Kept Man (Zack & Cody)

Kept Man is an episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

Plot

Template:Spoiler Zack and Cody are talking about all of the cheap stuff they have. Zack and Cody ask Mr. Moseby to open the ice cream bar early but he refuses. A kid named Theo tells Mr. Moseby that he is hungry for ice cream and Moseby agrees to opening the ice cream bar. Theo invites Zack and Cody to his house, which has a bowling alley and a basketball court. Maddie and London’s class has to take care of baby dolls for a parenting assignment. Maddie gets paired with London much to her dismay. As soon as London is handed her baby it begins to cry and she tosses it to Maddie.

After a game of basketball, Theo makes fun of Cody’s playing ability. Theo gives Zack a free game system and skateboard. Cody tells them he needs to work on his speech for school and decides to leave. London and Maddie return to The Tipton with the doll and Esteban, the bellhop, asks who the mommy is and he becomes alarmed when they both reply. London tells Maddie that the baby’s name should be London Jr, but Maddie counters, saying that the doll is a boy. London tells Maddie her job is to take care of the baby while she buys him stuff. The baby begins to cry and Mr. Moseby begins hitting it on a chair to make him stop, a mother with her baby sees Mr. Moseby and runs away from him scared. Zack and Cody plan to see a movie when Theo shows up with two tickets to a Celtics game. Theo asks Zack to go, but he only has two tickets, so Cody is left home alone to sadly work on his speach.

Maddie is tired from staying up with the baby all night, so when London returns from shopping she is alarmed to see the baby is not with the heiress, who was left with the doll for the day. London tells her she left "London Jr." with a nanny. They check the "nanny cam" that London installed and they see Esteban trying to feed the baby and then dropping him on the floor. Enter Mary Margaret and Corrie, London and Maddie's classsmates, here for their doll's and "London Jr.'s" play date. Maddie and London begin to bicker, Maddie telling London that she "has the parenting skills of a toaster."

Cody finished his speach, and is excited to ask what Zack thinks, but his brother is headed out the door to a Black Eyed Peas concert. Cody tells him to have fun with his new best friend. London attempts to feed the baby, but instead squirts Maddie with the bottle and makes the baby throw up on her. Carey asks Zack to examine the real reasons that he likes Theo. She lets him choose between the concert and Cody’s speech, trying to guilt him into making the right choice. Zack decides to go to the concert anyway. Maddie and London fight over who the baby likes more, causing it to fly out the window and hit Esteban in the head, knocking him out.

On grading day, "London Jr." is taped together with duct tape and Maddie and London tell their teacher, Sister Dominic, that they aren’t ready to be parents. Sister Dominic explains to them that, that was the point of the assignment and they both get A+’s. Sister Dominic picks up the baby and it falls apart. The baby's recorder replays a part when Maddie is cursing a nun. The baby keeps repeating, darn nun, darn nun. Zack is forced to be Theo’s slave by doing tasks for him. Theo wants Zack to bootleg the concert for him. Zack blows off Theo and decides to go to Cody’s speech. Theo makes Zack remove the clothing that he gave him leaving him in his undershirt and boxers. Zack returns to the hotel just as Cody and Carey are leaving for the speech, stating that he learned two things, One, you can't buy your friends, and two, city bus drivers take pity on you when you're half-naked. Template:Endspoiler

Quotes

Maddie: Where is the baby?
London: With the nanny!
Maddie: You left our baby with a nanny.
London: I had 22 nannys and I turned out fine!
Maddie: London, you're missing the whole purpose of this assignment.
London: Don't worry, I installed a Nanny Cam in the stroller.
Maddie: Esteban is our nanny!
Maddie: The man's best friend is poultry!

References

"Kept Man" TV.com's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody Episode Guide, March 25, 2006.