its not a conicedence that Josh Peck, Drake Bell and Amanda Bynes have all dealt with mental health, substance abuse, etc... they are the main stars in all these clips. They were taught from a young age to not respect boundaries and im sure that got worse as they got older. Alexa, you are doing some incredible work here. I love you so much
The mental health issues might have been set off by the stress. They may have already had mental health issues to begin with. I mean...Josh Peck aside from being overweight and prolly teased by people prolly had it bad, and he looks kinda slow to begin with.
@@Medusa_The-Bardno he does not. I need y’all to actually look into these cases instead of looking at them at surface level. All of the accusations were debunked, and he had to take a plea deal. He was not found guilty of anything.
Looking back, I’m fairly confident that my exposure to Dan Schnider’s creepy foot content, broadly across Nickelodeon, at such a young age, is at bare minimum 95% of the reason that I’m completely grossed out by feet.
@@ryanciani3324 I didn’t say feet themselves were inherently creepy. I was referring to the repetitive content Dan Schneider produced on kid’s tv shows revolving around feet being creepy, weird, and predatory.
The fact that this was happening as far back as rhe Amanda Bynes era was frightening and telling of how the industry is willing to exploit children regardless of their lack of safety. They were basically used to promote fetish material for Dan Schneider. What makes this even more complicit on Nickelodeon's part is the fact that Amanda Bynes starred in another show called What I Like About You, also created by Dan, but the irony is that it was on a different network and didn't feature any if the creepy explicit feet stuff. So to me this tells me Nick got a kick outvof exploiting children this same way as Dan did, you guys essentially were used to promote this fetish. Even male actors weren't safe, especially Jace Norman who seened to get sexualized a lot on Henry Danger in a lot of shirtless scenes. As far ss i know there was never any of this content in Disney Channel.
Oh! Kel Mitchell’s wife said in an interview that ppl at Nick would show the kids corn!! I saw the clips years ago on twitter bc kel is way more private than Kennan and there was a thread about where he’s been and then someone posted that. But yea Nick has always been DARK
It's so sad... I didn't know What I Like About You was also created by Dan. As if she couldn't get away from working with him unfortunately. I actually liked her acting on that show, and is where I know her most from.
@@KaraFrances-il8mi Incest by her own - ? 🥺 Very tragic if so honestly. She was in an unsafe position working with Dan himself & other enablers of the like.’
@@KaraFrances-il8mi Liked seeing someone recently gave my comment a like (am back on here again). Your comment’s even backed up by Amanda’s past tweets herself. She mentioned the word “committed” frequently & it kept me thinking what she personally meant by it but Definitely… She was committed by her own parent/s. 💯💯💯 He even allegedly SA & helicopter parented Amanda Bynes’ career… Just to steal from her finances in the end (as she’s committed). It’s so sad. She used to tweet saying she’s young but she’s officially stating herself as “retired at 24”. And honestly, with every right to be. 🙏🏼❤️ She tries to get herself away from all these new scenes of “exposing Nickeloden” (Quiet On Set) cause it is reliving such horrors.
As someone who was touched by my mom’s boyfriend and SA’d in college at 21 by someone I thought I could trust, I appreciate you calling out pedos and abusers. I’m not in Hollywood but abuse can happen anywhere.
For me the worst Dan Schneider moment was on the Amanda Show when Penelope (Won’t Say Her Last Name) made a jello foot that was supposed to be Amanda’s foot. And then Dan dressed as a security guard ATE IT!!!!!! 😡😡😡
Woah! I remember loving the Amanda Show until I saw the "popper pants" segment. I was all of maybe 7 years old? When I decided to stop watching. Bc even though I didn't have the word for, "predatory" I could sense the predatory nature and it made me feel like I was being roped into it as a viewer.
It’s crazy to me that I would’ve watched episodes of all that and found them hilarious and no adult around me thought woah this is weird. This is not me saying Amanda Bynes wasn’t an amazing actress because she proved later on that she was
I rewatched Thats So Raven not so long ago and thankfully all clear and still had me cracking up 2 decades later. That show holds up. And 6 seasons on Ravens home which were great and from what i heard the young cast were looked after, Raven made sure of it.
the ONLY thing that made me feel weird on rewatch of Raven was that scene where she was working out on the elliptical and it malfunctions and starts squirting her in the face with water with her mouth open BUT that could just be me being overly cautious from the Dan stuff
I’m rewatching Dan Schneider shows I watched as a child and I noticed a TON of foot scenes in Icarly and Victorious! As a kid I thought My Big Toe was just a funny, random bit, as an adult it’s definitely weird, humor was used to cover up a foot fetish
“What I Like About You” which was an Amanda Bynes show produced by Dan is super problematic as well. It is no coincidence and we’re definitely not overreacting. What gets me is how we didn’t notice it back then.
@@ting-ting7001What "influence" tho? He was a successful producer of television shows before and after Nickelodeon. Yes and always a creep. Ya'll need to do more research. Everything isnt as black and white as its made to be.
There was a very odd foot scene in dog from a blog where the main character asks the dog to lick in between her toes so he would come out from under the bed with the camera pointed at her feet, I always found that disturbing. I can’t remember what episode it was.
