Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
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Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (previously under the working title as Drake and Josh: Best Christmas Ever) is a television movie, and the first new program that came out of the Drake & Josh
franchise in over a year. Drake Bell
, Josh Peck
, Miranda Cosgrove
, Nancy Sullivan
and Jonathan Goldstein
reprise their roles as Drake Parker, Josh Nichols, Megan Parker, Audrey Parker, and Walter Nichols respectively; with several recurring characters from the TV series also reappearing.
The film premiered on December 5, 2008 as a Nickelodeon Original Movie. It was the third most viewed TV movie on cable behind High School Musical 2 and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
, both owned by Disney Channel.
The film was made fifteen months after the end of the original Drake & Josh
series.
) and Audrey (Nancy Sullivan
) as they leave for a tropical vacation. Drake (Drake Bell
) and Megan (Miranda Cosgrove
) return home and Josh (Josh Peck
) shows them his snowman air balloon decoration. Megan cuts the string, making the snowman glide away leading to Josh running after it. The scene shifts to Drake and Josh going to the Premiere. Drake tells Josh that he will be throwing a Christmas party
on the roof of the Premiere, which Josh doesn't approve of at first because he isn't sure that Helen (Yvette Nicole Brown
) would allow it. Drake tells him that he has already talked to Helen about it and that its alright as long as she is invited (and if there's churro
s).
Helen hands Drake a Santa costume to wear in the mall. Josh is upset because Helen told him that he couldn't be Santa (since he lost weight over the years, yet is still somewhat bulkier than Drake). Meanwhile Audrey and Walter make it to their island, which turns out to be a disaster. Back at the mall, Drake makes out with a teenage girl. Josh is annoyed and tries to get their attention eventually yelling "Santa!!" at which point they break and Drake pulls his beard back up and says "And that's for being such a good girl". One of the other people, which happens be to an overweight woman who likes Drake, waiting in line for Santa says "I want some of what that girl was having", climbs on Drake, starting to chase him eventually leading him to steal an old ladies electronic wheelchair to flee from her shouting "Santa's not looking for a relationship right now!" as he goes. He hides and he meets a little girl named Mary Alice Johansson (Bailee Madison
). She says she and her family want the best Christmas ever. He made a Christmas promise he will do so; but it is said in the film that "you can't break a Christmas promise", and Drake doesn't realize he will have to give her family the "best Christmas ever".
Next they're at Drake's Christmas Party up on the roof of the Premiere. At the party, Mindy (Allison Scagliotti) has to leave to go and visit her grandparents, leaving Josh upset. Crazy Steve (Jerry Trainor
) shows up in front of Drake and Josh, and shows them a wood chipper called "Sally" on his cell phone. Craig (Alec Medlock) and Eric (Scott Halberstadt
) come and tell Drake that the last song was great and he should perform it in the Christmas parade, but Drake says that the parade is for dorks and losers and that he is going to Las Vegas
for Christmas to hear a band play inviting Josh when he gets upset that they won't be able to spend Christmas together and Josh becoming even more upset and saying "I don't want to spend Christmas Day in a casino". Later on, a few party crashers come to the party, wrecking the tables and food bowls. When Josh calls the police, they inadvertently mistake him for one of the party crashers and arrest him. Not watching Drake, Josh falls off the roof and lands in the back of a pickup truck. The truck drivers drive off with the cops on their tail (in the truck, the Miranda Cosgrove
song Christmas Wrapping
plays).
When the truck drivers drive around an intersection, Josh is catapulted out, making the cops arrest him and he shouts "There's been a terrible mistake!". After Josh is arrested and sent to jail, he meets his prison roommate, Bludge (Kimbo Slice
). At first, Bludge tries to beat him up, until Josh entertains Bludge with magic tricks. This makes Bludge change his mind about Josh. However, he says he claims he has to beat him up, so he can protect his reputation in jail. Bludge and Josh bang on the walls with Josh pretending to shout in pain, to get others to believe Josh is getting beat up.
