Really Big Shrimp

At a music showcase at the Premiere, Drake performs his new song "Makes Me Happy" for a music deal from record producer Alan Krim (mentioned in the show's first television film) and he succeeds. While at Spin City Records, they agree to put Drake's song in a commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Helen is getting married to Buzz, and with many of her family members staying in her apartment, her grandmother Lula comes to stay at the Parker-Nichols' house for a week, forcing the boys to share their room with Megan due to Lula staying in hers instead of the guest room. In retaliation for this, Megan redecorates the boys' room to a pink girly style, confining them to a single matress in a corner, and invites her friends from school to hang out with her in the room. She also threatens to publicly accuse them of spray-painting their neighbor's gazebo if they complain about this to their parents. To save money for her upcoming honeymoon, Helen makes a deal with Craig and Eric to videotape the wedding ceremony at the Premiere.

Helen then announces the Premiere's new assistant manager, who turns out to be Mindy, after she fixed the corn dog rotisserie in ten seconds that Josh was unable to fix at Drake's showcase. Josh is very upset that he did not get the job and accuses Mindy of constantly trying to one-up him, which she denies. While at the recording studio for Drake's song, Krim gives Josh a contract. Josh fails to read the contract, mesmerized by massive shrimp, and inadvertently signs away the creative rights to Drake's song. Krim remixes — and completely ruins — Drake's song, turning it into, as Drake puts it, "horrible bubblegum pop garbage-y badness." Angry with Josh for this mistake, Drake fires him as his manager, then hatches a plan for revenge: planting fruit flies in Krim's car. While criticizing Josh for always playing by the rules, he tells Josh that, "when people play dirty, sometimes you have to play dirty back."

Still trying to fix his mistake, Josh returns to Spin City Records. After being told there is no way the company will use Drake's original demo, Josh decides to take Drake's advice and switches the ruined song with the original song as it is being picked up. The plan succeeds, and Drake's version of "Makes Me Happy" plays on the commercial, much to Drake's delight, and he forgives Josh for this, but Josh's action comes with a price. Right after the commercial airs, Josh receives a call from Krim who explains that by switching the songs, Josh has broken the contract, and the record company is planning to sue the boys for $5 million with the possibility of a prison sentence.

While at work, Mindy runs out of a wing in the theater as Crazy Steve has gone completely insane. She had made the mistake of scheduling him on a Monday, which, according to Helen, is "his bad day." Josh calms Steve down with milk and the folk song "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain", for which Helen finally appreciates his good work. Mindy then confesses to Josh that she did not take the assistant manager job because she needed the extra money; she did it because she wanted to spend more time with him, having always regretted breaking up with him. Drake and Josh then go to Spin City Records, and just as they think they are going to jail, Drake is told by record company president Nick Matteo that his song has become a number one hit, as downloads of his song crashed Spin City's server. They are free of all charges and an angered Krim is fired for trying to ruin Drake's song, with Matteo telling him that Drake would not be popular if it were not for him and Josh scamming them for the ruined song.

At Helen and Buzz's wedding, Craig plugs his equipment into a faulty plug, which causes a fire that burns the Premiere down. Helen is disappointed at her wedding being ruined, but Josh convinces her that her wedding is about two people who love each other getting together surrounded by the people who love them. Helen and Buzz then get married in the parking lot, where Josh and Mindy get back together. Mindy has quit her job and Helen finally promotes Josh to new assistant manager after his years of hard work. Drake then performs his number one hit song to the whole crowd, dedicating it to Helen and Buzz as well as Josh, rehiring him as his manager in the process.

Drake and Josh later return home to find their room restored back to normal as well as shrimp sent over from Matteo. Megan and her friends have eaten all but one, which causes Drake and Josh to fight over it. The scene then fades to a popular scene from The Amanda Show, featuring Drake Bell and Josh Peck fighting over a piece of shrimp.

• Drake Bell as Drake Parker: step-brother of Josh and brother of Megan. He is working on his debut album in this movie.
• Josh Peck as Josh Nichols: stepbrother of Drake and Megan. He is also Drake's manager. He switches the labels of Drake's song.
• Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker: sister of Drake and stepsister of Josh. She moves into Drake and Josh's room while Helen's grandmother is staying. She takes up most of the room decorating it in pink and other girlish stuff.
• Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols: mother of Drake and Megan and stepmother of Josh and wife of Walter.
• Jonathan Goldstein as Walter Nichols: stepfather of Drake and Megan and father of Josh and husband of Audrey.
• Allison Scagliotti as Mindy Crenshaw: Josh's ex-girlfriend and the assistant manager at the premiere. She takes the job because she wanted to spend more time with Josh. She later quits when Helen gives Josh the assistant manager gold vest.
• Jerry Trainor as Crazy Steve: A crazy employee known for shouting. He is taking anger management in this movie.
• Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois: A bride-to-be and the manager of the Premiere. She gets married later in the film and gives Josh the assistant manager job.
• Scott Halberstadt as Eric Blonnowitz: Craig's best friend. He is mistaken for Craig by Drake frequently. He and Craig videotape Helen's wedding.
• Alec Medlock as Craig Ramirez: Eric's best friend. He videotapes Helen's wedding with Eric.
• Cathy Shim as Leah: An employee at the Premiere. She is frequently scared of Crazy Steve due to his anger and temper.
• Alysse Cepeda as Molly: a friend of Megan who finds Josh cute. She tells him to call her to which Megan and the rest of her friends exclaim "Ewww!!".
• Brenda Vivian as Collete: A worker in Spin City Records.
• Joseph Will as Alan Krim: Vice president of Spin City Records and the main antagonist of the episode. He ruins Drake's song and plans to send it off to Super Bowl commercials. Josh switches the song and Alan threatens to send them to jail for it. But the song is sold to a million hits and Alan is fired and he angrily walks out the door.
• Jay Bontatibus as Nick Matteo: The CEO of Spin City Records. He wants to make Drake's song a hit. He fires Alan for ruining Drake's song.

The episode aired on August 3, 2007 during Drake vs. Josh weekend and was intended to be the series finale. However, Nickelodeon did not air the final episodes chronologically and aired the episodes "Helicopter" and "Dance Contest" after the airing of the finale. They were aired in the wrong order with no stated reason.

Drake Bell made a music video to "Makes Me Happy", and it became the single for the episode.

Laura Fries of Variety was mostly positive on Really Big Shrimp, stating that "...Drake and Josh perfectly embody the goofy, unabashed fun that too few remember..." and complemented the two leads on their appeal, but complained that "...[Miranda] Cosgrove's sister Megan is an immensely irritating character."[2]

It was the most watched television event on Nickelodeon up to that time, with 5.8 million viewers.[1][3] It was the most watched Nickelodeon program until iCarly: iGo to Japan broke the record. The record was later broken again by Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh.

• Really Big Shrimp at IMDb