Prank Week

Prank Week
Season 1, Episode 5
Production Information
Director	Savage Steve Holland
Writer	Anthony Del Broccolo
Prod code	108
Airdate	January 30, 2005
Episode Chronology
Previous	Defending Dustin
Next	Jet X

Prank Week is the fifth episode in Season 1 and the fifth overall episode in the Nickelodeon TV series Zoey 101. Going by streaming and/or production order, this is the 8th episode of Season 1. The episode aired on January 30, 2005.

Plot

Prank Week, a PCA tradition where old PCA students prank new ones, has begun. Since this is the first-year girls are allowed at PCA, the guys expect them to just take the pranks and do nothing, but the girls have a different idea. The girls carry out a plan that ends up threatening whether or not girls are allowed at PCA. Zoey, the leader of the prank group, decides to dress the statue of PCA's founder, Mr. Bradford Sr., in ladies' clothes, including panties, a bra, dress, and makeup. However, it just so happens that Mr. Bradford Jr. was visiting PCA and is appalled by this prank, leading him to expel the girls at the end of the semester. Zoey convinces him to only immediately expel her as a sacrifice to let the other girls stay at PCA. The boys decide to pull another prank (which, surprisingly, was organized by Logan) to let Zoey stay. Mr. Bradford decides to expel no one as long as they stop making the statue of his father pee. Quinn shows up ready to use her explosive device but is bummed when they tell her she no longer needs to and tosses it in the trash. Seconds later, the device goes off, rendering everyone around unconscious.

Episode Trivia

• Paul Butcher (Dustin Brooks) did not appear in this episode.
  • It is unknown why Dustin doesn't appear in this episode, especially since Zoey had to apologize in front of the whole school, which should have included Dustin.
• The lime green shirt Quinn wears was purchased at Gap Kids Fall of '04.
• We find out in this episode Nicole's hometown is in Kansas.
• This is the first episode where Dana's hair is worn differently.
• This episode was edited after the first broadcast. originally, Quinn's explosive device goes off and causes everyone on campus to faint, but now the episode ends early. The original ending can still be seen on the season 1 DVD, however.
• Going by streaming order, this is the 8th episode of Season 1.
• This episode reveals that whenever Nicole got nightmares, she would go to her mom's bed to sleep with her. But because she was currently at PCA, she ended up going to Zoey's bed, which frightened the latter the very next morning.

Goofs

• When Zoey says, "this means war" after the girls get water ballooned, the girl behind her is mouthing the same words too.
• There is no possible way the girls could get the underwear on that statue since its feet are attached to the block the statue is standing on.
• The boys could not have turned the statue into a fountain, since there is no visible latch needed to make this conversion.
• Zoey would've been hurt from the impact of the big red water balloon Logan threw.
• Chase was told to clean the vandalism off the statue, but it was the girls responsible for the vandalism.
• Zoey is giving a speech right before she gets officially expelled from PCA, but no one seemed to be there to pick her up.

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Cast

Main

• Jamie Lynn Spears as Zoey 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

Co-starring

• Miki Ishikawa as Vicky
• Jessica Chaffin as Coco Wexler
• Christopher Murray as Dean Rivers
• Brian Tee as Kazu