The first season aired from October 16, 1999 to February 19, 2000. The main cast features Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, Nancy Sullivan, Raquel Lee and Johnny Kassir. Recurring cast includes Andrew Hill Newman and E. E. Bell as Barney, the security guard. Every episode in this season is written by Dan Schneider, Andrew Hill Newman, John Hoberg, Christy Stratton & Jenny Kilgen. It was the only season to feature Raquel Lee and Johnny Kassir as regular cast members.
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1 |
"Pilot" |
Tim O'Donnell & Ken Whittingham |
October 16, 1999 (1999-10-16) |
101 |
- Cold Opening: The episode starts as a crowd of fans trying to get into The Amanda Show, and Penelope Taynt, who is a 12-year-old Amanda fanatic and puts the word "please" at the end of almost every sentence, would do anything to meet Amanda. Meanwhile, Amanda makes her entrance by a helicopter. But when the pilot (played by Henry Gibson) falls asleep, Amanda jumps out of the plane and lands on the set.
- Intro: Kenan Thompson and Josh Server (who have worked with Amanda from All That) deliver Amanda a pizza and flowers to Amanda to wish her luck on her new show and even give a Swiss Guy a muffin.
- Pedestrian Airbag: A commercial about a special airbag that can be used by pedestrians.
- Judge Trudy: Judge Trudy rules over two cases. The first one has Curtis McPeen issuing a complaint against Principal Thorn who made him stay after school for sending his car into the swimming pool while studying floatation during science class. Judge Trudy finds in favor of the plaintiff and Principal Thorn ends up thrown in the leopard cage when he doesn't have $85,000 to pay the fine. The second one had an unnamed girl issuing a complaint against her parents after she played baseball in the house and her parents told her never to do it again. Thinking that what the parents did was unreasonable, Judge Trudy declares that it's "time for butt-shutting" and sends the parents down the trap door that was under them.
- Stop Motion Amanda: Amanda imagines herself battling her school teacher Miss Yumbo. Then, the teacher gets trapped in the globe and gets killed as well.
- The Klutzes: A family whose members always break things and say "Not a problem" when it comes to them at home.
- Cynthia Worthington: Cynthia Worthington is on a date in a fancy restaurant where she does rude things at the table, much to her boyfriend's disgust.
- Mother Caboose: We hear a poem by Mother Caboose about a girl named Katie Beth Sue and the way she is described. Before she even finishes the poem, she begins to cough and the skit ends with Mother Caboose falling out of her chair.
- Penelope Taynt: Penelope Taynt steals part of Amanda's room and shows Drake and Raquel her website before being dragged away by two security guards.
- Closing: Amanda names all 50 states backwards while punching an astronaut.
- Note 1: This episode still airs on TV, although, it was not released on DVD with Season 1
- Note 2: Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) plays at the end of the first Judge Trudy.
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4 |
"Episode 4" |
Ken Whittingham & Rich Correll |
November 6, 1999 (1999-11-06) |
104 |
- Cold Opening: It starts off with Amanda practicing with the Dancing Lobsters to dance and when she leaves, Penelope disguises herself as one of the Dancing Lobsters and joins their dance, but a female guard appears and takes her away.
- Introduction: Amanda solves the problems of the audience.
- Homework Hut: A commercial about a delivery place that delivers homework of any kind.
- Hillbilly Moment: Lula Mae's knock knock joke involves hitting Eenis in the head with a fish.
- Blockblister: Blockblister is a store which is owned by the foreign Blokey family with weird accents and always give the customers homemade spoofs of the actual movie made by the family. The customers come in, not pleased with seeing the Blokey family's movie spoofs of Star Wars Episode I: The Vantom Menace, The Wizard of Voz, and Austin Powders.
- Stop Motion Amanda: Amanda's bath keeps getting disrupted when she keeps finding her brother's stuff in the bathtub up to the point where it is discovered that her brother's great white shark is in the bathtub.
