Each script incorporated was not only cognizant of brewing culture wars, outlandish antics, evergreen jokes, and managed to foreshadow a lesson or two in the end. These wake up calls (usually brought to light through Huey’s annoyed outbursts at the public) resembled mastery of dialogue in a Spike Lee joint mixed with humor and futuristic horror à la Black Mirror in navigating Black America at the intersection of entertainment and history. The antics of the Freemans - consisting of civil rights activist Robert aka Granddad (voiced by John Witherspoon), and his two contrasting grandsons, the militant, Black liberator, Huey, and hotep-in-training, Riley (both voiced by Regina King) - came as metaphorical wake-up calls.

Based on the daily syndicated comic strip by Aaron McGruder, it manifested a specific kind of Black novelty within pop culture. Since its 2005 premiere, The Boondocks became more than a satirical animated series for adults. When The Boondocks ended its nine-year run on June 23, 2014, a void was left in television. A fourth season containing twenty episodes has been announced to air in January 2014.Photo Credit: Cartoon Network These are the best The Boondocks episodes, from “The Story of Thugnificient” to “Smokin’ With Cigarettes.” The season three episodes “Pause” and “The Story of Jimmy Rebel” have been pulled from general episode rotation following the television debuts and no longer appear in reruns. Both episodes were aired on Teletoon and were released on DVD in the United States. The two part season two finale “The Hunger Strike” and “The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show” was never aired on American television as Adult Swim feared legal actions against them from BET. There have been a total of 45 episodes over the course of the shows first three seasons. The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, socioeconomic classes, stereotypes, and races provides for much of the comedy and conflict in this series.

The show begins with an African-American family, the Freemans, having moved from the South Side of Chicago, Illinois to the fictional, peaceful and mostly white suburb of Woodcrest. The series premiered on Novemand was created by Aaron McGruder, based upon McGruder’s comic strip of the same name. The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network’s late night programming block, Adult Swim.

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