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There are a lot of people who are saying that they want the "old Disney" back

And that's when I thought, hey what if I compared x and y to see what I could could come up with.

So the first thing that we are going to look at are, Liv and Maddie and the Site Life series.

So here's what we know, both shows have blonde twins.

Both shows have spin offs.

Both shows feature one corky twin, and one more responsible but still corky twin.

Now we all know that Disney has had shows revolving around twins before.

But that's a story for a different video.

So

For perspective we're only going to be looking at The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, and Liv and Maddie.

As opposed to looking at The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Suite life on deck,

Liv and Maddie and Liv and Maddie LA I belive it's called

So lets start by comparing the theme songs.

Ok so the theme in the suite life theme song is

I am yours, you are with me, we are sticking together and life will be better that way.

Liv and Maddie's theme is I need you no matter how different you are from me.

And my life would not be the same with out you.

I think they are very similar, not in the construction of the actual

title pages I guess.

But they are in the meaning behind the words of the songs.

That's what I think is really the "Ohhh ahh" shock and aw factor.

Ok so I know what you're thinking.

"um the show is about twins, so why would there not be a sentimental moment between them."

There are tons of shows

that do not have this underlying

message. But they are also about twins.

As much so or more than these two.

Here is the opening sequence to the Gravity Falls theme song

And here is Two of A Kind which is actually staring the Olsen Twins,

probably the most famous twins ever.

So

Yeah, it didn't have to be that way.

Ok so lets break down the characters and the relationships now.

I'm all in your face.

Lets start with Zack Martin.

Zack,

was the

less

smart, but more fun and outgoing twin

He was the less responsible by far.

And at many times especially in the earlier seasons

the comedic relief.

If need be.

Staying on track with that show we have Cody Martin

Played by Cole Sprouce.

And Cody was the more

responsible, smart

goal oriented, strict

person.

Out of the pair.

In this case of Zack and Cody it seems more like

Zack is dependent upon Cody, and they do argue a lot.

I believe in one episode Zack moved out and moved in with his dad.

Into like a trailer? Or maybe he was on tour or something.

I don't know but Zack moved out and moved in with his dad.

So, take that for whatever that means.

Next we have Liv Rooney who is played by Dove Cameron.

She is not so relatable in some cases.

In comparison to her twin sister Maddie, she does have

things about her that are relatable.

But most of the time she just isn't very relatable.

She just came back from her tv show sing it loud.

And she's having a hard tiem sinking back into the reality of the normal world.

Or at least she doesn't want to.

So she continues to be like this

affluent star child, in a town where no one really cares.

So she's

more like the Zack of the twins.

She's more goal oriented than Zack ever was, but she does seem to be more

easy going fun twin.

Then Maddie Rooney, who is also played by Dove Cameron

She has a more realistic life, a more realistic voice

She's funnier, to me she seems more relatable.

She's a lot more awkward, and she's definitely a lot more like Cody in this scenario.

Both Maddie and Cody have really awkward boy/girlfriend experiences.

They are not comfortable around the opposite sex or at least the opposite sex that they are attracted to.

And they are not good at communicating around them.

Which is funny.

Now Liv hasn't really had too many experiences with people that she's liked.

So I can't really comment on her, but I am just to assume that

her experiences would be a lot easier going than Maddie.

Ok so lets talk about their friends.

They both had a very diverse group of friends.

Not speaking ethnically, although there are people of different ethnicities in the friend groups of both shows.

Zack and Cody had a group of friends that differed in

social economic status

age

gender

And eventually

places of birth.

Which must be eaiser when you live in a hotel.

Now for Liv and Maddie

I want to go off of Maddie's friends becase I really can't recall too many of Liv's friends.

Even though I do recall a few of them.

"Raise the roof"

Liv and Maddie don't share friends in the same way that Zack and Cody did.

Zack and Cody had the same friend group through out the whole series.

Where as Liv and Maddie were seperated for a while, so when Liv comes back, she ends up joining Maddie's friend group.

