Dance Contest

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Dance Contest
Season 4, Episode 20
Air date	September 16, 2007
Written by	George Doty IV
Directed by	Steve Hoefer
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Previous: Helicopter	Next: Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh

Dance Contest is the 57th and final episode of Drake & Josh, and 20th and final episode of the 4th season.

Synopsis

Josh decides to enter a local dance contest, but when Drake realizes he's going to fail gym, he has to enter in order to receive high school credit. So, he steals Josh's dance partner, and that's when things start to go wrong.

Plot

In the opening intro, Drake and Josh come up with a challenge to drink as many cups of coffee as they can. Josh’s cups of coffee contain caffeine which makes him act hyper to the viewers while Drake acts normal because Drake used decaf coffee since Josh didn’t make that rule for the challenge.

Eric is having a going-away party taking place at Drake and Josh's house, which is proven to be boring as usual. To please everyone, Josh shows off his super intense dancing moves, and he is suggested to join the Channel 7 dance contest on TV; Josh agrees to enter the dance contest to not only show off his dance skills, but to finally beat his rival and on-and-off girlfriend Mindy into being #1.

Meanwhile, Drake is being told that he is doing poorly in school and Josh tells him to start focusing more on his homework. Drake agrees but after about 5 seconds, gives up and starts clowning around in his room with a hula hoop. While Drake is playing with the hula hoop, his gym teacher visits their house and notifies Audrey that Drake is failing gym (due to not showing up) and will inevitably have to repeat his junior year since it is too late to make up the missed credits. Drake doesn't want this to happen and decides to enter the Channel 7 dance contest as well to receive extra credit.

At The Premiere, Josh talks to Emily Henderson, who will be his dance partner and is the best dancer in San Diego, about the dance contest; Drake shows up and starts to talk to Emily himself while Josh is forced by his boss Helen to take care of some gangsters in a movie theater (despite it being Josh's day off). When Josh finds out that Drake stole his dance partner Emily (because Drake gave Emily Josh's digital camera), he partners up with the best dancer in Eastern Europe named Vilga, who insults Drake and Emily. Unfortunately, Emily and Vilga don't get along and end up fighting, but Drake and Josh break it up.

At the Channel 7 Dance Studio, Emily and Vilga once again get in a fight and are disqualified from the competition as a result. Drake and Josh are upset and forfeit, until an idea comes to mind. Drake and Josh become dance partners, and they put on an amazing and shocking show in front of the audience and judges, entertaining them all. After they finish, the boys are announced as the winners of the Channel 7 Dance Contest when Audrey and Megan are shocked at Drake and Josh's dancing skills. The obsessed girl, Jackie, then appears to tell both Drake and Josh that they’re awesome while kissing them both and running away. At the end, Drake and Josh says, "Who is she?" ending the series.

During the end credits, Drake's gym teacher was asking Audrey if her husband was lost at sea. He told her that he is not a rich man, but he lives in a nice trailer and has good items. Audrey tells him that her husband is alive and Drake's gym teacher leaves the house.

Cast

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois
• Alec Medlock as Craig Ramirez
• Scott Halberstadt as Eric Blonowitz
• Robin Sydney as Jackie
• Jeremy Rowley as Stage Manager
• Johanna Brady as Emily Henderson
• Angie Gega as Kyra Elliott
• Paul Parducci as Coach Remmers
• Jake Farrow as Gavin Mitchell
• Eliza Swenson as Vilga

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Trivia

• This is the final episode where Walter isn’t shown.
• This is the series finale of Drake & Josh.
• Drake and Josh's final words at the end is “Who is she?”.
• This episode marks the final appearance of Drake, Josh, Megan, Audrey, Eric, Craig, Helen and Gavin in the series.
• This (along with Helicopter) was supposed to take place before Really Big Shrimp, but they were aired out of order, according to Nickelodeon.
  • This can be seen by how Josh is still a red vest and Helen is still working at The Premiere, and how Josh calls Mindy his "Ex-girlfriend", despite getting back together with her in Really Big Shrimp.
• This episode makes it seem like Eric is going away to Puerto Rico permanently, but he appears in the chronologically last episode, "Really Big Shrimp", making it clear that it was only a trip.
  • Thus, Josh throwing Eric a going-away party, and Craig's reaction to Eric "leaving", are complete overreactions. It would be more understandable if the trip was going to be for several months or longer, but episodes that air next to one another (like this episode and "Really Big Shrimp) most likely take place only a few weeks (or a month at most) apart from each other so Eric's trip should only have been for a few weeks.
• This episode premiered on the day during Dance Night on TeenNick.
• Zoey 101 also shared this episode with the same title, which coincidentally premiered after this episode. 
• Even though he skips gym, it is clear that Drake is getting exercise on his own time, seeing as he was playing with a hula hoop.
• The stage manager was played by Jeremy Rowley, who later played Lewbert on iCarly. He says stop it sixteen times.
• The girl from Blues Brothers makes her second and final appearance.
• This episode marks the final time someone gets kissed in the series before Merry Christmas Drake and Josh a year later.

Goofs

• Realistically, a teacher would not show up at a student's house. The gym teacher would have told the guidance counselor and/or the principal and Drake would have been told at school.
• Helen orders Josh to stop some hoodlums with bats from making noise in the theater. Legally, she cannot make Josh work on his day off unless she is going to be willing to pay extra/overtime and Josh would have still had the right to refuse.
  • Additionally, since Josh is a minor and unlikely a trained for a security position at the Premiere, along with the patrons having bats that qualify as weapons on the premises, Helen should be calling the police or the security team shown in the episode, Josh is Done, to take care of the problem instead.
• At the beginning when Josh was throwing the party, there was an old lady just sitting in the corner and no one knew her. Wouldn't they have questioned who she was before she even walked into the house? Also why didn't they make her leave instead of everyone else leaving?
• If Emily and Vilga were disqualified for their physical insults and gets thrown out of the competition by a strict stage manager, what exactly happened with them? Though they were most likely escorted out of the building somewhere in the alley and fight each other once more since nobody was there to stop them, by the time Drake and Josh won the competition and they could have shared the good news to them.