That's So Raven

That's So Raven
Image:TSR-Logo.png That's So Raven logo with Starring Raven-Symoné as Raven Baxter.
Genre	Children's television series/Sitcom
Creator(s)	Michael Poryes Susan Sherman
Starring	Raven-Symoné Orlando Brown Kyle Massey Anneliese van der Pol Rondell Sheridan T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (seasons 1-3)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	100 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Michael Poryes Susan Sherman (season 1) Sean McNamara David Brookwell (seasons 1-3) Marc Warren Dennis Rinsler (season 2+)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	23 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Disney Channel
Original run	January 17, 2003 – 2007
Chronology
Followed by	Cory in the House (2007-present)
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

That's So Raven is an Emmy Award nominated American sitcom television show broadcast on the Disney Channel. The plot revolves around a fashionable teenager Raven Baxter and her schemes to get herself, her friends, and family members like Eddie, Chelsea, and her brother Cory, out of a wacky situation, usually by using her psychic powers and her skills as a master of disguise.

Produced by Brookwell McNamara Entertainment for the first three seasons, the show became a production of Warren & Rinsler Productions in association with That's So Productions for its fourth and final season.

Episodes

Main article: List of That's So Raven episodes

When Disney Channel produces a show, they usually only produce 65 episodes before it is pulled. However, That's So Raven has had a very high popularity, and so Disney Channel extended its contract to 100 episodes. As of March 2, 2007, 99 episodes have aired.

Series finale

Main article: Where There's Smoke (TSR episode)

Where There's Smoke is 100th and final episode of That's So Raven.

Although, the actual last filmed episode, Checkin' Out , aired on July 28, 2006 as part of That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of characters from That's So Raven

• Raven-Symoné as Raven Baxter
• Orlando Brown as Eddie Thomas
• Anneliese van der Pol as Chelsea Daniels
• Kyle Massey as Cory Baxter
• Rondell Sheridan as Victor Baxter
• T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh as Tanya Baxter (Seasons 1-3)

The Chill Grill

The Chill Grill is a restaurant owned by Victor Baxter. It was introduced during the second season of That's So Raven. In the episode "If I Only Had a Job", Raven has a vision of her dad opening his own restaurant called "Baxter's Place". In the beginning of the second season it finally opened as "The Chill Grill". The introduction of "The Chill Grill" was during the episode "Out Of Control". The restaurant is also a popular hangout for the kids that go to daughter Raven Baxter's school. It was revealed in the episode The Four Aces that the Chill Grill was formerly a swing thirties restaurant by day and club by night called The Four Aces. The Chill Grill almost went out of business when in the episode The Grill Next Door, the restaurant faced stiff competition from a cheesy knock-off restaurant called "The Hill Grill", which was owned by Victor's College cooking rival Leonard Stevenson

In the That's So Raven spin-off, Cory in the House, Victor and Cory move to Washington D.C. It is currently unknown what happened to the Chill Grill after this event.

Spoofs

• That's So Raven has become a target for shows such as MADtv:
  • The parody of Snoop Dogg & Pharell's music video "Drop It Like It's Hot," entitled "Smokin' Too Much Pot," shows the That's So Raven logo on the screen and the lyrics include "and you're laughing at So Raven, from smokin' lots of pot, smokin' lots of pot, smokin' lots
  • In another spoof, a white family has dinner at a restaurant, during which the pedophelic uncle says to the daughter, "Hey, want to go back to my place and watch a little That's So Raven on TV?"
  • In another spoof, a limo driver refuses to give his limo to two men visiting Hollywood, because he says "It's for a guest appearing on That's So Raven."
• The show was spoofed in a promotional TV commercial for the 76th Academy Awards during Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Alias in 2004. The commercial features Raven dressing up in luxurious and elegant clothing similar to the way actresses do when attending the ceremony and ends with Raven entering her living room watching the ceremony while eating popcorn.
• On the show Dog Bites Man on Comedy Central, a character is watching That's So Raven on the television. Another character walks in and asks, "Are you watching That's So Raven"? And he replies, "Yeah, it's the one with the picnic." They laugh and say, "That is so Raven!"
• Neil Gaiman's run on the The Eternals comic book features a TV show (on "the Tweenie Channel") called It's Just So Sprite!
• Penny Arcade invented a show called That's So Locust. [1]
• On Comedy Central's animated show Drawn Together in the episode "Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable!", during a parody of The Terminator, when all the heterosexual people are underground, some kids change the channel on the TV to That's So Raven.
• That's So Raven was featured on the G4 network's show, X-Play, in a review for a Teen Titans video game. The narrator for the game review, Adam Sessler, can not figure out what the character Raven's power is, but only that it is So Raven. The line is repeatead twice, both featuring a head shot of Raven Symone.
• On The Emperor's New School, Kuzco said he needs a new title like, "That's So Kuzco" like "That's So Raven".
• In one episode of American Dad, Stan was watching a TV show and said "That IS so Raven".
• In one episode of 'Til Death, the main character said "that is so raven."

