100 Fun Facts About Drake & Josh

Drake & Josh was created by which Nickelodeon producer?

Dan Schneider. A former actor on the 1980s sitcom Head of the Class, he said Josh reminded him of himself as a kid: funny, and sometimes a little awkward.

Drake and Josh are related how?

Stepbrothers. In the pilot Drake is horrified by the news, and more so when he finds Josh secretly writes the school paper's advice column as 'Miss Nancy'.

In which city is Drake & Josh set?

San Diego. In 'Foam Finger' the brothers work out that they first met as small boys at a Padres game, brawling over the last foam finger.

Who played Drake and Josh's scheming little sister Megan?

Miranda Cosgrove. Her Megan plays the angel for her parents, so they never believe the boys, and it is usually the brothers who are punished for her pranks.

What job does Josh's father do on local television in Drake & Josh?

Weatherman. His forecasts are so often wrong that his own family prefers a rival forecaster, Bruce Winchill, whose name he bans from the house.

Drake and Josh were spun off from which Nickelodeon sketch series?

The Amanda Show. Bell and Peck were supporting players there, and their knack for comic conflict, on camera and off, convinced the producer to pair them in a sitcom.

Drake and Josh steal Megan's rare Peruvian puff pepper to win a contest for making what?

Salsa. The boys win the new television, then lose it when the judges learn the pepper is illegal in the United States, and runner-up Megan takes the prize.

Which talk-show host does Josh accidentally hit with his car on his birthday in a season-four Drake & Josh episode?

Oprah Winfrey. She is Josh's idol, and the birthday present Drake gives him at the end is a restraining order with her signature on it.

Which Blues Brothers hit do Drake and Josh perform to win a talent show after a rival band steals Drake's song?

Soul Man. Josh joins Drake mid-performance, which cures the stage fright that had left him twitching and sweating on live television.

What was the title of the special that served as the Drake & Josh series finale?

Really Big Shrimp. Josh signs away the rights to Drake's song without reading the record contract, because a plate of giant prawns has him mesmerised.

What is the title of the Drake & Josh theme song, sung by Drake Bell?

I Found a Way. Bell wrote it with bandmate Michael Corcoran, and its promise to pick someone up when he is down mirrors the bond between the show's two leads.

In a season-two Drake & Josh episode, the boys are arrested for selling stolen grills endorsed by which former child star?

Gary Coleman. He appears as himself to collect the grill money, and since the boys have spent it, he takes nearly everything they bought, leaving one chair.

Where does Josh work from season two onward?

A movie theater. His boss at the Premiere is hard on him however much he works, yet adores Drake, whom she once hired and promoted over him.

Who is Helen Dubois, played by Yvette Nicole Brown, in Drake & Josh?

Josh's boss. Helen manages him at the Premiere, and she outlived the show: the character later turns up as a school principal in Victorious.

Which actor played 'Crazy' Steve in Drake & Josh before starring as Spencer Shay?

Jerry Trainor. His Steve is so unstable that he screams at the cartoon characters in Dora the Explorer and is never rostered on Mondays, his 'bad days'.

Before they date, Mindy Crenshaw beats Josh every year at which school contest?

The science fair. Mindy wins it year after year, and the one time Josh finally beats her, he finds out she let him win.

What are the names of Drake and Josh's two nerdy friends?

Craig and Eric. Drake ropes the pair into his schemes yet still can't tell them apart, and keeps calling Eric 'Craig'.

What is the name of Drake and Josh's school?

Belleview High. In one episode Drake stands trial before the school's honor council there, framed for parking a teacher's car in the middle of her classroom.

Which future film star played Liza in one season-two episode of Drake & Josh?

AnnaSophia Robb. Then unknown, she appeared in 'Number 1 Fan' months before Because of Winn-Dixie and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory made her name.

Production stopped for months in season four after Drake Bell was injured how?

