What About Your Friends?

“	What, are those those cool peeps you told me about the first time you lied to me? I told you, watch the company you keep. I am so disappointed in you, Booker.	”
	— Raven to Booker

What About Your Friends?
Season 3
Episode 18
Information
Air date	March 1, 2020
Prod. code	324
Writer(s)	LaTonya Croff
Director	Warren Hutcherson
Episode Guide
Previous	The Foreign Identity
Next	Adolessons

What About Your Friends? is the eighteenth episode in Season 3 of Raven's Home and the fifty-second overall. It premiered on March 1, 2020 to 0.48 million viewers.             

Plot

Booker’s new friends pressure him to try vaping, but he turns them down and warns them about the dangers. They don’t listen and when Coach Spitz finds a vape pen, the boys all claim it belongs to Booker and he is suspended. While a disappointed Raven seeks to understand what’s going on with her son, Booker sets out to clear his name.

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

• Anthony Alabi as Coach Spitz
• Donovan Whitfield as Curtis
• Andy Bustillos as Mr. Clark

Guest Cast

• Joachim Powell as William
• Hunter Payton as Jordan
• Aloma Wright as Ms. Pearl Saunders

Goofs

• Due to this episode being aired out of production order, Booker mentions working at a barber shop, the establishment in question, Radio E-Clips, will be introduced in Close Shave.
• Right before Booker had a vision, Raven had her cast on but after the vision, Raven opened the fridge and her cast was gone.

Trivia

• This episode filmed on July 12, 2019, the seventeenth episode shot before a live audience for the season.
• This episode filmed on Issac Ryan Brown's 14th birthday.
• The episode is reminiscent of the That's So Raven episode "Where There's Smoke."
• Following the episode, a special message from the cast was released on Disney Channel and Disney Channel YouTube. The episode and message were developed under the consultancy of Hollywood, Health & Society, who brought in experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and USC, among others.
• Anneliese van der Pol debuts a new blonde hairstyle in that special video message, which Chelsea will be depicted adopting beginning in Season 4.
• Raven is seen wearing a cast in this episode, IRL Raven Symoné broke her wrist while riding a hoverboard on the set of Raven's Home which she explained in the second season of The Masked Singer after being unmasked.
• This is the first episode of the series to premiere in the month of March.
• A second character named Jordan is introduced, the previous one,  appeared in In-Vision of Privacy, and was played by Philip Soloman.
• A second character named William is introduced in the Raven franchise; the first "William" (played by Frankie Ryan Manriquez) was one of Cory's best friends in That's So Raven.
• William and Jordan are in Nia's science class.
• Tess states that Sienna has a younger sister.
• The title of this episode is based off the 1992 hip hop song, "What About Your Friends"' by TLC.
• Nia lost the school election to Danisha.
• Chelsea's performance in "Bats:The Musical'" is mentioned.
• This marks the first appearance of Curtis in Season 3.
• Mr. Clark returns from School House Trap.
• The characters express their internal monlogues for the first time snce Just Call Me Vic.
• Joachim Powell previously appeared as *LJ Webb" in the Sydney to the Max episode "As Bad as She Get.
• Aloma Wright previously appeared as "Mother Wexler" in the "Dirty Work" episode of Even Stevens, and also as a "Nurse" in Zeke and Luther.
• In the original script:
  • The boys were skipping class when Booker finds them about to vape.
  • Levi was at the Building Watch meeting
  • Ms. Pearl was named Ms. Alma.
  • Ms. Alma swiped sandwiches instead of forks.
  • Ms. Alma claimed Raven's lemonade was giving her "the Sugar."
  • Raven was supposed to be beaten up while demonstrating defensive moves to Ms. Alma, but that scene was scrapped due to Raven Symoné's real life injury.
  • Mr. Clark was to  remark "I would have paid money to see this," as Ms. Alma tosses Raven around. 

Gallery

The image gallery for What About Your Friends? may be viewed here.

Video

Raven's Home Anti-Vaping Pro-Social Message Disney Channel