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Michelle Obama On ‘iCarly’: Miranda Cosgrove, Nathan Kress Share First Lady Stories : Huffington Post
By Jordan Zakarin
January 11, 2012 

Obama plays a version of herself, one who happens to have been moved by an episode of the web show within a show—think NBC’s “30 Rock” for tweens—put on by Carly, Freddie (Kress) and their friends Gibby (Noah Munck) and Sam (Jennette McCurdy).

The guest part is more than a mere cameo; the First Lady’s TV-self visits Carly after learning that the webcasting teen’s father, an Air Force pilot, has had his return home delayed by another redeployment. To her credit, the cast said, Obama took on the challenge of learning a substantial amount of dialogue … In what is sure to be the most memorable clip from the episode, the First Lady shuffles, claps and lets loose in one of the show’s patented Random Dances. For that scene, she had a little advance help.

“She was talking about how her daughters had shown her some moves so she wouldn’t be embarrassing on camera,” Kress recalled, to which Cosgrove added, “I dont know why, I kind of expected her to be a little shy about it, but she wasn’t at all—she got really into it, she had a lot of good moves.”

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