List of Drake & Josh episodes
Drake & Josh is an American sitcom that originally aired on Nickelodeon from January 11, 2004, to September 16, 2007. Two TV films, Drake & Josh Go Hollywood and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh, were made apart from the regular series that aired on January 6, 2006 and December 5, 2008 respectively. There are a total of 57 episodes that were produced, spanning four seasons (2004–07). Drake Bell, Josh Peck, and Miranda Cosgrove appeared in all of the episodes.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 6 | January 11, 2004 | February 22, 2004 | ||
| 2 | 14 | March 14, 2004 | November 28, 2004 | ||
| 3 | 17 | April 2, 2005 | April 8, 2006 | ||
| 4 | 20 | September 24, 2006 | September 16, 2007 | ||
| Films | January 6, 2006 | December 5, 2008 | |||
Episode list
Season 1 (2004)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Virgil L. Fabian | Dan Schneider | January 11, 2004 | 101 |
| Drake Parker (Drake Bell) is a cool and popular teenager while Josh Nichols (Josh Peck) is a geeky teenager whom Drake describes as unusual. Drake's mom Audrey Parker (Nancy Sullivan) and Josh's dad Walter Nichols (Jonathan Goldstein) have been dating and announce to Drake, Josh, and Drake's devious little sister, Megan (Miranda Cosgrove), that they are getting married. Josh is thrilled about having a new stepbrother, but Drake is not. Drake is even less excited when he finds out that Josh is Miss Nancy, the anonymous advice columnist for the school newspaper, and that Josh believes he must dress like a woman to adequately write his advice. Drake then uses this to get a date with Tiffany Margolis (Julie Gonzalo), who wrote to Miss Nancy. But Josh gets in trouble when her angered boyfriend Buck (Joey Mendicino) thinks she is on a date with Josh instead and challenges him to a fight. Josh trains all day under a karate instructor but still ends up getting knocked out with one punch. Drake eventually apologizes and helps Josh realize that he can give good advice without wearing his Miss Nancy dress. Both make up and accept each other as brothers. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Dune Buggy" | Virgil L. Fabian | Dan Schneider | January 18, 2004 | 106 |
| Drake and Josh are excited to receive a dune buggy from his friend Trevor (Taran Killam), only to find it is broken down. Later, Drake convinces Josh to try out lying after Josh accidentally breaks the TV, but Josh is grounded for doing so. Drake and Josh then fully repair the dune buggy, to the surprise of their parents, who forbid them from driving it. Drake secretly drives it with Trevor anyway and crashes. Drake then must conceal his injuries and the damages to the dune buggy. Josh finds out when he gets a call from the emergency room and confronts Drake about it, angry that all Drake cares about is keeping the accident and his injuries a secret from their parents. Racked with guilt, Drake confesses to Walter and Audrey, and they ground Drake for two weeks, much to Josh's delight. However, due to Drake's injury, his "grounding" is simply staying home from school, resting, and making Josh be his servant. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Believe Me, Brother" | Virgil L. Fabian | Dan Schneider | January 25, 2004 | 102 |
| Josh has suspicions that Susan (Ashley Drane), Drake's new girlfriend, is flirting with him behind Drake's back. Drake laughs it off at first, but then becomes angry when he catches Susan kissing Josh and believes Josh is trying to steal Susan from him. Josh tries to explain his innocence to Drake, but Drake ignores him and the two become increasingly distant. Drake eventually learns the truth when Megan inserts a video of Susan flirting with Josh (along with many other embarrassing shots of Drake and Josh) into their music video project. Enraged and betrayed, Drake dumps her and puts purple paint in her locker. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Two Idiots and a Baby" | Virgil L. Fabian | Steven Molaro | February 8, 2004 | 103 |
| While Walter and his boss go out to dinner, Josh offers to babysit the boss' baby, much to Drake's dismay. After the two struggle to get the baby changed and then put to sleep, Drake leaves to play at a concert. Josh panics when the baby disappears and ends up getting stuck on the roof looking for it, with Walter and his boss on their way home. However, underlying loyalty compels Drake to return and help Josh find the baby just before Walter and his boss return. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "First Crush" | Virgil L. Fabian | Steve Holland | February 15, 2004 | 104 |
| Josh gets his first crush on Kathy (Erin Chambers) but cannot stop saying ridiculous things such as "Spoons" to her. While trying to impress her, he accidentally says that he can play the guitar, which he cannot. Kathy wants Josh to play her a song at her birthday party, which is at the coffee shop not only run by Josh's former karate teacher, but the same one Drake just got banned from because of a prank involving Megan's pet snake. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Grammy" | Virgil L. Fabian | Andrew Hill Newman | February 22, 2004 | 105 |
| When Megan, Audrey and Walter leave the house for the weekend, Drake and Josh's dreams of a parent free weekend are dashed when Josh's grandmother and Walter's mom (Randee Heller) comes to babysit. Josh is glad to have Grammy around, but Drake does not like her. Drake wants to attend a concert with his friends, but Grammy does not let him and his friends also can't go, because the tickets are sold out. However, they make a deal in which Drake can spend time with his friends if he beats Grammy in a basketball game, although he will still not be allowed to attend the concert. Drake wins the game, but breaks his promise out of peer-pressure and goes to the concert with his friends after his friends tell Drake that they were able to get tickets for the concert. Once there, they find out the tickets they have are actually counterfeit, and they are detained at the concert until Grammy pays a $200 fine to release them. Grammy, outraged, reveals that she let Drake win so he could go with his friends. Drake does not believe her and decides to play again, under the condition that if he wins, no one tells his parents about the concert. Grammy agrees on the condition that if he loses, he tell his parents about the concert. Drake loses the game, but Grammy stops him from telling his parents, seeing as he paid back the $200 and was willing to tell them. Grammy then secretly sticks an envelope onto Drake's back containing the $200 he paid when they hug each other goodbye. Drake hurries to say thank you when Josh discovers it, only to fall into another trap set by Megan which leaves him hanging upside down next to the bedroom door. | ||||||
Season 2 (2004)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | "The Bet" | Steve Hoefer | George Doty IV | March 14, 2004 | 202 |
| Drake has an addiction to junk food and Josh is addicted to video games. This gets the better of them when they get in trouble for forgetting to bring Megan home on a rainy day. They were both punished by their mom. They both make a bet to see who can live without their addictions, with the loser dying their hair pink, signing a contract with Megan. After a few days, temptation takes over when Drake gets a facial rash from his sudden change in diet and must cure it by eating junk food, while Josh receives a brand new GameSphere. At this point, their parents then make a bet over who will win, with the loser dying their hair pink. Both Drake and Josh are ready to cave when Megan convinces both to try and make the other crack first. Josh turns their room into a candy palace with cotton candy pillows, while Drake plays Josh's GameSphere right in front of him. Both cave at the same moment, and they fight over who caved first until Megan reveals that it does not matter who caved first, and that they both lose. Because of this, both Audrey and Walter lose their bet as well, forcing everyone but Megan to dye their hair pink. However when everyone leaves the house, Drake stays behind to get breakfast and it is revealed that he just put on a pink wig. | ||||||
