10 Interesting BehindTheScenes Facts About Drake & Josh Really Big Shrimp
10 Interesting Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp
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Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp was a huge event for the Nickelodeon series – but how much do you really know about it?
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Back in the heyday of Nickelodeon programming, one series stood out above the rest. Drake and Josh, aptly named after its stars, Drake Bell and Josh Peck, ran for four seasons and produced a ton of memorable episodes and laughs for the young fans who gravitated towards it during their childhoods.
Some of the most memorable installments of the show, however, came from supersized episodes and movie formats of the comedy. Drake and Josh Go Hollywood was a big deal and, seeing its success, Drake and Josh: Really Big Shrimp was a go. The only difference is that Really Big Shrimp also has a really big list of behind-the-scenes trivia.
10 Record Breaking
For one, Really Big Shrimp shattered Nickelodeon viewership ratings at the time of its release in August 2007. With the 5.8 million viewers attracted to the premiere of Really Big Shrimp, it became the most-watched show in the history of Nickelodeon.
Ratings are made to be broken, however. Big event episodes of iCarly would later supplant Really Big Shrimp. Though, the Drake and Josh Christmas special, Merry Christmas, Drake and Josh, would also claim the record.
9 The End Of The Show?
Speaking of Merry Christmas, Drake and Josh, it wound up being the finale of the show. The Christmas movie wrapped up the show in heartwarming fashion. But behind the scenes, Really Big Shrimp was originally conceived as the end of the show.
Instead, Nickelodeon aired “Dance Contest” as the final episode of the show. Really Big Shrimp would have been a satisfying ending, but there’s no doubt that the Christmas film was the way to go.
8 Two Parts
While Really Big Shrimp has later been classified as one of the three movies from Drake and Josh, the behind the scenes production of the show initially had it pegged as the series’ first and only two-part episode.
When it aired on Nickelodeon, it was treated as a two-part episode event. In subsequent airings, it’s been treated as a film. It can even be found on the Letterboxd film catalog website!
7 The Premiere
Behind the scenes, Drake and Josh had a ton of connections to the other teen comedies that aired on Nickelodeon at the same time as and after the Parker/Nichols comedy. One example of this is the set of the parking lot in front of The Premiere.
Remember the Asphalt Cafe from Victorious? These two locations are actually the same! It just made practical sense for Nickelodeon to use the Sunset Studio parking lot for their shows.
6 Now She’s Carly
When producing Really Big Shrimp, the writers and set designers of Drake and Josh decided to have some fun with the titles on the marquee at The Premiere. On the show, these titles were always a source for jokes. In Really Big Shrimp, they became fun nods to the future of Nickelodeon after the show.
One of the titles read, “Now She’s Carly,” which was an obvious acknowledgment of Miranda Cosgrove’s career trajectory. Her next project was to star as Carly on iCarly and the Drake and Josh team had some fun with their Megan.
5 Lil Lisa 22
Another one of the titles on The Premiere had an interesting connection to Zoey 101, which was a contemporary of Drake and Josh, rather than iCarly, which was a successor. The title was “Lil Lisa 22” on The Premiere.
This title was a nod to Zoey 101 cast member, Christopher Massey, who portrayed Michael Barrett on that show. It was a nickname he had for his girlfriend in real life! It just shows that the Nickelodeon show teams were always collaborating with one another.
4 The Amanda Show
While Drake and Josh had myriad successors, there was also time in Really Big Shrimp to give a callback to one of the predecessors. Both Bell and Peck had big roles on the Nickelodeon sketch series, The Amanda Show.
At the end of Really Big Shrimp, a clip of the two of them fighting over shrimp on Amanda Bynes’ series is shown. It’s a tidy way of bringing the series full circle to Drake and Josh’s first major foray into Nickelodeon comedy. It’s also a heartwarming moment, which was rare on the show!
3 Makes Me Happy
Returning to Zoey 101, another behind-the-scenes element of Really Big Shrimp managed to make its way to that hangout comedy. If one watches the Zoey 101 episode, “Quinn’s Alpaca,” they will be able to hear “Makes Me Happy.”
In the universe of Drake and Josh, this is the song that record companies quarrel over in Really Big Shrimp. Fortunately, in real life, it was simply released as a single. It’s much cleaner that way.
2 Director Drake
Really Big Shrimp was written by Dan Schneider. The second part of the event was directed by Steve Hoefer. But one of the crucial behind-the-scenes collaborators was an unlikely person.
The man who directed the first part of Really Big Shrimp? That would be series star Drake Bell himself! It was the only episode Bell ever directed of the series, but he showed that he had a clear knack for it.
1 The Game
Few things were as fun in the old days of Nickelodeon than the fact that many of the channel’s biggest events would be accompanied online with a game for fans to play. Really Big Shrimp was no different.
It’s obviously not a very technologically advanced game, but it came with a ton of nostalgia. Plus, Drake sang “Makes Me Happy” during it. That’s enough to make anyone happy. Really Big Shrimp will live on forever.
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