History Series / ZoeysExtraordinaryPlaylist

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: "Zoey's Extraordinary Session" reveals Mo was a cab driver giving Zoey a ride to the hospital years before. It's indicated that while Zoey may remember it (thanks to Mo's bragging about his job dreams, not to mention his rendition of "Shut Up and Drive"), Mo has no idea his neighbor was once a customer.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: "Zoey's Extraordinary Session" reveals Mo was a cab driver giving Zoey a ride to the hospital years before. It's indicated that while Zoey may remember it (thanks to Mo's bragging about her job dreams), Mo has no idea her neighbor was once a customer.

* CrazyEnoughToWork: Invoked by Joan when Zoey accidentally sings "Pressure" during an important presentation for a new product. Joan thinks it's a combination of this and RefugeInAudacity on Zoey's part, which seems to be confirmed when the CEO decides to go forward with the development. In reality, it was not at all part of Zoey's plan and she physically could ''not'' stop herself from singing. She has to play it off with a SureLetsGoWithThat.

* WackyStartupWorkplace: Zoey's trendy San Francisco tech office is very visually striking: it's open-concept, has lots of glass windows, colorful furniture, work pods, and a fancy snack bar.

* HappilyMarried: Zoey's parents, Mitch and Maggie, have had a long, happy, and fruitful marriage. They were GoodParents to their two children and the whole family remains very close.

* TechBro: The tech company Zoey works at, SPRQ Point, is in San Francisco and employs a lot of "brogrammers": douchey, well-dressed West Coast millennials who code. The two who get the most focus are Tobin and Leif, best friends who enjoy partying and antagonizing Zoey. It is noted that the company is male-dominated, and their supervisor Joan tries to mentor Zoey as a fellow woman in tech.

*** This plays into the rest of the episode as whatever songs are sung are all the programmers actually singing, including a sing-off between Max and Lief while working on solving a puzzle, with Zoey outright annoyed (especially as she doesn't know any of these songs).

** Happens to the audience in "Zoey's Extraordinary Session" as Danny Michael Davis is shown singing "Pure Imagination" at the welcoming session for new programmers...but then it's reminded that this is before Zoey's accident so Danny really was singing the song as an opener.

** Happens to the audience in "Zoey's Extraordinary Session" as Danny Michael Davis is shown singing "Pure Imagination" at a big session...but then it's reminded that this is before Zoey's accident so Danny really was singing the song as an opener.

** Happens to the audience in "Zoey's Extraordinary Session" as Danny is shown singing "Pure Imagination" at a big session...but then it's reminded that this is before Zoey's accident so Danny really was singing the song as an opener.

** The opening of episode 7 has Zoey at a food court with Max when everyone breaks out into a performance of "If I Can't Have You". Zoey is brushing it off with her usual sarcastic lines when it hits her that Max can hear her (whereas people singing heart songs are usually oblivious to anything she says about it while the number is ongoing). When the number ends, Zoey realizes this was a huge flash mob and "this is actual life."

** The opening of episode 7 has Zoey at a food court with Max when everyone breaks out into a performance of "If I Can't Have You". Zoey is brushing it off with her usual sarcastic lines when it hits her that Max can hear her. When the number ends, Zoey realizes this was a huge flash mob and "this is actual life."

*** This plays into the rest of the episode as whatever songs are sung are all the programmers actually singing, with Zoey outright annoyed (especially as she doesn't know any of these songs).

*** This plays into the rest of the episode as whatever songs are sung are all the actual workers singing, with Zoey outright annoyed (especially as she doesn't know any of these songs).

*** This plays into the rest of the episode as whatever songs are sung are all the actual workers singing with Zoey outright annoyed (especially as she doesn't know any of these songs).

* WhamEpisode: "Zoey's Extraordinary Goodbye: [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, Max can suddenly see/hear Zoey's heart songs, after a season of the fact that she always knew what he was feeling but not ''vice versa'' causing problems for their relationship. It's currently [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] whether he can hear anyone else's, too]].

