The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder / YMMV

Accidental Aesop: A very strange one in "Raging Bully". The message seems to be about forgiving your family...even if they've gone out of their way to make you feel miserable and less than for years (in Sunset and Melrose's case), or deliberately sabotaged you for years and then made an attempt on your life so that they can replace you (LaCienega and LaBrea). It's probably because they were in a bad spot and were projecting that negativity onto you, but they do truly care about you in the end.
Awesome Art: This show's art and animation are an absolute treat to look at, and are leaps and bounds above the quality of the original series. To quote Penny, the glowup is real.
Awesome Music: Singer Joyce Wrice's updated rendition of the main theme is lovingly faithful to the R&B spirit of Solange and Destiny's Child's original. The added bass towards the end enhances its quality.
Demographically Inappropriate Humour: At the start of episode two, Oscar and Trudy are all but stated to have been having sex when Penny returns home, complete with the two wearing each other's outfits. Downplayed in that the age rating was bumped up a bit to a TV-PG as opposed to its predecessor's TV-G.
Designated Villain: The general premise of "It All Started with an Orange Basketball" makes it seem like Wizard Kelly is the antagonist to be beaten, but even though he's still a douche, not once does he do anything underhanded in that episode.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Makeup Boy quickly became one of the most popular and talked-about characters because of how catty and hilarious he is. Being voiced by Bretman Rock helps.
Harsher in Hindsight: The plot of "Father Figures" involves Maya and KG becoming ostracized when it comes out that they have two dads, with Zoey choosing to remain neutral on the issue because she's worried it could potentially hurt her chances of winning class president. This episode just so happened to premiere shortly after then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek's initial refusal to condemn the controversial Parental Rights in Education Act (House Bill 1557 before its signing, what opposers call the "Don't Say Gay" Law) in Florida (Walt Disney World's home state) after funding most of the politicians that backed it, instead promising to promote inclusivity with the company's content.^note
Informed Wrongness:
- Viewers are supposed to side against Penny when she complains that she can't wait to move out because Oscar is always smothering her. The show tries to make it look like adulthood and college years would be so "difficult" regarding debts and education when really, Penny was the cause of her own issues that she faced as an adult (it also helps that Penny still had the same middle school mindset while her friends and Kareem didn’t, thus causing them to leave Penny because they didn’t even get to have a say in whether they wanted to be aged up into adults). The show tries to make these issues come off as "inevitable" issues that adults face in a pathetic attempt for people to think being a kid is much better.
- In "Curved", Penny, needing a new debate team member, asks the Chang Triplets if any of them could help. Not only are they busy with their own assignments and hobbies, but called out Penny for her “model minority myth.” While Penny ignores the potential racist problem, there’s the fact that many forgot that last year, the Chang Triplets would have done something like debate without an issue and had other activities that were stereotypical. Though this may be more about the creators acknowledging they messed up and intend to rewrite the Triplets.
Just Here for Godzilla: Just as with the previous series, a lot of fans will tune in for their favorite celebrity, either voicing themselves or voicing a character.
Karmic Overkill: In "Grandma's Hands", as a result of Penny disobeying and being mouthy to Trudy and not completing the tasks she gives her, on top of sneaking out/sneaking in and breaking curfew to hang out with her boyfriend and ignoring her homework for over two weeks, Trudy decides to lock Penny out of the house when she tries sneaking back in one night, refusing to let her back in, and leaving her to stay at Suga Mama's where she's forced to slave away doing house chores, is denied breakfast after having to cook for everyone, and sleep in a small hard dog bed while Suga Mama is overall nasty to her. A couple days later Trudy and the rest of the family arrive to seemingly pick Penny up but instead they just drop off extra fiber as they are going out of town for a week to see Trudy's sister's new play, a trip that Trudy coldly tells Penny that she is not invited on, leaving her behind to continue to be mistreated. Even if Penny deserves to be punished for disobedience, many saw Trudy's actions as being far too extreme and cruel, especially since, as many have pointed out, kicking someone who is under 18 out of the house is actually illegal due to how endangering it is for the kid/teen, especially at nighttime, as there are many documented cases of teenage girls being kidnapped/assaulted/murdered after their parents locked them out. Despite this, the story plays this for laughs and never treats Trudy's actions as being in the wrong. Same goes for Suga Mama, even if she does get some karma by getting injured and having to be cared for by Penny, who she initially fears will get revenge.
LGBT Fanbase: The revival has gained one due to Maya, one of the main characters, having two dads, and Michael being allowed to be openly gender nonconforming and Camp Gay. By far the show's strongest point as far as queer representation was its realistic, serious portrayal of the harassment LGBT+ people go through, along with kids having same-gendered parents, and these experiences heavily resonate with much of the queer audience.