Merchandise

The That's So Raven franchise has been modeled after fellow Disney Channel hit Lizzie McGuire. Raven has a clothing line, DVD releases, novels, bedroom sets, a perfume, a GirlTalk board game [2], two video games [3] [4] and two soundtracks, That's So Raven: Songs from and inspired by the hit TV show and That's So Raven Too!.

In February 2005, That's So Raven toys were featured in the McDonald's Happy meal. In April 2005, a doll based on Raven Baxter was released [5] and another was released the following year.

In September 2005, the show also spawned a fragrance and an MP3 player. That same month, the clothing line was shipped to Macy's stores. As of 2006, the That's So Raven merchandise has made $400 million [6]. The show released its fourth DVD in July 2006, entitled Raven's Makeover Madness. Sales are expected to approach nearly half a billion dollars by January 2007.

CDs

That's So Raven Soundtrack

That's So Raven Too!

DVDs

• Supernaturally Stylish

Episodes:

• • "If I Only Had a Job"
  • "He's Got the Power"
  • "That's So Not Raven"
  • "Boyz 'N Commotion"

Special Features:

• • "Supernatural" Music Video - Performed by Raven
  • "That's So Raven" Music Video - Performed by Raven, Orlando Brown, and Anneliese van der pol.

• Disguise the Limit

Episodes:

• • "Art Breaker"
  • "Country Cousins (Part 1)"
  • "Country Cousins (Part 2)"
  • "The Grill Next Door"

Special Features:

• • "Master of Disguises" - Raven and the Show's Makeup Artists reveal how many faces of Raven are created.
• Selected Scenes Visual Commentary - Take a walk with Raven as she shares some of her favorite "Raven" moments.

• Raven's House Party

Episodes:

• • "Opportunity Shocks"
  • "Too Much Pressure"
  • "Double Vision"
  • "Four Aces"

Special Features:

• • "Vision Impossible"
  • That's So Raven Radio Trivia Game
  • Bloopers and outtakes (with an introduction by Raven)

• Raven's Makeover Madness

Episodes:

• • "Pin Pals"
  • "Dues and Don'ts"
  • "Adventures in Boss-Sitting"
  • "Hook Up My Space"

Special Features:

• • "When 6021 Met 4267"
  • So You Think You Know Raven?
  • The Cheetah Girls 2 Sneak Peak

• Disney Channel Holiday

Episodes:

• • "Escape Claus"

• That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana

Episodes:

• • "Checkin' Out"

Video games

The That's So Raven video game series includes three games:

• That's So Raven
• That's So Raven 2
• That's So Raven 3 (published by Buena Vista Games)

Books

1. "What You See Is What You Get"
2. "Rescue Me"
3. "In Raven We Trust"
4. "Step Up"
5. "Family Affair"
6. "2 Good 2 B True"
7. "Tell It Like It Is"
8. "Dueling Divas"
9. "Showtime"
10. "Psyched"
11. "Boyfriend Blues"
12. "Be Mine"
13. "The Real Deal"
14. "Over The Top"
15. "Rebel Raven"
16. "Superstar"
17. "House Party"
18. "Queen Of Hearts"
19. "Raven Rocks"

Theme song and opening sequence

The show's title theme song was written by John Coda, who also composes the music cues to signify scene changes and commercial breaks for this series and Even Stevens, was co-produced by Def Jef and Christopher B. Pearman (Raven-Symoné's real-life father) and was performed by Raven-Symoné, Anneliese van der Pol and Orlando Brown.

Raven performs most of the theme while Brown performs a rap near the end of the theme and some scattered vocals in the beginning of the theme and Van der Pol only sings the show's title in the chorus.

