Bowling (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody episode)

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“Bowling”
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode

Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 13
Guest stars	Caroline Rhea Adrian R'Mante Dot Jones Brian Stepanek
Written by	Danny Kallis
Directed by	Richard Correll
Production no.	208
Original airdate	April 28, 2006
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"Bowling" is an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Mr. Moseby and the Tipton Staff gets beat up in flag football by a rival hotel team, The Saint Mark Hotel. London is the cheerleader and complains about cheering for a bad team. Maddie tells her she started cheering for the other team 2 minutes into the game. Ilsa Shickelgrubermeiger-Von Helsing del Keppelugerhofer walks in with a hulking woman called Gretel and rub it in that they lost. The hulking woman shows them the highlights of the football game. Obviously they had none. Ilsa Shickelgrubermeiger-Von Helsing del Keppelugerhofer challenged them to a bowling competition. Arwin starts screaming and runs out. Carey is named captain by Mr. Moseby because she is a good player and the mother of the star player, Zack. She explains that when they were traveling, they needed something to do and every town has a bowling alley. Moseby wants her to kick London off the team because she is a bad player; Carey tells London she is an alternate and will be the team's "secret weapon" in case someone else can't play, managing to convince London that this is a good thing. The Tipton is practicing at the bowling alley, when the Saint Mark team shows up and taunts Mr. Moseby and the rest of the team. Zack is named the star bowler for the Tipton. He tries to force Cody to do his homework because he has to rest his arm, but Cody doesn't fall for it. Zack tricks him to go out in the hall wearing just his towel and he locks him out. Carey comes home and grounds Zack because this is the second time he did that to Cody. She forbids him to play in the competition tomorrow. London, as the alternate, becomes Zack's replacement.

Arwin is put in charge of Zack while the rest of the team goes to the competition. London is the first bowler and ends up getting a strike in the St. Mark lane. Zack discovers a bowling trophy in Arwin's office and he tells Zack that he used to be an excellent bowler, but retired when he hit his mother in the head during a tournament. Zack tries to persuade Arwin to participate in the competition, but he stubbornly refuses until Zack says that if he wins, Carey might kiss him. He then agrees to compete. The Tipton is losing badly until Arwin shows up and gets numerous strikes in a row. On the last roll he ends up with a 7-10 split. Ilsa mocks him, but he ends up knocking down both pins and the Tipton Hotel is named the winners of the competition. Carey kisses Arwin causing him to faint.

[edit] Trivia

Carey kisses Arwin for a 2nd time.
Mr. Moseby says "Who's the biggest loser now?" to Ilsa after the Tipton wins, Caroline Rhea, who plays Ilsa, is the host of the game show The Biggest Loser.
In this episode, Arwin said, "I swore to never pick up a bowling ball again." In Commercial Breaks, Arwin picks up a bowling ball to juggle.
The exterior of Parkway Lanes (the bowling alley) is the same exterior of the bowling alley in the episode of Hannah Montana, "People Who Use People".
During Arwin's flashback, Arwin drops the bowling balls he is juggling, but in the next shot, he is seen holding all three again as he puts them into the ball return (he could have picked them up though).
During Arwin's flashback, his mother's voice is actually Estelle Harris (who played Muriel in Season 1).
Brian Stepanek repeated his slow-motion dramatic shot in the Disney Channel Sing-a-long Bowl-a-thon with him and Kim Rhodes repeating their lines from the episode.
- In both instances the theme from Chariots of Fire is playing.
Ilsa repeats her line, "I'll get you my pretty and your little staff too" that she used in "Cookin' With Romeo and Juliet". Anyone who's seen The Wizard of Oz would recognize it as being a parody of the Wicked Witch of the West's line from the movie.
In this episode, Zack (Dylan Sprouse) was supposed to be a really good bowler. However, in Disney's Sing-A-Long Bowl-A-Thon, Dylan receives "Worst Bowl" trophy.
When Zack pushes Cody out of the room for the second time, it is shown that his towel fell off, meaning he was probably naked.
When Arwin says he dropped a bowling ball on his mothers head and she lost a foot (in height) that can't be possible.