- Judge Trudy: The courtroom of Judge Trudy starts with the Halloween edition. The first one has Shelly Barnes issuing a complaint against Mrs. Shane who gave her an apple instead of candy when out trick or treating. Judge Trudy finds in favor of the plaintiff with Judge Trudy confiscating Mrs. Shane's dress when she doesn't have the fine money of $4.6 million. The second one has an unnamed kid issuing a complaint against a man who snapped at him and his friends for egging his house. Judge Trudy finds in favor of the plaintiff and has the bailiff put the man over his shoulders and spin him around until he is very uncomfortable.
- Hillbilly Moment: Lula Mae's knock knock joke involves hitting Eenis in the head with a cucumber.
- Penelope Taynt: Penelope shows the security guard her website, but this is just a distraction to escape.
- Totally Kyle: Kyle Rostensan tells his story about the time when he found a rock in his driveway and took it to his room.
- The Literals: The Literals are a family who understands things exactly how they sound when they show up at the house of their new neighbors.
- Closing: Amanda and the Dancing Lobsters show their dances they have practiced earlier. Penelope joins in as well dressed as a Dancing Lobster, but is chased away by security guards.
Special note: This episode is the first episode to feature the Blockblister sketch. |
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"Episode 5" |
Rich Correll, Ken Whittingham & Virgil L. Fabian |
November 13, 1999 (1999-11-13) |
105 |
- Cold Opening: Amanda rides an elevator and there are floors with many weird and unusual scenes where characters of the same theme ride with her. She reaches the 24th floor, the floor of her studio, but she suddenly forgets her purse and has to ride down all the floors to her dressing room to get it back.
- Introduction: Amanda attempts to introduce the show, but many people interrupt her saying which floor this is until Andrew Keegan asks where the bowling alley is.
- Remote Control Underpants: There's a commercial of some remote control underpants.
- Mr. Gullible: Mr. Gullible, a substitute teacher who's very gullible, comes to teach at history class and is tricked by his students into doing stuff that the students claimed their regular teacher did.
- Stop Motion Amanda: Amanda has trouble cleaning up her very messy bedroom.
- Hillbilly Moment: Lula Mae's knock knock joke involves hitting Eenis in the head with a witch broom and later in the show, a beaver.
- Penelope Taynt: Penelope sneaks onto the set of The Amanda Show where they are in the middle of a pirate skit and shows Johnny and Drake her website.
- Totally Kyle: Kyle discusses about the time when he walked to school and notices a dead bird.
- Scooper Dooper: We visit Doreen and her dad at a restaurant which serves really gross ice cream like Rainbow Slime, Poisonous Chip, Gerbils and Cream, Mucus Pucus (made from the mucus that is sneezed out), Litterbox Bonanza, Chili Willy, and Lobster Tackle (which causes a Dancing Lobster to tackle the consumer). When a boy orders an ice cream called Spider Crunch (which contains actual spiders), he shouts for a health inspector who arrives and states that there are only five spiders in the Spider Crunch causing Doreen to add some more. Doreen and her dad then give the health inspector an ice cream cone on the house with the flavor being Cookies and Dynamite (which explodes the moment the health inspector leaves the restaurant).
- Closing: Amanda presents the audience awards including best laughter, least intelligent audience member, and the person who came from the furthest planet.
Special note: This episode is the first episode to feature the Mr. Gullible sketch and the ...Dooper sketch.
Special Appearance by: Andrew Keegan
NOTE: This episode no longer airs on TV, possibly due to the copyright issues from the guest stars. |
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6 |
"Episode 6" |
Virgil L. Fabian & Rich Correll |
November 20, 1999 (1999-11-20) |
106 |
- Cold Opening: Penelope tries to break into Amanda's room by sitting in a cannon and fire. She lands exactly but only with Drake in the room.
- Introduction: When Amanda gets to the stage, she tells a joke but the audience doesn't understand a word she says because they don't speak English, so she has to spend her time teaching them.
- Egg Splat: A commercial about the Egg Splat.
