Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp
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| Drake & Josh and the Really Big Shrimp | |
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| Directed by | Drake Bell (Pt. 1)
Steve Hoefer (Pt. 2) |
| Starring | Drake Bell Josh Peck Miranda Cosgrove Nancy Sullivan Jonathan Goldstein |
| Release date(s) | August 3, 2007 |
| Running time | 48 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Drake & Josh Go Hollywood |
Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp is an hour-length special of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh and the sequel to Drake & Josh Go Hollywood. This hour-length episode is the series finale in chronological order. It premiered on August 3, 2007, during the Drake vs. Josh Weekend, In the movie Drake Bell performed "Makes Me Happy" from his album It's Only Time.
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[edit] Plot
As the episode opens, Drake performs his new song, "Makes Me Happy" live at The Premiere in front of Alan Krimm from Spin City Records. The representative is amazed at Drake's song, and asks him to come to Spin City Records HQ the next day to sign a record deal. They go, and Drake is given a deal. The recording studio then says that Drake's song will be shown on a tennis shoe commercial during the Super Bowl, seen by 50,000,000 people around the world. While Drake is recording the song, Josh is told that he must sign a "standard" contract. Josh doesn't read the contract at all, mesmerized by massive shrimp. So Josh mindlessly signs the contract and ends up signing away all creative rights to Drake's song. The recording studio ends up completely ruining Drake's song, turning it into, as Drake puts it, "horrible bubblegum pop garbage-y badness", and Drake fires Josh as his band manager.
Drake attempts to plant a tank of fruit flies in the trunk of Alan's car, saying, "When people play dirty, sometimes you just gotta play dirty back". Josh, unfortunately, takes this to heart and switches the awful song with the original recording and gives the original to the Super Bowl commercial deliverer. So the original song is heard on National TV and the recording studio calls to tell the boys that giving the original song to the company was illegal, a violation of their contract, that the record label could sue them for $5,000,000 and that they could end up in prison for 2 years.
They go the next day, and end up finding out that the song was a huge hit, and that they've gotten thousands of e-mails and phone calls since the commercial debut. They put the song up for sale on the Spin City Records website, and they had so many downloaded purchases and emails that it crashed the server. So, Nick Matteo (the president of Spin City Records) gives Drake a multi-record contract. Alan objects to this, and Nick reveals he found out about Krimm's scheme to wreck the song and then fires him for attempting to wreck a song. Drake then reveals he put fruit flies in the car.
A subplot of the movie is Helen's marriage. Previously, Walter offered to Helen some space for Helen's family guests to stay, and the Parker-Nichols family end up lodging Helen's large and angry grandmother, Lula. She sleeps in Megan's room, so, much to the disgust of Megan, Drake and Josh, Megan has to share Drake and Josh's room. Taking Drake's bed, she puts her own girly touches to the room, and leaves a small space for Drake and Josh to sleep on the floor.
At Helen's wedding, Craig plugs in some extra lights for the wedding filming, and he ends up setting The Premiere, where Helen gets married, on fire. So, Josh delivers a heartfelt speech to Helen, and she decides to get married in her soon-to-be-husband Buzz's truck bed. Josh and Mindy get back together, Drake has become a huge recording artist, Helen is married, Lula goes home, Josh is now the assistant manager for the Premiere and is rehired as Drake's band manager, Megan gets her room back, and everyone is happy.
Back at home, Megan and her friends are moving out of Drake and Josh's room, saying that Nick Matteo dropped off around 3 dozen shrimp for them. Unfortunately for Drake and Josh, Megan and her friends have eaten all of the shrimp except one. The episode ends with Drake and Josh fighting over the shrimp when they drop it outside the window, and the first scene they ever starred in The Amanda Show where they fight over a piece of shrimp that falls from a window above after Penelope Taynt threw it to keep it away from Barney the Security Guard, showing that even after substantial and significant changes in their life occur, they still remain the same people they were, years before.