A full-length version of this theme was heard in a music video which aired a few months before the show's U.S. premiere and also can be heard on the show's first soundtrack, released in 2004.

Like all Disney Channel shows, the show's opening credit sequence was modified but not replaced with a new sequence as the series went on. The show's opening credit sequence begins with the show's title with each segment of the title on a different card, before switching to full screen episode clips from the show, which before certain clips included the CGI effect regularly seen when Raven Baxter has a vision. The sequence was modified three times: first, during the first and second seasons featuring newer episode clips, effectively, Raven's starring credit was moved back a few seconds. The second time was in season four which gave new clips again. The third time featured newer clips and replaced the cast-on-the-living room couch portion of the credits with a shot of the cast standing on the living room stairs and did not show T'Keyah Crystal Keymah. The names of the creators and executive producers alternated each episode. In addition, the fourth season's theme offered a brief audio clip of Raven exclaiming, "Oh, snap!" before concluding with "Yep, that's me". The change for the second season does not air on Disney Channel anymore it only airs on ABC on Saturday mornings. The sequence was modified each season.

In Disney Channel Asia, an Asian version of the show's theme song was made just like High School Musical's "Breaking Free" in which Disney Channel Asia also made its Asian version. The music video debuted on January 1, 2007 back-to-back with The 100th episode of That's So Raven.

Spin-offs

Cory in the House

Main article: Cory in the House

Cory in the House is the first spinoff of That's So Raven. The show premiered on January 12, 2007.

The storyline involves Cory and his father Victor adjusting to life in Washington D.C.; Victor has received a job as the personal chef to the President. The show is also rumored to take place while Tanya is still at law school in England, with Raven attending college with Eddie and Chelsea.

The series is extraneously similar to its sister show, That's So Raven. Cory has two best friends, one a boy, Newt Livingston IV(Jason Dolley), and one a girl, Meena Paroom(Maiara Walsh). Cory is, of course, attending a middle school in Washington DC. Also, in the series, the president's daughter, Sophie, constantly pesters Cory, as did Stanley to Raven in That's So Raven. Cory also participates in crazy situations in which he learns a moral lesson and will most likely get punished.

Better Days

The Season 3 episode "Goin' Hollywood" also served as a backdoor pilot episode for the intended spinoff series Better Days. The show would've revolved around Ally Parker (played by Alyson Stoner), a child actress attending public school for the first time. The series was later scrapped, but the idea was used in a minor plot of Hannah Montana's first season dealing with teenage star Jake Ryan (Cody Linley).

However some of the storyboards originally writen for this series have been or are being used in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Alyson Stoner and Allie Grant, who were also supposed to be in the proposed series, have recurring roles on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

Raven Too!

Raven Too! was a planned spin-off of That's So Raven that originally slated to be shown on ABC similar to the Lizzie McGuire spin-off idea. Raven-Symoné stated that she was "done with Disney Channel and sitcoms and was going to not be reprising her role as Raven Baxter for a while". The proposed plot was about Raven, Eddie and Chelsea enrolling in college and living college life. However, because of Raven-Symoné's comments, the idea was scrapped. The songs recorded for the That's So Raven Too! soundtrack were originally songs that would have been on the Raven Too! soundtrack, but after the idea was scrapped were released as a second soundtrack to That's So Raven.

Donna

Also, another idea that producers had for a TSR spin-off was a show titled Donna and would be about the designer Donna Cabanna. The plot revolved around Donna Cabanna needing a new intern, after Raven left for college. She was to be desperate for a new intern and was so desperate that she hired the first girl who walked into her office. The girl's name was "Symone" (a pun at That's So Raven actress Raven-Symone) and did not know anything about fashion. She was supposed to have accidentally walked into Donna's office and was hired by mistake, but was too afraid of Donna to tell her that she wanted to quit. The show was supposed to deal with Donna Cabanna and her assistant Tiffany attempting to teach everything they knew about fashion to Symone. It was going to be pitched at ABC but the idea was scrapped due to its similarities with the hit TV show Ugly Betty.