It’s wild looking back at some of these shows, because I remember as a kid none of it seemed creepy or inappropriate to me (though I aged out in the middle of iCarly, which seems tame compared to what followed). Even as an adult, I can get that kids would find foot humor funny/silly, and it’s not something I would immediately consider a red flag, were it not for the circumstances around these people. But like, watching that toe makeover clip as an adult, who has had adult experiences and consumed adult media… the vibes were wayyy off. You’re so right about the way all of that was shot. Like, I don’t necessarily see a problem with the setup or the punchline. I think a kid’s comedy sketch/parody advertisement where toe-puppet making is the star event of a slumber party is a really fun and novel idea, and I think roping the dad into it at the end is like, classic “2000s kid sitcom girl-dad” behavior. But yeah… the lurid closeups on the feet, the fact that their faces are in the shot, and that they’re having to lie back with their leg up (either on a bed or on the bedroom floor!?!?) in front of a camera… all of it is just so insidious and gross. The fact that they all pull the dad towards the bed??? the original viewers/ intended audience can’t really be expected to have caught it, given the fact that it would have been naive kids, distracted parents, and stoners, all watching on a television in the early 90s and 00s where reruns were all you got. And it creeps me out that it’s something i loved watching as a kid; that i would have remembered fondly, were it not for the release of this information, and for the ongoing behavior surrounding feet on twitter in the years after. It feels like i was somehow roped in to helping The Creator get his kicks, just by being one of the millions of kids who enjoyed it, laughed at it, and laughed at my own toes as a result. gross!! But yeah, every adult on that production set, who had to watch it all happen, and who saw the process of adults getting a camera up close on a kid’s foot in frouffy pajamas leanin’ back in a bed - every last one of those people has some shit to answer for. popcorn pants, however, was completely out of hand, and NONE of that can be salvaged, by any amount of naivete or good faith. it is beyond blatant, and i wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a natural escalation from The Creator seeing what he could get away with over the years. Amanda looks older in the popcorn sketch, and it was an era of appealing to kids with grossout/toilet humor, so opportunistic escalation makes sense to me. yuck.
Since you asked… there was only one close up on a foot that I remember that was on Suite Life of Zack and Cody. It was a little weird but I think that was the only weird one that I remember. Dan Schneider for sure had wayyyy more excessive feet stuff on his shows to where it was obvious. Thanks for pointing all this out. It’s something that shouldn’t be swept under the rug!
@@BibleChick-zo1kb oh shoot I wasn’t even thinking of that scene. I’m wondering how many weird scenes in these shows that I didn’t notice when I was younger. The scene I’m thinking was an episode I re-watched recently. I can’t remember which episode, but the scene started at a close up of Zack’s toes/feet. I was weirded out to say the least.
I always thought my friends parents who banned them from watching these shows were so strict and crazy but I can definitely see why now! I can’t believe more parents didn’t see these shows and question it. It’s really shocking and gives me a terrible sick feeling watching now as an adult and parent. I guess they were all working and we were all watching unsupervised for the most part
Dan always said: “I just did what kids found funny” and maybe I live in a bubble but I don’t remember myself EVER laughing at those feet jokes… not one time was I amused or entertained as a kid. I actually remember myself waiting for those scenes to finish so I can continue watching the plot… did anyone really find them funny? This is a safe space, please comment freely
The fucking popper pants skit…holy hell. It always felt gross to me as a kid but watching it now at 29…that is absolutely abhorrent. He wasn’t even trying to be subtle about it.
Also, the Baggin Saggin Barry skit from All That. Kenan would reach down into his pants and pull out different objects. In one episode Kel played an old man and told Kenan "just think hard and reach real deep inside your pants". Fucking gross.
My mom worked for Nickelodeon in the 90s in their animation department she Dan in hallways but had no idea what was going on behind the scenes, but she believes her bosses knew what was going on in that department.
Just so creepy. I remember two of those three clips, in fact! When you look at things just as they are (without rose-colored glasses), they're typically disturbing and even heartbreaking.
Wow. 10:18, honestly Nickeloden was really criminal. Am so at least grateful to have come across you during these years, keep spreading your great activism.
Most of my Nickelodeon consumption was in the pre-Schneider era. I remember even then my mom getting grossed out. All of this is so much worse than the stuff even then.
After I watched the documentary I wanted to rewatch the Amanda show as an adult, and it’s wild how it was so in our faces. I only got to episode 2 I couldn’t watch anymore.
I was way too young to understand this i was 9 when the Amanda Show came on/when I heard about it (some people don't pick up on things right away don't judge me) it wasn't until I was GROWN and I watched Sloan (he calls out creepers like Alexa does, she appeared in some of his videos) and he's made videos about creepy things in Dan's shows I was so confused when people were commeting on a line I quoted from a Drake and Josh episode when Drake made Josh break his foot when Megan asked if she have it if it needed to be removed. (This was before I saw posts about creepy Dan) sadly reaching the side of TH-cam, Twitter etc that calls out problematic people is a hit or miss for me now that I have seen it, im like what the actual heck is this?! now that I have seen it Alexa and I are on the same page with the reactions.
I haven’t seen the Popper Pants sketch since I was little and used to think that was so funny but OMG seeing that as an adult I’m completely horrified… how did nikelodeon let this stuff air?!
10:06 Some of those camera angles were very disconcerting to watch, especially after Drake Bell came forward sharing his experience. Can’t help but wonder what ulterior motives these people had.
Not sure if you remember, but there is also a scene in Zoey 101 (S01E07 I belive) where Quinn's character locks Dustin's legs and tickles his feet with a device..
I’m rewatching Zoey 101 and there’s not as many foot scenes as Icarly or Victorious but I saw that episode you mentioned and in Season 3 Lola says that one of her feet is a size bigger and shows everyone. Also, they keep mentioning how Quinn has a 6th toe and i’m sure it’ll be a foot scene later on. Currently on s3 e18
Omgggg I just thought these bits were goofy and as a elementary school kid I was cracking tf up at how weird this was!!! My whole childhood was a lieeeeee 😭
I have been through alot of as a child I can’t even imagine if I had had to deal with that and being a child star idk if I would have survived I’m so glad and lucky my mother never wanted me to be one I hope everyone that had had to deal with that I hope you are doing okay and support you
You're not over reacting. I literally REMEMBER watching & HATING pop pants skit because of the way they executed it & i was only 8 years old. I thought it was funny UNTIL they do bent over parts & the adding sauces parts; i was less than a decade old & knew that was WRONG - how dare any adults have allowed that to happen!
it's the way every time I watch an Amanda Show clip I remember each scene so vividly, Dan and Nick really promoted subliminal messaging to groom vulnerable children
6:22 the foot logo is a coincidence. While the foot sign did go up round the time Schneider was hired, it was put up at the animation studio (which has its own share of issues similar to the topics discussed on the channel)
I completely forgot about the foot logo. It’s crazy it’s so undeniable in your face. My mom use to take me to cattle call auditions for Nickelodeon I’m so glad I sucked at acting and never got casted
I remember the All That Episode of them dressing up their toes and this lives in the back of my head! I never thought it was weird because I was like seven watching this too
The popcorn gag is a takeoff on the old Jiffy pop popcorn you would buy a foil pan in the store and shake it over the stove burner and the top blew up just like those pants and popcorn would come tumbling out when you cut into this enormous balloon full of popcorn.Everyone loved these things in the days before every home had a microwave.The jokes are dumb and juvenile but kids think a lot of dumb(and gross) stuff is funny.
