History Characters / ZoeysExtraordinaryPlaylist

* FailedASpotCheck: When he temporarily joined Aiden's band, he somehow didn't notice the love song "Next-Door Redhead" they were rehearsing was about his sister until the performance.

* BlackBossLady: She's in charge as at least as many people than Joan, and is implied to have even more leverage in the company than her.

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Though not the main protagonist, Max has some heroic moments such as getting Zoey to the hospital to see her dad at any cost, and certainly loves the redheaded Zoey.

-> '''Portrayed by:''' John Clarence Stewart

->'''Portrayed by:''' Felix Mallard

->'''Portrayed by:''' David St. Louis

* AloofBigBrother: He and Zoey get along, but they have very different personalities and butt heads the way siblings do. Apparently he rubs in the fact he's a public defender quite a bit, apparently as a dig to the fact she's just a coder, though it doesn't appear serious on his par.

* OverprotectiveDad: An inversion: in the season 2 finale he becomes an overprotective ''son'' when Maggie reconnects with a boyfriend from high school [[spoiler:(who later turns out to be married)]] via Facebook, warning her about the possibility of a SerialKiller hiding behind a fake social media profile.

* OverprotectiveDad: The relationship between him and his daughter is strained because her deafness has made him extremely determined to keep her safe, which caused her to feel like she was less of a person.

* PsychoactivePowers: In "Zoey's Extraordinary Glitch" her powers invert due to her suppressing her grief over an advancement in her father's illness. Now instead of witnessing a musical number about other people's feelings, she herself uncontrollably breaks out into song and dance whenever she's not being honest or open about her feelings. While she hears background music and sees the people nearby dancing backup, when this is shown from outside her perspective, to everyone else she looks like someone awkwardly singing and dancing to a song, by herself, with no music to do either to.

* PsychoactivePowers: In "Zoey's Extraordinary Glitch" her powers invert due to her suppressing her grief over an advancement in her father's illness. Now instead of witnessing a musical number about other people's feelings, she herself uncontrollably breaks out into song and dance whenever she's not being honest or open about her feelings. When this is shown from outside her perspective, to everyone else she looks like someone awkwardly singing and dancing to a song, by herself, with no music to do either to.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Zoey's very much an introvert who prefers code to people. This becomes exceptionally uncomfortable when her ability forces her to engage with people on a deep emotional level. In fact, one episode lampshades that she often can't tell what other people are feeling ''unless'' they're '''putting on a literal song and dance about it in front of her''', and has her working to overcome that and pay more attention outside of heart songs.

* HollywoodNerd: Lampshaded after Zoey hires more female programmers for the Fourth Floor; one of them says that some of the other male programmers are hot by nerd standards but Max may actually be real-world hot. Zoey is also surprised to find that he's quite toned under his shirt.

** Zoey is definitely one for Joan. Around workers like Max, Tobin and Leif, she is impersonal, hard-to-please and blunt, But when Joan is with Zoey one-on-one, she reveals a more compassionate and understanding side.

-> '''Portrayed by:''' Harvey Guillén

!! Tobin

!! Leif

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While Zoey, David, and Maggie are gobsmacked at Howie's semi-joking suggestion that he could get Mitch into online poker as a means to kill time, Mitch is visibly amused. After they hired Howie, they actually ''do it''.

* ItsAllAboutMe: He ''can'' be quite selfless, and actually does go out of his way to help others without asking anything in return. ''However'', when it comes to romance and romantic interest, he's ''very'' self-concerned, and it's directly what leads to his InnocentlyInsensitive and NotGoodWithRejection issues. When he breaks up with Autumn it never crosses his mind that it might ''hurt'' her to see him immediately acting like nothing happened ''the next day''. Meanwhile, he's constantly getting mad that him and his feelings aren't Zoey's highest priority, despite being ''aware'' of what's going on with her dad.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In season 2 he finally gets the promotion he wanted and is able to create his own development team. He brings in employees that are just like him and quickly discovers that they are unmanageable. They goof off rather than do work and will not listen to him ordering them to do work. He has to eat crow and ask Zoey for help.

* IgnoredEpiphany: When Zoey is promoted above him, he ''could'' have realised this was a sign he was goofing off too much and wasn't working hard enough, but since he believes he's better than her and ''deserves'' the promotion it must mean Zoey manipulated her way to the top and he has ''legitimate'' reason to conspire against her now. When a peer review criticises his lazy attitude and obvious two-faced nature, rather than understand he needs to improve on these points he assumes someone hates him and, after Zoey tries to encourage him to build off of it, he assumes it was ''her''. Ironically, this cheers him up because, in his mind, it confirms that Zoey is as two-faced as he is and demonstrates a strange workplace VillainRespect because of it.

* BirdsOfAFeather: How him and Zoey become so close, they're both managers at SPRQ Point who have dead/dying fathers, and so can mutually understand what the other are experiencing in a way others can't.

* AloofBigBrother: Him and Zoey get along, but they have very different personalities and butt heads the way siblings do. Apparently he rubs in the fact he's a public defender quite a bit, apparently as a dig to the fact she's just a coder, though it doesn't appear serious on his par.

* OverprotectiveDad: The relationship between him and his daughter is strained, because her deafness has made him extremely determined to keep her safe, which caused her to feel like she was less of a person.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Zoey's very much an introvert who prefers code to people. This becomes exceptionally uncomfortable when her ability forces her to engage with people on a deep emotional level. In fact, one episode lampshades that she often can't tell what other people are feeling ''unless'' they're '''putting on a big musical number about it in front of her''', and has her working to overcome that and pay more attention outside of heart songs.

* CloudCuckoolander: His defining characteristic. He forgot that he loves bread and gave Zoey the permission for the project BECAUSE she was weird.

* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: Subverted. Seems like one at first, given Zoey's reaction to seeing that HeIsAllGrownUp and their subsequent hanging out and getting stoned together, giving her a third option in addition to Max and Simon. Ultimately, however, when he sings a LoveConfession song at her birthday, she politely but firmly tells him that it wouldn't work because of the age gap between them and his lack of life plans.

** As seen in "Zoey's Extraordinary Session", on their first day, Danny Michael Davis held a competition to narrow down the slate of new programmers to two. He ultimately chose Max and Lief, but Max, knowing that Zoey was actually the better programmer and that having to deal with her mom having a heart attack that day had affected her performance, insisted that Danny hire Zoey instead of him (he later ended up at SPRQ Point anyway after Danny fired his own cousin). For a long time, everyone knew this except Zoey.