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  • "If I may, I'd just like to say... BUSTED!!"
    Susan: Drake, did you hear what he just said to me?!
    Drake: Yeah! I think he said... BUSTED!
    • A similar incident, after getting Megan's boyfriend to take her back, Josh finds out he had been dating a girl long before they broke up. What do they do? Barge in on Megan's date with the other girl outing him as a cheater to both Megan and Monica.
  • It's not a main character per se, but they get one in "Driver's License". Drake and Josh are assigned to two driving instructors: respectively, a pretty, fun-loving young woman and a cranky, curmudgeon old lady. Drake is having the best driving test of his life as his instructor enjoys it. Josh? Not so much. The awesome part comes in when we hear each of their results: Josh expects that his instructor will fail him because she was ornery and grumpy the whole time. But to his surprise, she says he passed. She could've given him a bad mark, but she tells him his driving was one of the best she had ever seen. Meanwhile, you have Drake, who thinks his instructor will pass him just because she had a good time, but she doesn't sugar-coat that she can't pass him. Just because she enjoyed the ride doesn't mean she can pass a reckless driver in good conscience. At the end of the day, both instructors gave each step-brother the driving grade they deserved without prejudice.
    • Josh's driving being praised as very good by his cranky instructor is unto itself awesome. It was so good that it was enough for her to legitimately compliment it.
    Cranky Instructor: Yes! Don't you hear good? You're an excellent driver.
  • Josh making his father wrestle Drake after learning of his injuries from the dune buggy accident.
    Josh: 1... 2... 3, ATTACK DRAKE!
  • Josh getting his well-deserved revenge on Drake for causing him to get a traffic ticket.
    Josh: No, officer... you're going to have to give me two tickets.
    Officer: (puzzled) What for?
    Josh: Well, one for the broken taillight... and one... FOR THIS!!! (tackles Drake inside the car, repeatedly smacking the horn and setting off the windshield wipers in the process)
  • Drake allowing Megan to see "Monsters in the Drain" movie, knowing she'll be scared of the drain.
    Josh: Yeah, good call in letting her see that movie.
  • Everyone singing "We Will Rock You" (or Let's Get This Party Started) at the end of the episode "The Storm".
  • Megan proving Drake innocent in "Honor Council". She gives Josh Mindy's transcript indicating that she Mrs. Hayfer blemished her straight-A transcript by giving her a B in her class, establishing that Mindy had a strong motive to pull the prank.
    • Disproportionate Retribution as the prank was, you have to admit it's very impressive that Mindy Crenshaw a lone high school student was able disassemble Mrs. Hayfer's entire car and put it back together in her classroom in one night. Especially considering that, aside from Josh being able to set off the horn and alarm, the car still worked just fine.
  • The "Soul Man" routine in the talent show from The Blues Brothers episode. Now, the routine itself is pretty awesome & definitely qualifies, but add on to this that in the show, Josh had suffered crippling stage fright until this point (due to freezing up when he was on the weather with his dad, thanks to Megan reminding him of a prior incident), whilst Drake only came up with the idea to do the routine minutes beforehand after an acappella group stole the song his band were going to perform (a song Drake wrote no less).
    • Also Heartwarming as its a Callback to Drake trying to cheer Josh up by watching the Blues Brothers with him. The fact they both enjoy the show along with just how much fun they're having fun up there.
  • Megan gets one in "Megan's New Teacher" when she and Drake sneak into the school late at night and sabotage Josh's evaluation.
  • Megan rescuing Drake and Josh in "Drake and Josh Go Hollywood." Everything that happens between Megan calling the police and when the police finally get there is basically one huge scene of awesome. Made funnier by the fact that Drake and Josh had followed Megan there because they thought she needed their help to get on the correct flight to Denver after they put her on the wrong flight.
  • In "The Great Doheny", Doheny pulls an insane magic trick that gets the townspeople to think he was killed by being impaled with swords...and then he reveals to Drake and Josh that he had to see them terrified for it to work properly.
