Based on the characters created by Michael Poryes and Susan Sherman, the series is a spinoff of That's So Raven,[2][3] the second spinoff from that series after Cory in the House. The series centers around Raven Baxter, a divorced mother of preteen twins Booker and Nia, living with her childhood best friend Chelsea and her son Levi in Chicago, Illinois. The fifth season has Raven and Booker relocating to San Francisco after Raven's father Victor had a mild heart attack.
Now living in Chicago, Raven and Chelsea have moved in together with their children after their divorces. Raven has twins named Booker and Nia and Chelsea has a son named Levi. Raven has a vision of Nia complaining about Booker getting more attention from their mother than her, so Raven sets out to spend more time with Nia, which quickly becomes annoying for the latter. Meanwhile, Booker has his first vision at school and tells Levi and their friend Tess. He tries telling Nia as well, but she doesn't believe him, as he is known to make up stories. Eventually, she comes around to believe him after one of his visions comes true. Booker then decides not to tell Raven about his visions, convinced she will not believe him. Coincidentally, Raven has also not told her children about her visions.
Since Levi and Chelsea moved in, Nia has been sleeping on the couch, which makes her feel she lacks privacy and space for herself. When Raven tells Nia that she loves having Levi and Chelsea at the house, she begins to feel guilty and decides not to talk with Raven about her issues. Nia later turns to her father Devon for help, only for him to reveal that he is moving to Texas for a job. While Nia is unsure if she should go with him, Raven, who overheard their conversation, decides to tell her daughter how much she loves her, which helps to convince her to stay. Later, Chelsea allows Nia to move into her room, which she has redecorated, to give her the privacy she needs, while she moves into Raven's room. Meanwhile, Booker tries to make Levi feel more at home and buys a trampoline after hearing about Levi's old room; however, he must keep it hidden from Raven.
After both Booker and Chelsea break something in the house, Raven demands that no one call Mr. Jablonski, the landlord, since she has not told him that Levi and Chelsea are living with her. However, when Booker and Nia get frustrated cleaning the dishes, they call Mr. Jablonski to fix the dishwasher against their mother's wishes. When Mr. Jablonski finds out about Levi and Chelsea, he raises the rent and threatens to kick the family out if they do not comply. Meanwhile, Booker and Nia hold a yard sale to help their mother and Levi make friends with their neighbor, who turns out to be the apartment's proprietor and Mr. Jablonski's mother. In the end, she persuades her son to keep the rent as it is, allowing Chelsea and Levi to live with Raven's family.
Guest stars: Skyler Day as Paisley, Bruno Amato as Mr. Jablonski, Peggy Miley as Ma Jablonski
Raven, Booker, and Nia plan a surprise goodbye party for Devon before he moves to Texas. However, when Raven has a vision of her children being upset about Devon's departure, she plans a weekend of activities their father would do with them. Not all things go as planned when Raven finds the activities to be too extreme for her to handle. Meanwhile, Chelsea accidentally destroys Booker and Nia's stuffed bear gifted to them by Devon, so she and Levi set out to try and fix it.
Guest stars: Jonathan McDaniel as Devon Carter, Jordan Black as Carnie
Raven catches Nia wearing makeup and makes her take it off, saying that she is too young. The next morning, Nia steals Raven's makeup and wears it to school. She quickly gains popularity and accidentally hosts a party on the apartment's rooftop, but has pricks of conscience. Meanwhile, Booker tries to help Levi when he does not want to go to school, as he does not enjoy dodgeball. He sneaks into Levi's class in order to help him out during the match, but he gets obsessed with winning the game. At the same, Raven reveals to Chelsea that she lied to her boss, Paisley, about having two dogs which she named after her children, in order to get the job. When Paisley decides to visit Raven to see the dogs, she and Chelsea must find a way to cover the truth.
Raven and Chelsea decide to go out to a club called The Vault. However, when they are unable to find a babysitter for the night, they decide to trust their children and Tess to stay home alone. While they are out, the children spill drinks on a chair and attempt to fix it. Booker later has a vision of Raven and Chelsea getting locked into the vault of the club, so he and the others go out to try to save them, but have trouble sneaking into the club. Meanwhile, Raven and Chelsea run into problems with a partygoer. In the end, the children manage to avoid getting into trouble and Booker is happy that his mother will trust him to be in charge again, until she finds out about the chair on the way back home.
