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The Best Episodes of The Proud Family

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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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  1. Background image for Hooray for Iesha
    8.8/10(63 votes)

    #1 - Hooray for Iesha

    S2:E6

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Behind Family Lines
    8.6/10(61 votes)

    #2 - Behind Family Lines

    S2:E5

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Camp, the Counselor, the Mole and the Rock
    8.6/10(51 votes)

    #3 - The Camp, the Counselor, the Mole and the Rock

    S2:E17

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  4. Background image for It Takes a Thief
    8.5/10(48 votes)

    #4 - It Takes a Thief

    S2:E18

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

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    Director:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Poetic Justice
    8.4/10(64 votes)

    #5 - Poetic Justice

    S2:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Teacher's Pet
    8.3/10(64 votes)

    #6 - Teacher's Pet

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Makeover
    8.3/10(63 votes)

    #7 - Makeover

    S1:E12

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Party
    8.3/10(58 votes)

    #8 - The Party

    S1:E13

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for I Had a Dream
    8.3/10(66 votes)

    #9 - I Had a Dream

    S1:E15

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  11. Background image for She's Got Game
    8.2/10(68 votes)

    #10 - She's Got Game

    S1:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Tween Town
    8.2/10(49 votes)

    #11 - Tween Town

    S2:E10

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  13. Background image for There's Something about Rene
    8.2/10(49 votes)

    #12 - There's Something about Rene

    S2:E13

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

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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Wedding Bell Blues
    8.2/10(50 votes)

    #13 - Wedding Bell Blues

    S2:E19

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Spelling Bee
    8.0/10(64 votes)

    #14 - Spelling Bee

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Enter the Bullies
    8.0/10(57 votes)

    #15 - Enter the Bullies

    S1:E18

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  17. Background image for A Hero for Halloween
    8.0/10(67 votes)

    #16 - A Hero for Halloween

    S2:E2

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thingy, Baby
    8.0/10(52 votes)

    #17 - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thingy, Baby

    S2:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Pulp Boot Camp
    8.0/10(49 votes)

    #18 - Pulp Boot Camp

    S2:E9

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

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    Director:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Penny Potter
    8.0/10(46 votes)

    #19 - Penny Potter

    S2:E20

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

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  21. Background image for Romeo Must Wed
    7.9/10(59 votes)

    #20 - Romeo Must Wed

    S1:E21

    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.

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  22. Background image for Strike
    7.8/10(80 votes)

    #21 - Strike

    S1:E2

    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.

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  23. Background image for The Altos
    7.8/10(50 votes)

    #22 - The Altos

    S1:E19

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

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  24. Background image for Hip-Hop Helicopter
    7.8/10(72 votes)

    #23 - Hip-Hop Helicopter

    S1:E20

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  25. Background image for The Legend of Johnny Lovely
    7.7/10(65 votes)

    #24 - The Legend of Johnny Lovely

    S2:E16

    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.

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  26. Background image for Rumors
    7.6/10(83 votes)

    #25 - Rumors

    S1:E3

    While Oscar and Trudy are away at an awards banquet, Penny throws a giant party complete with loud music and boys.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Hooray for Iesha" is the best rated episode of "The Proud Family". It scored 8.8/10 based on 63 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/3/2003. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Behind Family Lines".