94 Fun Facts About Jessie

Which was the first episode of Jessie?

New York, New Nanny opened the series on 30 September 2011: Zuri recruits Jessie outside the building just as the family's previous nanny quits.

In the hour-long special 'Jessie's Big Break', which film job does Jessie land?

Stunt double to an Australian film star is the break Jessie gets, until the star's boyfriend, the film's director, starts flirting with her and turns the two friends against each other.

Which actress plays the title role in Jessie?

Debby Ryan plays Jessie and sings the theme song, 'Hey Jessie', herself; Disney Channel ordered the series in March 2011 as a show built around her.

Jessie's creator and its lead actress had already worked together on which Disney series?

The Suite Life on Deck co-starred Jessie's future lead while Pamela Eells O'Connell was an executive producer, so Disney ordered the new show in 2011 with both 'Suite Life' veterans attached.

Teddy and PJ Duncan spend Christmas with Jessie in a 2013 crossover with which Disney sitcom?

Good Luck Charlie lent Teddy and PJ, who are stranded in New York by a blizzard and help the Ross children work out who took their Christmas presents.

Where does Jessie grow up before she moves to New York?

A military base in Texas, Fort Hood, is where Jessie grew up; she leaves at 18 to get away from her strict father and chase an acting career in New York.

What does the Ross family's 'Gotcha Day' celebrate in Jessie?

A child's adoption anniversary: the Rosses mark the date their youngest first came home, and a slip from Jessie about another child's arrival nearly ruins the party.

What is the title character's surname in Jessie?

Prescott is Jessie's surname; she is 18 when she arrives in New York, and the youngest Ross child asks her on the spot to be the new nanny.

The Ross family's penthouse in Jessie is in which part of Manhattan?

The Upper West Side is home to the Ross penthouse, in a building whose condo board is forever at war with Jessie and the children.

What kind of animal is Mr. Kipling, Ravi's pet in Jessie?

An Asian water monitor: Mr. Kipling is a seven-foot lizard that Ravi brought with him from his homeland, played on screen by a real monitor named Frank.

What twist does Jessie reveal about Ravi's pet, Mr. Kipling?

It is female: late in the first season Mr. Kipling is found guarding a clutch of eggs, twelve babies hatch, and the family starts calling her Mrs. Kipling.

Which Marvel superhero meets Jessie in a 2014 animated crossover?

Spider-Man meets Jessie in 'Halloween Night at the Museum', an Ultimate Spider-Man episode in which the pair fight Morgan le Fay, who is after a medieval sword.

What is the Ross family's butler called in Jessie?

Bertram is the Ross family's butler, grouchy and often lazy, who helps Jessie only grudgingly yet comes to care for the children he complains about.

Which actor plays the Ross family's butler in Jessie?

Kevin Chamberlin plays the butler: the household's laziest member is a Broadway star who originated Horton the Elephant in Seussical and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family.

In Jessie, which of the Ross children is Morgan and Christina's only biological child?

Emma, the eldest, is Morgan and Christina's only biological child; the couple adopted her three younger siblings in the years after she was born.

In Jessie, Luke Ross was born in which US city?

Detroit is where Luke was born; the Rosses adopted him as a small boy, and he grows up convinced he is a ladies' man with a crush on his nanny.

In Jessie, Ravi Ross comes from which country?

India is Ravi's birthplace: he grew up in West Bengal until he was ten, so he is the newest Ross and still getting used to American life when Jessie arrives.

In Jessie, Zuri Ross was brought to New York from which country?

Uganda is Zuri's birth country; she arrived as a small child, and the Rosses still throw a party each year on the date she first came home.

In Jessie, what is the name of the doorman in the Ross family's building?

Tony is the doorman, who falls for Jessie, dates her early in the series and helps her find her feet in the city.

Which first lady appeared as herself in an episode of Jessie?

