History Series / TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Zack had just explained to Cody the reason why he needed the car, instead of hounding him to give the car to him, inadvertently causing trouble for Cody along the way, then Cody might have given him the car in the first, they wouldn't have ended at the Gemini Project, and their brotherhood wouldn't have almost been irreconcilably strained.

* HotScientist[=/=]TheVamp: Kellie and her twin Nellie, who discreetly goad Zack to ride the submarine that helps cause destruction and get Cody kicked out of his first internship with Dr. Spaulding, and later, convince Zack to not leave the Gemini Project. [[spoiler: Of course they are doing it under Dr. Olsen specifically under Dr. Olsen's orders.]]

'''Gina:''' How could I say no? You blast off a 0600 to [[Film/{{Armageddon}} destroy that asteroid and save the world]]!

** In the Season 3 premiere "Silent Treatment", Zack mispronounces the name of the author of ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' as Leo "WesternAnimation/ToyStory".

[[caption-width-right:350:L to R:[softreturn]Top row: [[BookDumb Zack]], [[CoolLoser Cody]].[softreturn]Middle row: [[ManChild Arwin]], [[FunnyForeigner Esteban]].[softreturn]Bottom row: [[OnlySaneWoman Carey]], [[AsianAirhead London]], [[GoGetterGirl Maddie]], [[GrumpyBear Moseby]].]]

* GrumpyBear: Mr. Moseby.

* [[invoked]]HollywoodPudgy: Parodied when London and Maddie were led to believe they were too fat and too thin respectively. Creator/BrendaSong and Music/AshleyTisdale were quite thin at the time, but not dangerously so; London could have endangered her health with a crash diet and compulsive exercise, while Maddie had no reason to binge and could have set herself on the path to obesity. Fortunately Moseby talked some sense into them, telling them what anyone who isn't brainwashed by this trope (and its inverse) already knew: they're both gorgeous and don't need other people to tell them what to look like.

* BoldlyComing: Just barely {{averted}} between Moseby and a [[GreenSpaceBabe purple skinned]] version of Tutweiller.

* TooImportantToRememberYou: Mr. Tipton, being a SerialSpouse, does this to London and Mr. Moseby:
** He only remembers which of his children London is after she reminds him she's the daughter of ex-wife #3.
** The only detail he remembers about Mr. Moseby isn't that he's the former manager of the Tipton Hotel in Boston or the current manager of the SS Tipton, but that he was the best man at Mr. Tipton's fifth wedding.
** Mr. Tip

* {{Flanderization}}: London again. Whether or not her stupidity has been [[UpToEleven cranked up]], because she does have her smart moments.

* DemotedToExtra: Since ''On Deck'' involved a small portion of the original cast being [[IncrediblyLamePun shipped off]] (pun unintended) to the S.S. Tipton, former main characters Maddie and Carey only appeared as guest stars and most of the recurring characters from the original show were [[BrotherChuck Brother Chucked]] sans Kurt, Esteban, Arwin, Barbara, and Bob. In Maddie's case, however, [[JustifiedTrope this demotion may be justified]], given the fact she was about three years older than the twins, which would make her a college student.

* {{Expy}}: Dante was pretty much an expy of Stanley from ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'', before his storyline was [[AbortedArc written out]] and he [[BrotherChuck disappeared]].

* AbsenteeActor: London was missing from 2 episodes: "Have a Nice Trip" and "Birdman of Boston" while Maddie is absent in 12 episodes.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Cody toward Bailey in the first season. A mild subversion, as it was pretty clear that Bailey liked him, too. When they got together, the writers shifted this trait onto Marcus, who acts this way toward London, who is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} too much in her own world]] to notice.

* PantyShot: Maddie's panties can be seen in "Commercial Breaks". [[AllMenArePerverts Male fans went nuts]].
** Actually, it's a black slip on, but it resembled boyleg panties.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: After finding out Cody was going for an internship over the spring break, Bailey ends up having a FaceHeelTurn and becomes an AlphaBitch who hates Cody and decides to make him miserable and abuse him. [[spoiler: However, after seeing Cody's letter explaing why, she realises how horrible and selfish she became and decides to make it up to him.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Bailey after learning that Cody is planning on doing an internship rather than go with her on spring break. She finally comes back to her senses after she realizes Cody wanted to join Yale.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Parodied in the episode "Starship Tipton", it itself being a parody of Franchise/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.

* SummerSchoolSucks: Zack fails his English class and couldn't graduate middle school. Even the mention of "summer school" makes him stutter unless someone finishes the phrase for him. After confessing that he faked his graduation, he's forced to attend summer school (the alternative would have been military school) and, much to his derision, it's found out that he's the smartest kid in that batch and his classmates bully him for that. After getting fed up with this, Zack devises a plan to help both himself and his classmates pass the class by using his and Cody's hotel room as a tutoring place.

* BrickJoke: In "Trouble in Tokyo", Mr. Moseby says that London only got her vaccination shot after Nurse Nancy loaded it into a tranquillizer dart and shot her from the flagpole. Guess how London got her booster shot at the end of her episode.
-->'''Mr. Moseby'': Good shot, Nurse Nancy!

* SummerSchoolSucks: Zack fails his English class and couldn't graduate middle school. Even the mention of "summer school" makes him stutter unless someone finishes the phrase for him. After confessing that he faked his graduation, he's forced to attend summer school (the alternative would have been military school) and, much to his derision, it's found out that he's the smartest kid in that batch and his classmates bully him for that. After being fed up with this, Zack devises in helping his classmates and himself pass the class by using the his and Cody's hotel room as a tutoring place.

After the show ended in 2008, it continued with a SequelSeries called ''[[RecycledINSPACE The Suite Life on Deck]]'', putting half of the cast on a luxury liner to attend the onboard Seven Seas High School, with other original characters [[{{Cameo}} visiting on occasion]]. It also added Bailey Pickett (who [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute basically replaced Maddie]]), a smart girl from a small Kansas farm often made fun of by London (and serves as Cody's LoveInterest); [[FakeGuestStar Woody]], a clumsy but well-meaning ([[NauseaFuel and disgusting]]) classmate made fun of [[ButtMonkey by everyone]] and Ms. Emma Tutweiller, one of the teachers at Seven Seas High made fun of by her own students (and eventually Mr. Moseby's LoveInterest). Meanwhile, reruns of the original show have popped up on Creator/DisneyXD. Both series also participated in massive CrossOver events with other shows on the channel: ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'' had ''[[Series/ThatsSoRaven That's So]] Suite Life of Series/HannahMontana'' and ''On Deck'' had ''[[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Wizards]] On Deck with Hannah Montana''. ''Series/ImInTheBand'' also has a crossover episode with ''On Deck'' (unlike the others, this consisted of only a single episode that aired as a part of ''I'm In The Band'' only).

[[caption-width-right:350:L to R:[softreturn]Top row: [[BookDumb Zack]], [[HollywoodNerd Cody]].[softreturn]Middle row: [[ManChild Arwin]], [[FunnyForeigner Esteban]].[softreturn]Bottom row: [[OnlySaneWoman Carey]], [[AsianAirhead London]], [[GoGetterGirl Maddie]], [[GrumpyBear Moseby]].]]

** When London and Bailey volunteer to watch some of the passenger's children in the play room, at first the children enjoy London more than Bailey due her childish personality, which ends with Bailey tied to a chair and covered macaroni and glitter. Bailey then decides not do the next day, so London ends up taking care of the kids alone. Unfortunately for London, due her being a WomanChild and her stupidity, the kids turn against her since can't do simple tasks like open a juice box or get their snacks, forcing her to call Bailey to come back and help.