| Megan's New Teacher | |
| Season 3, Episode 12 | |
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| Air date | January 28, 2006 |
| Written by | George Doty IV |
| Directed by | Adam Weissman |
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Megan's New Teacher is the twelfth episode of the third season of Drake & Josh.
Synopsis[]
Josh gets a student-teaching job in Megan's classroom, where Drake discovers an amazing young drummer. When the students' rebel against Josh's overworking them, Drake helps Megan to discredit their brother, in the hope of acquiring the drummer for his band.
Plot[]
In the opening comments, Drake and Josh talk about their negative experience with a hot-tempered gym teacher.
Drake is trying to play the guitar and drums at the same time as his drummer, Mitch, quit the band to join his church choir and his band is performing at the Premiere's 3-year anniversary party. Josh realizes he was given the day off that day and told by Helen it is because the Premiere is changing their carpet, knowing she lied to him and did not want him there since she does not like him. After being accepted into the T.T.T., a student-teaching group, Josh becomes Megan's class teacher for a week while Megan's teacher Ms. Hunter leaves him unsupervised to relax in the teacher's lounge. Josh 'challenges' the students with college-level chemistry. Drake finds Megan's classmate Neil playing drums with his pencil and book and invites him to try out for his band, despite being 11. Megan's class already find Josh annoying and dorky and initially feels bad that he is Megan's brother.
The next day, Josh comes to class dressed as Albert Einstein, which the class thinks is a hobo costume. All of Megan's class refused to do the homework Josh assigned them because it was way too hard. Josh punishes by giving them all a pop quiz, to which they all failed. Because of this, Megan becomes disliked by her classmates.
At the Premiere, Drake drops Megan off to her classmate Katie's birthday party. However, Katie told her she uninvited her to the party because of Josh. Drake and Josh were hanging out while Josh is on his shift, Helen walks in and Josh informs her about not being told about the party. Helen quickly denies she did not forget and intentionally showed she did not want him there. She eyes Drake questioning why he would tell him that, to which Drake explains it slipped out. Helen reluctantly allows Josh to come, but will be working it. Megan confronts Josh about her being kicked out of the party and how her class is being unfairly challenged for their age. Drake initially tries to defend Josh by saying he is trying to teach them valuable stuff, however, quickly changes his tune when Neil tells him that he is not allowed to play in the band for the Friday night party after failing one of Josh's pop quizzes. With Drake and Megan both now against him, they hatch a plan to fire Josh from the student-teaching group. They go to the school and Megan tampers with the chemicals and supplies Josh is using for his teaching evaluation.
The next day, Josh gets repeatedly sabotaged in his presentations in front of the class and Ms. Hunter. After three strikes, he was forced to leave getting fired from the TTT program and having the student's grade be changed back nullifying Josh's lessons. This cuts to Friday night at the Premiere, in which Neil plays drums for Drake and the party is successful. Josh is working his shift at the snack counter when the class approaches him with a trophy of a giraffe with the inscription to the "Best Teacher Ever." He was confused as he thought they hated him, but they confessed he made Ms. Hunter quit teaching and they hated Ms. Hunter even more. The students also admit that they hate Josh as a teacher, but think as a person he is almost is pretty cool, much to his delight.
During the end credits, Drake has various drummers trying out and one was playing the drums which causes him to get angry when he punches a hole in the wall.
Cast[]
- Drake Bell as Drake Parker
- Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
- Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
- Jake Farrow as Gavin Mitchell
- Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois
- Tara Lynne Barr as Katie
- Ridge Canipe as Neil Kramer
- Dakota Marklein as David
- Joyce Lee as Ms. Hunter
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Transcript[]
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Trivia[]
- Audrey and Walter do not appear in this episode.
- Tara Lynne Barr guest stars as Katie in this episode of the show. She guest starred on 2 episodes of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody as Hayley who's character is very shy onscreen by putting a bag on her head.
- Megan asks Josh to give her 'Pentendo GS', which is a parody of Nintendo DS, even though it actually resembles a Game Boy Advance SP.
- Megan and Drake are on the same side for the third time in the series.
- This is the second episode where kids hate Josh. The first was Number 1 Fan.
- In one scene where Drake, Josh, and Megan are at the Premiere, Drake is wearing an England Rugby Jersey with the O2 logo on the front.
- This is the only episode of the series where Josh takes on an antagonistic side and also torments Megan, though it's inadvertent. This can be considered the one episode where their roles are switched.
- This is also could likely be Josh's revenge for all the pranks that Megan plays on him and Drake and getting away with it.
- This was the first episode to air in 2006.
- Starting on December 18, 2014. This is the last episode to be airing on Nickelodeon.
- Morals: Teachers do not teach a subject; they teach a student.
- Respect is for those who earn it, not demand it.
- A mediocre teacher tells, a good teacher explains, and a great teacher demonstrates.
Goofs[]
- In the scene where Drake and Megan argue with Josh and Megan tells Drake to get his car keys, it's afternoon, but in the next scene where it shows the outside of the school, and where they're at school setting up pranks for Josh just to get rid of him forever, it's night.
- Perhaps they stopped and got some food first before going to the school and waited until a better time of not getting caught sneaking in.
- Josh obviously violated the school rules when he challenged the students with their academics. In reality, the kids, their parents, and Ms. Hunter could've reported him for his behavior.
- Additionally, even though Ms. Hunter did not seem to care about her class and her teaching, realistically since Josh is a student-teacher, she is required to stay in the classroom and supervise him the whole time.
- Also, she has to intervene and be involved if the students are all failing his quizzes and his lessons. Not to mentioned, Josh would have been questioned sooner about his teaching if everyone is failing his lessons.
- Realistically, a student-teacher would be provided by the classroom teacher with a lesson plan to follow and not necessarily to have their own lesson plan.
- Since the whole class is struggling with the material, Josh should have gone over the chapter with his class and demonstrated the lesson instead of punishing them with a pop quiz.
- In real life, Drake and Megan would be arrested for breaking and entering since they snuck into the school late at night.
- When Josh was showing the students his last part of his lecture, he pours a chemical into the jar of sodium sulfide. However, as soon as he finishes pouring the chemical, in the next shot of Josh and Miss Hunter, there's nothing in the jar.
- Also in that same scene, when Josh finishes pouring the liquid, his hands move to make it look like he is closing the bottle, but in the next shot, his hands are still above the jar.
- Megan and all her friends were getting fed up with Josh telling them what to do and bossing them around too much and finally did something getting him fired. The only reason they got rid of him is because they hate him, along with Miss Hunter. They need to be more specific with him saying that they hate him as a teacher and all of a sudden, they get him a trophy that obviously says he's their favorite teacher.
- Given that they hate him as a teacher, but like him as a friend, it's likely that they just wanted to make amends with Josh.
- There should've been security that Megan would've had to pass before entering the school.
- It is unknown how the video of the clowns hitting each other with chickens ended up showing on the television monitor, as Drake and Megan do not do anything that could be construed as causing this to happen when they break into the school.
- It is possible Megan replaced the original home video before leaving the school off-screen.
- In the scene where Drake and Josh are talking about The Premiere's third anniversary party in their room, Josh zips up his jacket twice.