| 8 | 2 | "Guitar" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | March 21, 2004 | 201 |
| Drake uses his classmates to win tickets to his favorite band's concert, Zero Gravity, from a radio contest. Along with the tickets, he also wins a Cherry Red 1964 Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by the lead guitarist, Devin Malone (Mark Matkevich). But the guitar explodes when Josh plugs it into Drake's faulty amplifier, so Josh tries to buy a new one and get it autographed at the concert before Drake finds out. Megan eventually tells Drake, but he is amazed that Josh would go to such great lengths for him. However, moments before the concert Josh accidentally slams the guitar case closed on Devin's hand. The concert is about to be cancelled, but Josh nominates Drake to perform in place of Devin, and the manager agrees. Drake then repays Josh for buying him the guitar by giving him the paycheck he earned from performing. Meanwhile, Audrey encourages Walter to bond more with Drake, but Drake just isn't interested in doing so. | ||||||
| 9 | 3 | "Movie Job" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | March 28, 2004 | 203 |
| Josh gets a job at the Premiere movie theater after making "Crazy" Steve (Jerry Trainor) quit after complaining about his wobbly drink holder. Josh enjoys his new job and buys lots of new things with his paychecks, which inspires Drake to get a job at the Premiere as well. The manager, Helen (Yvette Nicole Brown), starts giving Drake more credit for his work despite his laziness and Josh being more competent, even promoting him to assistant manager. Josh tries to get Helen to notice him more by coming up with a promotion to sell more popcorn, but it causes a massive brawl among the customers. Josh is prepared to tell Helen the incident was his fault, but Drake takes the blame, feeling that the job meant more to Josh than to him, and Helen reluctantly fires him. | ||||||
| 10 | 4 | "Football" | Virgil Fabian | Story by : Barry O'Brien Teleplay by : Dan Schneider | April 4, 2004 | 205 |
| Drake calls Josh uncool after Josh humiliates him in front of a girl (Leah Pipes), and encourages him to try out for the school football team to become cool. Josh makes the team as the equipment manager, but Drake still thinks he is uncool. However, Josh finds himself having to play in a crucial game after the brownies he makes for the team makes the center ill (thanks to Megan). Josh doesn't want to play against the toughest team in the state, so Drake sneaks the school janitor (Tony Longo), a former pro player who lost his memory as a result of an accident, into the game in place of Josh. But the janitor gets injured, regaining his memory again, forcing Josh to go and play, where he scores the game-winning touchdown, and Drake finally admits Josh is cool. | ||||||
| 11 | 5 | "Pool Shark" | Steve Hoefer | Anthony Del Broccolo | April 18, 2004 | 204 |
| Drake discovers Josh is talented at pool, so he takes advantage of this and uses him to hustle several people behind Josh's back. Josh eventually finds out about this, and vows to never play pool again, especially after Drake reveals he still intends to hustle more people if they play again. Meanwhile, Walter sends Drake and Josh out to get a new birthday present for Audrey after she buys the exact same bracelet he planned to give her. On their way, they find a pool hall, and Josh reluctantly agrees to play pool again and let Drake hustle their opponents, on his conditions. They get into a match with two thugs betting $200 (the money Walter gave the boys for Audrey's present). When Josh wins, the thugs accuse them of hustling them and pin them against a wall. A very frightened Drake apologizes and vows to never hustle anyone ever again, but Josh reveals that it was all just a setup by him and his former camp counselors to teach Drake a lesson about hustling. | ||||||
| 12 | 6 | "Smart Girl" | Roger Christiansen | Dan Schneider | April 25, 2004 | 207 |
| Drake unintentionally joins the academic team at school to impress Michelle (Kate Lang Johnson), a girl he likes who has intellectual interests. He competes in the academic bowl while Josh reluctantly feeds him info through a radio, but then a fast food restaurant interferes with Josh's radio frequency, causing Drake's team to lose points (saying prices for hamburgers instead of important history dates). Drake, however, leads the team to victory because of some knowledge that Josh had given him and later confesses to Michelle that he is not smart, but Michelle admits that she likes him for who he is. Meanwhile, tired of Megan's countless pranks on him, Josh tries to get back at her, only to fail each time. Where Drake plans to help Josh get back at Megan but the episode ends with Megan getting both Drake & Josh. | ||||||
| 13 | 7 | "Little Diva" | Virgil Fabian | Eric Friedman | May 2, 2004 | 208 |
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The Premiere is hosting a world premiere starring Ashley Blake (Skyler Samuels), a child actress. Helen (Frances Callier) assigns Josh to be Ashley Blake's personal assistant, much to Josh's dismay due to the frequent and ridiculous requests Ashley makes. Drake also becomes Ashley's assistant so that Josh may let him into the premiere's after-party, but he too is exhausted by Ashley's requests. But when Ashley gets knocked out, due to an accident involving a bucket and a door, they must to bring her to the Premiere without making it look like she is unconscious, holding her up, talking for her, and moving her arms for her. Note: Frances Callier replaced Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen in this episode. | ||||||
| 14 | 8 | "Blues Brothers" | Fred Savage | Craig DiGregorio | September 12, 2004 | 206 |
| Josh appears on the local news as the assistant weatherman to his father, only to discover that he has stage fright, which causes him to twitch heavily on live TV. Soon, everyone in San Diego is mocking him, and Josh becomes too depressed to even leave the house. Meanwhile at a talent show Drake's band is performing in, a rival boy band steals the song Drake was originally going to perform with his band, forcing them to improvise. So they perform a rendition of "Soul Man" with Josh, winning the talent show and restoring Josh's confidence. | ||||||
| 15 | 9 | "Driver's License" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | September 12, 2004 | 209 |
| Drake fails to get his driver's license while Josh obtains it, and Josh is excited until he gets a ticket for running a stop sign. Fearing that Walter will take his license away for good after Walter instructed the boys with a practice-test, Drake offers to pay for the ticket and keep it a secret. But in return, Drake starts asking Josh to drive him around everywhere, threatening to reveal his ticket to Walter. But Josh decides he has had enough when Drake makes him drive his date around while dressing and acting as a chauffeur, which leads to a fight. | ||||||
| 16 | 10 | "Number One Fan" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | September 19, 2004 | 211 |
