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[[File:zoey101-.jpg|frame|[[Covers Always Lie]]. Did they even wear black once on this show?]]
Largely famous as [[Britney Spears|Britney's]] sister's show.
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Pacific Coast Academy was previously an all boys school, but has just begun admitting girls. Among that first class of girls is one [[Canon Sue|Zoey Brooks]], 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.
The show began with Zoey and her roommates [[The Ditz|Nicole]] and [[Shorttank|Dana]], with Zoey making friends with [[Cannot Spit It Out|Chase]] and his roomates, [[Black Best Friend|Michael]] and [[Jerk Jock|Lo]][[Spoiled Brat|gan]]. Zoey was also called upon to look after her younger brother Dustin, with the slightly crazy geek [[Hollywood Nerd|Quinn]] always ensuring that [[Hilarity Ensues]] at PCA.
As time went on multiple characters were replaced, with varying degrees of [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]. Dana left, and was replaced by [[The Fashionista|Lola]]. Later Nicole left, which allowed Quinn to move in with Lola and Zoey.
Created by [[Dan Schneider]].
The origin of the [[Nick Verse]], created when Drake Bell showed up [[As Himself]].
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* [[Ambiguously Gay|Ambiguously Bi]]: Michael. Lola too, but she's more the type to just joke about it.
* [[Anchored Ship]]: {{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}}.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Dustin initially seems to play this straight, later it’s very obviously subverted.
* [[The Artifact]]: 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, [[Tagalong Kid|Dustin]] became this by season 3.
* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Wayne Gilbert AKA “Firewire”
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Lola/Steve. Even Nicole finds "him" attractive.
* [[Back for the Finale]] / [[The Bus Came Back]]: Chase, in a rather touching way
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* [[Boarding School]]
* [[Book Dumb]]: Logan
* [[The Bully]]: Keith Finch from the season 1 episode “Defending Dustin”
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Quinn
* [[Butt Monkey]] - Stacey (oh so much)
** And Quinn can be considered this as well.
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{{quote|'''Michael:''' ''(seeing the Dean's wrecked car)'' It's wrecked.
'''Zoey:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Thank you, Michael]]. }}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: 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
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]
* [[Celebrity Star]]
* [[Chick Magnet]]: James is the biggest one in – series, but both Logan and apparently Vince do very well for themselves in this department
** Chase himself is not so bad in this deparment as well
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Dustin
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]—Quinn, Michael to an extent
* [[Cold Opening]]: One of the few [[Dan Schneider]] shows without them (''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' didn't either).
* [[Cool Teacher]]: Mr. Bender
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Chase first meets Zoey when he crashed into a flagpole on his bike while waving to her.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: 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
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* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Chase crashes into a flagpole on his bike due to staring at Zoey.
* [[The Ditz]] - Nicole
** [[Ditzy Genius]]: YMMV, but Nicole, in all her [[The Ditz|ditz]] glory, is a straight A student and lowering that percentage freaks her out.
* [[Does Not Like Women]] - In the first season Logan ''really'' seemed upset that a bunch of teenage girls would be allowed in his school. ... kinda of [[Ambiguously Gay|makes you wonder]]
** [[Yaoi Fangirl|Ugh]]. Except when it doesn't. Logan probably just didn't want girls ruining the bachelor pad like dynamics. He's been shown multiple times flirting with girls from other (nearby schools) so it's not like he wanted to be away from girls.
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* [[Elaborate University High]]: Pepperdine University, to be specific. That's where exterior locations were filmed.
* [[Eskimos Aren't Real]]: Michael tries to convince Chase that reindeer aren't real.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Chase's love for Zoey is the school's worst kept secret, and Zoey's [[Oblivious to Love|obliviousness]] is almost painful.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Averted, as a princess doll was dissolved by some harsh chemical.
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* [[Fan Service]]: It's really amazing how much they got away with [[Beach Episode]]s and putting the cast into appealing outfits. Granted, this goes for both guys and girls.
* [[The Fashionista]]: Zoey and Lola. Lola did cool off a little by the third season, though.
