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The Proud Family
2001 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Bruce W. Smith
Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old 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. Her quest to balance her home, school and social lives are further complicated by friends like the sassy Dijonay, Penny's nemesis LaCienega Boulevardez, her loving, if not over-protective parents and her hip-to-the-groove-granny, Suga Mama.
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As someone who is a native of Los Angeles, and spent many childhood drives on La Cienega, I love this story. I had to look up the character -- looks like it was an animated series called The Proud Family that ran on Disney in the early 00s, and was created by an LA native.
Growing up in LA I could see a lot of influences from my local area in media (and in the 80s a lot of stuff was filmed in LA too so I'd literally see local spots in movies). But it never occurred to me that the LA inside jokes wouldn't really be inside jokes to people outside of LA.