Moral Event Horizon:
- While everyone can agree that LaCienega's bullying of LaBrea isn't right and puts her in a sympathetic light, she loses most if not all of her sympathy points with even viewers that hate LaCienega when she reveals that her plan was to kill and replace LaCienega, her own cousin, to escape her abusive mother.
  - Even before this, her attempts at retaliation in response to LaCienega's bullying were quite extreme, as a flashback to them as toddlers has her sick a flock of birds on LaCienega, which could have killed or maimed her, for taking her toy away.
- Wizard Kelly crosses it by having police in full riot gear break up the protest in "Juneteenth," keeping in mind he had armed cops sent in against a bunch of protesting teenagers on top of arresting their parents for supporting them, is considered to officially be the worst thing he's ever done.
Most Wonderful Sound: The "Strawberry Letter 23" rendition sung by Shuggie the Panda^* in "New Kids on the Block" is something that will be stuck in your ear.
Nightmare Fuel:
- "Us Again" takes a turn for creepy once Penny and Zoey find the clones of the latter and her family. And when they accidentally make their presence known, they slowly turn to the camera... before pressing themselves against the house window with Nightmare Faces.
- In "Juneteenth", Penny and her friends protest against their founder and demand the statue be taken down. Wizard Kelly's response? Calling the police that are wearing full riot gear to arrest them. The quickly panicking states didn't help matters.
  - Not even the parents are spared as the Proud and Leibowitz-Jenkins parents are shown right alongside them.
  - The scariest part is that, unlike most of the fantastical stuff in this series, a protest arrest like this CAN happen in real life.
Rooting for the Empire: Oscar's bitchy behavior in "It All Started With An Orange Basketball" makes it easy for you to root for the Wizard against him. Some may want to root for neither Wizard Kelly nor Oscar due to them both being unlikable jerks. Luckily, Penny's A-plot picks up the slack for their B-plot.
The Scrappy: Maya does not seem to have many fans, on account of her "woke" persona making her come across as Holier Than Thou and acting like she is better than everyone, when in reality she can be hypocritical and doesn’t actually do much as an activist, rather just act like she’s better than everyone and knows more when in some cases she doesn’t or only has a base knowledge. In particular in her debut episode she rejects Penny's multiple attempts to be friends with her and calls her (and her friends) superficial, yet the following episode onwards she still hangs out with them like nothing happened, and in episode three she hangs around LaCieniga of all people, which every negative trait Maya claimed Penny had applies to her, and even helps her with trying to steal Kareem away from Penny, while also refusing to watch Penny's basketball game because she apparently doesn’t support any sports where women make less then men - ignoring the fact that it’s because men’s basketball gets more viewers then women’s basketball, so if Maya wanted to be a good activist she would support Penny. Also in her debut episode she tries to force Penny to help her break a panda out of the zoo to prove she’s not superficial, even after he tells both of them he’s happy in captivity. She is also why the friend group sans Penny turned against Zoey after Noah asked her out because she told them she heard from her cousin, a secondhand source, that he only dates white girls. Later in the same episode she has the audacity to encourage that "girls have to stick together" when she was the one that drove them a part and didn't apologize like the others. While she does warm up to and starts treating Penny nicer, particularly after she stands up for her when she and KG get bullied for having two dads, she still hasn’t gotten much love from viewers.
Signature Scene: Penny and her friends reciting a poem about slavery's role in the founding of the United States in the season 2 episode "Curved" was widely shared online and boosted discussion from both fans and detractors alike, easily becoming the show's most recognizable moment.
Tear Jerker:
- The ending of "Old Towne Road Part 1", where we learn why Suga Mama left her family; her father never saw her potential in competing in the rodeo purely because she was a little girl. Even in the present, he still hasn't changed. The episode ends with Suga Mama quietly tearing up and bitterly walking away with Puff.
- "BeBe" is one for those who are or are related to someone on the autism spectrum. The episode gently lays down but does not sugarcoat the fact that someone like BeBe would need special care and attention, which many autistic individuals and their loved ones can relate to.
