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Girls Will Be Boys
Season 2, Episode 7
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Production Information
Director

Adam Weissman

Writer


Jason Gelles
Mike Haukom

Prod code

211

Airdate

January 29, 2006

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Girls Will Be Boys is the seventh episode in Season 2 and the 20th overall episode in the Nickelodeon TV series, Zoey 101. Going by streaming and/or production order, this is the penultimate (11th) episode of Season 2. The episode aired on January 29, 2006.

Plot

The girls can no longer relax on the boy's dorm roof thanks to Logan, as he and Chase consider it a secluded place for boys to be themselves, and the two claim they can't do so when girls are around. The girls try to relax on their own dorm roof, but the conditions aren't nearly as nice as the boys'.

To solve this problem, the girls must prove that boys can act the same with girls around. So, they disguise Lola as a boy named 'Steve', who goes to live with Chase and Logan taking Michael's place.

Michael, having seen Dustin in the infirmary, with chicken pox, a kindly attractive nurse tending to him, willingly goes along with the girls' plan, thinking the nurse will tend to him as well, but unfortunately said nurse only tends to younger students. Michael is stuck being tended to by a rougher unkind nurse.

Eventually the rough treatment becomes too much for Michael, and he admits to having faked being sick all along. However, Michael turns out to have caught Dustin's chicken pox, and must resign himself to continued roughness from the mean nurse.

Meanwhile, while 'Steve' settles in with Logan and Chase, the two recruit 'Steve' to join them for a game of water polo. Lola knows she cannot keep her disguise up in the pool, and, with Zoey and Nicole, recruit Quinn to help. Quinn manages to halt the water polo game by throwing a pet snake into the pool, but in the ensuing confusion, 'Steve' is pushed into the pool, and is revealed to be Lola.

Chase is confused and Logan is furious, but the girls reveal that all of this proved that boys COULD act the same with girls around, and the boys allow the girls to share their dorm roof again. Quinn, however, prefers to lounge in the pool with her snake.

Trivia

  • This is the second time Dustin gets sick in an episode. The first time was in The Play.
    • Coincidently, both happened in a season's seventh episode.
  • Nicole's strawberry-printed bikini from the end of this episode was by Salinas.
  • This episode marks the return of Nurse Krutcher since The Play.
    • Similar to Dustin's sickness, she happened to appear in both season's seventh episodes.
    • This also marks her final appearance as she will be replaced in the final two seasons.
  • Going by production order, this is the penultimate (the 11th) episode of Season 2.
  • Zoey tells Michael that the school has a new nurse, unbeknownst that the nurse is for the minors. Thus, after this episode, she probably owed Michael a lot.
  • The fake letter Quinn made reads:
Attention Boy's Dorm Advisor
We will have a student temporarily visiting Pacific Coast Academy. Please help us welcome Steve Williams to the PCA Campus. As his stay is only for a couple days, I ask that you please find available housing.
In addition to housing facilities, assist him in finding the cafeteria, library, and any of PCA other fine buildings. Encourage the young men to your dorm to include him in their daily activities.
Thank you for your swift accommodation and urgent response.
  • Marvin is a kingsnake, which is non-venomous.
  • Dustin can be seen reading a “Hatman” comic book when Chase, Michael and Logan are entering the infirmary, however when Dustin asks what’s wrong with Michael, you can see the comic book is actually Scooby Doo.
  • The title "Girls Will Be Boys" is a lyric from the 1970 song "Lola" by the Kinks. Coincidentally, the episode is about Lola Martinez disguising herself as a boy.
  • There is an episode from the 17th season of The Simpsons that aired exactly 3 months after this episode that follows a similar pattern shown here. In the episode here, Lola dresses as a boy in order to prove to Logan and Chase that boys can act the same when girls are around. In The Simpsons episode "Girls Just Want to Have Sums", Lisa dresses as a boy in order to attend the boy's side of the school so that she can learn math.

Goofs

  • Quinn said that she could print out French money if they wanted but there isn't a such thing as "French money." They use European money called Euros in France.
  • In this episode, Chase agrees with Logan that the girls shouldn't be allowed on the boys' dorm roof, but he's perfectly fine with letting Zoey on in The Election.
    • It could be possible that he is only fine with Zoey there and not all of the girls at the same time.
  • Quinn should not be even allowed to keep a snake in her dorm room in the first place, considering how dangerous they can be and that other students could be frightened by the creature.
  • Chase mentioned and corrected "Steve” that Chicago has the Chicago Cubs, but Chicago also has the White Sox.

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