| A girl from Megan's campfire troop, Wendy (Alyson Stoner), has a massive crush on Drake. Her dream is for Drake to play her a song. Impressed with all her knowledge of him, Drake gives her an autograph and a guitar pick. Soon after, Wendy becomes obsessed with Drake and will not leave him alone, much to Drake's annoyance. Despite Drake's attempts to gently tell Wendy she should just leave him in his space, Wendy takes her obsession for Drake too far by posting flyers everywhere around his school promoting an upcoming radio appearance Drake will make with his band. Furious, Drake confronts Wendy about how she meant nothing to him, breaking her heart. At the station, he is in need of a guitar pick and when he checks his pockets, he finds a note from Wendy apologizing for what she did and returning the pick he gave her. Realizing his mistake, he reschedules his radio performance and returns home to Wendy and plays a song just for her. Meanwhile, Josh becomes the leader of the campfire troop after Walter quits due to the kids' troublemaking, but the kids like Josh even less than Walter. | ||||||
| 17 | 11 | "Mean Teacher" | Steve Hoefer | George Doty IV | September 26, 2004 | 210 |
| Drake wants to break up with his girlfriend Kelly Chelsea Brummet due to her annoying laugh and laughing in inappropriate situations. However, once he finds out that Mrs. Hayfer (Julia Duffy), his English teacher who hates him, is Kelly's mother, she threatens Drake with summer school, should he break her heart. Josh suggests that Drake should make Kelly break up with him, so Drake attempts to do so by acting disgusting at a dinner date, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Josh starts wearing an ugly shirt, and good things begin to happen to him, such as getting a perfect score on an assignment, getting handed a watch and ring by a feuding couple, receiving a classmate's entire game collection, avoiding Megan's pranks, and having Kelly set him up on a double date with a teen model who loves magic and video games. Drake, fed up with Kelly's laughing, demands to wear Josh's lucky shirt to their double date, but Josh refuses, which leads to a fight that rips the sleeves off the shirt. They both try to wear half of the shirt, but neither date goes well, so they agree to let Drake wear the whole shirt until Kelly breaks up with him, and then give it back to Josh for the rest of the night. Kelly breaks up with Drake, much to his delight, and Josh's date takes a liking to him, even kissing him. But the next day, they find the shirt is gone, having been donated by Megan and Audrey. Initially angry, the boys quickly get over it by convincing themselves that the shirt wasn't really lucky, while during the credits, a hobo ends up winning the lottery while wearing the shirt. | ||||||
| 18 | 12 | "The Gary Grill" | Virgil Fabian | Anthony Del Broccolo | October 17, 2004 | 212 |
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Drake and Josh get an offer to sell Gary Coleman grills from two men they meet at the Premiere. They prove to be successful salesmen and make a lot of money until they are arrested by the FBI for selling the grills, which were stolen by the two men who are really thieves. They are thrown in jail until Megan tricks the two thieves into admitting they stole the grills, and Drake and Josh are set free after the FBI discovered the truth. | ||||||
| 19 | 13 | "Drew & Jerry" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | October 24, 2004 | 213 |
| After Drake tells Josh he needs more time off himself, Josh begins hanging out with Drew (James Immekus), a kid who looks and acts like Drake. Drake gets jealous of Drew, so he finds a new friend named Jerry (Stephen Markarian), a kid who looks and acts like Josh, to make Josh jealous. Soon, both opt to start spending more time with their new friends rather than with each other. Josh abandons his plans to see a movie with Drake to see it with Drew instead, and Drake spends the day deep-sea fishing with Jerry, something Josh has always wanted to do. Drake and Josh get fed up with each other, so they have Drew and Jerry show off their talents at the Premiere (Jerry shows a magic trick, after that, Drew plays his saxophone and Jerry shows his dance to it), which draws the attention of a television producer, who offers them parts in a show about two brothers (which ends up eerily similar to Drake and Josh). Drake and Josh eventually reconcile and become friends again. | ||||||
| 20 | 14 | "Honor Council" | Virgil Fabian | Eric Friedman | November 28, 2004 | 214 |
| Drake is wrongfully accused of pulling a prank on Mrs. Hayfer when her car is parked inside her classroom. Nonetheless, she suspends him for it. Josh decides to defend Drake in a trial in front of the school honor council to prove his brother's innocence, but Mrs. Hayfer is represented by his archenemy Mindy Crenshaw (Allison Scagliotti-Smith). Mindy interrogates Drake until he looks guilty through all of her evidence, but Drake and Josh receive one more piece of evidence from Megan. They obtain Mindy's transcript, where they realize the only B she had was in a class taught by Mrs. Hayfer and taunt her until she admits to pulling the prank and framing Drake. When she does admit it, Mindy is suspended and Drake is cleared of all charges. | ||||||
Season 3 (2005–06)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1 | "The Drake & Josh Inn" | Adam Weissman | Jake Farrow | April 2, 2005 | 305 |
| Audrey and Walter leave the house to go to Los Angeles for Spring Break, leaving Drake and Josh in charge of the house. But Drake spends $200, that they were given for food and emergencies only, on toys and other unnecessary items. Desperate for money, Drake gets the idea to turn their house into a bed and breakfast after he notices a couple who has no place to stay. Josh initially disagrees as he is furious at Drake for his greedy spending, but later agrees because they need money. Megan also agrees as long as she is treated like a guest. Things quickly get out of hand, however, when Drake invites a crowd of partying college students to stay, and when MTV starts broadcasting from their house. Audrey and Walter get suspicious when they see their house on TV, and start heading home. But with the help of Megan, Drake and Josh succeed in getting everyone out and cleaning up the house before Walter and Audrey come home. Audrey and Walter are then mistakenly arrested for hosting a televised party without a city-authorized-permit. | ||||||
| 22 | 2 | "Peruvian Puff Pepper" | Steve Hoefer | Steve Holland | April 9, 2005 | 301 |
| Josh enters a salsa making contest and asks Drake to help him in order to win the prize, a plasma screen TV. Megan wants to help the boys win the TV, but they decline, wanting to keep the prize for themselves. In revenge, Megan sabotages their salsa, causing it to explode all over the kitchen, with the boys taking the blame. Drake and Josh, sick of getting blamed for all of Megan's pranks, try to dig up some proof of her deviousness, and discover a surveillance panel in her room, only for them to get in more trouble when the panel is hidden when they attempt to show their parents. Megan then enters the salsa contest on her own, and obtains a "Peruvian Puff Pepper," a rare pepper that could guarantee her victory, so the boys steal the pepper and use it in their salsa instead. Drake and Josh go on to win the contest, but they are disqualified when they reveal their secret, as Peruvian Puff Peppers are illegal in the United States, leaving Megan as the winner. Although she realizes that the boys know that she set them up, she convinces them she is not that smart to do that. At the end, Megan watches the boys repaint the kitchen after the earlier incident through her new TV. | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | "We're Married" | Steve Hoefer | George Doty IV | April 16, 2005 | 302 |