The children's school is holding a dance with Booker and Tess helping to organize it. However, when they make it seem that the dance circle is important, Nia begins to feel pressured to learn how to dance. Meanwhile, Booker has a vision that the party will be a disaster; when he and Tess clash on the dance's theme and ruin the whole ball, it is up to Chelsea to solve everything. At the same time, Raven feels insecure about her involvement in Booker and Nia's lives when the school principal makes a comment about Chelsea always helping out, and decides to bake muffins for the school dance, with disastrous results.
Guest star: Leslie David Baker as Principal Wentworth
When the snack vending machine at school is out of order, the children decide to sell snacks at school in order to purchase the items they want. However, the school gym teacher, Coach Spitz, finds out about the scheme and attempts to find the culprits. Meanwhile, Raven tries to help Chelsea when she keeps defending ex-husband, who is in prison, as Levi is unaware of what type of man he was, and uses some of his previous advice to help the other children in their plot.
Booker has a vision of Tess playing basketball with a boy named Jordan, whom she likes, followed by a vision of Jordan rejecting Tess when she reveals her feelings to him. After Tess refuses to listen to his warnings, demanding that he stay out of her personal life, Booker and Levi try to stall Jordan from meeting Tess in order to prevent him from hurting Tess' feelings. Meanwhile, Raven and Chelsea argue about their parenting styles, and find themselves unintentionally becoming volunteers at an old foster care.
Guest stars: Philip Solomon as Jordan, Cleo Berry as Lawrence
Booker and Levi befriend a boy named Wally and start hanging out with him. After Nia and Tess meet Wally and develop a crush on him, they begin fighting with the boys to spend more time with him. Meanwhile, Raven sees a clown in her building and starts to work to face her fears. After she finds out that the clown is Wally's mother and hurts her feelings, she must look for a way to apologize to her.
Guest stars: Tristan DeVan as Wally, Valerie Azlynn as Diane
On Halloween, Booker and Levi plan to prank their friend Travis using the legend of a ghost in their apartment building. However, after Levi mysteriously disappears, Booker and Travis believe that the ghost is real and has kidnapped Levi, so they begin searching for him with Raven's help. Meanwhile, Nia comes down with a case of chickenpox and Tess helps her celebrate Halloween.
After Raven and Chelsea make a comment that Booker and Levi don't show enough appreciation for what they are doing for them, the boys get them tickets to a concert of their favorite band. However, after Booker has a vision of the concert getting cancelled, he and Levi go to prevent this from happenning, only to get in trouble backstage and accidentally knock out one of the band members. With Raven and Chelsea's help, the boys must find a way to fix everything, or else the concert will be cancelled. Meanwhile, Nia wonders why she has not inherited visions like Booker has.
Guest stars: Izzy Diaz as Mr. Alvarez, Kimrie Lewis-Davis as La
Raven and Booker have a shared vision while hugging each other, of Paisley firing Raven at Doggy Fashion Week. To help his mother, Booker paints some models for the dogs' clothes, which Paisley enjoys more than Raven's designs. To avoid being fired, Raven takes Booker with her at Doggy Fashion Week to help with the paintings, but things get complicated when she must do a painting in front of the live audience. Meanwhile, Levi, Tess, and Chelsea decide to sell pizza to help pay the bills, but end up turning the living room into a popular restaurant.
Raven and the children are ecstatic after the former has sold a jacket for $10,000 in the previous episode, but Booker soon has a vision that she will lose it, so he, Nia and Levi sneak out to steal Raven's backpack with the money in it. Meanwhile, Raven's new job as a Scüt driver has her dealing with a client owning a falcon named Ernesto, who Raven becomes convinced stole her backpack. After Chelsea beats Tess in a basketball competition, Tess is forced to help Chelsea garden, but accidentally throws the backpack, that the children buried, over the roof. The children rush to retrieve it, and Levi falls into cement as Raven returns home. After joining Chelsea and Tess on the roof, Booker is forced to reveal his visions to Raven. Chelsea persuades Raven to do so as well, but Raven is too nervous.
