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Kurt Martin is a minor recurring character in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck. He is the biological father of Zack and Cody Martin and ex-husband of Carey Martin.

He was portrayed by Robert Torti.

Story[]

Though heard briefly in a video in "Poor Little Rich Girl", Kurt is formally introduced in "Dad's Back", where he visits ex-wife Carey Martin and his kids, Zack and Cody. Though Kurt does not stay long to visit, Zack stows away on his rock band's tour bus after a playful comment by Kurt, telling Zack to come live with him on the road. Despite being on the road, Kurt has to find time to take care of Zack and help him with his homework, and eventually get him back to the Tipton.

Kurt appears again at Christmastime, where he was supposed to take Zack and Cody snowboarding, but was snowed in at the hotel instead, where Cody tried unsuccessfully to get him and Carey back together, "like a family."

Kurt and Carey are currently divorced, though they visit Zack and Cody together on the S.S. Tipton in "Mom and Dad on Deck", saying that they'd love to move onto the ship with the boys. Enjoying their freedom, Zack and Cody hatch a plan to get rid of their parents, and though Kurt and Carey discover this, they eventually decide not to move onto the boat.

He is last seen in the finale, "Graduation on Deck", attending the graduation ceremony along with his ex wife, Carey. Bailey and Maya both greet them and tell them that Cody didn't get into Yale University while Maya confesses that she broke up with Zack due to her belief of long distant relationships being unsuccessful, resulting in the twins feeling depressed enough to stay in their rooms and not attend the graduation ceremony. The parents split up to talk to their kids. Carey talks to Cody that and tells him that it is not his fault that Yale declined Cody's university application. Meanwhile, Kurt tells Zack that Maya isn't the only girl for him. He assures him that he will find other girls and that he understands how he feels. Their parents tell the kids that the other sibling is not going to graduation either for their own personal reasons. Zack and Cody run out at the same time questioning one another as to why they won't attend graduation. They convince each other to attend the graduation ceremony as Carey and Kurt reflect on how well they raised their own kids. They are seated throughout the ceremony next to Arwin, who gets envious of Kurt and is still infatuated with Carey.

Personality[]

Kurt is really a happy-go-lucky guy who is a kid at heart. He is also an open-minded father and can be mindless at times. His creativity in buying Zack and Cody gifts is revealed in both Suite Life of Zack and Cody, and Suite Life on Deck. In the former title, he bought Cody an ancient Chinese calculator, and gave Zack his legendary guitar. In the sequel, he got Zack and Cody a car since they are "out in the ocean, nothing can stop [him from teaching them how to drive]." Overall, he is a loving dad and possibly husband. However, his mindlessness is often viewed as irresponsible, and that is possibly why Carey left him in the first place.

Trivia[]

  • In "Mom and Dad on Deck", Kurt Martin is accidentally written as "Rick Martin" in the credits.

See also[]


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Suite Life Zack and Cody On Deck logo
Media
The Suite Life of Zack & CodyThe Suite Life on DeckThe Suite Life Movie
Other media: "Karate Kid-tastrophe" • "Weasels on Deck"
Characters
Main: Zack MartinCody MartinLondon TiptonMaddie FitzpatrickMarion MosebyBailey PickettCarey MartinMarcus Little

Recurring: Woody FinkEmma TutweillerArwin HochauserEsteban RamírezMaya BennettBobBarbara BrownsteinKurt MartinJessica and Janice EllisLance FishmanMary MargaretIlsa SchicklgrubermeigerPadma ShinivasanviswanthanMooseWilfred TiptonWilla FinkMaya BennettChelsea BrimmerMaxTapewormMurielPatrickKirby MorrisHolly O'NeilRonald Olsen
Minor: AddisonAntoniaLaura BirdCALLIETheo CavenaughCorrieDrewEllaHaley GrilleGwenJason HarringtonKyle LawfordCoach LittleMrs. MadiganBecky MolduneRebeccaReinaSerge the ConciergeSpencer MosebyStaceyThe MeanagerBrandi TiptonDana WohlPrincess Zaria

