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** The Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies -- are named after actual streets ([=LaCienega=] is after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] and Sunset is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset Boulevard]]).
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** The Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies -- are named after actual streets ([=LaCienega=] is in California. [=LaCienega=] after [=LaCienega=] Boulevard, a street in what that is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone Zone]] in L.A.]] , and Sunset is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset Boulevard]]).Boulevard]].
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* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents (or even white parents, think of Sage, Pepper, or Basil) give their children. And, the Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies -- are named after actual streets ([=LaCienega=] is after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] and Sunset is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset Boulevard]]).
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* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents (or even white parents, think of Sage, Pepper, or Basil) give their children. And, the
** The Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies -- are named after actual streets ([=LaCienega=] is after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] and Sunset is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset Boulevard]]).
** The Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies -- are named after actual streets ([=LaCienega=] is after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] and Sunset is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset Boulevard]]).
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* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents (or even white parents, think of Sage, Pepper, or Basil) give their children. And, the Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies -- are named after actual streets ([=LaCienega=] is after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] and Sunset is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset Boulevard]].
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* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents (or even white parents, think of Sage, Pepper, or Basil) give their children. And, the Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies -- are named after actual streets ([=LaCienega=] is after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] and Sunset is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset Boulevard]].Boulevard]]).
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* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents (or even white parents, think of Sage, Pepper, or Basil) give their children. And, the Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies.ladies -- are named after actual streets ([=LaCienega=] is after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] and Sunset is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset Boulevard]].
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** Sugar Mama seems to bear a resemblance to [[TylerPerry Medea]].
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** Sugar Mama seems to bear a resemblance to [[TylerPerry Medea]].Madea]].
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* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}
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* {{It [[{{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}Tro-PAY}} It Is Pronouced Pen-NAY]]
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* Unrequited Love: Dijonay/Sticky
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* Unrequited Love: UnrequitedLove: Dijonay/Sticky
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Creator Bruce W. Smith based Oscar and Penny on his own experiences as a father.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Penny's friends. This is primarily done with Dijonay, while LaCienaga doesn't acknowledge her as a friend (hence it not counting) and Zoey ends up going with the majority due to [[ShrinkingViolet her nature]].
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Penny's friends. This is primarily done with Dijonay, while LaCienaga [=LaCienaga=] doesn't acknowledge her as a friend (hence it not counting) and Zoey ends up going with the majority due to [[ShrinkingViolet her nature]].
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* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In Spanish]]: [=Lacienega's=] grandfather would insult Sugar Mama in Spanish as she unwittingly swooned to his every word.
** In TheMovie, the villain clones Suga Mama with a Spanish peanut and she learns to speak Spanish. When [=Lacienega's=] grandfather insults her, the clone tells him to shut up. Ironically, while he still thinks she's ugly, he starts hitting on the clone, who rejects him.
** In TheMovie, the villain clones Suga Mama with a Spanish peanut and she learns to speak Spanish. When [=Lacienega's=] grandfather insults her, the clone tells him to shut up. Ironically, while he still thinks she's ugly, he starts hitting on the clone, who rejects him.
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* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In Spanish]]: [=Lacienega's=] [=LaCienega's=] grandfather would insult Sugar Mama in Spanish as she unwittingly swooned to his every word.
** In TheMovie, the villain clones Suga Mama with a Spanish peanut and she learns to speak Spanish. When[=Lacienega's=] [=LaCienega's=] grandfather insults her, the clone tells him to shut up. Ironically, while he still thinks she's ugly, he starts hitting on the clone, who rejects him.
** In TheMovie, the villain clones Suga Mama with a Spanish peanut and she learns to speak Spanish. When
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* OffModel: When she's wearing shoes, [=Lacienega=]'s feet are about the same size as the other girls', but when she's shown barefoot in "Love Thy Neighbor" her feet are huge. This is actually ''invoked'', as she was wearing the shoes to hide her feet.
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* OffModel: When she's wearing shoes, [=Lacienega=]'s [=LaCienega=]'s feet are about the same size as the other girls', but when she's shown barefoot in "Love Thy Neighbor" her feet are huge. This is actually ''invoked'', as she was wearing the shoes to hide her feet.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: There was actually some debate because Papi looked "too white" to be hispanic. It's no secret Lacieniga counts as hispanic (She and her mom are darker skinned than Felix, who's tan) but some assumed that Felix was half hispanic, and that his mom was. However, it's fully possible for Papi to be white but still be hispanic, there are plenty of hispanics who can be considered white. Heck, just look at GuillermoDelToro.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: There was actually some debate because Papi looked "too white" to be hispanic. It's no secret Lacieniga [=LaCieniga=] counts as hispanic (She and her mom are darker skinned than Felix, who's tan) but some assumed that Felix was half hispanic, and that his mom was. However, it's fully possible for Papi to be white but still be hispanic, there are plenty of hispanics who can be considered white. Heck, just look at GuillermoDelToro.
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** [=Lacienega=] Boulevardez. Named after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] Her mother is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset]].
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** [=Lacienega=] [=LaCienega=] Boulevardez. Named after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] Her mother is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset]].
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** [=Lacienega=]'s grandfather is an obvious {{Expy}} of TheJoker. To be specific, the one played by Cesar Romero on the [[{{Series/Batman}} 1960s Adam West Batman show]].
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* WildTeenParty: Penny has a sleepover that quickly turns into this when Lacieniga calls everyone from their middle school.
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* WildTeenParty: Penny has a sleepover that quickly turns into this when Lacieniga [=LaCieniga=] calls everyone from their middle school.
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* ExtravertedNerd: Myron. Suga Mama calls him "Urkel" at one point, a reference to another Extraverted Nerd, Steve Urkel of ''FamilyMatters''. [[hottip:*:Makes sense since she was voiced by the actress who played [[FamilyMatters Harriet]], the one who was supposed to be the focus of the show.]]