Raven confesses her psychic abilities to Booker, Nia and Levi, forming the "Psychic Duo" with Booker in the hope of finding where her money has gone. Nia, feeling left out, fakes a vision herself to be more involved with her brother and mother, while Levi becomes a self-confessed superhero due to his incident with concrete cement.
Booker wants to reveal he is psychic to his fellow school students to be more popular on social media, but Raven warns him against this with the simple reason: Because. Going against his mother's words, Booker lets the secret out and it quickly escalates. Meanwhile, Raven is looking for more stars at her new job as a Scüt driver, so Chelsea opts to help her.
Guest stars: Anthony Alabi as Coach Spitz, Jenna Davis as Sienna, Kaiden Chapman as Jared
The family's apartment building gets a new owner named Richard, who has Mitch, his ten-year-old son, run the building while he is busy. Mitch makes it his mission to have the family suffer after he suspects they are intentionally insulting him, going so far as to forbid anyone from doing their laundry and not bringing the building up to code. Meanwhile, Raven and Booker have visions of Nia in trouble and suspect Tess is behind it.
Guest stars: Dylan Martin Frankel as Mitch, Matt Corboy as Richard, Jonathan Chase as Officer Kowalski
The children have tickets to the premiere of Weirder Things, a reference to Netflix's Stranger Things, but when Tess's mom can no longer take them, they look to Raven and Chelsea for help. However, Chelsea is suffering from a terrible cold, making her delirious, and Raven is having her weave redone. Meanwhile, Mitch attempts to be nice after discovering the children also love Weirder Things.
Guest stars: Dylan Martin Frankel as Mitch, Wendy Raquel Robinson as Dreamweaver, Somali Rose as Power
The school's step dance team is looking for new members and both Nia and Tess are interested in joining, but when it is revealed that there is only a spot for one of them, rivalry blossoms between the girls. Later, Chelsea reveals that Raven also used to participate in step dance when she was in college, but she was cursed by a fly to lose. Meanwhile, Booker and Levi get an alarm clock, but the light keeps Levi awake, so he entertains himself by recording Booker having sleep visions.
Guest stars: Laya DeLeon Hayes as Zeena, Jordan Julian as Taylor
Raven wants Booker and Nia to invest their savings in bank accounts, but when they both end up spending their money on trivial items, they attempt to get their money back before Raven finds out. Meanwhile, Mitch attempts to befriend Booker and Levi again, but goes about it the wrong way. Later, Chelsea continues her new hobby of gardening by growing mini-cacti while Raven makes a significant amount of money painting for one of her Scüt client's pets.
Guest stars: Dylan Martin Frankel as Mitch, Jenna Davis as Sienna, Laya DeLeon Hayes as Zeena, Gabby Sanalitro as Gloria
Nia is excited to spend time with her father at the annual father-daughter dance at school, but when Devon gets stuck at the airport due to a snowstorm, Raven steps in to try to get him to the dance in time and not disappoint Nia. Meanwhile, Chelsea's gardening habit takes a new turn when she makes a centerpiece for the dance. Later, Booker tries to get a photo with a professional basketball player, who is also attending the dance with his daughter.
Levi gets moved up a grade in his science class, making him classmates with Booker, but when he reveals potentially embarrassing information on Booker due to their brotherly bond, a rivalry develops and things quickly escalate. Meanwhile, Raven and Chelsea are faced with the tough decision of decluttering their old clothes to save space in the apartment, and Nia elects herself to help them with this task.
Guest stars: Travis Burnett as Tanner, Liz Jenkins as Ms. Pittman
Levi likes a girl in school who happens to be in a wheelchair, but after inviting her for dinner, he finds out that she cannot attend due to their building not having an elevator. Later, Nia and Tess discover that there is an elevator and Mitch has been hiding it for his own personal use. Meanwhile, Raven has started a clothing business but has trouble dealing with opening an account for it.
Guest stars: Dylan Martin Frankel as Mitch, Travis Burnett as Tanner / Turner, Eliza Pryor as Isabella
Annoyed by his son’s attitude and wanting all the children to appreciate their parents more, the math teacher, Mr. Patel, has his students do a report on their parents’ professions. Booker has a vision of the students laughing, so he and Nia plan to make their report on Raven interesting – since they don't think that her work as a Scüt driver or fashion designer will please – using a new app on Levi’s phone, which goes very wrong.
