#jo marie payton

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Family Matters cast photo, 1991

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August 3, 1950, Actress Jo Marie Payton was born!

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Film after film: The Beach Bum (dir. Harmony Korine, 2019)

Since Gummo, which is still my favorite of his films (though for purely sentimental reasons), Korine has cleaned up his filmmaking to the point that it looks almost mainstream – only the editing, sometimes interestingly glitchy, reminds of his early times. This film is a pleasant laid-back watch, and a good-heartedly heterosexist one. You get to spend most of the time with cis guys who want to fuck and smoke, and occasionally talk about "important things." While Efron lights up the screen whenever he shows up, this has sadly been his only interesting film appearance since the 2016 sequel to Neighbors.

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Day 21:

The Proud Family Movie (2005)

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The urge I have to stay up writing and drawing and being silly is insurmountable. Call it the Jo March effect.

The opposite end being I suck at both those things so I shall not. Call that one the Amy March effect.

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Oh I am flaming mad right now!!!!! You are not the one who should be "forgiving." That would be Jaleel, if you are lucky bitch!!!

Jo Marie is the one who started beef with a 12-13 year old because she was jealous or his popularity and the fact that his talent took screentime away from her sorry ass!!!

This is absolutely ridiculous cause her and Reginald are the ones who absolutely refuses to keep Jaleel out of her mouth during interviews. Jaleel just out here living his life and minding his own business 😡🤬

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The Flight Before Christmas | Starring Mayim Bialik | Full Movie | Lifetime

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Black Femme Character Dependency Dark Skin Directory: J

J: The Characters

Jack Starbright | Janai | Jane Amphibia | Jane Hayward | Janie Egins | Janine Teagues | Jasmine TD | Jasmine Davis | Jasmine Williams | Jean Peterson | Jennifer Sisko | Jenny Jackson | Jenny Pizza | Jessica Crashing | Jessica Williams | Jill TUA | Jinna | Joana Coelho | Joanna Crawford | Jodie Landon | Jojo Williams | Jolene | Jonelle Abraham | Jordan Armstrong | Jordan Moore | Josie McCoy | Juanita Benson | Judith | Julia Freeman | Juniper Andromeda | Justine Dancer

J: The Entertainers

Jacqueline Moore | Jada Harris | Jade Eshete | Jaimi Gray | Janelle James |  Janelle Monae | Janeshia Adams Ginyard | Janet Hubert | Janet Jumbo |  Javicia Leslie | Javonna Charde’ | Jayden Rey | Jayme Lawson | Jeante Godlock | Jemima Osunde | Jennifer Hudson | Jerrika Hinton | Jessica Allain |  Jessieca Alford | Jill Marie Jones |  Jo Marie Payton |  Jobel Mokonzi | Jodie Turner Smith | Johnnie Hill | Joi Harris | Joie Lee | Jonica “Jojo” T. Gibbs |  Josette Simon | Jwaundace Candece

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How old I think each of the fazbear frights kids are(including the 18 year olds)

Oswald- 10(canon)

Sarah- 15-16

Millie- 14-15

Greg- 14-15

Alec- 15(canon)

Oscar- 14-15

Devon- 14(canon)

Pete- 16

Susie- 7-8

Jake- 9 (canon)

Toby- 16

Reed- 14-15

Chris - 13

Angel- 18(canon)

Colton - 13

Payton- 13-14

Edward- 13

Mott- 13(canon)

Jessica- 15-17

Joel- 18(canon)

Mary Jo- 10-11

Correct me if any of these charaters have a canon age

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The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder Season 2 Review

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is a coming-of-age animated sitcom and adventure by Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar, two well-known producers. It is a revival and soft reboot of The Proud Family, a classic Disney series by Smith which aired in the early 2000s. This review will have spoilers.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs and Wayback Machine. This was the twenty-third article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on February 13, 2023.

This animated series centers on Penny Proud (voiced by Kyla Pratt), a 16-year-old Black girl in the town of Smithville. She attempts to navigates her home life, filled the antics off her father, Oscar (voiced by Tommy Davidson), who owns a failing snack business, her mother, Trudy (voiced by Paula Jai Parker), a well-off veterinarian, her grandmother, Suga Mama (voiced by Jo Marie Payton), and her two siblings, Bebe and Cece. At high school, she has four friends-of-sorts: Michael Collins, Dijonay Jones, Zoey Howser, and LaCienega Boulevardez. They are voiced by EJ Johnson, Karen Malina White, Soleil Moon Frye, and Alisa Reyes respectfully. All the while, two new kids, Maya and KG, raised by two dads (Barry and Randall), try to adapt to their new life in Smithville.

