You might have missed the part where all of their outfits match except for Miranda. This was indeed the only day Michelle was with them to film her scenes. Wouldn’t have shared this if a crew member didn’t tell me about it. I just take pride in sharing fun facts like these.

Technically yes, since it’s necessary while filling out your I-9/start work for any film production. But it appears they were asked to still submit, as shared by Nathan here. He also confirms they had a suspicion someone from the first family was gonna be coming on.

And the most amazing thing is that Michelle reached out to Nickelodeon—& not the other way around—with interest to guest star. The whole family loved the show. Remember when President Obama gave a shoutout to iCarly & Drake & Josh in his speech that one time?

Weeks before Michelle Obama appeared on iCarly, the cast and crew were asked to submit their Social Security numbers without being told why. It wasn’t until the week of that they found out who was coming. On the day of filming, the Secret Service conducted a security sweep of the studio two hours before her arrival. This photo of the iCarly cast was taken that same day. Lunch/catering was moved to a parking lot across the street from Nickelodeon on Sunset to give the First Lady and her team the privacy and space they needed.

Maybe they did only happen for the first season, I’d be curious to watch some episodes back and see if I notice anything different. I thought I heard a noticeable live audience laugh track while watching the unaired pilot.

Drake & Josh, iCarly, and every Dan show that followed were different from Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, and The Suite Life in one key way: they were multi-camera sitcoms, but they weren’t filmed in front of a live studio audience. From what I’ve heard, it only happened once—and never again—during the filming of the original & unaired Drake & Josh pilot. Before Drake & Josh, shows Schneider were a part of regularly incorporated live audiences, including The Amanda Show, Kenan & Kel, and All That. But after experimenting with a live audience for scenes of the unaired Drake & Josh pilot, they never returned to it.

Not true. And also, Schneider never would’ve considered doing an episode like that.

I often wonder if Michael brought this up to Jerry on the set of Wendell & Vinnie. Imagine how that conversation might have went? Based on their personalities, I’m sure it wasn’t even awkward in the slightest. What a full circle, very cool moment.

Years ago, I quite literally discovered a box in storage with close to 20 Drake & Josh season two scripts, various versions. It dawned on me that that an early draft of the ‘Movie Job’ episode might exist. And it did. I was smart enough to find the table draft version & take a picture of the cast list. Could not believe it. Also could not believe he was in a scene with Jerry years later. What are the odds?

Technically we can say it is, yes! Totally Teri was a name of a TV show in the iTake on Dingo episode. Here’s a screenshot from Dan’s old blog talking about this.

Before it was titled Zoey 101, the working title for the show was Totally Zoey. It was deemed too cheesy of a title after some early rewrites, so it was changed. Here’s the script from March 31st, 2004 with the title. The pilot was shot a month & a half later.

Jack Black’s approach to appearing on iCarly was pretty insane. He decided to treat it like a single camera project and had zero rehearsal for the role. Anyone familiar with the multi-camera format knows there are usually multiple rehearsal days built into the schedule. He got the script just a couple days before shooting, watched one run-through the day prior (with the dialogue coach filling in for him), then showed up the next day and just performed. It was a huge part, too! Total pro. Not surprising.