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| 12 | Largely famous as Music/{{Britney|Spears}}'s sister's show. It premiered on January 9, 2005 and ended on May 2, 2008. |
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| 14 | Pacific Coast Academy was previously an all boys school, but has just begun admitting girls. Among that first class of girls is one [[TheAce Zoey Brooks]] (Creator/JamieLynnSpears), who has to contend with the boys when it comes to any privilege among the school. But of course, having a gender-integrated school proves to be appealing for both sides and it basically becomes a college-type atmosphere but with teenagers. |
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| 16 | The show began with Zoey and her roommates [[GenkiGirl Nicole Bristow]] (Alexa Nikolas) and [[SpicyLatina Dana Cruz]] (Kristin Herrera), with Zoey making friends with [[CannotSpitItOut Chase Matthews]] (Sean Flynn) and his roomates, [[TokenBlackFriend Michael Barrett]] (Creator/ChristopherMassey) and [[SpoiledBrat Logan Reese]] (Matthew Underwood). Zoey was also called upon to look after her younger brother [[TagalongKid Dustin]] (Paul Butcher), with the slightly crazy geek Quinn Pensky (Creator/ErinSanders) always ensuring that HilarityEnsues at PCA. |
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| 18 | As time went on multiple characters were replaced. Dana left, and was replaced by [[TheFashionista Lola Martinez]] (Music/VictoriaJustice). Later, Nicole left, which allowed Quinn to move in with Lola and Zoey. Finally, Chase ended up leaving for a semester and was briefly replaced by [[RomanticFalseLead James Garrett]] (Austin Butler). |
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| 20 | Created by Creator/DanSchneider, the show is the origin of the Series/NickVerse, created when Drake Bell showed up AsHimself. Victoria Justice would later take part in another Schneider comedy, ''Series/{{Victorious}}''. |
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| 22 | Nowadays, the show tends to be seen in a positive light--the only major criticism detractors have is that Zoey herself is [[TheAce too perfect]], and even then, many episodes don't focus on her. It's also unique as the only major show in the Series/NickVerse to ''not'' have a LaughTrack or be shot on a stage; it was shot on location at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. |
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| 24 | On September 18th 2015, Dan Schneider [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=9&v=U0YBNsRTtQI released a video]] featuring Michael finding Chase and giving him Zoey's DVD (from the episode ''Time Capsule'') and allowing him (and the fans) to know just what exactly Zoey had said about him on her DVD ten years ago. Given how the episode had premiered on September 18th 2005, this would make it exactly ten years from when Zoey told Chase he would be allowed to find out. |
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| 26 | On January 12th 2023, a sequel film entitled [[Film/Zoey102 ''Zoey 102'']] was announced. It was released in July on Paramount Plus. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Please put characterization tropes on the Character Sheet. |
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| 31 | !!This show contains examples of: |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * AbortedArc: Judging by their interactions in Season 1, it's clear that Dana and Logan were supposed to be building a relationship over the course of the series, but Dana leaving the show after said season put this plot to rest. |
| 34 | * AdvertisedExtra: Dustin. He appears in only 24 of the show's 65 episodes, yet is credited as a regular in every season. To put that into perspective, Mark and Stacey (the latter introduced in season 3) appear in more episodes than Dustin does, and they were ''recurring'' characters. |
| 35 | * AfterActionPatchUp: The girls do this for the guys after they get beat up by the football team. Poor Mark, though, is forgotten in the basketball hoop... |
| 36 | * AgentScully: Logan is an interesting case, as he is this purely out of fear and panicked denial instead of any type of rational. |
| 37 | * AllCheeringAllTheTime: Zoey and her two friends are trying to make money to rebuild Sushi Rox so Logan hires them as cheerleaders for a week or so. At first he makes them cheer him on for nearly everything, but then they actually cheer at everything (getting rejected, taking a bath, sleeping) so he gets tired of it and pays them to shut up. |
| 38 | * AlmightyJanitor: Herb, a skilled Shakespearian actor and impressive improviser. |
| 39 | * AmateurFilmMakingPlot: In "Jet X", the characters are given the task of creating their own commercials for the Jet X bike to be shown off in class, with the best group winning their own bikes. Chase, Logan and Michael end up with professional equipment and actors thanks to Logan's wealth, while Zoey, Nicole and Dana keep fighting over their ideas and eventually split up. They later reconcile, and review their footage which includes their argument, as they couldn't figure out how to turn off the camera. Zoey stays up all night editing whatever footage they were able to get into a unique commercial as during their argument each girl mentioned a positive theme of the Jet-X, which impressed their teacher, and won the contest for her and the other girls. |
| 40 | * AnchoredShip: [[spoiler: Zoey and Chase in the final Season, when due to some miscommunication, Zoey is at PCA, while Chase is in the school she was supposed to be going to in England. The end result is a Type 1]]. |
| 41 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Logan and Quinn]] in ''Chasing Zoey''...though not just to each other. They end up declaring their feelings to the entire school at prom mostly by accident. |
| 42 | * AppleOfDiscord: The Tek-Mates in "Spring Break-Up". Chase accidentally sends Zoey a message proclaiming his love for her, thus he steals her Tek-Mate to delete the message which also results in her losing one of the challenges. Thus, Zoey and the girls are furious with him and it becomes a real battle. |
| 43 | * TheArtifact: As the series went on, the focus shifted from an average girl at a new school surrounded by colorful students, to standard relationship drama. As a result, [[TagalongKid Dustin]] became this by season 3. |
| 44 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: In ''Little Beach Party'', while stranded on a deserted beach, the gang digs for worms to fish for food. Earthworms would not be found in sand, as they cannot survive in it. |
| 45 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: In ''Jet-X'', Zoey puts balloons on the eponymous scooter. There were far too few balloons to lift the scooter off the ground, plus it only lifted off after Zoey attached one last balloon on it. |
| 46 | * ArtisticLicenseSports: Zoey would not have been allowed to fight Chuck Javers, as she would have to be in his weight class, which she clearly is not. Additionally, Javers wouldn't be allowed to compete in the sport period due to attacking a referee and cameraman. |
| 47 | * AxCrazy: Chuck Javers, the undefeated California State High School Wrestling champion. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is him brutalizing his opponent in a wrestling match, then doing the same to the ref when he tries to stop him and then attacking the camera man [[DisproportionateRetribution simply for looking at him.]] |
| 48 | %%* BackForTheFinale: Chase, in a rather touching way |
| 49 | * BaitAndSwitch: In the beginning of "Paige at PCA" Lola remarking on how "her left one is bigger" one and it sounds like she's talking about her breasts but she reveals she's actually talking about her feet. |
| 50 | %%* BashBrothers: Chase, Logan and Michael. |
| 51 | * BeachEpisode: Remarkably there is only one real example: ''Little Beach Party''. Which, being a first season episode, is quite tame on the fanservice. |
| 52 | ** But there are a few sunbathing scenes in later seasons to make up for that. |
| 53 | * TheBeard: Used twice. In the second season Zoey helps Chase to get rid of the titular ''Bad Girl''. In the series finale [[spoiler: Logan and Quinn]] set each other up with terrible dates for the prom, because they want to keep their relationship a secret. |
| 54 | * BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: Subverted. Quinn dresses up in a kid-adapted version of this, in order to recover the interest of Mark, who left her for a girl who dresses like this. Mark tells her that he is not attracted to his new love's hotness but her personality and rejects her. Thanks to Logan's words and actions, she switches back to her usual clothes. |
| 55 | * BeautifulAllAlong: Quinn. She gives herself a makeover to try and win back Mark, only to fail and have Logan fall in love with her. He puts her glasses back on her and says "There's Quinn.", right before their first kiss. Of course, Quinn is [[HollywoodHomely played by]] [[http://www.tvrage.com/person/id-3460/gallery/?view=72179 Erin Sanders]], however, this does put a nice spin on the cliche of a geeky girl taking off her glasses, getting a makeover, and having a guy fall in love with her. |
| 56 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Since Zoey fits all three roles, she can be each one of them depending on who are her current roommates: |
| 57 | ** Season 1: |
| 58 | *** Beauty - Nicole, the most boy-crazy and the most sensitive. |
| 59 | *** Brains - Zoey, a GoGetterGirl who always gets perfect grades. |
| 60 | *** Brawn - Dana, an athletic, intimidating tomboy. |
| 61 | ** Season 3 and 4: |
| 62 | *** Beauty - Lola, a fashionable DudeMagnet. |
