Drake & Josh is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. It aired 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. A total of 56 episodes were aired, spanning four seasons. Drake Bell, Josh Peck, and Miranda Cosgrove appeared in all of the episodes.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
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| 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 in order to write his advice adequately. Drake then decides to use this to get a date with Tiffany Margolis (Julie Gonzalo), who wrote to Miss Nancy seeking relationship advice. However, it's Josh who gets in trouble when Tiffany's angered boyfriend, Buck (Joey Mendicino), thinks she is on a date with Josh instead and challenges him to a fight. On the advice of Drake, Josh then trains all day under a karate instructor, but is still knocked out with one punch. Drake eventually apologizes and helps Josh realize he can give good advice without wearing his Miss Nancy dress. The boys then make up and finally 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 Drake's friend Trevor (Taran Killam), only to find out it is broken down and needs repaired. Meanwhile, Drake convinces Josh to try out lying after Josh accidentally breaks the TV. However, Josh is grounded for doing so. Drake and Josh then fully repair the dune buggy, to the surprise of their parents, who then forbid both of them from driving it. Drake decides to defy his parents and secretly drives the buggy with Trevor anyway, crashing in the process. Drake then attempts to conceal his bruises and wounds, as well as the damage to the dune buggy. However, Josh eventually finds out when he is called by 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 injuries, his "punishment" is simply staying home from school, resting, and making Josh his servant. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Believe Me, Brother" | Virgil L. Fabian | Dan Schneider | January 25, 2004 | 102 |
Drake's new girlfriend, Susan (Ashley Drane), begins flirting with Josh behind Drake's back, which Josh tries to explain to Drake. Drake laughs off the idea at first, but then becomes angry when he catches Susan kissing Josh, with Susan convincing Drake that Josh is trying to steal her from him. Josh tries to explain his innocence to Drake, but Drake ignores him, leading the two to become increasingly distant. Drake eventually learns the truth, however, 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. Now aware of the truth, Drake dumps a horrified Susan, and the two boys then thank a stunned Megan for her prank and retaliate against Susan by putting purple paint in her locker. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Two Idiots and a Baby" | Virgil L. Fabian | Steven Molaro | February 8, 2004 | 103 |
When Audrey and Walter go out to dinner with Walter's boss, Mr. Galloway, and his wife, Josh offers to babysit Mr. and Mrs. Galloway's son, Max, much to Drake's dismay. After Drake and Josh struggle to get Max changed and then put to sleep, Drake leaves to play at a concert, much to Josh's dismay. Josh then panics when Max disappears and becomes stuck on the roof while looking for him. However, underlying loyalty and guilt compels Drake to return and help Josh find Max just before Audrey, Walter, and Mr. and Mrs. Galloway return. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "First Crush" | Virgil L. Fabian | Steve Holland | February 15, 2004 | 104 |
Josh gets his first crush on Kathy (Erin Chambers) but does not know how to approach her without being awkward and embarrassing himself. While trying to impress her, Josh accidentally says he can play the guitar, which he cannot. Kathy then asks Josh to play her a song at her birthday party at the coffee shop, The Brew Note, run by Josh's former karate teacher. Meanwhile, Drake and his band audition for a gig at the coffee shop, but Drake is eventually banned from the shop for life after Megan's pet snake (which she snuck into Drake's backpack as a prank) scares everyone. Later, a panicked Josh begs Drake to help him impress Kathy, and the two devise a plan which involves Drake playing the guitar in Josh's place at Kathy's birthday party without anyone knowing. However, their plan only succeeds in making everything worse. The next day, Josh apologizes to Kathy for lying to her. Kathy accepts his apology, but declines to be his friend. Kathy then finds a framed painting of her from Josh in her locker, which (unbeknownst to Josh) was placed there by Drake. As the episode ends, Josh makes a future date with Kathy, and she agrees to convince the coffee shop owner to give Drake and his band another audition. | ||||||
| 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, Grammy (Randee Heller), babysits. Josh is delighted to have Grammy around, but Drake does not like her. Drake wants to attend a concert with his friends, but Grammy forbids him from going, and his friends also cannot go because the tickets are sold out. However, Grammy makes a deal in which Drake can spend time with his friends if he beats her in a basketball game, so long as he does not attend the concert. Drake wins the game, but is forced to break his promise out of peer pressure when his friends get tickets for the concert. Once there, they find out the tickets they have are counterfeit, and are detained at the venue until Grammy pays a $200 fine to release them. Grammy then reveals that she intentionally let Drake win so that 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 will tell Walter and Audrey about the incident at the concert. Grammy agrees on the condition that if Drake loses, he will tell his parents about the concert. Drake loses the game, but when Audrey and Walter come home, Grammy stops Drake from telling them, seeing as he paid back the $200 and was willing to tell them, and that was a good enough punishment for her (Grammy instead tells Drake's parents that she beat Drake at basketball, leading to ridicule from Walter and Audrey towards him). Drake finally accepts Grammy as family, and they hug each other goodbye. Grammy then secretly sticks an envelope onto Drake's back, paying him back the $200 he gave her. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
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| 7 | 1 | "The Bet" | Steve Hoefer | George Doty IV | March 14, 2004 | 202 |
Drake is heavily addicted to junk food, while Josh is heavily addicted to video games. This lands the boys into serious trouble when they forget to bring Megan home on a rainy day, for which they are both grounded by Audrey. Drake and Josh then make a bet to see who can live without their addictions, with the loser having to dye their hair pink, signing a contract with Megan to make it official. After a few days, temptation takes over when Drake gets a disfiguring facial rash from his sudden change in diet, which can only be cured by eating junk food. Meanwhile, Josh receives a brand new GameSphere as a gift from Grammy, which causes his temptation to take over. At this point, their parents then make a bet over who will win, with the loser also having to dye their hair pink. Walter bets on Drake, and Audrey bets on Josh. Both Drake and Josh are ready to cave when Megan convinces both to try and make the other crack first. Josh turns their bedroom into a candy palace, while Drake plays Josh's GameSphere in front of him. Both boys cave at the same exact moment, and they fight in the chocolate milk pool over who caved first. Megan then reveals that it does not matter who caved first due to a loophole in the bet’s contract, and that they both lose. Because of this, Audrey and Walter also lose their bet, forcing everyone (except Megan) to dye their hair pink, much to her amusement. However, when everyone leaves the house the next morning, Drake stays behind for breakfast, and it is revealed that he is only wearing a pink wig. | ||||||
| 8 | 2 | "Guitar" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | March 21, 2004 | 201 |
Drake enters a radio contest and wins concert tickets to see his favorite band, Zero Gravity, as well as receiving an autographed Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by the band's lead guitarist, Devin Malone (Mark Matkevich). However, the guitar explodes when Josh plugs it into Drake's faulty amplifier while showing it to Megan. Desperate to make things right, Josh tries to buy a new guitar and have it autographed by Devin Malone at the concert before Drake finds out. Megan eventually tells Drake anyway in order to spite Josh, but her plan backfires when Drake is amazed instead of angry, impressed that Josh would go to such great lengths for him. However, moments before the concert can begin, Josh accidentally slams the guitar case closed on Devin's right hand. The concert is about to be canceled, but Josh nominates Drake to perform instead of Devin, and the manager agrees. Drake then repays Josh for buying the guitar by giving him the paycheck he earned from performing. Meanwhile, Audrey encourages Walter to bond more with Drake, but Drake is uninterested. | ||||||
| 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 cup 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), immediately begins favoring Drake over Josh, giving Drake all the credit for Josh's hard work, despite Drake's constant laziness. Helen even promotes Drake to assistant manager, much to Josh's chagrin. Desperate for his boss's approval, Josh tries to get Helen to notice him more by creating a promotion designed to sell more popcorn, but it backfires horribly, causing a violent riot amongst the customers. Josh is prepared to tell Helen the incident was his fault, but Drake takes all the blame, realizing how much the job means to Josh, and Helen reluctantly fires him.