| Josh's foreign pen pal Yooka (Anastasia Baranova), comes to visit from her fictional country of Yudonia, and Drake takes a strong liking to her, spending more time with her than Josh can. Drake promises to back off, but he and Josh soon learn that Yooka is homesick, so they hold a Yudonian friendship ceremony, which turns out to be a marriage ceremony between Yooka and Drake. Drake tries to carry on with life as normal, but Yooka is serious about being married (revealing that they mistranslated her saying "sick of home"), and matters only get worse when Yooka's parents come to visit. So Drake and Josh come up with a plan to break up the marriage, serving her family goat (which is a sacred animal in Yudonia). But Drake quickly regrets it after he learns that Yooka's father is a billionaire. The plan works, with Yooka's father annulling the marriage and their whole family returning to Yudonia, much to Drake's sadness. | ||||||
| 24 | 4 | "Mindy's Back" | Adam Weissman | Eric Friedman | April 30, 2005 | 303 |
| Mindy returns to school from a mental institution (following the events of her first appearance in "Honor Council"), and once again beats Josh in the science fair. With advice from Megan, Josh attempts to ignore her until Mindy picks him as a project partner. Josh is initially annoyed by this, but they eventually realize they have feelings for one another and begin to date. However, Josh is too worried to tell Drake about his newfound relationship, due to Drake and Mindy's hatred for one another. But because of this, Mindy breaks up with Josh. When Drake finally finds out, he is actually happy for Josh, and tries to get the two back together by taking Josh to Mindy's house during the night, where Josh and Mindy finally kiss through Mindy's bedroom window. | ||||||
| 25 | 5 | "The Affair" | Adam Weissman | Anthony Del Broccolo | May 21, 2005 | 304 |
| Drake and Josh notice Walter has been acting strangely lately, and start to believe that he has been cheating on Audrey with another woman, and further eavesdropping only confirms their suspicions. They try to make Walter fall in love with Audrey again by preparing a meal for him that Audrey "made," but this backfires when Drake accidentally puts cumin on his food, which Walter is allergic to. Straight after, Audrey and Walter end up having an argument in front of the boys. They then meet the woman, Peggy (Allison Dunbar), at a restaurant, and try to get her to leave their father alone, but she refuses, so the boys dump food on her, causing her to leave Walter for good. But Walter reveals that she was actually a producer for "Good Morning Today," who was talking with him about being their new national weatherman. The boys messing up the lunch meant that the offer was rejected, so as punishment, he makes Drake and Josh dump food on themselves in the same way they did to Peggy. | ||||||
| 26 | 6 | "Playing the Field" | Roger Christiansen | Dan Schneider | June 4, 2005 | 306 |
| Drake fears breaking up with Tori (Torrey DeVitto), his most recent girlfriend. When he wants to win her love back again, Drake finds out Tori is already seeing other boys, so he goes on a date with another girl, Liza Tupper, to try and make Tori jealous. Meanwhile, Josh grows a mustache, but nobody approves of it, including Mindy. | ||||||
| 27 | 7 | "Helen's Surgery" | Adam Weissman | George Doty IV | June 11, 2005 | 307 |
| Drake and Josh must assist Helen after eye surgery leaves her temporarily blind. But after finding her condo loaded with luxurious accessories such as a hot tub and a huge flat-screen TV. Drake subsequently takes advantage of Helen's blindness and throws a party at her condo, much to Josh's disapproval. However Helen gets a call from her doctor to take the patches off her eyes and does so to find the party in progress. Helen then thinks the party is for her and allows it to continue. Meanwhile, Megan pitches to Helen an idea of a bucket-shaped container that stores most movie theater snacks, which Josh instantly disapproves of, and earns $700. | ||||||
| 28 | 8 | "Paging Dr. Drake" | Steve Hoefer | Anthony Del Broccolo | October 1, 2005 | 309 |
| While working out, Josh drops a barbell on his foot after Drake carelessly shoots him with a potato using a launching gun, but he's scared to go to the hospital. When the family finds out, he is forced to and is told that there's a slight chance he could lose his foot which he won't, the nurse says he needs surgery on his foot. At the hospital, Drake tries to get the attention of college nurses by impersonating a doctor. Only though, he is the lookalike of a young doctor due to arrive that day. Drake now has to avoid being caught by Josh's doctor, Doctor Carlson (John O'Hurley) and ends up having to perform a foot surgery. Eventually he is caught when the real doctor shows up, and he jumps out the window, breaking his arm in the process. Meanwhile, Megan plots revenge on the boys for not letting her turn up the heat upstairs, since the thermostat was in their room. She decreases the temperature of their room gradually so low that it begins snowing which Drake doesn't seem to care. | ||||||
| 29 | 9 | "Foam Finger" | Roger Christiansen | Dan Schneider | October 8, 2005 | 308 |
| Drake and Josh realize that they previously met eight years ago during a San Diego Padres game, when they were both eight years old and fought over buying the last foam finger at the stadium. Drake and Josh both believe that the other started the fight, and flashback scenes depict different circumstances based on their own memory of the event. Josh believes that Drake hit the back of his head with the foam finger after purchasing it, although Drake denies hitting him. The two drift apart and Drake moves out of their bedroom. They continue to be bitter at each other until Megan locates Lenny (Fred Stoller), the stadium clerk who sold the foam finger. Lenny remembers the incident between Drake and Josh because it was a rare instance in which he had to call the police to break up a fight. Lenny explains that it was young Megan who threw a cookie from her stroller, hitting Josh in the back of the head and setting off the fight between the boys. Drake and Josh reconcile upon learning the truth. | ||||||
| 30 | 10 | "Girl Power" | Steve Hoefer | Jake Farrow | October 15, 2005 | 311 |
| Drake wants to break up with his girlfriend Lucy (Gabrielle Christian), after finding out that she is possibly stronger than he is, but Drake challenges her to a fight to prove that he is tougher than she is. Meanwhile, Josh tries to impress Mindy's parents so he can continue to date her. He later organizes a dinner for them at his house which on the same night as Drake and Lucy's fight. Josh is concerned that the fight will ruin his chances of impressing Mindy's parents, so he makes Drake and Lucy wrestle upstairs in the bedroom, where Megan is waiting to watch the fight with a group of friends. However, during the dinner, Drake and Lucy later wrestle their way into the living room during the dinner and Josh is upset about how Drake ruined his plans but Drake does not listen. Mindy's parents understand how much Josh cares for their daughter and allow her and Josh to resume their relationship. However they later fight after arguing about fighting. | ||||||
| 31 | 11 | "Sheep Thrills" | Steve Hoefer | Eric Friedman | October 22, 2005 | 310 |
| Megan talks Drake and Josh into temporarily babysitting her newly adopted sheep whom she bought online while she thinks of a way to explain this to their parents. In exchange, she promises not to pull any pranks on them for 3 months. But when the sheep gives birth to a baby lamb on Drake's bed and later wanders out of the room, Drake and Josh must then hide the sheep from their parents while Megan is at oboe practice. However they are exposed when their parents notice their strange behaviour and see the sheep in their room. Megan comes in and betrays Drake and Josh by acting all innocent, causing the boys to get grounded for a month. However, the night before they are lifted from their punishment, they discover that Megan bought a zebra. | ||||||
