History Series / TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody

* SlapSlapKiss: The smart guy London tries to date turns out to be Maddie's [[OppositesAttract polar opposite]] on the [[StrawmanPolitical political spectrum]]. Not only does this cause her to blow her cover as PlayingCyrano, but also results in a shouting match, name-calling...and making out.

'''Bailey:''' Cody!\\

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The episode "Grounded On The 23rd Floor" aired as the fifth in the first season but was the first shot. As such it has several differences from the main series. Maddie has brown hair and a completely different uniform, London is far meaner and smarter than she would be in the main series, and the furniture in the Martins' suite is different. The episode also features a character called Tuck who looked as if he would have been a love interest for Maddie, but does not appear afterwards.

* PervertAlliance: "Forever Plaid" Zack and Cody accidentally knock a hole in a wall, but then discover that the girls' soccer team is on the other side. The invite two of their friends, Bob and Warren, to partake, and make extra holes so all of them can spy on the girls. Predictably, they're caught and grounded, and Carey makes her sons write a two-thousand word apology note to the girls, each.

-->'''Woody:''' Oh, that one. Cute, blonde, nice legs. And, carrying a textbook. Repressed bookworm badly in need of good time.\\

** In Woody's defense, he lost his glasses, and is nearsighted.

** Estaban has two: "Oh, Mr. Moseby!" and "This is a ''disaster''!"

** In "I Want My Mummy", Mr. Tipton used his money to hire an over-glorified grave robber to steal archaeological artifacts from Estaban's Peruvian village and brought them to the Boston Tipton. What's really scary here is that Mr. Tipton, showing a complete lack of morals, lied to London that he was not stealing.

** What fans did mind was the first three episodes set up a friendship between Zack and Bailey. After the episode they decided to relegate all of Bailey's plots to involve Cody or London.

* TheCameo: Members of the original series (Arwin, Maddie, the twins' parents, Esteban, etc) did have one off appearances throughout the shows run eventually leading to...

** Implied with London's many-times great grandson Rome, after all he is played by George Takei.

** Bailey mentioned have 6 big sisters and 3 little ones in "Parrot Island" although in "Twister" she is implied to be an only child as no sisters are present.
** In the the first series, London was depicted as being incredibly [[MusclesAreMeaningless strong for her size]], helping Maddie train for her physical fitness test. In ''On Deck'', Zack had to give similar help to London. Of course, London's competence does vary in the series.

* CaptivityHarmonica: In the episode "Parrot Island", London plays a harmonica while imprisoned on the titular island, and [[GeniusDitz plays it quite well]] to boot.

** The "Wizards On Deck with Series/HannahMontana" episode references to the events of "[[Series/ThatsSoRaven That's So]] Suite Life Of Series/HannahMontana".

* CoveredInKisses: During the "Boat Cops" segment in the ending of the episode "Seven Seas News", Kirby finds Cody and Bailey making out in the smoothie bar, with Cody being covered in Bailey's lipstick.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: London was a lot nicer and seemed to like being seen as such early on. When Miss Tutweiller calls her mean when she unknowingly insults her she is flat out offended and in another episode, she appreciates Bailey saying her heart's in the right place even if she's not all there and went out of her way to pay for her ex-boyfriend to visit.

* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: During one episode where London was participating with the boys for a fantasy football league, in the ending of the episode, she mentions that she bought the Arizona Cardinals, now called the Arizona Sparklies. She even changed the uniforms to solid black with white piping & solid sparkling pink fronts with a matching pink helmet.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: When Bailey was possessed by the spirit of Princess Zaria, there was rather short version of this.

* FriendlyTickleTorture: A variant of this in "Can You Dig It?" Zack steals the ancient tiara of the late Princess Zaria and it starts to vibrate an indication of the spirit's reawakening, at which point Zack presses the tiara againt Cody making him giggle.

-->'''Bailey:''' Gosh darnit! Where are all the shrimp?

** Bailey, while not nearly to the extent as Cody, also has her moments of insufferability.

* ScrewYourself: London is entirely made for this trope. There was even one episode where she was set up with herself on a dating questionaire.

* DelusionsOfBeauty: Downplayed with [[AllGermansAreNazis Ilsa Schicklgrubermeiger]], who has a huge ugly mole on her face that she's either unaware of or thinks is a beauty mark. She's completely unaware that others find it horrifying. Moseby wonders if she even owns a mirror.

