• Air date: 15 Sep '01 21 episodes
      "The Proud Family" follows 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.
  • List of Episodes (21)
    • 1. Bring It On

      15 Sep '01
      After Penny is announced the new member of the cheerleading squad, an old friend of Dijonay's, LaCienega, shows up. Dijonay lets her try out and she ""ties"" with Penny. To decide between the two, Dijonay schedules a cheer-off. Behind Dijonay's back, LaCienega makes fun of Penny. She realizes that LaCienega does not just go to the same school as her, but she is also her new neighbor! Her parents invite them over for dinner to welcome them to the neighborhood. Trudy makes friends with LaCienega's
    • 2. Strike

      21 Sep '01
      All Penny needs to do is clean up her room...but Oscar tells Penny to clean up the whole house. But she only gets her normal pay...five dollars. But five dollars isn't enough to see a movie with her friends. Because of this, Penny feels unappreciated...and underpaid. All of her friends feel the same way. So she and her friends decide they want grown-up money for grown-up work. To get their way, they ""must"" go on strike. No chores until they get a better bigger allowance pay! But because of tha
    • 3. Rumors

      21 Sep '01
      Penny is being very generous today. She is washing the dishes, making breakfast and complimenting her parents! wants to through a sleep-over on the same day as Trudy's veterinarian awards banquet. Trudy says no. Oscar thinks it's fine...but only because he doesn't want to go to the awards banquet. But Trudy drags him along. Penny suggests that Suga Moma could chaperone. Trudy thinks it's okay as long as she agrees. Penny knows she will because she and Suga Moma ""speak the same language."" Penny
    • 4. Tiger Whisperer

      28 Sep '01
      It's take your daughter to work day! But Penny doesn't want to go with her mom. She wants to go with Dijonay's mom. Well, Penny has no choice. She has to go with her mom. While she is there...being a janitor, she meets a magician with a pet tiger (of whom he calls Sasha) who doesn't want to do a comedy act with him. The tiger tells Penny that he is not a girl and that his name is Aija. Penny tells the magician that. But both the magician and her mom doesn't belive it. Aija also tells her he does
    • 5. EZ Jackster

      05 Oct '01
      Penny's crush on a new boy at school has repercussions beyond her wildest dreams when she helps promote his music-sharing Web site.
    • 6. Spelling Bee

      12 Oct '01
      Because of a preview of a 'Wizard Kelly Spelling Bee' that Oscar saw in the 'Wizard Kelly Movie Theatre,' he thought of him being Penny's age and winning that Spelling Bee. Oscar notices that his former spelling bee rival works at the theatre. So he goes over to him to make fun of him. But his rival thinks (and knows) that Oscar doesn't even know what the words mean. For revenge, he enters his son in the spelling bee. Later, at a 'Wizard Kelly' store, Oscar goes to pick up a product to help Penn
    • 7. She's Got Game

      19 Oct '01
      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.
    • 8. Forbidden Date

      02 Nov '01
      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.
    • 9. Teacher's Pet

      09 Nov '01
      Penny's grades fall victim to a longtime grudge held between her teacher Ms. Dinkins and Suga Mama; Oscar and Trudy enroll the twins in a private preschool.
    • 10. Don't Leave Home Without It

      16 Nov '01
      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.
    • 11. Seven Days of Kwanzaa

      07 Dec '01
      As the Proud family goes Christmas shopping, they meet a homeless family. Oscar (of course) doesn't do anything to help them. But Trudy tells Oscar to find the family and give them some money. When Penny and Oscar find them, Penny ask them if they want to have a Christmas dinner with them. They'd love to! But Oscar wouldn't. On Christmas, they arrive seven hours early and presents the Prouds with a fruit cake. Nobody thinks much of it so they give it to Bobby. He throws it out the window! When P
    • 12. Makeover

      14 Dec '01
      For the school dance, Penny, LaCienega and Dijonay give Zoey a makeover. At school, the next day, they think that Zoey's hogging all of the boys. But Zoey wants to be with the foreign exchange student. But when Nubia sees Zoey's makeover, she wants her older sister to have one too. After the makeover, she started hanging out with Penny. But what Nubia didn't realize is that without her older sister, she is powerless. Nubia somehow convinces her to come back to staying with her. But before she go
    • 13. The Party

