Zoey 101

Zoey 101
File:Zoey101title.jpg Jamie Lynn Spears as Zoey Brooks in a Nickelodeon advertisement.
Created by	Dan Schneider
Starring	Jamie Lynn Spears Paul Butcher Sean Flynn Kristin Herrera (Season 1) Christopher Massey Alexa Nikolas (Seasons 1-2, 4) Erin Sanders Matthew Underwood Victoria Justice (Seasons 2-)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	39 including the TV movie Zoey 101: Spring Break-Up (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Dan Schneider
Running time	23 minutes (approx.)
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon
Release	January 9, 2005 – present

Zoey 101 is an American live-action situation comedy television show on Nickelodeon starring Jamie Lynn Spears. It debuted on January 9, 2005.

Synopsis

Pacific Coast Academy, California, has long been a boarding school for boys only and has just started accepting girls. One of them is the creative and spunky Zoey Brooks, who in season one, is in eighth grade. The story centers around her school-life, her friends and adventures at Pacific Coast Academy and making it through the school regulations.

Main Characters

Characters

• Zoey Brooks, played by Jamie Lynn Spears (Jamie Lynn Marie Spears)

Zoey started the 8th grade (in Season one) at Pacific Coast Academy ("Home of the Stingrays"). This is the first year that girls were allowed into PCA. Zoey has used her talents to design clothes and backpacks. One of Zoey's classmates is her younger brother, Dustin Brooks, whom she mothers even though he's mature far beyond his years. Zoey is also close with Chase Matthews, a good student who showed her around campus during her first day at PCA and who she likes; Chase's best friend Michael Barret and her dorm next door neighbor Quinn Pensky are also her friends. She is currently the only girl on PCA's basketball team (as a result of Dana’s transfer), and was the first girl at PCA ever to be nominated for Class President (though she dropped out of the race). As an athlete, Zoey is a natural leader whose spunk and charm help her rally support for anything she does. She's a beautiful, down-to-earth teenager, and her independent-nature usually saves the day, although she can get into some pretty sticky situations.

• File:Zoey 101 - School Dance.jpgChase Matthews, played by Sean Flynn (Sean Rio Flynn-Amir)

Chase Matthews met Zoey Brooks on her first day of 8th grade at PCA. He has been her best male friend since then. Unannounced to Zoey, Chase has feelings for her which he has great difficulty putting into words and action. Chase's best friends are his roommates Michael Barret and Logan Reese. All three are on PCA's basketball team; Chase and Michael co-host their own campus-based talk show. Chase also gets along well with Zoey's roommates: Nicole Bristow, Dana Cruz, Lola Martinez, and Quinn Pensky. He's a surrogate big brother to Dustin Brooks (who is, aptly, Zoey's little brother). On one occasion, Chase was pitted against Zoey and Mark Del Figgalo in a race for Class President. (Mark won the election by default, although he and Zoey maintained a rough 98% split of the vote.) His middle name is Bartholomew, as told in the episode,"New Roomies" In the episode,"School Dance",it is revealed that his worst fear is racoons,his favorite cereal is Muffin Flakes,he can whistle through his nose and when he was little, he thought babies came from outer space.

• Lola Martinez (Seasons 2-), played by Victoria Justice (Victoria Dawn Justice)

An aspiring movie star, Lola Martinez replaced Dana Cruz as the roommate of Zoey Brooks and Nicole Bristow (in Season 2), and later Quinn Pensky (in Season 3). Lola is very dedicated to her dream of becoming a famous Hollywood actress, and confident of winning an Oscar by her 19th birthday. She possesses a phobia of people in "big" costumes.

• Michael Barret, played by Christopher Massey (Bennet Gregory Christopher Massey)

Michael is the roommate and best friend of Chase Matthews and Logan Reese. Michael is a natural athlete, yet he also plays the flute. He and Logan keep urging Chase to open up with how he feels about Zoey Brooks. He was once addicted to potato chips. Also, since he is very close with Chase, he often urges him to tell Zoey about his feelings, but to no avail. He gets along with about everyone at PCA.