Guest stars: Laya DeLeon Hayes as Zeena, Ronobir Lahiri as Mr. Patel
During her rounds as a Scüt driver, Raven comes across an old friend, Dr. Sleevemore, who helped her with her visions as a teenager. The timing is useful as Booker’s visions start to freeze on him so Raven takes him to see the psychic doctor. Nia, meanwhile, takes a liking to one of Sleevemore’s students.
Guest star: Brian George as Dr. Sleevemore, Liz Jenkins as Ms. Pittman, Kylie Cantrall as Jasmine, Mia Sinclair Jenness as Leslie, Faly Rakotohavana as Miles
With Booker’s visions gone, he takes up various hobbies and proves to be quite good at everything, while it’s revealed that Nia has his powers and wants to try them out to see what it’s like being like her mother and brother. Raven and Levi soon arrange a rooftop party to deceive Sleevemore’s group, so they can sneak into the facility the doctor works in – while there, they discover something bad.
Guest stars: Brian George as Dr. Sleevemore, Kylie Cantrall as Jasmine, Mia Sinclair Jenness as Leslie, Faly Rakotohavana as Miles
Dr. Sleevemore tries to restore Booker’s visions from Nia but the powers are missing. Jasmine admits removing the powers from Nia to prove her theory that powers are only transferable among people with similar DNA. However, she had dropped the goggles and Mitch took them before she could restore the powers. Booker and Nia try to trick Mitch into giving the goggles back but he refuses. By the time he gives the goggles back, the powers float away. Meanwhile, Raven asks Dr. Sleevemore to take her powers and give them to Booker. Instead, he shows Raven two visions to help her realize that her children would be more proud if she pursued her fashion dream instead of sacrificing everything for them. Later after giving up on getting them back, Booker’s visions return during a family hug.
Guest stars: Brian George as Dr. Sleevemore, Dylan Martin Frankel as Mitch, Kylie Cantrall as Jasmine, Faly Rakotohavana as Miles
Absent: Sky Katz as Tess, Anneliese van der Pol as Chelsea Grayson
Coach Spitz is holding auditions for a school musical about his life as a basketball player and a rapper. Since Tess is great at both skills, Nia wants her to audition for the lead role but Coach Spitz wants Booker to audition instead because the lead character is a boy. Even though Tess doesn’t want the role, Nia sees it as an opportunity to fight for feminism. She persists until the coach lets Tess audition. Tess wins the lead role but starts to doubt herself before the actual performance. Nia apologizes for pushing Tess to audition instead of listening to her side of the story. Raven tries to get Booker back as the lead but Booker admits that Tess is better suited for it. He helps Tess regain confidence and get back on stage.
Guest star: Anthony Alabi as Coach Spitz
Songs featured: "I Want This", "Tess Freestyles", "Legendary", "Raven's Pie", "Face of a Movement", "Turnip Juice", "Eye to Eye", "Replay the Moment"
After seeing themselves in a vision, Raven and Booker inadvertently switch bodies on Halloween just before Raven has a big meeting with Shinée DuBois to review her fashion designs and Booker winning a couples' costume dance while performing the Frankenberry shuffle with Levi. The two must work in each other's shoes before they have a chance to switch back at midnight. Nia gets nervous about her first date with Miles to prove a point to her friends, so she asks her Great Aunt Maureen (who also switched bodies with Miles) to fill in for him.
Guest stars: Debbie Allen as Great Aunt Maureen, Michelle Williams as Shinée DuBois, Jenna Davis as Sienna, Laya DeLeon Hayes as Zeena, Faly Rakotohavana as Miles, Kaliko Kauahi as Principal Kwan
While Chelsea is out of town, Raven's father Victor shows up to help his daughter with comical results. Meanwhile, Booker, Nia, Levi, and Tess come up with alternatives to washing the clothes when the building's washer machines are full.
Nia asks Raven to take her to a retreat hosted by her favorite councilwoman who has been helping the underprivileged. However, her every chance to impress the councilwoman is ruined because Raven is too distracted trying to talk to her fashion idol about her designs. Raven accidentally burns Nia’s speech, causing Nia to miss her opportunity. Nia rewrites it and sneaks in later to the councilwoman’s office disguised as room service. Raven sneaks in too but the councilwoman kicks her out to let Nia read the speech in peace. In the speech, Nia says Raven is her biggest inspiration.
