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EPISODE
Don't Have a Cow
Information
Air date October 17, 2003 USA
October 29, 2005 ABC Season Finale
August 21, 2003 Canada
Written by Michael Carrington
Directed by Richard Correll
Previous Episode Out of Control
Next Episode Run Raven Run

Don't Have a Cow is the second episode of Season 2 of That's So Raven. It originally aired on Disney Channel on October 17, 2003.

Summary[]

Alana is hosting her annual Halloween party and invited every student but Raven and Chelsea. After finding Viv's spell book, the two cast a wishing spell to be invited and win the costume contest. While the spell works, they begin turning into cows due to a mistake in the process, forcing them to find a way to reverse the magic at the party before they end up on all fours. Meanwhile, Cory thinks he's too old to go trick-or-treating with Victor.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Goofs[]

  • When Chelsea pulls the spell book out of the trunk, she looks at the cover and says it's called "A Book of Potions, Spells, and Incantations." However, there are no words on the cover.
  • Raven and Chelsea moo whenever they say a word that rhymes with the sound, but Raven said "no" and Chelsea said "good" while mooing. Neither word rhymes with "moo".
  • Chelsea is soaked after drinking from the punch bowl with her face. In the following shot, she is dry.
  • When Cory is talking to his dad about not trick or treating with him, his barbell keeps appearing and disappearing between shots.
  • In the closeup shot of cow Raven at the end of the vision where she tells Chelsea, "Might as well milk it," part of cow Chelsea's right hind leg is edited out but immediately comes back in when Raven lowers her left ear.
  • Eddie stands next to Raven and Chelsea before the costume contest results, but afterwards is nowhere to be seen (likely to give the cows on set more room).
  • There are several plot holes in the episode:
    • Since the wishing spell had no stated limit, it's possible that Raven and Chelsea could have wished to stop the transformation.
    • The spell inexplicably affects Raven and Chelsea's wardrobe. They gain holes on the back of their bathrobes when they grow tails and are suddenly naked and haltered when they completely transform.
    • The students believe that Raven and Chelsea wore costumes and were not actual cows. They didn't notice how drastically different the two looked after they fully transform despite seeing them prior.
    • Raven supposedly saw the entire day-long vision despite them usually taking only a few seconds.

Trivia[]

  • The Raven's Home Season 5 episode "The Girl Who Cried Tasha", is a spiritual successor to this episode. It is a Halloween special that features the same spell book that Raven and Chelsea used and has a subplot about a costume contest at the Chill Grill.
  • This episode marks the first appearance of Cory's friend, William and Raven's nemesis, Alana and her friends, Loca and Muffy.
  • When Alana calls Raven and invites her to the party, she and Muffy are sitting on the storage bench in the Baxters' living room.
  • The zoom-in on Cow Raven's eye at the end of the vision provides a clear reflection showcasing the set, lighting and camera crew.
  • Raven and Chelsea become hornless cows with white and black fur. But the cow on Chelsea's pin that triggered their transformations had brown fur and horns.
  • Despite being referred to as cows, Raven and Chelsea technically become heifers since neither of them have given birth to a calf.
  • At the end of the vision, real Holstein cattle were used to portray the fully transformed Raven and Chelsea. A number of techniques were used for the animals on set.
    • Additional white flooring was added for them to stand on and they were kept in place with leashes.
    • They wore wigs resembling Raven's and Chelsea's hairstyles to distinguish them.
    • Their lower lips were computer generated to make it appear they can talk.
  • Raven and Chelsea's complete cow transformation is reminiscent of the Real California Cheese commercials that aired around the same time, as they also had talking cows onscreen speaking in a similar animation style.
  • Since the main plot was in a vision that Raven immediately prevents, it is one of the most uneventful episodes in the series. It is left unknown what would have happened to Raven and Chelsea after they turned into cows.
  • Raven and Chelsea moo a combined total of 15 times in the episode.
  • Raven and Chelsea's mooing is handled differently in international dubs of the episode:
    • In the original American, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, and Portuguese (Brazil) dubs, their voices become significantly lower pitched through audio filters or alternate voiceover.
    • In the French, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, and Taiwanese dubs, their voices don't change but the actresses attempt to make it sound lower pitched.
    • In the Dutch dub, the actresses' voices didn't change, but it was layered with an actual cow moo sound effect.
    • Some dubs recycled the moos from the original American release for the parts where Raven moos after Loca silences the room and the end of the vision where Raven and Chelsea were mooing after fully transforming.
  • Chelsea's actress, Anneliese van der Pol, confirmed that this was one of her favorite episodes in the series because she enjoyed working with the cow makeup.
  • The episode's title is a reference to Bart Simpson's catchphrase. Chelsea says the phrase to Raven in the ending.
  • This episode marks the last appearance of Elijah Ray Sanders.

Videos[]

Raven and Chelsea[]

Quotes[]

Chelsea (while reading her poem): Cow, cow, where art thou? You're in my stomach now. Cow, cow, tell me how, I accidentally made you chow?
Cory (when he wants to go trick-or-treating by himself): Dad, I think it's time we had the talk.
Victor: Tanya!!
Cory: Not that talk!
Chelsea (about her burger): Oh my God, it's meat! I just ate meat!
Raven: Ew, ew, ewwwwwww. I almost ate something healthy!
Cory (to William): This has been the worst Halloween ever! Your costume set off every car alarm and home security system in the neighborhood!
William: I wanted to rewire, but no, you couldn't wait to get your precious candy.
Raven (to Chelsea): We wished we were cows? Why couldn't you have been wearing a Halle Berry button?
Raven: (after her vision ends, she stops Chelsea from eating her burger) No, don't eat that! I just had a vision!
Chelsea: OK, save it, Rae, I'm hungry.
Raven: (grabbing the burger) No-no-no-no! It's meat! My dad accidentally switched the burgers.
Chelsea: Whoa! Man, do you know what would've happened if I'd eaten that?
Raven: Actually, yes, Chels, OK? It was in my vision. We had ears, and tails, and snouts, and (panicking) m-m-m-m-m-m--
Chelsea: Rae, Rae, relax, OK? I didn't actually eat it. Man, don't have a cow!
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