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That's So Raven

That's So Raven title card
Genre Children's television series/Sitcom
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 23 minutes
Creator(s) Michael Poryes
Susan Sherman
Executive producer(s) Michael Poryes
Susan Sherman
(season 1)
Sean McNamara
David Brookwell
(seasons 1-3)
Marc Warren
Dennis Rinsler
(season 2+)
Starring Raven-Symoné
Orlando Brown
Kyle Massey
Anneliese van der Pol
Rondell Sheridan
T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (seasons 1-3)
Country of origin Flag of United States United States
Original channel Disney Channel
Original run January 17, 2003–January 12, 2007
No. of episodes 100 (3 yet to air)
Followed by Cory in the House
(2007-present)
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

That's So Raven is an 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, 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 season. The show finished production in January 2006.

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[edit] Story structure

Each episode is broken up into different segments as Raven or other characters deal with situations. Raven is primarily the focus of the story, and the episodes also focus on the visions she experiences. The visions usually involve whatever Raven is thinking about at a particular point in time. After the visions occur, one of two things will happen: Raven tries to stop it only to make it come true (a paradox), or the outcome is affected in some way. There are also some episodes that give a feel of a sketch comedy or variety, such as a musical sequence and stand up comedy.

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of That's So Raven episodes

[edit] Cast and Characters

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

[edit] Spoofs

That's So Raven has become a of pot..."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]
  • In the episode, He's Got the Power, Eddie's friend says he should have his own TV show. Raven and Chelsea watching from afar, Raven says, "Now who would watch a show about a teen psychic?"

On Comedy Central's animated show Drawn Together in the episode "Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable! when all the heterosexual people are underground, some kids change the channel on the TV to Thats So Raven.

[edit] 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.

[edit] CDs

That's So Raven Soundtrack

That's So Raven Too!

[edit] DVDs

  • Supernaturally Stylish
Episodes:
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:
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:
Special Features:
    • "Vision Impossible"
    • That's So Raven Radio Trivia Game
    • Bloopers and outtakes (with an introduction by Raven)
  • Raven's Makeover Madness
Episodes:
Special Features:
  • Disney Channel Holiday
Episodes:
Episodes:

[edit] 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)


[edit] Trivia

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  • The pilot was shot in 2002, 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".
  • The show was filmed in Hollywood Center Studios with no audience. A laugh track was added in production.
  • The laugh tracks tend to be different in other sets such as an all age audience in home or school settings and children audience in child-like settings.
  • 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.
  • In the episodes "Psychics Wanted" and "Party Animal", Raven gives two different addresses for her home: 419 (in Party Animal) and 519 Miranda Place (in Psychics Wanted), respectively.
  • 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 brother.
  • Donna Cabonna's dog, Cocoa, is constantly switching from boy to girl (being called both "he" and "she"). This is most noticable 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 ealier episodes from season 1,2,3.
  • This is one of two Disney shows (the other being The Suite Life of Zack and 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).

[edit] Spinoffs

[edit] 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 is expected to premiere 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 (presumably) attending college with Eddie and Chelsea.

According to disneychannel.com, this series will be extraneously similar to its sister show, That's So Raven. Cory will have two best friends, one a boy, Newt (Jason Dolley), and one a girl, Mina (unknown actress). Cory will be, of course, attending a high school in Washington DC. Also, in the series, the president's daughter, Sophie, constantly pesters Cory, as did Sierra and Stanley to Raven in That's So Raven. Cory will also be participating in crazy situations in which he will learn a moral and most likely get punished.

[edit] 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] Raven will play Raven Baxter & Jaheal Sinclair in the movie.[citation needed]

[edit] 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.

Country TV Network Weekly Schedule
United States Disney Channel Everyday 7:30, Friday 5:00 and 5:30, Monday 4:00, 4:30, 6:00 ET
Brazil Disney Channel Weekdays 19:00 GMT
Ireland RTÉ Two Thursday 5:10pm GMT
United Kingdom Disney Channel Weekdays 1:45pm, 5:25pm and 5:50pm, 10:00pm; Weekends 8:00am, 3:10pm and 3:30pm, 9:10pm and 9:35pm GMT
France France 2 - Disney Channel Weekdays GMT
Germany Disney Channel Weekdays 5:10pm GMT
Australia Disney Channel and the Seven Network Weekdays; Saturday 11:00am
Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong Disney Channel Weekdays 7:00pm and 12:30am GMT (+08:00); Weekends 12:30am GMT (+08:00)
India Disney Channel Weekdays 8:00pm GMT
South Africa Disney Channel and SABC 1 Weekdays 8:00pm, Mondays 7:00pm (SABC 1) GMT
Israel Arutz Hayeladim Weekdays 5:00pm GMT
Italy Italia 1 and Disney Channel Weekdays 17:00pm GMT
Portugal Disney Channel Weekdays 13:00 GMT

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