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| Maddie with the twins and their mother | |||
| Season: | 1 | ||
| Episode: | 5 (season) 5 (series) | ||
| Production Code: | 101 | ||
| Writer: | Danny Kallis, Jim Geoghan | ||
| Director: | Lee Shallat-Chemel | ||
| Originally Aired: | April 8, 2005 September 3, 2005 (ABC) | ||
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"Grounded on the 23rd Floor" is the 5th episode of the first season of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Because of Carey losing too much money, the boys decide to make a plan on taking a picture of a wedding kiss (costing $20,000) taking place while the twins are "grounded".
Story[]
Zack and Cody are rollerblading in the lobby, and injure Mr. Moseby. Mom grounds them for a week. Later, Carey told her children that she didn't have enough money to buy all the things they want, because they, "don't have any money." They find out that a famous couple is getting married at the hotel, without paparazzi. They understand this opportunity so they buy a camera off Maddie to take a picture of the kiss, due to the rumor it would be selling for 20,000 dollars.
Meanwhile, Maddie came to babysit the twins. She tries to prevent them from escaping. Zack sneaks into the wedding and takes the picture. However, Maddie, Cody, and Zack get busted by Mr. Moseby. Carey finds out so the boys are grounded again for another week.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Cole Sprouse as Cody Martin
- Dylan Sprouse as Zack Martin
- Brenda Song as London Tipton
- Ashley Tisdale as Maddie Fitzpatrick
- Phill Lewis as Marion Moseby
- Kim Rhodes as Carey Martin
Guest Starring[]
- Vince Rimoldi as Tuck
- Bob Mackey as Master Z
- Louis Dauber as The Reverend
Co-Starring[]
- Joyce Giraud as Ursula
- Maximillian Alexander as Bobby Carillo
- Terry Simpson as Cute Guy
- Carey Scott as Photographer
Quotes[]
- Mr. Moseby [to Carey]: You know I understand, children sometimes can be a burden.
- Carey: You have kids?
- Mr. Moseby: No, and after seeing yours, not gonna happen.
- Zack: (about Maddie) Baby's got it going on! (makes the shape of an hourglass "body" with his hands)
- Carey: She's got what going where?
- Zack: I don't know what I am saying.
- Zack: Cool, I just found five dollars in my pocket.
- Cody: Those are my pants!
- Zack: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- Cody: Yeah! What are you thinking?
- Zack: We can get a picture of the kiss and we'll be rich!
- Cody: And we could pay mom back.
- Zack: And we'll be rich!
- Cody: And we won't be burdens anymore.
- Zack: And we'll be rich!
- Cody: And whatever's left, we can give to charity!
- Zack: I swear, we're not related!
- Maddie: I completely reorganized the candy display. Now tell me, what draws your eye?
- Zack: You do, sweet thang!
- Maddie: Please, some of this candy is older than you.
- [About the $20,000 wedding kiss]
- Zack and Cody: (singing) We're rich! We're rich! We're rich! We're ri..
- Chuck (also singing): Not quite! Not quite! No one is getting into that wedding without a printed invitation.
- London: Except for me. Little me, back from, Paris. Hello, Maddie.
- Maddie: Hi, London.
- London: And look, while I was in Europe, you got promoted to candy girl. Bravo!
- Zack: How are you gonna get in?
- London: My daddy owns the hotel, duh!
- (Zack and Cody get excited)
- Zack: Can you get us in?
- London: Of course...
- (Zack and Cody get more excited)
- London: But I'm not going to, duh! I fly solo.
- Maddie: Oh, like the time you let yourself in the rock-star's room with the master key.
- London: Johnny Rip thought that was endearing. He even wrote me.
- Maddie: That was a restraining order.
- London: When I inherit this hotel, you're so fired!
- Maddie: Oh, you'll be too busy getting facelifts!
- London: (While London and Zack are in the air vent) Man, it stinks in here.
- Zack: Sorry.
- Maddie: [While Maddie and Cody are in the air vent] I just wanted to make a little money so I could buy myself a few nice things, because some of us have to work and don't get sent to Paris as a punishment for breaking into Johnny Rip's room! Man, it stinks in here!
- Cody: Sorry.
- Maddie: (about Zack’s whereabouts) Where is he?
