History Series / TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody

*** In "Can You Dig It?", Zack accidentally finds the crown of an ancient princess and takes credit for all the years of research and translating Cody did in order to find the crown's location. This bites Zack in the ass when the princess's ghost possesses Bailey and tries to kill him for taking her crown. After being rescued, Zack gives all the credit for finding the crown to Cody, mostly to get any other potential angry spirits off his back.

* AreWeGettingThis: When Bailey's possessed by a an ancient princess, she attacks Zack (as he's being interviewed by a local reporter for discovering an ancient artifact.) Her response?

* DemonicPossession: In the episode "Can You Dig It?", Bailey finds herself possessed by the spirit of the ancient South American royal Princess Zaria when Zack finds her [[ArtifactOfDoom crown]], thereby releasing her spirit from her [[SoulJar bust]]. No. Not THAT bust.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: When Bailey was possessed by the spirit of Princess Zaria, there was rather a 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 against Cody making him giggle.

** Zack and Bailey rarely have conversations together,

* BrainlessBeauty: London; her sweet but dull-witted friend Chelsea also qualifies.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The opening to one episode has Zack win a bet against Cody and the latter owes him free smoothies, which he now has to make.

** In early season 1, Bailey has a inconsistent southern accent that disappears and reappears. She loses the accent near the end of the season and for the rest of the series.

* 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.

* BeautyContest: This occurs in both of Suite Life series. First in the second original episode "Fearest of Them All" where Cody accidentally entered a beauty pageant while [[DisguisedinDrag dressed as a girl]]. Second in the Suite Life On Deck when Zack Marcus and Woody lie about a beauty pageant to meet girls. However, Moseby catches them and forces to throw a real beauty pageant as punishment as well as appointing them as judges if the contest (the latter episode doubles as a {{Fake Real Turn}}).

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Two boys (Zack and Cody) and two girls (Maddie and London). Three if you count Carey and Moseby.

** ''The Suite Life of Zack and Cody'': In "Books And Birdhouses", London steals a short story from Maddie for a class assignment and turns it in as her own. Not only does the story get London her first A but it also leads to her getting a book deal worth a lot of money. As it turns out, neither Maddie nor London is the story's true creator; Maddie based it on a story by another writer she had subconsciously remembered. Since London took credit for the story and has more money, she is sued for plagiarism by the original author.

* VisitByDivorcedDad: Kurt visited the twins a few times by himself in the first show and a couple of times with his ex-wife on the second.

** Gretel, the [[BrawnHilda agressive, overly masculine German team member]] of the opponent team has quite the hots for Esteban - much to his dismay.

* TheAce: Max is a great dancer, basketball player, and bass player

* AccidentalKiss: While the team is celebrating their victory, Max accidentally kisses Zack. Carey does the same to Arwin at the end of the episode.

* AccidentalPervert: Arwins sees there are new holes in the wall he was repairing that weren't there before. As he's examining them, the girls in the room next door think he's a peeping tom, since Zack, Cody, and two of their friends had just been caught peeping, and poke him in the eye.

** The episode where it looks like Carrey is set to marry her new boyfriend. Cody is understandably apprehensive of this, even though Zack, their friends, and even his own father like the guy. Cody’s father gently explains that as much as Carey sacrifices to make sure her children are happy, as his mother, Cody should be willing to let her be happy too if she wants to marry him.

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: In one episode, London showed of her Karate skills and knocked out a thief. Esteban, on the other hand, was completely helpless, which upset him a a lot.

-->'''Cody Martin''': Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
-->'''Zack Martin''': Chihuahuas have freakishly large ears?

* BigShutUp: In the episode "Sleepover Suite", The twins, London, Mr. Moseby and Nia does this to Mellownotes to get them to stop singing.

* DisguisedInDrag: Cody does this in ''The Fairest of Them All'' when he competes (accidentally at first and unwillingly) in a beauty pageant. Zack does this later in the episode, when Cody decides he wants to throw the competition for another beauty pageant contestant who he had a crush on.

* FriendsRentControl: Played with. In the first episode, Carey mentions that she gets free room and board as part of her contract with Mr. Moseby.

* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: Attempted in an early episode, where Cody has to convince Maddie they're both in the bathroom while the other sneaks off. She doesn't buy it.
* {{Homage}}: In one episode Cody moves into the closet in their suite. Later on there is a scene where there is a ton of people in there, this scene's blocking is copied almost exactly from a scene the Marx Brother's film "A Night at the Opera."

* {{Identical Twin ID Tag}}s: Cody tries to make one by dying his hair.
* IdenticalTwinMistake: Downplayed. For the most part, the twins manage to avoid this trope, but one episode has them doubt their identities when they see a video of their mother getting them confused when they were newborn babies.

* IfIWereARichMan: Zack fantasizes about this on the episode when they take an IneptAptitudeTest. Zack (the slacker doofus) gets the result of "millionaire". Cody (the studious dork) gets "custodial engineer". Cody's even in the fantasy to sweep up...
** In the treasure hunt episode, everyone in the main cast has one. Zack imagines that he's married to Maddie and has his own private arcade, Cody imagines winning the Nobel Prize in every subject (plus baking), Maddie imagines becoming the president, Esteban imagines becoming manager of the Tipton Hotel and making London a bellhop, and London... imagines it to be just like her life is right now, as she's already filthy rich.
* ImaginetheAudienceNaked: Carey suggests this to Cody for his big speech, and Cody makes a sarcastic quip when Zack [[VisualPun literally shows up in his underwear.]]

* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Zack and Cody's wheelchair-bound friend Jamie. One episode was dedicated to Zack and Cody trying to help Jamie to rediscover his love of basketball.

** In one episode Maddie falls for a rich guy and attempts to look and act rich so he will like her.
** In another episode, London falls for a delivery boy, and seeks Maddie's counsel on how to act poor.
** Carey once dated a billionaire and he was even going to ask for her hand in marriage. She politely declined.

* 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.
* TheKilljoy: Mr. Moseby is an uptight, control-freak, ex-manager who can't tolerate Zack and Cody's antics.

* LittleBoySeeksBigGirl: Zack to Maddie. Randall as well in "Day Care".

** In another episode Zack borrows money from another boy to play in the arcade, without any ability or intention to pay back, the boy threatens Zack into making Cody throw the spelling Bee they are both in so he can win 'or else'. Since the boy if tall and built Zack think the threat is violent, however when everything comes to light the boy reveals he wasn't going to beat him up, he was going to tell Zack's mom about the money.

** Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramirez.
** Ilsa Shickelgrubermeiger-Von Helsinger Kepelugerhoffer.

* ParentsKnowTheirChildren: When Zack and Cody try to a thief at the hotel and crash a bar mitzvah, Carey instead of giving her sons an {{Unishment}} by grounding them to their suite, with TV, video games, and room service, she makes them spend Satuarday helping her pick out outfits for next show, where tries clothes and lots of shoes much to their horror.

* PunBasedTitle: The titles of both shows, and many episodes thereof.
** {{Lampshaded}} in "The Suite Life Goes Hollywood", wherein the host had to bribe the audience with food to laugh.

** There is also the commercial for the Tipton in "Let us Entertain You".

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The suite 613 is haunted by the ghost Irene.

* AllegedlyDateless - Cody is said to be bad with girls and dating yet he's had at least two stable relationships (Barbara and Bailey) and has been flirted with and kissed by multiple girls.

* AfraidOfNeedles - Moseby lets everyone else in line to go before him in “Health and Fitness” to delay doing a Cholesterol test. When it’s his turn and he sees the needle, he faints.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents - Carey is this to the twins sometimes. Examples include calling them "her little men" in front of their friends and telling them off in a live broadcast.

* HandsGoDown - Happens in "Seven Seas News" after the students see Miss Tutweiller's days as a weather girl.

* Foodfight:

* Gender-EqualEnsemble: Two boys (Zack and Cody) and two girls (Maddie and London). Three if you count Carey and Moseby.

* Foodfight!:

* Food Slap: Happens quite a few times across both series.

