Another new year at PCA leads to surprises including the heart breaking news that Nicole will not be attending PCA this year because of her OMGD (obsessive male gender disorder). Thus, Nicole is sent to an all-girls school. After everyone settles into their new rooms, Chase tells Zoey he wants to talk with her privately. Lola and Quinn tell Zoey that Chase wants to tell her he's in love with her, but Zoey doesn't believe them. Meanwhile, Michael and Logan are fighting for the single bed in their new room. Chase decides not to ruin his friendship with Zoey, so he decides not to have a crush on her anymore by dating a new girl, Rebecca (Daniella Monet).

A shocking ending from "Surprise" leads to yet another plot twist. Chase's girlfriend, Rebecca, seems really sweet, until she tells Zoey to stay away from Chase. After Chase learns about this, he must make a decision: Rebecca or Zoey. Meanwhile, Quinn is helping Logan with his free throws in basketball. Also, a new girl named Stacey Dillson gets her cotton swab dream house wrecked by Chase.

A new "hot" Dean fills in for Dean Rivers because Dustin,Quinn, and Dustin's friends hit Dean Rivers with a model airplane by mistake.. Meanwhile, the girls' Dorm Advisor Coco has just been dumped by her boyfriend, Carl. Zoey and her friends set up Dean Taylor and Coco on a date at Sushi Rox because Coco keeps complaining about Carl.

Zoey struggles with Chemistry when she scores a "C" on a test. She is given a new tutor; to her surprise, her tutor is Logan, who secretly happens to be one of the best Chemistry students. Zoey starts learning Chemistry with Logan behind her friends' backs. All of her friends become suspicious, especially Chase. Chase tries to find out why, so Logan lies and says that Zoey is dating him, which Chase does not believe. Meanwhile, Quinn tries to catch her rat, which was lost and bugging Lola since Quinn's plasma bolt hit Lola in the head and made her unconscious.

Vince Blake appears to be the ladies' man, the best school athlete, and the savior of the football team. He helped PCA advance to the state championships. Little do people know, he is in fact a cheater; Chase caught him taking pictures of a history test with his cell phone. Chase must choose: not to tell the teacher and let Vince cheat more or make PCA lose its biggest football game. Logan, Michael, and the football team convince him not to tell, but Zoey thinks he should. Meanwhile, Zoey, Lola, Quinn, and Mark put healthy snacks called Moon Bars to try to persuade the students to stop eating junk food, but ends in chaos as they turn out to be addictive after Quinn and Mark put cactus goo in them to enhance their flavor.

Zoey, Michael, and Lola are invited into a secret society at PCA called the Silver Hammer Society. Chase is also invited to join, but he rejects the offer. Logan desperately wants to join, and pretends to be Chase in order to do so, but his disguise is quickly revealed. To get in, the rest of the group must do ridiculous deeds. Then Logan starts to make his own club, the Loganites. Also, Quinn acts weird around a new girl in school, Sara, when she suspects she knew Quinn from a while back. Soon, Quinn finds out that she knew Sara from a beauty pageant she was in as a child.

After developing a crush on a girl named Lisa, Michael becomes too nervous to perform in the Open Mic Night, causing him to throw up on her and another guy. While cleaning up, Lisa falls in love with the other guy. Upon hearing this, Michael becomes really sad. Meanwhile, Logan and Chase are having a go-kart race. But Chase's out of control go-kart crashes into Lisa's table and Michael pushes her out of the way to save her and she kisses him and they start going out.

After seeing Zoey stop a fight, the wrestling coach wants Zoey to join the wrestling team. The days pass, and she doesn't get a chance to wrestle anyone. Then later on, she finds out that she will be wrestling in the tournament. However, all the boys Zoey is put against forfeit because they don't want to wrestle a girl. As she is about to face the undefeated champion, Chuck Javers, Zoey finds out that was the coach's plan, and was the whole reason he put her on the team. Meanwhile, Lola wants to be a reporter, and joins Jeremiah Trottman during the tournament.

