History YMMV / TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder

* HarsherInHindsight: 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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_and_Florida%27s_Parental_Rights_in_Education_Act then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek's initial refusal to condemn]] the controversial [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Parental_Rights_in_Education_Act Parental Rights in Education Act]] (House Bill 1557 before its signing, what opposers call the "Don't Say Gay" Law) in Florida (Ride/WaltDisneyWorld's home state) after funding most of the politicians that backed it, instead promising to promote inclusivity with the company's content.[[note]]The company has since vowed to challenge it, which led to Florida governor Ron [=DeSantis=] repealing the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement Act that gives Disney great control over the land Walt Disney World sits on.[[/note]]

* KarmicOverkill: 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 food at times, 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.

* TheScrappy: Maya does not seem to have many fans, on account of her "woke" persona making her come across as HolierThanThou 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 [[KnowNothingKnowItAll 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. 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.

** Zoey's mistreatment in "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.

* TheScrappy: Maya does not seem to have many fans, on account of her "woke" persona making her come across as HolierThanThou 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 [[KnowNothingKnowItAll 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. 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. 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.

** In "Curved", Penny, needing a new debate partner, went and asked 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.

* TheScrappy: Maya does not seem to have many fans, on account of her "woke" persona making her come across as HolierThanThou 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 [[KnowNothingKnowItAll 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. 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. While she does warm up to and starts treating Penny nicer, she still hasn't gotten much love from viewers.

** 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, but they proceed to act hostile towards Zoey over 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.

* KarmicOverkill: 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 and sleep in a dog bed. 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.

* TheScrappy: Maya does not seem to have many fans, on account of her "woke" persona making her come across as HolierThanThou 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 [[KnowNothingKnowItAll 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 she still hangs out with them and in episode three she hangs around [=LaCieniga=] of all people and even helps her with trying to steal Kareem away from Penny. 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. While she does warm up to and starts treating Penny nicer, she still hasn’t gotten much love from viewers.

** Melrose in "Raging Bully". She went through a divorce some time before the episode took place, 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.

* TheScrappy: 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 she still hangs out with them and in episode three she hangs around [=LaCieniga=] of all people and even helps her with trying to steal Kareem away from Penny. 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. While she does warm up to and starts treating Penny nicer, she still hasn’t gotten much love from viewers.

** While everyone can agree that [=LaCienega=]'s bullying of [[spoiler: [=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, [[FreudianExcuse to escape her abusive mother]].

* KarmicOverkill: 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 and sleep in a dog bed. 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.

** In "Curved," Penny, needing a new debate partner, went and asked 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.