![]() ![]() Gangstalicious ends up arrested in an Accidental Public Confession. Irony: Huey points out that while many rappers follow the No-Snitch movement, some end up snitching on themselves.Riley outright refuses to break the no-snitching code, despite the fact that the crime affected his own household, and it could lead to Robert going to jail.This isn't entirely unwarranted as sometimes, as far as they are concerned, Police Are Useless. Season three started on May 2, 2010, with 'It's a Black President, Huey Freeman' and ended with 'It's Goin Down' on August 15, 2010, with a total of fifteen episodes. Honor Before Reason: Many black people (not all) are parodized in the show into holding an honor-bound code, that prevents them from informing the police of any wrongdoing, to the point of forming a movement. The third season of the animated television series, The Boondocks originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim.Huey correctly guesses that she's wearing a wire, so she screams and runs out of the room. She talks in a very robotic and unnatural voice to Riley pressuring him for information. Bad "Bad Acting": Jazmine walks in and tries (badly) to nonchalantly ask Riley about what happened. The three moved from the South Side of Chicago to the white-fenced fictional Woodcrest neighborhood after Robert decided he wanted to retire in peace, away from the dangers of the Chi.N-Word Privileges Not So Different Reality Ensues: While theyre formidable fighters, theyre still two kids and an old man. Accidental Public Confession: Gangstalicious ends up getting himself arrested when he accidentally confessed, via rap, about attacking record executive Johnny Guinness with a tennis racquet and bottle of Hennessy. The three are generally unpleasant people, ranging between cold (Huey), selfish (Granddad) and just plain rude (Riley) but theyre capable of showing kindness to others and they do love each other deep down.Since the show isn’t using Cindy (whom McGruder has unwisely chosen to have voiced as if she’s a real black girl, versus the delusional white girl tryna be down that she is in the comics) well, or much, at all, Caesar is the last, best choice to help turn Huey into a fuller character and puts him effectively back in the driver’s seat of the show. It’s really quite simple: you learn more about characters from watching how they interact and respond to the people around them. But you know that ain’t happenin, right?” He’s the guy who can tell Huey that “I agree with you, playa. The only person who can play that role is Caesar because he empathizes with Huey’s exasperation with the world, but isn’t the “domestic terrorist” that Huey is. Someone who will actually listen even if he comes to different conclusions. Someone Huey can talk to and bounce his theories and frustrations off of. ![]() He needs an equal who sees the world in some similar ways but responds differently. Michael Caesar has to be written into the show. If Huey is to regain the power he had in the strips and truly move to the forefront of the show, McGruder has to build out the world around Huey as well. But The Boondocks TV show is different, as Aaron McGruder has found by building out the world around Riley (with the addition of Ed Wuncler III, Gin Rummy, Gangstalicious, and Thugnificent) and Granddad (Uncle Ruckus and the DuBois family).īut Huey is frequently adrift in episodes where he’s not the protagonist (especially Riley-centric stories) and damn near silent in ones where he’s the driving force (i.e. ![]() In the strips, that was sort of the point since the satire in the strips was always deeply rooted in Huey’s observations about the world around him (particularly his brother and the people in Woodcrest). This, despite the fact that he’s ostensibly the lead character (e.g. Huey, by virtue of being the show’s most passive, reactive character, has all but receded into the background in favor of the more flamboyant active characters like Riley and Uncle Ruckus. Read his explanation here.īut the one thing I really want him to do is recognize that there’s a problem at the center of the show: Huey Freeman. I wrote this before that information was available. UPDATE 3/28/14: Apparently, McGruder is no longer involved with the show and was not involved in the creation of the upcoming 4th season. And I’m excited to see what cultural moments from the last four years (since Season Three aired) Aaron McGruder will work into the show. I, like a lot of people of my generation, am excited that The Boondocks is returning because it remains one of the sharpest examples of satire in modern pop culture.
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