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The Proud Family
2001 - 2005 7.8 (140 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Animation Comedy Kids Family
Networks
Disney Channel
Created By
Bruce W. Smith

The Proud Family

Overview

Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny's every encounter inevitably spirals into bigger than life situations filled with hi-jinks, hilarity and heart. Her quest to balance her home, school and social lives are further complicated by friends like the sassy Dijonay, Penny's nemesis LaCienega Boulevardez, her loving, if not over-protective parents and her hip-to-the-groove-granny, Suga Mama.

Key Crew

Producer: Bruce W. Smith

Top Cast

Kyla Pratt
Kyla Pratt

Penny Proud (voice)

Tommy Davidson
Tommy Davidson

Oscar Proud (voice)

Tara Strong
Tara Strong

BeBe Proud / CeCe Proud / Puff (voice)

Paula Jai Parker
Paula Jai Parker

Trudy Parker-Proud (voice)

Jo Marie Payton
Jo Marie Payton

Suga Mama Proud (voice)

Alisa Reyes
Alisa Reyes

LaCienega Boulevardez (voice)

Orlando Brown
Orlando Brown

Sticky Webb (voice)

Soleil Moon Frye
Soleil Moon Frye

Zoey Howzer (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2001)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Bring It On
2001-09-15

Penny thinks she's made the cheerleading squad, but arch rival LaCienega Boulevardez shows up and ruins everything, so Penny enlists the thuggish Gross sisters to help--but they make matters worse.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: Strike
2001-09-21

Penny leads her peers in a strike against their parents. The kids refuse to do their chores until they receive a cost-of-living raise.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Rumors
2001-09-21

While Oscar and Trudy are away at an awards banquet, Penny throws a giant party complete with loud music and boys.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Tiger Whisperer
2001-09-28

Penny befriends a magician's pet tiger when she begrudgingly takes part in Take Your Daughter to Work Day.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: EZ Jackster
2001-10-05

Penny's crush on a new boy at school has repercussions beyond her wildest dreams when she helps promote his music-sharing Web site.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Spelling Bee
2001-10-12

Oscar pushes Penny to enter a spelling bee so that he can vicariously relive his own glory days; and Suga Mama goes shopping with the twins.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: She's Got Game
2001-10-19

Penny's efforts to impress a boy at school land her on the football team; and Oscar develops a new snack food called jelly poppers.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Forbidden Date
2001-11-02

Penny breaks her father's no-dating rule when she goes to the amusement park and pairs up with a boy named Carlos. Elsewhere, her parents go on a double date to a day spa.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Teacher's Pet
2001-11-09

Penny's grades fall victim to a long-time grudge held between her teacher Ms. Dinkins and Suga Mama; Oscar and Trudy enroll the twins in a private preschool.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Don't Leave Home Without It
2001-11-16

Penny is entrusted with her very own credit card, which she plans on using responsibly, but it seems to have a mind of its own. Oscar, meanwhile, nearly spends his family out of house and home in his attempt to catch a mouse.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: Seven Days of Kwanzaa
2001-12-07

The Prouds celebrate Christmas by inviting a homeless family to their holiday dinner, where the guests share with their hosts the rituals of Kwanzaa.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: Makeover
2001-12-14

The Gross Sisters split up when Olei gets a makeover and joins the ranks of the popular kids. Also, the Proud twins star in a commercial.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: The Party
2002-01-04

Penny is the pooper at her own party until singer Lou Rawls drops by to liven things up.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 14: Love Thy Neighbor
2002-01-18

The Boulevardez family moves in with the Prouds after Oscar sets fire to their home. Then, Lacienega's ego suffers a blow, courtesy of Penny. Also, the twins take to calling Felix "Da-Da."

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 15: I Had a Dream
2002-02-01

Penny is swept back in time to February 1955 to learn the importance of black history, a subject she once found boring. In the past, she finds that her school relegates black students to the back of the classroom and there are no lessons in black history being taught. She also finds that her friendship with Zoey, who's white, is forbidden.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 16: I Love You Penny Proud
2002-02-08

Penny has a change of heart about Valentine's Day after a secret admirer spray paints her name across town; and Trudy plans a romantic dinner for Oscar with help from the creepy Chef O'Boy.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 17: Puff's Magic Adventure
2002-03-01

Suga Mama is heartbroken when her poodle, Puff, goes missing. To ease her sorrow she spends more time with Penny. Meanwhile, Oscar and Trudy worry that it is their fault the dog has left without a trace.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 18: Enter the Bullies
2002-03-15

The Gross sisters call Penny out after she clues the school principal in on their bullying ways; BeBe and CeCe visit Dr. Payne for their shots.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 19: The Altos
2002-04-12

Disheartened over his parents' divorce, Sticky turns to a gang for solace until a worried Penny steers the boy under Oscar's fatherly guidance.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 20: Hip-Hop Helicopter
2002-04-26

Penny and her friends become local celebrities after appearing on a TV dance show, but Oscar threatens to pull the plug on their fame if they don't abide by his dress code. Also, a bowling rivalry develops between the Prouds and their neighbors.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 21: Romeo Must Wed
2002-05-24

Penny's uneasy about her starring role in the school play, because her leading man is betrothed to an arranged marriage. Meanwhile, Trudy's sister--a theater actress--oversteps her level of expertise by playing a motherly role.

Runtime: 22 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2002)

No overview available.