Zoey and her friends must write a secret and tie it to a balloon for psychology class. However, Zoey's balloon gets stuck in a tree, and someone finds and learns Zoey's secret. The mysterious person begins blackmailing her, forcing Zoey to do various cruel tasks. It turns out that the person who was blackmailing Zoey was Rebecca (Daniella Monet), Chase's ex girlfriend wanting to get revenge on Zoey for Chase dumping her.

Chase's birthday is coming up but he is too busy writing a 5,000 word essay to care. When Zoey hears that Chase and his grandmother share the same birthday and that Chase shared a close relationship with her when he was young, she thinks she has the perfect gift for him; to bring his grandmother to PCA, but she gets the flu and is unable to come to PCA. Meanwhile, Lola and Quinn are trying to get Dustin's arm out of a vending machine. Later, the secret birthday party they threw for Chase became a disaster after Chase learned his grandmother had more than a flu and it got worse and his grandmother died on her and Chase's birthday. On another scene we see that Zoey makes Chase feel better by hugging him in the rain.

When Quinn accidentally spills her own germ in their dorm room, the girls along with Logan, Chase, and Michael are Quarantined in their room until it is proved to be safe. However, they begin to drive each other crazy; Michael is VERY hungry, Lola keeps screaming because she is auditioning for a scary movie, Logan is obsessed with looking at himself in the mirror, Chase begins to feel ill, Quinn is worried that Mark may be cheating on her, and Zoey has to miss a date with an extremely cute guy named Danny.

Chase sells Zoey a "fada model #115" radio for $5 and a coupon for a free taco. Quinn discovers that the radio is worth $10,000 and Zoey plans to give the radio back to Chase. When Chase discovers the value of the radio, he yells at Zoey for not giving it back to him, even though she was planning to give it back. This makes her mad and she decides not to give the radio back. Their argument quickly expands to include the rest of the gang, who argue. Quinn and Logan think that Zoey should keep the radio, while Lola and Michael think that Zoey should return the radio to Chase. At the end of the episode, Chase's grandfather takes the radio back after he too finds out its value. Meanwhile, after being teased by Lola about how she has never been kissed by Mark, Quinn tries to make him kiss her.

A science star named Paige Howard attends PCA and is going to install her new energy converter to make PCA run on "Paige Power". This upsets Quinn because she realizes that she may no longer be the smartest girl on campus, and she gives up science. When the energy converter threatens to cause a catastrophe Quinn realizes her science gift is needed when she saves the school from a near meltdown. Meanwhile, Chase and Logan try to make Michael think that he is going crazy for a psychology class project after he refuses to do his share of the work. The guys hire Coco's little person cousin to help out with their prank.

Michael and Logan must help Chase become a wonderful dancer before a dance contest to dance with Zoey. Lola wants to get the main role in a play, but in the meantime, she tricks a British guy into going on a date with her. Also, Michael, Logan and Quinn try to be customer of the week to get free coffee.

Zoey's dad signs a permission slip, allowing Zoey to go off campus to meet her favorite author. She asks Coco to drive her and she says she'll do it, but Zoey must get her some special ravioli that only Michael can make. Michael asks for another favor where Stacey will finish their class project but Stacey wants a date with Logan and Logan wants his PCA ring back from Dustin and Dustin wants Lola to be his talent show partner and Lola wants Chase to babysit a baby and finally Chase wants a bunch of nerds to stop bothering him. When it doesn't work they all get their stuff back but at the end Coco still drives Zoey.

After an unknown deceased relative of Zoey's sends her "a thousand pounds of ribs", Zoey, Chase, Michael, and Logan agree to have a rib cook-off. After a fierce feud between Michael and Logan, they decide to compete against each other with Zoey on Michael's team, and Chase on Logan's. The famous cook off judge turns out to be a fraud wanted by the Authorities. Meanwhile, Quinn accidentally blows Mark's eyebrows off in an experiment gone awry, and she creates a stimulant that accelerates hair growth.

