Really Big Shrimp
2007 film by Drake Bell, Steve Hoefer
"Really Big Shrimp" is the television special and series finale of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh. The episode first aired on August 3, 2007, and was Nickelodeon's highest-rated television event at that time, with 5.8 million viewers.
Plot
During a music showcase at the Premiere movie theater, Drake (Drake Bell) performs his new song "Makes Me Happy" for a music deal from record producer Alan Krim (mentioned in the series' first television film) and he succeeds. While at Spin City Records, they agree to put the song in a commercial for Daka Shoe Company's "Air Puffs" line that will air during the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, theater manager Helen Dubois (Yvette Nicole Brown) is getting married and, with many of her family members staying in her apartment, her grandmother Lula comes to stay at the Parker-Nichols house for the week, forcing Drake and Josh (Josh Peck) to share their room with their sister, Megan (Miranda Cosgrove), due to Lula staying in hers instead of the guest room (since Walter has a model train set in there as mentioned in the episode, "The Great Doheny"). In retaliation for this, Megan redecorates her brothers' room to her liking, confines them to a single mattress in a corner with only a lamp and a football accompanying it and threatens to accuse them of vandalizing one of their fellow neighbors' gazebo if they complain about this to their parents as she invites her friends to hang out with her in the room. Helen makes a deal with Craig and Eric to videotape her wedding to save money for her upcoming honeymoon.
Helen then promotes the Premiere's latest employee and Josh's ex-girlfriend, Mindy Crenshaw (Allison Scagliotti), as its new assistant manager for fixing a corn dog rotisserie that Josh was unable to. Josh is distraught over not getting the position and accuses Mindy of constantly trying to do better than him, which she denies. Earlier, at the recording studio for Drake's song, Josh is given a contract from Krim to sign, but he fails to read it, as the company's served prawns distract him, and inadvertently signs the creative rights to the song away.
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