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D&J: The Dance Contest
The best way for me to convey the awesomeness of this episode is to do a combined review/picspam, with emphasis on the pretty pretty pretty clothes. And since sleep is for the weak, enjoy :)




Josh: Drake! (laughs) He thinks he can beat me at everything!
Drake: I can pretty much beat Josh at everything. Like today -
Josh: Like today! Like today, LIKE TODAY!
Drake: I told Josh I could drink way more cups of coffee than he can.
Josh: Drake said he could drink way more coffee than me, oh yeah, he said that! That's what he said, he said it!
Drake: (drinks coffee cup) That makes 26.
Josh: 26 DOWN, COME ON!
Drake: The only bummer about drinking coffee is that it makes you feel all hyper and jittery.
Josh: You know, the only downside to drinking too much coffee is that makes you feel all hyper and jittery, hyper jittery jittery hyper jittery hyper AAAAAHHHH.
Drake: But Josh never said I couldn't drink decaf.
Josh: SOMEONE CALL A DOCTOR! (passes out)

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Well, this intro is definitely going into my Top 5 of favorite intros EVER. It reminds me a lot of the intros for The Bet and Who's Got Game (I think, I'm trying to remember off the top of my head), where they always have crazy bets going on between them. OH BOYS.

And since I'm going to be doing commentary on the clothes, let's start here too: HI JOSH'S UNDERWEAR. Ahem. I love his shirt too; Josh is one of those guys that can wear a pink shirt and I don't immediately think "omgpinkshirt". And then there's Drake with his t-shirts; seeing all these Drake Bell pictures from the tour all summer, it gets tiring seeing him in suits all the time (not that I don't love it just...a little boring sometimes). But I love seeing him in t-shirts and jeans, ala Drake Parker. This show kills me fashion-wise, srsly.



Craig & Eric! I was SEVERELY disappointed at the lack of boyfriend-ness between them in the supposed "last" episode of The Really Big Shrimp, so it was ridiculous how much I flailed when Craig was all upset that his boyfriend was leaving him for Puerto Rico (if I wrote C/E...ooh, plot bunnies). I just want to point out that I love how Nickelodeon thinks Hawaiian shirts = dorks, because those two are always wearing them, generally paired with a sweatervest, like here.

And then there's Megan, who's fashion is always hit or miss with me. Sometimes I really like what she wears and other times I absolutely despise it. But this outfit I think is really cute; the boots are a little over the top, but I can live with that. The skirt/shirt combo is adorable.



WHY HELLO NEW FAVORITE DRAKE & JOSH CAPTURE. Both of them smiling, it's way too cute. I love Drake's outfit, even though we've seen a similar version to it from The Storm. And Josh, he just knows how to fill out a shirt now. I'll send him over to angelkutty ;)



The part with the random lady in the living room was weird, so I'm skipping that. I'm taking time to screencap from the theme song just to show how much I love these outfits (which is A LOT). I know that they always end the theme song with drinking soda, but season 4 is my favorite way they've ended it (and Josh is wearing the red shirt of love from The Treehouse!)



Josh, being the studious step-brother and trying to get Drake to promise to do his own homework (and calling him a good boy, lol). I love so much that Josh is wearing a "Space Camp" shirt; on anyone else, it would look like a hipster thing to try to pull off, but for Josh Nichols? He was there, he experienced the magic of Space Camp. He still gets excited over model rockets his Grammy mails him, for cripes' sake. Never change Joshy, never change.


Drake: Hang on, I'm doing something really important!

Favorite Part of the Episode, Part 1
- The pink striped polo shirt
- The tight 8 ball jeans from Josh Runs Into Oprah and other episodes, leading me to believe that those are Drake Bell's real jeans (Drake wears a LOT of his own clothes on the show and I bet Josh does too, but I wouldn't know because there are barely any pics of Josh outside his work)
- HULA HOOP. And subsequent butt shot, which just makes me laugh because c'mon, it's NICKELODEON.



Audrey + stripes = good
Drake + stripes = good
Audrey + Drake + stripes = what were the costume people thinking? They're both just so busy looking together.

But the things that I loved best about this scene:
Megan: How can you fail gym? All you have to do is show up!
Coach: And there in lies the problem.

Obviously, Megan for the win. And second of all, I bet I know what Drake Parker was doing, skipping gym for all those months ;)

And from this scene, I love what comes out of this episode: for once, the show actually sheds light on the fact that Drake doesn't do well in school and there could be consequences because of it. Of course, Nickelodeon doesn't follow through on the story line and it "sort of" gets solved, but just the fact that light was shed on it like this made me happy a little bit. Even more so now, I wish the show could've made it on a network as a great teen drama/comedy - a lot of story lines that the show has could be expanded a lot more dramatically (Josh dealing with being an overachiever, goody two shoes, and you KNOW Drake and Mindy would've hooked up at some point). ...This is entirely another tangent for another day.



Drake's dance partner, Emily. I just wanted to point out that angelkutty said in her review how much the actress who plays Emily looks like Brittany Snow (one of my favorite actresses) and in this picture, I could definitely see it. Plus, I wish my hair would wave like that.


Josh: I am so angry!
Megan: At who, the guy who sold you those clothes?

Josh apparently works out in 1987. I adore Megan's pajamas, they look like they came from Target.



DANCING! SWING DANCING! IN THE PINK POLO SHIRT OF AWESOME. KILL ME MORE BOYS (oh wait, there's more fangirl dying LATER)



Five bucks says Josh's glasses came from Drake (I just noticed he has such an 80s theme for his clothes going on for when he dances, which is kinda awesome). I really kinda hate Drake's jacket and Emily's dress/belt combo, but I thought it was hystericaly that Drake grabbed Emily by that belt when she went to lunge for Josh's new dance partner. I thought originally he had grabbed her by the waist, but apparently not. Touche, Drake.



Josh looks like he stole fashion tips from Marty McFly, as if he decided to mesh BTTF & BTTFII together (trust me, I am LOVING this). And as much as I adore Josh's outfit, NOTHING compares it to Drake. You cannot convince me that every piece Drake is wearing came from his own closet, srsly. *tackles*



Big group shot, look how pretty everyone looks :D


Drake: I'm ready, motivated, and wearing extremely loose pants.

Best line, hands down. And also? Fedora! Suspenders! Tie, OH MY!



I had to throw this in because originally, I thought Josh was wearing a red oxford shirt, which would've reminded me of the awesome that is his Premiere movie uniform. But in this cap, I realized it was a Jacket and...I'm just realizing how much of a dork I am. I hope you all appreciate this.



Oh no! The girls are unable to dance with the boys! WHAT WILL THEY DO?







Clearly, the answer is to dance the most awesometastic dance, ever. The end. Really, there are no more words for this entire sequence.

Is it over? OH WAIT:


Fangirl: I knew it! I knew you guys would win! You guys are sooo awesome!

The appearance of the Random Fangirl, as I lovingly call her. Let's face, I want to be her (and on some level, I think I am her, bwahaha).


Drake & Josh: Who IS she?

And on that note...the end. The end to one of the most perfect D&J episodes ever, for real. I've been waiting for this for a YEAR and I'm so glad it didn't disappoint. Who knows if there are going to be any other episodes, I'm perfectly satisfied with this being the end.



If you're interested, I made picspams of Drake & Josh being on The Amanda Show here and the D&J Pretty Clothes Picspam here.