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The Best Episodes of The Amanda Show

Every episode of The Amanda Show ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Amanda Show!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    #1 - Episode 6

    S1:E6

    Amanda 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 stage, the audience don't understand a word she says. There's also a tense game of ""So You Wanna Win Five Dollars?"" and Amanda finds a good way to deal with broccoli.

    Director:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Amanda Show Season 3 Episode 4 - Episode 34
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #2 - Episode 34

    S3:E4

    OPENING: Penelope uses truth gas on Drake and Josh but it actually makes them tell about their lives instead of telling Penelope where Amanda is. AMANDA: Amanda forgets her opening joke. COMMERCIAL: Snap, Crackle, KABOOM! (WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK SIGN: Shows Amanda doing a dance infront of her house) CINTHIA WORTHINGTON AMANDA'S JACUZZI: A Professional Wrestler gets interviewed THE LUCKLESSES: The family goes to baseball game HILLBILLY MOMENT: Eenis gets hit upon the head with a head (WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK SIGN: Shows Amanda doing a hawaiian dance) PENELOPE MIDDLE: Penelope and her brother Preston try to phone Amanda on a 40 foot pole (They get France, South Dakota, and finally Amanda's Dressing Room). But when they reach Amanda, the wires explode. CALLING MR.OLDMAN: ""Sally Poofenduff"" calls Mr.Oldman about squirting whipped cream in his mouth and calls him Uncle Nipsy. CLOSING: 3 big blokes try to get Amanda to eat clams.

    Director:Ken Whittingham
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Amanda Show Season 3 Episode 3 - Episode 33
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #3 - Episode 33

    S3:E3

    Amanda and Drake leave their costumes in their dressing rooms, but luckily Nancy has an invention called the Costumatic 5000. The Amanda Show comes off with a bad start when they geta fly in the studio. We stop at a commercial for Sumo and Judge Trudy is giving out more unfair punishments. Also: Cindy Extreme recieves her report card, there's a hillbilly moment featuring a computer moniter, Penelope's therapest turns into an Amanda fanatic, ""Sally Poofendoff"" calls Mr. Oldman, there's another hillbilly moment featuring a cactus branch, Kyle talks about his grandpa, and Amanda gives Drake a football but is chased by a football team.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Amanda Show Season 3 Episode 9 - Episode 39
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #4 - Episode 39

    S3:E9

    Amanda 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. We get a glimpse of Hawaii gone bad in When Hula-Girls Attack. Who will be the next special guest to soak up the bubbles in Amanda's Jacuzzi? We also meet The Impostors, a family who have trouble telling the truth of their identity. Time for another Hillbilly Moment with Eenis and Lula-Mae. Then, another encounter with Penelope Taint and the security guard, fighting over a piece of shrimp. The shrimp slips away, where Drake and Josh battle over one piece of shrimp. And now, we have time for just one last prank call to Mr. Oldman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    7.4/10(49 votes)

    #5 - Episode 1

    S1:E1

    Today 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 by helicopter. The show starts right here. Guest starring Kenan Thompson and Josh Server (From ""All That""), delivering a pizza and good wishes for Amanda's new show.

    Director:Ken Whittingham
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 9 - Episode 9
    7.4/10(24 votes)

    #6 - Episode 9

    S1:E9

    Raquel 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 dancing lobsters huge fan mail stack. Amanda fumbles a magic trick, some more fake commercials bring more inventive ways to get out of school, and there's just time for a serious documentary in the form of ""When Cheerleaders Attack"", where we see innocent people attacked by raving cheerleaders dancing and hurting people with pom pom's. They also get into the studio and pom pom out Amanda.

    Director:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 12 - Episode 12
    7.4/10(23 votes)

    #7 - Episode 12

    S1:E12

    Amanda discovers that there's no audience to hear her opening monologue because she's arrived too early. Requel and Amanda get a prank call from two boys, so they use Call ZAP! Judge Trudy gives an unfair punishment to a man who's zoo animals had been released all over the city and a woman who's daughter had painted her face, hair and other parts all orange. Amanda also can't sleep at night, so her parents give her a doll that won't shut up. One of the lobsters has a cold, so Amanda says ""You need your daily dose of Vitamin C!"".. what links to the next part of the show. Guest singer Vitamin C sings for amanda and the audience. Kyle talks about his cordless phone & how he never found it. And Mr Oldman get's another prank call from Amanda.

    Directors:Steve Hoefer, Rich Correll, Ken Whittingham
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    7.2/10(22 votes)

    #8 - Episode 7

    S1:E7

    Penelope 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 phone her back, she doesn't know which phone to pick up. Judge Trudy has a date with a guy in a restaraunt, but the guy's parents come and Judge Trudy sentances them. Doreen and her dad sell weird soups... like toe nail soups and grandpa's foot hairs soup.

