Drake & Josh

Drake & Josh
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Dan Schneider
Starring	Drake Bell Josh Peck Nancy Sullivan Jonathan Goldstein Miranda Cosgrove
Theme music composer	Drake Bell Backhouse Mike
Opening theme	"I Found a Way" by Drake Bell
Ending theme	"I Found a Way" (instrumental)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	56 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Dan Schneider
Producer(s)	Robin Weiner (Season 1; supervising producer, Seasons 2–4) Joe Catania (Season 1; associate producer; co-producer, Seasons 3–4) Bruce Rand Berman (Season 4)
Camera setup	Videotape (filmized); Multi-camera (used Filmlook in Season 1)
Running time	22–23 minutes 47 minutes (Really Big Shrimp)
Production company(s)	Schneider's Bakery Nickelodeon Productions
Distributor	MTV Networks
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon
Picture format	NTSC (480i) (original broadcast) HDTV 1080i (partially Season 4) (Seasons 2–4 were filmed in HD)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	January 11, 2004 (2004-01-11) – September 16, 2007 (2007-09-16)
Chronology
Related shows	The Amanda Show iCarly Victorious Sam & Cat
External links
Website

Drake & Josh is an American sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows stepbrothers Drake Parker (Drake Bell) and Josh Nichols (Josh Peck) as they live together despite opposite personalities. The series also stars Nancy Sullivan, Jonathan Goldstein, and Miranda Cosgrove.

After actors Bell and Peck previously appeared in The Amanda Show, Schneider decided to create Drake & Josh with them in starring roles. The series ran from January 11, 2004, to September 16, 2007, totaling 56 episodes and 4 seasons. It also had three TV films: Drake & Josh Go Hollywood (2006), Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp (2007) and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008). The series' opening theme song, "I Found a Way", is written by Drake Bell and Backhouse Mike and performed by Bell.

Plot

The series revolves around two teenage stepbrothers, Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, who live in San Diego, California with Drake's biological mother Audrey, younger sister Megan, and Josh's biological father Walter. Drake is cool and popular, having his own band and being a ladies' man, yet can be absent-minded, while Josh is an intellectual, clumsy and awkward; yet very loving and caring. The two boys are often involved in comedic escapades and challenges while also handling various teenage problems.

Cast

Main article: List of Drake & Josh characters

Main

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker: Megan's biological brother, Josh's stepbrother, Audrey's biological son, Walter's stepson
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols: Megan's and Drake's stepbrother, Audrey's stepson, Walter's biological son
• Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols: Josh's stepmother, Drake's and Megan's biological mother
• Jonathan Goldstein as Walter Nichols: Josh's biological father, Drake's and Megan's stepfather
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker: Drake's biological sister, Josh's stepsister, Audrey's biological daughter, Walter's stepdaughter

Recurring

• Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois, manager of the Premiere movie theater
• Jerry Trainor as "Crazy" Steve, employee at the Premiere
• Allison Scagliotti as Mindy Crenshaw, Josh’s girlfriend and ex-science fair rival
• Alec Medlock as Craig Ramirez, Josh’s friend
• Scott Halberstadt as Eric Blonowitz, Josh’s other friend
• Jake Farrow as Gavin Mitchell, another employee at the premiere
• Julia Duffy as Mrs. Hayfer, Drake and Josh’s teacher at Bellview High School

Episodes

Main article: 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, airing 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 were the only actors to appear in all of the episodes. Currently, episode reruns air in production order, not broadcast order.

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	2 films	January 6, 2006	December 5, 2008

Episode list

Season 1 (2004)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Pilot"	Virgil L. Fabian	Dan Schneider	January 11, 2004 (2004-01-11)	101
Drake Parker (Drake Bell) is a cool and popular teenager while Josh Nichols (Josh Peck) is a teenager whom Drake describes as unusual. Drake's mom Audrey Parker (Nancy Sullivan) and Josh's father Walter Nichols (Jonathan Goldstein) have been dating and announce to Drake, Josh and Drake's sister Megan (Miranda Cosgrove) that they are getting married. Josh is thrilled but Drake and Megan are not. Drake is being stressed out when he finds out that Josh is Miss Nancy, the anonymous advice columnist for the school newspaper, and uses this to get a date with Tiffany Margolis (Julie Gonzalo). Drake accidentally angers her boyfriend Buck (Joey Mendicino), who thinks she is on a date with Josh while Drake is in the kitchen. He challenges Josh to a fight. Josh trains all day under a karate instructor but still ends up getting knocked out in a second. Later, Drake helps Josh realize that he can give good advice without wearing his Miss Nancy dress. Drake and Josh then warm up to each other and call themselves brothers.
2	2	"Dune Buggy"	Virgil L. Fabian	Dan Schneider	January 18, 2004 (2004-01-18)	106
Drake and Josh receive a broken-down dune buggy from Trevor and fix it up, but are forbidden by their parents to drive it. Josh is grounded for lying badly when Drake convinced him to; Drake disobeys Audrey and Walter and drives it anyway. Drake injures himself when he crashes the dune buggy but keeps his injuries a secret to stay out of trouble. Josh finds out when he gets a call from the emergency room and gets revenge by tricking his dad,Walter into wrestling Drake to the ground. Josh goes to fix the dune buggy again, making Drake feel guilty. Eventually, Drake confesses and Walter and Audrey ground Drake for two weeks. However, Drake ends up liking it because to him, it meant, "Two weeks laying in bed, no school, playing a little guitar, watching a little TV..." Josh is also forced to give Drake his wants and needs, possibly for making his dad wrestle Drake when he was injured.
3	3	"Believe Me, Brother"	Virgil L. Fabian	Dan Schneider	January 25, 2004 (2004-01-25)	102
Megan films sheepish shots of Drake and Josh while Susan (Ashley Drane), Drake's new girlfriend, flirts with Josh. When she keeps doing this to him, Drake becomes furious with Josh as he thinks he is trying to steal his girlfriend and becomes more distant to him despite Josh's true objections. As a prank, Megan films this and puts this, along with a bunch of other embarrassing shots, into Drake's music video project, which unknowingly helps Drake and Josh by exposing Susan as she flirts with Josh.
4	4	"Two Idiots and a Baby"	Virgil L. Fabian	Steven Molaro	February 8, 2004 (2004-02-08)	103
Josh tells Walter that he and Drake will babysit his boss' son so that Walter can get a promotion, much to Drake's dismay. The baby disappears and Josh panics while Drake leaves to play in a concert. However, underlying loyalty compels Drake to return and help Josh find the baby before Walter and his boss return. After learning the baby may have climbed into Josh's new built slingshot, Josh panics a lot more.
5	5	"First Crush"	Virgil L. Fabian	Steve Holland	February 15, 2004 (2004-02-15)	104
Josh gets his first crush on Kathy (Erin Chambers) but cannot stop saying such ridiculous things such as "Spoons" to her. While trying to impress her, he accidentally says that he can play the guitar but really he can't. 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 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 (2004-02-22)	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. Drake does not like Grammy at all. He wanted to go a Rock Shock concert with his friends but his parents refuse to let him go. Grammy makes a deal with Drake- if he beats her at a basketball game, he can go hang out with his friends, as long as he doesn't go to the Rock Shock concert. He wins, but breaks Grammy's promise out of peer-pressure and goes to the concert anyway, but once there, finds out the tickets his friends had are actually counterfeit, and they get detained at the concert. Grammy, then has to pay a $200 fine to get Drake and his friends off the hook. Grammy, outraged, reveals that she let Drake win so he could go with his friends. Drake doesn't believe her and decides to play again, under the condition that if he wins, no one tells his parents about the concert. Grammy agrees if he agrees to tell his parents himself if he loses. Drake soon realizes that Grammy was telling the truth and is forced to explain about the concert to his parents, but Grammy stops him, seeing as he paid back the $200 and was willing to tell them, instead explaining that she beat Drake at basketball as Grammy tells Drake that he is off the hook for now.

