Sam & Cat is an American teen sitcom premiered June 8, 2013 until the last episode's airing on July 17, 2014. It was aired on Nickelodeon. it is a crossover spin off of both iCarly and Victorious. It stars Jennette McCurdy as Sam Puckett from iCarly and Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine from Victorious. The girls meet by chance during a bizarre adventure and become roommates then start a babysitting business to earn extra money.
Plot[]
Sam Puckett has been touring the West Coast by motorcycle since the end of iCarly and stops in Los Angeles she witnesses Cat Valentine being thrown into the back of a garbage truck and rescues her they become friends and Cat convinces her to become roommates after Cat's grandmother moves to a retirement village.
Trivia[]
- On April 2, 2014, Nickelodeon announced the series would be on hiatus. Although they insisted the series was not cancelled, many speculated that it was. This was due to a rumored dispute between McCurdy and the network, Grande's rising music career, and both actresses' desires to move on to other projects. On July 13, 2014, it was announced that the last episode would be "#GettinWiggy," which aired four days later.
- In March 2014, Jennette McCurdy became the subject of scandal after the leak of photographs revealing McCurdy in various states of undress. Her absence was noted at the 2014 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, where Sam & Cat won "Favorite Show" and Ariana Grande won "Favorite Actress." McCurdy claimed that Nickelodeon was treating her unfairly and that was the sole purpose for her failure to attend the awards. On April 2, 2014, despite reports of a second season and with four episodes yet to be produced, Nickelodeon abruptly put the series on hiatus. Rumors were that McCurdy and Grande were having issues with the network over their salaries, with McCurdy accusing Nickelodeon of paying Grande more money. Grande later took to social media to deny the allegations. The network explained that the hiatus was planned and said the series was not cancelled. However, three months later on July 13, 2014, Nickelodeon announced that the series had been cancelled. For months in between, rumors of a feud between Grande and McCurdy ran high, and continued to after the series' cancellation. However, McCurdy stated in a 2015 interview with E! Online:
"I just feel that Ariana and I were and are extremely close and extremely like-minded in a lot of different ways, and then sort of as the show dissolved everybody wanted to find some sort of hidden meaning in our relationship and some like drama, and I think we butted heads at times but in a very sisterly way. Like she knows me so well and I know her so well that I think it was unfortunate that things got misconstrued".