| 63 | *** Brains - Quinn, a science-loving TeenGenius. |
| 64 | *** Brawn - Zoey, who is good at every sport. |
| 65 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Despite Chuck "getting rough on her", Zoey doesn't have a single mark on her that suggests she was in a fight, much less one against someone as vicious as [[BloodKnight Chuck]]. This trope is averted with Logan who confronts Chuck and ends up looking like he tried to mug Mike Tyson. |
| 66 | * BeautyPageant: Zoey and Lola compete for the title of “Miss PCA” in an episode of the third season. |
| 67 | * BeleagueredAssistant: Chase is this to Logan while working as Sushi delivery boys |
| 68 | * BelligerentSexualTension: Arguably, Logan and Dana in season 1. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen This would have been more than arguably]], as Logan and Dana were supposed to start dating later on, but this was switched to Logan and Quinn after Kristen Herrera [[PutOnABus left the show]]. |
| 69 | ** To many, Logan also has this with Zoey and, to a lesser extent, Lola. |
| 70 | * TheBet: This is the plot, or sub-plot, of several episodes (commonly, girls vs. boys, but also guys vs. guys, everyone vs. Logan) |
| 71 | * BetaCouple: Mark and Quinn, for most of the series; later also Michael and Lisa, then Lola and Vince. |
| 72 | * BettyAndVeronica: An interesting case, as Logan could be considered the Veronica to Mark’s Betty for Quinn’s affection. Another case of canon comparison is Rebecca being the Veronica to Zoey’s Betty in terms of Chase. In Fandom strictly, Dana is often considered the Veronica to Quinn’s Betty for Logan. |
| 73 | ** Brooke is the Veronica to Quinn's Betty for Mark. |
| 74 | * BigBrotherMentor: YMMV, but Chase can be seen as this for Dustin most of the time. Logan once tried to be this to Dustin with unsuccessful results. |
| 75 | * TheBigDamnKiss: Chase and Zoey [[LastMinuteHookup in the finale]]. |
| 76 | * BigNo: Michael does this when he sees that Vince is back in, well, ''Vince is Back.'' |
| 77 | ** Logan also did this after his dad cuts him off. |
| 78 | * BirthdayEpisode: “Chase’s Grandma” in season 3 is centered on Zoey wanting to bring Chase’s grandmother to his birthday party. |
| 79 | * {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: Rebecca]] finds out a secret of Zoey in ''Zoey's Balloon'' and makes her do all sorts of humiliating things on campus. |
| 80 | * BlandNameProduct: It's a Creator/DanSchneider show, so of course. |
| 81 | * BlowingARaspberry: Lola does this to Quinn in ''Anger Management'' when Quinn begs her to say something, anything to her so that she doesn't have to endure Lola's silent treatment anymore. |
| 82 | -->'''Quinn:''' Lola! ''(grabs Lola by the shoulders)'' You are not moving from this spot until you say something to me! A sentence, a phrase, a word, [[TemptingFate a sound]], ''something!'' |
| 83 | -->'''Lola:''' ''(blows a raspberry at Quinn)'' |
| 84 | * BoardingSchool: Duh. |
| 85 | * BookEnds: [[spoiler:In the first episode, when Zoey sees Chase for the first time after he falls off his bike, she asks him if he's okay and notices that his arm is bleeding. In ''Chasing Zoey'', when he falls down the stairs she does the same thing.]] |
| 86 | * BothSidesHaveAPoint: Downplayed in "The Great Vince Blake". Chase is torn between ratting out a star athlete for cheating and getting beat up by the football team and letting him off the hook so his school can win the championship. Michael thinks Chase should let him off the hook pointing out only he cares about Vince cheating while the championship is important to the entire school. Chase acknowledges Michael has a point but realizes that what Vince did trumps that. |
| 87 | * BrokeEpisode: In ''Logan Gets Cut Off'' Logan's rich father cuts off his allowance and credit after Logan not only way overspends, but does so on a car without asking his father's permission first. He has a very hard time doing things for himself. |
| 88 | * BrokenAesop: |
| 89 | ** One episode involved Zoey and Logan starting a web segment that quickly became popular in school. However, the dean bans them from doing it, so they fight back and win, the moral being "censorship is bad". Which would be fine, except for the fact that the show was causing full-scale riots in the halls during school hours. That kind of response ''is'' a valid reason to ban something. |
| 90 | ** In another episode, Zoey is recruited to the wrestling team, becoming [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only girl there]]. She stays on the team to prove girls can wrestle too, but it turns out specifically because the coach knew the boys on the opposing team will [[WouldntHitAGirl refuse to fight her]] and forfeit, before he can let their own star wrestler fight the opposing team’s top fighter without getting tired, and Zoey is fairly offended by their attitude. When things go awry and Zoey has to wrestle the opposing team’s star wrestler, he tells her [[WouldHitAGirl he will fight her just as seriously as he would fight a male wrestler]]. He takes her down so bad she has to be hospitalized, and when she wakes up she finds Logan was injured even worse when he confronted said wrestler, insisting he should have pulled some punches while fighting a girl. Zoey has apparently completely forgotten the point she was going to make by joining the team, because she finds the ‘gesture’ touching. |
| 91 | * TheBully: Keith Finch from the season 1 episode ''Defending Dustin.'' |
| 92 | ** Vince Blake, before he reformed. |
| 93 | * BullyHunter: Zoey in the above listed bully in "Defending Dustin". A bit deconstructed as her confrontation of Keith only made things worse for Dustin while Chase and Michael tried to convince her that Dustin had to learn how to handle the situation on his own without his big sister coming to his defense. |
| 94 | * ButtMonkey: The series had a few, although not all at the same time: |
| 95 | ** Stacey (oh so much). |
| 96 | ** Quinn can be considered this as well. |
| 97 | ** Let's not forget Mark Del Figgalo. The aardvark costume alone should be enough for him to make the list. |
| 98 | ** Coco, more often than not. |
| 99 | ** Chase also qualifies. |
| 100 | ** Logan, but he often deserves it. |
| 101 | ** [[spoiler: Alyssa, Chase's girlfriend in the 2015 video. He is about to propose to her, when Michael interrupts to say he found Zoey's DVD. They spend the rest of the video pushing her aside, Chase tells her he still loves Zoey, and he takes the ring he was about to propose to Alyssa with so he can go find Zoey. Just before Michael enters, Chase starts off his proposal by calling her "Zoe" before correcting himself. Even worse, it's shown that Chase still carries a photo of Zoey from her teenage years. Alyssa rightfully demands to know why he has that, and Michael is rightfully creeped out by it.]] |
| 102 | * CaptainObvious: In "Spring Fling" |
| 103 | -->'''Michael:''' ''(seeing the Dean's wrecked car)'' It's wrecked.\ |
| 104 | '''Zoey:''' [[SarcasmMode Thank you, Michael]]. |
| 105 | * CatchPhrase: Michael tried to make “Dripping” into one and later he tried to make “Flump” after he heard someone using “Dripping” but could not take credit for its invention |
| 106 | * CelebrityParadox |
| 107 | * CelebrityStar |
| 108 | * ChainOfDeals: The episode ''The Favor Chain'' centers around this. |
| 109 | ** Zoey wants a ride to the book store to meet her favorite author, and when she asks her dorm advisor, Coco, to do it, Coco agrees if Zoey can get Michael to cook his grandmother's ravioli recipe. Michael will do it if Stacey will finish their school project by herself while he cooks. Zoey convinces Stacey to finish the project if Zoey can get her a date with Logan. Logan (reluctantly) agrees to go on a date with Stacey if Zoey gets his class ring back from Dustin which he lost in a bet. Dustin will give the ring back if Zoey convinces Lola to be his assistant in his magic show. Lola, who's looking after a teacher's baby, agrees to do it if Zoey can find someone else to look after the baby. Zoey gets Chase to do it if Zoey can get a group of comic book nerds to stop trying to befriend him. The nerds agree to leave Chase alone if they can have a computer software that Quinn invented. But when Quinn can't hold her end of the deal, the whole chain of favors falls apart. |
| 110 | * CharacterCheck: Lola was a originally a snarky JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Similar to her predecessor Dana. In season 3 Lola TookALevelInKindness and became more cheerful. However, she would still show signs of her original character from time to time by being a bit snarky with people. |
| 111 | * ChekhovsGun: The maintenance golf cart in ''Dance Contest''. |
| 112 | * ChickMagnet: James is the biggest one in-series, but apparently both Logan and Vince do very well for themselves in this department. |
| 113 | ** Chase himself isn't so bad either. |
| 114 | ** If we take in consideration who is the character with more steady relationships in the entire show Mark seems to be this too, [[KavorkaMan in a weird way.]] |
| 115 | * ClipShow: The episode "PCA Confidential" is one, complete with a couple of [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth wall breaks]]: the dry erase board has "Clip Shows Rock" written behind Zoey, and Chase says "I can think of a whole montage of fun stuff we've done"...cue said montage. |
| 116 | * CluelessAesop: The episode "Anger Management," seems to be trying to teach the moral that being angry isn't a positive thing, which is normally a positive message. The problem is that the episode also showcases real examples of when it WOULD be justifiable to get angry at someone, namely having people destroy your property, on purpose, in a deliberate attempt to make you mad. |
