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"Teacher's Pet" is the ninth episode of The Proud Family.
Overview[]
Penny's grades fall victim to a longtime grudge held between her teacher Ms. Dinkins and Suga Mama; Oscar and Trudy enroll the twins in a private preschool.
Episode Summary[]
Penny gets a "D" on her report on Hilary Clinton, getting the impression that, for some reason, her teacher, Ms. Gertie Dinkins, hates her with a passion. The following day, she is due to attend a parent teacher conference, but Oscar and Trudy have plans on taking BeBe and CeCe into a private preschool so Suga Mama agrees to go in their place. There, they discover that the headmaster of the school, Dave Foreman, used to be Oscar's favorite bully victim in middle school. The price of admitting Bebe and CeCe into the school costs about $3,000. Meanwhile, Suga Mama arrives at the classroom and Penny discovers that the two have had some fifty year history together…a history of animosity. Suga Mama explains to Penny that the reason why Ms. Dinkins is hostile to Penny is because she is trying to get revenge on Suga Mama by intentionally failing her grades before the two break out into an all-out karate duel.
Back home, Penny explains the outcome to Oscar and Trudy: Suga Mama and Ms. Dinkins had their fight broken up by Coach Collins, who returns Suga Mama to the house. Suga Mama explains her history with Ms. Dinkins via flashback: During World War II, while entertaining soldiers at the Diamond Club, she meet the Tuskeegee Airmen and their mechanic, Percy Proud (Oscar's father and Penny's paternal grandfather). Ms. Dinkins also had an eye on Percy and the two of them worked together in a Jitterbug contest against their rivals, Mary and Mamie Darnell. Suga Mama then suggested a coin toss over who would get to leave with Percy that she won and ended up marrying him. Penny and Oscar go over to Ms. Dinkins' house to sort things out and Penny discovers an invitation to a charity event at the Diamond Club to which Ms. Dinkins will be going to.
At the Diamond Club, with the Prouds and Dijonay attending (plus Sticky whose father is a roadie for the band), Oscar tells Dave that he will not be enrolling BeBe and CeCe in his school on account of the expenses and Penny tries to make peace between Ms. Dinkins and Suga Mama, who reveals that the latter cheated the coin toss by using a two headed coin, something which Suga Mama deliberately kept from her own family. The Darnell sisters show up, also revealing that, with Suga Mama and Gertie out of the way, they have been the Jitterbug champions for the last half century. Reinvigorated, Suga Mama suggests another coin toss: heads they go after the Darnell sisters. If tails "the next time we talk's behind the Pearly Gates." Ms. Dinkins agrees using her coin. It lands on heads and Suga Mama recognizes it as her old trick coin that Gertie had found 50 years earlier. Putting their differences aside at last, they take a reluctant Oscar to be their dance partner and win the championship.
In the end, Suga Mama and Ms. Dinkins become friends again and Ms. Dinkins does the right thing and changes the grade on Penny's paper from a "D" to the one she deserves: an "A".
Goofs[]
- When Dijonay grabs Sticky so he can dance with her at the end, her hair ball changes from a blue to a light red.
Trivia[]
- Moral: Don’t hold on to grudges.
- It looked like Ms. Dinkins didn't know that Suga Mama was Penny's grandmother until the parent-teacher conference, but it could have been that she was just surprised that Suga Mama came to the conference instead of Oscar and Trudy.
- This is the only appearance of Percy Proud.
- Percy would later make a cameo appearance in "Home School", where he is seen in a portrait hung up in Suga Mama's house.
- Despite the fact that Penny states that her family are republicans in "Strike", this episode implies that they are democratic as Penny reveals that her hero is Hilary Clinton and Oscar accuses Ms. Dinkins of giving her paper a D because she is a republican.
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