Chase's Grandma

Chase's Grandma
Season 3, Episode 10
Production Information
Director	Michael Grossman
Writer	Ethan Banville Arthur Gradstein
Prod code	312
Airdate	March 18, 2007
Episode Chronology
Previous	Zoey's Balloon
Next	Quarantine

Chase's Grandma is the tenth episode in Season 3 and the 36th overall episode in the Nickelodeon TV series, Zoey 101. It is the 12th episode of Season 3 in streaming and production order. The episode aired on March 18, 2007.

Plot

Chase's birthday is coming up, but he is too busy writing a 5000-word paper to care. Despite his insistence that he doesn't wish to celebrate his birthday; his friends decide to throw him a surprise party anyway. Zoey sees Chase sending his grandmother an electronic birthday card, she learns that Chase and his grandmother share the same birthday, and that he was very close with his grandma when he was young. Zoey ultimately decides to give Chase the perfect gift by inviting his grandmother to PCA, for the surprise party, and his grandmother accepts the invite. Initially Logan and Michael had wanted to make the surprise party a beach theme with everyone in swimsuits. However, they decide that it won't work out with Chase's grandmother attending the party, and they grudgingly settle for a pajama theme party.

However, Chase's grandmother calls Zoey, claiming she has the flu and will be unable to come to PCA, for the party, to Zoey's dismay, as well as Logan and Michael because it means they aborted the beach theme for nothing. On Chase's birthday, Zoey tells Chase about her attempt to invite his grandmother over that fell through, due to her illness. However, Chase is happy with Zoey's efforts, and, as he's almost finished with his essay, he agrees to go with Zoey to his surprise party (which he knows about). As the party gets underway, Zoey leaves to change into her pajamas. However, when she returns, Chase has quietly left. Zoey is initially angered about it, assuming he left to finish his essay.

However, Michael takes Zoey aside and informs her of the real reason Chase left he learned that his grandmother has died, as her illness was apparently more serious than the flu. Chase had privately told Michael about it and slipped out. Horrified, Zoey rushes off to find Chase, as it begins to rain. She finds Chase sitting near the fountain, and the two quietly sit together in the pouring rain, hugging each other, as the episode ends.

Meanwhile, Dustin lands himself in trouble for swimming in the campus fountain, but Zoey covers for him. However, she makes him promise he won't get in trouble anymore, but soon after, Dustin gets his arm gets stuck in the vending machine while he is trying to get a snack. Quinn and Lola try to get him out, but fail, so they bring him to Chase, Michael, and Logan's room to keep Zoey from finding out. At the dorm, Dustin eventually manages to free himself by buying something from the machine.

Trivia

• This is the first time that a main character's family member dies. The second time is when Zoey finds out her great-uncle Morris died in "Zoey's Ribs."
• This episode marks the first appearance of Dustin since Hot Dean, which is his longest number of consecutive absences in the show, with a span of seven episodes.
• This is one of the few episodes, if not the only episode, where people frown instead of smile during throughout the closing end credits.
• Chase’s response when Lola says happy birthday to him as he exits and leaves his dorm room is similar to Josh’s response in the Drake & Josh episode little sibling when a boy asks him who the cool guy on the four-wheeler is.
• The names of the two football players are Weissman and Fleck, which is a reference to two writers and directors who work with Dan Schneider named Adam Weissman and Matt "Fleck" Fleckenstein.
• Chase reveals as a kid, when he would get hurt and cry, his grandma would sing A Million Raindrops to make him feel better. During the outro of the episode, while Chase and Zoey are sitting by the fountain, a real version of the song begins to play.
• This is one of the few episodes to have a dark tone when it is learned that Chase's grandmother who previously only had the flu dies of cancer.
• Going by production order, this is the 12th episode of Season 3.

Goofs

• Since Chase's grandmother died, he would have asked for time off to attend her funeral.
  • However, it is possible that he did, and that the following episode (which would be Quarantine) had taken place at least one or two weeks after this episode.
• Zoey is seen having a TekMate in this episode. However, in Spring Break-Up, her TekMate falls into the fountain at the end.
  • It could be possible that she bought a new one.
• Even though she clearly had just been walking through the rain, Zoey remains completely dry, while Chase who is sitting in a dry section is soaking wet.

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Cast

Main

• Jamie Lynn Spears as Zoey Brooks
• Paul Butcher as Dustin Brooks
• Sean Flynn as Chase Matthews
• Victoria Justice as Lola Martinez
• Christopher Massey as Michael Barret
• Erin Sanders as Quinn Pensky
• Matthew Underwood as Logan Reese