      04 Jan '02
      Penny decides to throw a slammin' party, but LaCienega is throwing a party on the same night except with a guest appearance from Jennifer Lopez to blow Penny's party away. On the night of the two parties all of Penny's friends ditch her to go to LaCienega's and The Gross Sisters and Myron are Penny's only guest. Everybody tries to make Penny have a good time with the little party they have and she eventually gets even with her friends when LaCienega's party turns out to be a bust and they all go
    • 14. Love Thy Neighbor

      18 Jan '02
      While grillign burgers, Oscar is finished usin a match, so he throughs it back behind him. The match lands in the bottle of kerocine. The bottle gets knocked over. And the Boulavardez's house starts on fire! Now the Boulevardez family has to move in to Penny's home. And LaCienega has to stay in Penny's room!!! Oh, the horror! The next day, their school has swiming tryouts to be on the swim team. LaCienega isn't very comfortable about it. It is because that LaCienega has really big feet. She is t
    • 15. I Had a Dream

      01 Feb '02
      It's Black History Month and that means reports on famous people in black history! Penny got Angela Davis, Dijonay got Bessie Coleman, Zoey got Madam C.J. Walker, LaCienega got Shirley Chisolm, and Sticky got Al Sharpton! After class, they decide to run in the hallway. But the grumpy janitor is mad at them for doing this. The kids decide to tease him and they run away from him. Penny slips on the recently waxed floor and gets knocked out. Before school, the next day, Penny is ""dressed"" like An
    • 16. I Love You Penny Proud

      08 Feb '02
      It's Valentine's Day. And that means...love notes! But Penny didn't get any. All she got was spray paint on the wall of the school and buses saying 'I Love You Penny.' Whoever did it really likes Penny. But it is certainly not the guy who just suspended them for not doing it. The question is: Who did it? It's time to start investigating! Well, whoever he is, must work durinmg the night. He likes buses, so what better place to look than a bus station. And the secret admirer is... Johnny McBride f
    • 17. Puff's Magic Adventure

      01 Mar '02
      Suga Mama needs Oscar to watch Puff. Oscar wants it to be his day off, but Trudy wants to go shopping. She demands him too, and he quickly goes. They pawn off the twins and Puff to Penny. Later, Penny is having a waterfight. When she isn't paying attention, the stroller with the twins is gone. The Gross sisters show up with a firetruck, and Penny tells them she quickly has to go because she's babysitting. The Gross sisters tell her she's whack because nobody's there. Penny runs quick to find the
    • 18. Enter the Bullies

      15 Mar '02
      Penny is sick and tired of the the Gross sisters. When she tries to get them to stop taking her money, the Gross sisters get really mad and want to hurt Penny. In order to hide from them, she skips school and hides at a museum. The Gross sisters find her but they don't catch her. Penny ends up getting her money back and teaches the Gross sisters about savings accounts.
    • 19. The Altos

      12 Apr '02
      There is a scavenger hunt put on by no other, Wizard Kelly. You figure out the riddles, and then go to that place and get the object. Whoever wins gets to be Wizard Kelly for a day. Also, in association with Proud snacks. Penny is walking down the street with her crew. The Gross sisters show up and jack their money as usual. When they turn around, there is a group of more bullies, and Sticky is right with them. They take the money from them, and Penny and her gang are shocked that Sticky wou
    • 20. Hip-Hop Helicopter

      26 Apr '02
      The hottest show around. Penny gets her girls when it comes to town. It's the hip-hop helicopter! After forming a dance group of Dijonay, Lacienaga, Zoey and herslef, the girls enter to be on the show. Dijonay's cousin offers to give them a ride, but thinks they're too lame. When they get there, they think it is amazing. Revealing skimpy outfits, the girls start dancing. Meanwhile, Suaga Mama and Oscar are head to head on bowling leauges. Oscar is an extremely poor sport. When Trudy looks up,
    • 21. Romeo Must Wed

      24 May '02
      Penny gets the lead part in the school production of ""Romeo and Juliet"". Kwok, who plays Romeo, really likes Penny and wants to run lines with her. Meanwhile, Penny's aunt Dee (a theatre actress) decides to work on the play. The drama teacher was so starstruck that he said it was okay. Trudy starts to think that her sister is trying to play the mother. When Penny and Kwok are running lines, Oscar catches them kissing. And being as ""concerned"" as he is, he thinks it was an ""I want to go ste