| “ | I need space to create my Christmas magic masterpiece! | ” |
| — Booker to Levi. | ||
"Bah Humbugged" is the sixteenth episode in Season 3 of Raven's Home and the fiftieth overall. It first aired on December 6, 2019 to 0.42 million viewers.
Plot[]
When Booker has a vision that his mom and dad are getting back together over the Holidays, he tries to recreate every family tradition from Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to help set the mood. Meanwhile, Raven and Garrett butt heads in the kitchen.[1]
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Raven-Symoné as Raven Baxter
- Anneliese van der Pol as Chelsea Grayson
- Navia Robinson as Nia Baxter
- Issac Ryan Brown as Booker Baxter
- Jason Maybaum as Levi Grayson
- Sky Katz as Tess O'Malley
Recurring Cast[]
- Jonathan McDaniel as Devon Carter
- Johnno Wilson as Garrett Grayson
Visions[]
- Booker gets a vision of Devon supposedly proposing to Raven.
Trivia[]
- This episode filmed on May 17, 2019, the fourteenth episode shot before a live audience for the season.
- Director Kim Fields is best known for playing the role of "Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey" in The Facts of Life.
- This episode filmed on guest star Jonathan McDaniel's 34th birthday.
- The title is a play on the line commonly stated by Charles Dicken's Ebenezer Scrooge (from 1843's A Christmas Carol), "Bah, humbug!"
- This is the first episode of the series to premiere in the month of December.
- This episode contains four plotlines:
- Booker and Nia decorating the apartment and attempting to set the mood for Devon to propose to Raven after misinterpreting a vision.
- Raven and Garrett making cookies together in the kitchen at Chelsea's request for them to bond.
- Chelsea and Devon competing to buy Raven the best Christmas gift.
- Levi and Tess organizing presents and figuring out how to hide a broken game system that they opened early.
- Raven loses her Grandma Merrybelle's Ginger Snap cookie recipe. This may indicate her maternal grandmother's full name was Vivian Merrybelle.
- Despite the claim that Chelsea had been gone for a solid six months, a reference is made of the eggnog debacle of the previous Christmas, implying Chelsea briefly left the cruise for the Holidays.
- Chelsea makes eggnog using tofu and almond butter.
- Booker's obsession with the holidays is referred to as the "Christmas Cray".
- The apartment is decorated to represent all three major winter holidays: Christmas (Christmas tree), Hanukkah (Menorah), and Kwanzaa (Kinara).
- This was the first time that Raven and the twins had celebrated Kwanzaa since the divorce because Devon received the Kinara in the settlement.
- The PlayMania game system that Devon and Garrett buy the kids for Christmas resembles the Xbox One.
- This is the first Christmas episode of the series and the second Christmas episode of the Raven franchise, after Escape Claus.
- On December 8, 2019, the entire cast appeared in “Holidays Unwrapped” a Disney Channel special featuring the cast of Bunk'd. Raven Symoné, Issac Ryan Brown, Navia Robinson, Sky Katz, as well as former guest star, Kylie Cantrall, performed holiday musical numbers.
- This was the last episode of Raven's Home to premiere in 2019 and the final one to air in the 2010s decade.
- This was also the last episode of Raven's Home to premiere as part of Disney Channel's "Yadirf" programming before the block closed in 2020.
- This episode is similar to the The Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode Christmas at the Tipton, where Cody thought his parents were getting back together.
- It was revealed that Garret was in charge of the prison library.
Gallery[]
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