Drippin' Episode!

Drippin' Episode!
Season 3, Episode 19
Production Information
Director	David Kendall
Writer	Arthur Gradstein
Prod code	317
Airdate	October 21, 2007
Episode Chronology
Previous	The Curse of PCA
Next	Son of a Dean

Drippin' Episode! is the nineteenth episode in Season 3 and the 45th overall episode in the Nickelodeon TV series, Zoey 101. It is the 17th episode of Season 3 in streaming and production order. The episode aired on October 21, 2007.

Plot

Michael tries to introduce his new slang word, "drippin'," which means "Good. Awesome. Sweet." Logan gets a horror movie called Shinnyuusha. Evidently, Dustin freaks out from watching this movie and stays with the girls overnight. The girls learn that Dustin was only scared for the first night and that he stayed for a couple of more nights because he missed hanging out with Zoey. After he tells Zoey the truth, she gives him a hug. Lola and Quinn who were waiting out in the hallway join the two, crying and saying Dustin can stay with them. Dustin's only response is "Can't breathe."

Meanwhile, the guys’ dorm encounters a new problem – the fire alarm goes off at night, despite the fact that there is no fire. In the end, after the 3rd time the fire alarm was activated without warning (and also after the dorm got detention for the 2nd offence after no one confessed), it turns out it was Logan's illegal J-Phone from Japan that was setting off the fire alarm (which, coincidentally, set off to notify Logan about upcoming movies and new songs). According to Chief Beck, the J-Phone is illegal in the United States because it uses the same radio frequencies that police and fire departments use as well as the fact it is strong enough to activate fire alarms. As a result, Logan gets chased across campus and beaten up by the boys (minus Chase and Michael, who both went back to their dorms) in retaliation for getting them in trouble.

By the time anyone has caught on to drippin', Chase and Logan deny that Michael invented the word (just to annoy him, presumably because Michael annoyed the two with "drippin'"), so he invents another new slang term, "flump," which means "not good" or "bad."

Trivia

• The working title for this episode was "Horror Movie".
• The movie title, Shinnyuusha, means "trespasser" in Japanese.
• Shane Harper from Dance on Sunset, and later Good Luck Charlie, played the student who delivers the message to Zoey that Dustin is at Dean Rivers' office wanting to go home.
• This is the first time Dustin has been involved in an episode's main plot since the Season 2 episode Bad Girl.
• Going by production order, this is the 17th episode of Season 3.
• This is the third episode in which Logan gets beaten up this season, following The Great Vince Blake and Wrestling.
• In this episode, the fire alarm sounds different than it did in People Auction. The fire alarm sound exactly like on the Drake & Josh episode, Josh Is Done and the iCarly episode, iWanna Stay With Spencer.
• On DVD releases, the episode is simply called Drippin'.
• Drippin' is most likely the Zoey 101 equivalent to Gretchen Wieners' phrase "so fetch" in the movie Mean Girls, as both Michael and Gretchen tried to make their respective phrases catch on.
• Shinnyuusha is most likely supposed to be Ichi the Killer, another Japanese horror movie that was banned in multiple countries.
• Morals:
  • Causing false alarms is a crime whether intentional or not.
  • Overusing a term or phrase can get annoying fast.
  • You shouldn't watch something if it can make you nervous or scared.
  • It's okay to miss your friends and relatives, but you can still keep in touch with them.

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Goofs

• On the third night the fire alarm went off, the clock in the boys' room showed the time to be 3:38am. Yet in the scene after it, the girls are shown to be up playing a board game with Dustin, before Lola and Quinn lie about having to go and brush their teeth, in order to allow Zoey to be able to talk to Dustin alone. It seems unlikely that the girls would have stayed up so long playing board games, so the scene with Dustin and the girls must have happened before the fire alarm went off, not after it.
• While Logan could still face potential punishment for causing the fire alarm to go off with the rest of the dorm off the hook, the entire dorm, save for Chase and Michael, could have gotten into trouble again for beating up Logan.
  • Although it seemed as though Dean Rivers knew it was going to happen and did not care as he went to go get coffee with Chief Beck.

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