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Show ii;iiii!ii;!!!iiii;iiii!iiiiii IHIIllllllliHInl lliilllllllill Wednesday, September 12, 2001 liiiiiiiiiiiiiLiiiiaiiiiillllllllllllllllllll.llllllllllllllllHIIIII Disney Channel presents 'toon with 'tude in The Proud Family By Ben Hooper cTVDala Features Syndicate Peep this: Vie Pnwl Family is off (he heay lor sheay, and anybody who isn't I'eelin' i( is straight tnppin', dog. True dat. Or, to translate: Behold! Disney Channel Chan-nel s The Proud Family, premiering Friday. Fri-day. Sept. 21, is a strong offering, to be certain, and those who don't relate to it are irrational. fnend. This much is certain. While the dialogue may require a hip-hop hip-hop vocabulary primer (or the help of a kid between the ages of 7 and 14), the new animated series blends classic family fami-ly themes with coming-of-age elements to create an ultra-current The Cosby S'in,-meels-Vi'risw Junior High. The series is also blessed with Kla lrall of I 'lined Paramount Network's One on One. w ho voices protagonist Penny, Pen-ny, a 1 4-year-old African-American girl tackling 'tweendom. "We're like 50-50," says 15-year-old IVall about her character. "She knows when to be sweet and when to have a little lit-tle attitude, and I do, tixi. And she likes being a regular kid, likes going to schtxil, but then also wants to work so she can make her ow n way. We're a lot alike. "She's always stuck watching her brother and sister, and I'm baby-sitting all the lime. And the situation with moms; my mom is more trusting than my dad." The premiere episode involves Penny organizing a kids strike against parents for higher allowances. In the second episode, which airs the same night. Penny learns how to handle a rumor thai she's the new girlfriend of the school geek after a party gets a bit out of hand. "It reminds me a lot of w hat's happened lo me," Pratt says, "and after I record a script, it seems to happen to me sexwer! So I'm glad I'm doing the scripts, because be-cause they teach me how to deal with things that happen - not to go cray. just to he calm " Show creator Bruce Smith (Space Jain. Tiir;iin. The Emperor's Sew Groove) agrees. "I sort ol see The Pnnul Family as an instructional video lor my 1 1 -year-old daughter. We deal with a lot of issues that 'iweens deal with now or are about to experience." ex-perience." While a slew ol basic cable cartoons deal with multicultural issues. The Pnnul I iimtlx keeps it real er. skews closer lo realitv In present ins: a multiracial cast of characters with which 'iweens in culturally cul-turally diverse schools can identify. "I hang out w ith different races and cultures; cul-tures; anybody that's cool to me, I hang w ith them." Pratt says. "That's just like Penny; anyfxxly who's cool, she'll hang w ith them - except jCicnega; she's just a tag-along, 'cause norxxly likes her." LaCiencga, Penny's snobby nemesis, is voiced by Alisa Reyes (One World. All That). Other voice talent includes Karen Mahna While (Malcolm A Eddie). Orlando Orlan-do Brown (Family Mailers. The Jamie Foxx Show), Maria Canals (Tlie Tony Danza Show) and Tara Strong (King of the Hill. Powerpuff Girls). Soleil Mxn Frye, best known as the title character of Punky Brewster, plays the lovably awkward awk-ward and ncrdy Zoey, a pal of Penny's. "Isn't she fun?' asks a quite-animated Frye. "She's such a wonderfully fun and cute and crazy little character, because she really wants to fit in. Through teen age years, we all go through that period where you want to fit in, but you're also very much your own person. "She's at this place which I'm sure I was at, where you wanna be cool and hang out with your friends and be on the same page. She's a little more carried away than I was." Frye voiced the animated version of Punky and has also done voice-over work in Johnny Bravo, Ren & Stimpy and Tiny Toons, but Zoey may be her favorite so far. "I'm having so much fun playing Zoey," she says. "She walks in a room and she's like, 'Wassup!' But there's something magical about going into the studio and getting behind that mike and just creating this whole other world with this character, so I'll go in there, and I'll try to be cool and start saying all the newest lingo, but when I'm doing it loud and crazy and out of control, somehow we're all laughing hysterically. Because when Zoey tries to do (the slang), it just sounds hilarious coming out of her mouth." Pi! 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