WOMAN: Are you ready?
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ I know you see me
standing here ♪
♪ Do I look good,
my dear? ♪
♪ Do I look good today? ♪
♪ Today, today ♪
♪ Ooh ooh ooh ♪
♪ I'm just another
kind of girl ♪
♪ And you want
to see my world ♪
♪ So come and run away ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ If you wanna play ♪
♪ Come and play today ♪
♪ Let's just get away, yeah ♪
♪ I will make you see ♪
♪ All of the things ♪
♪ That you can be ♪
♪ Believe in yourself ♪
♪ Come follow me ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Aw, man.
I just checked my to-do list
and I forgot to write
my history paper.
- How'd you forget?
- I forgot to check
my to-do list.
- Well, if you're not gonna
check the list,
what's the point of having--
- Quiet, Del Figgalo.
- Lola.
- He was giving me lip.
- Just tell your teacher
you couldn't write the paper
due to "global warming."
It's what you do these days.
Just blame everything
on global warming.
- Global warming could be
a positive thing.
You get to wear shorts
all year-round,
guys get sweaty,
take off their shirts.
- All the Earth's water
dries up.
- So we drink lemonade.
- Ah, those cafeteria ladies
overcooked my hamburger.
- Well, don't blame them.
Global warming.
- Ah, yes.
LOLA: Global warming.
- Of course.
- Warming.
- Warming.
- Global.
- Bad news, dude.
- I hate news when it's bad.
What is this about?
Aw!
[wailing]
- What's wrong?
- What does it say?
- Me and Logan are getting
our new roommate today.
- You sure showed that cob.
- It's not funny.
- Why did that housing lady
have to find out Chase left?
- And make us get rid
of our hot tub?
- I miss our hot tub.
Remember the good times?
[laughter]
♪ ♪
Oh, the noodles.
- Well, maybe you guys
will like your new roommate.
- You know his name?
- James Garrett.
Jimmy Garrett.
- Sounds like a loser.
- You can't judge a guy
by his name.
- Yeah, you can.
Logan Reese--
cool name, cool guy.
Mark Del Figgalo.
See?
- He just insulted me, right?
[metal clacking]
- Stop clacking.
- I can't.
When I'm nervous,
I gotta clack.
Ow.
I hate this toy so much.
- I got him.
- Ooh.
What'd you find out
about our terrible new roommate?
- Uh, says here that,
in the eighth grade,
Jimmy Garrett went
to Woodcliff Middle School
in Santa Fe.
- That's in New Mexico.
- I know where Santa Fe is.
- Just click your little mouse.
Let's see what he looks like.
Aw!
- No!
He's a doof.
MICHAEL: Wait. Wait.
Click on that other picture
of him.
Oh!
LOGAN: No!
- Man, I knew it!
I knew our new roommate
would be a doof.
A nerdy little doof.
Doof, doof, doof!
- We gotta go
to the housing office
and tell that Ms. Burvich
we're not rooming
with Jimmy Garrett.
- To Burvich.
[indistinct chatter]
I hate waiting.
I wish I had my clacker balls.
- What are you doing?
- Air-clacking.
- Hey, you guys got
a pen, pencil I could borrow?
- Yeah, sure.
- You know, they should let us
pick our own roommate.
- Yeah.
Not stick us with some nub
like Jimmy Garrett.
Nerd.
- "Oh, pardon me,
I'm Jimmy Garrett."
[laughter]
"Oh, lookie, I got tickets
to the comic book convention."
- "They're gonna serve us
hard-boiled eggs and juice."
- Hey, hey, you wanna play
extreme checkers?
BOTH: Whee!
- Michael Barret, Logan Reese,
you wanted to see me?
- You bet we do.
- That's right.
This doof you're trying
to stick us with--
Jimmy Garrett.
- Actually, he goes by James.
- Well, we looked James up
online.
MS. BURVICH: And?
- Loser.
- [clears throat]
Boys...
- My father donates
a lot of money to this school.
- Bunch of money.
- [clears throat] Boys.
- And we're not putting up
with any--
- Hi.
Ms. Burvich?
