related to her Cadillac's technical problems in order to persuade the manager to give her food while waiting. No police action was brought up. In the animated film Madea's Tough Love, Madea is arrested for excessive damage to public property (which she unintentionally committed while chasing after two unruly skateboarders), two bench warrants, 25 unpaid parking tickets, and an unpaid speeding ticket. Then she was reassigned to house arrest for attacking mayoral candidate Betsy Holiday. Madea was released from the sentence when the truth about Betsy's secret illegal activities were exposed proving that Madea was right about her. Media and entertainment featuring Madea Madea has appeared in several plays (some of which have been recorded for repeated viewing), fully produced films, a couple of television programs (guest appearances), one book and one animated film. The character made her first appearance in the 1999 play I Can Do Bad All by Myself, later appearing in numerous other plays by Perry, then appearing in films based on those plays. Plays (including recorded plays) I Can Do Bad All by Myself—1999 Diary of a Mad Black Woman—2001 Madea's Family Reunion—2002 Madea's Class Reunion—2003 Madea Goes to Jail—2005 Madea's Big Happy Family—2010 A Madea Christmas—2011 Madea Gets a Job—2012 Madea's Neighbors from Hell—2013 Madea on the Run—2015 Madea's Farewell—2019 Films Diary of a Mad Black Woman—2005 Madea's Family Reunion—2006 Meet the Browns (cameo)—2008 Madea Goes to Jail—2009 I Can Do Bad All by Myself—2009 Madea's Big Happy Family—2011 Madea's Witness Protection—2012 A Madea Christmas—2013 Boo! A Madea Halloween—2016 Boo 2! A Madea Halloween—2017 A Madea Family Funeral—2019 A Madea Homecoming—2022 Animated film Madea's Tough Love—2015 Television series House of Payne (guest appearances) In the TBS comedy drama House of Payne pilot episode "Bully and the Beast", Madea was the foster mother of Nikki. She factored into the plot through a school altercation between her adopted daughter and Curtis Payne's great-nephew Malik. Curtis takes a particular disliking to Madea who is not in the least bit intimidated by Curtis at all. Rather conversely, Curtis became intimidated by Madea and had nightmares about her. In the episode "The Wench Who Saved Christmas", Curtis tries to discourage everyone from having the Christmas spirit. He later fell asleep and dreamt that Madea was the Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. In this form, she tried to teach him a lesson about his killjoy behaviour. In the episode