| 117 | * ColdOpening: One of the few Creator/DanSchneider shows without them (''Series/KenanAndKel'' didn't either). |
| 118 | * CompanyCrossReferences: In "Curse of PCA", Lafe asks Lola if she thinks he's silly, and Lola says back "No, [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob's]] friend Patrick is silly." |
| 119 | * ContinuityNod: In “Webcam” it’s mentioned for the first time that Quinn still likes eating baby food. This is brought up again in “Quarantine”, when Quinn reveals that she keeps a secret stock of baby food in her room. |
| 120 | * ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Lola, Dana's replacement in season 2, is very different from her. Dana was a grumpy, sporty tomboy who doesn't get along with Nicole, Lola is a carefree, girly fashionista who gets along with everyone. Ironically in season 3, Lola becomes a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to Nicole, after the latter is PutOnABus (in season 2 Lola was just a confident fashionista with her own original style, but in season 3, she becomes perky, boy-crazy, and conventionally girly like Nicole was, losing her colorful hair and original style). |
| 121 | * CoolBike: The Jet X. |
| 122 | * CoolTeacher: Mr. Bender |
| 123 | * CrashIntoHello: Chase first meets Zoey when he crashed into a flagpole on his bike while waving to her. |
| 124 | * CrazyCulturalComparison: In the episode ''School Dance'' Michael ends up taking care of a foreign exchange student Ollie Biallo whose strange mannerisms irritate him to no end. |
| 125 | -->'''Ollie:''' It is so pleasant to meet you! (kisses Michael twice on the cheek) |
| 126 | -->'''Michael:''' What are you doing?! |
| 127 | -->'''Ollie:''' I am sorry! In my country, that is how a person greets a new friend! |
| 128 | -->'''Michael:''' Yeah well, in this country that's how you get punched in the head! |
| 129 | -->'''Ollie:''' (thinking it's a joke) (laughs) "Good one!" Oh, you make me laugh! |
| 130 | * DancePartyEnding: "Zoey's Balloon" ends with Zoey and the gang dancing the Macalana on the campus. |
| 131 | * DeadpanSnarker: Among the males Chase surely is the biggest one in the series, followed more subtly by James and among the females Dana wins the snarking trophy with Zoey in second place. |
| 132 | * DefyingTheCensors: |
| 133 | ** What the guys did to the statue at the end of ''Prank Week'' |
| 134 | ** [[spoiler: Zoey and Lola's]] brawl in mud in ''Miss PCA'' - in low cut prom dresses none the less |
| 135 | ** Quinn's "Air Bra;" a woman's personal car air bags attached to her chest. Enough said. |
| 136 | * DemographicallyInappropriateHumor: When Zoey, Nicole, and Dana are asked by Chase and Michael to take care of a dog they took in, Dana tells Zoey and Nicole to keep the dog out of her stuff, or "He is going to become a she". Nicole even says "Ouch" in response. |
| 137 | ** After Chase and Michael receive a letter saying they're being sued for stealing an idea (which Logan gave them) for their online cartoon, Logan comes in the dorm only to be threatened. |
| 138 | --> '''Logan:''' What's up, girly girls? |
| 139 | --> '''Michael:''' (pins Logan to the wall) We're about to make ''you'' a girly girl! |
| 140 | --> '''Logan:''' Why the hostility? |
| 141 | * DiedOnTheirBirthday: In "Chase's Grandma", Zoey learns that Chase and his grandmother share a birthday, and she decides to invite her over to PCA as a surprise. However, Zooey later finds out that she died the day of the party. |
| 142 | * DisproportionateRetribution: While Logan would usually get [[LaserGuidedKarma rightly punished]] for his actions, sometimes the punishment didn't fit the crime. |
| 143 | ** In the Halloween special, they set up an elaborate prank into making Logan think his haunted house really was haunted and was gonna kill him when all he did was just scare Dustin and his friend with monster mask. |
| 144 | ** In "Zoey's Tutor", Logan makes Chase believe that he and Zoey are dating, even if it isn't true. As a punishment, his friends put a rat in Logan's pants while he's asleep. For context, Chase put him on the spot asking why he and Zoey were hanging out. Not wanting people to know he was secretly a chemistry whiz and was tutoring her he just said the first thing he could think of. |
| 145 | ** In "Miss PCA", Logan hosts a new beauty pageant. Both Zoey and Lola want to win and become competitive, so they end in a mud fight. When Logan protests because he disqualifies them from his beauty pageant for unruly behavior, Zoey and Lola team up against him and start pushing him down in the mud repeatedly while laughing. |
| 146 | ** In "Rumor of Love" he starts a false rumor about Zoey and James dating. Zoey, James, and the others force him to confess the truth (that Zoey and James are ''not'' dating) in front of a camera while he is naked and taking a shower. After Logan confesses, they even [[KickTheDog flush the toilet so that Logan's shower would get boiling hot.]] This also make Zoey and James hypocrites because they start kissing ''right after that'' and in the next episode they are actually dating! |
| 147 | ** In "Drippin' Episode!", it was discovered that Logan's cell phone was accidentally setting off the school fire alarm at night, and he got beaten up because of it. Though it should be noted that it was Logan who suggested beating up the person who pulled the alarm. |
| 148 | ** In "Anger Management" Logan yells at Dustin, Zoey's little brother. Everyone acts like "yelling at a little kid" is the worst crime ever. Later, his punishment for weaseling out of anger management classes is for Zoey to intentionally force him to lose his art project, soil his motorcycle seat with a gallon of honey, and deface his dorm and the clothes he's wearing by throwing in a paint bomb. |
| 149 | * DistractedByTheSexy: In the pilot Chase crashes into a flagpole on his bike due to staring at Zoey. In the fourth season, the girls all forget what they wanted to ask after they are introduced to James. |
| 150 | * DopeSlap: Zoey, Lola and Quinn each give one to Chase, Michael and Logan for letting Dustin watch a scary movie they knew he wouldn't be able to handle. |
| 151 | * DorkHorseCandidate: Between Zoey, Chase, and nerdball Mark, guess who wins? |
| 152 | * DownerEnding: |
| 153 | ** The ending of "Wrestling", a rare instance where Zoey doesn't come out on top. Can also be considered a BittersweetEnding due to Logan's PetTheDog moment. |
| 154 | ** "Chase's Grandma", as the ending is about [[spoiler: Zoey comforting a depressed Chase after his grandma's death.]] |
| 155 | * DramaticDrop: Michael drops his popsicle when he sees that Vince Blake is back. |
| 156 | * DumbJock: Vince Blake. Like any scumbag athlete, he resorted to cheating by taking pictures of an upcoming test on his phone but unlike any clever cheater, he forgot to remove the evidence from his phone. When being told on in front on the class by Chase, who lampshaded how Vince is an example of the trope. |
| 157 | --> '''Chase:''' And I bet he wasn't smart enough to delete 'em |
| 158 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Quinn, in the early seasons, is more or less a MadScientist willing to perform human experiments even if the person doesn't consent and threatens to remove the kidneys of the prankster who simply TP'd their dorm. Later seasons have her take an oath to never use her talent to ever hurt a living creature, and the one time she breaks that oath, it is treated in-universe as out of character. In the case of the Moon Bars incident, it's more of a case of SkewedPriorities thinking the health benefits are worth the addictive side effects. |
| 159 | * ElaborateUniversityHigh: Pepperdine University, to be specific. That's where exterior locations were filmed. |
| 160 | * ElectionDayEpisode: Season 2 had one where Zoey and Chase ran against each other for student body president. They both end up dropping out of the race, since it was ruining their friendship, and Mark Delfigalo (Quinn's boyfriend) ends up winning by default. |
| 161 | * EskimosArentReal: Michael tries to convince Chase that reindeer aren't real. |
| 162 | * EveryOneCanSeeIt: Chase's love for Zoey is the school's worst kept secret, and Zoey's [[OblivioustoLove obliviousness]] is almost painful. Even a random girl pulled from the hallway by Lola can tell that Chase is into Zoey: |
| 163 | --> '''Lola:''' Ginny, could you come here a minute? |
| 164 | --> '''Ginny:''' What's up? |
| 165 | --> '''Lola:''' 'Blank' is in love with Zoey. Fill in the blank. |
| 166 | --> '''Ginny:''' ''(as though it were the most obvious answer in the world)'' Chase. |
| 167 | --> '''Lola:''' Thanks for playing. |
| 168 | * FakeGuestStar: [[ButtMonkey Stacey Dillsen]] appears in the majority of season 3 and 4 yet is always credited as a guest star. |
| 169 | * {{Fanservice}}: see BeachEpisode, ShirtlessScene, ShowerScene, MudWrestling, ... and above all NoDressCode. |
| 170 | * FeudEpisode: The latter half of "Spring Break-Up" becomes this when Zoey catches Chase using her Tekmate and assumes he used it to cheat, leaving herself and the girls furious at him until the end. |
| 171 | * ForTheLulz: In "Roller Coaster", Lola chucks an oblivious Logan's hamburger across the cafeteria for no reason. [[BrickJoke A girl finds it in the fountain later, now wet]], [[{{Squick}} and Logan eats it anyway.]] |
| 172 | * ForcedMeme: Michael in the episode ''Drippin' Episode'' tried to make "drippin'" catch on as a synonym for "cool." Other characters repeatedly told him it would never catch on...until the last minute of the episode, when it apparently ''has.'' Problem is, nobody believes that ''he'' started it, which prompts him to try making another ForcedMeme... "flump" as a synonym for "not cool." |