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* ExtravertedNerd: Myron. Suga Mama calls him "Urkel" at one point, a reference to another Extraverted Nerd, Steve Urkel of ''FamilyMatters''. [[hottip:*:Makes [[note]]Makes sense since she was voiced by the actress who played [[FamilyMatters Harriet]], the one who was supposed to be the focus of the show.]][[/note]]
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* 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.
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* 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''.]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They managed to have some pretty serious stuff into a children's cartoon. Such as an episode where Penny believes her dad is having an affair, or when Oscar flat-out accuses a man of being a gigolo[[hottip:*:a male prostitute or live-in lover]]. [[spoiler: In fairness, for once he's right.]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They managed to have some pretty serious stuff into a children's cartoon. Such as an episode where Penny believes her dad is having an affair, or when Oscar flat-out accuses a man of being a gigolo[[hottip:*:a male prostitute or live-in lover]]. [[spoiler: In fairness, for once he's right.]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They managed to have some pretty serious stuff into a children's cartoon. Such as an episode where Penny believes her dad is having an affair, or when Oscar flat-out accuses a man of being a gigolo[[hottip:*:a male prostitute or live-in lover]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They managed to have some pretty serious stuff into a children's cartoon. Such as an episode where Penny believes her dad is having an affair, or when Oscar flat-out accuses a man of being a gigolo[[hottip:*:a male prostitute or live-in lover]]. [[spoiler: In fairness, for once he's right.]]
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Suga Mama
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* IWasQuiteALooker: Suga MamaMama. She returns to this after dieting for her wedding, looking as she did 50 years ago but with white hair and glasses. Once she eats real food again, however, [[StatusQuoIsGod she returns to her normal shape]].
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* LastSecondWordSwap: this happens once with Dijonay, when helping penny think up cheers.
--> '''Dijonay''': Rip rip ree! kick 'em in the knee! Rip Rip Rass! Kick 'em in.....the other knee.
--> '''Dijonay''': Rip rip ree! kick 'em in the knee! Rip Rip Rass! Kick 'em in.....the other knee.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Penny's friends especially Dijonayfriends. This is primarily done with Dijonay, while LaCienaga doesn't acknowledge her as a friend (hence it not counting) and Zoey ends up going with the majority due to [[ShrinkingViolet her nature]].
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Olay, who in better clothing also appears thinner as well.
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***It's revealed that the reason the girls are blue is due to them being ashy.
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* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents give their children. And, the Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies.
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* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents (or even white parents, think of Sage, Pepper, or Basil) give their children. And, the Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies.
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* PrinceAndPauper: In the episode "Monkey Business," Mariah Carey's pet monkey, François, and Oscar's Mr. Chips had this forced onto each other when Oscar, while distracted by Carey's presence at the vet's office, threw an injured Mr. Chips into a sick room that was already occupied by Carey's monkey (who was sick due to eating Proud Snacks). Things go uphill for Mr. Chips (who is mistaken by Carey for her pet), and downhill for her pet, with the latter experiencing something close to slave labor regarding meals, and later having its piano playing skills exploited for cash. Things end up back to normal after the pet finds Mr. Chips and takes back his identity forcefully and returns to his rightful owner, and Chips to his.
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* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt: [=LaCienega=] and Agatha enter an American Idol-style Music Reality Show, sponsored by Wizard Kelly, LaCienega, being prettier than Agatha, wins due to a fix by Wizard Kelly, "Beauty sells, Ugly Repels, y'all" Penny finds out and tells LaCienega that if she doesn't make things right, she'll have bad Karma. LaCienega gives the prize to Agatha, who, in turn, shares it with her citing fairness.
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* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt: [=LaCienega=] and Agatha enter an American Idol-style Music Reality Show, sponsored by Wizard Kelly, LaCienega, [=LaCienega=], being prettier than Agatha, wins due to a fix by Wizard Kelly, "Beauty sells, Ugly Repels, y'all" Penny finds out and tells LaCienega [=LaCienega=] that if she doesn't make things right, she'll have bad Karma. LaCienega [=LaCienega=] gives the prize to Agatha, who, in turn, shares it with her citing fairness.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: TheMovie is only available on DVD. Disney has no plans for any other releases.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: TheMovie is only available on DVD. DVD, and while the first season of the series is available on iTunes, Disney has no plans for any other releases.
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* BilingualBonus: [=LaCienega=]'s name means "the bog/swamp" in Spanish.
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How could a bill made years later count for this? And where is the joke that requires a trope being hypocritical humor?
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** Circumventing due process and [[HypocriticalHumor shutting down 'illegal' websites]] via SOPA? According to Disney that's A-Okay!
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* BreakingBadNewsGently
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* YouBetterSitDown
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* CurseCutShort: In the episode where Penny joins the football team:
--> '''Cheerleaders''': We're girls! We're bad! We kicked those brothers'- *roll opening credits*
--> '''Cheerleaders''': We're girls! We're bad! We kicked those brothers'- *roll opening credits*
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* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In Spanish]]: Lacienega's grandfather would insult Sugar Mama in Spanish as she unwittingly swooned to his every word.
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** In TheMovie, the villain clones Suga Mama with a Spanish peanut and she learns to speak Spanish. When Lacienega's grandfather insults her, the clone tells him to shut up. Ironically, while he still thinks she's ugly, he starts hitting on the clone, who rejects him.
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* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In Spanish]]: Lacienega's [=Lacienega's=] grandfather would insult Sugar Mama in Spanish as she unwittingly swooned to his every word.
** In TheMovie, the villain clones Suga Mama with a Spanish peanut and she learns to speak Spanish. WhenLacienega's [=Lacienega's=] grandfather insults her, the clone tells him to shut up. Ironically, while he still thinks she's ugly, he starts hitting on the clone, who rejects him.
