>>331960It's fair but socially left leaning. He shows his feminist roots in believing everything Jeanette says despite how she cut and edited events to create a coherent narrative, mentioning Drake Bell as having sexted a minor, and taking that shot at Dan over Quinton's opinion that he focused more on the effects of women than men on set.
While it did release right before Quinton's video and was thus impossible to include, Dan said in his interview with Boogie, the black guy from the Groovy Smoothie, that split pay for new writers was a norm for the industry. It's unlikely that they were in the WGA at the time since split pay was against regulation even then, so their complaint to the WGA likely went to Dan instead of the network because Dan, as a member of the WGA, should have been pushing the WGA's party line. If the women had kicked up more of a fuss, the entire set may have seen a strike, preventing the Amanda Show's continuation and jeopardizing the work of everyone involved. His outburst about this, like all of his outbursts, was uncalled for, but it seems like nobody tries to put themselves in Dan's shoes when they talk about him. The man was high strung all the time because he had to constantly write the cream of the crop of an otherwise B-list network's content almost completely on his own in a field that was dominated by Disney while maintaining the golden quality he was known for and the expectations of so many people on his shoulders. This included repeated seasonal extensions by the network, preventing those on set from receiving the pay they would have if a contract for another season was negotiated. The WGA Strike of 88 was fresh in Dan's memory, and the guild was ramping up for another strike. Not one year after the beginning of the Amanda Show, the 00 Commercial Actor Strike happened. It's no wonder that he made Victoria Justice the butt of the joke so frequently in later seasons and deliberately sent Sam and Cat into a nosedive. By that point, he probably hated working for Nickelodeon because they wouldn't let him transition to making content for its young adult block.
As for Drake Bell, he plead guilty to the equivalent of telling a minor how and where to buy alcohol, rather than having a prolonged trial, because he was expecting a child and would have had his image ruined more than it already would be. He and the victim sent no n
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