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Health & Fitness is is the 34th episode of the second season of The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody. The Tipton is holding a Health and Fitness week. Cody encourages Chef Paolo to cook more healthily, while Zack's mother tries to get him to amend his eating habits and cut down on sugar. Meanwhile, both London and Maddie battle with eating disorders and body dysmorphia.

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Health & Fitness is is the 34th episode of the second season of The ''The Suite Life Of of Zack And Cody.and Cody''. The Tipton is holding a Health and Fitness week. Cody encourages Chef Paolo to cook more healthily, while Zack's mother tries to get him to amend his eating habits and cut down on sugar. Meanwhile, both London and Maddie battle with eating disorders and body dysmorphia.



* AfraidOfNeedles: Moesby tries to escape the health check-up due to having a fear of needles.

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* AfraidOfNeedles: Moesby Moseby tries to escape the health check-up due to having a fear of needles.



* HypocriticalHumor: Downplayed with Moesby at the beginning of the episode. He sternly orders all his employees to submit themselves for a wellness check, but he himself keeps making excuses to try to get out of it. It's not because he doesn't want to have his health checked, however; it's only because he's afraid of needles.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Downplayed with Moesby Moseby at the beginning of the episode. He sternly orders all his employees to submit themselves for a wellness check, but he himself keeps making excuses to try to get out of it. It's not because he doesn't want to have his health checked, however; it's only because he's afraid of needles.
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* IntentionalWeightGain: Maddie tries to gain more weight because she feels insecure about her body due to Francesca's comments about her being too skinny.
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* InformedFlaw: Maddie evidently gains enough weight to rip her dress, but the only indication is the ripping sound effect since Ashley Tisdale is not made to look any heavier than usual.

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* BittersweetEnding: The cast's subplots end on open-ended but hopeful notes. Zack still needs to work through his sweet addiction but Carey is now helping him work in moderation. Paolo is still unhealthy but is now finally listening to Cody's advice to better himself, even though he has a long way to go. Maddie gets a bit of the short end of the stick between her and London given she needs to lose the weight she gained from her gorging, but she and London still are finally more confident in themselves and their bodies even though there will probably be another Francesca one day to try to tear them down.



* HypocriticalHumor: Downplayed with Moesby at the beginning of the episode.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Downplayed with Moesby at the beginning of the episode. He sternly orders all his employees to submit themselves for a wellness check, but he himself keeps making excuses to try to get out of it. It's not because he doesn’t want to have his health checked, however; it's only because he’s afraid of needles.

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* AnAesop:

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* AfraidOfNeedles: Moesby tries to escape the health check-up due to having a fear of needles.
* AnAesop: The key theme that each of the characters with subplots about their health learn is that there is no one-stop, quick way to being healthy, and it takes time, dedication, and patience to make yourself a healthier person.



* BigEater: Paolo, to the max. Maddie forces herself to become one.

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** It takes a while to sink in but London and Maddie eventually reconcile with their body image and learn to ignore people like Francesca who try to tear down their appearances. They also realize the extremes they went to - London starving herself and forcing herself to exercise constantly, and Maddie gorging herself on fattening foods - were the wrong way to approach any attempt to change their bodies.
* BigEater: Paolo, to the max. Maddie forces herself to become one.one, starting off with a quadruple cheeseburger with fries and a shake, while London inverts this by starving herself and only eating baby carrots and water.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Zack’s eating habits result in valid points being made on both his and his mother's sides. Carey is right that Zack has an eating problem and shouldn’t be gorging himself as recklessly as he is. However, she ends up admitting that her forced cold turkey approach is a terrible idea and only tempts Zack to relapse more, and that she as his mother needs to support him in making a gradual change.



* ComfortFood: Paolo tries to indulge in this once Cody leaves him after giving him a chewing out. However, he's so ashamed of Cody's disappointment in him, as well as fearful of what Cody said about eating himself sick and living a reduced lifespan, that he quickly throws the food away.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: As explained in AnAesop, none of the characters realize at first that health and body issues are an ongoing process and not something that can be fixed overnight. Carey realizes she has to support Zack to gradually fix his eating addiction, Paolo realizes that eventually his eating habits will come back to haunt him, Maddie realizes she’s just going to make herself too fat and unhealthy to enjoy any new curves she gains, and London realizes that she’s not going to have any energy to do anything even if she loses any weight on her crash diet.



* HollywoodPudgy: Maddie eventually gains enough weight to rip her dress before the fashion show, but doesn't visibly look any bigger than before.

