3. Spears slipped seamlessly into the quality of Zoey Brooks, a subordinate of the archetypal co-ed people of the formerly all-boys Pacific Coast Academy. "We similar the aforesaid apparel and we kinda similar to bash the aforesaid stuff," the past 14-year-old histrion said successful a behind-the-scenes video.

4. For immoderate reason, the teen was pressed for clip portion shooting the play 3 occurrence "The Curse of PCA," truthful the writers came up with the thought of Zoey getting a bucket stuck connected her head—so they could person a stand-in for Spears movie the scenes wherever her look is obscured. 

5. Sean Flynn, who played Zoey's BFF turned eventual emotion involvement Chase Matthews, said helium was clumsy and made friends easy successful existent life—much similar Chase, whose archetypal brushwood with Zoey includes riding headlong into a pole. "I bent retired connected the computer, talking to my friends online, play video games, play guitar. I ever person my guitar—always," helium said successful an interview. "In fact, sometimes I get successful occupation due to the fact that I play guitar a small excessively overmuch and the director's, like, 'Put it away!'"

6. Flynn—a grandson of golden-era surface fable Errol Flynn who appeared successful the 2013 biopic The Last Robin Hood—left the amusement aft 3 seasons (to explicate his absence, Chase was said to beryllium studying successful London) but returned for the season four (and series) finale, "Chasing Zoey," to seal their saccharine romance with a kiss. Sporting abbreviated hairsbreadth by then, Flynn had to deterioration a wig to replicate Chase's signature curly mop top.

7. In lawsuit you forgot, that young blond chap is Austin Butler as Zoey's ex-boyfriend James, who joined the formed successful play four to marque things a small much confusing for her portion Chase was away. Currently Butler has the biggest vocation of each the Zoey 101 alums, having played Tex Watson successful Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood and scoring the relation of Elvis Presley successful Baz Luhrmann's upcoming biopic.

Approached by TMZ successful July 2019, Chris Massey, who played Michael, said it would of people beryllium chill if Butler was capable to articulation immoderate reboot oregon reunion show, should they person one, and that he'd really hung retired with his erstwhile co-star and Butler's then-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens at Coachella a fewer months prior.

11. For play three, the unit packed up and moved to a Santa Clarita soundstage, wherever acceptable decorator Harry Matheu recreated the interiors of Pacific Coast Academy. Less ocean, but mode person to Six Flags' Magic Mountain.

And sure, the formation had been nice, but Spears says that wasn't wherever the magic truly happened. "When we were successful a country conscionable being kids, that was erstwhile I deliberation the funniest and the champion memories were made," she told E! News successful September 2020.

12. Fans were bowled implicit erstwhile connected Sept. 18, 2015, the 10th day of the play 2 occurrence "Time Capsule," Nickelodeon aired a five-minute short called "What Did Zoey Say?" that featured present-day Chase proposing to his girlfriend, Alyssa—until Michael runs successful holding a DVD and a enactment Zoey wrote 10 years anterior revealing her existent feelings (and disorder implicit however Chase truly felt).

Poor Alyssa.

It ended with a "to beryllium continued..." and Chase-Zoey shippers are inactive waiting.

13. Despite the fashionable belief that Zoey 101 ended aft 4 seasons because its prima got large astatine 16, Jamie Lynn insists she had already near the show and returned to Louisiana with an oculus connected doing movies and finishing precocious school—the second of which she besides did astatine 16, earning her GED successful February 2008 earlier girl Maddie was born that June 19.

Filming had already wrapped erstwhile she revealed successful December 2007 that she was going to beryllium a mom and the bid finale aired May 2, 2008.

"Truthfully, I did not get large erstwhile I was inactive nether declaration with Zoey," she told People TV successful 2016. "We had finished shooting, but the episodes hadn't aired yet." Afterward she reluctantly auditioned for Twilight ("I retrieve conscionable reasoning like, 'Y'all are insane. I'm not playing a vampire. That is truthful stupid. Why would I bash that?'" she recalled to Nylon) and didn't recognize that she felt sick that time due to the fact that she was pregnant.

14. "When I became pregnant, the satellite that I knew came crashing down," Spears acknowledged connected the 2016 TLC peculiar Jamie Lynn Spears: When the Lights Go Out. "I knew I had a batch of young girls who looked up to maine and I felt that responsibility; but, astatine the extremity of the day, I knew I had to marque a determination arsenic a young miss myself to bash thing I knew I could slumber with each night."

She credited big sister Britney with serving arsenic a usher to dealing with public scrutiny. "We've had galore conversations astir it," she recalled to People TV successful 2016, "but I deliberation the main happening is truly just, you know, to spot yourself and benignant of truly support that your halfway value. And, you know, support your household close. The radical astir you are truly important connected who you are, and I deliberation that's benignant of the biggest happening I've taken distant from conscionable being astir each of the chaos successful general."

16. However, Spears made definite not to miss the big Zoom reunion when the formed virtually gathered to chat with E! News successful 2020—after they had reunited successful idiosyncratic connected All That and to shoot a euphony video for a remix of the show's taxable song, "Follow Me (Zoey 101)." Asked what their favourite portion had been truthful far, Sanders said, "Realizing that this transportation we person stands the trial of time, that adjacent though galore years had passed, it's similar nary clip had passed. I earnestly dropped to my knees and started getting truly affectional erstwhile I saw everybody. I deliberation we each had truly akin reactions."

17. Spears confirmed that she also thinks Chase and Zoey's communicative isn't finished, but that resuming it successful scripted manner would necessitate a batch of moving pieces to travel together, including uncovering the close location to archer the tale. "I deliberation there's a batch to inactive beryllium said and we'll fig retired wherever they are and however that each goes into play," she explained, "but I decidedly deliberation that there's much to that."

18. And fans are yet going to get answers to what happened betwixt Zoey and Chase, on with the remainder of the Pacific Coast crew, as Nickelodeon announced connected Jan. 12 that accumulation is underway connected the TV movie ZOEY 102, which volition find the characters reuniting astatine a wedding.

"I'm beyond thrilled to beryllium backmost alongside my PCA household and proceed the communicative of Zoey and each the characters fans cognize and love," Spears said successful a statement. "As an enforcement producer, it's been an breathtaking accidental to enactment with specified unthinkable endowment arsenic good arsenic Paramount+ and Nickelodeon."