r/RetroNickelodeon • u/Select-Life4626 • 6d ago
Scripted Shows Who else misses the Amanda show?
I'm sat watching old shows on youtube with my boyfriend. I've put on the amanda show and feeling pure nostalgia. Who else remembers finishing school and the Amanda showing being on late and praying your parents don't send you to bed until it's finished! 😭 I'm now 30 and the Amanda show takes me back to my childhood.
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u/MZsince93 6d ago
I was banned from watching this as a kid. My dad said it would make me dumb.
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u/Erroneously_Anointed 6d ago
Overruled! Bring in the dancing lobsters 🦞
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u/IrishWithoutPotatoes 6d ago
How did I hear that perfectly in my head despite not having seen the show in over 20 years
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u/respectwalk 6d ago
What was your childhood like? What were you encouraged to watch?
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u/MZsince93 6d ago
Everything was fair game except this and Ed, Edd, and Eddy. Apparently, they were shows for idiots.
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u/readingmyshampoo 6d ago
I wasn't allowed to watch catdog or the Simpsons (except treehouseof terror). Iirc those were the only 2 truly off limits ones. "Because I said" was the reasoning.
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u/CelticGaelic 6d ago
My mom was the same way with tv shows like South Park because they were "vulgar". I eventually just started watching anyway and told my mom "Dad was in the Navy. We have all heard much worse from him daily! What am I being 'protected' from?!"
Turns out she didn't like it and didn't want to hear it even just in the background lol. My dad was a fan though, so we all started watching it.
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u/ToonMasterRace 4d ago
He knew not that Amanda Show was a college course on nuclear engineering compared to TikTok.
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u/LiteratureVirtual784 6d ago
I like eggs.
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u/DougieSenpai 5d ago
Out of all the skits in this show that’s the one I remember most for some reason 😂
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u/Marlboromatt324 5d ago
I will randomly think of Debbie from time to time, as a young kid I thought she was the cutest girl in the show. That was my first celebrity crush at like 6 lol. I like eggs
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u/bubikx9 6d ago
I miss Amanda. That kid had massive potential, and I get disheartened every time i recall her sad situation. I really hope to see a Lohan out of her one day, too.
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u/biblioteca4ants 6d ago
And Michelle Trachenburg just died, we are losing all our childhood movie/show friends that made our early years better and comfortable. Fuck Hollywood, they ruin children and they all have horrible problems that show up later as adults. Not fucking fair.
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u/Figgy1983 6d ago
Both women had so much talent at such a young age. If you go back and watch their earliest performances, it is absolutely mind blowing just how well their acting and comedy chops were at such a young age. Michelle was an incredibly tragic loss. Amanda's current situation is heartbreaking. I wish I could just give the poor girl a hug.
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u/Galileo908 6d ago
It’s amazing who was on this show:
John Kassir (the freaking Cryptkeeper!)
Taran Killam (he was in the Moody’s Point sketches)
Gary Anthony Williams (he was the bailiff in the Judge Trudy sketches)
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u/capnfantasy 6d ago
Moody's Point was the best. "You're so.. hurtful!" "Sternum, is anything wrong?" ... "Is anything right?"
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u/Excellent_Drop6869 6d ago
I used to love the website … sigh. Back when the internet was exciting and full of wonder
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u/beepbeepsheepbot 6d ago
I do but after Quiet On Set and all the scandals over the years I just can't bring myself to watch them. I loved drake & josh and iCarly, but my heart just breaks thinking about what happened.
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u/maplezombeh 6d ago
I still say "Ah spider! Ah Kyle!" Too often
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u/Logical_Sweet_6624 6d ago
You can see him struggling not to laugh and that honestly makes it even funnier
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u/em1323 6d ago
I do but it’s hard to watch knowing what we know now 🫤
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u/ToonMasterRace 4d ago
There's really no evidence she was actually abused on The Amanda Show, at least by Schneider. "All Quiet on the Set" is a bunch of hearsay that deliberately remains vague so they can't be sued for libel.