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| 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) with an unsuccessful magic trick, and encourages Josh to try out for the football team in order to become cool. Josh makes the team as the equipment manager, but Drake still thinks he is uncool. However, Josh is forced to play in a crucial game after the brownies he makes for the team make the center ill (due to Megan putting dirt from a flower pot in them). Josh does not want to play against the toughest team in the state, so Drake sneaks the school janitor (Tony Longo), a former pro who lost his memory as a result of a head injury, into the game in place of Josh. But while playing, the janitor is injured once again, this time regaining his memory, forcing Josh to go and play, where he scores the game-winning touchdown. After the game, Drake finally admits that Josh is cool. | ||||||
| 11 | 5 | "Pool Shark" | Steve Hoefer | Anthony Del Broccolo | April 18, 2004 | 204 |
Drake discovers Josh is insanely talented at pool (due to Josh using his knowledge of geometry and physics to his advantage). Drake decides to take advantage of this, using Josh to hustle several people behind his back, after being inspired when Megan hustles him while playing darts. After several people complain to him about Drake's gambling at their expense, Josh eventually finds out the truth. He furiously vows never to play pool again, especially after Drake reveals that he still intends to hustle more people should they play again. Meanwhile, Walter sends Drake and Josh out to get a new birthday present for Audrey after she buys the same bracelet he originally planned to give her. On their way, they find a pool hall, and Josh reluctantly agrees to play pool one more time and let Drake hustle their opponents on his condition. They get into a match with two thugs betting $200 (the exact money Walter gave the boys for Audrey's present). When Josh wins, the thugs accuse the boys of hustling and threaten them. A frightened Drake then apologizes and vows to never hustle anyone again. However, Josh reveals that it was all just a setup by him and his former camp counselors (disguised as thugs) 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), one of the smartest girls in school. Determined to keep up the ruse, Drake has Josh tutor him for the upcoming academic bowl, but Drake retains little to no information that he is taught. Feeling desperate, Drake then convinces a reluctant Josh to feed him the answers through a radio, so that he can lead their school to victory and impress Michelle. On the day of the academic bowl, their plan works and Drake initially gives his team the upper hand. However, a nearby fast food restaurant interferes with Josh's radio frequency, causing Drake's team to lose points. However, Drake leads the team to victory on his own, having retained some chemistry knowledge that Josh taught him during their all-night study session. Drake later confesses to Michelle that he is not smart, but Michelle admits that she likes him for who he is anyway. Meanwhile, tired of Megan's countless pranks on him, Josh tries to retaliate against her, failing miserably each time. At the end of the episode, Drake and Josh end up being glued to their chairs by Megan. | ||||||
| 13 | 7 | "Little Diva" | Virgil Fabian | Eric Friedman | May 2, 2004 | 208 |
The Premiere is hosting a world movie premiere starring Ashley Blake (Skyler Samuels), a famous child actress. Helen (Frances Callier) assigns Josh to be Ashley'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 will let him attend the premiere's after-party, but he, too, becomes fed up with Ashley's requests. Meanwhile, Ashley befriends Megan, and the two plan to pull a prank on Drake and Josh by placing a filled-up bucket above their bedroom door. But when Ashley is accidentally knocked out by the bucket while setting up the prank, Drake and Josh must bring Ashley 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, Walter, only to discover that he has severe stage fright after Megan tells him she found out about it from Walter, which causes Josh to twitch heavily and sweat profusely on live TV. Soon, everyone in San Diego begins mocking him, and Josh falls into a deep depression. Meanwhile, at a talent show where Drake's band is performing, a rival boy band steals the song Drake was originally going to perform with his band, forcing them to improvise. So they create a tribute to the Blues Brothers, performing a rendition of "Soul Man" along with Josh, winning the talent show and restoring Josh's confidence in the process. | ||||||
| 15 | 9 | "Driver's License" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | September 12, 2004 | 209 |
Drake fails to get his driver's license while Josh obtains his, and Josh is excited to drive until he is ticketed for running a stop sign. Fearing that Walter will take his license away for good after he instructed the boys with a practice test, Drake offers to pay for the ticket and keep it a secret. But in return, Drake blackmails Josh into driving him everywhere, threatening to reveal his ticket to Walter. Josh soon decides he has had enough when Drake makes him drive his date around while dressing and acting as a chauffeur, and the car's taillight breaks, resulting in Josh receiving another ticket and attacking Drake for it. | ||||||
| 16 | 10 | "Number One Fan" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | September 19, 2004 | 211 |
A girl from Megan's scout troupe, Wendy (Alyson Stoner), has a massive crush on Drake. Her dream is for Drake to personally 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 leave him in his space, Wendy takes her obsession with 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 means nothing to him, breaking her heart. At the radio station, when Drake needs a guitar pick, he checks his pockets and finds a note from Wendy apologizing for what she did and returning the pick he gave her. Realizing his mistake, Drake reschedules his radio performance, returns home to Wendy, and plays a song just for her. Meanwhile, Josh becomes the leader of the scout troupe after Walter quits due to the kids' incessant troublemaking, but the kids like Josh even less than Walter and trap him in a tent at the end of the episode. | ||||||
| 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 habit of obnoxiously 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 to send Drake to summer school should he break up with her. 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 his plan backfires. Meanwhile, Josh starts wearing an ugly shirt, and good things begin to happen to him, such as receiving a perfect score on a school assignment, getting handed an expensive watch and ring by a feuding couple, receiving a classmate's entire video 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. Some time later, Drake, fed up with Kelly's incessant 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. Drake wears the sleeves and Josh the torso, but neither date goes well. Josh then agrees to let Drake wear the whole shirt until Kelly breaks up with him, 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, the boys find that the shirt is gone, having been donated to Goodwill by Audrey at the suggestion of Megan. Initially angry, the boys get over it by convincing themselves that the shirt isn't lucky. During the credits, a hobo wins the lottery while wearing the shirt, proving that the shirt was indeed lucky after all. | ||||||
