Spencer had just ejected Carly's latest attempt at a boyfriend from the apartment, capped off by smashing his cell phone as a final step.

Carly embraced her smoky brother seeking comfort for the trauma she had just undergone.

Carly: Spencer, why does this sort of thing always happen to me?

Spencer: What sort of thing is that?

Carly: It seems that I can never find a decent guy to go out with. Every time I pick one there is always something wrong. The last one with his attraction to those silly little stuffed animals, and this one who I thought was a shy nerd and ends up trying to attack me. I just can't get a break.

Spencer: Carly, is it possible that you just don't know what you want in a boyfriend?

Carly: Oh don't you get all psychoanalyzing on me!

Spencer: I'm not, I just want to know; do you really know what you want in a boyfriend?

Carly: Of course, he should be cute, be interested in many of the same things I am, he should care about me and want to be with me. Oh and it would be nice if he got along with Sam and liked ICarly too.

Spencer: Carly try not to get too upset with me, but you know of course that there is someone who meets all of your criteria, who lives very close and who has loved you since the day he met you.

Carly: You mean Freddie, right?

Spencer: Well, he does meet all of your criteria, and yet you made it clear to him from day one that you would never be interested in him, except for the month or so after he saved your life from the Taco truck. Why is that?

Carly: I don't know, Freddie has always been, well just Freddie.

Spencer: Carly, is there a reason perhaps why you don't want to succeed in love?

Carly: What? What kind of crazy talk is that?

Spencer: It's the kind of talk that you ask a starving man on a deserted island who has a full course steak dinner in front of him but won't eat it because he is looking for turkey.

Carly: What are you trying to say?

Spencer: I am just curious as to why you keep turning down a sure thing to go off and find someone on your own.

Carly: I think that it is maybe that I have known Freddie for so long that he feels like part of the family. Dating him would be like dating you Spencer.

Spencer: Some states frown on that sort of thing. But Sam has known him just as long, and she dated him.

Carly: It didn't last though, did it? And Sam may have known him as long but he lives right across the hall from us, so we are still closer, literally and figuratively. I wish it were that simple; I really do love Freddie, just not that way.

Spencer: Have you ever told Freddie this?

Carly: No, I think maybe I really wasn't sure of the reason until now. You know, that the day we found out that Gibby was opening a restaurant in school Freddie came up to me in the hall and asked if it was too late for me to love him.

Spencer: What did you tell him?

Carly: Before I had a chance to say anything Sam came running up because she found Gibby. We ran off to see him, and it never came up again.

Spencer: Can I make a suggestion?

Carly: Sure, what is it?

Spencer: I think you should sit down with Freddie and tell him what you just told me. If you don't he is going to go through the rest of his life with this unresolved. Every time you go out with a new guy it will be like sticking a knife in him, when you break up his hopes will rise, and then be dashed again when you find someone else. You will find other guys too, you are very young still, and have a lot of time to find the right guy and will probably go through many on the way.

Carly: You really think it is going to take me that long to find someone? What does that make me?

Spencer: It makes you a normal young girl. Carly when I was 18 I had in my mind what my perfect girl was like, when I was 19 I also had an image of the perfect girl, but she changed, and as you get older your idea of the perfect man is going to change; probably many times until you finally settle down with one.

Carly suddenly got a little smile on her face.

Spencer: What is so funny?

Carly: I was just thinking that after all this it would be funny if Freddie and I did wind up married some day.

Spencer: Stranger things have happened.

The next evening the gang descended on Carly's apartment again.