  Oscar: (hugs BeBe out of concern, then holds him out, solemnly facing him) What am I gonna do with you, BeBe? (hugs BeBe again)
- Zoey’s mistreatment in "The End of Innocence". Teen celebrity Noah Barker enrolls in her school and asks her out to the Valentine’s Dance. Her friends are initially okay with it until Maya shares a rumor that Noah is only interested in dating white girls. Her friends start excluding her from their group with Penny not bothering to talk some sense into the gang. Then when Zoey shows up at the princess party that the girls normally have, she sees that Dijonay made a mean painting of her and the subject of Noah dating her solely because of her race is finally brought up. Not to mention that LaCienega gets extra mean by asking if any other boy has ever asked Zoey to a dance when Zoey tries asserting the idea that Noah likes her for her. The whole episode feels like Zoey’s friends, sans Penny, all started bullying her just because a guy they all liked asked her out instead of them and they only have an unconfirmed rumor fueling their issue with Zoey’s relationship. The ending doesn’t help matters since Zoey apologizes to her friends when she did nothing wrong.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A lot of fans did not like the new rendition of the theme song, feeling that it wasn't nearly as catchy or memorable as the old one.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The fact that Sticky was Put on a Bus, which was likely due to Orlando Brown being convicted for domestic battery, amongst other legal troubles he got into. While the crew probably felt that fans wouldn't respond well if they'd replaced Orlando Brown, they ended up changing Michael’s voice actor from Phil LaMarr to EJ Johnson, so some fans are baffled as to why they didn't just hire a new voice actor and keep Sticky on the show.
Unexpected Character: Sort of, as they're not a specific character, but still, did anyone expect a few of Dr. Carver's nut people to appear in "Us Again"? Yeah, didn't think so.
Unintentionally Sympathetic: Depending on your view, LaBrea is either this or Unintentionally Unsympathetic. The plot twist in "Raging Bully" paints LaBrea as being in the wrong for tormenting her cousin. However, considering that LaCienega bullied her first, starting when they were toddlers, along with having to deal with an abusive mom, it makes LaBrea appear sympathetic and somewhat justified in her actions... at least until she revealed her intention was to kill and replace her own cousin. Even the core group, who have all done shitty things to each other over the course of the series, acknowledge how messed up that is. Michael even advises LaCienega against placing her trust in LaBrea because of how crazy she is.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
- Miss Hill in "Home School." While it's sad that she's homeless and later fired and kicked out of school, that's no excuse for the way she treats her students. The Prouds were kind enough to let Miss Hill stay at their house, and she repays them by essentially taking over the household, forcing them to behave like students, and physically abusing them, including Trudy who did nothing to deserve it.
- Melrose in "Raging Bully". She went through a divorce some time before the episode took place and is now struggling financially, and that's usually painful, along with the fact she implies being catty towards Sunset is due to their mother pitting them against each other growing up. However there is no excuse for taking it out on everyone, especially LaBrea, who went as far as stuffing herself into three corsets because her mother wouldn't let her attend LaCienega's Quince if she wasn't skinnier than her cousin, whom she almost killed.
- How the friends (LaCienega, Dijonay, Maya, and Michael) treat Zoey in "The End of Innocence" was widely considered this. After their celebrity crush, Noah, asks Zoey out on a date to the Valentine’s Day dance, Maya shares that her cousin told her that he only prefers white girls, so we're meant to feel bad that they were overlooked for such a reason. Except not only is the rumor unconfirmed, at least until the end of the episode, but they proceed to act hostile towards Zoey over it without even talking to her about it and start ostracizing her. While some can consider Noah's preference as colorist, Zoey has zero control over the scenario and the only attempt at a proper explanation comes packaged with them heavily implying that skin color is the only reason anyone conventionally attractive would ever be interested in someone as geeky as Zoey (even though there were other white girls in the school shown fawning over Noah that he ignored in favor of asking out Zoey). The fact that Penny and Dijonay already have boyfriends who were in the exact same room as they tried to flirt with Noah only makes it harder to sympathize with them for being rejected, in addition to the hypocrisy of them overlooking said boyfriends in favor of a lighter-skinned male.
- Suga Mama in the two-parter Old Towne Road episode. While Pa Towne was indeed a bad parent towards Suga Mama, it is still no excuse for how she treats Oscar. It also helps that at least Pa Towne gets called out on being a bad father. Suga Mama is rarely called out for her own bad parenting, in fact it’s almost always played for laughs.
Unnecessary Makeover:
- Several fans have reacted this way to Michael's redesign. While most of the characters in the cast have minor differences between their past designs and their updated ones, Michael looks nearly unrecognizable when compared to his appearance in the original show, which some feel is for the worse.
- There are also fans who feel this way about Bobby's 90s redesign and prefer his 70s look because they consider it more iconic.
- While the gang's college designs look great for the most part, many question 19-year-old Penny's hairstyle, which looks like something out of the 80s.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Michael is at times mistaken for a female character due to his updated design, effeminate mannerisms, and new voice actor.

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