Spring Break-Up

Spring Break-Up
Season 2, Episode 10-11
Production Information
Director	Steve Hoefer
Writer	Dan Schneider
Prod code	212-213
Airdate	March 10, 2006
Episode Chronology
Previous	Lola Likes Chase
Next	People Auction

Spring Break-Up is a 48-minute television movie based on the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101. It serves as the 10th and 11th episodes of Season 2 and the 23rd and 24th episodes overall. It originally aired on March 10, 2006.

Plot

As part of Spring Break at PCA, Logan invites all of his friends to his house in Santa Barbara. While packing, Chase steals Michael's cologne; Michael is sure that he's stolen it to attract Zoey, and points out that Spring break will give Chase the perfect time to tell Zoey that he loves her. Chase explains that he's afraid that he'll tell Zoey that he loves her, but she won't love him back, so he doesn't want to risk telling her.

At Logan's house, his dad announces the surprise: Logan and his friends are going to help test for a new reality TV series "Gender Defenders," which features boys and girls competing to see which gender is better. For the next few days, they play in a series of competitions to test their abilities on 3 levels--mental, physical and creative. The team that wins gets to come with him to Hollywood to film the very first episode of the series. To thank them in advance to helping with the show, Malcolm gives them all TekMates, a new type of smartphone. they are allowed to use during the competition. Zoey is chosen as the girls team captain, and Logan chooses himself as the boys team captain, but Michael nominates Chase and everyone else agrees. The team captains are to meet at 10 p.m. to go over the rules. Once again, Michael finds this as the perfect opportunity for Chase to tell Zoey that he loves her, but Chase still doesn't want to risk it.

Quinn is making an energy drink, called Frazz, but is trying to make it less powerful, but remain healthy. Dustin finds the bottle and drinks it, fueling his energy. In the morning, he is found by Quinn and Zoey to have spent the entire night working out in the gym, high on the drink. Chase confronts Michael about the texting, and when Michael tells Chase he didn't text him back, they realize the text was sent to Zoey by mistake.

To Chase's relief, he is able to see that the message is unread, but he must delete the message from Zoey's TekMate before she does read it. However, when he sees her, the two teams are preparing for the first challenge. The mental level, which consists of a scavenger hunt to find numbers to the combination of a safe. Chase manages to sneak Zoey's TekMate from her and delete the message, without her noticing, but before he can return it, the challenge begins, causing everyone to run off, and he cannot return it without her noticing.

While the two teams are evenly matched in the hunt, the boys have a physical advantage with Dustin's energy. The girls attempt to win by texting the numbers to Zoey with the TekMates, but she does not receive it. Thus, the boys go on to win the challenge. However, when the girls find out Chase had Zoey's TekMate, they accuse him of cheating. Chase proclaims his innocence but cannot explain his way out of it. Malcolm does not disqualify the boys because Logan is his son. However, the situation puts Zoey and Chase at odds.

The next challenge is a creative one. Both teams are presented with a nerd and are tasked with giving their nerd a cool makeover, with the cooler one winning the challenge. The girls win the creative challenge, resulting in a tie. The physical challenge goes on to end in a tie.

To break the tie, the two captains, Zoey and Chase, are forced to face off in a challenge of jousting on podiums over a swimming pool. To win, one must knock the other off his or her pedestal into the water, twice. Chase wins the first match and Zoey wins the second. Chase gains the upper hand in the third match, disarming Zoey when she drops her baton, but he cannot bring himself to win this way, and he throws the match, giving Zoey and girls the win for the game. After finishing the game, everyone is celebrating with a dinner party. Malcolm then reveals another surprise: both the girls AND the boys will be appearing on the first episode of Gender Defenders, as he had hidden cameras recording everything all along.

Back at PCA, everyone gathers in the girls' lounge with their classmates to watch the premiere. Zoey asks Nicole and Michael where Chase is, but Michael says he is not coming and is at the fountain. Zoey leaves to go talk to Chase. Dustin, still energized from Frazz, runs around excitedly telling other kids in the lounge that he is going to be on national TV and Lola asks Quinn when the Frazz will wear off. Quinn is unsure, but just as Dustin is excitedly talking to her, the Frazz wears off as Dustin passes out on her. Zoey approaches Chase at the fountain, where he admits the reason, he took Zoey's TekMate was because he unintentionally sent a message to her that was meant for Michael and had to delete it. He also mentions she ran off as he was trying to put her TekMate back. Zoey believes him, but she wants to know what the message was. Chase is about to tell her, but their friends run up to them and make them come to the premiere. During the premiere, Chase gives in and sends Zoey the message, but after he hits send, he notices Zoey doesn't have her TekMate with her. It had been left on the fountain, and it vibrates its way into the fountain, destroying it, leaving the message permanently unread.

