Little Beach Party

Little Beach Party
Season 1, Episode 13
Production Information
Director	Steve Holland
Writer	Steve Holland
Prod code	113
Airdate	May 1, 2005
Episode Chronology
Previous	School Dance
Next	Back to PCA

Little Beach Party is the Season 1 finale, the thirteenth episode in Season 1 and the thirteenth overall episode in the Nickelodeon TV series Zoey 101. The episode aired on May 1, 2005.

Plot

It's the end of the semester and Zoey and her friends are psyched about PCA's annual beach party, which is going to be the bash of the year, but everything gets turned around when they miss the buses because of a chemical Quinn invented that smells like coconut and makes them sleepy. They end up taking a taxi to a deserted beach more than one hundred miles away from the party thanks to Logan. With no cell phone signal or Wi-Fi hot spot, they are stuck there until someone stumbles upon them. All is not lost, however, when they all decide to have their own beach party, starting their own tradition. Dustin has to stay in the water the whole time because a giant wave stole his bathing suit. Later on, Quinn manages to call Mr. Bender to pick them up by wiring Chase's cell phone to Michael's laptop. After he picks them up and they arrive back at PCA, he discovers Quinn's coconut scented chemical, smells it, and falls asleep near the truck.

Trivia

• When Zoey asks Logan if he gave the cab driver the right directions, he says, "Yes, I Googled it." However, Google already has a parody in Schneider productions, called "Zaplook."
• When Chase tells Quinn that Mr. Bender's number is in his cell phone, you can see the name Paige Howard below Mr. Bender's. Paige would appear later in the series, in the episode Paige at PCA, portrayed by Miranda Cosgrove.
• Nicole uses the word "Suckish" in this episode. This is the fourth time she has used that word. She also is heard saying it in "Welcome to PCA", Disc Golf", and "Webcam."
• Michael says that they should start doing a beach tradition every semester after exams. However, in the last episodes of other seasons, they don't have an after-exam party. It is possible that those episodes don't take place at the end of a semester.
  • It is unknown if Lola, Lisa, Mark, or Vince, ever joined in on the gang's tradition too after coming to PCA.
• This episode, along with Spring Break-Up are the only episodes of the series that mainly takes place outside of PCA.
• This episode marks the last appearance of Dana Cruz, though she appears in flashbacks in PCA Confidential.
  • Dana is the only main character who Zoey doesn't help study for her exams.
  • In this episode, Dana barely has any dialogue and is shown very little. Fans of hers got rather upset since this was her last appearance and she did not get a proper goodbye.
  • In addition, Alexa Nikolas claimed that she got physically abused and harassed by Kristin Herrera while filming the final episode of season one.
  • Dana was written off the series. It was announced that she left for personal reasons. Dana has the second-fewest appearances of all the main characters in the series, present for all of Season 1 and not seen again.
• The shot of the water crashing against the rocks at the beach was used at the end of the title sequence in every season of Zoey 101.
• The girls thanked Quinn for the "experience" they had at the beach. However, Quinn did not get them to the beach, Logan did. Yet, everyone was angry with Logan when he accidentally used the wrong directions. Everyone, except Logan, was not angry with Quinn when they found out that she accidentally made them all fall asleep with her coconut fragrance. Quinn and Logan were both responsible for everything that happened, but nobody thanked Logan for the experience.
• When Zoey is helping Quinn study for her French class, omelet du fromage and the English translation cheese omelet is said between Zoey and Quinn, this could possibly be a reference and parody to an episode of the cartoon Dexter's Laboratory where Dexter studies for a French test but the French record gets stuck and it just says the same phrase over and over again to the point that's all Dexter can say throughout the episode and the fact both Dexter and Quinn are scientific geniuses who constantly work on inventions and experiments.
• This is the last episode of Zoey 101 in which Lola Martinez was an absent character (barring her absences in Haunted House and PCA Confidential). In other words, this is the last episode of Zoey 101 in which Lola Martinez was not part of the show.
• Ending Tagline: "You're a boy, go dig up some worms." - Nicole

Goofs

• After the gang gets dropped off at the wrong beach, they begin walking for over an hour, after which Zoey says they don't even know if they're going in the right direction. But they were walking with the sea on their left, which means they would have been going north (PCA being set in California), and thus further away from both PCA and the party, since Dustin said it was south of PCA.
• Dustin said he was in the ocean for six hours, however, if he were really in the water for that long, he would've gotten severely sunburnt, but when he said it, his skin is its normal color. It is possible he was just exaggerating, or he applied sunblock.
• How did they change their clothes so fast? Likewise, if they hadn't changed, they probably would've been able to catch the bus.
• If Quinn already knew the chemical smelled like coconut, she should have known it makes people sleepy.
• On the DVD version, the writer credit is correct, but the director credit goes to "Savage" Steve Holland, instead of Steve Holland.
• If one looks closely, it is clear that Dustin is still wearing a swimsuit while in the ocean.
• Quinn's mirror-induced fire starts far too quickly and is far too large to be considered realistic.
• Though Zoey, Chase, and Logan find worms in the sand, worms cannot live in sand.
• When everybody falls asleep, Chase falls onto the chair. When Michael wakes up, Chase is on the floor. Then when Michael sees what time, it is, Chase is back on the chair.

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Cast

Main

• Jamie Lynn Spears as Zoey Brooks
• Paul Butcher as Dustin Brooks
• Sean Flynn as Chase Matthews
• Kristin Herrera as Dana Cruz
• Christopher Massey as Michael Barret
• Alexa Nikolas as Nicole Bristow
• Erin Sanders as Quinn Pensky
• Matthew Underwood as Logan Reese