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* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt: LaCienega and Agatha enter an American Idol-style Music Reality Show, sponsored by Wizard Kelly, LaCienega, being prettier than Agatha, wins due to a fix by Wizard Kelly, "Beauty sells, Ugly Repels, y'all" Penny finds out and tells LaCienega that if she doesn't make things right, she'll have bad Karma. LaCienega gives the prize to Agatha, who, in turn, shares it with her citing fairness.
** This would've been a nice Aesop...[[BrokenAesop if LaCienga didn't instantly threaten Penny after giving up her prize by demanding "she better get something out of it."]]
** This would've been a nice Aesop...[[BrokenAesop if LaCienga didn't instantly threaten Penny after giving up her prize by demanding "she better get something out of it."]]
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* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt: LaCienega [=LaCienega=] and Agatha enter an American Idol-style Music Reality Show, sponsored by Wizard Kelly, LaCienega, being prettier than Agatha, wins due to a fix by Wizard Kelly, "Beauty sells, Ugly Repels, y'all" Penny finds out and tells LaCienega that if she doesn't make things right, she'll have bad Karma. LaCienega gives the prize to Agatha, who, in turn, shares it with her citing fairness.
** This would've been a nice Aesop...[[BrokenAesop ifLaCienga [=LaCinega=] didn't instantly threaten Penny after giving up her prize by demanding "she better get something out of it."]]
** This would've been a nice Aesop...[[BrokenAesop if
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* LovableAlphaBitch: LaCienaga was originally a full-fledged AlphaBitch and antagonized Penny, but they eventually become friends and she rounds out the FourGirlEnsemble.
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** Lacienega Boulevardez. Named after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] Her mother is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset]].
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** Lacienega [=Lacienega=] Boulevardez. Named after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] Her mother is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset]].
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** Lacienega's grandfather is an obvious {{Expy}} of TheJoker. To be specific, the one played by Cesar Romero on the [[{{Series/Batman}} 1960s Adam West Batman show]].
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This AnimatedSeries on the DisneyChannel is the first on cable TV to feature an African-American family. It aired on the Disney Channel from 2001-2005. Penny Proud is 14 years old, but her parents, Oscar and Trudy, still treat her like a little girl. Also living with Penny are her twin siblings, [=BeBe=] and [=CeCe=], and her paternal grandmother, "Suga Mama".
Reruns can be seen Saturdays on the music channel Centric, and very occasionally, on Disney, where it originated.
The show's official site is at http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/theproudfamily/
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Poor, poor Oscar...
* AbusiveParents: Suga Mama, to Oscar. But deep down she loves him, enough to help him in a wrestling match.
* ActorAllusion: One episode has Penny communicating with a tiger similar to Dr. Dolittle. Her voice actress Kyla Pratt played the daughter of the famous doctor in the modern film version that also inherited his gift in a later sequel.
* 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."
* AdultChild: Bobby Proud
* AlphaBitch: LaCienega
* AmbiguouslyGay: Michael
* AnimatedSeries
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Oscar's Proud Snacks, in the later seasons.
* ArtEvolution: Started off being animated in Flash, then moved to traditional animation.
* AsianAndNerdy: The Chang triplets. However, they are always at the coolest events because their mom or dad knows someone.
* AudibleGleam: The glow-in-the-dark Thingy Dolls in the episode "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thingy Baby."
* BalloonBelly: Penny and Dijonay in Tween Town
* BeingEvilSucks: Penny finds this out the hard way when she decides to make it big by performing a FaceHeelTurn and then publishing a tell-all about being a bad girl - she alienates everyone, disappoints her teacher to the point of tears, and gets sent to boot camp. She escapes, but the Gross Sisters won't shelter her, she misses her family (who she knows won't take her back), and she has nowhere else to go, so she decides to reform and get back to normal life.
* BittersweetEnding: Penny befriends a Muslim girl whose family is every bit as dysfunctional-yet-loving as hers. However, their house is vandalized, complete with graffiti saying "Go back home, towelheads!" (changed to "Go back to your country!" in reruns) Although Penny delivers a moving anti-racism speech at a school assembly, [[KarmaHoudini the vandals are never caught]].
* BlackAndNerdy: Myron
* BootCampEpisode: Penny becomes a bad girl and is sent to a boot camp style reformatory.
* {{Bowdlerization}}: In the aforementioned episode about Islamophobia, the spray-painted message was changed to "Go back to your country!"
* BrokenAesop: Quite Frequently
* BumblingDad: Oscar
* 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.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: The moment Penny turns out the lights in the episode "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thingy Baby."
* CanineCompanion: Puff the poodle to Sugar Mama
* CatchPhrase: "TRUDAAAAAYY!!"
* CelebrityStar: Al Roker, Lou Rawls, and Smokey Robinson and several others make appearances as themselves. Al Roker appears in 2 episodes.
** Note that in his two appearances, he's evil.
* ChristmasEpisode: it was about Christmas AND Kwanzaa!
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Penny's friends especially Dijonay
* CloserToEarth: Trudy
* ComicBookTime: Penny and her friends are fourteen and in middle school during the series. In TheMovie, she turns sixteen. The twins remain babies the entire time.
* CoolOldLady: Suga Mama
* CouchGag: During the TitleSequence in most episodes, Oscar opens and closes the door on Penny's friends, one or two other people who will appear in the episode, and then Suga Mama, who opens the door and forces her way in anyways.
* CreditCardPlot: Penny gets a credit card and it talks to her.
* {{Crossover}}: With ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries''.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Dijonay
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Penny in one episode "Trusts Dijonay to be the person she doesn't trust."
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Illegal file-sharing is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything an addiction]], kids!
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The episode where Michael gets called a sissy. He has a rather harsh coach dad who's obviously ashamed of how his son acts and doesn't want to be acknowledge as Michael's dad in public.
