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| Season 01, Episode 03 | |
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Fred Savage |
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105 |
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January 16, 2005 |
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Webcam is the third episode in Season 1 and the third overall episode in the Nickelodeon TV series Zoey 101. Going by streaming and/or production order, this is the 5th episode of Season 1. The episode aired on January 16, 2005.
Plot
Zoey, Nicole, Dana and Vicky are playing a board game called Confess & Stress. Quinn joins them. Chase and Logan deliver some sushi to the girls. Logan says that he feels bad about the tension he's had with the girls and gives them a huge teddy bear as a present, which Chase says had nothing to do with him. The girls continue their game. Nicole confesses that she has a list on how cute boys' lips are, while Zoey is forced to prank call their English teacher. The next morning for some reason, Michael, Logan and an unnamed guy all make fun of Nicole about her cute lips list. Then, Logan asks Zoey about her prank call to Mr. Callahan. Everyone ends up knowing what they confessed and the stressful things they did. Chase's boss, Kazu, tells Chase that Logan is sick and can’t show up. More embarrassing things end up spreading around the school. As the girls are arguing about who did it, it turns out the culprit is Logan. They had put a camera in the teddy bear's left eye. Chase doesn't know about this.
Zoey asks Nicole and Quinn when this started happening. They think back and eventually conclude that there was a webcam in the bear. Quinn tests this out and it turns out to be true. Zoey runs in the guys room and furiously asks Chase if he had something to do with this. Chase doesn't even know what she was talking about. Zoey explains and Chase reminds her that he didn't have anything to do with the teddy bear. Zoey turns on Logan's computer and sees what's happening in the girls lounge. Chase is also angry with Logan for calling in sick and giving all his deliveries to him so that he could spy on them. They tell the girls about this and Michael, who had now learned that spying is wrong. They plan revenge on Logan. Michael, who was now in on tricking Logan, makes Logan watch what's going on in the girls lounge at 8:20. They see Kazu catch Chase for stealing sushi, Zoey smash a vase on Kazu's head (she used a breakaway glass), and plan to blame it on Logan. Logan tells Dean Rivers, but when he comes to check it out, nothing's wrong. Logan is so desperate to tell him what he saw that he ended up telling him that he put a webcam in the bear to spy on the girls. Logan ends up getting in big trouble with Dean Rivers and losing his job as well. The girls put the bear outside PCA so that they can watch the sunset from their room.
Episode Trivia
- Paul Butcher (Dustin Brooks) didn’t appear in this episode.
- Nicole reveals she has a list of boys with the cutest lips.
- Confess or Stress is a parody of Truth or Dare.
- Jamie Lynn Spears (Zoey) southern accent is referenced in this episode when Zoey prank calls Mr. Callahan. When she does it, she says it with a southern dialect.
- In this episode, we learn that Quinn likes baby food.
- In this episode, we learn that Zoey dropped a bowling ball on her toe when she was 7.
- Nicole said "Don't touch me!" the same way she did in New Roomies.
- This was the first of two episodes directed by Fred Savage. The second would be Defending Dustin.
- The episode is named after the item of the same name.
- This is the first episode in which the plots coincide.
- In this episode, Vicky is played by Tessa Ludwick instead of Miki Ishikawa for unknown reasons.
- This is the first time that a main character is absent.
- Although Michael felt remorseful for spying on the girls, it is unknown if Brad or the other African-American boy did too.
- This episode reveals that Nicole wears Hello Bunny underwear. Hello Bunny is a parody of Hello Kitty. The bunnies on Nicole's underwear are pictures of It's Happy Bunny.
- Before Zoey and Quinn push Dana’s skateboard on the floor, the opening scene from the Drake & Josh episode, The Gary Grill can be heard.
- Going by streaming (or possibly production order) this is the 5th episode of Season 1.
Goofs
- When the camera cuts to Quinn, who is holding up the cue cards, you see that after Kazu says his line, Zoey is supposed to go, "You can't expel him!" and then, Chase is supposed to go, "My mom'll kill me!" However, in real life, after Kazu says his line, Chase goes, "Expelled?!" and Kazu goes, "You're going to prison!"
- Why would Chase tell everybody to be in the girl's dorm at 8:15 pm? According to what is said in the next episode, boys aren't allowed in a girl's dorm after 8:00 pm.
- Chase says that the girls should be at the dorm at 8:15 pm, but while Logan is getting Dean Rivers, it's suddenly daytime.
- If Quinn already knew there was a webcam in the teddy bear, why would she start eating a fake plant right in the front of the bear when Logan could have been watching?
- In the very last scene, the laptop is sitting in Zoey's lap with her friends watching the relaxing beach scene. Then they show a close-up of the laptop's screen and it is no longer on her lap but on a tabletop with decor around it along with two laptop speakers sitting beside it, none of which was on Zoey's lap.
