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iPilot is the first episode of iCarly.

Plot
Carly Shay (played by Miranda Cosgrove), a 13 year old student in Ridgeway Middle School, gets in trouble - although she was taking the blame for her best friend, Sam Puckett (played by Jennette McCurdy) - for photodocking Ms. Briggs' head to a rhinoceros, and she is punished to spend her Saturday at the school's talent show auditions, instead of going to The Cuttlefish concert, which they had originally planned. Because she was taking the blame for Sam, she drags her along too.

When Carly gets home, she drops a bottle of water, and Freddie Benson (played by Nathan Kress), who has a crush on Carly, rushes to pick it up for her. It is revealed that Carly has no interest in Freddie.

The show then introduces Spencer Shay (played by Jerry Trainor), Carly's 26-year-old brother and legal guardian, and reveals that he enjoys creating strange sculptures. She asks to borrow Spencer's Camera, only to see that he made it into a Squirrel. Carly asks to borrow Freddie's Camera, but instead, Freddie tries impressing Carly by bringing all of his equipment.

They start filming the auditions, and most of them are boring. After watching the audition of a boy who looks like Ms. Briggs, Carly and Sam make jokes about Ms Briggs' "crazy pointy boobs", which Freddie films. Later that night, Carly and Sam wake up at around midnight after falling asleep watching TV and check SplashFace, and find out that Freddie uploaded a video of them joking about Ms. Briggs. Freddie gets dragged out of his house by Sam, and they question him angrily. Freddie realizes he accidentally uploaded what he meant to edit out and tries deleting the video, but it would take a day for the video to be removed.

The next day, Carly and Sam talk to Ms. Briggs, and it turns out Ms. Briggs saw the video. Ms. Briggs then does not allow any of the kids that Carly and Sam nominated to be on the talent show. Carly and Sam, feeling that the auditions wasted their time, angrily storm home. Carly thinks that it's unfair adults rule the world, so she decides to create a web show, with Carly as the host, Sam as the co-host, and Freddie as their Tech Producer. Freddie comes up with the name "iCarly" and both girls agree with the name.

Before the first show, Carly is extremely nervous, that she even had Sam memorize every single detail of what was going to happen on the show. The topic of the show was "Kids with Bizarre Talents", which were all the people that Carly and Sam nominated for the talent show.

Carly, Sam, and Freddie later have a Crazy Hat party for a celebration of their successful first show.

Trivia

 * In a book adaption, the author cuts out the pointy boobs part, and replaces it with pointy ears.
 * Sam says each show has a topic, but later it stops.
 * Photodock is a Parody of Photoshop, while SplashFace is a Parody of YouTube.
 * Sam makes a reference to the book Green Eggs and Ham when she says, "Sam I am", which refers to one of the characters in the book called "Sam I Am".
 * For some unknown reason, this episode has hardly come on since the day it aired.
 * The German title is "Miss Briggs sagt No", which means "Miss Briggs says No".

Production
The show was first mentioned by creator Dan Schneider in June 2006. The show's working title was Carly Knows Best. The show was greenlit in July 2006. The role for Carly Shay was specially made for Miranda Cosgrove. The show's pilot began filming in September 22, 2006 and ended on September 30, 2006. The show was renamed iCarly. The show's website was launched on June 2007. The pilot was originally going to air on August 10, 2007, but it was moved to September 8, 2007 to save time on post production. The pilot became a success and was picked up by Nickelodeon.