| 18 | 12 | "The Gary Grill" | Virgil Fabian | Anthony Del Broccolo | October 17, 2004 | 212 |
Drake and Josh receive an offer to sell Gary Coleman grills from two men they meet at the Premiere. Initially, the boys become wildly successful salesmen and make much money, until the FBI informs the boys that the grills are stolen and arrest them. Drake and Josh are then thrown in jail until Megan tricks the criminals into admitting they stole the grills, and Drake and Josh are set free after the FBI discovers the truth. | ||||||
| 19 | 13 | "Drew & Jerry" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | October 24, 2004 | 213 |
After Drake tells Josh he needs more time to himself, Josh begins hanging out with Drew (James Immekus), a teenager who looks and acts just like Drake. Drake gets jealous of Drew, so he finds a new friend named Jerry (Stephen Markarian), a teenager who looks and acts just like Josh, to make Josh jealous. Soon, both boys 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 respective talents at the Premiere (Jerry performs a magic trick; after that, Drew plays his saxophone, while Jerry dances along to it). This draws the attention of a TV producer, who offers both Drew and Jerry starring roles in a show about two brothers (which ends up eerily similar to Drake and Josh). Drake and Josh eventually reconcile and become friends once again. | ||||||
| 20 | 14 | "Honor Council" | Virgil Fabian | Eric Friedman | November 28, 2004 | 214 |
Drake is framed for pulling a prank on Mrs. Hayfer when her car is found parked inside her classroom. Nonetheless, she suspends him for it. Josh decides to defend Drake in a trial organized by their school's honor council to prove his brother's innocence. However, Mrs. Hayfer is represented by Josh's 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 has ever received was in a class taught by Mrs. Hayfer, and the boys taunt her until she admits to pulling the prank in retaliation for the B in Mrs. Hayfer's class and framing Drake. After finally admitting her guilt, Mindy is suspended while Drake is exonerated. Mrs. Hayfer reluctantly apologizes to Drake, but still says that she despises him. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code |
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| 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, leaving them $200 for food and emergencies only. However, Drake decides to spend the money on toys and other unnecessary items. Desperate for more money, Drake gets the idea to turn their house into a bed and breakfast after he notices a vactioning couple who has no place to stay. Josh initially disagrees, as he is furious at Drake for his greedy spending, but reluctantly agrees because they need money for food. Megan also agrees to go along with the ruse, so long as she is also treated like a guest. Things quickly get out of hand, however, when Drake invites a crowd of partying college students to stay, and things get even worse when MTV starts broadcasting from inside their house. Audrey and Walter get suspicious when they see their house on television 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. Unfortunately, Audrey and Walter are then mistakenly arrested for their supposed involvement in the party's unauthorized broadcast. | ||||||
| 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 grand prize, a plasma screen television set. Megan wants to help her brothers win the TV in exchange for sharing it between all three of them, but the boys decline, wanting to keep the TV for themselves. Megan then sabotages their salsa in retaliation, causing it to explode all over the kitchen, with the duo taking the blame. Drake and Josh, sick of getting blamed for all of Megan's pranks, try to find 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 once 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, to Megan's chagrin. Drake and Josh go on to win the contest, but they are disqualified when they reveal their secret at Megan's request, as Peruvian Puff Peppers are illegal in the United States, due to them causing kidney failure and chapped lips. Megan, declared the winner in their place, is accused by her brothers of setting them up, but she convinces them that she is not that smart enough to do so. At the end, Megan watches the duo repainting the kitchen following the earlier incident as a wrongful punishment from their parents through the television set. | ||||||
| 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 homeland of Yudonia, and Drake takes a strong liking to her, spending more time with her than Josh can. Eventually, Drake promises to back off, but he and Josh soon learn that Yooka is homesick. So the boys arrange a Yudonian friendship ceremony, which turns out to actually 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 annul the marriage, serving her family goat (which is a sacred animal in Yudonia). However, Drake quickly regrets it after he learns that Yooka's father is a billionaire. The plan works, with Yooka's father ending the marriage and their whole family returning to Yudonia, much to Drake's sorrow. During the end credits, it is revealed that Josh and Yooka are still e-pals and Yooka's father bought the Boston Red Sox for Yooka's new boyfriend and fiancé Achboo, causing Drake's sorrow to worsen. | ||||||
| 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 willingly picks him as a project partner. Josh is initially annoyed by this, but the two 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 and Drake's resentment towards Mindy for trying to get him suspended. When Mindy finds out that Josh has not told Drake about their relationship, she decides that she cannot be with Josh and the two break up. 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 reconcile and finally share their first kiss through Mindy's bedroom window. | ||||||
| 25 | 5 | "The Affair" | Adam Weissman | Anthony Del Broccolo | May 21, 2005 | 304 |
Drake and Josh begin to notice that Walter has been acting strangely lately and start to believe that he may been cheating on Audrey with another woman, as further eavesdropping only confirms their suspicions. They try to make Walter fall in love with Audrey all over again by preparing a meal for him that Audrey "made", but this backfires when Drake accidentally puts cumin on his food, which Walter is deathly allergic to. With the help of Megan, Drake and Josh find out that Walter is at a restaurant with a woman named Peggy (Allison Dunbar). Drake and Josh try to get Peggy to leave their father alone, but she refuses, so the boys dump food on her, causing her to leave in a rage. Just then, Walter furiously reveals that Peggy is actually a producer for the nationwide morning show "Good Morning Today," and that she was talking with Walter about being the show's new weatherman. As retribution for messing up the lunch and costing him the job, Walter forces his sons to dump food on themselves as punishment. | ||||||
