History WesternAnimation / TheProudFamily

* Beauty, Brains and Brawn: LaCienaga the beauty, Zoey the brains, and Dijonay the brawn.

* PantyShot: Penny has one in an episode where she is hanging by her knees from an aircraft rope ladder.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The Gross Sisters. Actually, they have blue hair, blue skin and wear blue overalls.
** Penny turns blue when she's sent to boot camp.
*** It's revealed that the reason the girls are blue is due to them being ashy.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: 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."

* WorldOfSnark: Almost every character in the show is some level of snarky and always seems to have a quip or comeback at the ready, especially Oscar and Suga Mama.

* WorldOfSnark: Almost every character in the show is some level snarky and always seems to have a quip or comeback at the ready, especially Oscar and Suga Mama.

The series centers the titular Proud family, with most plots focusing on Penny Proud (Creator/KylaPratt), the family's 14-year-old teenage daughter who often butts heads with her overprotective parents - {{manchild}} and failing snack food entrepreneur father Oscar (Tommy Lee Davidson), and loving yet controlling breadwinner mother Trudy (Paula Jai Parker) - while trying to assert her independence. Other members of the family include one-year-old twin siblings, brother [=BeBe=] (Creator/TaraStrong) and sister [=CeCe=] (Tara Strong), and her paternal grandmother, "Suga Mama" (Creator/JoMariePayton).

The series centers the titular Proud family, with most plots focusing on Penny Proud (Creator/KylaPratt), the family's 14-year-old teenage daughter who often butts heads with her overprotective parents while trying to assert her independence. Other members of the family include {{manchild}} and failing snack food entrepreneur father Oscar (Tommy Lee Davidson), loving yet controlling breadwinner mother Trudy (Paula Jai Parker), one-year-old twin siblings, brother [=BeBe=] (Creator/TaraStrong) and sister [=CeCe=] (Tara Strong), and her paternal grandmother, "Suga Mama" (Creator/JoMariePayton). While the show generally gave off a low-key vibe similar to most {{sitcom}}s while dealing with plots about peer pressure or racism, it wasn't afraid to get strange; the entire town in which Penny lived was ruled by a basketball-obsessed businessman named Wizard Kelly, and Penny and family occasionally encountered supernatural beings, such as an evil genie in the form of ''Series/{{Today}}'' weatherman Al Roker.

In February 2021, Disney+ [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/the-proud-family-reboot-first-look formally announced]] that Smith and the cast would reunite for a revival (this time, produced at Disney TVA), titled ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder''. Premiering in February 2022, it picks up when Penny and her friends have started attending high school. Music/KekePalmer voices Penny's newest friend, an adopted mixed-race WiseBeyondTheirYears teenage activist named Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins.

In February 2021, Disney+ [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/the-proud-family-reboot-first-look formally announced]] that Smith and the cast would reunite for a revival (this time, produced at Disney TVA), titled ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder''. Premiering in February 2022, it picks up two years after ''The Proud Family'' movie, when Penny and her friends have started attending high school. Music/KekePalmer voices Penny's newest friend, an adopted mixed-race WiseBeyondTheirYears teenage activist named Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins.

In February 2021, Disney+ [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/the-proud-family-reboot-first-look formally announced]] that Smith and the cast would reunite for a revival (this time, produced at Disney TVA), titled ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''. Premiering in February 2022, it picks up two years after ''The Proud Family'' movie, when Penny and her friends have started attending high school. Music/KekePalmer voices Penny's newest friend, an adopted mixed-race WiseBeyondTheirYears teenage activist named Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins.

In February 2021, Disney+ [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/the-proud-family-reboot-first-look formally announced]] that Smith and the cast would reunite for a revival (this time, produced at Disney TVA), titled ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''. It picks up two years after ''The Proud Family'' movie, when Penny and her friends have started attending high school. Music/KekePalmer voices Penny's newest friend, an adopted mixed-race WiseBeyondTheirYears teenage activist named Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins.

Most of the show remained out of UsefulNotes/{{syndication}} for some time before being released on [[{{iProduct}} iTunes]], then, in January 2020, on Disney's streaming service Creator/DisneyPlus.

* BrokenAesop: In "A Star Is Scorned" Penny goes solo after the success of LDPZ, and ends up ditching her friends, only for her to learn that fame means nothing without her friends. This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that Penny's friends are have been shown to be backstabbers and just as opportunistic, if not more, than Penny ever was. Hell, even Sugar Mama points this out by calling the friends Penny has as fake.

* BrokenAesop: In "A Star Is Scorned" Penny goes solo after the success of LDPZ, and ends up ditching her friends, only for her to learn that fame means nothing without her her friends. This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that Penny's friends are have been shown to be backstabbers and just as opportunistic, if not more, than Penny ever was. Hell, even Sugar Mama points this out by calling the friends Penny has as fake.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: "It is pronounced Pen-NAY!"