Mary Alice brings up a story of how she has a sick foster mom and a busy foster dad. Drake knowing he has to fulfill that promise, attempts to break Josh out to help him. But Drake is caught immediately after, landing both Drake and Josh in trouble. Drake and Josh are sent to court and Helen acts as their lawyer. Helen tells Judge Newman (Henry Winkler
) that Drake has made a promise to Mary Alice that he'd give her the best Christmas ever. Then the judge says that he won't send them to jail as long as they fulfill that promise.
They meet the cruel and embittered Officer Perry Gilbert (David Pressman), who says that he will take a vote from Mary Alice's family on Christmas asking them if they had the best Christmas ever. If any of them says no, they must go to jail for a long time. The duo soon meet Mary Alice's foster family, which include Lily and Violet (Camille and Cosette Goldstein), two constantly pounding-on-each-other twins, Zigfee (David Gore
) a foreign guy who speaks an unknown language, Trey (Daven Wilson), a know-it-all, and Luke (Devon Graye
) Mary Alice's brooding older brother who refuses to join in with everyone else. They find many ways to give Mary Alice's family the best Christmas ever, but their attempts are foiled by much interference from Officer Gilbert. Drake and Josh confront Megan, asking her to sabotage Officer Gilbert's doings by bribing her with a rare Smith Royal oboe. However, after hearing rumors that the oboe doesn't exist, Megan sadly breaks her promise to Drake and Josh and places the chips back in their ankle bracelets.
Josh goes to visit Officer Gilbert's mother and claims he must hate him and Drake somehow for making his life miserable. His mother remarks Officer Gilbert does not hate them; he hates Christmas. Then, she tells Josh how Officer Gilbert always wanted a pet chimpanzee
for Christmas when he was eight and how on Christmas morning, a monkey was sitting by the tree in a cage. But after he let the monkey out, it attacked him, smashed the presents, knocked down the tree, destroyed the ornaments, and peed on him. He has hated Christmas ever since.
At the Christmas parade, Officer Gilbert tricks Crazy Steve (who arrives in a DeLorean with the license plate CRAZY 1) into "reminding" the two in front of Mary Alice that they were only being kind to her so that they wouldn't go to prison. Mary Alice and her family leave and threaten to vote "no" when the courthouse asks them to vote, thinking jail as punishment for Drake and Josh for tricking the family (Crazy Steve then left in his DeLorean, and as he did, his licence plate fell off and spun around before falling down flat on the road, which was a reference to the movie Back to the Future
). Drake and Josh realize since Christmas was ruined for Officer Gilbert, he wants to ruin it for everyone else.
So the duo sends Officer Gilbert a sweet baby chimpanzee as a Christmas present, completely changing him in personality. They try to use Crazy Steve's wood chipper to make it snow in front of Mary Alice's house. The wood chipper shoots large chunks of ice through the neighborhood where Mary Alice lives and causes more trouble as it destroys everything and nearly kills Mary Alice and her family. During the disaster, Drake manages to carry Mary Alice out of the way of the flying ice chunks and puts her safely behind a nearby car before returning to help his brother turn off the out-of-control wood chipper. The chipper knocks out Drake and Josh and the now-kind Officer Gilbert and the other officers take them home. The next morning, Officer Gilbert explained to Mary Alice and her family what really happened, and that Drake and Josh weren't really trying to use them to stay out of prison.
They have Officer Gilbert and the other officers "arrest" them and bring them to the living room, where Mary Alice's family and other people surprise them. They then have the vote on whether they all had the best Christmas ever or not, and everyone votes "yes". Josh's former cell mate Bludge comes down the chimney, breaking it in the process-dressed as Santa Claus saying "Ho Ho Ho and all that stuff" to deliver gifts to Mary Alice's family, including a Smith Royal oboe for Megan. Mindy arrives too. Crazy Steve gets "Sally" to make snow by using 7 thousand pounds of "hard cheese" and Mary Alice and her family and all the other people enjoy it. Drake and Josh's parents then arrive home from their troubled vacation at their "bungalow", which is blown away earlier in a tropical storm. As everybody plays in the blanket of "cheese snow", the film ends with the camera backing up. Josh's snowman floats into view behind the house and entire scenery becomes the snowglobe seen in the beginning of the film.
. Miranda Cosgrove
did a cover of "Christmas Wrapping
", and the song became the single of the movie, but no soundtrack was released. Drake Bell made a music video for his cover of "Jingle Bells
" which promoted the movie and can be seen on the DVD
.
