"Zoey 101: Chasing Zoey" | |
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Zoey 101 episode | |
Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 12 |
Directed by | Steve Hoefer |
Written by | Dan Schneider |
Produced by | Dan Schneider George Doty IV Joe Catania Tom Keniston Jörg Westerkamp Neil A. Sheridan Robin Weiner |
Production code | 412–413 |
Original air date | May 2, 2008 |
Running time | 48 minutes |
Guest appearance(s) | |
Zoey 101: Chasing Zoey is a TV movie based on the Nickelodeon TV series, Zoey 101. It originally aired on May 2, 2008 and stars Jamie Lynn Spears as Zoey Brooks. Zoey 101: Chasing Zoey is the fourth and final movie of the series. It was also the show's series finale, though "PCA Confidential" aired as the last episode due to it being a clip show and was originally produced as part of the third season. "Chasing Zoey" had more than double of the series' average viewers when it drew about 7.3 million viewers.
Zoey's boyfriend, James, gives her a necklace with the inscription I love you – James. Zoey, however, is still unsure about how she feels about James. This leads to Zoey's eventual break up with James when she admits "something's in the way". When she offers to return the necklace, James insists that she keep it, saying he will still love her. They each agree to remain friends. Dateless for the prom, Zoey stubbornly refuses to attend despite the efforts of her friends to cheer her up. The night of prom, Zoey is wandering around the empty campus when she gets a phone call from Chase. During their conversation, Zoey turns around to see that Chase has returned to PCA. After making a clumsy entrance, Zoey and Chase share their first kiss. Zoey then realizes that the reason she didn't love James was because she was in love with Chase the entire time. At the prom, Zoey and Chase announce their relationship to their ecstatic friends. Zoey invites Chase to stay with her in Hawaii for the summer, which Chase gladly accepts.
Quinn and Logan decide to choose each other’s dates, and pair each other up with Dustin and Stacey respectively, so to not arouse any suspicion of them dating. At the prom, they find themselves miserable with their dates. Their relationship is finally revealed when Stacey tries to kiss Logan and he unthinkingly declares that he doesn't want to kiss Stacey as he loves Quinn. This leads to Logan and Quinn openly confessing their love for each other for the first time to the shocked student audience as well as their first kiss in public, no longer hiding.
Wanting to drive Lisa to the prom, Michael gets a classic car from his father. Trouble comes when the car turns out to be a stick shift which Michael cannot drive. A mysterious Asian man, Mr. Takato (James Hong), claiming to be the lower school math teacher comes seemingly out of nowhere to help Michael learn. He has Michael learn by stomping grapes and stirring tuna, which both help Michael with the gas pedals and shifting the stick (a reference to "Karate Kid"). No one but Michael knows who this man is and at the end of the movie, Michael sees him on a bull and asks him to tell his girlfriend he helped him, but the man says he cannot because he does not exist. He disappears into the dark of the night, leaving Michael stunned and confused.