• Quinn Pensky, played by Erin Sanders (Erin Zariah Sanders)

Quinn was born and raised in Seattle. Most of Quinn's time is spent in her dorm-room at PCA, which doubles as a laboratory. Her extracurricular activities include developing various contraptions, all known as "Quinnventions", which she then tests on unsuspecting fellow students. Quinn often employs Dustin Brooks as a guinea pig for her experiments, although her roommate (and Dustin's elder sister) Zoey seldom takes kindly to this. Quinn's other roommate is Lola Martinez (due to a room-assignment mix-up). Quinn keeps a lab-rat; a King Snake named Marvin; and a pet alpaca named Otis, who lives with her parents back in Seattle. Her boyfriend is Mark Del Figgalo. Quinn hates it when people call her a "spazz," which they frequently do. she also eats baby food. Quinn is currently the only other female besides Zoey to be on the show throughout its whole run.

• Logan Reese, played by Matthew Underwood (Matthew Dillon Underwood)

The most handsome and sophisticated guy at PCA, or so he rates himself. He's certainly the wealthiest, and definitely the most obnoxious. Logan Reese is confident that girls will flock to him because of his rugged good looks; it's just his attitude that needs work. He is wild about the opposite gender (girls, with whom he flirts shamelessly), less so about them taking up space on campus...and particularly on PCA's sports teams. Logan's roommates are Michael Barret and Chase Matthews. He once mentored Dustin Brooks on how to be a ladies' man, only to watch the younger boy succeed where Logan himself failed. Logan alternates between teasing Chase about his feelings for Zoey Brooks, and urging Chase to let Zoey know about said feelings. Logan's deepest secret is a chemistry aptitude, which he fears will make him the subject of mockery by his peers. Logan's father Malcolm Reese is a big-league TV/film-producer whose work includes the hit game show "Gender Defenders", on which Logan and his pals have been featured as contestants.

• Dustin Brooks, played by Paul Butcher (Paul Matthew Hawke Butcher)

He's the sort of "perfect" little brother most teenagers fantasize about having as their own. The exception is Zoey Brooks, who doesn't need to fantasize because she is Dustin's big sister. Besides being his fiercest protector and closest confidante, Zoey has more recently become her brother's classmate at the newly-coed PCA. A child prodigy, Dustin enjoys sharing an 8th grade geometry class with his equally-savvy elder sister. He also enjoys helping Quinn Pensky with her scientific experiments, when he's not talking his way in and out of assorted sticky situations. Whenever he gets in over his head, Zoey is always the first one to rush to her kid brother's aid. Although her playing 'bodyguard' gets on Dustin's nerves from time to time, he loves Zoey too much to hold that against her. By Season 3, not only does Dustin share most of his sister's friends, but he also spends much time socializing with kids closer to his own age.

Former Characters

• File:Alexa nikolas myspace.jpgNicole Bristow (Seasons 1-2, 4) played by Alexa Nikolas (Alexa Helen Nikolas)

Nicole is from Kansas, where her father owns a juice company. Her personal rule of thumb is "Better late than sweaty!". She often has arguments with Dana; Nicole gets along much better with her Season 2 roommate, Lola Martinez. By Season 3, Nicole did not come back to PCA because she was diagnosed with "OMGD" (Obsessive Male Gender Disorder). Nicole currently attends an all girls school. Rumours have surfaced that Nicole will come back to PCA in the fourth season.

• Dana Cruz (Season 1), played by Kristin Herrera (Kristin Lisa Herrera)

One of Zoey's season one roommates. Dana is good at sports, particularly basketball. She's also a total slob who loves to sleep, hates to wake up, and considers mankind's greatest invention to be the snooze button on her alarm clock. She frequently argues with roommate Nicole Bristow, whom Dana blames for giving her frequent nightmares about "death by blow dryer". Dana's bad attitude is comparable to that of Logan Reese, whom she can't stand, although both have quite a bit in common and went to a school dance together. In Season 2, Dana was accepted by a European exchange student program; she's currently studying in Paris, France. Kristin got fired because she was obviously older looking than the rest of the cast.

