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The Proud Family Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Bring It On

First aired: Sep/15/2001
Writer: Doreen Spicer
Director: Douglas McCarthy
Guest star: Maria Canals (Sunset Boulevardez), Cedric the Entertainer (Bobby Proud), Carlos Mencia (Felix Boulevardez), Raquel Lee (The Gross Sisters), Aries Spears (Wizard Kelly), Alvaro Guttierez (Papi), Phil LaMarr (Michael), Marcus T. Paulk (Myron)

Penny tries out for the cheerleading team, and is a shoe-in to get picked, or will she? All of the sudden a girl named Lacienega shows up and steals Dijonay away. Penny cannot stand her. Well as it would turn out, Lacienega is Penny's new neighbor. Will Penny even make the team after Lacienega shows up?



2 :01x02 - Strike

First aired: Sep/21/2001
Writer: Michelle Listenbee Brown
Director: Bruce Smith
Guest star: Raquel Lee (The Gross Sisters), Sandra Oh (Marsha Mitsubishi)

Penny and all of her other friends go on strike for a bigger allowance for doing chores, but when everyone begins to drop out of the strike, will Penny desert her cause?



3 :01x03 - Rumors

First aired: Sep/21/2001
Writer: Silvia Cardenas
Director: Bruce Smith
Guest star: Kevin Michael Richardson (George Foreman kid), Phil LaMarr (Jim Lampley kid), Cedric the Entertainer (Bobby Proud), Chick Hearn (Himself), Stu Lantz (Himself), Marcus T. Paulk (Myron), Bruce Vilanch (Tristan the magician), Aries Spears (Wizard Kelly)

Dijonay brings a whole bunch of people to Penny's sleepover, and Penny gets stuck in the closet with Myron. She tries to convince her parents and people at school that she's not a couple with Myron, but will they believe her?



4 :01x04 - Tiger Whisperer

First aired: Sep/28/2001
Writer: Alison Taylor
Director: Douglas McCarthy
Guest star: Aries Spears (Wizard Kelly), Carlos Mencia (Felix Boulevardez), Cedric the Entertainer (Bobby Proud), Maria Canals (Sunset Boulevardez)

Penny's mom forces her to go to the vet clinic with her because its Take Your Daughter to Word Day. Penny life then gets turned upside down, when she realizes that she could read AJ the Tiger's mind.



5 :01x05 - EZ Jackster

First aired: Oct/05/2001
Writer: David Wyatt
Director: David Mucci Fassett
Guest star: Sandra Oh (Marsha Mitsubishi), Aries Spears (Wizard Kelly, Sir Paid-a-Lot), Ray J (Mega), Gedde Watanabe (Store Owner)

Penny's crush on a new boy at school is more than she expected when she realizes that she helped promote his music-sharing website.



6 :01x06 - Spelling Bee

First aired: Oct/12/2001
Writer: Jayne Hamil
Director: Bruce Smith
Guest star: Lydia Look (The Chang Triplets), Ron Glass (Smart Baby), James Avery (Crandall Smythe), Ken Lawson (Timothy Smythe)

Penny's dad forces her to compete in Wizard Kelly's spelling bee so he can show-off to his old school rival, who's son is also in the competition.



7 :01x07 - She's Got Game

First aired: Oct/19/2001
Writer: Doreen Spicer
Director: Douglas McCarthy
Guest star: Jeff Bennett (Announcer), Phil LaMarr (Michael / Coach Collins / Additional Voices)

When Penny tries to impress a boy at school, it lands her on the football team; Oscar creates a new snack called Jelly Poppers.



8 :01x08 - Forbidden Date

First aired: Nov/02/2001
Writer: Dana Hali
Director: Douglas McCarthy
Guest star: Kevin Michael Richardson (Dr. Payne), Maria Canals (Sunset Boulevardez)

When Penny goes on a date to an amusement park with Carlos, she breaks her father's no-dating rule. Penny's parents go on a double date to a spa.



9 :01x09 - Teacher's Pet

First aired: Nov/09/2001
Writer: Calvin Brown, Jr.
Director: David Mucci Fassett
Guest star: Hattie Winston (Gertie Dinkins)

Penny's grades suffer from a fued between her teacher, Ms. Dinkins, and Suga Mama. The twins get enrolled into a private preschool by Oscar & Trudy.



10 :01x10 - Don't Leave Home Without It

First aired: Nov/16/2001
Writer: Michael Carrington
Director: David Mucci Fassett
Guest star: Kevin Michael Richardson (Jethro the Exterminator)

Penny is given her own credit card, which appears to have a mind of it's own! Oscar nearly spends all of the family's money attempting to catch a mouse.



