History Series / Zoey101

* AmbiguousDisorder: Nicole's in-show reason for leaving after season 2, Obsessive Male Gender Disorder. It may exist (depending on who you talk to) but it's unlikely Nicole's case was strong enough to necessitate action.

The show began with Zoey and her roommates [[GenkiGirl Nicole Bristow]] (Alexa Nikolas) and [[SpicyLatina Dana Cruz]] (Kristin Herrera), with Zoey making friends with [[CannotSpitItOut Chase Matthews]] (Sean Flynn) and his roomates, [[TokenBlackFriend Michael Barrett]] (Christopher Massey) and [[SpoiledBrat Logan Reese]] (Matthew Underwood). Zoey was also called upon to look after her younger brother [[TagalongKid Dustin]] (Paul Butcher), with the slightly crazy geek Quinn Pensky (Creator/ErinSanders) always ensuring that HilarityEnsues at PCA.

The show began with Zoey and her roommates [[GenkiGirl Nicole Bristow]] (Alexa Nikolas) and [[SpicyLatina Dana Cruz]] (Kristin Herrera), with Zoey making friends with [[CannotSpitItOut Chase Matthews]] (Sean Flynn) and his roomates, [[TokenBlackFriend Michael Barrett]] (Christopher Massey) and [[SpoiledBrat Logan Reese]] (Matthew Underwood). Zoey was also called upon to look after her younger brother [[TagalongKid Dustin]] (Paul Butcher), with the slightly crazy geek [[{{Nerd}} Quinn Pensky]] (Creator/ErinSanders) always ensuring that HilarityEnsues at PCA.

* BetaCouple: Mark and Quinn, for most of the series; later also Michael and Lisa.

** The "Spring Break-Up" special involves the students starring in a special reality-show produced by Logan's father. The show, "Gender Defenders", is entirely ''about'' this sort of plot, meaning that they're put into this conflict intentionally. It starts out fun, until Chase accidentally steals Zoey's Tek-Mate, which cost her team a game they would've otherwise have won [[ImpededCommunication due to a communication failure]], and suddenly, [[FriendshipStrainingCompetition it becomes a lot more serious]], and the fighting becomes real.

* AbsenteeActor: Zoey is the only character to appear in every episode of the show.
** Dustin appears in less than half of the show (25 out of 65 episodes).
** Chase does not appear in Season 4, outside of it's premiere and finale.
** James only appears in Season 4.
** Dana only appears in Season 1.
** Lola is not introduced until Season 2 and is absent from ''Haunted House'' from that season and ''PCA Confidential'' from Season 3.
** ''PCA Confidential'' is the only episode that Michael is absent from.
** Nicole only appears in Seasons 1 and 2.
** Quinn does not appear in ''Defending Dustin'', ''School Dance'', and ''PCA Confidential''.
** Logan didn't appear in "Defending Dustin", ''Quinn's Date'', ''Spring Fling'', ''Backpack'', and ''PCA Confidential''.

The show began with Zoey and her roommates [[GenkiGirl Nicole Bristow]] (Alexa Nikolas) and [[SpicyLatina Dana Cruz]] (Kristin Herrera), with Zoey making friends with [[CannotSpitItOut Chase Matthews]] (Sean Flynn) and his roomates, [[TokenBlackFriend Michael Barrett]] (Christopher Massey) and [[SpoiledBrat Logan Reese]] (Matthew Underwood). Zoey was also called upon to look after her younger brother [[TagalongKid Dustin]] (Paul Butcher), with the slightly crazy geek [[HollywoodNerd Quinn Pensky]] (Creator/ErinSanders) always ensuring that HilarityEnsues at PCA.

[[caption-width-right:350:♪''If you wanna play, come and play today''\\
''Let's just get away, yeah''♪]]

* IdiotBall: ''Robot Wars'', ''Walk-A-Thon'', Chase should of just told the nerds to babysit the baby, finish Michael's project, or just ask Zoey to find someone else to babysit a baby, like a babysitter that could be called on short notice...

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Lola, Dana's replacement in season 2, is very different from her. Dana was a grumpy, sporty tomboy who doesn't get along with Nicole, Lola is a carefree, girly fashionista who gets along with everyone. Ironically in season 3, Lola becomes a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to Nicole, after the latter is PutOnABus (in season 2 Lola was just a confident fashionista with her own original style, but in season 3, she becomes perky, boy-crazy, and conventionally girly like Nicole was, losing her MulticoloredHair and original style).

* KarmaHoudini: The football team for beating up Logan, Michael, Chase, and Mark. While Vince got mauled and expelled at the end, the rest of the football teams' fate is unknown.