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'''Quinn''': Zoey, I don't want to live with you anymore. }}
* [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: 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.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: On Lola’s instance, both her and Zoey try 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
* [[Hair of Gold]]: YMMV, but Zoey could actually fit in this qualification
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: 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
* [[Hippie Teacher]]: the psychology teacher in “Zoey’s Balloon” falls under this
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Logan suffers from this constantly
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Quinn is type 2; Firewire is type 1.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: {{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}}.
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** Vince fell into this qualification until season 4
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Logan, Logan, Logan. Although most of the time you have so squint to see it, he does have a [[Hidden Heart of Gold]] in him and it becomes obvious in the 4th and final season of the series
* [[The Jeeves]] / [[Servile Snarker]]: Chauncey, the butler for the Reese family is both [[The Jeeves]] for Logan’s father and an intense [[Servile Snarker]] for Logan himself
* [[Just Friends]]
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Logan, after he starts dating Quinn, he seem to be this, more if we have in mind his historial as a serial dater.
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* [[Market-Based Title]]: 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.
* [[Meganekko]]: Quinn, to the point where Logan actually puts her glasses back on her before their first kiss.
* [[Millionaire Playboy]]: Logan
* [[The Minnesota Fats]]
* [[Miracle Rally]]: 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 [[Worthy Opponent|win the respect of the coach and the boys]].}}
* [[Mama Bear]]: Zoey is this in terms of Dustin when he gets bullied.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Chase (as in 'pursuit'). Came in handy for naming the series finale TV movie "Chasing Zoey" ("Chase"-ing Zoey, Chase 'n Zoey).
* [[Meet Cute]]: Chase and Zoey meet when Chase crashes his bike into the school's flagpole
* [[Moment Killer]]: Chase and Zoey, constantly.
** 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.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: 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.
* [[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.)
** Also, the contest had been going on for almost a full day, so he probably couldn't think straight.
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Technically all the girls at PCA are this in the first season, but the most obvious case is Zoey. Lola in the second season.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Chase and Michael both tie for possibly the biggest one in the series and in season four both the reformed [[Jerk Jock]] Vince Blake and [[Romantic False Lead]] James fall into this
* [[Nice Jewish Boy]]: Chase
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Coach Keller, again.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: 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!
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* [[Off the Table]]
* [[Only Sane Employee]]: 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
* [[Only Sane Man]]: 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
* [[Opposites Attract]] - Logan and Quinn. [[What Could Have Been|This was supposed to be]] Logan and Dana, but Quinn moved into her role after Kristin Herrara [[Put on a Bus|left the show]].
* [[Out of Focus]]: Dustin. He barely appeared in the last two seasons.
* [[Pair the Spares]]: {{spoiler|Stacey and Mark}}
* [[Popular Is Dumb]]: More [[Book Dumb]] that anything, but Logan could fall into this
* [[Put on a Bus]] - 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.
** [[Put on a Bus to Hell]]—Alexa Nikolas quit the show because of a feud between her and Jamie Lynn Spears. Alexa's character, 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. Ouch. The writers know how to punch.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Logan, serial kisser and dater per excellence fall into a kid – friendly version of this
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: for all his moments throughout the series, the Dean seems to be this
* [[Replacement Flat Character]]—Stacey seems to exist so there's still a freaky nerd to pick on after Quinn becomes more normal.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: Deconstructed in "Goodbye Zoey?" with Gretchen.
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* [[Teen Genius]]: Quinn
* [[They Do]]: {{spoiler|Zoey and Chase}}
* [[This Means War]]: 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.
* [[Token Minority]]: Michael
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Dana is the most obvious tomboy on the show to girly girl Nicole in season 1. Quinn and Lola to a lesser extent in seasons 3 and 4. Zoey, being a [[Canon Sue]], rotates between being a tomboy or a girly girl based on whatever the episode calls for.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: 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.
* [[True Companions]]
* [[TV Genius]]: Quinn, especially early on
* [[Unneccessary Makeover]]: 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, [[Hollywood Homely|she's played by Erin Sanders]], so she's extremely hot either way).
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Zoey and Chase, at least until {{spoiler|their [[Last-Minute Hookup]] in the series finale}}. Arguably Logan in regards to both Zoey and Dana.
* [[Unsportsmanlike Gloating]]: Logan indulges on this from time to time
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Logan with EVERYONE
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