Bailey Pickett
Bailey Marie Pickett (portrayed by Debby Ryan)[2] is one of the main characters on The Suite Life on Deck. She is from the fictional town of Kettlecorn, Kansas and pretends to be a boy in the premiere episode because there were no available places in the SS Tipton's cabins for a female. After her ruse is discovered, she is permitted to stay on board due to the departure of another female student who London Tipton bribed to leave. Bailey has also appeared on cross-over episodes of other Disney Channel series, such as Wizards of Waverly Place and Hannah Montana.
Character information
Bailey is a girl from Kettlecorn, Kansas. Although she loves her life in Kettlecorn, she wishes to explore the world around her and masquerades as a boy in order to attend Seven Seas High on the cruise liner, SS Tipton. Since Bailey doubles as a boy's name and because she has played for a boys' baseball team, she manages to become a student at Seven Seas High.
After fooling the crew into believing that she is a male, she becomes Zack's cabin-mate. At first, the two clash because Zack is messy while Bailey is more hygienic and feminine. However, after her real gender is found out by Zack, he promises to keep it a secret.
Cody quickly becomes suspicious of the two; and it's not long before Bailey's real gender is revealed to the entire crew. However, since London Tipton had a cabin to herself (after bribing her old cabin-mate to leave), Bailey was still able to stay and be cabin-mates with her. Bailey was excited at the thought of sharing with London but the Tipton heiress opposed it. Annoyed at the whole idea of staying on the SS Tipton, London flees to Parrot Island, leaving Bailey feeling responsible and guilty over her disappearance.
When everyone goes to retrieve London from the island, Bailey tags along and helps them not only escape the island, but also rescue London. Along the way, she even manages to get a pet pig named Porkers. By the time they return to the ship, London reluctantly decides to be a little more friendly to Bailey. They even started to bond, as Bailey helps London pick out fancy clothes. However, despite their friendship, London often embarrasses Bailey, especially by picking on her. In the episode "The Kidney of the Sea", she and London have an intelligence test with Porkers and London's dog, Ivana, and it is revealed that Bailey was once a cheerleader at her high school back in Kettlecorn when Porkers wins and Bailey does a victory cheer for him. In the episode "Boo You", London embarrasses Bailey by telling her internet show viewers that Bailey's underwear resembles a parachute. In the same episode, London informs her viewers that Bailey snores. When the students return after a school break in "Lost at Sea", London briefly forgets Bailey's name. In the episode "Mulch Ado About Nothing" Bailey appears to have feelings for Cody at the end of the episode. In "When in Rome", she says that a "big city" is "any place where the mayor is not a goose". In "Showgirls", Bailey receives the first detention of her school career. In "In the Line of Duty", Zack (serving as Hall Monitor) gives Bailey detention on consecutive days, once for breaking curfew with Cody and once for running in the halls with London.
In "Beauty and the Fleeced" Bailey is shown to be a good singer when she wins the originally fake pageant started by Zack, Woody, and Marcus. In almost every episode, Bailey is shown wearing skinny jeans and plaid or checker board. In" Can You Dig It?" Princess Xaria's spirit possesses Bailey. When Cody finds out, he has to get the crown and put it on her statue. Bailey is eventually saved and Princess Xaria's spirit (a sparkly green mist) goes back in her statue. But London takes the crown because she has short-term memory, and is possessed by Princess Xaria.
Zack states in "Rat Tale" that Bailey has an overbite, to which Cody defensively replies by saying that this is because she had to use braces made from chicken wire when her family couldn't afford real ones.
In the third season, Bailey temporarily went to Kettlecorn to help her family because a tractor fell on her uncle. She returned to the SS Tipton in the episode "Bon Voyage".
In the episode "The Play's The Thing", Cody writes a play in which he shows that Bailey was the main reason of their break-up, as a result Bailey runs off crying, thus making Cody feel remorseful, he goes to make-up and get back with Bailey, but she is so upset that she slams the door in his face. She and Cody get back together in Twister: Part 2.
In the episode "Graduation on Deck", Bailey is accepted to Yale, which Cody is not. She chooses Cody over Yale, but later decides to still go, because Cody tells her that she can't miss the opportunity, and that he will come visit her.
Personality
Like Cody, Bailey is very intelligent. Miss Tutweiller stated that her application for the ship was the most impressive of all, much to Cody's dismay. She is also very cheerful and shows fascination of the world around her. She is friendly, optimistic, and caring. She also has a deep love for her animals, in the episode "Swede Life" it is even stated that during hunting season she goes out into the woods to warn the animals. Bailey hates lying and always feels guilty of even the smallest tricks she does. Bailey enjoys corn cob art and misses her hometown Kettlecorn in Kansas. Bailey has also shown to be fanatical around celebrities such as Hannah Montana and Jordin Sparks.
Relationships
- Holden (Chad Duell) - Seen only in the episodes "International Dateline" and "Boo You!", invited Bailey to have dinner with him, but he broke up with her due to her having thrown bread rolls and butter at him after she thought that London had set up the date with him so Bailey would get "Boo You'd." He asked out Bailey in "International Dateline". However, Bailey dumped him in this episode because he threw up on her shoes when Zack gave him bad shrimp to help out Cody.
- Adonis (Adam Bay) - Bailey crushed on him when the SS Tipton docked in Greece. Adonis flirted with Bailey which made Cody jealous. In the episode "It's All Greek to Me".
