I don’t know about you, but I think we all have that memory of watching that scene from That’s So Raven where they’re at a dry cleaner and Raven gets into some mischief, ends up attached to a mechanical rack of clothes, and the machine moves all the clothes to the back room. Raven then successfully retrieves a letter from a coat pocket when the rack of “clean” clothes comes back out.
And as a child, you may have been left thinking for years, “How the HECK do they clean the clothes? Do they spray them with a liquid and delicately hand-clean each one? Are they steamed and vacuumed? Do they do nothing at ALL? If Raven sees the future and then tries to change the event from happening, doesn’t that alter the sensitive course of events that would lead to her vision?”
None of this was explained in the short scene of the hit children’s television show, or by any other media interacted with or consumed by myself. At this point in my life, I am still left unaware of the magical process of dry cleaning, and at this point in my life, I am okay with that. Some things are better left to the imagination. Like when exactly grass starts to become wet at night, or whether the movie Blonde was necessary to make.
Nonetheless, I think we can all relate to Raven being awkwardly dragged on a hanger throughout a dry cleaning store. Life can’t always be glitz and glam.