fandom as an alternative to juvie. Since Sam’s identical twin sister Melanie has been attending private school on scholarship for years and is actually a good person, Sam’s mom thought it was a great idea and signed her right up.
* iCarly follows the grand tradition of Farscape and BSG in making up its own slang. “Nub” is an insult, rather like “dork”. There’s also “chiz”, which seems to function as a synonym for “shit”, and on one memorable occasion, Freddie’s mother shouted “What the yuck?!”
** iCarly also metas the hell out of things. The Dingo Channel is a very clear parody of the Disney Channel (the head of the original founder, Charles Dingo, is kept frozen in the basement of the LA studios), Apple products are Pear products (ie the PearPod and PearPad, as well as Pear computers), World of Warcraft is World of Warlords, fat cakes are essentially snowball-like snack cakes, etc., etc.
The iCarly web show airs live from the third floor studio of Carly’s apartment in Seattle (yeah, Carly’s apartment has three floors, and it’s not even a penthouse) on a weekly basis, and is the hottest thing among 10-18 year olds in Sam’s universe. It’s won an iWeb award for best comedy, presented in Tokyo, Japan, and is popular enough that the Dingo Channel** copies their stuff, shoe manufacturers have offered their sponsorship, and Sam and her friends have been comically abducted over it more than once. Sure, maybe Sam can’t commute back to Seattle once a week to film the show while she’s in Fandom, but she figures that doesn’t need to stop them. She has the technical producer, Freddie, in Fandom with her, after all, and now there’s this whole new set of kids to get to do guest spots.
I don’t know how much of this will be handwaved or what day we’ll try to do it on or, well, a lot of the details at all, but this means that iCarly guestage will likely be on offer to the students (and possibly teachers and townies, when filmed outside the dorms) who are interested. Guests on the show usually either show off some bizarre and possibly disgusting talent (the first iCarly ever had a guy on who could squirt milk out of his eyes) or participating in games like “hey, what am I sitting on?” which . . . is hopefully fairly self-explanatory. Other possibilities include guest spots in sketches like “The Cowboy and the Idiot Farmgirl Who Thought the Cowboy’s Mustache Was a Squirrel”. So keep an eye out if that sounds like something you’d be interested in putting your character through participating in!
In the meantime, this post is open for questions, comments, and offers of new victims targets chumps friends? for Sam to target with a prank or two.