** Chase exposes Vince as a cheater, causing the latter to be put on academic probation and unable to participate in an important football game. This results in most of the school students hating Chase and the entire school football team beating him up. Logan, Michael and Mark are also beaten up when they try to defend Chase. Slightly inverted later on though, as it's eventually revealed that Vince was expelled for leading the attack on Chase and his friends.

* TakeAThirdOption: Averted in "The Great Vince Blake" Chase decides to let Vince off for cheating under the condition he never does it again. Vince [[IdiotBall tells him it's not going to happen]], so Chase rats him out getting him suspended.

* UncoolUndies: In the episode "Webcam," the boys sneak a webcam in the girls' common area in order to spy and learn their embarrassing secrets; one of which is that Nicole wears panties with a "[[Franchise/HelloKitty Hello Bunny]]" print on them. She angrily says that they were on sale.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Chase exposes Vince as a cheater, causing the latter to be put on academic probation and unable to participate in an important football game. This results in most of the school students hating Chase and the entire school football team, with Vince leading the way, beating him up. Logan, Michael and Mark are also beaten up when they try to defend Chase. Slightly inverted later on though, as it's eventually revealed that Vince was expelled for leading the attack on Chase and his friends.
** The episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Wrestling'']], Zoey enters a wrestling tournament and takes on the reigning champ, Chuck Javers. She gets curb stomped and is knocked out for a while. Logan confronts Chuck in the parking lot for his bloodlust and is beaten brutally for it.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: Zoey would not have been allowed to fight Chuck Javers, as she would have to be in his weight class, which she clearly is not. Additionally, Javers wouldn't be allowed to compete in the sport period due to attacking a referee and cameraman

* BloodKnight: Chuck Javers, the undefeated California State High School Wrestling champion. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is him brutalizing his opponent in a wrestling match, then doing the same to the ref when he tries to stop him and then attacking the camera man for the crime of looking at him.

** In "Zoey's Tutor", Logan makes Chase believe that he and Zoey are dating, even if it isn't true. As a punishment, his friends put a rat in Logan's pants while he's asleep.
** In "Miss PCA", Logan hosts a new beauty pageant. Both Zoey and Lola want to win and become competitive, so they end in a mud fight. When Logan protests because he disqualifies them from his beauty pageant, Zoey and Lola team up against him and start pushing him down in the mud repeatedly while laughing.

** In "Anger Management" Logan yells at Dustin, Zoey's little brother. Everyone acts like "yelling at a little kid" is the worst crime ever. Later, his punishment for weaseling out of anger management classes is for Zoey to intentionally force him to lose his science project, soil his motorcycle seat with a gallon of honey, and deface his dorm and the clothes he's wearing by throwing in a paint bomb.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: "Wrestling" is an example of this for Zoey, as while her being good at sports like Basketball makes sense, wrestling is something that takes a lot of training. While she might've been able to handle other guys her own size(we don't know since they opt to forfeit rather then fight her and ask being humiliated by losing to a girl or risk getting booed for fighting a girl) the JerkJock champion is Chuck Javers, someone who is shown regularly wiping the floor with guys bigger then Zoey and with a lot more training, so the outcome [[spoiler:beating Zoey within seconds]] is hardly a surprise as even if she'd had more experience wrestling, the odds were heavily stacked against her, as the whole reason Coach Peters put Zoey on the team was so the other opponents would forfeit against her and then his best wrestler could go up against Javers without being tired out, as Chuck is implied to be so strong that outright cheating was his only shot at defeating him, so nobody especially not Zoey stood a chance at defeating him in a straight up match.

* TakeThat: Towards the end of episode two in season three, Zoey and Chase talk about how they think it's dumb that two people can't be friends without suspicions arising about their feelings for each other. This could be considered a TakeThat to the fans who ship the pair, or just shippers of anyone on the series.
** [[spoiler: They ''do'' end up together, so it's a BrokenAesop at best.]]

* ElectionDayEpisode: season 2 had one where Zoey and Chase ran against each other for student body president. They both end up dropping out of the race, since it was ruining their friendship, and Mark Delfigalo (Quinn's boyfriend) ends up winning by default.

* {{Zeerust}}: In "Time Capsule", Chase imagines his future self in 2015 ordering a computer by voice to play Zoey's DVD message in hologram form. While the computer part is surprisingly spot on given the likes of Alexa and other virtual assistants, the writers went too ahead of themselves with the hologram thing...

* RealityEnsues: One episode has Michael and Logan boxing over who gets the single bed. Since neither of them have experience in this, they only land a few hits on each other and end just tiring themselves out very quickly.

* ThemedParty: The boys are discussing a theme for Chase's surprise party, trying to decide between a pyjama party or a beach party. They decide for the beach party, since it will be an excuse for the girls to wear bikinis, until Zoey mentions that she plans to bring Chase's grandma as a gift, and decide to go with the pyjama party instead.