Drake & Josh
Drake & Josh is an American sitcom that premiered on the Nickelodeon television network on January 11, 2004, which follows the lives of two stepbrothers. It stars Drake Bell and Josh Peck as stepbrothers Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, respectively. Both actors had played roles in The Amanda Show,...
franchise in over a year. Drake Bell
Drake Bell
Jared Drake Bell , better known as Drake Bell, is an American actor, comedian, guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer, and occasional television director. After beginning his career as a child star in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he appeared on The Amanda Show and became well-known among young...
, Josh Peck
Josh Peck
Joshua Michael "Josh" Peck is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Drake & Josh. He began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on...
, Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock...
, Nancy Sullivan
Nancy Sullivan
Nancy Sullivan is an American actress, TV host and screenwriter. She is a comedy actress and received improv training as a member of The Groundlings in San Jose. She also played Audrey Parker-Nichols on the hit Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh and The Amanda Show. On The Amanda Show, she played...
and Jonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein (actor)
Jonathan Lewis Goldstein is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Walter Nichols in the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh.-Life and career:...
reprise their roles as Drake Parker, Josh Nichols, Megan Parker, Audrey Parker, and Walter Nichols respectively; with several recurring characters from the TV series also reappearing.
The film premiered on December 5, 2008 as a Nickelodeon Original Movie. It was the third most viewed TV movie on cable behind High School Musical 2 and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie is a 2009 American made-for-television comedy-drama fantasy film based on the Disney Channel Original Series Wizards of Waverly Place. Filmed primarily in San Juan, Puerto Rico in February and March 2009, the Disney Channel Original Movie premiered on August 28,...
, both owned by Disney Channel.
The film was made fifteen months after the end of the original Drake & Josh
Drake & Josh
Drake & Josh is an American sitcom that premiered on the Nickelodeon television network on January 11, 2004, which follows the lives of two stepbrothers. It stars Drake Bell and Josh Peck as stepbrothers Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, respectively. Both actors had played roles in The Amanda Show,...
series.
Plot
The film starts off with a snowglobe being placed on a mantle the camera then zooms into the snowglobe showing the Parker-Nickels home. Walter (Jonathan GoldsteinJonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein may refer to:*Jonathan Goldstein , North American author and radio producer*Jonathan Goldstein , American actor*Jonathan Goldstein , British composer of music for film and television...
) and Audrey (Nancy Sullivan
Nancy Sullivan
Nancy Sullivan is an American actress, TV host and screenwriter. She is a comedy actress and received improv training as a member of The Groundlings in San Jose. She also played Audrey Parker-Nichols on the hit Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh and The Amanda Show. On The Amanda Show, she played...
) as they leave for a tropical vacation. Drake (Drake Bell
Drake Bell
Jared Drake Bell , better known as Drake Bell, is an American actor, comedian, guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer, and occasional television director. After beginning his career as a child star in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he appeared on The Amanda Show and became well-known among young...
) and Megan (Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock...
) return home and Josh (Josh Peck
Josh Peck
Joshua Michael "Josh" Peck is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Drake & Josh. He began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on...
) shows them his snowman air balloon decoration. Megan cuts the string, making the snowman glide away leading to Josh running after it. The scene shifts to Drake and Josh going to the Premiere. Drake tells Josh that he will be throwing a Christmas party
Christmas Party
"Christmas Party", alternately titled "Santa Claus is Coming to Scranton", is the tenth episode of the second season of The Office —the show's sixteenth episode overall. It was written by Michael Schur and directed by Charles McDougall. It was first broadcast on December 6, 2005 on NBC.In this...
on the roof of the Premiere, which Josh doesn't approve of at first because he isn't sure that Helen (Yvette Nicole Brown
Yvette Nicole Brown
Yvette Nicole Brown is an American actress and comedian. Brown has appeared in various commercials, television shows, and films throughout her career...
) would allow it. Drake tells him that he has already talked to Helen about it and that its alright as long as she is invited (and if there's churro
Churro
A churro, sometimes referred to as a Spanish doughnut, is a fried-dough pastry-based snack that has disputed origins. Churros are also popular in Latin America, France, Portugal, Morocco, the United States, Australia, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands. There are two types of churros in Spain....
s).