| 26 | 6 | "Playing the Field" | Roger Christiansen | Dan Schneider | June 4, 2005 | 306 |
Drake attempts to break up with Tori (Torrey DeVitto), his most recent girlfriend. However, Tori breaks up with Drake first, which seriously confuses Drake (as he is usually the one to end it when it comes to relationships). When Drake decides that he wants to win Tori's love back again, he finds out that Tori is already seeing other boys, so Drake 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, though he refuses to shave it off. | ||||||
| 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 apartment loaded with luxurious accessories, such as a hot tub and a huge flat-screen TV due to Helen receiving royalties from a sitcom she starred in as a child, Drake subsequently takes advantage of Helen's blindness and throws a huge party at her apartment, much to Josh's disapproval. However, Helen gets a call from her eye 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. Once the idea is a success, Megan earns $700 to Josh's dismay. | ||||||
| 28 | 8 | "Paging Dr. Drake" | Steve Hoefer | Anthony Del Broccolo | October 1, 2005 | 309 |
While working out, Josh drops a barbell on his left foot and injures it after Drake carelessly shoots him with a potato using a launching gun, but he is scared to go to the hospital. When the family finds out, however, Josh is forced to go and is told that he will need surgery for his injury. At the hospital, Drake tries to get the attention of college nurses by impersonating a doctor, which leads to everyone mistaking him for an actual doctor named Dr. Nussbaum, who is due to arrive that day. Drake now has to avoid being caught by Josh's doctor (John O'Hurley) and ends up having to perform a foot surgery. Eventually, Drake is caught when the real Dr. Nussbaum shows up. Drake jumps out the window, breaking his right arm in the process. Meanwhile, Megan plots revenge on her brothers for not letting her turn up the heat, since the thermostat is in their room. She then decreases the temperature of their room gradually so low that it begins snowing, which Drake does not 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 children, having 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 vehemently denies hitting him and claims that Josh started the fight. The two drift apart after a massive fight that results in Josh ripping the foam finger apart, and Drake moves out of their bedroom and into Megan's bedroom. The two continue to be bitter at each other until Megan locates the clerk who sold the foam finger (Fred Stoller). He explains that it was the two-year old Megan who threw a cookie from her stroller, hitting Josh in the back of the head and starting the fight. After reconciling now that they know the truth, the episode ends with Drake and Josh imagining themselves at old age. | ||||||
| 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 that he can win their approval and continue to date her. To achieve this, Josh invites them all over for a fancy dinner on the same night as Drake and Lucy's fight. Concerned that their fight will ruin his chances of impressing Mindy's parents, Josh makes Drake and Lucy wrestle upstairs in the boys' bedroom, where Megan is waiting to watch the fight with a group of her friends. However, during the dinner, Drake and Lucy later wrestle their way downstairs and into the living room, where Josh furiously yells at Drake for ruining his plans. In the midst of all this, Mindy's parents come to realize just how much Josh cares for their daughter, and allow her and Josh to resume their relationship. However, once they find out what Drake and Lucy were fighting over, Mindy's parents argue with each other over whether women are stronger than men, and fight it out in front of everyone. | ||||||
| 31 | 11 | "Sheep Thrills" | Steve Hoefer | Eric Friedman | October 22, 2005 | 310 |
Megan talks Drake and Josh into temporarily pet-sitting her newly-adopted sheep that she bought online while she thinks of a way to explain the situation to their parents. In exchange, she promises not to pull any pranks on them for three months. However, when the sheep gives birth to a 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, their secret is discovered when their parents become aware of their strange behavior, with Megan pretending to not know about the sheep, resulting in the duo being grounded for a month. On the night before they are lifted from their punishment, they discover that Megan has gotten a pet zebra, to which they choose not to have anything to do with it. | ||||||
| 32 | 12 | "Megan's New Teacher" | Adam Weissman | George Doty IV | January 28, 2006 | 313 |
After being accepted into "Tomorrow's Teachers Today", a student-teaching group, Josh becomes Megan's chemistry class teacher temporarily. However, Josh takes his new job seriously and abuses his teaching skills, as he challenges the students with college-level chemistry, something that they 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 even gets uninvited to her friend's birthday party, which involves a piñata made in Josh's likeness. Meanwhile, Drake finds an 11-year-old boy named Neil Kramer in Megan's class who has a talent for playing drums, and wants him to play for his band on Friday after his original drummer quit. However, Josh forbids Neil to play, since he failed Josh's pop quiz, leading Drake to also be annoyed at Josh. Drake and Megan then hatch a plan to get Josh fired from the student-teaching group. They sneak into the school at night and replace Josh's safe chemicals with one that will explode when combined with anything, while also replacing a tape about chemistry with a video of clowns hurting each other with rubber chickens and unscrewing the sink to burst water when turned. At the end, Josh is fired and Neil 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. The kids 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 once again gets in trouble at school with his mean English teacher, Mrs. Hayfer, due to lying to her about being late to class one too many times. So to keep from being sent to Remedial English (a class with a lack of discipline with its poorly behaved students), Drake agrees to join the school's "siblng" program and look after a boy named Sammy. However, Sammy comes to befriend Josh more than Drake and often excludes Drake due to his resentment towards Drake's laziness and negligence. 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 regrets his decision after seeing a depressed Josh watching the recording of the cooking show. Drake realizes that Sammy truly prefers Josh after seeing Josh's confession to Sammy on 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, Drake gets sent to Remedial English, but Josh comes in and rescues his brother as a sign of gratitude for letting Sammy spend time with him. | ||||||
| 34 | 14 | "Theater Thug" | Roger Christiansen | Dan Schneider | February 18, 2006 | 314 |
