Cody Goes to Camp

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“Cody Goes to Camp”
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 10
Guest stars	Estelle Harris Adrian R'Mante Maurice Smith Gus Hoffman Dennis Bendersky
Written by	Jim Geoghan
Directed by	Richard Correll
Production no.	113
Original airdate	June 6, 2005
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Cody Goes to Camp is an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Goofs
4 References

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Cody goes to math camp with his friend Tapeworm and meets a new friend, Warren. Zack is excited to be free from his brother, but soon finds out he's alone and doesn't have anybody to play with. London get her learner's permit starts her driving lessons with Mr. Moseby, but things don't go that well when she crashes into the Tipton because Mr. Moseby was tensing her up. Zack gets worried because Cody doesn't return his calls, and convinces London into driving him to the camp to visit. London and Zack run away with Muriel as driver's aid and Maddie -- having kidnapped her after she threatens to tell -- and after being stopped twice by the police, they arrived at the camp where Zack finally admits he missed Cody.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

The song played when Cody and Tapeworm get to Camp Knock-A-Number is also in Playhouse Disney's PB&J Otter episode, Babble Berry Picking.
5th appearance of Esteban
4th appearance of Muriel
3rd appearance of Tapeworm
1st appearance of Warren
London's crashing through the wall of the ballroom is similar in plotline to the episodes of Family Matters, Silver Spoons, and Full House where Eddie, Rick, and Stephanie respectively also have the same accident. The same thing also happened in an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, where, Frank and Marie had the same accidents.
The highway patrolman was on point when he mentioned that driving too slow is can also be dangerous (as going too fast). Most highways in every part of the world have a minimum speed limit as well as maximum and London could have just as easily been written up for going too slow.
London's car is a BMW Z4. Her license plate reads 2RCH4U(too rich for you).

[edit] Goofs

When London is driving the car to go to Cody's math camp, they establish that the car is going 20 mph, after that a police officer pulls the car over, so Muriel tells everyone to act natural. Maddie then asks how she can act natural in a car going 10 mph. (It could be that Maddie would be trying to show everyone the car is going very slow, or that it's impossible to act natural in a car going slower than people on bicycles. Of course, Maddie being in the car against her will may also have something to do with her semantics.)
London says that she is going to the DMV to get her Learner's Permit. In Massachusetts, what other states refer to as the "DMV" (Department of Motor Vehicles), is called the "RMV" (Registry of Motor Vehicles) or simply "The Registry". (Though it could be a reference to London's stupidity).
Error in Geography: The highway patrolman who stops them twice is wearing a California Highway Patrol uniform -- including the sunburst badge but minus the badges on his collar. Massachusetts State Police highway patrolmen would be wearing dark blue instead of khaki with upside-down triangular-shaped badges.
When London is adjusting the rear mirror she only rubs it and the mirror doesn't move.
In the postcard Cody sends , he says he has made lots of new friends but there is only one person that we see he has met in camp.