- Frank - We never knew if Frank and Bailey liked each other but they did go down the water slide together in the episode " Shiponotized "
- Moose (Hutch Dano) – It is revealed in the second episode that Moose is Bailey's ex-boyfriend. He appeared on the show in "Mulch Ado About Nothing", where he tries to convince her to come back home with him since she's homesick. Bailey, however, declines as she would miss all her friends on the SS Tipton. Bailey also reminds Moose of the real reason they broke up: he always thinks that he knows what's best for her, when he really doesn't. Also in the episode "My oh Maya" Cody worries that Moose and Bailey will get back together when she goes back to Kettlecorn because a tractor fell on her Uncle Clem. Moose also appears in "Twister part 2" and " Twister part 3". Cody goes to Kettlecorn when he hears that London and Bailey are in trouble. He wants Bailey back but it turns out that Moose had come back to win her back too. In the end Bailey settles for Cody.
- Cody Martin (Cole Sprouse) – Cody begins to get a crush on Bailey because they share similar interests, therefore he pursued her endlessly, unbeknownst to Bailey (in the first season). This lasted until the first season finale "Double Crossed", when the pair form a romantic relationship. They fought and broke up two times in the season two episodes "Lost at Sea", and "Marriage 101", but got back together both times. In the episode, "Breakup in Paris", Cody and Bailey end their romantic relationship, exactly on their one year anniversary. Throughout the third season, it is widely implied that they still have feelings for each other. In the three-part episode, "Twister", Cody and Bailey get back together. In the episode "A London Carol", it is shown that Bailey and Cody will someday get married.
- Josh (Markus Silbiger) - In "So You Think You Can Date?", when Bailey lies to Cody about having a date for the 1980s/Medieval dance, she dates him in order to back up her lie and show off in front of Cody. However, London advises her to act dumb to impress him, since all the other boys were bothered by her smarts. She does so, but Josh gets annoyed by it and abandons Bailey in the middle of the dance.
Friendships
- Zack Martin (Dylan Sprouse) - Cody's brother and Bailey's friend.
- Porkers – a baby pig Bailey found on Parrot Island, also Bailey used Porkers to send a note to Zack and Cody.
- Alex Russo (Selena Gomez) - The lead character in the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, she becomes Bailey's friend in the crossover special Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana.
- Maddie Fitzpatrick (Ashley Tisdale) - Maddie Fitzpatrick is a main character in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody series who appeared in The Suite Life on Deck episode Maddie on Deck, and because Bailey gave her a pretty feather dress she became friends with her, so much to the extent that she even chooses Bailey over London.
- London Tipton (Brenda Song) – London is often seen making fun of Bailey. In "Boo You!", she insults Bailey on her web show in front of millions of viewers. As an apology, London did set up a date with her and Holden. In "Mean Chicks," she hugs Bailey and admits Bailey has been a true friend. She was also the person who told Bailey about Cody waiting on the Eiffel Tower and explained that Cody did not kiss her and he was only trying to make their date perfect. London even went as far as to tell her "twin" that Bailey was her best friend.
- Marcus Little (Doc Shaw) - Zack's cabin-mate, former singing sensation, previously known as 'Lil' Little', who leaves the ship to star in a Broadway show in New York City.
- Woody Fink (Matthew Timmons) - Cody's cabin-mate who appears in numerous episodes of "The Suite Life on Deck".
- Maya Bennett (Zoey Deutch) - Zack's ex-girlfriend.
- Addison (Rachael Kathryn Bell) - Woody's girlfriend and one of Bailey's best friends.
Family
- Grammy Pickett (Linda Porter) – Bailey's grandmother. She calls Bailey her "piggly-wiggly" and then both of them would snort together. In "Boo You", London said that the skirt "Grandma" made for Bailey was a tablecloth, also in episode " Mulch Ado About Nothing", Cody says to the fake Grandmother that she calls her "Bunnykins" and she makes great fudge. She finally appears in Twister parts 2 and 3, where she deeply sleeps through her birthday in part one, and wakes in part 3 to present the money she had saved to help Bailey get back on the boat after her hometown is destroyed. She also gives Zack a necklace to give to his girlfriend, Maya, thinking he is Cody.
- Eunice Pickett (Ginette Rhodes) – Bailey's mother is seen dropping Bailey off in The Suite Life Sets Sail on the first day and appears with brown hair. She is later seen in Twister parts 2 and 3 with blonde hair.
- Clyde Pickett (Joe Dietl) – Bailey's father, who appears in Twister parts 2 and 3. He starts out deeply resenting Cody and favoring Moose, but changes his mind once Cody does all he can to save the Pickett's farm.
- Myrtle (unseen) – Bailey's aunt who she sends a recipe to. Myrtle has a spider web which has recipes and notes posted on it.
- Abner (unseen) – Bailey's crazy uncle who talks to himself after he was struck by lightning, who is mentioned during London's webisode.
- Clem (unseen) – A great-uncle who searched for Bigfoot, only to find out that he didn't exist, who was mentioned in "Sea Monster Mash".
- Cletus (unseen) – A cousin who owns an alligator farm in Miami. Bailey disembarked the SS Tipton so she could spend spring break on his farm wrestling gators, but she had to return to the ship early due to the fact that Cletus drank polluted water and she stated sadly that every gator was donated to Lizard World, an allusion to Gatorland.
- Uncle Dobbs (unseen) - Bailey's unlucky uncle who was kicked by a mule, struck by lightning and run over by a tractor who is mentioned by Bailey in Starship Tipton.
- Uncle Zeke (unseen) - another of Bailey's uncles, he was one of four of her relatives who became a prom queen in high school (as were Bailey's mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, as mentioned in the episode Prom Night).
- Nine siblings (unseen) – Bailey tells London that she has six big sisters and three little ones when London says she would be the big sister she never had, to which London sarcastically responds "Wow, your mom needs a hobby". It is unclear whether Bailey has any male siblings.
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