The show's first season broke ground for featuring openly gay characters, unlike in the original series, such as Michael, who is also gender non-conforming. His voice actor even considered gender transition. This character is joined by an interracial couple: Barry and Randall Leibowitz-Jenkins, who voiced by two gay actors (Zachary Quinto and Billy Porter). They are the adopted fathers of Maya and Francis "KG", voiced by Keke Palmer and "A Boogie" Dubose. Palmer previously voiced Izzy Hawthorne in Lightyear, a lesbian character who has a wife named Alisha. She has also stated that she does not want her sexuality to be defined by labels and that people should be fluid when giving themselves labels.

The series has been swept in the culture wars, with claims it is promoting the "gay agenda" or is "anti-White". In reality, there are various White characters, including Zoey and Barry, and often promotes themes of racial togetherness, rather than division. Additionally, Michael is the only protagonist in the series who is part of the LGBTQ community. Barry, Randall, and Makeup Boy (voiced by Bretman Rock), with the latter beginning to date Michael later in the second season, are only recurring characters. In fact, Penny and Dijonay both have boyfriends, Darrius St. Vil (voiced by Chance the Rapper) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Brown (voiced by Asante Blackk), by the end of the season. Furthermore, Zoey is sweet on Myron (voiced by Marcus T. Paulk), and Maya romantically connects with one of the Chang Triplets, Billy.

Like the original The Proud Family, the series is not neutral when it comes to politics. It often focuses on racial injustice, whether noting past bans on interracial marriage, reparations, prejudice of Black people toward White people, anti-Black racism, sexism, or White skin privilege. This is interwoven with an emphasis on the importance of Black history, friendship, family, indigenous rights, harmonious neighbors, paying people fairly, respecting people for who they are, going beyond the color of their skin, and the folly of celebrity worship. Many books are name-dropped throughout the series, like Africans and Native Americans, as are the names of intellectuals such as Michelle Alexander, Robin DiAngelo, Elizabeth Acevedo, Leslie T. Chang, Saeed Jones, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Many of these names are displayed during the English class taught by Kwame (voiced by Leslie Odom, Jr.).

Similar to season one, the second season of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder provides more background about the characters, whether about Suga Mama's short-lived romance with an indigenous cowboy named Quanah (voiced by Wes Studi), and how Barry and Randall met, or the history of the Soul Vibrations band composed of Oscar and his brothers, and Giselle. As Penny says, in one episode, "you can't know yourself unless you know where you come from". This interconnected with the meaningful, and well-done, episode in which Bebe is diagnosed with autism, with the Proud family trying to figure out what to do with him, and coming to accept him, even if he requires more attention from them.

Other episodes focus on family conflict and fissures between friends, and neighbors, all of which are resolved before the end of each episode. This includes an episode when everyone is enamored with LaCienega's uncanny athletic ability (because of her big feet) and realize they have gone into a frenzy, another about Oscar, Felix, Puff, and Suga Mama fighting one another in an absurd parody of TV court shows, and one in which animals protest the awful Proud Snacks created by Oscar Proud. One of my favorite episodes in Season 2 featured a Princess Ball, with references to other Disney princesses: Penny dressed up as Princess Tiana, Dijonay as Cinderella, LaCienega as Princess Elena, Michael as Pocahontas, Maya as Beyonce, and Zoey as Princess Merida.

There are many notable characters in The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder like the Principal Hightower (voiced by Patricia Belcher), who insults and demans the students, reporter Vanessa Vue (voiced by Brenda Song) or incredibly wealthy Wizard Kelly (voiced by Aries Spears) who is shown as too tall to fit on the screen. However, in this season, Maya comes into her own, especially in the season two finale. In the episode, the ghost of Emily (voiced by Storm Reid), a Black girl enslaved by the town's founder, Christian A. Smith, guides her, revealing her diary which proves that Smith is a slaveowner, contradicting the common town myth.

In an interesting depiction of wealth-as-power, Wizard Kelly orders the police, clad in riot gear, to stop Maya, and her friends, who are protesting a ceremony dedicating Smith, with chants and placards. As a result, all of them, and their parents, are thrown in the city jail, despite the efforts of Barry to protect his children. His detective badge shown to mean nothing, as the police, who are serving as Kelly's goons, step over it with their boots.

Although Maya is just as determined as Wednesday Addams, in Wednesday, she does nothing equivalent to her. The latter, with the help of Thing, lights the statue of Joseph Crackstone, the Pilgrim founder of Jericho, on fire, causing it to melt. In fact, Kwame counsels his students to not pull down Smith's statue. This makes it ironic, then, that some reactionary media and personalities are all up-in-arms about the series, acting like it either "ruins" the original, or is "causing" division. Where were these people when Wednesday came out? They could have said some of the same things about that series, but they did not.

