iCarly Special Double Length Episode “iFight Shelby Marx” Coming August 7, 2009
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
A special battle of the stars type episode of iCarly is coming to Nickelodeon on August 7, 2009. Nickelodeon is calling the hour length episode a movie event, but seriously who calls something with a run time of probably less than 45 minutes without commercials a movie. If you ask me it is basically just a double length episode like they call the Nick Jr. specials. Anyways this hour long episode is called “iFight Shelby Marx.”
“iFight Shelby Marx” is about Shelby Marx (played by Victoria Justice), a female championship fighter, challenging Carly to a meet her in the ring. Carly brings it on herself by jokingly challenging Shelby to a match. Shelby takes her seriously and proposes a win win promotion mixed martial arts exhibition between the two with the money raised being donated to charity. It turns into a real fight, however, after Carly accidentally pushes Shelby’s grandmother during a press conference. Shelby is ready to fight Carly for real and knock her out. Carly must try to calm Shelby down and avoid being pummeled by the championship fighter, Shelby. Meanwhile the iCarly show’s nemesis Nevel has his own plans to cause trouble at the main event.
Willow Smith is the daughter of supposedly one of the hottest couples in Hollywood, but entirely out of the loop and only knowing actors by their roles and rarely even knowing their actual names I have never heard of her or her parents. By the way her parents are Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. The news of her making her television debut does not mean that much to me at first glance, but what she is making her debut on does peek my interest. The news interests me mostly because it means one of the few decent Nickelodeon shows, 
Has this crappy cartoon really been around for 10 years? It really does not seem that long, but I guess it has since it first aired on July 17, 1999. Not that it is entirely a bad show, but it is rather stupid humor that I just never could get into. However, it does still have quite a fan base and I got to give them credit for actually having some good stuff coming up to celebrate the anniversary for fans of the show to enjoy. If you are a SpongeBob fan get ready to mark your calendar for July 14, 17, 18, and 19.
Mr. Troop Mom is the latest Nickelodeon Original Movie. The television movie premieres on Nickelodeon tomorrow, June 19, 2009, at 5pm on my DirectTV service Nick 1, but I think it airs at 8pm Eastern Time/7pm Central Time. It sounds like it might be interesting, but not as interesting as Disney Channel’s upcoming, Princess Protection Program, which will premiere on Disney Channel US next Friday. This one is also getting a quick release to DVD with the DVD of it coming out next Tuesday, June 23, 2009.
iCarly Season 1 Volume 2 is a two disc release of the second half of the show’s first season. I do not exactly like partial season releases, but it is better than only getting four episodes at a time like many kid show only get. This release contains 12 episodes along with bonus features on both discs.
The May/June 2009 issue’s cover features the Wonder Pets characters.
The Penguins of Madagascar have been shown on Nickelodeon a few times as their sneak peek episode in the past few months. This Saturday right after the Kid’s Choice Awards on Nickelodeon the show is premiering for real and actually beginning its run as a current Nickelodeon show. This has been a long awaited series, as it was pushed back at least a year from its original release and the teaser sneak peek episodes just made it more frustrating that it was not really coming to Nickelodeon until March 2009. However, the sneak peeks also ruined the whole excitement for the show for me because it proved that the show would not be anywhere near as good as I expected. 
I really did not expect much from the music themed Spectacular movie, but I decided to record it anyways (watched other regular Monday shows live instead of this). I must admit it was not that bad of a movie, but that may be related to me just thinking it would be too much like High School Musical. Sure it is a little bit like that movie in that it is about a high school show choir, but it is unique enough to be worth watching. At first I thought it was going to be an annoying musical, as there is some random them breaking into song moments, however theses moments are more realistic and you can actually see them happening in real life than many of the High School Musical movies. Also, there is not really much of the musical type stuff. Instead most of the music parts are them performing and it has to do with the plot instead of trying to make the plot with the song, which is okay, but there are enough of those from Disney recently.
Go, Deigo, GO! Safari Rescue is an interesting collection of 
Oswald Welcome to the Big City contains 8 episodes of the Nick Jr. show Oswald. A true episode, as shown on Nick Jr. contains 2 half-episodes, so really this is the equivalent of 4 TV episodes of the show minus the commercial time. The episode selection does not really have a particular theme and the name of this DVD allows for the general theme of just introducing kids to the show effective no matter what episodes they put on this DVD. I guess the first episode kind of really sets up the theme, as Henry the Penguin has a cousin visit and they show him around the Big City.
“The Ladybug Festival” episode of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan begins with Kai-Lan saying inviting the viewers to go with her and her friends to the Ladybug Festival, which has ladybug games, ladybug rides, and a ladybug sky dance performance. Before she leaves to hike through the woods to the festival, Ye Ye helps tie her shoe. Soon after she begins her hike she meets up with Rintoo and Hoho. Tolee is not there yet, so they ask the viewers help them call for Tolee. Tolee comes prepared with a bunch of stuff in a big panda backpack.