| 32 | 12 | "Megan's New Teacher" | Adam Weissman | George Doty IV | January 28, 2006 | 313 |
| After being accepted into the TTT (Tomorrow's Teachers Today), a student-teaching group, Josh becomes Megan's class teacher. However, he takes his new job very seriously and overuses his teaching skills, as he challenges the students with college-level chemistry, something that the students are not old enough to learn about, and even fails them on pop quizzes based on homework that they were unable to do. Because of this, Megan becomes disliked by her classmates and gets uninvited to her friend Katie's birthday party which involves a Josh piñata. Drake finds an 11-year-old boy in Megan's class with a talent to play drums and wants him to play for the band on Friday after his original drummer quit, but he is not allowed to play after failing Josh's pop quiz, so Drake is now annoyed at Josh. Drake and Megan hatch a sneaky little plan to fire Josh from the student-teaching group. They sneak into the school at night and replace his liquid (to use in chemistry) with one that will explode when combined with anything, replace a tape about chemistry with a video of clowns hurting each other with rubber chickens, and unscrew the sink to burst water when turned. At the end, Josh is fired and the young boy gets to play with Drake at a concert in the Premiere. However, Megan and her classmates then give a trophy to Josh, calling him their favorite teacher, because him screwing up his teaching job got the class's other teacher (whom they hated) to quit. They then admit that Josh is cool, not as a teacher, but as a guy, something which Josh delightfully accepts. | ||||||
| 33 | 13 | "Little Sibling" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | February 4, 2006 | 312 |
| Drake gets in trouble at school by his mean English teacher, Mrs. Hayfer, for lying to her by saying that he was in class when she left, after Becca tricked her from saying that the lunch ladies were fighting again. To keep from being sent to Remedial English (a class with a lack of discipline with its poorly behaved students with a dog and goth girls trying to kiss him), Drake agrees to look after a boy named Sammy. Sammy likes Josh more than Drake and often excludes him. Josh and Sammy then have lots of fun together such as filming a pretend cooking show where (still recording) Josh tells Sammy how most people who know Drake and Josh prefer Drake over him and it's "kind of nice having things the other way around.". Not wanting to go to Remedial English as a result to being unsuccessful with Sammy, Drake desperately tries to interest him. Although he succeeds, he realizes that Sammy truly prefers Josh after seeing the cooking show tape and what Sammy meant to Josh. He then pretends to be sick so Sammy and Josh can go to a magic show. Later, he gets sent to Remedial English, however Josh comes in and frees Drake, as a thank you for giving Sammy back to him. | ||||||
| 34 | 14 | "Theater Thug" | Roger Christiansen | Dan Schneider | February 18, 2006 | 314 |
| Josh lands the role of a criminal called the Theater Thug on a TV show called FBI's Most Wanted at the Premiere, but ends up being mistaken for the real Theater Thug and gets arrested several times. Drake gets more attention from people despite having a three second cameo appearance with one line which he got at the last minute. Eventually, around closing time at the Premiere, the real theater thug comes in and attempts to attack Drake and Josh. They both pin him down, but when the cops show up, they think Josh is the real bandit and arrest him instead of the real thug, letting him get away. | ||||||
| 35 | 15 | "The Demonator" | Steve Hoefer | Anthony Del Broccolo & Eric Friedman | February 25, 2006 | 315 |
| Drake and Josh plan on riding a roller coaster called the Demonator on its opening day, but Megan reveals it was open that very night. But Drake and Josh are not allowed to go, because Audrey and Walter want them to stay home and watch over their great-grandfather, Papa Nichols, who is 81 years old and has had surgery that afternoon while Walter and Audrey are at the award show. Drake calls Craig and Eric to come over and Craig and Eric come to watch him while Drake and Josh go off to ride the Demonator. Papa Nichols wakes up disoriented, he thinks he is back in World War II and that Craig and Eric are considered to be Germans (claiming he has been captured by two German nerds), in which he proceeds to attack them and breaks Eric's cell phone. While at Mystic Mountain, Drake, Josh, and Megan are bumped to the back of the line after Josh got back in the middle of the line upsetting the other people when he had to use the restroom, then Drake and Josh get bumped back again for messing with Milfred Mouse the mascot and Megan takes the opportunity to remain in line by pretending not to know them. After Megan rides the Demonator first, Drake and Josh finally get to ride the Demonator and get home just in the nick of time before Audrey and Walter come home to see how Drake and Josh did watching Papa Nichols. At the end, Papa Nichols punches Walter, mistaking him for a German soldier and goes on a rampage around the house again. | ||||||
| 36 | 16 | "Alien Invasion" | Will Bardelli | Steve Holland | March 18, 2006 | 316 |
| Megan has just gotten a brand new telescope and is using Josh's laptop and Drake's leather jacket without their permission and gets them sent to their room after convincing Walter that both of them pushed her down, upsetting the boys. They hatch a plan to turn tables and prank Megan. First, they insert fake images of aliens onto the laptop screen. Megan falls for the prank and believes that aliens are invading. Drake and Josh then get Eric to adjust the electric switches in the kitchen to control the technology inside, then they frighten Megan and make her still believe aliens are real. Drake and Josh continue to try to prove to her that aliens are invading, and when Megan is left home alone one night, Drake and Josh dress as aliens and get their comeuppance on Megan. Just as Drake and Josh celebrate, a real alien shows up that turns out to be Megan's friend, and he scares Drake and Josh away, but not Megan when she realizes who he is. Leaving the boys to their own fears as payback, Megan and her alien friend then hang out together in the house as the parents come home, with the alien scaring Walter away when he discovers him. | ||||||
| 37 | 17 | "Dr. Phyllis Show" | Steve Hoefer | Anthony Del Broccolo & Eric Friedman | April 8, 2006 | 317 |
| Drake and Josh have been fighting a lot lately, including late at night. Megan is upset to be continually awoken by their fighting three nights in a row, so she gives them tickets to the Dr. Phyllis Show, hoping that Dr. Phyllis (Gabrielle Carteris) can end their bickering. On the show, Dr. Phyllis has the boys reminisce about fights they have had in the past. When Drake mentions that he once dated a girl named Liza Tupper, he calls her dumb and a bad kisser. Liza Tupper, however, happens to be Dr. Phyllis' daughter. The host gets mad at Drake and attacks him, then attacks Josh when he tries to stop her. Once back at the house, the boys are upset that Dr. Phyllis only made them think of the bad times they have had together, even though they have had good times as well. They reconcile, but soon end up in another argument. Megan is still upset when she hears them arguing again, so she sets off her smoke bomb to have peace and quiet. | ||||||
Season 4 (2006–07)
