Penelope Taynt

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Penelope Taynt is a character on the Amanda Show. According to AboutAmanda.com, Penelope Taynt is a "...14-year-old Amanda fanatic who puts the word 'Please' at the end of every sentence, and will stop at nothing to meet Amanda." On AmandaPlease.com, an Amanda Bynes fansite "made by" Penelope Taynt, Penelope says "My parents taught me to say please when you want something, and what I want is to meet Amanda, please." Penelope Taynt is played by Bynes. Please see the Amanda Show page on Wikipedia. On the Amanda Show page, it says: "Penelope Taynt, also played by Amanda Bynes, was Amanda's obsessed number-one fan in the world. She normally wore a vest, a plaid shirt and gray shorts, as well as large framed black glasses. In the first episode that she has a tattoo of Amanda's face on her belly, which is never seen again on the show. The tattoo has been made into a coloring game called 'Color my Belly.' On the show she ran a fansite, AmandaPlease.com, which is actually an official site created for the series. Penelope also had the odd habit of interjecting the word "please" into almost all of her sentences (though in her website she puts this down to the fact that she has always been told to say "please" when she wants something, and she wants to meet Amanda). Between segments in every show, she used some harebrained scheme to try and meet Amanda, but never succeeded (although in certain episodes, she managed to temporarily get Drake or Josh to help her) though she at times just missed her, or was even in the same room. These schemes include cloning Amanda from her toenail (but it turned out to be Drake's), having a blood-hound lead her to Amanda by following her scent, and often breaking into Amanda's dressing room. And in rare instances, Penelope invades skits already in progress. In one episode Penelope disguised herself as Amanda only to unmask herself to a cast member. Although the character is played by Amanda, she is not acknowledged as being so (or that she even is one of the show's characters) by other cast members. Some speculate that the character represents a parody of obsessive stalkers."

Sources:

"The Amanda Show Season 1 Episode Guide." Aboutamanda.Com. 11 June 2008 <http://www.aboutamanda.com/amanda/The-Amanda-Show-Season-1-Episode-Guide_article2.aspx>.

"Ask Penelope." Amanda Please! 11 June 2008 <http://www.nick.com/amandaplease/ask_penelope/2000_10_19.jhtml>.

"The Amanda Show." Wikipedia. 11 June 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Show>.