Quiet on Set documentary: Nickelodeon’s #MeToo story was hiding in plain sight.

When viewers of a certain age picture the heyday of children’s television, what first comes to mind is often slime. The biggest bombshell in Quiet on Set took place behind the scenes: Former child actor Drake Bell, one of the stars of Drake & Josh, says he experienced repeated sexual abuse at the hands of Brian Peck, a Hollywood vocal and acting coach who worked on some of Schneider’s sets, beginning when Bell was 15 years old. Schneider’s writing also put child actors in compromising positions, and one Zoey 101 scene mimicked a “cum shot” on a girl’s face. As Double Dare’s Summers, clearly in disbelief, watches a prolonged scene in which Ariana Grande, as the character Cat Valentine, fondles a potato, he asks an off-screen Quiet on Set staffer, “That aired on Nickelodeon?” It’s no wonder, given what Quiet on Set reveals that children in show business are subjected to, that stars, including on Nickelodeon, seem prone to struggling with mental illness and substance use as they grow up. In 2014, for Schneider’s massive artistic contributions to Nickelodeon’s continually soaring profile, he was honored at the Kids’ Choice Awards with the network’s first lifetime achievement accolade, surrounded by many of his former child stars.