The Proud Family (2001) s01e14 Episode Script

Due to a desire to make
people aware of accomplishments
of Negroes,
Dr. Woodson created
Don't you mean
African-Americas, Mr. Webb?
Well, in 1926 when Dr. Woodson
started negro history week
that was the name
African-Americans were called
Among other things.
In February 1976,
negro history week
became black history month.
What's the chance of the
month going back to just a week?
That's cute, miss Jones,
but even if it was a week
it wouldn't get you
out of this assignment.
Oh, man.
- What's wrong?
- It's just boring.
Every year we get
the same assignment.
What happened in
the past has happened.
This is the 21st century.
Why do we have to
keep going over it?
We're all hip-hop now.
Well, like my Mama
used to tell me, miss Proud
a person who doesn't
understand his past
won't have a future.
But I agree, black
history month has
fallen into a rather
predictable pattern.
That mean we're not having
George Washington Carver
peanut butter cookies?
Of course we will, miss Jones.
Some things you don't change.
So, the cards I'm passing out
are the names of
African-Americans that tend to
Well, they tend to get overlooked
during black history month.
And just so it's not the
same old boring assignment
I want you to return to class tomorrow
dressed as the person on your card
along with a brief
bio about that person
that you will read to the class.
Class dismissed.
Does anybody know
who Angela Davis is?
- It just says "activist" here.
- Never heard of her.
I got Bessie Coleman: Aviator.
Dang, I was just
going to retype the
paper I did last year
on sojourner truth.
I got Shirley
Chisholm: Politician.
Do you think she
would wear a mini-skirt?
Maybe if she's in the
"boogie down" party.
Who are you, sticky?
The reverend Al Sharpton.
Well, you're going to need a curling
iron because al sports a finger wave.
The finger wave?
Anybody want to trade?
Hey, whoa! Hey, hey, hey!
Don't you see the
sign "wet floor"?
Don't they teach you
young people how to read?
No, they teach us how
to mop floors like you.
Ah, you got jokes, huh?
Okay, give me your names.
I'm reporting you
to the principal.
- Al Sharpton.
- Angela Davis.
Bessie Coleman.
Shirley Chisholm.
Madame C.J. Walker.
All right Al Sharpton?!
Hey, hey, kids, you
come back here!
Hey, you
The Proud family ♪
what? ♪
you and me will always be tight ♪
family, every
single day and night ♪
even when you
start acting like a fool ♪
you know I'm loving
every single thing you do ♪
I know that I can
always be myself ♪
I love you more
than anybody else ♪
and every day as I'm
heading off to school ♪
you know there's no
one I love as much as you ♪
family, a family ♪
Proud family ♪
they'll make you scream ♪
they'll make
you want to sing ♪
it's a family
thing, a family ♪
Proud, Proud family ♪
the Proud family ♪
they'll push your buttons ♪
and make you
want to hug them ♪
family, a family,
Proud, Proud family. ♪
Good morning, everyone.
In case you didn't know
it, it is black history month
the shortest month of the year.
And to kick off
black history month
I've decided this week
we will have the Levar
Burton film festival.
Do we need a whole week?
So, Penny, what's your
favorite Levar Burton movie?
I don't know. Who is he?
Who is he?
Just one of the greatest
black actors ever.
What's with the
pom-pom on your head?
Oh, my natural?
It's for black history month.
I'm former activist,
college professor
and author Angela Yvonne Davis
born in Birmingham,
Alabama in 1944.
I was released from jail in
1972 after serving 18 months.
I was tried and
acquitted of all crimes.
Power to the people. Yeah!
Penny, I am impressed.
Well, daddy helped me.
I just showed her how
to shape her natural.
Which reminds me,
I got to get in shape.
I'm running late for my Tae Bo.
Yo, Angela, do you mind
dropping Puff off at the groomers?
Thanks.
Power to the people.
Yeah.
Who are you? Macy gray?
No, I'm Angela
Davis, political activist.
Who are you? The red baron?
No, I'm Bessie
Coleman, activator
I mean, aviator.
Penny sure could use
some activator on that hair.
Now let me guess
who you are, Lacienega.
Abe Lincoln?
I'm Shirley Chisholm,
the first black woman
to run for president.
What do you have
to say about that?
Two words: Make-over.