- So You Wanna Win Five Dollars: There is a tense game of So You Wanna Win Five Dollars? with Marcy Stimple (Nancy Sullivan) and Kyle Rostensan as contestants. On Marcy Stimple's turn, she proves to be to hyperactive and misses her chance to answer the question which had Andrew Johnson as the answer to the question revolving around the 19th President of the United States. On Kyle Rostensan's turn, he gets the questions to every question wrong.
- Stop Motion Amanda: Amanda fights with her broccoli.
- Blockblister: Today, the Biokey family rip off the customers with "Tidanic" and an exercise video with Blini and Biscotti saying "lie down" and "sit up" over and over again while eating a pizza.
- Hillbilly Moment: Lula Mae's knock knock joke involves hitting Eenis in the head with a large mallet.
- Penelope Taynt: Johnny encounters Penelope Taynt disguised as Amanda. Penelope shows Johnny her website before she is taken away by the security guards.
- Totally Kyle: Kyle Rostensan tells his story about the time when he climbed up a steep hill and threw a frisbee very far.
- Becky Swanson: A family welcomes their new babysitter (Amanda Bynes) who is "professional," but actually acts like a baby.
- Closing: Penelope Taynt escapes from the security guards by disguising herself as Drake while Amanda closes the show.
NOTE: In the "Becky Swanson" segment, a scene from "The Wrestlebergs" is heard on TV. |
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7 |
"Episode 7" |
Virgil L. Fabian, Rich Correll, Bruce Gowers & Tim O'Donnell |
January 8, 2000 (2000-01-08) |
107 |
- Cold Opening: Penelope carries over 50 phones with her so she can try to win a dinner with Amanda in a radio contest.
- Introduction: Amanda teaches Regan Burns how to perform karate.
- Meatloaf Crunch: The second airing of this commercial.
- Judge Trudy: Judge Trudy rules over two cases. The first one has Jason Fima issuing a complaint against his parents who cut Jason's allowance from $20 to $19 after he sold their house in order to raise money to go to Doozy Land. Judge Trudy finds in favor of the plaintiff and sentences Mr. and Mrs. Fima to partake in a cage match against two professional wrestlers. The second one had Amy Drummel issuing a complaint against her mother who sent Amy to her room when she refused to kiss her Aunt Sophie (who was also present in the courtroom's audience). Judge Trudy finds in favor of the plaintiff and sentences Mrs. Drummel to a week locked up in a box with two contagious sick children.
- Stop Motion Amanda: Amanda is cruising through space where she keeps colliding with large objects.
- The Girls' Room: Sheila, Tammy, and Debbie are voting for Amber for class president. When Caroline has not decided who she is voting for, Sheila gives her a swirlie and finally gets her to vote for Amber. Amber's rival Danielle Spencer is also running for president and mentions that a third candidate named Jamie Bradford has joined the election. When Amber had Shelia bring Jamie to the Girls' Room, the girls are surprised that Jamie is actually a boy. Danielle Spencer and Amber lastly drop out of the race and give the support to Jamie Bradford.
- Penelope Taynt: In a follow-up to the cold opening, Penelope makes sure that the operator directs the radio's calls to her.
- Totally Kyle: Kyle Rostensan tells his story about the time when he tried to ask a girl out for a date.
- Souper Dooper: We pay another visit to Doreen and her dad at their restaurant, which sells weird and disgusting soups this time. The soups they sell consist of Foot Fungus Chowder, Toilet Chowder, Tomato Garbage, Noodles and Poodles (where poodles are the main ingredient), Underwear Chowder (the underwear in question belonged to Doreen's dad), Pee Soup (which Doreen's dad made himself), Back Hair Soup (made fresh by Doreen's grandpa), and Lincoln Punch (which causes Abraham Lincoln to appear and punch the consumer).
- Closing: As Amanda closes the show, Penelope wins the contest. However, the radio phones her back and since she has over 50 phones in her room, she doesn't know which phone to pick up.