Season 2 (2004)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
7	1	"The Bet"	Steve Hoefer	George Doty IV	March 14, 2004 (2004-03-14)	202
Drake has an addiction to junk food and Josh has an addiction to video games. They both make a bet to see who can live without their addictions with a contract made by Megan; the loser must dye his hair pink. Drake gets a rash from his sudden change in diet from not eating junk food and the doctor says his only cure is to eat it, while Josh receives a GameSphere. Neither of them do what they must do. They each talk to Megan and she advises they each try to make each other crack. Josh turns their room into a Candy Palace with cotton candy pillows, a pool of hot chocolate, licorice strings, and bins filled with candy (A Willy Wonka-like style). Drake plays the GameSphere right in front of Josh and with all the lights, sounds and effects, Josh gets mad. Walter and Audrey have a side bet on who will give in first. Drake and Josh have both had enough and each lose the bet. After an error in the contract happens, they must both dye their hair pink and the parents also signed the contract so they too must dye their hair pink. The next day, all of them have their pink hair. Drake is the last to leave his house to school and reveals that his hair was just a wig.
8	2	"Guitar"	Virgil Fabian	Dan Schneider	March 21, 2004 (2004-03-21)	201
Drake wins tickets to his favorite band's concert, Zero Gravity, and he also gets an autographed Cherry Red 1964 Fender Stratocaster signed by the lead guitarist, Devin Malone (Mark Matkevich). Josh plugs it into Drake's faulty amplifier to show Megan how an electric guitar works, and the guitar explodes. Josh tries to buy a new one and get it autographed before Drake finds out. Meanwhile, Walter struggles to bond with Drake in the end Drake reveals he knew since Megan squealed on him.
9	3	"Movie Job"	Virgil Fabian	Dan Schneider	March 28, 2004 (2004-03-28)	203
Josh gets a job at the Premiere movie theater for making "Crazy" Steve (Jerry Trainor) quit after complaining about his wobbly drink holder, but Helen (Yvette Nicole Brown) soon forgets (and always has) Josh's job. Drake soon starts working there, too. However, Drake obtains more credit for work despite his laziness and Josh being more competent. Adored by The Premiere's boss, Helen, she plans to promote Drake to assistant manager, much to Josh's dismay. Josh attempts to impress Helen by selling more popcorn, but his idea ends up in a chaos and when Josh is about to admit that the chaos was his fault, Drake takes the blame on himself as he felt that the job meant more to Josh than it did to him, and then even though Helen doesn't want to, she fires Drake.
10	4	"Football"	Virgil Fabian	Teleplay by: Dan Schneider Story by: Barry O'Brien	April 4, 2004 (2004-04-04)	205
Drake says Josh is uncool after Josh humiliates a cheerleader and makes him try out for the school football team to become popular. Josh becomes the equipment manager, but will have to play to get in the playoffs after his brownies, poisoned by Megan by adding dirt to the mix, makes all of the players ill. Drake attempts to sneak a janitor (Tony Longo), who used to play pro football, into the game, but Josh finally plays in the end, and Drake admits that he is pretty cool.
11	5	"Pool Shark"	Steve Hoefer	Anthony Del Broccolo	April 18, 2004 (2004-04-18)	204
Drake discovers Josh is talented at pool. He takes advantage of this and uses him to hustle several people. This eventually stops when Josh finds out about it, previously unaware of the hustling, and vows to not play pool again as a result. Drake, wanting to do more hustling, attempts to convince Josh to play pool again. Meanwhile, Walter tries to find a gift for Audrey's birthday. She then shocks all of them when she buys a White Gold Tennis Bracelet from Ruffafferds for herself, the same exact present Walter bought. Walter asks Drake and Josh if they can buy her something else because he is late for work. They go through a shortcut which happens to have a pool hall. Josh agrees to play on his conditions. Inside, everyone has tattoos, leather jackets and have the Bad-Boy image. He acts like it's his first time playing pool and shoots the cue ball into a two thugs' food causing them to get mad. They each put $200 on the table as a bet for who would win. When Josh wins, the thugs accuse him of hustling them and pin them against a wall. Drake is very sorry for everything he did and Josh reveals that the two thugs were his old camp counselors, Chip and Rodney and that it was all just a set up to teach Drake a lesson about hustling. They notice Rodney has a white gold necklace on and agrees to sell it to them for the $200 (the money Walter gave the boys for Audrey's present)since it matched their mother tennis bracelet.
12	6	"Smart Girl"	Roger Christiansen	Dan Schneider	April 25, 2004 (2004-04-25)	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 she is. Meanwhile, tired of Megan's countless pranks on him, Josh tries to get back at her, only to fail each time.
13	7	"Little Diva"	Virgil Fabian	Eric Friedman	May 2, 2004 (2004-05-02)	208
The Premiere is holding a Hollywood premiere starring Ashley Blake (Skyler Samuels), a child actress. Helen (Frances Callier) tells Drake and Josh to always follow Ashley Blake's orders, and Drake and Josh are forced to become her personal assistants. When she gets knocked out, due to an accident involving a bucket and a door, they have to bring her to the Premiere without making it look like she is unconscious, they then hold her up, talk for her and moves her arms for her.
14	8	"Blues Brothers"	Fred Savage	Craig DiGregorio	September 12, 2004 (2004-09-12)	206
