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Plot

is the first episode of. It aired on January 11, 2004.

Drake Parker (Drake Bell) is a cool and popular teenager while Josh Nichols (Josh Peck) is a geeky teenager whom Drake describes as unusual. Drake's mom Audrey Parker-Nichols (Nancy Sullivan) and Josh's dad Walter Nichols (Jonathan Goldstein) have been dating and announce to Drake, Josh, and Drake's devious little sister, Megan Parker (Miranda Cosgrove), that they are getting married. Josh is thrilled about having a new stepbrother, but Drake is not. Drake is even less excited when he finds out that Josh is Miss Nancy, the anonymous advice columnist for the school newspaper, and that Josh believes he must dress like a woman to adequately write his advice. Drake then uses this to get a date with Tiffany Margolis (Julie Gonzalo), who wrote to Miss Nancy. But Josh gets in trouble when her angered boyfriend Buck (Joey Mendicino) thinks she is on a date with Josh instead and challenges him to a fight. Josh trains all day under a karate instructor but still ends up getting knocked out with one punch. Drake eventually apologizes and helps Josh realize that he can give good advice without wearing his Miss Nancy dress. Both make up and accept each other as brothers.

Cast

Guest Cast

Julie Gonzalo as Tiffany Margolis

Joey Medicino as Buck

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Drake & Josh S01E01 Pilot

Gallery

See Pilot/Gallery

Trivia

Audrey and Walter are the first to share a kiss in the series.

Josh says "Hug me, brothah!" for the first time.

Walter seems relatively good at basketball (although he smashes a lamp). It's possible that Josh's grandmother taught him.

This episode marks the first time someone cross-dresses (in this case, Josh).

This is the first time a guy (Josh, in this case) puts something in his clothes to make it look like he has breasts. This occurs again in Steered Straight of season four.

This episode is mentioned in Really Big Shrimp. Also, the cold open of this episode is similar to Really Big Shrimp.

Megan plays her first prank on Drake and Josh by putting hot sauce in their spaghetti and drinks in this episode.

Toshi Toda guest starred as the martial arts teacher.

The martial arts teacher would later appear in First Crush with a new business.

Eric Blonowitz made a cameo appearance in the fight scene, but didn't become an official character until Pool Shark.

This is the first episode where Belleview High School makes an appearance.

This is the first episode in which Josh is wearing an earring.

This episode and Dune Buggy are the only Season 1 episodes to air as of 2012.

During the montage, Lenny Kravitz's "dig in" can be heard playing.

This episode, at least on DVD had the nickelodeon light bulb logo, but 3 deep hums instead of 6

An Alternate Version of this episode has a different song replacing Lenny Kravitz's Dig In Song.

This is not the first pilot, the original pilot was produced in 2001 and had Stephen Furst playing Walter Nichols instead of Jonathan Goldstein.

The drinks that Drake and Josh have with their spaghetti and Megan putting hot sauce in is iced tea.

The hot sauce that Megan uses to put in Drake and Josh's spaghetti and drinks if you look closely is Frank's Red Hot Sauce.

There is an episode of "Friends" from season 2, The One With the Prom Video, that has Chandler (Matthew Perry) throw a basketball into a lamp breaking the lamp similar to this.

Goofs