The Proud Family

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The Proud Family is an animated television show about an African American family; it is geared towards pre-teens and teenagers. Originally piloted for Nickelodeon, it was eventually picked up by the Disney Channel in 2000. The show was created by Bruce W. Smith, and is produced by his studio, Jambalaya Studios.

While basically a sitcom, The Proud Family presents young audiences with different daily situations that many teenagers might have to face during their teenage and adult years. The Proud Family is currently on hiatus, a made for TV Proud Family movie was released in August 2005.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Voice Cast 3 Music 4 Trivia 5 External link

Characters

• Penny Proud - A fourteen-year-old (sixteen in the movie) teenage girl who loves her family, but often feels embarrassed by the way they act.
• Oscar Proud - Penny's father, a born loser and an aspiring snack food salesman who overprotects his daughter.
• Trudy Proud - Penny's crazy, loving and moral-teaching mother who is both respectful of others and fun-loving and fashion-conscious. She is a veterinarian.
• Suga Mama - Penny's grandmother, a crotchety yet oddly youthful old woman who dotes on her granddaughter and her poodle, but sometimes she hates her son Oscar. She has a major crush on Papi, who is Felix's father and LaCienga's grandpapi.
• Bobby Proud - Penny's deadbeat uncle, who always speaks in singsong and dresses in outfits from the 1970s.
• Bee Bee Proud - Penny's three-year old baby brother, half of a twin couple.
• Cee Cee Proud - Penny's three-year old baby sister, the other half of the twins.
• Dijonay Jones - Penny's best friend.
• Zoey Howzer - Penny's geek friend. (She was eighteen years old in the first season; later, she was converted back to fourteen years old)
• LaCienega Boulevardez - Penny's fair weather-friend who enjoys a popularity run. Her name is taken from the famous La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles.
• Sunset Boulevardez - LaCienega's mother, who's also a Police woman. A strong willed, opinionated woman (possibly a feminist). Like her daughter, her name is reminiscent of Los Angeles's Sunset Boulevard.
• Felix Boulevardez - The primary father figure in the Boulevardez household. He often is portrayed as Oscar's good friend, even though they have disagreements, their comradery generally prevails. Oscar and Felix have very similar familial situations (Married couple, teenage daughter, older grandparent.) but the Boulevardez family is shown to have more money, for example, Felix's giant, private home theater. Felix is played by Hispanic comedian Carlos Mencia.
• Papi - LaCienega's grandfather. He looks like an aged Cesar Romero, speaks only Spanish, and often utters a high deranged laugh patterned after Romero's Joker. Suga Mama constantly tries to hit on Papi, but since she does not understand Spanish, she never realizes that Papi constantly insults her.
• Sticky Webb - Penny's friend who likes acting cool. Dijonay has a major crush on him.
• The Gross Sisters - Three ashy girls (their skin color is drawn as blue in the series) who like bullying everyone around but have a good heart deep inside. Nubia is the leader and the only one that talks, Olay is the muscle and the one with the biggest heart and Gina is the short one who always has her hand out expecting cash.
• Wizard Kelly - "It all started with a orange basketball." Based upon both Magic Johnson (wealthy, entrepeneurial, and eclectic) and Dennis Rodman (arrogant), Kelly has a talented finger in every pie. Every building, business, and company in the Prouds' world bears The Wizard's name. He is a millionare pro basketball player. His son, Wizard Kelly, Jr., attends the same school as Penny and her friends. His face has never been shown to viewers.
• Lil' Wiz - Wizard Kelly's son.
• Ginger Snaps Kelly - Mother of Lil' Wiz, and Oscar Proud's ex-girlfriend.

Voice Cast

• Kyla Pratt as Penny Proud
• Tommy Davidson as Oscar Proud
• Paula Jai Parker as Trudy Proud and Mrs. kelly
• Jo Marie Payton as Suga Mama Proud
• Tara Strong as Bee Bee and Cee Cee Proud, and Puff the Dog
• Karen Malina White as Dijonay Jones
• Orlando Brown as Sticky Webb
• Soleil Moon Frye as Zoey
• Carlos Mencia as Felix Boulevardez
• Maria Canals as Sunset Boulevardez
• Alvaro Guttierez as Papi
• Alisa Reyes as LaCienega Boulevardez
• Cedric the Entertainer as Bobby Proud
• Raquel Lee as Nubia Gross
• Aries Spears as Wizard Kelly and Lil' Wiz

Music

• Series Soundtrack

Trivia

• Creator Bruce W. Smith, a former Disney animator and one of the few African-American animators in the industry, was also the director of the 1993 film Bébé's Kids.
• Executive producer Ralph Farquhar also served the in the same capacity on the UPN sitcoms Moesha and The Parkers (which he co-created).
• Bee Bee and Cee Cee Proud were named after gospel music performers BeBe Winans and CeCe Winans.
• Nearly every episode of The Proud Family features a celebrity guest voice. Celebrities who have voiced characters on the show include Samuel L. Jackson, Vivica A. Fox, Mariah Carey, and Ashanti, among others.
• Kobe Bryant, Kurt 'Big Boy' Alexander, Lil' Romeo, Alicia Keys, and Al Roker have appeared on the show as themselves.
• Many of the later episodes of The Proud Family were produced using Macromedia Flash.
• The school that Penny and her friends go to is named for auto racing driver Willy T. Ribbs.
• Trudy's maiden name is "Parker." this is also the last name of her voice actor, Paula Jai Parker. This may be coincidence.
• In "A Star is Scorned", Penny said "Im off to see the Wizard". That was a reference to The Wizard of Oz

External link

• The Proud Family at the Internet Movie Database
• The Proud Family Movie at the Internet Movie Database