    Director:Rich Correll
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Amanda Show Season 2 Episode 10 - Episode 23
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #9 - Episode 23

    S2:E10

    Penelope tries to get into Amanda's dressing room with a cunning bear disguise today, but Amanda is already on stage, helping a fan whose parents won't let him watch The Amanda Show. There's important commercial news for vegetarians, and more money matters as the glittering prize is still up for grabs in ""So You Wanna Win Five Dollars"". After the entertainment, time for a serious documentary with the Crime Fighting Cheerleaders, more Knock Knock jokes in another Hillbilly Moment, and an excellent sketch that gets totally interrupted by Penelope. Plus, Amanda interviews Elvis in her jacuzzi, and Amanada hands out fifty thousand dollars to a lucky audience member with a birthday.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Amanda Show Season 2 Episode 11 - Episode 24
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #10 - Episode 24

    S2:E11

    The 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 word from Mammal-Os, the healthy cereal with a live mammal in every box! Then back to the action with Crazy Courtney, a quick visit to Moody's Point, and Kyle totally tells us about the radio. Plus, Amanda's meat song is interrupted by the sound of a lawnmower - someone's mowing the stage!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Amanda Show Season 3 Episode 5 - Episode 35
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Episode 35

    S3:E5

    Amanda 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 wearing a pink dress. Amanda's opening got bad when her lower body disappeared. There was an advertisment for The Grown-Up Remote. We're back in time for a serious documentary titled ""When Hula Girls Attack"", King Henry VIII stoped by Amanda's Jacuzzi, and there's a sketch that I call ""The Fridgers"". Penelope forced Barney to tell where Amanda wass and if he didn't want to, Penelope will eat his shrimp cocktail Kathy delivered him. Amanda was closing the show when the director told her there was a speck of dirt on the camera. Amanda tried to get it off but she couldn't. Then Drake came along and he tried to get it off and it still wouldn't come off. Then Nancy came and had a hammer and chiesel and tried to get it off. But it wouldn't. And the three of them were crowded around 1 camera. Then Barney came, and asked what they were looking

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Amanda Show Season 2 Episode 17 - Episode 30
    7.1/10(22 votes)

    #12 - Episode 30

    S2:E17

    Amanda 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 commercial message from Ham, the great new toy for boys and girls! Plus, Blockblister rents another high quality movie to an unsuspecting customer. Today, it's the F Men! We cross to the basement of Roberta and Toby for an edition of The Dare Show', there's another Hillbilly Moment featuring a pink toilet, and Kyle describes a dream he had about breakfast

    Director:Ken Whittingham
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    7.0/10(25 votes)

    #13 - Episode 4

    S1:E4

    It 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 disguises herself as one of the lobsters and tries to keep up with their dance. Also, alot of people get ripped off in blockblister, one of them being a person who asked for austin powers and got a different version done by the blockblister family. And the blokey family get new neighbours, who take things a bit too seriously. Like asking them to hold something for a second, they count to one missisippi and then drop it.

    Directors:Rich Correll, Ken Whittingham
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 13 - Episode 13
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    #14 - Episode 13

    S1:E13

    Penelope 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 Amanda, but it is actually Drake's and instead they get a close of Drake! There's an advert with Meatloaf Crunch (a cereal), Amanda and Drake pur it in their bowls and put milk on it and start eating it. Drake says ""It turns the milk chocolaty!"" Then Amanda corrects him and says ""NO, that GRAVY"". Then in school, Drake is talking to the others about a new girl at school who is a witch. The witch then comes in and sits down, and Requel asks her if she is a witch and the girl replies no. But then, Requel says ""You wear all that witchy stuff, a hat, clothes, your nose"", then the witch gets angry and turns her into a frog. Drake then tell's the teacher, but the teacher tells Drake to stop taking the micky out of her. Then Drake does some more and the witch replys ""I'm Canadian"", the teacher then says ""Yes, don't take the micky out of those canadians, and just

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Amanda Show Season 2 Episode 4 - Episode 17
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Episode 17

    S2:E4

    It'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 the Klutz restaurant, Amanda interviews Frankenstein, and Ennis and Lula Mae reach out and hit somebody in an Outdoors Hillbilly Moment. Penelope has a fight for the title of Amanda's number one fan, please, then there's just time for a lesson from Mr. Gullible before the show comes to a complete stop once more.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Amanda Show Season 2 Episode 15 - Episode 28
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Episode 28

    S2:E15

    Penelope 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 proceedings. Amanda tries to open the show, but is interrupted by dodgeballs, and Judge Trudy enrols on the first day of school, but is interrupted by a problem with oatmeal. There's just time for a quick visit to Moody's Point, before it's time to close the show  but why is it snowing in the studio?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Amanda Show Season 3 Episode 6 - Episode 36
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Episode 36

