The Suite Smell of Excess

"The Suite Smell of Excess" is an episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

Plot

Template:Spoiler Carey busts the twins as they are getting ready to play hockey without safety equipment. The twins tell her that she won’t let them have any fun. Carey tells them it is her job. She tells the twins she will treat them like adults when she no longer has to buy her own mothers day card. They mock her by wearing their helmets while reading hardcover books. Cody gets a paper cut and makes Carey kiss it.

Maddie is breaking in high heels for London who is paying her $100. London returns from shopping with Esteban carrying her nine shopping bags. Esteban asks why so many bags and London tells him one for everyday of the week. Maddie complains to London about her shoes and London gives her an extra $20. Mr. Moseby tells Zack and Cody to play outside. Zack and Cody says they should play ball in the ballroom. Cody shoots their hockey puck and Mr. Moseby catches it in his mouth.

Arwin is talking to a cardboard cutout of Carey when Zack and Cody walks in. Arwin says he was practicing asking her out. The twins wants Arwin to play with them, but he tells them he doesn’t have time. He is working on a top secret project. He reveals it, but it looks like a phone booth. Arwin tells them it is a parallel universalizer. He tells them it will transport them to other worlds. Arwin leaves to go to the bathroom and tells the twins not to touch the machine until he gets back and of course they decide to try it because none of Arwin‘s inventions ever work. Zack inserts $0.25, and the machine asks for another quarter. Not having any, Cody uses his bus pass to start the machine. They exit the machine and go to the lobby.

The twins try to avoid the lobby, but Mr. Moseby finds them. He is wearing shades and tells the twins to call him “M” instead of Moseby. He tells him they are welcome in the lobby anytime. He asks if they want to play football. The twins think it is a trap. Meanwhile, Moseby is shooting spitballs at the guests. London emerges dressed as Maddie and wearing the high heels. They ask why she is wearing Maddie’s clothes and London tells them they are her clothes. She tells them she has to work. London works at the candy counter. Maddie returns and is dressed fancy. Maddie shoves the twins out of the way. Zack and Cody asks Maddie if she won money. London tells them that is a joke and proceeds to insult Maddie. Maddie tells London if she doesn’t watch it her job at the Fitzpatrick Hotel is history. Maddie tells them her dad owns the hotel. London acts smart and Maddie acts dim-witted, just the opposite of their counterparts. London even starts flirting with Zack and Cody, calling them "sweet thang". Zack and Cody tell them that they learned their lesson the joke's up. They go to their mom who tells them to order whatever they want from room service. They ask why? Carey tells them she would have to cook. Carey tells the boys she is thinking about dying her hair blue. She even tells them they can go bungee jumping plus its quicker than the elevator. Esteban enters their room dressed as a female maid.

They finally figure out that Arwin’s machine worked. London tells them that they can take free candy and Moseby won’t get mad. Maddie tells London to hold her umbrella for her. London tells her nothing will make her do it. Maddie offers her $500 and London agrees. Zack panics when his cotton candy gets stuck to the couch. Moseby tells them couches aren’t for eating they're for jumping. Carey leaves to go on a tour for her #1 chart topping CD. She tells the twins to take care of each other. She gives them a huge bowl of candy and tells them it is their dinner. They ask for green beans, instead Carey gives them jelly beans. She says she will be gone for 3 months to a year. Arwin aka A-diddy is her manager. Carey falls for Arwin, but he tells her she doesn’t want to get involved with a guy like him. The title of Carey’s CD is “Who Needs Kids”. Cody tells Zack he misses their mom telling them what to do.

They both agree they need to go back to the real world. They try the machine, but it doesn’t work. Zack remembers Cody fell against the lever in the machine last time. They try it again and it works. The twins try to explain what they saw to Arwin and about Carey’s crush on him. He tries the machine, but can’t get it to work. Moseby yells at them for running. London, Maddie, and Carey are normal as well. They explain to her what they saw, but Carey doesn’t believe them. Just then Esteban walks up dressed as a female maid and Zack and Cody scream and run away. He explains he is going to a costume party.

  Later on they go to bed early and Carey discovers a quarter with actor George Clooney on it (from the other universe) in Zack's pants pocket and keeps it.