A head-on car crash. A driver who had reportedly fallen asleep hit Bell's 1966 Mustang as he waited to turn, fracturing his neck and jaw.

Drake spends the car money he and Josh saved on Bobo, who is what kind of animal?

An orangutan. The boys sell Bobo for thousands of dollars, then rush to get him back when Megan finds out the buyer is known for eating rare primates.

Megan promises three months without pranks if Drake and Josh hide which pet of hers in their bedroom?

A sheep. Megan bought it online, and the truce turns sour when it gives birth to a lamb on Drake's bed and the boys end up grounded for a month.

Which detail about the boys' mother did the creator of Drake & Josh never reveal, even cutting a finale scene?

Her profession. A filmed finale line asked how her catering business was going and used her first name, but the creator cut it so fans could go on guessing both.

In Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, Megan is meant to fly to which city before boarding the wrong plane?

Denver. Storms there keep Megan grounded in Los Angeles, so she hires a limousine and checks into a luxury hotel while her brothers hunt for her.

In Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, Drake gets booked to appear on which MTV show?

TRL. Josh lands the booking in a hotel bathroom, playing Drake's music to a man from the show who has just lost his musical act.

Whose Viper do the boys 'borrow' to escape in Drake & Josh Go Hollywood?

Tony Hawk's. The skateboarder's manager later lets the boys keep driving it to Drake's big TV date, because Hawk owns three more Vipers.

What crime do the villains in Drake & Josh Go Hollywood commit?

Counterfeiting money. Josh's music player is swapped on the flight with one of the gang's, and Megan ends their scheme by blowing the fake cash around with giant fans.

In 2008, Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh took Nickelodeon's live-action TV-movie viewing record from which show?

iCarly. Its film iGo to Japan had set the record with 7.6 million viewers a month earlier; then a series that had ended the year before came back and topped it with 8.1 million.

What does Drake promise a little girl in Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh?

The best Christmas ever. He blurts it out to Mary Alice while dodging a woman who wants to kiss him, and a judge later makes keeping it the price of staying out of jail.

In Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh, who is Josh's intimidating cellmate who later plays Santa?

Bludge. Played by street fighter Kimbo Slice, he takes to Josh and only pretends to beat him up, punching the cell walls to keep his tough-guy image.

Who acts as the boys' lawyer in Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh?

Helen. She pleads their case before a judge played by Henry Winkler, who agrees to keep the brothers out of jail on one condition.

Which talent show beat Drake & Josh to the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite TV Show in 2007, between its two wins?

American Idol. Drake & Josh took the orange blimp in 2006 and 2008, and Drake Bell softened the 2007 loss by winning Favorite TV Actor that night.

Which company published the two Drake & Josh video games for Game Boy Advance and DS in 2007?

THQ. It held a long-term Nickelodeon licence built on cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants, and announced Drake & Josh as a live-action hit joining that line-up.

What were the 2016 online shorts reuniting Drake & Josh cast members called?

Where's Walter? Drake Bell returned as Drake to report the boys' father missing, and Yvette Nicole Brown and other old castmates posted videos joining the search.

Drake Bell voiced which superhero on Disney XD from 2012 to 2017?

Spider-Man. In Ultimate Spider-Man his Peter Parker is recruited by the spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. and has to learn to work with a team of other young heroes.

What was the title of Drake Bell's independently released 2005 debut album?

Telegraph. Bell put it out himself, and it carries the full three-minute version of his Drake & Josh theme song, which runs under a minute on the show.

Which instrument does Megan play in Drake & Josh, often heading off to practise it?

Oboe. In the Christmas film Drake buys her help with the promise of a rare oboe, and she walks out when she learns he never had one to give.

Josh Peck voices which character in the Ice Age films?

Eddie. He and Crash are possum brothers, and their adopted sister Ellie is a mammoth who grew up convinced she is a possum too.

Josh Peck has a small role in which 2023 film?

Oppenheimer. Peck plays Kenneth Bainbridge, who ran the Trinity test and told Oppenheimer straight afterwards that they were all 'sons of bitches' now.

