Foam Finger

"I ain't calling' you a truther!"

―Josh

Foam Finger
Season 3, Episode 9
Air date	October 8, 2005
Written by	Dan Schneider
Directed by	Roger Christiansen
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Foam Finger is the ninth episode of the third season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

Drake and Josh recall a fight that they had at a football game, then fight about which one of them started the ruckus in the first place.

Plot

In the opening intro, Drake talks about dating his old girlfriend, Monique and Josh talks about his pet rat, Bobo.

When the kids are getting home from school. Megan switches the note Josh left on the counter from "Do Not Touch" to telling Drake he can have the last one. Drake eats the strudel and Josh walks in to find Drake doing so and told him he was not supposed to take it. While they argued, Megan switched the notes back without them noticing. Drake decides to finish the strudel anyway.

Later that night, while doing homework with Drake, Josh refuses to watch a San Diego Padres baseball game on TV with the rest of the family because of an incident from 8 years ago that he still remembers, when he got into a fight with another boy (later turning out to be Drake) who bought the last foam finger before he could. Coincidentally, Drake then recalls that he too got into a fight at a Padres game from 8 years ago at Qualcomm Stadium, because it is revealed that he was the one who bought the last foam finger, wrecking Josh's chance to buy one himself. Now the two realize that they had met (before their 7th grade year at middle school) and fought with each other, at that Padres game from eight years ago. Both boys believe that the other started the fight, and their flashback scenes depict different circumstances based on their own memory of the event, which are based on their opinions.

In Josh's recollection, he got in line to buy a San Diego Padres game foam finger behind an 8-year-old Drake Parker (Hunter Allan), and tried to be friendly, although Drake was rude back then by wanting Josh to stop talking to him. Then Drake invited all the nearby girls to come and buy all the foam fingers, but the one, and then deliberately bought that last one just to spite Josh and finally thumped him over the back of his head with it, thus starting the fight.

In Drake's recollection, he was in line to buy his foam finger, and an eight-year-old Josh Nichols (Matthew Gumley) got in line rudely asking why the line was taking so long to move, while Drake tried to be friendly. A dying British orphan girl who, for an unknown reason, only had a few weeks to live approached them, and asked to cut in line and Drake mercifully obliged, much to the chagrin of Josh. Drake then bought what turned out to be the last foam finger, and he tried to apologize, but Josh threatened Drake and attacked him, thus starting the fight.

The two drift apart and Drake moves out of their bedroom, with him moving his bed and guitar into the living room, which he invents a burglar alarm out of noisy soda cans, that being part of the reason the boys wake up Audrey and Walter, who are themselves angry at them for fighting, thus letting Drake sleep wherever he wants except for the living room and the bathroom, with him taking Megan's room, thus annoying her with his snoring. They continue to be bitter at each other, including Josh hoping Drake goes bald and Drake hoping they cancel Oprah, which Josh takes offense at until Megan locates Lenny (Fred Stoller), the stadium clerk who sold the foam finger, who now sells San Diego Padres bobble heads at the same stadium. When Audrey and Walter ask how Megan was able to find him, Megan claims it was easy, because of his distinguishable eyepatch. Lenny remembers the incident between Drake and Josh because it was a rare instance in which he had to call the cops to break up a fight between two eight-year-olds.

In Lenny's recollection, which turns out to be the true incident, the two boys got in line, and were actually both pretty friendly with each other. When two girls asked to cut in line, both boys (especially Drake) allowed it. As the two waited, Josh talked about his dad being a weatherman, with Drake remarking that his mother loved weathermen. Then Drake happened to get the last foam finger, and apologized to Josh, who was bitterly disappointed, but did not fight back. However, at that precise moment, Megan, who was also at the game, and was a toddler at the time, threw a cookie and it hit Josh in the head in a slow-motion sequence (you can also see Audrey holding a phone to her left ear, suggesting that she was talking to someone on it). Josh in turn, accused Drake, thinking he had thumped him in the back of his head, which (falsely) was actually the case earlier in Drake's rather fabricated recollection of the fight, and that's how the fight really started, according to Lenny.

At this revelation, the two boys finally make amends and then imagine themselves as 80-year-old senior citizens in the future, with an also-elderly Megan (who still calls them "boobs"), after serving Drake and Josh oatmeal and cream of wheat respectively, throws a cookie at Josh just like she did at the Padres game "72 years ago" when she was just a toddler riding in a baby stroller, with Josh assuming Drake once again threw something at him, causing them to run to each other, hit each other and fight until they both end up falling asleep one by one, thus ending the episode.

During the end credits, Josh wakes up from his and Drake's dream to see if Drake was awake. He finds his cardboard Oprah and he begins to kiss her while Drake wakes up.

