Little Sibling

"Sammy-kazzam!"

―Sammy

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Little Sibling
Season 3, Episode 13
Air date	February 4, 2006
Written by	Dan Schneider
Directed by	Steve Hoefer
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Little Sibling is the thirteenth episode of the third season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

Drake gets in trouble at school and is assigned to mentor a young boy, but when Drake's new "little sibling" likes Josh more than Drake, we discover that brotherly love hurts.

Plot

In the opening comments, Josh talks about volunteering people and Drake talks about instant messaging.

Drake is late for class again. However, a cute girl, Becca, tells Mrs. Hayfer about the lunch ladies fighting again. While she leaves to try to break it up, it turns out to be a lie set up by Drake to come into class without being noticed, to which Becca agreed to do for a kiss from Drake. Mrs. Hayfer, however, already aware that Drake came late, questions Josh who is unable to lie.

Josh rats Drake out; at the end of class, however, Mrs. Hayfer plans, instead of detention, to send Drake into the remedial English class, a class with lack of discipline that includes poorly behaved students, a vicious dog named Cuddles that's controlled on a leash by a mean kid, and 2 Gothic love-starved Bartleby Sisters trying to kiss him. In order to stay out of the remedial class, Drake agrees to participate in a Little Sibling program, ran by Mrs. Hayfer's husband, in hopes to teach him responsibility. He is assigned to look after and spend time with a boy named Sammy.

Drake takes no interest in Sammy, annoying and boring Sammy. However, Sammy hits it off with Josh greatly as he is entertained by Josh's magic tricks. Drake snags Sammy back and takes him to the Premiere to check out women, which continues to bore Sammy. Josh shows up to start his shift, which amazes Sammy of him working at the movie theater, and Josh happily gives him the grand tour of his workday. Drake, however, tries to get Sammy to come back but Sammy angrily declares he wants to stay with Josh. At the Premiere, Mrs. Hayfer finds Drake the condition of being Sammy's big sibling or else he has to go back to the remedial class.

Later, Josh and Sammy enjoy cooking and make a Chef Show on Josh's video camera. Sammy says that Josh is cool, which flattered Josh and was a big deal to him, as he is used to most people saying Drake is usually the cool one. Drake, not wanting to go to Remedial English, desperately asks Josh to be mean to Sammy, so he'd come back to Drake. Josh refuses and enjoys spending time with Sammy. Drake desperately tries to re-interest Sammy by borrowing Trevor's ATV and bribing Sammy with tickets to Blaine Darvey's magic show and all-you-can-eat ice cream buffet. Although he succeeds, this upsets Josh, whom is home after work watching the Chef Show the two made. Drake watched the Chef Show and realized how much Sammy means to Josh and how Sammy thinks Josh is cool. He then pretends to have "pancreas troubles" so Sammy and Josh can go to a magic show instead. As they left, Megan questions Drake, who admits to faking, neither noticing that Josh was listening in.

At the end, Drake confessed to Mrs. Hayfer about Sammy being with Josh more and now he is sent to Remedial English. Josh comes to Drake's class to save Drake as he then repays Drake back by lying to the teacher for him and getting him out of Remedial English.

During the end credits, Sammy was asked Josh what if Blaine Darvey and Oprah did a show together, which would excite them, even though unrealistic. Josh comes out of the kitchen with a newspaper and a milk bottle as he asks Drake and Megan if he wanted to show them his magic trick, quickly saying no and Josh considering them dead on the inside.

Cast

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• Julia Duffy as Mrs. Hayfer
• Jerry Lacy as Mr. Hayfer
• Jordan Wright as Sammy
• Vanessa Hudgens as Becca
• Annabelle Milne and Laura Ortiz as Goth Girls (Love starved Bartleby Sisters by Drake)
• Kris Palm as Tyler
• Bill Parks as Mean Kid with Vicious Dog
• Andy Milder as Mr. Talbot

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Trivia

• Drake wears the same shirt in this episode’s introduction as he did in the first two scenes after the theme song of the Paging Dr. Drake episode.
• Audrey and Walter were absent in this episode.
• This episode marks the third time someone thought Josh was cool. The first was in Football, and the second was in Megan's New Teacher.
• Josh claims that this is a first that someone thought he was cool, yet in Football, he was called "Cool" by Drake.
• When Drake and Josh are watching the near ending, there is no laugh track even though there was when in the video. It's possible this show used a live off-screen audience or that the editors edited the tracks out on the cutting room floor.
• When Josh gives Sammy some fountain drinks, Mocha Cola is a parody of Coca Cola and Mountain Fizz is a parody of Mountain Dew.
• This is the first episode where we see Mrs. Hayfer at The Premiere.
• This is also the first and only episode to have Mr. Jerald Hayfer, Mrs. Hayfer's husband appear. However, he does not share an on-screen appearance with his wife and daughter (whose only appearance was in Mean Teacher.)
• Sammy is from an organization called "Little Sibling", which is a parody of the real-life organization "Big Brothers Big Sisters," which partners adult youth mentors with children and teenagers to educate and guide them as a positive influence.
• Sammy is mentioned in Dr. Phyllis Show as a flashback from this episode, but he's not seen.
• This is the first time that we see a mean kid and a vicious dog in Remedial English and the Gothic love starved Bartleby Sisters appear in the setting that Mrs. Hayfer had an evil solution about sending Drake to if he didn't do anything with Sammy.
• This is the one of the very rare episodes in Season 3 where Josh wears a short-sleeved shirt.
  • Usually in the third season, he would wear long-sleeved shirts or jackets overneat a short-sleeved shirt.
• Despite refusing to lie, this is one of the few rare times Josh actually lies for Drake in the end to pull him out of the remedial class.
• This is one of the few instances of someone preferring Josh over Drake.
  • In Really Big Shrimp, a classmate of Megan's asks the for the boys to stay when Megan asked them to leave as one of them is cute. It turns out to be Josh, not Drake.

Goofs

• Right after Josh says, "It's kind of nice to have someone think it's the other way around for once," Drake comes in, but when Drake watches the tape, Josh is heard saying: "Thanks, Sammy," before Drake comes in. Also, the way Sammy says "Chicken paillard for six" is different when Drake watches it compared to when they were filming.
• In the scene where Sammy arrives at Drake and Josh's house and Drake pretending to be sick, it's afternoon time but as soon as Josh and Sammy leave the house for the magic show, it's suddenly nighttime.
  • It is likely that they did other activities in the afternoon and then went to the show in the evening, they decided to leave until nighttime instead, the performance itself lasted until night (assuming there were other parts of the show besides the inside out sheep trick shown in the episode), or time passed as they were heading to the magic show, however, Drake said that the ice cream buffet was one of the plans too, so Josh and Sammy could've went to that before the magic show rather than after.
• Sammy laying on the movie theater counter while Josh sprays sodas in his mouth from the hose which is attached to the soda gun at The Premiere could lead to Josh getting fired and pose as a health risk, even though Helen is absent.
  • It is likely that Josh sanitized the nozzle of the soda gun before putting it back so Helen wouldn't find out.