** Another episode features a mysterious boy named Johnny Lovely, who teaches all the kids to be kind and love one another. The authority figures promptly run him out of town, but he leaves behind his message in a book.
** The [[ChristmasEpisode Kwanzaa Episode]] featured a homeless couple named Joseph and Mary.
* DownerEnding: A lot of episodes had pretty depressing endings. Such as when [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil the songs available for downloading]] on the Internet wind up making a man's CD store close down, and it ends with him sobbing while closing up for good. Or when Suga Mama finds out the man she was going to marry had Alzheimer's and was taken away from her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Gross Sisters refuse to house Penny after she escapes from boot camp, figuring that while they're bullies, the fact that Penny was sent to boot camp makes her a hardened thug.
* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In Spanish]]: Lacienega's grandfather would insult Sugar Mama in Spanish as she unwittingly swooned to his every word.
** In TheMovie, the villain clones Suga Mama with a Spanish peanut and she learns to speak Spanish. When Lacienega's grandfather insults her, the clone tells him to shut up. Ironically, while he still thinks she's ugly, he starts hitting on the clone, who rejects him.
* {{Expy}}: Some of the characters resemble those in ''BebesKids'', which Bruce Smith previously animated.
** Nubia Gross resembles [=LaShawn=].
** Sticky resembles Khalil.
** The Red-Nosed Baby resembles and sounds like Peewee.
** Sugar Mama seems to bear a resemblance to [[TylerPerry Medea]].
** Also, anyone else think that some of the animators for this show later worked on ''PrincessAndTheFrog''? Dr. Facilier and Mama Odie bear a resemblence to Oscar and Suga Mama, respectively.
* ExtravertedNerd: Myron. Suga Mama calls him "Urkel" at one point, a reference to another Extraverted Nerd, Steve Urkel of ''FamilyMatters''. [[hottip:*:Makes sense since she was voiced by the actress who played [[FamilyMatters Harriet]], the one who was supposed to be the focus of the show.]]
* TheFaceless: "Wizard" Kelley
* FalseFriend:
** Dijonay especially but Penny's other friends at times as well. Even ''Zoey''.
** In one episode 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 Sugar Mama tells her she's better off with out them because "they're faker then your fake friends especially Dijonay."
* FatBastard: Subverted 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.
* FootFocus: Suga Mama. She probably DoesNotLikeShoes since she's usually seen wearing slippers, even outdoors.
** Not to mention, Papi, Lacienaga, and Felix have large feet...when they're shown. One episode this is actually justified.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They managed to have some pretty serious stuff into a children's cartoon. Such as an episode where Penny believes her dad is having an affair, or when Oscar flat-out accuses a man of being a gigolo[[hottip:*:a male prostitute or live-in lover]].
** This remains one of the few Disney cartoons ever to use the word "pimp".
** One episode had a scene in a movie theater, and it was apparent that the movie in [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the background]] was ''{{Swordfish}}'', on [[EveryoneRemembersTheStripper that one infamous scene]] with HalleBerry reading a book. And the Proud Family scene cuts away right as Halle starts to move her book. Let me repeat: they referenced an EveryoneRemembersTheStripper moment '''in a children's cartoon.'''
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Trudy and Diana.
* HeyItsThatVoice: This show heavily relied on this trope. TheOtherWiki states that the show holds the record for having the most guest stars in an original Disney series.
* HonestJohnsDealership: The Gross Sisters specialize in these kinds of schemes.
* IAteWhat: One episode involves Suga Mama's lemon squares becoming massively popular to the point of ending up on Oprah. This is the part where the whole world discovers that when she says she "puts her foot in it," she means it literally. [[DontExplainTheJoke As in sticks her foot in the batter]]. The audience promptly starts hacking.
* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt: LaCienega and Agatha enter an American Idol-style Music Reality Show, sponsored by Wizard Kelly, LaCienega, being prettier than Agatha, wins due to a fix by Wizard Kelly, "Beauty sells, Ugly Repels, y'all" Penny finds out and tells LaCienega that if she doesn't make things right, she'll have bad Karma. LaCienega gives the prize to Agatha, who, in turn, shares it with her citing fairness.
** This would've been a nice Aesop...[[BrokenAesop if LaCienga didn't instantly threaten Penny after giving up her prize by demanding "she better get something out of it."]]
* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}
* IWasQuiteALooker: Suga Mama
* {{Jerkass}}: For a family friendly show, there are a lot of unlikeable characters here.
** Too many to count in this show, 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!
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: TheMovie is only available on DVD. Disney has no plans for any other releases.
* KillerRabbit: The "psycho duck"!
* LaserGuidedKarma: A nice example happens to Dijonay. She and her friends 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 eariler, and when Penny arrives in a limo by the same band who's playing at the concert, she gets in for free along with her friends... except Dijonay, who her siblings and Penny say they don't know her. [[spoiler: Subverted in that she takes her back, but only to be the person that Penny can't trust.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: pretty much everyone on this show, except for the few occasions where they dress up.
** It's sort of a running gag that whenever the girls dress up, they'll rip off the normal outfits and have the new ones underneath, but Penny will just have another one of her usual outfit underneath. She'll then try a couple more times, with the same results, until she ends up quickly ripping off a lot of the same outfit until she finally gets to the new one. The CreditCardPlot episode even made fun of this where her mother bought her a bunch of copies of the same outfit.
* LiteralGenie: Al Roker. Yes, that Al Roker. However, the wishes he grants Penny always blow up in her face.
* LovableAlphaBitch: LaCienaga was originally a full-fledged AlphaBitch and antagonized Penny, but they eventually become friends and she rounds out the FourGirlEnsemble.
* KentBrockmanNews: Marsha Mitsubishi.