Cast

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols
• Jonathan Goldstein as Walter Nichols
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• Fred Stoller as Lenny Spodnick
• Hunter Allan as Kid Drake (flashback)
• Matthew Gumley as Kid Josh (flashback)
• Sammi Hanratty as Annabel, the dying British orphaned girl in Drake's fake flashback

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Trivia

• When Drake and Josh are fighting over who started the fight about the foam finger scene 8 years ago, it occurs in 1997 regarding what happened to Drake and Josh in the flashback. Because in this episode, Drake and Josh have been thinking about what happened in 1997 before they remembered in 2005. It also had to occur before June 27th as Drake Parker, the older stepbrother, would turn 9 on June 27, 1997.
  • This is because the flashback takes place before Season 1.
• The episode is similar to the Victorious episode Who Did It to Trina?. In both episodes, the characters recount their sides of the story through different flashbacks.
  • Coincidentally, the episode I Love Sushi was also added as a flashback.
• It is revealed that Drake and Josh met at a Padres game.
• This is the favorite episode which favored by Dora's Cousin and Diego's Sister Alicia.
• Lenny Spodnick is a reference to Mike Spodnick, a cinematographer who works with Dan Schneider in many, if not, all of his shows.
• Josh mentions a rat named bobo in the introduction, possibly foreshadowing the orangutan in the season four episode my dinner with bobo.
• Megan saves the day by calling the stadium where Lenny Spodnick works and asks if he may clarify about who started the fight about a foam finger from 8 years ago. Note that she doesn't pull any pranks on Drake and Josh this time.
• A futuristic flash-forward of Drake, Josh and Megan at 97, 96 and 91 can also be seen in the resolution of the show where they fight over some hot food products which are used to help people's GI tracts recover from GI illnesses like food poisoning and Norovirus.
• When Megan threw the cookie during one of the flashbacks, the scene was in slow-motion, almost looking like it was filmed using FilmLook graphics. However, Drake & Josh was produced in FilmLook graphics in the first two seasons and HD graphics in this season and the following one
• Ironically Drake Bell's cousin is former Padres pitcher Heath Bell.
• In Dan Schneider's other show, "Henry Danger", in the episode, "Tears of the Jolly Beetle," a clip is briefly seen of Josh saying his famous line, "I ain't calling you a truther!"
  • This scene has also become a very popular Internet meme.
• Drake, Josh and Megan's flashback as kids is quite similar to Daria and Quinn's flashback scene from Pinch Sitter from Daria.
• Flash forwarding to 80 years later, old Drake, Josh and Megan's life is quite similar to old Beavis and Butt-Head's life from the Beavis and Butt-Head episode Crying.
• When Walter and Audrey get caught in Drake's "Burglar Alarm" the song that plays after is "The Kathy Song" which Josh (and Drake) played in First Crush.

Goofs

• Megan says that after Drake and Josh fought over the foam finger, they didn't meet until seventh grade but in Mindy's Back, Drake and Josh say that they met in fourth grade.
• Just before Lenny Spodnick appears, Walter says dinner is over. Why are they having dinner in broad daylight? It’s clearly not pitch-black night or even dusk outside.
• When Josh tells his version of how he and Drake fought at the Padres game and when Lenny tells the story of what truly happened, in the flashback, Josh's shirt is unbuttoned with a blue T-shirt inside, but when Drake tells his version, Josh's shirt is buttoned up, without the blue T-shirt showing.
• When Josh says that there was no little girl from Drake's flashback he says, "Why would a dying British orphan be doing at a Padres game?", even though it was never said that she was an orphan.
  • It is possible that he was exaggerating.
• In the flashback of what really happened, at one point, young Megan throws her cookie at young Josh, but when the shot zooms out on Drake and Josh, the cookie is not on the ground.
  • Also, young Drake still has the foam finger as soon as Josh starts beating him up, but when security guards came, Drake seems to have lost the foam finger.
• When Walter and Audrey leave the living room, Drake's cans fall onto them. However, the cans didn't fall on them when they first entered the room. Although it's possible that Drake's trap was somewhat faulty.
• When the little girl says that she's got 3 weeks to live and wanted to go first in line, she could've just waited in line since it was really short with only Drake and Josh in it. Although, this took place in Drake's fake flashback and she wasn't really British, according to the real event.
• After Drake moves out of the room, the camera is showing outside of the house at night and you can see lights on in the house through the front door but when the scene begins entering the house where Drake is sleeping in the living room, it's dark in the house and there's no lights on.
• In this episode, Drake tries to sleep in many different rooms, when other episodes mention a guest room, he could have slept in instead of the living room, the bathroom, or Megan's room.
• Drake angrily moves out of his and Josh's room after Josh rips his foam finger, but he only takes his clothes and a bag, along with his ripped foam finger, but when he's sleeping in the living room, all his stuff is with him, including his blanket from his bed, and as he's moving to Megan's room from the bathroom, he doesn't have all his stuff with him, just his blanket, ripped foam finger, and guitar.