  • Really Big Shrimp: The boys think they are about to be sued for $5 million and sent to prison after Josh switches the crappy remix of Drake's song with the original, but Nick Mateo of Spin City Records tells them that they aren't because the song was such a huge hit that it crashed the server. Followed by this exchange:
    Alan Krim: Okay! Wait a second! So these guys just totally scammed us and you're going to reward them for it?
    Nick Mateo: They had to scam us. Because you tried to ruin a very good song. Which is why you're fired.
    Alan Krim: What?! You can't fire me! Our wives play golf together!
    Nick Mateo: Your wife cheats, get out!
  • At the beginning of Little Sibling, a guilty feeling Josh tells Drake that he can't lie, after Mrs. Hayfer asks him if Drake was on time. Then, at the very end of the episode when Drake gets put in his horrifying Remedial English class by her, Josh arrives there and tells the teacher that the principal needs to see Drake about something. The teacher dismisses him, and as they're leaving, Drake questions Josh about why the principal needs to see him. Josh's response? "He doesn't." The episode ends as they both escape the class.
  • In Girl Power, Helen, armed with a baseball bat, confronts a group of large football players who had just tormented Drake and Josh, and sends them running.
    Helen: I beg to differ! Now you and your little hoodlum friends get out of my movie theater before I pop you like a zit! Move it!
    • In the same episode, we have Josh defending Mindy and going off on Drake. Josh gets very few epic speeches in the show, but this... this is definitely one of them. Special mention goes to Josh Peck, whose delivery of the speech was pretty damn top notch for a sitcom actor on a kid's television network.
    Josh: You see what you do?! One night, one night, I ask you to help me and you ruin it!
    Drake: Josh I-
    Josh(interrupting) I told you how important this was to me. I told you that this was my last chance to impress Mindy's parents! I spent like two days working on this dinner, and 300 bucks on a dumb harpist (turning to address her) who at this point, should STOP. PLAYING! (the harpist abruptly stops) And I don't even care what you think of Mindy, 'cause she is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and I can't date her because you wrecked it! Alright? You wrecked my dinner, you wrecked my $100 ice sculpture, and you wrecked my relationship!
    • Another awesome and Heartwarming thing about the speech is that Mindy's parents, who had just forbidden her and Josh from continuing dating, overhear it. They are both visibly touched by how much Mindy means to Josh. They both agree to let Mindy and Josh's relationship continue.
  • After Drake makes Josh miss his chemistry exam in Josh Is Done, Josh attempts to tackle Drake as vengeance. Granted, it gets Josh into even more trouble, but it's nice to see Josh drop his nonsense at Drake's insensitivity. It's also the point where Josh decides to quit hanging out with Drake since the latter causes nothing but problems for him.
    • After Josh's aforementioned departure from Drake, we see that Josh is getting the praise he always wanted and everything is going great for him so far. For Drake, we see that he is an absolute wreck, running out of fuel for the car and not doing a chemistry experiment correctly (due to having Clayton as his new lab partner). It's both good and bad karma on both ends; Drake understanding what it's like to be in Josh's shoes for once, and Josh finally getting the respect he deserves.
    • Despite Mr. Roland being a Sadist Teacher who threatened to drop Josh's grades due to being a minute late to class, he gave Josh a 100% on his make-up chemistry exam and was so impressed that he didn't get Josh's grades dropped. He even asks Josh if he would like to talk to Drake after the latter runs off in tears.
    • Drake's emotional speech at the end after a failed chemistry experiment, saying he needs Josh far more than Josh needs him. He even apologizes for making him miss his exam and being a bad step-brother. Drake Bell needs props for that performance.
  • Drake and Josh's dance performance. Megan and Audrey's reactions say it all.
  • Drake is usually The Ditz, but he manages to get the last laugh and outsmart Megan in The Bet. Megan was counting on everyone losing the bet in the end and having to dye their hair pink. While everyone else is forced to keep their word, Drake simply puts on a wig and once he is alone, takes it off. He doesn't have to suffer the humiliation the others are going to suffer thanks to Megan. That's right, Drake managed to outsmart Megan!

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