Helen hands Drake a Santa costume to wear in the mall. Josh is upset because Helen told him that he couldn't be Santa (since he lost weight over the years, yet is still somewhat bulkier than Drake). Meanwhile Audrey and Walter make it to their island, which turns out to be a disaster. Back at the mall, Drake makes out with a teenage girl. Josh is annoyed and tries to get their attention eventually yelling "Santa!!" at which point they break and Drake pulls his beard back up and says "And that's for being such a good girl". One of the other people, which happens be to an overweight woman who likes Drake, waiting in line for Santa says "I want some of what that girl was having", climbs on Drake, starting to chase him eventually leading him to steal an old ladies electronic wheelchair to flee from her shouting "Santa's not looking for a relationship right now!" as he goes. He hides and he meets a little girl named Mary Alice Johansson (Bailee Madison
Bailee Madison
Bailee Madison is an American actress. She is most famous for her role in the 2007 film adaption of Katherine Paterson's Newbery Medal-winning novel Bridge to Terabithia in which she plays May Belle Aarons, the younger sister of Jesse Aarons. She films a webshow with her babysitter and fellow...
). She says she and her family want the best Christmas ever. He made a Christmas promise he will do so; but it is said in the film that "you can't break a Christmas promise", and Drake doesn't realize he will have to give her family the "best Christmas ever".
Next they're at Drake's Christmas Party up on the roof of the Premiere. At the party, Mindy (Allison Scagliotti) has to leave to go and visit her grandparents, leaving Josh upset. Crazy Steve (Jerry Trainor
Jerry Trainor
Gerald William "Jerry" Trainor is an American actor, comedian and voice actor, widely known for playing Spencer Shay on iCarly. He is also known as Crazy Steve on Drake & Josh and the title character, Dudley Puppy, on T.U.F.F. Puppy...
) shows up in front of Drake and Josh, and shows them a wood chipper called "Sally" on his cell phone. Craig (Alec Medlock) and Eric (Scott Halberstadt
Scott Halberstadt
Scott Halberstadt is an American film and television actor.-Film:Halberstadt appeared in the film Grandma's Boy as a tester who challenges Jeff to Dance Dance Revolution. He was the pimply casino employee in Smokin' Aces...
) come and tell Drake that the last song was great and he should perform it in the Christmas parade, but Drake says that the parade is for dorks and losers and that he is going to Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
for Christmas to hear a band play inviting Josh when he gets upset that they won't be able to spend Christmas together and Josh becoming even more upset and saying "I don't want to spend Christmas Day in a casino". Later on, a few party crashers come to the party, wrecking the tables and food bowls. When Josh calls the police, they inadvertently mistake him for one of the party crashers and arrest him. Not watching Drake, Josh falls off the roof and lands in the back of a pickup truck. The truck drivers drive off with the cops on their tail (in the truck, the Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock...
song Christmas Wrapping
Christmas Wrapping
"Christmas Wrapping" is a Christmas song written by Chris Butler and recorded in 1981 by The Waitresses, featuring vocals by Patty Donahue. It was first released in 1981 on the compilation album A Christmas Record on ZE Records. The group also included the track on their 1982 EP I Could Rule the...
plays).
When the truck drivers drive around an intersection, Josh is catapulted out, making the cops arrest him and he shouts "There's been a terrible mistake!". After Josh is arrested and sent to jail, he meets his prison roommate, Bludge (Kimbo Slice
Kimbo Slice
Kevin Ferguson , better known as Kimbo Slice, is a Bahamian-American boxer, mixed martial artist and occasional actor...
). At first, Bludge tries to beat him up, until Josh entertains Bludge with magic tricks. This makes Bludge change his mind about Josh. However, he says he claims he has to beat him up, so he can protect his reputation in jail. Bludge and Josh bang on the walls with Josh pretending to shout in pain, to get others to believe Josh is getting beat up.
Mary Alice brings up a story of how she has a sick foster mom and a busy foster dad. Drake knowing he has to fulfill that promise, attempts to break Josh out to help him. But Drake is caught immediately after, landing both Drake and Josh in trouble. Drake and Josh are sent to court and Helen acts as their lawyer. Helen tells Judge Newman (Henry Winkler
Henry Winkler
Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...