Mr. Conroy asked me to fill out
these papers for you.
- Thank you...James.
- Now, we demand that you--
- You're...
- So how do you play
extreme checkers?
♪ ♪
So you guys
are pretty psyched
about me moving in here,
right?
Okay.
I'll be back in a few
with the rest of my stuff.
No, no, thanks, I got it.
- Well,
at least he's not
as goofy-looking
as he used to be.
[fly buzzes]
- Dude, that's worse.
- How's it worse?
- 'Cause he probably thinks
he's all hot.
[fly continues buzzing]
- What, you're afraid
of a little competition?
- No.
I just don't wanna live
with a guy who's all conceited
and full of himself.
- Whew, is it getting ironic
in here?
- [stammering] I just don't--
[clattering, glass shattering]
I don't want any part
of that guy.
- I don't either.
Let's just--
[rustling]
He's back. He's back.
- I'm back.
- Good for you.
[fly buzzes]
[fly buzzing]
- There you go, buddy.
- Knock, knock.
- Nuh-knockity-knock.
- Don't do that.
- Hey.
- What's up?
- We wanted to know if you guys
wanted to play some--
♪ ♪
Uh, Michael, did you wanna
introduce us?
- Not really.
- I'm James,
their new roommate.
- Why are you guys here?
- Uh, we, uh...
- Uh...
We...
Why'd we come here?
- Uh, basketball.
- Right.
- Basketball.
We were gonna ask you guys
to play.
- James, would you like to come
play with us?
- What's wrong with you guys?
- Nothing.
- Why?
[knocking on window]
- What in the--
[indistinct murmuring]
- Hey.
I don't need a bunch of girls
staring at me
through my window.
[girls giggling]
Get outta here.
- So?
- Let's play.
- Yay.
- Nice!
- I hate him.
Hey, hey, you girls.
Seriously,
who do you think
is better-looking,
me or this guy?
- Oh, my God.
Who is that?
- He is so hot.
- What is the matter
with you people?
Look at my face.
I have perfect features,
and my hair is all--
I wasn't done with them.
MICHAEL:
They were done with you.
- Why do girls freak out
over this nub?
- Who knows why girls
do anything.
Why do they cover their mouths
when they're all surprised?
Can't you just be surprised
without doing this?
[gasps]
- Hey.
- Hey, uh...
I was wondering
what the best place is
to get some lunch on campus.
- What are we?
The PCA
Student Information Bureau?
- Do we look like pamphlets?
- Sorry, I was just thinking
maybe the three of us--
- How many dates
do you have a week?
- Huh?
- My average is three.
Three dates.
- Wow.
That's cool for you.
- Hey, what you guys up to?
- Well, Logan here's
up to three dates a week.
- Are you mocking me?
- Yeah, little bit.
[laughter]
- That's not funny.
- You laughed.
- Hey, you don't know
what I did.
Come on, Logan,
let's go get some cheese.
Just the two of us,
which is all we need.
Two. Two.
- Cheese.
- Yeah, they really make me
feel like family.
- Don't let it bug you.
Michael just misses his hot tub
and Logan's a--
- Conceited jerk?
- You catch on fast.
- Yeah, well...
Hey, what's a good place
to get some lunch on campus?
- Oh, you wanna have lunch?
- Uh...
- Oh.
You weren't asking me
to have lunch with you.
- Yeah, but if you're hungry...
- We don't have to.
JAMES: No.
I mean,
I know we don't have to,
but if you wanna
have lunch together...
- Sure.
Sushi Rox is just up the hill,
if you don't mind hills.
- Or sushi.
- You don't like sushi?
- I love sushi.
Show me the hill.
- To the hill.
♪ ♪
[indistinct whispering]
GIRL: Dating? That guy James?
Oh, my God, he's so hot.
- James?
- You know they're dating?
- I know.
- They're dating.
- Zoey, you got a second?
- Sure, what's up?
- Well, as you know,
I'm really into astronomy.
- I know.
- Okay,
so my three favorite planets
are Mars, Uranus, and Saturn.
I love Saturn
because of its rings--
My best friend
is my telescope.
- Start talking!
- Wait a minute.
