Sonny With A Chance

Sonny with a Chance (retitled So Random! for season 3)is a Disney Channel sketch comedy television series, created by Steve Marmel, that follows the experiences of teenager Sonny Munroe, portrayed by Demi Lovato, who becomes the newest accepted cast member of her favorite live comedy show, So Random!. The series debuted on February 8, 2009 in the United States. This is the first Disney Channel Original Series to be shot and aired in high-definition from the beginning; like most of Disney Channel's sitcoms, it is shot on tape, but uses a "filmized" appearance. As of season 2 some scenes are shot on location. Sonny with a Chance is the second Disney Channel Original Series to feature a show-within-a-show, the first being The Famous Jett Jackson.
Demi Lovato will not return to the series for the third season. She has moved on to focus on her music career.

Main characters

• Demi Lovato as Allison "Sonny" Munroe (seasons 1–2)—A friendly, awesome, very eccentric, but sweet hearted and well intentioned teenage girl from Wisconsin who landed a main role on her favorite TV show, So Random! and excitedly went to star in it. She is often very funny in her sketches, very enthusiastic about doing them to the best of her abilities and is often trying to solve the feud between Mackenzie Falls and So Random!. She was Chad's girlfriend as of the episode(s) "Falling for the Falls" until they split in "Sonny with a Choice."
• Tiffany Thornton as Tawni Hart—A main cast member of So Random! who was mad at Sonny at first, but after a while they become best friends. Tawni is a diva; she loves mirrors, make-up and everything about herself. She is another talented, pretty, and self-centred individual, but she often shows a soft side. Tawni shows her soft side in an episode where she helps and admits in believing in Sonny. She often shows a similar personality to Chad.
• Sterling Knight as Chad Dylan Cooper—A teen heartthrob on Mackenzie Falls, the rival teen TV series of So Random!. He is very egotistical and self-centered, although he does occasionally have a soft side, which is usually only shown to Sonny. He was Sonny's boyfriend as of the episode(s) "Falling for the Falls" until they split in "Sonny with a Choice", and as a result started to soften up to the So Random! cast and actually tends to "hang out" with them. It is shown that he still has feelings for Sonny in the episode after they split.
• Brandon Mychal Smith as Nico Harris—A cast member of So Random! who is best friends with Grady. He is always striking out with the girls and has a crush on Mackenzie Falls star Penelope who constantly turns him down when he asks her out. A running gag throughout the series is Nico jumping into Grady's arms when he gets scared, like Scooby and Shaggy.
• Doug Brochu as Grady Mitchell—A cast member of So Random!. He is best friends with Nico. Grady is always involved in strange plans with Nico. He is shown to be not so bright and can be very gullible. He also comes up with very strange conclusions to certain situations. He loves to eat and hates exercising and is usually not the smartest of the "So Random!" group, and is known as slightly immature. In the episode "The New Girl" he tells Nico that something strange happens when he's around a girl he thinks likes him, it's later shown that he turns into a Scotsman named Seamus McGregor.
• Allisyn Ashley Arm as Zora Lancaster—A cast member of So Random!. She is very smart, mysterious, crazy and clever. She is the most cunning of the 'So Random!' cast, and is known as "the weird one". She often pops out of nowhere, surprising her friends. She is somewhat a detective and has gone to camps to learn more about it. She listens in on her friends' conversations and then shocks them by speaking to them about it later on. She appeared sporadically throughout Season 2.

So Random!

So Random! is a comedy sketch series that employs most of the main cast. It often causes the cast of Sonny with a Chance to dress in ridiculous costumes, and act out nonsensical situations. It was announced that the upcoming season will focus on the sketch show instead of the previous sitcom format of the first two seasons.

Sketches

Main article: List of So Random! sketches

Mackenzie Falls

The enemies of the So Random! group, Mackenzie Falls is a tween drama series featuring comedic overacting. The show is similar to Dawson's Creek and Degrassi, among others. The show's name, Mackenzie Falls, comes from Chad's character's name and the name of the town (which is located near a waterfall). In the candyface episode, the cast of So Random! made a parody of Mackenzie Falls titled Mackenzie Stalls, which was set in a bathroom. Minisodes and promos can be seen on the Sonny with a Chance website.

Episodes

Main article: List of Sonny with a Chance episodes

Seasons		Episodes	First air date	Last air date
	1	21	February 8, 2009	November 22, 2009
	2	25	March 14, 2010	January 2, 2011