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* HollywoodPudgy: FormerlyFit: Maddie eventually gains enough weight to rip her dress before the fashion show, but doesn't visibly show (but the show doesn’t actually provide any fat suit or anything to make her look any bigger than before.before).
* GoingColdTurkey: Carey quotes this trope nearly word for word when she realizes that forcing Zack to give up sweets immediately and totally just made an even bigger problem and exacerbated his addiction. This also applies to the other characters besides Paolo, who ''was'' getting patient support from Cody. London starves herself and works out constantly while Maddie eats a constant stream of fattening food to try to gain weight.
* HartmanHips: When London is told her butt is too big, she looks in the mirror and imagines herself with gigantic hips that are nearly too wide to fit in the mirror frame’s view.
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Zack and Paolo find Maddie on the floor in the kitchen, wearily shoveling down ice cream. She’s become so tired of stuffing herself that she can barely bring herself to ask if she looks any curvier now.
* HypocriticalHumor: Downplayed with Moesby at the beginning of the episode.



* RousingSpeech: Parodied. After Mr. Moseby tries to get the two to accept their bodies by giving them a heartwarming speech, the girls end up being unphased by the speech and hilariously continue to exercise moments later. Just goes to show that although you can give well-meaning advice to people, it won’t always help someone instantly.
* SweetTooth: Zack's sugar addiction becomes a major plot point, after Carey decides that enough is enough.

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* RousingSpeech: Parodied. After Mr. Moseby tries to get the two to accept their bodies by giving them a heartwarming speech, the girls end up being unphased by the speech and hilariously continue to exercise and gorge on food moments later. Just goes to show that although you can give well-meaning advice to people, it won’t always help someone instantly.
* SweetTooth: Zack's sugar addiction becomes a major plot point, after Carey decides that enough is enough. Paolo is no slouch either.



* WeightWoe: Played straight with London, inverted with Maddie, who tries to gain weight because she thinks of herself as too skinny.

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* WeightWoe: Played straight with London, inverted with Maddie, who tries to gain weight because she thinks of herself as too skinny.skinny.
* YouAreFat: When Maddie’s dress rips due to her apparent weight gain, Francesca taunts her that she gained curves in the wrong places while motioning to her sides and stomach.
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* AnAesop:
** Carey comes to admit that making one's child eat healthy doesn't happen overnight. It's a gradual process that requires support.
** Paolo learns eating healthy should be done for one's own sake. Also, eating healthy food and eating delicious food doesn't have to be exclusive.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Carey is insistent on Zack's eating habits, while in the previous episode, she was shown to be quite a bad eater herself.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: "Your butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNewTens due to the changing beauty ideal.

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* DeconstructedTrope: After Mr. Moseby tries to get the two to accept their bodies by giving them a heartwarming speech, the girls end up being unphased by the speech and hilariously continue to exercise moments later. Just goes to show that although you can give well-meaning advice to people, it won’t always help someone instantly.


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* RousingSpeech: Parodied. After Mr. Moseby tries to get the two to accept their bodies by giving them a heartwarming speech, the girls end up being unphased by the speech and hilariously continue to exercise moments later. Just goes to show that although you can give well-meaning advice to people, it won’t always help someone instantly.

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* DeconstructedTrope: After Mr. Moseby tries to get the two to accept their bodies by giving them a heartwarming speech, the girls end up being unphased by the speech and hilariously continue to exercise moments later. Just goes to show that although you can give well-meaning advice to people, it won’t always help someone instantly.



* RealityEnsues: After Mr. Moseby tries to get the two to accept their bodies by giving them a heartwarming speech, the girls end up being unphased by the speech and hilariously continue to exercise moments later. Just goes to show that although you can give well-meaning advice to people, it won’t always help someone instantly.

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* ForTheEvulz: It's apparent that Francesca enjoys bullying her own friend London and Maddie about their weight struggles.

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* ForTheEvulz: It's apparent that Francesca enjoys bullying her own friend London and Maddie about their weight struggles. Even when she sees London and Maddie resorting to unhealthy means to achieve their goal weight, she is gleefully remorseless and laughs at their struggle. This comes back to bite her really badly.
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* ForTheEvulz: It's apparent that Francesca enjoys bullying her own friend London and Maddie about their weight struggles.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNewTens due to the changing beauty ideal.

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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're "Your butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNewTens due to the changing beauty ideal.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Francesca makes it her business to instill insecurities in Maddie and London about their body image (respectively that they're too skinny or too big). This leads to each girl adopting unhealthy means of gaining weight or losing weight. Later, this comes back to bite her when she's caught stuffing tissues down her chest to make herself look curvy, exposing her own body insecurity for the world to see. And it just happened because of [[HoistByHisOwnPetard London's fainting spell from losing weight]].
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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNew'10s due to the changing beauty ideal.