* FunnyForeigner: Esteban. And Ilsa Shickelgrubermeiger-Von Helsing der Keppelugerhofer.

** Ilsa Shickelgrubermeiger-Von Helsing der Keppelugerhofer seems to do almost nothing ''but'' this in all three of her appearances.

** Ilsa Shickelgrubermeiger-Von Helsing der Keppelugerhofer.

* DelusionsOfBeauty: Downplayed with [[AllGermansAreNazis Ilsa Schicklgrubermeiger]], who has a huge ugly mole on her face that she's either unaware of or thinks is a beauty mark. She's completely unaware that others find it horrifying. Mosbey wonders if she even owns a mirror.

* FinancialTestOfFriendship: Mr Tipton invests all of his money in a diamond mine that doesn't have any diamonds. When London's presidential suite and her valuable assets are seized by the bank as partial payment of the debt incurred, Maddie invites London to stay with her family. At the end of the episode, the mine yields a massive oil reserve and the Tipton fortune is restored.

* NewspaperThinDisguise: Zack and Cody try to disguise themselves with newspapers with eyeholes, but Zack also cut a mouth hole in his to eat french fries and they are both caught by Maddie.

-->'''Interviewer:''' Who's your favourite President?

** Also from ''On Deck'', the 8-year-old prince of Liechtenstamp crushing on Maddie. He even came close to marrying her, too! On this same same episode, Zack still had feelings for Maddie, but it evolved into a LikesOlderWomen situation.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: London was a lot nicer and seemed to like being seen as such early on. When Miss Tuttweiler calls her mean when she unknowingly insults her she is flat out offended and in another episode, she appreciates Bailey saying her heart's in the right place even if she's not all there and went out of her way to pay for her ex-boyfriend to visit.

* StarfishAliens: The Antareans from the episode "Starship Tipton" seem more insectoid than humanoid, having four arms, antennae, and nothing that could really be called a face.

** The hot tub is used for this trope again when, after a chase against the jerk who tried to frame him for a jewelery theft, Zack falls into it and begs for help. Zack's GirlOfTheWeek grabs his hand and they embrace in a romantic yet funny "death" scene parodying the Titanic. Mr. Moseby eventually tells Zack to stand up.

* UnderStrangeManagement: In one episode, Zack, Woody, and Marcus (three teenagers) set up a fake BeautyContest as a way to get girls. However, once they're caught, Mr. Mosby forces them to actually organize a proper beauty pageant as a punishment.

* AssimilationPlot: To a certain extent. In fact, Dr. Olsen wants to [[spoiler:merge twins together into a single entity once they have bonded well enough.]] He appearently wants to end suffering from differences in individuals the world over, but primarily he aims to [[spoiler:end his suffering from being the "inferior" twin to Dr. Spaulding]].

* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler: Dr. Olsen finally captured Zack and Cody in the climax and was just about to merge them together. However, before he does, he violentally tears off his face revealing that he is really Dr. Spaulding twin's brother.]]

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: While snooping around Jesse McCartney's room Maddie admonishes Zack for invading Jesse's personal privacy. Immediately after she pulls out his underwear and is surprised to learn he wears boxer shorts. Jesse is seen wearing boxers in the series Summerland and in the Beautiful Soul music video showing he preferred them at the time but he has since switched to tighter underwear stating on Twitter he prefers boxer briefs.

** When Zack is framed for a jewelry theft, Moseby defends him by listing all of Zack's previous actions before ending his hour-long speech with "but he is not a thief". This is technically true, but Zack did try to steal towels from Jesse Mccartney's hotel room in the prequel series.

* RecordedAudioAlibi:Parodied. Following being grounded by their mother in "Doin' Time in Suite 2330" Zack and Cody sneak out through the vents, leaving behind taped recording of them playing "Go Fish" on loop to convince her their still in their room. Said taped recording is only a few seconds long and thus amounts to same sentences being repeated over and over again for hours. Despite this it completely fools their mother.

-->'''Arwin:''' Ooh group hug! I love group hugs! Especially with other people! ''[old lady walks by]''\\
'''Maddie:''' Hey lady! Come on, I could really use the heat. ''[lady walks away]'' After her! ''[whole hugging group walks together following the lady]''\\

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: While snooping around Jesse McCartney's room Maddie admonishes Zack for invading Jesse's personal privacy. Immediately after she pulls out his underwear and is surprised to learn he wear boxer shorts. Jesse is seen wearing boxers in the series Summerland and in the Beautiful Soul music video showing he preferred them at the time but he has since switched to tighter underwear stating on Twitter he prefers boxer briefs.

