Paging Dr. Drake

Paging Dr. Drake is the name of the 28th episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh. It first aired on October 1st, 2005 as a third season episode.

Plot synopsis

Josh drops a large barbell on his foot, due to Drake hitting Josh with a potato gun, and has to go to the hospital. He discovers that he will be having surgery in a few hours. While in his room, a doctor comes in. Josh asks about the surgery, and the man removes his mask, revealing that he is really Drake.

Josh is trying to talk Drake out of the idea of impersonating a doctor to impress nurses when a real doctor (John O'Hurley) walks into the room. The doctor acts as if he knows who Drake is (Dr. Elliot Nussbaum, a famous medical practitioner), and asks him to perform a surgery in front of a group of medical students.

Drake is about to start the surgery, not knowing what to do, when Josh walks into the room, dressed as a doctor. He informs the "audience" that he and Drake (whom everyone thinks is someone else) are colleagues. They pretend to start surgery when Josh blurts out, "I kissed your wife." They started pretending to fight, and walk out of the room, leaving real doctors to do the surgery.

When Drake and Josh get back to Josh's room, Josh jumps back to the bed and John O'Hurley's character walks in with the real Dr. Nussbaum, and informs Drake that what he has done is illegal. Drake then jumps out of the window and breaks his arm and scrapes his cheek.

The next scene is at the boys' bedroom. Previously in this episode, Megan fixed the boys' thermostat system. Drake and Josh sit on the couch, and mention to each other how cold it is. The episode ends as it starts to snow in the room.

Trivia

• The hospital that Josh goes to in this episode, "St. Schneider", is named after Dan Schneider.
• When Josh gets into his cot, he wrapped the blanket around his legs. In the next shot, the blanket is covering Josh's legs.
• The Second episode in this season to feature the people's unintelligence.
• The first of two appearances of Dr. Nusbaum.
• Just before we first see what has happened with Josh's foot, after Walter takes his shoe off, he was not wearing a sock. It seems odd to wear a shoe without a sock, but before he had socks on.
• Fudgie collects Josh's socks.