Michelle Obama played herself in 'From the White House to Our House' in 2014: Zuri phones her, and she brings a friend's soldier mother home in time for the girl's tenth birthday.

Which movie star plays himself in the Jessie episode 'Punch Dumped Love'?

Adam Sandler turns up at a school dance to give Luke advice about girls; the episode's title riffs on his film Punch-Drunk Love.

Zuri's imaginary best friend Millie is what kind of creature in Jessie?

A mermaid: when Zuri announces that Millie the Mermaid has died, the whole household turns out for the imaginary friend's funeral.

How does Jessie arrive outside the Ross family's building in the first episode?

Thrown out of a taxi on arriving in New York, Jessie lands at the feet of the building's doorman and a seven-year-old who is looking for a new nanny.

Where do the Ross children fly in Jessie's finale?

Hollywood is where Jessie lands a film role in the finale; the children follow her and end up clinging to the H of the Hollywood sign as it starts to tip over.

Why did Disney Channel pull a Jessie episode from its May 2013 slot?

A character mocked coeliac disease, viewers complained, when a gluten-free boy was teased over his diet; Disney apologised, shelved the episode and did not air it until July.

What is the Jessie spin-off series called?

Bunk'd was ordered in February 2015, on the day Disney announced Jessie would end, and it outlasted its parent show, running until 2024.

Which three Ross children head to summer camp in Jessie's spin-off?

Emma, Ravi and Zuri go to camp, played by their original actors, while Luke is left out of the regular cast and turns up only as a guest.

Camp Kikiwaka, where the Ross kids spend summers in Jessie's spin-off, is in which US state?

Maine is home to Camp Kikiwaka, near the fictional town of Moose Rump; Morgan and Christina Ross met there as teenagers, which is why they send their children.

What is Camp Kikiwaka in Jessie's spin-off named after?

A legendary Bigfoot creature, the Kikiwaka, is said to haunt the woods around the camp, and in the spin-off's first episode campers who end up in them believe it is stalking them.

Which actress plays Zuri Ross in Jessie?

Skai Jackson plays Zuri, the seven-year-old who meets Jessie outside the building in the first episode and asks her to be the family's new nanny.

Jessie's spin-off premiered in July 2015 straight after which Disney Channel Original Movie?

Descendants debuted that same night with one of Jessie's young stars as Cruella de Vil's son, a boy terrified of dogs who ends up befriending one.

Which instrument does Jessie play when she goes busking in Central Park?

A guitar: passers-by start giving Jessie money, Luke joins in with his hip-hop dancing, and the pair find they earn more together.

Luke's beloved stuffed toy Kenny is what kind of animal in Jessie?

A koala: Kenny has been at Luke's side day and night for years, and a whole episode turns on whether he can finally give the toy up.

Which actress plays Emma Ross in Jessie?

Peyton List plays Emma, and she was the cast member who revealed in an interview that the fourth season would be the last, before Disney confirmed it in February 2015.

Which recurring Jessie character is a scheming British nanny who feuds with her?

Agatha, played by Jennifer Veal, bars Jessie from Central Park and smears her on a nanny-gossip blog; Veal also plays Agatha's twin sister, Angela.

Which actor plays Luke Ross, the break-dancing prankster in Jessie?

Cameron Boyce plays Luke; the part had first been written as a boy named Hiro adopted from Korea and was reshaped around Boyce after his audition.

What is Morgan Ross, the mostly absent father in Jessie, famous for?

Directing movies keeps Morgan Ross away on film sets, which is why the children are left with a nanny and a butler; Charles Esten plays him in a handful of episodes.

Before becoming a business magnate, what was Christina Ross's career in Jessie?

Supermodel was Christina Ross's first career; after seasons spent mostly away, she comes home in the finale and decides to become a stay-at-home mother.

In Jessie, who is the snooty head of the condominium board in the Ross family's building?

Rhoda Chesterfield, played by Carolyn Hennesy, heads the condo board and looks down on the Rosses, which gets awkward when Jessie starts dating her son.