In many ways, the Season Two finale of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder sets the series apart from methods of police control over the citizenry depicted in Velma or the incompetent police force shown in The Simpsons. That is because this series emphasizes how some can control and distort history to their benefit, covering up what they don't want others to see. There is no acceptance of the town myth which Lisa Simpson conceded to in The Simpsons. Instead, the town's name is changed to Emilyville and a new statue is erected. In a possible indication of the long-standing nature of the existing economic system, Kelly becomes the mayor of the town, and faces no consequences for cracking down on Maya, her friends, family, or other town residents.

This series features many guest stars like Jane Lynch, Gabrielle Union, Al Roker, Ceelo Green, and Andre Jamal Kinney, along with other lesser-known ones like Forrest Goodluck, and sports stars Laurie Hernandez, Gabby Douglas, and Dominque Dawes. Of the guest characters, I liked Dr. Lord (voiced by Holly Robinson Peete) best as she gives Penny a chance to talk about her experiences as the oldest child in the family, in which she is given additional responsibilities.

All of the episodes of the second season of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder all aired on February 1st, unlike the previous season, which aired over a two month time period. There's strong animation and backgrounds which make the show stand out, as does the voice acting and music selection, which fit with stories and characters. It is unfortunate this 10-episode season isn't spread out across two months, because it would be easier to watch the series and take in all that happens. Even so, this season is much less glitzy than season 1 and that is to the show's benefit.

Furthermore, I appreciate that the series did an episode based on the little-remembered, or regarded, but wild, The Proud Family Movie, which seemed like an episode from Milo Murphy's Law, especially when they are fighting the Pistachions. In some ways, the episode reminded me of the annual Treehouse of Horror episodes of The Simpsons.

It is hard to know where The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder goes from here. If it follows the recent pattern of Disney series, such as Amphibia and The Owl House, it will have at least one more season. If that was the case, it would have one more season than the original series. However, it would need another 32 episodes to match the original, which aired from 2001 to 2005. This revival is different because the episodes range from 27 to 30 minutes, similar to the first season.

This series comes at the time that Disney is producing and airing series with diverse casts, like The Ghost and Molly McGee. In fact, this year, Iwájú, Kiff, Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Primos, and Hailey's On It! are set to air. Disney has also contracted to produce series such as Cookies & Milk, Moana, and Tiana. On the other hand, Disney series with similar casts such as Mira, Royal Detective and Amphibia ended last year, while The Owl House is set to end this spring.

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is more unique, incorporating perspectives of Black creators, unlike Hamster & Gretel, Phineas and Ferb, Kim Possible, and Star Wars: The Bad Batch, which likely have mostly White writers rooms and have casts largely composed of White characters. As production coordinator, Breana Navickas, recently wrote, the show's writer's room is Black, and much of the staff is Black and "a mix of asian folks, latine folks, white folks". This shows in this season even more strongly than in the first season, with the series establishing itself more, and putting the original into the dustbin.

This series is not alone. Craig of the Creek, Victor and Valentino, Carmen Sandiego, Arcane, and Glitch Techs are all recent series with diverse stories and characters. As such, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, comes at an opportune time, when some executives are cutting back resources dedicated toward animated series, or squeezing workers in tough working conditions.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed the second season even more than the first, and hope that Disney orders another season sometime this year, considering the amount of people watching it. There are so many more stories to tell with these characters. This could include Penny getting new, and non-toxic friends. Even so, I doubt this will happen because the plot of the series depends too much on their existence to bring in new friends, just as Futurama would fall apart without the antics of the Planet Express crew keeping its current members. In addition, considering the issues with colorism in the original The Proud Family, and somewhat replicated in the first season, it was good to see that the Gross Sisters (Nubia, Olei, and Gina), all by Raquel Lee, only had a small part in this season. The fact that Maya had a bigger part in the season, instead of the Gross Sisters, is a welcome development.

One of the series' downfalls is repeating elements of narrative set-up in the original series. Although I still believe the series could be stronger if it focused on older versions of the cast, the second season made the characters, at their current age, workable. It didn't fall into simple tropes used in Kim Possible and Totally Spies!, both animated series centered in school environments.

Seasons 1 and 2 of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is currently airing on Disney+. While you are at it, you can watch The Proud Family and The Proud Family Movie on Disney+ too!

© 2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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Jo Marie Payton (born August 3, 1950) is an actress and singer who starred in Family Matters, a role she originated in its forerunner series Perfect Strangers. She provided the voice for Suga Mama Proud on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. The role earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination. She had a recurring role on Will & Grace.

