History Series / TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody

* DyeingForYourArt:
** AshleyTisdale, a natural brunette, was asked to dye her hair blonde for the role of Maddie as a possible aversion of the DumbBlonde.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In an episode where the group visits the home of SherlockHolmes author, where the original draft of the story is stolen. Cody figures out a supposed British resident is actually Belgian, due to him saying 'fries' instead of 'chips', and it is revealed he was the GentlemanThief.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Cody has been known for most of the franchise as a [[{{Adorkable}} socially-awkward, loveable nerd]], whom Bailey liked just for being him. As of Season 2, he's constantly fighting with Bailey for dominance in the relationship, not just showing off his knowledge but [[InsufferableGenius lording it over people]] every chance he gets, and is even arrogant enough to assume that Bailey and former love-interest Jessica are jealous of one another, despite a total lack of evidence thereof. His jerkiness got so out of control at the end of "Break Up in Paris" that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bailey and Cody broke up]]. WhatAnIdiot!
** On the episode of said break-up though, as Bailey, who saw him on a practice run through of their anniversary with London, assumed he cheated and stood him up until she learned otherwise. The fight though, did bring up all of his new jerkass tendencies.
** Really Bailey seems more of the Jerkass she constantly belittles Cody and always tries to upstage him. She gets extremely angry at him for teaching a cooking class and giving his students pointers. She almost breaks up with him because she has to take care of him during an assignment. Finally she goes to a sleazy guy for comfort, who pretty much admits he is just trying to get into her pants. After she sees Cody with a an unknown girl that just so happens to have the same hair extensions as her best friend, instead of asking Cody or London about it.
** Once you see the episode, "The Play's the Thing", I think you'll see who the bigger jerkass is.

After 3 seasons, ''On Deck'' ended in 2011 with the twins celebrating their graduation. If the original series and the {{ReTool}} are counted as a single series, it's had the longest original run of any series on the DisneyChannel, at six seasons and 162 episodes total.

* DistaffCounterpart: Jessica and Janice exist as female identical twins and date Zack and Cody a few times. Though they didn't get much development until Suite Life On Deck.

*** However In the AlternateUniverse of "The Suite Smell of Success", Maddie is one to hers and London's lives being switched.

* InterClassRomance:

* ModestyTowel: Played straight when one of the title characters spent a good part of an episode wearing a towel that reached from his ankles to his ribs. Was it a towel or a carpet??

* TheStateroomSketch: Actual Closet variant, completes the homage by having their mother open the door so that everyone tumbles out.

** Bailey also fills this role at times, especially when she's around London.

* {{Gasshole}}: Woody, who can perform StairwayToHeaven [[BlazingSaddles Le Petomane]]-style after eating the Mexican buffet.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In an episode where the group visits the home of [[SherlockHolmes Sherlock Holmes']] author, where the original draft of the story is stolen. Cody figures out a supposed British resident is actually Belgian, due to him saying 'fries' instead of 'chips', and it is revealed he was the GentlemanThief.

* [[spoiler:AlwaysSecondBest]]: [[spoiler:Dr. Olsen's motivation for creating the Gemini Project. Zack sympathizes.]]

** To clarify, Dr Olsen [[spoiler:disguised himself as a janitor to easily infiltrate Dr. Spaulding's facility and steal and research,]] and most importantly to conceal the fact that [[spoiler:he is Dr. Spaulding's twin brother.]]

** The episode Starship Tipton is basically ''StarTrek''. They even got George Takei (Sulu) to play London's Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandson.

** The ''StarTrek'' theme in "Starship Tipton".

** At the end of the episode, the red-clad [[StarTrek George]] ''[[StarTrek frigging]]'' [[StarTrek Takei]] suffers the same fate.

** A very subtle one in "Starship Tipton": Even though the episode is a ''StarTrek'' parody, the transporter effect looks more like an [[StargateSG1 Asgard beam]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Parodied in the episode "Starship Tipton", it itself being a parody of StarTrek. All of the background characters, except for London's great x12 grandson, have odd hairstyles and colors, including Zerg, Zack's identical descendant, who has blue hair in the style of a Roman helmet.

