| “ | Come on, Mom. Don't back that thing up in the kitchen. | ” |
| — Booker to Raven. | ||
"Dream Moms" is the twelfth episode in Season 1 of Raven's Home. It first aired on October 13, 2017 to 1.18 million viewers.[1]
Plot[]
Summary[]
When Booker and Levi plan a surprise night out for Raven and Chelsea when they learn the moms are feeling unappreciated. they get into some trouble backstage at a concert, Raven and Chelsea try to seize the moment to perform with their all-time favorite group La Dee Da.[2]
Full Plot[]
Raven and Chelsea are making a sandwich in the kitchen when a song by their favorite girl group La Dee Da comes on the radio. Booker and Levi watch their moms embarrass themselves as they dance to the song. Booker then asks Raven to buy him five hundred ice-spoons for a project that's due tomorrow.
Raven gets frustrated when Booker informs her about the project late, but her frustration is cut short when she realizes that Levi has a snake on the loose in the house. Raven completes building the bridge for Booker's project without any help from Booker (even though, as a matter of fact, he was supposed to help her). And then, Levi and Booker come in the living room running after their lost snake. In the chaos, Levi messes up the laundry Chelsea worked hard to fix, and uses the popsicle stick box to catch the snake (although in doing so, he dumps out all the popsicle sticks, shocking Raven). Just as Booker is relieved that the chaos has stopped, the victory is cut short when he accidentally sits on bridge that Raven had spent so much time building, destroying it in the process, shocking Chelsea, and infuriating Raven. To make matters worse, Booker decides to change his project, choosing to turn in a paper instead. Raven and Chelsea, frustrated with Booker and Levi's lack of appreciation for their work, send them to their rooms as punishment.
Booker and Levi start to realize that they must have really upset their moms, and that they should show more appreciation for them. Booker asks Levi to search on the internet on what they could do to show their parents they appreciate them. They find that Raven and Chelsea's favorite girl band, La Dee Da is playing in town. So, they agree to bring in their birthday and tooth fairy money together to buy tickets for their parents.
On the day of the La Dee Da concert, Booker and Levi surprise their parents by taking them blindfolded to the concert. Raven and Chelsea are so grateful. But then Booker gets a vision that the concert is cancelled. He asks Levi to go backstage and convince La Dee Da not to cancel the show. Backstage, the singers, La, Dee and Da are preparing for performance. La gives them a pep talk and asks Da to put on her costume. On their way in, Booker and Levi accidentally knock down Da one of their singers. She becomes unconscious. They realize that the concert was going to get cancelled because of them. They hide and help it look as if Da is conscious while trying to figure out what to do. Raven then gets a vision in which she sees Booker and Levi backstage. She and Chelsea walk into backstage. On their way in, they open the door quickly and knock Dee unconscious as well. Raven, Chelsea, Booker, and Levi realize that they have messed up the concert. To avoid cancelling the concert, Raven and Chelsea dress up as Dee and Da and join La on stage. La doesn't recognize that they're fakes until towards the end of the concert when they ask for autographs. La gets security and has Raven and Chelsea thrown out.
At the end, Raven and Chelsea explain to their kids that they had fun. They also tell them that they don't have to go all crazy to show appreciation. Later, Booker tells Levi that for the first time, he was able to stop a vision from coming true by stopping the concert from getting cancelled. Maybe if he could learn to interpret his visions better, he could successfully stop others from happening as well.
Meanwhile, Nia gets her first D in a science test on genetics. She asks her science teacher, Mr. Alvarez what she can do to improve her grade. Mr. Alvarez suggests doing a research paper for some extra credit. While carried away in genetics, Nia becomes interested in figuring out the differences and similarities between genes in twins. She wonders why Booker has visions, but she doesn't.
Nia tells Tess about the project and Tess suggests that Nia probably has the visions genes too. She just needs to do something to trigger them. So, Nia gets on a mission to trigger her visions. She puts on the red shirt that Booker was wearing when he got his first vision. She also starts acting like Booker and shooting hoops while saying senseless words. Normally, Booker never makes the hoops, but Nia makes all of them no matter how hard she tries to fail. Nia tries lots of other different options to trigger the visions. It doesn't work out. She gives up and goes back to writing her paper.
In the research paper, Nia writes about all the experiments she did to trigger the gene. However, instead of mentioning that she is referring to the psychic gene, she says that she was trying to become as good in shooting hoops as her brother. The paper impresses Mr. Alvarez who upgrades Nia's grade to a B. He tells Nia that she may not have her brother's gene, but she's got a great scientific mind. He enlists her in one of the honors science classes.
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
Guest Cast[]
- Izzy Diaz as Mr. Alvarez
- Kimrie Lewis-Davis as La
Continuity[]
- Nia becomes more curious about getting psychic powers like her twin brother, Booker. She puts on the red shirt that Booker had in Baxter's Back!.
- This is the second time that Raven and Chelsea go out to a local event but get kicked out. The first time was in Adventures in Mommy-Sitting.
- Nia becomes an honor student in this episode, and it's mentioned later by Tess in "Because" and mentioned by herself in "What About Your Friends?"
Trivia[]
- The title is a play on the 2006 film, Dreamgirls.
- Victor and Tanya were mentioned in this episode by Raven while Tanya was mentioned twice, once by Raven and once by Booker.
- Booker had his father, Devon buy the La Dee Da concert tickets, as he had a credit card.
- The song used in this episode is Turn the Party Up by Miss Amani.
- Raven and Booker each had a vision in this episode.
- It was the first time one of Booker's visions did not come true.
- This was the first time since the Cory in the House episode That's So in the House, where Raven disguised herself.
- In this episode, Chelsea reveals that Raven wears a wig for the first time.
- This episode marks Nia's last appearance in Season 1.
- It's unknown if Nia and Tess were banned from the theater because they did not go to the concert.
Visions[]
- Booker gets a vision that the concert is cancelled, his first which actually does not happen.
- Raven gets a vision of Booker and Levi backstage.
Quotes[]
| “ | Listen, Rae, if it makes you feel any better, that bridge wasn't really your best work. | ” |
| — Chelsea to Raven | ||
Gallery[]
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The image gallery for Dream Moms may be viewed here.
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Transcript[]
A completed transcript of this episode may be viewed here.