Jessie's first crossover, a New Year's special in December 2012, was with which Disney show?

Austin & Ally supplied the guests: Austin is booked to perform in Times Square on New Year's Eve, and Jessie is talked into taking one of the children to see him.

What is the name of the boyfriend who becomes Jessie's fiancé in the Disney sitcom?

Brooks Wentworth proposes, but when he takes a job in Africa the wedding is called off and he moves there without her.

In an early version of Jessie, Ravi was a boy named Javier from which region?

South America was Javier's home in the early outline, where he kept a pet capybara; once the part was cast, the writers reworked both the boy and his pet.

Which animal do Morgan and Christina give Zuri as a 'Gotcha Day' present in Jessie?

A zebra is the present, and it comes back to cause trouble: in a later episode two of her siblings help Zuri sneak the animal into the penthouse.

Which actress plays Creepy Connie, the girl obsessed with Luke, in three episodes of Jessie?

Sierra McCormick plays Creepy Connie, hired as Luke's maths tutor before Jessie realises she is a stalker; on her third visit she tries to trap him into a mock wedding.

Which celebrity couple's multicultural family has been suggested as an inspiration for Jessie's Ross family?

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were the popular guess, but creator Pamela Eells O'Connell said only that she was inspired by many families with children of different ethnicities.

Parker and Joey Rooney, who meet the Ross children in a Hawaiian Jessie special, come from which Disney sitcom?

Liv and Maddie lent its Rooney brothers to a one-hour special in which Jessie wins a part on a crime show that films in Hawaii.

Jessie and Ravi discover that Zuri is a prodigy at which game, good enough to enter a competition?

Chess gives Zuri a shot at two tickets to Paris, but she throws the deciding match so that her opponent can go home to see his family.

The actress who plays Emma Ross in Jessie later joined which hit series as the tough rival Tory Nichols?

Cobra Kai introduced her as Tory Nichols in its second season, a long way from the fashion-loving eldest sister she played on Disney Channel.

Creepy Connie, the tutor obsessed with Luke in Jessie, invites him to a dance themed on which book series?

Harry Potter is the theme, and Jessie makes Luke say yes before she realizes that the math tutor she hired for him is a stalker.

Emma's sports-mad boyfriend Brett falls out with Luke Ross in Jessie on learning that Luke supports which baseball team?

The Yankees are Luke's team and not Brett's, which ends a friendship that had already cost Brett his romance with Emma.

Jessie and the Ross children get lost on which form of New York transport while heading for Battery Park?

The subway carries them uptown to Yorkville and then downtown to Chinatown, and Emma turns the mix-up into her last-minute social studies report.

At the end of Jessie, the title character leaves the Ross household to star in a television show about what?

A superhero nanny becomes her big break after she rescues the Ross children from a toppling giant letter while on a film set.

Which animal, named Gladys, does Zuri bring home to the Ross penthouse after a journey to Africa in Jessie?

A giraffe called Gladys moves in and promptly takes to the butler instead, which leaves Zuri fuming.

Which actor plays Ravi Ross, the courteous brother devoted to his pet Mr. Kipling, in Jessie?

Karan Brar naturally speaks with an American accent and had already worked with a dialect coach for a film role before he was cast as Ravi.

The actors behind Emma and Ravi in Jessie had both already appeared in which family film series?

Diary of a Wimpy Kid had cast them as Holly Hills, the hero's crush, and his schoolmate Chirag Gupta before Disney made them sister and brother.

What is the name of the pet chihuahua owned by the snooty head of the condo board in Jessie?

Zeus is saved from a swooping eagle by Ravi's pet in an early episode, which persuades his owner to let the reptile stay in the building.

What is the name of the anonymous fashion blog that Emma Ross runs in Jessie?

Kitty Couture puts Emma in a bind when her mother launches a loud retro-80s clothing line and she cannot bring herself to post an honest review.