    S3:E6

    Penelope makes this instant message machine for a chance to meet Amanda. Amanda's opening turns into a game show because two blokes think the show is a game show. We stop at a commercial for Super Red Hots, a fun candy. There's time for another edition of The Dare Show. Someone from Boston, Illinois wants Sharon to eat some of Toby's hair. Someone from San Francisco, Tennesee played by Josh wants Toby to wear a bra and stuff it with macaroni and cheese. Someone from Nashville, Ireland wants Sharon to slack peanut butter and marshmallows all over her hair. And finally, someone from Minneapolis, Massachusetts wants Sharon and Toby's mom to lick the camera lenses. There's a Hillbilly Moment featuring a cement block. The Queen of England gets interviewed at Amanda's Jacuzzi and Kyle talks about getting gum on his shoe. The show ends with the cast members crowding around the camera trying to get a speck off the lenses.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Amanda Show Season 3 Episode 7 - Episode 37
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Episode 37

    S3:E7

    Amanda tries to disarm a robot, but instead she accidentally presses the "Kill Drake" button. Judge Trudy returns, with a different bailiff. Eenis and his family share more "knock-knock" jokes in a Hillbilly Moment. And, Kyle explains yet another day in the life of him in Totally Kyle. Penelope ends up challenging Amanda's new Karate instructor. But will she win?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Amanda Show Season 3 Episode 10 - Episode 40
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Episode 40

    S3:E10

    Nancy introduces Amanda and Drake to the "Costumatic 5000", a machine that gets you dressed quickly, but she has some trouble operating the machine. Amanda's show opening is interrupted by a fly swarming around the stage. There's an advertisement for "Why Not Sumo?", followed by more respect for kids on Judge Trudy. We also visit the Extremes, a family who takes everything to the extreme. There's time for a Hillbilly Moment and we also see Penelope visiting a psychologist. More prank calls to Mr. Oldman, another Hillbilly Moment and more "interesting" topics with Totally Kyle. To end the show, Drake gets chased by 3 huge football players searching for their football.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    6.9/10(32 votes)

    #20 - Episode 2

    S1:E2

    Amanda'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 successful bullies in school are trying to cause up trouble, but it just doesn't seem to work!!! Also, Amanda has a date with a boy with a pimple, at first she think's it's ugly and sick.... but in the end she runs away with it and leaves the boy sitting by himself with a confused face. Plus, Amanda has some fun with a prank call to Mr. Oldman.

    Director:Ken Whittingham
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    6.9/10(14 votes)

    #21 - Episode 5

    S1:E5

    Amanda nearly doesn't make the show opening thanks to an unusual elevator. After that we see some remote control underpants. Mr Gullible (a subtitute teacher thats very gullible) is taken for granted and does things like giving the students $100 each and drinking fish water. There's also the star-studded audience awards, including best laughter, and least intelligent audience member.

    Directors:Rich Correll, Ken Whittingham
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Amanda Show Season 2 Episode 12 - Episode 25
    6.9/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Episode 25

    S2:E12

    Penelope 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 stage pulling the audience's teeth out. There's more totally genuine video as Blockblister rents the authentic 'Face Venutra' to an unsuspecting customer, and today's guest in Amanda's Jacuzzi is Sitting Bull. Penelope gets closer to Amanda than ever before, but misses her chance because she's too busy kissing Trevor!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    6.8/10(21 votes)

    #23 - Episode 3

    S1:E3

    Amanda 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. When they see the cooked lobster, they get upset and leave the room worried and scared. Meanwhile, Amanda's attempts to open the show are interrupted once more by Penelope, this time arriving by special delivery. There's a family obsessed with wrestling, they start of waiting for there daughter before they eat dinner.... but the burgers are too hard to eat, so they order a pizza and demand it to be there in 10 seconds, when the pizza guy asks for the money, they start beating him up. There's also the girls room with amber the most popluar girl in school, there's also : one thats a hard nut, one that is an exchange student and one that's slow. Also theres the smelling bee, where they sniff a hobo with a sandwitch, an old ladie with bad arm pit smell & a rotten egg in a shoe and a rotten glass of milk in the other shoe.

    Directors:Rich Correll, Ken Whittingham
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Amanda Show Season 2 Episode 14 - Episode 27
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    #24 - Episode 27

    S2:E14

    Amanda 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 from The Boys Room by mistake! Meanwhile, Amanda is interviewing a Swiss Guy, while Tony Pyjamas and Candy Tulips have another problem. There's another Hillbilly moment where Eenis gets hit over the head with something soft this time, and Penelope is on the set of the show hanging up pictures of Amanda. There's more phone trouble for Mr Oldman, and then the show has a surprise ending when robbers steal the camera!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Amanda Show Season 3 Episode 8 - Episode 38
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    #25 - Episode 38

    S3:E8

    Penelope hypnotizes Drake & Josh so they can tell her where Amanda is, but it backfires. We meet the Lucklesses, an unfortunate, and unlucky family. King Henry VIII splashes into Amanda's Jacuzzi to talk and also, to get some spaghetti. Time for a prank call to Mr. Oldman, whilst Eenis and Lula-Mae have fun in yet another Hillbilly Moment.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Episode 6" is the best rated episode of "The Amanda Show". It scored 7.7/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Rich Correll and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/18/1999. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 34".