TV Show

The Amanda Show

The Amanda Show is an American live action sketch comedy and variety show that aired on Nickelodeon from October 16, 1999 to September 21, 2002. It starred Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, and Nancy Sullivan, along with several performing artists who came and left at different points, such as John Kassir, Raquel Lee, and Josh Peck. The show was a spin-off from All That, in which Bynes had co-starred for several years. The show was unexpectedly cancelled at the end of 2002, according to creator Dan Schneider's blog. Writers for the show included John Hoberg, Steven Molaro, Andrew Hill Newman, and Dan Schneider. Two years after the end of The Amanda Show, Dan Schneider created a new series, called Drake & Josh, featuring Drake Bell, Josh Peck and Nancy Sullivan.

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3 seasons

40 episodes total

Status

Canceled

First Aired

1999

Rating

TV Show

7.1/10

50 votes • HD

Season 1

13 episodes
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Episode 1
Episode 1

Episode 1

Episode 1 • Nov 06, 1999

Today we meet up with Penelope, Amanda's biggest fan, who gets turned away at the door due to a mix-up. Meanwhile, Amanda makes her entrance by helicopter. The show starts right here. Guest starring Kenan Thompson and Josh Server (From ""All That""), delivering a pizza and good wishes for Amanda's new show.

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Episode 2
Episode 2

Episode 2

Episode 2 • Nov 20, 1999

Amanda's number one fan Penelope opens the show today, as Amanda is not on the guest list for some reason. Jack and Jake, the two least successful bullies in school are trying to cause up trouble, but it just doesn't seem to work!!! Also, Amanda has a date with a boy with a pimple, at first she think's it's ugly and sick.... but in the end she runs away with it and leaves the boy sitting by himself with a confused face. Plus, Amanda has some fun with a prank call to Mr. Oldman.

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Episode 3
Episode 3

Episode 3

Episode 3 • Nov 27, 1999

Amanda and her co-stars are eating, when Drake brings out a lobster to eat and the dancing lobsters are in the room, while he is eating it. When they see the cooked lobster, they get upset and leave the room worried and scared. Meanwhile, Amanda's attempts to open the show are interrupted once more by Penelope, this time arriving by special delivery. There's a family obsessed with wrestling, they start of waiting for there daughter before they eat dinner.... but the burgers are too hard to eat, so they order a pizza and demand it to be there in 10 seconds, when the pizza guy asks for the money, they start beating him up. There's also the girls room with amber the most popluar girl in school, there's also : one thats a hard nut, one that is an exchange student and one that's slow. Also theres the smelling bee, where they sniff a hobo with a sandwitch, an old ladie with bad arm pit smell & a rotten egg in a shoe and a rotten glass of milk in the other shoe.

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Episode 4
Episode 4

Episode 4

Episode 4 • Dec 04, 1999

It starts of with amanda, teaching the lobsters to dance and when they do it infront of the audience, amanda pops off and penelope trys and disguises herself as one of the lobsters and tries to keep up with their dance. Also, alot of people get ripped off in blockblister, one of them being a person who asked for austin powers and got a different version done by the blockblister family. And the blokey family get new neighbours, who take things a bit too seriously. Like asking them to hold something for a second, they count to one missisippi and then drop it.

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Episode 5
Episode 5

Episode 5

Episode 5 • Dec 11, 1999

Amanda nearly doesn't make the show opening thanks to an unusual elevator. After that we see some remote control underpants. Mr Gullible (a subtitute teacher thats very gullible) is taken for granted and does things like giving the students $100 each and drinking fish water. There's also the star-studded audience awards, including best laughter, and least intelligent audience member.

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Episode 6

Episode 6

Episode 6 • Dec 18, 1999

Amanda takes extreme measures to break through The Amanda Show's tight security. She gives them some of her muscle. When she get's to the stage, the audience don't understand a word she says. There's also a tense game of ""So You Wanna Win Five Dollars?"" and Amanda finds a good way to deal with broccoli.

