Top 10 Celebrities that Guest Starred on The Proud Family

The Proud Family is known to be Disney Channel's first black animated family and now that the Proud Family is coming back. This time on Disney Plus with a new reboot title "The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder" and new guest stars including Lil Nas X, Normani, Marsi Martin, Chance the Rapper, Keke Palmer, Lizzo, and so much more.

In this list, I am excluding the main cast of characters and the recurring characters of the show including Cedric the Entertainer who played as Bobby Brown, brother of Oscar Proud and Suga Mama's favorite son.

Here's a list of stars that guest starred on The Proud Family.

10. Ray J as Mega Episode: "E-Z Jackster"

Ray J is a singer, actor, entrepreneur, and brother of Grammy winner R&B star Brandy Norwood. In the first season, episode, Ray J voiced as Matrix-style kid named Mega. In the "E-Z Jackster" episode, Penny Proud works at a Mr. Min's record store where she meets a boy named Mega (voiced by Ray J) who actually looking for her and introduce Penny to an illegal music downloading website called E-Z Jackster. With the help of her friend Dijoneya Jones, everybody starts to go on the EZ Jackster website to download "free music". This episode teaches a lesson about two things: 1) be careful what you download on the internet including music it's consider stealing 2) In the words of Trudy Proud, "don't lose your mind for some boy" Good advice!!!!

9. Kel Mitchell as Carlos Episode "Forbidden Date"

Penny goes to the amusement park with her friends until Lacienega sets the girls with dates even though Penny's father restricts her from dating. Carlos (voiced by Kel Mitchell), a unpopular, overweight boy set up by Lacienega for Penny. Penny thought her date with Carlos would be pointless until he saved her siblings Bebe and Cece on a roller coaster after they escape from the baby care center at the park. In the end of the episode, Penny starts to enjoy her date with Carlos regardless of his weight and realized shouldn't judge someone on what they look like or their weight.

8. Kobe Bryant as Himself Episode "One in a Million"

Penny wins a chance to shoot a half court shot at a basketball game for one million dollars. Oscar convinces her to let him make the shot to make good on a high school dream. While Penny and her friends try to recruit NBA professional NBA ballers to help her win, Kobe Bryant (voiced by Late Kobe Bryant) tries out showing Penny some basketball tricks. Luckily, Penny until Oscar Proud disguise himself as Big O, pretending to be a professional basketball player just so he can shoot his shot for a million dollars.

My favorite scene from this episode when tries to shoot her shot at Kobe by speaking to him in Italian. Fun Fact: Kobe actually speaks Italian.

7. Steve Harvey as the Credit Card Episode: "Don't Leave Home Without It"

Penny is not pleased with her "new clothes" that her mother Trudy brought so Oscar and gave her a credit card instead. The Credit card (voiced by Steve Harvey) started to talk to Penny and encourage her to purchase new clothes until her card gets declined after overusing her shopping spree. Penny has concerns her parents will find out about her billing statement and takes the credit card back. In the end, Penny realized she didn't need the card and she takes care of the card in the matter of her own hands.

Note: This episode is not on Disney Plus.

6. Ashanti as Randi Episode "It Takes A Thief"

Penny Proud and her friends get a job at the department thanks to Lacienga's boyfriend Wizard Kelly Jr. R&B singer and actress Ashanti voiced her manager Randi. In the episode "It Takes A Thief" just when the girls were starting to enjoy their job Randi finds the watches missing on the store counter. Randi has no choice but to fire them.

Spoiler Alert: Penny's siblings Bebe and Cece stole the watches.

5. Jenifer Lewis as Aunt Spice Episode: "Penny Potter"

In the "Penny Potter" episode, Oscar wakes the family up in the middle of the night to watch his latest Proud Snax commercial, but immediately afterwards, a commercial airs promoting Sista Spice (voiced by Jenifer Lewis), Suga Mama's sister and Oscar's aunt. Not only she has telekinesis but Suga Mama has always been jealous of Spice's magical abilities. When Sista Spice, who was scheduled to perform at the WizArena, gets bumped in favor of Sir-Paid-A-Lot, Oscar offers her the Proud Snax parking lot for a show. In the end of the episode, everything Spice has done at the event was a scam luckily Suga Mama was able to stop her.

4. Al Roker as Himself Episodes "Tween Town" & "Twins to Tweens"

Weatherman and Today show host Al Roker appeared on two episodes this time to grant Penny's wishes as the magical genie like Al Roker. In "Tween Town" Penny wishes there were no adults and just teens have fun whenever they want without their parents authority. In "Twins to Tweens" episode for Bebe and Cece to be turned into teenagers who were (voiced by Lee Thompson Young and Sicily Sewell) so that way Penny doesn't have to be responsible for them.

3. Mariah Carey as Herself Episode "Monkey Business"

Pop Diva Mariah Carey voiced by herself visits Trudy's animal hospital to bring her pet monkey Francois after falling ill eating Proud snacks, the most disgusting snacks. Also, at Trudy's hospital, Oscar's pet monkey/assistant Mr. Chips. The monkeys would get switched by Oscar and Mariah. No lie this episode was my fave compared to the rest.

2. Lou Rawls as Himself Episode "The Party"

Who's Lou Rawls? You may ask. Lou Rawls is R&B soul singer and Suga Mamas friend. When Penny finally gets permission to start a teen house party at her house, Just when Penny starts planning and handing out invitations at her school her frenemy Lis planning as well this time with special appearance Jennifer Lopez aka "J-Lo" at her party. When the party started, Penny's friend betrayed her by going to Lacienga's party. However, the Gross Sisters, Myron and Lou Rawls joined Penny's pity teen house party. At first, Penny was upset that party didn't go as planned until Rawls cheers her up while magically singing his song "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine". This would be Rawls final voice acting before he passed away in 2006.

1. Alicia Keys as Herself Episode: "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly"

In the "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" episode, Teens including Penny and her friends audition for Teen Idol with host Brian Dunkleman (voiced by himself, former host of American Idol) and the judges: Randy Jackson (voiced by himself), Alicia Keys (voiced by herself) and Percival (voiced by Tim Curry). Lacienga and another classmate Agatha Ordinario (voiced by Erica Rivera) made the cut. In the episode, Agatha had better vocal chops than Lacienga. However, Lacienga won the competition leaving the audience speechless because the whole competition was a fixed and Agatha did better than Lacienga. After her win finally getting a chance to Lacienga stops the show, tells her idol Alicia Keys that she doesn't deserve it and prefers the runner up Agatha Ordinario to have the spotlight. In the end, it was all worth it after Lacienga decides to Agatha the spotlight. Alicia offered her a chance to be apart of her music video and hang out with her.

So what do you think? Who was your favorite guest star on the Proud Family?

Trailer for The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. Coming soon on February 2022 on Disney Plus