50 Fun Facts About That's so Raven

In the first episode of That's So Raven, whom does Raven impersonate at a parent-teacher conference?

Her mother. The teacher then insists on seeing mother and daughter together, so Raven has to play both at once, until her real parents walk in and she loses her phone for two weeks.

What kind of animal is Lionel, Cory Baxter's pet in That's So Raven?

A rat. Lionel's finest hour comes when Victor's posh mother hosts her White Glove Society at the Baxter house and he scampers into the meeting, sending the ladies screaming.

In That's So Raven, Raven's friend Chelsea Daniels is devoted to which cause?

The environment. In the fourth season Raven's boss wants real fur on Raven's designs, Chelsea and her Friendly Earth Society protest against it, and the friendship turns sour.

Which singer played Alana, Raven's school rival in the second season of That's So Raven?

Adrienne Bailon. She returned to the role in 2022 for Raven's Home, where Raven's teenage arch-enemy has grown up to become principal of their old high school.

In the episode True Colors, Raven's vision reveals that a store manager refused to hire her because of what?

Her race. Raven, Chelsea and Eddie then go undercover for a TV news report, and a camera hidden in Chelsea's hat catches the manager saying she doesn't hire Black people.

In the last That's So Raven episode to air, Raven wrongly suspects Cory of what?

Smoking: she finds a pack of cigarettes among his things, but the smoker turns out to be his girlfriend, Cindy. It was never meant as a farewell; episodes ran out of production order, and this one happened to air last.

What was That's So Raven titled just before it was renamed after its star?

Absolutely Psychic was the show Raven-Symoné signed on to, and its pilot was shot with another actress in the lead. It became That's So Raven only once the starring part had been rewritten for her.

Before That's So Raven was rewritten around her, which part did Raven-Symoné choose to play in its pilot?

The goofy best friend. Offered either part at her audition, she picked the sidekick and shot a pilot that way, but test audiences loved her so much that the lead was rewritten for her.

What is the name of the restaurant Victor Baxter opens in season two of That's So Raven?

The Chill Grill opens in the season-two premiere, where Raven, sure it can be her school's new hangout, bosses the whole family about how to make it cool.

In That's So Raven, why does Raven's mother Tanya leave after season three?

She goes to study law in England, the script's cover for T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh's exit. Keymáh has said she left to care full-time for her grandmother, who had Alzheimer's.

In That's So Raven, what does a fashion magazine do to Raven's photo after she models her own dress?

Makes her look thinner. The episode, That's So Not Raven, then has her take on the agency boss who insists there is only one look for a model.

Before That's So Raven, Raven-Symoné played Eddie Murphy's teenage daughter in which hit comedy?

Dr. Dolittle. Even after that hit, she has said, the rejections kept coming, and she and her father wondered whether they were wasting their time and money until the Disney pilot arrived.

That's So Raven earned two Primetime Emmy nominations in which category?

Outstanding Children's Program. The sitcom lost both times to very different fare: in 2005 to joint winners including HBO's Classical Baby, cartoons that introduce small children to the arts, and in 2007 to a Nick News special on autism.

That's So Raven's 2006 crossover featured Suite Life of Zack & Cody and which other show?

Hannah Montana. The three-part special starts with Raven flying to Boston to run a fashion shoot at the Suite Life's Tipton Hotel, where she ends up using Zack and Cody as her models.

Which fashion designer did Anne-Marie Johnson play in the fourth season of That's So Raven?

Donna Cabonna is the diva designer who takes Raven on as an intern, a dream job that mostly means fetching her coffee and cleaning up after her dog.

What would the unmade That's So Raven movie have been about?

Starting a fashion line in France: van der Pol said in 2010 that the script was written, with Eddie and Chelsea flying out to help, but Raven-Symoné was busy touring and the film fell by the wayside.

On which console was That's So Raven: Psychic on the Scene released in 2006?