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Season 2

17 episodes
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Episode 14
Episode 1

Episode 14

Episode 1 • Jul 15, 2000

Penelope comes on her motorbike to start the comedy off & see's a guard and he asks her for her name and it isn't on the list. So... she bribes him with money - doesn't work, jeweles - doesn't work, and then she is teasing him with a pizza slice and chucks it in the air. Then the guard go's after it and Penelope go's full speed into the entrance. Amanda then tries to kick off the show, but can't due to a loud noise upstairs, she then go's to see what it is. Once she gets to the top, she see's 3 big blokes country dancing and asks them to be quiet... as she is doing a show! They agree and then there's an advert of Popcorn Pants, in gravy, ketchup and many others flavours. Then there's another advert for Moody's Point (Taking the mickey out of Dawson's Creek) thats going to be shown next week on The Amanda Show. Then it's time for another blockblister, and a boy comes in with an annoying / girly voice saying that his mother ordered ""Snow Day"" and it wasn't ""Snow Day""! But the daughter co

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Episode 15

Episode 2 • Jul 29, 2000

Penelope get's in Amanda's dressing room through the air conditioning vent and finds a sandwitch in it! The Amanda Shows electricity supply go's out because Nancy and Drake are cooking weenies. Then there's ""Pass The Skun"" game, where, if the music stops, the skun pee's in your face. There's a game of ""So You Wanna Win Five Dollars?"" with Tony Pajamas and Judge Trudy as the contestants. Also, In Moody's Point, Moody returns a tape one minute late and finds it hard to tell her dad about it. Then Moody's friend doesn't make the cheerleading team due to her terrible audition. And, the electricity go's out once again because the dancing lobsters make Drake fly in the air, using their hairdriers.

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Episode 16

Episode 3 • Aug 12, 2000

Today, Amanda has a cold. Penelope turns up and starts stealing Amanda's germs, but gets caught by security! Meanwhile, Amanda helps an audience member find their lost paper clip. It's so fascinating we have to go to a commercial for the always-popular ""Allowance Doubler"" - then it's back to the show, and the members of The Girls Room are trying out for new members. Plus, Amanda holds a talk show from her jacuzzi, gets a visit from Tony Pajamas the babysitter, tells some knock knock jokes in another Hillbilly Moment, Kyle has a shower moment, there's a small problem with the telephone, and more suggestions from the audience about how to cure Amanda's cold.

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Episode 17
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Episode 17

Episode 4 • Aug 26, 2000

It's The Drake Show! Well, for a little while anyway, until Amanda shows up, but finds that a vital guest star is missing! We pay a visit to the Klutz restaurant, Amanda interviews Frankenstein, and Ennis and Lula Mae reach out and hit somebody in an Outdoors Hillbilly Moment. Penelope has a fight for the title of Amanda's number one fan, please, then there's just time for a lesson from Mr. Gullible before the show comes to a complete stop once more.

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Episode 18
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Episode 18

Episode 5 • Sep 09, 2000

Penelope's quest to find Amanda finds her turning up in somebody's toilet, which is almost as smelly as our first commercial for a game that everyone will enjoy - Pass The Skunk! Then it's back to the show, and Judge Trudy is a contestant on another edition of So You Wanna Win $5. There's just time for a visit to Moody's Point before we have to close the show once more, and Amanda discovers why the lights keep going out.

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Episode 19

Episode 6 • Sep 23, 2000

Penelope takes out the security guard with some apples today, while Amanda goes looking for people whose dreams need to come true. We take in a quick commercial for the Spitballer 5000, then it's back for the homemade adventures of Blockblister video. All this, and Crime Fighting Cheerleaders, another Hillbilly Moment, a visit to the Wedding Singers.. and 398 pretzels!

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Season 3

10 episodes
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Episode 31
Episode 1

Episode 31

Episode 1 • Jan 19, 2002

OPEN: Audience Mob CLOSE: Blockblister Again ALSO: Drake and Josh's Coup, Ham (The Great New Toy for Boys and Girls), Blockblister Video (Stuart Lipple/F-Men), The Dare Show II, Hillbilly Moment (Pink Toilet), Penelope Middle (Penelope Hounds Barney), Totally Kyle (Dream)

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Episode 32
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Episode 32

Episode 2 • Feb 02, 2002

Penelope plots a new hare-brained scheme to meet Amanda. Amanda's show opening interrupted by a french painter who is painting a picture of Amanda. There's an advert for My Beautful Big Toe and it's Amber's Birthday in The Girls' Room. There's just enough time for a visit to Moody's Point before the show goes to a complete stop. All this plus a man who is covered in bubble bath, thinking the stage is his bathroom!

