Really Big Shrimp

Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp
Directed by	Drake Bell (Pt. 1) Steve Hoefer (Pt. 2)
Starring	Drake Bell Josh Peck Miranda Cosgrove Nancy Sullivan Jonathan Goldstein
Release dates	August 3, 2007
Country	United States
Language	English

Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp is an hour long episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh and the sequel to Drake & Josh Go Hollywood. It premiered on August 3, 2007, during the Drake vs. Josh Weekend Drake Bell performed Makes Me Happy from his CD It's Only Time.

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 tomorrow 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 during a Super Bowl commercial, 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(s). The recording studio ends up completely ruining Drake's song, turning it into, as Drake puts it, "bubblegum pop garbagy badness", and Drake fires Josh.

Meanwhile, Mindy has become the new assistant manager at The Premiere because Helen is getting married in a few days, with Craig and Eric as her cameramen. Josh is outraged that Mindy got the job, but as time goes on, Mindy tells Josh that she only took the job so she could spend more time with him. Josh is flattered, and Mindy and Josh are on the verge of getting back together again. Helen needs a place for her grandmother Lula to stay, so Walter offers their house. Lula comes, and turns out to be a crazy old lady. Megan must now live in Drake and Josh's room for a week. Horrified, she takes over her brothers' room for herself, redecorating it to be more "girly" and forcing Drake and Josh to share an old air materess in a corner of the room.

Drake attempts to plant a tank of fruit flies in the trunk of Alan's car, saying, "When people play dirty, sometimes you have to 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 they could sue them for $5,000,000 and that they could end up in prison for two 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 that it crashed the server. So, Nick Matteo (the president of Spin City Records) gives him a multi-record contract. Alan objects to this, but is fired by Nick.

At Helen's wedding, Craig plugs in some extra lights for the wedding filming, and he ends up lighting The Premeire, where Helen gets married, on fire. So, Josh delivers a heartfelt speech to Helen, and so she gets married in her soon-to-be-husband Buzz's truck bed. [There is a possibility that the Premiere was rebuilt, as being seen in "Helicopter"]. Josh and Mindy get back together, Drake has become a huge recording artist, Helen is married, Lula moved out, Josh is now the assistant manager for the Premiere, 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 a Nick Matteo dropped off around 3 dozen shrimp for them. Unfortunately for Drake and Josh, Megan and co. have eaten all of the shrimp except one. The episode ends with Drake and Josh fighting over the shrimp as they flashback to the 1st appearance of Drake and Josh in The Amanda Show.

Subplots

• At the Premiere, Helen becomes impressed with Mindy after she fixes a Corn dog rotisserie that Josh couldn't fix, and gives Mindy the job as assistant manager. This infuriates Josh because he has been working to acquire that position for three years. When Crazy Steve goes berserk due to the fact that Mindy assigned him to work on Monday (which is Crazy Steve's "Bad Day") Josh calms him down with a song after Mindy fails to calm him down. After that, Mindy confronts Josh and reveals that she only took the assistant manager job because she wanted to spend more time with Josh. During the wedding they kiss and decide to get back together.
• 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. Lula stays in Megan's room, while Megan shares Drake and Josh's room. She completely feminizes it, only leaving Drake and Josh with an air mattress for two, a lamp, and a football. Megan's friends come over and the boys are furious. One of Megan's friends, Molly, likes Josh, which all the other girls think is disgusting. Despite the family having a guest room, Megan moves into the boys' bedroom. In a previous episode it was explained that Walter keeps a train set in the guest room.

Trivia

• When Josh and Mindy agree to get back together, Mindy says, "I get to be the girlfriend." This is a reference to the Seson 3 episode, "Mindy's Back", when they first started dating and Josh said, "I get to be the boyfriend!"
• The bathroom that Lula enters at the beginning of the movie is the bathroom on the bottom floor, but in the episode Steered Straight, that room is a closet.
• When Lula barges into Drake and Josh's room, exclaiming "I fixed the toilet!" she has it with her, but if it was fixed, it would still be connected to the bathroom wall.
• A movie poster within the Premiere advertises "The 40-Year-Old Baby." This is probably a mix-up of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Million Dollar Baby.
• During the wedding scene, Drake's guitar is a light brown, but when Helen throws the guitar to Drake at the end, it is blue.
• Unlike the previous movie, Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, this movie is treated more like a regular episode of the show; it is not in widescreen, has the usual camera angles, has a laugh track, begins like all other episodes, and features the theme song.
• The beginning of this episode is almost exactly like 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 directoral debut.
• When you see the movies playing in the movie theater it shows one movie called "Now She's Carly" referring to Miranda Cosgrove going to a new Nick show iCarly in which she plays Carly, and "Four Great Seasons" as a reference to how long Drake and Josh had been on (although it could mean the four seasons of the year).
• In the song 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.
• Alan Krimm is mentioned in Drake & Josh Go Hollywood.
• "Crazy" Steve has a criminal record. In the episode, The Storm, this was implied when "Crazy" Steve slashed the tires off everyone's cars when he wasn't invited to Helen's niece's Bat Mitzvah.
• In The Storm Helen mentioned her niece's Bat Mitzvah, showing that she's Jewish. This is also shown in this movie, as she is married by a rabbi. The wedding also ends with the traditional smashing of the glass.
• This episode serves as the series finale of Drake and Josh, but there were still two episodes aired after it: Helicopter and The Dance Contest.
• We find out that the song "She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain" calms Crazy Steve.
• This episode depicts the fourth wedding to happen on the show, with the other three being Drake and Josh's parents, their Aunt Katherine in The Wedding and Drake and Yooka's temporary marriage in We're Married.
• One of the movies on the maquee of the Premiere is "February Fourth", which was the day of the Super Bowl this year, which serves as a minor plot device in the movie.
• 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.
• We learn that Mindy's dad is the biggest distributor of salmon on the West Coast.
• During the wedding (inside the Premiere),when Megan is playing her oboe, it is really the sound of a clarinet.
• The president of spin city records is named Nick Mateo. In the movie Kazaam with Shaquille O'Neal, the father is named Nick Mateo who is also head of a record label.
• At the end, the Premiere burns down, but in The Helicopter the Premiere is still standing.
• At the end of the movie, it shows Helen offering Josh the assistant manager job. At the beginning of the episode "Helicopter", Josh is wearing a red vest while working behind the counter, countering the previous note. Because this episode chronologically took place after "Helicopter".
• Fourth time Golf is mentioned.
• Running Gag: Crazy Steve blames Josh for eating his enchilada.