| 173 | * FourGirlEnsemble: |
| 174 | ** In season 1, Nicole is the naive one and TheDitz, Dana is the snarky tomboy, fashionable DudeMagnet Zoey is the pretty one, and Quinn is the smart one. Alternatively, Quinn is the naive/quirky one, Nicole is the boy-crazy glamour-obsessed pretty one, and Zoey is the wise, admirable TeamMom (Dana is definitely the snarky tomboy though). |
| 175 | ** In season 2, Nicole is the ditzy/naive one, Zoey is the DeadpanSnarker, Lola is the glamour-obsessed pretty one, and Quinn is the smart one. In season 3 and 4, Stacey replaces Nicole as the naive one. |
| 176 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: The four main boys: |
| 177 | ** Sanguine: Michael; an eccentric, fun [[LargeHam Large Ham]] |
| 178 | ** Choleric: Logan; mean, self-obsessed and overconfident |
| 179 | ** Melancholic: Dustin; mature for his age and a bit shy |
| 180 | ** Phlegmatic: Chase; an easygoing, loyal [[NiceGuy Nice Guy]] |
| 181 | * FreeRangeChildren: Zoey and her friends are in middle school/high school. But they seem to be able to go out whenever they want, go where ever they want, with no adult supervision or consult. |
| 182 | ** Only on campus, it's mentioned a few times that going off campus without permission is a serious offense. |
| 183 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Logan, very much so and lampshaded on several occasions. More so in the first seasons though. |
| 184 | * FriendshipStrainingCompetition: |
| 185 | ** The made-for-TV special "Spring Break-Up" involves the cast being put in a gender-battle game created by Logan's father. It starts out friendly. However, when Chase accidentally sends Zoey a text that reveals his feelings for her, he tries to steal her PDA to delete the text. This ends up costing the girls a scavenger hunt as Zoey could not be contacted; when they realized Chase stole it, it was assumed he did it as sabotage, and the conflict got much uglier. It didn't calm down until he was willing to throw the final game for the girls, and could tell Zoey what really happened. |
| 186 | ** "Election", being the ElectionDayEpisode, features Zoey and Chase competing for the title of class president. They make a pact to not let things affect their friendship. However, Logan starts to use various dirty tactics to help Chase win, against Chase's wishes or knowledge. When Chase tries to set things right by slandering himself in an ad made for Zoey, Zoey gets the blame and their friendship gets strained further. In the end, both of them ended up dropping out to keep their friendship in tact, allowing [[ButtMonkey Mark Del Figgalo]] to win as the only remaining candidate. |
| 187 | ** "Miss PCA" has Zoey and Lola compete in a school beauty contest for the chance to be on the cover of Buzz Magazine. Things between them quickly get competitive as they begin to resort to sabotage in order to win. A wrestling match between them in a pit of mud releases their anger, and they end up laughing and making up. |
| 188 | * FriendVersusLover: Zoey vs. Rebecca during the early part of season 3. It was really Rebecca who made a big deal out of it, and eventually demands that Chase choose between her or Zoey. [[spoiler: He chooses Zoey, of course.]] |
| 189 | * FunnyAfro: Chase has a bushy "Jewish afro" constantly referenced by the other characters. He tends to shrug it off, but lampshades it himself after Zoey throws a pillow at him that knocks him off his chair. He gets up, pats his head and exclaims "You dented my 'fro!" in good humor |
| 190 | * FunnyForeigner: Ollie Biallo |
| 191 | * GiftOfTheMagiPlot |
| 192 | * GilliganCut: From ''New Roomies'': |
| 193 | -->'''Chase''': You can't just look a girl in the face and say, "I don't want to live with you anymore." |
| 194 | -->''(cut to Quinn's room where she is looking at Zoey)'' |
| 195 | -->'''Quinn''': Zoey, I don't want to live with you anymore. |
| 196 | * GirlsVsBoysPlot: |
| 197 | ** ThePilot episode involves Zoey trying to prove that the girls belong at PCA just as much as the boys do, by having a Girls Vs Boys basketball game. The girls, however, suck at sports, and get crushed. Even when the athletic Dana steps in to help, she and Zoey can only carry their team so far. They lose by a single point...but the coach offers them both spots on the male's basketball team in response. |
| 198 | ** The "Spring Break-Up" special involves the students starring in a special reality-show produced by Logan's father. The show, "Gender Defenders", is entirely ''about'' this sort of plot, meaning that they're put into this conflict intentionally. It starts out fun, until Chase sends Zoey a text message proclaiming his feelings for her, thus he accidentally steals Zoey's Tek-Mate to delete it, which simultaneously cost her team a game they would've otherwise have won [[ImpededCommunication due to a communication failure]], and suddenly, [[FriendshipStrainingCompetition it becomes a lot more serious]], and the fighting becomes real. |
| 199 | ** The episode "Coffee Cart Ban" starts with the Dean banning coffee at the school after a coffee cart hits his wife. The boys then start an underground coffee shop, that overcharges the customers. The girls start their own business that charges less. The two then try to sabotage each other. Eventually, the competition is rendered moot when [[spoiler: it's discovered that the Dean has been drinking coffee, despite his ban. Once this comes to light, he lifts the ban on coffee on campus.]] |
| 200 | ** The episode "Jet-X" has the team of the girls working against the team of the boys to [[AmateurFilmMakingPlot produce a Jet-X commercial]], to get a chance to have free Jet-X scooters. The boys seem to have better chances because they use Logan's money to have a glamorous commercial with famous actors, while the girls keep arguing because they don't know what to do, with Quinn trying to shoot their commercial. However their arguments about the Jet-X turn out to be useful when Zoey does the editing to make her team's commercial, which ends up appreciated for being realistic, making the girls win. |
| 201 | ** In "Broadcast Views", Chase and Michael have their own broadcast where they are simply doing dumb stuff. But during a broadcast Logan and Zoey start arguing in the background about gender preferences. This causes the broadcast to get more views and leads to their own segment "He Says, She Says", but also creates disruption among the students by gender lines. |
| 202 | ** During "Prank Week," the returning students play pranks on the new students - which, since this is the first year girls are allowed at PCA, amounts to the boys playing pranks on the girls. Although the new students traditionally aren't supposed to retaliate, the girls do so anyway after getting drenched with water balloons. The prank war grinds to a halt, however, when the girls get caught defacing a statue and threatened with expulsion. In the end, the boys deliberately play another prank and openly take responsibility for it, forcing the school to either expel ''all'' of the students (which is obviously impossible) or let the girls stay. |
| 203 | * GlassesCuriosity: Early in the episode "Trading Places," Lola looks over at the street from the basketball court she and Quinn were playing at and thinks she sees Zoey. Instead of saying something, Lola pulls Quinn's glasses off her face and puts them on. When Quinn starts to ask Lola why she took her glasses, the latter merely says "Look over there!" ''while still wearing Quinn's glasses''. Quinn has to snatch them back. |
| 204 | * TheGlassesGottaGo: Subverted with Quinn, who after giving herself a makeover, actually gets her glasses put back on her by Logan, and he says, "There's Quinn." before their first kiss. |
| 205 | * GoodCopBadCop: On Lola’s instance, both her and Zoey [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this in one episode on season 4 with Lola taking the place of the Bad Cop and Zoey taking the place of the Good Cop. |
| 206 | -->'''Zoey:''' Let's go interview that lunch lady. |
| 207 | -->'''Lola:''' Okay. Hey, let's do the "Good Cop, Bad Cop" routine. You be nice, I'll be mean. |
| 208 | -->'''Zoey:''' Why? |
| 209 | -->'''Lola:''' It makes people confess to crimes. |
| 210 | -->'''Zoey:''' How? |
| 211 | -->'''Lola:''' No one knows. Just do it! |
| 212 | ** Lola goes a bit overboard with her Bad Cop role though, so rather than intimidating the culprit into confessing, she annoys him so much that he threatens Lola and Zoey with a leaf blower. |
| 213 | * GoToSleepEnding: [[spoiler: After finally getting help from Mr. Bender at the end of the episode, "Little Beach Party," Zoey and the gang fall asleep in the back of Mr. Bender's pick-up truck.]] |
| 214 | * GrandRomanticGesture: Chase goes to England to be with Zoey after she transfers boarding schools. |
| 215 | * HalloweenEpisode: ''Haunted House'' in the second season; without supernatural happenings however. |
| 216 | * HehHehYouSaidX: |
| 217 | -->'''Chase:''' We wouldn't have this problem if the lunch ladies could learn to make a decent chicken breast. |
| 218 | -->''(Logan starts snickering)'' |
| 219 | -->'''Lola:''' Why are you giggling? |
| 220 | -->'''Zoey:''' 'cause Chase said "breast". |
| 221 | -->'''Logan:''' Breast... (snickers) |
| 222 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Chase and Michael, full stop. Logan also shares this with both Chase and Michael; especially notable with Michael in season 4. Zoey and Nicole from season 1-2 and Zoey, Lola and Quinn from season 2-3-4 also qualify |
| 223 | * HippieTeacher: The psychology teacher in ''Zoey's Balloon.'' |