* OnlySaneMan: Moseby, Maddie, and Carey trade off who gets to hold the SanityBall, though on occasion they manage to share it.

** After it's revealed that [[spoiler:Ashton stole Maya's necklace and framed Zack for it,]] he claims he "[[ScoobyDoo would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!]]"

** {{YMMV}} on the episode of said break-up though, as Bailey, who saw him on a practice run through of their anniversary with London, assumed he cheated and stood him up until she learned otherwise. The fight though, did bring up all of his new jerkass tendencies.

** It's pretty clear that London has been held back. In "On Deck" Tutweiller mentions that London had been voted Prom Queen her last 3 senior years confirming she had been held back. Plus the twins who are three years younger graduate with her. So In the final Season of Zach and Cody, London and Maddie are seniors and Zach and Cody are freshman At the start of "On Deck" London is still a senior and Zach and Cody are sophomores. So London Doesn't really fit this Trope too much. So in London was 21 while Brenda was 23.

* CrazyCatLady: Emma Tutweiller started off as a mildly-neurotic thirty-something woman [[KindHeartedCatLover who just happened to have a few cats]]. As of Season 3, she's [[{{Flanderization}} devolved]] into a certifiably-insane serial stalker who keeps in excess of thirty cats in her cabin, [[AccidentalNightmareFuel using them as dress-up dolls and sock puppets]]. {{Lampshaded}} by Moseby:

** It's pretty clear that London has been held back. In "On Deck" Tutweiller mentions that London had been voted Prom Queen her last 3 senior years confirming she had been held back. Plus the twins who are three years younger graduate with her. So In the final Season of Zach and Cody, London and Maddie are seniors and Zach and Cody are freshman At the start of "On Deck" London is still a senior and Zach and Cody are sophomores. So London Doesn't really fit this Trope two much. which would have made London 21 while Brenda was 23.

* DeadpanSnarker: This ''is'' a Disney Sitcom. ''Everyone'' fits this trope. Maddie and Carey being the most prolific snarkers.

** In the episode "Romancing the Phone", in her day dream a guy questions her if she's a real blonde and she replies "I dye my roots brown."

* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: The twins take their dates not to see the kiddie film ''Doggie Came Home'' but the horror film ''Zombie Mom''. Zack ends up having nightmares and sleepwalking in the hotel, stacking the lobby furniture against the door to stop the zombies.

* PrayerOfMalice: In "Volley Dad", one of the nuns in Maddie's Catholic school prays that their volley ball team will viciously crush the opposing team.
-->'''Nun:''' Okay, we are gonna stomp these losers right into the ground! Let us pray. Lord, please help us stomp these losers into the ground. Amen.

* VagueAge: London. In the original series, she is the same class as Maddie, who is three years older than Zack and Cody (never mind that late in the the original series, London, Maddie and the twins are all in the same high school), however in ''The Suite Life on Deck'' she is in the same grade as them. Could be she just keeps getting held back, which seems [[BookDumb fitting]], but it's never really been addressed in the series.
** Well, in one episode, a young kid has a crush on her and asks if she'll wait for him. She says "in five years, when we're in the same class" implying that she's used to getting held back. So considering everything, she could actually be considerably older than the twins.
** In the episode "Prom Night", Ms. Tutweiller said that London was no longer allowed to run for Prom Queen after winning at her last three senior proms.
** BrendaSong (London) is 23, as opposed to her costars Dylan and Cole Sprouse, DebbyRyan, and Matthew Timmons, who are all 18.

''The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody'' (2005-2008) is a DisneyChannel KidCom about a couple of twins named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Zack and Cody]] who live in The Tipton, a hotel in Boston. Their divorced mom is a singer at the hotel who has a secret admirer in a rather dorky janitor named Arwin. Also at the hotel are two teenage girls, London, the moronic heiress to the hotel chain, and Maddie, a candy-counter girl who struggles to make sure she completes school as well as juggling very degrading jobs. The hotel is run by Mr. Moseby, who rarely tolerates the twins' antics. It was chronologically the second series in the {{DCLAU}}.

