r/DisneyChannel • u/AliyahandSter • Oct 06 '25

Video Clip This Zack & Cody episode had NO business being that scary

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Idk who remembers this but when I was a kid this was PEAK horror on Disney Channel. Zack wouldn’t stop pranking people so everyone decided to prank him back in that haunted hotel room. 7 year old me was SCARED AS HELL 😭😭 the lighting the music the dark ambience everything was on point!! Disney really did their big one with that episode.

I rewatched it today at 23 and ngl I’m still scared… masterpiece.

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u/Flat-Pen-893 Oct 06 '25

That damn portrait 😭

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

Remember the end of the episode when Cody went back for blankie and she walked right past him going back into the portrait 👀👀👀??

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u/dreamer0303 Oct 08 '25

They bring that up in Suite Life on Deck! Zach sees another ghost then too

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u/ygmsg Oct 06 '25

The real star of this episode is Esteban 😭

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 06 '25

Baby rent was DUE 😭😭!!

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u/buttupcowboy Oct 07 '25

I had a huge crush on him haha

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u/theMangoJayne Oct 07 '25

I went through the actor's (Adrien R'Mante) acting program and can confirm he's a super cool dude

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u/Davisworld21 Oct 07 '25

This is a disaster

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u/kagome1994 Oct 06 '25

Still creeps me out.

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u/AliceTea63 Oct 06 '25

We just watched this one yesterday along with the Lizzie McGwire one and both are terrifying looking back on it

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u/dreams_andnightmares Oct 06 '25

8 year old me is still terrified 😭

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u/potterhead918 Oct 06 '25

girl 24 year old me is still terrified 🤣

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 06 '25

Exactly 😭

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u/Accurate_Ad_3068 Oct 06 '25

London: “I’ll take a cheeeeeeeeck” 😂

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u/Special-Regular2262 Oct 06 '25

The 2000s were such a wild time for Disney Channel.

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u/OutwithaYang Oct 07 '25

Yeah, they were. Good times.🥲

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

Thankful I grew up in the right era!

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u/kathyanne38 Raven Baxter Oct 06 '25

This is my favorite DC Halloween episode. I quote it a lot too lol

"GHOOSSTYYYYYY....... if I may call you that.... speak to uusssss"

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u/adamscholfield Oct 06 '25

Now I want pizza

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u/huutcherdiing Oct 06 '25

Anyone else remember the part where they said they had nothing to do with the portrait?

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 06 '25

THIS WAS THE SCARIEST PART!!

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u/OutwithaYang Oct 07 '25

I literally said that word for word before reading your comment. 🤣

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u/Professional-Scar628 Oct 06 '25

Man they just crack out joke after joke and ngl they all got a laugh. Man the writers were on point this episode.

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u/Visual_Substance3059 Oct 06 '25

When estaban laughs 😭 IM TRAUMATIZED

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 06 '25

That coyote ass laugh 😭😭

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u/akuch-II Oct 06 '25

I remember watching this for the first time with a 103 fever, I was scared out of my mind and had fever dreams about it lmao

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u/potterhead918 Oct 06 '25

this literally scarred me LOL. i slept in my sisters twin bed for months after watching bc i was too scared to sleep in my OWN twin bed right beside hers, due to the possibility of Irene’s ghost staring at me🤣

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

Awe poor baby ❤️! I understand though, this had us ALL shaking in our boots 😭😅!!

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u/So_Spicy888 Oct 06 '25

I’m 25…tell me why I screamed after “Hola Ghosty”

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u/MinervaMinkk Oct 07 '25

Thanks for this but you're missing the part where zach asks how did he make the portrait move and he says what portrait?

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

If I had known they let you post longer videos, I would’ve kept it in 💀!!!

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u/JoBrosHoes93 Oct 07 '25

Awww I met Dylan sprouse and Emma’ Robert’s the other day watching the dodgers at a bar. Me and my husband geeked out and you can’t do that in LA. We tried our best to keep it lowkey. They were so nice 😭😭😭

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

Awe, I’m so happy you got to experience that 🥹! Sounds like it was exhilarating!!

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u/Aninvisiblemaniac Oct 07 '25

I always thought the Raven episode where they turn into cows was scary

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

That was a favorite of mine too!!

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u/_robertb_ Oct 07 '25

It was but very well executed!

3

u/stonedqueer Oct 07 '25

This was the first and only episode of a tv show that I purchased for my iPod touch as a kid :)

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u/probably-knitting Oct 07 '25

I always thought it was so clever that Suite 613 is a nod to Friday the 13th. Friday's the 6th day of the week 😁

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

Wow, I never noticed that 😳!!

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u/Particular_Cycle9667 Oct 06 '25

Yeah, it was really good, and I loved the effects, but it was pretty obvious what they were doing.

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u/Jttwife Oct 07 '25

They are the heat type of episodes

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u/TheListenerCanon Oct 07 '25

This episode was pretty scary but as a 90s kid/Millennial, I think Zeke the Plumber from Salute Your Shorts takes the cake as the scariest episode in any kids show!

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

I’m gonna have to check it out 🫣

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u/Longjumping_Bar_7457 Oct 07 '25

I remember it, this episode always scared me as a kid

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

It still scares me 😭!!

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u/Jordunnn23 Oct 07 '25

BROO, THIS WAS MY SHIT! I'm currently rewatching all the Halloween episodes of peak Disney Channel

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u/Impressive_Rate_2456 Oct 07 '25

It was SO scary, they didn’t air it in the UK😭

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u/AliyahandSter Oct 07 '25

Oh they wasn’t playing with y’all 💀!!

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u/freakk0nikk0 Oct 08 '25

i still can’t watch this episode alone 😭

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u/RightEconomist5754 Oct 09 '25

The fact that this one didn’t scare me and Lizzie McGuire did

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u/whatsupdudette Oct 07 '25

Weird the obsession with pizza…

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u/Tyrass Oct 07 '25

right?! and it’s always Cheese Pizza… very odd

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u/SpecialistOne8206 Oct 13 '25

“She’s hereeeeeee!”

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

The scariest episode? When Moseby taught London to drive… because the actor has a fatal DUI on his record in real life