After bringing up the legend of a former PCA student named Charles Galloway, who fled to the wilderness above PCA at a place called Redstone Gulch because of an extremely hard test, the gang decides to go check it out for themselves, with help from Lola's crush, Leif, who then gets himself and Lola lost in the wilderness. There, they find the necklace of Charles L. Galloway. When the gang refuses to let Logan keep the necklace, which he says will be evidence that they proved the legend true, and make them famous at PCA, he steals it and puts it in Zoey's backpack, causing a violent thunderstorm to form a green cloud to come after Zoey and the others, which causes Zoey to break her ankle. Zoey must help save PCA by getting to Redstone Gulch and placing the necklace back where it came from.

Michael tries to introduce his new slang word, "drippin", which means "good," "awesome," or "sweet." Logan gets a care package from his father, who is away in Japan, which includes a super-scary horror movie called Shinnyuusha. Evidently, Dustin freaks out from watching this movie and stays with the girls overnight. The girls learn that Dustin was only scared for the first night and that he stayed for a couple of more nights because he missed hanging out with Zoey. Meanwhile, the guys’ dorm encounters a new problem – the fire alarm goes off every night. At the end it turns out it was Logan's illegal J-Phone from Japan that was setting off the fire alarm, which leads to Logan getting beaten soundly by the other boys in his dorm building.

Zoey starts dating Dean Rivers' son. Meanwhile, Logan makes a dance video for girls so they can dance with him from the TV. Chase and Michael struggle to make 26 more cartoons for the end of the month, and end up getting sued by Friday Night Live for their idea of two bowling pins afraid of a bowling ball rolling towards them.

There is a contest to see who can keep their hand on a Blix van for the longest. The winner gets a private Blix jet for two to anywhere in the world, and many people are determined that they can win. Logan tries to win by lying about breaking his leg, scaring students off and sneezing on their hands. Meanwhile, Quinn uses a breath spray she made to cure her bad breath, but the side effect makes her laugh non-stop; Lola kisses Mark, which cures her. Michael and Lisa break up when Michael makes fun of Lisa's necklace, but they get back together. Eventually, only Zoey and Logan are left. They stay in the contest for 23 hours and 57 minutes, but Zoey ends the contest by saying that if both of them take their hands off at the same time, they both win. They count to three and Logan takes his off, but Zoey does not and she wins.

Logan hosts a new "Miss PCA" beauty pageant. While Zoey, Lola and Chase initially found the event degrading, the girls asked to join when Logan revealed the prize of the contest: the chance to be on the cover of Buzz Magazine. And when Zoey and Lola find out, they sign up, but Zoey and Lola become competitive and start sabotaging each other. In the meantime, Michael desperately tries to make Quinn laugh at his jokes.

Logan is in trouble when his dad discovers that he's purchased a $327,000 car without his permission. That's when Mr. Reese steps in and takes control. He takes away Logan's valuables, such as closing his bank account and cutting his credit card in half. When Zoey, Lola and Chase see that Logan is in desperate need of help, Zoey does Logan's laundry, Lola helps him with his hair, Chase types out his report, and they all try to teach Logan how to fend for himself with no money, But realize he got his money back and Zoey, Lola, And Chase are still helping him. Meanwhile, Michael says he can get out of any difficultly tied ropes, so Mark and Quinn tie him up to see what he can do. Does he have the skills he says he has?

This is the third Zoey 101 TV movie. Zoey's parents come for an unexpected visit to PCA and tell Zoey and Dustin that they are moving to England. Zoey's dad's business is starting a new branch in London. When offered to accompany the parents to London, Dustin quickly declines the offer, but Zoey decides to think about it first. Although Zoey treasures Chase's opinion, Chase had heard the rumor before Zoey gets a chance tell him about the news. This leads Chase to bitterly convince Zoey that she should go to London. In a cliffhanger ending, Zoey watches Chase admit his love to Zoey unknowingly via webcam. Meanwhile, Stacey pursues a singing career by singing a demo of a song called "Sassafras Tea".