11 :01x11 - Seven Days of Kwanzaa

First aired: Dec/07/2001
Writer: Wayne D. Stamps, Jr.
Director: Bruce Smith
Guest star: Raven-Symone (Stephanie), Jeff Bennett (Joseph)

When the Prouds go Christmas shopping, they meet a homeless family, and Penny invites them to have dinner at their house. But when the homeless family gets there, the Prouds find out that they celebrate Kwanzaa, which they explain about to the Prouds, who end up celebrating it with them.



12 :01x12 - Makeover

First aired: Dec/14/2001
Writer: Jeny Quine
Director: Douglas McCarthy
Guest star: Jeff Bennett (Director), Ron Glass (Smart Baby)

Penny, LaCienega, and Dijonay give Zoey a makeover. When Nubia sees it, she wants one for her sister Olay. That's when things start to go a little wrong.



13 :01x13 - The Party

First aired: Jan/04/2002
Writer: Mark Swinton
Director: Douglas McCarthy
Guest star: Lou Rawls (Himself)

When Penny's parents allow her to have a party for her friends, she finds out that all her friends would rather go to LaCienega's which is on the same night. But when a group of people show up to Penny's party she doesn't really like, she's definately not happy. But in the end, they convice her that it's the quality of the people, not the amount of people that show up that makes a party great.



14 :01x14 - Love Thy Neighbor

First aired: Jan/18/2002
Writer: Michelle Listenbee Brown
Director: David Mucci Fassett

Oscar accidentally sets the Boulevardez's house on fire which causes them to move in with the Prouds. The bad thing is that LaCienega has to stay in Penny's room!



15 :01x15 - I Had a Dream

First aired: Feb/01/2002
Writer: T. Smith III, James E. West, II
Director: David Mucci Fassett
Guest star: Thomas Mikal Ford (Mr. Webb), Stephen Root (Mr. Andrews)

Penny gets knocked out and dreams she lives in 1955 and learns about segregation.



16 :01x16 - I Love You Penny Proud

First aired: Feb/08/2002
Writer: Doreen Spicer
Director: Douglas McCarthy

It's Valentine's Day and Penny doesn't get any love letters except spray painted ones on the sides of buses that say, "I Love You Penny." Who is her secret admirer?



17 :01x17 - Puff's Magic Adventure

First aired: Mar/01/2002
Writer: T. Smith III
Director: Douglas McCarthy
Guest star: Raquel Lee (Nubia)

Oscar accidentally loses Puff when he babysits him.



18 :01x18 - Enter the Bullies

First aired: Mar/15/2002
Writer: James E. West, II
Guest star: Raquel Lee (Nubia), Kevin Michael Richardson (Principal)

Penny decides to stand up to the Gross sisters.



19 :01x19 - The Altos

First aired: Apr/12/2002
Writer: Ron Neal

Sticky starts hanging with a group of bullies called The Altos.



20 :01x20 - Hip-Hop Helicopter

First aired: Apr/26/2002
Writer: Calvin Brown, Jr.
Director: David Mucci Fassett

LaCienega, Penny, Dijonay, & Zoey's popularity soars when they appear on Hip-Hop Helicopter as LPDZ. But things get bad when their parents see the outfits that they wore. Suga Mama keeps beating Oscar at bowling.



21 :01x21 - Romeo Must Wed

First aired: May/24/2002
Writer: Calvin Brown, Jr.
Guest star: Dante Basco (Kwok), Amy Hill (Mrs. Wong), Kevin Michael Richardson (Rocco)

Penny gets the lead part in their school production of Romeo & Juliet, but ends up falling in love with her co-star Kwok. When Oscar catches them kissing, will Penny still do the play?



22 :02x01 - A Star Is Scorned

First aired: Sep/27/2002
Writer: T. Smith III
Guest star: Phil LaMarr (Michael), Maria Canals (Sunset), Kevin Michael Richardson (Security), Cedric the Entertainer (Bobby)

LPDZ gets a record deal when a music company hears them sing, and everything is going fine until Penny wants to go solo.



23 :02x02 - A Hero for Halloween

First aired: Oct/18/2002
Writer: Calvin Brown, Jr.
Director: Bruce Smith
Guest star: Ving Rhames (Garrett Krebs), Cedric the Entertainer (Bobby)

Penny undergoes a change from her bad attitude to good along with a change in appearance when she eats a magic snack.



