Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Fans accuse Dan Schneider of messing Amanda Bynes’ health due to hot tub bath years ago as she was found roaming the streets of Los Angeles naked. (Read More Here).
Video of Amanda Bynes streaking naked nude on the streets of Los Angeles before being taken to psychiatric hospital resurfaces.
These qualities were present from the start. The fifth episode of the 1996 season of All That introduced a 10-year-old Bynes to the world in the sketch “Ask Ashley,” in which she played an advice columnist. Ashley was quintessential Bynes: An exercise in extremes, Bynes oscillated between an angelic little girl and a rage monster, infuriated by the stupidity of the questions she’s being asked. The premise didn’t exactly reinvent the wheel, but the sharpness with which she zipped through emotions captured a generation of fans.
Bynes quickly emerged as a breakout star on All That, and within four years, she was headlining—and starring in every sketch on—The Amanda Show (1999-2002), a tween version of The Carol Burnett Show. The Amanda Show marked a definitive shift from ’90s teen media into the punchy irreverence that categorizes the 2000s. Silly and sharp in equal portions, it spoofed all ends of the pop cultural spectrum, taking on cheesy ’90s toy commercials, Judge Judy (“Judge Trudy”), The Sopranos (“Tony Pajamas”), and melodramatic teen fare like Dawson’s Creek (“Moody’s Point”). It also featured a reflection on obsessive fan culture in the form of the formidable meta-character Penelope Taynt, played by Bynes, who conducted a series-long quest to meet Amanda by any means necessary.
The Amanda Show became the blueprint for Nickelodeon’s ’00s style of comedy. The next decade of shows homed in on its wacky and quasi-surrealist style of humor, which helped shaped the tastes of the Vine and TikTok generations. Where The Amanda Show had the inexplicable dancing lobsters, iCarly had the random dancing segment. The Amanda Show’s sentient non sequitur, Debbie (who “liked eggs”), walked so the resident “random” characters like iCarly’s Gibby and Victorious’s Sinjin could run.
