Really Big Shrimp
| Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Drake Bell (first half) Steve Hoefer (second half) |
| 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 a movie of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh and the sequel to Drake and Josh Go Hollywood. It premiered on August 3, 2007, during the Drake vs. Josh Weekend. Drake Bell performed his new song Makes Me Happy.
Drake Bell not only co-starred in this movie but also took turns behind the camera with Drake & Josh director Steve Hoefer, to make his directorial debut.
Many new things are in the movie such as Josh and Mindy back together, Mindy being Josh's boss, and Josh finally getting the assistant manager job at The Premier. (Although he briefly had the assistant manager job in the episode "Helen's Surgery.")
Plot
As the film 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 on 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(s). The recording studio ends up completely ruining Drake's song, turning it into, as Drake put it, "bubblegum pop garbage", and Drake fires Josh.
Drake attempts to plant a tank of fruit flies in the trunk of the record company's representative's car, saying "Sometimes, when someone plays dirty, 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, and that they could sue them for $5,000,000 and end up in prison.
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 purchases that it crashed the server. So, Nick gives him a multi-record contract.
At the wedding, Craig plugs in some extra lights for the wedding filming, and he ends up lighting the premiere on fire. So, Josh delivers a heartfelt speech to Helen, and so she gets married in Buzz's truck bed. 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 film 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
- Mindy says 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
- The song "Makes Me Happy" was the background music in an episode of Zoey 101.
- This movie has the theme song and laugh track like the series. This is in contrast to their first TV movie, which was presented much like Dan Schneider's other production, Zoey 101.
- One of the movies showing at the Premiere is "Now She's Carly" which is an obvious reference to Miranda Cosgrove and her new sitcom on Nickelodeon, iCarly.
- Another movie showing at the Premiere is "4 Great Seasons" which refers to the fourth and final season ending. (This was meant to be the series finale.)
- The FCC is mentioned when Alan Krimm says he could turn the boys into the FCC for what Josh did.
- All of the movies listed on the Premiere marquee were not the same movies advertised on the posters in the theater.
- Megan was shown playing the oboe during Hellen's wedding which was also mentioned earlier in the series.
- This movie takes place in February, due to the fact that the Super Bowl is played during that month.
- Despite the fact the Megan told Drake and Josh that she loved them in the episode Megan's First Kiss, she is still up to her mean pranks.
- Buzz Baxter is Jewish, as Helen talks about a rabbi and at the end, Buzz shatters a glass cup, a tradition in Jewish weddings.
- Drake's band members are different and have no speaking roles.
- Megan's oboe sounds like a clarinet.
- Drake's new bassist plays a Fender Mark Hoppus Bass, while his new back up guitarist is wearing an Angels & Airwaves shirt. Mark Hoppus (now of +44) and Angels & Airwaves guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge were in blink-182 together.
- He plays "Makes Me Happy" 2 times in the movie.
- When Drake plays "Makes Me Happy" for the second time, he starts to play and the drums from the song are not there in the scene but are playing. Various other instruments are heard too.