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Drake & Josh
File:Drake&joshs4.jpg
(Left to right) Drake Bell and Josh Peck
Created byDan Schneider
StarringDrake Bell & Josh Peck
Miranda Cosgrove
Nancy Sullivan
Jonathan Goldstein
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes56 (7 unaired) including the TV Movie:
Drake and Josh Go Hollywood
Production
Executive producerDan Schneider
Running time22 minutes
Original release
NetworkNickelodeon
ReleaseJanuary 11, 2004 –
2007

Drake & Josh is a Nickelodeon sitcom. The show stars Drake Bell as Drake Parker and Josh Peck as Josh Nichols. Both stars are from The Amanda Show, as is Nancy Sullivan, who plays Audrey Parker-Nichols. Miranda Cosgrove plays Megan Parker, Drake and Josh's sister. The show debuted on January 11, 2004 and will end sometime in 2007.

Synopsis

Drake & Josh is about the various antics of two teenage boys with contrasting personalities living in a suburb of San Diego, California who become stepbrothers when Josh's father, Walter Nichols, played by Jonathan Goldstein, marries Drake's mother, Audrey Parker, who is played by Nancy Sullivan.

The differences between the boys, and their difficulties in adjusting to each other, form the themes for many episodes. Drake is portrayed as popular in school (and with girls) and is often seen with his guitar. Josh is more of a responsible, studious character, who likes magic tricks and has a crush on Oprah Winfrey. The best Josh can do is be "almost cool". The show also features their sister, Megan Parker (Drake's birth sister) played by Miranda Cosgrove, who loves torturing her older brothers with her pranks.

At Nickelodeon's 2006 Kids' Choice Awards, Drake & Josh beat American Idol to win the orange blimp-award for Favorite TV Show.

Drake Bell also won for Favorite TV Actor.

Theme song

The theme song for the show is "I Found a Way", written by Drake Bell and Michael Corcoran and performed by Bell. A split-second shot of Bell singing the theme song from one episode in season one is seen in the opening sequence for seasons one and two, whilst another filmed version remains for season 3 and 4. The song can also be found on the show's official soundtrack, Drake & Josh: Songs from and inspired by the hit TV show, and on Drake Bell's album, Telegraph.

Characters

Main characters

Main article: Drake Parker

Drake's mother married Josh's dad some five years ago. He is a popular teenager, gifted musically, but his ignorance is a running gag in the series.

Main article: Josh Nichols

Josh generally serves as the comedic foil to Drake and Megan. Though highly intelligent, he is less socially adept than Drake. While Drake is quite popular, the best Josh can do is be "almost cool"

Main article: Megan Parker

Megan is the boys' younger sister (Drake's biological sister) who enjoys tormenting them. It is indeed rare that her older brothers will get the better of her.

Audrey is Drake's (and Megan's) birth mother. Her profession is never specified. She always treats Megan like a "little angel", unaware of her daughter's large–and growing–collection of espionage equipment and ability to fool her brothers. Audrey is known to give in to Drake's requests, though it is usually "somewhere between the fourteenth and seventeenth time" Drake has asked her. She apparently knows what today's girls like even though she is an adult because she helped Josh learn how to pick up girls resulting him to get 22 dates in one week.
Audrey is a lot more playful than Walter which could say something about Drake and Josh's attitudes.
Walter is Josh's birth father, and he is a weatherman at the local TV station. Walter had almost become the weatherman for Good Morning Today, however, he did not get the job; Drake and Josh, thinking that the senior producer of the program was having an affair with Walter, ended up throwing food on her, thus ending Walter's chance of becoming "the most watched weatherman in America". His rival is Bruce Windchill, whom both Megan and Audrey seem to have crushes on. Usually, he doesn't want anyone in the house to mention his name.
Walter thinks ships do not sink, as well as believing that the film Titanic was not based on a true story. He is allergic to cumin and seems to forget his wife's birthday. He is somewhat absentminded, but he eventually believes that Megan is evil with her mischiefs. The outside members of the family seen on the show, Grammy and Papa Nichols, are from his side of the family. He is extremely goofy and appears to have very bad coordination (this could explain Josh's). He does seem to have an aptitude for wrestling as he once showed Josh various wrestling moves on Drake (which was Josh's true intention).

