Disney Channel simply gave us a Baxter household reunion 17 years within the making.
Friday’s episode of Raven’s Residence welcomed T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh as Raven’s mom Tanya Baxter, marking the character’s first on-screen look since Season 3 of That’s So Raven again in 2005. (Keymáh left the present halfway via its run to look after her grandmother, so Tanya was despatched off to legislation college in London.)
Raven was thrilled to have her mom again on the precise aspect of the pond for the primary time in additional than a decade, however Victor had a barely extra difficult response to his estranged spouse’s sudden return. Contemplating he by no means even instructed her about his coronary heart assault, it’s honest to surprise how a lot the long-distance spouses converse to 1 one other. His awkward incapability to ask his personal spouse out to lunch was additionally troubling.
To make issues worse, Raven had a imaginative and prescient of Victor telling Tanya, “I can’t reside like this anymore.” Conventional shenanigans ensued as Raven’s paranoia led her to crash her dad and mom’ romantic sail boat trip. (“Nobody dumps my mama, not even my daddy!”)
In the meantime, Booker and his associates tracked down the precise tree by which Victor and Tanya as soon as carved their names — the proper present for Victor’s sixtieth birthday — however they fumbled the supply. Extra particularly, they dropped the stump off the Golden Gate Bridge… and wouldn’t you recognize, it fell immediately onto Victor and Tanya’s sailboat.
After being rescued by the coast guard and returning residence, Victor lastly instructed Tanya what Raven had been fearing. However right here’s a shocker, in the event you can imagine it — Raven misinterpreted her imaginative and prescient! “I simply can’t reside like this anymore,” Victor mentioned. “We’ve been dwelling aside for years. I assumed I used to be fantastic with that, however I noticed you right now and I noticed I’m not.” As an alternative of ending issues with Tanya, nonetheless, Victor introduced that he desires to maneuver to London to allow them to lastly be collectively.
Tanya was elated by this flip of occasions, much more so than Lazlo, who claimed Victor’s now-vacant bed room as quickly as he heard in regards to the massive transfer.
However worry not, Victor received’t be staying in London for lengthy. Rondell Sheridan is predicted again for the sixth season of Raven’s Residence, which was introduced at Disney’s D23 Expo in September.
Did you take pleasure in this long-overdue Baxter household reunion? Which different That’s So Raven characters are you continue to hoping to see on Raven’s Residence? Drop a remark together with your ideas under.