She graduated from Albany State University.

She appeared on the “TV Moms” episode of The Weakest Link. She and her daughter appeared on a Mother’s Day episode of Lingo. Her other television credits include Desperate Housewives, Reba, Girlfriends, Wanda at Large, Judging Amy, The Parkers, Will & Grace, The Hughleys, 7th Heaven, Moesha, The Jamie Foxx Show, 227, Silver Spoons, Small Wonder, and The New Odd Couple. She appeared in the Canadian TV miniseries The Rev.

She co-hosted the 15th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards. She appeared on Meet the Browns. She hosted Second Chance with Jomarie Payton. She was in From This Day Forward.

She married Marc France​ (1980-87)​, Rodney Noble​ ​(1993-98)​, Landrus Clark (1998-2004) and Leonard Downs (2007). She has one child. #africanhistory365 #African Excellence #alphakappaalpha

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WTF is he talking about? 🤔 Martin wasn’t a hood show either. Martin was a top disc jockey at a radio station. Gina and Pam were both PR/Marketing executives, Cole worked cleaning services at an airport, and Tommy was a counselor at the Boys and Girls Club. They all just lived in a Black neighborhood. I swear, this nigga always gave me coon vibes! He’s so unlikable. I even heard he tried to physically fight Jo Marie Payton, the actress who played Harriet on “Family Matters”. I don’t know a single Black person who grew up in the 80s/90s that didn’t watch this show!

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I found this on NewsBreak: 'Family Matters' Star Jo Marie Payton Says, 'I'll Always Love' Jaleel White: 'I Forgive Everything'

I found this on NewsBreak: 'Family Matters' Star Jo Marie Payton Says, 'I'll Always Love' Jaleel White: 'I Forgive Everything'

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Part 3 of my masterlist

gigi

adam

lucy

james

Movies

Charlotte

Lily

Casey

Sandie

Tomasin

Illyana

Margot

Gina

Erin

Nella

allie

irene

emma

olga

libby

drasa

morgan

elizabeth

anna

ronal

jeneine

Erin

margot

iris

juliet

Ophelia

Julia

iris

Belle

sylivia

Hanna

Nancy

April

adele

Joanna

tilly

Irena

Claire

alex

Ginny

Jennifer

Mary

Lee

ruth

Elena payton

ariel

Actors characters

Lila

Maria

Kristin

Valerie

Anna

Nora

Emily

Julia

Juliana

Allyson

Jackie

Emery

Robin

Gretchen

Musicals

Kristina and jordan- jodie and chris pd

Bethany and jeremy-anya and mitch

austin and ally

ross and laura

jennifer and colin

mary and justin

elise and gavin

anna and matthew

josh and gracelynn

Samantha and alex-

Erin and danny-pd

Mila and Leo-Cindy and joesph-pd

Ellie and Jay-Greer and laurence-lm

Jake and Isla-David and elizabeth-lm

Freya and Sam-Olivia and stephan-pd

Chad and River-Sam and lily-pd

Marianne and Logan-Jennifer and luke-pd

Scarlett and Ned-Hazel and neil-lm

Ava and Andrew-Brittney and david-lm

Zoe and david-olivia and stephan- lm

margret and john

richard and daniela

Blaze and Emeryson-

emma

anya and thomas

beth and benny

tholmasin

margot

erin/margot

nella

Charlotte

Lily

Casey

Sandie

Tomasin

Illyana

Gina

allie

irene

peach

olga

libby

drasa

morgan

ana

phillpia

cassandra

ella and ben

marla

jane and charles

keira and matthew

jules

elizabeth and will

lizzy and darcy

jennifer and colin

anna

mary and justin

michael and laney

marianne

emma

ophelia

anya and thomas

kara and jeremy

jack and katherine

mary

clyde

claybourne

buck and blanche

josh and mia

julian and maya

molly and jacob

winn and sarah

tony

jd

paul

brom

jim

laura

mary

cynthia

kathy

glinda

adam and melody

jamie and kathy

jm and sylvia

kate and leo

jack and rose

april and frank

laura and corey

olvia and kyle

donny and julia

bonnie

kelsy and talon

melissa

anna and james

jenna and marcelo

claire and ryan

julie and billy

maggie and jake

nellie

charlotte and matt

henry and emma

maria

cynthia

suzy

polly

polly and bobby

gabriella

sam and katerina

hope and billy

claire

sandy and danny

ella and topher

margurite

lizzy and darcy

magnolia

ashley and daniel

sona

charlotte

gewn and keith

hope

mary jo and elias

ambrosia

hadey

malfiala

leo and lucelle

symour and audrey

Ocs are included as well