- How long?
- What do you mean?
- You know it's all over campus.
- What's all over campus?
- How could you not tell us?
- Tell you what?
- That you and James are dating.
- We are?
MAN: ♪ We're walking
hand in hand ♪
- How could you not
have told us?
- Because I--
- We're your roommates.
- I know, but I--
- We thought we were
your best friends.
- I'm not dating James, okay?
We're not dating.
There is no dating going on
between me and James.
- Okay, what are you trying
to say?
- Just tell us.
- Ow!
- Hey.
- Did that shake your brains
loose a little bit?
- Maybe they're not dating.
- Then why does everyone
on campus think
you and James are a thing?
- I don't know.
You tell me.
All I did was have
a 45-minute lunch
with him at Sushi Rox.
What, one spicy tuna roll
and now I'm in
a serious relationship?
[both sigh]
[phone ringing]
Hello?
No, I'm not dating James.
We just had lunch together.
And how did you get
this number?
[phone beeps]
Who started this rumor?
- Maybe it was James.
- But why would he--
- It makes perfect sense.
He starts a rumor
that you guys are dating,
then you hear about it and--
I don't know
where I'm going with this.
- Yeah,
it doesn't make sense
that he would have started it.
Oh, my God,
did you start it?
Okay,
so we know it wasn't you.
- Well, I gotta go find James
'cause I don't want him to think
that I was the one who--
[all talking at once]
I'm not dating James.
[all talking at once]
- Ow. Ow. Ow.
- Hey, what are those?
- Clackers.
They're awesome.
Ow.
What you doing?
- Leaving.
- You're leaving PCA?
- No, just this room.
- Oh.
Well, why?
- It's pretty obvious
you and Logan
don't want me here,
and I don't wanna be
somewhere I'm not wanted.
- Wait, who are your new
roommates gonna be?
- Just me.
I'm moving into a single.
Uh, 3A.
- 3A?
That's, like, the worst
dorm room on campus.
- Well, it was
the only one left, so whatev.
Take it easy.
- Hey, way to go, dude.
- Nice, man.
- Dude, you are my idol.
- All right.
- Um, hi.
- Hey.
- Can we, uh...
- Sure.
Uh...
What's up?
- Um, have you heard
that we're dating?
- No.
We're not, right?
- No.
But somehow this whole campus
thinks we are.
- Ah.
That would explain things.
- So do you have any idea?
- Maybe people saw us
at Sushi Rox?
- Maybe, but I don't see
how that would make people
think we're dating.
- Well,
we did share the wasabi.
- Then we must be engaged.
- I better go buy you a ring.
- How many kids should we have?
- Hey, you two.
Yeah!
- Who started this rumor?
- I don't know.
Bigfoot?
- I don't think Bigfoot
would do that.
- Me either.
I'm just glad to know
that you believe in Bigfoot.
- Well, duh.
[clacking]
[phone vibrates]
- Okay, I am the best.
I mean, I already knew
I was the best, but...
Dude, you hid
all of James's stuff?
That's brilliant.
When he gets back here--
- He moved out.
- No way.
No way!
Dude, this is awesome.
First, I made him undatable,
and now he's out of our room.
- How did you make him
undatable?
- I started a rumor that
he and Zoey are going out,
which officially takes him
off the market,
which means more girls
for The Loge.
Come on, man,
let's go celebrate.
- Yeah, sure.
But give me ten minutes.
- Well, where are you--
- Ten minutes.
[shower running]
Hey, man.
- Hi.
- I think you left
your cell phone in our room.
Well, my room.
That was your room.
- Thanks.
- Nice room.
- Yeah, not really.
But it works.
- It's kind of hot.
No air conditioner?
- No, the housing lady said
this used to be
a janitor's closet,
so...no air.
- Well, at least
you're next to the bathroom.
[toilet flushes]
That's convenient.
BOY: [screaming]
- What was that?
- Whenever someone flushes
one of the toilets in there,
it makes the shower
get boiling hot
for a few seconds.
- Oh.
Well, how often does that--
[toilet flushes]
BOY: [screaming]
- Well, I guess
the good news is...
