"Old Towne Road" is a two-part episode of the Disney+ animated series, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. Part one premiered on April 20, 2022 on Disney+ while part two premiered on February 1, 2023. It is the final episode of season one and the season two premiere.
Part one made its Disney Channel debut on February 4, 2023 while part two aired on March 4.
Synopsis[]
When Trudy tracks down Suga Mama's family in Oklahoma, the Prouds head for the family rodeo, where Suga Mama's painful history will be revealed; Oscar discovers he's a natural cowboy.
Plot[]
Part one[]
Trudy is searching her family lineage on her laptop, leaving Oscar to order some pizza. They are amazed to find out that the Parkers go all the way back to Africa, but they can’t find anyone from Oscar’s family besides himself, Bobby and Suga Mama (Percy Proud, their father, is noticeably absent from the search results).
When Suga Mama returns, following a shopping liaison with Bobby, a disoriented Trudy reveals that her real name is Charlette and her family hails from Towne, Oklahoma. Suga Mama’s response: “I don’t want to talk about it.” Oscar, Bobby and Penny are unwilling to go, given their own personal engagements, but Trudy pulls rank based on a few technicalities and forces them all to go. With Suga Mama and Puff strapped to the top of the car, the family drives 3,000 miles, singing Shabooya Roll Call, with Penny missing Kareem while he is stuck with LaCienega on their class field trip to Washington DC. When they arrive, they find a deserted town and a sign pointing them in the right direction.
The Prouds are introduced to the Townes, a group of hillbilly cowboy figures who enjoy the simpler things in life. After saving Bebe from a bull, Oscar proves to be a natural born cowboy, much to Suga Mama’s dismay. Meanwhile, Penny is trying to get a signal on her phone to call Kareem again, but to no avail, especially when she is being mocked by the two children who are enjoying their simpler things. Despite winning many contests with the family, as well as Trudy delivering a ton of foals, Suga Mama remembers why she left in the first place: Her father is still stuck in a time when the world of rodeo championships belonged only to men.
Part two[]
Continuing where the previous episode left off, Suga Mama packs her bindle and decides to leave Towne while Penny finally gets a signal and calls Dijonay on her phone, but reveals that LaCienega and Kareem have booed up until the signal goes out, much to her chagrin and frustration. Penny sees Suga Mama leaving, follows her and decides to tag along with her. She follows Suga Mama into a field full of flowers and they both state that they want to get the “H-E-double hockey sticks outta here.”
As they travel through the desert, Oscar competes with his uncles in a pig race. He has difficulty getting his pig to move until he eats his Proud Snax. Oscar wins the race, Trudy grows worried for Penny and one of the relatives tells them that they left.
That night, Suga Mama insinuates that a hundred years of sexism runs deeper than her granddaughter can comprehend. After an encounter with choyas, they are met by an Indian on horseback named Quanah and his grandson Tyee, whom Penny falls for. The two have had some history together. At the campfire, Suga Mama reveals that she and Quanah were due to be married, but because interracial marriage between Indians and black people had not become fully accepted yet, their plans fell through. She decided to run away, but her father caught her and forbade her to return if she ran away. And thus, she ran away from home and her father disowned her.
Quanah reveals that Pa hung him upside down to convince him to never see Suga Mama again and ran away from her. Even so, she does not forgive him and she decides to move on with Penny, and Puff by extension. Before Penny can leave, Oscar shows up with his uncles to take Penny and Suga Mama home. Tyee invites Penny to tomorrow’s rodeo and this convinces her to stay.
At the rodeo, Oscar wins the race, Charles wins the greased hog wrestling, Bobby tries and fails at log splitting, Julebug wins log rolling and Bobby wins jalapeño eating. When it is time for the bull riding competition, Oscar is already in trouble, so Suga Mama comes to the rescue of her son by riding the bull. Pa is stunned after witnessing her bull riding skills and it took him years to realize how wrong he was. Suga Mama goes down in history as the first woman to win the competition and this earns her father’s respect. When the Prouds are about to leave the town, Tyee gives Penny his cowboy hat so she can always remember him, and then he kissed her goodbye. Although they were never meant to be after all these years, Suga Mama and Quanah are starting their relationship anew, as friends. The Prouds then left the town as they witness that it has become more livelier than it was before.
In the post-credits scene, Kareem tries to convince Penny that nothing happened between him and LaCienega, but Penny says that it's cool, and that she told him that she got a cowboy hat from a "friend".
Cast[]
- Kyla Pratt as Penny Proud
- Bresha Webb as CeCe Proud
- Aiden Dodson as BeBe Proud
- Jo Marie Payton as Charlette Proud
- Dominique Fishback as 12-Year-Old Suga Mama
- Paula Jai Parker as Trudy Proud
- Tommy Davidson as Oscar Proud
- Cedric the Entertainer as Bobby Proud
- Alisa Reyes as LaCienega Boulevardez (Part 1 only), Raquel Towne
- Asante Blackk as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Brown
- Glynn Turman as Pa Towne
- Art Evans as Charlie Towne
- James Pickens Jr. as Charles Towne
- Marcus T. Paulk as 10-Year-Old Charles
- Debbie Allen as Myrtle Towne
- DC Young Fly as Man-Man Towne
- Lil Nas X as June Bug Towne
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Man Towne
- Kimberly Brooks as Harriet Towne
- Karen Malina White as Dijonay Jones (Part 2 only)
- Wes Studi as Quanah (Part 2 Only)
- Forrest Goodluck as Tyee (Part 2 only)
Song[]
- "Shabooya (Roll Call)" by The Proud Family
- "Old Town Road (Proud Family Mix)" by Lil Nas X ft. Cedric the Entertainer (Bobby Proud)
Trivia[]
- Moral: Don't run away from past problems or they will fester. Confronting them will be the only way to come to terms with them and receive closure.
- The title is a play on the song "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X. Both the song and the performer are featured in the episode. By coincidence, Amphibia had an episode earlier that month titled "Olm Town Road", also named after the song.
- Suga Mama's grandfather and the founder of Towne, Oklahoma is named Deuteronomy Leviticus D'Brickashaw Ferguson Karl Anthony Towne.
- Ray Ray is mentioned by Oscar.
- The Proud Family remix of “Old Town Road” retains Lil Nas’ lyrics from the original, but Bobby’s lyrics are sung in place of Billy Ray Cyrus’s.
- When Oscar learned that Suga Mama was born and raised in Oklahoma, he originally thought she was born and raised in Jurassic Park.
- This is the first episode in the entire The Proud Family franchise where Dijonay doesn't appear until Part 2.
- This is also the first episode of this series in which Zoey doesn’t appear.
- When June-Bug gives Bobby a washboard, Bobby says he feels like Washboard Chaz, a blues musician from New Orleans.
- When running away, Suga Mama she is getting the "H-E-double-hockey-sticks" away, which is often a euphemism for "hell".
- The names of the racing hogs are Hamela Anderson (Bobby mentions that she was last seen in Haywatch and was "a lot smaller back then"), "Hogtied", "Swinetail", "Piggy Smalls", and Oscar's hog is named "Pork Rind Stone Cowboy".
- Quanah gives Penny the book Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples by Jack D. Forbes.
- First, and so far, only, episode to have a stinger.
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