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The Proud Family
''The Proud Family'' is an American animated television series created by Bruce W. Smith that originally ran on Disney Channel from September 15, 2001, to August 19, 2005. A revival, known as '' The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder'', was announced in 2020 and made its premiere on Disney+ on February 23, 2022. Characters Main * Penny Proud (voiced by Kyla Pratt) is the main protagonist of the series, a 14-year-old girl who is usually embarrassed by her father, Oscar. She enjoys hanging out with her friends, even though they have gotten her into trouble, and left her to face danger by herself many times. She always listens to and respects her parents, but often caves in to peer pressure. She is a talented singer, as shown when she becomes a solo singer for Wizard Kelly Productions, but quits after missing her old life. Penny is a straight 'A' student, and is part of the school newspaper staff. At one point, she tried out for cheerleading, but due to having an accident with th ...
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Adventure
An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme sports. Adventures are often undertaken to create psychological arousal or in order to achieve a greater goal, such as the pursuit of knowledge that can only be obtained by such activities. Motivation Adventurous experiences create psychological arousal, which can be interpreted as negative (e.g. fear) or positive (e.g. flow (psychology), flow). For some people, adventure becomes a major pursuit in and of itself. According to adventurer André Malraux, in his ''Man's Fate'' (1933), "If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?". Similarly, Helen Keller stated that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Outdoor adventurous activities are typically undertaken for the purposes of recreation or wikt:excitement, excite ...
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Carlos Mencia
Ned Arnel "Carlos" Mencía (born October 22, 1967) is a Honduran-American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race relations, Latin American culture, criminal justice, and social class. He is best known as the host of the Comedy Central show ''Mind of Mencia'' (2005–2008). Around the time of the show's cancellation, several comedians accused Mencía of plagiarism and stealing jokes. Early life Ned Arnel Mencía was born in San Pedro Sula on October 22, 1967, the son of Mexican mother Magdelena Mencía and Honduran father Roberto Holness. He has 16 older siblings and one younger sibling. At the time of his birth, his mother was engaged in a domestic dispute with his father, and she subsequently refused to give Mencía his biological father's surname. Out of respect for his father, he later began using the Holness surname anyway, and did so until the age of 18. He moved to the U.S. as a child and was raised Catholic in East ...
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Animated Series
An animated series is a set of animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes should typically share the same main characters, some different secondary characters and a basic theme. Series can have either a finite number of episodes like a miniseries, a definite end, or be open-ended, without a predetermined number of episodes. They can be broadcast on television, shown in movie theatres, released direct-to-video or on the internet. Like other television series, films, including animated films, animated series can be of a wide variety of genres and can also have different demographic target audiences, from males to females ranging children to adults. Television Animated television series are regularly presented and can appear as much as up to once a week or daily during a prescribed time slot. The time slot may vary including morning, like saturday-morning cartoons, prime time, like prime time cartoons, to late night, like late night ...
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Louder And Prouder
''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder'' is an American animated television series created by Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar which premiered on Disney+ on February 23, 2022. It is a revival and soft reboot of ''The Proud Family'', which originally aired on Disney Channel from 2001 to 2005. In April 2022, Disney+ confirmed that the show's second season was in production. The series has been received positively. The series made its' linear premiere on January 7, 2023 on Disney Channel, and on Disney XD on January 8, 2023. Premise The series follows the story of Penny Proud, a 16-year-old girl and her family, as they navigate their lives in the 2020s. Trudy, Penny's mom, has new career highs, Oscar, Penny's dad, has wild dreams, and Penny faces a myriad of challenges while her Suga Mama returns, as does Michael, Dijonay, Zoey, and LaCienega, and is introduced to two new kids, Maya and KG, who are raised by two dads, try to adapt to life in Smithville. Characters Main * Penny P ...
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The Proud Family Movie
''The Proud Family Movie'' is a 2005 American animated comedy television film based on the Disney Channel animated series, ''The Proud Family''. It premiered on August 19, 2005 and serves as the finale to the show’s original run. Plot Penny Proud is about to celebrate her 16th birthday, and she is excited for herself and her friends to be part of a dance group led by 15 Cent since he's Sticky's cousin. However, when 15 Cent drives Penny home, her father Oscar gets angry when he finds them kissing. Overreacting on this, Oscar grounds Penny indefinitely and cancels her birthday, which leaves Penny very furious as she outrageously resents Oscar for being her father. In the meantime, Oscar manages to create a serum that can make his Proud Snacks tastier, but it instead causes the snack to expand and explode. As he is hauled away following his failed presentation, he protests that his formula has no expiration date, which is overheard by a man named Dr. Carver, who has been trying t ...
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Disney Channel
Disney Channel, sometimes known as simply Disney, is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Company. Launched on April 18, 1983 under the name The Disney Channel as a premium channel on top of basic cable television systems, it originally showcased programming towards families due to availability of home television sets locally at the time. Since 1997, as just Disney Channel, its programming has shifted focus to target mainly children and adolescents, with a major focus on girls. The channel showcases original first-run children's television series, theatrically-released and original television films and other selected third-party programming. As of , Disney Channel is available on basic cable and satellite in over 190 million American and global homes. Original programming/content on/from the channel spans television, online, mo ...