Drake prepares for a talent show; Josh appeared on his dad's weather show and discovers that he has stage fright, which causes him to twitch heavily on TV live. The forecast was unfortunately viewed by many in San Diego and Josh gets teased by viewers. At the talent show, a boy band steals the song Drake was originally going to perform with his band forcing them to improvise. To restore Josh's reputation, Drake offers to let Josh in his talent show audition and perform the song "Soul Man". Helen (Yvette Nicole Brown) ran the Belleview Talent Show at the Premiere. Drake, along with a no longer stage frightened Josh wins the contest after performing a great rendition of Soul Man.
15	9	"Driver's License"	Virgil Fabian	Dan Schneider	September 12, 2004 (2004-09-12)	209
Drake fails to get his driver's license while Josh obtains it, though Walter swears he will confiscate their licenses if either of them get tickets after he forces them to take a pre-test. Josh obtains a traffic ticket the day he gets his driver's license after accidentally running a stop sign, and Drake pays for the ticket. Drake then keeps the ticket a secret and makes Josh drive him around everywhere, threatening to tell Walter about the ticket if he does not.
16	10	"Number 1 Fan"	Virgil Fabian	Dan Schneider	September 19, 2004 (2004-09-19)	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 a guitar pick. Eventually, she becomes obsessed and will not leave him alone. As a subplot, Walter makes Josh the boss of Megan's camp group, but Josh ends up stuck in a tent. 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 rampages on Wendy about how she meant nothing to him. At the station, he is in desperate 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. A lady with a trumpet (also making an appearance to the radio) finds out what happened and tells him to go fix it. Realizing his mistake for getting angry at his Number 1 Fan, he leaves the station forcing the broadcasters to move on to the next band. Drake returns home to Wendy and plays a song to her and only her, making her dream come true.
17	11	"Mean Teacher"	Steve Hoefer	George Doty IV	September 26, 2004 (2004-09-26)	210
Drake wants to break up with his girlfriend Kelly (Chelsea Brummet), because she has a really annoying laugh. However, once he finds out that Mrs. Hayfer (Julia Duffy), his English teacher who hates him, is Kelly's mother, he is unable to break up with her, because Mrs. Hayfer threatens to send Drake to Summer School if he does so. Drake becomes further annoyed with Kelly and is unable to decide what to do. Josh then has an idea. He says that in order to solve this, Drake must make Kelly break up with him. Meanwhile, Josh gets an ugly shirt which he claims to be a "lucky" shirt, as it gets him many valuable things, as well as helping him dodge Megan's pranks. Meanwhile, much to Josh's excitement, Kelly gets him a date with a teen model named Allison who loves video games and magic tricks, then sets up a "double date" at The Premiere between Drake – Kelly, and Josh – Allison. Before the double date, Drake decides that he needs to wear the "lucky" shirt in order to break up with Kelly. Drake and Josh argue over who should get to wear it, which eventually causes the sleeves to rip off the shirt, leading to Drake wearing the torso and Josh wearing the sleeves on the double date. During the affair, Josh gives the sleeves to Drake to finish the shirt in a deal where Drake would only need the shirt for 5 minutes and afterwards, Josh could have it for the rest of the night. This leads to Kelly breaking up with Drake, and promising to tell her mom (Mrs. Hayfer) that SHE broke up with HIM, to prevent Drake from having to go to summer school. Afterwards, Drake gives the shirt back to Josh, and while Drake leaves The Premiere jumping up and down with joy, Josh goes to a movie with his new date. Megan later gets Audrey to get rid of the shirt.
18	12	"The Gary Grill"	Virgil Fabian	Anthony Del Broccolo	October 17, 2004 (2004-10-17)	212
Drake and Josh sell Gary Coleman grills (a parody of George Foreman Grills) and are making a lot of money from them until they find out that the grills were stolen by Buddy and Guy, two wanted criminals. They are thrown in jail until Megan tricks Buddy and Guy into getting arrested and the police release Drake and Josh out of jail.
19	13	"Drew & Jerry"	Steve Hoefer	Dan Schneider	October 24, 2004 (2004-10-24)	213
After Drake tells Josh he needs more time off himself, Josh begins hanging out with a kid named Drew (James Immekus), a boy who looks and acts like Drake. Drake gets jealous , so he starts playing with a kid named Jerry (Stephen Markarian), who looks and acts like Josh, to make Josh jealous. Josh then abandons Drake thinking Drew "is a better you than you!" even attending a movie premiere that they were planning to go to, with Drew. So Drake gets revenge by spending a day with Jerry, deep sea fishing, something Josh always wanted to do. At the end, Drew and Jerry get their own show which is a parody of Drake and Josh, after a talent agent saw them doing their hobbies in front of people (playing the saxophone and dancing).
20	14	"Honor Council"	Virgil Fabian	Eric Friedman	November 28, 2004 (2004-11-28)	214
Drake is wrongly 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 school court to prove his brother's innocence, but his opposition is his archenemy Mindy Crenshaw (Allison Scagliotti-Smith). However Mindy beats him by proving how Drake hates Mrs. Hayfer and that Josh is not a light sleeper, causing them to lose the case. But Megan later give them a report card of Mindy's grades and find out just before the court can suspend Drake that Mindy had one B in her report giving to her by Mrs.Hayfer. This gives Josh the final clue, the B ate away at Mindy until she couldn't take it and for revenge, she parked the car inside Mrs.Hayfer's classroom and stole a jacket from Drake's locker to frame him for it. When Mindy admits this, she is suspended and goes crazy.