) that Drake has made a promise to Mary Alice that he'd give her the best Christmas ever. Then the judge says that he won't send them to jail as long as they fulfill that promise.
They meet the cruel and embittered Officer Perry Gilbert (David Pressman), who says that he will take a vote from Mary Alice's family on Christmas asking them if they had the best Christmas ever. If any of them says no, they must go to jail for a long time. The duo soon meet Mary Alice's foster family, which include Lily and Violet (Camille and Cosette Goldstein), two constantly pounding-on-each-other twins, Zigfee (David Gore
David Gore (actor)
David Gore is a young actor who appeared in several films such as the Nickelodeon Original Movie Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh as Zigfee...
) a foreign guy who speaks an unknown language, Trey (Daven Wilson), a know-it-all, and Luke (Devon Graye
Devon Graye
Devon Graye is an American actor.-Biography:He is best known for his role as Teenage Dexter in the American television drama series Dexter airing on Showtime and the lead role Scott in After Dark Original's Husk.and as the role of Marco in the movie adaption of Meg Cabot's Avalon...
) Mary Alice's brooding older brother who refuses to join in with everyone else. They find many ways to give Mary Alice's family the best Christmas ever, but their attempts are foiled by much interference from Officer Gilbert. Drake and Josh confront Megan, asking her to sabotage Officer Gilbert's doings by bribing her with a rare Smith Royal oboe. However, after hearing rumors that the oboe doesn't exist, Megan sadly breaks her promise to Drake and Josh and places the chips back in their ankle bracelets.
Josh goes to visit Officer Gilbert's mother and claims he must hate him and Drake somehow for making his life miserable. His mother remarks Officer Gilbert does not hate them; he hates Christmas. Then, she tells Josh how Officer Gilbert always wanted a pet chimpanzee
Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan. The Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
for Christmas when he was eight and how on Christmas morning, a monkey was sitting by the tree in a cage. But after he let the monkey out, it attacked him, smashed the presents, knocked down the tree, destroyed the ornaments, and peed on him. He has hated Christmas ever since.
At the Christmas parade, Officer Gilbert tricks Crazy Steve (who arrives in a DeLorean with the license plate CRAZY 1) into "reminding" the two in front of Mary Alice that they were only being kind to her so that they wouldn't go to prison. Mary Alice and her family leave and threaten to vote "no" when the courthouse asks them to vote, thinking jail as punishment for Drake and Josh for tricking the family (Crazy Steve then left in his DeLorean, and as he did, his licence plate fell off and spun around before falling down flat on the road, which was a reference to the movie Back to the Future
Back to the Future
Back to the Future is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The film tells the story of...
). Drake and Josh realize since Christmas was ruined for Officer Gilbert, he wants to ruin it for everyone else.
So the duo sends Officer Gilbert a sweet baby chimpanzee as a Christmas present, completely changing him in personality. They try to use Crazy Steve's wood chipper to make it snow in front of Mary Alice's house. The wood chipper shoots large chunks of ice through the neighborhood where Mary Alice lives and causes more trouble as it destroys everything and nearly kills Mary Alice and her family. During the disaster, Drake manages to carry Mary Alice out of the way of the flying ice chunks and puts her safely behind a nearby car before returning to help his brother turn off the out-of-control wood chipper. The chipper knocks out Drake and Josh and the now-kind Officer Gilbert and the other officers take them home. The next morning, Officer Gilbert explained to Mary Alice and her family what really happened, and that Drake and Josh weren't really trying to use them to stay out of prison.
They have Officer Gilbert and the other officers "arrest" them and bring them to the living room, where Mary Alice's family and other people surprise them. They then have the vote on whether they all had the best Christmas ever or not, and everyone votes "yes". Josh's former cell mate Bludge comes down the chimney, breaking it in the process-dressed as Santa Claus saying "Ho Ho Ho and all that stuff" to deliver gifts to Mary Alice's family, including a Smith Royal oboe for Megan. Mindy arrives too. Crazy Steve gets "Sally" to make snow by using 7 thousand pounds of "hard cheese" and Mary Alice and her family and all the other people enjoy it. Drake and Josh's parents then arrive home from their troubled vacation at their "bungalow", which is blown away earlier in a tropical storm. As everybody plays in the blanket of "cheese snow", the film ends with the camera backing up. Josh's snowman floats into view behind the house and entire scenery becomes the snowglobe seen in the beginning of the film.
