5. First Crush

Complete story — includes the ending

Josh develops his first real crush on a classmate named Kathy ( Erin Chambers ). However, Josh is incapable of approaching her without making things awkward and embarrassing himself. While trying to impress her, Josh accidentally claims he can play the guitar, which he cannot. Upon hearing this, Kathy then invites Josh to her birthday party at the coffee shop, The Brew Note (ran by Josh's former karate teacher), wherein Kathy asks Josh to play her a song, which Josh reluctantly agrees to. Meanwhile, Drake and his band audition for a gig at The Brew Note, which leads to Drake being banned from the shop for life after Megan's pet snake (which she snuck into Drake's backpack as a prank) escapes and scares everyone away. Later, a panicked Josh begs Drake to help him impress Kathy. After several failed attempts at teaching Josh how to actually play guitar, Drake devises a plan which involves Drake playing the guitar in Josh's place at Kathy's party without anyone knowing. However, on the day of the party, their plan only succeeds in making everything worse when they are busted by both Kathy and the shop owner. The next day at school, Josh apologizes to Kathy for lying to her. Kathy accepts Josh's apology, but declines to be his friend. Kathy then finds a framed painting of her from Josh inside her locker, which (unbeknownst to Josh) was placed there by Drake. As the episode ends, Josh makes a future date with Kathy, and she agrees to convince the coffee shop owner to give Drake and his band another audition.