List of The Souzas episodes
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The Souzas is an American animated television series created by Ava Zinn, Alexandra Moffitt and Karly Jameson. The series focuses on the life of Deanna Willis (Rachael Passalt), her daughters Lina (Cathryn Swaringen) and Tessanne (Karly Jameson), her wife Brandi (Kassie DePavia), Brandi's kids Alexandra (Olivia Everman), Chereice (Maribel Mort), and Telissa (Rachael Passalt). It originally aired on syndication from August 2006 to May 2011.
The series, which was picked up for an initial order of 22 production episodes (1xx),[1] was picked up by NoSirGifts for a second order of production episodes, consisting of 13 episodes, bringing the total number of ordered episodes to 35. The announcement was made on May 3, 2019, before the series even premiered.[2]
During the course of the series, 18 episodes of The Souzas aired over one season.
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 18 | September 19, 2020 | May 8, 2021 | |
2 | 17 | 2021 | 2022 |
Season 1 (2020–21)
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code | ||||||
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1 | 1 | Pilot |
Season Atkins | Ava Zinn, Alexandra Moffitt, and Karly Jameson
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September 19, 2020 |
101 | ||||||
After inheriting a house that her paternal grandmother left in her will and gaining temporary custody from her parents (Ava and Angie), Deanna Willis and Brandi Souza decide to leave Quillsville with Lina, Tessanne, and Deanna's sextuplet siblings (Ron, Brian, Stuart, Emile, Hillary, and Luanne) and head to New York to pursue her dream of being a minor league scout for a professional basketball organization. While passing through Brandi's hometown of Detropolis, Ohio she bumps into her old flame, Gary Hicks. He invites them to stay at his house for a couple of days, where Gary relays to Deanna and Brandi how he needs a mother figure around for his kids after Gary split up with Brandi. While at Gary's house, Brandi and Deanna are introduced to Alexandra (formerly Alexander), Cherice and Telissa, Gary & Brandi's kids, and the neighbors, including the local redneck and the family of tigers, which include father Benjamin, his wife, and son Theodore. | ||||||||||||
2 | 2 | The New Saleswoman in Detropolis |
Shanna Ryder | Donna Doogan
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September 26, 2020 |
102 | ||||||
Brandi looks for a job, first trying to be a fisherman and also as a singing saleswoman at the Detropolis Flea Market. Addison helps her get a job at Julia Barr Novelties as assistant manager. Brandi runs into an old high-school friend, Trista Parker who was recently demoted from manager to a delivery driver for Barr as well as being the sister of Cheryl Parker. When they were in school, Trista took the rap when they were busted for drugs. When Brandi excels as a saleswoman, causing business to dry up for Addison, Addison prays for bad things to happen to Brandi. Meanwhile, Alexandra, Chereice and Telissa feel resentment towards Tessanne and Lina for stealing their mother's affections from them and try to make her look bad until they learn the true extent of her feelings towards her own father. | ||||||||||||
3 | 3 | All Tangled Up in Ally Brooke |
Season Atkins | Maribel Mort
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October 3, 2020 |
103 | ||||||
Brandi unexpectedly meets Gary's girlfriend, Ally Brooke (voiced by herself), at Chereice's parent-teacher conference. During a weekend visit with Gary and Ally Brooke, Alexandra loses her virginity to her girlfriend. An angry and upset Brandi insists Gary be more attentive when he has the children; Brandi's mother, Tammie, offers Deanna a job, but discovers she has a gambling problem and demands she get help. | ||||||||||||
4 | 4 | There Won't Be Blood |
Maribel Mort | Maribel Mort
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October 31, 2020 |
104 | ||||||
At Halloween, Deanna feels Telissa's school is being overly politically correct in banning offensive costumes; Alexandra passes her driving test and pressures as well as bribe Deanna to use her van and allows Brandi to buy Deanna a car. Meanwhile, Brandi and Tammie discuss celebrating the upcoming holidays. | ||||||||||||
5 | 5 | Transgender Ladies' Night |
Alexandra Moffitt | Karly Jameson
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November 14, 2010 |
107 | ||||||
Deanna and Brandi get together with the neighbors, but while Brandi is enjoying herself, Deanna is less than thrilled and gives Brandi the cold shoulder. When invited to spend more times with the neighbors, Deanna decided to sneak out and spend more time with her old friends from Quillsville (Connie Rose and Averi Planucchio, respectively moved from Quillsville and Port Melissa to Detropolis) at a gathering. Getting away from Brandi helps spark the relationship. Brandi finds out that she was spending time with her old friends but gets distracted. While on a day out tubing down a river with the kids, Brandi stumbles across Deanna, Connie, and Averi who are shocked to find out Averi and Connie have also moved to Detropolis. | ||||||||||||