So, how do you
guys like my outfit?
Cool. You decided
to trade with sticky?
No. I'm Madame C.J.
Walker, black hair tycoon
and America's first woman
self-made millionaire.
That's not it.
You're James Brown.
Hey, guys, I got to go
to the dog groomers.
I'll see at school.
Stay close, Puff.
It's look like a
storm is coming.
Puff, hold on! Puff!
Puff!
Whoa, what a trip.
Are you okay?
Man, that was a freaky wind.
Hey, guys!
Sticky, your outfit is
off the heazy for sheazy.
You really hooked up
that Al Sharpton look.
The heazy for what?
Yeah. And who is Al Sharpton?
- This is the Chuck Berry look.
- Who's Chuck Berry?
You know, rock and roll.
The cat who does
the "duck walk."
The domino, the domino ♪
Gosh, she's such a square.
Square?
Uh, you need to stop trippin'.
What are you talking about?
I didn't stumble.
Don't pay her any attention.
So, Penny, what's
with the crazy hair?
It's not my hair. It's a wig.
Oh, I don't know
what's going on?
It was a wig this morning.
Well, it's real right
now Real nappy.
No, this is fake, like you.
It's for our history assignment.
I'm Angela Yvonne Davis.
Angela who?
What assignment
are you talking about?
The one Mr. Webb gave us.
Mr. Webb the janitor?
No, Mr. Webb,
our history teacher.
Girl, there aren't any colored
teachers at this school.
Colored?
Hey, kids!
Hey, Mr. Webb.
Why is Mr. Webb
picking up trash?
Because that's what janitors do.
Come on, Samantha.
Zoey!
What are you doing?
You can't talk to her.
It's not allowed.
Says who? She's my friend.
Why are you acting so strange?
No, you're the
one acting strange.
- Hey, Zoe. Didn't you hear me?
- Do I know you?
Of course you know
me. Penny Proud.
We're girls. We're best friends.
I remember.
Did your mother clean
house for my family?
Why would my Mama
clean your house?
Zoey, is this colored
girl giving you problems?
Hold up. Who you
calling "colored"?
Obviously not Zoey.
No, everything's all right.
- Let's just go.
- Zoey
I don't know you, okay?
I don't have any
colored friends.
So just leave me alone.
What's going on around here?
I told you to leave
that white girl alone.
I cannot believe she
dissed me like that.
Dissed?
Come on, you two.
Mr. Andrew doesn't
allow tardiness in his class.
What class does Mr. Andrew
teach? How to mop-and-glow?
He is the janitor.
Well, this janitor can
sweep you back a grade.
What am I going to do, Puff?
I got to take you to the
groomers, but I'll be late for class.
Oh, don't you fret
none, miss Penny.
I'll watch the
little fellow for you.
Thanks, Mr. Webb.
Yes, ma'am. You don't want
to miss that history lesson.
You know, like my
Mama used to tell me
"A person that don't know
their past won't have a future."
Now go.
Little fella will
be safe with me.
Go on now.
Bye!
Ah, nice of you to
join us, miss Proud.
And why are you
dressed that way?
I'm dressed for the class
assignment that Mr. Webb gave us.
The janitor?
Well, yesterday, he
was the history teacher
and you were waxing
the hallway floor.
Now wait just a
minute, young lady.
Mr. Andrew, please excuse Penny.
She's not feeling well today.
I'm feeling fine, Dijonay.
Why is everybody trippin'?
Is this a black history
month skit, and I wasn't told?
Black? Who you calling black?
You and me
and the rest of us sitting back
here with the old textbooks.
Miss Proud, there's no such
thing as black history month
or negro history
month for that matter.
Yes there is.
- Is not.
- Is too.
No, there isn't because there's
no such thing as black history.
That's not true.
Black people have
made many contributions
to this country as
well as the world.
Oh, really?
Why don't you
enlighten us, miss Proud?
Well, Garrett Morgan, a black
man invented the traffic light.
Dr. Daniel hale Williams,
another black man
performed the first
open-heart surgery.
The super soaker, the
kids' bombest toy ever
was invented by Lonnie g.
Johnson a black engineer.
The secretary of state and advisor
to the president of the United States
is Colin Powell, a black man.
A-A colored secretary of state!
