

He can sing and dance, as seen in "Lip-Syncing in the Rain" and "Sleepover Suite", and can act. Like Zack, Cody inherits musical talents from his parents.

Cody does well in school and is interested in several intellectual activities, which results in him attending math camp and winning a spelling bee. During the On Deck episode "Maddie On Deck", Maddie flirts with Zack a bit while visiting and even kisses him to give him confidence.

Cody and Zack become friends with Maddie Fitzpatrick, they each keep a picture of her in their rooms when they move to the SS Tipton. She later joins the Peace Corps and not believing in long-distance relationships breaks up with him leaving him devastated.Īppearances The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Īfter traveling around the nation, the twins and their mother Carey arrive in Boston, which becomes their home until The Suite Life on Deck. Until he meets Maya and forms his first serious relationship with her. Zack enjoys dating every girl he meets and is somewhat promiscuous compared to his brother. Zack is very mischievous and enjoys pranking people. He also is talented in woodwork until the teacher entrusted the class into his care and recommended him for advanced placement woodshop. This shows that Zack can perform well in school when he studies properly. Zack is intelligent, as is shown when he was sent to summer school and was the smartest kid in class to the point he taught the other kids the lesson himself. He generally receives bad grades in school. Zack tends to be less mature than his brother, but he does occasionally show signs of compassion and caring. Zack is more laid-back, self-centered, and outgoing than Cody. His long-term relationship with Bailey is a recurring plot in the second series. Although Cody shows the same interest in girls as Zack, he prefers long-term relationships with one girl instead of many girls at once like Zack. Cody says that his biggest dream is to win a Nobel Prize. He originally intended to attend Harvard University however, after a bad encounter with a dean there, as Cody helped to lie when Zack dated the dean's daughter, Cody decides to attend Yale. In "Big Hair & Baseball", it is revealed that he has astigmatism. This becomes a running joke throughout the series. London Tipton, daughter of the man who owns the Tipton Hotel in which the twins reside for the duration of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, uses him on various occasions to complete her schoolwork.ĭespite his exceptional intelligence and relative maturity when compared to Zack, Cody exhibits some comically regressive behaviors, such as calling his mother "Mommy", screaming when frightened, and carrying a " blankey" into his teens. He is often referred to as a nerd, though he prefers the phrase "educationally gifted". He generally receives good grades in school, and according to Zack, Cody has a 5.0 grade point average. He also tends to be more caring, sensitive, polite, and more well-behaved than his brother, but even he is not perfect he occasionally shows acts of meanness and greed. The twins are proven to have Swedish backgrounds in the Suite Life on Deck episode, "The Swede Life".Ĭody is more erudite and intelligent than Zack. Cody is shown to have a strong-almost obsessive-fear of germs.

In one episode of The Suite Life on Deck, Cody and Zack fight over the fact that Zack stole an old term paper from Cody rather than writing his own, and Zack admits that he knows he'll never match Cody academically and feels inferior to his brother in response, Cody admits that he works hard to get grades because Zack is better at sports, better with girls, and more popular, while the only thing Cody has going for him is his intelligence. The twins attended Buckner Middle School during seasons 1 & 2, Cheevers High School during season 3 of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, and Seven Seas High on board the SS Tipton in The Suite Life on Deck. In the episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody titled " Poor Little Rich Girl", however, a baby video of the two is date-stamped September 23, 1992. In The Suite Life on Deck episode, " Das Boots", it is said to be 1993. Joseph's Hospital in Seattle, Washington on a Saturday: Zack at 6:30 and Cody at 6:40. In fact, they were originally named Dylan and Cole." Character information Sprouse said of Zack and Cody, "The characters were originally based off of our personalities. Dylan Sprouse stated that the idea of twins living in a hotel was something he and his brother came up with when they were shooting Big Daddy and stayed in a hotel for four months.
