50 Fun Facts About Raven's Home

Which Raven's Home star married Johnno Wilson, the actor who played her character's ex-husband Garrett?

Anneliese van der Pol wed Wilson in Santa Barbara in December 2024, a year after announcing their engagement. On screen, his Garrett had stolen Chelsea's fortune and gone to prison.

The world premiere of Raven's Home aired on Disney Channel in 2017 straight after which original movie's debut?

Descendants 2 premiered across six networks at once that night, handing the new sitcom a huge lead-in. The first episode drew 3.5 million viewers, by far the biggest audience of the run.

Raven-Symoné gave up her co-host seat on which daytime talk show to work on Raven's Home full time?

The View hosted a reunion of the That's So Raven cast in August 2015. Disney announced a pilot for the spin-off in October 2016, the same day she said she was leaving.

Raven's Home begins with Raven and Chelsea raising their children in a shared apartment in which city?

Chicago is where both women landed after their divorces, with Chelsea and her son Levi squeezing into the flat Raven shares with her twins, Booker and Nia.

A season two episode of Raven's Home sends the children to the premiere of a spoof of which Netflix series?

Stranger Things becomes Weirder Things on screen. The trip nearly falls through when the adults drop out: Chelsea is delirious with a cold and Raven is having her weave redone.

In a Halloween episode of Raven's Home, what happens to Raven and Booker after seeing themselves in a vision?

They swap bodies in Switch-or-Treat and cannot change back until midnight, so Booker must sit through his mother's big design meeting while she dances the Frankenberry shuffle with Levi.

Raven's Home is the second spin-off of That's So Raven; which sitcom about Raven's brother came first?

Cory in the House sent Raven's brother and father to Washington, D.C. in 2007, with Victor cooking for the President. It was the first spin-off Disney Channel had ever developed from one of its original series.

Leslie David Baker, who runs the twins' school in early Raven's Home, played Stanley Hudson in which sitcom?

The Office earned Baker two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He turns up in the very first episode here, running the school where Booker has his first vision.

Raven's Home opened its fourth season with a crossover special shared with which other Disney Channel sitcom?

Bunk'd sent seven of its cast, led by Miranda May as camp owner Lou, into an episode titled Raven About Bunk'd.

Sky Katz, who plays Tess in Raven's Home, was first seen as a young rapper on which television contest?

America's Got Talent featured her as a child rapper before she ever acted, and music stayed with her: she released the single For Da Summer in 2017, the year the sitcom began.

Which actor, who played computer whiz Wade in the live-action Kim Possible, plays Raven's son Booker in Raven's Home?

Issac Ryan Brown was already a busy child actor, playing the young Dre in Black-ish, and his work as Booker earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination.

Which actress, later a lead in the superhero series Gotham Knights, plays Booker's twin sister Nia in Raven's Home?

Navia Robinson juggled two series at first, starring in Netflix's Free Rein while filming the sitcom. She left Free Rein after two seasons to concentrate on playing Nia.

Raven Baxter starts Raven's Home working as a designer of outfits for which unusual clients?

Dogs are her clients at first, and she got the job by lying to her boss Paisley that she owned two of her own, named after her children.

In season five of Raven's Home, Raven and Booker move to which city after her father's mild heart attack?

San Francisco is Raven's hometown, so the move drops Booker into his mother's old high school, where he has to find his feet with a new set of friends.

Raven's father Victor Baxter, a regular from season five of Raven's Home, follows which profession?

Chef Victor first dropped in during season two, flying out to help his daughter while Chelsea was away, with comical results.

The third season of Raven's Home opens with the family driving to visit Chelsea at which unusual workplace?

A cruise ship leaves port with the children aboard and the two mothers still on the dock, so Raven and Chelsea chase it on a jet ski that runs out of fuel mid-ocean.

Which fear does Raven work to overcome in season one of Raven's Home after an unsettling sighting in her building?

Clowns scare her until she learns the one in her building is the mother of Wally, a new friend of the children, and has to apologise for hurting her feelings.

In season two of Raven's Home, Chelsea takes up which hobby on the roof of the apartment building?

Gardening takes over the rooftop once Chelsea builds a vegetable plot there, and she soon moves on to growing miniature cacti.

Alana, Raven's teenage arch-nemesis, returns in season five of Raven's Home holding which job at Bayside High?

Principal Alana now runs the school her old rival's son attends, and her daughter Cami becomes Booker's love interest.

Jenna Davis, who plays popular student Sienna in Raven's Home, later voiced the title character of which horror film?

M3GAN made her voice famous in 2022, four years after she joined the sitcom as Sienna, the influential girl at the twins' school.

Besides starring in Raven's Home, Raven-Symoné held which behind-the-scenes title from the first season onward?

Executive producer was only the start: from season three she also directed episodes, beginning with Sorry to Father You.

Devon Carter, the twins' father in Raven's Home, follows which profession after relocating to Dallas?

Meteorologist Devon ends up taking Nia along to a live report as a strong storm closes in, during the twins' weekend visit in season three.

In season two of Raven's Home, Raven starts working for the transportation business Scüt in which role?

Driver Raven chases star ratings from her passengers, and the job reunites her with an old friend who once helped with her visions when she was a teenager.

Which Raven's Home actor is the only performer in the main cast of all three That's So Raven franchise series?

Rondell Sheridan played Victor in the original and its first spin-off, guested here in season two, then joined the main cast for the final two seasons.

Which former Cheetah Girls singer returned in season five of Raven's Home as Raven's old rival Alana?

Adrienne Bailon first played Alana in That's So Raven, and had spent nine years co-hosting the talk show The Real before coming back to acting for the role.