Help me out here.
- Hey, I'm cool with it.
Just a room, you know?
Thanks.
- Sure.
[toilet flushes]
Look, James--
BOY: [screaming]
- I'm sorry, all right?
For the way me and Logan
acted.
We just kind of liked having
the extra space in the room,
so...
- Or maybe you miss Chase?
I hear things.
- Yeah, well...
Me and Chase, you know,
we started going
to PCA together
back in sixth grade, so...
- I get it.
Yeah.
- Anyway, I'm sorry.
[toilet flushes]
BOY: [screaming]
[laughter]
- I appreciate you saying that.
So we cool?
- We're cool.
Oh, and move back in our room,
man.
This place is jank.
- All right.
Hey, uh, you got any idea
how this rumor got started
about me and Zoey dating?
- Oh.
That was Logan.
- Logan?
- Yep.
He started the rumor so girls
would think I'm "undatable."
- So you are dateable?
I'm just clarifying.
- So how do we k*ll
this rumor?
- I say we go to the source.
- What?
Get Logan to admit it?
- Zero chance of that.
- He might,
under the right conditions.
[camera beeps]
- Quit it.
BOY: Whoa!
BOYS: Girls! Girls!
Girls! Girls!
BOY: Come on. Get out of here.
Get out of here.
BOY: Come on.
Let's get out of here.
BOY: Go. Go.
- Hey, Logan.
LOGAN: I'm busy shampooing.
- I need to talk to you.
LOGAN: Dude, I said I--
[screams]
- Hi, Logan.
- Get out of here!
- Hi, I'm Jeremiah Trottman
with a PCA news bulletin.
I'm here live in Maxwell Hall's
third floor restroom...
LOGAN: Oh, my God.
- Where Logan Reese
is currently showering
and apparently shampooing.
LOGAN:
Someone call the police.
[girls murmuring
and giggling]
JEREMIAH:
Zoey Brooks, you allege
that it was Logan Reese
who started the rumor
that you and new student
James Garrett are dating.
- That's right, Jeremiah.
We have reliable sources.
- Oh!
That's me.
I am a reliable source.
[chuckles]
- Logan, you have ten seconds
to admit
that you started the rumor
and that it's a lie.
- Leave me alone, Brooks.
- Girls?
- Hey, why's my curtain
moving?
- If you don't admit
what you did,
bye-bye curtain.
- You wouldn't dare.
- Yeah, we would.
- What will happen?
- Ten...
[together]
Nine...
Eight, seven...
- Hey, can I change the channel?
- No!
- [yelps]
[together]
Three,
two, one.
- Okay, I started the rumor!
It was me!
[all gasping]
Zoey and James
are not dating.
All right?
Everybody happy?
Good. Get out.
[all cheering]
- Sure, we'll get out.
But first...
[urinal flushes]
LOGAN: [screaming]
[urinal flushes]
[screams]
- How great was that pizza?
- Oh, the best.
I love thin crust.
- Me too.
What's wrong with Chicago?
- Yeah, don't get me started
on the whole deep dish thing.
It's just wrong.
- I know, right?
- Anyway, I'm glad we squashed
that whole rumor thing.
- Logan's just ridiculous
sometimes.
- Yeah, no doubt.
Hey, I hear
you're in my history class.
- You got Mr. Murphy?
- I did.
- Awesome, then I'll see you
in class tomorrow.
- And I'll see you.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
WOMAN: ♪ And you wanna ♪
♪ See my world ♪
♪ So come and run away ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ If you wanna play ♪
♪ Come and play today ♪
♪ Let's just get away ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I will make you see ♪
♪ All of the things ♪
♪ That you can be ♪
♪ Believe in yourself ♪
♪ Come follow me ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
[ding]
MAN: Mmm.
MICHAEL: Loser.
04x04 - Rumor of Love
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Series centers around Zoey Brooks as she enrolls in Pacific Coast Academy, a prestigious Southern California boarding school that previously only allowed boys to attend.
Series centers around Zoey Brooks as she enrolls in Pacific Coast Academy, a prestigious Southern California boarding school that previously only allowed boys to attend.