Season 3 (2005–06)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
21	1	"The Drake & Josh Inn"	Adam Weissman	Jake Farrow	April 2, 2005 (2005-04-02)	305
Audrey and Walter leave the house to go to Los Angeles for Spring Break, leaving Drake and Josh in charge of Megan. But Drake spends $200, which was intended only for food and emergencies, on toys and other unnecessary items. He later overhears a wife and husband not having a place to stay in San Diego, so Drake decides to turn the house into a bed and breakfast to earn money. Though Josh initially disagrees, he later agrees because they need money. Megan also agrees, but only if she is treated like a hotel guest Drake later invites college students, who seem nice at first, but are revealed to be party mad freaks. Josh wants them out of the house, but Drake enjoys himself until one of the kids breaks his guitar and then joins in. Eventually they, with the help of Megan, succeed in getting them out before Walter and Audrey come home. However, Audrey and Walter are arrested after the house party was broadcast on TV without a city authorized permit.
22	2	"Peruvian Puff Pepper"	Steve Hoefer	Steve Holland	April 9, 2005 (2005-04-09)	301
Josh enters a salsa recipe contest and asks Drake to help him in order to win the prize, a large plasma screen TV. Megan wants to help the boys win the TV for the family, but they decline, wanting instead to have the TV to themselves in their room. In revenge, Megan secretly puts a highly reactive substance in the boys' salsa which causes it to explode, leaving the boys and the family kitchen covered in salsa. The boys know Megan is responsible and hope to expose her for her pranks. They think they will accomplish this after discovering a secret surveillance panel in Megan's bedroom, but instead they are punished for falsely accusing her after their parents see only a normal bedroom wall (Megan's panel has disappeared behind a false wall). Later, when Megan enters the salsa recipe contest, the boys overhear her meeting with someone to obtain some rare "Peruvian Puff Peppers", which could guarantee her win in the contest, and they steal the peppers from her, which infuriates her. Despite initially winning the salsa contest over Megan's own entry, the boys are disqualified when they tell the judges their secret ingredient is the "Peruvian Puff Pepper", noted by the judges to be "illegal in the United States" as it can cause "chronic kidney failure and/or chapped lips". Instead, Megan wins the contest and the TV. Although she realizes that the boys think that she set them up, she tells 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 (2005-04-16)	302
Josh's foreign e-pal Yooka (Anastasia Baranova), who is from Yudonia (a parody of the former Yugoslavia), visits his house and Drake falls in love with her. Drake and Josh soon learn that she is homesick through translation (though she actually said 'sick of home', and Josh mistranslated it). Josh gets a man to perform a friendship ceremony to make Yooka more at home. But it turns out to be a wedding ceremony and she and Drake are married, much to his dismay. Drake plots with Josh to end his marriage when Yooka's parents fly in to meet their new 'son-in-law' and Drake's parents find out. However, Drake quickly regrets this after discovering Yooka's father is a billionaire. Josh serves goat meat to Yooka's family, though goats (or glokmahs as they call it in Yooka's country) are sacred in Yooka's homeland, and it all backfires after Josh spills the beans. Ultimately, Yooka's father ends the marriage and Yooka and her family return home to Yudonia, much to the sadness of Drake.
24	4	"Mindy's Back"	Adam Weissman	Eric Friedman	April 30, 2005 (2005-04-30)	303
Mindy returns from a mental institution (following the events of her first appearance in the Season 2 episode "Honor Council") and, once again, beats Josh in the science fair. With advice from Megan, Josh attempts to ignore her, but unfortunately, Mindy picks him as her partner for her project, where they eventually realize they have feelings for one another and begin to date. However, Josh is too worried to tell Drake about the relationship with his feud to Mindy, causing Mindy to dump Josh. When Drake finally finds out, he tries to get the two back together by taking Josh to Mindy's house during the night. Josh and Mindy finally kiss through Mindy's bedroom window.
25	5	"The Affair"	Adam Weissman	Anthony Del Broccolo	May 21, 2005 (2005-05-21)	304
When Drake and Josh think that Walter is cheating on Audrey, and after a lot of eavesdropping and spying on Walter and his new "girlfriend", Peggy (Allison Dunbar), they try to make Walter fall in love with Audrey again by making a meal for Walter that Audrey "made". Their plan doesn't work out when Drake puts cumin instead of cinnamon in Walter's waffles, causing Walter to suffer from an allergic reaction that almost kills him. Drake and Josh save Walter's life after giving him an inhaler. They later end up messing up Walter's date with Peggy. They later find out that the woman was actually a television agent who was offering Walter a weatherman spot on the number one national morning show of America. The boys' messing up the date meant that the offer was rejected and Walter makes Drake and Josh pay the price by shoving food all over themselves like they did with Peggy.
26	6	"Playing the Field"	Roger Christiansen	Dan Schneider	June 4, 2005 (2005-06-04)	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 make Tori jealous. Josh grows a mustache, but nobody approves of it, including Mindy.
27	7	"Helen's Surgery"	Adam Weissman	George Doty IV	June 11, 2005 (2005-06-11)	307
Drake and Josh must assist Helen after eye surgery leaves her temporarily blind. But the two find her condo 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. 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 (2005-10-01)	309