From the original series
The show's vast majority of recurring characters returned for the special, all played by their original actors.| Character | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|
| Drake Parker | Drake Bell Drake Bell Jared Drake Bell , better known as Drake Bell, is an American actor, comedian, guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer, and occasional television director. After beginning his career as a child star in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he appeared on The Amanda Show and became well-known among young... |
| Josh Nichols | Josh Peck Josh Peck Joshua Michael "Josh" Peck is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Drake & Josh. He began his career as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on... |
| Megan Parker | Miranda Cosgrove Miranda Cosgrove Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock... |
| Audrey Parker Nichols | Nancy Sullivan Nancy Sullivan Nancy Sullivan is an American actress, TV host and screenwriter. She is a comedy actress and received improv training as a member of The Groundlings in San Jose. She also played Audrey Parker-Nichols on the hit Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh and The Amanda Show. On The Amanda Show, she played... |
| Walter Nichols | Jonathan Goldstein Jonathan Goldstein (actor) Jonathan Lewis Goldstein is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Walter Nichols in the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh.-Life and career:... |
| Mindy Crenshaw | Allison Scagliotti |
| Eric Blonnowitz | Scott Halberstadt Scott Halberstadt Scott Halberstadt is an American film and television actor.-Film:Halberstadt appeared in the film Grandma's Boy as a tester who challenges Jeff to Dance Dance Revolution. He was the pimply casino employee in Smokin' Aces... |
| Craig Ramirez | Alec Medlock |
| Helen Dubois | Yvette Nicole Brown Yvette Nicole Brown Yvette Nicole Brown is an American actress and comedian. Brown has appeared in various commercials, television shows, and films throughout her career... |
| Crazy Steve | Jerry Trainor Jerry Trainor Gerald William "Jerry" Trainor is an American actor, comedian and voice actor, widely known for playing Spencer Shay on iCarly. He is also known as Crazy Steve on Drake & Josh and the title character, Dudley Puppy, on T.U.F.F. Puppy... |
Movie only
| Character | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|
| Mary Alice Johansson | Bailee Madison Bailee Madison Bailee Madison is an American actress. She is most famous for her role in the 2007 film adaption of Katherine Paterson's Newbery Medal-winning novel Bridge to Terabithia in which she plays May Belle Aarons, the younger sister of Jesse Aarons. She films a webshow with her babysitter and fellow... |
| Luke | Devon Graye Devon Graye Devon Graye is an American actor.-Biography:He is best known for his role as Teenage Dexter in the American television drama series Dexter airing on Showtime and the lead role Scott in After Dark Original's Husk.and as the role of Marco in the movie adaption of Meg Cabot's Avalon... |
| Lily | Cosette Goldstein |
| Violet | Camille Goldstein |
| Trey | Daven Wilson |
| Zigfee | David Gore David Gore (actor) David Gore is a young actor who appeared in several films such as the Nickelodeon Original Movie Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh as Zigfee... |
| Officer Perry J. Gilbert | David Pressman |
| Judge Newman | Henry Winkler Henry Winkler Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days... |
| Bludge | Kimbo Slice Kimbo Slice Kevin Ferguson , better known as Kimbo Slice, is a Bahamian-American boxer, mixed martial artist and occasional actor... |
Special Appearances By
| Character | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|
| Gavin | Jake Farrow Jake Farrow Jacob "Jake" Farrow is a television writer and actor. He is most famous for the role of Gavin Mitchell on the TV series Drake & Josh. He is also known for voicing "Rex Powers" a puppet/dummy character on Victorious.... |
| Mrs. Hayfer | Julia Duffy Julia Duffy Julia Duffy is an American actress from Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in character roles, best known as the spoiled rich girl and Dick Loudon's inn maid, Stephanie Vanderkellen, on the 1980s sitcom, Newhart.-Career:Duffy's early caeer included parts in soap operas such as One Life to Live,... |
