amanda bynes was on top of the world growing up as one of nickelodeon's star child actors
so much so that after she was on the sketch comedy show all that she was given her own show
the amanda show i wonder how they came up with that name we need a title for the show
what do we got well we know it's a show aha yes i'll write that down then it was
a show yeah what should we call the show starring amanda hmm
oh i got it the sketch show starring amanda brilliant oh my god what about the amanda show
tom i'm gonna be frank with you here hi frank no my name's not frank i'm just being frank
with you okay that's a stupid title tom yeah dude that's pretty stupid idea okay the amanda show was
great it was full of some of the best gags from my childhood even more so than all that at times
plus drake and josh are there before they became drake and josh with their own shows so you know
it's it's a win and i could spend hours discussing all the sketches from the amanda show that i love
like block blister hillbilly moment amanda's number one fan penelope taint yes taint my website
back to the home page where you'll see tons of other romantic clickables to click upon
but we taint talking about the amanda show today rather than talking about something
within the amanda show where am i going with this
ah yes moody's point a fictional multi-part parody of a teenage high school drama similar
to a show like dawson's creek this was a roughly 10-minute seven-part series that
aired partial segments during the regular amanda show but this was during a crucial
time for the show and amanda binds herself the show had its own slew of behind the
scenes problems that didn't make it as easy as it seemed to produce as well as amanda wanting
to step more into bigger film roles i don't want to dig into all of that today but what
i do want to dig into is moody's point and find out what's the point of moody's point
thank you thank you thank you appreciate it i know part way through an episode of the
amanda show amanda comes out to announce a very exciting project that she describes like this
you guys are here on a really special night because right now you're gonna see something
brand new and totally different it's a show about a girl named moody and a bunch of her
friends and life and love and school and all that kind of stuff and it's pretty funny too so
okay here we go everybody moody's point and i want you to remember this it will be on the test
later dammit the show starts off seeming like it will be a show just like any other teen drama out
there and then this happens you need to get this permission slip signed by your father or mother
mother and then this happens
and then this has you you know what yeah it's clear to see that this show isn't to be taken
serious it's a very over-the-top satirical jab at said teen dramas everything is done to this
extent like moody over dramatically reacting to anything that reminds her of her mother who is
lost in a hot air balloon i don't understand no one will ever understand
but it isn't just moody that's this character it's all the characters moody's friends like
misty who gets upset over every little thing and usually says what's that supposed to mean or
you're so hurtful depending on the situation she takes everything you say literally and
gets offended by it just like some people today ah that's a really edgy joke there's spaulding
played by later to become snl's taran killum who is the guy best friend who of course had a
crush on moody but never gets to express these feelings properly and gets to be the butt of
every joke usually resulting in him getting hurt and being the biggest simp for moody
and i respect it then there's bree she's actually pretty regular for the show's standards you have
sternum who is this edgy mysterious kid in school that all the ladies swoon over and he becomes the
biggest competition for spalding as moody falls for sternum really fast as he does towards her
and of course the best part of the show moody's father who because of an anchor being dropped
on his foot loses his big toe causing him to lose his balance and cut a piece of iglizzi off
to replace it yeah the show is kind of a trip sometimes and by that i mean all the time what
made this show work was the surrealism of it all each episode would be filled with tropes
that other teen dramas would take super serious but then moody's point would point out how dumb
everything was and how silly and ridiculous the drama can be from boy problems to friend issues
to just navigating around the teenage landscape the show shot out joke after a joke keeping the
show moving forward without staying stagnant for too long but again none of this is serious
kinda like this video now when put all together the segments equal into a little over an hour and
watching it all the way through at once like this there lies the problem too much of a good thing
can unfortunately be a bad thing and i'll get back to this in just a bit there still were
some amazing moments in these segments that i love and vividly remember to this day like when
the doctor comes over to moody's house after she wanted to donate her toe to replace her father's
but it had to be replaced by someone who's a blood relative but the doctor comes over to say that she
switched at birth so she can't donate the toad so then this happens you're not moody fallon
the perfect amount of awkward pause after a serious moment the keemstar levels of popcorn
the ice cream just a perfect scene and within that same episode as moody was about to meet
her real parents we have great writing like this hi i'm a social worker i'm so
sorry me too i [ __ ] love that her parents turned out to be the flying worthburgs a
circus trapeze act and moody's real name is yolanda then the episode ends like this
i just want to tell all of you how much each one of you means to me and how much i'll miss
you guys for the rest of my life are you all ready to meet the real moody come in woody
and yeah that's it the show's final segment ends on a cliffhanger with a to be continued posted
up on the screen the only thing was though that this would never be continued again
the amanda show was cancelled what maybe we should have called it that sketch show starring amanda as
the cancellation was happening it was clear that everyone involved knew that this was inevitable
and that's where moody's point came in you see moody's point wasn't treated as a sketch for the
amanda show it was however treated as a test for audiences to see if they had a potential new show
creepy damn excuse me creator dan schneider went to nickelodeon and legitimately pitched moody's
point as its own show yes and there it is it was the most in your face backdoor pilot we've ever
seen similar to my video on all grown up and how the rugrats had a backdoor pilot to that show in
which it saw success moody's point did not while the segments of the show within the amanda show
were a fun time and i have fond memories of them to this day the over-the-top satirization of high
school dramas only worked in this fashion these short segments if you were to expand
these segments into a full 22 minute show it most likely wouldn't work rather than a lot of fun
for a short amount of time taking the premise and stretching it out would make it almost exhausting
to sit through the amount of nonsensical moments in dialogue make it fun for a brief amount of time
but any longer would overstay its welcome and nickelodeon felt the same way dan the creepy
man schneider would later find success with a similar school drama that was still a comedy but
actually a little bit more serious and not satirical and that being zoe 101 i'll see you guys
on friday with that video so with all that being said moody's point was shoehorned into a show that
was on the chopping block to be cancelled in hopes that audiences would cling to it and the network
would pick it up as its own show the hopes of creating something new for the amanda binds
era of nickelodeon a backdoor pilot that would take about roughly half of the amanda show's run
time almost as to solidify the final nail in the coffin for the amanda show just to try and make
moody's point its own thing and that was the point of moody's point this was a really dumb
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