Movie Job

"Well, FRUITY-DOOTY-DOO!"

―Crazy Steve

Movie Job
Season 2, Episode 3
Air date	March 28, 2004
Written by	Dan Schneider
Directed by	Virgil Fabian
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Movie Job is the third episode of the second season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

When Drake and Josh both get a job at the cinema, slacker Drake gets all the credit for Josh's hard work and ends up becoming his brother's boss, but Josh has a plan to get his own hard work back.

Plot

In the opening comments, Josh loves doing work but Drake doesn't.

Josh gets a job at the Premiere Movie Theater for making Crazy Steve quit after complaining about his wobbly drink holder. His new boss, Helen, despite being the one to hire him, already forgets Josh's name and doesn't acknowledge his existence. Drake shows up with a date and tries to buy movie tickets with less dollars and 2 warm gummy bears. Josh decides to cover him but encourages him to get a job as well. After the movie, Drake takes up Josh's idea for a job and asks if he can at the Premiere with him. Helen quickly hires Drake. However, Drake obtains more credit for work despite his laziness and Josh being more competent does not at all get noticed. Adored by The Premiere's boss, Helen, she decides to promote Drake to assistant manager, much to Josh's dismay, who has been ambitious for the position since he got hired.

At home, Josh plays with his dinosaur and honey bottle to express his frustration. Walter walks in and asks what is bothering him, Walter suggests he should do something to help raise business to impress the boss. Josh realizes that the Premiere is not selling enough popcorn, in an attempt to impress Helen, he sets up buckets of popcorn to occupy the snack counter and announces to the patrons of a hidden golden ball in one of the buckets. The customer to find the golden ball in their popcorn bucket would win free movies for an entire month. However, the patrons get out of control, stampeding and attacking to find the golden ball, ending with a few injuries and a huge mess. Josh is now worried that he is now going to be fired. Drake begins to see how much the job means to Josh and takes the blame. Helen is reluctant but she lets Drake go since it is the company policy due to the incident resulting in an injury.

During the end credits, Walter is talking to his statue and a bottle of honey. Audrey and Megan walk down to the living room who ignore Walter. After that, Walter puts the statue and a bottle of honey away and starts watching TV.

Cast

• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols (cameo in the ending credits)
• Jonathan Goldstein as Walter Nichols
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois
• Jerry Trainor as Crazy Steve
• Wayne Thomas Yorke as Plumber
• Minka Kelly as Stacy
• Rachel Martinez as Nancy

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Trivia

• This is the first episode of the series without an innuendo.
• The Empress Strikes Back is a parody of Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.
• This episode makes the first appearance of The Premiere, which is a parody of Camino Real Cinemas.
• This episode marks the debut of Josh's main job for the entire series.
  • This also marks the debut of Helen and Crazy Steve.
• This is the first and only time in the entire series where Drake works at the Premiere theater, which makes sense since Helen fired him, and therefore, he can’t work there anymore as a result.
• The iBot is a parody of the iPod.

Goofs

• Drake said that he didn't like ketchup on a hot dog but at the beginning of The Wedding, he is about to put ketchup on his hot dog. However, he may have changed his mind about not liking it.
• Drake said Josh's stereo is in Wisconsin but in other episodes, the stereo is back in their room, Drake and Josh may have got their stereo back from Wisconsin or they could've got another one, but they got the exact same radio.
• Crazy Steve quits his job at the movie theater but he still works there in subsequent episodes. How and why, he got his job back is never explained in any episode of the show. He may have got it back offscreen.
• When Drake assigns duties, there are six workers, including Josh, however, Drake only assigns duties to four workers (with Josh being one of the two workers Drake doesn’t assign duties to).
  • However, this might be because Helen interrupts Drake to discuss the popcorn sale issue before Helen asks to Josh to get her a hot dog.
• Drake asks Helen for a job, and she says, "Sure start tomorrow." Then Drake says he works there now for free movies when Josh asks him how he’ll pay for the tickets, but Drake actually doesn’t work there just yet. His first day on the job isn’t until the next day, and even if he did begin working there on the current day, he still couldn’t afford the tickets since he wouldn’t receive his first paycheck until at least a week after his first day on the job.
• Legally, Helen cannot ask Josh to start work immediately as she has to have him fill the legal paperwork upon hire.