Recurring characters

Helen Dubuois was introduced in "Movie Job" as the manager at The Premiere, a movie theater where Josh has a job. Helen is known for her loud voice and orders for her employees, namely Josh. Whilst Helen is not particularly fond of Josh (though she does get him a birthday present--a nose hair clipper), she seems to adore Drake, even saying in one episode, "Drake Parker, I love you like the son I never wanted.". Helen was once a child actress, as mentioned in the episode "Helen's Surgery", in the (fictional) show Happy Times. Primarily played by Yvette Nicole Brown, the character was briefly played by Frances Callier in the episode "Little Diva".
Mindy Crenshaw was introduced in season two as Josh's foremost "enemy"; she had beaten Josh at their school's Science Fair every year. However, in her next appearance ("Mindy's Back"), the couple realized that they actually liked each other. The two had been dating for a while before Josh finally met her parents. A dinner at Mindy's parents house was, all in all, a disaster, as was the majority of the dinner at Josh's house. Despite this, Mindy's parents have allowed her to continue dating Josh.
Finally, Mindy told Josh she loved him. Josh was utterly surprised and you can tell because he slammed the door into Mindy's face saying,"See you in chemistry!!!" After Drake talked to Josh in school, and seeing as the science fair was coming up, Josh foolishly believed that 'I love you' was just a tactic to make him feel the need to let her win. When the science competition actually came up, they both invented photon cannons, and Josh's outperformed Mindy's, so Josh won. Josh then confronted Mindy telling her he "knew" what she was trying to do by telling him she loved him. She then revealed the hidden power of her cannon which showed that she actually let Josh win and was sincere about what she said. Then the two agreed that they are inexperienced at dating and felt that they rushed things, so they agreed to see other people to see if they were truly the right people for each other, but are still friends.
Mrs. Alice/Linda Hayfer was first seen in the episode "Mean Teacher" as Drake and Josh's English teacher. Mrs. Hayfer dislikes Drake because of his poor efforts in school and lack of responsibility. She displays this by reminding him that she hates him and counting all his answers wrong, even if they are based on his opinion or correct; an example of this is when Mrs. Hayfer asked Drake what his favorite 20th century novel was. When Drake replies, "Catcher in the Rye," she says, "Wrong." And also, when Mrs. Hayfer asked Drake in class "In which language was the Odyssey written?" Drake (correctly) answers that the Odyssey was written in Greek. To this, Mrs. Hayfer again snaps, "Wrong!" An instant later, another student was called on and also answered (again, correctly) "Greek," and Mrs. Hayfer counted that answer as "Correct!", even though Drake said the same thing.
Mrs. Hayfer always reminds Drake by saying, "I hate you", and Drake always replies "I know" but she seems to be fond of Josh because of his truthfulness (and probably his good grades and overall responsibility, all of which Drake lacks). Her husband, Gerald, works at the Little Sibling foundation. Drake once had dated Mrs. Hayfer's daughter, Kelly.
It is revealed in the episode "Vicious Tiberius" that Mrs. Hayfer is originally from New Jersey, and is a bad comedian (at the beginning of the episode she makes a pun about Mark Twain and, after nobody laughs, yells, "Why don't you people ever laugh at my jokes?" And it is also shown later in the episode that she was once on a comedy contest show called Search for the Stars (an intentional writer parody of Star Search) and she is just as noncomedic then as she is now). In that episode, Drake points out to Josh the framed picture he is holding of Miss New Jersey some time back in the day, saying: "Woah, this girl is seriously hot." Upon seeing the picture, Josh (with a grin on his face) points out to Drake that "That's Mrs. Hayfer."
Eric and Craig Ramirez are two stereotypical 'nerdy' honor students that are always being exploited by Drake and Josh, mostly due to Drake's hare-brained schemes. The character of Eric was introduced before the character of Craig; Eric has made more appearances in the show than Craig. Eric is seen in the crowd at the fight, in the first ever episode of the series. Both characters have been mentioned as being Jewish. Even though Josh took advantage of them as much as Drake did, in the episode "Josh Runs into Oprah", Josh, Craig and Eric are seen as being good friends.(Despite Josh not being stated as "un-popular, anymore)
Gavin is an employee at The Premiere movie theater. He has a mullet-like haircut and is always telling Josh to clean something unusual in the theater bathrooms. He then eventually cleans up the mess himself - his response (and catch-phrase) being "I got it". The so-called messes included a wig stuck in a toilet bowl, a diaper stuck on a wall, gum in his perm, rat traps in the basement, and a hippie washing his feet in a theater. He is quite a lazy employee, and has been known to take naps on the roof of the theater. During season 4, he changed his hair from a mullet to a "per-mullet" (a mullet with a perm). He has also developed a crush on Drake's mom, and continually asks Drake to measure her. Appears to enjoy salsa-dancing with Helen.
"Crazy" Steve is an employee at The Premiere movie theater. He is hard working and pretty calm at times, until someone (namely Josh) critiques his work, that is when he goes crazy. He yells in a straining voice and many of the other employees are afraid of him including Helen. In the episode "The Storm", he visted Drake & Josh's house to attend a party and was unbelieveably polite to their mom while yelling at everybody else there. Strangly he seems to enjoy watching Dora the Explorer as he forced Craig to operate a hand-cranked TV so he could watch an episode of the show, and went crazy when anyone (except Drake and Josh's mom) attempted to change the channel or get in his way, but screamed orders to Dora in his normal straining voice.

