The BEST episodes of The Proud Family

Every episode of The Proud Family ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Proud Family!

Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a typical African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny's every encounter inevitably spirals into bigger-than-life situations filled with hi-jinks, hilarity and heart.

Last Updated: 4/26/2025Network: Disney ChannelStatus: Ended

9.75

8 votes

#1 - Pulp Boot Camp

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/28/2003

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

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9.50

8 votes

#2 - Election

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/7/2003

Penny is running for school president against Wizard Kelly Jr., but unfortunately he's trying to buy everyone's vote. With the help of Zoey and the Gross sisters, Penny's friends try to sabotage Wizard Jr.'s campaign, but Penny prefers to take the high road and lose than resort to negative campaigning just to win.

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9.29

7 votes

#3 - Surf and Turf

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/27/2003

In order to win Sticky's love, Dijonay tries to make him jealous by flirting with a new boy from Hawaii.

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9.25

8 votes

#4 - Adventures In BeBe-Sitting

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/20/2003

Dijonay sneaks off to see a concert, leaving Penny to babyist all of their siblings.

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9.22

9 votes

#5 - The Legend of Johnny Lovely

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/25/2003

Penny rehearses for the debutante ball and meets a well-mannered man.

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9.22

9 votes

#6 - It Takes a Thief

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/12/2003

LaCienega's new boyfriend, Lil Wiz, hooks up her friends with jobs at Wizard Kelly's store Wizingdale's. But when a watch is discovered to be missing by the store manager, they end up getting fired. Penny and Suga Mama then go in search of the thief that stole the watch.

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9.14

7 votes

#7 - One In a Million

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/18/2003

When Penny wins a chance to win $1,000,000 by shooting a half-court shot at the All-Star basketball game, Oscar convinces her to let him take the shot instead in order to fulfill a lifelong dream.

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9.14

7 votes

#8 - Psycho Duck

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/19/2005

Penny convinces her mom to let her adopt an abandoned duck, but begins to have second thoughts after the duck goes on a rampage and turns against her entire family.

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9.14

7 votes

#9 - Who You Callin' a Sissy?

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/12/2005

When Penny's friend Michael is called a sissy, she takes responsibility for helping him defend himself.

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9.13

16 votes

#10 - The Altos

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/12/2002

Sticky, dealing with his parents divorce, starts hanging out with a group of bullies called "The Altos." In order to knock some sense into Sticky, Trudy and Penny recruit Oscar to expose Sticky to The Proud Snack Factory believing Sticky will find a positive role model in Oscar. Unbeknownst to the Prouds, Sticky has ulterior motives. Meanwhile, Oscar is gypped by Wizard Enterprises when his company logo is not visible to the naked eye.

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9.11

9 votes

#11 - Thelma & Luis

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2003

When Papi is sent to a nursing home that turns out to be a front for an okra farm where the residents are forced to work, Penny and her friends join forces with Suga Mama to help Papi escape.

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9.00

8 votes

#12 - Penny Potter

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/26/2003

When Penny's Aunt Diana comes into town with her traveling telekinesis extravaganza, we learn that Suga Mama's younger sibling, Sister Spice, isn't all that nice.

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8.89

9 votes

#13 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/5/2003

Wizard Kelly puts on a "Tween Idol" contest with celebrity judges Alicia Keys and Randy Jackson, and Ryan Seacrest as host.

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8.82

28 votes

#14 - Forbidden Date

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/2001

Penny breaks her father's no-dating rule when she goes to the amusement park and pairs up with a boy named Carlos. Elsewhere, her parents go on a double date to a day spa.

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8.78

18 votes

#15 - Don't Leave Home Without It

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/2001

Penny is entrusted with her very own credit card, which she plans on using responsibly, but it seems to have a mind of its own. Oscar, meanwhile, nearly spends his family out of house and home in his attempt to catch a mouse.

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8.68

28 votes

#16 - Tiger Whisperer

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/2001

It's "take your daughters to work day" and Penny decides that a day spent with any other mom would be far more interesting than a day with her own. Determined to reconnect with her daughter, Trudy drags Penny to her veterinarian clinic where she ends up curing an ailing circus tiger whose thoughts she can somehow hear. Meanwhile, Oscar, his brother Bobby, and Felix peddle ice cream at the Wizard Kelly All-Star game.

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8.67

9 votes

#17 - I Love You Penny Proud

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/2002

Penny is guilt-tripped into forming a relationship with a boy in a wheelchair on Valentine's Day. However, the boy turns out to be obnoxious and rude, prompting Penny to break up with him.

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8.67

12 votes

#18 - Suga Mama's Believers

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/2004

Suga Mama becomes the manager of Penny's struggling baseball team and turns it around by filling them with confidence, only to lose her own confidence when she faces her old baseball rival, Cool Papa Mack.

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8.66

29 votes

#19 - She's Got Game

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/2001

Penny's efforts to impress a boy at school land her on the football team. Oscar develops a new snack food called jelly poppers.

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8.64

11 votes

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

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/1/2003

When Penny and her friends volunteer to be junior camp counselors, Oscar decides to have one of the camp kids spy on Penny to make sure she isn't hanging out with any boys.

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8.60

20 votes

#21 - Seven Days of Kwanzaa

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/2001

When the Prouds invite a homeless family over for Christmas dinner, the family stays for the seven days of Kwanzaa.

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8.57

35 votes

#22 - Rumors

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2001

Penny tries to stop a rumor. She learns that rumors come and go and what's important is that she knows the truth. Trudy drags Oscar to her veterinarian awards banquet.

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8.55

11 votes

#23 - Monkey Business

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2003

When Mariah Carey's pet monkey, Francois, gets switched at Trudy's veterinarian office with Oscar's monkey, Mr. Chips, Francois is put to work at the Proud Snacks factory and Mr. Chips is living a life of luxury with Mariah.

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8.50

12 votes

#24 - Crouching Trudy, Hidden Penny

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/2003

Penny and her friends take a martial art class. When her friends drop the class leaving Penny solo, Penny decides to stick it out and learns the discipline of martial arts.

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8.50

8 votes

#25 - Culture Shock

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2003

Penny and her friends spend the weekend at each others houses while writing a school paper about cultural differences.

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