The Boondocks

Because we need a new thread.

So there are only three new episodes left (if I remember that AS bump correctly) for this season, starting with this Sunday's episode. While that sucks, at least it was a good season overall (even if the last episodes suck, most of the other episodes this season more than make up for it). And we can all take joy in the fact that they are making 20 new episodes to air in the fall.

I also wanted to make note that recently Aaron McGruder announced he was taking a six month vacation from the comic strip, which means that it won't run. I wonder if that has anything to do with making the new episodes, as I heard that the quality of the strip went down after he used a replacement last time while he was working on the show. I guess this time he figured he would rather have no strip at all rather than a mediocre one.

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Originally Posted by Legato

Is the comic anything like this?

Not what I've read of it. But then again, it would be hard to adapt 3-4 panel comic strips into 22 minute episodes, so I would rather have original stories instead.

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Well, regarding the down to earth part, I think they still try to make it as down to earth as they can, but they still have to try and appeal to a mainstream TV audience, especially that of Adult Swim's nature. Not to make a generalization that most Adult Swim viewers are stupid, but just looking at the other shows that surround The Boondocks lets you see what kind of comedy it features most of the time, which reflects its audience. Basically, each episode still gets its main, down to earth point across, but they add outrageous and sometimes unrealistic situations to flesh out the episodes and sometimes drive the point home even more (just look at the MLK episode, from the beginning it's not true, but presents one of the best messages of the series, and even the store shootout, which seems pretty stupid at first, has a point as a metaphor for the War on Iraq).

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Originally Posted by Newbie1234

Is it like a "black" version of Family Guy?

No, not really. It's pretty far from being close to Family Guy, or anything else on Adult Swim for that matter. It's kinda hard to pigeonhole the show into some category similar to other AS shows, so I can only suggest that you just check out the show to see if you like it (which you could do in like less than an hour thanks to Friday Night Fix on adultswim.com).

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Originally Posted by mrman1

Boondocks is a black Daria, only more sitcommy.

Each episode features several misanthropic observations of American pop culture, and may be focused around one particular element of that culture.

The three episodes I saw featured country clubs with one black member, a pop idol on trial for moral turpitude, and a fight between two old guys.

I'm sorry, but I don't see the Daria connection. The shows are totally different to me, as The Boondocks actually has point in its episodes as opposed to Daria's endless bitching which has no point other than to bitch.

And The Boondocks doesn't really talk about American pop culture. If you were to ask me, it talks about American Black culture more than it ever has talked American pop culture.

And the first episode wasn't about a country club with one black member, it was just a party at a rich white guy's house.

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Originally Posted by mrman1

American Black culture *IS* American culture -- even if it is a subset that bleeds into the mainstream every so often.

But it's not necessarily the same as American pop culture, which is what you said at first. Those are two different things. In a way, so are American Black Culture and American Culture, or else they wouldn't be labeled differently in the first place. Yeah, they somewhat overlap, but overall I wouldn't say they were that similar.

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Both Daria and Boondocks featuring bitching about some element of the worlds in which their characters inhabit. Daria skewers the values of her younger sister, her classmates, her teachers, her "sick, sad world".

MacGruder, to a similar extent, skewers celebrity worship, the insularity of wealthy Caucasians, and the irrational, self-destructive behavior of "niggas". He pretty much skewers his sick, sad world, too.

Dismissing Daria's observations ars "bitching", while propping MacGruder's misanthropy is understandable, but nonetheless strange. Both shows appear to be the products of cantankerous cartoonists.

I find this to be true to some degree, but you still can't just lump all things like this into the same category. I would consider Daria's observations as birching simply because that's how she does it in the context in the show, as she is normally bitching about things to Jane or bitching at someone else to their face. The way Huey does it though is diffrent, as he is addressing us, the audience, when he talks about stuff. This narration aspect just seems to give it more of a seriousness as opposed to Daria's indirect way about it.

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Originally Posted by mrman1

Huey's directness ("Niggas are crazy!") isn't more serious; it's just less subtle.

Well, I was talking more about how Huey at least talks to the audience to do his bitching as opposed to Daria only doing it to the other characters on the show. Huey is really only less subtle about it when he's talking to other characters on the show about whatever he's talking about (the R. Kelly episode comes to mind), but when he speaks to the audience he usually is pretty subtle about it.

But still, getting back to the overall point, I don't see how having two outspoken characters make both the shows similar. I mean, there are other shows with these types of characters as well, but I wouldn't group them all as being the same, with one just being a "black" (or however else it differs) version of another.

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Originally Posted by SouthJag

Holy fuck -- tonight's episode was kinda hilarious.