- Production of season 4 was put on hold in December 2005, due to Drake Bell's car accident.[1] Filming resumed in March 2006 and was expected to conclude in July 2006.[2]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 38 | 1 | "Josh Runs Into Oprah" | Roger Christiansen | Ethan Banville | September 24, 2006 | 405 |
| It is Josh's birthday, but Drake forgets and instead sets up a party for Tabitha (Summer Bishil), a girl he has been dating for a short amount of time. Realizing his mistake, Drake gets tickets for Josh to see Oprah Winfrey, Josh's idol, and backstage passes to the show since she was going to be in San Diego the next day. However, when Josh exaggerates about parking a distance away and parking elsewhere near the entrance to prevent sweating, Drake causes Josh to run into Oprah. When they get to the hospital to apologize, they can't get past security so Drake tricks them and the whole hospital into believing Josh has a virus, which in return, causes him to get a chemical bath. In the end Drake makes it up to an enraged Josh by throwing him a party, with a signature from Oprah (in reality a signed restraining order from Oprah) and a new motor scooter. Meanwhile, Megan tries to take care of Toby, a virtual pet that belongs to her friend Janie. | ||||||
| 39 | 2 | "Vicious Tiberius" | Roger Christiansen | George Doty IV | October 1, 2006 | 402 |
| Mrs. Hayfer is going on vacation for the weekend and Josh volunteers to watch over her dog, and her house while she's away, and Drake tags along. However, when Drake and Josh meet her dog, Tiberius, they find out that he is a vicious Rottweiler, who traps them in Mrs. Hayfer's bathroom where they are stuck for most of the night. An animal control officer (Buddy Lewis) arrives and is about to capture Tiberius until the dog traps him in the bathroom as well. Meanwhile, Walter buys an elliptical machine, and starts working out in hopes of finally beating his arch nemesis, Bruce Winchill, in his TV station's yearly 5k run. | ||||||
| 40 | 3 | "The Wedding" | Steve Hoefer | Matt Fleckenstein | October 15, 2006 | 412 |
| Drake and Josh are asked to deliver a wedding cake to their Great Aunt Catherine's wedding on time, in hopes that the family can get her beach house when she dies. But after Drake gives Craig and Eric Josh's laptop case which not only contains Josh's laptop, but also Josh's cell phone and the keys to Audrey's SUV, leaving them with no ride to the wedding. They use Trevor's old car to try to get to the wedding on time. The car breaks down and leaving them stranded with no cell phones to call for help. When they leave to use the restroom in front of a cactus, two police officers (Kevin Farley and Jesse Burch) give them a parking ticket. Then Drake and Josh try to get help off of two male strangers who end up mugging them. Josh finds a wire hanger in the back of the car and uses it to unlock the car. Afterwards, a tow truck driver named Leslie offers to help, but Drake insults him, so he leaves them. Drake and Josh eventually get the car working, but it catches on fire and they are stuck for good. | ||||||
| 41 | 4 | "Mindy Loves Josh" | Adam Weissman | Arthur Gradstein | October 22, 2006 | 403 |
| Josh and Mindy are working together, and when Mindy leaves, she says "I love you" to Josh. After telling Mindy that he wasn't sure of his feelings towards her, he finds out from Drake that Mindy may have only said that to distract him from beating her in the Regional Science Fair. Meanwhile, Megan seeks revenge on Drake after he eats her cookie: she discovers a fictional disease that turns the hands and feet a sickly greenish color, and she dyes Drake's hands and feet green to make him believe he has the disease, making him suffer a disgusting cure only though, while he is in the middle of it, she spills the beans. | ||||||
| 42 | 5 | "Who's Got Game?" | Adam Weissman | Ethan Banville | November 5, 2006 | 409 |
| After a debate, Drake and Josh make a bet to see who can score more dates. The bet seems to go smoothly until Drake falls in love with Carly (Brittany Curran), an employee at a music store. Drake tries to call off the bet but Josh is on a roll with the help of Audrey with scoring dates, but after Carly overhears Drake arguing with Josh about the bet, she becomes angry and breaks up with him. Drake then tries to be honest to win her back but fails several times. Eventually after a failed attempt with Craig and Eric, he gathers everyone who he was dishonest with in the past and in front of Carly, admits all the dishonest things he did to them. This works and Carly gets back with him, only though Josh still wins the bet. As part of the bet, if Josh won he would switch beds with Drake, but during the night they decide to switch back after Josh accidentally falls off of Drake's high risen platform. | ||||||
| 43 | 6 | "The Great Doheny" | Adam Weissman | Matt Fleckenstein | November 12, 2006 | 404 |
| Josh's favorite magician, Henry Doheny (Steve Tom), appears at the Premiere Theater and becomes acquainted with Drake and Josh. Mr. Doheny moves in with Drake and Josh and makes Walter bald, but he is very irritating. When Henry tells Josh nobody wants him around anymore, Drake and Josh decide to get him recognized again by making him do a show at the Premiere. He has swords shoved into him in a box by the two and when they check on him after pulling the swords out, he has no pulse meaning he died from it. At the funeral, he comes back to life explaining that the no pulse was his trick and then make Drake and Josh's pants see-through. Doheny gets a five year deal in Las Vegas and leaves San Diego to perform there. As a parting gift, Drake and Josh get yo-yos, but Megan gets a check for $50,000 because she suggested the trick in the first place. | ||||||
| 44 | 7 | "I Love Sushi" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | November 26, 2006 | 407 |
| As an anniversary gift for Audrey and Walter, Drake and Josh agreed to have their living room redecorated by the company of a show called "Pump My Room", which they have never heard of. The company turned out to be fake and when they said they were going to redecorate the living room, they really stole the furniture. The police also refuse to help because one of them suffered due to Walter's bad weather predictions. Drake and Josh decide to work at a sushi factory to pay for all the stuff that was stolen. The head-chef in the sushi place is very bossy and mean and makes the two work very hard to package the sushi with disastrous results. When they come home they realize all the furniture is back where it belongs because the police discovered the robbers' moving van had broken down about a half mile up the street. Meanwhile Megan gets too busy to prank Drake and Josh so she hires a young boy named Tyler. | ||||||
| 45 | 8 | "The Storm" | Steve Hoefer | George Doty IV | January 7, 2007 | 411 |
| Due to Walter's bad weather predictions, Drake's long-awaited hopes of opening up for The Sparks are crushed when a storm approaches, stranding him and his friends and family in his house. To make matters worse for him, he desperately attempts to keep his current girlfriend, Carly, from meeting his ex-girlfriends, Lucy and Christine, but when they meet, he suddenly becomes paranoid about it and wants to know what they are talking about. Meanwhile, Craig has to crank a TV for Crazy Steve so he can watch Dora the Explorer and Walter is forced to do a live outdoor weather broadcast during the bad storm. | ||||||
| 46 | 9 | "My Dinner with Bobo" | Virgil Fabian | Arthur Gradstein | January 14, 2007 | 406 |