Josh lands the role of a criminal called the "Theater Thug" for a crime drama television series filmed at the Premiere, but ends up being mistaken for the genuine article afterwards and gets arrested several times. Meanwhile, 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 manage to subdue him, but when the police arrive, they mistake Josh for the criminal and arrest him instead, inadvertently letting the Theater Thug escape. | ||||||
| 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 will be actually open on the same night. Complicating things further, the duo are tasked by Audrey and Walter to stay home and watch over their eighty-one year old great-grandfather, Papa Nichols, who recently had surgery that afternoon, while Walter and Audrey are at an awards show. Drake then calls Craig and Eric to come over and watch Papa Nichols while he, Josh, and Megan go off to ride the Demonator. Some time later, Papa Nichols wakes up disoriented, believing that he is back in World War II and that Craig and Eric are German soldiers, in which he proceeds to attack them and break the latter's cell phone when he believes it to be a weapon. Meanwhile, while waiting to ride the Demonator, Drake, Josh and Megan are bumped to the back of the line after Josh attempts to reclaim his spot in line after using the restroom, upsetting the other parkgoers. Later, Drake and Josh get bumped back again for messing with the park's 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, who wakes up and punches Walter, knocking him out and calling him a German. | ||||||
| 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. When Drake and Josh attempt to get their things back from Megan, she gets them sent to their room after convincing Walter that both of them bullied her and pushed her down. Enraged, the boys then hatch a plan to pull their own prank on Megan. First, they insert a false image of an alien spaceship onto the laptop screen. Megan falls for the ruse and believes that aliens are invading. Drake and Josh then get Eric to adjust the electric switches in the kitchen to control the appliances inside, which frightens Megan and convinces her even further that aliens are real. Drake and Josh continue to try to prove to Megan that aliens are invading and, when Megan is left home alone one night, they pose as aliens and get their comeuppance on her. Just as Drake and Josh celebrate, though, a seemingly actual alien shows up that turns out to be a friend of Megan's and scares the duo away, much to Megan's delight. Leaving her brothers to their own fear as her retribution against them, Megan and her friend then hang out together in the house as her parents come home, with the latter scaring Walter upon meeting 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. Fed up with being awoken due to their consant bickering, Megan gives them tickets to the Dr. Phyllis Show (a parody of Dr. Phil ), hoping that its eponymous hostess (Gabrielle Carteris) can end their feud once and for all. On the show, Dr. Phyllis has the boys reminisce about fights they have had in the past. When Josh mentions that Drake once dated a girl named Liza Tupper to make Tori jealous (from the episode "Playing the Field") as an example of Drake taking advantage of everyone, Drake confirms that the story is true and insults Liza Tupper by calling her dumb and a bad kisser. Liza Tupper, however, happens to be Dr. Phyllis's daughter, and she ends up becoming so enraged at Drake that she physically attacks him on air, then attacks Josh when he tries to stop her. Once back at the house, the duo realize that they were only recalling the bad times they have had together, even though they have had good ones as well. They reconcile after remembering the good times they have had, but soon end up in another argument as a result of a beverage mix-up. Upon hearing it, Megan furiously sets off an incapacitating agent-laden smoke bomb to render her brothers unconscious and finally have some peace and quiet. | ||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 38 | 1 | "Josh Runs Into Oprah" | Roger Christiansen | Ethan Banville | September 24, 2006 | 405 | N/A |
It's Josh's 17th birthday, but Drake forgets and instead sets up a surprise party for his latest girlfriend (Summer Bishil). After being confronted by Josh and realizing his mistake, Drake acquires tickets for Josh to see Oprah Winfrey, Josh's idol, and backstage passes to her show since she is appearing in San Diego the next day. However, when Josh exaggerates about parking a distance away and insists on parking near the entrance in order to prevent sweating, the boys get into an argument that accidentally causes Josh to hit Oprah with his car. A distraught Josh is then beaten up by a group of women when they overhear that he was the one that injured Oprah. Later, when Drake and Josh go to the hospital to apologize, they cannot get past security. Drake then tricks them and the whole hospital into believing Josh has a flesh-eating virus, which, in return, leads to Josh being chemically bathed. In the end, Drake makes it up to a fed-up Josh by throwing him a real surprise party, with a signed restraining order from Oprah and a new motor scooter as his presents. Meanwhile, Megan struggles to care for a virtual pet that belongs to her friend Janie, as its need for attention prevents her from being able to get any time for herself. | |||||||
| 39 | 2 | "Vicious Tiberius" | Roger Christiansen | George Doty IV | October 1, 2006 | 402 | N/A |
Mrs. Hayfer is going on vacation for the weekend, and Josh volunteers to watch over her dog and her house while she is away, bringing Drake along with him. Meanwhile, Walter buys an elliptical machine and starts working out in hopes of finally beating his arch-nemesis, Bruce Winchill, in his television station's yearly 5k run. Drake and Josh arrive at Mrs. Hayfer's house and they meet her dog, Tiberius, who is a vicious Rottweiler that traps them in Mrs. Hayfer's bathroom. Later, when Megan returns from oboe practice, Drake and Josh see that Tiberius happens to be calm whenever Megan is beside him, suggesting that he does not like men. An animal control officer (Buddy Lewis) then arrives and is about to capture Tiberius, until the dog traps him in the bathroom as well. Drake and Josh then devise a successful plan to escape out of Mrs. Hayfer's house without getting mauled by Tiberius. At the end of the episode, after Drake and Josh arrive home, Walter goes to Mrs. Hayfer's house to look for Drake and Josh, but unfortunately finds Tiberius. Walter becomes scared and he runs out of Mrs. Hayfer's house, with Tiberius still chasing after him while Drake and Josh relax at home. | |||||||
| 40 | 3 | "The Wedding" | Steve Hoefer | Matt Fleckenstein | October 15, 2006 | 412 | N/A |