Special note: This is the first episode to have The Girls' Room sketch on a redesigned set. |
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8 |
"Episode 8" |
Bruce Gowers, Virgil L. Fabian, Rich Correll & Tim O'Donnell |
January 15, 2000 (2000-01-15) |
108 |
- Cold Opening: Today, Penelope wakes up from her bad dream with her parents (who are also adding "please" into their sentences) introduce a surprise visitor from The Amanda Show, the camera man.
- Introduction: Amanda is interrupted by an audience member who cannot listen to LFO's CD. Amanda solves the problem by bringing on the band themselves!
- Pedestrian Airbag: The second airing of this commercial.
- Mr. Gullible: Mr. Gullible comes to science class and gets tricked by his students once again.
- Stop Motion Amanda: Amanda attempts to cook fudge brownies.
- Hillbilly Moment: Lula Mae's knock knock joke involves hitting Eenis in the head with a bowling pin.
- Penelope Taynt: As LFO prepares to perform, Penelope meets them. Penelope shows LFO her website before taking her leave.
- Totally Kyle: Kyle Rostensan tells his story about the time when he saw an airplane which he mistook for a shooting star.
- LFO performance: LFO performs the song "Girl on TV" for Amanda. Drake, Raquel, and the Dancing Lobsters dance with them.
- Procrastinator: The Procrastinator makes her first appearance by saying "Eventually" every time there's something bad happening.
- Closing: The Dancing Lobsters invite Amanda and LFO to a party.
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10 |
"Episode 10" |
Virgil L. Fabian, Bruce Gowers, Rich Correll & Mary Schmid |
January 29, 2000 (2000-01-29) |
110 |
- Cold Opening: Penelope has stolen the A of the AMANDA letters in the Amanda show studio, which makes it The MANDA Show.
- Introduction: Amanda discovers that her co-stars, a Dancing Lobster, and three cameramen are wearing the same dress as she is.
- Homework Hut: The second airing of this commercial.
- Sushi Dooper: It's time to visit Sushi Dooper with Doreen and her dad, which now serves disgusting sushi like live fish on an unfolded sushi, Fingernail Roll, Raccoon Roll, Thumbtack Roll, Phlegm Roll, Hairball Roll, and Samurai Roll (which causes a samurai to attack the consumer).
- Stop Motion Amanda: Amanda's dad buys a new TV set that emits various things that are mentioned when Amanda watches it and it soon gets stolen by a burglar.
- Parent-Teacher Conference: Kyle Rostensan's teacher was displeased on how he wrote his book report of Charlotte's Web. When she has brought his parents in to discuss this, she discovers that they and Kyle's grandparents are where Kyle gets his surfer-like talking from.
- Hillbilly Moment: Lula Mae's knock knock joke involves hitting Eenis in the head with a gila monster.
- Penelope Taynt: Penelope decides to return the "A" to her house, but the taxi driver has trouble getting it in the back of a taxi.
- Totally Kyle: Kyle Rostensan tells his story about the time when he woke up with messy hair.
- Snipatorium - A hairdresser store that causes more harm to the guests than good.
- Mr. Oldman: Mr. Oldman receives another prank call revolving around the Lumina Lumina Farm Company wondering when he wants his zebras delivered.
- Closing: Amanda plays tennis with the audience. Upon leaving, Amanda notices the "A" is missing and Penelope has the "A" on her motorcycle as she drives during the credits.
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11 |
"Episode 11" |
Virgil L. Fabian, Rich Correll & Mary Schmid |
February 5, 2000 (2000-02-05) |
111 |
- Cold Opening: Penelope uses a homemade remote-controlled robot to infiltrate The Amanda Show. Inside the van with her is her brother Preston, who won't stop asking for a sandwich.
- Introduction: The show celebrates Amanda's birthday (but it's not actually her birthday).
- Remote Control Pizza: A commercial about remote-controlled pizzas.