* FourGirlEnsemble: Vain AlphaBitch Lacienega (a sexy one), loud and aggressively flirtacious [[SassyBlackWoman Sassy Black Girl]] Dijonay (a tomboyish one), sweet and impressionable ShrinkingViolet Zoey (a sweet-naive one), who's constantly caving into peer pressure by the aforementioned girls, and Penny, the caring and polite NiceGirl title character who tries to keep the peace.

* InelegantBlubbering: LaCienega full stop, especially in "Culture Shock" with she switches homes with the Gross sisters

* LaserGuidedKarma: A nice example happens to Dijonay. In "Adventures in [=BeBe=]-Sitting", she ditches Penny to babysit her brothers and sisters while she leaves for a concert. However, the security sees she has fake tickets the Gross sisters gave her earlier, and when Penny arrives in a limo by the same band who's playing at the concert, she gets in for free along with Lacienega, Zoey and the Chang Triplets... except Dijonay, who her siblings and Penny say they don't know. [[spoiler:Subverted in that she takes her back, but only to be the person that Penny can't trust.]]

** One episode has Penny and her friends wear black midriffs in order to get attention at parties, particularly from boys. But Penny gradually realizes that like it or not, these new clothes command the ''wrong'' kind of attention from boys. She comes out of the experience learning how sacrificing one's modesty isn't worth getting attention from others.

* AbusiveParents: Suga Mama to Oscar, albeit in a "tough love" kind of way. She loves him enough to help him in a wrestling match.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Michael, although he falls more into a CampStraight category.

* AsianAndNerdy: The Chang triplets. However, they are always at the coolest events because their [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections parents know someone or happen to be indirectly in charge of the events in question]].

* BeautyMark: Penny has one. It's eventually revealed that she pencils it in.

* BigBeautifulWoman:
** Reverend Heygood's wife, Patrice.
** Marisol and Minerva in "Who You Callin' a Sissy?"

* BigEater: Apparently, large appetites are a Proud family trait. Most notably, Uncle Bobby and Cousin Ray-Ray's family.

* ButtMonkey: Things never seem to go Oscar's way, although sometimes he does deserve the bad stuff that happens to him. A recurring example of this is that when ever the family gets invited to anything, he isn't included. In "Wedding Bell Blues," for instance, Oscar is the only one who doesn't trust Sugar Mama's new boyfriend, and everyone gives him grief over it. [[spoiler: But for once, Oscar turns out to be ''right'', for a totally [[RightForTheWrongReasons different reason]].]]

* CanineCompanion: Puff the poodle to Sugar Mama

* {{Expy}}: Some of the characters resemble those in ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'', Bruce Smith's directoral debut.
** Nubia Gross resembles [=LaShawn=].
** Sticky resembles Khalil.
** The Red-Nosed Baby resembles and sounds like [=PeeWee=].
** Sugar Mama seems to bear a resemblance to [[Creator/TylerPerry Madea]].
** Trudy resembles [[http://d236bkdxj385sg.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/martin-tisha-campbell-1.jpg Gina]].
** Retroactively, Dr. Facilier and Mama Odie from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', both of whom Smith was the supervising animator for, could be Oscar and Suga Mama's distant relatives.
** Dijonay was pretty much a clone of Kim Parker from ''Series/{{Moesha}}'' and ''Series/{{The Parkers}}''. Her voice, [[GossipyHens gossip obsession]] and [[AbhorrentAdmirer one-sided crush]] on Sticky will remind viewers of Kim.
*** Penny and Oscar are also very similar to Moesha and Frank.

* FairWeatherFriend: Penny's friends would ditch her fast, when things get tough, or they want to do something else than what she had planned.
* FalseFriend:
** Dijonay especially but Penny's other friends at times as well. Even ''Zoey''.
** In "A Star Is Scorned", Penny becomes a famous singer leaving her friends behind. Wizard Kelly pays a bunch of kids to be her fake friends but when Penny admits she misses her old friends Suga Mama tells her she's better off with out them, especially Dijonay. "Especially that Dijonay girl, she's faker than your fake friends."

* FatAndSkinny: Felix and Oscar.
* FatBastard: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] [[BigFun big time]] with Penny's "date" Carlos, a very fat boy she reluctantly pairs with in the amusement park after her friends pair up with their more attractive partners. Much to her surprise, Carlos proves to be a kind and intelligent individual who actually rescues Penny's siblings, [=BeBe=] and [=CeCe=], from a speeding roller coaster. To drive the point home, it's revealed her friends' partners ditched them for prettier girls after getting wet in a water ride.