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
• Alexa Nikolas as Nicole Bristow
• Erin Sanders as Quinn Pensky
• Matthew Underwood as Logan Reese

Trivia

• In production order, this special comprises the 12th and 13th episodes of Season 2.
• This was the final episode filmed with Alexa Nikolas, who played Nicole Bristow. She departed the series following production of this episode. In a 2019 interview, Nikolas stated that her decision to leave was influenced by a negative working environment. She alleged that Britney Spears, the sister of series lead Jamie Lynn Spears, confronted her in Jamie Lynn’s trailer regarding rumors she had allegedly spread. According to Nikolas, the incident was distressing and led her to seek support from the show’s producers, who she claimed did not take her concerns seriously. She also stated that she was later called into a meeting with Dan Schneider and executives from Nickelodeon and Viacom, which she described as emotionally difficult and a factor in her decision to leave the network.
  • This may explain why Nicole is the only main character not credited in the opening sequence of Gender Defenders.
  • Britney has since reached out to Nikolas, apologizing for the confrontation.
  • TikTok creator Elicia White, who goes by the username laloca_chica, posted a video on TikTok addressing a scene in the episode where the girls were cheering in victory for winning the Gender Defenders competition. According to White in the video, she noticed in the scene that Quinn hit Nicole in the back of her head and pushed her in the back, so she put the video in slow motion two times for the viewers to see the head bang and shoving and deemed them as evidence of Nikolas being bullied on set. The video eventually ended up going viral. Nikolas confirmed that Erin Sanders did shove, and head banged her intentionally.
• While the girls and boys are partying after the girls' win, the song "Mandy" is being played by the DJ. It is by the Jonas Brothers on their CD "It's About Time."
• This is the fourth episode to focus on Chase’s feelings for Zoey.
• The TekMate is an exact replica of the T-Mobile Sidekick II.
• The numbers in each of the two combinations are related to the other numbers within that combination. The boys' combination, 27-12-36, are all multiples of 3. The girls' combination, 14-7-21, are multiples of 7.
• After the second challenge, Dustin starts running in circles and laughs madly but when he runs into the shot, we see he's not laughing or even smiling.
• Michael mentions knowing a girl named Lisa Lillien, a reference to series creator Dan Schneider’s wife. Her name appears in various episodes throughout the series. Lillien is also known for her brand Hungry Girl.
• This episode, along with Little Beach Party, is one of the only episodes in the series that primarily takes place outside of PCA.
• The house this episode is set in was later reused as the Vega's house in Victorious.
• When the end credits show for both parts, there are not clips used during them and it just shows a black screen while the credits are displaying.
  • Also, it plays the beginning piano notes of the show's theme just like in the previous episode, Lola Likes Chase.

Goofs

• In the scene where Zoey and Chase are about to go over the rules, Chase sends the message to Michael that tells, his loving to Zoey may ruin their friendship. You can see that in the "To" and "From" section of the text message it says Michael instead of Zoey, so it couldn't have been sent to Zoey.
• When Zoey finds out Dustin drank all of Quinn's frazz she screams his name and runs to go and find him, but despite being meant to be angry you can tell she's laughing.
• When the girls are deciding who runs faster, Quinn says she can't because she has an extra toe. Some episodes indicate that the myth is not true. More proof is when the last game in the competition, the girls are spraying the boys and Quinn clearly has ten toes.
• Dustin was hopped up on Frazz for the whole filming of Gender Defenders until it wore off at PCA, but during the celebratory dinner at Logan's house, he is only jittery during Malcolm's announcement.
• When Zoey and Chase are heading to the premiere with their friends, Zoey's TekMate is still on her belt.
• A jib camera was used in the taping of the show; it's quite hard to hide one of those.
• Zoey's TekMate falls into the fountain at the end, but in Chase's Grandma, she seems to have her TekMate back. It is possible she bought another TekMate.
• When Chase and Michael are talking after Chase realizes he sent the wrong message, if you look closely, Chase's TekMate is shown open and closed in between shots.
• The part where Michael says that when Chase and Zoey were talking to go over the rules, he says that Zoey didn't have her TekMate with her when they talked, but when Zoey and Chase went over the rules, Zoey did have her TekMate with her.
• The TekMates mysteriously turn on the second Chauncy opens the briefcase to show everyone.
• When Quinn calls Zoey's TekMate, it rings, but when the girls text message the combination to Zoey, it does not notify her. Chase clearly didn't touch it between those two events, so it couldn't have been off during the text message.

Home media release

The VHS and DVD were released on May 19, 2006.

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External links

• Official Zoey 101: Spring Break-Up website
• Screenshots, Pictures of Zoey 101 Spring Break-Up
• Zoey 101: Spring Break-Up at the Internet Movie Database