Number 1 Fan

"I'M TIED TO A CHAIR!"

―Walter to Josh

Number 1 Fan
Season 2, Episode 10
Air date	September 19, 2004
Written by	Dan Schneider
Directed by	Virgil Fabian
Episode Guide
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Number 1 Fan (also known as Number One Fan) is the tenth episode of the second season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

A girl from Josh's Campfire Kid's troop has an obsessive crush on Drake and his music - but as she gets increasingly fanatic, Drake doesn't know how to handle it.

Plot

In the opening comments, Drake and Josh talk about their experiences with kids in the past. Josh tried to teach a Portuguese boy named Paulo long division, but the boy threw a golf club at him. Despite telling Paulo's father, he just shouted at Josh in Portuguese. Drake was told by Audrey to babysit Megan and three of her friends one time and was told to take them to a museum, but he instead took them to ride go-karts, as well as giving them large cups of coffee.

Josh prepares a tray of s'mores and a tall glass of milk, but burns his hand from touching the hot tray, forcing him to dunk his arm in the glass by getting milk all over the s'mores. Drake comes in and asks Josh why he's making s'mores and Josh says he's helping his dad with his campfire kids meeting, but Drake is surprised that he's still the chief. He then tastes a s'more, burning his mouth. Walter then yells for Josh from the living room, finding the kids tying him to a chair. All of the kids wrestle Josh, taking all of the s'mores. Josh berates Walter for not helping him, but it's because he's still tied to the chair. After Josh finally unties him, Walter, furious with the kids' trouble making, quits, making Josh the new Campfire Kids' chief. When a random girl learns of this, she unhappily leaves. Another girl from Megan's campfire troop, Wendy, asks where Drake is, since she finds him to be the cutest boy ever. Drake then walks in to tell Josh that he was picked by Star 99 to play a song on Friday night. A boy is grossed-out when he finds a band-aid in his milk, because of Josh. Later, Drake is in his room playing on his guitar, when the girl from before walks in, startling him. She compliments his guitar, and Drake asks her name, which is Wendy (her real name is Melissa, but she hates the name, so people call her Wendy). She mentions the time where they first met at the supermarket, which she wrote in her diary. Her dream is for Drake to play a song just for her. Impressed with all her knowledge of him, Drake gives her an autograph (on the back of Josh's photo of Frankie Muniz) and a guitar pick.

At the Premiere, the kids think Josh is there to show them a movie, but he's going to teach them about wilderness navigation, much to their anger. He tells them they are stranding on a deserted island, and asks what they would do, and Megan says she'll call mom on her cell phone, even though she shouldn't have it. Megan claims she always has her cell phone, Josh tells her the batteries are dead, and Megan carries a spare. Josh, starting to lose patience, tells Megan her cell phone is broken, and all she has is a compass, and a map of the island. She still eggs Josh on, so he changes his mind and lets the kids see a movie. Wendy notices Drake on a date with a woman, and jealous that he's spending time with someone else, willingly goes to them to get their attention. She tells Drake's date, Larissa, that Drake writes songs, which she was unaware of, and would like to hear some. Wendy also shows Larissa Drake's guitar pick, while being amused that he didn't give her anything. She even comments on the amount of Larissa's food, showing concern that she should watch her figure, harassing her further by mentioning the pimple on her chin. Drake, annoyed enough, tells Wendy to leave, which she does. Larissa complains about Wendy's behavior, but Drake agrees that she has a lot of food.

Later that night, Drake vents to Josh about Wendy's behavior but Josh tries to assure him that Wendy only has a cute, silly crush on him now and will have it on someone else later. However, Drake demonstrates the lengths she expresses it, including taking a picture of him in his sleep and putting it on a shirt, a notebook with her drawing of her and Drake together, and an answering machine continuing to express her affection for Drake. Josh assures him, it is a phase, and he had a similar crush on Oprah Winfrey. Drake decides to take Josh's word for it, but then Wendy is on a ladder knocking on their window to bring him pickles, just like when they first met. Drake then decides to invite her and let her down gently by asking her to give him space, which she was totally understanding and cool with.