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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNew'10s TheNewTens due to the changing beauty ideal.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNew10s due to the changing beauty ideal.

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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNew10s TheNew'10s due to the changing beauty ideal.
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* BigEater: Paolo, to the max.

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* BigEater: Paolo, to the max. Maddie forces herself to become one.
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* BigEater: Paolo, to the max.
* DietEpisode: Both plots deal with this.


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* SweetTooth: Zack's sugar addiction becomes a major plot point, after Carey decides that enough is enough.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNew'10s due to the changing beauty ideal.

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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNew'10s TheNew10s due to the changing beauty ideal.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: "You're butt is huge" would not have been used as an insult in TheNew10s due to the changing beauty ideal.

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* VerySpecialEpisode: This episode tackled the issue of eating disorders(though not in a realistic fashion), as shown when London and Maddie struggled with anorexia and bulimia when convinced that they needed to change their bodies in order to fit in their dresses for the charity fashion show.
* WeightWoe: Played straight with London, inverted with Maddie.

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* VerySpecialEpisode: This episode tackled the issue of eating disorders(though not in a realistic fashion), as shown when London and Maddie struggled with anorexia and bulimia binge eating when convinced that they needed to change their bodies in order to fit in their dresses for the charity fashion show.
* WeightWoe: Played straight with London, inverted with Maddie.Maddie, who tries to gain weight because she thinks of herself as too skinny.
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* HollywoodPudgy: Maddie eventually gains enough weight to rip her dress before the fashion show, but doesn't visibly look any bigger than before.



* VerySpecialEpisode: This episode tackled the issue of eating disorders(though not in a realistic fashion), as shown when London and Maddie struggled with anorexia and bulimia when convinced that they needed to change their bodies in order to fit in their dresses for the charity fashion show.

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* VerySpecialEpisode: This episode tackled the issue of eating disorders(though not in a realistic fashion), as shown when London and Maddie struggled with anorexia and bulimia when convinced that they needed to change their bodies in order to fit in their dresses for the charity fashion show.show.
* WeightWoe: Played straight with London, inverted with Maddie.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Paolo snuck into the hotel's kitchen to sneak a snack, Cody calls him out on it. He tries asking the hungry chef what foods don't tempt him. Paolo momentarily says "Brussel Sprouts" before he [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint goes on a tangent on how it can be made appetizing]]. Fed up with his friend's unhealthy lifestyle, he snaps:
--> '''Cody:''' That's it! I was trying to get you to eat healthy because I want you to live a long time. But you want to eat yourself sick, go ahead! [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Just don't ask me to watch]].
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* RealityEnsues: A man tries to cure London and Maddie's eating disorders and body image issues with a simple heartwarming acceptance speech. It doesn't work.
* AVerySpecialEpisode: This episode tackled the issue of eating disorders(though not in a realistic fashion), as shown when London and Maddie struggled with anorexia and bulimia when convinced that they needed to change their bodies in order to fit in their dresses for the charity fashion show.

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* RealityEnsues: A man After Mr. Moseby tries to cure London and Maddie's eating disorders and body image issues with get the two to accept their bodies by giving them a simple heartwarming acceptance speech. It doesn't work.
speech, the girls end up being unphased by the speech and hilariously continue to exercise moments later. Just goes to show that although you can give well-meaning advice to people, it won’t always help someone instantly.
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* RealityEnsues:

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* RealityEnsues: A man tries to cure London and Maddie's eating disorders and body image issues with a simple heartwarming acceptance speech. It doesn't work.
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Health & Fitness is is the 34th episode of the second season of The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody. The Tipton is holding a Health and Fitness week. Cody encourages Chef Paolo to cook more healthily, while Zack's mother tries to get him to amend his eating habits and cut down on sugar. Meanwhile, both London and Maddie battle with eating disorders and body dysmorphia.

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Health & Fitness is is the 34th episode of the second season of The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody. The Tipton is holding a Health and Fitness week. Cody encourages Chef Paolo to cook more healthily, while Zack's mother tries to get him to amend his eating habits and cut down on sugar. Meanwhile, both London and Maddie battle with eating disorders and body dysmorphia.dysmorphia.
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* AVerySpecialEpisode: This episode tackled the issue of eating disorders(though not in a realistic fashion), as shown when London and Maddie struggled with anorexia and bulimia when convinced that they needed to change their bodies in order to fit in their dresses for the charity fashion show.
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Health & Fitness is is the 34th episode of the second season of The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody. The Tipton is holding a Health and Fitness week. Cody encourages Chef Paolo to cook more healthily, while Zack's mother tries to get him to amend his eating habits and cut down on sugar. Meanwhile, both London and Maddie battle with eating disorders and body dysmorphia.

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