It still looks weird though, who on their right mind thinks children ripping open another kids' pants doesn't look strange? Writers are known for trying to pass s---x jokes in shows because it's "totally funny to get past censorship and hide jokes for the parents, right?"
I remember this popper pants skit so vividly because they would play it ALL THE TIME! I remember liking the skit but I ALWAYS thought it was disgusting. I thought the point was to be overtly gross, which was kind of Nick’s schtick. I didn’t think of it sexually per se, but didn’t understand why anyone would want popcorn from where someone’s butt and privates were
There's live red carpet footage from E! interviewing Amanda Bynes at the SAG Awards in 2008, as E! would do for all of their awards coverage (some of you may know where this is going - shoe cam). Amanda admits at the start of being interviewed this is the biggest event she's ever been to (having come off the success of Hairspray) and that she's really nervous, she's self-deprecating throughout the interview, she says she's exhausted and "hides her crazy" well. Then, Debbie Matenopolous literally says "I know you don't want to, BUT SHOW IT!" So of course, Amanda being the professional she is, despite saying in confidence off-camera beforehand that she didn't want to show her feet, uncomfortably puts her foot in front of the shoe cam.
Is Brian Peck not related to Josh Peck in any way? I know he hadn't said anything publicly about his father and that it was a coworker of his mother's, but I really hope its not Josh's Dad or something. Weird Nickelodeon Web
Looking at it now with SKITS about your Feet / Toe...... Uuuuugh!!!! First of all, MY BEAUTIFUL BIG TOE and that Moody's Point skit when Moody's dad lost his toe. Still never knew who the fuck was the real Moody Fallon. This is great Alexa. So crazy now to hear everything that went down during that era.
A question I have also is why even is the logo a foot is that representative of something because the logo now is a splat which makes sense because of slime so what was the reason behind them making the logo a foot
Re-watching clips from these nick shows reminds me of Miranda Sings (Colleen Ballinger)'s sense of humor and why people called her out as well. Miranda was very much like Penelope Taynt in personality and made inappropriate jokes that were meant to go "over kids heads" but didn't. She had a bit where she would have kids come on stage and take cheese balls from her pants (like the popper pants) idk I feel like there was some subconscious influence that she had from these shows and thought...it was funny? So she made it more adult but still claimed it was appropriate for children.
As a kid, I thought the popper pants skit was hilarious. Watching it again now makes me feel gross 🙁 This is why kids need to be protected because they look to adults for guidance and if the adults around them think this is ok? No wonder there’s so many grown kid stars with trauma.😢
I grew up watching All That, Zoey 101. You know that feeling as a kid where you know somethings wrong... but you're not sure how to voice it. Sometimes i had those feelings watching these shows as a kid but you dont understand the innuendos. Its so gross watching this and realizing as an adult what children were exposed to. Especially these child actors, really breaks my heart as a mom.
OMG I used to love these skits. Now looking with a different context it's so sketchy to watch. 😩🥺 Also popcorn pants...reminds me a bit of Miranda Sings and her infamous cheese ball pants 😑
Apparently the foot logo actually predates Dan Schneider’s time. The network used that logo among others in 1984. But I could be wrong, there are so many sources saying the logo was in the 80s, the 90s. I just don’t know who to trust. But I do trust you Alexa, you were there and you were subjected to this horrendous bullshit!! I hope you are healing well 🫶🏻💜💜
Lol OMG!! I remember those fake commercials from shows like The Amanda show! I never understood Hollywood's weird obsession with feet growing up (especially Nickelodeon). I never really understood the foot fetish thing in general, but I remember assuming as a kid that people found feet funny for some reason and just didn't get the joke. If I'm not mistaken, my first exposure to this weekend as a show called Married With Children I think. Even as an adult, when I come across foot fetish content I still don't get it.
Crazy. I remember watching the popcorn pants skit as a kid and never thought twice about it. I don't think kids realize what we're watching? It never affected me at all?
I just never understood what was so funny about feet in Nick shows, in part it's because I think feet are ugly and kinda gross tbh but even leaving that aside, what's actually funny about those scenes? Even child me thought it was completely not funny. I wasn't old enough to get to see the Amanda Show or All That but the thing about the pants is odd. I had one experience as a kid with my "friends" (other children) where they tried to pull down my pants and take pictures of me down there, so a scene of some kids ripping open some other kid's pants can look very not safe for a kids show TBH. I also used to browse DeviantArt as a child and I just knew I had to stay away from the weird fetish stuff posted there (usually feet and inflated bodies) so if you look at it without giving these producers any benefit of the doubt, it can either be some gross joke about the pants looking like t--sticl--s or some vore/inflation fetish. It's also just not funny in my book, what kinda humor is that.
You know I grew up with all the 2000s Nick shows, and I always thought my feet were strange, or not good enough, just becouse it’s not what I saw… but ya know it’s crazy, I’m 25 now and it’s crazy how much feet were in tv just becouse Dan made so many things about feet
“ Oddly “ enough the skit she’s showing isn’t available on ANY streaming platform. Well except for a bootlegged version on TH-cam. My family was looking for season 3 then found it here. Even my 9 year old commented on the constant foot imagery.
I actually never watched All That, always changed the channel when it came on, so this is new to me. I was more of a Disney Channel (Kim Possible, Proud Family etc) and CN cartoons (Ed, Edd n Eddy 😂). But sad to see that this was and probably still going on. Children are so innocent, they need protection.
Yea i had never seen the popcorn popper pants video until a couple days ago and my jaw was on the floor… the fact they tear open the pants FROM BEHIND while they are BENT OVER??? That is so extremely inappropriate for children to act out and even watch.
