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Top TV Memes: The Best Meme Formats From 'Drake and Josh'
Drake and Josh is one of the most famous Nickelodeon TV shows of all time. Starring Drake Bell and Josh Peck in their titular roles, this teen sitcom follows the pair after they unexpectedly become stepbrothers. Josh portrays a nerdy stereotype, with Drake being his polar opposite as the cool "ladies' man." Together, they navigate high school, family trouble, roller coasters and their evil sister Megan (Miranda Cosgrove). Drake and Josh aired between 2004 and 2007 and had four seasons that were met with overwhelmingly positive critical reception, leading to it becoming a classic TV show for kids and teens in the Gen-Z and Millennial age groups.
Nostalgia is often a driving factor for TV memes, but in a show where Josh literally runs over Oprah with his car, there are a lot more reasons than that for Drake and Josh to become famous in the meme community. Drake and Josh is often considered a show that improves with age, full of jokes we didn’t fully grasp until early adulthood, and watching the drama between the real-life actors when Drake wasn’t invited to Josh’s wedding gave us meme material as well. Here are some of the best episodes to find formats from Drake and Josh.
Most Popular Memes: Season 4, Episode 10: "Tree House"
In this episode, Drake is responsible for demolishing his neighbor’s treehouse. Drake, Josh and Megan are then sentenced to rebuilding the kid’s treehouse from scratch, and while Megan predictably does nothing, it’s clear that neither Drake nor Josh has any building skills whatsoever. This becomes problematic once Drake forgets to saw the door hole and the pair drill the treehouse walls together with them trapped inside. At this point, Josh very slowly turns around and asks, "Drake? Where’s the door hole?"
This became a meme with millions of uses, especially once the two characters were edited onto a green screen and placed into any situation from the destruction of the USSR to the gates of hell, in any case, Josh is expectantly demanding an answer from Drake, who has caused the situation to become so severe. Similarly, when Drake and Josh run over Oprah in season four, the crash scene is used via photoshops to portray the pair causing the destruction of life as we know it. However, "Treehouse" has its fair share of other memes, with the iconic "Megan!" line being repeated on an endless loop.
Most Meme Potential: Season 3, Episode 5: "The Affair"
In this episode, Drake and Josh believe Josh’s Dad, Walter (Jonathan Goldstein), is having an affair. This results in scenes of public embarrassment, self-inflicted torture via food and the accidental poisoning of Walter. The real victim of this episode, however, isn’t Walter, his wife Audrey (Nancy Sullivan) or the brothers. Instead, the real tragedy lies in the fates of the live lobsters the family is cooking for dinner. While Walter frantically stomps around the house, the remnants of the family find themselves consumed by only one topic of interest — the dying lobsters boiling in their pot to be eaten.
Josh’s line "I do not control the speed at which lobsters die" went on to become a meme. However, this is an incredibly underappreciated meme, largely due to its application as an anti-meme. After all, there aren’t many memeable situations that involve the speed at which lobsters die. But for all of us who were more preoccupied with the lobsters than by Drake and Josh further ruining their parents’ marriage, there are a lot more applications out there, even in a backward recreation you might find on /r/bonehurtingjuice or message boards from The Deadliest Catch.
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