Josh Peck starred in a 2021 Disney+ series that continued the story of which Tom Hanks film?

Turner & Hooch. Peck plays the son of Hanks's detective, a buttoned-up US Marshal who inherits a big, unruly dog of his own.

Megan's actress on Drake & Josh made her film debut as Summer Hathaway in which 2003 comedy?

School of Rock. Her Summer is the class's precocious high achiever, whom Jack Black's fake teacher wins over by putting her in charge as the band's manager.

The actress who played Megan voices which character in the Despicable Me films?

Margo. She is one of three orphan sisters the supervillain Gru adopts purely as a way of getting inside his rival's fortress.

Yvette Nicole Brown, who played Helen, went on to star as Shirley Bennett in which sitcom?

Community. Brown left after five seasons to care for her ailing father, saying she could not be away from him 16 hours a day for months of filming.

In a season-three Drake & Josh episode, the siblings sneak out of the house to ride the Demonator, a new what?

Roller coaster. They leave two friends minding their great-grandfather at home, and the wait in line proves far more eventful than the ride itself.

Where were the interior scenes of Drake & Josh filmed?

Nickelodeon on Sunset in Hollywood, though Tribune Studios was used too. The Sunset building opened in 1938 as showman Earl Carroll's nightclub, long before the children's network moved in.

Drake Bell said in 2022 that a shelved Drake & Josh revival would have been called what?

Josh & Drake. Bell and his wife said the script, which they credited to Peck, made Drake a failed musician and Josh a real estate agent, and that Bell wanted changes.

Rebuilding a neighbour's tree house, what do Drake and Josh forget to cut out before nailing on the last wall?

A doorway. The brothers seal themselves inside, and Megan, who is missing a birthday party over the rebuild, refuses to let them out.

Which Drake & Josh teacher has the catchphrase 'I hate you, Drake'?

Mrs. Hayfer. Drake just answers 'I know', and the feud outlasts school: in the Christmas film he drives into a fire hydrant and soaks her as she walks past.

What happened in 2018 to the real-life Drake & Josh house?

It was demolished. The Encino house had been sold months earlier, and Drake Bell dropped by that July to find an empty lot with only the mailbox left.

Which publisher released the Drake & Josh book series, written by Laurie McElroy, from 2006?

Scholastic. Laurie McElroy stitched most of the novels together from pairs of episodes: Sibling Revelry, for one, retells 'The Bet' and 'Peruvian Puff Pepper'.

Which children's cartoon leaves Crazy Steve of Drake & Josh screaming at the characters on screen?

Dora the Explorer frustrates Crazy Steve so much that he yells at the cartoon. During a storm, a friend of the boys has to keep cranking an old television set by hand so he can go on watching it.

A Drake & Josh scene on a speeding sushi conveyor belt pays homage to which classic sitcom?

I Love Lucy is honoured in the episode's title, I Love Sushi, and in its fish factory, named Ball & Vance after the stars Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. Even the end credits copy the old show's style.

Drake & Josh reveals the boys first met as children at a baseball game, fighting over the last what?

Foam finger in hand, each boy remembers the other striking first, and the quarrel flares up again years later. The stadium clerk finally settles it: baby Megan started the fight by throwing a cookie from her stroller.

What does Crazy Steve feed into a wood chipper to make snow in Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh?

Cheese gives the family its white Christmas after an earlier try with ice hurled large chunks across the neighbourhood. Steve's wood chipper even has a name, Sally.

After a bet over junk food and video games in Drake & Josh, the losers dye their hair which colour?

Pink ends up on almost everyone, because a loophole in the contract signed with Megan means both boys lose, and so do the parents who bet on them. Drake cheats one last time by wearing a wig.

Drake Bell of Drake & Josh played a grown-up Timmy in live-action films of which cartoon?