Nintendo DS. After two Game Boy Advance outings, this one is a point-and-click mystery: Raven slips into disguises to get where she isn't allowed and stop her favourite theatre from closing.

Raven-Symoné sang a duet with Julie Andrews in which 2004 film?

The Princess Diaries 2. Their song, Your Crowning Glory, was Andrews's first singing in a film since a throat operation in 1997 silenced her four-octave voice.

That's So Raven's first spin-off sends Cory and Victor from San Francisco to which city?

Washington, D.C.: Victor is hired as the president's personal chef, so father and son move into the White House itself, the House of the title Cory in the House.

In which Disney Channel movie did Raven-Symoné play the heroine's best friend, Nebula?

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century was her first Disney Channel film. Another actress played Nebula in the 2001 sequel, but Raven-Symoné returned for the third film in 2004, by then a star in her own right.

In Cory in the House, Cory's crush Meena is the daughter of the ambassador of which fictional country?

Bahavia. Her ambassador father frowns on her taste for American clothes and rock music, yet Meena ends up singing lead in DC3, the band she forms with Cory and Newt.

In That's So Raven, what is Raven's little brother Cory obsessed with?

Money. The would-be businessman hatches get-rich-quick schemes behind his parents' backs, they always end badly, and he carries right on hatching them in his own spin-off.

In season five of Raven's Home, what sends Raven back to her childhood home?

Her father has a heart attack. It is a mild one, but Raven moves back in with Victor to look after him, and her son finds himself a pupil at his mother's old high school.

At the start of Raven's Home, Raven Baxter earns her living designing clothes for whom?

Dogs. After she quits on her boss, Paisley, the gifted designer makes ends meet for a while by driving for a ride-hailing firm called Scüt.

In Raven's Home, which of Raven's children inherits her psychic abilities?

Booker gets his first vision at school and keeps it from his mother, unaware that she is psychic too, while she is busy hiding her own visions from the twins.

Whom did Raven divorce before the events of Raven's Home?

Devon Carter was Raven's high-school boyfriend, the one whose family moved away to Seattle in That's So Raven; by Raven's Home he is her ex-husband, a TV weatherman and the twins' father.

Which actor is the only main cast member of That's So Raven and both of its spin-offs?

Rondell Sheridan plays Victor Baxter in all three series, and he stepped behind the camera too, directing episodes of That's So Raven and Cory in the House.

On which classic sitcom did Raven-Symoné get her start, playing Olivia?

The Cosby Show came out of a rejection: at three she auditioned for Bill Cosby's film Ghost Dad, was judged too young, and he found her a part on his sitcom as his step-granddaughter instead.

Which future hip-hop star gave Raven-Symoné vocal lessons for her debut album?

Missy Elliott, then credited as Melissa Elliott, also co-wrote the single That's What Little Girls Are Made Of and performed on it. Raven-Symoné was seven when the album came out, four years before Elliott's own solo debut.

Which character did Raven-Symoné voice in Kim Possible?

Monique is Kim's fashion-mad friend from the mall store Club Banana; she can't fight at all, yet she still tags along on the odd mission.

Raven-Symoné played lead singer Galleria in which Disney Channel musical film?

The Cheetah Girls. The film's cast then became a real touring group, but Raven-Symoné, tied to her sitcom and her solo records, sat it out and the other three went on the road without her.

Which daytime talk show did Raven-Symoné co-host from 2015 to 2016?

The View gave her a permanent seat in June 2015 after months of guest-hosting, and she gave it up late in 2016 to make the sequel to That's So Raven.

Raven-Symoné was born in which city's metropolitan area?

Atlanta. Her parents signed her with modelling agencies as a toddler, and she was selling Ritz crackers and Cool Whip in commercials before she had a single acting role.

Raven-Symoné starred opposite Martin Lawrence in which 2008 Disney comedy?

College Road Trip. Her character has her heart set on far-off Georgetown, so her police-chief father, who wants her at a campus close to home, drives her there himself and spends the journey trying to change her mind.

