When a wheelchair basketball team visits the Tipton; Zack and Cody's basketball team plays an exhibition game against them. Meanwhile, Maddie is filming a movie for a student filming contest. She hires Lance, London and Mr. Moseby, but they're all terrible, so she has to figure out a way to make her movie a success.
When the Tipton holds Health and Fitness week, everyone begins to examine their eating habits. Cody helps Chef Paolo in an attempt to lower his cholesterol, while Carey begins to limit Zack’s sugar intake. Meanwhile, London and Maddie participate in a charity fashion show where they are both criticized about their looks, each taking drastic measures to change.
Zack and Cody go on a double date to a miniature golf course. Zack tries to impress his date, Ella, but things backfire on him. Cody and his date, Barbara Brownstein, have an intellectual attraction. London joins a bookclub with her rich friends much to Maddie's amazement. Carey tries to become a more healthy-living person.
It's International Day at Zack and Cody's school and Zack decides to ask a guest named Kumiko, a Japanese opera singer, to be his project. After Zack loses Kumiko, Carey and the boys must fill in as Japanese singers for a convention being held at the Tipton. Meanwhile, Maddie and London get trapped in London's closet.
Raven Baxter is stuck in Boston, where she has a vision that something bad will happen to Cody. After warning him, vaguely, he becomes paranoid. Meanwhile, Maddie tries to get London into wearing Raven's dress, but London is too stuck up to do so, until pop star Hannah Montana arrives at the Tipton, and wants to wear the dress herself. The crossover starts on That's So Raven S04E11 Checkin' Out (I). It continues on Hannah Montana S01E12 On the Road Again (III)
Cody gets Zack a job at the school newspaper for the advice column since the previous person quits. When a girl he likes asks for advice, Zack tells her secretly to ask him out. So she does. But when she finds out about him giving the advice, Zack is in for a load of trouble. London can't sleep and Maddie, Mr. Moseby & Esteban try to help her sleep.
Zack and Cody discover a machine of Arwin's creation that can transport people from one dimension to another. They hop in, and find themselves back at a mixed-up version of the Tipton Hotel; where London is a candy girl/babysitter, Maddie is an air-headed rich hotel heiress, and other personalities are switched.