- During the end, when the girls seems to be watching the sunset on the beach, if one would look out the window, that person would see that it's midday outside, and it looked nowhere near sunset.
- At the end when the camera shows us Nicole, Zoey, and Dana sitting on the sofa, we can see through the window that it is a totally different view from the pilot episode and it is on the first floor with a view of steps.
- Logan puts a webcam in the bear to spy on the girls. In real life, doing so is grounds for expulsion and possible jail sentence, yet Logan doesn't suffer either form of punishment.
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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
Gallery
| Season 1 episodes |
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| Welcome to PCA • New Roomies • Webcam • Defending Dustin • Prank Week • Jet X • The Play • Quinn's Date • Spring Fling • Backpack • Disc Golf • School Dance • Little Beach Party |
9 comments
Michael is a good guy for the most part. In the episode “The Great Vince Blake” when Michael knows that Chase will receive a beating that he does not deserve, Michael backs Chase up. Chase and Michael loose the fight, but that is okay from Michael’s perspective, as what was important to him was defending his best friend’s honor. He gets along with practically everyone. In the episode “Dance Contest,” when Chase intends to be Zoey’s partner in the dance contest, Michael teaches Chase how to dance.
Excluding Zoey, Michael is clearly the role model of the group. Among the three main male leads, Michael is clearly the smartest. In the episode “Girls will be Boys,” Michael appears to stand up for what is right, but my reasoning behind such an assessment is based almost entirely on inference. In this episode, Zoey, Lola and Nicole want to sun bathe on top of the boys dorm roof, because they girls dorm roof does not get that much sun. Logan and Chase won’t let them sun bathe on top of the roof, because of the absurd belief that guys can’t be guys when girls are around. Michael was not in that scene, so we don’t get to hear Michael’s opinion on that, but it is implied that Michael probably disagrees with this sexist belief and is okay with the girls being around. The girls come up with a plan. Michael is supposed to fake being sick, so he can stay in the infirmary, so that Lola can disguise herself as a boy and stay with Logan and Chase in their room for a while. Michael agrees, when he realizes that the new nurse is so pretty, that was a selfish motive. However, faking being sick was not Michael’s only contribution to this plan. He also acted as a guy consultant. If Michael wanted to, he could have faked being sick to spend time in the infirmary, and left the girls to do what they will, but he helped them by acting as their guy consultant. That was a favor that he did for the girls.
There are times when Michael makes questionable decisions or makes bad decisions but learns his lesson in the end. For example, in the season three episode “The Radio” when Chase and Zoey have an argument over a radio and who it belongs to, Michael and Lola take Chase’s side, while Quinn and Logan take Zoey’s side. I think that Michael and Lola were standing by consistent moral principles, but just because Lola and Michael were standing by consistent moral principles, that doesn’t mean that Quinn and Logan weren’t. Everyone was standing up for what they believed was right, but had different ideas as to what right is. Michael frequently pressures Chase to tell Zoey how he feels. While that is not something that Chase needs, and Chase waiting so long to tell Zoey how he feels made for one great series finale, I realize Michael’s good intentions.
Not only does Michael’s bad side manifest pretty rarely, when his bad sisde does manifest, that is usually because Logan is involved. You can point to many instances, through out the series, of Logan and Michael going on some adventure or planning some thing, and, in the process, making a colossaly stupid decision or doing something unethical. However, that is usually Logan’s fault.
That is clearly shown in the episode "Webcam" where Logan gifts the girls a teddy bear with a webcam in it. This was all Logan’s idea, no one else had anything to do with it. Michael part took in watching the girls. That was a low moment for Michael to say the least, but remember this. Not only was this not Michael’s idea, Michael felt remorseful, repented for his actions and even helped get revenge against Logan. I would have loved it if Michael had just went and told the girls as soon as he found out what Logan was doing, but what Michael did shows that, although he is definitely not perfect, he learns from his mistakes and is willing to hold Logan accountable for his actions.
In real life, the guys would go to jail for this. Even for a joke/prank, illegal spying on the opposite gender in any school/university is a serious offence. Even if Logan is rich, he wouldn't be allowed back into the school for this.
Hey guys, does anyone know what is the name of the actor who plays the "unnamed guy" that makes fun of Nicole about her cute lips list...???!! please
His name is Craword Wilson and he actually wasn't an unnamed guy. Nicole addressed him as Brad in the episode.
I know it has been a while since I've been here, but contortionist Bonnie Morgan is credited in the episode. She usually works as a double for scenes where Quinn Pensky shows how double-jointed she is, but I couldn't find her anywhere. Does anybody have a clue where she turned up?
i wish I could have the bear from this episode
Logan's a pig. I wish I could hit him on the head with a real vase
Logans a pig
i love zoey i love all of the charecters!
well done for logan.
That'll teach Logan not to spy on them!!!!