The Fairly OddParents went live-action in 2011, four years after Drake & Josh ended, with Bell in the lead. He returned for A Fairly Odd Christmas the following year.

In Drake & Josh, the boys doctor an image on Josh's laptop to convince stargazing Megan of what?

An alien invasion seems real to Megan once a friend rewires the kitchen so that the boys can control its appliances. She gets the last laugh when a pal of hers, dressed as an alien, scares her brothers away.

Which dangerous activity does Drake win a chance to try in Drake & Josh, only for his parents to forbid it?

Skydiving goes wrong before anyone jumps: Josh blasts the pilot out of the helicopter with a fire extinguisher, and the boys bail out sharing one parachute. The bill for the wrecked aircraft is $400,000.

What is Josh's surname in Drake & Josh, shared with his father but not with Drake or Megan?

Nichols is the name Josh's father brings to the marriage, while Drake and Megan keep their mother's surname, Parker. The mother of the blended household takes both, joined by a hyphen.

The Drake & Josh boys dread Megan's revenge after a camera flash seems to kill which pet of hers?

Hamster Hervay was only stunned by the flash, but Megan lets her brothers stew in fear for days. Her real payback comes when she blows a hole in their bedroom floor and drops them into the garage.

Drake secretly hustles strangers in Drake & Josh after discovering Josh's talent for which game?

Pool comes easily to Josh because he treats every shot as a geometry and physics problem. Drake takes the idea from Megan, who had just hustled him at darts.

To earn a night out with friends in Drake & Josh, Drake must beat Josh's grandmother at which sport?

Basketball looks like an easy win for Drake until Grammy reveals she let him take the first game, then beats him in a rematch. She still keeps his concert trouble from his parents and quietly returns his $200.

What are the Drake & Josh boys taking to a great-aunt's big day when their borrowed ride catches fire?

The cake burns along with the 1970s El Camino the boys borrowed, after a parking ticket, a mugging and a tow-truck driver Drake insulted. The family had hoped the 89-year-old bride would leave them her beach house.

As a student teacher in Drake & Josh, Josh sets Megan's class college-level quizzes in which subject?

Chemistry is where Drake and Megan end his teaching career, swapping his safe chemical for one that explodes on contact. The class then gives him a trophy, because the fiasco makes their hated regular teacher quit.

Megan books her bickering brothers onto a talk show hosted by which TV therapist in Drake & Josh?

Dr. Phyllis, a send-up of Dr. Phil, ends up attacking Drake on air after he insults a girl he once dated, who turns out to be her daughter. Megan settles the feud herself with a knockout smoke bomb.

To avenge an eaten cookie in Drake & Josh, Megan secretly dyes Drake's hands and feet which colour?

Green is the tell-tale sign of a rare skin disease Megan has read about, so Drake believes he is ill. He is partway through a revolting cure involving lizard urine when she gloats that it was only dye.

A confused elderly relative in Drake & Josh attacks his babysitters, thinking he is back in which war?

World War II is where the old veteran thinks he is, so he takes the two schoolfriends minding him for German soldiers and smashes a phone he mistakes for a weapon. He later knocks out Josh's father too.

Tiberius, the vicious dog that traps the Drake & Josh boys in a teacher's bathroom, is which breed?

Rottweiler Tiberius only turns on men, staying perfectly calm whenever Megan walks in. The boys finally slip out by distracting him with raw meat from the kitchen, after he has cornered an animal control officer too.

In Drake & Josh, Megan rewires which household device to make it snow inside her brothers' bedroom?

Thermostat control sits in the boys' bedroom, and they refuse to let Megan turn up the heat. Her revenge drops the temperature in their room so far that snow falls indoors.

Under which pen name does Josh write a secret school advice column in the Drake & Josh pilot?

Miss Nancy is Josh's guilty secret, since he believes he must dress as a woman to give good advice. Drake uses the discovery as blackmail to win a date, and Josh ends up in a fight with the girl's boyfriend.

