50 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'.