The thing about all of this content. I read a Twitter thread about the argument for kids being taught about consent. Most kids don’t get the taught the correct words for their body parts and predators use that as means to prey on children. God forbid this happened but I can definitely see a predator groom someone by going “it’s like that one skit on the Amanda show” and of course as kids we dont see anything wrong with it but as an adult now it’s absolutely horrifying and disgusting. And the fact that no one really caught on to speak up makes things worse. Because it (no pun intended) toes the line to where it can be plausible deniability. “This is for the kids kids think dressing up your toe is funny and wacky? Who doesn’t want a pair of pants that makes popcorn? You’re just being dramatic and sensitive.” Dan needs to be in jail.
Yall i remember watching this stuff and thinking it was weird. I remember all the feet and thinking it was strange not funny at all. But i wasnt sure why i thought it was weird now i know why
omg i remember the popper pants thing, ur not overreacting AT ALL. literally ripping kids pants open and bending them over????? as an adult this is so fucking disturbing now...what the fuck....
I mean, if consenting adults have a foot fetish...fine whatever, I'm not kink shaming when it comes to consenting adults loving on feet. But, this is a children's show. That Dan Schneider feet content is just beyond inappropriate and just so creeepy.
I’m asking this from an honest place so please be kind everyone. As a parent how can we go about not exposing our kids to these shows we loved as kids. It’s all over the streaming services, plus the kids so tech savvy that parental controls are a joke. I literally have to sit there and they ask me… is this episode ok mom? And I inspect and tell them yes or no because my girl loves Roblox content and that’s its own issue, and the boy loves all that… and secretly I still do too… but like you said oh my lord what in the world…….. 😮 In short though if there’s an easier way to keep the kids away from this stuff someone please share!
I mean the only options we have as consumers is to block the channels on TH-cam kids, not subscribe to or watch Paramount+ or Nickelodeon. To Paramount, this is "legacy/older" content that they can pull off streaming at any choice if they feel like it could hurt their "brand". But they try to just sweep this under the rug by pushing out new content, and not address the old.
You can’t hide anything. They will find out. Either they learn from you and your family or from randoms. Sheltering will not help them. Depending on how old they are and their intelligence. It would be better to teach them and explain to them. That times from a few decades were different from now. What we thought it was fine wasn’t now that there is more info. If you are concerned about certain things if you can hold off on talking about certain things then it’s up to you when to go about these subjects. With how people are theses days. Do you want them to learn from strangers and learn possible the wrong info/ideology or you the parent(s) do it and make sure they have the right info.
This has nothing to do with this video...but I saw you are covering Christy (her full name doesn't deserve my time)....I am a survivor of abuse myself, just not in Hollywood circles. Anyways I had commented on her videos how frustrated I was with her content and how she was profiting off other people's trauma. I kept it polite but just let her know this is triggering for MANY people. She told me to "find a hobby" and deleted my comment and blocked me🤦♂️🤦♂️ If anyone needs to find a hobby it's the female Perez Hilton....I mean Christy. There are no other words to describe her but evil.
I think the writers where just thinking what do we do it's Nickelodeon so the jokes need to be kinda gross. What's the new logo? A foot? Why not Taylor the jokes to the gross logo. Slime has already been done a million times. Let's do jokes on gross feet now. That's basically what it was. These are jokes to 10 year olds. Of course we don't think it's as funny at 30
its not a conicedence that Josh Peck, Drake Bell and Amanda Bynes have all dealt with mental health, substance abuse, etc... they are the main stars in all these clips. They were taught from a young age to not respect boundaries and im sure that got worse as they got older. Alexa, you are doing some incredible work here. I love you so much
True but Drake sucks.
The mental health issues might have been set off by the stress. They may have already had mental health issues to begin with. I mean...Josh Peck aside from being overweight and prolly teased by people prolly had it bad, and he looks kinda slow to begin with.
Josh Peck was only depressed about his weight and was able to lose a ton of weight and lives a fulfilling, comfortable life now
@@eddierascalhaskell4954rude…
@@Medusa_The-Bardno he does not. I need y’all to actually look into these cases instead of looking at them at surface level. All of the accusations were debunked, and he had to take a plea deal. He was not found guilty of anything.
Looking back, I’m fairly confident that my exposure to Dan Schnider’s creepy foot content, broadly across Nickelodeon, at such a young age, is at bare minimum 95% of the reason that I’m completely grossed out by feet.
And the reason older gross men are hyper into feet. He made content for creeps.
same here. i had an abnormal disgust for them, like they were too private to be seen.
Feet aren’t creepy. Their normal. Everyone has them
@@ryanciani3324 I didn’t say feet themselves were inherently creepy. I was referring to the repetitive content Dan Schneider produced on kid’s tv shows revolving around feet being creepy, weird, and predatory.
The fact that this was happening as far back as rhe Amanda Bynes era was frightening and telling of how the industry is willing to exploit children regardless of their lack of safety. They were basically used to promote fetish material for Dan Schneider. What makes this even more complicit on Nickelodeon's part is the fact that Amanda Bynes starred in another show called What I Like About You, also created by Dan, but the irony is that it was on a different network and didn't feature any if the creepy explicit feet stuff. So to me this tells me Nick got a kick outvof exploiting children this same way as Dan did, you guys essentially were used to promote this fetish.
Even male actors weren't safe, especially Jace Norman who seened to get sexualized a lot on Henry Danger in a lot of shirtless scenes. As far ss i know there was never any of this content in Disney Channel.
Oh! Kel Mitchell’s wife said in an interview that ppl at Nick would show the kids corn!! I saw the clips years ago on twitter bc kel is way more private than Kennan and there was a thread about where he’s been and then someone posted that. But yea Nick has always been DARK
It's so sad... I didn't know What I Like About You was also created by Dan. As if she couldn't get away from working with him unfortunately. I actually liked her acting on that show, and is where I know her most from.
Saddest of all poor Amanda claimed incest more or less and then was " Brittney -ed" 5150'd etc-BY SAID FATHER !
