[AKA_Monet]

My husband usually reads the comic strip in the paper, whereas, I have only seen ~3 episodes of the cartoon.

From what I know about television, there was some "selling out" that MacGruder had to do to get his celluoids on TV. And if that meant excessive use of the N-word in the cartoon, then hey, that meant excessive use of the word.

In my area it is played on Cartoon Network, during "Adult Swim".

And before the show airs, there is a disclaimer that all he's doing is just a satirical commentary of how he views life.

The fact that he has some big name actors and actresses doing some the character's voices, shows that there is interest. I also think he shows outline's how ignorant stereotyping is with the interaction of other ethnic groups. Especially with the little girl that hangs out with Huey.

And how they have filmed the show suggests some digital arts were in play because animation is very computer intensive these days. The better animation is done by computer, the higher rating the show gets. Most of his artists were Korean that did the mock-ups before the animation layouts. That just means that the movement and what is "scriptable" during a <15 cartoon is manifested by another ethnic group's cultural dictates.

Really, how many Koreans really know what it is like being Black in America or vice versa? But MacGruder had to work with what was available and allowable for his "pilot season".

The following next season may be different.