The Demonator

The Demonator
Season 3, Episode 15
Air date	February 25, 2006
Written by	Anthony Del Broccolo Eric Friedman
Directed by	Steve Hoefer
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The Demonator is the fifteenth episode of the third season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

There's a new roller coaster that promises to be the thrill of a lifetime - but what Drake and Josh discover is that the real adventure comes while waiting in the queue.

Plot

In the opening intro, Josh is playing with a yo-yo while Drake is too hyperactive because he has to drink brownie soup, which was unbaked since Josh was making those.

While Drake and Josh are watching TV, they plan on riding a roller coaster called The Demonator on the first day it's open. As the boys are practicing their moves for the ride, Megan reveals to them they can ride on the second day it's open.

While Papa Nichols is sleeping, Audrey and Walter get ready to leave to go out to the news awards. Drake and Josh come out and tell their parents that they're going out to ride The Demonator. However, their parents told the them to stay home and watch over their great-grandfather, Papa Nichols (who is 81 years old and had surgery). As Audrey and Walter go out to the news awards, they told Drake and Josh they're not allowed to leave the house. When Drake and Josh plan to ride The Demonator, Drake calls Craig and Eric to come over as his friends bought him a bundt cake thinking it's a party. Drake introduces Craig and Eric to baby-sit Papa Nichols as he told his friends that he and Josh might be busy that night. Craig and Eric promised Drake that they'll stay home as they agree with him. When Drake and Josh go to ride The Demonator, Megan stops them from leaving the house but she tags along with her brothers.

At Mystic Mountain, Drake, Josh, and Megan are in front of the line as they get ready to ride The Demonator. However, Josh left quickly because he needed to use the restroom while Drake and Megan saved their spot. When Josh came back, he bumped to the middle of the line upsetting the other people as Drake and Megan picked him up. The kids we're sent at the end of the line thanks to Josh and they have to wait for 2 hours again for the ride. As the kids are close to the front of the line, Drake and Josh ended up having a fight with Milford Mouse as they get sent back to the end of the line again. Megan takes the opportunity to remain in line by pretending not to know them and rides The Demonator first. Josh calls Eric for help but he realize that Eric didn't answer after Papa Nichols broke Eric's phone. When Megan comes out after riding The Demonator, she feels tired from the ride and leaves. After that, Drake and Josh finally rode The Demonator as they quickly head back home before their parents arrive.

Meanwhile, Papa Nichols wakes up disoriented and he thinks he is back in World War II and thinks Craig and Eric are "German nerds". He bonked Eric in the head and throws Craig over the couch leaving the boys sitting on the floor. When Craig and Eric tried to look for Papa Nichols, they both get attacked as he falls from the ceiling and lands on top of them. When Eric goes to Drake and Josh's room, Papa Nichols attacks Eric when he covers him with a pillowcase and throws him out of Drake and Josh's window. Downstairs, Papa Nichols ties Craig and Eric up to chairs, picks up a broom and asks them what they've done with Colonel Bradford. When Eric's cellphone rings, he takes it out, and breaks it when he throws it to the wall (thinking it was a weapon). Eric is very shocked that his cellphone was destroyed since his and Craig's pictures from Nigara Falls was ruined. When Craig and Eric try to escape, Papa Nichols catches them and traps them again as the boys apologize to him.

At the end, Drake, Josh, and Megan came home and see Craig and Eric tied up by Papa Nichols. When Drake and Josh untie their friends, Craig tells them that Papa Nichols went berserk while Eric angrily tells the boys to buy him a new cellphone. As Audrey and Walter arrive home, Drake and Josh quickly send Craig and Eric out of the house and hide their Demonator shirts. Audrey and Walter told the kids about their night at the awards. After Megan leaves, Drake and Josh told their parents that they watched Papa Nichols for the whole night as he slept. When Papa Nichols wakes up, he punches Walter knocking him out and thinks he was a German much to Drake, Josh, and Audrey's shock.

During the end credits, Craig goes upstairs to Drake and Josh's room to look for Eric. He opens the closet and gets scared by Papa Nichols which causes him to run downstairs. Papa Nichols uses his slipper that he found another one and he runs downstairs to get Craig.

Cast

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols
• Jonathan Goldstein as Walter Nichols
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• John Brandon as Papa Nichols
• Alec Medlock as Craig Ramirez
• Scott Halberstadt as Eric Blonowitz
• Roderick McCarthy as Officer Jackson
• Dylan Minette as Jeffrey
• Doug Mitchell as Burly Guy
• David Wachs as Uppity Hotel Concierge
• John Paul Lubran as Pirate Boy
• Carolyn Morse as Pirate Boy's Mom

