Amanda Bynes and Dan Schneider’s jacuzzi sketch in ‘The Amanda Show’ was called into question in ‘Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.’
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV has reminded viewers of one questionable sketch from The Amanda Show in which a young Amanda Bynes joins Dan Schneider in a jacuzzi. Even All That editor Karyn Finley Thompson, who spoke out in the Investigation Discovery docuseries, found the scene to be “a little odd.”
Schneider first discovered Bynes when she was performing at the Los Angeles Laugh Factory as a kid. She eventually joined the All That cast before garnering her own spinoff, The Amanda Show.
In one sketch that has bubbled up on social media, Schneider sits fully clothed in a hot tub with a teenage Bynes, who appears to be wearing a swimsuit. He introduces himself as the executive producer and head writer of The Amanda Show, joking that he wrote the “whole conversation that we’re having right now.” Bynes asks him for a raise. He says no. Then they are delivered two plates of spaghetti, which they proceed to eat in the jacuzzi while the waiters dance behind them.
Thompson, who worked as an editor on All That, recalled the close relationship between Bynes and Schneider in Quiet on Set.
“I definitely saw Amanda being very close physically with Dan,” she said, per Us Weekly.
