The following appeared in The Monitor Volume 15 Issue 5 and was published 11-3-2008
Here we go. I make no apologies if I offend your sensibilities, but I have to go right out and say it: if you do not like The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, on a non-ironic level, you are an insecure loser who has no business watching television.
I hope I have your attention. The Suite Life is this sitcom on the Disney Channel which features the talents of its twin stars, Cole and Dylan Sprouse as Cody and Zach respectively, as they raise hell living in a five star hotel in Boston Massachusetts. They are joined by a rather large cast, especially for a Disney Channel show, as various components of the hotel. There is Arwin the wacky janitor-cum-inventor, their mom the lounge singer, the buffoonish rich girl London, London’s poor counterpart Maddie, the manager Mr. Moseby (Hooch is crazy), and a variety of bellhops, maids, and cooks that keep variety in such an undemanding premise. The show itself is actually finished now after 88 fantastic episodes, but there is a nautical themed spinoff, The Suite Life on Deck. It is, as you can imagine, not as good.