| When Drake and Josh earn money to buy a car, they aren't able to agree on one they both like. Drake steals the money and uses it to buy an orangutan named Bobo from the car dealer. Drake explains to an enraged Josh that they can make enough money to buy plenty of cars. They eventually sell Bobo to a doctor they meet at the Premiere. Megan is suspicious and looks up the guy who they sold Bobo to, and discovers that he eats orangutans and related species. Drake and Josh then go to the doctor's apartment to return the money and get Bobo back. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan and the doctor locks Drake and Josh in the closet and steals Josh’s cell phone. However, he is later arrested and Megan frees Drake and Josh as long as they give Bobo back to the car dealer and buy the car she wants (a yellow Beetle with hot pink flowers on it). Though reluctant, they buy the car which results in them getting teased by their friends much to the delight of Megan. | ||||||
| 47 | 10 | "Tree House" | Roger Christiansen | Dan Schneider | January 21, 2007 | 408 |
| After a model rocket explodes in their neighbor's tree house, Drake, Josh, and Megan are forced to rebuild the tree house before Drake and Josh can go on a double date with two twin girls. But Drake forgets to cut the door out before Josh reattaches the last wall, trapping the boys inside. Megan refuses to let them out as she is angry that they made her miss her friend Janie's birthday party and decides to make them miss their dates to see how they like it and decides to give their double date to Craig and Eric on purpose. | ||||||
| 48 | 11 | "Josh Is Done" | Adam Weissman | Ethan Banville | February 11, 2007 | 415 |
| When Drake's antics cause Josh to miss an important test, Josh becomes furious and decides that he is done with Drake and considers Drake nothing more than a roommate. Josh's life begins to improve, such as; passing his make-up exam doesn't get a grade dropped due to his excellent effort, gets along better with his boss at work and has a good time with his friends away from Drake. Drake's life, on the other hand, begins falling apart as Josh isn't there to help him. It isn't until Drake breaks down in chemistry class following a chemical incident involving a new lab partner that the brothers realize how important their relationship with each other really is. The episode ends with the two brothers reconciling over a game of Ping-Pong. | ||||||
| 49 | 12 | "Eric Punches Drake" | Roger Christiansen | Arthur Gradstein | February 18, 2007 | 417 |
| At school, Eric accidentally punches Drake in the eye while demonstrating a kung fu move to Craig. He soon becomes popular as witnesses thought he punched Drake on purpose in a fight but he did it by accident. After feeling comfortable with the popularity, Eric starts spreading rumors about the punch and every story is different, reducing Drake to a laughingstock and a wimp. Dismayed by the popularity due to this, Drake, with the help of Craig who has split up from Eric and is now isolated to a garbage can behind the school, attempts to reveal Eric's non-intention for punching him. Meanwhile, Josh worries that Mindy has another boyfriend who ends up being her cousin, Chad. | ||||||
| 50 | 13 | "Megan's Revenge" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | March 4, 2007 | 401 |
| When Drake and Josh borrow Megan's digital camera to photograph a supermodel, Josh photographs her hamster, Hervey. The flash knocks him unconscious, but the boys think they killed him. They then fear retaliation from Megan. However, Megan knew the whole time that Drake and Josh were worried about what she would do to them. So she told them that she knew how scared they were, and that she was watching the whole time as the boys were both slowly eaten alive by their own fear. In the end, she finally gets her revenge by pressing a button on a device, which blows up the spot on Drake and Josh's bedroom floor where they were standing, causing them to fall down into the garage below. Finally, Megan looks down the hole in the floor, and tells Drake and Josh that they didn't kill Hervey, but accidentally stunned him with the camera flash. Drake and Josh then both simultaneously say "Megan" angrily before passing out on the garage floor. | ||||||
| 51 | 14 | "Steered Straight" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | March 11, 2007 | 414 |
| Drake gets himself and Josh fake IDs so that they can enter a nightclub in San Diego to listen to Josh's favorite band, the Hailstones. They are caught by the police, but are not placed under arrest. Instead of grounding Drake and Josh, their parents choose to have the boys go through the "Steered Straight" program in which children are shown what it is like to be arrested, processed, booked, and jailed. However, the plan eventually backfires when the officer who is driving them to the police station is interrupted by a criminal named Blaze, who hijacks the police car. Drake and Josh use their fake ID names and pretend to be criminals so they can befriend Blaze. Drake and Josh convince Blaze to take them to their house, which the boys claim is somebody else's house that they plan to rob. At the house, while the other family members are away, the boys attempt to contact the police. When Blaze notices Drake and Josh using a cordless phone, they tell him that they were contacting their crew so they could carry out a plan to kidnap the governor. Blaze decides to call in his own crew for the kidnapping plot instead. When Walter comes home early, the boys lock him in a closet to maintain their ruse. The boys then fake a physical argument with each other, with the use of fake blood. Drake then rips off a prosthetic hand that Josh was wearing. Terrified and disgusted, the criminals flee the house. The family then goes out for dinner and the boys realize they forgot to take Walter out of the closet. | ||||||
| 52 | 15 | "Megan's First Kiss" | Will Bardelli | George Doty IV | April 7, 2007 | 418 |
| Megan's secretive behavior leads Drake and Josh to believe she is up to something. After spying on her (in disguise as Jewish Irishmen in the Premiere), it turns out that Megan has a boyfriend named Corey, whom she has been dating for 7 weeks, but they embarrass Corey, causing him to break up with Megan. After a lecture from Walter, Drake and Josh, feeling bad, apologize to Corey so he can go out with Megan again. However, when Josh goes to the Premiere to pick up his latest paycheck, he sees Corey with another girl named Monica (who he has been dating for a month at that point). He then tells Drake and they decide to tell Megan. At her next date, Drake and Josh arrive and expose Corey by bringing Monica. Megan and Monica both break up with Corey after they realized he was cheating on them. Corey then severely beats Drake and Josh up in retaliation. In the end, Megan apologizes to her brothers for not believing them at first, and then tells them she loves them. | ||||||
| 53 | 16 | "Battle of Panthatar" | Josh Peck | Matt Fleckenstein | April 15, 2007 | 416 |
| Drake and Josh are invited to their friend Thornton's sweet 16 party at Club Diego which will air on MTV live. However, their invitations are revoked after Thornton catches Drake kissing a girl named Maria, but he didn't know that she was Thornton's girlfriend. To get into the party, Josh pushes a reluctant Drake into giving Thornton his autographed Abbey Road album which is what he had just received from an English man. Even though Thornton accepts the present, he still refuses to invite them into the party. As a result, Drake and Josh decided to get revenge by crashing and ruining the party being dressed up as the Red Sky Nauts from Galaxy Wars to steal the album back. When they are discovered they are able to escape with Drake secretly getting the album back. | ||||||
| 54–55 | 17–18 | “Really Big Shrimp” | Drake Bell (Part 1) Steve Hoefer (Part 2) | Dan Schneider & George Doty IV | August 3, 2007 | 419–420 |