20 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Star Is Scorned
2002-09-27

The R&B foursome of Penny, LaCienega, Dijonay and Zoey win a record deal...too bad Penny has decided to break up the band and focus on a solo career.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: A Hero for Halloween
2002-10-18

When the Prouds discover their house may be haunted, Penny becomes a hero after eating one of Oscars' Proud Scary Snacks.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thingy, Baby
2002-10-25

When Oscar agrees to bring popular children's show host, Thingy, to perform at the twin's birthday, he and Penny discover that Thingy is really Oscar's pretty old college friend, Debra, and Penny wrongfully suspects that they are having an affair.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Poetic Justice
2002-11-08

When there's a debate team at school Penny and Dijonay wind up on opposing sides. They start to argue about the issue causing a rift in their friendship.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Behind Family Lines
2002-12-13

Trudy's and Oscar's feuding families are brought together for the twins' baptism.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Hooray for Iesha
2003-01-03

Penny launches a campaign to save her favorite TV show after it gets canceled.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Camping Trip
2003-02-17

The Prouds struggle to survive a camping trip with the Boulevardez family.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Crouching Trudy, Hidden Penny
2003-03-07

Penny and her friends sign up for martial-arts lessons.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Pulp Boot Camp
2003-03-28

Oscar and Trudy send Penny to a boot camp to prevent her from becoming a bully.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Tween Town
2003-04-11

Al Roker mysteriously appears and jumps off the TV screen to grant Penny's wish for a world without adults after she's punished for lying. With no grown-ups in sight, Penny proclaims to her friends that they're living in "a world of the children, by the children and for the children....We can do anything we want." But that's not much consolation for babies BeBe and CeCe, who miss their mommy and daddy.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: One in a Million
2003-04-18

Penny meets Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant and asks him to help her win a million dollars by making a half-court shot.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: Hmmm... Tastes Like
2003-05-09

Suga Mama's snack creations rival the munchies sold by her eldest son, Oscar, who tries to capitalize on the success of her top-secret recipe.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: There's Something about Rene
2003-05-23

The Prouds hire a perfectly good nanny, but Trudy wants her fired.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 14: Adventures In Bebe Sitting
2003-06-20

Penny's left solo to babysit the twins, BeBe and CeCe, along with the wild and crazy siblings of Dijonay, who abandoned her charges with her best friend to attend a sold-out concert with LaCienega and Zoey. Elsewhere, the grown-ups are on a couples' retreat led by a Dr. Phil-like psychologist.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 15: Surf and Turf
2003-06-27

Los Angeles DJs Big Boy and Fuzzy Fantabulous have cameos as Dijonay attempts to win Sticky's love by making him jealous of the attention she's giving to a boy from Hawaii. Elsewhere, Oscar enters into a bet with the world's fastest baby.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 16: The Legend of Johnny Lovely
2003-07-25

A mythical character named Johnny Lovely blows into town to show Penny and her friends the importance of treating each other with respect. His arrival coincides with rehearsals for the Junior Debutante Ball, a custom that Penny complains is outdated and demeaning to women. However, Johnny sees this coming-out party as a chance to put on display his gentlemanly good manners.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 17: The Camp, the Counselor, the Mole and the Rock
2003-08-01

Reverend Hagood organizes a three-day, two-night camping trip for the youth of his church. Penny volunteers as a junior counselor, to the chagrin of Oscar, who's fearful of his daughter being alone with boys and their "raging hormones." Meanwhile, Peabo splits his time away from home between tracking Penny's every move and trying to get closer to crush Zoey.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 18: It Takes a Thief
2003-09-12

Penny is framed for stealing by the manager at her new department-store job.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 19: Wedding Bell Blues
2003-09-19

Smokey Robinson is hired to sing at the wedding of Suga Mama after she accepts a marriage proposal from her senior-citizen beau, Clarence St. John. Meanwhile, Oscar hopes a private eye will prove his hunch that the bride-to-be is being fleeced out of her life savings by the future groom.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 20: Penny Potter
2003-09-26

Suga Mama's sister Spice successfully sweet-talks Oscar into giving her money.

Runtime: 22 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2003)

No overview available.

11 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Monkey Business
2003-10-10

Mariah Carey is involved in a mix-up at the veterinarian's office that results in her monkey Francois working at the Proud Snax factory. Meanwhile, Oscar's chimp Mr. Chips goes on to live the pampered life of a pop star's pet.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: Thelma And Luis
2003-10-11

Papi becomes the newest resident of a nursing home that forces its senior-citizen population into working on an okra farm.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Culture Shock
2003-10-24

Penny and her classmates experience culture shock when their teacher assigns them to spend time in homes of classmates of different nationalities. Penny's initial awkwardness when visiting a Pakistani family who's fasting during Ramadan gives way to an appreciation of the Islamic faith.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Election
2003-11-07

Penny is running against mudslinger Wizard Kelly Jr. in the race for class president.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
2003-12-05

Wizard Kelly organizes a televised talent contest featuring celebrity judge Alicia Keys, and LaCienega decides to enter it. But Penny suspects that the wannabe pop idol isn't above cheating to win.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Smackmania 6: Mongo vs. Mama's Boy
2003-12-26

After Mongo, a famous wrestler, takes ill at the hands of Proud Snacks, Oscar is forced to step into the ring to defend Mongo's belt. Oscar, now known as “Mama's Boy,” does so with the help of his tag-team partner, Suga Mama. Ironically, Mongo ends up having to fight Oscar to get his belt back.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Suga Mama's Believers
2004-02-16

Suga Mama suffers a momentary lapse of confidence after taking over management duties of a struggling baseball team.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Twins to Tweens
2004-04-24

Penny wishes for her Bebe & Cece to be older so they can look after for themselves.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: She Drives Me Crazy
2004-01-09

Suga Mama enlists Oscarto help her study when her driver's license expires and she must take the renewal exam.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Who You Callin' a Sissy?
2005-08-12

When Penny's friend Michael is called a sissy, she takes responsibility for helping him defend himself.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: Psycho Duck
2005-08-19

Penny convinces her mom to let her adopt an abandoned duck.

Runtime: 22 min

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