The Amanda Show - One-time Sketches

One-time Sketches

  • Mother Caboose – A grandmother (played by Amanda Bynes) that tells a poem. The poem suddenly became inappropriate in the middle talking about underarm fungus and going to a junior high dance nude. Then suddenly, she developed a heavy cough and fell off the chair to vomit. Featured in Episode 1.
  • Jack and Jake – Two school bullies (played by Amanda Bynes and Raquel Lee) that cannot cause any kind of trouble no matter how hard they try. For example, they try to spray the wall with graffiti, but the paint cans they use are exactly the same color as the wall, called "School Hallway White". Featured in Episode 2.
  • Nurse Zelda – A German nurse that invades a school classroom to cure students' injuries that are not even serious, like a paper cut. Featured in Episode 2.
  • The Simians – A girl named Carilla (played by Amanda Bynes) brings home a boy named Josh, and her mother insists on Josh meeting her brother and dad, both of whom are apes. Featured in Episode 2.
  • The Wrestlebergs – A family of professional wrestlers, whose home represent a ring. They have a referee, and even an audience, as booing and cheering can be heard in the background (The father and son are representations of WWE wrestlers The Blue Blazer and Goldust). Featured in Episode 3.
  • Smelling Bee – A parody of the Spelling Bee, the Smelling Bee has blindfolded school students smell wacky items, like a hobo with a sandwich, a chocolate cake with coconut icing on top of a large fish, and a skunk in a sneaker. Featured in Episode 3.
  • Meet the Literals – A family that takes expressions literally. For example, when they visit another family, the girl asks for punch and Leslie (played by Amanda Bynes) punches her. When the dad asks Mrs. Literal to hold a glass for a second, after one second, she drops it. When the father says "You Literals kill me!", they grab something to kill him, but the camera fades it out. Featured in Episode 4.
  • Becky Swanson "Professional Babysitter" – Becky Swanson (played by Amanda Bynes) is a babysitter that came to babysit two kids named Justin and Kelly. She is professional, but actually acted like a baby. The kids have to "take care" of her, but at the end of the sketch, they lock her in the closet and leave to catch a movie while she had a fit. Featured in Episode 6.
  • The Procrastinator – A superhero spoof where Amanda played a heroine called The Procrastinator, who would respond to people's cries for help by saying, very triumphantly, that she would get to solving the problems "Eventually"!, and do nothing, despite the helpless citizens' pleas. (Episode 8)
  • The Castaways – Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, Nancy Sullivan, and Johnny Kassir play a family that is stranded on an island. It turns out they are playing their characters very seriously, as they think a hot dog man is a mirage, the island set is real, and the audience are island natives. Featured in Episode 9.
  • The Snipatorium – A hairdresser store that causes more harm to the guests than good. For example, an obnoxious female hairdresser that has a resemblance between Fran Drescher and Cher (played by Amanda Bynes), accidentally cuts a boy's ear off, and she turns a woman's hair green. Featured in Episode 10.
  • Rock-a-Bye Ralph – A bedtime doll that does not stop activating (even without batteries), annoying anyone who owns it. Featured in Episode 12.
  • Wanda the Witch – A witch (played by Amanda Bynes) that comes to school and cast spells on the students, always insisting that she is simply Canadian, not a witch. Whenever she casts a spell, a boy named Stanley attempts to rat her out on the teacher, Mrs. Carter, but she refuses to believe him. Wanda often gives weak explanations for what happened to each student, such as when she casts a spell and turns one boy into a bowl of chili, she asks Stanley how he knows that the boy wasn't a already bowl of jello when he got to school. Featured in Episode 13.
  • The People Place – A store run by an unnamed woman (played by Amanda Bynes) where different kinds of people are sold. Featured in Episode 31.
  • Kelly, the Bath Lifeguard – A bath lifeguard (played by Amanda Bynes) that takes her job very seriously, annoying a boy (played by Drake Bell) who is trying to have a bath. Featured in Episode 33.
  • Cooking with Me – A skit in which Amanda hosts, cooking herself and adding ingredients to the bowl she's in. The recipe was called "Cream of Me". Penelope Taynt interrupts this skit and ends up chased by Barney and Kathy, but whenever she got into the kitchen, Amanda would have already put the pot lid on. Featured in Episode 34.
  • The Gifted Class – A class that has special powers. Lisa (played by Amanda Bynes) predicts the future, an unnamed boy (played by Drake Bell) has the power to shoot lasers from his eyes (like Cyclops from X-Men), Richie (unknown) can super-burp, and Billy (played by Josh Peck) has the power of super rhyming, usually rhyming things that have nothing to do with the things he rhymed them with, such as when Lisa predicts a pop quiz, Billy proceeds to say "When you spill a soda, you have to mop fizz," much to the annoyance of the students. They all use their powers to torture their teacher Miss DeBoat. Featured in Episode 35.
  • The Imposters – A girl and a boy (played by Amanda Bynes and Drake Bell) invade a family's house, disguised as firefighters, astronauts, etc., claiming that they are here to solve a crisis, but they are secretly planning to raid the fridge. Every time the family discovers they are not firefighters, etc., they leave. At the end of the skit, police officers come in, but the family mistakes them for the Imposters and yell at them to go away, causing the officers to arrest them. When they leave, the Imposters return in another disguise (umpires) and seeing that the family is gone, go back to raiding the fridge. Featured in Episode 39.

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