The Drake & Josh Inn

"I wouldn't want that phone back if I were dying on the kitchen floor."

―Megan

The Drake & Josh Inn
Season 3, Episode 1
Air date	April 2, 2005
Written by	Jake Farrow
Directed by	Adam Weissman
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The Drake & Josh Inn is the first episode of the third season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

Drake and Josh turn their home into a hotel after overhearing a couple discussing their difficulties in finding a place to stay during Spring Break.

Plot

In the opening comments, Josh talks about how Drake doesn't understand the importance of setting limits and both him and Drake talk about last Halloween.

Megan is in the living room watching TV when Drake and Josh came up to her that they'll be the boss of her. However, Megan flipped the boys to the floor and ignored Drake and Josh's excuses. Audrey and Walter gives Drake and Josh $200 which can be used for food and emergencies only. After Audrey and Walter leave for their vacation, Drake and Josh are left in charge of the house but Megan doesn't care about them. At The Premiere, Drake revealed to Josh that he spent $200 when he went shopping to buy toys and other unnecessary items. Josh asked Drake if he is gonna buy food for Megan while Drake finds a popcorn bucket in the trash can.

Desperate for money, Drake gets the idea to turn their house into a bed and breakfast after he notices a couple who has no place to stay. Josh initially disagrees as he is furious at Drake for his greedy spending his money on bubble gum, a wrist watch, a telescope, and a Mexican robot. Drake tells Josh that he the couple to stay at their house but Josh angrily disagrees with him. He uses his Mexican robot to answer Josh which he agreed. Drake and Josh bring home a couple from The Premiere as they would call their home "The Drake & Josh Inn". The boys help the couple where they can check in at their house. After Drake and Josh leave to go to their room, Megan discovers the couple that Drake and Josh bought from The Premiere which causes her to get mad. Drake and Josh have a discussion with Megan at the kitchen as the boys would turn their house into an inn. Later, Drake invites over 75 college kids to stay at the house, and they start partying much to Josh's shock.

Everyone is partying at Drake and Josh's house which turns out to be crazy. A guest tells Josh that the pool in Drake and Josh's room needs to be cleaned up. Josh realizes that he found more college people partying at his and Drake's room, much to Josh's dismay. Josh eventually gets fed up with the partying students, and wants everyone out of the house. Drake refuses, but changes his mind after one of the students breaks his guitar. Drake and Josh try to get everyone to leave but they refuse to listen to them and keep partying. Josh runs back to The Premiere and tries to get help from Helen to handle getting the 75 people out of his house. At home, a guy spins Drake around in circles when Megan tells Drake that she wants the party people out of their house as Drake agrees with her. Helen joins in with the crowd when MTV starts broadcasting from their house. While Audrey and Walter are relaxing at their hotel, they get suspicious when they see their house on TV. When the phone rings, Josh tells Drake to answer the phone because it might be their parents. Drake tells everyone to be quiet for a minute before they can resume the party. Audrey and Walter talk to Drake and Josh what they're doing at home, they become upset as the two would head home and punish Drake and Josh for partying at home. Drake and Josh help Megan succeed in getting everyone out before their parents get home. Megan goes to Drake and Josh's room to fake a toxic gas leak in the house. Drake and Josh made an announcement to the spring breakers that there is an emergency thinking that there is a serious leak. Megan turns on the machine which causes the monoxipuff gas to come out of the vent which causes Helen and the spring breakers to get out of the house before Audrey and Walter come home.

At the end, the kids clean the house and pretend that they're playing a game as Walter and Audrey come in. Audrey and Walter told the kids that they arrive home early as they saw their house on TV. The kids think they wouldn't have a party a home without their permission. Walter tells the kids that they'll go out for pizza. When the kids go upstairs, Audrey and Walter realize they are mistakenly arrested for hosting a televised party without a city-authorized-permit and get arrested. After Audrey and Walter leave to go to jail, the kids realized that their parents disappeared meaning that they'll be left home alone.

During the end credits, Josh was very upset that Drake spent a lot of money which he told him it was for food only. Drake told him that he bought gum, but Josh threw it away from him. Helen yells at Josh if he was working or not and Drake gets scared by her when he tries to say "Hi" to her.

