byson5186 One common thing to hear nowadays, especially from people from Generation Y is how kids TV shows aren't as good as they used to be, and how they don't make kids shows like they used to. Many people from Generation Y have early childhood memories of the kids shows that were on TV in the '80s and '90s. Even kids today who weren't alive when those shows aired seem to prefer TV shows back then over what's on today. It's hard to explain why, but a lot of the TV shows for kids nowadays aren't as good or memorable as they were when we were kids. It seems like those shows have gone downhill since the dawn of the 21st Century. However, there are a couple of examples of good kids shows that have been on TV since then. TV shows that we can consider entertaining, well done, and worth our time. The Suite Life Of Zach and Cody is definitely one of them. This is a show on the Disney Channel that started airing in 2005 and continued until 2008. It was later followed by The Suite Life On Deck from 2008-2011. But, of the entirety of the series, I have to say I like Season 1 the best, the episodes that aired in 2005. I also want to say, that I seriously can't believe how long it's been since the year 2005. I mean, a little more than a month from now it will be 2015, so 2005 is almost a decade behind us. Man, time flies I remember that year as if it was yesterday. It was the year I graduated from High School. But, to think of the good TV shows on TV back then, The Suite Life Of Zach And Cody was definitely one of them. I found that show on TV, without even having heard about it, and an episode of the show really entertained me so I continued to watch the show back then. There was even a girl I was friends with during my first semester of college that watched it too. To review the show, I haven't watched that many episodes since back then, as the show seemed to go downhill after Season 1. I also stopped watching that show regularly, as I started to consider the show cheesy and thought that the show was probably mostly meant for prepubescent kids. But, when I watch the episodes today, even if they aired after the first season, it takes me back to when I watched this show back in 2005. It was a pretty well done show. We get to know the hotel the twins live in, The Tipton. I've looked up online to see if there is a real hotel called the Tipton in Boston, and from what I heard, there isn't. But, that hotel will seem real to us as we watch that show, and we'd want to stay there. The characters on that show, seem to take great pride in the Tipton, especially the manager Mr. Moseby. We have the main characters, Zack and Cody played by twins who were in an earlier movie called Big Daddy. We see the funny adventures those kids have at the hotel and in their lives. We see how their single divorced mother Carey tries to raise them, and she seems like a good mother, but a little crazy at times. We also see how they frequently bother Mr. Moseby, but we know while sometimes he acts like he doesn't like them, he cares for them so much and the twins really care for Mr. Moseby. We probably prefer them the most at age 12. How the main characters are 2 boys, this show can also be just as much for girls as there are two other characters, London and Maddie that have about as much screen time as the boys. Maddie is a girl that's smart and works at the hotel. She's a good friend with London. London on the other hand is rich, and an idiot. London does not know what it's like to not be rich. She also is a girl with style. This show is also a funny show with a laughing track that comes on during the funny scenes. The show however has some flaws. Like one, the show is obviously shot on like a stage where they don't show the other side of the room. Frequently scenes take place in the lobby, in the twins suite, ballroom, or hallway. The only episode I can think of that shows the pool in the hotel is the first episode, as they tried to pretend there was some big swimming pool at the top floor which obviously there wasn't. The characters on the show also act more fiction than realistic, probably to entertain a younger audience. Of all the episodes I've seen, my favorite episode was from Season 1, The Ghost In Suite 613. That episode was really good and funny, I've heard it was the twins favorite episode they worked on that season too!! You can watch this show, or show your kids it. It's got good reviews, and was quite popular. I'm sure no matter what projects the cast do in the future, we will always remember them from this show. This show is definitely one of the better shows of the 21st Century, and a good TV show you can watch on the Disney Channel. I give it an 8/10. It still had some flaws, and some of the episodes weren't entertaining. Still, great show!

TheLittleSongbird And for me that is saying a lot, seeing as I do not like Hannah Montana or Cory in the House. The Suite Life of Zack and Cody is far from perfect, but I actually like it. I do agree London can be obnoxious(though Brenda Song does perform her well), the laughter track is distracting and there are some predictable moments on the show.However, I loved the concept and it works well. Apart from London, though she has her moments, both Zack and Cody are very cute and endearing and Maddie is surprisingly likable as well. I also think the writing is funny, and the story lines while on the predictable side are at least interesting. And the acting is not too bad, maybe so to start with but it improved I think. Dylan and Cole Sprouse are great and very natural in the leads, while Ashley Tisdale interacts well with them too and Phil Lewis consistently makes me laugh. The episodes do move briskly and I have never been bored.Overall, it is a good show, flawed it is but it is funny and I think the leads are likable. 7/10 Bethany Cox

