Samantha "Sam" Puckett is the main deutagonist of the iCarly franchise. She is also the former co-host of her own popular web show, iCarly, which she produces with her two best friends, Carly Shay and Freddie Benson. Sam is Carly Shay's best friend and in later episodes the ex-girlfriend of Freddie Benson. She co-hosts the iCarly webshow with Carly, and also handles the sound effect remote control. Sam has an identical twin sister named Melanie. Their mother is Pam Puckett (Jane Lynch[1]). Sam also stated she and her twin sister Melanie were born on a bus due to poor planning by their mother.
In the series finale, "iGoodbye", Sam and Carly take a break from their web show while Carly moves to Italy. Sam then became a lead character in the spin-off series Sam & Cat, in which she moves to Los Angeles and becomes friends with Cat Valentine (a character originally from Victorious) after rescuing her from a garbage truck.
Biography[]
Sam Puckett is the daughter of Pam Puckett. She and her identical twin sister, Melanie Puckett, were born on a city bus, due to the poor planning of their mother, Pam Puckett. The two appear different in many ways. Melanie is classy and attends a fancy boarding school on a scholarship, while Sam is tough and has been in a juvenile detention center a few times.
Sam grew up in Seattle and attended Ridgeway Junior High School. She and her best friends Carly and Freddie produce and host iCarly. She is also the ex-girlfriend of Freddie Benson and Jonah.
In the spin-off Sam & Cat, she moves to Los Angeles and starts a babysitting business with Cat.
In the Paramount+ revival, it is revealed that she joined a biker gang named "The Obliterators." It’s implied that she left LA and returned to Seattle at some point after Carly returned from Italy as the two bought an old car that Sam named Vin Diesel, which the two traveled around the PNW in before Sam joined “The Obliterators”.
Physical Appearance[]
Sam has curly blonde hair and blue eyes.
Personality[]
Sam is portrayed as a tomboyish, sarcastic, aggressive girl, who has no respect for the authority or other people (except Carly, Freddie, Spencer, and Gibby, sometimes). It is possible that her behavior is a way to prevent people from getting close and hurting her. As a result of her behavior, she frequently gets into trouble. She has a butter sock, which is a sock filled with butter that is swung around as a weapon. She has also been arrested four times. [2][3] On the show, Sam has been mentioned to have been in a juvenile detention center twice. She even has a regular Tuesday appointments with Principal Ted Franklin.[4][5] Carly mentioned that Sam has a therapist to discuss her issues.
Despite her flaws, she is a beautiful and kind person who cares deeply for her friends. She is witty, caring, and ingenious.
Sam Puckett is also portrayed as lazy. She often avoids doing work unless forced to. Her disgust of work even led to her having a near nervous breakdown when she had to get a job to pay back the $526 she owed Carly and Freddie[6]. She is also very prideful, which is why Carly and Freddie had to use a trick from a willing iCarly fan to have her keep the money she got from a "tipster" at work.
Although Sam usually makes fun of “nerds” and people who love technology, Sam herself is quite tech-savvy. This is first shown when she gives the correct definition of "MPEG" while Freddie has it wrong.[7] Another time, she builds an entertainment center and even programmed the "Random Dancing" bit from iCarly into their locker.[8]. In an episode, it was implied that she could specifically tell what changes she wanted Freddie to make to her website.[9] When she dated Jonah, she knew how to set it so that every time Jonah texted her, his voice can be heard saying, "It's me!"[10]
For a girl of her size and age, she is shown to have amazing physical strength. In iKiss, she ripped off Carly's door chain with her bare hands (though this was fueled by anger), and she occasionally flips or wrestles people who are much bigger than herself, such as Ricky Flame (iCook), Japanese security guards (iGo to Japan), Jocelyn (iMake Sam Girlier), and also had Adam over her shoulder in (iStart a Fanwar). If she wants to make Freddie go somewhere he doesn't want to, she usually just lifts him over her shoulder. This feat even caused him to ask, "How do you do this?!" in iFind Lewbert's Lost Love. In iQuit iCarly, she and Fleck pushed a car in the garage, and she pulled up Carly from falling of a scaffold. In iPsycho, she demonstrated that she knows the Vulcan nerve pinch from "Star Trek", and in iLove You, she made one of Freddie's Train Club members pass out by squeezing his wrist.
Perhaps her most prominent trait is her immense appetite and love for food (especially meat or anything meat-flavored). In iWin a Date, she finished a gigantic bowl of salad in no time, while everyone else had trouble with their food. If she's hungry, she wouldn't care if someone else already ate from a food item, as demonstrated in iHeart Art and iMake Sam Girlier. At different times, she kept a microwave, a grill or a crockpot in her locker and occasionally eats breakfast in class. She also carries fried chicken and ribs with her in her purse, as revealed in iWas A Pageant Girl. Carly said in her birthday speech that Sam can eat an entire ham in less than 15 minutes, although in iPilot she had difficulties in eating one, stating that ham shouldn't have a bone in the middle.
Sam seems to be somewhat of an artist, drawing very elaborate doodles as seen from drawing Jonah, drawing a bunny in jail, as well as drawing Freddie eaten by a tiger. She also comments that, "All creative people worry that their stuff is lame. It's an artist thing." in iHeart Art, as if she herself is an artist. In iLost My Mind, Sam paints a realistic portrait of a hand with the thumb and index finger raised against a purple background. Sam humorously said she was finger-painting.
