Ex-child star Amanda Bynes and Nickelodeon producer’s ‘odd’ hot tub sketch resurfaces

A then-teenage Amanda Bynes’ bizarre sketch with her former producer, Nickelodeon boss Dan Schneider, has resurfaced.

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 hot tub. Even All That editor Karyn Finley Thompson, who spoke out in the Investigation Discovery docu-series, 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 spin-off, The Amanda Show.

Bynes in 2008. Picture: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

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 hot tub while the waiters dance behind them.

The ‘odd’ sketch emerged on social media. Picture: TikTok

It was discussed in an explosive new docu-series. Picture: TikTok

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. “There were many times I saw Amanda sitting behind him hugging him, or giving him a neck massage. Dan and Amanda had a close relationship. I didn’t think anything different than that.”

Regarding the hot tub skit, Thompson admitted the scene was “a little odd”.

A source close to Schneider previously addressed the massage allegations, telling Insider, “[Schneider] regrets ever asking anyone [for a massage] and agrees it was not appropriate, even though it only happened in public settings.”

Schneider received the Lifetime Achievement Award onstage during Nickelodeon's 27th Annual Kids' Choice Awards in 2014. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Scheider and Bynes parted ways after he allegedly tried to help her get emancipated from her parents while she was starring on What I Like About You, according to journalist Kate Taylor.

“There is an argument that could be made that he was trying to help Amanda. But unfortunately for Dan, this goes to court and it entirely fails,” Taylor said. “Because of Dan’s involvement in this plan to emancipate Amanda, this creates this huge split between Amanda’s parents and Dan Schneider.”

Ahead of Quiet on Set’s debut, Schneider’s spokesman released a statement.

“Dan cared about the kids on his shows even when sometimes their own families unfortunately did not. He understood what they were going through and he was their biggest champion,” the statement read, per Us Weekly.

“The fact is many of the kids on these shows are put in the untenable position of becoming the breadwinner for their family and the pressure that comes along with that.”

It continued: “Add on top of that the difficulties of growing up and having to do so under the spotlight while working a demanding job, all as a child. That is why there are many levels of standards, executives, lawyers, teachers and parents everywhere, all the time, on every set, every day. However, it is still a hard place to be a kid and nobody knew that better than Dan.”

This article originally appeared in Decider and was reproduced with permission.