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Cory in the House

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The live-action TV series Cory in the House (2007-2008) is a spin-off of [[That's So Rave], featuring teenager Cory Baxter and his dad living in the White House after his father is hired to work there as a chef. Cory gains two new friends called Meena and Newt, a foreigner as well as a daughter to an ambassador and a guitar player with varying intelligence. It was chronologically the fourth series in the [[Disney Channel Univers].

"You know how I do."
—Cory Baxter
Tropes used in Cory in the House include:
  • Alpha Bitch: Tanisha to Sophie
  • [[And Starrin]: Rondell Sheridan
  • Asian Airhead: Haley (Sophie's friend) (Type Two)
  • [[Ass in Ambassado]: Meena's father Raum Paroom, the [[Ruritania|Bahavia] ambassador to the United States, smugly asserts the superiority of his own culture. He also forces his daughter to stand out like a sore thumb and restricts her relationships in the name of maintaining her cultural identity and [[Eagleland Osmosis|not getting too assimilated in American cultur]. He mellows out somewhat, but still has his moments.
  • [[Cloudcuckoolande]: Newt
  • [[Crossove]: [[That's So Raven|The Juicer (Cory's old bully), and Rave] make appearances.
    • The President and his daughter also appeared in [[Hannah Montan].
  • [[Cut Shor]: The show would've gone further if not for the Writer's Strike. At 2 seasons and 34 episodes, it had the shortest run of any Disney Channel Original Series until 2010, when [[Jona] tied its record.
  • The Ditz: Newt
  • [[Dropped a Bridget On Hi]: In one episode, Newt falls in love with Cory in drag.
  • [[Exp]: A lot of recycled characters from TSR. Newt's an expy to Chelsea. Meena's an expy to Eddie. Hell, even Cory gets his own expy named Sophie.
  • The Fool: Everyone. Except for characters [[The Ditz|eve] [[Cloudcuckoolander|dumbe] than that, of course.
  • Four Man Band: In a few episodes.
    • [[The Her]: Cory
    • [[The Lance]/[[The Smart Gu]: Stickler
    • [[The Big Gu]: Newt
    • The Chick: Meena
    • [[Sixth Ranger|Fifth Range]: Candy
    • Tagalong Kid: Sophie
  • [[Freudian Tri]: Cory (Id), Newt (Ego), and Meena (Superego).
  • [[Funny Foreigne]: Subverted with Meena. She seems well-assimilated in American culture, and her foreignness is only occasionally played for laughs.
    • Her father seems to be more of a straight example, and forced Meena into most (if not all) of her [[Funny Foreigne] situations with his insistence on tradition.
  • [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Techniqu]: One scene, in which Candy Smiles straps Cory to a gurney and uses her knowledge of pressure points to exact from him whether [[Woman Scorned|he had manipulated her into dating him to make Meena jealou].
  • [[Karma Houdin]: Sophie sometimes falls under this category.
  • [[Kid Co]
  • [[No Party Give]: Not only is President Martinez's party affiliation never mentioned, but he rarely does anything vaguely political from which one could hazard a guess.
  • [[Our Presidents Are Differen]: The President Buffoon to be exact.
    • Also qualifies as President Minority, as he's a Latino.
  • [[Replacement Flat Characte]: Sophie to Corey
  • [[Ruritani]: Meena apparently comes from a country named Bahavia. Bahavia seems to be a mixture of India and Russia.
  • [[Special Effects Failur]: About as often as could be expected from a low-budget Disney Channel [[Sitco] with zany situations, but Super-Speed DDR stood out well above the rest. There were also absolutely silly costumes, though some of them were intentionally unimpressive.
  • Spin-Off
  • Spontaneous Reverb: Parodied in one episode, where it happens whenever somebody yells.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Jason Stickler, who (mis)uses high-tech gagdets provided by his CIA Director father to spy on Meena.
  • [[Stupid Sexy Flander]: Cory finds himself lusting after a pair of chiseled legs in a pair of Daisy Dukes, only to find, to his eternal Squick, that they belong to one Jason Stickler.
  • [[The Theme Park Versio]: The White House and the President
  • [[Three Amigo]: Meena, Cory, and Newt.
  • Totally Radical: The show's title. Cory's excessive usage of the word "dang", but that's not the only factor...
  • Woman Scorned: Candy's reason for the aforementioned [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Techniqu].
  • [[Young Entrepreneu]: Cory plays this trope straight. He is always coming up with some scheme to earn some extra bucks, which often get him in a lot of trouble.

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