THE SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY

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'''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody''' is an American children's television series that airs on the Disney Channel. This Disney Channel Original Series premiered on March 18, 2005, and was one of the first five shows available on the iTunes Store.[1]
The series stars Dylan and Cole Sprouse. They play Cody and Zack Martin, identical twins, whose single mother, Carey, is the headlining singer at the Tipton Hotel. Now they live in a five-star hotel in Boston as a provision of her contract. The series has spawned two video games: one for the Nintendo DS entitled ""[2] and a titular release for the Game Boy Advance.[3]
The show was originally called ''The Suite Life'', which is co-created by Danny Kallis, who was a writer, producer, and director for the TV series, ''Smart Guy''; and Jim Geoghan, who was a writer and producer for the TV series, ''Family Matters''. [4]
The series is the third Disney Channel Original to have more than 65 episodes, the first being ''That's So Raven'' and the second being ''Kim Possible''.
The show also airs on Saturday mornings on ABC.

Contents
Main Characters
Minor characters
Episodes
Production
Settings
Theme song
Awards and Nominations
See also
References

Main Characters


'Zackary "Zack" Martin' (Dylan Sprouse) is always getting into trouble. Zack is usually dressed in skater clothes. He often sets out to get exactly what he wants. He has an obsession with girls. He has a huge crush on Maddie in the first season, though from the second season onward, little is said concerning whether he still has a crush on her. He occasionally sticks up for his brother, as seen in the episodes "Election", "Kept Man" and "Who's the Boss". He wants to be like his dad, Kurt. Other than in wood shop, he is known for not doing well in school.
Zack has a more "cool" attitude and does not have as much knowledge or common sense as Cody because Zack's mind is full of thoughts relating to girls and video games. While he is not the best student academically, in the episode Books & Birdhouses he showed that he is extremely apt at wood shop, to the point that his teacher decided to recommend him for advanced placement wood shop.
They are both are huge fans of the Boston Red Sox, and hate the New York Yankees. He likes skateboarding, basketball, and soccer all which he is good at. He is always playing pranks on his twin brother and is a lot messier than Cody is.
'Cody Martin' (Cole Sprouse) is the intellectual, mature, and sensitive twin, but he often plays along with his brother's crazy schemes. He shows less interest in girls than his brother, but he gets most of the girls even though he always says that Zack always gets the girl. He does seem to flirt a lot with a girl named Barbara Brownstein, but they are constantly competing on who is smarter. He has shown a passion for baking, cleaning, and cooking, as well as mime and dance. Cody is portrayed as easily frightened, but has a meaner and greedier side, portrayed in several episodes. Other than woodshop Cody is known for doing well in school.
'Madeline "Maddie" Fitzpatrick' (Ashley Tisdale) Her full name is "Madeline Margaret Genevieve Miranda Catherine Fitzpatrick". She is the teenage candy-counter girl at the Tipton Hotel, a cashier at the Cluck Bucket, counselor for her school's summer camp program, and is now in in Antarctica acording to London in "First Day of High School" and manages the Camp Tipton Daycare Center. While she comes from a lower class family, Maddie is very hard-working (she aspires to attend law school), outspoken, and intelligent. She attended private school at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow, but now she is attending Achievers High School with Zack, Cody, and London. Maddie is London's closest friend, though London often treats her like a servant, as in "Footloser", usually bribing her with money. Maddie also babysits Zack and Cody. Zack has a huge crush on her in Season 1. She is a strong supporter of environmental causes and she dreams of going to Paris and wants to go to law school.
'London Tipton', (Brenda Song) is the daughter of Wilfred Tipton, the owner of the Tipton Hotel. London is a dim-witted, spoiled, rich teenager with her own private suite at the Tipton Hotel in Boston, complete with a few closets (each with their own talking mirror) and a kitchen which takes up most of the floor. She transferred to the same private school as Maddie in the episode "Forever Plaid", due to poor attendance at her old school. She dislikes her step-moms and talks to Mr. Moseby and Maddie about her problems. When happy she usually claps her hands repeatedly while saying her catchphrase, "Yay me!" London often mentions her frenemy Portia Tenenbaum. Though it seems like London may lead the ultimate rich-girl life, her childhood was not perfect. London Tipton is a parody of Paris Hilton.
'Marion Moseby' (Phill Lewis) is the somewhat-uptight manager of the Tipton, who speaks with a wide vocabulary and an urbane vernacular but is often annoyed by the twins' schemes. Though he acts as though he does not care about the boys, he actually has a great deal of affection for them. In the episode "The Ghost of 613", it is revealed that he started out at the Tipton as a bellhop back in the 1970s.
'Carey Martin' (Kim Rhodes) is a headlining singer at the Tipton as well as the mother of Zack and Cody. She is a divorced mother, wise, kind, but somewhat aggressive towards the twins when they misbehave. She seems to love the twins a lot. Arwin Hawkhauser has a crush on her. She has a younger sister. She often dreams about George Clooney. Carey found her talent for singing by mistake when she was at a talent show doing stand-up comedy. She tries to keep the boys away from trouble, but she never prevails. Later in the second season, she changed her hair color from blonde to reddish-brown multiple times. As of Season 3, she has kept her brown hair and pulled her hair back in a small ponytail. When she is trying to teach the boys a lesson (Or in some cases other characters) she uses a story from her past, which is always boyfriend related, which leads to Zack and Cody or the other characters groaning.