| Bludge Claus | Kimbo Slice Kimbo Slice Kevin Ferguson , better known as Kimbo Slice, is a Bahamian-American boxer, mixed martial artist and occasional actor... |
| Crazy Steve | Jerry Trainor Jerry Trainor Gerald William "Jerry" Trainor is an American actor, comedian and voice actor, widely known for playing Spencer Shay on iCarly. He is also known as Crazy Steve on Drake & Josh and the title character, Dudley Puppy, on T.U.F.F. Puppy... |
| Audrey Parker | Nancy Sullivan Nancy Sullivan Nancy Sullivan is an American actress, TV host and screenwriter. She is a comedy actress and received improv training as a member of The Groundlings in San Jose. She also played Audrey Parker-Nichols on the hit Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh and The Amanda Show. On The Amanda Show, she played... |
| Walter Nichols | Jonathan Goldstein Jonathan Goldstein Jonathan Goldstein may refer to:*Jonathan Goldstein , North American author and radio producer*Jonathan Goldstein , American actor*Jonathan Goldstein , British composer of music for film and television... |
| Mindy Crenshaw | Allison Scagliotti |
Music
The opening theme for the movie entitled "Christmas Promise" was composed and performed by Drake & Josh series composer Backhouse MikeBackhouse Mike
Michael Thomas Corcoran , aka Backhouse Mike, is a musician, singer/songwriter, composer, sound designer, musical arranger, orchestrator, and record producer who formed in the late 90's, along with C.J Abraham, a songwriting and producing partnership Backhouse Mike & The Super Chris.They started...
. Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Her career began at the age of three, where she participated in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock...
did a cover of "Christmas Wrapping
Christmas Wrapping
"Christmas Wrapping" is a Christmas song written by Chris Butler and recorded in 1981 by The Waitresses, featuring vocals by Patty Donahue. It was first released in 1981 on the compilation album A Christmas Record on ZE Records. The group also included the track on their 1982 EP I Could Rule the...
", and the song became the single of the movie, but no soundtrack was released. Drake Bell made a music video for his cover of "Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
"Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857...
" which promoted the movie and can be seen on the DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
.
Nielsen ratings
The premiere of Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh broke the record of most viewers for the premiere of a Nickelodeon Movie with 9.10 million viewers, a title previously held by iGo to Japan.| Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (TV channel) Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers... |
Date & Time (Eastern) | Viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Showing | December 5, 2008 at 8pm | 9.10 |
| 2nd Showing | December 6, 2008 at 11am | 4.76 |
| 3rd Showing | December 6, 2008 at 7pm | 4.15 |
| 4th Showing | December 7, 2008 at 7pm | 4.31 |
| 5th Showing | December 12, 2008 at 4pm | 4.30 |
| 6th Showing | December 12, 2008 at 7pm | 5.50 |
| 7th Showing | December 13, 2008 at 7pm | 4.19 |
| 8th Showing | December 14, 2008 at 4pm | 5.42 |
| 9th Showing | December 15, 2008 at 7pm | 2.73 |
| 10th Showing | December 20, 2008 at 7pm | 3.24 |
| 11th Showing | December 22, 2008 at 5pm | 3.94 |
| 12th Showing | December 23, 2008 at 7pm | 5.67 |
| 13th Showing | December 24, 2008 at 3pm | 6.47 |
| 14th Showing | December 25, 2008 at 2pm | 8.97 |
| 15th Showing | December 25, 2008 at 4pm | 1.97 |
| 16th Showing | December 25, 2008 at 7pm | 10.97 |
| 17th Showing | December 26, 2008 at 3pm | 5.19 |
| 18th Showing | December 27, 2008 at 7pm | 2.93 |
| 19th Showing | December 28, 2008 at 7pm | 1.19 |
| 20th Showing | November 29, 2009 at 7pm | 9.07 |
| 21st Showing | December 24, 2009 at 8pm | 9.29 |
| 22nd Showing | December 25, 2009 at 8pm | 9.97 |
| 24th Showing | December 11th, 2010 at 8pm |
External links
- IMDB's Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
- TV.comTV.comTV.com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Japan...
's Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh - TV GuideTV GuideTV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
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