In Drake & Josh, Drake gives away and then steals back his autographed copy of which Beatles album?

Abbey Road is the peace offering Josh makes Drake hand over after Drake kisses a friend's girlfriend. When the gift fails to win back their party invitations, the boys gatecrash in sci-fi costumes to take it back.

Which guitar, signed by Zero Gravity's lead guitarist, does Josh blow up in Drake & Josh?

A Fender Stratocaster and concert tickets are Drake's radio prize, until Josh plugs the guitar into a faulty amplifier. Josh's attempt to replace it ends with the star's hand broken and Drake playing the show instead.

Before scoring a winning touchdown in Drake & Josh, Josh joins the football team in which role?

Equipment manager Josh is forced onto the field after his brownies, spiked with flowerpot dirt by Megan, make the team's center ill. Drake first sneaks the school janitor, a former pro, into the game in his place.

What does Josh grow in Drake & Josh that nobody approves of, least of all his girlfriend Mindy?

A mustache is Josh's proud new look while Drake is busy trying to make an ex-girlfriend jealous. Even Mindy cannot stand it and tries to goad him into shaving.

Josh's pen pal, accidentally married to Drake in Drake & Josh, comes from which fictional country?

Yudonia holds goats sacred, which is how the boys get the marriage annulled: they serve one to the bride's parents. Drake regrets it at once, having just learned that her father is a billionaire.

Which run-down vehicle do the Drake & Josh boys fix up before Drake crashes it on a forbidden drive?

A dune buggy from Drake's friend Trevor arrives in dire need of repair, and the parents ban the boys from driving it once it runs. Drake's two-week grounding turns into bed rest, with Josh waiting on him.

Drake is framed in Drake & Josh when what is found parked inside his English teacher's classroom?

Her car turns up in the middle of the classroom, and Drake is suspended without proof. Josh defends him before the school's honor council and unmasks the real prankster, a star pupil avenging the only B she ever received.

Which Drake Bell song is remixed for a Super Bowl shoe advert in the Drake & Josh finale?

Makes Me Happy lands in a label's hands because Josh signs away the creative rights without reading the contract. He makes amends by secretly swapping the original back in before the advert airs.

Which record label signs Drake in the Drake & Josh finale, then threatens to sue him?

Spin City Records plans to sue for five million dollars after its remix is switched out of a big advert. The label's president drops the case when fans flood the company with requests for the original song.

Faded magician Henry Doheny revives his career in Drake & Josh with which stunt suggested by Megan?

Staging his own death fools everyone, and Doheny only reveals the trick by turning up alive at his funeral. It wins him a five-year deal in Las Vegas, and Megan a $50,000 cheque for the idea.

Megan frees her trapped brothers in Drake & Josh only if they buy which vehicle she has picked out?

A yellow Beetle is Megan's price for getting her brothers out of a locked closet. The boys had saved up for a cool ride of their own, so their friends tease them about the flowery one.

After the Drake & Josh boys are grounded for hiding one secret pet, Megan buys which animal next?

A zebra turns up on the last night of the boys' month-long grounding. Having taken the blame for her first animal, which gave birth on Drake's bed, they decide to have nothing to do with this one.

The Drake & Josh boys are put on a police scare programme after using what to enter a nightclub?

Fake IDs come in handy a second time. When a real carjacker hijacks their police ride, the boys pose as hardened criminals under the same false names.

Which gadget of Josh's, swapped on a flight, puts crooks on his trail in Drake & Josh Go Hollywood?

His MP3 player, a G-O, is switched with an identical one belonging to a crook when a passenger falls into Josh's lap. The other device holds the gang's secret plans, so they kidnap both brothers to get it back.

The parole officer in Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh hates the holiday over which childhood pet?

A chimpanzee was all he wanted as a boy, but the one he finally received attacked him and ran off, souring him on the season. Josh wins him over by secretly giving him a friendlier one.

Which never-seen rival of Josh's father has his name banned from the Drake & Josh house?