| 224 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Logan suffers from this constantly |
| 225 | * HomeworkSlave: In one episode, Dustin is being bullied by a much bigger and older student as a result of being moved up into a more advanced class. The bully forces Dustin to do his homework, and when Zoey tries to stand up for him, he just decides to make him do assignments for ''other'' classes as well. |
| 226 | * HotTeacher: The girls all seemed to think Dean Taylor, the temporary replacement for Dean Rivers is this trope, hence the name of the episode, "Hot Dean". In fact, they got in trouble just to be able to see him. |
| 227 | ** One of the nurses in the episode "Girls Will be Boys" is very good looking. Dustin is happy to have the chicken pox with her and her picture convinces Michael to pretend to be sick so he can stay in the infirmary. Unfortunately, he get the regular nurse. |
| 228 | * HumiliationConga: [[spoiler: Rebecca]] gets one at the end of ''Zoey's Balloon'' when [[spoiler: Zoey and the rest of the students at the lunch area do the Macalana and Rebecca flees in disgust]]. |
| 229 | * IAmSpartacus: the boys set this up in ''Prank Week''. |
| 230 | * IdiosyncraticWipes: Scene transitions are often accompanied by the screen filling up with two-tone purple and blue streaks of light. |
| 231 | * IdiotBall: ''Robot Wars'', ''Walk-A-Thon'', Chase should have just told the nerds to babysit the baby, finish Michael's project, or just ask Zoey to find someone else to babysit a baby, like a babysitter that could be called on short notice... |
| 232 | * IllKillYou: In ''Anger Management'', Lola screams this after she finds out from Zoey that the peanuts that she was eating were actually in Quinn's mouth and Quinn never told her. |
| 233 | -->'''Lola:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Am going. To KILL her!]] ...But first I have to puke! |
| 234 | * InformedAbility: In universe example: In ''Lola Likes Chase,'' Dustin points out Logan's woman-getting ways. |
| 235 | --> '''Logan''': Do I get a lot of girls? |
| 236 | -->'''Dustin''': You TALK about getting a lot of girls. |
| 237 | * InformedAttractiveness: The new dean in ''Hot Dean''. |
| 238 | ** Also James who is shown to be stupefyingly beautiful. |
| 239 | * InformedAttribute: PCA in the first episode was stated to have some of the best teachers in the country. While some teachers are definitely good such as Mr. Bender and the chemistry teacher from "Zoey's Tutor", there were several ones clearly unfit to be teachers. Examples include the gym teacher who is a complete {{Jerkass}} and makes Logan look like a genius by comparison, the psychology teacher who has no teaching license and had Lola admit an embarrassing secret about herself in front of the class despite the lesson plan telling, and a government teacher who is so sadistic that one of his students fled the campus during one of his tests and was never found again. |
| 240 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Chase is friends with AlmightyJanitor Herb, CoolTeacher Mr. Bender and OnlySaneEmployee Kasu |
| 241 | * InterrogationByVandalism: How Lola and Quinn [[strike: force]] persuade Firewire to tell them who is blackmailing Zoey in season 3. |
| 242 | * InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: This becomes somewhat of a RunningGag for Chase, who has been in love with his best friend Zoey since the day he met her. He tries valiantly several times to tell her how he feels, only to be interrupted--usually by the friends who keep telling him to reveal his feelings. Ironically, for all the times he tried to tell her on purpose, he ends up telling her completely by accident. |
| 243 | * ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: All of Quinn's inventions |
| 244 | * {{Jerkass}}: Coach Keller. Oh so much. |
| 245 | ** Logan, too. |
| 246 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 247 | ** Logan is in a slump in basketball and Quinn offers to help. Logan laughs at her, pointing out how she humiliated herself [[CallBack the last time]]. Quinn even agrees she was terrible, and did some research because she was so embarrassed and learned how to apply her physics knowledge to basketball. |
| 248 | ** Colin was insensitive towards Chase in "Trading Places", but Chase was keeping him up all night due to the time zone difference. |
| 249 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Logan, Logan, Logan. Although most of the time you have so squint to see it, he does have a HiddenHeartOfGold in him and it becomes obvious in the 4th and final season of the series. Even then, he's still quite jerky. |
| 250 | * TheJeeves / ServileSnarker: Chauncey, the butler for the Reese family is both TheJeeves for Logan’s father and an intense ServileSnarker for Logan himself |
| 251 | * JustFriends: Zoey and Chase, in season 3. |
| 252 | * JustTheWayYouAre: With a nice twist. Quinn goes through a makeover after Mark dumps her for Brooke, trying to win him back. She fails, and is Logan who implies to prefer her "just the way she was", telling her not to change and putting her glasses back on her, before their first kiss. |
| 253 | * KarmaHoudini: The football team for beating up Logan, Michael, Chase, and Mark. While Vince got trampled by a crowd (thanks to the episode's subplot) at the end, and was later expelled (off-screen) for leading the attack, the rest of the football teams' fate is unknown. |
| 254 | * KidHasAPoint: The season 3 premiere has Michael and Logan doing painful challenges such as eating peppers and boxing to see who gets the single bed. Dustin puts an end to it by pointing out they could just flip a coin. |
| 255 | * KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Subverted in ''Drippin' Episode'' with Dustin, who is scared at first but later fakes it to spend more time with Zoey which consists of him sleeping in the same dorm room as Zoey, Quinn, and Lola. But he genuinely missed Zoey, wasn't being creepy towards any of them although Lola suspected him of it. |
| 256 | * LadykillerInLove: Logan, after he starts dating Quinn, seems to be this, more if we have in mind his past as a serial dater. |
| 257 | * LastMinuteHookUp: [[spoiler: Zoey and Chase. After three seasons of [[ShipTease shipteasing]] they finally confess their love to each other, only to not be able to do anything about since they're now 6000 miles apart. Chase [[BackForTheFinale returns in the final episode]], and he and Zoey kiss and become a couple in the last five minutes.]] |
| 258 | * LaughTrack: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Feels like a breath of fresh air as opposed to [[Series/DrakeAndJosh Dan's]] [[Series/ICarly other]] [[Series/{{Victorious}} shows]] that abuse the living hell out of it. |
| 259 | * LocalHangout: Sushi Rox. |
| 260 | * LongDistanceRelationship: Chase and Zoey attempt this via webcam after she overhears Chase tell his roommates he's in love with her and they switch places in an attempt to be together, but after their video date fails, the come to the conclusion that it wont' work and resolve to try it for real when they're together again. |
| 261 | * {{Love Makes You Dumb}}: Chase, numerous times throughout the series. Michael in ''Michael Likes Lisa.'' |
| 262 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Chase with Zoey. |
| 263 | * LoveConfessor: Chase confesses that he loves Zoey to Michael and Logan after she leaves to attend school in England; he had admitted that he had feelings for her, but not that he loved her. This actually ends up becoming a LoveConfession, because little does Chase know that Zoey is watching via a webcam feed that was accidentally left on. |
| 264 | * LoveTriangle: Not stated in the final season, but you can tell Zoey is in middle of one with James, the hot guy rooming with Michael and Logan, and Chase, the first guy she met on her first day on campus. |
| 265 | * MakeoverMontage: Done in "Girls Will Be Boys" as the gang is disguising Lola to look like a boy. |
| 266 | * ManHug: Michael and Chase have no trouble indulging in this. |
| 267 | * MarketBasedTitle: The series is sometimes just called ''Zoey'' outside of the USA, since the "Subject 101" format for class names isn't used a whole lot in other countries. |
| 268 | * TheMinnesotaFats |
| 269 | * MiracleRally: In the 1st episode, Dana leads one of these in the game against the boys. [[spoiler: Although the girls in the end don’t win the game, Dana’s participation makes the game extremely close, and the girls do [[WorthyOpponent win the respect of the coach and the boys]].]] |
| 270 | * MistakenForThief: In "Fake Roommate", the girls notice some items missing and each thinks the other stole them. Really it was their dorm adviser, who was a kleptomaniac. |
| 271 | * MeetCute: Chase and Zoey meet when Chase crashes his bike into the school's flagpole |
| 272 | * {{Moment Killer}}: Chase and Zoey, constantly. |
| 273 | ** Nearly all of the other ensemble characters (and even a few inanimate objects) have served as cockblockers to this relationship at some point in the series. |
| 274 | * MoodWhiplash: The episode ''Chase's Grandma'' starts as your average sitcom episode about one of the main character's birthday and the other characters wanting to put together a great birthday behind his back - then during the very last scene of the episode, [[spoiler: Chase's grandma (who was coming to the party) passes away]] ending the light-hearted episode on a really depressing note. |
| 275 | ** ''Quinn Misses the Mark'' is mostly about Quinn struggling to deal with her breakup with Mark. The B-plot is [[ItMakesSenseInContext Michael accidentally adopting a stray horse]]. Needless to say, it makes the segues between storylines a bit strange. Logan at least [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this. |