6 | 6 | A Souza Thanksgiving |
Steve Baker | Phil Allen
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November 21, 2020 |
109 | ||||||
Deanna and Brandi celebrates their first Thanksgiving in Ohio with Brandi's family. Brandi's parents, Tammie Souza and Mark Souza and Deanna's parents, Ava Willis and Angie Willis arrive for Thanksgiving. Brandi's dismal relationship with her mother nearly lands her in a fight with her own mother, until Brandi's Uncle Poppa shows up. he starts making comments on how awesome he is after belching. Tammie gains an infatuation over Uncle Papa and decides to have sex with him after a game of football. However, when Deanna was taking out the garbage, she saw Uncle Papa in the bathroom, with a vagina. Despite that Tammie had sex with Uncle Papa (who secretly is a woman), she did not even know about it. | ||||||||||||
7 | 7 | The Souza Knightess |
Donna Doogan | Jacqui Fountaine
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January 9, 2021 |
105 | ||||||
After a stressful day at the school, Deanna comes home and is in no mood for Brandi's shenanigans. At The Bengal Brown Buckeye, the girls (Malaina, Chaztity, Addison) tease Brandi about Deanna running things. When she confronts Deanna, Brandi admits she had to develop a take-charge attitude to survive being a single mom but agrees to lighten up a little for Deanna. At an ATM, a robber attempts to take their money and Brandi's wedding ring. While Brandi struggles with the thief to protect her ring, Deanna tackles the thief and is shot dead. When the thief's gun goes off and Cleveland is shot, Brandi feels horrible and agrees to restrain herself more for Deanna. | ||||||||||||
8 | 8 | Gone, Gone, Gone |
Alexandra Moffitt | Rachael Passalt
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January 16, 2021 |
106 | ||||||
When Deanna is diagnosed with high cholesterol, Brandi puts Deanna on a new high-fiber diet, which causes an intestinal backlash. When it begins to affect her work, she goes to see Dr. Bowie who gives her a written note card explaining that she has a medical condition which she soon takes advantage of. Deanna quickly realizes her gas might score him a few brownie points in the Bengal Brown Buckeye's smelly dad contest. Brandi is appalled that Deanna should resort to such disgusting behavior but they are interrupted by a call that brings news of Monique Cruz's death. Deanna's father's old friend Karly Jameson from Quillsville arrives with the body and explains that he was accidentally killed by the bathtub falling out of the damaged house gag – which Brandi had survived numerous times on Queen of the Willis – when Angie tried to decorate her and Ava's bedroom with a colt skeleton Tabby dug up, but unintentionally dropped her hardhat on a lever, causing the crane to lose control and slam the skeleton onto Monique's house. Worried for Lina, they try to break the news gently and find she has already put her (biological) mother's death behind her. Deanna's survivor's guilt over having many times survived the same accident that killed Monique causes Deanna to break down for a while, until she realizes exactly why she was so upset. Deanna then wins the smelly dad competition. | ||||||||||||
9 | 9 | There's No Substitute |
Season Atkins | Tracia Matthewson
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January 23, 2021 |
108 | ||||||
Louisa steps in as a substitute mom when Deanna and Brandi has to go to Quillsville when Deanna's great-grandfather, Carter, breaks his leg. Louisa makes the lives of Lina, Tesssanne, Maggie, Alexandra, Chereice, and Telissa hell and are annouyed by Louisa's antics. | ||||||||||||
10 | 10 | Beds and Broads |
Tracia Matthewson | Tracia Matthewson
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January 30, 2021 |
110 | ||||||
Deanna and Brandi shop for a new mattress. Alexandra begins dating Trista Jones, a rebellious girl who Deanna and Brandi dislike. | ||||||||||||
11 | 11 | Valentine's Day 2021 in Detropolis |
Tracia Matthewson | Eboni Hill
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February 13, 2021 |
111 | ||||||
Deanna anticipates a special Valentine's Day gift from Brandi; Chereice and Telissa are disappointed as Trista invites Alexandra to a school dance. | ||||||||||||
12 | 12 | Trista, Trista, Trista |
Alexandra Moffitt | Jacqui Fountaine
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February 20, 2021 |
112 | ||||||
Deanna discovers that Alexandra and Trista drove her van without permission and that Trista tinkered with the engine. Feeling betrayed, Brandi gives Alexandra the silent treatment and confronts Trista about her true intentions. | ||||||||||||
13 | 13 | Chereice's Doctorine |