* DirtyMindReading: Subverted in episode 2, where Zoey mistakes her father singing ''Moondance'' to her mother as [[ParentalSexualitySquick a reference to their sex life]]. Turns out it was a way of saying “I love you.” Later played straight when Emily’s rendition of ''[[Music/PussycatDolls Buttons]]'' makes it ''very'' clear why she wants alone time with David.

* MusicalWorldHypotheses: Mixed. Most of it is "All In Their Heads": The "heart-songs", where characters dance and sing their thoughts, are establish to not occur in reality and only Zoey can see then happening. However the songs are established to not be from '''her''' head, rather they come from another person. When her father sings "Moondance" she doesn't know it and has to look up the lyrics in order to figure out what it means. However, some numbers also take place diegetically, like Mo's choir performance and Max's flashmob.

* DramaticIrony: The point of the subplot of "Zoey's Extraordinary Session" as, recovering from a mild heart attack, Maggie tells a healthy Mitch that it's okay to move on while he softly says he can't imagine living without her...neither aware that their roles will end up being reversed.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode after the pilot is titled 'Zoey's Extraordinary...'

* {{Irony}}: Zoey is the first to note that she's a music illiterate who barely knows the difference between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and has never heard of half the songs she imagines in her mind. So the idea that she of all people gets these magical musical numbers is equal parts annoying and amusing.

* FreakyFridayFlip: "Zoey’s Extraordinary Mystery" features a variant, using the trope namer as a clue. The people Zoey runs into begin swapping songs instead of bodies, and in order to help them she has to figure out who is singing for whom. Especially finding out the true owner of the heartbreaking song sung by Max at the beginning of the episode. [[spoiler:Turns out it was Zoey's sister-in-law Emily, who was suffering from postpartum depression, and the songs started switching in order to get Zoey's attention because she hadn't stuck around Emily long enough to listen to her]].

* GrandRomanticGesture: What Max tried to do at the start of episode 7, with organizing a flash mob for Zoey in the mall. Zoey assumed it was another heart song and didn't realize Max and the others were really singing until he spoke to her normally in the middle of it.

* CurseCutShort: Every episode has Zoey (or occasionally another character) about to cuss before being cut by with the title.

From then on, at seemingly random moments, people around her, stranger, friend and family alike, [[SpontaneousChoreography suddenly seem to burst into song and dance for no apparent reason]] while everyone else cannot see or hear anything of the sort. However, the songs and dance routines that she experiences all have to do with the most powerful emotions of the people performing them. Using this new gift, she, with the help of her best friend Mo (Creator/AlexNewell), has to think of the best way to harness what she can do in order to help others.

From then on, at seemingly random moments, people around her, stranger, friend and family alike, [[SpontaneousChoreography suddenly seem to burst into song and dance for no apparent reason]] while everyone else cannot see or hear anything of the sort. However, the songs and dance routines that she experiences all have to do with the most powerful emotions of the people performing them. Using this new gift she, with the help of her best friend Mo (Creator/AlexNewell), have to think of the best way to harness what Zoey can do.

* WhamEpisode: "Zoey's Extraordinary Goodbye: [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, Max can suddenly see/hear Zoey's heart songs, after a season of the fact that she always knew what he was feeling but not vice versa causing problems for their relationship. It's currently [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] whether he can hear anyone else's, too]].

* WhamEpisode: "Zoey's Extraordinary Goodbye: [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, Max can suddenly see/hear Zoey's "heart songs", after a season of the fact that she always knew what he was feeling but not vice versa causing problems for their relationship. It's currently [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] whether he can hear anyone else's, too]].

* WhamEpisode: "Zoey's Extraoridinary Goodbye: [[spoiler: Max can suddenly see/hear "heart songs."]]
* WhamLine: In "Zoey's Extraordinary Goodbye", Zoey confesses her feelings to Max.

* NoAntagonist: There isn't a BigBad or even a VillainyFreeVillain causing the conflict here, the conflict is driven more by emotional forces, poor communication or Zoey's dad's illness than anything malicious or even ''evil''. Sure, the world is no SugarBowl despite the colorful publicity and {{Dramedy}} setting.

* GrandRomanticGesture: What Max tried to at the start of episode 7, with organizing a flash mob for Zoey. Zoey assumed it was another Heart Song.