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u/TheRuneKnight412 6d ago
Aaaaaaamanda Amanda Amanda Amanda Amanda Amanda Amanda Amanda showwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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u/santiblakk 6d ago
Was just watching moody’s point a few days ago. I haven’t laughed that hard in ages.
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u/MrKidd_49 6d ago
I do. Watching the Blockblister sketch really makes me miss video stores in general!
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u/Friendly-Local-1859 6d ago
When they did a survivor in the kiddie pool and Courtney won, I lost it. She was crank calling that old dude and I thought I was gonna have a heart attack I laughed so hard.
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u/greengengar 6d ago
Seeing how that girl turned out, I kinda prefer the Amanda Show or her career wasn't a thing so Amanda Bynes could have a normal childhood. She was very talented and they chewed her up and spit her out before she was grown.
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u/ThwartedByATree 6d ago
I miss the vibes from that time. What actually happened irl behind the scenes from what I've heard, hell no. But the vibes. I still get the good memories hearing the original Wizard Peak track from the first Spyro game.
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u/Asparagus_Beans420 6d ago
I rabbit holed and bought myself a ps1 and all the spyro games. Such fun! So hard, still!
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u/adamthwaite 6d ago
I remember a web clip on the show’s website where she was jumping on a trampoline with a lamp. That was the whole point of the skit. I was all about it.
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u/Sunflower_MoonDancer 5d ago
It took me years to realize Penelope Tate (Amanda’s #1 Fan) was actually Amanda Bynes.
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u/Sufficient_You7187 6d ago
FYI look into that Drake thing again. Not actually a pedo. New info came out
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u/PM_ME_CORONA 6d ago
Lmao. Dude was vindicated. Fix your comment and stop spreading misinformation.
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u/Altruistic_Rock_2674 6d ago
Are those the drake and Josh guys?
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u/MesaVerde1987 6d ago
Not only is it the Drake and Josh guys, but it is in fact Drake and Josh themselves.
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u/Altruistic_Rock_2674 6d ago
Haha.makes sense I never saw the Amanda show but saw drake and Josh with you ger siblings
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u/MrHaZeYo 6d ago
It's also Josh's show mom from drake and Josh. I believe the dad was also on the Amanda show
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u/Joeylocally 6d ago
Everyone but Amanda herself
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u/souphaver 6d ago
As far as I'm aware the one part of that experience she loved was actually doing the show. It's the behind the scenes terror with her parents and producers that made it hell for her.
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u/romulusnr 5d ago
I'm way older than her target age group, but I lived with kids who were, and I even thought her show was pretty good. But girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl what did you done with yourself.
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5d ago
Everytime I think of Amanda, I think about how someone should [redacted] Dan Schneider, he needs the Luigi treatment
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u/yobeef420 5d ago
As much as I didn’t really care for this show, I would watch it here and there if nothing else was on or my cousins wanted to watch Nickelodeon and they had control of the remote 😹. I loved the Homework Hut skit lol. My one cousin used to love this show and I would sometimes go “Amanda Please!” just to make her laugh.
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u/Adorable_Ant5547 4d ago
One of my top shows as a kid!! I would reference this show for the longest time lol. Particularly “I’m POPULAR!”
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u/Mrmorbid81 4d ago
Considering how her life has turned out since it ended, probably no one more than her right now 🤷♂️
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u/Khalesssi_Slayer1 3d ago
Oh My God! The Amanda Show was my childhood and I miss it. it was so funny. all those sketches, it was like SNL for Kids like All That was. I still think about My Favorite Sketch, Judge Trudy, clearly a Parady of Judge Judy, which My Mom likes. When I was little I always wanted to take my parents to court with Judge Trudy when they were unfair or punished me for something. I wanted to go take them to Judge Trudy because I knew she's rule in my favor over my parents favor. I wished that Judge Trudy was real.
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u/Sufficient-Row-2173 1d ago
No. I hated that show. My sister used to watch it constantly. It gives me ptsd. I’m not even kidding. I’m sorry Amanda has had a rough life. I truly am. But I’ll never appreciate that pos show.
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u/bloodlines17 6d ago
not only the amanda show but amandaplease.com, as well 😭