24 :02x03 - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thingy, Baby

First aired: Oct/25/2002
Writer: James E. West, II
Guest star: Kevin Michael Richardson (Security Guard), Ron Glass (Smart Baby)

Penny wrongly suspects that Oscar is having an affair with his old school friend, Debra.



25 :02x04 - Poetic Justice

First aired: Nov/08/2002
Writer: Nguyen Orange
Director: David Mucci Fassett
Guest star: Cree Summer (Peabo), Dante Basco (Kwok)

Penny & Dijonay compete against each other in a poetry contest. Oscar has to deal with a new neighbor named Peabo who loves Penny & Proud Snacks.



26 :02x05 - Behind Family Lines

First aired: Dec/13/2002
Writer: Wayne Stamps
Director: Bruce Smith
Guest star: David Alan Grier (Reuben), Cedric the Entertainer (Bobby), Robert Guillaume (Dr. Parker), Cherie Johnson (Chanel), Maria Canals (Sunset), Lauren Holly (Background Voices)

Oscar & Trudy's families argue while in town for the twin's baptism.



27 :02x06 - Hooray for Iesha

First aired: Jan/03/2003
Writer: John Marshall Jones
Guest star: Aries Spears (Stage Manager), Gabrielle Union (Iesha/Sunny Stevens), Shaun Robinson (Herself), Kevin Michael Richardson (Newscaster), Cree Summer (Elliott/Iesha's Brother)

Penny saves her favorite show from being cancelled, and she's happy about it, until she meets the show's star and wonders if it was worth it.



36 :02x07 - Duck Story

First aired: Jan/13/2003
Writer: Doreen Spicer
Guest star: Brandon Baker (Duke)

Penny convinces her mom to let her keep a duck who Oscar thinks is evil.



32 :02x08 - Who you Callin' a Sissy?

First aired: Jan/27/2003
Writer: Doreen Spicer

When Micheal finally gets fed up with people calling him a sissy, he takes things into his own hands.



28 :02x09 - Camping Trip

First aired: Feb/17/2003
Director: Doreen Spicer

The Proud & Boulevardez families go on a camping trip.



30 :02x10 - Crouching Trudy, Hidden Penny

First aired: Mar/07/2003
Writer: Doreen Spicer

Penny takes karate lessons.



35 :02x11 - Pulp Boot Camp

First aired: Mar/28/2003
Writer: Doreen Spicer
Guest star: Cedric the Entertainer (Sgt. Snelly)

Penny gets sent to boot camp when her attitude and personality become more- and worse than the Gross sisters.



39 :02x12 - Tween Town

First aired: Apr/11/2003
Writer: Calvin Brown, Jr.
Guest star: Al Roker (Himself), Karen Malina White (Juicy's Poetry Lounge Owner), Kevin Michael Richardson (Omar/Little Roker #2)

Penny wishes for a world without adults, when her parents ground her for sneaking out and going to a teenage nightclub.



34 :02x13 - One In A Million

First aired: Apr/18/2003
Writer: Doreen Spicer

Penny gives Oscar her chance to win 1,000,000 dollars by making a free-throw shot to fullfill one of his life's dreams.



33 :02x14 - Hmmm...Tastes Like

First aired: May/09/2003
Writer: Calvin Brown, Jr.
Guest star: Kevin Michael Richardson (Freddy Frito)

When Suga Mama's newest recipe is much better than anything Oscar has ever made, he tries to make as much money as possible.



31 :02x15 - There's Something about Rene

First aired: May/23/2003
Writer: Michael Carrington

Trudy decides to hire someone who can help out with taking care of the family while she's gone, and she thinks she's hired someone who's perfect- maybe too perfect!



43 :02x16 - Adventures in Bebe-Sitting

First aired: Jun/20/2003
Guest star: 3rd Storee (Themselves)



29 :02x17 - Surf and Turf

First aired: Jun/27/2003
Writer: Lydia Look
Guest star: Cree Summer (Javier)

Dijonay flirts with a new boy from Hawaii to make sticky jealous.



37 :02x18 - Johnny Lovely

First aired: Jul/25/2003
Writer: Ray Daniels III
Guest star: Kevin Michael Richardson (Omar)

Penny rehearses for the debutante ball and meets a well-mannered man.



38 :02x19 - The Camp...The Counselor...The Mole...And The Rock

First aired: Aug/01/2003
Writer: T. Smith III
Guest star: Cree Summer (Peabo)

Penny volunteers to be a counselor. Oscar is afraid she will be hanging with boys, so he has a camp kid spy on her.



