Nickelodeon’s ‘house of horrors’: Inside the abuse allegations aimed at Dan Schneider’s kids’ shows

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Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” premiering Sunday and Monday on Investigation Discovery.“Quiet on Set” rips the facade off writer-producer Schneider, now 58, and his enormously profitable but toxic juvenile show-business factory that churned out iconic hits such as “The Amanda Show,” “Zoey 101,” “Drake & Josh,” “Sam and Cat,” and “iCarly” — starring young actors like Jamie Lynn Spears, Jennette McCurdy, Miranda Cosgrove and Victoria Justice.The series reveals a nightmarish world in which at least three convicted sex offenders — production assistant Jason Handy, animator Ezel Channel and dialogue coach/actor Brian Peck — were on staff with full access to children. (All were convicted after they had been hired for the shows.) One female writer recalls on screen being told to lean over a desk and pretend she was being sodomized, among many egregious examples of the toxic workplace overseen by Schneider. “Quiet on Set” illustrates the unsettling sexual undercurrents of the shows, with Peck playing “Pickle Boy,” a goofy “All That” character who interacted with the cast and guest stars like Ray Romano while carrying a tray of what Brown, in the series, calls “pickles that looked like penises.” Also pointed out are frequent shots of young girls’ feet (viewers long speculated that Schneider had a foot fetish because of those scenes) and many scenes involving actresses having liquids and slime squirted on their face and bodies, porn-style.

Grande, who co-starred in Nickelodeon’s “Victorious” and its spinoff with McCurdy, “Sam & Cat,” is seen in one scene grasping a phallic-like potato to her face and making quasi-sexual expressions while “trying to get juice from it.”“All That” actor Leon Frierson speaks in the.