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* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: Penelope promotes her amandaplease.com website whenever she appears on the show, even showing off some of its features. This was a real website, indeed stylized as Penelope's fanpage, with bonus clips, quizzes, and blogs related to the show. It remained intact for many years after the show's end before redirecting to the Nick website around the mid-2010s.
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* EpicFail: The reason the first "Stranded" ended with no winner: the producers put the money in the trunk, ''and the keys in the ignition''. Judge Trudy and the Bailiff [[LateToTheRealization realize this after 8 weeks]] and steal the car to spend the day in Vegas together.
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* ArtisticLicenceBiology: PlayedForLaughs in a claymation sketch where Amanda first has to get milk for someone. She summons a cow to milk there on the spot, and when being told she needs chocolate milk, summons a 'chocolate cow' instead.

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* ArtisticLicenceBiology: PlayedForLaughs in a claymation sketch where Amanda first has to get milk for someone.her fudge brownie batter. She summons a cow to milk there on the spot, and when being told she needs chocolate milk, summons a 'chocolate cow' instead.

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Creepy, they were children when the show was on the air...


* TheMockbuster: All of Blockblister's movies are low-budget knockoffs of actual movies which their staff always claim to be "[[CatchPhrase MUCH BETTER!!]]" Carrying such awful titles as "George ''in'' the Jungle", "Austin ''Powders''", "Stuart ''Lipple''", "The ''F''-Men", and "The Wizard of ''Voz''".
* MrFanservice: Drake was the go to guy for any WalkingShirtlessScene on the show.
* MsFanservice: Amanda got to show more of that side of her when she got to expose her midriff. She even wore a hula skirt on an episode.
** FanDisservice: PlayedForLaughs with Amanda as Cynthia Worthington with long patches of armpit hair and very hairy legs.

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* TheMockbuster: All of Blockblister's movies are low-budget knockoffs of actual movies which their staff always claim to be "[[CatchPhrase "[[CharacterCatchphrase MUCH BETTER!!]]" Carrying such awful titles as "George ''in'' the Jungle", "Austin ''Powders''", "Stuart ''Lipple''", "The ''F''-Men", and "The Wizard of ''Voz''".
* MrFanservice: Drake was the go to guy for any WalkingShirtlessScene on the show.
* MsFanservice: Amanda got to show more of that side of her when she got to expose her midriff. She even wore a hula skirt on an episode.
** FanDisservice: PlayedForLaughs with Amanda as Cynthia Worthington with long patches of armpit hair and very hairy legs.
''Voz''".
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-->'''Judge Trudy:''' Class dismissed! Bring in the dancing lobsters!

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-->'''Judge Trudy:''' Class Court dismissed! Bring in the dancing lobsters!
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Removing leftovers from Getting Crap Past The Radar cleanup.


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* WrongBathroomIncident: In the recurring "girls' room" sketch, one episode sees them unable to use their normal venue due to a burst pipe, so they have to use the boys' room instead. Debbie, the dimwit of the bunch, becomes obsessed and jealous of the boys' "waterfall machine" (urinal).
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* TrueCompanions: Judge Trudy and the Bailiff--it's also a case of OnlyFriend for the former, as Judge Trudy doesn't seem to like (or even tolerate) anyone else. It's exemplified in the first "Stranded" sketch: the last remaining contestant in a car in a parking lot in Oklahoma will win a million dollar prize. When Judge Trudy and the Bailiff end up as the final two, the Bailiff realizes that the cash is in the trunk of the car...and the ''keys are in the ignition.'' Rather than betray each other, they immediately team up to swipe the vehicle and zoom off to Vegas to split the prize together.

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* EnemyMine: One episode-spanning Penelope sketch had Penelope teaming up with Josh: if he introduces her to Amanda, she'll make Drake "disappear" and allow Josh to take over all of his sketches (which leads to an ImagineSpot with Josh as characters like Kyle, Ennis the Hillbilly, and Tony Pajamas). Though Josh initially agrees, he ultimately can't bring himself to do it and saves Drake instead.