| 276 | -->'''Logan:''' (sees Michael and Zoey riding on a horse right after he kissed Quinn) This has been a weird day. |
| 277 | * MudWrestling: [[spoiler: Lola and Zoey]] in Miss PCA. |
| 278 | * MustMakeHerLaugh: In one episode, Michael tries desperately to make Quinn laugh at his jokes. She finally laughs at one of his puns, but she only did that to make him stop bothering her with his jokes. |
| 279 | * {{Narcissist}}: '''''Logan'''''. Notably it causes him to lose a contest in ''Hands On a Blix Van'', since his arrogance prevents him from believing that Zoey is lying to him. (Or more accurately, he's so arrogant that he doesn't believe she could lie to him.) |
| 280 | ** Also, the contest had been going on for almost a full day, so he probably couldn't think straight. |
| 281 | * NewTransferStudent: Technically all the girls at PCA are this in the first season, but the most obvious case is Zoey. Lola in the second season. James in the fourth season. |
| 282 | ** James Garret in season 4 |
| 283 | * NiceGuy: Chase and Michael both tie for possibly the biggest one in the series and in season four both the reformed JerkJock Vince Blake and RomanticFalseLead James fall into this. |
| 284 | * {{Nice Jewish Boy}}: Chase |
| 285 | * NoDressCode: PCA apparently doesn't have one, judging by how the females dress about 90% of the time. On occasion they even wear strapless tops and dresses, despite that being a big no-no in real life, even on California campuses. Quinn was the exception at first, until the show started down-playing her lack of social skills and had her become a regular member of the gang; after that she started showing as much skin as the other girls. |
| 286 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: |
| 287 | ** Chase exposes Vince as a cheater, causing the latter to be put on academic probation and unable to participate in an important football game. This results in most of the school students hating Chase and the entire school football team, led by Vince, beating him up. Logan, Michael and Mark are also beaten up when they try to defend Chase. Slightly inverted later on though, as it's eventually revealed that Vince was expelled for leading the attack on Chase and his friends. |
| 288 | ** In [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Wrestling'']], Zoey enters a wrestling tournament and takes on the reigning champ, Chuck Javers. She gets curb stomped and is knocked out for a while. Logan confronts Chuck in the parking lot for his bloodlust and is beaten brutally for it. |
| 289 | * NoIndoorVoice: At least once an episode, there will most likely be a sequence where the characters are obnoxiously shouting at each other, usually in the form of an argument. |
| 290 | * NonSpecificallyForeign: Ollie Biallo |
| 291 | * NotHelpingYourCase: Chase isn't wrong that Zoey was being too overbearing in "Defending Dustin", he just doesn't sell it well here. |
| 292 | -->'''Zoey:''' Because I don't let him eat garbage like this?\ |
| 293 | '''Chase:''' Garbage? You're talking about the Bing Bong which is the perfect combination of chemicals and sugar. |
| 294 | * ObliviousToLove: Zoey is oblivious to Chase's feelings for her. This gets painful when it drags on for three years, despite multiple attempts by Chase to tell her his feelings. She's oblivious even after she is told flat-out by her friends that Chase is in love with her, and had been since he met her. Lola even goes so far as to pull a random student from the hallway. And Zoey still doesn't believe it! |
| 295 | ---> '''Lola:''' Ginny, could you come here a minute? |
| 296 | ---> '''Ginny:''' What's up? |
| 297 | ---> '''Lola:''' 'Blank' is in love with Zoey. Fill in the blank. |
| 298 | ---> '''Ginny:''' ''(as though it were the most obvious answer in the world)'' Chase. |
| 299 | ---> '''Lola:''' Thanks for playing. |
| 300 | ** Probably not. CantSpitItOut probably, but as of Sep. 2015 it is clear that Zoey is aware of Chase's affection to her and inside she is reciprocating. |
| 301 | * OddFriendship: If one takes times to think about, Chase and Logan’s friendship seems to fall into this, as they are so incredibly different and normally seem to be the kind of friendship that would not work thanks to their personalities but more than once is showed that they are acutely dear and close friends. |
| 302 | ** This trope can be applied to Logan’s relationship with everyone in the gang. There isn’t a single person in that group who never clashed with him at some point and they often team up against him, but no matter how far things go, Logan will still have lunch with them in the next episode. |
| 303 | * {{Official Couple}}: Zoey and Chase. |
| 304 | * OffTheTable |
| 305 | * OldShame (in-universe): Quinn participating in pageants when she was a little girl; Zoey being the model for baby suntan lotion, [[spoiler: with her naked butt on the bottle]]; Chase being cast as the female lead in a play of an all-male school... |
| 306 | * OnceAnEpisode: After the Season 1 episode "Jet X", every episode has a character riding a "Jet X" at least once (and honking its signature horn), usually in transitional scenes of the campus. |
| 307 | * OnlySaneEmployee: Kazu, the owner of PCA's Sushi Rox, seems to be one of this in comparison to the other adults on campus. Mr. Bender also seem to be this. |
| 308 | * OnlySaneMan: Zoey, as part of her TeamMom status. Chase constantly falls into this, something that is obviously not very difficult when your competition is Logan and Michael. Throughout the first season 1st season, Dana proved to have elements of this as well. |
| 309 | ** James also, in season 4. |
| 310 | * OnTheRebound: Zoey begins dating Chase's SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute James more or less right after she and Chase have to put their RelationshipUpgrade on hold because of distance.The finale dealt with the fact she was never in love with James, and that Chase was always her first choice. |
| 311 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Jamie Lynn's Southern accent could reappear at a moment's notice. Some may say it was a case of NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent. |
| 312 | ** Justified as it's stated in the episode "Robot Wars'' that Zoey was born in Louisiana. |
| 313 | * OperatorFromIndia: The episode ''Switching Places'' had Chase and Zoey trying to communicate by webcam across the Atlantic, the picture fizzing out, and calling tech support. The guy on the line is clearly an Indian by his accent, and he has no tolerance for fools — which Chase most definitely is. |
| 314 | * OpinionChangingDream: Chase has one, leading him to return Zoey's DVD he has taken from the time capsule. |
| 315 | * OppositesAttract: Logan and Quinn. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen This was supposed to be]] Logan and Dana, but Quinn moved into her role after Kristin Herrara [[PutOnABus left the show]]. |
| 316 | * PairTheSpares: [[spoiler: Stacey and Mark]] |
| 317 | * PaperThinDisguise: Logan trying to pass for Chase by putting on an Afro wig in ''The Silver Hammer Society''. |
| 318 | * {{Parody}}: Instead of the Macarena, the show has the "Macalana". |
| 319 | * PerformanceAnxiety: Michael gets a bad case on Open Mic Night, to the point of vomiting on the first row of spectators. |
| 320 | * PopularIsDumb: More BookDumb that anything, but Logan could fall into this. However it's later revealed that he's good at chemistry because his grandfather taught him Chemistry against his will when he was a kid, but Logan tries to keep it a secret. |
| 321 | * PutOnABus: Dana after the first season. Nicole after the second season. Chase for most of the fourth season. Basically no character was too important enough on the show that their actor couldn't afford to be fired. |
| 322 | * PutOnABusToHell: Nicole was an intensely boy-crazy, insecure kid who hated unfamiliar situations — and Zoey says in the third season premiere that Nicole has been shipped to an all-girls boarding school. In a previous episode, Nicole had broken down sobbing when she thought she'd have to transfer to another school. |
| 323 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For all his moments throughout the series, the Dean seems to be this. |
| 324 | * ReplacementFlatCharacter: Stacey seems to exist so there's still a freaky nerd to pick on after Quinn becomes more normal. |
| 325 | * ReplacementGoldfish: |
| 326 | ** Deconstructed in ''Goodbye Zoey?'' with Gretchen. While the replacement ''looks'' like Zoey, she's not very pleasant in the personality department. And the fact that Chase is trying to replace Zoey with someone else kind of freaks out his friends. |
| 327 | --->'''Logan''': So you're saying it's just a coincidence that Gretchen looks exactly like Zoey? |
| 328 | --->'''Chase''': I don't even see a resemblance. |
| 329 | --->'''Michael''': Everybody thinks they look alike! |
| 330 | --->'''Logan''': And that's why you're hanging out with her! She's your little Zoey replacement, and that's a little bit sick. |
| 331 | ** Implied with James. While the two care about each other, when it's time to take the next step in their relationship, James is all in because he loves her, but Zoey can't bring herself to do it because she realizes he was just her second choice because Chase left. James realizes that Zoey doesn't feel as strongly about him as he does about her, and they mutually break up. Zoey is scared to say yes to the numerous guys asking her to prom, knowing they'll meet the same fate. |
