The Wedding

The Wedding
Season 4, Episode 3
Air date	October 15, 2006
Written by	Matt Fleckenstein
Directed by	Steve Hoefer
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The Wedding (also known as Wedding) is the third episode of the fourth season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

Drake and Josh are asked to deliver a wedding cake to their Aunt Catherine's wedding, in hope that the family can get her beach house. But Trevor's car breaks down, and Drake and Josh are stuck in the middle of a deserted road.

Plot

In the opening comments, Drake and Josh talk about going to their great aunt Catherine's wedding, whom they both hate.

While Drake is eating a hot dog, he hears his dad honking from outside meaning that everyone is ready to go to the wedding. Craig and Eric stop by to borrow Josh's laptop, and Drake hands them the bag. The whole family is in agreement that she’s very unpleasant, but she owns a beautiful beach house that the family hopes to own one day. Now, she’s getting married, and the two boys are on duty to deliver a wedding cake to the wedding on time, in hopes that great aunt Catherine will give their family her beach house.

Drake and Josh are left at home as they prepare to go out to their aunt's wedding. However, Josh is unaware that his cell phone is and the keys to mom's SUV are missing because Drake gave the entire bag to Craig and Eric, leaving them with no transportation to the wedding. Drake starts to call Craig and Eric, but Josh reminds him that neither of them have cellphones. Josh remembers that Papa Nichols broke Eric's cellphone against the wall (from The Demonator) while Craig's mom thinks cellphones cause ear sores. Drake decided to call his old friend Trevor if he and Josh can borrow his car to go to their aunt's wedding.

Drake and Josh use Trevor's old 1970s Chevrolet El Camino to try to get to the wedding on time. However, Trevor's old car breaks down and leaves them stranded without any means of calling for help. The boys eventually get locked out of Trevor's old car and discover Trevor's old stuff. Drake also tells Josh that he doesn't have his cellphone either because he put it in a bowl of soup at school to see if it would float. When they leave to urinate, two police officers drive by and give them a parking ticket while one admits to his partner that he is not actually married and used the name of a girl he liked in the 9th Grade. The police officers drive off right as Drake and Josh return. Drake and Josh then flag down two strangers who drive by as they need help to go to their aunt's wedding. When Drake and Josh explain their situation, the two strangers push them to the ground, take away their wallets, end up mugging them and drive off leaving Drake and Josh stranded.

While Drake and Josh are still out of the road, a tow truck driver named Leslie stops and offers to help them. After Leslie smashes the window to help them get the registration, Drake almost flips out on him until Josh calms him down. Drake then makes fun of his name and Leslie abandons them out of anger. In the end, Drake and Josh manage to Trevor's car and it seems like the two will be able to drive to the wedding. However, as they start to go, the car catches on fire, eventually engulfing entire car along with the wedding cake. The boys give up and walk away as the car and wedding cake burn, realizing there's now no hope that their great aunt will give them her beach house.

During the end credits, Drake and Josh talk about how two strangers mugged them and a bird poops on Josh's face.

Cast

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols
• Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker
• Alec Medlock as Craig Ramirez
• Scott Halberstadt as Eric Blonowitz
• E. E. Bell as Leslie
• Kevin P. Farley and Jesse Burch as the Police Officers
• AJ Wedding as Ryan
• Adam Huss as Spencer
• Ryan Happy as Thug