* GenkiGirl: Dijonay is super enthusiastic and very bouncy. She always sets the mood up with her enthusiasm.
** Zoey is also this, too. She is very Adorkable, cheerful, bubbly, sweet, agreeable, helpful and excitable, and it's very hard to get her angry.
** Penny herself is also this, too. She's a SassyBlackWoman and very energetic. Which makes sense, because in "She's Got Game", her energetic nature seems to have ended her up in football.

* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Trudy and Diana.
** Taken UpToEleven with [[CainAndAbel Suga Mama and Sista Spice]].

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Oscar. Sure he may act obnoxious, immature, money-hungry and is sort of a bumbling husband/father who often feels attractions to hot women. However, what he is a well-meaning person and deeply loves and cares for his family. He often gives rude and harsh remarks towards his mother but is still protective of her and cares about her well-being
** Suga Mama has her moments as well-as mean as she is to Oscar and as crabby as she can be, she really does love her family as she'll help Oscar or her other family members whenever their in trouble (plus she even helped him with his business once).
* {{Jerkass}}: For a family-friendly show, there are a lot of unlikable characters here.
** Too many to count – every character has their jerkass moments. Heck, even sweet Zoey and the wonderful Mama-Trudy. Dijonay really takes the cake: she constantly uses Penny, and ditches her at the drop of a hat, yet when Penny does something wrong in the friendship, [[DoubleStandard then Penny is a flat out]] [[SarcasmMode horrible]] [[DoubleStandard friend]]. Sometimes Dijonay even [[KarmaHoudini gets away with]] her jerkass-ness. Normally, a girl with Sass is awesome... but Dijonay averts that concept most definitely!
* JerkassGenie: For some reason, Al Roker is depicted as such, complete with a [[EvilLaugh demonic laugh]]. He's not just a weatherman but he's also a wish fulfiller.

* TheUnFavorite:
** Oscar, to Suga Mama. This is demonstrated further when Suga Mama complained that when Oscar was a kid, he wouldn't stop calling for help when he fell down a wall.
** Suga Mama is implied to be this when an episode introduced her older psychic sister, who she claimed to be their parents' favorite. Trudy even lampshades this.
** Penny gets this when [=BeBe=] and [=CeCe=] are magically aged into teenagers. Her own mother even tells this directly to her face. WTF?

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Seriously, Penny's friends are extremely quick to abandon one of their own at the drop of a hat. One episode was particularly vicious about this when Dijonay tricks Penny into babysitting her numerous siblings, then runs off to a concert with the other girls and ''lies to them'' about it, she gets her LaserGuidedKarma towards the end of the episode, though.
** Possibly lampshaded in "A Star Is Scorned", where Penny becomes a successful singer and abandons her friends. When Penny brings up how her friends wouldn't speak to her, Suga Mama says Penny is better off without them, while also saying that Dijonay girl is "faker than her fake friends".

%%* BrokenAesop: Quite Frequently.

''The Proud Family'' is an American animated comedy series created by Creator/BruceWSmith that aired on the Creator/DisneyChannel from 2001 to 2005. The show is notable for being the first cartoon to feature an African-American family in the main role[[labelnote:◊]] (''[[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Fat Albert]]'' was the first cartoon to have an all-Black cast)[[/labelnote]], and was the first Disney Channel Original animated series, being created specifically for the channel rather than Creator/{{ABC}}'s Creator/OneSaturdayMorning block or FirstRunSyndication. It also has the distinction of being the first Disney series not produced by [[Creator/WaltDisneyTelevisionAnimation WDTA]], being made instead at Smith's Jambalaya Studios.

In February 2021, Disney+ [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/the-proud-family-reboot-first-look formally announced]] that Smith and the cast would reunite for a revival, titled ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''. It picks up two years after ''The Proud Family'' movie, when Penny and her friends have started attending high school. Music/KekePalmer voices Penny's newest friend, an adopted mixed-race WiseBeyondTheirYears teenage activist named Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins.

--->''“Before I moved in with the Zamins, I thought like a lot of you guys — they’re weird, they’re different, they’re not like us. And I was right and the more I got to know them, the stranger they became. And before I knew it, they were exactly like my family — truly bizarre. But they’re exactly like all of our families; little brothers and sisters that get on your nerves, a father that’s too protective, a grandparent that sleeps in front of the TV and a mom that keeps everything together. And if you know that, you could never write on their door “go back to your country, America for Americans”, you just couldn’t do it.”''

** "The Altos" feature Sticky hanging out with the titular bullies due to him being upset about his parents' divorce. As Oscar tells him, you shouldn't let divorce (or any traumatic experience) influence you to do bad things and that you should reach out to those who care about you for help in those tough times.