Tracia Matthewson | Tracia Matthewson
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February 27, 2021 |
113 | ||||||
Chereice befriends Monterray McNutt, a recently dumped young man from Quillsville, who quickly follows her all over Detropolis. Deanna and Brandi plan on celebrating their anniversary but before heading out for the night, they get a phone call from Alexandra that Chereice and Monerray got arrested for performing lewd sexual acts at school. | ||||||||||||
14 15 |
14 15 |
Hypermarket Sweep |
Alexandra Moffitt | Karly Jameson
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April 10, 2021 April 17, 2021 |
114 115 | ||||||
In a cross-over with Queen of the Willis, Brandi and her mother, Tammie, appear on Supermarket Sweep. This marks Tammie's second appearance in 30 years as she and her sister Lori previously appeared. | ||||||||||||
16 | 16 | Brandi's Stash is Grass |
Rachael Passalt | Rachael Passalt
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April 24, 2021 |
116 | ||||||
Brandi punishes Trista after finding marijuana in her car. Trista, thinking it is Alexandra's, covers for her by saying it is Trista's. Alexandra suspects it must belong to Chereice. Deanna realizes that it is Heather Willis' stash, from Quillsville so Heather makes the trip to Detropolis and indulge. | ||||||||||||
17 18 |
17 18 |
Deanna's Angels |
Karly Jameson | Karly Jameson
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May 1, 2021 May 8, 2021 |
117 118 | ||||||
After Deanna gambles away the college funds of Alexandra, Chereice and Telissa's, Chaztity discovers that Deanna was actually cheated out of her money and recruits Brandi and Addison for a "Deanna's Angels" mission. | ||||||||||||
Season 2 (2021–22)
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code | ||||||
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19 | 1 | Little Woman on Campus |
Alexandra Moffitt | Rachael Passalt
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November 7, 2021 |
201 | ||||||
Coach Brandi gets greedy to win the high school girls baseketball state championship game and turns to cheating when her star player goes out for the season. | ||||||||||||
20 | 2 | Fat and Wet |
Alexandra Moffitt | Kendra Ray
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November 13, 2021 |
202 | ||||||
Tessanne and Chaztity, ashamed of their appearance in a swimsuit, feel left out of the fun when the family spends an afternoon in the pool and petition to pass a bill to grant equal rights for those who are overweight. Disgruntled by their defeat in the polls, Tessanne and Chaztity flee to Indianapolis, a city where they feel more free and accepted, and Deanna and Jacob vow to bring them back to where they belong. | ||||||||||||
21 | 3 | Another Buckeye Thanksgiving |
Alexandra Moffitt | Donna Doogan
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November 20, 2021 |
203 | ||||||
The Souzas spends Thanksgiving in Quillsville, Indiana. | ||||||||||||
22 | 4 | Murray Christmas |
Season Atkins | Nadia Lorenzo
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December 11, 2021 |
204 | ||||||
When Telissa’s teacher forces her to spend the weekend at a retirement home to get to know the senior citizens during the holidays, she meets Murray, who teaches her about German history. In an attempt to rekindle Murray’s holiday spirit, Telissa helps her escape, but when her new friend’s health begins to suffer, Telissa has to bring Murray back to the home. Meanwhile, Brandi trains for a boxing match against her bully of a mother, Tammie Souza, which ends with some bumps and bruises. | ||||||||||||
23 | 5 | Cola Walk! |
Alexandra Moffitt | Alexandra Moffitt
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January 8, 2022 |
205 | ||||||
Brandi, frustrated by her wife’s laziness on the weekends, nags Deanna to help her around the house and to do something more with her life. To prove to Brandi she can be as charitable as her, Deanna recruits her buddies from Quillsville (Connie Rose and Allison Kendall) and Detropolis (Jacob Morris, Averi Planuccio, and Benjamin the Tiger) to participate in the First Annual Charity Cola Walk. When Brandi gets injured at the event, Deanna has to take over the housework. | ||||||||||||
24 | 6 | The Courtship of Telissa's Stepfather |
Karly Jameson | Karly Jameson
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January 22, 2022 |
206 | ||||||
At Brandi's suggestion, Deanna and Telissa start spending more time together; Tessanne becomes jealous of Telissa and Deanna's new relationship. | ||||||||||||
25 | 7 | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Alexandra and Chereice? |
Doona Doogan | Donna Doogan
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January 29, 2022 |
207 | ||||||
After Deanna criticizes her parenting skills, Brandi lets Deanna deal with Alexandra and Chereice by herself; Deanna lets Chereice throw a house party. | ||||||||||||
26 27 |
