Girl Power

"In Czechoslovakia, the daisy is known as the 'Flower of Death.'"

―Mr. Crenshaw

Girl Power
Season 3, Episode 10
Air date	October 15, 2005
Written by	Jake Farrow
Directed by	Steve Hoefer
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Girl Power is the tenth episode of the third season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

Josh tries to impress his girlfriend Mindy's parents, while Drake's girlfriend challenges him to a wrestling match to prove that she is tougher than he is.

Plot

In the opening intro, Drake and Josh talk about the number of girlfriends that they had in their lives.

At the Premiere, Drake lies to Josh that there is smoke at a theater causing him to get free popcorn and soda which disappointed Josh. Mindy comes to the theater and has a conversation with Josh to have dinner with her parents at her house. When Helen comes up to Josh, she asks him about the candy receipts which causes Josh to complain and Helen to get mad at him.

While Drake is at the Premiere dating Lucy, he asks Josh to buy him 2 sodas and forgets to pay Josh. Drake tells Josh to help a group of bullies who are throwing fries which causes Josh to get messy. After Josh was being bullied, Drake takes out the popcorn out of Josh's head and untie Josh's hands. Drake comes up to a group of bullies to resolve Josh's problem but he gets knocked out in the progress. Lucy beats up the bullies and saves Drake until Helen comes. After the bullies leave, Lucy told the boys that she grew up with her brothers when she learned how to fight. Helen eats a corn dog that she took away from Josh.

At home, Josh is grooming himself before he meets up with Mindy and her parents for their date at Mindy's house. Megan comes up to Josh to check on him while Josh tells her that he's not nervous. When Drake comes home, he wants to break up with his girlfriend Lucy after finding out that she is possibly tougher than he is, but he challenges her to a fight to prove that he is tougher than she is. When Josh goes out to Mindy's house, Drake calls Lucy. Josh goes to Mindy's house for dinner and meets up with her parents. Mindy's parents refused to accept Josh's gifts because Mindy's dad is diabetic to chocolate and daisies are known as the flower of death and Mindy's mom revealed that she's allergic to daisies and chocolate. While Drake and Lucy are dating with each other at the Premiere, they try to find out to see who would be the toughest and compete with each other to an arm wrestling contest. When Josh is ready to have dinner with Mindy's family, he fixes the light of the chandelier, but it falls in the middle of the dining table. Lucy announces to Drake that she will be having a fight with him at home.

Later, Josh becomes nervous when he organizes a dinner for him and Mindy at home. He has a conversation with Drake that he has one last chance to impress Mindy's family or else he'll won't date Mindy anymore. Josh is concerned that the fight will ruin his chances of impressing Mindy's parents. Drake and Josh solve their problem when they have their dates in 2 different rooms. So Josh makes Drake and Lucy wrestle upstairs in the bedroom, where Megan is waiting to watch the fight with a group of friends, whom she charged $20 admission (although she tricks Drake into thinking it was $10). During the dinner, Drake and Lucy later wrestle their way into the living room during the dinner and Josh is upset about how Drake ruined his plans. Mindy's parents understand how much Josh cares for their daughter and allow her and Josh to resume their relationship. However, Mindy's dad asks Drake and Lucy why they were fighting, and Lucy reveals that she challenges Drake to the fight as he didn't believe she was tough. Mr. Crenshaw then dismisses this, stating that boys are genetically tougher, which Mrs. Crenshaw disagrees. With encouragement from Megan and her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Crenshaw fight each other to see who is tougher.

During the end credits, Josh tried to pick up a piece of a chicken for his dinner by using his fork. Mindy's brother Alden got mad because Josh picked the piece of chicken he wanted and refused to take it after Josh put it in Alden's plate, which causes Alden to leave the dinner table.

Cast

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• Allison Scagliotti as Mindy Crenshaw
• Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois
• Gabrielle Christian as Lucy
• Harry S. Murphy as Paul Crenshaw
• Erica Shaffer as Mrs. Crenshaw
• Wyatt Smith as Alden Crenshaw (end credit appearance only)
• Elaine Murphy as Harpist

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Trivia

• Audrey and Walter do not appear in this episode.
• Lucy reappears in "The Storm".
• One of the kids Megan invites to watch the fight reappears in "Megan's New Teacher".
• In one scene when the front of the movie theater is zoomed out, Schneider's Bakery is next door, which is the name of the company that owns the show.
• Seeing how Mr. Crenshaw was super offended by the daisies and mentioned, "In Czechoslovakia, the daisy is known as the 'Flower of death.'" It can be assumed that he is either part Czech, part Slovak, or Czechoslovakian.
• The $100 ice sculpture Josh bought is shaped like a swan.
• When Josh pulls the corndog out of his pants, Lucy is trying very hard not to laugh.
• This is the only appearances of Mindy's parents and her younger brother Alden.
  • Alden's scene was cut from the actual episode itself; however, it is only shown during the end credits scene.
• Josh hired a harpist for his dinner with The Crenshaws. Mr. Crenshaw refers to her as "the elderly harpist." In "Megan's New Teacher", one of the movies playing at The Premiere is called "The Elderly Harpist."

Goofs

• When Josh fixing his hair to when Drake is laughing at Josh for having his underwear on the wrong way, it's daytime outside. Then, it is nighttime in the next shot. The following shot shows it is daytime again. The outside of Mindy's house is set at nighttime again, but it is daytime again inside Mindy's dining room.
• Drake tells Josh there is smoke in Theater 7. However, Josh grabs the fire extinguisher and runs into Theater 4.
• When Mindy is talking to Josh about the dinner, a woman is right next to her, but she is gone in the next shot. The woman suddenly reappears in the following shot.
• It is unknown why Alden was only present at the dinner scene in the end credits and not the first one at the Crenshaw's house.
• When Josh breaks the glass cover for the fire extinguisher, the glass does not cluster as safety glass should. All fire extinguisher covers are required by law to have safety glass.
• Drake asks Josh for 2 drinks for him and Lucy, but Josh isn't filling the cups up and is technically giving Drake empty cups.
• Drake and Lucy break the bedroom door and fight falling downstairs, but it's back to normal in other episodes. The door was most likely replaced.
• The chandelier shouldn't have been able to fall from the ceiling when Josh was only fixing the flickering light bulb, it's unknown why it would fall from the ceiling when it should've been a heavy-duty chandelier.