Funny / The Amanda Show

• Every single Judge Trudy sketch.
• The forever iconic scene where Drake and Josh fight over a dropped piece of shrimp, which notably led to the creation of Drake & Josh.
  • To elaborate, there was no dialogue for this scene, only the stage direction "Drake and Josh fight over shrimp". Everything else was improvised. Dan Schneider saw the pair's outstanding performance and decided to give the two their own show. In Drake & Josh proper the scene got a Call-Back in "Really Big Shrimp", which was the canonical finale of the series.
• Penelope's video of Amanda arguing with an umbrella.
  Amanda: YOU'RE WRONG UMBRELLA! YOU'RE WRONG!
• Penelope also has a video of Amanda singing to a birdhouse. It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context.
• The first "Stranded" sketch:
  • Tony Pajamas tricks Mr. Gullible into thinking he can leave the car without penalty.
    Tony: Hey, Gullible. Go get me a soda.
    Mr. Gullible: But if I exit the vehicle, I lose.
    Tony: Oh, no, no, no. Uh... they changed the rules.
    Mr. Gullible: Really?
    Everyone Else: Yeah.
    Mr. Gullible: Oh! Well, if that's what the rules say, then I'd be happy to fetch you a soda.
    (Mr. Gullible steps out of the car, and he's immediately apprehended by agents)
    Tony: One down.
  • When it's down to Tony, the Bailiff and Judge Trudy, they've become so hungry that they start ripping off parts of the car to eat them.
  • At the end, the Bailiff and Judge Trudy are the only people left in the car. Then, they realize the keys to the car are still in the ignition. And when they realize that the prize money is in the trunk, they naturally take advantage and drive off to Las Vegas.
    Narrator: No, no, no, uh-uh, wait, wait, you can't do that! That's not in the rules! Alright, come back! Alright, bring that car back! Hey...HEY, COME ON! I'M SERIOUS! (sigh) Next time, take the keys out!
    Agent: Sorry!
  • Prior to that, when it comes time to vote someone out of the car, everyone votes Debbie out, whose repeating of "I like eggs." has clearly gotten on everyone else's nerves. Debbie doesn't even vote for a fellow contestant or complain about being voted out; she just casts a vote for "eggs". She's pulled out of the car by force immediately afterwards.
• The "Blockblister" sketches are full of this. 3 Funny Foreigners who are happily immune to criticism deal with angry customers complaining over receiving the family's special bootleg movies rather than the real thing. Hilarity Ensues.
  "This movie better! MUUUUCH BETTER!"
  • The kid's dumbfounded reaction to receiving Stuart Lipple instead of Stuart Little.
    "...lipple? (beat) What the heck's a LIPPLE?!"
  • In the same sketch, (a prototypical) Lewbert shows up completely angry at the store, upon getting F-Men instead of X-Men. Then, after they play the bootleg tape, proto-Lewbert responds by screaming, then tearing his arm off his socket and using that as cash.
    • Better yet, usually with the second guy's unconventional reaction to the video, "Papa" rationalizes it as something positive. Somehow. Always. But here?
      "I think it means... (Shakes his head in alarm) HE CRAZY!"
  • Even better near the end of the show, he has to recreate the scene for an audience member who was in the bathroom and missed it.
    "I'LL PAY YOU WITH THIS! (normal voice) And then I rip my arm off..."
• In one "Dooper" sketch, a lady is given pea soup.
  Woman: Ooh! This smells odd yet kind of familiar! What's in this pea soup?
  Doreen's Dad: Well, let's just say I made it myself.
  (The woman takes 2 seconds to realize what he means before doing a Spit Take and running out the restaurant)
• Totally Kyle appearing on So You Wanna Win Five Dollars?.
  Host: Name any color.
  Kyle: 7! (buzzer)
  Host: Name any number!
  Kyle: Andrew Johnson! (buzzer)
  Host: What's the opposite of hot?!
  Kyle: WAY hot! (buzzer)
  Host: How do you spell "PAPER"?!?!
  Kyle: R-A-D-I-O! (buzzer)
  Host: What's 5 + 3?
  Kyle: Australia! (buzzer)
  Host: WHAT PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON?!
  Kyle: FALSE! (buzzer)
  Host: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU?!?!
  Kyle: ...so many things. (2 buzzers; 1 short, 1 long)
  • And then the one with Tony Pajamas and Judge Trudy. It can be perfectly summed up with 7 words: Tony uses his lifeline to order pizza.
    Host: "PLEEEASE GIVE ME A MOMENT TO SUPPRESS MY DEEP HATRED.....there."
  • "So you wanna win five dollars?" was a surprising role reversal - Amanda plays the straight man against all the funny characters who end up on the show. It almost always ends with her gradually losing it and, in a bit of Tranquil Fury, says "Who picks the people? WHO PICKS THE PEOPLE?"
• A poem by Mother Caboose. In particular, this line:
  Mother Caboose: Since she never wore shoes, she had many a blister
  People would ask her "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, SISTER!?"
• Pretty much all of the crank call segments.
  • "YOU HAVE THE WRONG NUMBER! THE NUMBER YOU'VE DIALED IS WRONG!!!"
  • Mr. Oldman is crank-called while he has a meatloaf in the oven. It cooks for too long, the oven explodes offscreen, he gets bricked in the head by his dinner and we get this gem:
  "I'VE BEEN GRAZED BY MY MEATLOAF!"
  • Special mention goes to one (that used to be on the website) wherein Mr. Oldman is told "Please knock yourself out with the phone." and he smacks himself. "It didn't work! I'm still conscious! Still not working! It didn't-that did it" and then he falls down.
  • One episode had an extra minute to fill after Moody's point, but it managed to be one of their funniest ones:
    Mr. Oldman: Hello?
    Girl: Hello?
    Mr. Oldman: Hello?
    Girl: Hello?
    Mr. Oldman: Hello?
    Girl: Hello?
    Mr. Oldman: Hello?
    Girl: Goodbye. (hangs up)
    Mr. Oldman: That was so pointless.
  • In the last episode, Mr. Oldman never makes it to the phone, as a series of falls prevents him from reaching it. The girl just gives after awhile.
• During one of the Penelope sketches, Penelope's little brother, Preston, is accompanying her on her latest Zany Scheme. He asks her, in the funniest but most serious little voice, "Does Mom know you missed your psychiatrist's appointment?"
• Both of the times Melody and Thad don't realize the songs they sing are inappropriate and offensive as they sing as entertainers at a restaurant and a wedding especially: “Bring me a bag I am vomiting!”
• The Rock-A-Bye Ralph sketch. Amanda gets scared during a thunderstorm, so her parents get her the Rock-A-Bye Ralph doll to help her go to sleep. The problem is, Ralph will not shut up about going to sleep. He continues talking after Amanda removes his batteries, and she tries to destroy him with a chainsaw. When that doesn't work, she gets Scooper, her dog, to tear him to pieces... and Ralph still talks from inside Scooper's stomach.
  • She throws him out the window, and he flies back in.
• The one-time sketch Smelling Bee which involved kids smelling incredibly obscure items and being able to correctly identify them down to the last detail. The kicker, nobody wins because the final 2 passed out smelling the last item, the assistant's armpits.
• The "Totally Kyle" skits, though particularly ''that'' one:
  Kyle: "...then the spider like fell, on my face, and I was all, 'AHH! SPIDER!' and the spider was all, (Drake nearly corpses) "AHH! KYLE!"

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