8 9 |
A Tall Story and a Short Tale |
Karly Jameson | Breeanna Sorensen
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February 5, 2022 February 12, 2022 |
208 209 | ||||||
Brandi and Deanna celebrate Valentine's Day with a trip to Cleveland after scoring courtside seats to the all-star basketball game featuring Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings, Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes, Becky Hammon, Katie Douglas, Candace Parker, and Brittney Griner. Caught up in the excitement, Brandi gets rowdy and talks smack to the players from the sideline throughout the game. The basketball champs, feeling hurt, seek revenge by paying a surprise visit to Detropolis, which is a three hour drive west from Cleveland, and putting Brandi in her place. | ||||||||||||
28 | 10 | The Lesbian Arielle |
Karly Jameson | Karly Jameson
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February 19, 2022 |
210 | ||||||
When Brandi discovers she and her wife are not actually married, and her best friend Arielle is gay and in a relationship, they all decide to go to Iowa for a double wedding; Tessanne tries to get Telissa to break a nasty habit. | ||||||||||||
29 | 11 | The Blue, The Gray and The Brown |
Donna Doogan | Jennifer Riva
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February 26, 2022 |
211 | ||||||
After Brandi fights to save the town’s drive-in movie theater, her efforts to preserve the town’s history is noticed by the Detropolis Preservation Society and she is invited to attend a private dinner party at the home of the great-great-granddaughter of the town’s founding mother (who happens to be Detropolis Mayor Laura Emerson). While at the event, Brandi learns of the town’s legacy and decides to take back her beloved town. | ||||||||||||
30 | 12 | Tumbled Tammie |
Season Atkins | Karly Jameson
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March 5, 2022 |
212 | ||||||
After Brandi learns that her parents have been scammed out of their life savings, she plans to bring down the con man who targeted her father. | ||||||||||||
31 | 13 | To Live and Die in Ohio |
Alexandra Moffitt | Alexandra Moffitt
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April 2, 2022 |
213 | ||||||
Jacob and Chaztity lose everything because of Brandi. | ||||||||||||
32 | 14 | Uh, Oh, Lori Souza! |
Alexandra Moffitt | Alexandra Moffitt
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April 9, 2022 |
214 | ||||||
The third floor addition to Deanna and Brandi's home is complete, but Deanna has conflicting emotions when Brandi's father is offered the opportunity to become a partner in a Columbus travel agency. Meanwhile, Lori is forced to find a new living arrangement when she gets evicted for non-payment of rent. | ||||||||||||
33 | 15 | Prom-Wrecked |
Kendra Ray | Kendra Ray
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April 16, 2022 |
215 | ||||||
Brandi and her friends decide to enter the Detropolis 600 decorating contest, but Brandi later ditches them for another team. Meanwhile, Rallo becomes too sick to go to school. | ||||||||||||
34 | 16 | Back to Tool |
Season Atkins | Kendra Ray
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April 30, 2022 |
216 | ||||||
When Tessanne bonds with Brandi’s ex-boyfriend, Gary, Deanna becomes jealous that Tessanne thinks Gary is less cooler than Deanna. In order to prove how cool she is to her daughter, Deanna challenges gary to a “Toolympics” competition. | ||||||||||||
35 | 17 | Your Show |
Alexandra Moffitt | Story by : Carl Reiner Teleplay by : Rachael Passalt
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May 7, 2022 |
219 | ||||||
When Telissa and her gal pals Gianne and Vicki perform in the school talent show, their song about fiscal responsibility is not well-received by their classmates. Meanwhile, after Brandi gets her own cable-access television show, the reviews are less than positive so she takes some tips from the most successful daytime talk shows that appeal to women. | ||||||||||||
36 37 |
18 19 |
Ocean's Four and A Half |
Alexandra Moffitt | Alexandra Moffitt
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May 14, 2022 |
217 218 | ||||||
Trista gives birth to her baby, a beautiful girl named Karlianna; however, Alexandra is unable to pay her medical bills. She turns to a loan shark for the money, and ends up in debt. Alexandra, Elaine (Connie's daughter), Theodore, and Witney (Jacob & Chaztity's daughter) ask Tammie Souza for money to pay the debt, but Tammie refuses. In a final act of desperation, Witney suggests that they rob tammie. However, when they reach Tammie's vault Brandi arrives and convinces Alexandra to stop. Trsita talks Tammie into providing the money, telling her she is using it for a paternity lawyer; when Alexandra asks her if she is joking, Trista says nothing (leaving Alexandra, Brandi and Deanna worried). | ||||||||||||
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