Other characters

Dr. Jeff Glazer lives across the street from Drake and Josh. He is always called on whenever a serious emergency happens at their house. Although he seems kind during the medical procedure, he is always charging a high bill for his services. He charged $300 for inspecting Drake's rash in The Bet, $500 for putting child star Ashley Blake to sleep in Little Diva, and $100 for explaining how a lamb got in Drake and Josh's room in Sheep Thrills with a $50 extra to not tell their parents there was a sheep in their room. He also seems to like wheat squares (which is a parody of "Frosted Mini Wheats").
Grammy Nichols is Josh's grandmother and Walter's mother. In her first appearance (Grammy), Drake dislikes her at first, because she doesn't respect him fairly. However, by the end of the episode, he starts to be more respective of her for returning his money that he gave her earlier during a bet between the two.
Grammy also has been known to send Josh various presents and gifts; on one occasion, she gave Josh a Gamesphere three months prior to its release. She is also mentioned as having hormonal imbalances in the episode Playing the Field, most notably a moustache - Drake makes fun of this, with Josh defending her. Although the character is mentioned frequently by both Drake and Josh, Grammy has only appeared once, in the aforementioned episode Grammy. She later appears in a season 4 episode titled 'Tourney Blues'.
  • Papa Nichols
Papa Nichols is Josh's great-grandfather, Walter's grandfather, and is the father-in-law of Grammy. He is 81 years old and had surgery before the events of The Demonator and was on heavy medication that made him relive World War II during the episode. He mistook Eric and Craig (who were looking after him at the time) for two Nazi soldiers referring to them as German nerds (managing to attack them both), mistook his bedroom slipper for a walkie-talkie, and thought Eric's cell phone was a weapon. He also punched his grandson at the end of the episode because the medication had not yet worn off, and then ran off saying, "I got you, you stinking German," and chants "USA! USA! USA!"
Rina is a member of Drake's band, and plays bass guitar. The character is played by Molly Orr, who was a member of The Amanda Show cast, appearing in the Moody's Point sketches as Misty Raines; Drake & Josh is a spin-off of The Amanda Show, which were both created by Dan Schneider. In the episode "Josh Runs into Oprah", Drake mentions that a guy named Julio plays bass guitar for his band
Paul is a member of Drake's band, and plays rhythm guitar.
Scottie Wilson is the drummer for Drake's band and is shown to be unintelligent. He has one brother, Trevor, who seems to be as unintelligent as Scottie himself. In the episode Megan's New Teacher, Drake mentions that he needs a new drummer to replace "Mitch" - Scottie is not mentioned in this episode, and only appeared during season one, like Drake's other two bandmates Paul and Rina. He apparently thought it was legal to photocopy tickets to a music concert (landing him, Drake, and their band into a lot of trouble with the police).
Trevor Wilson is one of Drake's friends and is Scottie's brother. He was also apart of the The Amanda Show cast. He appears to be as unintelligent as Homer Simpson, like his brother. He gave Drake and Josh a dune buggy, which he "fixed" himself. His parents make him take a head examination every month. He is often mentioned, but so far he has only appeared in Dune Buggy. He also has a car made in 1979.

Notable guest stars

Crew

Episodes

Main article: List of Drake & Josh episodes

Later seasons

The fourth season, which contains 20 episodes, premiered on September 24, 2006 with the episode Josh Runs into Oprah.