Which Family Matters star guest-stars in Raven's Home as Chris Spring-Lake, host of the show Radio Eclipse Live?

Jaleel White, television's Steve Urkel, plays the host in three episodes, and his character turns out to be an old friend of Devon.

Anthony Alabi, who plays the gym teacher in Raven's Home, retired from which professional sports league to act?

The NFL drafted Alabi as an offensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins in 2005, and he left the league in 2009 to pursue acting.

Raven's mother Tanya is absent for most of Raven's Home because she is studying in which country?

England kept Tanya off screen until late in season five, when T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh played her for the first time since 2005.

In the season two opener of Raven's Home, Raven is convinced which creature stole a backpack full of cash?

A falcon named Ernesto, owned by one of her clients, takes the blame. In fact the children had hidden the bag themselves after Booker foresaw his mother losing the $10,000 inside.

Which screen veteran guest-stars as Nia's Great Aunt Maureen in a Halloween episode of Raven's Home?

Debbie Allen, the Emmy-winning dancer and star of Fame, plays the aunt Nia asks to fill in for her date when first-date nerves strike.

Which Destiny's Child singer appears in season two of Raven's Home as Raven's idol Shinée DuBois?

Michelle Williams plays her in two episodes. At a retreat, Raven is so busy trying to pitch DuBois her designs that she accidentally burns the speech Nia came to give.

Which Boy Meets World star went behind the camera to direct several episodes of Raven's Home?

Danielle Fishel, the original Topanga, made her directing debut on Girl Meets World in 2016 and went on to direct seven episodes here between 2019 and 2022.

In an early episode of Raven's Home, Booker secretly buys which bulky item to help Levi feel settled?

A trampoline was Booker's answer after hearing about the bedroom Levi had left behind, and he then had to keep it hidden from his mother.

The musical episode of Raven's Home titled Remix features auditions for a school show about whose life story?

Coach Spitz wrote it about his days as a basketball player and a rapper. Tess wins the lead over Booker, after Nia argues that a girl can play the part.

In season two of Raven's Home, Nia and Tess become rivals when only one spot opens in which school activity?

The step dance team had room for just one of them. Chelsea then reveals that Raven stepped in college too, until, as the story goes, a fly cursed her to lose.

In Raven's Home, where do Chelsea and her ex-husband Garrett settle their fight over his rival product, the Schbroom?

On a TV court show called Judge Giovanni, whose judge Raven happens to adore. Garrett had come out of prison with a broom version of Chelsea's Schmop.

In season three of Raven's Home, Booker is wrongly suspended after a teacher finds him holding which item?

A vape pen belonging to a classmate got him suspended under a zero-tolerance rule, until his friend Curtis stood up at the hearing and told the truth.

In season two of Raven's Home, Nia and Tess discover young building manager Mitch has been hiding what for himself?

An elevator would have let the girl Levi likes, who uses a wheelchair, come to dinner. Everyone had believed the building did not have one.

After season four of Raven's Home, Nia is said to be building homes for the poor in which country?

Guatemala accounts for her absence from season five, when only Raven and Booker of the original household carried on.

In the later seasons of Raven's Home, young Alice Baxter lives with Victor so that she can attend what?

A school for geniuses is why Alice lives there, and she also keeps Victor company. The part went to a young actress fresh from playing Santamonica in the sitcom Mixed-ish.

After Raven's Home ended, Disney ordered a pilot for a spin-off called Alice in the Palace; what became of it?

It was not picked up for a full series, even though the pilot was filmed. The young actress who plays Alice later broke the news herself.

Raven-Symoné announced the sixth-season renewal of Raven's Home during a panel at which fan event in 2022?

D23 Expo, Disney's own fan convention, heard the news in September 2022, and the season that followed proved to be the last.

In a season five Christmas episode of Raven's Home, Raven-Symoné also plays Delroy, who is which relative of Victor?

His cousin Delroy arrives from the country with his daughter Betty Jane, who is Alice's mother, and Victor spends the holiday contending with him.

At the end of the Sleevemore trilogy in Raven's Home, how do Booker's lost visions finally return?

During a family hug, after everyone had given up on them. Dr. Sleevemore, asked to hand Raven's own powers to her son, instead showed her that her children wanted her to chase her design dream.

Which illness does Nia come down with in the first Halloween episode of Raven's Home, leaving Tess to cheer her up?

Chickenpox strikes just as Booker and Levi plan a prank built on the legend of a ghost in the apartment building, only for Levi to mysteriously disappear.

Why does landlord Mr. Jablonski raise the rent in the early Raven's Home episode The Baxters Get Bounced?

Extra tenants moved in without his knowledge: Raven had never told him about Chelsea and Levi. His own mother, the building's owner, finally talks him into leaving the rent alone.

In the Sleevemore trilogy of Raven's Home, Jasmine sets out to prove powers pass only between people who share what?

Similar DNA was her theory, and to test it she secretly removed the visions from Nia, who had ended up with her brother's powers.

In season one of Raven's Home, Levi does not want to go to school because he dreads which gym-class game?

Dodgeball worries Levi so much that Booker sneaks into his class to help, then becomes obsessed with winning the match himself.

Why was production on the third season of Raven's Home temporarily shut down in March 2019?

Its showrunner died that month: Eunetta T. Boone had advised Raven-Symoné on the sitcom before taking charge of season three, which reached screens that June.

In season two of Raven's Home, Levi starts calling himself a superhero after an accident involving what?

Wet cement swallowed Levi while the children were chasing a lost backpack, and coming through it convinced him he had special powers of his own.