* MachoDisasterExpedition: "Camping Trip"
* MakeoverMontage: "Makeover"; where Olay, the biggest of the Gross Sisters, gets a makeover and becomes popular.
* {{Meganekko}}: Zoey
* MenUseViolenceWomenUseCommunication: Oscar and Trudy
* TheMinnesotaFats: Renée in "There's Something About Renée"
* MistakenForRacist: In the episode "Romeo Must Wed", Penny developed a crush on Kwok while rehearsing for their school's production of ''Romeo & Juliet''. After a while, Kwok's parents, the Wongs, politely asked Oscar and Trudy that they not allow Penny and Kwok to see each other anymore. While [[MenUseViolenceWomenUseCommunication Trudy remained civil in her inquiry, Oscar immediately jumped to conclusions]], thinking that the Wongs didn't approve of their son having a relationship with Penny because she wasn't "good enough" for them. This prompted both Oscar and Mr. Wong to imply the other was a racist. It turns out the real reason was that Kwok had an [[ArrangedMarriage arranged bride]], who was coming to town for a visit.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Wizard Kelly does this to everyone from time to time, but especially to Oscar.
* NewTransferStudent: The Russian Sergei, to whom Zoey is attracted.
* NoEnding: Near the end of "She Drives Me Crazy" Suga Mama gets in another car accident and is suddenly sitting at home watching TV after losing her license again. The episode just ends with one of Bobby Proud's music videos.
** This is not entirely true. When it originally aired on Disney Channel, Bobby's video was added on at the end to advertise the release of the show's soundtrack.
* NoNameGiven: Only one of the Chang triplets is ever given a name. (The girl in the red dress is Debbie).
* NoRespectGuy: Oscar without a doubt.
* OffModel: When she's wearing shoes, Lacienega's feet are about the same size as the other girls', but when she's shown barefoot in "Love Thy Neighbor" her feet are huge. This is actually ''invoked'', as she was wearing the shoes to hide her feet.
** One of Penny's classmates during "I Had a Dream" changes races constantly. It is particularly jarring as it happens during part of the episode that takes place in 1955, and the students are still separated by race in the classroom. So the switches make it seems that a black student is sitting among the the white students when it is previously stated (and seen) everyone is separated.
** There is one where Papi is deliberately animated OffModel, when an actor was put in place of the real Papi to provide the illusion of a resort. Suga Mama immediately notices that Papi's feet aren't ridiculously huge.
* OverprotectiveDad: So, so very much.
* {{Panty Shot}}: The Cheerleaders has three and Penny Proud has one (ep.9 [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=78055141]] [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=78055142]] [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=78055143]] and ep.10 [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=78055144]])
* ParentalFavoritism: Suga Mama likes her older son, Bobby, more than she does Oscar.
* PetTheDog: The Gross sisters in "The Party". They don't show up to torment Penny...they actually legitimately act like nice people.
* PlanetEris: This setting is really ''really'' weird. Some episodes appear to set it in a bit more normal setting, but others (especially the camping episode) have this set in some kind of really ''really'' weird place. (Oscar and Felix even get taken to a nest by a ''pterodactyl''!)
* PositiveDiscrimination: Averted. Not only are the Prouds just as insane as any other animated family, but there's also an episode where Penny dates a seemingly angelic boy in a wheelchair, only to realize he's a total prick who uses his disability to get his way.
* PrettyInMink: Penny's aunt Diana is always seen wearing a fancy green fur coat. Even when playing football.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: There was actually some debate because Papi looked "too white" to be hispanic. It's no secret Lacieniga counts as hispanic (She and her mom are darker skinned than Felix, who's tan) but some assumed that Felix was half hispanic, and that his mom was. However, it's fully possible for Papi to be white but still be hispanic, there are plenty of hispanics who can be considered white. Heck, just look at GuillermoDelToro.
* RunningGag: Oscar's "rivalry" with the talking baby
* SecretIngredient: Suga Mama's cooking is so delicious because [[ExactWords she put her foot in it]]. Normally this is just a turn of phrase, but she meant it literally, and revealed it on a national TV show which caused everyone to get sick.
* SeniorSleepCycle: Suga Mama and sometimes Papi.
* ShrinkingViolet: The principal, like [[PoliceAcademy Hooks]], can be [[CuteButCacophonic very loud]].
* ShoutOut:
** Wizard Kelly's name just ''has'' to be a reference to NBA legend Magic Johnson.
** Lacienega Boulevardez. Named after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] Her mother is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset]].
** Penny's brother and sister are named after brother-sister gospel duo [=BeBe=] and [=CeCe=] Winans.
*** Bebe may very well be a ShoutOut to the film adaptation of ''BebesKids'', Bruce Smith's previous project.
** Lacienega's grandfather is an obvious {{Expy}} of TheJoker. To be specific, the one played by Cesar Romero on the [[{{Series/Batman}} 1960s Adam West Batman show]].
** Penny mentions KimPossible.
** The middle school the kids attend is named for the first (and so far, only) African-American NASCAR driver.
** The family's favorite shows, "Everybody Loves Iesha" and "My Momma and Me" are shout outs to "Moesha" and "The Parkers." Suga Mama even references the NoEnding of "Moesha" by asking about the little brother who was kidnapped.
** Penny also refers to Dr. Dolittle. [[ActorAllusion Her voice actress played the daughter of the famous doctor in the modern film version that also inherited his gift in a later sequel.]]
* TemporaryLoveInterest: Kwok, the Asian boy that Penny dates in one episode, even though it ends with the two getting together, he is never seen or referred to again afterwards.
* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents give their children. And, the Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies.
* ThisTropeIsBleep: anytime a Sir Paid A Lot song is played.
* TokenWhite: Zoey.
* [[TheMovie The TV Movie]]: Also acted as the GrandFinale to the series.
