History Series / TheAmandaShow

* ExtravertedNerd: Penelope Taynt in ''The Amanda Show'', please, being a tech-wiz with her own website who isn't shy in her outright stalking of Amanda.

* '''Moody's Point''': A parody of teen dramas and soap operas by satirizing just how emotionally exaggerated they can be. This sketch did not use a laugh track, and Dan Schneider tried to launch this sketch as its own series (a spin-off of a spin-off?)

* '''Blockblister''': An (illegal) video store run by an Eastern European family parodying Blockbuster (the real-life store was referenced) and many people thinking the store ''is'' Blockbuster come in to buy a movie, only to realize that it's just a cheap NoBudget rip-off with the video store workers replacing all the actors. Then cue the angry backlash they get from customers who proceed to scream at them to go to hell.

* CreepyDoll: Rock-A-Bye Ralph, a scary doll who talks non-stop in a creepy high-pitched voice. The little girl is so scared of it she feeds it to her dog, [[NightmareFuel his voice continues inside the dog's stomach]].

* SpinOff: Not directly, but one of Nickelodeon's most successful live-action shows, ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', was created as a vehicle for two of ''The Amanda Show'''s stars, [[TheDanza Drake Bell and Josh Peck]]. ''The Amanda Show'' itself is also a spin-off, of ''Series/AllThat''.

* TheUnreveal: We never found out who the real Moody was... because the show got ScrewedByTheNetwork, and [[http://danwarp.blogspot.com/2008/05/faq-what-happened-with-moodys-point.html Schneider never got a chance to think about who it would be.]]

* '''Judge Trudy''': A 13-year-old judge who often has to sort out settlements between children or teenagers against adults, and she always sides with the young. Her childish bailiff then carries out her humiliating punishments. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Then she brings in the dancing lobsters.]]

* MsFanservice: Amanda got to show more of that side of her when she got to BareYourMidriff. She even wore a hula skirt on an episode.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The female characters get plenty of slapstick dished their way. A girl even gets punched in the face for comedy in The Literals sketch.

* IronicInversion: Parodied when Amanda hosts a talent show. The first two 'talents' are balancing a hat on their head and pouring salt on a hard-boiled egg—while the third is a genuinely impressive gymnastics routine. The gymnastics gets the lowest audience score.

* {{Corpsing}}: In one of the "Totally Kyle" skits, in which Kyle (Creator/DrakeBell) talks about the time a spider landed on his face, Drake noticeably cracks up when he says, "So I was all, "AHH! SPIDER!", and the spider was all, "AHH! KYLE!"

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Several characters throughout the sketches, but Debbie from "The Girls' Room" takes it UpToEleven.

* WhamLine: Played for Laughs in "A Poem by Mother Caboose", wherein Mother Caboose's poem gets a sudden shift in mood from "TastesLikeDiabetes" to "RefugeInAudacity" with just one line.

* PettheDog: One Judge Trudy skit involves a girl suing her mother for sending her to her room for refusing to kiss her aunt. When the Aunt stands up, the audience starts throwing trash at her like normal. In perhaps the only moment of kindness she shows to an adult who isn't her baliff, Judge Trudy tells them to stop, since the aunt wasn't the one who punished the girl, her mother was. And indeed, the aunt is left alone for the remainder of the show.

The show's Amanda Please website - designed in-universe by Penelope - [[{{defictionalization}} notably stayed on the web for nearly 15 years]], even after the show was long since cancelled, but it was sadly taken off in 2015 as part of a rehaul of Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s website. Thankfully, that's why we have the Wayback Machine.

** Inverted in one skit with Amanda babysitting two children - and the babysitter is a massive [[ManChild woman child]] who terrorises the children with her babyish antics. The children try but fail to babysit her instead. They end up locking her in the closet and [[KidsDrivingCars stealing their mom's car keys to go catch a movie]] likely by one handling the wheel and the other doing pedals.
** A Blockblister skit featured a babysitter bringing an EnfantTerrible to the store. The child is so furious with the movie that she fires the babysitter - who reacts by jumping for joy.

* BlandNameProduct: Lampshaded in the Blockblister sketches - where the video store sold knock-offs of famous movies. (They were able to get away with it since at the time Nickelodeon and the real Blockbuster were both owned by Creator/{{Viacom}}.)

-->(to Amber): Gosh, you're purtier than my sister!

* ButNotTooWhite: For a prom night skit on "The Girls' Room", Debbie tries to get a tan at a tanning salon--and shows up sun burned.

* IronicInversion: Parodied when Amanda hosts a talent show. The first two 'talents' are balancing a hat on their head and pouring salt on a hard-boiled egg--while the third is a genuinely impressive gymnastics routine. The gymnastics gets the lowest audience score.

* ManipulativeBitch: Crazy Courtney, who tends to play up her annoying and gross habits as a means to an end--for example, in one sketch she torments a kid sitting next to her in a movie theater until he runs off...at which point she calls up her boyfriend so that he can sit in said kid's seat with her.

** And there's the recurring families with last names that match their personalities - The Simians (who are half-ape), The Lucklesses (who have terrible luck), The Extremes (who overreact to everything), The Klutzes (who are inhumanly clumsy) and The Literals (who take everything literally).

* MinorInjuryOverreaction: The raison d'etre of Nurse Zelda - who gives the Heimlich to a girl who just coughed, feeds pudding on a drip to a boy with a papercut and brings out the heart paddles for a sneezer.

* SatiatingSandwich: Preston always wants his sister- and Amanda, in at least one instance- to make him a sandwich.

