Nick Vault on Instagram: "Drake and Josh 2004-2007. Before Drake Bell & Josh Peck were Drake and Josh they played in different skits in the 1999 show The Amanda Show, in Episode 39 of The Amanda Show Amanda has a flashback where it’s Drake and Josh fighting over a single piece of shrimp, during that segment Steve Maro who was a writer for the show leaned over to Dan and said to him “You know this is your next show” he saw a lot of potential in the duo from the segments they did in the show so he

I really love how Really Big Shrimp ended. It was touching to dedicate the last minute of the series finale by paying tribute to Drake and Josh's beloved shrimp fight on The Amanda Show that pretty much made "Drake & Josh" possible.