Awesome / The Proud Family

Series

Season 1

• This one line from Trudy when she thinks Penny is going to get hurt by Ajay the Tiger in "Tiger Whisperer":
  Trudy: He's got. My. Baby.
• In "The Forbidden Date," Carlos gets one when he saves Bebe and Cece when they end up on a roller coaster.
• The episode "Teacher's Pet" has a subplot where Oscar and Trudy want to get the twins into a good school. A problem arises when Dave Daniels, the man in charge turns out to be someone Oscar used to torment in middle school (he used to call him “Dave the Dork”). He claims that he has no animosity for their past but proves otherwise by gouging Oscar for as much money as possible to consider the twins. He caps off everything by essentially forcing Oscar to let him dance with Trudy, pushing one of Oscar's Berserk Buttons. Oscar finally has enough and tells the man as calmly as possible that he is done with Dave’s pettiness and leads Trudy away. He actually apologizes to Trudy for ruining the twins chances at getting into the school but she just pulls him in for The Big Damn Kiss. So essentially he gets to bite back at someone who is going out of their way to antagonize Oscar without fear of reprisal but Oscar does so without his usual belligerence and even apologizes to his wife for what he did, only for Trudy to be impressed with her husband instead of disappointed. He really got thrown a bone here.
  • Also in the same episode, Sugar-Mama and Gertie Dinkins putting aside their 50-year grudge to win the dance competition against the Darnell sisters.
• Penny reciting Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech in "I Had a Dream".
  • Earlier, her response to alt!Zoey's unease about taking her pet bird to a "colored" veterinarian is pretty awesome too, since it makes the point that "willing to help" is the important part of a person's description.
    That bird don't know black or white. He just knows he needs help.
  • The episode also has been praised for having Penny openly state that while the future is better than the era she's currently stuck in, it's still heavily weighted in the favor of white people, a bold statement considering many people just want to pretend everything is perfect.
• In a Valentine's Day Episode ("I Love You, Penny Proud"), Penny discovers that Johnny McBride (a boy who is in a wheelchair for some reason) has a crush on her after he uses graffiti around the school to get her attention. She becomes his girlfriend out of pity, but it turns out Johnny is a manipulative jerkass who leeches off Penny's family while being completely disrespectful. Penny eventually works up the nerve to tell him off after he ruins her family's vacation at a ski resort, slamming the door in his face after he tells her “We’ll always have ski mountain”. But not before adding that she'll alert Lacienaga's mom, who's a cop, if he commits any more vandalism in Penny's name. Penny asks Oscar and Trudy not to get mad at her for what she did, but they're both very proud for how she stood up for herself and for the family. In the end, Penny learned an important lesson few people consider: a person's physical handicap does not instantly put them on the moral high ground.
  Penny Proud: Your wheels aren't the reason I don't like you! But they are the reason I'd said I be your girlfriend. That, and because I felt sorry for you, but I don't anymore. You need a personality check, Johnny. You're rude, obnoxious, inconsiderate. You disrespected my parents, my grandmother, Me! You're not a nice person, Johnny! But my family? They are nice people and I'm sorry I ever brought you around, so why don't you break?!
• In "Puff's Magic Adventure", Trudy and Oscar argue about whose fault it was that Puff went missing, but Penny cuts in saying that it was all (yes, Penny includes herself) their fault.
• In the episode "Enter the Bullies", Oscar got into a fight with Mr. Gross, the Gross Sisters' father, which ended rather badly for him. At the end of the episode, after Penny has brokered a truce between herself and the Sisters, Oscar once more visits Mr. Gross and says that even though they both got off on the wrong foot, they have to set a proper example for their children. Gross himself agrees, saying they "gotta do it for the kids", and they both part on amicable terms. Take That! Broken Aesop Episode..
• When LPDZ wins the Hip Hop Helicopter Dance Competition in "Hip-Hop Helicopter".
• Lacienega’s routine for the Teen Pageant in “Love Thy Neighbour” can count, considering how Oscar was able to get a pool on the stage.
• In "The Party," Penny is cheered up by Rou Lawls & the two have a musical rendition together. Everyone claps, and Penny ends up apologizing to everyone for her actions. This is also a heartwarming moment.

Season 2

• A Hero for Halloween...
  • When Penny takes on the Gross Sisters... and wins.
  • When Penny defeats the ghost that invaded the house.
• The only time Oscar finally comes out on top was when Penny had a chance to win a Million Dollars and had to shoot a ball from Midcourt at a basketball game owned by The Wizard. His past is brought up when he accidentally cost his team the game as a teenager and has been ridiculed ever since then. Despite it, Penny selects him and he's there at the court in two seconds and the entire crowd (even his mother) cheers him on. He shoots... And hits it, the ball going perfectly in the net.
  • Almost thwarted when Wizard uses Exact Words to give Oscar special currency that is only redeemable at one of his restaurants on certain days. Oscar laments that Wizard got one over on him again but Penny points out it is one of the days he can use them and they treat the entire crowd to ice cream.
• "Tween Town"
  • When Penny's parents find out that she and her friends lied to them about where they were really spending the night (They said they were at the local beat poetry club but actually snuck out to a nightclub), Trudy gets so angry she demands that Oscar let her drive the car when they go confront the girls!
  • Oscar and Trudy busting Penny and her friends at the nightclub. First, Oscar loudly confronts Penny for sneaking out to a nightclub, catching the attention of everybody in the club. Then when LaCienega, Dijonay, and Zoey attempt to bolt, Trudy blocks the exit so they can get punished for sneaking to the nightclub, too. When Penny complains to her parents for embarrassing her, Oscar says this:
    Oscar: I don't care! You girls should be embarrassed! (Puts Penny on the spot in front of everyone) Hey everybody, look at Penny! She lies to her parents!
  • Penny gets one when she challenges Al Roker to a double dutch contest to try to get the adults back, and does one million and four skips within just an hour. Granted, Al having supernatural abilities meant he easily had the power and stamina to beat her, but that was still impressive for a 14-year-old girl.
  • Bobby has a more unintentional but still awesome moment by revealing that he was unaffected by Penny’s wish, thus rendering her contract with Al Roker null and void, which not only brings all the adults back, but saves Bebe and Cece from the same fate.
    Al Roker: I can’t believe it! How did he slip through the cracks?!
    Bobby: Because I’m a kid at heart!
• When Suga Mama learns that her older sister Spice is conning Oscar in "Penny Potter", she prevents her escape with the money to prevent her son from being hurt by the scam. Then Sista Spice tries to move Suga Mama with her Mind over Matter powers, which Suga Mama then turns against her by reflecting it back with a garbage can lid.
• Every time when Suga Mama helped Oscar in a wrestling match in the episode "Smackmania 6: Mongo vs. Mama's Boy"
  • When Trudy steps in the ring to fight Jasmine aka "Hot Mama".
    Trudy: Hot Mama, meet Baby Mama!
• Chester, the titular duck from "Psycho Duck", goes into Papa Wolf mode when the Gross sisters threaten to beat up Penny. The duck took on all of three of them and won.

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