* Gender-Equal Ensemble: Two boys (Zack and Cody) and two girls (Maddie and London). Three if you count Carey and Moseby.

** The episode where it looks like Carrie is set to marry her new boyfriend. Cody is understandably apprehensive of this, even though Zack, their friends, and even his own father like the guy. Cody’s father gently explains that as much as Carrie sacrifices to make sure her children are happy, as his mother, Cody should be willing to let her be happy too if she wants to marry him.

* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In "Odd Couples", when London tells Moesby she's a Merit Scholar (while she's pretending to be one to impress her date), he says "And I'm an Egyptian belly dancer named Melina".

* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: Attempted in an early episode, where one twin has to convince the babysitter they're both in the bathroom while the other sneaks off.

* 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?

* TongueOnTheFlagpole: London gets her tongue stuck a frozen smoothie that Zack had stuck on a popsicle stick.

* YouAreGrounded: Most episodes end with this. In the last season, one episode ''starts'' with this after the boys [[NoodleIncident ruin a wedding]] and at the end Carrie states how they're locked in a vicious cycle of sneaking out and getting grounded, and then exaggerates how long they're gonna be grounded now. The episode ends with her measuring them and as a reply to Zack's question of if he gets a last meal, she says [[LethalChef she's making it]], to which he responds "Aren't I being punished enough?". In comparison this isn't as common on ''The Suite Life on Deck'' since Zack and Cody are living by themselves, though in the second half of the pilot Moseby grounds London for running away, and in the {{crossover}} event "[[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Wizards]] on Deck with Series/HannahMontana" Moseby blames Zack for Alex pouring blue dye in the hot tub and confines him to his room.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Recent episodes suggest that London may be exhibiting such.

** Cody towards Bailey in Season 1. The whole six month plan is all kinds of creepy.

* TechnicianVsPerformer: The brothers strengths fall this way. Cody is an excellent academic, but has poor practical ability. While Zack is the opposite, having difficulty in most of his classes, but is highly gifted when it comes to practical work. For example Cody has shown to be really bad at woodworking and have virtually no outdoor survival skills, which are both fields Zack thrives in.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Zack loses the car he wanted from Cody after he convinced the latter to give it him. But he had it coming for all the trouble he put Cody through throughout the film, [[NeverMyFault refusing to own up to his mistakes]] while hounding Cody give said car, as well as parking it in the shipping area of dock and ignoring the No Parking sign, leading the car getting crushed by the crate containing London’s Summer wardrobe.]]

* CatchPhrase: London's "Yay me!" and Moseby's "Oh very well."
** Esteban has two: "Oh, Mr. Moseby!" and "This is a ''disaster''!"

* {{Catchphrase}}:

* ChainedHeat: Mr. Blanket, the school's insane Guidance Counselor, handcuffs Moseby and Zack together, and swallows the key. It helps them understand one another better, but also increases their contempt for Blanket.

** This is looking more like Bailey's {{Catchphrase}}.

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'''Carrie''': They were girls.

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

%% * AnswerCut: This happens many times in the series.

[[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]], [[TheKilljoy Moseby]].]]

* GeniusSerum: Plays With this idea. For a school project, Bailey decides to test out the Placebo Effect on [[BookDumb London]] and gives her a perfume that London thinks contains "smarticle particles". While using the perfume, London starts to perform better in school and have more confidence in herself academically. Bailey eventually admits to her that the perfume wasn't helping her and that she did it all on her own, but once she knows that she wasn't magically being made smarter, London returned to her normal lack-of-intelligence.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: London was initially portrayed as a shallow RichBitch, before adopting her ditzy qualities. She also got softened to sometimes become more InnocentlyInsensitive than actually mean-spirited.
* While they do have their own quirks and differences, the twins are less defined as characters in season one compared to the rest of the series. For example with Cody, his tidiness and girlish qualities wasn't a part of his character yet compared to how he'd be later on. Starting on season 2, the twins have more set and different personalities, leaning into the odd couple dynamic. They have more promient characteristics such as Zack being a slob and Cody being smart which would continue into On Deck and become defining characteristics.