Minor characters


Main articles: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody recurring characters

CastCharacterSeason Episodes
123
Adrian R'ManteEsteban13242
Brian StepanekArwin8104
Vanessa Anne HudgensCorrie040
Monique ColemanMary-Margaret150
Estelle HarrisMuriel800
Alyson StonerMax430
David BenderskyTapeworm401 (coming)
Patrick BristowPatrick440
Charlie StewartBob1132
Allie GrantAgnes130
Marianne MuellerleileSister Dominick041
Caroline RheaIlsa211 (coming)
Aaron MusicantLance333
Camilla RossoJanice061
Rebecca RossoJessica061
Sophie Tamiko OdaBarbara Brownstein142
Giovonnie SamuelsNia005
Kara Taitz003
Alexa NikolasTiffany011
Brittany CurranChelsea011
Sammi HanrattyHolly013
Robert TortiKurt211
Tara Lynne BarrHaley002
Bo CrutcherSkippy021
T.J. Burrowes-AshtonAlex Romeo001

Episodes


Main articles: List of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episodes

SeasonEp #First AirdateLast Airdate
26 March 18, 2005 January 27, 2006
38 February 3, 2006 June 2, 2007
9 (so far) June 23, 2007 2008

Production


''The Suite Life of Zack and Cody'' was created by Danny Kallis and Jim Geoghan. Production of the first season, which contained 26 episodes, began in fall 2004. The series premiered on March 18, 2005 and held the record of the highest-rated Disney Channel premiere (but was later beaten out by ''Hannah Montana'' in 2006 and ''Cory in the House'' in 2007). The series was so popular that Disney Channel ordered 39 episodes for a second season, which brought the total to 65, the usual limit of episodes Disney normally allows their series to go. During the second season, ''The Suite Life'' took part in a tri-episode crossover with fellow Disney Channel Original Series ''Hannah Montana'' and ''That's So Raven''. The crossover, entitled ''That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana'', aired on July 28, 2006. The show is currently broadcasting its third season, which began on June 23, 2007. All of the episodes that have aired belong to one story arc taking place during summer vacation. Ashley Tisdale's character Madeline Fitzpatrick only appears in four of the nine season three episodes that have already aired, makes a cameo appearance in two episodes, and does not appear at all in five episodes. This is due to her commitment to filming ''High School Musical 2''. .

Settings


;Tipton Hotel
A front view of the Tipton

The Tipton Hotel is where Zack, Cody, Carey, and London all live, and where the majority of the other major characters in the series work. It is the main setting for the series, particularly the basement, the Tipton's 5-star restaurant, the lobby, the game room, the Martins' suite on the 23rd floor, and London Tipton's penthouse.
;Buckner Middle School
During the second season, the series has started using the younger characters' schools as locations. Zack and Cody attend Buckner Middle School and their school team is the Badgers as revealed in the episode "Election" and "Nurse Zack".
In the scene outside of the school where a few students are walking between two buildings shows "The Mall" area that's located in Lincoln Park High School, in Chicago, IL.
;Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow Catholic School
Maddie, Mary Margaret, and Corrie attend this private school during the first two seasons of the show, with London joining in Season Two. In Season Three, both London and Nia attend the same public school as Zack and Cody.
;Paul Revere Mini Mart
Zack and Cody work for a man named Wayne Wormser at a local mini market. The Paul Revere Mini Mart is across the street from another mini mart with a patriotic name and theme, 'The Betsy Ross Stop And Shop'.
;Other places in Boston
Scenes also take place in several other places in Boston, including Fenway Park, a movie theater, Maddie's home, the local shopping mall, a bowling alley, a miniature golf course, the Goose Lodge, as seen in 'Not So Suite Sixteen', and Liberty Park, the park across the street from the Tipton Hotel.
;Camp Heaven On Earth
A camp for female unruly misfits. All the cabins are poorly constructed. Maddie is working there for her summer job and is friends with the girls there although they prank her very often. They include Holly (first appeared in the episode, 'Have A Nice Trip') a little girl who gambles and hustles others by pretending to be horrible at a gamble at no stakes, then starts to win when the stakes increase (As Maddie told London "In half an hour she'll own the hotel!"), Amy, a horrible exaggerating liar and thief and Jasmine, a girl with anger management issues. Then there's Leah, a troubled "teen". She's taller than Maddie, is 12 years old, brushes her teeth with her grandmother's finger and her favorite lipstick is "kiss me charcoal". At one time the girls used London's phone calls to sell to the press for luxuries but by the next episode they were gone.
;Chivers High School
Where Zack, Cody, London, Nia, and Maddie attend along with other students including Bob and Mark. This setting was used in "Lip Synchin' in the Rain" and "First Day In High School"

Theme song


The theme song for ''The Suite Life of Zack and Cody'' is called "Here I Am" and was written by John Adair and Steve Hampton, who also wrote the theme song for ''Phil of the Future''. It was sung by Loren Ellis and The Drew Davis Band. The original theme song was going to be "Grow Up" by Simple Plan. However, it was changed to "Here I Am" at the last minute.

Awards and Nominations



2007 Creative Arts Emmy - Outstanding Children's Program (Nominated)

★ The 2007 Kids' Choice Awards (Nominated)

See also



The Suite Life Goes Hollywood

List of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody books

References


1. Apple Announces iTunes 6 With 2,000 Music Videos, Pixar Short Films & Hit TV Shows
2. Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The: Tipton Trouble
3. Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The
4. http://www.tv.com/show/28842/summary.html


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