Josh drops a barbell on his foot after Drake shot him with a potato, but he's scared to go to the hospital. When he is forced to, 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 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 their room. She decreases the temperature of their room gradually so low that it begins snowing.
29	9	"Foam Finger"	Roger Christiansen	Dan Schneider	October 8, 2005 (2005-10-08)	308
Drake and Josh are in a big fight over a foam finger that they both wanted when they were both eight years old at Qualcomm Stadium, the home of the San Diego Padres. Drake thinks that Josh started the fight and vice versa, each of their flashbacks with different circumstances (Drake thinking that he let a dying British orphan in front and Josh thinking Drake purposely bought the foam finger so Josh couldn't have it). The fight then pushes the two apart as they become hostile and Drake moves out of their room with Josh in. The two continue to be bitter at each other until the clerk who sold the foam finger visits and claims what really happened then. Megan threw a cookie at Josh which he thought that was Drake and the two then fight. Realizing that neither of them started the fight and which it was Megan, they then apologize and think what they will be like when they are older. Years later, as old men, the two fight over the same way when they were 8 years old as an elderly Megan throws a cookie at Josh and the two fight before eventually falling asleep. Later, it is revealed to be only a dream that present-day Drake is having, although Josh wakes him up by fantasizing about Oprah.
30	10	"Girl Power"	Steve Hoefer	Jake Farrow	October 15, 2005 (2005-10-15)	311
Drake wants to break up with his girlfriend Lucy, 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 likes 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 (2005-10-22)	310
Megan talks Drake and Josh into temporarily babysitting her newly adopted sheep from online while she thinks of a way to explain this to their parents. She does this by promising not to pull any pranks on them for 3 months. But when the sheep gives birth to a baby lamb on Drake's bed, Drake and Josh must then hide the sheep from their parents while Megan is at oboe practice.
32	12	"Megan's New Teacher"	Adam Weissman	George Doty IV	January 28, 2006 (2006-01-28)	313
After being accepted into the TTT, a student-teaching group, Josh becomes Megan's class teacher for a week. He takes his new job very seriously as he challenges the students with college-level chemistry, even failing 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 a 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 enraged. 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 and unscrew the sink to burst water when turned.
33	13	"Little Sibling"	Steve Hoefer	Dan Schneider	February 4, 2006 (2006-02-04)	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 refer 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 and Josh comes in to free Drake.
34	14	"Theater Thug"	Roger Christiansen	Dan Schneider	February 18, 2006 (2006-02-18)	314
Josh lands the role of a criminal called the Theater Thug on a TV show called FBI's Most Wanted (a spoof of America's Most Wanted) at the premiere, but ends up being mistaken for the real Theater Thug and gets arrested several times. 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 (2006-02-25)	315
Drake and Josh insist on riding a roller coaster called the Demonator on its opening day, but Megan reveals it was open that very night. Drake and Josh are forbidden to go, because Walter wants them to 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, in order to stop them from telling Audrey and Walter. Because Papa Nichols wakes up disoriented, he thinks he is back in World War II and that Craig and Eric are considered to be Germans, 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, 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. When Megan tells Drake and Josh that she had rode the Demonator, 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.
36	16	"Alien Invasion"	Will Bardelli	Steve Holland	March 18, 2006 (2006-03-18)	316
Megan has just gotten a brand new telescope and has developed an obsession with it. Megan is using Josh's laptop and Drake's leather jacket without their permission, upsetting the boys. They hatch a plan to 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. But a real alien shows up that turns out to be Megan's friend and it scares everyone but her when she recognizes who it is. She decides to give the boys time to figure it out.
37	17	"Dr. Phyllis Show"	Steve Hoefer	Anthony Del Broccolo & Eric Friedman	April 8, 2006 (2006-04-08)	317
Drake and Josh begin fighting a lot lately late at night after Drake sprayed Josh's girlfriend Mindy with a hose for revenge after Josh got up to their mean English teacher Ms. Hayfer and told her Drake (who's not doing good in english) should have a tutor, An angry Megan (who's getting sick and tired of their fighting and waking her up at 11:45 P.M. three nights in a row) gives them tickets to the Dr. Phyllis show (a parody of the Dr. Phil show), where they think of all the fighting and arguing they have been involved in. Drake thens mentions a girl named Liza Tupper (mentioned in Playing the Field) saying what a horrible kisser she was. Liza Tupper happened to be Dr. Phyllis' (Gabrielle Carteris) daughter and she then goes berserk on Drake for saying that and when Josh tries to help, she attacks him to. Once back at the house, they are upset that pretty much the only thing she did was make them think of the bad times between the two, even though they've had some really memorable good times. They then have a montage of those good times. Despite this, they eventually end up in an argument about soda just then, a still angry Megan who's still sick and tired of their fighting sets off her sleeping gas smoke bomb in the living room.

