50 Fun Facts About Drake & Josh

Drake & Josh was created by which Nickelodeon producer?

He had already cast both boys in The Amanda Show.

Drake and Josh are related how?

Drake's mother Audrey married Josh's father Walter.

In which city does the show take place?

Exteriors of the family home were shot at a house in Encino, Los Angeles.

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

She went straight from Megan to starring as Carly Shay in iCarly.

What are the names of the boys' parents?

Audrey's job is never revealed; a finale scene revealing she ran a catering business was cut.

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

A sketch of the two arguing over a piece of shrimp convinced executives to give them their own show.

What food were the two boys fighting over in the sketch that inspired the series?

The show's finale special was fittingly titled Really Big Shrimp.

On what date did Drake & Josh premiere?

The premiere drew 3.2 million viewers, Nickelodeon's best series launch in nearly a decade.

How many episodes of Drake & Josh were made across its four seasons?

The final new episode aired on September 16, 2007.

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

A year later Nickelodeon aired the standalone Christmas film.

Who sings the theme song 'I Found a Way'?

He co-wrote it with bandmate Michael 'Backhouse Mike' Corcoran; a Lenny Kravitz song was originally planned.

The theme song was originally going to be a track by which artist before Bell wrote his own?

Bell told animator Butch Hartman the story in a 2018 interview.

Where does Josh work from season two onward?

The Premiere became a key set for the rest of the run.

Who is Helen, played by Yvette Nicole Brown?

Frances Callier stood in as Helen for the episode 'Little Diva'.

Which actor played 'Crazy' Steve at the Premiere and later Spencer Shay on iCarly?

He worked at SeaWorld San Diego before acting.

Mindy Crenshaw, Josh's girlfriend, was originally his rival in what?

She was played by Allison Scagliotti.

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

Alec Medlock and Scott Halberstadt played them.

What is the name of the boys' school?

Julia Duffy played their teacher Mrs. Hayfer, who famously hated Drake.

Which future star of Bridge to Terabithia had a recurring role as Liza?

She was among the show's many recurring guest players.

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

A driver fell asleep and hit Bell's 1966 Mustang, which had no seatbelts or airbags.

What classic car was Drake Bell driving when he was injured in 2005?

Filming resumed in March 2006 with 'My Dinner with Bobo'.

Who played Walter in the unaired pilot before Jonathan Goldstein took over?

The Animal House actor was busy with another project when the show was picked up.

Which detail about the boys' mother did the show's creator decide never to reveal, even cutting a finale scene?

He shot a line placing her at a catering business but cut it to 'keep the bit going for eternity'.

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

She lands in Los Angeles instead, and the boys go to Hollywood to fetch her.

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

Josh meets a music producer in a hotel bathroom while playing one of Drake's songs on his laptop.

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

The villains, led by Milo McCreary, are counterfeiters who stole a printing press.

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

Josh's MP3 player was accidentally swapped on the flight with one holding the money blueprints.

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh set Nickelodeon's film-premiere record with how many viewers?

It took the record from iGo to Japan.

In Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh, Drake promises the best Christmas ever to a little girl named what?

He makes the 'unbreakable promise' while hiding from a woman trying to kiss him.

Who is Josh's intimidating cellmate in the Christmas movie, who later plays Santa?

He only pretends to beat Josh up to keep his tough-guy image.

Who acts as Drake and Josh's lawyer in the Christmas movie?

The judge lets them off jail as long as they keep Drake's promise.

How many Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards did Drake & Josh win?

It also won two UK and three Australian Kids' Choice Awards.

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

Scholastic published a companion book series from 2006.

The 2016 online shorts reuniting cast members were titled what?

Bell, Nancy Sullivan and Yvette Nicole Brown returned to search for the missing Walter.

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

He also starred in Nickelodeon's live-action Fairly OddParents films.

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

He signed to Universal Motown the next year, and It's Only Time became a commercial success.

Drake Bell's first television appearance, in 1994, was on which sitcom?

He was born in Newport Beach, California, in 1986.

Josh Peck voices which character in the Ice Age films?

He is one half of the possum brothers.

Josh Peck appeared in which 2023 Christopher Nolan film?

He later starred in Grandfathered on Fox and Turner & Hooch on Disney+.

Josh Peck's YouTube channel, running since 2017, is called what?

He was born in New York City in November 1986.

The actress who played Megan made her acting debut as Summer Hathaway in which 2003 film?

She was named the highest-paid child actor of 2012 by Guinness World Records.

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

They are her highest-grossing films.

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

She was born in East Cleveland, Ohio.

The Nickelodeon sketch series where the boys first met was named for and starred which actress?

It ran from 1999 to 2002 and was itself a spin-off of All That.

Where were the show's interior scenes filmed?

Tribune Studios in Hollywood was also used.

What was the proposed title of the shelved revival Bell and Peck discussed in 2022?

Peck's script cast Drake as a failed musician and Josh as a real estate agent; Bell balked.

Roughly how many viewers watched the Drake & Josh premiere, Nickelodeon's best series debut in nearly a decade?

By 2006 the show sat among the ten most-watched cable programmes each week and topped live-action ratings among two-to-eleven-year-olds.

Which actress plays Mrs. Hayfer, Drake and Josh's long-suffering teacher at Belleview High?

Other recurring neighbours include Dr. Jeff Glazer across the street, who charges the boys a fortune for doing very little.

In which Los Angeles neighbourhood is the house used for exterior shots of the Nichols family home?

Interiors were shot on a sound stage at Nickelodeon on Sunset, with Tribune Studios in Hollywood also used for filming.

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

TokyoPop also put out a Cine-Manga, Match Made in Heaven, based on the first two episodes of season one.