'''Student:''' Oh no, [[CurseCutShort my dad's gonna kick my--]]\\

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: One Penelope sketch has her sending Barney [[DiggingToChina all the way to Beijing]] through a trap door. Upon landing in a random family's house, he brushes himself off, confirms that he's in China, and immediately [[BigEater asks what they're eating]]--despite the fact that he just ''fell through the center of the Earth.'' The family themselves also get in on this trope: they're only momentarily shocked at a strange American man falling through their ceiling and happily share their lunch with him.

-->'''Defendant:''' Uh, wait! Excuse me! You're the judge?
-->'''Judge Trudy:''' No, I'm a bowl of fruit.

"Just close your eyes and sleep, sleep, sleep!"

--Rock-A-Bye Ralph

--> '''Trudy''': I'm thinkin' Vegas?
--> '''Bailiff''': Hit it, Judge!

-->'''Lisa''': Reggie's a super-burper.
-->'''Billy''': When I kiss a girl, I slurp 'er!
-->'''Lisa''': You're giving us a pop quiz?
-->'''Billy''': If you spill a soda, you have to...mop...fizz.

--> '''Clerk:''' This tape hasn't been rewound.
--> '''Customer:''' So, I forgot.
--> '''Clerk:''' What if you forgot to breathe? Then you'd be dead.

--> '''Amanda:''' Dear Amanda...
--> '''Audience:''' [[Series/AllThat "Thaaaaaaaat's me!"]]
--> '''Amanda:''' Wrong show, guys.

-->'''Teacher:''' All right, that's it, you're outta this class!
-->'''Student:''' Oh no, [[CurseCutShort my dad's gonna kick my--]]
-->'''Teacher:''' Be quiet!

-->'''Email #1''': "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS SAY PLEASE??????????"
-->'''Penelope''': I am asked this question a lot, please. My parents taught me to say please when you want something, and what I want is to meet Amanda, please. Why do YOU use so many question marks, please???????

"It's the party in that special part of your heart that makes the party of life the part that you never really part with".

--Moody's Dad

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Tony Pajamas insists it's ''Pa-JAH-mus''.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: In one "The Girl's Room" sketch, Debbie brought a hammer with "Happy Hanukkah" written on it. However, due to Debbie's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} nature, she could have just brought it without being Jewish.

** Inverted in one skit with Amanda babysitting two children - and the babysitter is a massive [[ManChild woman child]] who terrorises the children with her babyish antics. The children try but fail to babysit her instead. They end up locking her in the closet and stealing their parents' car keys to go catch a movie.

** "The Big Babysitter", a one-time sketch, featured Amanda as a teenager who initially acts very professional, only to start acting like a bratty child herself as soon as the parents leave, forcing her charges to take care of her.

The show's Amanda Please website - designed in-universe by Penelope - notably stayed on the web for nearly 15 years, even after the show was long since cancelled, but it was sadly taken off in 2015 as part of a rehaul of Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s website. Thankfully, that's why we have the Wayback Machine.

* '''Judge Trudy''': A child-age judge who often has to sort out settlements between children or teenagers against adults, and she always sides with the young. Her childish bailiff then carries out her humiliating punishments. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Then she brings in the dancing lobsters.]]

* '''Dooper''': A bizarre line of restaurants that sell inedible foods. One sketch details that they're able to stay open because the town's local health inspector is a moron, who simply pulled a DoWrongRight on a spider infestation in the ice cream Dooper sketch.

* '''Melody and Thad''': Two singers are booked to perform at a certain venue, only for them to sing rather insulting and gross songs.

* '''The Dare Show''': Two kids host a show out of their attic where they take any dare sent by their viewers. This usually results in them backing out before the darer calls them chicken, causing them to do the dare as intended.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Despite frequently getting hit on the head by the subject of whatever Knock-Knock joke that his sister, Lula is telling, Eenis will usually tell her that it's still a good joke.

* AskAStupidQuestion: Defendants tend to do this upon seeing that Judge Trudy is a child.

* ButNotTooWhite: For a prom night skit on "The Girls' Room", Debbie tries to get a tan at a tanning salon - and shows up sun burned.
* ButtMonkey: Mr. Gullible, Mr. Oldman, Misty, Penelope, Eenis, the hosts of the Dare Show, the Klutzes and the Lucklesses.

** [[Series/TheBradyBunch Maureen McCormick]] in ''Moody's Point'' as Moody's mom, who's stuck in a runaway hot air balloon.

-->'''Papa:''' This movie better!
-->'''Blockblister Kids:''' ''Much'' better!

-->'''Penelope:''' I am Penelope Taint, Amanda's number one fan, please!

* CreepyDoll: Rock-A-Bye Ralph, a scary doll who laughs in a creepy high-pitched voice. The little girl is so scared of it she feeds it to her dog, [[NightmareFuel his voice continues giggling inside the dog's stomach]].

%% * DeepSouth: Eenis and Lulu Mae of Hillbilly Moment. And Tammy, the 'foreign' exchange student from Tennessee.

* IronicInversion: Parodied when Amanda hosts a talent show. The first two 'talents' are balancing a hat on their head and pouring salt on a hard-boiled egg - while the third is a genuinely impressive gymnastics routine. The gymnastics gets the lowest audience score.

* MadeOfExplodium: "Snap-Crackle-KABOOM!," a breakfast cereal that blows up like a bomb after the milk is added. Just listen to the jingle: "Pour the cereal in, add some milk, leave room! Then you listen for the snap and the crackle and...KABOOM!"