They’re real-life brothers. 
GIBBY!!
The only thing better than Gibby is Gibby plus Guppy. (Guppy is Gibby’s real life little bro, btw.)
And Sam is my hero.
One thing that’s cool about the show is that it flouts the notion that boys are unlikely to watch shows that star girls.
I absolutely agree that McCurdy has the potential for a great career. Cosgrove does too. She doesn’t have quite the comic chops that McCurdy has, but she can act. Plus, she was just so deliciously evil as Megan on Drake & Josh.
I dislike that show quite a lot. It is so…goody-goody-ish. Blech.
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean?
Yeah, that show was better than it had any right to be. It wasn’t great or anything, but it was pretty decent.
Well, that’s where parenting comes in. When my son first started watching the show quite a few years ago, we probably annoyed the heck out of him by saying, “You know that’s not acceptable in real life, right?”
My son thinks Brenda Song is brilliant. He recently said that he thought she must be really smart and really clever to play someone so clueless.
Well, I hate this show (my boyfriends nieces and nephew, 12, 11 and 6, love it). I can’t believe adults like it.
I gotta admit that I enjoy this show as well! I just LOVE Gibby (my 10 year old son has a similar build and I call him Gibby when he goes shirtless!) and Spencer is indeed hot, especially with the new haircut he got in the new room episode.
And as for Jennette McCurdy’s singing, she’s much better than Cosgrove, IMO, and I go around all the time singing this song because I love it!
This show makes me pine for the days of The Adventures of Pete & Pete
Cosgrove is trying to break into this market, too.
Out of the three, Gomez is my daughter’s favorite. Cosgrove, it seems to me, has the least talent of the three.Her voice sounds heavily modified at times. Her album cover makes me laugh- the way she’s holding the guitar it seems like she has never held one to play before.
Naw, they are ending their shows because Disney doesn’t let you stay on them for too long. Miley’s show has been going on longer than usual, but Selena’s show was never supposed to last very long.
(I’m using first names because that seems to be what they most often called.)
Cosgrove must really be bad to outstrip Selena, who outstrips Miley, who previously had the record for the most modified voice I’d heard. It bugged the crap out of me back when I watched the show.
Auto tune, Schmauto tune, I love Cosgrove’s song, About you now. That’s just a clip. I think they removed the full video.
Well, they’re teen shows, so they can’t go on forever.
Yes, but I was referring to the 65 episode cap that they had forever.
I enjoy the show, especially Spencer and his wackiness, but I don’t like Sam.
She’s very self centered and mean. If she wasn’t cute, she’d be the mean cheerleader or mean girl with glasses in another film genre. She’s not butchy, she doesn’t have any hobbies (that I remember) and is not into sports at all, but she is aggressive. She’ just all about SAM FIRST APOLOGIZE LATER.
Her obsession with food really bugs me. I am a food nazi by any means, but she eats and eats and eats…They should show her in twenty years all porked out. How much of alot of episodes focus on Sam’s obsession with Soup?
I use Sam as a learning moment with my kids.
Spencer and Freddie are my favorites.
I’m surprised there isn’t one of those jailbait countdown thingys like the Olsen Twins used to have for Miranda Cosgrove. Maybe because it’s no joke.
I’m not one of those people at all; I’m more of a MILF man myself.
Miranda I’d…?
All true enough, especially that she’s basically a female version of the school bully, and I’m pretty sure most parents would prefer that their daughters not emulate her in every way. But, I can’t help it, she’s funny.
BTW, there must be some sort of TV Trope for “the audience surrogate who gets to say or do things that we’d never get away with in real life”. Kind of like Rhea Perlman’s character on Cheers, or Danny DeVito in just about anything. That’s Sam.
Yeah, there’s a lot of banal and cliche’d writing on this show that prevents it from being great TV for me, but even there, sometimes it strikes gold. I just saw the ep “iSpace Out”. There’s a scene where the gang is is supposed to be locked into a simulated space capsule for 36 hours. Carly and Freddy wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of someone eating, and flip on the light to see Sam huddled down in a corner, tearing at a piece of brisket she somehow smuggled in (not to mention a huge baggie of creamed corn, which cracked me right up for its complete silliness). The look of abject shame on her face when she’s caught is just priceless. She really is a superb actress.
Well. there you go then.
I take Sam’s eating habits as a reflection of the level of parental neglect that she suffers.
In the beauty pageant episode they showed that she always carries meat in her purse. I think she had a full rack of ribs and some fried chicken in there.
We have a 10 year old at home and we watch it with him (well mostly me; my wife hates all the screaming). I certainly enjoy it.
Oh, it is catchy. But after listening to it for the 700th time, the appeal is gone. 
The Olsen Twins had a jailbait countdown for Miranda Cosgrove? That’s kind of creepy. I actually did parse this wrong the first time I read it.
Getting back to the real star, here’s a hotel room version of Jennette McCurdy singing. I don’t much like the song, but you can hear her voice relatively unprocessed in this video.