@@KaraFrances-il8mi Incest by her own - ? 🥺 Very tragic if so honestly. She was in an unsafe position working with Dan himself & other enablers of the like.’
@@KaraFrances-il8mi Liked seeing someone recently gave my comment a like (am back on here again). Your comment’s even backed up by Amanda’s past tweets herself. She mentioned the word “committed” frequently & it kept me thinking what she personally meant by it but Definitely… She was committed by her own parent/s. 💯💯💯 He even allegedly SA & helicopter parented Amanda Bynes’ career… Just to steal from her finances in the end (as she’s committed). It’s so sad. She used to tweet saying she’s young but she’s officially stating herself as “retired at 24”. And honestly, with every right to be. 🙏🏼❤️ She tries to get herself away from all these new scenes of “exposing Nickeloden” (Quiet On Set) cause it is reliving such horrors.
As someone who was touched by my mom’s boyfriend and SA’d in college at 21 by someone I thought I could trust, I appreciate you calling out pedos and abusers. I’m not in Hollywood but abuse can happen anywhere.
Alexa & Amanda should do a podcast together. They both deserve justice
Amanda is just trying to gather herself away from her trauma.
@@eddierascalhaskell4954 hope Amanda gets the help she needs . I miss her acting and she was in many good movies, but I hope for the best for her
Amanda doesn’t want to act or deal with the public anymore
Eww this is vile, honestly Alexa thank you for calling this out
I never noticed the "Toe-tally" part before, and I laughed so hard when you said, "Please tell me that is the Dad," : )
The popper pants skit they’re litterally eating ssa 💀 WTFFF
Nikelodeon always felt so gross to me, even as a kid. I never enjoyed its slimy and grimey humour.
Grooming at its finest….. I remember all these as a child . Now that I’m a mom…. I wouldn’t let my child watch that.!!!!
For me the worst Dan Schneider moment was on the Amanda Show when Penelope (Won’t Say Her Last Name) made a jello foot that was supposed to be Amanda’s foot. And then Dan dressed as a security guard ATE IT!!!!!! 😡😡😡
Woah
Woah! I remember loving the Amanda Show until I saw the "popper pants" segment. I was all of maybe 7 years old? When I decided to stop watching. Bc even though I didn't have the word for, "predatory" I could sense the predatory nature and it made me feel like I was being roped into it as a viewer.
It’s crazy to me that I would’ve watched episodes of all that and found them hilarious and no adult around me thought woah this is weird. This is not me saying Amanda Bynes wasn’t an amazing actress because she proved later on that she was
I rewatched Thats So Raven not so long ago and thankfully all clear and still had me cracking up 2 decades later. That show holds up. And 6 seasons on Ravens home which were great and from what i heard the young cast were looked after, Raven made sure of it.
Wow. You’re a loser. Are you that desperate for attention that you allow yourself to do grunt work for some nobody on TH-cam?
Only the stinky cheese was gross
@@Missmagazinebura it’s cheese bruj
the ONLY thing that made me feel weird on rewatch of Raven was that scene where she was working out on the elliptical and it malfunctions and starts squirting her in the face with water with her mouth open BUT that could just be me being overly cautious from the Dan stuff
I definitely saw all of these clips as a child. I thought they were weird back then too.
Same! All these shows had red flags for me. Weird then and weird now.
Thank you Alexa for all you are doing for the survivor community.
I’m rewatching Dan Schneider shows I watched as a child and I noticed a TON of foot scenes in Icarly and Victorious! As a kid I thought My Big Toe was just a funny, random bit, as an adult it’s definitely weird, humor was used to cover up a foot fetish
“What I Like About You” which was an Amanda Bynes show produced by Dan is super problematic as well. It is no coincidence and we’re definitely not overreacting. What gets me is how we didn’t notice it back then.
It was on WB 11. It even had actors like penn badgley on it. It was on prime tv- it shows the influence Dan had on network television.
@@ting-ting7001What "influence" tho? He was a successful producer of television shows before and after Nickelodeon. Yes and always a creep.
Ya'll need to do more research. Everything isnt as black and white as its made to be.
omg I used to watch that show with my younger sister and my mom forbid us
There was a very odd foot scene in dog from a blog where the main character asks the dog to lick in between her toes so he would come out from under the bed with the camera pointed at her feet, I always found that disturbing. I can’t remember what episode it was.
It’s wild looking back at some of these shows, because I remember as a kid none of it seemed creepy or inappropriate to me (though I aged out in the middle of iCarly, which seems tame compared to what followed). Even as an adult, I can get that kids would find foot humor funny/silly, and it’s not something I would immediately consider a red flag, were it not for the circumstances around these people.
But like, watching that toe makeover clip as an adult, who has had adult experiences and consumed adult media… the vibes were wayyy off. You’re so right about the way all of that was shot. Like, I don’t necessarily see a problem with the setup or the punchline. I think a kid’s comedy sketch/parody advertisement where toe-puppet making is the star event of a slumber party is a really fun and novel idea, and I think roping the dad into it at the end is like, classic “2000s kid sitcom girl-dad” behavior.
But yeah… the lurid closeups on the feet, the fact that their faces are in the shot, and that they’re having to lie back with their leg up (either on a bed or on the bedroom floor!?!?) in front of a camera… all of it is just so insidious and gross. The fact that they all pull the dad towards the bed???
the original viewers/ intended audience can’t really be expected to have caught it, given the fact that it would have been naive kids, distracted parents, and stoners, all watching on a television in the early 90s and 00s where reruns were all you got. And it creeps me out that it’s something i loved watching as a kid; that i would have remembered fondly, were it not for the release of this information, and for the ongoing behavior surrounding feet on twitter in the years after. It feels like i was somehow roped in to helping The Creator get his kicks, just by being one of the millions of kids who enjoyed it, laughed at it, and laughed at my own toes as a result. gross!!
