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'''''The Proud Family''''' is an [[Animated Series]] on the [[Disney Channel]] and the first on cable TV to feature an African-American family. It aired on the Disney Channel from 2001-2005. Penny Proud is 14 years old, but her parents, Oscar and Trudy, still treat her like a little girl. Also living with Penny are her twin siblings, BeBe and CeCe, and her paternal grandmother, "Suga Mama".
In the USA, reruns can be seen Saturdays on the music channel Centric, and very occasionally, on Disney, where it originated.
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Poor, poor Oscar...
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Suga Mama, to Oscar. But deep down she loves him, enough to help him in a wrestling match.
* [[Actor Allusion]]:
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: In-universe example. In "Behind Family Lines", Oscar and Trudy's family have a football match, and Oscar describes how it was pretty funny when Suga Mama tackled Trudy's mother. Even Trudy's dad gets in and says "...Actually that ''was'' pretty funny."
* [[Adult Child]]: Bobby Proud
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* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: Penny finds this out the hard way when she decides to make it big by performing a [[Face Heel Turn]] and then publishing a tell-all about being a bad girl - she alienates everyone, disappoints her teacher to the point of tears, and gets sent to boot camp. She escapes, but the Gross Sisters won't shelter her, she misses her family (who she knows won't take her back), and she has nowhere else to go, so she decides to reform and get back to normal life.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: LaCienega's name means "the bog/swamp" in Spanish, as a way to reflect how rude and cruel she can be.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Penny befriends a
* [[Black and Nerdy]]: Myron
* [[Boot Camp Episode]]: Penny becomes a bad girl and is sent to a boot camp style reformatory.
* [[Bowdlerization]]: In
* [[Broken Aesop]]: Quite frequently.
* [[Bumbling Dad]]: Oscar's a minor example. He's prone to screwing up a lot but he ''is'' a good parent, albeit one who can really baby Penny at times.
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* [[Christmas Episode]]: It was about Christmas AND Kwanzaa!
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Penny's friends, especially Dijonay.
* [[Cinderella Circumstances]]: What kicks off the plot of "Tween Town." As a punishment for lying to her parents and going off to a teen nightclub instead of Juicy's Juice Bar, Oscar and Trudy force Penny to become a servant in her own house. One of her chores is retiling the roof, an extremely dangerous thing to do to a 14-year-old. Fed up with their refusal to let her watch a movie, Penny wishes that all of the adults are gone, Al Roker takes on the role of a fairy godfather and Penny's wish comes true.
* [[Closer to Earth]]: Trudy, sort of. She isn't prone to foolish behavior like Oscar, but can be seriously petty and cruel towards him.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: Penny and her friends are fourteen and in middle school during the series. In [[The Movie]], she turns sixteen. The twins remain babies the entire time.
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Suga Mama. As mean as she can be to her son, she's a wonderful grandma to Penny.
* [[Couch Gag]]: During the [[Title Sequence]] in most episodes, Oscar opens and closes the door on Penny's friends, one or two other people who will appear in the episode, and then Suga Mama, who opens the door and forces her way in anyways.
* [[Credit Card Plot]]: In "Don't Leave Home Without it", Penny gets a credit card and it talks to her.
* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[Lilo & Stitch: The Series]]''.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: In
{{quote|'''Cheerleaders''': We're girls! We're bad! We kicked those brothers'- *roll opening credits*}}
* [[Darkskinned Blonde]]: Dijonay
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Penny in
* [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]]: Illegal file-sharing is [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|an addiction]], kids!
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The episode where Michael gets called a sissy. He has a rather harsh coach dad who's obviously ashamed of how his son acts and doesn't want to be acknowledge as Michael's dad in public.
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** Also, anyone else think that some of the animators for this show later worked on ''[[Princess and The Frog]]''? Dr. Facilier and Mama Odie bear a resemblence to Oscar and Suga Mama, respectively.
** The Proud parents in particular also bring to mind [[Martin (TV series)|Martin and Gina]].
* [[Extroverted Nerd]]: Myron. Suga Mama calls him "Urkel" at one point in the episode "The Party", a reference to Steve Urkel of ''[[Family Matters]]''.<ref>Makes sense, since she was voiced by the actress who played [[Family Matters|Harriet]], the one who was supposed to be the focus of the show.</ref>
* [[The Faceless]]: "Wizard" Kelley
* [[False Friend]]:
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: They managed to have some pretty serious stuff into a children's cartoon. Such as an episode where Penny believes her dad is having an affair, or when Oscar flat-out accuses a man of being a gigolo<ref>a male prostitute or live-in lover</ref>.
** This remains one of the few Disney cartoons ever to use the word "pimp".
** In "Wedding Bell Blues", Oscar calls his soon-to-be stepfather Clarence St. John a gigolo. This led to the Disney Channel not re-airing the episode for many years.
** One episode, likely "Penny Potter" had a scene in a movie theater, and it was apparent that the movie in [[Funny Background Event|the background]] was ''[[Swordfish]]'', on [[Every One Remembers the Stripper|that one infamous scene]] with [[Halle Berry]] reading a book. And the Proud Family scene cuts away right as Halle starts to move her book. Let me repeat: they referenced an [[Every One Remembers the Stripper]] moment '''in a children's cartoon.'''
** In “Love Thy Neighbor”, Felix explains that having duck-like feet is common in the Boulevardez family. When Suga Mama asks Papi to show if that’s true, she gets aroused upon confirmation. And if one knows about the urban legend about foot size...
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Trudy and Diana.
* [[Guess Who I'm Marrying]]: The episode "Wedding Bell Blues" features a heroic, yet subverted version of this trope. Suga Mama is due to be married to a stately looking man named Clarence St. John, whom Oscar doesn't trust because he perceives him as a gigolo whose after Suga Mama's money. As usual, no one believes him. Another subversion is that Clarence happens to be Roscoe Carrington III, CEO of Roscoe's House of Ribs and French Toast. However, while he is very rich, he is implied to be suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease, as he constantly wanders away from his mansion in search of other women to love.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: This show heavily relied on this trope. [[The Other Wiki]] states that the show holds the record for having the most guest stars in an original Disney series.
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: The Gross Sisters specialize in these kinds of schemes.
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