Anneliese van der Pol, who plays Chelsea, made her 2007 Broadway debut in which musical?

Beauty and the Beast. She was its 17th and last Belle, joining in April 2007 and playing the final night that July, when Disney closed the 13-year run to make room for The Little Mermaid.

In a That's So Raven Halloween episode, a botched spell turns Raven and Chelsea into what?

Cows. Chelsea's cow badge drops into the cauldron as they cast a wishing spell to get into a party, and they sprout ears, tails and hooves, until the whole night turns out to be one of Raven's visions.

Orlando Brown, who plays Eddie, voiced which character in The Proud Family?

Sticky Webb was Brown's role for the whole original run. When the show came back in 2022 without him, the character was written out with a farewell note: his dad had taken a job in Japan.

Kyle Massey, who plays Cory, was runner-up on which reality competition?

Dancing with the Stars. In 2010 he and partner Lacey Schwimmer danced all the way to the final, where they lost to Jennifer Grey, the star of Dirty Dancing, and finished ahead of Bristol Palin.

In Raven's Home, Raven and Chelsea share an apartment and raise their children in which city?

Chicago. Chelsea and her son move into Raven's apartment after her marriage collapses, with her husband jailed over his taxes and involved with the federal agent on his case.

Disney remade That's So Raven in 2015 as Palak Pe Jhalak for viewers in which country?

India. Teenager Nysha Kapoor has the visions this time, and the cast sold the remake as a break from the mother-in-law family sagas that are the usual fare of Indian television.

Raven-Symoné made her Broadway debut in 2012 in which musical based on a Whoopi Goldberg film?

Sister Act. Goldberg, who played Deloris on screen, helped bring the stage version to Broadway, and Raven-Symoné took the role over from Tony nominee Patina Miller for its last five months.

Which Wizards of Waverly Place star had a recurring role in That's So Raven as Cory's friend Larry?

David Henrie. As Larry he played guitar in Cory's band and, when Raven and Cory gave rival accounts of a classroom mishap, was the witness who revealed that it had all been an accident.

Which actress guest-starred in That's So Raven as Raven's psychic grandmother Vivian?

Jenifer Lewis, whose memoir is titled The Mother of Black Hollywood, went from grandmother to mother when the pair met again on Black-ish, where she played Raven-Symoné's mum, Ruby.

Which 1990s sitcom added a young Raven-Symoné as cousin Nicole in its second season?

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. A year after her first sitcom ended she joined as Nicole, the little cousin who moves in with Mark, and she stayed until the show finished in 1997.

In Raven's Home, what is the name of the son Chelsea raises under the same roof as Raven?

Levi is the grown-up of the pair: old beyond his years, he is the one who reminds his mother to make good choices, not the other way round.

In That's So Raven, aspiring rapper Eddie plays which sport for the school team?

Basketball. In an early episode Raven foresees Eddie failing a Spanish test that would cost him his place on the team, so she slips him the answers, only for the teacher to switch tests.

Which show's record as Disney Channel's highest-rated original program did That's So Raven take?

Lizzie McGuire had been cancelled at Disney's usual cutoff of 65 episodes. That's So Raven's ratings bought it 100, and one newspaper report of the renewal opened with the words "Lizzie who?"

For the fourth season of That's So Raven, 19-year-old Raven-Symoné added which job to starring in it?

Producer. She sat in on casting, script notes and special-effects meetings, but has said she turned down the chance to direct: too much, she felt, on top of acting in the same episode.

That's So Raven was Disney Channel's first original comedy made in which production style?

Multi-camera before a studio audience, unlike single-camera hits such as Even Stevens. The crowd mattered: Disney's Gary Marsh said that when a gag drew no laugh, Raven-Symoné would demand another take.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, who plays Raven's mother Tanya, was an original cast member of which sketch show?

In Living Color. She stayed for all five seasons, the last of them made after the Wayans family had gone: still a good show, she has said, but it "wasn't the same without them".