Bruce Winchill does the same job at another station and, unlike Josh's father, is always right. Worse, the boys' mother and Megan both have a crush on him because of his good hair.

Jake Farrow, a Drake & Josh writer, also played which mullet-haired Premiere employee?

Gavin was played by Farrow, the writer credited on The Drake & Josh Inn and Girl Power. His running joke is being told to pass a cleaning job on to Josh, then quietly doing it himself.

How does Drake try to prove he is tougher than a girlfriend who beat up bullies in Drake & Josh?

A wrestling match in the boys' bedroom is meant to stay upstairs, since Josh is hosting dinner for Mindy's strict parents below. The fight tumbles into the living room, yet the evening still wins them over.

What do the boys win as a pair in the last Drake & Josh episode to air?

A dance contest is Josh's route to top of the class and Drake's only way to avoid repeating junior year. The rivals end up dancing together after their partners brawl backstage.

Which High School Musical star appeared in one Drake & Josh episode as a girl named Rebecca?

Vanessa Hudgens made her guest appearance in the episode Little Sibling in 2006, the same year High School Musical made her a star. Dianna Agron also passed through the show in a small early role.

Which Animal House actor played Josh's father in the unaired Drake & Josh pilot?

Stephen Furst, the film's hapless Flounder, was busy with another project by the time the series was picked up, so Jonathan Goldstein took over the role of Josh's father.

Before Drake Bell co-wrote one, the Drake & Josh theme was to be a song by which rock star?

Lenny Kravitz was the plan until Bell and a bandmate recorded a one-minute demo in 2003 and played it for the show's creator. He had been reluctant to listen, in case he had to turn his young star down.

Julia Duffy, the teacher who loathes Drake in Drake & Josh, earned Emmy nominations for which sitcom?

Newhart cast Duffy as the spoiled heiress Stephanie Vanderkellen, a role that brought her an Emmy nomination every year from 1984 to 1990. Two decades later she was telling Drake how much she disliked him.

Allison Scagliotti, Mindy in Drake & Josh, later played Claudia Donovan in which Syfy series?

Warehouse 13 introduced her character early in its first season in 2009, and she stayed with the show through to 2014. She also performs as a musician under the name La Femme Pendu.

Randee Heller, Grammy in Drake & Josh, played the hero's mother in which 1984 film?

The Karate Kid cast her as Lucille LaRusso, mother of Ralph Macchio's Daniel. She returned to the part in 2018 for the streaming series Cobra Kai, and earned an Emmy nomination for a guest role in Mad Men.

Good things keep happening to Josh in Drake & Josh while he wears which ugly item of clothing?

A shirt so ugly that it seems lucky brings him a perfect score, free video games and a date with a model. After it is given away to Goodwill, its next wearer wins the lottery.

Drake Bell rejoined his Drake & Josh co-star in a 2016 episode of which John Stamos sitcom?

Grandfathered cast Josh Peck as the son a bachelor restaurant owner never knew he had. Bell guest-starred as Kirk Kelly, an investor to whom Peck's character pitches one of his apps.

Drake blackmails Josh into chauffeuring him in Drake & Josh after Josh gets a ticket for what?

Running a stop sign comes just after Josh gets his licence, which Drake has failed to do. Afraid of losing it, Josh lets Drake pay the fine in exchange for rides, until a broken taillight brings a second ticket.

Drake accidentally cooks with which spice, a deadly allergen for Josh's father, in Drake & Josh?

Cumin wrecks the boys' plan to rekindle their parents' romance, after they wrongly suspect an affair. The mystery woman is really a TV producer, and their meddling costs Josh's father a national job.

Which console, a gift from his grandmother, tempts Josh to break a no-gaming bet in Drake & Josh?

GameSphere arrives brand new from Grammy just as Josh has sworn off gaming, and Drake torments him by playing it in front of him. Josh hits back by turning their bedroom into a candy palace.