Season 4 (2006–07)

• Production of new episodes was temporarily suspended in December 2005 due to Drake Bell's car accident. Filming resumed in March 2006 and production of the series wrapped up in July 2006.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
38	1	"Josh Runs Into Oprah"	Roger Christiansen	Ethan Banville	September 24, 2006 (2006-09-24)	405
It is Josh's birthday, but Drake forgets and instead sets up a party for 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 San Diego for 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 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 (2006-10-01)	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 and dangerous Rottweiler, who traps them in Mrs. Hayfer's bathroom where they are stuck for most of the night. 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 (2006-10-15)	412
Drake and Josh are asked to deliver a cake to their Great Aunt Catherine's wedding, in hope 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 their mother's SUV, they use Trevor's old car, a 1970s Chevrolet El Camino, to try and get to the wedding on time. The car breaks down and leaving them stranded with no help. They try to get help off of two men who end up mugging them. Later on, a tow truck driver (E. E. Bell) offers help but Drake insults him so he leaves them. Drake and Josh eventually get the car working, but it catches fire and they are stuck for good.
41	4	"Mindy Loves Josh"	Adam Weissman	Arthur Gradstein	October 22, 2006 (2006-10-22)	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 (2006-11-05)	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 of 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 he gathers everyone who he was dishonest with in the past and in front of Carly, admits all the dishonest things he did for them. This works and Carly gets back with him, only though Josh still wins the bet.
43	6	"The Great Doheny"	Adam Weissman	Matt Fleckenstein	November 12, 2006 (2006-11-12)	404
Josh's favorite magician, Henry Doheny (Steve Tom), appears at the Premiere Theater. 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 four year deal in Las Vegas and leaves San Diego to perform there.
44	7	"I Love Sushi"	Steve Hoefer	Dan Schneider	November 26, 2006 (2006-11-26)	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. 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 and the robbers' moving van had broken down about a half mile up the street.
45	8	"The Storm"	Steve Hoefer	George Doty IV	January 7, 2007 (2007-01-07)	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 television for Crazy Steve so he can watch Dora the Explorer and Walter must do a live outdoor weather broadcast during the bad storm where he gets beat up by crooks. NOTE: Josh leaves during the opening scene and is absent for the remainder of the episode, marking this as the only episode where Josh is a minor character.
46	9	"My Dinner with Bobo"	Virgil Fabian	Arthur Gradstein	January 14, 2007 (2007-01-14)	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. 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, who happens to eat orangutans. 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. However, he is later arrested and Megan frees Drake and Josh as long 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 (2007-01-21)	408
After a model rocket explodes in their neighbor's tree house, Drake, Josh, and Megan try to rebuild the tree house so that Drake and Josh can double date with hot twins on the same night. But Drake forgets the power saw to cut the door out before Josh reattaches the last wall, trapping the boys. Megan refuses to let them out as she is angry that they made her miss her friend's birthday and eventually gives their double date to Craig and Eric.
48	11	"Josh Is Done"	Adam Weissman	Ethan Banville	February 11, 2007 (2007-02-11)	415
When Drake goes too far with Josh he becomes furious at Drake. Later, Josh thinks that his life would be better if Drake wasn't in it, and considers Drake as just a roommate and nothing more. Josh then has a good time in his life, as he gets all the questions on a make-up exam he had to take thanks to Drake correct, doesn't get a grade dropped due to his excellent effort, and has a good time with his friends away from Drake, gets along with Helen playing tennis, his zits go away.. Drake on the other hand has a very bad time as Josh isn't there to help him, and Drake realizes that he needs Josh a lot in his life which makes Josh feel bad after his decision to have a new science partner apparently caused Drake to have a chemical shower in the classroom due to a chemical mix-up Drake did with his new partner, Clayton who was difficult to understand due to his talking problems. In the end, Josh rejoins a depressed and lonely Drake and they play ping-pong together.
49	12	"Eric Punches Drake"	Roger Christiansen	Arthur Gradstein	February 18, 2007 (2007-02-18)	417
Eric accidentally punches Drake in the face while demonstrating a kung fu move to Craig. He soon becomes popular as witnesses thought he punched Drake on purpose in a fight. After feeling comfortable with the popularity, Eric starts spreading rumors about the punch and every story is different. Dismayed by the popularity due to this, Drake, with the help of Craig who has split up from Eric, 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 (2007-03-04)	401
When Drake and Josh borrow Megan's digital camera to photograph a supermodel, Josh photographs her hamster, Hervé. 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 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 Hervé wasn't dead, but stunned from the camera flash. Drake and Josh then both simultaneously mutter Megan's name before passing out on the garage floor.
51	14	"Steered Straight"	Steve Hoefer	Dan Schneider	March 11, 2007 (2007-03-11)	414
After Drake gets himself and Josh in trouble and got grounded by Audrey, Walter, and Megan for making Josh tickling one of the cows and made it angry at the milking barn from Josh's bowlegged cousin Skippy's dairy farm where Josh drags him and he tries to do a nice thing for Drake, 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 (a parody of The Rolling Stones), they are caught by the police. Although they would not be arrested and go to jail, instead of Audrey and Walter grounding Drake and Josh, the police suggests that the two would go through a 'Steered Straight' program which teaches children about what it's like to be in trouble with the law and going to jail. However, the plan eventually backfires when the officer who is driving them to the police station is interrupted by a criminal who hijacks his police car, and Drake and Josh try to act like real criminals by using their fake ID names (Jefferson Steelflex and Alvin Yakatori) in order to be friends with the criminal so the criminal will take them to their house. However they get him convinced that they were calling their "crew" to kidnap the governor, so he decides to call his crew instead. However when Walter comes home early, the boys attack him and handcuff him and tape his mouth shut and lock him in the closet and Drake and Josh decided to use a magic kit to make it look like "Jefferson" was hurting "Alvin" after an argument on who will take out the guards. Drake hits Josh with a banana while he puts fake blood all over his face and then Drake pulls out a prosthetic hand that Josh wore over his real hand. Terrified and disgusted, the criminals make a run for it, leaving the two boys. The family goes out for dinner that night and the boys remember they forgot to take Walter out of the room.
52	15	"Megan's First Kiss"	Will Bardelli	George Doty IV	April 7, 2007 (2007-04-07)	418
Megan's secretive behavior leads Drake and Josh to believe she is up to something. After spying on her (in disguise as Irishmen in the Premiere), it turns out that Megan has a boyfriend named Corey, who she has been dating for 7 weeks, but they embarrass Corey, causing him to break up with Megan. To solve the problem, Drake and Josh apologize to Corey so he can go out with Megan again. However, when Josh goes to the Premiere to pick up his paycheck, he sees Corey with another girl, Monica (who he has been dating for a month). He then tells Drake and they decide to tell Megan. At her next date, Drake and Josh arrive and expose Cory by bringing Monica. Megan and Monica both break up with Cory, who then severely beats Drake and Josh up. Megan apologizes 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 (2007-04-15)	416
Drake and Josh are invited to their friend Thornton's 16th birthday bash which will air on MTV live. However, their invitations are revoked after Thornton catches Drake kissing his girlfriend. To get into the party, Josh pushes a reluctant Drake into giving Thornton his autographed Abbey Road (The Beatles) album which is what he had just received from an English man. Even though he accepts the gift, Thornton still does not welcome them into the party. As a result, Drake and Josh decided revenge by crashing the party being dressed up as the Red Sky Nauts from Galaxy Wars (a parody of Star Wars) with lightsabers, to get 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 (2007-08-03)	419-420
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.
56	19	"Helicopter"	Virgil Fabian	Dan Schneider	August 10, 2007 (2007-08-10)	410
After Drake wins a chance to skydive out of a helicopter, Audrey and Walter, thinking it way too dangerous, go completely against it. Drake disobeys Audrey and Walter and goes skydiving anyways. 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 one of the parachutes out of the helicopter with a fire extinguisher and Drake accidentally yanks the radio out by stretching the cord too far. They eventually run out of fuel. They jump out with one parachute as a last resort to escape. The two return home just as their parents come home. The pilot then angrily arrives. The pilot says that Walter has to pay $400,000 for the damaged helicopter and Drake and Josh, knowing the consequences, ground themselves for 2 weeks.
57	20	"Dance Contest"	Steve Hoefer	George Doty IV	September 16, 2007 (2007-09-16)	413
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. Josh then finds a cruel European dance partner named Vilga to compete with Drake. Vilga has an extremely nasty personality and insults Drake and Emily upon meeting them. Emily and Vilga don't get along and break out fighting 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.