Back at home, Booker and Levi offer to watch Sienna’s dog to impress the two new girls in their building. However, the dog embarrasses them by peeing on Booker just as they’re preparing to walk it with the girls. Afterward, the dog destroys Raven’s latest design.
Guest stars: Jason Rogel as Sebastian, Jenna Davis as Sienna, Michelle Williams as Shinée DuBois, Dinora Walcott as Councilwoman Sylvia Johnson
Absent: Sky Katz as Tess, Anneliese van der Pol as Chelsea Grayson
Booker and Nia are planning their 13th birthday party as Tess, Curtis, The Guntz, Sienna, and Zeena have suggestions to improve it that exclude Raven and Levi excluded. After finding out, Raven enlists Sebastian to help her spy on the party.
Guest stars: Jason Rogel as Sebastian, Jenna Davis as Sienna, Laya DeLeon Hayes as Zeena, Donovan Whitfield as Curtis, Nathan Blaiwes as The Guntz, Jason Sweat as Fireman Alexandre
Principal Kwan makes Booker and Nia school ambassadors where they must help out the school. Unfortunately, their first job is to welcome new student Mitch who starts to steal their friends. Meanwhile, Raven finds out that Levi stayed home to keep an eye on his mother's plants while Chelsea is away.
Guest stars: Dylan Martin Frankel as Mitch, Laya DeLeon Hayes as Zeena, Kaliko Kauahi as Principal Kwan
Raven books social media influencer Lil Z to appear at the launch of her Ravenous fashion line. Lil Z wants to keep a low profile. However, when Nia becomes determined to raise money for several causes at school, the children agree to sell raffle tickets where the winner gets to spend a day with Lil Z. Sienna wins and the twins convince her not to mention the raffle tickets. However, she later tags him in an online photo. Lil Z becomes upset at them for using him without his permission. When Lil Z quits, the children come up with a plan for Booker to pretend to be him during the fashion show. After finding out what happened, Raven and Lil Z’s mother convince him to return. Raven has a successful fashion show and officially launches Ravenous.
Guest stars: Jason Rogel as Sebastian, Jenna Davis as Sienna, Laya DeLeon Hayes as Zeena, Donovan Whitfield as Curtis, Nathan Blaiwes as The Guntz, Brandon Severs Jr. as Lil Z, Karen Malina White as Loretta, Tiffany Yvonne Cox as Latonya
When Levi starts missing his mother, Raven takes the family on a trip to visit Chelsea at the cruise ship where she works. On the way, they get a flat tire, but Nia texts Tess who brings them a new one and joins the trip. Meanwhile, Chelsea has been struggling at work and wants to come home, but agrees to wait for them. Upon arrival, the children go to look for Chelsea in the ship; however, Chelsea is at the dock where she reunites with Raven. When the ship starts moving, Raven and Chelsea are unable to get to the children. Since it could take five days for the ship to get to the next port, Raven and Chelsea take jet skis to go after the children.
Guest stars: Roz Ryan as Miss Bertha, Afomia Hailemeskel as Bailey
Raven and Chelsea take a jet ski to follow the ship with their children but the jet ski runs out of fuel in the middle of the ocean. They call for help and are rescued hours later by the Coast Guard. Meanwhile, Nia, Booker, Levi and Tess are enjoying themselves on the ship just before learning that Chelsea is getting fired. With help of his friends, Levi puts on a show to try to save his mother's job. After an emotional speech about missing their parents, the children get support from the other passengers in reaching out for help. Raven and Chelsea are reunited with their children, after which Chelsea comes back home.
Guest stars: Roz Ryan as Miss Bertha, Afomia Hailemeskel as Bailey, Robert Curtis Brown as Coast Guard Captain Rob
Booker, Nia, and Tess form a musical group called the Chi-Lective. With Booker as their video editor, they work on their first musical video in Tess' apartment which Raven and Chelsea were unaware of.
Devon takes Booker and Nia to Dallas, Texas for the weekend. Booker challenges Nia's activism where she accompanies Devon to a live report where a strong storm is approaching.
