50 Fun Facts About Sam & Cat

Who created Sam & Cat, having also created the two Nickelodeon sitcoms it spun off from?

Dan Schneider. After nearly a quarter century of making hits for Nickelodeon, he and the network parted ways in 2018.

Sam & Cat was a spin-off of which two earlier Nickelodeon sitcoms?

iCarly and Victorious. Nickelodeon ordered the series within a week of iCarly's finale, carrying one star over from each of its ending hits.

Which city did Sam leave behind before riding her motorcycle to Los Angeles?

Seattle. Once her best friend Carly moved abroad, Sam took off down the West Coast on her motorcycle and told Cat she was in no rush to go back.

What is Cat's surname in Sam & Cat?

Valentine. Catarina Valentine has been living with her grandmother ever since her parents went away to be near her brother.

Which restaurant rewards Sam and Cat with free food for life after they revive its manager?

Inside-Out Burger. Its manager collapsed while chasing three runaway kids around the parking lot, and the girls brought him round with their own version of CPR.

Sam first meets Cat when she rescues her from what?

A garbage truck. Cat had climbed into a bin after a lost kitten and then her dropped gum, and Sam abandoned a burrito to jump in after her.

In which Los Angeles neighborhood is Sam & Cat set?

Venice. Cat had been living there with her grandmother, and when the older woman moved out the apartment became the two girls' own.

Cat says she dyed her hair to match which favorite snack?

A red velvet cupcake. The look cost the actress who played her: dyeing her hair every other week for the role left it badly damaged.

Who played Dice, Sam and Cat's neighbor who is always trying to make a buck?

Cameron Ocasio. In one episode his character locks the girls in a hidden room to sneak off to a poker game, which turns out to be a job dancing at a child's birthday party.

Besides managing a fighter, what unusual modeling job does Dice have?

Hair model. In the finale he wins a magazine cover only after Cat attacks a rival's 'wig', which turns out to be real hair and gets her arrested.

Which pet must Sam and Cat hide when a boy claiming to be their landlord's son threatens eviction?

A pygmy goat. The threat was a bluff: the 'landlord' was not the boy's father at all, and his real dad sold wide shoes to wide-footed women.

Nona moves out of the apartment to be nearer her friends at which retirement community?

Elderly Acres. Her move frees up the apartment for Sam, and the community later hosts the rigged bingo game that wins back Cat's bike.

Goomer, the dim-witted friend Dice manages, competes professionally in what?

Mixed martial arts. Goomer is 27 but acts far younger, and Dice became his manager after the last one quit, calling him too stupid to manage.

What is the name of the restaurant where Tandy and Bungle wait tables?

Bots. In one episode the restaurant's security cameras solve a mystery, showing who rode off on Sam's motorcycle.

In #GoomerSitting, where does Cat mistakenly put Goomer's tongue drops the night before his big fight?

In his eyes. Fighting half-blind, he is losing badly until his opponent insults Dice, his manager and best friend, just as his sight comes back.

What does a faulty delivery drone carry off from Sam and Cat's apartment instead of a return parcel?

A baby. At the retailer the girls find a room full of things its drones grabbed by mistake, and have to work out which of several lookalike infants is theirs.

Which episode of Sam & Cat was its most watched, beating even the premiere?

#TheKillerTunaJump. The hour-long special reunited the girls with old friends from both parent shows and drew 4.8 million viewers.

Why did Nickelodeon say Sam & Cat went on hiatus?

A long shoot. The network called it an unusually long production cycle and said everyone was tired; the last four of the 40 episodes it had ordered were never made.

Which prize do Sam and Cat win in #TextingCompetition, only to find it is toy-sized?

A speedboat. The girls care just as little for the other prize, a meeting with the Vice President that their young rival's mother was desperate to win.

Which fruit gives its name to the phones used in Sam & Cat, a running parody of the iPhone?

Pear. In #TheBritBrats Dice pays $500 for five unreleased Pear Phones and opens the package to find rocks.

Sam & Cat's final episode, aired days after its cancellation, leaves Cat in jail in which state?

Arizona. Arrested at a photo shoot there, she is left behind bars because Sam would rather enjoy her grandmother's home cooking for two more weeks.

Sam & Cat's finale aired four days after its cancellation as a lead-in to the first ever what?

Kids' Choice Sports. The episode was never written as an ending: it was just the last one filmed, and promos relabeled it the series finale.

What is the title of Sam & Cat's theme song, performed by Backhouse Mike?

Just Fine. Backhouse Mike is the stage name of composer Michael Corcoran, who in 2020 married actress Elizabeth Gillies.

What is the surname of Dice, Sam and Cat's wheeler-dealer neighbor?

Corleone. When a rich family claims his dog Opee, the gang hands over a vicious lookalike instead, and it attacks their daughter on live TV.

Which award did Ariana Grande win at the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards?

Favorite TV Actress. She collected it alone: her co-star, nominated in the same category, stayed away and accused the network of unfair treatment.

In her memoir, Jennette McCurdy says Sam & Cat was first planned as which solo series?

Just Puckett. It would have followed Sam as a school counselor; McCurdy writes that it was reworked into a joint spin-off after she had already signed on.