Films

• Drake & Josh Go Hollywood was filmed during season 3, Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh was filmed in July 2008.

Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
"Drake & Josh Go Hollywood"	Steve Hoefer	Teleplay by: Dan Schneider Story by: Dan Schneider & Steven Molaro	January 6, 2006 (2006-01-06)	5.8
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 cancelling 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 (parody of the iPod) gets switched with someone else's. The G-O that Josh has turns out to be an electrical key for an 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 and they accept it.
"Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh"	Michael Grossman	Dan Schneider & Steven Molaro	December 5, 2008 (2008-12-05)	8.1
Drake throws a Christmas party on the roof of the Premiere, but when a groups 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. At the end of the TV movie, 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.

External links

• List of Drake & Josh episodes at TV.com

Production

Drake Bell and Josh Peck had previously acted together on The Amanda Show, created by Dan Schneider. Bell and Peck's differing personalities inspired Schneider to create a new show starring them as characters with traits similar to their own. An unaired pilot episode featured Stephen Furst as Walter Nichols, although he was busy with another project when Drake & Josh was picked up as a series, and Jonathan Goldstein was cast in the role instead. A house in Los Angeles' Encino neighborhood was used for exterior shots of the family's home, while interior scenes were shot on a sound stage at the Nickelodeon on Sunset studios in Hollywood. As of January 2005, Tribune Studios in Hollywood was also used as a filming location.

Production was suspended in late December 2005, after Bell's injury in a car crash, prior to which he had filmed three episodes of the fourth season. Filming resumed in March 2006. The following month, Nickelodeon greenlit an additional seven episodes for the fourth season, and Bell and Peck also signed on to direct several episodes. With the extended season, filming was now expected to continue through July 2006. According to Schneider, the show ended due to a collective decision from the creative forces behind the show.

The profession of the family's mother and her name are never revealed on the show, although Schneider had written dialogue into the series finale that would have revealed her name as Audrey and her profession as a catering business. The scene was filmed, but Schneider ultimately chose to remove it during editing. Schneider said, "On the one hand, I thought it was funny to finally reveal it, so casually, in the very last episode – there was something ironic about that. But then I decided that, because fans always seemed to have fun trying to figure it out (what 'Mom's' name and job were), it would be better to 'keep the bit going' for eternity, by never revealing it in any episode."

Release

Broadcast

Drake & Josh aired on Nickelodeon and premiered in the United States on January 11, 2004. The final episode aired on September 16, 2007. Reruns aired occasionally on TeenNick from 2008 to 2021.

Home media

Below is a list of official DVD and VHS releases of Drake & Josh. Given the show's popularity, it has yet to see a complete series DVD or Blu-ray release as of 2021.

Title	Region 1	Region 4	Contains
Drake & Josh: Vol. 1 Suddenly Brothers (VHS release included)	February 15, 2005	2009	Season 1 episodes: Pilot, Dune Buggy, Two Idiots and a Baby, First Crush Never-before-seen outtakes
Drake & Josh Go Hollywood (VHS release included)	January 31, 2006	2010	The TV film Bloopers 2 bonus episodes: Helen's Surgery & Mindy's Back "I Found a Way" Music video
Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Winners Collection	2007	N/A	Season 4 episode: Who's Got Game?
The Best of Drake & Josh: Seasons 1 & 2	August 21, 2008	January 4, 2016	Season 1 episodes: Pilot, Dune Buggy, Two Idiots and a Baby, First Crush, Grammy Season 2 episodes: The Bet, Movie Job, Football, Pool Shark, Smart Girl, Little Diva, Number 1 Fan, Mean Teacher, Drew & Jerry, Honor Council
The Best of Drake & Josh: Seasons 3 & 4	August 29, 2008	N/A	Season 3 episodes: Alien Invasion, Little Sibling, Megan's New Teacher, Foam Finger, We're Married?, Paging Dr. Drake, Theater Thug, Girl Power Season 4 episodes: Dance Contest, Treehouse, Helicopter, Megan's Revenge, The Great Doheny, The Storm
Drake & Josh: Hermanos y Cómplices (Brothers and Accomplices) Drake & Josh: Parceiros No Crime (Partners in Crime)	N/A	2011	Season 2 episodes: Smart Girl, Football, Little Diva, The Gary Grill, Pool Shark, Honour Council Note: The DVD was only released in Latin America; thus, it features English, Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese audio tracks, and English, Spanish and Portugal subtitle tracks

Streaming

A majority of the show's episodes are currently available to watch on Hulu and Paramount+. They can also be purchased on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video.

