Racist Boondocks on Cartoon Network (Aaron McGruder's Outrageous "The Boondocks" Hits Small Screen)

SOHH.com ^ | 4 November 2005 | Dark Kent

[CounterCounterCulture]

Cartoonist Aaron McGruder is set to shock and offend Mainstream America once again when his "The Boondocks" cartoon premieres on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim this weekend.

The cartoon, which premieres Sunday (Nov. 6) at 11p.m., picks up where McGruder's irreverent comic strip leaves off. The 30-minute series chronicles the life and times of the Freeman brothers-10 year old revolutionary Huey and 8 year old misfit Riley (both voiced by Regina King of Boyz In The Hood and "227" fame)-and their grumpy "Grandad" (John Witherspoon of the Friday series). The show will also feature guest appearances from Xzibit, Charlie Murphy and veteran TV actor Ed Asner.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Previous thread:
"The Boondocks" to premiere on Adult Swim in Fall '05

[AbeKrieger]

I am sure it will be entertaining. I'll tune in at least once or twice, just so I can be suitably enraged.

[FormerACLUmember]

The racist, evil Boondocks comic strip is excruciatingly boring.

[blaise]

Cartoonist Aaron McGruder is set to shock and offend Mainstream America once again..

Sounds like a showbiz pitch to me.. "shock and offend" gets the attention of the much-coveted consumer demographic.

[Names Ash Housewares]

lemme guess, radical ravings of left wing wackos.

Whats new?

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I am sure it will be entertaining. I'll tune in at least once or twice, just so I can be suitably enraged.

Which is how shows like this stay on the air and more keep coming.

[battlecry]

I get my shock and offense from South Park.

[Clock King]

Why didn't CN bring back Samurai Jack?

[Riverman94610]

While it is true that Boondocks is rabidly left wing,anti-Bush histrionics,Mac Gruder is relentless in satirizing many of the absurd exceses of rap culture and parodies black militants for their paradoxes just as much as he condemns white America.
I'm watching Sunday.

[TNCMAXQ]

I suppose soon we'll be seeing a live animated version of Mallard Fillmore or Day by Day on TV. Ha ha ha!

[Sthitch]

"where McGruder's irreverent irrelevant comic strip leaves off" Now thats more like it.

[raybbr]

From around 2000 and the election.

[Riverman94610]

See?THAT is REAL!

[CounterCounterCulture]

FYI

[kevkrom]

Boondocks is obviously written from a way-left point of view, but it's over-the-top nature can be taken as much as an example of how silly that type of thinking is than anything else. IMO, Non-Sequitor and Candorville are much worse, in that they are less hysterical.

Sounds silly, I know, but it seems to work out that way.

[AbeKrieger]

Which is how shows like this stay on the air and more keep coming.

Nah. Week 1, 1.1 rating, week 2, 0.4 rating, week 3, some shyster shrieks about how racist America is that no one watches this show.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Numbers like that actually probably qualify it as a hit on Cartoon Network

[Fenris6]

That's the great thing about free speech - if gives your opponent more than enough rope. The "angry oppressed victim" meme will turn alot of people off. They're sick and tired of the whining.

[TC Rider]

I'm watching now. I figured they would tone down the rhetoric. I've never been more wrong.

First 2 minutes:
Jesus is black
Reagan was the devil
The government is lying about 9/11

And apparently the n-word is ok, provided it is used by a black character in a cartoon on a children's network.

It went very downhill from there.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I wasn't aware that they had so many viewers they decided to get rid of some. I've almost stopped watching Adult Swim as the shows have went downhill. Boondocks won't help keep me as a viewer.