However, the next day, Wendy takes things too far when she advertises Drake's radio station performance at school, which embarrasses and humiliates him. He comes home and lashes out on her in front of the other Campfire kids, causing her feelings to get hurt. At the station, he is in need of a guitar pick and when he checks his pockets, he finds a note from Wendy apologizing for what she did and returning the pick he gave her. Meanwhile, Megan tricks Josh into getting him trapped in the tent so the kids can have their own fun with pizza, s'mores, and video games. Wendy, however, is on the dining table and still sadden for Drake yelling at her, Megan tries to cheer her up by joining the rest with their hangout, but she refused. Drake feels troubled after seeing the note was made to realize by another girl at the station, he feels guilty for hurting Wendy. Realizing his mistake, he reschedules his radio performance and returns home to Wendy and plays a song just for her, which was the song he was supposed to perform on the radio. The other kids gather around Wendy and listen too. She is then cheered up and given back the pick Drake gave her. Drake then takes the kids to celebrate at Chuck E. Cheddar's, leaving Josh behind who is still locked inside the tent.

During the end credits, Drake plays his guitar while Josh sings Drake's song "Down We Fall".

Cast

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Jonathan Goldstein as Walter Nichols
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• Alyson Stoner as Wendy
• Jessy Schram as Larissa
• AnnaSophia Robb as Liza
• Jenna Heffernan as Leah
• William Corkery as Pete

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Transcript

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Trivia

• Audrey is absent in this episode.
• Campfire Kids is a possible parody of Boy/Girl Scouts.
• Dan Schneider voiced the radio host and he mentions Joe Catania, a person who works with Dan in his shows.
• The song that Drake performs is available on Drake Bell's first album, Telegraph.
• This is one of the rare episodes to be included on US releases of Drake & Josh: The Best of Seasons 1 & 2 DVD.
• Over half of Wendy’s voiceover scene didn’t exist in the shooting draft. After Wendy’s voiceover, the scene ends. none of the subsequent dialogue in the scene is in the shooting script. On the day of taping, they either rewrote the ending or reshot it in a different week. The person who gives Drake the pep talk isn’t even in the scene or cast list for the episode.
• Chuck E. Cheddar's is a parody of Chuck E. Cheese's.
• The tent in this episode is the same tent in the Zoey 101 episode Back To P.C.A.
• Josh actually has an autographed picture of Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle and The Fairly OddParents (2001-2005) that makes a cameo appearance in which Drake signed his name on the back for Wendy to have his autograph.
• The last time this episode aired on TeenNick was in 2021. This is likely because of copyright for Drake's song.
• This episode along with Pilot, Dune Buggy, Guitar, Blues Brothers, Driver's License and The Gary Grill are not available on any streaming services due to licensing issues with material used in the episode, likely because of copyright for Drake's song.
• At the entrance of The Premiere, it says "Kid President" which is a movie mentioned in Little Diva
• Drake Bell and Alyson Stoner provided their voices for the video game Kingdom Hearts III as Young Eraqus and Kairi, respectively.
• William Corkery who played Pete on the show provided his voice for Miles "Tails" Prower in Sonic Heroes, Sonic Battle and Sonic Advance 3.
• Morals: Don't get ahead on a relationship without making decisions.
  • Stalking someone can get you into Trouble.
  • Always do the right thing and cheer someone after hurting their feelings, also an Apology would be possible.
• A couple clips from this episode are featured in the Season 3 intro:
  • Drake kissing a girl at the Premier
  • Drake getting burnt by eating a hot s'more.

Goofs

• While at the studio, Drake has a 12-string guitar. However, after he cancels his radio performance and returns home to play a song for Wendy, his guitar turns into a 6-string guitar.
  • A piano, a bass guitar and background vocal are also heard but not seen.
• Drake could've just gotten a restraining order on Wendy or told Megan to tell Wendy to leave him alone.
• Shortly before the commercial break, Wendy says the pickles are vertically sliced for sandwiches but shortly before she says this, you can clearly see the pickles in the jar are whole and not vertically sliced.
• When the radio host says Joe Catania, captions say "Jeff and Tanya".
• When the teacher is about to explain why there is no East Virginia, he pulls down a map of Australia instead of the United States.
• After Josh scolds the kids for not going out in the rain, lightning and thunder are heard at the same time. However, this is impossible, as light travels faster than sound.
• Josh should have worn oven mitts when taking the s'mores out of the oven.
• At the end of the episode, Josh is still stuck in the tent, but in the next episode, he was out of there with no sign or mention, it is unknown how he got out of the tent as neither Drake, Megan nor the campfire kids free Josh as they were leaving for Chuck E. Cheddar's.
  • It is possible either Walter or Audrey let Josh out of the tent.