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
• Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois
• Steven Hill (II) as MTV Reporter
• Laura Putney as Gail
• John Ducey as Terry

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Trivia

• This is the first episode to be filmed at Tribune Studios instead of Nickelodeon on Sunset.
• This is the first episode featuring HD graphics.
• The man who plays Terry also appears in the iCarly episode "iFind Spencer Friends".
• This episode premiered after the 2005 Kids' Choice Awards.
• This is the first time that Drake and Josh turn their house into a hotel when their parents are away in Los Angeles for Spring Break.
• Josh quickly confronts a guest who brought a dog into their house by saying, "Hey, we have a no pet policy. Except for you!" However, she ends up bringing her dog to Drake and Josh's house anyway.
• Starting with this episode, new episodes have been moved from Sunday to Saturday nights, until the next season episode, Josh Runs Into Oprah premiered.
• In this episode, Drake bought a toy Mexican robot which speaks Spanish when the button is pressed on its back. This Mexican robot is later used in the Victorious episode, "Jade Gets Crushed." The robot would also be seen in the Game Shakers episode, "Lost Jacket, Falling Pigeons".
• Dan confirmed this via Twitter: "Who recognized Beck's red robot from @Victorious tonight? It's the actual robot I used in an episode of Drake & Josh 4 or 5 years ago!" It's from the episode, "The Drake & Josh Inn."
• Starting with this episode, the door to Drake and Josh's room is on the eastern wall in the corner, facing to the right side. In the first two seasons, the door was facing forward on the southern side.
• The pool used in Drake and Josh's room is the same one used for the chocolate milk pool in The Bet, albeit without the sparkly decorations around it.
• Because they are in Los Angeles, Walter and Audrey are absent for the majority of the episode until the end when they are arrested for the party thrown by Drake and Josh being televised.
• The opening sequence has season 2 and 3 scenes on it alongside new scenes of Drake performing the theme song in front of a sparkly flamboyant background.
• This episode is very similar to the Even Stevens episode, "Stevens Manor."
• Dan Schneider also played Mr. Oldman in several episodes of The Amanda Show.
• This is the first episode where Drake has an anime-like version of his bowl-cut from Season 2.
• The hotel where Walter and Audrey are staying is called "The Four Schneiders," a reference to the series creator (Dan Schneider). It is also a pun on the "Four Seasons" Hotel and Luxury Resort.
• Starting with this episode, Josh has significantly lost weight and has a new hairstyle which is long curly hair.
• The party music played in the background is heard in an episode of Zoey 101.
• This episode is similar to the Family Ties episode, "4 RMS OCN Vu," as both episodes contain a character allowing a couple to stay at their house after his parents leave for the weekend in order to make money, but it eventually leads to an extremely large amount of people staying there and the main characters need to get everyone out of the house when the parent(s) announce he/they is/are returning early.
• This episode is also similar to the Kenan and Kel episode "Duh Bomb", where one of the main characters uses their workplace as a converted nightclub, and similarly, a fire marshal notifies the place that they are over capacity, but unlike this episode, neither Kenan, Kel, nor shop owner Chris were arrested for being over capacity.
• As of this episode, the US closed captions scroll between lines rather than being individual text.
• If one looks closely at Josh's orange and blue polo, you can see the American Eagle symbol.
• This is the second and last episode after The Gary Grill with no scenes in pitch black night.
• Josh mentions Lindsay Lohan from Disney's Freaky Friday when the phone call from the parents was ringing.
• This was the first episode to air in 2005.
• This is the only episode where Megan pulls a prank on Helen.
• Megan's Prank: Spreading gas all over the vent so all the people could leave the house on behalf of Drake making an announcement to the hotel guests that there's an unusual gas leak at The Drake & Josh Inn.
• This episode is only available on Paramount+.
• Drake and Josh turn their house into a hotel for guests to stay if needed, some houses would actually be like hotels, more like an Air BNB, so it's possible that they turned their house into an Air BNB.
• The shirt that Drake wears in this episode is seen on the iCarly episode "iCarly Awards" which aired in 2009, being worn by a recipient of an award on the webshow.