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Quotes

Cody: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Zack: Chihuahuas have freakishly large ears?! I mean compared to their little bodies, they're like massive.
London: Maddie? On a quiz show? Please, she thinks a polygon means your parrots are missing. She thinks Ecuador is how you get into an equa. She thinks the Nutcracker suite is the nicest room in the Nutcracker Hotel. She thinks....
Maddie: Are you insulting me?
London: I rest my case!
Maddie: You better watch it or your job at the Fitzpatrick Hotel would be history!
Zack and Cody: The Fizpatrick Hotel?
Zack: Since when?
Maddie:Since when my daddy bought the hotel, DUH!!
Maddie: London! It's raining outside!
London: Very good Maddie
Maddie: I need you to hold my umbrella, so I won't get wet!
London: Hold your own umbrella!
Maddie: I can't! I'm too busy going...Yay Me!! (Claps)
London: Listen carefully! Nothing on earth will make me walk behind you holding an umbrella!
Maddie: Here's 500 dollars!
London: (Grabs the umbrella and puts it up) After you!
Zack and Cody: Mr. Moseby!!(running to Moseby)
Mr. Moseby: No running in the Lobby!
Zack: We were running to hug you!
Mr. Moseby: No hugging in the Lobby.
Zack: We love you Mr. Moseby!
Cody: You're so wonderfully strict!
Mr.Moseby: Yes, I am. Now let go.
Mr.Mosbey: Zack... couches are not for eating...their for JUMPING!
Cody: And you know what the nuttiest part of all was? Esteban was a woman!
(Esteban enters dressed like a woman.)
Esteban: Hola, peoples.
Zack and Cody: AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! (run away)
Esteban: What? I am going to a costume party. It does not make me look that bad.

Trivia

This episode's plot is very similar to that of the episode "Mirror, Mirror" of Star Trek: The Original Series and its various "sequel" episodes on the spin-off television series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, on which a (or some) character(s) from the "regular universe" go to a parallel universe where everyone's personalities are different, resulting in a whole different history
In the parallel universe, the president of the United States is Paris Hilton, and George Clooney's face is on the quarter instead of George Washington
In this episode it is implied that Esteban might be a sexist,and that Maddie might be a feminist
Arwin name in the alternate universe, is A-Diddy, a clear pun of rapper P-Diddy
The part when Zack and Cody tell Arwin that they were gone for days, and he said that they hadn't left, is similar to Lucy telling her siblings that she had been gone for hours in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
This episode is similar to The Proud Family episdoe, I Had a Dream. Penny dreams she travels back in time and eveyone's personalities change.

Goofs

Although at the end, Cody needs to hit the lever to go back to the normal world, in the beginning, Cody doesn't hit it until they are already passing to the parallel universe
The George Clooney is quarter is in Zacks pockets at the end of the episode but Zack had already deposited it into the "Parallel Universalizer". At the beginning Zack said he didnt have anymore quarters which made Cody use the bus pass.
Supposedly, the cotton candy was stuck to the couch, but when the scene is changing, Cody picks it off of the couch
Zack also drops some cotton candy on the floor when he gets it then the camera switched to Mosbey comming and back to Zack and the floor is clean.
When Arwin goes in the PU and closes the door, you can see a reflection of a computer behind the fourth wall on the door, then when he closes the door the second time, you can see Cody {or behind camera Cole Sprouse} on the reflection.
When Zack and Cody were talking to Arwin after they got out of the Parallel Universe, you can see the Parallel Universe door is open,but after the conversation is over, it's closed.
Right before the show cuts to the first commercial when Zack, Cody, and "Estebanita" are in their room, Carey is bungie jumping off the roof. SHe bounces upa nd down and asks for her purse. Zack turns to Cody and says, "I have a feeling we're not in Boston anymore." Then the shot cuts to a view of the three and the window, which formally showed Carey bouncing. Zack nor Cody fetches her purse, and she stops bungie-ing, although there would be no way for her to have ceased the motion.
In the lobby while "M" is pogo-ing and again when Maddie is walking and chewing gum, there clearly is no couch or table in front of the candy counter. But when Zack gets his cotton candy on the couch, it is there.

References

"Suite Smell of Excess" TV.com's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody Episode Guide, March 25, 2006.