NexusHUB This most certainly is NOT the worst thing I've seen from Disney. I mean Hannah Montana, Filmore, Lizzie McGuire and such were all WAY worse. But that doesn't make this show funny.The first few episodes were awful, and I mean AWFUL. But let's give it credit, what show actually starts out good? (Invader Zim, Clannad) But the acting was still awful, the dialogue was pitiful and made no sense, and the plots were not interesting. The episode with the celebrities getting married in the hotel was by far the worst episode in the series, and I'm pretty sure that was the second episode.Over time, show show got a lot less annoying, but still wasn't good. The stories were always unoriginal and were always modernizing classic stories such as Romeo and Juliet, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Princess and the Pea, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and more. Uh, can you make your own stories, please? I must give the show credit, it's one of the few Disney shows that isn't painful to watch. It has a certain appeal, and I can watch it when it's on. When there's nothing else on, sure, I'll watch this show. I did chuckle a few times throughout the series.However, the laugh tracks, still make me cringe. I've heard the same annoying kids laugh the same annoying laughs in a dozen different shows. If you can't get a real audience, don't make a sitcom! You can make like Zoey 101 and make painful jokes without painful laugh tracks.Well, this show may be overshadowed by a MUCH better spin-off, but it's not the worst show ever.

dkf I stumbled upon this entry looking for an actor. I expected to see uniformly negative reviews (if any at all; the show is really not worth the effort). But I see so many positive reviews that I can only conclude that it is part of a coordinated effort by Disney to promote this garbage. If Disney doesn't directly write the favorable reviews, it at least creates the zombie-like following that actually recruits others into the Disney grave of imagination. I, therefore, thought it important to provide an adult point of view.I agree with the reviewers who are almost speechless in their attempt to explain what trash this series is. It has to be directed by people who failed film school. If you were to compile the very worst mannerisms of the very worst American sit-coms of the past 2 or 3 decades, you would define the style of the direction of this mess. And I cannot imagine what kind of "adults" sit around writing the "zingers" that the kids mouth to adults. If you think your job is dreary, imagine being a writer for this program. The writing is bad even by Disney standards. A friend of mine told me he was at a business conference where Disney was held up as an example of good branding. You always know what you are going to get from Disney -- like McDonalds; the quality is within a very narrow band. But I swear either the quality monitors failed to read scripts or the quality band must be ratcheting down at that "Entertainment" Complex. All I can say is that to be a Disney writer, you must have to check your self-respect at the door.But here is what is really disturbing for parents. The characters are horrible, and yet somehow made to appear cute to 'Tweens. Disney evidently has some study about how to mesmerize 'Tweens. I have yet to see a 'Tween that watches this show regularly that doesn't ape the mannerisms of some of the characters.But it's worse than that. The kids on the show have a contemptuous view of adults, all of whom are stupid, mean (and stupid), vain, or have character flaws. And all of them can be manipulated by the kids -- who despite doing vile, deceitful, immature things are always forgiven because they are "cute."And all the little viewers who become addicted to this mess will soon be mimicking that very same manner towards adults. I saw my own kids (when they were 8) start to come up with "sit-com" type "quips" at me and others and I was bound to find out where it came from. I watched everything they saw on TV until I identified the source as this very despicable program.While watching many (ugh!) Disney program I also noticed that Disney is really not an entertainment company any more. It is simply a vast licensing and cross-promoting marketing organization. It is so vast and so effective that I feel sorry for those ad execs who tried to get kids to eat sugary cereal in the 60s -- how much they could have made had they known what Disney knows now.As a result of the "experience" of watching Disney, I banned the channel from my kids' permitted viewing. As a "liberal" I was reluctant to do it (and even admit it), not just because I naturally believe in free speech but because I was not convinced that TV affects behavior -- until I saw what this program did to kids. After several weeks of not watching this trash, my kids returned to relative normal, although there is still an occasional relapse a year later. (I wonder if they were able to ditch the behavior so quickly because I nipped it in the bud -- you might not have such luck if you allowed long-term damage to be done.) Since then I've mentioned my banning to others, and I've found among the parents who actually watched what their kids watched, universal agreement. Parents who watch Suite Life are uniformly horrified at what it signals to kids -- cheap, unfunny writing, delivered by untalented children and worse adults, directed by robots programmed from some inane formula as something worth aspiring to. It is a shame. It is an entirely new and qualitatively different form of "dumbing down."It is also disturbing to find a common theme of most Disney programs that happiness involves becoming a pop idol, and that this goal is neither impractical nor difficult. But that is an entire other screed.I cannot urge you strongly enough to watch at least one episode, and decide whether your children should be exposed to it.