Really Big Shrimp
| "Really Big Shrimp" | |
|---|---|
| Drake & Josh episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 17–18 |
| Directed by |
Drake Bell (Part 1) Steve Hoefer (Part 2) |
| Written by | Dan Schneider George Doty IV |
| Produced by | Dan Schneider |
| Featured music | Backhouse Mike |
| Production code | 419–420 |
| Original air date | August 3, 2007 |
| Running time | 52 minutes (runtime) |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
"Really Big Shrimp" is the series finale of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh. The episode first aired on August 3, 2007. It was Nickelodeon's highest-rated television event at that time, with 5.8 million viewers. The episode was aired during a Drake & Josh marathon called Drake vs. Josh weekend. Despite being the series finale, it was not the last episode to be aired, as both Helicopter and Dance Contest aired afterwards.
Although Nickelodeon promoted this episode as a "film", it is actually the one-hour series finale episode as it contains the show's usual laugh track.
The episode opens as Drake and Josh begin their prologue as they did in the pilot. Josh tries to fix the corn dog rotisserie at the premiere, but can't. Mindy, however, fixes it in ten seconds. Drake performs his new song called, "Makes Me Happy" for a music deal from Alan Krim (mentioned in the show's first television film) and he succeeds. While at Spin City Records, they agree to put Drake's song in a commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Helen is getting married and her grandmother, Lula, comes to stay at Drake and Josh's house for a week, forcing Megan to share the boys' room.
Helen then announces the new assistant manager, who turns out to be Mindy. Josh is very upset that he didn't get the job, and accuses Mindy of constantly trying to one-up him, which she denies. While at the recording studio at Spin City Records, Krim gives Josh a contract. Josh doesn't read the contract at all, mesmerized by massive shrimp (prawn), and inadvertently signs away the creativity rights to Drake's song. Krim remixes—and completely ruins—Drake's song, turning it into, as Drake puts it, "horrible bubblegum pop garbage-y badness". Furious with Josh for this mistake, Drake fires him as manager, then hatches a plan for revenge: planting fruit flies in Alan's car. While criticizing Josh for always playing by the rules he tells Josh that, "when people play dirty, sometimes you have to play dirty back."
Still trying to fix his mistake, Josh returns to Spin City Records. After being told there is no way the company will use Drake's original version, Josh decides to take Drake's advice and switches the ruined song with the original song as it is being picked up. The plan succeeds, and Drake's version of "Makes Me Happy" plays on the commercial, much to Drake's delight, and he forgives Josh for this, but Josh's action comes with a price. Right after the commercial airs, Josh receives a call from Krim who explains that by switching the songs, Josh has broken the contract, and not only is the record company planning to sue the boys for $5 million; the two could also go to prison.
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