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Major Sketch Characters

    Penelope Taynt 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes
An obsessive fan who's always trying to meet Amanda and promotes her fanmade website www.amandaplease.com. She's essentially the closest thing the show has to a main villain, as she has committed several crimes and provoked the wrath of the show's security during her plight to meet Amanda.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Penelope borders on being a Stalker with a Crush in how she obsesses over every aspect of Amanda, but she finds a boyfriend in Trevor (who still incorporates Penelope's obsession into their relationship).
  • Butt-Monkey: Her attempts to meet Amanda never work, and she tends to suffer many mishaps as a result.
  • Enemy Mine: One episode has a subplot where she teams 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 Imagine Spot 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.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: Penelope's attempts to meet Amanda always fail, no matter how close she comes to succeeding.
  • Loony Fan: Penelope Taynt, Amanda's number one fan, please; down to making the official Amanda website.
  • Missed Her By That Much: This frequently occurred whenever Preston was involved in Penelope's schemes. In one sketch, Preston and his friends bother Penelope to make them sandwiches, and when she finally does, Amanda herself shows up at the door to ask for directions. In another, the two are sneaking backstage; when Penelope leaves the scene, Amanda walks up to where she was standing.
  • Stalker without a Crush: Officially, Penelope is just a huge Amanda fangirl who really, really wanted to meet her.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: Penelope with the son of the set's security guard. He's a trainee for his dad so his job is to keep Penelope out, but the two fall in love when they discover one thing they have in common: They both love Amanda.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: One Penelope sketch has her sending Barney all the way to Beijing through a trap door. Upon landing in a random family's house, he brushes himself off, confirms that he's in China, and immediately asks what they're eating—despite the fact that he just fell through the center of the Earth. The family themselves also get in on this trope: they're only momentarily shocked at a strange American man falling through their ceiling and happily share their lunch with him.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Penelope, whenever she would get close to meeting Amanda, always gets the chance taken away at the last second.
    Judge Trudy 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes
A 13-year-old judge who often has to sort out settlements between children or teenagers and adults, and she always sides with the young. Her childish bailiff then carries out her humiliating punishments.
  • The Bully: She often has her jury throw things (usually garbage) at the defendants, fines them huge penalties of money that they can't pay, and assigns humiliating punishments to them, such as unleashing wild animals or deranged psychotic people on them.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Well, extremely biased judge more than evil, but her Bailiff 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 is in the trunk.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Despite her tendency to be a Hanging Judge, She was disgusted with Tony Pyjamas when she found out that he a stole a child's bicycle.
  • Hanging Judge: Parodied with Judge Trudy, who inevitably finds the adult figures in her courtroom guilty of "crimes" like asking their children to take baths or kiss a relative. Her punishments ranged from exorbitant damages paid to being locked in a confined space with sick people for two weeks.
  • No Indoor Voice: Judge Trudy yells almost everything she says. Ironically, she often yells at other people to shut their yap.
  • True Companions: Judge Trudy and the Bailiff—it's also a case of Only Friend 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.
    Amber 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes
The main host of The Girls' Room, and her school's resident Alpha Bitch.
  • Alpha Bitch: She's got this written all over her. For example, when she found out that she didn't win prom queen, she had the girl who did win get a swirly.
  • Enemy Mine: 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 an extremely handsome teenage guy. Amber and Danielle quickly agree to drop out of the race and support Jamie instead.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In the second "Stranded" sketch, she discovers that Eenis wants to vote off Courtney so he can be alone with her in the bathtub. Disgusted at the thought of being alone with a hillbilly who's smitten with her, she changes her vote from Courtney to herself and leaves the game.
    The Blokeys 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes (Blini) Drake Bell (Biscotti) John Kassir (Gnocchi) (Season 1)
An Eastern European family who runs Blockblister, an illegal video store parodying Blockbuster Video that has homemade knockoffs of real movies and TV shows, much to the chagrin of people who go in expecting the store to sell the actual films.
  • Bad "Bad Acting": All of the Blockblister movies have terrible, wooden acting as performed by the staff of Blokeys.
  • Funny Foreigner: Gnocchi, Blini, and Biscotti of the Blockblister sketches, with their funny accents and odd ways.
  • Hypocritical Humor: In a Blockblister sketch, one overweight woman complained about the exercise video she rented. The video showed the 2 kids simply sitting on chairs repeating over and over "Sit up! and "Lie down!" while eating a pepperoni pizza. After the video ends, the kids fat-shame her.
  • The Mockbuster: All of Blockblister's movies are low-budget knockoffs of actual movies which their staff always claim to be "MUCH BETTER!!" Carrying such awful titles as "George in the Jungle", "Austin Powders", "Stuart Lipple", "The F-Men", and "The Wizard of Voz".
  • Small Name, Big Ego: They insist that their Stylistic Suck "movies" are better! Much better!
    Lula Mae and Eenis 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes (Lula Mae) Drake Bell (Eenis)
Two hillbillies who star in the "Hillbilly Moment" sketches, where they share knock-knock jokes, which always end with Eenis hillbilly getting hit with an object related to said joke.
    Doreen and her Father 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes (Doreen) John Kassir (Doreen's Father) (Season 1)