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 luxurious beach house when she dies. Unfortunately, Drake gives Josh's laptop case to Craig and Eric, which not only contains Josh's laptop, but also Josh's cell phone and the keys to their mother's car, leaving the boys without a ride to the wedding and unable to contact Craig and Eric, since neither of them have cell phones (Eric's was broken by Papa Nichols in the episode, "The Demonator", and Craig's mother believes cell phones cause ear sores). Out of options, Drake and Josh decide to use Trevor's old car, a 1970s Chevrolet El Camino, to try to get to the wedding on time. However, it soon breaks down and leaves them stranded on the side of a road with no means of calling for help. Some time later, when the boys leave to urinate, a police officer duo (Kevin Farley and Jesse Burch) give them a parking ticket. Later, when Drake and Josh try to get help from of a male stranger duo, the strangers end up mugging them instead. Afterwards, a tow truck driver named Leslie (E.E. Bell) offers to help, but Drake makes fun of his name, so he angrily abandons them. At the end, Drake and Josh eventually fix the El Camino, but it catches on fire along with the wedding cake, at which point they give up and walk away. | |||||||
| 41 | 4 | "Mindy Loves Josh" | Adam Weissman | Arthur Gradstein | October 22, 2006 | 403 | N/A |
Josh and Mindy are at home one night working together on their respective science fair projects. When Mindy goes to leave for the night, she tells Josh for the first time that she loves him. Flustered, this causes Josh to panic and unintentionally slam the door in her face. After asking Drake for advice, Drake suggests to Josh that Mindy may have only said that to distract him from beating her in the Regional Science Fair. The next day, Josh apologizes to Mindy for freaking out, and admits that he is not sure if he loves her. Mindy also apologizes for putting Josh on the spot and they seemingly reconcile. Meanwhile, Megan exacts revenge on Drake after he eats her cookie – she learns about a rare skin disease that turns the hands and feet those infected by it a sickly greenish color and dyes Drake's hands and feet green to make him believe he has the disease, making him suffer a disgusting cure. However, while he is in the middle of it, Megan gloatingly reveals the deception. Later, at the science fair, Josh defeats Mindy and wins first place, bragging about his success to Mindy in the process. Mindy then reveals to Josh that she let him win out of sympathy. Wracked with guilt, Josh apologizes and gifts his first prize ribbon to Mindy. The couple then decide to end their relationship, but choose to remain good friends. | |||||||
| 42 | 5 | "Who's Got Game?" | Adam Weissman | Ethan Banville | November 5, 2006 | 409 | N/A |
After a debate, Drake and Josh make a bet to see who can score more dates within a week. The bet seems to go smoothly until Drake meets and falls in love with Carly (Brittany Curran), an employee at the local record store. Because of this, Drake tries to call off the bet, but Josh refuses, as he is on a roll with scoring dates, thanks to Audrey's help. After Carly overhears Drake arguing with Josh about the bet, however, 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, Drake gathers everyone who he has wronged in the past and, in front of Carly, admits to and apologizes for all the dishonest things he did to each of them. Moved by his honesty, Carly gets back together with Drake, while Josh officially wins the bet. As part of the bet, Josh gets to 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 | N/A |
Josh's favorite magician, Henry Doheny (Steve Tom), stops by the Premiere Theater and becomes acquainted with Drake and Josh. Doheny eventually moves in with Drake and Josh, but they quickly find him irritating. When Doheny tells Josh nobody wants him around anymore, Drake and Josh decide to get Doheny recognized again by organizing a show for him at the Premiere. During the show, Doheny has swords shoved into him in a box by the duo, but when they check on him after he does not appear out of the box unharmed on cue, he is pronounced dead. At his funeral, Doheny suddenly appears alive and well, explaining that faking his death, which had been suggested by Megan, was the actual trick. As a result, Doheny gets a five year deal in Las Vegas and leaves San Diego to perform there. As a parting gift, Drake and Josh are given yo-yos, while Megan receives a $50,000 check for her idea. During the end credits, Walter asks Doheny to give him his hair back, but Doheny leaves straight for Las Vegas and mockingly tells Walter to buy a wig. | |||||||
| 44 | 7 | "I Love Sushi" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | November 26, 2006 | 407 | N/A |
As an anniversary gift for Audrey and Walter, Drake and Josh agree to have their house's living room redecorated by the company of a television series which they have never heard of before called Pump My Room. However, it soon turns out to be a scam; when the associated "producers" said the room was going to be redecorated, its furniture is stolen instead. To make matters worse, the police officer duo summoned to the house are uninterested in helping the family due to one of them being unimpressed about how Drake and Josh gullibly fell for the scam in the first place, and the other one having suffered from one of Walter's poor weather predictions. Drake and Josh attempt to earn enough money to pay for the stolen furniture by getting part-time jobs working a sushi-packaging line at a fish factory, but it proves to be a disaster due to the factory's demanding head-chef and the speed of the line's conveyor belt. Returning home from their failure, the duo discover that all the furniture is back where it belongs, thanks to the police having located the faulty moving van that the scammers used for their heist, which was abandoned after breaking down about half of a mile up the street. Meanwhile, Megan becomes too busy to prank Drake and Josh, so she hires a young boy named Tyler to prank them for her. Note: The scene at the fish factory from this episode is a direct homage to the I Love Lucy episode, Job Switching. In addition, the name of the factory is "Ball & Vance Fish Corporation", in reference to that series' principle actresses, Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance, and the episode's end credits being styled after the ones from said series. | |||||||
| 45 | 8 | "The Storm" | Steve Hoefer | George Doty IV | January 7, 2007 | 411 | 3.11 [1] |
Due to Walter's poor weather predictions, Drake's long-awaited hopes of opening up for The Sparks are crushed when a fierce storm approaches, confining him, as well as his friends and family, inside the Parker-Nichols household. To make matters worse for Drake, he desperately attempts to keep his current girlfriend, Carly, from meeting his ex-girlfriends, Lucy and Christine. But when they do meet, Drake suddenly becomes paranoid about it and demands to know what they are talking about. Meanwhile, Craig is forced to constantly crank an old television set for Crazy Steve, so that he can watch Dora the Explorer, while Walter is forced to conduct a live weather broadcast outside during the storm. Note: Josh only appears in the episode's cold open. | |||||||
| 46 | 9 | "My Dinner with Bobo" | Virgil Fabian | Arthur Gradstein | January 14, 2007 | 406 | 3.18 [2] |