Episodes
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

Season One: "Hotel Hangout" • "The Fairest of Them All" • "Maddie Checks In" • "Hotel Inspector" • "Grounded on the 23rd Floor" • "The Prince & the Plunger" • "Footloser" • "A Prom Story" • "Band in Boston" • "Cody Goes to Camp" • "To Catch a Thief" • "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel" • "Poor Little Rich Girl" • "Cookin' with Romeo and Juliet" • "Rumors" • "Big Hair & Baseball" • "Rock Star in the House" • "Smart & Smarterer" • "The Ghost of Suite 613" • "Dad's Back" • "Christmas at the Tipton" • "Kisses & Basketball" • "Pilot Your Own Life" • "Crushed" • "Commercial Breaks" • "Boston Holiday"
Season Two: "Odd Couples" • "French 101" • "Day Care" • "Heck's Kitchen" • "Free Tippy" • "Forever Plaid" • "Election" • "Moseby's Big Brother" • "Books & Birdhouses" • "Not So Suite 16" • "Twins at the Tipton" • "Neither a Borrower nor a Speller Bee" • "Bowling" • "A Kept Man" • "The Suite Smell of Excess" • "Going for the Gold" • "Boston Tea Party" • "Have a Nice Trip" • "Ask Zack" • "Suite Life" • "What the Hey?" • "A Midsummer's Nightmare" • "Lost in Translation" • "Volley Dad" • "Loosely Ballroom" • "Scary Movie" • "Ah! Wilderness!" • "Birdman of Boston" • "Nurse Zack" • "Club Twin" • "Risk it All" • "Nugget of History" • "Miniature Golf" • "Health and Fitness" • "Back in the Game" • "The Suite Life Goes Hollywood" • "I Want My Mummy" • "Aptitude"
Season Three: "Graduation" • "Summer of Our Discontent" • "Sink or Swim" • "Super Twins" • "Who's the Boss?" • "Baggage" • "Sleepover Suite" • "The Arwin That Came to Dinner" • "Lip Synchin' in the Rain" • "First Day of High School" • "Of Clocks and Contracts" • "Arwinstein" • "Team Tipton" • "Orchestra" • "A Tale of Two Houses" • "Tiptonline" • "Foiled Again" • "Romancing the Phone" • "Benchwarmers" • "Doin' Time in Suite 2330" • "Let Us Entertain You" • "Mr. Tipton Comes to Visit"
The Suite Life on Deck
Season One: "The Suite Life Sets Sail" • "Parrot Island" • "Broke 'N' Yo-Yo" • "The Kidney of the Sea" • "Showgirls" • "International Dateline" • "It's All Greek to Me" • "Sea Monster Mash" • "Flowers and Chocolate" • "Boo You" • "SeaHarmony" • "The Mommy and the Swami" • "Maddie on Deck" • "When in Rome..." • "Shipnotized" • "Mom and Dad on Deck" • "The Wrong Stuff" • "Splash & Trash" • "Mulch Ado About Nothing" • "Cruisin' for a Bruisin'" • "Double-Crossed"
Season Two: "The Spy Who Shoved Me" • "Ala-ka-scram!" • "In the Line of Duty" • "Kitchen Casanova" • "Smarticle Particles" • "Family Thais" • "Goin' Bananas" • "Lost at Sea" • "Roomies" • "Crossing Jordin" • "Bermuda Triangle" • "The Beauty and the Fleeced" • "The Swede Life" • "Mother of the Groom" • "The Defiant Ones" • "Any Given Fantasy" • "Rollin' with the Holmies" • "Can You Dig It?" • "London's Apprentice" • "Once Upon a Suite Life" • "Marriage 101" • "Model Behavior" • "Rock the Kasbah" • "I Brake for Whales" • "Seven Seas News" • "Starship Tipton" • "Mean Chicks" • "Breakup in Paris"
Season Three: "The Silent Treatment" • "Rat Tale" • "So You Think You Can Date?" • "My Oh Maya" • "Das Boots" • "Bon Voyage" • "Computer Date" • "Party On!" • "Love and War" • "Trouble in Tokyo" • "The Ghost and Mr. Martin" • "Senior Ditch Day" • "My Sister's Keeper" • "Frozen" • "A London Carol" • "The Play's the Thing" • "Twister" • "Snakes on a Boat" • "Prom Night" • "Graduation on Deck"

Locations
BostonTipton HotelSS Tipton
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