Reception

The series premiere was watched by 3.2 million viewers, Nickelodeon's highest-rated series premiere in nearly 10 years. As of 2006, Drake & Josh ranked consistently among the 10 most-watched cable shows of the week, and was the top-rated live-action series among children aged 2 to 11 years old. It averaged three million viewers at the time. It proved to be popular with younger viewers. According to Schneider, Drake & Josh had its highest ratings in its final season.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
2005	2005 Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite TV Show	Drake & Josh	Nominated
2006	2006 Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite TV Show		Won
		Favorite TV Actor	Drake Bell	Won
	2006 Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Fave TV Show	Drake & Josh	Nominated
2007	2007 Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite TV Show		Nominated
		Favorite TV Actor	Drake Bell	Won
	2007 UK Kids' Choice Awards	Best TV Show	Drake & Josh	Won
		Best TV Actor	Drake Bell	Nominated
	2007 Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Fave Nick Show	Drake & Josh	Won
	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) – Supporting Young Actress	Miranda Cosgrove	Nominated
	Casting Society of America	Best Casting – Children's TV Programming	Krisha Bullock	Nominated
2008	2008 Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite TV Show	Drake & Josh	Won
		Favorite TV Actor	Drake Bell	Won
			Josh Peck	Nominated
	2008 UK Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite Kids' TV Show	Drake & Josh	Won
		Favorite Male TV Star	Josh Peck	Won
	2008 Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Fave Comedy Show	Drake & Josh	Won
		Fave International TV Star	Drake Bell	Nominated
2009	2009 Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Fave Comedy Show	Drake & Josh	Nominated
		Fave International TV Star	Drake Bell	Won
2010	2010 Australian Kids' Choice Awards	Big Kid Award		Won
	Kids Choice Awards Mexico	Favorite International Character Male		Won

Films

The series received two television films. Drake & Josh Go Hollywood premiered on January 6, 2006. In the film, Drake and Josh are left at home in San Diego after their parents go on a ten-day cruise. The boys are told to take Megan to the airport so she can visit her friend in Denver, but they accidentally send her on a flight to Los Angeles. Drake and Josh go to Hollywood to get Megan back, but end up stopping a multibillion-dollar heist and booking a guest-spot for Drake on TRL. According to TV Guide, it was the highest-rated program on all of cable during its opening week.

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh premiered on December 5, 2008. Michael Grossman directed the film, and Schneider returned as executive producer. In the film, Drake and Josh try to give a foster family "the best Christmas ever". The premiere of Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh broke the record of most viewers for the premiere of a Nickelodeon film with 9.10 million viewers, a title previously held by iGo to Japan.

Other media

Music

See also: Drake & Josh (soundtrack)

Name	Notes
"I Found a Way"	The opening theme song of the TV series by Drake Bell. Music video directed by Joey Boukadakis.
Drake & Josh	The Drake & Josh soundtrack from the TV series.
"Makes Me Happy"	From the episode "Really Big Shrimp" by Drake Bell.
"Jingle Bells"	From the TV film Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh by Drake Bell.
"Christmas Wrapping"	From the TV film Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh by Miranda Cosgrove.

Video games

Two video games based on Drake & Josh have been released on the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. Both of them were published by THQ and released in 2007.

Game	Publisher	Platform	North American release date
Drake & Josh	THQ	Game Boy Advance	March 15, 2007
Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown	THQ	Nintendo DS	July 30, 2007

Books

A book series based on Drake & Josh has been published by children's publisher Scholastic since 2006. The books are written by author Laurie McElroy.

Book	Author	Info
Blues Brothers	Laurie McElroy	Based on the episodes "Blues Brothers" and "Number 1 Fan"
Sibling Revelry	Laurie McElroy	Based on the episodes "The Bet" and "Peruvian Puff Pepper"
Drake & Josh Go Hollywood	Laurie McElroy	Based on the TV film Drake & Josh Go Hollywood
Kid Trouble	Laurie McElroy	Based on the episodes "Megan's New Teacher" and "Little Sibling"
Alien Invasion	Laurie McElroy	Based on the episodes "Alien Invasion" and "The Demonator"
Surprise!	Laurie McElroy	Based on the episodes "Josh Runs into Oprah" and "Vicious Tiberius"
Josh Is Done	Laurie McElroy	Based on the episodes "Josh Is Done" and "I Love Sushi"

Online videos

Beginning in December 2016, Bell and other cast members released a series of short online videos titled Where's Walter? Bell, Sullivan, and Yvette Nicole Brown reprised their roles for the videos, which involve a search for Walter after he goes missing.

Cancelled revival

In March 2019, Bell announced that he and Peck were working on a Drake & Josh revival that would feature both of them reprising their roles. The proposed project will feature similar characters and scenarios in a more adult, funny way. At the time, Bell and Peck were in discussions with several networks about the project. As of 2021, it is unconfirmed whether or not the project will go ahead after Peck seemingly cut all ties with Bell following his trial and subsequential charging of attempted child endangerment in June 2021.

External links

• Official website
• Drake & Josh at IMDb