* TheUnfairSex: Oscar. Big Time. Part of it is a result of Oscar being the shows ButtMonkey, but 9 times out of 10, any conflict between Oscar and Trudy always have Oscar at fault, and the other time it'll ''still'' paint Oscar as the bad guy.
* 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 parent's 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?
* VerbalTic:
** Bobby, y'all!
** Wizard Kelly.
** And Sir Paid A Lot, Dawg!
* TheVoiceless: Two of the Gross sisters (Olay, the biggest one and Gina, the smallest one) never speak. Nubia, the middle one, does all of their talking.
** Although they are actually able to sing...and very well at that.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The show was initially pitched to {{Nickelodeon}}.
* WildTeenParty: Penny has a sleepover that quickly turns into this when Lacieniga calls everyone from their middle school.
* 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.
* YouBetterSitDown
* 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.
* YouSayTomato: Sticky pronounces "yacht" as "yatch".
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This AnimatedSeries on the DisneyChannel is the first on cable TV to feature an African-American family. It aired on the Disney Channel from 2001-2005. Penny Proud is 14 years old, but her parents, Oscar and Trudy, still treat her like a little girl. Also living with Penny are her twin siblings, [=BeBe=] and [=CeCe=], and her paternal grandmother, "Suga Mama".
Reruns can be seen Saturdays on the music channel Centric, and very occasionally, on Disney, where it originated.
The show's official site is at http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/theproudfamily/
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Poor, poor Oscar...
* AbusiveParents: Suga Mama, to Oscar. But deep down she loves him, enough to help him in a wrestling match.
* ActorAllusion: One episode has Penny communicating with a tiger similar to Dr. Dolittle. Her voice actress Kyla Pratt played the daughter of the famous doctor in the modern film version that also inherited his gift in a later sequel.
* 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."
* AdultChild: Bobby Proud
* AlphaBitch: LaCienega
* AmbiguouslyGay: Michael
* AnimatedSeries
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Oscar's Proud Snacks, in the later seasons.
* ArtEvolution: Started off being animated in Flash, then moved to traditional animation.
* AsianAndNerdy: The Chang triplets. However, they are always at the coolest events because their mom or dad knows someone.
* AudibleGleam: The glow-in-the-dark Thingy Dolls in the episode "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thingy Baby."
* BalloonBelly: Penny and Dijonay in Tween Town
* BeingEvilSucks: Penny finds this out the hard way when she decides to make it big by performing a FaceHeelTurn and then publishing a tell-all about being a bad girl - she alienates everyone, disappoints her teacher to the point of tears, and gets sent to boot camp. She escapes, but the Gross Sisters won't shelter her, she misses her family (who she knows won't take her back), and she has nowhere else to go, so she decides to reform and get back to normal life.
* BittersweetEnding: Penny befriends a Muslim girl whose family is every bit as dysfunctional-yet-loving as hers. However, their house is vandalized, complete with graffiti saying "Go back home, towelheads!" (changed to "Go back to your country!" in reruns) Although Penny delivers a moving anti-racism speech at a school assembly, [[KarmaHoudini the vandals are never caught]].
* BlackAndNerdy: Myron
* BootCampEpisode: Penny becomes a bad girl and is sent to a boot camp style reformatory.
* {{Bowdlerization}}: In the aforementioned episode about Islamophobia, the spray-painted message was changed to "Go back to your country!"
* BrokenAesop: Quite Frequently
* BumblingDad: Oscar
* 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.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: The moment Penny turns out the lights in the episode "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thingy Baby."
* CanineCompanion: Puff the poodle to Sugar Mama
* CatchPhrase: "TRUDAAAAAYY!!"
* CelebrityStar: Al Roker, Lou Rawls, and Smokey Robinson and several others make appearances as themselves. Al Roker appears in 2 episodes.
** Note that in his two appearances, he's evil.
* ChristmasEpisode: it was about Christmas AND Kwanzaa!
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Penny's friends especially Dijonay
* CloserToEarth: Trudy
* ComicBookTime: Penny and her friends are fourteen and in middle school during the series. In TheMovie, she turns sixteen. The twins remain babies the entire time.
* CoolOldLady: Suga Mama
* CouchGag: During the TitleSequence in most episodes, Oscar opens and closes the door on Penny's friends, one or two other people who will appear in the episode, and then Suga Mama, who opens the door and forces her way in anyways.
* CreditCardPlot: Penny gets a credit card and it talks to her.
* {{Crossover}}: With ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries''.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Dijonay
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Penny in one episode "Trusts Dijonay to be the person she doesn't trust."
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Illegal file-sharing is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything an addiction]], kids!
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The episode where Michael gets called a sissy. He has a rather harsh coach dad who's obviously ashamed of how his son acts and doesn't want to be acknowledge as Michael's dad in public.
** Another episode features a mysterious boy named Johnny Lovely, who teaches all the kids to be kind and love one another. The authority figures promptly run him out of town, but he leaves behind his message in a book.
** The [[ChristmasEpisode Kwanzaa Episode]] featured a homeless couple named Joseph and Mary.
* DownerEnding: A lot of episodes had pretty depressing endings. Such as when [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil the songs available for downloading]] on the Internet wind up making a man's CD store close down, and it ends with him sobbing while closing up for good. Or when Suga Mama finds out the man she was going to marry had Alzheimer's and was taken away from her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Gross Sisters refuse to house Penny after she escapes from boot camp, figuring that while they're bullies, the fact that Penny was sent to boot camp makes her a hardened thug.
* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier In Spanish]]: Lacienega's grandfather would insult Sugar Mama in Spanish as she unwittingly swooned to his every word.
** In TheMovie, the villain clones Suga Mama with a Spanish peanut and she learns to speak Spanish. When Lacienega's grandfather insults her, the clone tells him to shut up. Ironically, while he still thinks she's ugly, he starts hitting on the clone, who rejects him.