- The Klutzes: The Klutzes Family visits the Museum of Irreplaceable Art and end up causing problems which involves breaking the display case of objects from an Indian Burial Ground, breaking the Teenysaurus skeleton (with the dinosaur being the only one of its kind), damaging glass objects made by a young Abraham Lincoln, and tossing the indestructable armor that was worn by George Washington out the window.
- Stop Motion Amanda: Amanda plays fetch with her dog Scooper who keeps fetching the wrong things instead of the ball.
- The Girls' Room: Amber, Sheila, Tammy, and Debbie host the annual "Girls' Choice Awards." The first award deals with the "Worst Cafeteria Food Served" with Pork Loaf winning over Sloppy Joes, Noodle Goo, and Fishburgers with the cafeteria lady Miss Shapein accepting the award on the Pork Loaf's behalf. The second award deals with the Best Cable TV Show with "The Girls' Room" winning over "Good Morning Chess Club," "Cooking with Miss Shapein," and "Locker Room Hygiene with Coach Squaddle" much to the objection of Coach Squaddle. The final award deals with the "Most Popular Girl in School" where Tina Capone wins over Amber (who was nominated three times). When Sheila gives Tina Capone a swirlie while Tina cannot accept the final award, Amber is happy to accept the final award on her behalf.
- Hillbilly Moment: Lula Mae's knock knock joke involves hitting Eenis in the head with a skunk.
- Penelope Taynt: Penelope Taynt's robot continues its infiltration.
- Totally Kyle: Kyle Rostensan tells his story about the time when he saw a TV show that he like which had a funny guy and a dog with a funny bark.
- When Old Ladies Attack: A documentary where we see elderly women abuse innocent people with purses and umbrellas.
- Closing: Amanda shakes the hands of everyone in the audience. When Penelope's robot follows Amanda to her limo, the robot ends up getting run over and destroyed when the limo backs up.
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12 |
"Episode 12" |
Bruce Gowers, Rich Correll, Virgil L. Fabian, Mary Schmid & Ken Whittingham |
February 12, 2000 (2000-02-12) |
112 |
- Cold Opening: Amanda discovers that there is no audience to hear her opening joke because she has arrived too early.
- Introduction: While Amanda introduces the show, firefighters, nuns, and Vitamin C come onto the stage. Amanda invites Vitamin C to perform on the show, and she agrees.
- Call Zap: The second airing of this commercial.
- Judge Trudy: Judge Trudy rules over two cases. The first one has Ross Appleton issuing a complaint against a zookeeper who kicked him out of the zoo after he released all the zoo animals from their cages enough for them to escape into the city with some of the incidents including a hippopotamus crushing a taxi cab and a zebra tinkling on a taco stand. Judge Trudy finds in favor of the plaintiff and orders the bailiff to put an angry chipmunk down the zookeeper's pants when he won't pay Ross the fine money of $22,000. The second one deals with Loretta Stanton issuing a complaint against her mother who threw away her paints after she painted her face, hair and other parts all orange while she was taking a nap. Judge Trudy finds in favor of the plaintiff and presses a button causing a large boulder to fall and crush Mrs. Stanton.
- Rock-A-Bye Ralph: Amanda cannot sleep at night, so her parents give her a doll named Rock-a-Bye Ralph that will not shut up. Eventually, Amanda calls upon her dog to dispose of Rock-a-Bye Ralph.
- Penelope Taynt: Penelope uses a net trap to catch Amanda, but instead catches Vitamin C. Penelope shows her website before fleeing.
- Totally Kyle: Kyle Rostensan tells his story about the time when he couldn't find a cordless phone.
- Vitamin C performance: One of the Dancing Lobsters has a cold. So Amanda says "You need your daily dose of Vitamin C!" as guest singer Vitamin C herself sings for Amanda and the audience.
- Mr. Oldman: Mr. Oldman gets another prank call from Amanda involving the prank caller acting as his cousin wanting him to get his dog a bath.
- Closing: Amanda hosts a talent contest.
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