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Welcome to PCA
Season 01, Episode 01
Welcome to PCA-2
Production Information
Director

Savage Steve Holland

Writer

Dan Schneider

Prod code

101

Airdate

January 9, 2005

Episode Chronology
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Welcome to PCA (also known as Pilot[1][2][3] or Zoey 101[4]) is the first episode in Season 1 and the first overall in the Nickelodeon TV series, Zoey 101. The episode premiered on January 9th, 2005.

Plot

Zoey Brooks is attending a boarding school called Pacific Coast Academy with her younger brother, Dustin. It's the first year PCA is accepting girls in as it was previously an all-boys academy. Zoey's father drives Zoey and Dustin there. When she gets out of her dad's car, Chase sees Zoey as he rides his bike toward her before he crashes into a flagpole. When Chase gets up, they introduce themselves to each other and Chase gives Zoey a tour of the campus and shows her to her dorm room. Chase then leaves when he sees a bunch of boys hanging his bike from a tree. Zoey then hears a scream, which came from Nicole due to the sight of a urinal in the girls' bathroom, as it was a boys' bathroom. Zoey and Nicole then discover that they'll be roommates. They go to their room and find their other roommate, Dana, who chooses her bed. Zoey and Nicole walk around campus and pass by a bunch of guys practicing basketball, including Chase. Zoey wants to try out for the team, but Logan does not let them join because there was no girls basketball team at PCA. Zoey says that she'll get five girls and Logan can get five boys and they can play a guys vs. girls basketball game on Friday.

Zoey rounds up a bunch of girls, but after they find out what's going on, the only girls that remained were Zoey, Nicole, Quinn, Vicky, Tasha, and an unnamed girl. The only good player on the team is Zoey. After the girls practice, Logan throws a basketball at the girls to try and hit one of them. A note was attached to it that said "Girls got no game. You're gonna lose." At the end of the first half of the game, the guys are leading 24-6. All six points were made by Zoey and Logan was playing extremely rough, that he actually elbowed Zoey in the nose in an attempt to get the ball from her. Dana arrives and asks to be on their team, but Zoey tells Dana their team is full. Quinn quickly leaves the game to let Dana play, and she shows her basketball skills. Dana tells the girls to pass the ball to her whenever they could and stay out of the way. In the second half, Dana and Zoey help the girls catch up. With a few seconds left in the game, the girls are still losing 28-27. Zoey steals the ball from Logan and passes it to Dana. Dana attempts a three, but she misses. The guys win, but the coach asks Zoey and Dana if they would like to join the team. Zoey accepts, but Dana wants to think about it. The girls have a party to celebrate almost beating the guys and everyone cheers for Zoey who helped prove to the guys that they were a part of the school as much as the guys were and Dana who helped them get back in the game. Chase, Michael, and the other players come to apologize for playing a little rough during the game and to tell the girls that they don't think the same way Logan does. They then ask for some pizza and cake. The girls then decorate the urinal in the girls' bathroom.

Cast

Main

Co-Starring

Episode Trivia

  • This is the first time Nicole uses the word "suckish."
  • Although the official title of this episode is "Welcome to PCA", it is sometimes referred to as the "Pilot" or "Zoey 101".
  • This is the first out of five episodes to show blood. The other four being The Great Vince Blake, Wrestling, Goodbye Zoey, and Chasing Zoey.
  • In this episode, we see that Logan does not like Zoey, but in The Play, he is interested in her and some other episodes show this as well; it is possible they later became (on and off) friends.
  • A jockstrap was on the basketball along with the note.
  • Chase's friend Jim is never seen or mentioned again for the remainder of the series.
  • Ending Tagline: "Let's get this party started, yo!" - Quinn
  • This is the first of two appearances of Zoey's father in the series. The other was Goodbye Zoey, when both her parents appear.

Goofs

  • When Chase introduces Zoey to Room 101, Zoey opens her mini-fridge and finds a 1988 sandwich and left it open. But when Chase threw it across the room, the mini-fridge door is closed.
  • At the end of this episode when the girls are having a party, Zoey's bangs are in front. In a close-up of Zoey, her bangs had moved behind her ears. In the following shot and for the rest of the scene, her bangs are back in front..
  • After Zoey was hit in the nose, Nicole gave her some water from a bottle. When the timeout was over, Nicole could be seen holding the bottle while walking onto the court, but in the next shot, the bottle is nowhere to be seen.
  • Even though Quinn quits the game to let Dana join, we see Quinn playing again at one point during the second half of the game and Dana is nowhere in sight.
  • Quinn removes her glasses to play basketball, even though later episodes would establish that she is functionally blind without them. It is possible, however, that she wore contacts for the game.
  • In the scene where all the girls are in Zoey's dorm room, there is an iMac G4 next to Zoey with the Apple logo uncensored. However, in the rest of the episodes, the characters use Pear Products.
  • Despite Zoey's team losing the game, the coach allows them to join the team.

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