Drake Bell was involved in a car accident in Los Angeles on a freeway exit on December 30, 2005; three episodes of the fourth season were filmed prior to the accident, and production of the rest of the episodes was postponed until Bell healed from his injuries. Production of the show resumed in March 2006 and continued into July. [1]

Trivia

  • It was revealed in "The Foam Finger" that the boys first met briefly when they were both eight years old at a San Diego Padres game. They both got into a fight over buying a foam finger at a stand. Drake and Josh met again in the fourth grade when Josh wanted to show Drake a magic trick. They did not particularly like each other, as Drake was the "cool kid" in school and Josh sat at the "loser table" at lunch.
  • Drake and Josh have kissed each other a grand total of four times on Nickelodeon over the years. The first time was in an episode of All That (with musical guest Barenaked Ladies). The second was when Drake kissed Josh on the cheek, in a broom closet, in the episode "Smart Girl". The third was when Josh gave Drake a "Yudonian hello" in "We're Married". And the fourth being when Josh kissed Drake on the lips, after Drake gave Josh backstage passes to a taping of Oprah in "Josh Runs into Oprah".
  • In the episode "Guitar", Josh must purchase a new Fender Stratocaster for Drake after accidentally destroying his previous one. When leaving "Guitar World", a poster on the wall is advertising a film called Super Market Cop III. This is a reference to a fictional movie that was featured in Kenan & Kel, a similar Nickelodeon program. Also in that episode, the guitar said to be a Fender Stratocaster is in fact a Squire Stratocaster.
  • The program parodies several films on posters outside on the marquee as well as the posters inside the theater for spoofs on Gone with the Wind with Lost with the Breeze and The Empire Strikes Back with The Empress Fights Back (which includes the logo from that film on the poster) and A Walk to Remember with A Walk to Forget, Finding Texas parodies Finding Neverland, and The Six Cents parodies The Sixth Sense among many others, including Puppet Fever, Ick Glokmah, Buckets of Blood, Ghost Monsters, Monsters From the Drain, Hobo: The Movie and Doggy Prom. They have also done TV: The Movie which is actually a movie coming out.
  • In a few episodes, in scenes of the camera closing in on The Premiere, there is a wide enough angle showing a building to its right, appropriately named Schneider's Bakery, the company of Drake & Josh creator, Dan Schneider. However, in "Movie Job", the sign above the building reads Schneider's Pizza. In several exterior shots of buildings, you can see the word "Schneider" in the name. Examples include "St. Schneider's Hospital" in Paging Dr. Drake and "The Four Schneiders Hotel" in The Drake and Josh Inn. Schneider himself appears in the latter episode, as "Mr. Oldman", a character he played on The Amanda Show (another show he created). Also in the episode when Drake and Josh build a treehouse Meggan says their parnets went out to dinner with the Schneiders.
  • In "Honor Council", Megan has a website, MeganParker.com where you can see Emma Roberts as her Unfabulous character Addie Singer. However, the actual website was formerly just an image. In the episode, there is a link on Megan's website that says "Boob clip of the week", however the real website refers to it as "Funny clip of the week". The site also has the AllThat logo and link to a quiz. Dan Schneider (the creator of Drake & Josh) was an executive producer on a show called All-That. Currently the domain points to a weight loss site.
  • Drake has used different guitars in the seasons. He has used a Fender Stratocaster and two Gibson Les Pauls (one Wine Red, one Ebony) along with many acoustics, and an archtop.
  • Various websites mentioned during the program, such as getabus.org and whatswrongwithmybody.com, when typed in, lead to the Nickolodeon website.
  • In the pilot episode, Drake and Josh's room had a different doorway and Josh had no bed. In the second season, the doorway faced Drake's bed, possibly a renovation.
  • In one episode Drake says he doesn't like ketchup on hot dogs, while on another episode he is seen eating a hot dog with ketchup.
  • An Aerosmith "Just Push Play" poster can be seen in the back of Drake and Josh's room. Also seen on Drake's wall are posters/stickers of The Ataris, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards,Motion City Soundtrack, The Transplants, blink-182 and Millencolin.
  • Many themes from Drake and Josh are taken from other popular shows from the past, including an episode in which Drake and Josh must get jobs at a sushi assembly plant. This episodes, entitled "I Love Sushi" is a homage to a famous I Love Lucy show.

Merchandising

There is a soundtrack, Drake & Josh: Songs from and inspired by the hit TV show, that was released on March 8, 2005 on Nick Records.

Four episodes from season one have been released on a DVD titled Suddenly Brothers. A second volume, titled Suddenly Family was planned to be released on September 13, 2005 [2], but was withdrawn for unknown reasons. On January 31, 2006, Drake & Josh Go Hollywood was released on DVD, with two episodes from the beginning of the third season included as bonus material ("Helen's Surgery" and "Mindy's Back".) Also, the episode "We're Married" was included in the TEENick Picks DVD.

There are a series of Drake & Josh chapter books. The books are entitled Kid Trouble,Go Hollywood, Blues Brothers, and Sibling Rivalry. These books are based on (in part or full) episodes from the series.

THQ is releasing a Drake & Josh videogame on the Game Boy Advance.

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