Cory in the House aired from January 2007-September 2008 on the Disney Channel.
Cory ( Kyle Massey), the happy, chubby black kid from That's So Raven, moved into a new house-the White House-in this bright sitcom. His sister Raven was off at college and mom Tanya was in Law school in London, so when dad Victor ( Rondell Sheridan) was hired as White House chef by newly elected President Martinez ( John D. Aquino), Cory tagged along. His first adjustment was to White House life, including the president's annoying little daughter Sophie( Madison Pettis), " America's Angel" to the public, but a prank-playing terror to Cory, and his clipboard-wielding buttoned up assistant Samantha ( Lisa Kushell). The President was an amiable goofball who wandered around the White House whistling " Hail to the Chief." Cory's other big adjustment was at his new school, Washington Preparatory Academy, where his best friends were shaggy, dimwitted Newt ( Jason Dolly), the son of a senator and the Chief Justice, who arrived noisily by helicopter every day; and vivacious Meena ( Maiara Walsh), the daughter of the Bahavian ambassador, whose odd customs complicated everyone's life. Jason ( Jake Thomas) was a geeky kid who's father, the head of the CIA, outfitted him with all sorts of spy gear and who was Cory's sometime rival for Meena's affections.
A Review from The New York Times
TV Review | 'Cory in the House'
Cory in the House
Washington for Kids, Without Nuance
By SUSAN STEWART
Published: February 16, 2007
There is nothing for grown-ups in “Cory in the House,” the Disney Channel’s new tween sitcom. There are no clever double-entendres. No hidden meanings lurk beneath the boisterous banter of 15-year-old Cory Baxter (Kyle Massey) and his friends at a Washington prep school. Even though “Cory” is set in the White House, where the hero’s father (Rondell Sheridan) is the president’s chef, no political messages issue from anyone’s mouth, least of all that of President Martinez (John D’Aquino), a genial but clueless commander in chief.
Like its predecessor “That’s So Raven,” this spinoff operates in an irony-free zone. How straightforward is it? In tonight’s episode, a sleep-starved Chef Baxter finds himself in the Lincoln Bedroom in the middle of the day, snoozing next to the jet-lagged president. They hear a horde of tourists outside the door.
“Don’t you get it?” says the president. “If they find us here they’ll think we’re lazy!”
The pacing and delivery of this line give no hint that it’s a gay joke, although that’s certainly what anybody who has watched a sitcom in the last decade would expect. “Cory” doesn’t wink, or pander or try to be anything beyond a loud, hyperkinetic farce with likable characters, wholesome content and a few life lessons between spit-takes and pratfalls. That’s the formula that made “Raven” the Disney Channel’s highest-rated series during its four-year run. (“Raven” ended in January when the eponymous heroine went to college and her brother and father moved to Washington.)
Mr. Massey was a strong co-star on “Raven,” and he’s more than capable of carrying this show. Working against the general decibel level, he excels at quiet moments. Early in tonight’s episode, he has a fantasy about his friend Meena (Maiara Walsh). The two of them are standing on a snowy mountain, staring into each other’s eyes. Suavely, Cory pours Meena hot chocolate.
“Cory,” she says, “I know we came up here so I could teach you how to ski, but you have taught me how to love.”
Cory jerks his head to the side and closes his eyes in a soap-opera-style display of rapture. The gesture is funnier than any of the episode’s punch lines.
The scenario has Cory earning money for a ski trip by selling tourists glimpses of Sophie (Madison Pettis), the president’s precocious 8-year-old daughter. The story is implausible; the setting looks like a third-rate convention hotel, not a national shrine; and the White House security system has more holes than the plot.
But all these quibbles are beside the point. “Cory” is not “The West Wing: The Teen Years.” It’s a kids’-eye view of a certain slice of unreality, and as such it succeeds well enough.
In one way, “Cory” is more realistic than almost everything else on television. Like his sitcom sister Raven, Mr. Massey is on the chunky side, and apparently undisturbed by it. Poundage is simply part of the landscape. The show’s visuals here constitute a pretty healthy life lesson all by themselves, never mind the verbiage.
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