Who is very

adapted to Maddie.

Their attitudes, their corkiness, and awkwardness it's very much Maddie.

And then Liv comes in later and can fit in because

She fits Maddie too.

They just probably aren't the group of friends that she would've had if she didn't move to Hollywood to preform in

sing it loud.

That being said their group of friends is also very diverse.

Diverse in ethnicities, diverse in ages

it's a lot smaller of a gap

than in suite life, but it's there.

I believe that if you were to take Liv's friends into account thenthey probably do differ in social economic statuses.

Or at least they act like they do. I mean Liv's probably richer than Maddie.

who knows.

Actually I know. Maddie didn't have a job, Liv worked on tv, Liv is definitely richer than Maddie.

We know that both shows had similar theme songs with moral messages,

they had similar friend groups, they had similar moral

messages. They were similar as a show, so what is different about the two?

Why do people prefer one over the other, it just can't be because one show revolves around girls and the other boys.

maybe it's because

Maybe it's because they have organic twins in one, and not in another.

I don't know lets look into the content next

The biggest thing that I was able to find in the content

Was that there was a difference in

what the shows would produce.

One, the jokes in the Suite Life of Zack and Cody seem to be more thought out and clever.

Whereas a lot of the jokes in Liv and Maddie

are outrageous humor, so it's like "Oh my god that would never happen hahahaha"

And suite life of Zack and Cody touch on things that Liv and Maddie just hasn't gotten to yet.

For example they talked about eating disorders in the Suite Life of Zack and Cody

There is a very clear theme through out the show about nontraditional households.

And how

they affect the people in them.

Out of the main children who are on the show, none of them have a father and mother who are present.

London's dad is never there, she's being raised by a stranger. I guess you could say that Mosby adopted her.

Or Fosters her rather, for the time being. He comes to the hotel gives her money and then goes.

I think that can represent an affluent side of the foster services.

Maddie's parents are gone, she's being raised by her grandparents.

That happens a lot more than you would think.

Zack and Cody's parent are divorced, they live with their mom

as she sings, she works, she's the help of the hotel.

and

And their dad is on tour or something. He's a rockstar? I don't know.

That confused me.

The point is that their dad is not always there.

So that related with a group of forgotten kids who

don't always have a mom and a dad to go home to.

But they can go home and watch the Suite Life

and see people, or maybe relate

relate their situations to the situations on the show. Or see similarities between their lives and that of the Suite Life storyline.

So it's a reminder that you don't always see the relationships that form in the traditional big happy family, like the one present in Liv and Maddie.

And on every other Disney Channel show right now, but don't quote me on that. I think right now every show on Disney Channel has

a mom and a dad with children.

But that's just not reflective as who we are as a society. That's just not where we are.

Oh there's also an argument that you can say, it's that London's dad is neglectful towards her.

Shes always seeking attention from her father

And she shows this by not doing well in school, she's always reeking havoc, she goes to extravagant

places and comes back. She's looking for attention.

She's looking to seek affection from her father but he just isn't giving it back.

So I looked for messages like that in Liv and Maddie and I couldn't really find any.

Like there weren't always

signs. There were messages in the show, but they were like be yourself, be true to who you are

and follow what you want and your hopes and dreams and everything will prevale.

Which is fine but that's like the underlying message in most Disney Channel shows.

So it's not like that isn't a message that we haven't heard before.

So there really isn't anything that is original that's being taught to us via this show.

But that's just my opinion.

So I don't know.

Let me know which show you guys prefer, if you agree with me, if you disagree with me.

I think the biggest differences lie in the messages and the content.

I also think that it's weird that every episode of Liv and Maddie has a moral message, we don't learn something new everyday. We can stride too but there are days

when we just chill out.

and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

We didn't always learn something in the Suite Life. Sometimes it was just fun

Or sometimes the message was so silly that it didn't pertain to the real life.

Let me know what you think in the comment section below.

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you like this series, I will be doing All That and So Random next.

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so stay tuned for that. Until next time.

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