That's funny.
Oh, good. Everybody's here.
I thought I was going crazy.
Penny, get over here. I
want your honest opinion.
- Taste one of these.
- Mmm, good.
- Perfect, huh?
- Yeah.
I'm going to stack each Chip
on top of each other in a tube
so that they won't move or
break. They'll be called Proud chips.
No, dad. They'll be called,
"it's already been done."
Already been done? Hmm,
not as catchy as Proud chips.
No, boy. The girl said
it's already been done.
As usual, you're a day
late and a brain short.
Hey, that Jack Benny is funny.
Penny dear, I need you
to come help mother
wash the dishes.
Okay.
Hey, where's the dishwasher?
Dishwasher?
You're the
dishwasher, sweetheart.
What's with the
strange hair, Penny?
I'm dressed for my black
history month project.
Okay, you're giving
me the same look
my classmates gave me
before Mr. Andrew sent me home.
If I didn't know any better
I'd swear it was
1920 or something.
No, it's 1955, honey.
And nobody in the Proud
house uses the word "black."
1955?
Where am I?
So what you're saying
is you're from the future
but somehow you've
been sent to the past
and that we're from the
future but don't know it?
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Aha! Behold the truth.
What does that say?
Bam! This proves I'm not lying.
Bam! This proves that
this fancy wristwatch
hasn't worked since
February 8, 1902.
Hey, there's Zoey.
She's crying. Let's
go see what's wrong.
Let's not and say that we did.
No. I'm going to
go check on her.
Hey, I'll catch up
with you at school.
Okay, bye.
Zoey? What's the matter?
What a pretty little bird.
She's my pet. She's sick,
and I don't know what to do.
Maybe she should
talk to Eddie Murphy.
- Who?
- Never mind.
You want to take her to my
mom? She's a veterinarian.
A colored veterinarian?
An African-American
veterinarian.
Zoey, your bird doesn't
know black or white.
She just knows she needs help.
You're right.
Let's go before she gets sicker.
Mom, we've got an emergency.
Penny, what are you doing here?
Aren't you supposed
to be at school?
Well, I was on my way to school
when I ran into my friend Zoey
and her sick bird.
Can you help them?
Your friend?
Nice to meet you, Zoey.
Likewise, Dr. Proud.
Mom, her bird is sick.
You've got to do something.
Okay, okay.
Let's take a little look-see.
Honey, I can't
decide which tie
Oh, we've got company.
Oscar, this is
Penny's friend, Zoey.
Hello, Mr. Proud.
Hello.
Zoey has a sick pet.
I see. Penny, we
need to talk, dear.
Penny, can't you see
that that girl is a wh
Wonderful little girl.
That's what I was about to say.
And it's wonderful
to have you here.
Why don't you go
on back in there?
Penny?
Yes, daddy?
Did you by some small chance
notice that that girl is white?
Huh? Yes, I did.
But that poor bird isn't,
and it needs mom's help.
Come on, Zoey.
Let's give my
mom a little space.
Good idea, Penny.
You two go keep
the twins company.
I'll be finished here shortly.
That daughter of
yours is hardheaded.
She's going to get this
house burned down one day.
Which one do you like?
The black and white one.
Why is everyone
at school separated?
What do you mean?
You know the whites,
the blacks, Lacienega.
That's just the way it is.
Integration is new.
It's going to take time for
people to get used to it
If they ever get used to it.
What if I were to
tell you that one day
people would get used to
it, for the most part, that is?
I wouldn't believe it.
Well, get ready, 'cause
it's going to happen.
And when it does,
people like you and me
are going to be
the best of friends.
Although the sats will still be
culturally biased in your favor.
But it'll be better
than it is now.
Whoo!
Okay, Zoey
I think your bird
is going to live.
She just swallowed
a little twig.
Oh, thank you, Dr. Proud!
You're the greatest!
You're welcome, Zoey.
Now, you two get off to school.
Thanks, mom. Bye.
What? What?
Haven't you ever seen
two friends sit next
to each other before?
Not like us, they haven't.
Well, you have now.
Come on, guys.
We don't have to make the
same mistakes our parents made.
Right, Dijonay?
Come on, Samantha.
It's time to change.
Mmm Mercy sakes alive!
Uh-oh. Conniption time.