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Trivia

• People leaving the Mystic Mountain ride groggy with messy hair and saying strange things, Drake, Josh and Megan getting thrown to the back of the line because of Josh, and Megan and Audrey say complimentary things about Bruce Winchill, a weatherman and a competitor to Walter's TV station are running gags in this episode.
• This is the only appearance of Mystic Mountain.
• This is the first episode with more than one writer. The second and third episodes would be Dr. Phyllis Show and Really Big Shrimp.
• Mystic Mountain appears to be a parody of Six Flags: Magic Mountain. The exterior shots of the amusement park are actually of the park on Santa Monica Pier.
• Roderick McCarthy, who plays the African American security guard in Mystic Mountain, would also play the music teacher in the Victorious episode "Beggin' on Your Knees".
• The clothes Drake and Josh wore were the same as seen in various promotions, including the Drake & Josh Go Hollywood DVD cover.
• Space Trek is a parody of Star Trek.
• Milford Mouse is a parody of Disney's Mickey Mouse.
• After Drake and Josh ride the Demonator and their hair gets messy, Drake's hair looks almost like his spiky hair from Season 1 and Josh's hair is just fluffy.
• In the opening scene where Drake and Josh talk about Josh's Fudgie boo brownies, Drake wears the same shirt as he did in the first half of the foam finger episode.
• This is the only appearance of Papa Nichols. He's mentioned again in the Season 4 episode The Wedding when Josh mentions how he threw Eric's cellphone against the wall.
• When Papa Nichols picks up his shoe and begins to talk into it like a real soldier does with a walkie talkie, he believes he is talking to General George S. Patton Jr., a real-life general from World War II.
• Walter asks when Megan began calling him by his first name instead of "Dad".
• It is unknown who is wearing the Milford Mouse costume, but the voice is none other than Dan Schneider.
• Josh’s fudgie-boo brownies are first mentioned in the episode We’re Married.

Goofs

• When Drake, Josh, and Megan get sent to the back of the line for the ride, a big scary man cuts in front of them. Moments later he has suddenly moved up in the line. Meanwhile, Drake and Josh are in the same spot that they were originally in.
• At the beginning when Drake and Josh flip over the couch, wires are visible.
• Drake said that it would take 13 minutes to find the car and 22 minutes to get home. But after Drake and Josh rode The Demonator, Josh said that they only had 20 minutes until their parents got home. So, they should have been caught by them or they found the car so quickly and drove home faster. They got there at 10:57, 3 minutes before 11:00.
• When Papa Nichols throws Eric out the window, it's real surprising how he was completely unharmed. He wasn't cut by the glass or had any broken bones. Although he could've landed on something.
• It's impossible for Walter to win "Best Weatherman", not only because he has lost 5 times to Bruce Winchill, but other episodes depict him as a bad weatherman.
• Realistically, if Papa Nichols climbed to the ceiling and landed on top of Craig and Eric, he would have been seriously hurt or worse killed due to his age and condition. How did he even get on the ceiling?
• The credits list has Milford Mouse's name as "Mystic Mouse".
• If Josh was actually fighting Milford Mouse, he'd likely have been kicked out of the entire park instead of just being sent to the back of the line.
  • It could be that all the people at the amusement park wanted to make history by riding the roller coaster so the guards had to send them to the back.
• Drake and Josh says they're going to ride The Demonator the first day it opens but find out it's opening at night when Megan comes in the room. Drake and Josh never told Megan when the first day The Demonator opens, they just tell her that they're going to ride it the first day it opens and then she says it is tomorrow, but she somehow knew.
  • It's possible that she watched the commercial on her TV.
• Drake and Josh ask Craig and Eric to look after Papa Nichols while they're at Mystic Mountain Carnival riding The Demonator but when they get back home before 11:00, Drake and Josh push Craig and Eric out the back door as Audrey and Walter come in through the front door, wouldn't they have seen Craig and Eric's car out front when they were coming in?
  • However, Craig and Eric could've walked to Drake and Josh's house.
• When Papa Nichols asks Craig and Eric what they've done with the rest of his unit, Eric somehow knows that Papa Nichols thinks he's back in World War II, even though Drake and Josh never told Craig and Eric that their great-grandfather was a war veteran.
  • It is possible they told them while Megan was getting her jacket.
• Drake could have just taken his Demonator shirt off instead of putting on the drapes as he still had the red shirt under it. Though Drake did that likely because he did not have enough time to take the shirt off or could have not wanted Audrey and Walter to see the shirt laying around.
• It is unknown why Walter or Audrey's parents couldn’t have watched Papa Nichols.
  • It's also unknown why Walter and Audrey didn't want Megan home alone to watch Papa Nichols because in Alien Invasion, Audrey revealed that Megan has stayed home alone a lot, though it could be that they just didn’t want her staying up past 11 since it could’ve been a school.
  • It’s possible Audrey and Walter‘s parents are retired and cannot take care of Papa Nichols.
• It's unknown how Josh knew that Papa Nichols broke Eric's cellphone. In The Wedding, he tells Drake how that happened, but Eric didn't even tell Drake and Josh how his cellphone got broken when he only showed them it was broken.
  • It's possible Eric told Drake and Josh the next day at school.
• The police come to escort Drake, Josh, and Megan to the back of the line the first time after cutting in line, the second time they escort them to the back of the line again and he asks her if she's with them, and she lies to them saying she's never seen them before in her life, it's unknown how he actually believed her when she said that and let her off the hook only escorting her brothers to the back of the line, but the security saw her with them at first when they sent them back in line, so how's it possible for them to believe her the second time?