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Drake finally gets a record deal with Josh as his manager. Drake seems totally cool with it - until his song is turned into an unwanted pop mix because Josh signed a contract without reading it, as he was mesmerized by the big shrimps. This causes Drake to become furious; he fires Josh as his manager. Josh then gives the CD that wasn't the remix to a newsperson. Meanwhile, Mindy decides to work at the Premiere to get closer to Josh, which doesn't really work. Helen makes a deal with Craig and Eric to video tape her wedding with Buzz. With Helen's wedding approaching, the Parker-Nichols family must cope with the fact that Helen's grandmother is staying at their house. At the end of this episode, Josh and Mindy get back together, Drake and Josh realize that they got their room back to the way it was and finds out that Megan and her friends are eating big shrimp that Nick Metaio sent over for them but found out that there's only one left, but they both want it and start fighting over it. Footage from another show created by Dan Schneider, The Amanda Show, is shown to parallel Drake and Josh fighting over the shrimp Penelope Taynt and Barney the Security Guard threw out the window towards the end of the episode. Note: This episode was written as the series finale, but was aired before "Helicopter" and "Dance Contest" because Nickelodeon aired the episodes out of production order. Dance Contest was supposed to be before this episode, and this episode was supposed to be the series finale. | ||||||
| 56 | 19 | "Helicopter" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | August 5, 2007 | 410 |
| After Drake wins a chance to skydive out of a helicopter, Audrey and Walter, thinking it is way too dangerous, go completely against it and forbid Drake from going skydiving. Drake disobeys Audrey and Walter and goes skydiving anyway. Josh tries to stop him, but both of them end up going. Soon, they lose their pilot, radio, and a parachute after Josh accidentally blasts the pilot with the helicopter's fire extinguisher and Drake accidentally yanks the radio out by stretching the cord too far. They eventually run out of fuel and jump out with one parachute as a last resort to escape. Then, the boys return home just as their parents come home. Finally, the pilot angrily arrives at the house and says that Walter has to pay $400,000 for the damaged helicopter, so Drake and Josh ground themselves for two weeks and go to bed, knowing the consequences. | ||||||
| 57 | 20 | "Dance Contest" | Steve Hoefer | George Doty IV | September 16, 2007 | 413 |
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Josh enters a dance contest to get extra credit in order to be the top student of his class. When Drake is threatened to fail gym and repeat the 11th grade, he, too, enters the contest in order to pass and steals Josh's original dance partner, Emily (Johanna Braddy). Josh then finds a cruel Eastern-European dance partner named Vilga to compete with Drake. Vilga insults Emily and a fight between the two of them breaks out before the competition. Luckily, security breaks it up before it gets out of hand. However, both girls get disqualified for the fighting and thrown out. Drake and Josh decide to dance together and win the competition, both of them getting what they wanted. Note: This (along with "Helicopter") was supposed to take place before Really Big Shrimp, but they were aired out of order, according to Nickelodeon. | ||||||
Films
- Drake & Josh Go Hollywood was filmed in 2005 during season 3; Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh was filmed in July 2008.
| Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| Drake & Josh Go Hollywood | Steve Hoefer | Teleplay by: Dan Schneider Story by: Dan Schneider & Steven Molaro | January 6, 2006 | 5.8[3][4] | |
| Josh decides that he needs a great adventure in his life and Drake promotes him as his band's new manager after he fired his old one for canceling three gigs in a month and having Drake perform at an old folk's home. Audrey and Walter leave to go on a 10-day cruise vacation, and Megan has made plans to go to Denver, Colorado to visit her friend Jessica. Drake and Josh mistakenly send Megan on Flight 647 to Los Angeles when she was supposed to board Flight 746 and follow her on another plane to bring her home. On the plane, Josh's G-O gets switched with someone else's. The G-O that Josh has turns out to be an electrical key for a US Treasury currency production machine, which was stolen 3 days earlier. Josh gets the attention of a producer from LA who gets Drake to perform on TV at Sunset Studios. The owners of the G-O kidnap Drake and Josh and Megan finds the kidnapper's wallet. She then goes to the place where Drake and Josh have been taken hostage and calls the police on the kidnappers. The police come and explained that the leader, Milo McRarie, is on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. Megan then leaves to catch her flight to Denver. Drake and Josh then drive to Sunset Studios so Drake can perform his song Hollywood Girl. Two girls then go to Drake to compliment him and ask if they can hang out with him and Josh which they approved. | |||||
| Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh | Michael Grossman | Dan Schneider & Steven Molaro | December 5, 2008 | 8.1[5] | |
| Drake throws a Christmas party on the roof of the Premiere, but when a group of teens trash the place, Josh is mistaken for one of the teens and gets arrested. At night, Drake breaks into prison attempting to free Josh, after he promises to provide a little girl named Mary Alice and her foster family the 'Best Christmas Ever'. But Drake's plan failed and both were arrested and were intended to spend life in prison for multiple crimes. However things are changed when Drake hires Josh's boss, Helen, to represent them in their case stating that she has never lost an argument, in which the judge agrees to give Drake and Josh a chance to save themselves from prison if they can stick to their promise to give the foster-family their 'Best Christmas Ever'. Meanwhile, Drake and Josh's parole officer, Perry Gilbert, does what he can to prevent Drake and Josh from keeping their promise, and so they turn to Megan, who provides them with enough information to stop his evil ways. However, when Gilbert tricks Steve into telling the foster-family about everything, they feel betrayed and threaten to all vote 'no' when asked by the court. In the end, they all have a happy Christmas holiday after Steve makes snow by shredding cheese in a woodchipper and Drake and Josh do a nice thing for Gilbert that changes his Christmas spirit. The TV film was made apart from the regular series, closing all the story lines for the series. | |||||
References
- Kaplan, Don (January 4, 2006). "Friend in Need – 'Drake & Josh' Star Comes Home After Head-On Car Crash". New York Post. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- "Nickelodeon Green-Lights Additional Episodes of TEENick's Drake & Josh..." Nickelodeon. May 1, 2006. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011 – via PR Newswire.
- "Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp Reels in Really Big Ratings for Nickelodeon". Nickelodeon. August 6, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2016 – via PR Newswire.
- "Nickelodeon TV Movie Event 'Drake & Josh Go Hollywood' Kicks Off the New Year with Huge Ratings, Premiering to 5.4 Million Total Viewers". The Free Library. January 10, 2006. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
- "Nickelodeon's Merry Christmas Drake & Josh Ranks as Week's Top Cable Entertainment Program with 8.1 Million Total Viewers, Number-One TV Telecast with Kids and Tweens" (Press release). New York, NY. WebWire. December 10, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
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