Levi sees how a person's style causes them to act. He makes a documentary about them and even has Booker and Nia change their outfits with surprising results.
Guest stars: Kaliko Kauahi as Principal Kwan, Jenna Davis as Sienna, Sean Philip Glasgow as Delaney
A rival music group of the Chi-Lective called the 3 Go's (consisting of Gilbert "Quatro" Metusa, his twin brother Herbert "Pump Fake" Metusa, and their cousin Lloyd "Lil Lo-Lo" Metusa) has made a diss track that makes fun of Booker. He ropes the Chi-Lectives in coming up with a diss track towards them which has varying results.
Guest stars: Kaliko Kauahi as Principal Kwan, Amari O'Neal as Quatro, Amir O'Neal as Pump-Fake, Travis Wolfe Jr. as Lil Lo-Lo, Taja V. Simpson as Mrs. Mutesa
Chelsea's ex-husband Garrett has been released from prison and comes up with a broom counterpart for Chelsea's Schmop called the Schbroom. This causes Chelsea and Raven to take this issue to the TV show "Judge Giovanni" which stars the titular judge that Raven is a fan of. Levi gets involved in the case as well. Meanwhile, Booker, Nia, and Tess take an offer from Camille Henry and her mother to have the Chi-Lective perform at the birthday party of Camille's younger brother Dylan as they try to appease the guests.
Guest star: Johnno Wilson as Garrett, Tim Bagley as Judge Giovanni
The Chi-Lective is in the running to advance to the finals of the music video competition. Booker has gotten a bad grade in his history due to his short studying routine and persuades Nia to forge Raven's signature. They get busted and Raven grounds them. With help from Chelsea, Tess persuades Raven to let her and Nia use a remembering strategy to help Booker pass the make-up test. At the same time, Raven plots to use the building's laundry room for herself by putting up fake out of order signs.
The Baxters and the Graysons head to California so that the Chi-Lective can compete in the show Radio Eclipse Live hosted by Chris Spring-Lake. Devon is also there in attendance due to him being an old friend of Chris. The Chi-Lective faces some competition from the a cappella group N'Charmony.
Guest stars: Jaleel White as Chris Spring-Lake, Jonathan McDaniel as Devon, Dior Goodjohn as Duchess, Afra Sophia Tully as Chloe, Lily Huynh as June
Booker's new friends William and Jordan pressure him and Curtis to try vaping, but he turns them down. When Coach Spitz walks in on Booker with William's vape pen (he was trying to show William, Jordan and Curtis how stupid vaping was), his "friends" accuse him of seemingly pressuring them to vape. As there is a zero-toleration policy, Coach Spitz suspends Booker from school. However, Nia finds out that Booker can argue his case in a preliminary hearing. Booker, with his phone recording, tries to get a confession out of William, but fails. He convinces Curtis to speak up for him, but the latter refuses. At the hearing, Nia isn't able to defend Booker. Booker makes a speech on the effects of vaping, adding that it cannot only hurt your lungs, but hurt friendships, looking over to Curtis as he says it. This speech makes Curtis stand up from his seat, speaking up and telling the truth. As Booker's suspension is lifted, William, Jordan and Curtis deal with the consequences of their actions, not before Curtis reconciles with Booker.
Guest stars: Anthony Alabi as Coach Spitz, Donovan Whitfield as Curtis, Andy Bustillos as Mr. Clark, Joachim Powell as William, Hunter Payton as Jordan, Aloma Wright as Ms. Pearl
Special guest stars: Miranda May as Lou, Mallory James Mahoney as Destiny, Raphael Alejandro as Matteo, Will Buie Jr. as Finn, Shelby Simmons as Ava, Scarlett Estevez as Gwen, Israel Johnson as Noah
Guest stars: Adrienne Houghton as Alana, Ernie Grunwald as Lazlo, Mykal-Michelle Harris as Young Raven, Scarlett Roselynn as Young Chelsea, Emily Nicole Gonzales as Young Alana
Alice's mother Betty Jane comes to San Francisco for Christmas to spend time with her daughter. Meanwhile, Booker loses a present to him and enlists Neil to help find it. At the same time, Victor contends with his cousin Delroy when he shows up with Betty Jane.