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| Season: | 3 | ||
| Episode: | 19 (season) 84 (series) | ||
| Production Code: | 316 | ||
| Special Guest: | Daniella Monet | ||
| Absent: | Ashley Tisdale as Maddie Fitzpatrick | ||
| Writer: | Danny Kallis | ||
| Director: | Jim Drake | ||
| Originally Aired: | July 19, 2008 | ||
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"Benchwarmers" is the 19th episode of the third season of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. London and Barbara did not make the cheerleading squad at Cheevers High. So they, Cody, and their friends decide to create their own squad, led by Mr. Moseby (who did cheerleading in high school and was even the captain).
Meanwhile, Zack tries out for boys' basketball and manages to make the team, but now has to adjust to being a "benchwarmer, a far cry from his "star athlete" status from back in middle school.
Story[]
Zack tries out for boys' basketball and is confident he'll make the team, but Cody tries warning Zack that just because he was a star athlete in middle school, it doesn't automatically he'll be a star athlete in high school. Cody's ultimately proven right when Zack ends up having some rather stiff competition -- while he does manage to make a team, he ends up being considered the worst player on the team he makes it too. At the end of the episode, he manages to win the game with an impressive free throw, which his team's coach (who has a rather "in your face" demeanor) genuinely congratulates him on, but even the coach can't help but note that (when it comes to basketball) free throws are pretty much the only thing Zack is actually good at.
Meanwhile, when Barbara and London got rejected as cheerleaders, they, along with Cody and Nia, form their own cheer-leading squad with the help of Mr. Moseby, who used to be a cheerleader captain when he was in high school, and two more rejects (Leslie and Haley).
Quotes[]
- Mr. Moseby: Cheerleading has made me the man I am today.
- Carey: Short and fussy?
- Mr. Moseby: Well-dressed and your boss.
- London: Whoa! Someone give me a B, give me a I, give me a T, E, R! What does that spell?
- Barbara: "Biter"?
- London: I meant to spell "bitter".
- Cody: You know, that's pretty close for London.
- Cody: See, you'd never see Barbara trying out for cheerleading. She's way too intellectual for that.
- Barbara: Look, Cody! My pom-poms match my glitter!
- Cody: Barbara, what are you doing here?
- Barbara: Well, I'm in high school now and I wanna show people that there's more to me than just... math and science. (pushes her glasses up)
- Cody: Barbara, you don't wanna go out there, flouncing around, wearing some short, tight, little skirt. (gets an excited look on his face, as if he was imagining Barbara in a cheerleader’s uniform) Go and get 'em, honey and don't take no for an answer!
- Coach Little: (to Zack) Free throws are your strength.
- Zack: What are my weaknesses?
- Coach Little: Just about everything else.
- Haley: I once hid for four weeks with no one finding me.
- Nia: I got a feeling no one was looking for her.
- Dana: May the best squad win.
- Barbara: Proper grammar is "the better squad" and you're on, girl!
- Nia: (to Dana) Oh, you like spirit? You're about to become one! (approaches Dana to punch her in the face but Cody, London, Barbara, Haley, and Leslie hold her back)
- Dana: No, not the nose. It was a birthday present.
- Barbara: That head cheerleader Dana is a total snob.
- Nia: Ooh, I hate her. I caught her flirting with my boyfriend and if she keeps it up, she's gonna be eating her own pom-poms.
- Carey: Girls, don't be upset about not making the cheerleading squad. They're just a bunch of elitist, stuck-up airheads.
- Nia: You forgot man stealers.
Trivia[]
- Zack's weight is probably responsible for him failing to make the team.
- This episode is Maddie’s final absence in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, and the final appearance of Nia and Haley. It’s also the final appearances of Jessica, Janice, and Barbara. They return in The Suite Life on Deck.
- Dana Wohl is pompous and petulant, she mistakes tearing someone else down for building herself up and she is competitive in a toxic way. All of these things make Dana a lot like Trina Vega, another fictional character played by Daniella Monet.
- Coach Little has the same last name as The Suite Life on Deck’s Marcus Little. It’s possible the two characters are somehow related.
- Nia mentioned that she and Vance broke up off-screen because the latter wanted to date Dana.
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