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.
Season 1
S01E01 Episode 101Today 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.
S01E02 Episode 102Amanda'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.
S01E03 Episode 103Amanda 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.
S01E04 Episode 104It 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.
S01E05 Episode 105Amanda 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.
S01E06 Episode 106Amanda 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.
S01E07 Episode 107Penelope has over 50 phones with her to try and win a dinner with amanda in a radio contest... she wins... but then when the radio try's to phone her back, she doesn't know which phone to pick up. Judge Trudy has a date with a guy in a restaraunt, but the guy's parents come and Judge Trudy sentances them. Doreen and her dad sell weird soups... like toe nail soups and grandpa's foot hairs soup.
S01E08 Episode 108Today Penelope is awakened from her bad dream by a surprise visitor from The Amanda Show... its not amanda though, it's one of the amanda show's camera men. Amanda's opening is disrupted by an audience member who can't listen to LFO on their CD player. Amanda solves the problem by bringing on the band themselves! They sing a song about Amanda. Drake, Requel and the dancing lobsters dance with them.
S01E09 Episode 109Raquel get's two pieces of fan mail and Drake get's one... but it actually turns out to be for the dancing lobsters which add's to the dancing lobsters huge fan mail stack. Amanda fumbles a magic trick, some more fake commercials bring more inventive ways to get out of school, and there's just time for a serious documentary in the form of ""When Cheerleaders Attack"", where we see innocent people attacked by raving cheerleaders dancing and hurting people with pom pom's. They also get into the studio and pom pom out Amanda.
Season 2
S02E01 Episode 201Penelope 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
S02E02 Episode 202Penelope 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.
S02E03 Episode 203Today, 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.
S02E04 Episode 204It'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.
S02E05 Episode 205Penelope'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.
S02E06 Episode 206Penelope 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!
S02E07 Episode 207Drake starts the show with an attempt on the turkey balancing record, while Amanda has some presidential guest stars. After the fight breaks out, it's time to go to another gross commercial, but we're back in time to pay another visit to the Girl's Room. Crazy Courtney is back, and today she's getting a lesson in how to play the piano, while Amanda interviews Santa Claus in the jacuzzi before closing the show with a jitterbugging dance lesson.
S02E08 Episode 208Today there's a surprise - and a free sandwich - in store for one lucky audience member, while Amanda's show opening is interrupted by a pizza delivery guy. Better go to a commercial - and what better than the awesome new game, ""My Beautiful Big Toe"" ? But don't stay away too long, because Judge Trudy has two itchy cases to pass judgement on. There's another visit to Moody's Point, and Mr Oldman gets some more unwelcome phone calls. All this, and a bald guy who wants Amanda's autograph as well!
S02E09 Episode 209Today Amanda is searching for someone to open Josh's bag of crisps, but there's a painful moment when she feels a little unwell and needs some medical advice. There's a commercial message for the Little Crazy Hatman, and we go shopping at Cookie Dooper. Then, some serious factual documentary programming, Penelope swaps clothes with Barney, and Kyle talks about his cousin in Jersey - until he realises that he has no cousin in Jersey. And finally, Penelope gets to meet Amanda at long last - but is it really Amanda, or just an incredible simulation?
S02E10 Episode 210Penelope tries to get into Amanda's dressing room with a cunning bear disguise today, but Amanda is already on stage, helping a fan whose parents won't let him watch The Amanda Show. There's important commercial news for vegetarians, and more money matters as the glittering prize is still up for grabs in ""So You Wanna Win Five Dollars"". After the entertainment, time for a serious documentary with the Crime Fighting Cheerleaders, more Knock Knock jokes in another Hillbilly Moment, and an excellent sketch that gets totally interrupted by Penelope. Plus, Amanda interviews Elvis in her jacuzzi, and Amanada hands out fifty thousand dollars to a lucky audience member with a birthday.
S02E11 Episode 211The Amanda Show gets off to a bad start today when it's opened by the wrong Amanda! After the mistake is sorted out, it's time for a quick word from Mammal-Os, the healthy cereal with a live mammal in every box! Then back to the action with Crazy Courtney, a quick visit to Moody's Point, and Kyle totally tells us about the radio. Plus, Amanda's meat song is interrupted by the sound of a lawnmower - someone's mowing the stage!
S02E12 Episode 212Penelope finds an easy entrance to the studios today when she falls in love with Trevor, the security guard's son, but Amanda is already on stage pulling the audience's teeth out. There's more totally genuine video as Blockblister rents the authentic 'Face Venutra' to an unsuspecting customer, and today's guest in Amanda's Jacuzzi is Sitting Bull. Penelope gets closer to Amanda than ever before, but misses her chance because she's too busy kissing Trevor!
S02E13 Episode 213Penelope meets a famous Nick star today - not Amanda, but Noah from Noah Knows Best. Meanwhile, Amanda finds that she has somebody else's pager. There's a visit to the Cookie shop, except now it's selling something else, and there's more prime-time entertainment with Amanda's Jacuzzi and another million dollar episode of ""Stranded"". Meanwhile, backstage, Penelope has to tie Noah to a chair to make him look at her website, while Kyle tells us what's on his mind with more ""Totally Kyle"". Then Noah escapes, but gets on stage just as the show is closing! They think it's all over!
S02E14 Episode 214Amanda starts the show by giving a big hand to just about everybody but there's no time for that, because today The Girls Room is coming from The Boys Room by mistake! Meanwhile, Amanda is interviewing a Swiss Guy, while Tony Pyjamas and Candy Tulips have another problem. There's another Hillbilly moment where Eenis gets hit over the head with something soft this time, and Penelope is on the set of the show hanging up pictures of Amanda. There's more phone trouble for Mr Oldman, and then the show has a surprise ending when robbers steal the camera!
S02E15 Episode 215Penelope thinks she's finally going to speak to Amanda when she's a guest on a phone in show, but the emergency broadcast system interrupts proceedings. Amanda tries to open the show, but is interrupted by dodgeballs, and Judge Trudy enrols on the first day of school, but is interrupted by a problem with oatmeal. There's just time for a quick visit to Moody's Point, before it's time to close the show  but why is it snowing in the studio?
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