Welcome to PCA

Season 1, Episode 1

**Welcome to PCA** (also known as **Pilot** or **Zoey 101**) 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 named 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 there, a student named Chase Matthews sees Zoey, and then runs his bike into a flagpole. Zoey and Chase meet and introduce themselves. Zoey was assigned to Room 101 in Butler Hall. Chase gives Zoey a tour of the campus and shows her her dorm room. Chase then has to leave because guys were hanging his bike from a tree. Zoey then hears a scream. The scream came from Nicole Bristow in the girls' bathroom. She screamed because of the urinal in the girls' bathroom. Zoey and Nicole then discover that they'll be roommates. They go to their room and find their other roommate, Dana Cruz. Zoey and Nicole walk around the campus and pass by a bunch of guys who were practicing basketball. These guys included Chase. Zoey wants to try out for the team, but a mean guy named Logan Reese who was one of the people practicing, doesn't 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. After they find out what's going on, the only girls who didn't leave were Zoey, Nicole, an intelligent girl named Quinn Pensky, 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 and he actually elbowed Zoey in the nose in an attempt to get the ball from Zoey. Dana arrives and offers to be on their team. She then shows her skill in basketball. Quinn reluctantly leaves to leave place for Dana. Dana tells Nicole, Lexi, and the other girls to pass the ball to her whenever she could. 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 lets Zoey and Dana in 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 and then, Chase, a player who was on the guys team named Michael Barret, and the other three players come, apologize for playing a little rough during the game, say that they don't think the same way Logan does, and ask for some pizza and cake. The girls then decorate the urinal in the girls' bathroom.

## Cast

### Main

* Jamie Lynn Spears as Zoey Brooks
* Paul Butcher as Dustin Brooks
* Sean Flynn as Chase Matthews
* Kristin Herrera as Dana Cruz
* Christopher Massey as Michael Barret
* Alexa Nikolas as Nicole Bristow
* Erin Sanders as Quinn Pensky
* Matthew Underwood as Logan Reese

### Co-Starring

* Roark Critchlow as Mr. Brooks
* Stevanna Jackson as Tasha
* Miki Ishikawa as Vicky
* Darren Victoria as Jack

## Refrences

1. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Zoey-101-Season-1/dp/B000H3S8Z4
2. ↑ https://www.metacritic.com/tv/zoey-101/season-1/episode-1-zoey-101-pilot
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1t38VNpFAQ
4. ↑ https://www.metacritic.com/tv/zoey-101/season-1/episode-1-zoey-101-pilot