No problem at all. I have never seen it in the Charlotte papers though so I just continue to read it online. :)

ttt
 

I.can.not.wait.


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dammit:( :mad: :( :mad:


from tv.com

'Boondocks' Bounced Back to November
(Wednesday, September 21 12:01 PM)

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) The long-gestating animated series "Boondocks" will gestate a little bit longer before it sees the light of Adult Swim.

The Cartoon Network has moved the show's premiere date, originally scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 2, back about a month. The animated adventures of Huey and Riley Freeman will now begin Sunday, Nov. 6; the show will air weekly as part of the Sunday-night Adult Swim block.

The slow process of producing an animated show is to blame for the switch in premiere dates, the network says. If the cable channel had stuck with the original premiere date, it would have had only a few completed episodes in hand and likely would have had to resort to repeats only a few weeks in. The later premiere date allows Cartoon Network to build up a bigger stack of shows to run.


And given the long development history of "Boondocks," another month doesn't seem that long. The show, based on Aaron McGruder's sometimes-controversial comic strip was originally developed at FOX two seasons back, but McGruder has said the network wanted the show to stick to a more conventional, A- and B-story sitcom structure. The show landed at Adult Swim last year.
Even as late as July, when McGruder and members of the show's voice cast met reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour, Cartoon Network had only a short clip to show.

"Boondocks" features the voices of Regina King ("Ray") as Huey and Riley, John Witherspoon (the "Friday" movies) as Granddad and Gary Anthony Williams ("Malcolm in the Middle") as Uncle Ruckus.

BOOOO!!!! :mad: :(



*going back to waiting*

I know. I almost cried. :(

I just remembered that The Boondocks were coming on TV and I was afraid I was going to miss it because I will be at a play Sunday. I guess I will have to wait, too. :(

BOOOOOOO HISSSSSSS @ Cartoon Network for making us wait another month. I understand your reasoning, but BOOOOOOOO HISSSSSSS anyway!!!! :mad:

Co-sign, soror. Also BOOOO HISSSSSSS for taking off the Powerpuff Girls, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel and Dexter's Lab!!!!!:mad:
*I've been having issues with Cartoon Network lately*

Tomorrow night @ 11 :D :D :D

1st episode is called the Garden Party
2nd episode (11.13.05) -- The Trial of R. Kelly :D :cool: :eek: :cool: :o :o

NPR segment on "The Boondocks"
 

CT4 (and fellow fans),

Here is an audio clip segment discussing "The Boondocks" on the NPR show "Day to Day" (click on the "Listen" icon).

The Boondocks': Black-and-White TV Humor

Tell us what you think about the article! ;)

i'm really looking forward to watching tonight but i gotta say that i would have chosen different voices for the characters. the voices they have are not the voices i "hear" when i read the strip.

I'll be downloading it from BitTorrent tomorrow morning - can't wait!

ttt

:)

dat dayum Uncle Ruckus -- his eyes and that song, lmao

that song was a fool!! i'll be singing about them over there, putting they essence in the air alllll week long!!

Uncle Ruckus's song - LAWD!!!
The entire episode had me CTHU

It was funny!:D It may be a little too raw for CN, they may have to put that on HBO!

Why did the banker's grandson reminded me of a wannabe Eminem?

Uncle Ruckus was off the chain!!

Was I the only one feeling that the voices didn't match the characters?

^^No, soror, you're not...
 

What time did it come on? I think i missed it :(

It came on at 11 p.m. Sunday. If you're willing to stay up until 3 a.m. it will be back on. It will also be back on midnight Saturday night.

Soror MeezDiscreet: I remember what you said but it seemed like the voices didn't fit more after I saw the show.

BTW: Didn't the banker looked like Ed Asner?

yay 4 the Boondocks
 

This is the only "The Boondocks" thread i've found on GC...smh, other people must be missing out. Anyway, even though I never really got around to reading The Boondocks, the show had me rolling and I think I'll be catching it on the regular.

Uncle Ruckus's song blew me...Riley shooting dude threw the window blew me...and i'm mad the Granddad missed a piece of the movement cuz he wanted to get his raincoat, lol.

And interesting review by the dude from NPR, however, I didn't see anything wrong w/ McGruder's approach. You can't really compare it to South Park, Dave Chappelle show, or Everybody Hates Chris because the type of humor doesn't seem to be same. They all raise uncomfortable truths but I feel The Boondocks approach (at least from what I got from the show) is a dryer humor when it comes to political and socio-economic truths. Edgier? Maybe, but what's wrong with that?

I felt that way moreso for Huey and Riley than for Granddad.

FYI: The banker was Ed Asner. :D I read the credits.

Re: yay 4 the Boondocks
 

Goodness I was cracking up at that part. I thought Pops' voice was good for the grandad.

When Granddad was doing Taebo naked? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uncle Ruckus
 

Does anyone know where I can get the lyrics to Uncle Ruckus' song. That ish was funny....


LoJ

Now WHY was Charlie Murphy the voice of the banker's grandson? :o

Charlie Murphy
 

I noticed that last night when i watched the episode again....LOL....made it even funnier....LOL

LoJ

. . .no relation. . .:)

That's what made it so hilarious, LOL!!! :D

CTFU, was he really!?!?!? LMAO, Aaron, you rock!!

Links to the first episode, from another site.