McCurdy claimed which episode was shot without Grande because of the singer's music commitments?

#StuckInABox. Cat spends the whole episode locked inside a faulty magic box, which ends up bouncing out of the car on the way to a theme park.

What is the title of McCurdy's 2022 memoir that discusses her time on Sam & Cat?

I'm Glad My Mom Died. It began as a one-woman stage show of the same name, which she turned into a book after the pandemic cancelled its tour.

Which debut album did Ariana Grande release in 2013 while Sam & Cat was still airing new episodes?

Yours Truly. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and her fast-rising music career was later counted among the reasons the sitcom ended.

A decade after Sam & Cat, Ariana Grande played which character in the two-part film Wicked?

Glinda. She asked to be billed under her full name, Ariana Grande-Butera, because that was who she was when she first saw the stage show at 10.

Which former All That star played Peezy B, the rapper who makes Cat cry at a music video audition?

Kel Mitchell. Sam storms in to confront his character and ends up hired as the rapper's assistant, leaving Cat struggling with the kids until Sam quits.

Which real-life sitcom duo reunited to play the feuding creators of the puppet show Salmon Cat?

Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams. The Laverne & Shirley stars play creators who have not spoken in 30 years, housed in buildings named Feeney and DeFazio after their old roles.

Which YouTube-famous duo played the con artists Gwen and Ruby in Sam & Cat?

Sophia Grace and Rosie. The British cousins, famous from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, play polite-seeming visitors who con Cat out of her bicycle and later return for revenge.

In #TheBritBrats, Cat trades away her bicycle for a tin of what fictional popcorn snack she craves?

Bibble. The tin she gets holds only cotton swabs, and the con is undone with a rigged bingo game and a fake police raid.

Stacey Dillsen and Coco Wexler, who both turn up in Sam & Cat, came from which Nickelodeon show?

Zoey 101. Coco is found moping at an airport because her ex-husband Carl has just proposed to her mother.

In #Twinfection, what is the name of the twin sister Sam brings to Los Angeles from boarding school?

Melanie. Both twins are played by the same actress, and Sam flies her sister in so the pair can fool Cat with a made-up illness.

In #Lumpatious, the girls get which real-life governor's spoof to say the made-up word on video?

Chris Christie. The lookalike, credited only as Governor Jenkins of New Jersey, is cornered in his van at a drive-through so the word can enter the dictionary.

Why is Blue Dog Soda, the girls' favorite drink, banned statewide in #BlueDogSoda?

Its high sugar content. The gang starts bootlegging the soda in secret, only for the agent behind the ban to turn up at their door wanting a sitter for his son.

Which Happy Days alumnus played Officer Kelvin, the policeman who arrests Cat in #MagicATM?

Scott Baio. His officer falls asleep at the wheel mid-chase, so Sam catches a man wanted in three states herself, and the reward covers the cash Cat took.

In the Halloween episode #DollSitting, the girls are hired to mind a creepy doll called what?

Clarice. In the twist ending the doll comes to life as a little girl, proving she really was the client's daughter all along.

Sam and Cat stash their babysitting money in a container disguised as which fruit?

A pineapple. A young client swaps it for her stuffed toy inside a rocket the gang launches, and they have to chase their savings to a graveyard.

In #BrainCrush, Cat stars in a play as a female version of which US president?

Abraham Lincoln. With the audience of 'Baberaham Lincoln' glued to a phone game, Sam hires a team of karate kids to smash everyone's devices.

What gift-swapping holiday does Cat invent so she can give and receive presents from everyone?

Yay Day. Cat peeks at her gift, takes offense and swaps Sam's present for a dirty pillow, only to learn the tags were mixed up and hers was meant for Goomer.

Goomer's mother believes her son has what respectable job instead of fighting?

High school history teacher. The girls' fake class fails to fool her, and it is Goomer beating up three purse-snatchers that finally wins his mother round.

Which school, carried over from her original series, does Cat still attend?

Hollywood Arts. Its barefoot acting teacher, Sikowitz, turns up in one episode when the girls borrow his classroom for one of their schemes.

In Sam & Cat's crossover special, which old friend of Cat's hits it off with Sam, making Cat jealous?

Jade. Cat hits back by luring Sam's ex Freddie to L.A. with a lie about an accident, then flirting with him in front of her.

In #SuperPsycho, which old enemy of Sam's do the girls consult in a hospital to help find the escaped Nora?

Nevel Papperman. Laid up with a disease caught from a porcupine, he still works out that Nora is hiding Dice in an abandoned house.

Which animal is the pet that helps Nora Dershlit break out of prison in #SuperPsycho?

A chicken. The bird, Maurice, helps spring her, but her revenge ends when Sam catches her first kick and tips her down her own well.

In #WeStealARockStar, what does Cat give Del DeVille to buy his silence?

A guitar riff. The eight-second lick turns up in his next hit, and months later he is sued because it copies an old song.

Who played Freddie Benson, Sam's ex-boyfriend, in the crossover special?

Nathan Kress. His Freddie comes to watch a stunt that goes badly wrong, has to be rescued by Sam and ends the special in a hospital bed.