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Ralph Farquhar
Ralph Farquhar (born September 19, 1951) is an American film and television producer and writer, and playwright. He is the co-creator of three sitcoms set in South Central, Los Angeles, California: the Fox sitcom '' South Central'', and, with Sara Finney-Johnson and Vida Spears, the UPN sitcoms ''Moesha'', starring Brandy, and its spinoff ''The Parkers'', starring Countess Vaughn and Mo'Nique. Farquhar first attended the United States Military Academy at West Point before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the University of Illinois. His writing credits include ''Happy Days'', '' Fame'', and '' Married...with Children.'' He has also served as an executive producer on ''The Sinbad Show'', ''The Proud Family'', and ''Real Husbands of Hollywood'', and was the screenwriter of the 1985 film ''Krush Groove'', starring Run-DMC. More recently, he signed an overall deal with Disney. Personal life His younger brother is Kurt Farquhar, a composer for film and t ...
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Willard Carroll
Willard F. Carroll (born November 12, 1955, in Easton, Maryland) is an American producer, writer, director, and animator. Career He was an executive producer of ''The Brave Little Toaster'', ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars'' and ''The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue'', also writing the screenplay for the last two films. He wrote and directed the Ragnarok-themed film ''The Runestone'', the ensemble romance, ''Playing by Heart'', ''Tom's Midnight Garden'' and the Bollywood pastiche '' Marigold''. ''Playing by Heart'' was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. An ardent fan of the Land of Oz, Carroll is recognized as having the largest privately held collection of Oz memorabilia in the world, comprising more than 100,000 items. Several books, including ''The Wizard of Oz Collectors' Treasury'' and ''All Things Oz'', have been published displaying parts of his collection, which includes the Wicked Witch of the West's hourglass from the 1939 film. ...
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Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Disney–ABC Domestic Television (doing business as Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution, and formerly named Buena Vista Television) is the in-home sales and content distribution firm of Disney Platform Distribution, a subsidiary of the Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution division of The Walt Disney Company. Content distribution responsibilities include domestic television syndication, domestic pay TV, Internet and cable video-on-demand (VOD), and pay-per-view outlets. Disney–ABC Domestic TV replaces the original 20th Television since August 10, 2020, and is currently running as a syndication and distribution arm. Background ABC's first syndication arm, ABC Films (established in July 1953), was spun off as Worldvision Enterprises (now CBS Media Ventures) in March 1973 due to fin-syn laws (which have since been repealed). Despite having some TV shows and feature films, Disney only had two syndicated shows, ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' and ''The Mou ...
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Jambalaya Studios
Bruce Wayne Smith (born September 6, 1961) is an African-American animator, character designer, film director and television producer. He is best known as the creator of Disney Channel's ''The Proud Family'' and '' The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder'', as well as the supervising animator of Kerchak and Baboons & Baby Baboon in ''Tarzan'', Pacha in ''The Emperor's New Groove'', Dr. Facilier in ''The Princess and the Frog'' and Piglet, Kanga and Roo in ''Winnie the Pooh''. Biography Smith grew up in Los Angeles, California. At age 10, he made his first animated film based on designs of ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians''. Smith studied animation in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He later stated that while at CalArts he became aware of the lack of Black characters in animated films which motivated him to create his own animated series. In 1984, he was the key assistant animator on a TV short of ''Garfield in the Rough''. In the years t ...
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Bud'da
Stephen Anderson, better known as Bud'da, is an American producer, songwriter, composer and rapper for artists such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Xzibit and Aaliyah. Through the successful Westside Connection stint, and the mutual acquaintance of fellow Pittsburgh producer Sam Sneed, Dr. Dre wanted to feature snippets of a Bud’da-produced track in the beginning and end of the 2pac & Dr. Dre video for “California Love,” off Tupac Shakur’s ''All Eyez on Me''. Soon after Dr. Dre’s historic departure from Death Row Records, Bud’da was once again recruited by Dr. Dre to co-produce the lead single '' "Been There, Done That"'' off the ''Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath'' album. Early life Bud'da was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and began his career with production for Da Lench Mob Records' group Kausion. He went on to work with a wide range of artists including Xzibit, Nas, Timbaland, Shanice, Lenny Kravitz, Tank, Dawn Robinson of En Vogue, King T, Dr. Dre, Aaliyah ...
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Kurt Farquhar
Kurt Farquhar is a Los Angeles-based television and film composer. Farquhar is a seven-time BMI award winner, including four for ''The King of Queens''. one for '' The Game'' and two for ''Being Mary Jane''. He is best known for composing the scores for ''The King of Queens'', '' Girlfriends'', '' Sister, Sister'', ''Moesha'', ''Being Mary Jane'', ''The Game'', ''Black Lightning'', The Neighborhood, and ''Real Husbands of Hollywood''. Farquhar's career is notable for having scored more prime-time television series than any other African-American composer to date. A native of Chicago, he is the youngest of five children. He is the younger brother of television producer and writer Ralph Farquhar, and the two have worked together on several shows. Farquhar musical education took him from the streets of Chicago to the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston, The National Conservatory of Music in Versailles, France, and Eastern Illinois University, where he studied with noted percu ...
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