| 332 | * RetCon: Dustin was written as a ChildProdigy in the first season taking 8th grade math; by the finale he's still taking 8th grade math because he's an 8th grader now and is treated of average intelligence. |
| 333 | * {{Romantic False Lead}}: |
| 334 | ** James Garrett with Zoey |
| 335 | ** Rebecca with Chase |
| 336 | * RoommateDrama: Drama is created with each new roommate people get: |
| 337 | ** In the first two episodes, Nicole and Dana fight so much that Zoey [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves]] and moves in with the weird science girl, Quinn. However, Quinn's science experiments drive Zoey up the wall, so she's forced to go back to her original room. Luckily, she finds the issues with those two far easier to work out. |
| 338 | ** In the second season, Dana leaves, while Zoey and Nicole get a new roommate, Lola. Lola is a freaky {{goth}} who heavily implies she killed someone at her old school, but things get much better when they discover she's just an actress playing a character. |
| 339 | ** After Chase leaves, Logan and Michael are so intent on not getting a new roommate that once James moves in with them, they treat him horribly, unwilling to accept that Chase is gone. But, by the end of the episode, they manage to make friends. |
| 340 | * RunningGag: The show had a few. |
| 341 | ** Chase ''always'' falling down the first time he sees Zoey every season. In ''Chasing Zoey'' this included falling ''off a wall'' and then ''down a flight of stairs.'' |
| 342 | ** Jokes about Chase's bushy hair. |
| 343 | ** Every time Chase attempts to tell Zoey he loves her or make a date with her, something gets in the way. |
| 344 | ** Quinn's "Quinnventions" going horribly wrong. |
| 345 | ** Logan being a creep to girls |
| 346 | ** Lola going to extreme lengths to demonstrate her acting ability |
| 347 | * ScamReligion: The [[spoiler: Silver Hammer Society]] |
| 348 | * SchoolNurse: two polar opposites man the infirmary: Nurse [[SymbolicName Krutcher]] and Shannon, the new pretty nurse. |
| 349 | * SchoolPlay: Chase writes a play about a beautiful alien named Zorka. Yeah... |
| 350 | * SecretPetPlot: Chase and Michael attempt to care for a dog named Elvis in the first season, and in one episode, they leave him with the girls because their dorm advisor is becoming suspicious. He's accidentally let out, which results in Coco finding him and sending him to the pound. Once they get him back, the girls train him to hide in their stuffed animal pile in order to not get caught again. |
| 351 | * SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Quinn and Logan]] |
| 352 | ** Inverted in ''Zoey's Tutor'': everyone thinks Zoey and Logan are having one, while Logan is only tutoring Zoey chemistry. He milks the misunderstanding for all it's worth. |
| 353 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: Zoey, Lola, and Quinn in the third season. |
| 354 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Quinn often indulges in this |
| 355 | * SherlockScan: One-off character Miles Brody does one when Zoey comes to ask him for help in the episode ''Robot Wars''. It's used to establish his cred as "the guy who knows everything". |
| 356 | * ShaggyDogStory: One episode involves the fire alarm in the boys dorm being set off on consecutive nightly occasions and none of the boys know who's been doing it. [[spoiler:At the end it turns out it was Logan's J-Phone from Japan that was setting off the fire alarm.]] |
| 357 | * ShirtlessScene: All the boys get one, but Logan is the main perpetrator. |
| 358 | * ShowerScene: Both Logan and Michael get one. And both are interrupted, the first one by a TV crew, the second by ''a horse''. |
| 359 | * ShoutOut: There are a few references to Series/{{iCarly}}, including one episode where Zoey has a ringtone that is the show's opening theme song and another where Lola is visiting the iCarly website. Both of them were before ''iCarly'' began. |
| 360 | ** Logan's father's name is [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Malcolm Reese]]. |
| 361 | ** In ''The Curse of PCA,'' Lola references WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants when she tells Leif, after Leif concludes sadly that she must think he's silly, "No, Leif, Spongebob's friend Patrick is silly. ''You'' are a weirdo!" |
| 362 | ** Later in that scene, after Lola calls him crazy, Leif quotes a line from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' (which happens to be Lola's second favorite play) "I am but mad north north west, but when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." |
| 363 | ** SchoolNewspaperNewsHound Jeremy Trottmann ends every news report by saying, "Courage" — a reference to former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, who closed his final newscast with the word and tried unsuccessfully to turn it into a regular catchphrase in 1986. |
| 364 | ** Zoey goes on the real-life Hungry Girl website (owned by Dan Schneider's wife) in "Quinn's Alpaca" in order to prove to Lola and Nicole a regular bagel is 300 calories. |
| 365 | * SleepDeprivation: |
| 366 | ** In one episode, Dustin has agreed to help Quinn with an experiment by wearing a bracelet that shocks him when he starts to fall asleep. He quickly starts to hate it, becoming irritable and delirious in addition to being constantly tired. |
| 367 | ** In an episode, none of the people in the boys' dorm can get a full night sleep for at least three days, as they keep being woken up in the middle of the night for a fire alarm. When it turns out to be Logan's expensive new phone causing it, he gets beaten up. |
| 368 | * SlipperySwimsuit: Dustin lost his trunks while swimming in the ocean in ''Little Beach Party'' and refused to get out. |
| 369 | * SmartPeopleBuildRobots: Zoey and her friends construct a robot to battle against a group of Insufferable Geniuses' robots. |
| 370 | * SnubByOmission: A behind-the-scenes example. During production of ''Spring Break-Up'', Alexa Nikolas was lured into Jamie Lynn Spears' trailer and was berated by Britney Spears over "messing with her sister". After discussing the incident in a meeting with Dan Schneider and Viacom executives, who all took Britney's side, Nikolas tearfully quit the show. Likely as a result of this incident, Nicole was excluded from the opening credits of the in-universe TV show ''Gender Defenders'' at the end of the episode. |
| 371 | * SonicStunner: Quinn's sonic stun bomb in ''Prank Week''. |
| 372 | * SpyCam: In "Webcam", Logan and Michael give the girls a giant teddy bear with a camera inside to learn their secrets and reveal them to the school. The girls soon discover the camera and get back at them by [[BluffTheEavesdropper staging an incident]] where they violently knock out Kazu to scare them into telling Dean Rivers about it while [[AccidentalPublicConfession subsequently revealing their ploy]]. |
| 373 | * StereoFibbing: In one episode, Trisha is dating Chase against his will. To get out of it, he puts on an act for her that depicts Zoey as his girlfriend. When questioned about it, they usually agree on everything. Until... |
| 374 | --> '''Trisha:''' How long have you two been going out? |
| 375 | --> '''Chase/Zoey:''' A year./Six months. |
| 376 | --> '''Chase:''' [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs A year and six months.]] Eighteen months, really. |
| 377 | * SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Quinn is very concerned about her pet alpaca, Otis, whom she left back home. Zoey arranges for Otis to come to school. Quinn makes alpaca noises at Otis, and Otis makes the noises back. |
| 378 | --> '''Nicole''': "Quinn speaks alpaca?" |
| 379 | --> '''Zoey''': "Are you surprised?" |
| 380 | * StaircaseTumble: Chase takes a tumble down a flight of stairs after falling off a wall in ''Chasing Zoey.'' |
| 381 | ** It also happens to him in ''People Auction'' while trying to deliver six boxes of sushi at once, despite Kazu's suggestion of making two trips. His friends and Kazu hear him fall and go to check on him. Kazu leaves his fryer running which causes Sushi Rox to burn on the entire inside. |
| 382 | * StartMyOwn: Logan after being rejected of the Silver Hammer Society. |
| 383 | * StockScream: The same female scream is used for both Zoey and Nicole in various Season 1 episodes. |
| 384 | * StockSoundEffect: The Jet X horn can be heard in nearly every episode. |
| 385 | * StudentsPlayingMatchmaker: In one episode, the gang tries to set up their dorm advisor Coco with the attractive new dean, because she couldn’t stop moping about her recent break up with a guy named Carl. It didn’t end well for the dean... |
| 386 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One episode has Michael and Logan boxing over who gets the single bed. Since neither of them have experience in this, they only land a few hits on each other and end just tiring themselves out very quickly. |
| 387 | ** "Wrestling" is an example of this for Zoey, as while her being good at sports like Basketball makes sense, wrestling is something that takes a lot of training. While she might've been able to handle other guys her own size(we don't know since they opt to forfeit rather then fight her and ask being humiliated by losing to a girl or risk getting booed for fighting a girl) the JerkJock champion is Chuck Javers, someone who is shown regularly wiping the floor with guys bigger then Zoey and with a lot more training, so the outcome [[spoiler:beating Zoey within seconds]] is hardly a surprise as even if she'd had more experience wrestling, the odds were heavily stacked against her, as the whole reason Coach Peters put Zoey on the team was so the other opponents would forfeit against her and then his best wrestler could go up against Javers without being tired out, as Chuck is implied to be so strong that outright cheating was his only shot at defeating him, so nobody especially not Zoey stood a chance at defeating him in a straight up match. It's incredibly lucky that Zoey [[spoiler: only got a minor head-injury from the match and didn't end up with broken bones like Logan did after he confronted Javers afterwards]]. |