In iGot a Hot Room, it is shown that Sam can speak Italian and is even apparently fluent in it. She says "Ti consiglio di fare gli auguri di compleanno a Carly ora, altrimenti ti spezzo le gambe!" which means "I suggest you do the birthday wishes to Carly now, or I'll break your legs!" According to her, her mother really likes Italian guys, and she learned it from them. As of iLove You, it is revealed that she, in fact, herself part Italian, which explains the aforementioned.
Sam does have somewhat of a soft side, especially when struck with guilt. This was proven in iPromise Not to Tell when she turned herself in because her friends felt bad, and in iKiss before her kiss with Freddie. There is no doubt that Sam is aggressive, but she would never do anything violent to Carly.
Sam is often suspicious and slightly paranoid for the weirdest reasons. An example is shown in "iReunite With Missy" when Carly stated that Sam had thought that Lewbert was an undercover cop because she thought his wart was a surveillance camera and that Gibby was a mermaid because he hates wearing shirts. Despite that, she actually knew what Missy was trying to do before anybody else in the episode. It was revealed to Carly at the end of that episode that she was attempting to get rid of Sam because she thought since they were best friends first, she cannot have two best friends. It has been shown in iSell Penny-Tees and iStart a Fanwar that she can be quite selfish.
In iWill Date Freddie, Carly states that Sam doesn't lie. But, in iRocked the Vote, Sam says and proves by examples to Spencer, she is an expert at lying. This might mean that, though Sam is an expert liar, she usually tells the truth.
In iChristmas, many minor quirks of Sam were revealed. She is right-handed but punches harder with her left, she wears different socks for good luck, her favorite color is brown because it's the color of gravy, her favorite junk food is Fat Cakes, her favorite book is "Boogie Bear 3: The Return of Boogie Bear" (she said she has only read three books in iFence, not including The Penny Treasure); she hates people the most, and she wants to be an invisible ninja when she grows up.
Sam shows her sweet and sensitive side once in a while, which proves she is not completely blunt and rude all the time.
It is evident in iSell Penny-Tees and iOpen a Restaurant that Sam has/had a desire to open a restaurant, as she suggested it in iSell Penny Tees and actually did with Gibby in their school's basement. The restaurant was called Gibby's.
In iFence, it is shown that she likes reading by reading 'The Penny Treasure' willingly.
In iSam's Mom and iMake Sam Girlier, it is shown that she doesn't like the word panties.
In iParty with Victorious, it is revealed that Sam is actually quite good at rapping when she faces Rex in a rap battle. She is also proven to be a very good singer when she sings a part of the mash-up with the lyrics Leave It, I know somehow we're gonna get there and feel so wonderful and Tomorrow you'll be everybody's fascination. She sang the theme songs of "Drake and Josh" as well as "Victorious" before in a web video also seen during the end credits of iGot a Hot Room with Freddie and Carly, and Sam also enjoys singing here on the ninth photo of the gallery. Its caption reads "Singing is one of the few things Sam enjoys that is NOT illegal -- except when she sings in no-singing zones."
Behind the scenes[]
- According to iParty with Victorious, Sam's father abandoned her family when she was younger and claimed he was coming back. Upon hearing this, Sam received shocked stares from all of her friends. She changed the subject quickly.
- The only episode Sam does not appear in (besides the revival) is iWon't Cancel The Show. This was because Jennette McCurdy was in the hospital due to a high temperature the week the episode was filmed.
- Because of this, Sam is the only original main character (not counting Gibby) to ever be absent in an episode.
- The only other people besides Sam herself to call her 'Mama' is Gibby in iOpen a Restaurant ("Mama gonna get her some tater tots.") and Carly in iLost My Head in Vegas. Rex called her Mama in iParty with Victorious ("Mama got rhyme") but 'he' is not a real person.
- She was known as "Regina Goodbody" as her disguise in iParty With Victorious.
- After Sam and Freddie started dating, then they broke up, Sam stopped hurting Freddie and making fun of him. She is however still rude to him.
- According to iCarly.com, Sam is of Italian descent.
- According to Dan Schneider, iCarly would have been called "iSam": The main character would've been called Sam, while the Sam Puckett character would be called Kira. However, the URL "iSam.com" was already taken.
- Sam has had two jobs throughout the show: Once in iOwe You at Chili My Bowl and the other in iPear Store at the Pear Store.
- Sam has been a business co-owner/partner twice: In iSell Penny-Tees and iOpen A Restaurant.
- Additionally, Sam becomes Cat's business partner in Sam & Cat.
- In iBust a Thief it is mentioned that her laptop was a Bat Mitzvah gift from her Grandma. This could mean her grandma thinks she's Jewish or she could be.
- In iTwins it is revealed that Sam does not like it when males wear stripes, but Freddie appears to be an exception to this.
- She has or had a pet cat named Frothy.
- IStart Over reveals that Sam is now part of a motorcycle gang. However, it is unknown if she is still in LA or is still friends with Cat Valentine.
- It is revealed in iPromote Techfoots that Sam was born on a bus. She also said that her mom isn't great at planning things.
References[]
- ↑ iCarly to Reveal SAM'S MOM!!! (DanWarp; Thursday July 1, 2010)
- ↑ iMeet Fred
- ↑ iWon't Cancel The Show
- ↑ iPromise Not to Tell
- ↑ iLook Alike
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External Links[]
- Nickipedia
- iCarly wiki
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iCarly_characters#Sam_Puckett
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