Mindy Loves Josh

"See you in chemistry!"

―Josh to Mindy

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Mindy Loves Josh
Season 4, Episode 4
Air date	October 22, 2006
Written by	Arthur Gradstein
Directed by	Adam Weissman
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Previous: The Wedding	Next: Who's Got Game?

Mindy Loves Josh is the fourth episode of the fourth season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

The school science fair is coming up, and while working on a project together, Mindy says those three little words.

Plot

In the opening comments, Josh talks about a girl from the 4th grade named Becky Hummus who only used him because he had doodle cakes in his lunchbox. Becky ended up gaining a lot of weight. Drake talks about a girl named Alison Fletcher who asked him out but only used him to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. After Allison dumped Drake for her ex-boyfriend, he started making out with her sister.

Josh and Mindy are working together at home on their science fair project. Drake stops by to check on Josh and Mindy what they worked on for their science project. Megan comes up to Josh and Mindy as Megan pretended that someone ran over Josh's bike causing Josh to leave the house.

While Megan and Mindy are hanging out, Megan found out that Drake is eating her cookie much to her disgust. Megan tells Mindy to come up with a plan to prank Drake for eating her cookie. Josh comes in the house revealing that no one didn't run over his bike. When Mindy leaves, she says "I love you" to Josh. After telling Mindy that he is not sure of his feelings towards her, he finds out from Drake that Mindy may have only said that to distract him from beating her in the Regional Science Fair. Megan seeks revenge on Drake after he eats her cookie: she discovers a website about a fictional disease that turns the hands and feet a sickly greenish color. While Drake is sleeping, she dyes Drake's hands and feet green to make him believe he has the disease, making him suffer a disgusting cure. When Josh gets excited about the school's science fair, Drake panics and tells Josh that he woke up with green hands thanks to Megan. Josh goes on a website to help Drake cure his green hands. At school, Josh and Mindy are having a conversation together as they're apologizing to each other. Drake meets up with Josh that he bought out a lizard cage. He and Josh have a private conversation about Mindy. Drake thinks lizard pee might cure his hands.

At the science fair, the teacher is grading Ethan, Mindy, and Josh's science projects. Josh's laser cannon fires a bigger discharge than Mindy's laser cannon and he wins first prize. Josh brags about his success to Mindy, but Mindy tells Josh that she let him win for all of those years she beat him. Josh doesn't believe her until she presses a button that extends the barrel of her laser cannon, and it fires a massive discharge through the wall. At home, Drake is preparing for his home treatment "Derma Temeculitis" as his hands and feet would cure from the lizard pee. Josh apologizes to Mindy, and he gives her the first prize ribbon. Mindy and Josh are no longer a couple, but they still remain friends and do homework together. Back at home, Megan comes inside Drake and Josh's room and tells Drake her truth after making his hands green (when she saw Drake eating her cookie). Drake tells Megan that he got a skin disease from her much to Megan's satisfaction. At the end, Drake finally had his hands and feet recovered as he saw Josh and Mindy hanging out together in the living room.

During the end credits, Audrey found the buckets of yellow liquid that Drake used to cure his fake disease and demands Drake to tell her what it is. After Drake confesses that it is "lizard pee", Audrey makes him attend counseling twice a week. Josh finds Drake at the science fair even though he paid him ten bucks to stay away. Drake tells Josh that he got ripped off.

Cast

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols (credits only)
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• Allison Scagliotti as Mindy Crenshaw
• Paul Rust as Ethan
• Calvin Dean as Coach Edwards
• Lou George as Mr. Farrow
• Lazarus Jackson as Painter

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Trivia

• Walter is absent in this episode.
• Mindy's hair is much shorter this season than in previous episodes, but her hair would be long again in Merry Christmas Drake & Josh.
• This episode aired one year after Sheep Thrills.
• This is the first time Drake ate something of Megan's (in this instance, her big cookie). The next episode is Tree House when he ate her fruit popple. Drake ate a s’more when Josh told him not to in Number 1 Fan.
• The name of the fictional disease is called, Derma Temeculitis.
• Josh Peck made a reference to this episode in a Tweet on November 10, 2015 (his birthday), where Allison Scagliotti wished him happy birthday and Josh responded, "Thanks babe and see you in chemistry."
• When Josh slams the door in Mindy's face and she say he hit her nose; this also takes us back to when Drake slams the door in Eric's face also hitting him on the nose in the previous episode The Wedding.
• An internet meme came from a scene of this episode.
  • Carly (who is also played by Miranda Cosgrove in both the 2007 and 2021 series) references the iconic meme in the iCarly (2021) episode "iFauxpologize" by saying the exact same words and using a soda can. This could also suggest that the original scene from this episode may have served as the inspiration for iCarly.
• The opening sequence where Drake builds a stack of marshmallows and Josh gives himself a haircut while speaking to the audience is not shown in the beginning of the episode on Paramount+ due to unknown reasons. Possibly due to the topic of females and obesity.
• In the bedroom scene, where Drake recommends Josh breaking up with Mindy , he says that Josh could become a woman, but would require surgery. This part of the scene is cut from Paramount+ due to the topic of transgender. However, a few scenes later, when Josh practices breaking up with Mindy, he practices telling her of his process of becoming a woman, which is not cut from the scene.
• Megan owns a computer that’s equivalent to the iMac from 2007.

Goofs

• In the scene where Megan sprays Drake's hands when he is sleeping, his sleeve isn’t rolled up. But in the next scene, it's rolled up.
  • It's possible that Drake raised his sleeve in order to wash his hands.
• Ethan was disqualified for doing a watermelon lamp two years in a row, but Josh did a big magnet last year in the last science fair (mentioned in Honor Council, seen in Mindy's Back), so Josh should have been disqualified as well, yet he wasn't.
  • However, the judges seemed impressed by both of Josh's big magnets, and they were probably not impressed with Ethan's first watermelon lamp.
• When Josh is about to leave their room, he slaps Drake. But you can see his hand made no contact with Drake whatsoever.
• You can tell the marshmallows Drake is stacking at the beginning are glued together already, because they all stay when he only holds the top one.
• Mindy says that her nose was hurt when Josh slammed the door in her face. However, when Josh slams the door, you can clearly see that she moves away before the door closes.
• In the end credits, Drake shows up to the science fair, startling Josh. However, during the episode, while the science fair is happening, Drake is home, attempting to cure his disease. Although it may be possible that Drake went to the school to see the science fair after Megan told him the truth.