14. Steered Straight

Complete story — includes the ending

Drake obtains fake IDs for himself and Josh, so they can enter an adults-only nightclub to see Josh's favorite band, the Hailstones. The boys are then caught by the police, but are not placed under arrest. Instead of grounding their sons, Audrey and Walter choose to sign Drake and Josh up for the police department's "Steered Straight" program, in which juveniles are shown what it is like to be arrested. However, the plan eventually backfires when the officer who is driving the brothers to the police station is suddenly confronted by an actual hardened criminal named Blaze, who carjacks him. Using their fake ID names of Alvin Yakatori and Jefferson Steelflex, Drake and Josh pose as hardened criminals so that they can befriend Blaze. The boys then convince Blaze to take them back to their house, under the pretense that it is actually someone else's house that they plan to rob. At the house, while the rest of their family are away, Drake and Josh attempt to contact the police. When Blaze catches them in the act, the boys lie about contacting their fellow criminals in a plot to kidnap the governor of California, however this only prompts Blaze to call in his own crew for the plot instead. When Walter comes home early, the boys quickly trap him in a closet to maintain their ruse. The brothers then fake a physical altercation with each other, with the use of Josh's magic kit. Terrified and disgusted, the criminals then flee the house. In the aftermath, Drake, Josh, Audrey and Megan all go out for dinner, wherein the boys realize that they accidentally forgot to free Walter.