User blog comment:Numbuhthreefan/Cap This!/@comment-2156422-20161017075040/@comment-5231983-20161017180148

Well basically Mike was evil and created a machine that sucks out all of Zoey's personality. Throughout the season, he sucked up her personality until she revolved around him. One day, she snapped out of it and told Scott to eliminate Mike. After that, it took 2 episodes after his elimination (Eat, Puke, and Be Wary) for her to gain her personality back. In TDAS, this repeated but since Mike was never eliminated, Zoey was forced to be bland the entire time. In Zeek and Ye Shall Find, Zoey finally snapped out of it, and pretended to be a complete idiot to fool Mike, saying things like "Maybe Courtney is the greater evil Alejandro was talking about!"