Episode Title: iCrush at Tech-Con


INT. HAWAII – BEACHFRONT HOTEL LOBBY – DAY

ALOHA TECH-CON 2025 banners hang everywhere. The gang—Carly, Sam, Freddie, Robert, Gibby—are surrounded by luggage, ukulele elevator music, and complimentary leis. SPENCER is supposed to be with them... but isn’t.

CARLY
Spencer said he’d meet us here five minutes ago. Where is he?

INT. SPENCER’S HOTEL ROOM – FLASHBACK (MOMENTS AGO)

Spencer holds up a peanut from a hotel snack cart. It’s slightly soggy. He shrugs.

SPENCER
Five-second rule... extended to five-minute rule…?

He pops it in his mouth.

SPENCER (later, moaning from bed)
The peanuts… were from the toilet cart…

BACK TO LOBBY

SAM
So our only adult is stuck in a peanut-induced fever dream. Classic iCarly vacation energy.

FREDDIE
At least we’re at the biggest tech convention in the Pacific.

ROBERT (eyeing the schedule)
There’s a guest list for the talent showcase. Look—Cody Featherman and Max Voltage are performing.

CARLY
Are those… real names?

SAM
No one’s named Cody Featherman. That’s the name of a kid who’s been cursed to turn into a seagull every full moon.

INT. TECH-CON – STAGE REHEARSAL AREA

CODY FEATHERMAN (played by Drake Bell) is sitting alone, wearing thick glasses, a lumpy sweater, and writing “song lyrics” in binary on a napkin. He hums awkwardly and tunes a banjo. Not cool. Not even close.

GIBBY (to Carly)
He looks like he just lost a chess tournament to a Roomba.

Enter MAX VOLTAGE (played by Josh Peck)—a tall, confident, sharply dressed tech influencer with perfect hair, cool shoes, and a Bluetooth earpiece that might actually be connected to nothing.

MAX VOLTAGE (cool, friendly)
Aloha, nerdlings. I’m Max Voltage. I surf and code at the same time. If you’re not multitasking, you’re multiboring.

SAM (muttering to Robert)
Is he sponsored by confidence? Like a walking energy drink?

ROBERT
He’s like if a TED Talk had abs.

INT. TECH-CON GREEN ROOM – LATER

The iCarly gang is prepping for their live webcast. Cody tries to offer his original song to play on the stream.

CODY (Drake, shyly)
It’s called “I Love You, Wi-Fi.” It’s based on the time my router betrayed me emotionally.

FREDDIE
We were just gonna cover a remix of the iCarly theme with coconuts, but this sounds… specific.

LIVESTREAM CHAOS

As they go live, Max Voltage hijacks the stage to perform a dance while narrating a motivational speech on “uploading your soul to the cloud.” Everyone is confused—but clapping.

MAX VOLTAGE
Embrace the algorithm, baby.

Meanwhile, Cody tries to plug in his banjo but unplugs the camera by mistake.

SAM (hissing at Robert)
We’ve got tech egos, unplugged gear, and one guy about to cry over packet loss. This is a train wreck in paradise.

INT. HOTEL ROOFTOP – NIGHT – PRIVATE MOMENT

Robert finds Cody sitting alone watching the sunset, banjo untouched beside him.

ROBERT
You know, confidence is just fear in sunglasses.

CODY
I don’t think I’m cut out for this. Everyone thinks I’m just the weird guy who smells like printer ink and speaks fluent Excel.

ROBERT
You are weird. But you’re you. And honestly? That’s a relief around here.

They fist bump. Cody finally smiles.

TECH-CON TALENT SHOWCASE – FINALE

Max Voltage takes the stage with backup dancers and fire effects. Everyone cheers—but it feels overproduced.

Then Cody steps up nervously, strums his banjo. Starts singing “I Love You, Wi-Fi.”

CODY (singing)
You’re always on, unless you’re not…
My signal strong, my heart forgot…

*It’s awkward. It’s charming. And somehow… *the crowd loves it.

SAM (tearing up)
I don’t even like folk music. But that hit me right in the 2.4GHz band.

EPILOGUE – HOTEL POOL – NIGHT

CARLY
So. Nerd beat influencer. Against all odds.

FREDDIE
Yeah, Max Voltage got booed off stage when people found out his “coding demo” was just a YouTube ad.

ROBERT
And Cody? He got an offer to write theme songs for a podcast network. The guy’s a walking RSS feed.

SAM
That’s nice. Now hand me the last chicken skewer before I end all of you.

SPENCER (finally joining them, pale but upright)
I’m alive. I’ve survived. And I’ve learned a valuable lesson.

GIBBY
Don’t eat lobby peanuts?

SPENCER
No… don’t trust carts.

CREDITS ROLL
Over Cody and Gibby trying to write a duet on ukulele and banjo called “Bandwidth Baby.”


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