iCarly

Danielle’s favorite show is now iCarly. While I really liked her old favorite, Phineas and Ferb, iCarly is also good. The premise is that Carly, a 15 year old girl, does a web show with her best friend Sam (Samantha) and her other friend Freddy doing the tech work. Their web show (in the show) is very popular.

Carly lives with her older brother Spencer (a lot older). He is an artist so he’s both wacky and around a lot. Apparently her father is in the military and is away and the two of them live in a surprisingly large apartment in Seattle (what is it with TV apartments being way outside the occupant’s income? – see Friends). Aside from the fact that a 15 year old (and her friends) is left to herself for way too much time, the show is pretty harmless and definitely funny.

We record it on our DVR. Danielle would watch it 20 times a day if we let her.

There’s one show where they ask their viewers to send in videos of good dancing. They are expecting a few people to send in videos, but they get like a thousand videos. They try to watch them all and of course fall asleep trying. Then each of them has a funny dream involving crazy dancing. Danielle loves this episode and watches it a lot (since we have it recorded – honestly, do kids understand that we used to have to watch TV at a certain time?).

I only mention this for one reason. What is up with the ads that Nickelodeon shows for iCarly? Danielle is 7, but I understand that older kids like the show. It probably works into early high school. And I guess parents must watch as well (I obviously do).

Because one of the common sponsors is Nationwide insurance. Yeah, Danielle likes that ad. There are also some feminine hygiene ads that I thankfully have not had to explain yet (and yes, I’ll be using the “talk to your mother” approach).

But this particular episode has an ad for a cosmetic surgery place (I guess this is NYC only). Seriously? We are advertising breast reductions and liposuction for pre-teens? Since we watch this episode all the time, this ad repeats all the time. I can’t hit fast forward fast enough.

I can’t handle ads when she’s seven. What am I going to do when she’s a teenager?