But yeah, every adult on that production set, who had to watch it all happen, and who saw the process of adults getting a camera up close on a kid’s foot in frouffy pajamas leanin’ back in a bed - every last one of those people has some shit to answer for.
popcorn pants, however, was completely out of hand, and NONE of that can be salvaged, by any amount of naivete or good faith. it is beyond blatant, and i wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a natural escalation from The Creator seeing what he could get away with over the years. Amanda looks older in the popcorn sketch, and it was an era of appealing to kids with grossout/toilet humor, so opportunistic escalation makes sense to me. yuck.
Since you asked… there was only one close up on a foot that I remember that was on Suite Life of Zack and Cody. It was a little weird but I think that was the only weird one that I remember. Dan Schneider for sure had wayyyy more excessive feet stuff on his shows to where it was obvious.
Thanks for pointing all this out. It’s something that shouldn’t be swept under the rug!
@@BibleChick-zo1kb oh shoot I wasn’t even thinking of that scene. I’m wondering how many weird scenes in these shows that I didn’t notice when I was younger.
The scene I’m thinking was an episode I re-watched recently. I can’t remember which episode, but the scene started at a close up of Zack’s toes/feet. I was weirded out to say the least.
I always thought my friends parents who banned them from watching these shows were so strict and crazy but I can definitely see why now! I can’t believe more parents didn’t see these shows and question it. It’s really shocking and gives me a terrible sick feeling watching now as an adult and parent. I guess they were all working and we were all watching unsupervised for the most part
Poor Amanda maybe one day she will speak out. The worst for me is the Thirsty scene with Ariana
Dan always said: “I just did what kids found funny” and maybe I live in a bubble but I don’t remember myself EVER laughing at those feet jokes… not one time was I amused or entertained as a kid. I actually remember myself waiting for those scenes to finish so I can continue watching the plot… did anyone really find them funny? This is a safe space, please comment freely
The fucking popper pants skit…holy hell. It always felt gross to me as a kid but watching it now at 29…that is absolutely abhorrent. He wasn’t even trying to be subtle about it.
Completely agree.
Also, the Baggin Saggin Barry skit from All That. Kenan would reach down into his pants and pull out different objects. In one episode Kel played an old man and told Kenan "just think hard and reach real deep inside your pants". Fucking gross.
@@RetroJunkie94 Ohhhh I remember that!
I thought this was weird when i was a child and it's way more terrifying now that I'm an adult and parent. It's weird. ITS WEIRD!!!
My mom worked for Nickelodeon in the 90s in their animation department she Dan in hallways but had no idea what was going on behind the scenes, but she believes her bosses knew what was going on in that department.
Just so creepy. I remember two of those three clips, in fact! When you look at things just as they are (without rose-colored glasses), they're typically disturbing and even heartbreaking.
I used to find these skits funny and interesting as a kid, but now watching as an adult.... It just doesn't sit right with me and is creepy 😬😬😬
Wow. 10:18, honestly Nickeloden was really criminal. Am so at least grateful to have come across you during these years, keep spreading your great activism.
Most of my Nickelodeon consumption was in the pre-Schneider era. I remember even then my mom getting grossed out. All of this is so much worse than the stuff even then.
After I watched the documentary I wanted to rewatch the Amanda show as an adult, and it’s wild how it was so in our faces. I only got to episode 2 I couldn’t watch anymore.
I remember being disgusted when they put ice down Amanda’s shirt for one of the episodes 😢 she deserved better
Thank you for talking about this, Alexa. Thank you for speaking up for other people who need your voice. ❤
I was way too young to understand this i was 9 when the Amanda Show came on/when I heard about it (some people don't pick up on things right away don't judge me) it wasn't until I was GROWN and I watched Sloan (he calls out creepers like Alexa does, she appeared in some of his videos) and he's made videos about creepy things in Dan's shows
I was so confused when people were commeting on a line I quoted from a Drake and Josh episode when Drake made Josh break his foot
when Megan asked if she have it if it needed to be removed. (This was before I saw posts about creepy Dan) sadly reaching the side of TH-cam, Twitter etc that calls out problematic people is a hit or miss for me
now that I have seen it, im like what the actual heck is this?!
now that I have seen it Alexa and I are on the same page with the reactions.
I haven’t seen the Popper Pants sketch since I was little and used to think that was so funny but OMG seeing that as an adult I’m completely horrified… how did nikelodeon let this stuff air?!
That popper pants “skit” made me feel sick. The kids bent over and all the symbolism for the pdfs. Gross
I had the "Popper Pants" episode on my VideoNow as a kid. The biggest memory I have is wondering who the heck puts gravy on popcorn.
Lmao so true! That was always an odd choice
10:06 Some of those camera angles were very disconcerting to watch, especially after Drake Bell came forward sharing his experience. Can’t help but wonder what ulterior motives these people had.
Thank you for continuing to expose these PDF files!
Yeah I don't remember Disney having foot content
I remember thinking this was weird. Now it’s just gross. Keep speaking out, Alexa.
I’d love to hear Dan’s excuse for literal crotch eating 😆, unbelievable
ive been re watching thats so raven for the last few months and NEVER seen feeet they always taught a lesson every ep and it was clean
OMG I REMEMBER THE TOE EPISODE! Right after they made over the dads toe my mom made me change cause she said “this is weird watch something else”
Not sure if you remember, but there is also a scene in Zoey 101 (S01E07 I belive) where Quinn's character locks Dustin's legs and tickles his feet with a device..
I’m rewatching Zoey 101 and there’s not as many foot scenes as Icarly or Victorious but I saw that episode you mentioned and in Season 3 Lola says that one of her feet is a size bigger and shows everyone. Also, they keep mentioning how Quinn has a 6th toe and i’m sure it’ll be a foot scene later on. Currently on s3 e18
Omgggg I just thought these bits were goofy and as a elementary school kid I was cracking tf up at how weird this was!!! My whole childhood was a lieeeeee 😭
I have been through alot of as a child I can’t even imagine if I had had to deal with that and being a child star idk if I would have survived I’m so glad and lucky my mother never wanted me to be one I hope everyone that had had to deal with that I hope you are doing okay and support you
I feel so at home watching your videos. Feels like I’m just having a convo with or listening to a friend vent/talk
You're not over reacting. I literally REMEMBER watching & HATING pop pants skit because of the way they executed it & i was only 8 years old. I thought it was funny UNTIL they do bent over parts & the adding sauces parts; i was less than a decade old & knew that was WRONG - how dare any adults have allowed that to happen!