Trivia

• Walter is absent in this episode, although he was mentioned waiting in the car and honking the horn angrily.
• This episode aired one year after Girl Power.
• After waving for help twice, Drake and Josh have to pee behind some bushes. The duo is actually urinating offstage in case plenty of Nickelodeon fans didn't know that on behalf of the episode's TV airing.
• It's been revealed that Trevor's El Camino was made in the '70s which was coincidentally the same time period that offroad 4-wheel drive trucks called Scouts were made in the old days by a manufacturer, International Harvester. It's unknown why that logo doesn't appear on Drake's friend's car.
• Drake started to be more sensitive after Josh yelled at him.
• Papa Nichols was mentioned by Josh talking about Eric's phone since The Demonator. This episode marks either the final appearance or mention of Papa Nichols.
• The deserted road set is reused in the iCarly movie special iGo to Japan.
• Megan and Audrey only appear at the beginning of the episode.
• When Drake hits Josh on the foot with a big rock, it was a callback to the episode Paging Dr. Drake when Drake shoots Josh with a potato and he drops a barbell on his foot.
• This is the second episode where Drake borrowed a vehicle from Trevor, the first was Dune Buggy.
• This is the second episode with no daytime scenes after Two Idiots and a Baby. The Battle of Panthatar doesn't have any daytime scenes either.
• This is the second episode where Drake and Josh appeared in the same room between each other on one picture. The first goes to We're Married?
• Drake and Josh's bedroom isn’t shown for the second time like the previous episode Vicious Tiberius. The helicopter episode doesn't show Drake and Josh's bedroom either.
• This is the last episode to be produced and filmed in 2005 before Drake Bell got into a car accident, which halted production until March 2006.
• Drake and Josh had a very lucky chance getting out of the car just before the inside would light up on fire.
• One of the police officers is played by Kevin Farley, whose brother was late comedian Chris Farley.
  • He also appeared in Honor Council as the mechanic who tries to remove Mrs. Hayfer's car from the classroom.
• Leslie is played by E.E. Bell, who played Barney the security guard on 5 episodes of The Amanda Show.
• As of January 16, 2022, this episode from season four is no longer airing on TeenNick. It is not available on Paramount+ due to licensing issues with material used in the episode.
• Moral: Always keep your items like cellphones, keys, etc. out of the bag at home.

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Transcript

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Goofs

• Drake had a car, as revealed in Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, but they don't even try to use it. However, in My Dinner with Bobo, Drake said he lost his car after this episode ended.
  • Although, considering how big the wedding cake is shown to be, it is possible they didn't use Drake's car because the cake wouldn't have fit securely in it, and they needed a vehicle with adequate storage space.
• Despite the title, the titular wedding itself never actually happens in the episode.
• When Drake talks about how he has to pee, Josh's hands are by his side. Then a camera view changes, and Josh is playing with his watch.
• In this episode, Drake accidentally gives Josh's phone to Craig and Eric and Drake says he put his phone in a bowl of soup, causing it to no longer work. In the previous episode, Vicious Tiberius, Drake flushes Josh's cell phone down Mrs. Hayfer's toilet and Tiberius destroys Drake's cell phone. They must have gotten new phones after that. 
• If Josh left his cell phone in his laptop case, he could have called it from their house and asked Craig and Eric to bring them the case. It is possible that either Josh's cell phone was turned off, and therefore a phone call could not be made, or Craig and Eric were in a rush to get to the observatory and wouldn't have time to bring the case back.
• In the episode Movie Job, Drake doesn't seem to like ketchup on hot dogs. In this episode, he is about to put ketchup on his hot dog. He may have changed his mind about disliking it.
• After Leslie breaks the window, the shattered glass is on the ground. Later on, the glass is suddenly gone.
• When Drake and Josh had to go to the bathroom, they could have taken turns waiting by the car in case of any carjackers or help approached. It could be that Drake or Josh both had to go that bad.
• Closed-captions spell "Laguna Niguel" as "Laguna Nigel".
• Audrey asks Megan to zip up her dress from the back, but when she’s talking to Drake, it can be clearly seen that her dress had no zipper.
• After Drake accidentally hurts Josh's foot with a rock, the rock is gone afterwards, and Josh is walking perfectly fine.
• Josh walks up on the far-right side with his hands down as he is starting to notice the police car pulling away. However, in the very next shot, his arms are up as he and Drake are yelling and running after it.
• When Drake and Josh try to get back in the car, they realize they are locked out with the keys still inside, but Drake didn't push the lock down when he exited the car earlier. It's impossible that the car locked itself.
• The tip of the coat hanger is nowhere near hitting Josh's eye.
• After Drake and Josh fix the car motor, they get in the car to test it out and start it, but they forgot to close the hood, which makes the car catch on fire, which can happen in real life. Besides, Drake and Josh didn't seem to notice they can't see when they're driving with the hood open.
• Drake and Josh could've just grabbed the wedding cake before it would burn.
• Drake and Josh burn Trevor's car and miss the wedding since they didn't know what else to do, they walk away from it just leaving it get burned and seemed to have been stranded on the road, but how'd they get home from this episode to other episodes? Their parents didn't even know where they were when they were stuck on the streets, and they had no other way getting to the wedding, they probably upsetted Aunt Catherine for not showing, and these are one of the things Drake and Josh has caused trouble which was never mentioned in Steered Straight.