Episodes

Main article: List of Zoey 101 episodes

Season	Ep #	First Airdate	Last Airdate
Season 1	13	January 9, 2005	May 1, 2005
Season 2	12	September 11, 2005	April 16, 2006
Season 3	13	September 24, 2006	August 10, 2006
Season 4	1	September 16, 2007	Present 2008

DVD releases

Season releases

Title	Release Date	Episodes
The Complete 1st Season	February 13, 2007	1-13, 36
This two-disc release includes all thirteen episodes from the first season. Bonus features include bloopers, original cast member audition tapes, and a bonus episode, "Quarantine," from the third season. The DVD packaging may confuse fans, as Spears is pictured without the blond hair she had during season one. Alexa Nikolas (Nicole) and Kristin Herrera (Dana) do not appear on the cover. More Zoey DVDs were promised, according to the TV promos, but as of 7/07, there are no plans to release season 2.

Other releases

Title	Release Date	Episodes
Zoey 101: Spring Break-Up	March 14, 2006	8, 13, 23
This one-disc release includes the season two double-episode/TV movie, Spring Break-Up. Bonus features include season one bloopers, behind-the-scenes tours and two bonus episodes from the first season, "Quinn's Date" and "Little Beach Party".

Trivia

• Was nominated for an emmy award in 2005 for Outstanding Children's Program
• Pacific Coast Academy was shot at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California for seasons one, two and three.
• So far, it is creator Dan Schneider's only sitcom that does not feature a laugh track for a single-camera format.
• The song Makes Me Happy which was the song Drake played in Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp was also used as background music in this show.
• According to Quinn in the episode "Broadcast Views", she has an IQ of 177.
• The theme song "Follow Me" was coauthored by songwriter Emily Bob and Britney Spears and sung by Jamie Lynn Spears.
• There are three actors that are related to famous actors; Christopher Massey is the older brother of Kyle Massey, Sean Flynn is the grandson of Errol Flynn and Jamie Lynn Spears is the sister of Britney Spears.
• Despite popular belief, Matthew Underwood has no relation to the country singer, Carrie Underwood.
• Many objects of brand names (like Mountain Fizz) on Zoey 101 have also been on Drake and Josh, another show by Dan Schneider.
• Dan Schneider, the creator of the show makes a cameo appearance in the season 3 episode 'Zoey Ribs' as a delivery truck driver.
• In one of the episodes, a NoFX sticker can be seen on an amp in Quinn's room.
• In the episode with the Silver Hammer Society, after Logan is kicked out, the name "Joe Catania" is called. Joe Catania is the producer of the show.
• Three Zoey 101 stars, Alexa Nikolas, Christopher Massey, and Victoria Justice have guest starred on Disney Channel. Alexa and Victoria appeared in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Christopher appeared in That's So Raven with Kyle Massey, his younger brother.
• The students at PCA, when showed using a laptop, it has the outline of a pear on it. This is probably a spoof of Apple , a brand of computers and electronics.
• The school library is called Schneider, the name of the director
• In the episode "Zoey's Balloon", Michael says that he cries the first 2 hours of the school year at PCA. But in the Season 3 Premiere, Michael and Logan got in a fight, but Michael wasn't crying, and Chase says that it wasn't 2 hours into the new school year.
• In Canada, the episode, Dance Contest, was a season three episode and so were the others that appeared in Canada. But in the USA, Dance Contest was and the first episode of season four and the other episodes that appeared after that. However, since Dance Contest had the same theme song as Season 3, it is technically a part of Season 3.
• Some episodes were season three episodes but in the USA, some of the episodes were season four even though they were season three episodes. It should be noted that the seasons three and four are different between the USA and Canada.
• The fourth season is the first season that didn't had Dustin in the first episode of the season.
• The Fourth season is the last season of Zoey 101 according to Erin Sanders (Quinn) myspace page.But will run in the US with new episodes for two more years

External links

• Official website of Zoey 101
• Nickelodeon - Shows cast and other information on show.