[edit] Subplots
- At the Premiere, Helen becomes impressed with Mindy after she fixes a corn dog rotisserie that Josh couldn't fix. Josh then implies that they don't need to be rotating however the representitive of Spin City Records later takes notice of the rotating corn dogs. Mindy then gets the job of assistent manager which infuriates Josh as he has been trying to get that job for the last three years. When Crazy Steve goes berserk because Mindy assigned him to work on Monday (which is Crazy Steve's "Bad Day") and Crazy Steve was shouting "Cockel Doodle Do! The cow says moo!" Josh calms him down with "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" after Mindy fails to calm him down. After that, Mindy talks with Josh and reveals that she only took the assistant manager job because she wanted to spend more time with Josh. She adds that after they originally broke up (from the episode: Mindy Loves Josh), she wished they hadn't broken up, about 45 minutes after. During the wedding they kiss and decide to get back together, with Mindy's reply being "But I get to be the girlfriend". (a reference to the episode: Mindy's Back, when they originally became a couple).
- Helen is marrying Buzz Baxter, and her whole family is staying at her home, and she simply doesn't have enough space, so Helen's grandmother, Lula, stays at the Parker-Nichols home for a week. After breaking the front door and the toilet, Lula stays in Megan's room, while Megan shares Drake and Josh's room. Horrified, she takes over the boys' bedroom, completely feminizing it, only leaving Drake and Josh with an air mattress for two, a lamp, and a football.
- Josh accidentally eats Crazy Steve's enchilada. Afterwards, Crazy Steve surprisingly stays relatively calm. When Josh asks him why, it is revealed that Crazy Steve is only allowed to get angry at four different times of the day. Soon, Crazy Steve pulls an old man's cane from under him, stating it's time, screaming "You ate my enchilada!" and Josh replies "There was no note!" running away from him. It happens again soon after.
- After Megan takes over Drake and Josh's room, she also hosts parties with her friends to prepare for a bake sale. After she tells the boys to leave, one of her friends says "No wait, one of them's cute." We assume she means Drake, because he's had one or two of Megan's friends have a crush on him in the past. However we find out she was referring to Josh, because after Drake leaves the room, the girl whispers to Megan to say something for her, and Megan says "Hey Josh, Molly thinks you're cute." Then all of Megan's friends simultaneously exclaim "EWW!" Josh is perplexed, but leaves the room. Later the same girl frequently runs into him saying "Call me!", with the other girls responding "EWW!"
[edit] Reception
The premiere of Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp brought in 5.8 million viewers.[1]
[edit] Trivia
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- The beginning of this episode is similar to the beginning of the first episode of the series.
- Drake Bell not only co-starred in this movie but also directed the first half of the episode, making his directorial debut. The second half was directed by Steve Hoefer, who also directed "Drake & Josh Go Hollywood".
- In the movie, Drake plays "Makes Me Happy" the lyrics are almost completely different as they are on his album It's Only Time, due to licensing reasons. This version was also heard on the Zoey 101 episode Quinn's Alpaca but it is not drake bell singing
- Big Shrimp is mentioned in the episode 'Pool Shark', at the start of the episode Drake & Josh talk about their relationship and Josh says as a joke "Maybe I'll move to Australia... I heard they have big shrimp there."
- "Crazy" Steve has a criminal record. In the episode, "The Storm", this was implied when "Crazy" Steve slashed the tires of everyone's cars when he wasn't invited to Helen's niece's Bat Mitzvah.
- At the end of the movie, Drake & Josh fight over the last shrimp. A flashback from a segment on The Amanda Show is shown where Drake and Josh fight over a shrimp on the ground. The segment was the first appearance of the two together on The Amanda Show (Drake had been on the show since the beginning, while Josh was a new addition at the time.) This was said to be the inspiration for the show, Drake & Josh.
- In the end, Josh and Mindy get back together again, but in "The Dance Contest", Josh notifies Mindy as his ex-girlfriend because in chronological order, Really Big Shrimp is supposed to be the last episode of season four. Nickelodeon aired them at different times.
- One of the posters inside The Premiere has a movie called "The 40-Year Old Baby", a reference to the movie "The 40-Year Old Virgin" and "Million Dollar Baby".
- In the beginning of the episode the front of the premiere is shown with two titles of movies. One being "Four Great Seasons" which refers to how long the show ran. The other being "Now She's Carly" which refers to the then-upcoming TeenNick show iCarly where Miranda Cosgrove "Megan's" name is Carly.
- In the 'Zoey 101' TV movie "Zoey 101: Goodbye Zoey?" Lola and Quinn are seen watching the tennis shoe commercial that is in Really Big Shrimp.
- In the movie Drake plays Make Me Happy for Daka Shoes, which are also the same brand shown in the iCarly episode "iSponsor"
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