After that the show ended in 2008, it continued with a SpinOff called ''[[RecycledINSPACE The Suite Life On Deck]]'', putting two-thirds of the cast on a luxury liner. Meanwhile, reruns of the original show have popped up on DisneyXD. A ''Suite Life'' movie has aired, set in Season 3 of ''On Deck'', focusing on the twins entering a "Gemini Project", a study on the interaction of twins.

* {{Retool}}ed to become The Suite Life on Deck (see below). The latter may also be considered a spin-off.

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Not referring to people, but this exchange from ''The Suite Life On Deck''.

** Possibly a BrickJoke from The Suite Life Goes to Hollywood: Part One from the parent series in which Moseby attempts to tell the producers of the new show a funny story. This is evidenced by the fact that the delivery of the word "nougat" is exactly the same.

* VagueAge: London. In the original series, she is the same class as Maddie, who is three years older than Zack and Cody (never mind that late in the the original series, London, Maddie and the twins are all in the same high school), however in The Suite Life On Deck she is in the same grade as them. Could be she just keeps getting held back, which seems [[BookDumb fitting]], but it's never really been addressed in the series.

* HufflepuffHouse: The students at Seven Seas High who aren't the main characters, Maya, Woody, or Addison. There are some episodes where other characters come out of the shadows and then are never seen again.

* ActorAllusion

* AdoredByTheNetwork
** Not saying much since just about every Disney Channel Tweencom is played 6 times a day.

* DifferentAsNightAndDay : Two different pairs. Lazy, sloppy Zack compared to his twin neat, hardworking Cody, and also poor, down-to-earth girl Maddie with her frenemy airhead rich girl London.

** In the episode "Romancing the Phone", in her day dream a guy questions her if she's a real blonde and she replies "I dye my roots brown".

'''London:''' "Law" is something you get to break if you're rich. * points to herself and mouths, "Me"*

* VitriolicBestBuds: Maddie and London, Type 2.

** Catchphrase: Woody yells "Daaang it" several times during the series

** "Beauty and the Fleeced" contained Cody referencing the "Fairest of Them All" episode of the parent series (where he wound up in a beauty pageant). It also referenced the first episode of the spin-off, which saw Bailey pull a SweetPollyOliver.

* CrazyCatLady: Emma Tutweiller started off as a mildly-neurotic thirty-something woman [[KindHeartedCatLover who just happened to have a few cats]]. As of Season 3, she's [[{{Flanderization}} devolved]] into a certifiably-insane serial stalker who keeps in excess of thirty cats in her cabin, [[NightmareFuel using them as dress-up dolls and sock puppets]]. {{Lampshaded}} by Moseby:

** Ironically, this episode aired the day after Kurt Warner's (Who guest starred wearing said jersey) final game. Now we know why he retired

* FakeGuestStar: Matthew Timmons has appeared as Woody in roughly two thirds of all episodes, yet is still billed as a guest star.
** Made all the more jarring when Doc Shaw who plays Marcus, is added to the credits when joining the show midway through Season 2 and still probably doesn't appear in any more episodes than Woody.
*** And Marcus was recently [[spoiler:PutOnABus.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: Scenes on the Sky Deck frequently have babes in bikinis in the background.
** But only in the background. The main characters can't wear bikinis on a Disney show.
* FawltyTowersPlot: In the episode "The Defiant Ones", Cody misses a homework assignment due having spent a romantic evening with Bailey the night before. [[TheBGrade Unable to bear the shame of receiving a single bad grade]], he fabricates the excuse that he was caring for Bailey, who'd injured her ankle. This leads to Bailey reluctantly faking an injury, and eventually the entire student body of Seven Seas Highs being drawn into a web of lies that is increasingly complex and ridiculous.\\
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It all comes crashing down the next day when Cody misses yet another assignment, having been too busy maintaining the farce.

** In "I Brake for Whales", some of the characters locked in the wheel room pay homage to ReservoirDogs with their codenames. Only one is real, one receives a GenderFlip, and two are not characters from the movie.

** YMMV on the episode of said break-up though, as Bailey, who saw him on a practice run through of their anniversary with London, assumed he cheated and stood him up until she learned otherwise. The fight though, did bring up all of his new jerkass tendencies.