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* EnemyMine: EnemyMine:
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One episode-spanning Penelope sketch had Penelope teaming up with Josh: if he introduces her to Amanda, she'll make Drake "disappear" and allow Josh to take over all of his sketches (which leads to an ImagineSpot with Josh as characters like Kyle, Ennis the Hillbilly, and Tony Pajamas). Though Josh initially agrees, he ultimately can't bring himself to do it and saves Drake instead.
** One "Girls' Room" sketch has Amber competing with hated rival Danielle Spencer for the position of class president. When they both learn that a new kid named Jamie is also running, they agree to team up to take "her" down...only for Sheila to reveal that Jamie is actually an [[MrFanservice extremely handsome teenage guy.]] Amber and Danielle quickly agree to drop out of the race and support Jamie
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, extremely biased judge more than evil, but her Baliff is the only adult Judge Trudy treats with any respect, probably because he's as immature as her. Best demonstrated in the Stranded sketch, where instead of betraying each other they take the keys of the car and go to Vegas after realizing the prize money was in the trunk.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, extremely biased judge more than evil, but her Baliff Bailiff is the only adult Judge Trudy treats with any respect, probably because he's as immature as her. Best demonstrated in the Stranded "Stranded" sketch, where instead of betraying each other they take the keys of the car and go to Vegas after realizing the prize money was in the trunk.


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* GenreSavvy: The producers of ''Stranded'' become this in the second iteration of the show. In the first instance, the contestants were forced to stay in a car in a parking lot in Oklahoma for a million-dollar prize, but the producers left the cash in the trunk of the vehicle and the keys in the ignition, allowing Judge Trudy and the Bailiff to steal both for a day in Las Vegas. In the second version, the contestants are instead stuck in a bathtub, with the prize money dangling from the ceiling a few feet away--meaning that anyone who tries to take the money would have to leave the tub to do it, thus immediately disqualifying them.


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* HopeSpot: Most of the Dooper sketches would have the last recipe offered actually taste good and seemingly ''not'' contain disgusting ingredients...only for the food in question to end up being the most dangerous of all. Examples include "cookies and dynamite" in Ice Cream Dooper (which makes the person who eat it explode), a "refrigerator crunch" snack from Cookie Dooper (which somehow triggers an actual fridge to fall from the ceiling and crush whoever eats it), and "Lincoln Punch" in Souper Dooper (which summons Abraham Lincoln himself to punch the customer in the face).
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* ExactWords: In one ColdOpen, Amanda is asleep, and Drake convinces Josh that they should try to do the intro themselves for the day. Unfortunately, the audience members assume that they're trying to take over the show and rush the stage to kick the stuffing out of them. After a few minutes, Amanda wakes up and tells everyone that they can't just brutally beat Drake and Josh up onstage...by which she means they need to beat them up ''outside.'' The mob drags the boys away while Amanda does a proper introduction.
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* '''Judge Trudy''': A 13-year-old judge who often has to sort out settlements between children or teenagers against adults, and she always sides with the young. Her childish bailiff then carries out her humiliating punishments. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Then she brings in]][[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the dancing lobsters.]]

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* '''Judge Trudy''': A 13-year-old judge who often has to sort out settlements between children or teenagers against adults, and she always sides with the young. Her childish bailiff then carries out her humiliating punishments. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Then she brings in]][[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the dancing lobsters.]]



* '''Melody and Thad''': Two singers are booked to perform at a certain venue, only for them to sing rather insulting and gross songs (e.g. "One time I ate in the restaurant; the food was disgusting and bad. The spaghetti had fungus; the rats were humungous, and the waitress threw up on my Dad"...).

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* '''Melody and Thad''': Two singers are booked to perform at a certain venue, only for them to sing rather insulting and gross songs (e.g. "One time I ate in the restaurant; the food was disgusting and bad. The spaghetti had fungus; the rats were humungous, humongous, and the waitress threw up on my Dad"...).



* TheUnreveal: We never found out who the real Moody was... because the show got [[[invoked]]ScrewedByTheNetwork, and [[http://danwarp.blogspot.com/2008/05/faq-what-happened-with-moodys-point.html Schneider never got a chance to think about who it would be.]]

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* TheUnreveal: We never found out who the real Moody was... because the show got [[[invoked]]ScrewedByTheNetwork, [[invoked]]ScrewedByTheNetwork, and [[http://danwarp.blogspot.com/2008/05/faq-what-happened-with-moodys-point.html Schneider never got a chance to think about who it would be.]]



* WondrousLadiesRoom: Inverted on The Amanda Show: When the girls in the "The Girls' Room" sketch have to broadcast from the boys' room, their {{Cloudcuckoolander}} is intrigued by the "waterfall machines".

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* WondrousLadiesRoom: Inverted on The Amanda Show: Show. When the girls in the "The Girls' Room" sketch have to broadcast from the boys' room, their {{Cloudcuckoolander}} is intrigued by the "waterfall machines".

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