Which extravagant birthday present do Morgan and Christina Ross give Ravi in Jessie, before it proves to be a dream?

A trip to space goes wrong when Ravi is left behind on the ground while the others are locked in the shuttle, and then he wakes up.

Which style of singing does the Ross butler love in Jessie, even entering a contest to win a vacation in Italy?

Opera is his great passion, and late in the series he finally gets to perform at the Met, though his solo is only one line long.

Three of the Ross children and a friend get stranded in which part of the penthouse in Jessie?

The panic room has screens showing the rest of the penthouse, and Jessie ends up shut inside as well when she notices they have been gone for hours.

On what do Jessie and the Ross children set off for a month-long vacation in the three-part story 'Rossed at Sea'?

The family yacht picks up a woman with amnesia in the middle of the ocean, and Luke promptly develops a crush on her.

Which quick-witted friend of the Ross brothers has a huge and mostly unwelcome crush on Zuri in Jessie?

Stuart, played by Josie Totah, once tries to make Zuri jealous by flirting with Emma instead, and to his delight the plan works.

In Jessie's first episode, the Ross children's father turns out to be friends with which famous real person?

George Lucas is name-dropped as a friend of Morgan Ross, the jet-setting father who is seen in only a few episodes of the series.

Luke and Ravi get stuck on a billboard in Jessie after their model helicopter flies into a giant what?

The giant teacup also traps Jessie and the doorman, whose much-delayed date ends there with a kiss and a dance.

After a scary film about dolls spooks Zuri in Jessie, her nanny confesses to her own fear of what?

Porta-Potties terrify Jessie, and both she and Zuri have to face their fears in strange dreams before the episode is over.

In Jessie's body-swap episode, which supposedly magical object sent to Ravi makes the characters trade bodies?

A bell does the swapping whenever two people quarrel while holding it, though the whole adventure turns out to be a dream had by Ravi's pet.

Which of Christina Ross's treasures does Jessie accidentally drop into a neighbor's pool while filming a video?

A tiara that Morgan bought Christina when they married ends up in the pool, and the neighbor refuses to hand it back.

The fellow nanny whom Jessie recruits to discipline Luke turns out to have which real profession?

A dog trainer is what Samantha really is, while the same episode exposes the butler as a hoarder when the children break into his quarters.

Why did the Ross family prepare a nursery for ten-year-old Ravi's arrival in Jessie?

A birth certificate typo put the year as 2011 instead of 2001, so Morgan and Christina were expecting a baby.

Which school do Emma, Luke and Ravi attend in Jessie, home of a morning webcast that Ravi produces?

Walden Academy has a reptile club too, and Ravi ends up sharing its presidency with the rival who ran against him.

Why does Jessie make Emma take a job at a snack stand in Central Park?

To pay her phone bill, Emma has to serve snacks herself, and she soon suspects her brothers of opening a rival stall to compete with her.

Ravi lands an internship at which Central Park attraction in Jessie, only for Luke to cause chaos there?

The zoo leaves Ravi in charge for a while, and Luke seizes the chance to mess around with the animals.

When a blizzard knocks out the power in Jessie, the Ross household passes the time indoors with which game?

Capture the Flag brings out such a ruthless streak in Jessie that Ravi and Emma quit, and she realizes she is turning into her father.

Which bird attacks Coach Penny in Jessie, giving Zuri the chance to earn a scout badge by saving her?

An ostrich goes for the coach until Zuri steps in, and it later turns on the butler when he finds the orange that she threw.

The Ross butler fights a duel with his rival Nigel Pettigrew in Jessie using which household items?

Feather dusters are drawn after Ravi lets the butler believe that Pettigrew put an insect in his lobster bisque, and Pettigrew wins the fight.

The title character of Jessie loses a hand commercial after accidentally dipping her hand in paint of which color?

Purple paint costs her the job when she tries to hide it, but the producers ask her back to appear in the product's safety video.