That's So Raven Movie

There is much speculation on whether there will be a That's So Raven movie produced; at the end of an interview with Regis Philbin, Raven-Symoné answered his queries on a movie with the following: "You're hilarious, Regis - You're hilarious! You never know; hey, whatever the fans want, you know I try to be there for them 100%." It was also stated in an issue of Disney Adventures Magazine that a "That's So Raven movie is in the works". Barnes and Nobles and Amazon.com have put up a pre-order page for the That's So Raven Movie novel.^{[citation needed]}

Trivia

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• The pilot was shot in 2001, but aired on the US Disney Channel in January 2003.
• In a lot of episodes, Cory was described as just starting junior high school, but he didn't start until the fourth season episode Juicer Consequences.
• Raven-Symoné and Kyle Massey are the only cast members to appear in every episode of That's So Raven (as of 2006).
• Orlando Brown doesn't appear in the episode Juicer Consequences.
• Anneliese Van der Pol doesn't appear in the episodes Mother Dearest, Saturday Afternoon Fever and Smell of Victory.
• In Test Of Friendship, T'Keyah Crystal Keymah and Rondell Sheridan do not appear. However, they both are mentioned.
• The episode The Parties seems similar to an episode in The Proud Family, when Penny and LaCienega (characters from the latter show) had a party on the same night.
• Raven-Symoné's dad, Christopher B. Pearman, has directed three episodes of That's So Raven entitled Skunk'd, The Royal Treatment and True Colors.
• Both Rondell Sheridan and T'Keyah Crystal Keymah have directed episodes of That's So Raven.
• Raven gives two different addresses for her home: 419 (in Party Animal) and 519 Miranda Place (in Psychics Wanted).
• In the episode Five Finger Discount, Tanya (T'Keyah Crystal Keymah) is studying for a law school test when she says the next case she will examine is Brookwell v. McNamara, which are the names of the producers of the show.
• During the first season, Cory had a major crush on Chelsea, but once season two began Cory suddenly grew out of his crush and it was never brought up again. It is possible that Cory grew out of this phase once he started dating Cindy.
• In the episode Numb and Number, when Eddie and Victor are going over Chelsea's commercial, Eddie's character in the commercial tells Chelsea's character that he is her half brother Blaize, which happens to be the name of Raven-Symoné's real-life brother.
• Donna Cabonna's dog, Cocoa, is constantly switching from boy to girl (being called both "he" and "she"). This is most noticeable in the episode Be Prepared.
• In the episode Hook Up My Space it showed Raven's room was redone, but, episodes later, Raven's room was still the same in earlier episodes from season 1, 2, and 3.
• This is one of two Disney shows (the other being The Suite Life of Zack & Cody) to make it past 65 episodes without having fans petition. This show has been extended twice. The first time, Disney ordered 13 more episodes. After that, they ordered another 4th season.
• The end of season one and the beginning of season two were airing simultaneously - one of a firsts in network television (not including when episodes of the previous season are held back for the following season).
• As of 2006 the episodes of That's So Raven do not include T'Keyah Crystal Keymah, in the first episode of Cory in the House, Victor Baxter says that his wife is in England studing law and Raven was enrolling into a college although he did not say where.
• In To See or Not to See, Grandma Viv mentioned that Raven and Cory have an Uncle Earl and in They Work Hard for His Honey, Chelsea mentions that she has has a cousin name Earl. Miley and Jackson from Hannah Montana also have an Uncle Earl mentioned many times.
• On an episode of Phil of the Future, Orlando Brown guest-starred as antagonist Andy Baxley, alongside Ricky Ullman, the protagonist. On an episode of That's So Raven, Ricky Ullman guest-starred as antagonist Jake Haskell, alongside Orlando Brown, the protagonist.
• The school in That's So Raven is very similar to the school in Lizzie McGuire and Phil of the Future.
• The exterior shots of the high school on several episodes is Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, California.
• In the episode The Way They Were, Eddie made a reference to The Cosby Show (a show which Raven-Symoné once starred in) while talking about Raven's vision.
• Geoffrey Owens who played Eddie's dad in the aforementioned episode played son-in-law

Elvin on The Cosby Show

• In the episode "The Road To Audition" Anneliese Van der Pol sings a song where one of the lines is "Every day in French Class I ask Madamemosielle for the girls' room pass." In all the other episodes Raven, Eddie and Chelsea all do Spanish.

International broadcasts

The show is aired in the UK on the British version of the Disney Channel, and was formally aired (simultaneously) on CITV. In Ireland, the show airs on RTÉ Two. In Canada, the show is aired on the Family Channel. In Australia, the show is aired on the Australian version of the Disney Channel, and on the Seven Network.

See also

That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana Expanded Universe.

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