What is going on here?
- Well, we
- Silence!
Zoey, get to your seat.
I am at my seat, Mr. Andrew.
To the seat I assigned you.
I prefer this seat.
Insolence? Then off
to the principal's office!
Both of you, go on.
- No, sir!
- No, sir!
Ju stop that!
Okay, you leave me no
choice but to call security.
Everyone else, into
the hallway right now!
I'm not leaving.
- Me, either.
- Me, either.
Cease and desist!
Come on, Samantha.
You can do it!
Samantha!
Samantha! Samantha!
- Samantha! Samantha!
- Okay.
That's it!
I'm calling your parents!
Sitting in class
studyin' history ♪
sitting in class
studyin' history ♪
we noticed Penny
sitting by Zoey ♪
we noticed Penny
sitting by Zoey ♪
separated by black and white ♪
separated by black and white ♪
we realize now
that that's not right ♪
we realize now
that that's not right ♪
Mr. Andrew said get
up, and we said no ♪
Mr. Andrew said get
up, and we said no ♪
just ain't nowhere
that we can go ♪
ain't nowhere that we can go ♪
Excuse me
Hello? May I say something?
Quiet!
- Whoa.
- Thank you.
Say something, Penny,
before they attack.
Right. I am happy to join with you
today in what will go down in history
as the greatest
demonstration for freedom
in the history of our nation.
Five score years
ago, a great American
in whose symbolic
shadows we stand today
signed the emancipation
proclamation.
Whose shadows
is she talking about?
Shh.
This momentous decree came
as a great beacon of
hope to millions of slaves
who had been seared in
flames of withering injustice.
This must become
true, so let freedom ring
from the hilltops
of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the
mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening
Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the
snowcapped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the
curvaceous slopes of Cali
When we let freedom ring
when we let it ring
from every tenement
and every Hamlet, from
every state to every city
we will be able to
speed up that day
when all of god's children
Black men and white
men, Jews and gentiles
protestants and Catholics
Will be able to join hands
and sing in the words
of the old negro spiritual
"free at last, free at last
thank god almighty,
we are free at last."
Free at last! Free at last!
We're free at last!
Free! We're free!
Penny, it's mommy. Wake up.
Oh, thank heavens
she's all right.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Is it still 1955?
- The fall must have been worse
- than we thought.
- Fall?
Yes, you slipped on
my freshly waxed floors.
I told you kids about running.
It was my fault, Penny.
I was making fun of
Mr. Andrew. We all were.
You would have never gotten
hurt if it wasn't for us fooling around.
Then it was all a dream?
No, you really cracked
that head of yours.
Mr. Webb, I dreamed
you were a janitor.
Really? Sounds like
you went back to 1855.
Yeah, it was 1955
and black and white
people didn't get along.
All of us were there Mom,
dad, the twins, Suga Mama.
Dad, you invented
stackable potato chips.
Well, you know I did except Jeffrey
Pringles'' Mama believed in him
and loaned him the money
he needed to get started.
Not then, not now.
And Dijonay and Lacienega
and sticky, you were there.
Sticky, you were always
talking about Chuck Berry.
- Chuck who?
- And, Zoey, your bird got sick.
Then people got mad
because we became friends
and sat next to
each other in class.
Sounds like you had a nightmare.
No, I had a dream.
Because after I recited the
Martin Luther King speech
about his dream, people changed.
And now I realize how
things would be different
if those words were never heard
and if we stopped saying them.
Your mother's right, Mr. Webb.
If you don't understand your
past, you won't have a future.
And I'll never forget it.
I love you guys, and
I'm just glad to be back.
Mmm, and we're glad
you're back, too, baby.
Hey, this mopping is no joke.
Things could be worse. Trust me.
Like what? We have
to do this without mops?
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
What do you kids
think you're doing?
Mr. Andrew, we
want to apologize.
Yeah, we're sorry for the
way we acted the other day.
We were wrong.
And what we said,
Mr. Andrew, wasn't cool.
Oh, right. It
wasn't cool at all.
Well, you got that right.
You know what I'm
going to do about it?
I am going to take you down
to Wizard Kelly's
three flavors ice cream.
My treat.
We say, what are you
waiting for? Let's hit it!
Hey, can't y'all kids read?
It's a wet floor!