In the 1988 film, she is all-frantic and called to tell Edna Penny was punished (and she knows it), though it's not known why. When she finds her, she forces her to wear a giant "P" on her blouse every day to school to symbolize that she's punished forever. Later in the film, when Tracy, Link and Penny head to North Avenue to join Seaweed and his friend's to dance at Motormouth Records owned by his mother Motormouth Maybelle, Prudy sees that Penny's joined them and hails a taxi, franfically asking the taxicab driver to follow the same bus. When she sees them walking down the street, she asks the driver the stop the cab and she's left at her destination. Fearful of North Avenue and the street's inhabitants, she's nearly running for her life when she's persued by a kind colored man getting d