- Cody: I'll never rat him out! Not in a million years! Not in a billion years...(Maddie pinches his ear) He's in the air conditioning vent on the way to the wedding to get the picture of the $20,000 kiss. (Maddie tugs on his ear dragging him along with her) OW! OW! OW.....
- Maddie: Oh, no. We’re too late.
- Cody: Yes! I mean, darn.
- Reverend: By the power invested in me in the state of Massachusetts, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride.
- Reverend: (Zack takes the picture of the $20,000 kiss) Hey, that scum's got a camera.
- [While Zack and Cody are in the bathroom]
- Carey: Aw, how cute. My boys are turning into little men and checking for armpit hair.
- Zack: You should really knock.
- Cody: Yeah, we don't walk in on you.
- Carey: Actually, you do, and you bring friends.
- Zack: What does he have that I don't have?
- Cody: Armpit hair.
- Maddie: I thought Zack was taking the bath.
- Cody: Yeah, but he splashed me.. not nice, Zack!
- Maddie: No, a dromedary is not a play about milk.
- Carey: Anything you want you've got it.
- Cody: Get us into the wedding.
- Carey: Except that.
- Mr. Moseby [when he takes Cody’s walkie-talkie radio away]: Bird dog, this is Lard Butt. You do anything to disrupt this wedding, and it will be the last song your mother ever sings at the Tipton. Over and you're almost out!
- Carey: Mr. Moseby, I'm sorry, you won't see them down here for a long long time, till they go to college.
- Mr. Moseby: Or prison.
- Mr. Moseby [when the twins are goofing around in the lobby]: What is going on, if it's not one thing it's …(runs into a big guy) MAMAAAAAAAAAA! (the big guy falls on top of him)
- Carey [to the twins]: Come on guys, this is the best gig we'll ever have, without it, we're broke, with it we're broke. Don't you guys realize what a great opportunity is here for us? I don't have to go out on the road anymore, we can all be together.
- Cody: Yeah, I like it better here than at Grandma's.
- Zack: Yeah, last time, she dropped her false teeth into my chocolate milk.
- Maddie: [While Maddie and the twins are in the vent] OK, I've only babysat you guys for 30 minutes, what do you do now? Rob a casino?
- Zack: Don't have to. We hit the jackpot tonight.
- Mr. Moseby [appears in the vent]: Busted!
- (Cody, Maddie, and Zack scream real loudly)
Trivia[]
- Note: This was originally the first episode of the entire series, as the episode style and layout was that of a pilot episode and many of the props used in the episode (such as Maddie's uniform or some furniture in the Martins' suite) were not used in future episodes. The twins hairstyles are slightly different and Cody is dressed in a style similar to Zack's, rather than how he dresses usually. Additionally, Maddie has brown hair instead of blonde hair in this episode.
- Likewise, Maddie and London are more antagonistic towards each other in this episode compared to the rest of the series. Tuck seems like he was going to perhaps be a recurring guest character (seeing how he's a staff member at the Tipton) but he doesn't appear again. London also is smarter and doesn't seem to have the ditzy traits she is known for.
- At the last minute, the episode was replaced by "Hotel Hangout".
- An alternate version of this episode also aired with different cuts and extended scenes, including an extended scene after Maddie and London talk and London says "Hold that elevator!" and more conversations between Zack and Cody when they are observing armpit hairs and when Carey refers to the previous hotel accident.
- Carey's singing voice is not done by her actress, Kim Rhodes in this episode. She does sing in the rest of the series though.
- Mr. Moseby is injured for the second time during the episode Cruisin' for a Bruisin'.
Goofs[]
- When the twins were singing "We're rich, we're rich," Zack turns around. But after the cut, when Chuck says, "Not quite, not quite," Zack completes the turn he already completed.
- When Carey says, "those people are just low life greedy scum", she puts her hand on her left hip two times.
- At 19:13, the boom mic appears on the top right of the screen.
- After Zack says that he and Cody snuck in to take the $20,000 picture, Mr. Moseby is behind the twins. After the next camera cut, he is beside Carey.
- In the first scene in the suite, Zack and Cody go from wearing their backpacks, to not wearing them and then back to wearing them.
- Cody is the only one who has dirty clothes even though Zack and Maddie also crawled through the vent.