| “ | His accent is fake? Oh, I'm going to take down the new, New Kid! | ” |
| — Booker to himself. | ||
"New Kid on the Chopping Block" is the eighth episode in Season 5 of Raven's Home and the eighty-seventh overall. It first aired on April 29, 2022 to 0.18 million viewers.[1]
Plot[]
Booker tries to one-up a new kid at school, while Raven aims to bring back the arts program at Bayside High.[2]
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Raven-Symoné as Raven Baxter
- Issac Ryan Brown as Booker Baxter
- Mykal-Michelle Harris as Alice Baxter
- Felix Avitia as Neil Flores
- Emmy Liu-Wang as Ivy Chen
Recurring Cast[]
- Adrienne Bailon Houghton as Principal Alana Rivera
- Marissa Reyes as Cami Rivera
- David Parks as Dave (uncredited)
Guest Cast[]
- Caleb Baumann as Liam
Absent Cast[]
- Rondell Sheridan as Victor Baxter (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- This episode was filmed on December 9-10, 2021.
- The title is a play on the famed boy band of the '80s, New Kids on the Block.
- Raven-Symoné celebrated her 36th birthday during production of this episode.
- Victor does not appear but is mentioned by Booker and Alice.
- Alice is studying Advanced Robotics at Katherine Johnson Tech.
- Victor and Raven differ on whether she had a "breakthrough" or a "breakdown" at Indigo's retreat during Retreat Yourself.
- Alice (as well as Tasha) is depicted at The Chill Grill for the first time.
- The subplot is almost similar to the That's So Raven episode Teach Your Children Well.
- When Alana presses her fingers together to shut Raven up in the hallway, it's very similar to when she grabbed Raven's lips in detention to shut her up in the That's So Raven episode Clothes Minded.
- Neil says Booker has been going to Bayside for a month.
- Booker implies the events of 21 Lunch Street occurred two weeks before.
- The late Queen Elizabeth II, attended a White House dinner during Cory in the House while Victor was incapacitated in No, No, Nanoosh. She was said to be quite taken with "Cheese in a Cup."
- Liam claims to have visited Buckingham Palace for tea and to have met the former British monarch Queen Elizabeth II a few times. This seems improbable, as someone with such elevated social status is not likely to attend an American public school.
- Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was an American Trappist Monk, writer, and social activist.
- Talk show host James Corden was mentioned. Coincidentally, this episode aired the same week he announced plans to leave his show.
- Cami states that her mother dates, implying Alana is not married.
- In the original script:
- Neil claims "Bartholomew is British for Liam."
- In the locker scene "robotic" is said instead of fake.
- The paint sprayer was activated when the thrown box interacted with other various art objects in a Rube Goldberg fashion.
- Liam says shenanigans is British for pranks.
Gallery[]
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Videos[]
New Kid on the Chopping Block - Raven's Home - @Disney Channel