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Article: Nothing Hip In Boondocks' N-Word Usage
 

Nothing Hip In Boondocks' N-Word Usage

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, BlackNews.com Columnist



In a panel discussion at the Summer Television Critics Association tour this past summer, Aaron McGruder, creator of the popular comic strip, Boondocks, defiantly told the audience that he'll use the N-word as much as he pleases in episodes of the series on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. If folk don't like it, then they'll just have to get over it. After all, everyone uses it. He's right. Black comedians and rappers sprinkle the word throughout their rap lyrics and comedy lines, and black writers, and filmmakers go through lengthy gyrations to justify using the word. The word has been canonized in hip jargon.

Harvard professor Randall Kennedy, in a provocative, but conflicted, short polemic, nigger published a few years ago denounced the double standard that blacks apply to whites. He railed that nigger is hardly the earth-shattering, illegitimate word that many blacks and whites brand it.

McGruder, and N-word users and apologists, loudly agree. Their rationale boils down to this, the more a black person uses the word, the less offensive it becomes. They claim that they are cleansing the word of its negative connotations so that racists can no longer use it to hurt blacks. Comedian, turned activist, Dick Gregory had the same idea some years ago when he titled his autobiography, Nigger. Black writer, Robert DeCoy also tried to apply the same racial shock therapy to whites when he titled his novel, The Nigger Bible.

McGruder, and N-word apologists, tick off an endless storehouse of defenses to justify use of the word. They claim that that it is a term of endearingly or affectionately. They say to each other, "You're my nigger if you don't get no bigger." Or, "that nigger sure is something." Others use it in anger or disdain, "Nigger you sure got an attitude." Or, "A nigger ain't sh!!." Still, others are defiant. They say they don't care what a white person calls them since words can't harm them.

N-word apologists have no patience with those who want to purge the word from public discourse, wage war against classics such as Huckleberry Finn, encode it in hate speech laws and impose penalties and sanctions on professors, basketball coaches, and public officials who use it no matter how instructive or benevolent their intentions.

Yet in their passionate plea to recast public thinking and debate over the word, they forget, ignore or distort one thing. Words are not value neutral. They express concepts and ideas. Often, words reflect society's standards. If color-phobia is a deep-rooted standard in American life, then a word, as emotionally charged as nigger, will always reinforce and perpetuate stereotypes. It can't be sanitized, cleansed, inverted, or redeemed as a culturally liberating word. Nigger can't and shouldn't be made acceptable, no matter whose mouth it comes out of or what excuse is tossed out for using it.

There are still dozens of daily examples where whites (and other non-blacks) taunt, and harass blacks by calling them nigger, spray paint the word on their homes, businesses, churches, physically assault and even murder blacks. In the FBI's annual count of hate crimes in America, blacks still make up the overwhelming majority of victims. The N-word reigns supreme at the top of the stack as the favorite racial epithet hurled at blacks during these crimes. Even when the word isn't used, the sentiment is that blacks are still fair game too be abused and dehumanized, and the N-word reinforces that belief. The word nigger is and will always have, grotesque, and deadly meaning to them. And, even if some blacks do occasionally go off the deep end and wrongly harangue whites for using the word, maybe that's because nigger, pricks agonizing historical and social sores.

Some years ago comedian Richard Pryor publicly admitted his complicity in aiding and abetting the legitimizing of the word. The irreverent Pryor had practically made a career out of using the word in his routines. But following his return from Africa, he told a concert audience that he now considered the word profane and disrespectful. He was dropping it from his act because he had too much pride in blacks and himself. The audience exploded in thunderous applause.

McGruder would probably frown on Pryor's racial conversion as a betrayal of cultural faith and freedom. But Pryor got it right. And anyone who apologizes for McGruder's defense of the N-word should rent the tape of that concert to understand why there's nothing hip in using or misusing the word.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a columnist for BlackNews.com, an author and political analyst.

Mayne-
I had never really read the Boondocks comic strips unless CT4 might happen to post some. However, now i'm hooked, especially thanks to the show.

I.WAS.ROLLING.ALL.THE.WAY.THROUGH.IT!!!

Charlie Murphy as the grandson killed me!

Uncle Ruckus...lawd a mercy!!

I was laughing when Huey was just going off, and the clear ones was just like, "he's so articulate" and kept clapping!

Tomorrow's episode will be hilarious: "The Trial of R. Kelly"

You have to get the books and subscribe to the strip. Today's strip is hilarious!!

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Official Boondocks Site w/ message board: http://www.boondockstv.com/

Tonight's episode had me...
 

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I thought this one was way better than last week's. And why Uncle Rufus talking about how much he like white people and that he had the reverse of what Michael Jackson has? And the evidence??!! ROFLMAO!!

Rrrr better hope that his trial turns out like the one tonight (honestly, I don't think he's going to get off).

Tonight's ep was waaaaay better than last week's. I bout died listening to Uncle Ruckus talk.


Boondocks Theme Song

i am the stone that the builder refused
i am the visual
the inspiration
that made lady sings the blues

i'm the spark that makes your idea bright
the same spark
that lights the dark
so that you can know your left from your right

i am the ballot in your box
the bullet in your gun
that inner glow
that lets you know
to call your brother son

the story that just begun
the promise of what's to come
and imma remain a soldier
til' the war is won [won]

chop chop chop
judo flip. chop chop chop
judo flip. chop chop chop
judo flip. chop chop chop

[written by]
derryck "big tank" thornton
aaron mcgruder
gabriel benn

[performed by]
asheru

http://www.asheru.com

Now I've never been a big Boondock fan or anything but lawd Last night's episode was just too funny. What I love about this show is that I was literally rotflmbao but when it went off there's so much to talk about.


Moral of the Story: Don't Let America Piss on You.

:lol: classic

A week late!
 

I'm a week late. I have to DVR the episodes. I was too through when Pops was naked as he exercised.

Those kids are off the hook.
OMG