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Episode 33
Episode 3

Episode 33

Episode 3 • Feb 09, 2002

Amanda and Drake leave their costumes in their dressing rooms, but luckily Nancy has an invention called the Costumatic 5000. The Amanda Show comes off with a bad start when they geta fly in the studio. We stop at a commercial for Sumo and Judge Trudy is giving out more unfair punishments. Also: Cindy Extreme recieves her report card, there's a hillbilly moment featuring a computer moniter, Penelope's therapest turns into an Amanda fanatic, ""Sally Poofendoff"" calls Mr. Oldman, there's another hillbilly moment featuring a cactus branch, Kyle talks about his grandpa, and Amanda gives Drake a football but is chased by a football team.

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Episode 34
Episode 4

Episode 34

Episode 4 • Mar 23, 2002

OPENING: Penelope uses truth gas on Drake and Josh but it actually makes them tell about their lives instead of telling Penelope where Amanda is. AMANDA: Amanda forgets her opening joke. COMMERCIAL: Snap, Crackle, KABOOM! (WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK SIGN: Shows Amanda doing a dance infront of her house) CINTHIA WORTHINGTON AMANDA'S JACUZZI: A Professional Wrestler gets interviewed THE LUCKLESSES: The family goes to baseball game HILLBILLY MOMENT: Eenis gets hit upon the head with a head (WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK SIGN: Shows Amanda doing a hawaiian dance) PENELOPE MIDDLE: Penelope and her brother Preston try to phone Amanda on a 40 foot pole (They get France, South Dakota, and finally Amanda's Dressing Room). But when they reach Amanda, the wires explode. CALLING MR.OLDMAN: ""Sally Poofenduff"" calls Mr.Oldman about squirting whipped cream in his mouth and calls him Uncle Nipsy. CLOSING: 3 big blokes try to get Amanda to eat clams.

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Episode 35

Episode 5 • Apr 20, 2002

Amanda read Josh's horoscope and Drake got grabbed by sailors, stuffed into a blue garbage can, hickered at, hit with a lamp, and comes out wearing a pink dress. Amanda's opening got bad when her lower body disappeared. There was an advertisment for The Grown-Up Remote. We're back in time for a serious documentary titled ""When Hula Girls Attack"", King Henry VIII stoped by Amanda's Jacuzzi, and there's a sketch that I call ""The Fridgers"". Penelope forced Barney to tell where Amanda wass and if he didn't want to, Penelope will eat his shrimp cocktail Kathy delivered him. Amanda was closing the show when the director told her there was a speck of dirt on the camera. Amanda tried to get it off but she couldn't. Then Drake came along and he tried to get it off and it still wouldn't come off. Then Nancy came and had a hammer and chiesel and tried to get it off. But it wouldn't. And the three of them were crowded around 1 camera. Then Barney came, and asked what they were looking

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Episode 36

Episode 6 • May 25, 2002

Penelope makes this instant message machine for a chance to meet Amanda. Amanda's opening turns into a game show because two blokes think the show is a game show. We stop at a commercial for Super Red Hots, a fun candy. There's time for another edition of The Dare Show. Someone from Boston, Illinois wants Sharon to eat some of Toby's hair. Someone from San Francisco, Tennesee played by Josh wants Toby to wear a bra and stuff it with macaroni and cheese. Someone from Nashville, Ireland wants Sharon to slack peanut butter and marshmallows all over her hair. And finally, someone from Minneapolis, Massachusetts wants Sharon and Toby's mom to lick the camera lenses. There's a Hillbilly Moment featuring a cement block. The Queen of England gets interviewed at Amanda's Jacuzzi and Kyle talks about getting gum on his shoe. The show ends with the cast members crowding around the camera trying to get a speck off the lenses.

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