A father-daughter duo who run the Dooper restaurants, a bizarre line of restaurants that sell inedible foods.
  • Cordon Bleugh Chef: They make and sell disgusting variations of different food items.
  • Hope Spot: Most of the Dooper sketches would have the last recipe offered 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 eats 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).
  • I Ate WHAT?!: The Dooper sketches involve this, where people come to buy food and sometimes enjoy it before being told all the disgusting ingredients they're actually eating.
  • It Tastes Like Feet: All of the disgusting foods at the Dooper restaurants, which taste as bad as expected considering their awful ingredients.
  • Made from Real Girl Scouts: Weenie Dooper has two instances: a footlong hot dog (made with meat from an actual human foot) and a veggie dog (made with real veggies... and real dog).
    Kyle Roastensen 
Portrayed By: Drake Bell
A laid-back hippie surfer telling mundane stories often saying "One time", "uh" or "um", "it was all", "like" and "totally" that don't come off much as surprises.
  • Birds of a Feather: Mutual Brainless Beauties Kyle and Debbie hooked up in one sketch.
  • Brainless Beauty: What he has in terms of good looks, he is lacking in brain power.
  • The Ditz: His stories didn't even have much substance.
  • Dumb Blonde: Kyle of "Totally Kyle" is a big ditz with long blonde hair.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Totally Kyle one time got an F on a book report because it was all about donuts. His teacher called in his parents, and she's repulsed that Kyle's parents act just like him, and that his dad wrote the report, not Kyle. Then, Kyle's grandparents arrive as well and they also follow this trope.
  • Surfer Dude: He's a ditz who speaks in surfer lingo, has long blonde hair, and dresses primarily in tie-dye.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Donuts.
    Melody and Thad 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes (Melody) Drake Bell (Thad)
Two singers are booked to perform at a certain venue, only for them to sing rather insulting and gross songs.
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Not so much any main characters, but in the song Melody and Thad sing offensively to the new blonde and pretty bride and her neanderthal-esque groom...
    Mr. Gullible 
Portrayed By: John Kassir (Season 1) Andrew Hill Newman (Seasons 2-3)
A funny-looking short man with weirdly protruding teeth who often gets taken advantage of by people (usually high school students) for his conventional mind and gullibility.
    Mr. Oldman 
Portrayed By: Dan Schneider
Some old fat guy who gets prank-called by the same girl. He's also very gullible. Almost every sketch opens with him screaming that he hates children.
    Tony Pyjamas 
Portrayed By: Drake Bell
A teen Italian mob boss.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Tony Pajamas sketches often ended with the "Al Dente Brothers" pulling up to wherever Tony was and attacking him by hurling food into the building (in one case, jelly-filled doughnuts). It was clearly meant to be a kid-friendly version of drive-by shootings from Mafia movies and television, completely with overly dramatic music and everyone acting like getting hit with pastry was the equivalent of death.
  • Dope Slap: He tends to deliver these to Paulie whenever he says or does something stupid.
  • Pronouncing My Name for You: People call the mobster Tony Pajamas "Tony Pa-JAM-uhs". He's quick to correct them with "Pa-JAH-muhs!"
    Crazy Courtney 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes
A weird girl with goofy looking teeth who annoys people, talks unusual and usually yells "MA-HA!".
  • Character Catchphrase: "MA-HA!"
  • Disrupting the Theater: In a Courtney sketch, Courtney sits next to a boy at the movie theater and annoys him to no end. She blows her nose and puts the tissue in his hand, cuts his hair, tries to feed him yogurt, tries to pick his nose, paints his face, and gives him a wedgie that pulls his underwear right out of his pants. The boy leaves, and Courtney's date takes his seat so they can watch the movie together.
  • Efficient Displacement: At the end of the Courtney skit where she chases her piano teacher out of the house, her teacher runs through the door and leaves a perfectly shaped hole in the door.
  • Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: Crazy Courtney is revealed to have a very handsome boyfriend that adores her and has similar personality traits.
  • Kavorka Girl: Crazy Courtney. She's crude, gross, loud, uncouth, childish, homely, dresses Grandma-like, and tends to use terms like "Ma-Ha!" when she's not driving someone nuts. She's also very popular amongst her peers and in one sketch, has a handsome boyfriend.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Crazy Courtney, who tends to play up her annoying and gross habits as a means to an end—for example, in one sketch she torments a kid sitting next to her in a movie theater until he runs off...at which point she calls up her boyfriend so that he can sit in said kid's seat with her.
  • Troll: Courtney is weird, but she's being deliberately annoying the crap out of other people just so they'd go away such as getting rid of a theatre patron to clear up the seat for her boyfriend, becoming class president by scaring away her only rival and also there's the "Stranded" competition.
    Cynthia Worthington 
Portrayed By: Amanda Bynes
An aristocratic woman brought up by a very wealthy and civilized family. She appears nice at first, but engages in increasingly revolting behavior in the sketches she appears in.
    Marcy Stimple 
Portrayed By: Nancy Sullivan
Some crazy, hyperactive woman dressed up like a little girl who appears to have ADHD and/or maybe even mental retardation.
    The Lucklesses 
    The Klutzes 

Minor Sketch Characters

    The Bailiff 
Portrayed By: Gary Anthony Williams
Judge Trudy's childish bailiff, and the only adult she respects.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: He's known for dishing these out when Judge Trudy calls for it.
  • Manchild: He is one.
  • Only Friend: He's this to Judge Trudy.
  • True Companions: Judge Trudy and the Bailiff—it's also a case of Only Friend 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.
    Shiela 
    Tammy 
    Debbie 
    Preston Taynt 
    Paulie 
    Candy Tulips 
    The Crime-Fighting Cheerleaders 
    Ms. De Boat 

Moody's Point Characters

    Moody Fallon 
    Mr. Fallon 
    Spaulding 
    Sternum 
    Brie 
    Misty 
    Dr. Polyp 

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