Theater Thug

"I AM NOT THE GUY!"

―Josh

Theater Thug
Season 3, Episode 14
Air date	February 18, 2006
Written by	Dan Schneider
Directed by	Roger Christiansen
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Theater Thug is the fourteenth episode of the third season of Drake & Josh.

Synopsis

Josh gets a part on a TV crime show where he plays the infamous "Theater Thug." Following his TV debut, he becomes a public enemy, as a case of mistaken identity gets out of hand.

Plot

In the opening comments, Josh is playing poker downstairs and Drake is playing his guitar upstairs and talk about the time they were at the mall.

Drake is at the Premiere. He walks up to Josh and offers him a ride home and doesn't leave for 2 hours. Drake gets tickets for Eye of the Mummy and meets up with a girl named Hazel. Meanwhile, Helen walks in with someone pointing out an area where people hang out and more people with equipment go in. The man talks to Josh saying that he's from FBI's Most Wanted and is shooting a crime reenactment at the theater. He asks Josh to play the Theater Thug as Josh agrees to do it.

Josh and Megan are in Drake and Josh's room while Josh is rehearsing his lines. He has Megan play the cashier as Megan performs her part badly. Megan laughs and then locks Josh out of Drake and Josh's room. Josh makes Drake the director at the start of each of Josh's rehearsals.

At the Premiere, everyone is setting up. Drake comes in because he's never seen a real TV show being made before. The director overhears and casts Drake as "Scared Guy No. 1". Drake asks if he'll be payed and the director says he can have a donut. Drake agrees. They begin to shoot. Helen exaggerates and screams into the camera. To get Helen away, the director asks her to get him another donut, and says he'll wait for her.

The family are at home watching TV and they're waiting for FBI's Most Wanted to start. The doorbell rings and Drake says that he ordered a pizza. Josh invited the pizza man to watch them on TV and as he sits down, he opens Drake's pizza and starts to eat it. However, over the senior citizens who saw the show think he's the real Theater Thug.

A lady wants to thank Drake for being a star in the show. Josh arrives late for work and tells Helen that he was at the police station when other people recognize as the Theater Thug. The boy scouts find Josh thinking that he was the Theater Thug as they proceed to attack him. At home, Drake and Megan try to help Josh dress in another disguise to avoid him getting caught by other people. As Drake helps Josh wear a hippie costume so people would not know that he's the Theater Thug, they proceed to attack him, and the police officers arrest him.

At the end, Drake and Josh get ready to close The Premiere, Helen announces to Drake and Josh that she and Gavin will go salsa dancing leaving the boys in charge to close up the theater. The real Theater Thug shows up at the Premiere near closing time and robs Josh. During the fight, Josh manages to pin him down and Drake hits the real Theater Thug with a mop. The cops arrive and mistake Josh for the Theater Thug, arresting him while accidentally letting the Thug escape.

During the end credits, Drake and Josh sing "I Found a Way" with Drake using his guitar together.

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
• Jake Farrow as Gavin Mitchell
• Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois
• Lucy Hale as Hazel
• Hayden Thompson as Theater Thug
• Josh Server as Jeff Carlson
• Terrance Thomas and Ryan Heinke as 2 of the Boy Scouts
• Shea Parker as Teen Guy
• Darryl Reed Jr. as Pizza Delivery Man
• Beverly Polcyn as Old Lady
• Miracle Vincent as Cashier
• Tim Waterman as Cameraman
• Cherilyn Wilson as Sam

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Transcript

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Trivia

• The hippie disguise used by Josh, "Antoine" and his line "What it is?" was originally used in an episode of the Nickelodeon show All That (produced by Dan Schneider). Kenan Thompson played him.
• The second disguise Megan and Drake showed Josh is a morphed photo of Zoey Brooks from Dan Schneider's other show, Zoey 101 who was portrayed by Bryan and Britney Spears' younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears in real life. You can see her dorm key on the necklace.
• This episode reveals there are theater screening rooms on the other side of the Premiere.
• One of Josh's openings lines was heard on the Sam & Cat episode #FavoriteShow.
• The Mr. T disguise was also seen in this episode of Drake & Josh. Megan says his catchphrase which is, "I pity the fool." He played the character Clubber Lang, who was Rocky Balboa's opponent from Rocky III.
• During the reenactment at the cinema, Drake's shirt had the letters USSR on it, which is an abbreviation of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is more commonly known as the Soviet Union.
• The real theater thug's whereabouts following the episode is unknown, but it’s likely he was eventually captured or is still at large.
• Josh gets beat up/arrested on-camera 3 times.
• This is the second time Josh gets tortured by other people after being on TV, the first time was in Blues Brothers.
• It is completely illogical that the police arrested Josh at the end after entering the cinema, as they have previously spotted the real thug entering the place.
• FBI's Most Wanted is a parody of America's Most Wanted.
• Many fans of the show consider this the worst episode of the entire show due to the cruelty and stupidity of the townsfolk and police as well as the abuse Josh endured throughout the episode.
• This is the only episode that's not seen or shown as a flashback in Dr. Phyllis Show unlike all the other Season 3 episodes.
• This joins The Affair as the only two episodes where the end credits last for at least one minute, not counting the two TV movies.
• This is the second episode that plays a clip of Drake Bell singing "I Found a Way" using his guitar with Josh Peck by his side during the credits, but this time is the extended full version of him singing the song, the first was "The Gary Grill".
• To this day people ask Drake Bell to say "Woah, take it easy." a phrase that came from this episode.

Running Gags

• Josh being mistaken for the Theater Thug and getting beat up/arrested.
• Drake signing autographs from other people.

Goofs

• In this episode, Josh says he watches FBI's Most Wanted every Saturday, but in previous episodes, Josh spends Saturdays doing something else. Maybe he records every episode and watches it in his spare time.
• It seems odd that Helen did not install an alarm system which would have prevented the Theater Thug from robbing The Premiere.
  • However, in the episode, Josh is Done, security measures were taken as security guards were hired to remove unwanted individuals.
• How did the cops know the Theater Thug was at The Premiere when the real one shows up to rob the place?
  • The police most likely noticed him and backtracked him to The Premiere without him noticing and called in for a backup chopper on the way since it was serious to not let him escape.
• Josh was told by Helen to lock up the store, but he is probably not old enough to lock up for The Premiere. If he were at least 18 years old and assistant manager (like how he's always wanted to be), this would be permitted.
• Helen tries to ask the producer about being in the reenactment, she says that she's going to fluff her hair, but when she gets back and the reenactment begins, her hair isn't fluffy.
• Josh doesn't look anything like the Theatre Thug so in the real world the police officers would've been fired for falsely arresting Josh.
  • The officers would also be fired for aiding and abetting.
• Josh tells the real theatre thug that there's no alarm at the premiere , but in Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp, Craig plugs in the 5K and there was suddenly an alarm being heard for the fire he's caused.