* {{Expy}}: Some of the characters resemble those in ''BebesKids'', which Bruce Smith previously animated.
** Nubia Gross resembles [=LaShawn=].
** Sticky resembles Khalil.
** The Red-Nosed Baby resembles and sounds like Peewee.
** Sugar Mama seems to bear a resemblance to [[TylerPerry Medea]].
** Also, anyone else think that some of the animators for this show later worked on ''PrincessAndTheFrog''? Dr. Facilier and Mama Odie bear a resemblence to Oscar and Suga Mama, respectively.
* ExtravertedNerd: Myron. Suga Mama calls him "Urkel" at one point, a reference to another Extraverted Nerd, Steve Urkel of ''FamilyMatters''. [[hottip:*:Makes sense since she was voiced by the actress who played [[FamilyMatters Harriet]], the one who was supposed to be the focus of the show.]]
* TheFaceless: "Wizard" Kelley
* FalseFriend:
** Dijonay especially but Penny's other friends at times as well. Even ''Zoey''.
** In one episode 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 Sugar Mama tells her she's better off with out them because "they're faker then your fake friends especially Dijonay."
* FatBastard: Subverted 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.
* FootFocus: Suga Mama. She probably DoesNotLikeShoes since she's usually seen wearing slippers, even outdoors.
** Not to mention, Papi, Lacienaga, and Felix have large feet...when they're shown. One episode this is actually justified.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They managed to have some pretty serious stuff into a children's cartoon. Such as an episode where Penny believes her dad is having an affair, or when Oscar flat-out accuses a man of being a gigolo[[hottip:*:a male prostitute or live-in lover]].
** This remains one of the few Disney cartoons ever to use the word "pimp".
** One episode had a scene in a movie theater, and it was apparent that the movie in [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the background]] was ''{{Swordfish}}'', on [[EveryoneRemembersTheStripper that one infamous scene]] with HalleBerry reading a book. And the Proud Family scene cuts away right as Halle starts to move her book. Let me repeat: they referenced an EveryoneRemembersTheStripper moment '''in a children's cartoon.'''
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Trudy and Diana.
* HeyItsThatVoice: This show heavily relied on this trope. TheOtherWiki states that the show holds the record for having the most guest stars in an original Disney series.
* HonestJohnsDealership: The Gross Sisters specialize in these kinds of schemes.
* IAteWhat: One episode involves Suga Mama's lemon squares becoming massively popular to the point of ending up on Oprah. This is the part where the whole world discovers that when she says she "puts her foot in it," she means it literally. [[DontExplainTheJoke As in sticks her foot in the batter]]. The audience promptly starts hacking.
* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt: LaCienega and Agatha enter an American Idol-style Music Reality Show, sponsored by Wizard Kelly, LaCienega, being prettier than Agatha, wins due to a fix by Wizard Kelly, "Beauty sells, Ugly Repels, y'all" Penny finds out and tells LaCienega that if she doesn't make things right, she'll have bad Karma. LaCienega gives the prize to Agatha, who, in turn, shares it with her citing fairness.
** This would've been a nice Aesop...[[BrokenAesop if LaCienga didn't instantly threaten Penny after giving up her prize by demanding "she better get something out of it."]]
* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}
* IWasQuiteALooker: Suga Mama
* {{Jerkass}}: For a family friendly show, there are a lot of unlikeable characters here.
** Too many to count in this show, 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!
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: TheMovie is only available on DVD. Disney has no plans for any other releases.
* KillerRabbit: The "psycho duck"!
* LaserGuidedKarma: A nice example happens to Dijonay. She and her friends 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 eariler, and when Penny arrives in a limo by the same band who's playing at the concert, she gets in for free along with her friends... except Dijonay, who her siblings and Penny say they don't know her. [[spoiler: Subverted in that she takes her back, but only to be the person that Penny can't trust.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: pretty much everyone on this show, except for the few occasions where they dress up.
** It's sort of a running gag that whenever the girls dress up, they'll rip off the normal outfits and have the new ones underneath, but Penny will just have another one of her usual outfit underneath. She'll then try a couple more times, with the same results, until she ends up quickly ripping off a lot of the same outfit until she finally gets to the new one. The CreditCardPlot episode even made fun of this where her mother bought her a bunch of copies of the same outfit.
* LiteralGenie: Al Roker. Yes, that Al Roker. However, the wishes he grants Penny always blow up in her face.
* LovableAlphaBitch: LaCienaga was originally a full-fledged AlphaBitch and antagonized Penny, but they eventually become friends and she rounds out the FourGirlEnsemble.
* KentBrockmanNews: Marsha Mitsubishi.
* MachoDisasterExpedition: "Camping Trip"
* MakeoverMontage: "Makeover"; where Olay, the biggest of the Gross Sisters, gets a makeover and becomes popular.
* {{Meganekko}}: Zoey
* MenUseViolenceWomenUseCommunication: Oscar and Trudy
* TheMinnesotaFats: Renée in "There's Something About Renée"
* MistakenForRacist: In the episode "Romeo Must Wed", Penny developed a crush on Kwok while rehearsing for their school's production of ''Romeo & Juliet''. After a while, Kwok's parents, the Wongs, politely asked Oscar and Trudy that they not allow Penny and Kwok to see each other anymore. While [[MenUseViolenceWomenUseCommunication Trudy remained civil in her inquiry, Oscar immediately jumped to conclusions]], thinking that the Wongs didn't approve of their son having a relationship with Penny because she wasn't "good enough" for them. This prompted both Oscar and Mr. Wong to imply the other was a racist. It turns out the real reason was that Kwok had an [[ArrangedMarriage arranged bride]], who was coming to town for a visit.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Wizard Kelly does this to everyone from time to time, but especially to Oscar.