Spoiler:

When Grandad got that jar of peanuts from Mo's will....XDD I laughed my ass off! "You got DEEZ NUTS!!"

Holy shit. ;__; XD

Yeah, it wasn't continuously hilarious like some episodes were, but the parts that were funny were really fucking hilarious. I did think that fighter plane sequence was pretty funny all throughout, though. I also liked the references to previous episodes ("Thuggin' Love playing on the radio when they got into the car (even though that song has been in a lot of the episodes), Riley throwing that chair).

Only two more episodes left

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Originally Posted by SOLDIER

Looks like they're trying to start a thing with him and Jasmine.

I don't know, it seems like that's kinda been there for a while. Though, isn't Jasmine younger than he is?

Originally Posted by *AkirA*

What was the name of the episode where the house and car got overhauled, because they thought he was blind. I cant find it on torrent anywhere.

The episode is called The Real.

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Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

That damn poetic revolutionary kid annoyed the hell out me though.

Yeah, that's why I was glad when Riley started to go after him, especially when he threw the chair. All people who act like that should have a chair thrown at them.

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Tonight's episode was pretty funny. The best part was when Wuncler went off on Jazmine about her lemonade stand. I couldn't stop laughing, even after it went to commercial.

So it looks like next week is gonna be the last episode for this season. While that sucks, at least I'm comforted by the fact that we're getting twenty new episodes in the fall. At least there'll be other shows to help hold me over (namely new episodes of Robot Chicken).

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Originally Posted by plutoknight

Last thing: Surely someone caught, in last weeks episode, the radio DJ at the beginning of the show and right after the commercial.

I roared when he went "IT's gonna be another hot one,a nd speaking of hot it looks like Al Sharpton is hot angry about something, looks like its a cartoon this time." or something to that affect. (and I'm sure everyone in this thread has read that story too....its rather old :P)

Yeah, I noticed that, and have read the story, and I think I even saw somrthing on one of the evening news programs about it. It's really dumb how people get angry over something like this. What it all boils down to is that this is a form of entertainment, and if this is how prople want to be entertained, then just let them and stop complaining about it because it isn't to your liking.

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Yeah, that episode was fucking hilarious. Definitely one of the best this season (and a great way to end this season). It was also good because it had a good mix of drama in there as well, which managed to enhance the comedy (I couldn't stop laughing once that guy went to the governor and said they found out about Raul). Great stuff.

Now we need it on DVD. Uncensored.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by AC1

Save for Nekkid Grandad, The Health Inspector and Nekkid Gangstalicious of course.

And don't forget that guy from Tom Dubois's butt rape nightmare. You know, the one with the really long...you know what I'm talking about.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

I think that was the aforementioned "Health Inspector".

Yeah, it is. My bad, I didn't realize that was the title of that episode.

FELIPE NO

Yes! It's finally been announced:

The Boondocks on (Uncensored) DVD!

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I looked at wiki, and it says that the song is "I Believe In It" by Isabelle Antena. That song was great, and it really fit the mood of what was happening during those scenes. If you manage to find a copy, post it here.

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Originally Posted by tvguide.com's Entertainment News

Cartoon Network, meanwhile, still awaits word on exactly when Boondocks will return for a sophomore run. Explaining the delay, the controversial strip's creator, Aaron McGruder, tells the New York Post, "Our production schedule is really, really long. We're halfway through the writing [of the 20 episodes] and just getting underway with the animation." McGruder's money is on a March 2007 premiere.

Man, that really sucks. I originally heard it was supposed to come back on in November, but now we have to wait until March? I'm definitely gonna have to get the DVD coming out next week now, as I need something that will help last until then.

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Thought I'd bump this thread for anyone who cares, since the second season starts tonight in about ten minutes. I barely just saw a commercial for this on Saturday, so it's fair to say there has been hardly any fanfare for the return of, in my opinion, one of their funniest shows.

It's weird that it would come on Mondays as well, since it used to come on Sundays, and that's when most new episodes of their comedies premiere. Oh well, we finally have new eps, so I'm not gonna complain.

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I thought last night's episode was pretty good. The only part I didn't really like was the fight between Huey and Ruckus. I kinda wish they'd stop going so over the top with the whole action 'psuedo-anime' thing. It's funny in spurts, but the scene from last night's episode was a little too drawn out.

But other than that, it was a great episode. Jasmine's stuff was especially hilarious. This also made me realize how much I've missed this show. I just wish I knew it was coming on sooner, and then I would have rewatched the first season on DVD.

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Yeah, he was definitely the best part of an admittedly weak episode. It was good to get some character development on some of the show's lesser characters (mainly Sarah and A Pimp Named Slickback), but overall the episode wasn't really up to standard.

I was speaking idiomatically.