Goofs

• When Josh left the house to get Helen, he is wet. When he gets to the theater, he is dry. However, he may have dried off.
• When Walter and Audrey are talking about the things that they saw on the TV in their house, they mention some crazy lady singing R&B tunes, not realizing she was Helen, Josh's boss.
  • This was probably before they met her.
• When Megan realizes what her brothers have done, they talk to her in the kitchen, and she is yelling at the top of her lungs. Wouldn't the couple have heard her and figured out the house wasn't a real hotel at that point?
• Whenever the robot speaks in Spanish, the captions say, *Makes Random Noises* instead of the Spanish phrases it says. However, when said scene was shown as a flashback in Dr. Phyllis Show, the captions do correctly say, "Por Favor" when the robot says it.
• When the kid climbs up Drake's bed to do a belly flop, you can see one of the posters above the window facing Drake's bed is dangling by the bottom thumbtacks and then in the next shot, it's mysteriously hung back up.
• When the kid belly flops into the pool, all the water splashes on Josh when it should've logically splashed everywhere. Most likely a bucket of water off-screen was thrown on Josh. It could be that the water did splash in other directions but it happened offscreen.
• Megan beat up Drake and Josh and threw them to the floor when they tried to boss her around. While it is clear how Megan made Josh lose balance and fall to the floor, it is unclear how she had the strength to flip Drake with just one hand.
• While Josh is downstairs, you can hear "BELLY FLOP!", and a splash up in the top room. However, when he is up there, not a single drop of water is outside the pool or all over the floor.
• If the phone was in Josh's pants, it couldn't have rung if it was off the hook in the first place.
• Wouldn't Audrey and Walter have heard Drake and Josh talking on the phone on the TV?
  • Wouldn't they have also seen them walking around shouting at everyone those other times?
  • It is possible that the camera that was recording the television event may have muted the volume, although it is unlikely.
• Audrey and Walter could have told the cops that it was Drake and Josh who threw the party so they would not have been arrested and also could've told them that their house was featured on TV.
• The couple says that the pool upstairs was getting filthy, but when you see a view of the pool, it seems rather clean.
• Drake says Nikki took beauty school and lets her give him a haircut but when Josh tells her to go away and rips off his haircut apron, his hair's not cut as his hair is still the same as before.
• Drake and Josh pretend their house is a hotel by running a business just to make money. However, it's actually illegal to pretend a house is a hotel and letting strangers stay in their house which is a really bad thing. Also, their house doesn't have a hotel name or sign out front in which the people they let in could've mentioned when they arrived so Drake and Josh name it themselves. Drake and Josh were briefly scamming them just to make money, so they could've been caught anyway.
• When Drake and Josh make everyone leave the house, the man wearing the sheets which were meant for Megan's bed leaves in them and never gave them back.
• When the officers question Audrey and Walter if they know it was illegal to host a televised event without permission, how did the cops find out that their house was featured on TV?
  • It was likely that they watched the event in the station and were told by the dispatcher. It's also possible that someone filed a noise complaint due to how loud the house was (likely the neighbors).
• When Drake, Josh and Megan cleanup everything at the end of the episode, they get rid of the plastic cups on the living room table then the music speakers then the dog chew toy and the beach ball but Drake puts the dog chew toy under the kitchen counter and Josh kicks the beach ball in the kitchen, wouldn't their parents have found or saw the beach ball and dog chew toy in the kitchen somehow?
• Just as Megan comes home and finds unsuspected people in the house, she has her backpack with her, she couldn't have been at school because it's the weekend and it is spring break, though it is likely that she was at a friend's house and just packed her stuff and brought it over.
• It's unknown what happened to the couple that was staying at Drake and Josh's house since they were never seen again after Josh told them that the pool was dirty, though it's likely they left during the party because it was crowded and noisy.
• Drake and Josh pretend their house is a hotel for the people that need help, they ask where to check in and Drake gives them a notebook to write their names and other hotel stuff, but the thing about hotels is that they take credit cards but they obviously make it a hotel where they take cash, wouldn't the people have been concerned with asking Drake and Josh about credit cards, and would wonder about debit machines as they wouldn't have those things at their house, they would've almost been stumped if the whole hotel business they run take credit cards even though they only accept cash, apparently hotels don't really take cash.