41 :02x20 - It Takes a Thief

First aired: Sep/12/2003
Writer: James E. West, II
Guest star: Aries Spears ('Lil Wiz)

LaCienega's boyfriend Lil Wiz hooks Penny and the gang up with jobs at Wizard Kelly's store.



42 :02x21 - Wedding Bell Blues

First aired: Sep/19/2003



40 :02x22 - Penny Potter

First aired: Sep/26/2003
Writer: Doreen Spicer

Penny's great aunt Spice comes to town and tricks Zoe into believing that she has telekenisis.



12 :02x23 - Season 2, Episode 23

First aired: Oct/03/2003



The Proud Family Movie

First aired: Aug/19/2005
Writer: Calvin Brown, Jr., Ralph R. Farquhar
Director: Bruce Smith
Guest star: Omarion (50 Cent)

Penny turns sixteen, and her father catches her kissing a guy. So Oscar takes his family on a vacation, and it turns out that there is a evil conspiracy happening all around them.



44 :03x01 - Monkey Business

First aired: Oct/10/2003
Writer: Fred Johnson
Guest star: Mariah Carey (Herself), Cree Summer (Peabo)

Oscar's monkey gets sick from eating one of the Proud family snacks and Mariah Carey's monkey gets sick also. They take their monkeys to the same Veterinarian. The monkeys then get switched and then chaos ensues.



45 :03x02 - Thelma And Luis

First aired: Oct/11/2003
Writer: Wayne Stamps

Papi gets sent to a nursing home that turns out to be a front for an okra farm where the residents are forced to work. So Penny and her friends team up with Sugar Momma to attempt to save him.



46 :03x03 - Culture Shock

First aired: Oct/24/2003
Writer: Doreen Spicer
Guest star: Aries Spears ('Lil Wiz)

For the celebration of diversity, Penny and her fellow classmates must swap lives with a student who comes from a different culture for a week. Penny is hesitant at first when she learns she will be switching with a Muslim student, Radika.



47 :03x04 - Election

First aired: Nov/07/2003
Writer: Tamiko K. Brooks
Guest star: Aries Spears ('Lil Wiz)

Penny runs for school president.



48 :03x05 - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

First aired: Dec/05/2003
Writer: James E. West, II
Guest star: Phil LaMarr (Michael / Coach Collins / Additional Voices), Brian Dunkleman (Himself), Randy Jackson (Himself), Erica Rivera (Agatha Ordinario), Anthony Caraballo (Various Teenage Voices), Artel Smith (Additional voices), Shania Accius (Various Character Voices), Brandon W. Smith (Additional voices), Tim Curry (Percival), Alicia Keys (Herself), Patricia Belcher (Ms. Hightower)

Teen Idol is in town, and Penny and the gang try to audition. Unfortunately, only LaCienaga advances to the next round- and an ugly duckling named Agatha Ordinario.



49 :03x06 - Smackmania 6: Mongo vs. Mama's Boy

First aired: Dec/26/2003
Writer: T. Smith III
Guest star: Jeff Bennett (Wrestling Announcer #1), Traci Bingham (Jasmine)

Mongo, a famous wrestler, gets sick from eating Proud Snacks. Oscar is then forced to step into the ring to defend Mongo's belt.



51 :03x08 - Suga Mama's Believers

First aired: Feb/16/2004
Writer: Doreen Spicer

Suga Mama becomes the coach of Penny's baseball team. She then changes the name to The Believers. And they then go on a wining streak, until one of Suga Mama's old rivals comes back to town.



52 :03x09 - Twins To Tweens

First aired: Apr/24/2004
Writer: Doreen Spicer
Guest star: Al Roker (Himself), Lee Thompson Young (Teen Bebe)

Penny wishes that Bebe and Cece were older so they can take care of themselves. Her wish then comes to pass but when they become popular and more liked than her at school she begin to regret her wish.



53 :03x10 - She Drives Me Crazy

First aired: Aug/05/2005

Sugar Momma asks Oscar to help her study for the renewal exam, when her driver's license gets expired.



54 :03x11 - Who you Callin' a Sissy?

First aired: Aug/12/2005

Michael decides to shed his feminine appearance and personality.



55 :03x12 - Psycho Duck (A.K.A. Duck Story)

First aired: Aug/19/2005

Penny rescues a poor duck from drowning, but after bringing it home, the ducks turns out to be vengeful and violent.