After the show ended in 2008, it continued with a SequelSeries called ''[[RecycledWithAGimmick 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).

* ShownInTheirWork: Zack's technique in drawing in clientele when they open a club is actually a common tactic in nightclubs as they thrive on young single women.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In the episode when Zack and Cody gain super powers, there is a scene showing the town being in constant danger. This showed that being superhero would require a lot of responsibility. This convinces the boys to give up being superheroes. With great power comes great responsibility, indeed.
** One episode has the boys (mostly Cody) trying to get their parents back together again. Instead, Carey and Kurt have to gently break it to them that no, they're not going to reignite their old flame, even if it sounds like the ideallic ending.
** One episode has Cody, fed up with Zack constantly making their room a mess, decide to move into the suite's front closet. At the end, when Zack has become more organized and Cody says he wants to come back, Zack asks if it's because he changed his habits. Cody admits it's part of the reason, but it's mainly because the fire department found out what he was doing and ordered him to move out of the closet as a person living in such a confined space is a fire hazard.
** In one episode, London and Maddie try to lose weight. After Mr. Moseby tries to get the two to accept their bodies by giving them a heartwarming speech, the girls end up being unphased by the speech and hilariously continue to exercise moments later. Just goes to show that although you can give well-meaning advice to people, it won’t always help someone instantly.
** In "To Catch a Thief", when there are jewel thieves at the Tipton and the police suspect Esteban of being the thief, Zack and Cody try to help clear his name but fail and crash Bar Mitzvah, which leads to no one, not even Esteban, believing them when they find the real thieves. After they succeed at catching the thieves, rather praise them for succeeding, Carey is upset that her sons put themselves in danger and scolds them for doing so. Zack says that she or anyone else wouldn't believe them, she tells if they didn't let imaginations run wild they would have believe them when it mattered the most. No parent is going to be happy with their children putting themselves in harm's way to catch criminals. Even if the boys meant well, Carey's reaction to this quite rational.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The episode where Cody and Bailey have their messy break-up. It starts with the usual PoorCommunicationKills plot - Bailey sees Cody and London rehearsing the extravagant date he had planned for her and assumes he’s cheating, and he in turn sees her being comforted by another man (a local who had flirted with her earlier). What makes it this trope is that even after the miscommunication is cleared up, they don’t automatically forgive each other. Cody is still upset that his girlfriend doesn’t trust him and immediately ran off to another man, and Bailey points out how ridiculous rehearsing a date with another girl, Bailey’s room-mate nonetheless, is. The ensuing arguments ends their relationship, and it takes most of the following season for them to get over their hurt feelings enough to give their relationship a second try.
** 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 it 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.

[[caption-width-right:350:L to R: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Za]][[KidAnova ck]], [[TheDitz Lon]][[RichBitch don]], [[DeadpanSnarker Mos]][[NoRespectGuy eby]], [[TheSmartGirl Bai]][[CountryMouse ley]], [[InsufferableGenius Cody]].]]

* BrokenAesop / JerkassHasAPoint: In one episode, Mr. Tipton's latest wife, Brandi, visits the hotel and tries play an active role in London's life, annoying her to no end. Eventually, London gets fed up with her and tells her that she isn't a parent to her, just another TrophyWife her father will just divorce, hurting Brandi's feelings. While the two make up by the end of the episode, Brandi is never seen or mentioned again and Mr. Tipton was said to have remarried many more times.

* LuckyTranslation: The Chinese version of the title accommodates the pun by translating suite life as first class or first rate (the word means the top-notch or best or even highest level) life rather than using the word suite.

* HairMemento: [[BookDumb London]] falls in love with the heir to a rival hotel (ala ''Theatre/Romeo and Juliet''). At one point they start exchanging gifts, and Maddie suggests that a lock of London's hair would be romantic. London then proceeds to rip out her hair extensions to give as the gift.

* HairMemento: [[BookDumb London]] falls in love with the heir to a rival hotel (ala ''[[Theatre/Romeo and Juliet]]''). At one point they start exchanging gifts, and Maddie suggests that a lock of London's hair would be romantic. London then proceeds to rip out her hair extensions to give as the gift.