I remember that popper pants one. It really went over my head
it's the way every time I watch an Amanda Show clip I remember each scene so vividly, Dan and Nick really promoted subliminal messaging to groom vulnerable children
6:22 the foot logo is a coincidence. While the foot sign did go up round the time Schneider was hired, it was put up at the animation studio (which has its own share of issues similar to the topics discussed on the channel)
Proverbs 16:19
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Nikelodeon has always felt so gross to me, even as a kid. I never enjoyed its slimy and grimey humour.
It was also so dirty
@@sylvee2 SpongeBob’s Dirty Dan… 😂😅
I completely forgot about the foot logo. It’s crazy it’s so undeniable in your face. My mom use to take me to cattle call auditions for Nickelodeon I’m so glad I sucked at acting and never got casted
I remember the All That Episode of them dressing up their toes and this lives in the back of my head! I never thought it was weird because I was like seven watching this too
The popcorn gag is a takeoff on the old Jiffy pop popcorn you would buy a foil pan in the store and shake it over the stove burner and the top blew up just like those pants and popcorn would come tumbling out when you cut into this enormous balloon full of popcorn.Everyone loved these things in the days before every home had a microwave.The jokes are dumb and juvenile but kids think a lot of dumb(and gross) stuff is funny.
It still looks weird though, who on their right mind thinks children ripping open another kids' pants doesn't look strange? Writers are known for trying to pass s---x jokes in shows because it's "totally funny to get past censorship and hide jokes for the parents, right?"
I remember this popper pants skit so vividly because they would play it ALL THE TIME! I remember liking the skit but I ALWAYS thought it was disgusting. I thought the point was to be overtly gross, which was kind of Nick’s schtick. I didn’t think of it sexually per se, but didn’t understand why anyone would want popcorn from where someone’s butt and privates were
There's live red carpet footage from E! interviewing Amanda Bynes at the SAG Awards in 2008, as E! would do for all of their awards coverage (some of you may know where this is going - shoe cam). Amanda admits at the start of being interviewed this is the biggest event she's ever been to (having come off the success of Hairspray) and that she's really nervous, she's self-deprecating throughout the interview, she says she's exhausted and "hides her crazy" well. Then, Debbie Matenopolous literally says "I know you don't want to, BUT SHOW IT!" So of course, Amanda being the professional she is, despite saying in confidence off-camera beforehand that she didn't want to show her feet, uncomfortably puts her foot in front of the shoe cam.
Is Brian Peck not related to Josh Peck in any way? I know he hadn't said anything publicly about his father and that it was a coworker of his mother's, but I really hope its not Josh's Dad or something. Weird Nickelodeon Web
No i'm pretty sure Josh Peck's dad is dead and they never formally met
Looking at it now with SKITS about your Feet / Toe...... Uuuuugh!!!! First of all, MY BEAUTIFUL BIG TOE and that Moody's Point skit when Moody's dad lost his toe. Still never knew who the fuck was the real Moody Fallon. This is great Alexa. So crazy now to hear everything that went down during that era.
A question I have also is why even is the logo a foot is that representative of something because the logo now is a splat which makes sense because of slime so what was the reason behind them making the logo a foot
Supposedly it represented joy of movement, playfulness, and the boundless energy of youth
Re-watching clips from these nick shows reminds me of Miranda Sings (Colleen Ballinger)'s sense of humor and why people called her out as well. Miranda was very much like Penelope Taynt in personality and made inappropriate jokes that were meant to go "over kids heads" but didn't. She had a bit where she would have kids come on stage and take cheese balls from her pants (like the popper pants) idk I feel like there was some subconscious influence that she had from these shows and thought...it was funny? So she made it more adult but still claimed it was appropriate for children.
As a kid, I thought the popper pants skit was hilarious. Watching it again now makes me feel gross 🙁
This is why kids need to be protected because they look to adults for guidance and if the adults around them think this is ok? No wonder there’s so many grown kid stars with trauma.😢
Holy. Fucking. Shit. Dude watching that clip around the 2 min mark…I remember that episode I watched that as a kid
5:45 why are people remaking the foot logo💀 like no we do not need a new one
9:15 I remember the popcorn pants sooooo well
I hate that I remember these skits so perfectly 😷😷
I grew up watching All That, Zoey 101. You know that feeling as a kid where you know somethings wrong... but you're not sure how to voice it. Sometimes i had those feelings watching these shows as a kid but you dont understand the innuendos. Its so gross watching this and realizing as an adult what children were exposed to. Especially these child actors, really breaks my heart as a mom.
OMG I used to love these skits. Now looking with a different context it's so sketchy to watch. 😩🥺
Also popcorn pants...reminds me a bit of Miranda Sings and her infamous cheese ball pants 😑
Apparently the foot logo actually predates Dan Schneider’s time. The network used that logo among others in 1984. But I could be wrong, there are so many sources saying the logo was in the 80s, the 90s. I just don’t know who to trust. But I do trust you Alexa, you were there and you were subjected to this horrendous bullshit!! I hope you are healing well 🫶🏻💜💜
the logo actually belongs to nick animation department to represent nick make it footprint in animation
I remember ALL of these from when I was a kid and I even felt weird about them back THEN. Seeing them now... 😬
Lol OMG!! I remember those fake commercials from shows like The Amanda show! I never understood Hollywood's weird obsession with feet growing up (especially Nickelodeon). I never really understood the foot fetish thing in general, but I remember assuming as a kid that people found feet funny for some reason and just didn't get the joke. If I'm not mistaken, my first exposure to this weekend as a show called Married With Children I think. Even as an adult, when I come across foot fetish content I still don't get it.
Crazy. I remember watching the popcorn pants skit as a kid and never thought twice about it. I don't think kids realize what we're watching? It never affected me at all?
Drake Bell was NEVER on All That. He started on The Amanda Show.