When Drake and Josh pool their money together in order to buy a car, they are unable to agree on one they both like. Eventually though, Drake takes the money and uses it to buy an orangutan named Bobo from the dealership's owner (Steve Kramer). Drake then explains to an enraged Josh that they can use Bobo to make enough money to buy cars for each of them. The boys eventually sell Bobo to a doctor they meet at the Premiere. Feeling suspicious, Megan does a background check on the doctor and discovers that he cannibalizes orangutans and related species. Drake and Josh then go to the doctor's apartment to return the money and get Bobo back. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned, as the doctor locks the duo in his closet and confiscates Josh’s cell phone. Thankfully, Megan alerts the police, who arrest the doctor, and frees Drake and Josh as long so 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, the duo buy the car, which results in them being teased by their friends, much to Megan's amusement. | |||||||
| 47 | 10 | "Tree House" | Roger Christiansen | Dan Schneider | January 21, 2007 | 408 | 3.51 [3] |
After a model rocket (shot off from inside their bedroom) explodes in their next-door neighbors' tree house, Drake, Josh and Megan are forced to rebuild the young man's tree house before Drake and Josh can go on a double date with a pair of twin girls. Unfortunately, Drake forgets to cut the doorway out before Josh attaches the last wall, thus trapping the duo inside. Despite their pleas, Megan refuses to let the boys out, as she is angry that they made her miss her friend Janie's birthday party, deciding to make them miss their double date as retribution. She later sets Craig and Eric up on a date with the twin girls instead. | |||||||
| 48 | 11 | "Josh Is Done" | Adam Weissman | Ethan Banville | February 11, 2007 | 415 | N/A |
When Drake's antics finally go too far and cause Josh to miss an important chemistry exam, Josh decides that he is officially done with Drake, considering him as nothing more than a roommate. Without Drake, Josh's life begins to improve, such as passing his make-up exam, which results in him maintaining his good grade average due to his excellent effort. Josh also gets along better with Helen at work and becomes more popular among his classmates. Drake's life, on the other hand, begins to fall apart, as Josh is not there to help him. It is not until Drake completely breaks down in the middle of 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 duo reconciling over a game of table tennis. | |||||||
| 49 | 12 | "Eric Punches Drake" | Roger Christiansen | Arthur Gradstein | February 18, 2007 | 417 | 3.30 [4] |
At school, Eric accidentally punches Drake in the eye while demonstrating a kung-fu move to Craig. Because of this, Eric becomes popular, as witnesses believe he punched Drake on purpose in the midst of a fight. After feeling comfortable with the popularity, Eric starts spreading rumors about the punch and every story is different, ruining Drake's reputation and reducing him to a laughingstock around school. Dismayed by Eric’s popularity at his expense, Drake, with the help of Craig who has been ditched by Eric, attempts to reveal Eric's non-intention for punching him. The plan is successful, and Eric tries to show the actual punch but accidentally hits a girl, causing him to be embarrassed and resulting in Drake taking the girl out. In the end, Drake, Craig and Eric sing behind a dumpster, thus reconciling their friendship. Meanwhile, Josh feels overcome with jealousy when he believes Mindy has a new boyfriend, Chad, who actually ends up being her cousin. | |||||||
| 50 | 13 | "Megan's Revenge" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | March 4, 2007 | 401 | 3.19 [5] |
When Drake and Josh borrow Megan's digital camera to photograph a supermodel who is in town, Josh decides to photograph Megan's hamster, Hervey. The flash knocks him unconscious, leading the boys to believe that they have killed him. Despite Megan assuring them that she is not mad at them, knowing it was an accident, the boys fear retaliation from her, which soon evolves into extreme paranoia as the days go by. However, Megan soon tells them that she knew how scared they were and that her "revenge" was watching her brothers let their fear get the better of them. Shortly after the truth is revealed, Megan presses 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, where Megan then tells Drake and Josh that Hervey is not dead, but was just stunned by the camera's flash. | |||||||
| 51 | 14 | "Steered Straight" | Steve Hoefer | Dan Schneider | March 11, 2007 | 414 | 3.04 [6] |
Drake obtains fake IDs for himself and Josh to enter an adults-only nightclub to listen to Josh's favorite band, the Hailstones. The boys are then caught by the police, but are not placed under arrest. Instead of grounding their sons, Audrey and Walter choose to sign them up for the police department's "Steered Straight" program, in which children are shown what it is like to be arrested. However, the plan eventually backfires when the officer who is driving them to the police station is interrupted by an actual criminal named Blaze, who carjacks his car. Drake and Josh use their fake ID names, and pretend to be criminals so they can befriend Blaze. Drake and Josh then convince Blaze to take them back 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 fellow criminals so they can carry out their next plan – kidnapping the governor. Blaze decides to call in his own friends for the kidnapping plot instead. When Walter comes home early, the boys detain him in a closet to maintain their ruse. The duo then fake a physical altercation with each other, with the use of Josh's magic kit. Terrified and disgusted, the criminals flee the house. At the end, Drake, Josh, Audrey and Megan go out for dinner, whereupon the duo realize that they accidentally forgot to free Walter. | |||||||
| 52 | 15 | "Megan's First Kiss" | Will Bardelli | George Doty IV | April 7, 2007 | 418 | N/A |
Megan's secretive behavior leads Drake and Josh to believe she is up to something. After spying on her at the Premiere, disguised as Jewish Irishmen, it turns out that Megan has a boyfriend named Corey, whom she has been dating for the past seven weeks. However, once the boys are found out, they embarrass her, causing Corey to end the relationship. After a lecture from Walter about Megan becoming a young adult, Drake and Josh, feeling bad, apologize to Corey so he will go out with Megan again, which Corey agrees to. However, when Josh goes to the Premiere the next day to pick up his paycheck, he sees Corey with another girl named Monica (whom he has been dating for a month at that point). Josh then tells Drake, and they decide to break the news to Megan. At her next date, Drake and Josh arrive and expose Corey by bringing Monica with them. Megan and Monica then both break up with Corey, after learning the truth. Drake and Josh then attempt to brutally punish Corey, only to be severely beaten by him 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 | "The Battle of Panthatar" | Josh Peck | Matt Fleckenstein | April 15, 2007 | 416 | N/A |
