Mother Dearest
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| “Mother Dearest” | |
|---|---|
| That's So Raven episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Guest stars | Shane Lyons Ernie Sabella |
| Written by | Doug Keyes, Bob Keyes |
| Directed by | Matthew Diamond, Lee Shallat-Chemel |
| Production no. | 103 |
| Original airdate | January 17, 2003 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| – | "Test of Friendship" |
"Mother Dearest" is the Pilot Episode of television sitcom That's So Raven. It aired on January 17, 2003 on the Disney Channel.[1]
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[edit] Plot
Raven, the protagonist of the series, has a very spiteful teacher, Mr. Petracelli. Mr. Petracelli always calls on people that don't have their hand up. Whenever the people do have their hand up, Mr. Petracelli never calls on them. Raven is upset by this, and has a vision. In her vision is that everybody is cheering her on after she tells Mr. Petracelli off. Immediately after this vision, she tells Mr. Petracelli off, but no one does it with her. Because of this, Mr. Petracelli asks to have a parent-teacher conference with Raven and her parents. Afterwards, everybody cheers on Raven just like in her vision. She then dresses up as "her mother" (the person she dresses up as looks nothing like Raven or her mother) and pretends to be her mother in front of Mr. Petracelli during the conference. Mr. Petracelli gets upset because "Raven's mother" and Raven are never in the room at the same time (because Raven is dressed up as Raven's mother). After a while, Mr. Petracelli gets too upset and leaves. Then, Raven's real parents come in after Mr. Petracelli leaves, and say that they got a message on the machine about Raven's incident. Raven pretends to be Mr. Petracelli, but her parents notice that she is a girl, and tell her that they got a message for a Mr. Petracelli. Raven remarks that she is Ms. Petracelli, and she was congested when she left the message. Raven's parents find out that Raven is Raven, and the new phone they got her in the beginning of the episode was taken away. Meanwhile, a bully has taken over Eddie's locker.
[edit] Raven Baxter's Visions
- Raven's first vision in this episode is everybody cheering her on after telling off Mr. Petracelli.
- Raven's other vision is her screaming.
- Raven's third is Tanya and Victor coming into Mr. Petracelli's classroom.
[edit] Episode notes
- When this episode began airing after May 26th of 2004, when Raven says (to Victor) "Is it Kobe? 'Cause you know I like 'em tall", Kobe's name is replaced with "LeBron", due to the events surrounding the Kobe Bryant case.
- This was the second episode that was filmed for That's So Raven. The first filmed episode was Smell Of Victory.
- First appearance of Mr. Petracelli (Ernie Sabella)
- First appearance of Kenny Brookwell (Shane Lyons)
- You could tell that Raven was in Mr. Petracelli's classroom in the third vision because you can see the purple hat she wears is on a desk.
[edit] Episode goofs
- When Raven is Mrs. Baxter and she dances, she doesn't have her hat on in one shot but in the other shot where she's going to the bully she has it on.
- Raven's teacher says that he'll talk to Raven and her mother after school. However, later, she goes home, gets to talk to Corey and her parents, and by the time she returns to school, everyone's still there.
- As Raven goes into the classroom to find her mother, the door opens by itself.
- When you see the camera zoom in on Raven's classroom from outside, it's on the second story. But when you go into the room, there are shrubs outside the window . . . those weren't in the first shot!
- When Cory says the "3 C's", he holds up four fingers instead of three fingers.
- When Raven gets her phone, she holds the ribbon with her hand, but after Victor says, "I'll show you how to delete it later", Raven is wearing it on her shirt. Then after Victor says, "You don't have to, just keep up the good work" it's in her hand again.
