Drake and Josh Crash

About

Drake and Josh Crash refers to a series of memes based on a memorable scene from Drake & Josh television series in which they drive a car into Oprah Winfrey. Online, the scene has been used in edits on YouTube and Instagram, with the meme seeing a surge in popularity in October 2019.

Origin

On September 24th, 2006, episode one "Josh Runs Into Oprah" of the fourth season of the Drake & Josh television series premiered.^[1] In the episode, titular characters Drake and Josh are driving a car to The Oprah Winfrey Show and get into in argument shortly before arriving to their destination, resulting in Josh running over Oprah Winfrey.

Just park the car!
Would you let go of my wheel?
No, just park the car!
Alright, come on!
Hey, watch it, watch it!
[…]
I RAN OVER OPRAH!

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On March 11th, 2018, YouTube user BobbE posted the earliest notable edit of the scene based on the City Escape level of Sonic Adventure 2 video game.^[2] The video gained over 100,000 views in 18 months (shown below).

Until September 2019, several more edits of the scene were posted on YouTube.^[3][4] On September 13th, 2019, Twitter user @conkface posted a Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets edit of the scene which gained over 157,000 views on Twitter in three weeks (shown below).^[5]

On September 30th, 2019, Instagram user ins.step posted a video which gained over 37,200 views and 11,300 likes (shown below),^[6] inspiring more edits on Instagram and YouTube in the following weeks.

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