I'm psychic and I didn't see this coming. — Raven Baxter
That's So Raven was a Disney Channel show that ran from 2003 to 2007, aimed at the tween audience. The plot revolves around precognitive teenager Raven Baxter as she gets herself, her friends Eddie and Chelsea and her family out of various situations, usually by using her Psychic Powers and skills as a "Master of Disguise", neither of which help. It was the chronologically first series in the DCLAU.It became the first Disney show to buck the 65 episode trend, the first to run four seasons, and the first to reach 100 episodes.
The show contains examples of:
Air Vent Passageway: Raven enters an air vent in "Clothes Minded" to find some cheese.
Back Door Pilot: There's an episode where Corey goes to Hollywood but it mainly focuses on actress Ally Parker. It was supposed to set up a show called Better Dayz, that was later scrapped and Re Tool-ed into Hannah Montana
Cue The Rain: Turned up an extra notch. Raven got stuck in a limo's moon roof when going to prom. Then it started raining on her. "Well at least It Can't Get Any Worse"...cue the gale force winds.
A Day in the Limelight: There is an episode where Cory goes to Hollywood and meets a child actress who wants a normal life. The episode mostly focuses on her. It was a Back Door Pilot for a show that never got picked up. However because the actress is played by Alyson Stoner the fans didn't seem to mind.
Deus Angst Machina: All of Raven's visions have to be misleading and end up getting her in trouble. Some of them don't even come true at all.
Due to Disney Channel airing the episodes Out Of Order, "Checkin' Out" was aired in the middle of the last season.
, in which Raven plays a large part. She has a vision of Cody getting into trouble at Carey's party, which is the driving force behind the main plot, and is pivotal to the subplot, where, with Maddie's help, she ends up selling her dresses to London Tipton and Hannah Montana.
Ha Ha Ha No: Raven did this to Chelsea a couple of times.
Hollywood Pudgy: Invoked in an episode where Raven is told she isn't skinny enough to model the clothes she designed for a fashion show. She and the twig-thing model then team up and both wear the outfit on the runway. Also deconstructed when both of them chew out the magazine owner that's sponsoring the show, saying that no one is as skinny as they look on the magazine.
Human Ladder: Raven, Alana, and Loca perform one in "Clothes Minded", so Alana can put cheese in the air vent.
Paper-Thin Disguise: She would constantly disguise herself, including sometimes as old men, despite, looking nothing like a man, and sounding exactly like a teenage girl, speaking in a false deep voice.
Put on a Bus: Tanya, the mother who was one of the important supporting characters, suddenly without warning apparently went to England to become a lawyer. She's never seen or heard from again. This was due to the actor who played her not seeing eye to eye with the director and writing staff and left after the third season.
The Rashomon: The episode "The Lying Game", where Raven and Cory tell their versions on what happened when Raven went to Cory's class for Job Shadow Day.
Real Life Writes the Plot: Alana, who was played by 3LW and The Cheetah Girls' Adrienne Bailon, took a Long Bus Trip when she was "so bad she went to military school." In real life, Bailon and Raven-Symone had internal disputes while they were in The Cheetah Girls, which caused Bailon to refuse to reprise her role and Raven to leave The Cheetah Girls.
Recycled Set: The hallway/locker area set on Saved by the Bell never got destroyed, and has been reused in many high-school based shows. It is currently being used as the school set for iCarly after That's So Raven used it before.
Stand-In Parents: Raven posed as her own mother at a parent-teacher conference to prevent her mother from finding out how bad her grades were. When the mother (ineviatably) found out, she was both angry that Raven had lied to her and offended because of the insulting fat suit Raven had used for the disguise.
There were other teachers as well as another principal at the school but they were put on Long Bus Trips.
Unexpected Positive: Raven and Corey go to the dentist. Corey's scared, so (after having a vision in which one of the pair is shown to need a filling) Raven gets in the chair to show him that it's not so bad. Guess who needs the filling?
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