* NewTransferStudent: The Russian Sergei, to whom Zoey is attracted.
* NoEnding: Near the end of "She Drives Me Crazy" Suga Mama gets in another car accident and is suddenly sitting at home watching TV after losing her license again. The episode just ends with one of Bobby Proud's music videos.
** This is not entirely true. When it originally aired on Disney Channel, Bobby's video was added on at the end to advertise the release of the show's soundtrack.
* NoNameGiven: Only one of the Chang triplets is ever given a name. (The girl in the red dress is Debbie).
* NoRespectGuy: Oscar without a doubt.
* OffModel: When she's wearing shoes, Lacienega's feet are about the same size as the other girls', but when she's shown barefoot in "Love Thy Neighbor" her feet are huge. This is actually ''invoked'', as she was wearing the shoes to hide her feet.
** One of Penny's classmates during "I Had a Dream" changes races constantly. It is particularly jarring as it happens during part of the episode that takes place in 1955, and the students are still separated by race in the classroom. So the switches make it seems that a black student is sitting among the the white students when it is previously stated (and seen) everyone is separated.
** There is one where Papi is deliberately animated OffModel, when an actor was put in place of the real Papi to provide the illusion of a resort. Suga Mama immediately notices that Papi's feet aren't ridiculously huge.
* OverprotectiveDad: So, so very much.
* {{Panty Shot}}: The Cheerleaders has three and Penny Proud has one (ep.9 [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=78055141]] [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=78055142]] [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=78055143]] and ep.10 [[http://rabbitjulio.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=78055144]])
* ParentalFavoritism: Suga Mama likes her older son, Bobby, more than she does Oscar.
* PetTheDog: The Gross sisters in "The Party". They don't show up to torment Penny...they actually legitimately act like nice people.
* PlanetEris: This setting is really ''really'' weird. Some episodes appear to set it in a bit more normal setting, but others (especially the camping episode) have this set in some kind of really ''really'' weird place. (Oscar and Felix even get taken to a nest by a ''pterodactyl''!)
* PositiveDiscrimination: Averted. Not only are the Prouds just as insane as any other animated family, but there's also an episode where Penny dates a seemingly angelic boy in a wheelchair, only to realize he's a total prick who uses his disability to get his way.
* PrettyInMink: Penny's aunt Diana is always seen wearing a fancy green fur coat. Even when playing football.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: There was actually some debate because Papi looked "too white" to be hispanic. It's no secret Lacieniga counts as hispanic (She and her mom are darker skinned than Felix, who's tan) but some assumed that Felix was half hispanic, and that his mom was. However, it's fully possible for Papi to be white but still be hispanic, there are plenty of hispanics who can be considered white. Heck, just look at GuillermoDelToro.
* RunningGag: Oscar's "rivalry" with the talking baby
* SecretIngredient: Suga Mama's cooking is so delicious because [[ExactWords she put her foot in it]]. Normally this is just a turn of phrase, but she meant it literally, and revealed it on a national TV show which caused everyone to get sick.
* SeniorSleepCycle: Suga Mama and sometimes Papi.
* ShrinkingViolet: The principal, like [[PoliceAcademy Hooks]], can be [[CuteButCacophonic very loud]].
* ShoutOut:
** Wizard Kelly's name just ''has'' to be a reference to NBA legend Magic Johnson.
** Lacienega Boulevardez. Named after a street in what is often called the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone Studio Zone in L.A.]] Her mother is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard Sunset]].
** Penny's brother and sister are named after brother-sister gospel duo [=BeBe=] and [=CeCe=] Winans.
*** Bebe may very well be a ShoutOut to the film adaptation of ''BebesKids'', Bruce Smith's previous project.
** Lacienega's grandfather is an obvious {{Expy}} of TheJoker. To be specific, the one played by Cesar Romero on the [[{{Series/Batman}} 1960s Adam West Batman show]].
** Penny mentions KimPossible.
** The middle school the kids attend is named for the first (and so far, only) African-American NASCAR driver.
** The family's favorite shows, "Everybody Loves Iesha" and "My Momma and Me" are shout outs to "Moesha" and "The Parkers." Suga Mama even references the NoEnding of "Moesha" by asking about the little brother who was kidnapped.
** Penny also refers to Dr. Dolittle. [[ActorAllusion Her voice actress played the daughter of the famous doctor in the modern film version that also inherited his gift in a later sequel.]]
* TemporaryLoveInterest: Kwok, the Asian boy that Penny dates in one episode, even though it ends with the two getting together, he is never seen or referred to again afterwards.
* ThemeNaming: Dijonay and her siblings are all named after spices, though it doesn't even strike you as odd at first if you've heard the off-the-wall names some urban black parents give their children. And, the Boulevardez family -- at least the ladies.
* ThisTropeIsBleep: anytime a Sir Paid A Lot song is played.
* TokenWhite: Zoey.
* [[TheMovie The TV Movie]]: Also acted as the GrandFinale to the series.
* TheUnfairSex: Oscar. Big Time. Part of it is a result of Oscar being the shows ButtMonkey, but 9 times out of 10, any conflict between Oscar and Trudy always have Oscar at fault, and the other time it'll ''still'' paint Oscar as the bad guy.
* 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 parent's 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?
* VerbalTic:
** Bobby, y'all!
** Wizard Kelly.
** And Sir Paid A Lot, Dawg!
* TheVoiceless: Two of the Gross sisters (Olay, the biggest one and Gina, the smallest one) never speak. Nubia, the middle one, does all of their talking.
** Although they are actually able to sing...and very well at that.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The show was initially pitched to {{Nickelodeon}}.
* WildTeenParty: Penny has a sleepover that quickly turns into this when Lacieniga calls everyone from their middle school.
* 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.
* YouBetterSitDown
* 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.
* YouSayTomato: Sticky pronounces "yacht" as "yatch".
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