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The Amanda Show

TV·1999–2002·3 seasons, 40 episodes·Nickelodeon·Comedy, Kids·23m·7.1·Created by Dan Schneider

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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.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season0113Episodes1999–00AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Episode 1November 6, 1999Today 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
  2. S01E02Episode 2November 20, 1999Amanda'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 succ
  3. S01E03Episode 3November 27, 1999Amanda 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.
  4. S01E04Episode 4December 4, 1999It 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
  5. S01E05Episode 5December 11, 1999Amanda nearly doesn't make the show opening thanks to an unusual elevator. After that we see some remote control underpants. Mr Gullible (a
  6. S01E06Episode 6December 18, 1999Amanda 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 st
  7. S01E07Episode 7January 8, 2000Penelope 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
  8. S01E08Episode 8January 15, 2000Today 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 sh
  9. S01E09Episode 9January 22, 2000Raquel 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 danci
  10. S01E10Episode 10January 29, 2000Penelope has stolen the A of the AMANDA letters in the Amanda show studio, what makes it MANDA. Dareen and her dad now have a sushi shop, an
  11. S01E11Episode 11February 5, 2000Penelope uses a homemade robot to finally infiltrate The Amanda Show, and what better day than Amanda's birthday? Inside the robot is also h
  12. S01E12Episode 12February 12, 2000Amanda discovers that there's no audience to hear her opening monologue because she's arrived too early. Requel and Amanda get a prank call
  13. S01E13Episode 13February 19, 2000Penelope and her brother Preston had got a toe nail from ""The Amanda Show"" trashcan, they then use a clone machine to clone it to an Amand

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0217Episodes2000–01AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Episode 14July 15, 2000Penelope 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 bri
  2. S02E02Episode 15July 29, 2000Penelope get's in Amanda's dressing room through the air conditioning vent and finds a sandwitch in it! The Amanda Shows electricity supply
  3. S02E03Episode 16August 12, 2000Today, Amanda has a cold. Penelope turns up and starts stealing Amanda's germs, but gets caught by security! Meanwhile, Amanda helps an audi
  4. S02E04Episode 17August 26, 2000It'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
  5. S02E05Episode 18September 9, 2000Penelope'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
  6. S02E06Episode 19September 23, 2000Penelope takes out the security guard with some apples today, while Amanda goes looking for people whose dreams need to come true. We take i
  7. S02E07Episode 20October 7, 2000Drake starts the show with an attempt on the turkey balancing record, while Amanda has some presidential guest stars. After the fight breaks
  8. S02E08Episode 21October 21, 2000Today there's a surprise - and a free sandwich - in store for one lucky audience member, while Amanda's show opening is interrupted by a piz
  9. S02E09Episode 22October 28, 2000Today 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 so
  10. S02E10Episode 23November 18, 2000Penelope tries to get into Amanda's dressing room with a cunning bear disguise today, but Amanda is already on stage, helping a fan whose pa
  11. S02E11Episode 24December 9, 2000The 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 w
  12. S02E12Episode 25December 23, 2000Penelope 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
  13. S02E13Episode 26January 27, 2001Penelope meets a famous Nick star today - not Amanda, but Noah from Noah Knows Best. Meanwhile, Amanda finds that she has somebody else's pa
  14. S02E14Episode 27February 17, 2001Amanda 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 fr
  15. S02E15Episode 28March 3, 2001Penelope 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
  16. S02E16Episode 29March 17, 2001The world's greatest ventriloquist is coming on the show today, and Penelope senses a chance to get closer to Amanda. Meanwhile, Amanda's sh
  17. S02E17Episode 30April 7, 2001Amanda is taking a nap today, so Josh and Drake do the audience greeting instead but the audience only want Amanda! There's time for a comm

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season0310Episodes2002AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Episode 31January 19, 2002OPEN: Audience Mob CLOSE: Blockblister Again ALSO: Drake and Josh's Coup, Ham (The Great New Toy for Boys and Girls), Blockblister Video (
  2. S03E02Episode 32February 2, 2002Penelope plots a new hare-brained scheme to meet Amanda. Amanda's show opening interrupted by a french painter who is painting a picture of
  3. S03E03Episode 33February 9, 2002Amanda and Drake leave their costumes in their dressing rooms, but luckily Nancy has an invention called the Costumatic 5000. The Amanda Sho
  4. S03E04Episode 34March 23, 2002OPENING: Penelope uses truth gas on Drake and Josh but it actually makes them tell about their lives instead of telling Penelope where Amand
  5. S03E05Episode 35April 20, 2002Amanda 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
  6. S03E06Episode 36May 25, 2002Penelope makes this instant message machine for a chance to meet Amanda. Amanda's opening turns into a game show because two blokes think th
  7. S03E07Episode 37July 13, 2002Amanda tries to disarm a robot, but instead she accidentally presses the "Kill Drake" button. Judge Trudy returns, with a different bailiff.
  8. S03E08Episode 38August 17, 2002Penelope hypnotizes Drake & Josh so they can tell her where Amanda is, but it backfires. We meet the Lucklesses, an unfortunate, and unlucky
  9. S03E09Episode 39September 14, 2002Amanda loses the lower half of her body, so Kathy decides to go find it, because Amanda doesn't have legs. A Grown Up Remote is advertised.
  10. S03E10Episode 40September 21, 2002Nancy introduces Amanda and Drake to the "Costumatic 5000", a machine that gets you dressed quickly, but she has some trouble operating the

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

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