Josh Nichols

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Josh Larry Nichols is a fictional character from the Nickelodeon show Drake & Josh, and is portrayed by Josh Peck.

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Josh moved into Drake's house when his dad married Drake's mother in 2004. Since that time, Josh has acquired a job at The Premiere, a movie theater in which he has always wanted to work (see Movie Job). Josh thinks that Drake lacks responsibility and always gets annoyed by Drake's bad habits, such as having a party at Josh's boss' house or ruining his relationship with his date. His birthday is revealed to be February 23 and that he is the older of the two.

Josh has a girlfriend, Mindy Crenshaw - however, the two did not always get along; starting at 12 years old, the two often battled against each other in their school's annual Science Fair. It was only until Mindy and Josh paired up for a project in their class that they discovered they liked each other.

Josh once had a pet turtle named Sheldon, who died when he was five years old, and was replaced by a lizard named Julio. He also appears to have a transmitter on his backside which Megan uses for the amusement of electrocuting him. Josh is also shown to be an obsessive fan of Oprah Winfrey; he has a photograph and a large cardboard cut-out of Winfrey, and met her in the episode Josh Runs into Oprah.

While Josh is highly known for being very school-smart, getting A's in all of his classes, he is by no means street-smart. Examples of this are when, in the episode The Affair, when Drake tells Josh that he thinks that their dad is seeing another woman, Josh replies blankly, "Seeing another woman do what?". In the beginning of the episode Pool Shark, Josh refers to pool as billiards, which most people, obviously, don't. And, before Drake pointed out that both were wrong, Josh thought that being the Equipment Manager on their school football team counted as being on the team, and that it was cool.

He is allergic to rather random items, such as celery, cats, shrubs, and cheese puffs. He had perfect attendance from pre-school days to the eleventh grade. Josh probably has almost no musical talent (except for his playing of the harmonica, slide whistle, and piano). Several episodes claim his middle name is Larry. While Drake is shown as a poor driver, Josh most likely is not (in one episode, however, he drove past a stop sign). He is not very good at sports: in basketball, the ball hits his face repeatedly; in football, he failed tryouts; he also had to use twelve training wheels to learn to ride on a bike properly.

Every day Josh is tortured by Megan or Drake, by being hit, abused or taken for granted, and even Drake sells his bike and stereo for money for himself, and steals his money. His boss, Helen, hates him and so do a lot of people. He has the knack of getting himself in scrapes that Drake causes on purpose and is always blamed and hurt painfully.

It is commented in the episode "First Crush" that Josh has a talent for drawing (he draws a portrait of his crush, Kathy). However, this talent is never brought up again. Josh is great at pool (this is commented on in "Pool Shark" and brought up again in "Drew and Jerry" ). It is said various times that Josh likes magic as well as video games.