The Boondocks

I think this show is out of control.

Samurai battles (not even that dream sequence, those two kids had a REAL SAMURAI BATTLE IN THEIR HOUSE), crazy gunfights in stores. Samuel L. Jackson and Charlie Murphey trying to voice white dudes and not sounding WHITE AT ALL. They don't even sound like ghetto ass white dudes, they just sound like Samuel L. Jackson and Charlie Murphy. They should have just drawn Samuel L. Jackson and Charlie Murphy right into the show; it might have been funnier. Charlie Murphy's big pearly grin alone is enough to make me crack up

Is the comic anything like this?

Also I think the characters say "nigger" more than (Benjamin*Tails)^10^10

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm not saying adapt each comic strip and stretch it into a full episode, just make the show as down to earth as the comic strip. I thought that the overuse of the word "nigga" was already taking it perhaps further than many of us expected.

Well, obviously it's too late now; people expect samurai battles and convenience store shootouts.

I remember the comic just being down-to-Earth humor that happened to involve two not-so-stereotypical black kids living in the suburbs.

The one thing I appreciate about the Boondocks' is the main characters atypical view of black culture; how he has a pretty intelligent grasp on the nature of various races, especially blacks. I enjoyed the episode in which Martin Luther King appeared to tell the stereotypical-ized black community how ridiculous they had become. I wonder how that kind of social commentary, blacks criticizing blacks, settled with the black audience in general.

(I agreed with Dr. King in that particular episode, mainstream black trend is simultaneously working for and against the overall appearnace of blacks. This is exactly the kind of thing he would say if he saw the world today. I'm the kind who backs Bill Cosby when he says black kids are squandering their opportunities and need to pick up a book once in a while. It's sad how his generation actually showed how my race was just as brave and intelligent as any other, and my generation seems to be the growing antithesis of a lot of suffering endured for the fate of not only blacks but the nation in general.

Rant over.)

There's nowhere I can't reach.