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 soon revoked after Thornton catches Drake kissing a girl named Maria, who (unbeknownst to Drake) is Thornton's girlfriend. To return to the party, Josh pushes a reluctant Drake into giving Thornton his autographed Abbey Road album, which Drake had just received as a gift. Drake eventually acquiesces to Josh's plan, and although Thornton accepts the present, he still refuses to invite the boys into the party. As a result, Drake and Josh decide to retaliate by crashing and ruining the party, posing as Red Sky Nauts from the Galaxy Wars franchise, while also attempting to steal Drake's album back. When they are discovered, the boys are able to escape with Drake swindling the album back. | |||||||
| 54 | 17 | "Really Big Shrimp" | Drake Bell (Part 1) Steve Hoefer (Part 2) | Dan Schneider & George Doty IV | August 3, 2007 | 419–420 | 5.8 [7] |
Drake finally achieves his dream and lands a record deal with a company named Spin City Records, with Josh serving as his manager. The record company makes a deal with the duo, wherein Drake's new song will be played during a major commercial for a shoe company that is set to air during the Super Bowl. However, due to being distracted by the record company's served prawns, Josh forgets to thoroughly read through the contract before signing it, giving all creative rights over Drake's song to the record company. Because of this, they completely remix Drake's song, much to his dismay, causing a major rift between the brothers. Meanwhile, Mindy and Josh consider getting back together, while Helen makes a deal with Craig and Eric to video tape her wedding with Buzz. With Helen's wedding fast approaching, the Parker-Nichols family must cope with the fact that Helen's grandmother is staying at their house. Note: This episode was written as the series finale, but aired before "Helicopter" and "Dance Contest" because Nickelodeon broadcast the episodes out of production order. | |||||||
| 55 | 18 | "Helicopter" | Virgil Fabian | Dan Schneider | August 5, 2007 | 410 | N/A |
After Drake wins a chance to skydive out of a helicopter, Audrey and Walter, thinking it is too dangerous, go completely against it and forbid Drake from going skydiving. Of course, 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, Vince, after Josh accidentally blasts Vince with the helicopter's fire extinguisher, and the radio when Drake accidentally stretches the cord too far. The helicopter eventually runs out of fuel, forcing them to jump out of it with one parachute to escape. The boys miraculously return home just as their parents arrive, thinking they are in the clear. However, Vince arrives at Drake and Josh's house and angrily tells Walter and Audrey that they owe him $400,000 for the damaged helicopter. Knowing the consequences, Drake and Josh then voluntarily ground themselves for two weeks. | |||||||
| 56 | 19 | "Dance Contest" | Steve Hoefer | George Doty IV | September 16, 2007 | 413 | 4.2 [8] |
With the end of the school year approaching and their senior year being only three months away, Josh enters a dance contest so that he could be the top student of his class, while Drake is threatened to either compete in the competition or repeat his junior year. Drake then steals Josh's original dance partner for the contest, so Josh retaliates by hiring an inconsiderate Eastern European dance partner. However, moments before they are due to take to the stage, Drake and Josh's partners fight and are disqualified. Drake and Josh then decide to dance together in the contest and, after an impressive routine, they end up winning the contest. When they are awarded, a girl (first appearing in the episode "Blues Brothers") runs on the stage and kisses both of them, telling the boys that she loves them. Drake and Josh then become confused about her as the episode ends. | |||||||
| Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drake & Josh Go Hollywood | Steve Hoefer | Story by : Dan Schneider & Steven Molaro Teleplay by : Dan Schneider | January 6, 2006 | 5.4 [9] | |
Josh decides that he needs a great adventure in his life, so Drake promotes him as his band's new manager after Drake fired his old manager for canceling three gigs in a month and having Drake perform at an old folk's home. Meanwhile, Audrey and Walter leave to go on a 10-day cruise vacation, while Megan has made plans to go to Denver, Colorado to visit her friend Jessica. After being tasked with taking Megan to the airport by their parents, Drake and Josh mistakenly send Megan on Flight 647 to Los Angeles when she was supposed to board Flight 746. Panicked, the brothers follow her on the next flight out in order to bring her home. On the plane, Josh's G-O is accidentally switched with someone else's. The boys soon learn that the G-O Josh is actually an electrical key for a U.S. Treasury currency production machine, which was stolen 3 days earlier. While in Hollywood, Josh gets the attention of a local producer who arranges for Drake to perform on TV at Sunset Studios. The owners of the G-O then kidnap Drake and Josh and Megan finds the kidnapper's wallet. She then tracks Drake and Josh down, and after discovering their location, calls the police on the kidnappers. The police come and explain that the kidnapper's leader, Milo McRarie, is on the FBI's Most Wanted List. After Milo is arrested, Megan then leaves to catch her flight to Denver. Drake and Josh then drive to Sunset Studios, where Drake can perform his song "Hollywood Girl". After Drake's performance, the producer pulls some strings, and lands Drake an audition for Spin City Records. Two girls then approach to Drake to compliment him and ask if they can hang out with him and Josh, which they accept. | |||||
| Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh | Michael Grossman | Dan Schneider & Steven Molaro | December 5, 2008 | 8.1 [10] | |
Drake decides to throw 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 is arrested. Later that 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". However, Drake's plan fails and both brothers end up arrested, and are even threatened with a life sentence in prison for multiple crimes. However, their luck turns around when Drake hires Josh's boss, Helen, to represent them in their case stating that she has never lost an argument. During the court case, the judge agrees to release Drake and Josh from prison, provided that they stick to their promise to give Mary Alice and her foster-family the "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, including tricking "Crazy" Steve into telling the foster-family about everything, causing them to feel betrayed. Desperate for help, Drake and Josh turn to Gilbert's mother, who provides them with enough information to stop his evil ways. In the end, everyone has a merry Christmas, which sees "Crazy" Steve make snow by shredding cheese in a woodchipper and Drake and Josh doing a nice thing for Gilbert that changes his Christmas spirit. Note: This TV film was made apart from the regular series, and serves as somewhat of an epilogue for the series, wrapping up all remaining storylines. | |||||