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The Best Episodes of The Proud Family

Every episode of The Proud Family ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Proud Family!

Follow 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...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Hooray for Iesha" is the best rated episode of "The Proud Family". It scored 8.7/10 based on 60 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/3/2003. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Behind Family Lines".

  • Hooray for Iesha
    8.7/10(60)
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    #1 - Hooray for Iesha

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 1/3/2003

    Penny launches a campaign to save her favorite TV show after it gets canceled.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Behind Family Lines
    8.6/10(59)
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    #2 - Behind Family Lines

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 12/13/2002

    Trudy's and Oscar's feuding families are brought together for the twins' baptism.

    Director: Bruce W. Smith

    Writer: N/A

  • The Camp, the Counselor, the Mole and the Rock
    8.5/10(48)
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    #3 - The Camp, the Counselor, the Mole and the Rock

    Season 2 Episode 17

    Aired 8/1/2003

    Reverend Hagood organizes a three-day, two-night camping trip for the youth of his church. Penny volunteers as a junior counselor, to the chagrin of Oscar, who's fearful of his daughter being alone with boys and their "raging hormones." Meanwhile, Peabo splits his time away from home between tracking Penny's every move and trying to get closer to crush Zoey.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It Takes a Thief
    8.5/10(46)
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    #4 - It Takes a Thief

    Season 2 Episode 18

    Aired 9/12/2003

    Penny is framed for stealing by the manager at her new department-store job.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Poetic Justice
    8.4/10(62)
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    #5 - Poetic Justice

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 11/8/2002

    When there's a debate team at school Penny and Dijonay wind up on opposing sides. They start to argue about the issue causing a rift in their friendship.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Teacher's Pet
    8.3/10(61)
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    #6 - Teacher's Pet

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 11/9/2001

    Penny's grades fall victim to a long-time grudge held between her teacher Ms. Dinkins and Suga Mama; Oscar and Trudy enroll the twins in a private preschool.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Party
    8.3/10(55)
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    #7 - The Party

    Season 1 Episode 13

    Aired 1/4/2002

    Penny is the pooper at her own party until singer Lou Rawls drops by to liven things up.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Makeover
    8.2/10(59)
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    #8 - Makeover

    Season 1 Episode 12

    Aired 12/14/2001

    The Gross Sisters split up when Olei gets a makeover and joins the ranks of the popular kids. Also, the Proud twins star in a commercial.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • I Had a Dream
    8.2/10(62)
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    #9 - I Had a Dream

    Season 1 Episode 15

    Aired 2/1/2002

    Penny is swept back in time to February 1955 to learn the importance of black history, a subject she once found boring. In the past, she finds that her school relegates black students to the back of the classroom and there are no lessons in black history being taught. She also finds that her friendship with Zoey, who's white, is forbidden.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tween Town
    8.2/10(47)
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    #10 - Tween Town

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 4/11/2003

    Al Roker mysteriously appears and jumps off the TV screen to grant Penny's wish for a world without adults after she's punished for lying. With no grown-ups in sight, Penny proclaims to her friends that they're living in "a world of the children, by the children and for the children....We can do anything we want." But that's not much consolation for babies BeBe and CeCe, who miss their mommy and daddy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • There's Something about Rene
    8.2/10(47)
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    #11 - There's Something about Rene

    Season 2 Episode 13

    Aired 5/23/2003

    The Prouds hire a perfectly good nanny, but Trudy wants her fired.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • She's Got Game
    8.1/10(64)
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    #12 - She's Got Game

    Season 1 Episode 7

    Aired 10/19/2001

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Hero for Halloween
    8.1/10(63)
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    #13 - A Hero for Halloween

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 10/18/2002

    When the Prouds discover their house may be haunted, Penny becomes a hero after eating one of Oscars' Proud Scary Snacks.

    Director: Bruce W. Smith

    Writer: N/A

  • Wedding Bell Blues
    8.1/10(47)
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    #14 - Wedding Bell Blues

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 9/19/2003

    Smokey Robinson is hired to sing at the wedding of Suga Mama after she accepts a marriage proposal from her senior-citizen beau, Clarence St. John. Meanwhile, Oscar hopes a private eye will prove his hunch that the bride-to-be is being fleeced out of her life savings by the future groom.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Spelling Bee
    8.0/10(62)
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    #15 - Spelling Bee

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 10/12/2001

    Oscar pushes Penny to enter a spelling bee so that he can vicariously relive his own glory days; and Suga Mama goes shopping with the twins.

    Director: Bruce W. Smith

    Writer: N/A

  • Pulp Boot Camp
    8.0/10(47)
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    #16 - Pulp Boot Camp

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 3/28/2003

    Oscar and Trudy send Penny to a boot camp to prevent her from becoming a bully.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Enter the Bullies
    7.9/10(54)
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    #17 - Enter the Bullies

    Season 1 Episode 18

    Aired 3/15/2002

    The Gross sisters call Penny out after she clues the school principal in on their bullying ways; BeBe and CeCe visit Dr. Payne for their shots.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thingy, Baby
    7.9/10(49)
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    #18 - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thingy, Baby

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 10/25/2002

    When Oscar agrees to bring popular children's show host, Thingy, to perform at the twin's birthday, he and Penny discover that Thingy is really Oscar's pretty old college friend, Debra, and Penny wrongfully suspects that they are having an affair.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Penny Potter
    7.9/10(44)
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    #19 - Penny Potter

    Season 2 Episode 20

    Aired 9/26/2003

    Suga Mama's sister Spice successfully sweet-talks Oscar into giving her money.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Strike
    7.8/10(75)
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    #20 - Strike

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 9/21/2001

    Penny leads her peers in a strike against their parents. The kids refuse to do their chores until they receive a cost-of-living raise.

    Director: Bruce W. Smith

    Writer: N/A

  • Romeo Must Wed
    7.8/10(55)
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    #21 - Romeo Must Wed

    Season 1 Episode 21

    Aired 5/24/2002

    Penny's uneasy about her starring role in the school play, because her leading man is betrothed to an arranged marriage. Meanwhile, Trudy's sister--a theater actress--oversteps her level of expertise by playing a motherly role.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Altos
    7.7/10(48)
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    #22 - The Altos

    Season 1 Episode 19

    Aired 4/12/2002

    Disheartened over his parents' divorce, Sticky turns to a gang for solace until a worried Penny steers the boy under Oscar's fatherly guidance.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Legend of Johnny Lovely
    7.7/10(63)
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    #23 - The Legend of Johnny Lovely

    Season 2 Episode 16

    Aired 7/25/2003

    A mythical character named Johnny Lovely blows into town to show Penny and her friends the importance of treating each other with respect. His arrival coincides with rehearsals for the Junior Debutante Ball, a custom that Penny complains is outdated and demeaning to women. However, Johnny sees this coming-out party as a chance to put on display his gentlemanly good manners.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • EZ Jackster
    7.6/10(59)
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    #24 - EZ Jackster

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 10/5/2001

    Penny's crush on a new boy at school has repercussions beyond her wildest dreams when she helps promote his music-sharing Web site.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hip-Hop Helicopter
    7.6/10(68)
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    #25 - Hip-Hop Helicopter

    Season 1 Episode 20

    Aired 4/26/2002

    Penny and her friends become local celebrities after appearing on a TV dance show, but Oscar threatens to pull the plug on their fame if they don't abide by his dress code. Also, a bowling rivalry develops between the Prouds and their neighbors.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A