Oh wow- I forgot about the foot 🦶 logo on Nick!! 😮 5:41
I just never understood what was so funny about feet in Nick shows, in part it's because I think feet are ugly and kinda gross tbh but even leaving that aside, what's actually funny about those scenes? Even child me thought it was completely not funny.
I wasn't old enough to get to see the Amanda Show or All That but the thing about the pants is odd. I had one experience as a kid with my "friends" (other children) where they tried to pull down my pants and take pictures of me down there, so a scene of some kids ripping open some other kid's pants can look very not safe for a kids show TBH. I also used to browse DeviantArt as a child and I just knew I had to stay away from the weird fetish stuff posted there (usually feet and inflated bodies) so if you look at it without giving these producers any benefit of the doubt, it can either be some gross joke about the pants looking like t--sticl--s or some vore/inflation fetish. It's also just not funny in my book, what kinda humor is that.
I never caught on to any of these innuendos as a kid … I’m assuming the victims did not either; which compounds the sadness, ten-fold.
You know I grew up with all the 2000s Nick shows, and I always thought my feet were strange, or not good enough, just becouse it’s not what I saw… but ya know it’s crazy, I’m 25 now and it’s crazy how much feet were in tv just becouse Dan made so many things about feet
Never watched All that but damn, i totally lost it at the last one😵this was shocking even as an adult
why dont i remember any of this. i was a kid in the 90s and 2005 i was 13 you would think if i watched reruns i would remember this but i dont
I was 1 in 2005
“ Oddly “ enough the skit she’s showing isn’t available on ANY streaming platform. Well except for a bootlegged version on TH-cam. My family was looking for season 3 then found it here. Even my 9 year old commented on the constant foot imagery.
I actually never watched All That, always changed the channel when it came on, so this is new to me. I was more of a Disney Channel (Kim Possible, Proud Family etc) and CN cartoons (Ed, Edd n Eddy 😂). But sad to see that this was and probably still going on. Children are so innocent, they need protection.
Yea i had never seen the popcorn popper pants video until a couple days ago and my jaw was on the floor… the fact they tear open the pants FROM BEHIND while they are BENT OVER??? That is so extremely inappropriate for children to act out and even watch.
The thing about all of this content. I read a Twitter thread about the argument for kids being taught about consent. Most kids don’t get the taught the correct words for their body parts and predators use that as means to prey on children. God forbid this happened but I can definitely see a predator groom someone by going “it’s like that one skit on the Amanda show” and of course as kids we dont see anything wrong with it but as an adult now it’s absolutely horrifying and disgusting. And the fact that no one really caught on to speak up makes things worse. Because it (no pun intended) toes the line to where it can be plausible deniability. “This is for the kids kids think dressing up your toe is funny and wacky? Who doesn’t want a pair of pants that makes popcorn? You’re just being dramatic and sensitive.” Dan needs to be in jail.
Yeeeah... I remember laughing at these as a kid... watching these as an adult, I can't believe any of this made it to tv
dan is a monster. However what parent of a child actor would go over these scripts and still let their kids work on the show.
Yall i remember watching this stuff and thinking it was weird. I remember all the feet and thinking it was strange not funny at all. But i wasnt sure why i thought it was weird now i know why
Most skits from all that series is like SNL
But for kids
It’s like why
Wow Alexa thats not good
You said it
The fact that I didn’t notice as a kid.
This is weird to say but it’s not just the feet but how they’re angled or shown to the camera, it’s exactly the same poses as pr0n… 😢
omg i remember the popper pants thing, ur not overreacting AT ALL. literally ripping kids pants open and bending them over????? as an adult this is so fucking disturbing now...what the fuck....
I mean, if consenting adults have a foot fetish...fine whatever, I'm not kink shaming when it comes to consenting adults loving on feet. But, this is a children's show. That Dan Schneider feet content is just beyond inappropriate and just so creeepy.
4:02 my jaw DROPPED
I’m asking this from an honest place so please be kind everyone. As a parent how can we go about not exposing our kids to these shows we loved as kids. It’s all over the streaming services, plus the kids so tech savvy that parental controls are a joke. I literally have to sit there and they ask me… is this episode ok mom? And I inspect and tell them yes or no because my girl loves Roblox content and that’s its own issue, and the boy loves all that… and secretly I still do too… but like you said oh my lord what in the world…….. 😮
In short though if there’s an easier way to keep the kids away from this stuff someone please share!
I mean the only options we have as consumers is to block the channels on TH-cam kids, not subscribe to or watch Paramount+ or Nickelodeon.
To Paramount, this is "legacy/older" content that they can pull off streaming at any choice if they feel like it could hurt their "brand". But they try to just sweep this under the rug by pushing out new content, and not address the old.
You can’t hide anything. They will find out. Either they learn from you and your family or from randoms. Sheltering will not help them. Depending on how old they are and their intelligence. It would be better to teach them and explain to them. That times from a few decades were different from now. What we thought it was fine wasn’t now that there is more info. If you are concerned about certain things if you can hold off on talking about certain things then it’s up to you when to go about these subjects. With how people are theses days. Do you want them to learn from strangers and learn possible the wrong info/ideology or you the parent(s) do it and make sure they have the right info.
This has nothing to do with this video...but I saw you are covering Christy (her full name doesn't deserve my time)....I am a survivor of abuse myself, just not in Hollywood circles. Anyways I had commented on her videos how frustrated I was with her content and how she was profiting off other people's trauma. I kept it polite but just let her know this is triggering for MANY people.
She told me to "find a hobby" and deleted my comment and blocked me🤦♂️🤦♂️ If anyone needs to find a hobby it's the female Perez Hilton....I mean Christy. There are no other words to describe her but evil.
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@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper yup
I do remember the popcorn pants
I think the writers where just thinking what do we do it's Nickelodeon so the jokes need to be kinda gross. What's the new logo? A foot? Why not Taylor the jokes to the gross logo. Slime has already been done a million times. Let's do jokes on gross feet now. That's basically what it was. These are jokes to 10 year olds. Of course we don't think it's as funny at 30
Looking back, now that Im older…. So, Im gonna say it, all the adults that were making those shows, knew exactly what they were doing.