{"id":292864,"date":"2020-05-26T07:04:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1155708"},"modified":"2020-05-26T07:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:04:43","slug":"drake-bell-transforming-into-totally-kyle-is-peak-nostalgia-for-nickelodeon-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/drake-bell-transforming-into-totally-kyle-is-peak-nostalgia-for-nickelodeon-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Bell Transforming Into &#8220;Totally Kyle&#8221; Is Peak Nostalgia for Nickelodeon Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020426\/rs_600x600-200526052803-600-Drake-Bell-TikTok-ch-052620.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.372990353698\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.897106109325\">\n<p>This is totally epic!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drake Bell<\/strong> served up some major nostalgia with a Totally Kyle-inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@drakebell\/video\/6808731415455223046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok<\/a>. Putting his spin on the viral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1153683\/jojo-siwa-ditches-her-ponytail-for-a-new-hairstyle-to-celebrate-her-17th-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wipe It Down Challenge<\/a>, where users unveil a new look as they pretend to clean a mirror, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/28373\/30-stars-who-got-their-start-on-seinfeld\/942299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nickelodeon alum<\/a> channeled his <em>The Amanda Show<\/em> alter-ego and nearly broke the Internet in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Starting off in a plain white t-shirt with his hair slicked back, Bell began to wipe down his bathroom mirror as the song &#8220;Wipe It Down&#8221; played. As he continued with his chores, he transformed into the beloved 2000s character, sporting a tie-dye t-shirt and a long wavy blonde wig. Stunned by what had happened, Bell cautiously looked down at the rag he was using to clean the mirror and exited the frame.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that the <em>Drake and Josh<\/em>&nbsp;star has paid homage to his Nickelodeon days. Earlier this month, he got decked out in his Totally Kyle finest for another hilarious TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@drakebell\/video\/6827170059010592006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.97138769671\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.8669527897\">\n<p>In it, he watched an old episode of the sketch dressed as the character, giving fans a surprise at the end. He also revisited his <em>Drake and Josh<\/em> character for a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@drakebell\/video\/6809453127536839941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a>, and even schooled fans on the correct lyrics for the show&#8217;s theme song in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@drakebell\/video\/6808731415455223046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Always a fan of embracing his Nickelodeon past, Bell has treated fans to several nostalgia moments over the years. Back in 2018, he decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/950141\/drake-bell-visits-drake-josh-house-and-discovers-it-s-gone%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the&nbsp;<em>Drake and Josh<\/em>&nbsp;house<\/a>&nbsp;during a fun-filled outing.&nbsp;Instead, he found that the Encino, Calif. house had been torn down, and documented the moment on Twitter. &#8220;What&#8217;s up everybody. I came to check out the <em>Drake and Josh<\/em> house and it is gone,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All that remains is this mailbox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.458576429405\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.38739789965\">\n<p>In March 2019, the <em>Yours, Mine &amp; Ours<\/em> star revealed that he and his <em>Drake and Josh<\/em> co-star <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/josh_peck\">Josh Peck<\/a><\/strong> were working on something together that will delight fans. Unable to fully divulge what the upcoming project will entail, Bell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1024050\/a-drake-and-josh-revival-not-exactly-but-drake-bell-and-josh-peck-are-working-on-something\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told E! News<\/a>, &#8220;Well, not exactly&nbsp;<em>Drake and Josh<\/em>, but Josh and I have been talking. He&#8217;s come up with some cool ideas. And, yeah, I can&#8217;t really go into exactly what we&#8217;re doing, but it&#8217;s going to be really cool and exciting. I&#8217;m really excited to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;Everywhere we go we get, \u2018When&#8217;s the reboot? When&#8217;s the reboot? When are you guys coming back?&#8217; Neither of us want to do a reboot. It had to be something cool, it has to be something creative, so, no, honestly I never thought that we would be coming back\u2026I think we&#8217;ve come up with something that&#8217;s a little bit more creative and a little more exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1155708\/drake-bell-transforming-into-totally-kyle-is-peak-nostalgia-for-nickelodeon-fans?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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Putting his spin on the viral Wipe It Down Challenge, where users unveil a new look as they pretend to clean a mirror, the Nickelodeon alum channeled his The Amanda Show alter-ego and nearly broke the Internet in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-19 04:37:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}