| 388 | ** In "The Great Vince Blake" Chase is threatened by the football team to not tell Vince cheated, Chase does the right thing and outs him causing Vince to be benched in the championship game. He retaliates by having him and the football team jump Chase and Michael, Logan, and Mark for defending him. While Vince gets a comedic dose a LaserGuidedKarma by getting mobbed by students after the Moon Bar he was holding, it's later revealed that he was expelled from the school for assaulting the four and forced to seek rehabilitative therapy before he's even considered to be allowed back. Even when he is, no one trusts him and it's only after he graciously accepts Logan and Michael's attempts for revenge saying they deserve it and they're not wrong to be mad is he truly forgiven. |
| 389 | ** In "Dance Contest", Chase offers to be Zoey's dance partner in the titular contest since Logan and Michael are on extra-curricular suspension for a brank they pulled. He blackmails them into teaching him to dance. The ensuing montage is played both for laughs and realistically. They point out he can't learn to dance like them without knowing the basics. So after a montage of him learning the basics, they admit he's actually gotten a lot better, but when he leaves they agree he still has no chance against students who know well beyond the basics. It ends up not mattering anyway, as Chase is so tired from learning so much dancing in one day he sleeps through the contest before he can even offer to be Zoey's partner. Thankfully it avoids being a DownerEnding as Michael tells Zoey what Chase did and she appreciates Chase would go to so much trouble for her. |
| 390 | * SweetPollyOliver: Lola pulls this by disguising herself as a boy named Steve to prove to the guys that having a girl around doesn't affect the way they behave, since the boys cited this as a reason for the girls to not be able to hang out at their dorm anymore. |
| 391 | * TakeAThirdOption: Averted in "The Great Vince Blake" Chase decides to let Vince off for cheating under the condition he never does it again. Vince [[IdiotBall tells him it's not going to happen]], so Chase rats him out, getting him suspended from the team and put on academic probation. |
| 392 | * TakingTheHeat: Zoey at the end of the episode ''Prank Week'', so she could save the school's co-ed status. Due to an oversight during her subsequent apology (the statue acting up and the students rioting), her expulsion is revoked ''AND'' the school remains co-ed. |
| 393 | %% * TeenGenius: |
| 394 | %% ** Quinn. |
| 395 | %% ** Paige Howard. |
| 396 | * ThemedParty: The boys are discussing a theme for Chase's surprise party, trying to decide between a pajama party or a beach party. They decide for the beach party, since it will be an excuse for the girls to wear bikinis, until Zoey mentions that she plans to bring Chase's grandma as a gift, and decide to go with the pajama party instead. |
| 397 | ** In the second season, the girls throw an alpaca themed party for Quinn. |
| 398 | * ThisMeansWar: Zoey in ''Prank Week'' after getting soaked with a giant water balloon. She had previously been saying that they shouldn't sink down to the level of the boys. |
| 399 | * TickleTorture: When Dustin got sick, one of the ways Quinn tried to cure him was by immobilizing his bare feet in a pair of stocks. She flashed proton impulses to his soles, making him laugh and squirm around. |
| 400 | * TimeCapsule: in the titular episode. |
| 401 | * ToiletPaperPrank: the boys pull this on the girls' dorm in ''Prank Week''. |
| 402 | * TownGirls: Dana is the obvious butch to femme Nicole in season 1. Zoey rotates between being a tomboy or a girly girl based on whatever the episode calls for. |
| 403 | * ToyDisguise: In one episode, the girls are trying to hide Chase and Michael's dog, Elvis. They teach him to hide in the girls' pile of stuffed animals, where he lays limp and gets mistaken for one of the toys by the Dorm Advisor. |
| 404 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Or in this case opening credits spoil. The trailer for the first episode of Season 2 [[spoiler: depicts Lola as a goth chick. She wasn't.]] This may have been a surprise...if they didn't show her as normal in the opening credits. |
| 405 | ** Same thing happens in Season 4: Michael and Logan think their new roommate, 'Jimmy' Garrett, will be some nerdy geek. Except Austin Butler was already in opening credits of that episode. |
| 406 | * TrueCompanions: The main characters form a tightly knit group. Since they’re teenagers living away from their families, they often need to rely on each other. |
| 407 | * TurnOfTheMillennium |
| 408 | * UncoolUndies: In the episode "Webcam," the boys sneak a webcam in the girls' common area in order to spy and learn their embarrassing secrets; one of which is that Nicole wears panties with a "[[Franchise/HelloKitty Hello Bunny]]" print on them. She angrily says that they were on sale. In "Miss PCA," Chase is teased by Zoey and Lola when they wall in on him folding laundry and discover he wears white briefs. |
| 409 | * UnnecessaryMakeover: In-universe, in ''Quinn Misses The Mark'', Quinn gives herself a makeover to try and win back Mark. She ends up ditching it when Logan falls in love with her and puts her glasses back on her and says, "There's Quinn" right before their first kiss. (Of course, [[HollywoodHomely she's played by Erin Sanders]], so she's extremely hot either way). |
| 410 | * UnresolvedSexualTension: Zoey and Chase, at least until [[spoiler: their {{last minute hookup}} in the series finale]]. |
| 411 | %% * UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Logan indulges on this from time to time. |
| 412 | * UnusualEuphemism: |
| 413 | ** Zoey uses "skunkbag" as an insult. Chase once responded to this with, "Zoey Brooks, such language." |
| 414 | ** Characters have used "Cheese and rice" and "Cheese and crackers" as euphemisms for "Jesus Christ!" |
| 415 | ** "Freakish" is often used in place of "freaking" or "f**king". |
| 416 | ** Nickelodeon does not allow its shows to say "sucks", so they defy this by saying "suckish" instead. Nicole says it most often. In ''Disc Golf'', for example... |
| 417 | --> '''Nicole:''' Am I really that suckish? |
| 418 | --> '''Zoey:''' You're not suckish. You're just...the least good player on the team. |
| 419 | * VomitDiscretionShot: In ''Anger Management'', Lola runs out of the room to puke. Unfortunately, she pukes on [[ButtMonkey Stacey.]] |
| 420 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Logan with EVERYONE. |
| 421 | * WaterGunsAndBalloons: one of the pranks during ''Prank Week''. |
| 422 | * WaxOnWaxOff: Michael gets a Karate Kid-like training session with Mr. Takato when learning how to drive his stick-shift. |
| 423 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: Done to death with Zoey and Chase. [[spoiler: They do, but not until the [[LastMinuteHookup last few minutes of the final episode]].]] |
| 424 | * WhamShot: The very end of "Spring Break-Up". Chase finally texts the message to Zoey that he loves her, but he suddenly sees her belt bag is empty; turns out, she left her Tekmate on the fountain, and it's vibrating sends it falling into the fountain and getting shorted out. |
| 425 | * WholePlotReference: The subplot of "Son Of A Dean" is this to Series/TheDickVanDykeShow episode "When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen", even using the exact same sketch. Interestingly enough, this episode actually resolves the plot: when Chase and Michael try to apologize to the Friday Night Live producer for stealing their idea, to no avail, an actor from another sketch saves them by telling the producer that the show, among others, did their bowling pin sketch decades prior and therefore, they don't own the rights to it. |
| 426 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In season 4, Michael is revealed to be afraid of roller coasters. |
| 427 | * WouldHitAGirl: Chuck Javers. Though it takes him working himself up to do it. |
| 428 | * WouldntHitAGirl: With the exception of Chuck, none of the high school state wrestlers wanted to fight Zoey since she was a girl. Turns out the coach was actually counting on this so PCA could win. |
| 429 | * YouGoGirl: Played straight once and actually [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] on the second occasion. The very first episode feature a girls vs boys Basketball game in which the girls lose by only one basket. By the end of the game however, the entire school was cheering the girls on. In another episode, in one of the rare instances where Zoey didn't come out on top, she joins the male's wrestling team. The coach uses takes advantage of this trope because no guy on the opposing would wrestler her because they'd either [[WouldntHitAGirl be seen as a jerk for beating up a girl]] or look like a wimp for losing to one. Everyone except a JerkJock, who proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle wipe the floor with Zoey.]] |
| 430 | * {{Zeerust}}: In "Time Capsule", Chase imagines his future self in 2015 ordering a computer by voice to play Zoey's DVD message in hologram form. While the computer part is surprisingly spot on given the likes of Alexa and other virtual assistants, Chase's imagination went too ahead of itself with the hologram thing... |
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