The program also spends lots of time digging into the work of show creator, showrunner, executive producer and performer Dan Schneider, who built a kids TV empire in the late 1990s and early 2000s at Nickelodeon. Quiet on Set reveals several former staffers and performers from Schneider's programs who alleged he created a toxic work environment — subjecting female writers to degrading jokes, insisting staffers give him back massages during production, playing favorite with young performers in a way that excluded non-white kids and disrupting production with bursts of anger.