The 2012 sitcom episode that saw Emma Stone unexpectedly steal the show
Emma Stone made a brief but memorable cameo in the 2012 iCarly episode ‘iFind Spencer Friends’, playing Heather, an overexcited fan who disrupts the main characters at a diner. The article argues that her willingness to embrace an exaggerated comic role helped her stand out, despite her rapidly growing film career at the time.
Stone had already appeared in Easy A and The Amazing Spider-Man, while iCarly was nearing the end of its sixth and final season and regularly featured celebrity guests. Her character takes selfies while sitting on the characters’ laps, searches for Gibby and returns to leap across their table; Miranda Cosgrove later said the cast were excited to work with Stone and found her very funny.
- Emma Stone made a chaotic iCarly cameo in 2012.
- She played an intensely enthusiastic fan named Heather.
- The cast said they were delighted to have her.
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iCarly was a US children’s sitcom about three teenagers who make a popular online comedy show from a Seattle loft. It starred Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay, alongside Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress, Jerry Trainor and Noah Munck.
The programme ran from 2007 to 2012 on Nickelodeon and often included guest appearances by well-known performers. Its stories usually centred on the friends’ school lives, family and the chaos caused by their web show.
Emma Stone was becoming a major film actor at the time, following roles in the teen comedy Easy A and The Amazing Spider-Man. A short appearance on a children’s sitcom therefore drew attention because it placed her in a deliberately broad comic role outside her better-known film work.