Original title
The Proud Family
Released
9/15/2001
Origin country
US
Genre
Animation, Comedy, Family, Kids
Production companies
Walt Disney Television, Jambalaya Studio
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
52
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.
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.
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.
While Oscar and Trudy are away at an awards banquet, Penny throws a giant party complete with loud music and boys.
Penny befriends a magician's pet tiger when she begrudgingly takes part in Take Your Daughter to Work Day.
Penny's crush on a new boy at school has repercussions beyond her wildest dreams when she helps promote his music-sharing Web site.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Prouds celebrate Christmas by inviting a homeless family to their holiday dinner, where the guests share with their hosts the rituals of Kwanzaa.
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.
Penny is the pooper at her own party until singer Lou Rawls drops by to liven things up.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Disheartened over his parents' divorce, Sticky turns to a gang for solace until a worried Penny steers the boy under Oscar's fatherly guidance.
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.
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.
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.
When the Prouds discover their house may be haunted, Penny becomes a hero after eating one of Oscars' Proud Scary Snacks.
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.
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.
Trudy's and Oscar's feuding families are brought together for the twins' baptism.
Penny launches a campaign to save her favorite TV show after it gets canceled.
The Prouds struggle to survive a camping trip with the Boulevardez family.
Penny and her friends sign up for martial-arts lessons.
Oscar and Trudy send Penny to a boot camp to prevent her from becoming a bully.
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.
Penny meets Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant and asks him to help her win a million dollars by making a half-court shot.
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.
The Prouds hire a perfectly good nanny, but Trudy wants her fired.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Penny is framed for stealing by the manager at her new department-store job.
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.
Suga Mama's sister Spice successfully sweet-talks Oscar into giving her money.
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.
Papi becomes the newest resident of a nursing home that forces its senior-citizen population into working on an okra farm.
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.
Penny is running against mudslinger Wizard Kelly Jr. in the race for class president.
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.
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.
Suga Mama suffers a momentary lapse of confidence after taking over management duties of a struggling baseball team.
Penny wishes for her Bebe & Cece to be older so they can look after for themselves.
Suga Mama enlists Oscarto help her study when her driver's license expires and she must take the renewal exam.
When Penny's friend Michael is called a sissy, she takes responsibility for helping him defend himself.
Penny convinces her mom to let her adopt an abandoned duck.
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