A single VIP wristband to see which pop star sets Jessie and the Ross children scheming against each other?

Justin Timberlake is the prize, and Ravi outfoxes everyone: he appears to cut the wristband up, then turns out to have gone to the concert himself.

The friendly siblings whom Jessie and Ravi meet at a Mensa gathering in the park turn out to be what?

Burglars, in fact: Scott and his sister Madeline handcuff the household until Jessie pretends to join them and then calls the police.

In Jessie, Emma and Luke coach the family butler in which dance so that he can impress the building's chef?

Salsa nerves get the better of the butler in front of the judges, and it is Emma and Luke who walk off with the trophy.

Luke dresses up as which famous screen hero to search the hidden shafts of the penthouse for Ravi in Jessie?

Indiana Jones gear does not stop Luke taking fright at a pile of animal bones, which turn out to have been left there by Ravi's pet.

How does the farm girl Maybelle come to afford an apartment in the Ross family's luxury building in Jessie?

Winning the lottery brings Maybelle to Manhattan, where Emma's attempt to polish her up works a little too well on Emma's own date.

What is the name of the luxury Manhattan apartment building where the Ross family lives in Jessie?

The Fairfield is ruled by the head of its condo board, who dislikes anyone who is young, not rich or less self-absorbed than she is.

Ravi ignores advice to sing or dance at a school talent show in Jessie and takes first prize with which skill?

Cup stacking wins Ravi the trophy after the butler had urged him to sing and Luke had urged him to dance.

Which secret hobby of the Ross family's butler do Luke and Emma stumble upon in Jessie?

Renaissance faires let the butler reign as a medieval king called Stormborn, until a rival enlists Luke and Emma to win the crown back.

Luke and Ravi attempt which risky feat to impress girls on an Italian island in Jessie's 'Rossed at Sea' story?

Firewalking is the brothers' bright idea, while a tour guide warns the others that the necklace Jessie is wearing carries a curse.

Near the end of Jessie, the building's doorman reveals at a Halloween ball that he has been accepted by which service?

The fire department news comes as he unmasks as the mystery man who has swept Jessie off her feet, and the pair get back together.

Which animal chases the jeep carrying the Ross children on safari in the Jessie episode 'But Africa Is So... Fari'?

A rhinoceros gives chase after the children have refilled the jeep's biofuel engine with animal dung, and Ravi is nearly left behind.

Emma's rival Bryn wins over her friends in Jessie by posing as royalty from which country?

Denmark is the kingdom Bryn claims, and a food fight breaks out at the cinema when everyone learns that she is no princess.

Shaylee Michaels, the film idol who befriends Jessie and gives her a job on set, comes from which country?

Australia is home for Shaylee, who turns on her new friend when her boyfriend starts flirting with Jessie, until a recording by Luke clears things up.

Which Saturday Night Live alumna plays Ms. Falkenberg, Zuri's strict third-grade teacher, in Jessie?

Cheri Oteri plays the quirky teacher, and Jessie signs up as her classroom aide to smooth things over for Zuri.

Which character from an older Disney Channel sitcom turns up to give Jessie advice in 'Karate Kid-tastrophe'?

Mr. Moseby, by now managing the Tipton hotel in New York, tells Jessie that the way to understand a troubled child is simply to talk to them.

Which Nashville and Outer Banks actor plays Morgan Ross, the mostly absent father, in Jessie?

Charles Esten is better known as the country singer Deacon Claybourne, though Disney viewers know him as a father who is rarely home.

Guests at Zuri's tea party in Jessie are told B.Y.O.B., which here means 'Bring Your Own' what?

Boa is the missing word, and when Emma skips the party for a fashion show that falls through, the butler has to sit in as the reluctant guest.

Mrs. Arthur, the neighbor who becomes Zuri's new friend in Jessie, used to work as what kind of entertainer?

A clown called Nana Banana is how she arrives at the penthouse, and Jessie grows jealous when Zuri starts to prefer her.